be cured from the simples Chap. 2. Of the diseases of Distemper with Matter A Material distemper is the irregularity of the natural temper of Mans Body by the presence of some morbifick matter The Signs wil be known from the following differences The Cause is a preternatural Humor and that is 1. Either collected by little and little either through weakness of the part or fault of the Nutriment 2. Or affluent either by attraction or by reason of transmission either from the whol body or from some certaine parts The Cure is perfected 1. By alteration with Contraries if we consider the disease 2. By evacuation if need be and that by blood-letting if a Plethory be offensive by Purgation if Cacochymia or badness of humors off end by sweat if the matter tend to the skin by vomit if to the upper parts by diureticks if to the Urinary passages III. By opposite diet 'T is divided into so many distempers as the material I. One sort springs from blood or a plethorick Constitution of Body when such humors as are fit to nourish the Body abound c. 'T is knowen by weatiness c. It arises from good Nutriment c. 'T is cured I. By Blood-letting II. By alteration with coolers and moistners especially such as are appropriate to the Liver 'T is divided two manner of waies 1. One sort is from an exquisite plethora to which al the precedent notes agree 2. Another is from a bastard plethora wherein the cure requires purging likewise 3. Another springs from a plethora ad vasa Another from a plethora ad vires of which we spake before II. Another kind springs from excrementitious choler which is hot and dry 'T is hardly cured if it proceed from the yellow choler Never almost if it proceed from leek colored eg-yolk-colored or verdigreise-colored choler c. The Cure is performed 1. By alteration with cooling and moistning medicaments and if it be very thin with thickness if thick by cutters Among the former the cheif are Stalks of Italian Lettices flowers of water lillie Porslain Plantain Tamarinds Jujubees red poppy among the latter the cheif are roots of Cichory Dandilion Sorrel such things as are made of these Spirit of vitriol Salt 2. By evacuation either by bloodletting when cholor is mingled with the blood or by purgation by stool with cholagogues The cheif cholagogues or choler purgers are Rhubarb which is neither to be given alone because it is subject to fume nor to such as are troubled with the strangury tamarinds aloes rosata which is taken only in pils Syrup of the flowers of Acacea of Roses solutive which must not be given to women with child Pils of Ruffi c. By a cooling and moistening diet III. Another is from preternatural flegm which is cold and moist 'T is cured I. By alteration with medicaments hot and dry attenuateing and cutting Where note that we must at first abstain from very hot things lest the matter being dissolved should swel with greater motion and that the thinner parts being consumed the thicker should remain We must avoid strong openers in a woman wth child The strongest of al are Lignum guaiacum China root Sassafras Salsaparilla and Oxymel Scylliticum Hot stomach medicaments are to be interposed because the stomach languishes through overmuch heat II. By evacuation with Phelgm purgers the chief among those indifferently strong are Mechoacanna of which Lozenges are made it works most effectually given in pouder Carthamus seeds and Agarick trochisked Among the stronger are jalap roote given with Cream of Tartar Syrup of Coloquintida and the Pils of Sagapenum of Horstius The Golden spirit of Rulandus III. By blood-letting provided the Heat be not dissipated being expressed with flegm and that there be a plethora IV. By an heating and drying diet let the Aire be hot and dry the meats seasoned with spices let strong wine be used the body being first purged Frequent use of Cappars with wine and raisins IV. Another sort comes from preternatural Melancholly whether thick or dilute or degenerating into black choler 'T is cured I By alteration with heaters and dryers provided it be not black choler The roots of Eryngos Lycorize the Herbes of Ceterach Baume Dodder Flowers of borrage tamarisk Cappars the cordial flowers Syrup of sweet smelling Apples c. Avoid Vinegar and if it must be used give oxymel and a decoction of Citron peels II. By evacuation with Melanagogues or melancholly purgers The cheif are Polipody sena Extract of black hellebore The diet must be heating moistning The Aire must be tempered with a decoction of Mallows and violets let the patients meates be boyled rather than rost Egs soft-boiled flesh of henns calves partriches corants a temperate bath of fresh water c. V. Another Sort comes from Serum or the wheyish humor which is a thin and Salt liquor by its aboundance and quality altering the body of man 'T is cured by evacuation with hydragogues sudorificks Diuriticks c. The cheif Hydragogues are among the indifferently strong the tope of elder when they first shoot forth dried with a gentle heat an emulsion of the stones of elder-berries Orice root Among the strongare Gambogia Jalap Extract of Elatery conserve of Esulâ— pils of Sagapenum The cheif sudorificks are Spirit of dwarfe elder and of elder Salt of Cenâ—ory of worm wood of Ash of Scabious Harts born prepared Antimony diaphoretick bezoardicum jovial Among diucitick are the diuretical liquor and syrup of Rivius in Renodeus his dispensatory Salt of Vrine Amber beanes Spirit of Salt liquor of tarrar Vitriolated half a scruple compounded with half an ounce of Cinnamon water and two ounces of julep of roses VI. Another is compound springing from some of these humors mingled together In the Cure we must so work that we resist cheifly those humors which most of al exercise their efficacy upon the body not neglecting the rest either within or without This wil be done when the veins are free from the obstruction al the passages of the body open the humors not being much distempered and the noble bowels of the Body not diseased Here panchymagoga or al-humor-purgers are to be used and the Imperial pils of Fernelius which may be seen in the London Dispensatory Chap. 3. Of Diseases springing from Hidden qualities DIseases from hidden Qualities are diseases springing from Causes which work by a malignant and venemous force which cannot be judged to spring from the manifest qualities of natural bodies The Signs are when a disease has rare symptoms great ones and such as are not to be seen in other sicknesses no not of the same kind When there has preceeded some suspition either of some great degree of putrifaction arisen in the body or of infected aâ—re or of contagion or of poison either taken in or communicated from without The Cause is various as shal be explained in the differences The Event of the cure is judged of from the
extinction of the native heat If with it there be other matter which from the corruption in the body hath contracted blackness it being by nature not black it relates to I. The urgent symptome it self which is to be stopped 1. By revellers whether they be strong and sharp Clysters or hot things applyed to the extream parts 2. By things that compress the motion of the expulsive faculty and strengthen the Stomach Inwardly are commended Zacutus his Pills lib. 9. hist prax cap. 1. num 4. Lignum aloes poudered and given with the syrup of the sharp juice of Citrons The crude juice of quinces taken a spooneful laudanum opiate a vomit Outwardly a plaister of treacle Zacutus his cataplasme an epithem of the decoction of wormwood mint made in smiths water The differences are taken chiefly from the causes I. One is from external causes as are meats either taken into great quantity or offensive by their hurtful qualities vomiting medicines then are comended new treacle spirits of wine imoderate drinking and drunkenness vehement motions after meat unaccustomed going to Sea violent coughing the phansie and beholding of things loathsom blows on the body a wound of the skul poyson taken c. Another is from internal causes either diseases or humors of which shal be treated in the following difference II. Another is from diseases infesting the stomach as are Vlcers tumors straitness and smallness the stoppage of the lower orifice which must be considerd in the cure Another is from humors which are either bred there and then there was some fault in the dyet with a continual nauseousness or flow from some other part and then there must be respect had to those parts or they lie in the cavity of the stomach and then they are cast up with a little straining there is a distension and anxiety after meat and vomitings when they have taken no meat or they adhere to the coats and then they vomit not unless upon taking of meat nauseousness is very troublesome These humors are 1. The Chyle which must be suddenly remedied lest an atrophy steale upon us this happens in an ulcer of the Stomach 2. Excrements which are cast upwards in the Iliaca passio as also Glysters 3. Blood which is cast up either by reason of the cutting of some member or after the suppression of some evacuation of blood where it must be dissolved lest it putrefy with oxymel in which a dane-wort root hath been boyled afterwards it must be emptied at last it must be stopped with two ounces of the water of the greater nettle spirit of vitriol as much as is sufficient for a gratful sharpness w th the essence of crocus Martis gelly of Quinces with the old conserve of roses given with gum tragacanth Or by reason of the opening of the vessels where the same means must be used Syrup of purslane with terra sigillata is powerful in astriction 4. Cholor sometimes comes theither if the channel of choler be inserted into the Stomach and then the nature of the humor cast up must be considered vomiting troubles them most when they are fasting 't is somtimes happily stayed by opening the Salvatella if we may credit Zacutus 5. Flegm melancholly matter worms stones c. which are best of all discovered by their proper signs Article X. Of Choler Choler whether it come apotes choles that is from yellow choler from which it most frequently ariseth or apo ton cholodon that is from the gutts is twofold moist and dry I. Moist choler which also is the true is a continuall and imoderate casting off of an evil humor with great perturbation and violence both through the upper and lower parts arising from the violent irritation of the expulsive faculty The signs are often voiding of cholerick humors a great paine in the belly and bowels paine at the heart thirst a pulse smal and frequent to which do oftentimes succeed faintings and coldness in the extreame parts The Cause is a sharp and corrupt matter whether arising from meats bad in themselves as the eggs of the barbel fish mushrums melons cowcumbers plums fat things herbs leeks onions c. or bred elsewhere and sent to the stomach as shal be said in the differences The cure must be bastend by reason of the acuteness of the disease yet there are some in whom this cholerick passion a lask at certain periods doth empty al the superfluities of their bodies It respects 1. The furthering of either of the evacuations if one be too much the other to little 2. Atempring of the humors 3. Astrengthning of the part 4. A restoring of the strength and spirits too which end wine is good if there be no feaver 5. A mitigation of the Symptomes of which in the differences As for the differences There is one when the matter that irritates is conteined in the Stomach which is known by this that there is present nauseousness a straitness knawing and pain of the stomach It ariseth from strong purging medicines Concerning the Cure observe 1. That the flux must not be stopped if the evacuation be plentiful and the strength be not impaired 2. Where the irritation is great and the evacuation smal vomiting must be furthered by gentle vomiters and purging by benigne purgers and laxatives 3. Where the evacuation is great and irritation smal we must use astringents and strengtheners together 4. If vomiting be excessive we must move by stoole if a loosness be too much we must act with vomits composed of whey with syrup of roses 5. Inwardly crocus martis rightly prepared doth stop it best of al. The decoction of Cloves Mastich and Red Roses made in red wine Laudanum opiate the spunge that is wont to grow on sawallows given four grains weight in red wine Outwardly a Sea spunge boy led strongly in vinegar and laid upon the stomach Another is when the matter flows from elsewhere as from the liver pancreas gutts mesentery into the stomach 'T is known by this that for the most part there is present a malignant feaver and convulsins trouble them the matter offending then is Choler like yolks of eggs yellow adust or salt nitrous and corrupt In the Cure 1. The course of the matter flowing thither is not presently to be stopped 2. If it flow too much it must be diverted by medicines either to the skin or to the passages of urine or it must be called to the outward parts by frictions ligatures and the like 3. It must be qualified and the parts strengthened Inwardly Christal is good given half a dram weight Outwardly epithems made of the juice of Endive Purslane with barly flower In course of diet bread dipt in the juice pomegranates is good c. II. Dry choler which also is the bastard is a voiding of a flatulent spirit through the upper and lower parts with a puffing up of the belly with noise and a pain of the loynes sides The SIGNS and immediate cause
and others IV. The Fermentation of Medicaments is nothing else but their union by mutual Alteration by which meanes the old virtues of each of them do no longer remaine entire It is cheifly to be regarded in Treacle and Methridate V. As for the Division compound artificial Medicaments are Internal or External The former are fluid Solid or middle consistence And the latter are divided into as many sorts Chap. 4. Of Compound artificial Medicnies in Special Article I. Of Internal Medicaments Point I. Of internal fluid Medicaments WE cal those internal Medicaments which are received by the mouth into the Body and those we terme fluid which wil run like water and they are 1. Decoctions 2. Infusions 3. Potions 4. Medicinal Wines 5. Medicinal Beer or Ale 6. Oxymel 7. Barley water 8. Medicinal Vinegar 9. Distilled waters 10. Syrup 11. Juleps 12. Emulsions 13. Essences 14. Spirits 15. Tinctures 16 Oiles I. Decoctions are made of vegetables animals sometimes of mineralls if need be cut bruised or shaven boiled in simple or prepared water over a slow or quick fire in a vessel open or shut to the consumption of a third or fourth part of the liquor the Decoction being afterwards strained aromatized and clarified The most noted decoctions are The greater aperitive decoction of the Physitians of Augsburg with their Decoction of Rubarbe Decoction of Maiden haire Fumitory Carminative Gallinae consummatum of a Capon and the Vulnerary Decoction II. Infusions are made of Vegetables or minnerals purgers or vomitories steeped a certaine time in some liquor and afterwards strained forth The proportion of the Ingredients to the liquor is one and an half or double III. Potions are made when purgeing Electuaries Extracts pouders roules c. are mixed with liquors without boileing IV. Medicinal Wines are prepared when new or clarified Wine is impregnated with the Virtues of simples either suddenly by their oyles spirits and tinctures or by long Infusion either with or without sugar The principal are wine of Barberies Quinces Pomgranates red Corants V. Medicinal beers and Physick Ales are made after the same manner VI. Oxymel is made when vinegar is mingled with Honey and plants are sometime steeped therein The most famous are the Simple that of squils the Helleborate Oxymel of Gesnerus VII Barley water is made when barley is sufficiently boiled in water alone or with raisons anis-feed cinnamon strained and made tart with a drop or two of spirit of Vitriol or of Sulphur VIII Medicinal Vinegar is made when simples or compounds are steeped in vinegar or it is made of their juices It is made of Plants 1. Of their Flowers as vinegar of rosemary-flowers of Marrygolds of Gillyflowers of Lavendar of Poppie of Red-poppie of Roses of elder flowers 2. Of their Leaves as of Mints Rue Scordium 3. Of their Fruits as of Citron peeles Strauberries Rasberries 4. Of their Roots as vinegar of Squils There are also compound vinegar Antidotary Preservatory Bezoardick c. IX Distilled waters either by a Cucurbita in Balneo Mariae of plants for the most part of cold Nature whol or beaten and juiced or in Vesica out of hot plants and such whose force is not easily drawn forth and which must first ferment They are made either with wine as Wormwood water Agrymony Betonie Carduus Cinnamon Liverwort Lavendar Lilly-convally Baume Penny-royal Garden sage Veronica or without wine as are those of Sorrel Wood-sorrel c. Or which see the Dispensatory of Augsburge They are also made of Animals as of Capons Singing birds Kidnies Mans blood dung of Beasts c. X. Syrups are made of decoctions Infusions clarrified juices they are preserved with honey or sugar boiled to the consistence of honey almost and are used both to alter and purge seldom alone frequently mingled with a double quantity of distilled waters Those kept in the Shops are Syrup of wormwood of juice of Citrons of Sorrel wood-Sorrel Vinegar simple of vinegar compound of Maiden haire of sowr grapes of Marsh-mallows of Orenges of Mugwort of Betony Simple of Betony compound of borrage Byzantious so cald simple and compound of Maidenhaire simple of Cichory simple of Cinnamon of Corals of Citron peeles of Quinces of Endive simple and compound Of Eupatoruim of Colts foot of Fumitory Simple and compound of Lycorize of Pomgranates of Jujubees of Hyssop of Lemons of Hops of Baum of Mints the Simple and compound of Myrtiles of waterlillies of Poppies of red poppies of Cowslips of Pionie of Mouse-eare of Apples Simple and Compound of Purslain of Horehound of the five opening roots of Roses Simple of dried roses of Rasberries of Scabious of stechados of Comfrey of Violets XI Juleps are made of distilled waters juyces conserves and sugar either without decoction or with decoction XII Emulsions are made of seeds nut kernels perles corals hearts-horne certaine fruites being beaten with some liquor poured on and then strained forth XIII Essences are made of the juice of green herbes pressed out with spirit of wine and digested in Balneo Mariae where they receive their color separated by inclination and with a little sugar reduced into the forme of a Syrupe XIIII Spirits descend in the distillation both of Simple and compound waters together with the waters themselves and are afterwards separated from them by a Cucurbita vial c. But this must be understood of the more volatil sort The fixer sort are drawen out by a Retort and a stronger fire viz. With sand or the bare fire The cheife drawen from Minerals are of Alum of coral Mercury Sal ammoniack Common Salt Nitre Lead Ambar Sulphur Tartar Vitriol of Vegetables are of Wormwood Wine-vinegar Angelica Anisseed Carduus Centorie black-cherries Scurvy-grass Quinces Elder-berries Fenel Strawberries Guaiacum Juniper-berries Lilly-convally Baume Rosemary Roses Sage Danewort Linden-flowers Fluellen wine c. XV. Tinctures are made of dry Plants for the most part hot beaten steeped in some liquor which is called the Menstruum as spirit of Wine May-dew or some other set in an hot place and the vessel shut so longe as that the liquor wil receive no more colour and then they are filtred through a Paper or purified by digestion The most renowned are 1. Of Minerals Of the Sun Moon Mars Saturne Antimony Sulphur Vitriol Smaragd 2. Of Vigitables and cheifly of flowers of Winter-cherries Safron Black-cherries Strawberries St. Johns wort Peony Red poppie Roses Violets Elder-berries Dwarfe elder c. XVI Oyles are drawen out of gummie rosiny substances either descend with waters in distillation or are separated from them either by a separatory or by thick linnen threds or by brown or otherwise sinking paper in some materials they sink to the bottom the more remarkable are oile of wormwood Dil Angelica Of which see beneath in the first point of the third article Point 2. Of internal solid Medicaments INternal solid Medicaments are 1 Pouders 2. Salts 3. Saffrons 4. Flowers 5. Precipitates 6. Vitra Glass 7. Feculae dregs 8.
Quick-silver precipitate Sublimate Oyl of vitriol sulphur c. VI. Putrifiers do melt hard flesh Such are Arsenick Orpment Chrysocolla dryopteris Pityocampe aconitum Sandarach VII Hair-grubbers are such medicines as pluck up by the Roots the Haires of the Body so as to make the part where they are applied bald and smooth such as are strong lie quick-lime ants-egs sandarach arsenick orpment c. VIII Milke-wasters do either incrassate and thicken the blood by overcooleing it or they dry up and digest the same or finally they do by their whole substance destroy the Milke Such are Mints Sage Calamint Coriander Henbane Oyl of unripe Olives Vinigar Camphire IX Seed confounders do either coole thicken or discuss the same or consume it by an hidden property Such are Mint Rue Agnus Castus Dil Seeds of Hempe Fleawort Lettuce Purslaine Champhire c. Article V. Of Medicaments which take somewhat away Point 1. Of Purgeing Medicaments Medicaments which take something from the Body are 1. Purgers 2. Vomiters 3. Diureticks 4. Sweaters 5. Transpirers 6. Braine-purgers 7. Expectorators Purgers are such Medicaments as drive out by stool such humors as preternaturally nestle themselves in mans body And they are 1. Choler-purgers 2. Phlegm-purgers 3. Melancholly-purgers 4. Water-purgers 5. Purgers of all humors together 1. Choller-purgers are medicaments which drive out preternatural choler And they are 1. Mild as among simples Cassia fistularis which because it is hurtful to a moist slippery belly and to the stomach and is windy it is corrected with a graine or two of peper aniseed or Cinamon and is given in a bole commonly from sixe drams to two ounces to children two drams may be given Tamarins or Indian dates convenient for hot Constitutions which because of their coldness are corrected with Cinnamon and Mace and by reason of their lazyness they are quickned with whey of Goates-milk They are given in Pulpe from an ounce to two ounces or three and in the Infusion to five ounces Manna Calabrina which is safe in al cases excepting burning fevers t is quickned with syrup of Roses solutive It is taken in Prune-broath or the Broath of a Cock or Hen to the Quantity of three or four ounces Aloe Soccotrina which taken in too greate a Quantity inflames the Liver because it opens the orifices of the Veines t is not safe for women with child Nor is it good for hot and dry natures 'T is nourished or impredgnated with juice of damaske Roses 'T is corrected with mastich because of its Acrimonie It is given from halfe a dram to a dram more see thereof Solenander sect 3. Counsel 29. Rhubarb the soule of the Liver which must not be given alone because it is apt to fume and easily exhales but with endive water or syrup of Roses solutive it must not be given to such as are troubled with the strangury nor those that are subject to the Hemorrhoides 'T is corrected with Cinnamon Spicknard Schenanth 'T is given from one dram to two drams Damaskroses musked fragrant bitter and detergent Their Virtue is encreased if two ounces of whey be mixed with an ounce of their juyce a little spike and Cinnamon being added Violets which are of like vertue with roses exceeding good in diseases of the Brest and Head-ache Terpentine especially pistick which with pouder of Lycoris and Sugar is made into Boles and given to clense the kidnies Lemnius commends it in a potion Among compounds are Syrup of roses solutive hurtful for women with child because it opens the veines of the wombe from two ounces to four Rose-leaves must be gathered while the morning dew is upon them Their strength lasts hardly beyond six monthes Syrup of the flowers of Acacia de Manna Laxativus Horstius his syrupe of tamarinds with senna Pilulae Angelicae Benedicta Bejeri Hiera mellita from a dram to four drams II. The stronger are amonge simples Asarum which being long boiled loses its strength very wel beaten it moves vomit It is given with whey wine and honey sod together Scammonie which must never be given to such as are inclined to vomit feverish weak persons in the summer in broaths alone because its acrimonie disturbes the body inflames the spirits hurts the principal parts 'T is corrected with juice of Quinces mucilage of Gum Tragant spirit of sulphur or vitriol Being corrected t is called Diagrydium 'T is given from five graines to fifteen Of compounds are Pilulae Rhudji to a scruple Aureae which are most in use Extract of Scamonie The Magisterie thereof which see in Mynsichtus and Grulingius II. Phlegme-purging Medicaments are such as draw excrementitious flegm out of the Body And they are 1. More gentle among simples Myrobalans Chebulan and Emblican which are to be avoided in obstructions of the Gutts or Bowels they are steeped in Chick-broath to an ounce or boiled therein with muscadine Cnicus or Carthamus seeds which purge water and crude flegme and raise wind because they provoke vomit they are corrected with Anise Ginger and Mastich Mechoacan which is of subtile parts mingled with Earthy Of exquisite tertian Agues it makes double ones It works most happily in the forme of a pouder or if it be steeped a night in wine or broath and drunke in the Morning Amonge compounds are spices of Hiera picra simple Lozenges of Mechoacan described by Horstius II. Vehement Flegme-purgers are among simples Agarick which by a peculiar Faculty frees the Lungs from clammy thick and putrid humors 'T is â—afer in the Infusion than in the substance Jalop which is most proper where choler is mixt with flegme The Dose is from a scruple to two scruples with cream of Tartar ... It has in it somwhat of Acrimony Turpetum gummie and white which because it hurts the Stomach provokes Vomit is corrected with Ginger Pepper and Cinnamon By its dryness it brings the bodies of those that over use it into a Consumption It works best in a decoction Coliquintida which purges thick and clammy Humors from the remote parts and because it sticks to the fibres of the stomach it provokes vomiting It must not be corrected by astringents for they detain it being a violent medicine too long in the Body Hermodactyls which purge thick humors from the Joynts and are corrected by atenuaters Euphorbium which is hot and dry in the fourth degree because it inflames the Jaws and Throat vexes the Stomach and Liver raises cold sweat 't is corrected with cordials and Stomach strengtheners but best of al with Oyl of Roses It must not be used inwardy before it be a year old Sagapenum which brings out clammy and thick Humors Of compounds are Pils of Sagapena of Horstius and Camillus Syrup of Coloquintida and Lozenges of Jalap c. III. Melancholy purgers are such as drive excrementitious melancholy out of the Body And they are 1. Gentle Among simples Indian Myrobalans which are principally given in quartan Agues and purge adust choler Epithymum which by a
1. By Diet which must yeild very good nourishment 2. By the frequent Evacuation of the prepared Humors 3. By Removing the Contment Cause by Emollients and Discussers either mixed together or used alone one after another interchangably The milder sort in persons tender and soft fleshed and when the Tumor is new The stronger in harder bodies and where the Scirrhus is old Fabricius Hildanus his Plaister of Hemlock mentioned in the 25. Observation of his 3. Century A Cataplasme of Briony Roots Goats-dung and Vrin are very good 4. If it come to suppuration by cleansing away the quittor with the Plaister of Diachylon simplex omitting heaters and section or lancing least it turn to a Cancer It is divided into a true or Legitimate which is void of sense and in which hairs grow upon the part for which there is no Cure and a bastard which is contrarily disposed to the former Article II. Of a Cancer A Cancer is a round Tumor blue or blackish having Veins round about it ful and swelling resembling the feet of a Crab and springing from black Choller The SUBJECT are parts of the Body as wel external as internal especially the moister and upper parts as the Dugs of Women The SIGNS are drawn from the manner of its Rise At first it s hardly so big as a bean in the progress it exceeds a Wal-Nut and an Eg it is hard of a Leaden or livid color or Else blackish with heat pain and pulsation the veins round about swel with black blood and resemble the feet of a Crab. The CAUSE is adust and black Choler hanging in the veins and by its thickness unable to pass along which springs partly from Nutriment affording such an Humor which has not been drawn by the Spleen partly from an hot burning distemper The CURE is difficult in al both because it comes from a stubborne and Malignant Cause and because it lurks in the deep veins It is not to be undertaken if the Cancer be hidden If it be seated in a Cavity of the body in the palate Fundament or womb There is no Cure if it be confirmed and seated in some noble part of the body It is of some Hope if it be smal fresh and stick in the surface of the body How it is to be performed see in the differences As for what concernes the differences 1. One sort is Exulcerated which is easily known and is caused by a matter sharper than ordinary It has the appearance of corrupted flesh with stench filthy matter coming forth an horrid aspect Lips very hard and turned in There is a slow Feaver conjoyned Swowning black or yellow sains or Blood-water running out of blood c. It s Cure is either Palliative by gentle-dryers and coolers or true 1. By Incision to the quick after which the corrupt blood must be pressed forth the Ulcer concocted mundified see Hartmans ponder in his Chapter of a Cancer in the brest or Dug filled with flesh c. 2. By burning either actual or potential if the profounder and greater vessels be thereby occupied Another sort is not Vlcerated which arises from a milder matter Is Cured 1. By Diet Moystening and cooling 2. By Blood-letting 3. By repeated Purgations of the Humor with extract of Hellebore pills of Lapis Lazuli after it has been prepared with Fumitory Hops Juyce of Fragrant Apples c. 4. By Application of External Medicaments in which case gentle Repellers are useful as the compound of Frogs-spawn Discussers which have no biting quality as Pulvis Benedictus of Hartman the Magistery of Crabsshels c. See Agricola also T. 1. Page 145. II. Another springs from Suppression of the Courses Another of the Haemarrhoides The Cure must be applied to those Diseases Chap. 5. Of Tumors springing from Wheyish Salt and Cholerick Humors mingled together Article I. Of Scabbyness TUmors springing fom mixt Humors do arise either from salt Wheyish and Cholerick Humors or from Flegm Melancholy and Choler so that the conjunct cause is no longer an Humor but some other matter bred of Humors Hereunto belong Scabbyness the Grecian Leprosie Phlyctinae Sudamina Sirones Vari Epinyctides Alphus Leuce Impetigo and Gutta rosacea The Scab Is a Tumor arising from corrupted blood vexing the Patient with distemper and Exulceration of the skin The SIGNS are set down in the definition The CAUSE is corrupt blood mixt with black choler and salt Flegm which either comes from suitable Diet especially when the Liver is distempered with Heat or it is corrupted by contagion and being brought unto the skin it sticks therein and causes Exulceration The CURE is accomplished 1. With Diet which requires boyled meates 2. By Contemperation and Evacuation of the Humors and reducing the Liver to its due temper by the Syrup of Coral of Quercetanus It is divided three manner of waies I. One is Symptomatical to which what has been said ought to be applied Another is Critical which breaks forth after acute or long Diseases II. One sort is moist out of which much sains or blood-water Issues It is caused by Salt Flegm T is Cured more easily than the dry Scab and that 1. By Evacuation to which end whey of Goates-Milk and Fumitory are much commeded 2. By provoking Sweat either by half an ounce of Spirit of Dwarf-Elder and two ounces and an half of Fumitory Water or by Spirit of Guaiacum or Antimonium Diaphoreticum if it be more hard to be removed than ordinary 3. By Application of External Medicaments And here bathes of fresh water and brimstone stone bathes are useful Also to apply the Yellow middle bark of Frangula with Vinegar And Sinnertus his Oyntment Book 5. Page 1. Chap. 27. Another Dry in which nothing is voided or a little quantity of thick matter and the Ulcers are Lead colored T is Caused by an adust Humor Cured with difficulty after the same manner as the former having respect to the Causes Another sort is termed Volatica the Running Scab which infects al the skin in one night for the most part In this universal Remedies being premised t is good to wash the Scabs with the blood that comes from a Woman with the after-birth See Agricola T. Pape 280. III. There is another sort termed Malum mortuum which vexes the Patient with a Leaden and black color crusty pustles black Dry without sence or pain cheifly in the Legs It Springs from a Melancholick and Scorbutick Juyce T is Cured after the same manner having respect to the Difference Another sort is the Leprosie of the Greeks which differs only gradually from other Leprosies T is Known hereby because it Eates deeper into the Skin and scales as it were of Fishes fal of whether the Patient scratch or scratch not and the Scabs stink filthily T is Caused by black-Choler oftimes mingled with Salt Flegm Cured by the same kind of things as the Scab but stronger The distmper of the Liver must cheifly be redressed Sweat must be procured with a
peculiarly affected produces This sort afflicts with sharper Heat Thirst and Watchings They are subject to it who abound with choler The pulse is vehement swift hard The Urine flame-colord and thin 'T is finished in the compass of seven or of fourteen Exasperations It is not deadly unless either some remarkable Error be committed or some malignity attend the same Another is Flegmatick or Melancholick when Flegmatick or Melancholick blood is mixed with Cholerick where together with coolers things gently warming and cutting are to be mixed 'T is termed Notha or a bastard Continual Tertian Point 2. Of a Continual quotidian or every day Feaver A continual quotidian is a Feaver raised by the Phlegmatick Humor putrifying in the Branches of Vena Cava which is exasperated every day It s SIGN is a daily Exasperation which happens towards the Evening because of the natural motion of flegm about that time with heat which is at first feeling mild but afterwards more vehement by reason of the slow and uneven kindling thereof caused by the variety of the parts of Flegm With a light coldness of the extream parts of the Body which nevertheless is not found in al these Feavers The CAUSE is the Humor of Flegm putrifying which is proper to old Men because of their coldness to Children through their greedy eating It Causes so pertinacious and stubborne a Feaver that it lasts somtimes three score daies its beginning reaching to the twentieth day it vehemently weakens the Stomach whence arises a Cachexy and Dropsie The CURE ought to be thus mannaged 1. The first passages must be evacuated with Clysters or Lenitive Medicaments in which case Honey of Roses is effectual or the Stomach must be purged with Vomit 2. Let a Vein be opened if Nature be oppressed with overgreat plenty of Humors and the Urins be thicker and redder than ordinary 3. Purge by stool when signes of coction appear premising attenuators that heat not much first with a gentle then with a stronger Medicament Agarick trochisked Hicra picra Pils of Fumitory are good in this case 4. Procure Sweatings after the matter is lessened with Salt of Wormwood and of Carduus Benedictus and a little Treacle 5. Let strengtheners be given viz. Trochisks of Rhubarb of Wormwood and of Agrimony c. 6. Let the Diet be sparing for three daies if there be Crudities in the Stomach and in the first waies At first give Hydromel or smal Metheglin to drink instead of wine or beer and let no fish be Eaten in the whole course of the Disease This Feaver is divided three manner of waies I. One sort is Simple and Exquisite which arises only from flegm and has fits eighteen hours long Another is bastard when flegm is joyned with other Humors II. Another is termed Epiala in which in the smallest particles of the body understand to the sense both heat and cold are felt at one and the same time It arises either from flegm mingled with Choler or from Glassie flegm which in that part that is putrified is hot in that which is not putrified is cold T is Cured in the same manner that other putrid Feavers are but we must observe 1. That Blood-letting is hurtful 2. That spirit of Nitre in Juniper water is excellent to cut flegm 3. That vomiting must not be neglected which may be procured by six ounces of Juniper water distilled per Descensum 4. Care must be had of the Stomach which nine drops of Oyl of Vitriol with three spoonfuls of the best Canary wil strengthen and cut the flegm or two ounces of Aquae Vitae stilled out of Juniper berries by way of Descent III. Another is called Syncopalis by reason of the swoning fits which is either Minuta so called springing from a thin Humor little in quantity but venemous and corrupt or Humorous proceeding from plenty of Flegmatick and crude humors with weakness of the stomachs Mouth frequent faintings away The best way to proceed in the Cure is 1. By Rubbings in such whose skin is more than ordinarily hard 2. By loosing the belly with Manna and Cream of Tartar 3. By Digestion and Evacuation of Humors giving such things as are necessary for the Syncope 4. By a thin Diet in which wine may likewise have place Point 3. Of a continual Quartan Feaver A continual Quartan Feaver is a Feaver arising from Melancholy blood putrifying in the branches of Vena Cava whose heat alwaies endures but is Exasperated and Augmented every fourth day Its SIGNS are obtuse Heat but sharp and pricking by reason of the Density and dryness of the putrified Humor which causes the Feaver The Pulse at first smal slow and buryed as it were under the skin afterwards great ful and swifter than in an Ague Somtimes the Patient Spawles much which argues either the overgreat moisture of the Stomach or the Spleens fault in not separating the Melancholy Humor It s CAUSE is Melancholy blood putrefying in the middle sort of Veins and springing from its proper causes The CURE is altogether hard both because it lasts to the fortieth day and further unless peradventure it be a Summer Quartan and likewise because seeing that Humor is hard to putrifie it argues there is a great cause 'T is Performed 1. By opening the inner Vein of the left Arme. 2. Cy Preparation of the Humor which must tend much to moistening 3. by Purgation with Melanagogues frequently repeated as also the use of sweaters and piss-drivers 4. by strengthening the Patient with borrage bugloss Citron juyce c. 5. by Diet which ought to be cutting moistening and cooling c. Article 2. Of a continual Symptomatick Feaver Symptomatick Feavers are such as follow upon other Diseases which being removed the said Feavers Cease Their Signs Causes and Cures are to be drawn from those Disease which they wait upon Their Differences are sundry I. One sort is That which follows the Inflamation of some inward partespecially and which is neare the heart or has a consent and sympathy therewith the Vapors which arise out of the blood shed into the part inflamed and putrifying there being communicated to the heart and heating the same It is as many-fold as the Inflamation is The Cure respects the Inflamation II. Another sort there is termed Lipyrias in which during the whole course of the Disease the inner parts are as it were burning up with Heat and the outer parts meane while cold It arises from a vehement inflamation or Erysipelas of some internal part especially the Stomach the blood and spirits having recourse to the part inflamed Either the Cure is not to be undertaken or if it be undertaken resistance must be made inwardly against the putrefaction and extream heat external after the parts have been rubbed heaters and openers of the pores must be applied In which case Oyl of Dill and Oyl of Orice Root with oyl of Vitriol and strong spirit of Juniper berries are good III. Another is slow which is hereby
Clammy and Flegmatick whether generated out of the meats or flowing thither from some other part The Cure ought to be fetcht from the Chapter of distemper 3. by a defect and weakness of attraction Either by reason of a cold and moist distemper or by reason of the interception of the passages by the obstruction of the mesaraick and hollow part of the Liver in the Cure of which those parts must be respected 4 By hindrance of Evaporation either when the substance of the body is not emptyed either by reason of the constipation of the pores and thickness of the Skin which a Bath of sweet water wil take away or the weakness of Native heat whether acquired by a cold distemper or idlenss or by reason of the tenacity sixt and firme concretion of the substantifical moisture which doth not easily yeild to the gentle and pleasing heat that feeds upon it There is another from the not perceiving of the sucking which 1. by Diseases of the brain in which either the Nerves of the sixth pair are affected or the Animal spirits are not generated or their influx is hindred or which happens in acute Feavers they do languish or the faculty as in the Phrenitical c. is converted another way The Cure ought to respect those Diseases 2. by Diseases of the Stomach it self whether they be of distemper or of Composition or of solution of unity of which we treated before The appetite is raised by taking away the causes partly by cooling things if a hot Cause did precede partly by heating things if a cold Wormwood Wine is very much commended Article III. Of too great Appetite Too great Appetite is distinguished into two Species viz. A Dog-like Appetite and Bulimus I. A Dog-like Appetite is a continual insatiable desire of Eating arising from a Vehement sense of sucking in the mouth of the stomach afflicting somtimes with vomiting somtimes with a loosness There is no need of SIGNS whereas they are exprest in the definition The CAUSE is a Vehement sense of sucking and pricking in the Orifice of the stomach but whence it comes is explained in the Differences The CURE which is timely to be administred least the sick fal either into a custome of vomiting or into the Caeliacal passion or into a dropsie doth respect 1. The hunger it self which is allayed either with the Use of Fat things or with the Yolks of Egs hardened in Water or what is best with Wine 2. The Causes of which we wil treat in the Differences The Differences are taken from the Causes urging the Suckings I. One is from the too great want of nourishment in the Body or by Reason of worms feeding on the Child which shew themselves by biting and they are cast forth by the use of Hiera Picra or by reason of too great Evacuations both sensible and insensible by the habit of the Body by Reason of too great a heat of the moisture to which conduceth much the tenuity of the Humors and thinness of bodies Laxness of pores c. And then sweats do molest The Cure is to be turned to the Particular Diseases Or by reason of the long use of Detersive Nourishment as Pigs Lobsters c. II. There is another from cold acid and more austere Humors wrinkling the Orifice of the Stomach compressing and pulling it as are acid Flegm and Melancholly poured into the Stomach and then the signs of a cold distemper are present amongst purger Hiera Picra is good as also Zacutus his Wine Lib. Ult. Hist Prax. ca. 2. n. 9. II. Bulimus is a great Appetite Periodical which aftentimes ends in a Nauseousness with Faintings away and loss of strength The Signs are explained in the Definition The Cause is doubted of by Physitians yet most do hold that t is a cold distemper of the Stomach whereupon t is wont often to happen to those that make long Journeys through deep snow There is no Cure if it happen in Chronical Diseases somtimes after Feavers and other Diseases it threatens a relapse It respects 1. The time of the fit when the swouning happens in which we must use frictions and revivers as the smel of Wine Vinegar c. 2. The time out of the fit in which after the sick hath recollected himself meats of good juyces must be ministred bread dipt in Wine c. And by external means the heat must be restored to the Stomach Article IV. Of a Depraved Appetite or Pica Pica which is also Citta and Malacia is so called from the bird Pie which is sick of this disease it is an absurd appetite to a strange substance liquid or solid beside the ature or essence of nourishment from a sad sense of sucking and corrupt judgment not discerning things fit or unfit for eating from a Vitious Excrement imbibed in the coats by a peculiar propriety of substance molesting the mouth of the Stomach The SIGNS are manifest because they desire meats of Vitious qualities there preceded excess indigestion use of meats and drinks of evil qualities a suppression of the Courses c. The CAUSE is a sad sense of sucking Molesting which is Caused by the matter impacted in the Coats of the Stomach either acting by its whol substance or by a manifest quality arising from an evil Course of Diet or sent from some other part as from the womb whereupon t is familiar to Childing Women about the second and third Month but there is wont at the beginning while the Causes do alter to be raised a desire of contrary things but when by long custome there is a familiarity contracted things like are desired The CURE must be haistened left a Cacochymy or Dropsie be caused The peccant matter is most commodiously cast forth by vomit which in Childing Women must be Caused by those which are more gentle The Stomach may be strengthened with water of Cinnamon of Orange Pils magistral of Corals c. Article V. Of too great Thirst Too great thirst or Poludipsia is a greater and oftner desire of accustomary drink by reason of a sad sence of sucking in the Mouth of the stomach arising from the defect of moist nourishment and the alteration of its proper Humidity The SIGNS of the Symptom are manifest of themselves The CAUSE is a sad sense of sucking which the want of moisture and the plenty of heat have raised but whence that proceeds shal be explained in the Differences The CURE doth respect 1. The too urgent Symptom which is mitigated by Crystal or Coral held in the Mouth cold water corrected with a little Vinegar the iuyce of live Crabs with water of violets and Housleek sprinkled with a little Niter a Lohoc compounded of the Mucilage of the Seeds of fleawort and quinces of each half an ounce Sugar Candy of violets pouderd Starch Tragacanth of each one dram Syrup of violets as much as is sufficient With spring Water boyled with Sugar Candy adding a Pome Citron cut in two c. II.
distinguished from the paine of the stone in the kidnies because it pricks more possesses a greater space is increased after meat by reason of the compression of the stomach it doth less afflict the back and the thighes 't is wandering and there appeares no Gravil in the urine From that of the womb because this seizeth for the most part upon the stoppage of the courses is communicated only to the hipps and Groins The cure must be hastened because the pain dissolves the strength and spirits and draws the principal parts into consent There is little hope if they vomit often and cannot keep their drink and little or nothing is voided if it be changed into an impostumation of the Collick gut If the matter which was contained in the hypochondries be poured forth and carried to the spina and pass into pains of the back and by a malignity contracted doe produce a falling sickness 'T is performed 1. By taking away of the Causes of which we shal treat in the defference 2. By mittigating of the paine if it be too vehement where note that we act most commodiously with anodine glisters the frequent use of outward applications may be if some evacuation have preceded that narcoticks or stupefying means must not be used neither where the strength is dejected nor in a cold cause That Compounds are more safely used than simples and that the same are more securely cast up into the belly than taken by the mouth That we never be unmindful of things appropriate as are the guts of a wolfe dryed and poudered the stones of a horse Quercetans powder compounded of the inward coate of a hens mawe and the white dunge of the same each half an ounce the pouder of the inward skin which is found in eg-shels two drams and an half of rupture wort cinnamon each four scruples of medlar kernels two drams of an is and fennel seeds each one dram the dose is from half a dram to a dram at the most with white wine c. Crato prescribes for preservation 1. A glister made of one pound of the decoction of speedwel in hen broth adding half a pound of mallego wine and half a dram of mirrh 2. Outwardly oyl of mirrh 3. Three hours after supper one scruple of Zedoary sliced 4. Every month in the morning before meat one scruple of treacle See more in Practitioners The diffences are taken either from the part it self or from the causes I. One is of the whol gut in which the pain is about both the loyns and below the region of the stomach neer to the navel which is very dangerous Another is of part of the Gut in which if the beginning of it be opprest the pain afflicts in the right loyn If the middle of it the paine shows it self in the left If the end of it the region of the navel next to the left is pained There is less danger ariseth because glysters may have access but note that sometimes the loyn is affected with a pain above the navel in the hypochondries II. Another is from diseases as 1. Worms whose signs and cure see in its place 2. An inflamation of the Guts which was formerly described and is increased by meats and drinks that are hot 3. From Stones of the cure of which elsewhere Another is from humors I. Thick and viscous sticking between the coats of the gutts which is known by this that the pain is as if a stake were driven through them by reason of the violent distension of the coats in that place neither is it asswaged by belching or breaking of wind and the gut it selfe is corroded which proceeds from glassy flame They arise cheifly in them who are given to drunkenness and idleness and in whom choler which is the spurre of the expulsive faculty flows not to those places In the Cure observe 1. That strong glisters cast in at first and often repeated do more hurt than good because they stirre the matter but bring it not forth 2. That we use not for attenuation things eminently hot lest the matter being suddainly resolved wind be multiplyed 3. To attenuate and discuss the oyle of Zedoary often given from three grains to one scruple is good White whorebound the decoction of Speedwel the Oyl of Orange pills given four grains with wine 4. If the paine continue we must proceed to dry fomentations by which that which was melted and attenuated may be dryed up and discussed 5. We must abstaine from Agrick for feare of vomiting which at that time is in no wise safe 6. Where gentle purgers do not good the essence of the trochisks of alhandal extracted with distilled mallegoe sack and Rulandus his golden spirit of life must be given from half an ounce to an ounce half at the most 7. we must wholy abstaine from opiates II. From sharp and cholerick humors sticking in the coats and vessels which are knowen by the accute pain thirst bitterness of the mouth watchings though by the first glister some excrements be brought forth yet afterwards nothing almost is emptied There are oftentimes joined with it tertain Feavers double tertians bastard tertians In the Cure note 1. That the collick from those causes is of long continuance and is wont to afflict the patient with many relapses 2. That those humors transmitted to the joints do cause an arthritis to the back pains of the back to the nerves a palsey 3. That they are best of al cast forth with the extract of Rhubarb or Hiera picra mixt with cooling things lest they offend by their heat 4. If the pains continue after evacuation Mallego wine may wel be administred with oyle of sweet almonds 5. That warme milk may also be given in glysters with honey of mercury 6. In dyet the fruit of the guord by a certain natural propiety doth oppose the disease III. Another is from the retention of hard excrements of which formerly and in which we must at the beginning abstaine from giveing any purging medicines by the upward parts lest they move the excrements Another is from wind conteined in the cavity which cannot get passage which is known by the distension of the belly a rumbling murmuring which shew themselves in the bowing of the left side It ariseth cheifly from meats apt to produce a fermentation of the humors as are corruptible-fruits Grapes new wine new and thick drink c. In the Cure observe 1. That the cure must be begun with anodyne and emollient glysters 2. If these profit not Some laxative must be given in fat broth of manna Oyl of sweet almonds and other things 3. Afterwards we must use discussives Inwardly are commended a glister made of Mallego wine and oyl of Nuts each three ounces aqua vitae one ounce the distilled oyles of Juniper and Rue each two drams apply it very hot A mixiture of Spirits of wine and Spirits of niter each half a dram or two scrupels given in common water warme
One spoonful of the tincture of orange peels extracted with spirits of wine Sperma ceti with oyl of sweet almonds Outwardly gum taccamahac and Caranna applyed to the Navel The antiapoplectical balsome with one or two grains of Zivet c. IV. One is exquisite of which we have hitherto spoken Another Spurious whose cause sticks either in the peritoneum or in the membranes which are spred over the abdomen and parts of the belly 'T is known by this that the paine is most greivous and very lasting and cannot be mitigated neither by glysters nor medicines nor fomentations nor by those remedies by which the true collick pains are abated and yet it succeeds to long continued feavers and other cholerick diseases whose solution is difficult For nature endeavoring a crisis and the expulsion of the hurtful humor by the stoole when she can no where find a ready and cleare way to empty it doth often cast it out of the veins and bowels into the membranes whence do arise pains more grievous than the former disease 'T is observed by Fernelius that both continuall feavers and tertians and more frequently quartans are terminated with these pains which a long time had their exacerbations at certaine circuits and retained the like order of fits See concerning this Mattheus Martinus on the diseases of the Mesentery V. Another is which tends to a particular palsey which Palmarius was wont to cure with a syrup compounded of white wine six ounces Rose water two ounces pouder of Alarbazi or antimony prepared one dram choice cinnamon one dram and an half infused al night strained by gentle pouring it off adding of Sugar eight ounces The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce after a draft of chicken broath Article 3. Of Costiveness of body Costiveness of body is no casting forth of excrements or very little in proportion to the nourishment received There is no need of signs The causes shal be explained in the differences The cure is not to be neglected for from thence the head is assaulted with vapors the whole body grows heavy the concoction of the stomach is hindred the appetite destroyed the loines grow weak to wit the veines being burthend and a preternatural heat caused in them Sometimes the belly is moved by sneezing and coughing sometimes if the diseased walk on the ground bare sooted c. The difference is taken from the excrements and guts I. One is by default of the excrements which either are not by reason of fasting and the use of meats of good juice Or do not stimulate either by reason they are small in quantity or by reason of the want of choler which either is carried to other parts as in the jaundice or is not produced out of cold meats Or they are hard either by fasting and a hot habit of body or by a continued restraint there by which it comes to pass that they forthwith grow dry and the veins of the mesentery do suck forth somwhat of their juice Or by reason of gross tough astringent meat eaten at first and not moistned by reason of the too great heat of the liver and kidnies and then there must be care taken of those parts we must act by mollefyers Solenanders liniment is approved of if the navil be anointed therewith 't is compounded of new oyle of sweet almonds goose grease May butter dialthea each two drams Coloquintida sixteen grains Salt one scruple and half the pouder of Simple hiera one scruple diagridium four grains II. Another is by fault of the guts which either do not feel either by reason of their long custom or by their stupidity such as is caused by the drowsy disease palsy apoplexy or by reason of flegme adhering to their coats of which in the chollick Or do not cast it forth either by reason of the narrowness of the passages from the obstruction of the guts of which formerly or of some tumor of the mesentery or bowels pressing the guts or from the fault of the muscles of the belly or from the strength of the retentive faculty from the moderate dryness Article 4. Of a Looseness Point 1. Of a Lientery and Coeliaca Fluxes of the belly are A Lientery Coeliaca Diarrhy Dysentery and Hepatick flux A Lientery is too sudden a voiding by the stool the nourishment in that forme in which it was received proceeding from the fault of the retentive and expulsive faculty of the stomach and guts The SIGNES are evident whether you consider the consistence or the colour smel and other qualities of the aliments taken The CAVSE we have laid in the definition on the faults of the retentive and explusive faculty of which hereafter in the differences The CURE must be hastened because this symptome proceeds from a great prostration of the natural heat and a weakness of the tone of the stomach 'T is difficult if it be supervenient to acute and chronical diseases because the strength is impaired It respects 1. The cause which must be taken away 2. The symptome which must be stayed by astringent means and things that stregthen the stomach and guts The Diffence is taken from the causes One is by default of the retentive faculty which is hurt 1. By the refrigeration of the guts which is caused I. By immoderate drinking of cold water especially when the body is hot by a southerne wind over moist and excessive cold especially in bodies of a fine texture c. 2. A cold distemper which ariseth from flegm either generated there or sent from some other part covering over the wrinkles of the guts doth make them laxe and slippery duls their heat and closeth up the mouths of the mesaraick veins In this for the most part a Celiaca was precedent If sour belching which was not before be supervenient to this of long continuance it is a good signe The Cure requires a casting forth of the matter either by vomit or stoole to which end serve Myrobalans Chebul Citrini tamarinds Rbubarb A restraint of the same and strengthening of the stomach by the distilled oyles of masticke wormwood mint c. order of dyet in which wine takes place II. by a laxness from the continuall use of things oyly fat and emollient from whence is too great a mollification of the Mouth of the stomach whether also belongs the resolution of the nerve of the sixth payre that contracts the fibres of the inward coat III. By a strange quality inured and that either from an evil constitution of the aire as happens in a popular lientery or from the unseasonable eating of mushrums melons cowcumbers c. IV. By a thick and smooth scar such as is wont to follow a great disentery and a deep ulceration which by its thickness stopping the Mesaraicks hinders the distribution by its smoothness the Retention This must be rubbed off and wiped away as it were by eating of sharp things attenuating and strong abstersive as musterd Seed Onions Garlicks honey of
see in distempers if it be hot whey is good with the juice of lemmons or of sweet smelling apples newly exprest Another from the womb whose vitious blood doth easily regurgitate either from the veins into the arteries by reason of their anastomosis or out of the arteries into the hypogastrick which gives branches to the stomach pancreas caule smal guts c. and by and by into the coeliacal It is known by those accidents which are wonte to befal those troubled with the mother In the cure we must have regard to the affects of the wombe Another is hemorrhoidal happening from the suppression of the hemrods of which in its place See Matthaeus Martinus concerning the abstruser diseases of the mesentery who handles these things very accurately Article III. Of the Scurvy The scurvy is a cachexy arising from a melancholly humor corrupted in a peculiar manner afflicting with a weakness of the thighes spots swelling of the gums and bleeding of them loosness of the teeth and other Symptomes The Scurvy was known to the ancients partly under the name of Oscedo partly of Scelotyrbe and Stomacace partly of Volvulus Sanguineus and is familiar to people inhabiting the Sea and moarish places The SIGNS are put in the definition and we shal treat of them hereafter To these ad the Vrine and pulse too much variable that for at the beginning t is thin and yellowish the tartarous matter subsisting in it by and by thick and white the humors being more corrupted t is red and by the admistion of an adust saltness shining like a lye and anon without any marke of putrefaction and thirst red sands oftentimes stick to the chamberpot Somtimes t is thick and continues so somtimes growes cleare and casts to the bottome a red sediment which resembles flower of Bricks somtimes many crude and flegmattick excrements stick above the sediment as the suspensum but in those whome the suppression of the hemrods hath occasioned this evil in them it comes forth by drops with paine and heat and conteins a tartarous matter Mucous Salt and blackish This because the pulse somtimes is weak unequal and often vermicular but fainting fits approaching by Reason of its high necessity and because the Heart endeavours to expel the Vapors 't is stronger The CAUSE is a Melancholy Humor and that 1. Crude as both the Diet and the Symptomes shew which do afflict Melancholy people 2. Serous and Ichorous that 't is like a Lie which consists of water and Salt Feculent and adust Parts which is discovered by the wandering pains and Ulcers 3. The associate of Flegmatick somtimes and vitious Humors for a Vein being opened the blood in Scorbutick people is covered over with a white Glew waxing Green or Yellow 4. After a peculiar manner corrupted after it hath remained there a long time hence many labor of an obstruction of the Spleen and Melancholly Humors who are not affected with the scurvy and in those Regions where the collection of a black Humor from the heat of the Air is Familiar the Scurvy is unknown 5. Contagious which you shal not find in other Melancholy Diseases 6. Produced from meats destitute of volatil Salt and therefore hindering spirituality in the Concoction from whence things Tartarous and Feculent stop in the first passages and afterwards flow to the Spleen in such plenty that they cannot be separated Certainly meats hardned with Smoak and Salt in which there is either little of volatil Salt or what there was is wasted by Smoaking so that nothing but the fixt Salt and Tartarous remains a thick Air and maritine places do conduce to its generation The medicines which are given bruised and tasted send forth a sharp vapor subtile and quickly vanishing which proceeds from volatil Salt the same dryed or boyled work less fresh and condite do worke more exactly 7. Primarily residing in the Mesentery Caule first Passages and the middle places between the stomach Liver and Spleen and bordering on both Bowels Secundarily in the Veins of the whol body That for if the Chyle be less purefied by its spirituality either by reason of the weakness of parts or external error it stops in them by reason of its thickness by the arrival of more 't is increased and infects the same with its feculency and saltness which it hath conceived it weakens and pollutes the neighbouring Liver and the parts dedicated to concoction both by contract and sending forth of Fumes from whence that quality is participated of by the same meats and Chyle This for that filth detained there for some time by help of the serous Humor is carried to the Liver from thence by the Veins and Arteries is distributed into the whol habit of the Body the future Cause of so many Symptomes The CURE respects three things 1. The Diet which ought to be incisive attenuating abstersive opening obstructions where note the eating of wild Pidgeons is commended that this Disease in some places is Cured by the exercise of Venery perhaps by reason of the exsplendency of natural heat Things Sugard and Milks must be avoided 2. Chirurgery by Vertue of which the basilick Vein the median Salvatella or of the Ankles must be opened but so that we forbear if the spots have already appeared if there be no Hopes of the Hemrrhoids and a Feaver affect let it be done Let the Evacuation be sparingly least the strength be dejected 3. Physick by Vertue of which 1. The matter offending must be prepared the first passages being washt so that we begin with the gentler that we act with things more attenuating if the Disease be now grown strong or the men live in a thick Air That those things be given which work by their whol propriety and be administred rather in juyces essences conserves than in Decoctions and extracts in which the volatil Salt of medicines doth vanish Things appropriate are English Scurvy-Grass which is most commended or Brooklime which hath somthing of moisture in it Horse-Radish the lesser Celandine Pennywort Mustard water Trefoil c. Of Compounds are the Danick electuary made of the berries which they calmultiber Forestus his Sceletyrbick Syrup and Mynsichtus his Antiscorbutical Syrup The essence of germander and Fumitory The Spirit and conserve of Scurvy-grass Mynsichtus his Tinctura Martis strengthned with appropriate things c. 2. It must be emptyed either by the lower Parts where take place Quarcetans Tartarous Pills or by sweats to discusse the remainder which either in a Laconick Bath or otherwise are wel raised by Mynsichtus his Theriaca Saxonica the essence of Fumitory with Salt of Wormwood or by Diureticks given with appropriate Waters 3. The Parts as the Liver Stomach c. Must be strengthened The Symptomes which afflict the scorbutical are various which affect for the most part by periods are not al found in al people some are more familiar others less but they are as follows I. Difficulty of breathing and a staitness of the breast by
with a fit and that going away it ceaseth 'T is cured with water-cresses which grows in clear waters XIII A Palpitation of the heart and swouning Concerning which we must know that it serves for the most part when the patients rise in their bed the humors being stirred somtimes 't is so great that they dye suddainly 'T is a certain sign of the scurvy if it afflict in a disease that is smal to the sense It ought to be opposed by medicines given six or eight times a day with things antiscorbutical XIV Vomiting which is rather a vaine endeavouring 1. To vomit that hath no heaviness or pain of the stomach going before it is not taken away by medicines that strengthen the stomach 't is rather quieted with milky things that do lenify the humors XV. Too much spitting which ariseth partly from vapors raised up to the mouth from the bordering places of the stomach partly from meats corrupted in the stomach and carried up to the mouth along the course of the membrane lining the gullet partly from a serous humor poured forth from the spleen into the stomach through the Vas breve 'T is prevented by avoiding of sharp and hot medicines which diffuse the matter XVI A Flux of the belly both diurnal and nocturnal which brings forth compacted excrements but exceeding the meat in quantity sometimes of a green somtimes of an ash color It ariseth either because the nourishment not attracted by the weakness of the liver is corrupted or because the serous humor flows back from the spleen to the gutts or because the serum which might have been dissipated thorough the habit of the body in forme of a vapor by cold condensing the pores is driven back to the guts or the vessels especially in the morning time when the body is open with heat being bound up by cold 't is thrust back towards the greater vessels and carries with it to the guts whatsoever it findes in the way and then in the cure things astringent are most hurtful A dry dyet must be used wormwood wine diluted with the decoction of succory is good or because whiles the serous humor grows hot with the Feaverish heat and cannot be exhaled it is turned thither and then syrup of Roses solutive and things of succory are good 'T is somtimes bloody but without paine and with other signs of the scurvy It ariseth from Feculent blood abounding in the veins and poured forth into the guts through the ends of them XVII Feavers which differ far from other Feavers For the sence of cold extends it selfe to six or seaven hours the pulse is slow weak unequal in the declination great and hard in the vigour the urine is as we have said formerly Somtimes they trouble thrice somtimes four times a day most commonly they are mixt of the type of a continual and tertian The continual if they be exasperated by purging medicines or hot potions do kil XVIII A dropsy which afflicts both with a harder manifest tumor and distension of the spleen liver or belly and with a greater difficulty of breathing than otherwise which after the use of purgers doth most of al torment and because it proceeds from thick vapors they being discust it ceaseth XIX An Erysipelas Which somtimes molests every week somtimes every month it proceeds from ichorus humors corrupted after a peculiarmanner In the cure the water of elder flowers with Carduus water is good XX. Vlcers which are dry and yeild no matter or filth they trouble those most that are of a cholerick temperament They possess not only the thighs but other parts also somtimes they become so gangrenous so that they feel not iron inflicted on them they ought to be cured without any biting or pain brooklime alone boyled in drink layd on them twice a day doth much good and also the ointment of diapompholygos in great putrefaction some Mercury precipitate or spirits of vitriol must be mixed with it XXI Hard bunchings in the whol body great tumors which stick in the groin the glandulous parts of the body like unto muscles they are without paine while the patients are quiet with paine when they walk If they break forth suddainly and by and by vanish they presage a palsey A cataplasme of the root of the greater comfry of bryony wormwood the crum of white bread boyled in milk is commended in the cure XXII An Atrophy which proceeds at first because the faculty is disapointed by reason of vitious nourishment in process it ariseth by reason of a vitious disposition imprinted on the parts by the defluxion of humors For the cure is commended goats milk if the goat be nourisht with things antiscorbutical I omit the rest See concerning this disease Sennartus Horstius and others Title 8. Of the affects of the Kidneys Chap. 1. Of the diseases of the kidneys Article 1. Of the Straitness of the Ridneys THe diseases of the kidneys are straitness inflamation the stone wounds and ulcers The straitness is an obstruction or compression of the vessels in the kidneys induced by its causes The Signs of it are the retention or paucity of urine and from thence a sence of distension and heviness about the loines in one or both sides c. The Causes shal be explained in the differences the continent is put in the definition The Cure varies according to the nature of the differences The differences are taken from the causes inferring the obstruction or compression I. One is from a tumor Phlegmon Scirrus compressing them too much dryness whiles the substance is wrinkled and contracted which wil discover themselves by their signes although the last is very hardly known II. Another from humors viscous thick clammy which is known by their redundance the absence of pain and a Feaver 'T is cured 1. By emptying by stool or by vomit 2. By things detersive incisive and diuretick The waters of parsly rest-barrow with Fernelius his syrup of radish are commended The spirits of salt tartar vitriolate with a Julep of violets c. III. Another is from clotted blood which hath fallen out of its vessels and concreted there 'T is known from hence that pissing of blood went before and causes enducing it as blows falls c. 'T is dissolved with chervil water dyers madder with the seed of cresses spermaceti and mummy made into a pouder IV. Another is from matter which is generated there or flows from some other part It is known by the signs of an ulcer or impostumation in the kidnies and the urine somtimes purulent 'T is cured by abstersives V. Another from the stone of which shal be treated hereafter in the meane while observe that gravil doth sometimes do it which either is produced in the proper substance of the kidnies which is known from hence that 't is hard and red and thence rapt with the violence of the urine running is carried into its hollow part afterwards is thrust down to the bladder and when the
little bals that they may be swollowed whole and the unsavoriness of the ingredients not discerned by the Tast They are made of pouders extracted out of the mass of usual pils the simples being made up with some liquor They are either Alterers of Bdellium Bechicae or for the Cough of Castoreum of Cynoglossa Narcotick pils of platerus c. or Purgers of Agarick Agregative Alephangine of Aloes rosata of Amoniacum Arthriticae Assajeret Aureae de Colocynthide de Hermodactilis Mastichinae Panchimagogae c. They are also distinguished into Hypoglotudes and Narcoticae Point III. Of internal medicaments of a middle Consistence Internal Medicaments of a middle consistence between fluid and solid contain under them 1. Extracts 2. Rosins 3. Conservs 4. Conserves 5. Quiddennies 6. Electuaries 7. Lick-pots 8. Soâ—pes and 9. Boles An Extract is drawn as a tincture and is reduced to the Consistence of Honey Pils or pouder The most usual are of wormwood of Acorus of Lignum aloes of Angelica roots of round Birthwort of Carduus of Gilloflowers of Castoreum of Centory of Celondine of Safron of Cubebs of Dictamus of Enula of Galingal of Gentian of Guajacum of Masterwort roots of Baume of Mint of Mace Marjoram of Broad dock of Paeonie of Rue of Savine of Satyrium roots of Scabious of Scordium of Comfrey of Tormentil of Valerian of Zedoary II. Rosm is drawn out of Gummy materials with Rosewater and spirit of wine separate from the feces by inclination precipitated and dryed with a gentle heat III. Conserve is made of flowers somtimes of herbes and soft roots bruised and preserved with a double quantity of sugar The most usual are of the tops of Roman-wormwood Carduus Eye-bright Fumitory Marjorom Penyroial Veronica Of the Leaves of Sorrel Wood-sorrel Scurvy-grass Mints Purslane of flowers of Acacia Betonie Borrage Bugloss Marygolds Cichory Broom White-lillies Lavendar Lilly-convally Mallowes Baume Mints Water-lillies red Poppie Peach-flowers Primrose Prunella white and Red-roses Sage Elder Linden Savory Colts-foot IV. Preserves are made of roots barkes Fruits or harder materials steeped in water or boiled or of softer preserved in sugar or honey to last the better and to be more grateful to the Palate The more usual are these following Of the roots of Calamus aromaticus Borrage Cichory Comfry Elecompane Eryngoes Pimpernel Rhubarbe Satyrium Scorzonera Zedoarie Ginger both that of China and the common sort Of the flowers of Orenges Citrons the fruits of Orenges Barberies Cherries Citrons either whole cut in slices or dried or of the pulpe of Quinces bramble berries or Hips Apricocks Medlars Myrabolans bellirican Chebulan Citrine and Emblican of Wallnuts and Indian nuts of Peaches black-peper in the branch Sloes Prunes Damsins c. Of Peeles of Aurenges Citrons And stalkes of Spanish Lettuce V. Rob or Quiddiny is the thickned juice of fruits sometimes of flowers either with expression or without expression boiled and with a like quantity or somewhat more of sugar added The cheife are of Barberies Cherries Hips red-corants Elder berries Hitherto belong thickned juyces of Wormwood Acacia Agrimony Aloes Carduus kermes berries Elder berries centaury Quinces Elecampane Fumitory Lycorize Hedge-Hyssop St. Johns wort Henbane Hypocistis our blew Orice Licorize Mercury Myrtils of germanie Nicotiana or Tobacco Opium Plantane Red-Roses scrophularia and Solatrum Ad hereunto Mel Ebulinum Sambucinum Juniperinum and Passulatum V. An Electuary is made of Conserves Spices Roules Trochischs a proportion of juice or syrup being added The Cheif are Venice Treacle Mithridate Alkermes Confectio Anacardina Aurea Alexandrina Electuary of Bay-berries de Scoria ferri de Ovo Philonium Mesuae Persicum Romanum Dioscoridum Tryphera magna so named because they give a good color to the whole body and make the breath sweet and are made up of curious ingredients VI. Eclegma or Lohoch or Lick-pot of pouders species conserves juices mixed with some liquor or syrupe used against infirmities of the Lungs and Chest The most usual are de Scilla compositum de Caulibus de Farfara de Papavere Passulatum of the Pine kernels of Purslane of Fox-lungs Lohoch-sanum and expertum and succo Scillae c. VII Saponea is a Lick-pot made of almonds blanched and beaten and with sugar dissolved in a convenient water boiled to the consistence of Honey starch and rose-rosewater being added towards the end VIII Bolus a morsel is made of Electuaries pulpes conserves spices pouders with a little syrupe made into the shape of a little bal given to purge vomit alter or some other purpose Article 2. Of external Medicaments Point 1. Of external fluid Medicaments And so much for compound internal Medicaments the external follow which are either fluid or solid or of a middling nature or indifferent The fluid are 1. Clysters 2. Gargles 3. Mouth-washers 4. Oiles 5. Epithemes 6. Pumpings 7. Lotions I. Clisters are medicaments which by a convenient Instrument are cast through the fundament into the Guts They are made of Roots Barkes Leaves Flowers Fruites boyled in water and strained some other things being added which may serve the Intent of the Physitian Their use is to loosen the belly to clense dispel wind to bind to sodder to allay the paines of the Guts and kidneyes II. Diaclysmata or Mouthwashings are medicaments which are kept in the mouth and are by the tongue moved up and down without swallowing They are cheifly provided for paines of the Teeth and Diseases of the Jawes III. Gargarismes are medicaments with which the throat is washed without swallowing down the humor being forced up and down by the breath They are made of distilled waters or convenient decoctions neither unpleasing in tast nor smel nor haveing any venemousness in them in which some syrupe or Quiddinie is dissolved We use them in repelling discussing ripening abstersion consolidation IV. Oiles are made either by distillation as aforesaid or by expression of the oleaginous juice when the fruits and contused seeds grow warme with the vapour of hot water and being put in a bag are squeezed in a Press or by infusion either when the simple medicaments with simple water or distilled water wine or other convenient liquor are boiled in common oile til the Humor be consumed or when the same simples are macerated in a gentle Heat or in the Sunn or when dryed plants are with oile digested in balneo Mariae the oile being afterwards pressed out and clarified The Oiles pressed out are these Oile of bitter Almonds and of sweet of Hazel-nuts of Hemp seed of Cherry kernels of Citron seeds of Rocket of Henbane of Walnuts of Baies of Mace of Nigella of Nutmeg of Ripe and unripe Olives of Eggs de palma of Poppie of Peach kernels of Pine kernels Pistachios Rape Ricinus sesamus Acorns Oiles by infusion in the Sun and simple are these Oile of Wormwood Southernwood Dil Chamemel Cheiri Quinces Elecampane Euphorbium Pismires Ground-ivy Jasemine Orice Priver of Lillies Lilly convally wormes Mastich Mint Melilote Myrtils Nard white lilly Populeum Frogs
and make them wider that the Vapors may be better transpired They are moderately hot of thin parts and not drying such as are among Herbs Marsh-mallows Mercury Flowers of Chamomel Melilot Elder Seeds of Fenugreek Line Oyl which is old and Butter II. Condensers are such things as contract and straighten the smal pores of the body but are not able to compact the whol part strongly and every where They are of a watry Nature as cold water of Herbs Purslane Housleek Flea-wort Mous-ear Duck-weed green Thistles Prick-madam the greater and the lesser III. Stoppers by their thickness do so stick externally upon the pores of the body that by their coldness and dryness they contract the part There are of this kind Astringents so called Such as are among Simples the Roots of Tormentil Plantane greater Comfry dry water Lillies Sorrel Curmallow Filipendula peony Avens Strawberry Bistort Rhaponticum Rhubarb tosted Leaves of plantane Knotgrass Gnaphalium Loof-strife Solomons Seal Horstail Shepherds-pouch Mous-ear Oak Flowers of Roses pomegranates Ivy. Seeds of plantane purslane Sorrel Roses Fruits Quinces Medlars Barberries Services Cornel-berries Galls Raison-stones Cypress nuts myrtle berries Shels and Rinds of pomegranates Frankincense tree myrobalans mulberries Gums of mastich Dragons blood Juyces of Hypocistis sour Grapes Acacia Minerals Terra sigillata Bole armeniack blood-stone Allum Coral Iron Of Animals Harts-horn prepared Stags pizzle c. Of Compounds are Water of Roses purslane plantane privet Syrup of red Roses Quinces Barberries marmalade of Quinces Diacodium narcoticum Crocus martis astringens pouder of mans bones calcined fresh made Treacle Juyce of pomegranates of Acacia old conserve of Red Roses The stronger sort of these medicaments are Balaustians myrtles Acacia Hypocistis Sumach pomegranate medlar c. IV. Anastomaticks are medicaments which open the mouths of the Vessels and are therefore by the Greeks so named because they ought to penetrate into the inner parts of the body and to attenuate gross humors and therfore they ought to be both hot in the second degree and endued with a more thick substance than ordinary that they may retain heat the longer Bitter things are most convenient Point VII Of Attenuating Aperient and incrassating Medicaments I. Attenuating medicaments are such as dissolve and make thin thick clammy and glewish humors so that either they vanish of their own accord or are easily dissipated by the operation of Drawers They must be of a thin substance hot in the third degree which is nevertheless not alwaies necessary For the juyce of Lemmons Vinegar Oxymel do attenuate and cut though they are cold See the Catalogue among Operatives II. Apperitive medicaments do open inward Obstructions of the Body They ought to be of a thin substance and therefore are reckoned among such things as appear hot and biting to the smel and tast which have a nitrous salt bitter and acid tast but seeing there is variety both of the matter obstructing and the bodies obstructed somtimes such as are of thin parts sometimes such as are not so qualified are given Now they are these Among Simples of Roots the five opening Roots so called viz. of Smallage Fennel Asparagus parsly and Holm of Grass Cicaory Eryngos Gentian Fern madder Rhaponticum Asarum Cappars Tamarisk Ash Herbs Fumitory Wormwood Agrimony maiden-hair Liver-wort ceterach chamepitys chamedrys Dodder Horehound calamint penyroyal scurvy-grass Brooklime Water-cresses Hops white Horehound Wormwood Seeds of Annis Fennel Ameos Agnus castus Vetches Lupines Fruits bitter Almonds Cappars Peach-kernels Apricock-kernels Spices Cinamon Cubebs Gums and juyces Ammoniacum Vinegar Juyce of Lemmons Of compounds are waters of the foresaid simples Oximel simple Scyllitick Syrupe of opening roots Trocbiscks of Rubarb Wormwood Egrimony Lacca-gum Tartar Vitriolated Creame thereof Christals and Tincture of Tartar Tincture of steele pouder aperient crocus and pils thereof III. Incrassaters or thickners do make the thin and liquid juices more thick They are cold or temperate without acrimonie and of thick substance such as Porslane Sorrel Poppy Rice Lentils Quinces Peares Starch Chalybeate milk and juice of Pomegranates Point VIII Of Obstructive And Deobstructive Medicaments I. Emplastick or obstructive medicaments are such as by their substance do daub stop and clam up the passages of the Body and being smeared thereon stick fast thereto being of a Consistence either dry and earthy but without any biting quality or ful of watry and aerie humor They are I. Among simples 1. Roots Of Marshmallowes White-Lillies Seeds Wheate Starch Pine-kernels steeped in water Fenugreek al Mucilages Fruits Figs Raisons Gums Arabick Tragant Dragons blood Earths Terra sigillata Bole-Armeniack Juyces Alum Stones Lapis Calaminaris Blood-stone Potters-clay Minerals litteridge of Gold and Silver Lead Oare of brass Pompholyx Cerus Animals Mumia fresh fats marrowes fresh butter Cheese whites of Eggs Wax II. Compounds of these Unguentum Album Nutritum II. Deobstructers do scoure away clammy glutinous humors which stick unto the body they are hot or cold salt bitter nitrous Such are I. Of Simples 1. Roots of birthwort Orice Gentian Solomons seale Tamarisk Leaves of Smallage Wormwood Centorie Southernwood Hysop Watercresses Horehound Agrimony Ground-Oake Tansey Harts-tongue Pimpernel Seeds of Lime Fenugreek barly Orobus Lupines and their meales Juyces Aloes and Sugar Gums myrrh Rosins Terpentine Mineralls verdigrise Vitriol Animals whey beasts-Gal III. Extergents differ only gradually Of this kind are Oxymel Alume water Unguentum Aegyptiacum c. Point VIII Of Anodynes and Narcoticks Anodyne Medicaments are those which by their moderate heate and soft substance do asswage paine by opening the pores of the body and entering thereinto by the tenuity of their substance and discuss the cause thereof by insensible transpration Such are I. Among Simples the Roots of Marsh-mallowes Lillies Leaves of Mallowes Elder Flowers of Chamemel Melilote Safron Seeds of Lime Fenugreek Animals Fat 's of Hogs Hens Geese Calves Man-fat Marrow of Oxen Calves Milke butter II. Of Compounds oiles of white lillies Chamomel Violets sweet almonds linseed worms and which is most commended sweet oile of Roses of a middle age II. Narcoticks stupifie the part so that it cannot feel that which pains This they do partly by their coldness partly by an hidden Quallity Of this kind are I. Simples the Roots of Mandrake Leaves of Henbane mandrake Seeds of white-poppey Juyces Opium II. Compounds oiles of Mandrake Vnguentum popeleon laudanum ossiatum Fernelius his narcotick lozenges Spirit of Darnel c. Article 2. Of Medicaments which cause motion Medicines which cause motion are either Drawers Repellers or Astringents I. Drawers are such as draw from the deepe parts of the Body into the surface thereof not only thin and wheyish humors but also such as are thick and fast rooted in the Parts of the Body They are either hot in the second degree which draw moderately or in the third degree which draw strongly or in the fourth degree which swel the skin Such are I. Of simple Roots of the two Birthworts Anemony bindweed Tragon Gentian Pellitory Crowfoot
Daffodilly Reeds Cuckow pintle Thapsia Garlick onions Leaves of Wild-Cresses Calamint Purple Anagallis Nex Thlaspi Ivie Seeds of Nettle Navew Water-cresses Gums Euphorbium Ammoniacum Galbanum Sagapenum Rosins Pitch Vulgar Rosin Annimals Dung of Pigeons Hens Cantharides II. Of Compounds Emplastrum Oxycroceum II. I cal them repellers which do either by their cold watryness prohibit the influx of humors into any part or drive back such as are already flowed in but are not fastened They are 1. Among simples the Roots of Plantane Barks of Mandrake roots Leaves of Housleek Purstane Duck-weed Endive Lettuce Nightshade Water-thistle Venus navil Lentisk Sumach Henbane Flowers of red roses Seeds of Fleawort Plantane Of compounds Waters of Roses Nightshade Plantane III. Astringents are such as consist of a thick and earthy substance stop the passages of the part force out the the thinner particles of the humor and consequently do also repel They are either Cold or Hot. Cold are among Simples the Roots of Sloes Cinquefoile bistort tormentil great Comfery Barks of myrobalans Pomegranates Frankincense tree Barbery-tree Leaves of Horse-taile smal daisie mouse-eare Knot-grass Shepards pouch Flowers of Roses balaustians Seeds of Sorrel porslane myrtils White-popy Fruits Services Quinces meddlers myrtle berries unripe mulberries Gums mastich Dragons-blood Earths Terra sigillata bolus Armenia Of compounds are Waters of Roses of Plantane of Privet flowers Syrups of red-roses of Quinces Conserves of dried-roses Quinces New made treacle Juice of Pomegranates trefoile Crabs sower Grapes Pouders Diacorallium Crocus martis Burnt harts horne mans-bones Spodium Ambar Pills de Cynoglossa Hot astringents are Cyperus Wormwood Calamus Aromaticus Schaenanth aloe Thus Myrrh Spike Barks of Frankincense-tree Cypress-nuts Alum Article 3. Of Medicaments which generate somewhat Point 1. Of Ripeners Quittor-breeders and Flesh restorers Medicaments which breed somewhat are in a six-fold difference 1. Ripeners or Quittor-breeders 2. Flesh-breeders 3. Glewers 4. Scarbringers 5. Milke-breeders 6. Seed-encreasers I. Ripeners and Quittor-breeders are such by whose helpe the Natural Heat turnes corrupt blood into Quittor They are moderately hot and moist and like in temperament to the part whereunto they are applied Also by shutting the pores they keep in the heate They are in a twofold difference Some are meerly of a temperate heate and clammy which we use in hot tumors such as are Mucilages of Lin-seed Fenugreek Mallowes Marshmallowes Water and oile Wheate-meale Milke Crum of wheaten breade Hogs-grease fresh-butter Unguentum Dialthea Others are hot which we use in cold tumors and parts such as the Gums Ammoniacum Bdellium Galbanum Rosins Terpentine Pitch Vulgar rosins Teares of Firr Birch and Pine-tree Oiles of Chamomel White-Lillies Ointments of Agrippa Basilicon Majus and minus Emplasters diachylon simple and cum gummi II. Sarcoticks or Flesh-breeders are such things as assist nature to change blood into flesh both by preserving the Heate of the Part and removeing such Excrements as hinder the work They do moderately heat and drie also they clense away filth without any biteing or astriction They are of a Three fold Rank In the first ranke or degree are placed meale of Barly of Fenugreek of beanes Franckincense Manna thuris In the Second Terpentiue rosin Larch-rosin Fir-rosin Clarified Honey hony of Roses Aloes meale of Lupines orobus and Pompholyx In the third degree meale of Orobus raw honey birthwort root orice roote myrrh Vitiol Point 2. Of Sodderers and Scar-bringers I. Glewing or soddering Medicaments are such as bring together the gaping lips of fresh wounds and binder any thing from flowing into or growing between them Of which kind are among Simples the Roots of Tormentil Cinque-foile Bistort Leaves of Mouse-eare plantaine Sr. Johns-wort Bugula Sanicle Pyrola Wal-Sage Rupture-wort Willow Vervaine Gumsz Myrch Frankincense Saccocolla Jucies thickned Aloes Hypocstis Rosins Pitch Terpenrine Of compounds Oyntment of Lituridge of Betony II. Scarbringers are Medicaments which consume both that which flowes to and that humor which is already in the flesh that the flesh may be changed into the similitude of Skin Thick are of thick substance vehemently drying astringent and contracting The cheife are Roots of tormentil Cinquesoil Herbes Comfry Thorough-waxe Horse-taile Plantane Flowers balaustians Juyces concrete Coral Aloes Juyce of dragon Earths Alum Ecle Armeniack Metelline substances Lead Cadmia Litteridg Brass-burnt and washed Antimony III. Hitherto belong Vulnerary Medicaments of which vulnerary potions are made And they are the roots of greate Comfry Bistort Tormentil Leaves of Ladymantile Shephards-pouch Golden-rod Balsaminum Vervaine Fluellin St. Johns-wort Millefoil Sanicle Hors-taile Elme Plantaine Betony Cypress Mouse-eare Flowers of red-roses St. Johns wort Balaustians Fruits Cypress nuts Gums Teares Frankincense Aloe Mastich Teares of the firr Terpentine pine and larch rosins Stone-pitch liquor of Elme-leaves Gum Elemi Gum of Juniper of Ivie of Tragant Tacamahaca caranna Sarcocolla Dragons-Blood c. Point III. Of Milke and Seed-breeders 1. Milk-breeding Medicaments in this place are such as both helpe to make good blood and moderately attenuate the same and bring it to the Duggs such as are these following green Fenel the seed thereof Green Dil Smalladge pouder of Christal Decoction of Colewort Butter taken with milke and fenel Smyrnium Polium Rocket c. II. Seed-breeding Medicaments both those which carrie matter to the spermatick vessels and they which provoke to the expulsion of seed whether they fil it with wind or ad a spir or provocation thereto The cheif are these Roots of Eryngos Satyrion Ginger Seeds of Rocket Mustard Nettles Pepper Fruits Pine-kernels Pistachios Hasel nuts the Pap of the Indian nut Parts of Animals Reins of the Scinci Braines of Sparrowes Stags-Pizzle Cocks-stones Article IV. Of corrupting Medicaments Corruptive Medicaments are 1. Rubisiers 2. Vesicatories 3. Such as induce a Grust 4. Burners 5. Corrosives 6. Putrefiers 7. Psilothra hair-grubbers 8. Milke-wasters 9. Seed-confounders 1. Rubifiers make the skin red and draw Humors from the inner parts of the Body into the skin such as are the Roots of Thapsia Seeds of Water-cresses Nettles Mustard II. Vesicatories raise bladders and by their Ardency draw forth humors The cheife are Roots of Bind-weed Pellitoty Squil Garlick Thapsia Herbs Doves-foot Flammula Crow-foot Seed Of water cresses Mustard Also Euphorbium Leaven Soap Pidgeons-dung Cantharides III. Crust-Creators do not only raise up the scarfe-skin but also burne the skin it self howbeit their operation goes no further IV. Burners or Causticks bring a thiker crust than the former and often work upon the flesh beneathe the cheife are White Hellebore ashes of vine-dregs ashes of the fig-tree Ashe and savine tree Brass-burnt flower of brass quick-lime Vitriol orpment Arfenick mercury sublimate Salt made of Lie of which soap is made V. Corroders take away proude flesh and do by little and little melt the upper surface thereof The milder are Roots of white vine black-hellebore Ashes of the Oake fig-tree Conchylium Aloe Alum burnt lead Ancimony calcined The stronger are Quick-lime Flower of Brass Brass-burnt Vitriol calcined
of Orice Bindweed Leaves of Bete purple Anagallis Marjerom Sage Betony Ivy. Juyces Elaterium which is the strongest and Juyce of Pulsatilla Also they may be made out of the foresaid roots and Leaves II. Ptarmica or Sneezers do by their Acrimony so provoke the Expulsive Faculty of the Brain as to cause it to cast them out and with them such excrements as stick in the Brain it self The cheif are the Roots of Ginger Pellitory Orice white Hellebore Leaves of sneezewort Tobacco Seeds Peper Mustard Staphisacre Nigella Gums Euphorbium whose smel alone is sufficient III. Apophlegmatizers Being either chewed or gargled or smeared upon the Palate bring down the Excrements from the Braine into the Palate and mouth They are made of rootes of Ginger Pellitory of spaine Seeds of peper watercresses Mustard Staphisacre Gum mastick Point V. Of Expectorators Expectorateing Medicaments are those which evacuate humors contained in the chest and Lungs They are made of Roots of Alecampane Birthwort Angelica Orice Cuckow-pintle Squills Lycorice Of the Leaves of Hyssop Maiden-haire Scabious Horehound Colts foot Seeds of Cotton Watercresses Erysimum Seseli Nettles Fruites reisons jujbes sebestens Almonds Figs Pistachios Hither also appertaines Sperma Ceti See more of these in the Chest-medicines Chap. 6. Of Medicaments denominated from the parts of the Body Article 1. Of Cephalik Medicaments Point 1. Of Cephalick Medicaments which are hot ANd so we have done with our Muster of such Medicaments as are denominated from their faculties those follow which receive their denomination from the parts of the Body with which they have an Agreement by reason of their whol substance and specifical properties Now they are these Caphalicks Ophthalmicks Thoracicks Cardiacks Stomachicks Hepaticks Spleneticks Nephriticks and Vterine Medicaments And al these are either Hot or Cold Internal or External I. Internal heating Cephalicks are 1. Of Simples Roots of Paeonie Caryophillata Birthwort Masterwort Calamus Aromaticus Leaves of Primrose Betony Rosemary Marjerom Centory Sage Flowers of the Linden-tree Stachados of Arabia Lilly-convally Peony Primrose Betony Seeds of Amomum Peonie Mountaine withie Coriander Fruits Kermes Berries Anacardia Bay and Juniper berries Spices Cubebs Nutmeg Cardamom Cloves Woods Miseltoe of the Oake and of the Hasel Tears Frankincense Storax Sea-commodities Amber Ambergreise From Animals Mosk Castoreum II Of compounds Water of black cherries of Lilly-convally Peony Linden Gilloflower Primrose Orange-flowers treacle-Treacle-water Tinctures Elixit proprietatis of Peony of Sassafras wood Distilled oiles Of Rosemary Marjerom Sage Rue Ambar Spike c. Syrups of stechados Betony Gilloflowers Peony Conserves of Betony Sage Rosemary flowers Lilly-convally Centorie Stechados Preserves Nutmegs preserved Indian Nut preserved Preserved wallnuts Electuaries Confectio Alkermes Treacle Mithridate Diacastoreum Spices of Diambra Dianthos Diamoschum dulce Diacastoreum II. External heateing Cephalicks are I. Among Simples al those wel nere before related Leaves of Rue Running betony upright vervaine are exceedingly commended II. Among compounds are Oyls of Sassafras wood Oyle of Rue Nard Oyle Oyle of Baies of Castorem Balsoms of Roses of Rosemary of Nutmeg Marjerom Sage Ambar Emplasters de Betonica de Mucilagnibus de Baccis Laury Point 2. Of cooleing Cephalick Medicaments Cephalick cooling Medicaments are likewise internal or external I. Internal are 1. Of Simples the Roots of Mandrake the Leaves of Lettuce Perslane Plantane Night-shade Water-lillies Henbane Flowers of Roses white popie Red-poppie purple violets water-lillies Seeds four greater and smaller coole-seeds Fruits of Gourd Cucumbers Woods of Sanders II. Of Compounds Waters of Roses Violets Lettuce Water-lilly Night-shade Juices Opium Vinegar of Roses Syprups of white poppie red popie Roses Water-lillies Conserves of Lettuce and of the flowers aforesaid Electuaries Diacodion simplex and compositum Diaolibanum opiatum Ladanum opiatum Speices Diatrion santalon de gemis frigidum Diacorallium II. External are I. Of Simples Leaves of Willow Vine Venus Navil Mandrake The rest may be taken from the foregoing II. Of compounds Waters of Henbane Lettice Water-lillies Plantaine Nightshade Elders Roses Juyces of the Birch-tree House-leeke c. Oyles of Poppeyes Violets Water-lillies Lettice-seed Mandrakes Frogs Ointments of Roses Alablaster Album camphoratum Refrigerans Galeni Populeum Article 2. Of Ophthalmick Medicaments Ophthamlick or Eye-medicaments are either Heating or Cooleing and they are both external and internal I. Internal Heateing Eye-medicaments are I. Of Simples Roots of valerian Fenel Celondine Navew Rapes Leaves of the greater Celondine Fumitory Eyebright Pimpernel Rosemary Flowers of Eybright Celondine Marygolds Seeds of Anis Rue Siler montanus Turnips Spices Safron Lignum-aloes II. Of Compounds Waters of Vervaine Celondine the greater Fenel Vervaine Rue Centaury the less Syrups of Betony Eye-bright Electuaries Treacle Mithridate Conserves of Eye-bright Rosemary-flowers Betony Sage Gillowflowers Extract of Lignum-Aloes II. External are I. Of simples the Roots of Vervaine Valerian The Leaves of which mention has been often-made Flowers of Hypericon Melilote consolida regalis Seeds of Clarie or Clear-Eie Line Fenugreek II. Of compounds Aqua Saccarata Calendule Mellis Mullein Elder Bread Ointments Pomatum Dialthea III. Internal coolers are I. Of Simples Roots of Cichory Straberry Rapes Leaves of Strawberry Cichory Plantane Flowers of white-roses Violets Water-lillies Seeds of Quinces white-poppie II. Of compounds Waters Of Strawberry Porslane Syrups Conserves Species c. See among the Cephalicks IV. External coolers are I. Among Simples the Leaves of Dandelion Oak c. The Flowers see above Seeds of Beanes Fleawort Quinces Fruits Pulpe of apples A sweet apple with Sugar Earths Bole Armeniack Terra Sigillata Metalline Substances Ceruss Litturidge of Silver Lapis calaminaris Saccharum Saturni Spodium II. Of compounds waters of Blew-bottles Beanes Goose-grease Strawberries Mucilages of fleawort seeds Mallow and Marsh-mallow seeds c. Article 3. Of Chest Medicaments Point 1. Of Heating Brest Medicaments Chest Medicaments are likewise either Heaters or Coolers internal or external Internal Heaters are I. Of simples Roots of Enula campane Squil round Birth-wort Colts-foot Pimpinel Scordium Scabious Dragon Soap-wort Leaves of the five capillary Herbes Horehound Clamint Scabious Fluellen Hedera terrestris Colts-foot Botrys spotted Lungwort Hyssop Scordium Two-penny grass Flowers of Scabious spoted lungwort Hysop colts foot spike sea-grass Seeds of wild rue and Garden rue of mountaine siler sesili or Marselles Chervil Carduus southern-wood Fruites fat-figgs Dates Paisons of the Sun Indian Nut. Spices Saffron Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Woods of Sassafrass Guajacum Orenge peels Earths Gums Bole-armeniack Gum Ammoniac Myrrh Terpentine Choise Frankincense II. Of Compounds Waters of Hysop Horehound Maidenhaire Fluellen Ground Ivie Scabious Carduus Orice Calves-grass Spirit of Turpentine Sulphur Ground Ivy. Distilled Oiles of Anise Fennel Mace Sage Creeping betony Tinctures Elixit proprietatis Tinctura Sulfuris Balsam of the same or with oile of fenel or of sweet almonds Extracts of Saffron Orice Fluellen Calamus Aromaticus Ground Ivy. Decoctions Decoctum pectorale of dried Rapes of an old Cock of Lignum Guajacum Syrups of Hyssop of Horehound of Maiden
hair of the Juice of Ivy of Fleuellen of Scabious of Tobacco Oxymel simple of Squils Lohoch of Colts-foot of Fox-lungs Lohoch sanum and Expertum de Passulis de althea Conserves of Bortys Veronica Pulmonaria maculosa Hedera terrestris Electuaries Treacle Mithridate Speices diaireos simple Diatragacanthum frigidum Diapenidium Diathamarum Fecular Aronis Flowers of Brimstone of Benzoin Trochiscks Bechicâ—albi and nigri Diaireos II. External Heaters are I Of the simples al those in a manner which we formerly mustered II. Of compounds Oiles of Orice Rue Costus Cheiri Sweet almonds and bitter Lillies Line Fatts Goose-fat which most penetrates Deer-suer Hens-grease Mucilages of Lin-seed Fenigreek marshmallowes with Safron Ointments of Marsh-mallowes Pectoral ointment and Unguentum Resumptivum Point 2. Of cooling Chest-medicaments Cooling Chest medicatâ—â—â—s are internal or external I. The internal are I. Of simples Roots of Garden Endive Lamb-tongueplantane Polypody Leaves of porslane Water-lillys Colewort Flowers of Violets mallowes Water lillys Bugloss Cichory red poppy roses Seeds the four great and smal cool-seeds seeds of poppy mallowes quinces barly Fruits Hungarian spanish prunes mulberries Jujubes sebestens of water thistle of sweet briar dried Woods red sanders yellow sanders white Sanders Gum tragant Arabick Animals River crabs whey Goates-milk II. Of compounds Waters of a capon simple and compound of veale mallowes Violets water-lillies red popie Distilled oiles of purple violets sweet almonds Emulsions of white poppie porslane cold seeds Decoctions Decoctum pectorale in the London Dispensatory of a Capon Syrups of violets Jujubees Water-lillies Gourds red poppie porslane Dialthâ—ae Fernelij Lohoch de Psyllio of reisins of Cole stalkes of poâ—slane of marsh-mallowes Electuaries Diacodium of the Physitians of Augsburge new Treacle Conserves of roses violets with boile-Armeniack Spanish Lettuce Species Diatragacanthi frigidi Diapenidij Roules of diatragacanthum frigidum Diamargaritum frigidum diapenidium sugar of roses in Lozenges II. External are I. Of simples the Leaves before aleadged Animals fresh may butter not salted barrowes grease Mucilages of Fleawort seeds of Quince seeds of Fenigreek of marsh-mallowes Oiles of violets white lillies Article 4. Of Cardiac or Heart-Medicines Point 1. Of Heating Heart-Medicines Cardiack-medicaments are such as are good for the Heart whether given in or outwardly applied and they are also hot or cold Internal are I. Of simples Roots of Scordium Doronicum Angelica Devils-bit Master-wort Vince-toxicum Scorzonera Dictamnus Contrajerva Tormentil Leaves of Baum scordium sage Tormentil carduus Scabious Fluellen Cardiaca Goates Rue Garden and wild Cresses Flowers of the Gilloflower rosemary scabious Centaury Baum Tormentil Borrage Bugloss Seeds of Citrons Aurenges Carduus Rue Lovage Navew Spices Nutmeg Cassia lignea Safron Cloves Woods Lignum Aloes Gums myrrh Camphire Benzoin Mastich Sea-commodities Amber Ambar-greise Earths and stones Bole-Armeniack Terra sigillata Turcica and stringensis Perles Corals fragments of the five precious stones Animals Bezoar stone Harts-horne Rhinocerots Horn Bone out of the Heart of a Stag. II. Of compounds spirits of Elder and juniper berries baume Elixir of Citrons with spirit of muscadine Distilled waters Of Carduus baum Citron-flowers scabious marigolds scordium Carbuncles Cinnamon with Cordial flowers Bezoardica senerty Distilled oyls of Cinnamon Citron baum Ambar Cloves Nutmegs Tinctures of ambar Elixir proprietatis Extracts of Angelica Carduus Citron peeles Lignum aloes Vince toxicum Zedoary Safron Essences the magistery of Cinnamon Essence of Ambar of Citrons of Perles of Vervaine Juyces of Citrons with their barks of Pomgranates Gelly of Harts horne made with Vinegar of Harts horne and scordium Syrups of Citron peeles with and without musk and Ambar Scordium Carduus Orenges baum Gilloflowers Pomgranates veronica Borrage Bugloss Gallangal Conserves of Baum Citron-flowers Orenges Gillowflowers Marygolds Borrage Bugloss Preserves of Citron peeles Orenge peeles Indian Nut Scorzonera roots elecampane roots Electuaries Treacle Mithridate Confectio Alkermes Diascordium Fracastorij Species and pouders of Diamargartium calidum Diamoschi Diambrae Bezoardicus II. External are I. Of simples those which have been reckoned up before 1. The compounds likewise are the same viz. waters juices distilled oiles Of these Epithemes bags Fomentations and Linements are made Point 2. Of cooleing Heart-medicaments Cooleing Hart-medicaments are either Internal or External I. The Internal are I. Of simples Roots of Dandelyon Sorrel Leaves of Sorrel wood-sorrel Water-lillyes Flowers of violets Cichory Water-lillies Seeds the four cold seeds Fruits of Rasberry red Corants Barberries Citrons Aurenges Pomegranats Sweet briar berries dried Woods the three Sanders Earths and medicines from Animals are those before mentioned II. Of compounds Waters of Sorrel Straw-berries black Cherries Quinces Hart-Stones Juyces of Citrons Pomegranates Rasberries Vinegar of Roses Gelly of Harts-horn made with Elder-flower Vinegar Syrups of juyce of Citrons of Pomegranates of Wood sorrel of juyce of Red Corrants Strawberries Lorrals Violets Conservs of Citron flowers of Aurenges of the pulp of Citrons of Roses of Acacia Preservs of Red and White Corants Barberies Citron Meates Eglancine berries Species and Powders of Diamargaritum frigidum Diatrion santalon Magistery of Perles of Corals Article 5. Of Stomach Medicaments Point 1. Of hot Stomach Medicaments Stomach medicaments are such as heat the stomach or cool it and that either taken inwardly or outwardly applied Internal stomach-heaters are 1. Of simples Roots of Pimpinel Rhaponticum Galangal Zedoary Calamus Aromaticus Caryophyllata Leaves of Roman and common Wormwood red and garden Mint Cardiaca Cichory Agrimony Marjerom Seeds the four greater and lesser cool seeds Coriander prepared Fruits Juniper berries bay-berries Aurenges Indian Nut. Spices Nutmeg Ginger Mace Cloves Cinnamon Galangal Cubebs al sorts of Pepper Cassia Lignea Woods Lignum Aloes Guajacum Citron Peels Orenge Peels Gums of Mastich Sea-medicines Ambar Ambar-greise Of Compounds Spirits of Muscadine of Rhenish Wine of vitriol of Mastich of Wormwood of Rosemary of Cinnamon of bread Distilled Waters of Mints of Betony Sage of Cinnamon with and without Wine Elixir vitae of Baum with Wine of Zedoary with Wine Distilled Oyls of Peper Calamus Aromaticus Cloves Mace Cinnamon Caraway Fennel Wormwood Orenge Peels Tinctures Elixir Proprietatis of Amber of Corals of Sassafras Wood. Extracts of Lignum aloes Wormwood calamus aromaticus Essences of Rosemary Citrons Wormwood Aurenges whereunto belong Salt of Wormwood Juniper Syrups of Cinnamon Mints Wormwood Betony Mastich Oximel sciliticum Syrup of St. Johns-wort flowers Conservs of Wormwood Mints Betony Red Roses vitriolated Preservs of China Ginger true Acorus Galangal Citron Peels Orenge peels Nutmegs Indian Nut Myrobalans Species and Pouders Aromaticum Rosatum Diatrion pipereon Diaxyloaloes Imperial species Stomach-pouder of Brickmannus II. External are 1. Of simples such as have been already reckoned up and of Gums Ladanum Tacamahaca Styrax calamites 2. Of Compounds there are besides the aforesaid the Balsams of Peru Camemel Romane Oyntments Stomach Oyntment Martiatum magnum Emplasters and Cataplasmes Emplastrum Stomachle de Crusta panis de Baccis Lauri de mastiche Point 2. Of Stomach Cooling Midicaments Cooling
Stomach medicines are also internal and external I. Internal I. Of Simples Roots of Cichory Sorrel Asparagus Water-lillies Leavs Endive Sorrel porslane mirtle Flowers of Roses Violets balaustians Seeds the four cool seeds barley Sorrel seeds Rose seeds Fruits Citrons Quinces Orenges Pomegranates myrtle berries medlars Tamarinds Corants melons and cowcombers Woods Sanders Stones Red corals II. Of Compounds waters of Roses Acacia Strawberries plantane porslane Quinces Juyces such as are mentioned among cooling Heart-medicines Syrups of corals Juyce of citrons Juyce of sowr Grapes of Quinces of Acacia of pomegranates Julep of Roses and of Violets Conservs of Roses vitriolated of Acacia Flowers Oak-tops citron-flowers Confects of Cichory Roots Quinces Spanish Lettuce Diacidonium simplex Species and Pouders Diatrion santalon Diarhodon Abbatis Diamargariti frigidi II. Externals are I. Of simples those we mentioned for inward medicaments II. Of compounds Oyl of Roses Violers Quinces Water-lillies unripe Olives Article 6. Of Epatick Medicaments Point 1. Of hot Liver Medicaments Liver medicaments are hot or cold and they are internal or external I. The Internal are 1. Of simples Roots the five opening greater and lesser of Pimpinel wild Radish Squills rhaponticum verum Rhubarb Leaves of Agrimony Eupatorium of Mesuae Kunigund is her herb Mountain Chamaedrys Centaury water-cresses Betony Liver-wort Ground-pine Flowers of Centauty Spike Squinanes Elder Liverwort Hops Seeds of Orenges Citrons Brooklime Seseli Fiuits Aurenges reisons Juniper berries Spices Cinnamon Saffron Acorus Zedoary Indian Spiknard Cassia lignea Woods Legnum aloes Guajacum Santalum citrinum II. Of Compounds Spirits of Elder Guajacum Wormwood Centory Waters of the Herbs aforesaid Oyls of Sage Orenges Wormwood Juniper berries Mace Nutmeges Tinctures Elixir proprietais of Lignum Sassafras Extract of Gentian Carduus Lignum aloes Wormwood Guaiacum Veronica Calamus aromaticus Syrups of Ground-Oak Byzantinus Syrupus so called of Hops of Wormwood Conservs of Chamaedrys Sage Wormwood Fumitory Rosemary Flowers Preservs of Acorus Citron peeâ—s Citrons Pimpinel roots Species and Pouders Diacurcumae Dialaccae Diaxyloasoes Diamargariti calidi II. The external are I. Of Simples those formerly alleadged II. Of Compounds Oyl of Roses Quinces Water lillies unripe Olives Ointments Unguentum Santalinum Refringerans Galeni Rosatum Mesues Plaisters Cerotum Santalinum Diaphaenicon frigidum Emplastrum de succo Ciculae Article 7 Of Splenetick Medicaments Point 1. Of hot Splenetick Medicaments Splenetick Medicaments are hot or cold and both are internal and external I. Internal hot Medicaments are 1. Of Simples the Roots of Fern which is counted an appropriate medicament of Scorzonera of Orice of Florence of Polipody of the Oak of Caryophy llata of wild Radish Leavs of Scolopendrium Harts-tongue Scurvy-grass Tamarisk Dodder Hops Fumitory Brook-â—ime Chervil Galiopfis Ground Oak Flowers of Hops Broom Elder Chamaemel Fumitory Liver-wort Seeds of Ash Ammios Water-cresses Chervil Mustard Nettle wild Parsenip Scurvy-grass Spices Saffron Epithymum Woods of Sassafras Lignum aloes Barks of Cappar Roots middle rind of the Ash Tree of the Elder and Tamarisk Tree Gums of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of Squils II. Of Compounds Spirits of Wine tartarized of Centory of vitriol of Mars of Tartar simple and compound of Brook-Lime of Scurvy-grass of Guajacum of Juniper berries Waters of Dodder Melissa compound Hops Water-cresses Scurvy-grass Fumitory Tincture of Mars Extracts of the Spleen of Jove Scolopendrium Harts-Tongue Scordium Fumitory polypody Essences of Scurvy-grass of Epythymum of Chamaedrys Fumitory Dodder Cappars Syrups of Scolopendrium Fernelii of Broom Flowers of Epithimum of Scurvy-grass of Apples Forestus his Syrup against the scurvy Conservs of scurvy-grass scolopendria broom-flowers Fumitory Veronica Ground-Oak Pimpinel Species of Dialacca Diacurcuma Dicapparum of Hollerius Tartarus Vitriolatus II. External medicaments are I. Of simples those already reckoned and of Gums Ladanum Tacamahaca styrax II. Of compounds besides the forementioned there are Balsams of Peru of Romane Chamaemel of Mastich Vnguents Unguentum stomachale Martiatum magnum Plaisters and Cataplasmes Emplastrum stomachale de Crusta panis de Baccis Lauri de Mastichae Point 2. Of cooling Stomach-medicaments Also cooling stomach medicaments are either internal or external I. The Internal are I. Of Simples the Roots of Cychory sorrel Asparagus water-lillies Leavs al sorts of Endive sorrel porslane myrtle Flowers of Roses Violets Balaustians Seeds the four greater cool seeds barley sorrel and Rose seeds Fruits Citrons Quinces Orenges Pomegranates myrtils medlars Tamarinds red and white corants melons cucumbers Woods sanders Stones red-coral II. Of compounds waters of Roses Acacia strawberries Plantane porslane Quinces Juyces those which have been mentioned among the cooling Heart Medicaments Syrups of corals Juyce of citrons sour Grapes Quinces Acacia Pomegranates Julep of Roses and Violets Conservs of Roses Vitriolated Flowers of Acacia Tops of Oak citron flowers Preservs of Cichory roots of Quinces of Spanish Lettuce Diacydonium simplex Species and pouders Diatrion santalon Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargaritum frigidum II. External are I. Of simples those already reckoned among the internal medicaments II. Of compounds oyl of Roses violets Quinces of unripe Olives Article 6. Of Liver-medicaments Point I. Of Heating Liver medicaments Liver medicaments are heating or cooling And the former are internal or external I. The Internal are 1. Of simples Roots The five opening roots greater lesses roots of pimpinel wild-redish squil Rhapontick Rhubarb Leaves of Agrimony of Eupatorium of Mesue of true mountaine groud oake Centory the less Water-Cresses Betony Liver wort ground pine Flowers of Centory the less spicknard Squinanth Elder Liver-wort Hops Seeds of orenges Citrons Brooklime Seâ—eli Fruits Orenges Raysons Juniper berries Spices Cinnamon Safron Acorus Zedoary Indian spike Cassialignia Woods Lignum Aloes Guajacum Santalum citrinum 2. Of compounds the Spirit of Elder berries Guajacum wormwood Centory the less Waters distilled of the foresaid Herbes Oyles of sage Orenge-peels wormwood Juniper Mace Nutmegs Tinctures Elixir proprietatis of Lignum Sassafras Extracts of Gentian Carduus Lignumaloes Wormwood Guajacum Veronica Calamus aromaticus Syrups of Ground oake Byzantinus Hops wormwood Conserves of Ground-oake Sage Wormwood Fumitory Rosemary Flowers Preserves of Acorus Orenge-peeles Citron peeles Citron pap pimpinel rootes Species and poâ—â—ders Diacurcuma Dialacca Diaxuloaloes Diamargaritum calidum II. The Eternal are I. Of simples those before specified of which decoctions Bags and fomentations may be made Ointments are Unguentum Nardinum Martiatum Plasters Diaphaenicon calidum de Baccis Lauri Oxycroceum Point 2. Of Liver-coolers Liver coolers are either internal or external I. The internal are I. Of Simples Roots of Aspragus Grass Water lilies Strawberry Sorrel Cichory Leaves of Sorrel Strawberry Asparagus Sowthistle Garden Endive porslane Lettice Water lillie Flowers of Roses Cichory Bugloss Balaustians Water Lillies Acacia red-poppy Seeds the four great and smal coole seeds barley white popy violets Fruites Pomegranates c. which we have reckoned among stomach-coolers See Gums and precious stones in the same place From Animals shavings of Harts hoâ—ne and Ivory whey of Goates-milk II. Of compounds Spirit of
Vitriol aâ—â—â— spirit of Sulphur of salt Distilled waters of Cichory Sorrel Water Lillies Strawberries Syrups of the juyce of Cichory Endive Sorrel wood-sorrel juyce of Citrons and the rest reckoned among cooling stomach medicines Conserves Preserves and species see in the same place II. External are I. Of simples the same fore-cited II. Of compounds Oiles of Roses Quinces Water Lillies unripe olive Ointments of Sanders cooling Ointment of Galen Unguentum rosatum of Mesue Emplasters Cerotum santalinum Diaphenicon frigâ—â—◠〈◊〉 plaâ—ster of the juice of Hemlock Article 7. Of Splenetick Medicaments Point 1. Of warming spleen medicaments Spleen medicaments are either heating or cooling each of them internal or external I. The internal Heating are I. Of simples Roots of Ferne which are appropriate of Scorzonera of Florentine orice of polypody of the Oake of Avens of wild radish Leaves of true scolopendrium Harts-tongue Scurvygrass Tamarisk Dodder Hops Fumitory Brooklime Chervil Galiposis ground oake Flowers of Hops Broome Elder Fumitory Liver-wort Seeds of Ash bishops-weed Watercresses Chervil mustard Nettle wild parsnip Scurvy grass Spices Safron Epithymum Woods Sassafrs Xyloaloes Barks of capar roots middle rind of ash-roots Elder roots Tamarisk roots Gum Amoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of squils II. Of compounds Spirits of wine tartarized of Centaury of vitriol of Mars of Tartar simple and compound of watercresses of Scurvy grass of Guajacum of juniper berries Waters of Dodder of barm compound of Hops of Water-cresses of Scurvy-grass of Fumitory Tinctures of Mars Extracts of Joves Spleen Scolopendrium Harts-tongue Scordium Fumitory Polypody Essences of Scurvy-grass Epithymunâ— Ground-oake Fumitory Dodder Capaâ—â—â— Syrupps of Ceterach or Scolopendrium or Fernelus of Epithymum of Scurvy-grass of Apples the Scotbutick Syrup of Forestus Conserves of Scurvy grass of Ceterach of Broom-flowers of Fumitory of Fluellen of Chamaedrys Pimpinel Species of Dialacca Diacurcuma Diacapparum of Hollerius Tartarus Vitriolatus II. External are I. Of simples those before mentioned II. Of compounds Oyls of Capars Orice Cheiri Rue Peach kernels Almonds Scorpions Ointments of dialthea Martiatum de Arthanita de Ammoniaco Spleneticum Emplasters of Melilote diachylum ireatum Emolliens Foresti diasulphuris Rulandi Point 3. Of cooling Spleen-Medicaments Cooling Spleen Medicaments are internal or external I. The internal are I. Of simples Roots Of Cichory-like plants and of which mention is made among liver Medicines Leaves Flowers Fruites Seeds may be also fetcht from thence To these you may ad the barks of willow roots II. Of compounds are the same likewise to which you may ad medicaments prepared of tartar and of steel Trochisks of Sanders spodium Carabe Barberries II. The external are I. Of simples Roots of Mandrake Leaves of white henbane Hemlock Willow Water-lillies II. Of compounds see those reckoned among cooling Liver-Remedies Article 8. Of Nephritick Medicaments Point 1. Of heating Nephriticks or kidny remedies Nephritick Medicaments are either heating or cooling both are internal or external I. Internal heaters are I. Of Simples Roots of restharrow Saxifrage Filipendula Pimpinel Lycoris Marsh-mallow Polypody Lovage Leaves of maiden haire Wal-rue Fluellen Chervil Nettle ground-ivy Pellitory of the wal Feverfew Restharow Flowers of Broome Spike Elder Betony the yellow of violets St. Johns-wort flowers Seeds the four greater and lesser hot seeds persly gromwel Saxifrage Cherry-stone-kernels Peach-stone-kernels Oake of Jeruâ—â—lem Beanes Fruits Juniper berries Ivy-berries winter-cherries bitter Almonds Sweet-briar berries Corants Spices Cassia lignea Spica Indica Safron Woods Lignum Sanctum Nephriticum Tamarisk Gums Terpentine Myrrh Mastich Olibanum Minerals Lapis judaicus Lapis Nephriticus From animals the stones of Perches Crabs-eyes Earth-wormes Eggs-shels Jawes of a Pike II. Of compounds spirit of salt Terpentine Elder berries Strawberries Cherties Vitriol Feverfew Distilled Waters of Rest-harrow saxifrage Persley Hedera terrestris Alkekengy Matricaria Elder flowers Oyls of Orenges Juniper peach-kernels cherries bitter almonds Tinctures Elixir proprietatis of Ambar Extracts of veronica Ground-ivy Lycorice Syrups of Maiden hair of Fernelius Byzanrinus so called of dialthea Oxymel Conserves of Hedera terristris veronica Sweet briar-berry Spices and pounders Lithontripticon Tartarus Vitriolatus Restharrow-Salt salt of Beane ham chervil Nettles II. External are I. Of simples such as were before aleadged II. Of compounds Oiles of scorpions white lillyes Ointments Martiatum Agrippae Aregon dialthea Emplasters diachylon simple Oxycroceum Melilote Point 2. Of cooling Nephriticks Cooling Nephritcks are internal or external I. Internal are I. Of simples Roots of Grass Strawberries Water-Lillies Leaves of Porslane Willow Venus Basin Hearts-ease Lettuce Flowers of Water Lillies Violets Roses Beanes Seeds the fouer cold white poppy seed seed of purple violets Fruits see among the stomach and liver coolers Stones Christal II Of compounds Waters of Strawberries Violets barly porslane Lettuce Juyces of Citrons Strawberries porslane Syrups of Water Lillies Strawberries porslane syrup of the juyce of Cirrons Conâ—erves of Acacia violets porslane II. External are the same to which ad of the compounds Oyls of Roses water lillies sugar of Lead Vnguents The Ointment of Roses of Mesue Galens cooling Ointment Article IX Of Vterine Medicaments Point I. Of heating Vterine or Womb-Medicaments Vterine Medicaments are either Heating or Cooling and they are internal or external I. The internal are I. Of simples Roots of Peony Valerian Laserpitium Angelica Pimpinella Bryony Aristolochia rotunda Leaves of Mugwort Rue round Birthwort Mercury Fever-few Sabine Betony Flowers of Betony Chery Elder St. Johns-wort Stechados spikenard Seeds foure hot mountaine osier red vetched Rosemary peony Fruits Indian Nut Juniper Berries Orenges Spices Cinnamon Cassia lignea Nutmegs Cubebs Graines of Paradise Safron Woods Lignum aloes Ash Guajacum From Animals Castoreum II. Of compounds Waters of Mugwort Hysop Elder Cinnamon Zedoary yellow stock-gillo flowers betony with wine Oyls of Cinnamon Angellica Ambar Cloves Tinctures the Uterine Elixir of Crollius omitting salt of mother of perle Extracts Hystericum majus and minus of Quercetanus of the Liver and Splene of an Oxe of Baume of Lignum Aloes Syrups of Mugwort Feverfew Orenges Baume Cinnamon Conserves of Marjerom Betony Baum Rose-mary Mary golds Preserves of Acorus citron peeles Orenges Nutmegs Zedoary Pouders Diacalamint Diaxyloaloes diacinnamomum II. External are I. Of simples the greatest part of the foresaid to which may be added Gum Olibanum storax bdellium myrrh Ladanum Assafetida Galbanum Opopanax Sagapenum Ambar From Animals Castoreum civet Musk. II. Of compounds Oyls of cheiri Angelica Rue Castoreum Nard oile Scorpions Nutmegs Vnguents of Bay-berries Gum Caranns ceratum matricale or of Galbanum c. Point 2 Of wombe-cooling Medicaments Wombe cooling medicaments are also either internal or external I. The Internal are I. Of simples Roots of bistort comsery Leaves of Strawberry Shepherds-pouch Vinca pervinca Plantane Oake great comfry Porslane Nettles loosestrife Flowers of Roses Quinces Balaustians Water-Lillies Loose-strife St. Johns wort Comfery Willow Seeds of porselane Plantane Henbane white-poppy Fruits of Acacia Pomegranates Medlers Myrtils Woods Sanders Gums Dragons-blood Earths and miniralls Bole Armeniack Red
Sweats and Baths do lessen the quantity of humors because they raise that which dissipates and dissolves the substance of our body III. Tasting does the same because nothing is rest ored in the Room of what is dissipated through restraint of food Because it equally evacuates the whol body it ought to be used in an universal cacochymia Because it operates too slowly it is unuseful for a sudden evacuation Also old persons can better beare it then children Cholerick and leane persons cannot endure it long IV. External Hemerohoides or a portion of the hemorrhoidal veines are used to diminish plenitude and for the diseases of the kidnyes womb back and hip They must be opened by frictions Leeches Fig-leaves rough cloaths juyce of Onions Centaury c. The internal are opened by clysters and sharp suppositories to cure hypochondriacal distempers of the Liver spleen and Mesentery V. The Courses are to be moved then when naturally they use to flow IV. Cupping-glasses are applied when blood is not very plentiful in the Body Their greatest use is in Revulsion They are conveniently fastened to the Armes of women with child If their use respect the whol body they must be applied to the inferior parts if they respect any part they must be applied to the same part VII Scarification if it supply the place of blood-letting it is practised cheifly upon the thighes yet sometimes upon the Arms and Back and so it revells from the Head If it be used upon its own account it is to avoid a malignant and sharp matter which is practised in the Gangren and in Callosities or Calous disorders VIII Leeches if they are applied to evacuate the whol body they must be applied to the great and prominent veins which are in the Armes and thighs In women with child they are applied only to the Arms. Article 1. Of the Removal of Causes which offend in the Quality Point 1. Of alteration The Removal of the Causes offending in Quality consists in Alteration Purgation Vomiting Urining and sweating Alteration is the contemperation of Causes offending in quality by convenient remedies And it is so many fold as there are causes or humors And therefore I. Choler because it offends in Heat and drouth needs cooling and moistning and if it be withal thick it needs it cision and attenuation if thin incrassation or thickening See the Medicaments before Now for their more convenient use we must observe 1. That Infusions are best in the water so that the decoction be made til a third part of the liquor only remaine 2. If a flux happen to rise we must forbear the use of sharp medicaments least they bite and vâ—x the Guâ—ts yet may we use syrup of red Corants Barberies II. Flegm because it is cold and moist requires hearing and drying and if it be withal thick and clammy it needs cutting and attenuation The Medicaments we formerly recited Touching their use observe these rules 1. Abstaine from such as are very hot at the beginning least the matter being melted should swel with greater motion and the thin parts being consumed the thick should remaine behind And therefore they ought to be put green into decoctions in their defefect cold things ought to be mingled with the dry ones 2. Stong openers ought to be avoided in a woman with child 3. Because where flegm is troublesome there the stomach languishes to those that are not accustomed we must give them their drinks actually hot 4. If you would have the remedies penetrate the most distant parts of the body and carry their virtues with them they must be given boiled or beaten in broath of Guajacum with a great Quantity of Liquor III. Melancholy in which we must abstaine from immoderate use of Vinegar especially if the matter be more fervent than ordinary For black humors do ferment and swel by the admixture of vinegar And therfore if we are to use it we must give Oxymel with a decoction of Citron peels or some such thing IV. If divers Humors are mixed together we must cheifly set our selves against those which are most active not quite neglecting the rest whether within or without the body Which shal be done when the veins are free from obstruction al the passages of the body open the humors not far from a temperature and the noble bowels free from obstruction In opening syrups Heurnius observes this order 1. First syrup of vinegar is given then syrup of the two roots without vinegar then the said syrup with vinegar after that syrup of the five opening roots then Syrups of Byzantinus so called without vinegar and lastly the said syrup with vinegar Point 2. Of Purgation Purgation is a convenient â—â—awing out of Humors offending in quality but yet prepared out of the Body by medicaments which purge by way of stoole I. Those Humors are either smal in quantity or plentyful and either they cause a fever which is vehement or weak or they cause no fever or they wander through the whole body with vehemency of symptomes or not II. By Coction in this subject we do neither understand that which is called pepsis and is a changing of the thing to be concocted into the nature of the Concocter nor is it that coction which is opposed to crudity which is the indigestion of aliment in the stomach liver and veins or humors having passed the mediocrity of Coction as in yellow and black choler nor the redundancy of cold humors but that kind of Coction which is called Pepasmos and is nothing but the reduction of humors disagreeing in substance and qualities corrupt and putrid unto a similitude and the separation of the corrupted from the uncorrupted which is performed by the Efficacy of the Natural Heat separating the profitable from the unprofitable Yet is it not necessary that al humors be concocted For there are humors which are not in a capacity of concoction being severed from the concoction of the blood as in Catarrhs the Colick Flegm Hydropical water and such as offend by some hidden Quality III. Preparation of Humors is twofold 1. To Coction which is performed by removal of all impediments by diminishing the Humors augmenting the natural Heat and repairing the forces of the body 2. To evacuation which is done when the Humors are made fit for expulsion such as are clammy being cut and the thick attenuated the waies being made free and open with clysters emollient broaths and the like IV. Touching Medicaments these things are to be observed 1. That they are either moderate which reach only the inferior parts or vehement which penetrate beyond the liver and into the habit of the body that they are either catholick or universal by which al humors are purged together or such as draw some particular humors and they Choler purges Flegm purges Melancholy purges Water purges 2. That they ought to be addicted and accommodated to the part to be purged And truly Agrick is appropriated to the Head Cassia to the
arise Which is performed either by steeping the Member in hot water or by Application of a Linne Cloath wet in Lie or Application of Onions beaten in a Mortar with salt which nevertheless is not good for burns in the Eyes Exceeding Commendation is given to an Oyntment made of one part of Oyl-Olive and two parts of whites of Egs beaten together and frequently anointed on with the Feather of an Hen. 2. By opening the bladders the third day after their arising when the Scarf-skin begins to breed on fresh I. Another sort is indifferent great which is known hereby in that the part is forthwith swelled and inflamed Pustles arise wherein is contained a thin subtile water of a yellowish color the Patient complaines his skin is stretched T is Cured 1. By Cutting the Pustles that the hot and sharp Humor may flow out 2. By application of Defensatives least Humors and blood may flow to the part affected 3. By Application of tht Oyntment of Fabricius made of three ounces of fresh butter washed in rose-Rose-water Oyl of Violets Yolks of Egs and of sweet Almonds of each half an ounce Barley meal one ounce and half Saffron one scruple Mucilage of Quince seeds one ounce Wax as much as shal suffice III. Another is extream which is known hereby that in the very moment that the thing burning sticks to the body pustles arise but fal soon after the skin beneath is black or livid and Lead-colored If pricked it feels dully When the Crust fals off a putrid and profound Ulcer arises T is Cured 1. By cutting the pustles or bladders that the water which is contained in them may be dryed up 2. By Separation of the Escar the second or third day which if it cannot be effected it must in many places be cut with a Pen-knife See Fabricius his â—yntment 3. If a Gangraena begin the Cure must be applied thereunto 4. The Eschar being separated the Ulcer must be clensed filled with flesh and covered with a Skar IIII. Another is from Gunpouder in which the grains of the pouder must be taken out with a Needle or some ther Instrument If they cannot be taken out the pustles must be fuffered to arise If they arise not they must be riased by vesicatories and cut the pouder must be taken forth and the place must be washed with a Decoction of Fenugreek c. Another sort comes from thunder in which case sweat must be provoked by some Antidote The Arteries Lips Tongue Nostrils must be anointed with Treacle wine The Escar being removed Mundificatives and flesh-breeders corrected with Bezoarticks are to be applied If a bone be broken the Vulgar astringent Cataplasmes are to be avoided V. One sort is of the Face in which the Medicine of two Egâ—whites Oyl of Roses two ounces Rose water one ounce has place Another is of the Eyes in which case warm brest Milk must be dropped on If a Crust be raised we must use Emollient fomentations lest the Eye lids be drawn back The skin must many times with both hands be drawn back Another is of the Joynts in which the afflux of Humors must be stopped Pain ass waging Topicks are to be applied least the Nerves be contracted or the joynt become crooked we must be very Vigilant c. But touching al these see Wilhebmus Fabricius Hildanus his Treatise of Burnings Title V. Of Luxations in Particular Chap. 1. Of Luxations of the Jaw-bone the Clavicula and the Vertebrae THe first kind of external Diseases are Luxations and they either of upper Limbes or of the Lower To the former belong the Luxation or Disjoynting of the Jaw-bone the Clavicula the Spine and Ribs the shoulder the Arms the Hands and finger joynts 1. The Luxation of the Jaw-bone is caused towards the fore part of the Face the foremost and sharp process like a beak being slipt beneath the Jugular T is known hereby both because the nether Jaw sticks out foremost and the process sticks out by the said jaw as also because the mouth continues alwaies open It arises from too much opening the mouth and gaping and stretching the Jaws whether it be by yawning or by taking some burthen by the teeth and lifting it high up yet is it hardly done because of the strength of the Muscles wherewith it is fastened to the upper parts The Cure is undertaken 1. By Reposition least the Belly void choler or vomiting be raised and it must be suddenly procured least the Brain be drawn to consent by reason of the Nerves inserted into the temporal Muscles touching which see Authors 2. By Praecaution of Inflamation and other Symptomes If the Patients neck be pained a vain must be opened in the Arme. 3. By Retention of the replaced Bone c. T is divided two manner of waies 1. Into that of one side of the Jaw and then the jaw with the Chin is bent towards one side the mouth is distorted the teeth answer not one to another And into that of both sides of the Jawes and then the whole with the chin hangs over towards the brest The temporol Muscles are stif A certain eminency is perceived in both parts 2. Into that which happens only to persons of ripe years and that has been here described and into that which betides Infants in whom because the Mandibula is divided into two parts and is joyned together in the middle of the Chin by a large gristle the said gristle being loosened by afflux of Humors or the bone being separated from the gristle which in grown persons turns to a bone it may be disjoyned towards the right or left side II. The Clavicula is disjoyned either towards the Breast-bone or contrary wise towards the top of the Shoulder-blade but seldom by reason of its firme connexion with both the bones T is known because the shoulder swels and in the place from whence the Clavicula is slipt there is a manifest Cavity T is Cured with difficulty and for the most part the Arme is deficient in some of its motions A strong binding must be used III. Luxation of the Vertebraes is either outwards or inwards T is easily Cured in Children hardly in persons grown up Chap. 2. Of Luxation of the Humerus Cubitus Radius and the Fingers TO the Laxation of the upper Limbs there likewise belongs Luxation of the Humerus Cubitus Radius and Fingers I The Luxation of the Humerus or Shoulder is when the Head thereof which is round inserted into a shallow Cavity and fenced with a very loose Ligament slips out of its proper place It arises for the most part from a violent cause stretching of the Arme c. T is divided into that which is caused under the Arm-pit and then somwhat round and hard is sensibly felt under the Arme the Cubitus suddenly becomes more distant from the Ribs It may be restored either by turning round the Head of the Humerus about the neck of the Scapula or by the Heel or
by reason of the extraordinary necessity of sending forth the fiery exhalations The Mouth is bitter because choler is soakt into the inner Coat of the stomach which is common to it and the mouth The Tongue is dry and furr'd and black because the burning heat consumes the moisture of the tongue and lodges its sooty vapours therein Raving by reason of the mounting of choler into the head which if it follow trembling t is a signe that the cholerick humor is transferred out of the veins into the Nerves out of the nerves into the Brain Sleep is somtimes profound especially when the fever is not exquisite but bastard because thick vapours carried into the Brain do stop the passages thereof The CAUSE is Blood putrifying through a peculiar propriety of the liver occasioned by meates of an over heating faculty or from crude cooling meats apt to be corrupted c. Which blood is either Cholerick and then the symptomes specified in the definition are more vehement and the feaver is termed Causus exquisitus an exquisit burning feaver or Flegmatick then the fymptoms are milder the fever is termed nothus a bastard burning feaver The CURE requires that we regard the Feaver Its cause and the patients strength The feaver is terminated by sundry excressions especially when the patient happens to shake upon a critical day the signes of Coction appearing and that not by reason of the shaking but because of the Excretion whose forerunner is the shaking fit T is performed 1. By blood-letting that the burning heat of the Blood may be repressed the plenty thereof diminished and its faltiness corrected It must be done at the beginning while the patient is yet pretty strong and because the violent motion of the Disease shews we must take time while we may It must not be done at al it the Feaver have its Rise from Evacuation fasting journeying in heat of Summer drying of the Veins and consumption of the blood-Blood-water Also when Age Sex or some other thing prohibits Then Scarrifications Cupping-glasses c. must supply its place 2. By Purgation with cooling choler purges or temperate ones as pulp of Cassia syrupe of damask Roses 3. By Vomiting if there be Stomach-sickness and the stomach be vexed with Cholerick Humors which is known by the Mouths Bitterness 4. By Alteration and preparation with cooling Medicaments where note that there is then need of External Medicaments when the feaverish burning is abated with internal coolers and the putrefying Humor is for the most part drawn forth 5. By Corroboration of the Patients strength with Electuaries Lozenges c. 6. By Mitigation of Symptomes of which see in the proper Chapter 7. By Diet of which see what was said before Chap. 2. Of a continual Periodick Feaver in general A Continual Feaver keeping its Periods or Courses is Generally or Specially considered Generally considered it is a Feaver arising from Excrementitious Humors putrefying in those Veins which are of a middle size betwixt the greatest and the smallest Capillary or Third Veins abating at certain Periods of time without any Total Intermission Its Signs are that it remits of its Violence and then grows again Exorbitant at certain Periods of time but never intermits so as to leave the Patient free from Feaverish distemper more or less Its Exacerbations or Exorbitancies are not usher'd in by any cold shivering or shaking nor does any sweat follow its Remissions or Abatements It is exasperated at certain set Periods of time both by the arrival of Morbifick matter to the Heart by uneven quantities because of distance of place if it do not exactly keep its times and also by communication of new matter from the Members subservient to the second Digestion if it hold punctually its times The Causes are Excrementitious Humors which are bred in the Spleen and Liver either by their fault or the fault of the Chylus yet they may be bred in the Meseraick Veins and brought to the Liver They are not only jumbled together with the blood but also perfectly mixed therewith Their place is the Veins not the greater for so it should be a Continent Feaver nor the lesser for then it should be an Intermittent Feaver or Ague but of a middle size betwixt the great Veins and the Capillary which are smal as the Hairs of ones Head See the Method of Cure in the Sorts Article I. Of a Primary Continual Feaver Point 1. Of a Continual Tertian Feaver A continual Feaver specially considered is either Primary or Symptomatical The Primary is that which has no other Disease preceding as the occasion thereof and it is either Tertian Quotidian or Quartan A Continual Tertian is a Feaver springing from Cholorick Blood putrefying in the Branches of Vena Cava which holds continually but afflicts the Patient most every third day Its Signs are the Symptomes of continual and burning Feavers its being exasperated every third day by reason of the Nature of Choler which is so moved The Cause of its Abatement is both the distance of the place where the offensive Vapors are bred and likewise their smal quantity by which means they are all dissipated before any more can be bred to succeed in their place It s Cause is Cholerick Blood and whatsoever is apt to encrease Cholerick bad Humors in the Veins and to make them putrefie when so encreased The Cure is performed 1 By Blood-letting a Clyster being premised because the Humor is mingled with Blood 2 By Alteration Lenitives being first used in which case a little Vinegar must alwaies be added to Syrup of Roses solutive that it may pierce more easily into the Veins and not be turned by the Stomachs heat into Vapors which will cause thirst Give them fasting that Concoction may not be disturbed With Moderation lest they cause Crudities Spirit of Nitre of Salt c. are commended Topicks must be applied unto the Heart which is chiefly affected but not before the state Not cold lest the Heat driven inward and gathering Head should burn more fiercely 3. By Evacuation downwards and that in the beginning if the matter provoke if it be plentirul and the Patient strong It must be performed by gentle Medicines and let Rhubarb and Myrobalans be given in their Infusions with cooling Waters rather than in substance After Concoction if Nature be lazy 4. By Sweating and provoking Vrin 5. By Dyet which must be contrary to the Disease and its Cause Such as are upon the mending hand if the Feaver be terminated with a perfect Critical Evacuation let them never eat to satiety Often and a little Let them abstain from al Evacuations save by stool Let them use the Electuary Diarrhodon Abbatis to strengthen their Bellies If by an Imperfect so that some reliques remain let them purge the said Reliques especially by Urine Let them keep a thin Dyet The Differences are taken from the Causes One sort is Cholerick from Cholerick blood pure and exquisite which the Liver being
The Physitians care has two scopes I. Preservation which in persons of years is contrived by blood-letting purgation and taking heed of the Infection and in infants only by the last means of the three II. Curation which is Hopeful if they soon break forth and appear high above the skin great seperate white or red If the Heat abate after they are broken forth if large bleeding at the nose have proceded if no greivious symptoms attend them Doubtful if either they come flowly out or go in againe if they are of violet color green lead-color hard and touching one another If the feaver abate not after their breaking forth If the patient breaths not freely faint away and other symtoms be present 'T is performed I. By mittigation of the Ebullition or fermentation of the Blood least over Ebullition produce more greivious symptoms which is effected by blood-letting and light purgation in persons grown up by Clysters of the decoction of barly with fresh butter comon sugar in Infants or by giving them syrup of Citrons and syrup of violets mixed together or a bit of pomecitron II. By assisting nature in the expulsion where impediments are taken away by the foresaid remedies and the malignity is likewise resisted Expulsion is furthered by Pulvis Joelis in his 4 Tom Book 9. sect 5. of the seeds of Nasturtinm or water cresses and brooklime of each one dram pouder of Unicorns horn one scruple or of harts-horn half a dram Red coral pearls prepeared of each a scrupel Make al into a pouder The dose one dram or an half dram The decoction of figs of Mynsichtus in the 25. section of his Armamentarium Terra Sigillata of Silesia Seed of white turneps A decoction of lentils unhusked with fennel-seed and gum dragant c. III. By defence of the parts To which end the eyes must be rubbed with pure gold or nointed with plantane and eye bright water and a little camphire and saffron If they cannot be opened they must be fomented either with hot milk or a decoction of Barly To the Nostrils a nodule of sanders and camphire dipt in rose water must be applied If thut they must be nointed with oyle of sweet almonds The throat must either be smeared with diamorum or washed with a decoction of plantane and barly with Honey of roses The ripening of the poxs must be furthered with anointing the same with oyl of sweet almonds When they are ripe they must be opened with golden or silver pins that they may leave no warts behind them They must be washed with a water distiled of al manner of flowers and mans fat or with oyntment of Forestus IV. By removing the symptoms which appear with or folow the same now they are Epilepsy and convulsion when the membranes and nerves are beset with poxs and the palsy when they are thereby obstructed Hard swellings which must be dissipated by emollients without suppuration External Vlcers Dysentery where emollients are to be avoided and such things as dry and stop without acrimony are to be used Hearing impared where evacuation being premised either vesicatories or vapours received into the ears are useful Inflamation of the Eyes c. Of which see in their proper places Article II. Of the measels and such like Breakin gs forth The Morbilli or Measels are smal red pushes breaking forth upon the skin with a continual feaver caused by the expulsive faculty and a peculiar working or boiling of the Blood The Signs Causes Differences and Cure vary not much from those of the smal pocks of which we newly discoursed Like Breakin gs forth to the measels are I. Crystalli Cristals pushes about the bigness of Lupines breaking out upon the Body and shining like Christal out of which a watrish humor flows The Germans cal them Schafs-blattern II. Tubercula little risings not thick together with little moisture in them without any feaver and soone cured III. Rubeolae smal red Pimples which come somtimes a lone with heat and Cough sometimes they are sprinkeled among the smal poxe or measels and sometimes they happen to persons in Health IV. Rossalia red fiery spots which breake out at the begining of the disease al over the Body as it were certain smal Erysipela's though the tumor is hardly discernable sometimes they breake not forth til the fourth or fift day in the progrses of the disease they occupy the whole body so that it looks as it were alâ—on a red fire Which color is againe changed into spots as at the begining which vanish at last upon the seventh or eight day The Epidermis or scarf-skin faling off like scales The Cure of these requires nothing singular Article III. Of the spotted Feaver Febris pefechialis or the spotted feaver is a malignant Feaver in which certain spots like flea bitings of sundry colors but cheifly red appear upon the skin These spots are called puncticulae petechiae peticulae Whence the feavers are termed also puncticulares periculares and lenticulares The SIGNES are the same as in malignant feavers The sports are without any itching extuberance and exulceration They appeare in the back Armes Thighes Brest viz. places through which the most notable Arteries and veins doe passe Seldom in the face because the cold air repels the matter from thence There appears no prick in the middle of them and so they are distinguished from flea-bitings The CAUSE is the thinner part of the putrid humor which makes that they soone vanish 'T is driven forth by the expulsive faculty Seldom critically seeing they commonly shew themselves at the beginning without any remarkable evacuation alwaies for the most part Symptomatically and by how much they are more plentiful they do the more signifie the abundance of corrupt matter in the Body The CURE is Hazardous if the spots are many because they shew that there is much matter If they be few and accompained with sings of Natures weakness If they disappear because 't is a sign they strike in again If they come forth slowly because it argues grossness of matter or compactness of the Skin 'T is Performed 1. By withdrawing the matter effected by blood-letting which must be practised before the fourth day Lenitives being premised to loosen the Belly to which a little Camphire may be added if blood be drawn later the Patient wil be over weakened 2. By Expelling the same with Sudorificks resist malignity premisiug if you please such noyntings as may open the pores In this case Bezar stone is good and emulsions of Navew and Citron seeds with Carduus Water and Syrup of Citrons The Bones Blood horns and Skin of the Rhinocerote c. 3. By Roborating the Faculties with Emulsions of Corals and Pearles Confectio Alkermes c. 4. Somtimes also by Revelling the Humor to the external Parts by Vesicatories if the external parts are cold there be Head-ach ravings Convulsions c. If the Patient be loose bellyed we must not stop the loosness unless it be too excessive The
soon after grow cold Another in which the Putrefaction is remiss and the Malignity Vehement Then the Feaver is gentle and the Heart exceedingly hurt It kils the Patient while the Patient and Physician are secure of any danger III. One sort is beleeved to be an Ephemera another Humoral another Hectick But because the spirits are not only heated but also corrupted because the heart is not only affected in its temper but vitiated in its substance no Pestilential Feavers can be either Ephemera's or Hectick Howbeit because some difference appeares among them and now the heart it self at another time the spirits and another while the Humors are most affected by reason of the similitude it has with others properly so called it may receive such a Denomination A Single Chapter Of the Pestilence THe Pestilence is a Contagious Disease of the Heart bred of a Venemous and Contagious matter Suddainly and mortally afflicting al the Actions of the Heart with an Heap of al kind of Symptomes It is a Disease and that 1. Epidemick because of the common Cause and of the infection 2. Joyned with Putrefaction so as not to be judged of cheifly thereby for so a Pothists shal be more pestilent in putrid Feavers there should not be more heat than in the Venemous sort Antidotes were needless nor does it alwaies cause a feaver as appears by many instances 3. Venemous because it oppresses al the vital faculties and suddenly kils The SIGNES are either of it when coming as ' its being in neighboring places the proceding of such things as may infect the air such as filchy vapors issuing from the earth corruption of fruits Effectes of the aire enclining to corruption as are great abundance of toad-stools withering of plants multitude of Insects frighting of the Cattle mustiness and clamines of bread exposed to the nights Air soon stinking of flesh plenty of smal poxe and measels c. Or present a suspition whereof is when very many that are taken sick die if it creep from one sick person to another If the patients be suddenly extreamly weakned If Bubo's and carbuncles appear in a place the aire being infected If the spots called plage tokens be seen upon the dead bodies The CAUSE of the pestilence is a venemous contagious matter This proceeds I. From the Aire which is sometimes prepared to receive the pestelence by mutation of the first Qualities somtimes 't is corrupted without any mutation either by permission of sundry exhalations breaking forth of the earth and waters especially when Saturn passes through the signes of Aries Capricorn and sagitrius being after an accute manner and totally adverse to the Heart or by some hidden aspect or Influxe of the stars II. From Bad Diet where the saltiness of the Humors the sooner shewes it selfe if som occasion happen from the Aire III. From the witchcrafts of Necromancers living and infecting and of dead witches which are laide in their graves before their Heads are seperatted from their shoulders IV. From imagination and Terror which agitate the humors in the body stir up the pestilential seminary and plant it deep in the heart Touching the Contagion we have spoke in the first Book The Physitions Care respects three things Preservation cure and Removal of Symptoms As for the point of preservation I. The Causes which infer the pestilence must be removed II. The Bodies must be made less apt to receive the pestilence Let therefore the body be purged thrice a week with pil ruffi a scruple Let not the body be weakened by Blood-letting Let Meat be used of excellent Juyce sawsed with antidotes An Yssue may sometimes be made to give the Humors scope The Air must be kept pure with fier and perfumes Let the nostrils be nostrils be smeared with vinegar oyl of scorpions c. Leâ— Amulets be hanged about the neck of quick silver inclosed in a out-shel Arsnick c. Nor let any thing be mingled with the Arsnick to abate ' its Vertue Nor let these amulets be heated by motion least they penetrate through the pores into the Body Amongst Antidotes Treackle is comended Electuary de Ono Elixir proprietatis Bezoar stone Salt of vine branches and of Millefoile Extractum Junipernium c. Let Hot medicaments be tempered and first macerated in vinegar The CURE is absolved I. By Blood-letting which must be perforemed after the taking of an antidot if there be so much plenty of blood that a putrid feaver is feared in any side if there be no piane if there be on the Arme of that side where the pain is unless a Carbuncle shal cause great paine and inflamation in the space of twenty soure Houers II. By purgation after an antidote has bin given if il humors give suspition of a seaver to follow if the pestilence have risen from an inward corruption of Humors III By giving Sudorificks and Alexipharmaca among simples the Hereinian Vnicorne is commended The blood of a Rhinocerote five drops given in sorrel water A bit of his hide boyled in water of sorrel in which red hot-gold must be quenched The juyce of the Pap of the Brasiliah fruit called Muracujao Hasu The Berry of Molâ—â—â—â— poudered to the quantity of five graines in rose or sorel water The juyce of Galega or Ruta Capraria the quantity of three ounces c. Of compounds the syrup Melissa Fernelii Septalius his syrup or succo Galegae Quidiny of elder berries with Treakel Vinegar Crollius his Elixir pestilential Diascordium three drams especially in women with child and in children Pouder of smaragd stone prepared Bezar stone of each eight grains Hiacinth praepared three grains see Sennertus of Feavers towards the End In the Vse of these things observe Hot antidotes like treacle must be tempered with such as are of a colder nature That treacle and Methridate and other stronger medicaments must not be given to women with child nor to children Such as have weakness in their stomach and Head must abstaine from Camphorat Medicaments Some Medicament is to be given or other thrice every four and twenty houers At first the medicaments must be very often changed least nature growing accustomed come not to be moved thereby Waters Spirits and such other things as wil most easily penetrate must be given principally The patient must abstaine from sleep til he or shee have under gone two sweats While the sweating lasts refresh the Patient with the Juyce of Citrons Carduus water c. The sweat being finished cold Air must be avoided and the sick refreshed with meat Symptomes of the Pestilence are the Bubo the Carbuncle the Burning Feaver The Bubo imports less dnager if it be great and eminent if it breaks out at first and in the groins It is more deadly if it be lead colored and black If it lie lurking under the Skin If it breaks forth beneath the Neck or under the armpits on the third or fourth day Most dangeour if it vanish and leave the Patient weak When it
Cause Or else it proceedeth from the compression of the brain and the fracture of the skul of which see further in their own propper places Or else it is from the Coalescence or knitting together of the Arteries from their first rise and their entering into the scalp or Skul by that general and common passage through the brain touching which there is hardly any thing to be certainly determinded while the Patient liveth III. Another is from a Vapor ful of windiness generated and bred in the brain which by an inordinate motion being poured forth into the Veins and Arteries doth so trouble and disturb the Animal spirits by driving to and fro that they thus become to be circularly moved and turned round and then they exhibite and represent unto the common sense or Phantasie this fals and feigned species and appearance of things otherwise than indeed they really are It is known by that vehement pain and dul heaviness of the head a long continued tinging and hissing Noise in the Ears and a certain kind of hurt and detriment of the external senses This Evil or Malady is very frequent and such as surpriseth a man upon a very smal and light occasion and yet it lasteth and as we use to say sticketh long by him It ariseth from causes that generate and breed winds and windiness and more especially if the wonted Evacuation be suppressed It is Cured either in the Paroxysm of which we have before spoken or out of the Paroxyim 1. By the Evacuation of the Matter that fomenteth and supplieth these Vapors and that as wel a general as a particuliar one Some there are that are a fraid to prescribe and there are others again as fearful to take those Medicaments that Practioners term Erâ—â—â—â—es which are to be taken up into the Head by the Nostrils to open and purge the brain 2. by Revulsion or drawing back of the said matter as also by Derivation and Discussion of the same by Vesicatories Cauteries frictions and lotions of the Head 3. By Corroborating and strengthening the Brain both by external and internal Remedies Among the specifical and Appropriate Medicaments those that deserve the greatest commendation are the dung of the Peacock one dram thereof by weight macerated in Wine strained and so drunk up the extract of Scorzonera the Roots of Doronicum an excellent drug brought out of Mauritania eaten Bears Ear the fat of Does and land Snakes by annoynting the Temples therewithal the pouder of Silk-worms dryed and strowed upon the Crown of the Head Very effectual likewise for this purpose are the spirits of Rosemary the Chymical Oyl of Yellow Amber Hippocrates his Treacle the pouder of the Right mineral Cinnabar half an ounce thereof Margarites prepared and red Corals prepared of each two scruples Saffron one scruple and then add to the aforesaid ingredients the leaves of Gold in number ten and so let it be administred the dose is one scruple in the water of lillies of the Valley and lastly the electuary of Saxony It is divided into that which is from extream hot blood and then there is present a redness of the Face and a beating of the Arteries In the Cure especial regard is to be had unto the opening of a Vein and that cheifly and primarily of the Basilike if a Plethory accompany the distemper and then presently after of the Cephalick or head vein if the peccant matter abound most or only in the head It is not to be drawn forth al at once but by many Essaies at several times by intervals We ought not to be over rash in attemping the cutting or opening of an Artery and into that that is from a pituitous or Flegmy Humor Then the place where we have treated of the Flegmatick distemper is to be consulted An Evacuation after that a Clyster hath first of al been administred may very conveniently and successfully be expedited by the extract of the Pils called Cochiae from half a scruple to a scruple by a Lixivium and a Balsam See further hereof in Agricola in his first Book 38. Chap. IV. Another there is from an extream windy Vapor elevated from other parts It is known by this that there went before it no hurt or annoyance of the sâ—â—ses and that the distemper afflicteth the paâ—â— frequently and by fits and withal there are present the signs of the part affected It ariseth either from the stomach either pirrocholick or ful of bitter choler or Pituitous and Flegmatick or else by reason of its imbecillity corrupting al the food that comes within it and then the Cure must cheifly respect and be directed unto the stomach And here take place as most requisit and proper a grain or two of Frankincense taken after meals the confection of Fennel of Coriander Sugar of Prunella Saccharum Rosatum or Sugar of Roses the electuary of the Conserve of old red Roses Diacydonium simplex that is an electuary of the conserve of Quinces the spirit of vitriol and the Syrup of mints For what remayneth to be done in this Cure see more in the diseases of the stomach Or else it ariseth from the Liver Spleen Womb whol Body as it usually happeneth in Feavers and then in this case there ought to be an especial Care and regard had unto the Nature and condition of the parts affected and the Various Symptomes Chap. 4. Of the Symptomes of the Imagination and the Ratiocination when they are hurt THe symptoms hurting the imagination and the Ratiocination or rational faculty are the hurt of the Memory dotage a Phrensie Melancholy madness and Raging or raving which we term Hydrophobia Article I. Of the hurt of the Memory The hurting of the Memory is a diminution or utter abolition of the same arising from Causes that hurt the dryness of the Brain conjoyned with a moderate heat and very necessary as to the memory and so by means rendring the Animal spirits either torpid that is over dul and sluggish or else which is as bad inordinately moveable There is no need of SIGNS for the very actions of the sick party discover the Symptomes The CAUSES that hurt the temperament of the brain that is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the memory either they weaken and diminish the Native heat and that likewise either Externally as do al things of a Poysonous Nature al Narcoticks applied to the fore part and likewise the hinder part of the Neck or else Internally as doth a temperament cold and moist which either affecteth Children and ancient people by reason of their Age or else it afflicteth others by reason of meat and drink that is of a cold and moist Nature or by reason of a Gross and thick Air sicknesses and other Causes of which we have already sufficently spoken in the cold distemper Or otherwise they dissolve the said Natural heat such as are externally al Philtra or amorous potions watchings excessive thought fulness Medicaments that are hot of quality Internally hot Diseases
those that speak unto them and it is soon removed and taken away by the use of Emollient Fomentations In this greif there have their use that which we term Luna Potabilis Hartmanni six drops thereof and that they cal Pharmocum Phantasticum of Bartoletus the dose whereof is from one dram to two drams lastly the spirit of Terra sigillata or the sealed earth brought from the Isle Lemnos Article IV. Of Melancholly Melancholy is a dotage arising from a Melancholy phantasme with the which whosoever is affected and deteyned therunder he becomes wholly and only addicted to thoughtfulness being as it were altogether ingulphed therein without either fury or Feaver but yet without pensiveness and fearfulness The SIGNS are a deep sadness and fearfulness without any apparent cause and then likewise another sign is Taciturnity and a long continued silence or else incongruous discourse and talk at random and this more especially of some oâ—â— thing more than other The CAUSE is a Melancholy Phantasm that proceedeth from an error vice and distemper of the Animal spirits the which when as they ought to be clear thin subtile and moveable are hereby rendered and made obscure and misty opacious thick and dark as also fixed and almost wholly immovable And hence it cometh to pass that al kind of objects are imprinted upon their several species according to the condition and quality of the vitiated and depraved disposition of the spirits And they acquire and gain this disposition from a default in the Brain declining from its genuine whitness and generating such like spirits as these or else they have their original from some default in the matter out of which they are made and bred to wit the blood and the Vital spirit or else lastly they got this vitious disposition from some impure and melancholy Matter which is mingled together with the blood and spirits whether it be an Humor or a vapor or both The CURE is facil and Easie if the distemper be recent and but now beginning for so it is cured by diet alone together with the humectation of the whol body and somtimes of the head in particular as likewise if the Body receive any augmentation and growth from the aforesaid food if only the imagination be no more than hurt and then again if it be with some kind of laughter accompanying it But Cure there is none if the affect be hereditary See above further hereof touching the Progress to be made in attempting the Cure in the Chapter of the Melancholly distemper of the brain and below in the differences Notwithstanding observe here 1. That in this case an especial regard is to be had of the diet and that sleep by al manner of means be procured lest that haply the Patient fal frantick and mad Vinegar is not here to be administred but only that by it the dry Vapors may be diverted and called away from the brain A Bath of sweet water is by no means to be neglected 2. That the sick person is to be wrought into an Imagination quite contrary 3. That now and then for some certain time the Patient must wholly abstain from Medicaments The Remedies that in this case are commended are Confection of Alkermes the Tincture and Extract of Lazulus Elixir proprietutis the bezoar stone Cachunde an Indian Medicament the description whereof see in Lacutus his Physical History 1. Book Page 310. It is divided into some certain species I. One is that of the brain when the brain in the Nature and quality of its substance departeth from its natural cleerness and purity It is known by this that the doting is perpetual and vehement that there are present signs of Melancholy abounding in the head that the blood if it be let out is not thick nor black It ariseth Externally from a strong Phansie or imagination from fear other such like sad and grievous affections of the mind It ariseth Internally from a Melancholick Humor heaped up in the head and this either by reason of some acquired cold distemper of the brain or else in regard of its Melancholly constitution which may soon be known from the affects or otherwise lastly by reason of some cold and dry matter left behind in the brain after some hot distempers there the heat now abating and the thinner part of the matter being now resolved and gone It is Cured 1. By the Alteration and Preparation of the peccant matter by Fumary the water or syrup of sweet smelling Apples and Tartar of Vitriol 2. By the Evacuation thereof with the Extract of Hellebor the inferior waies and passages being first opened by Errhines and Sternutatories 3. By Procuring rest and sleep in the use of Hypnoticks 4. by Corroberating and strengthening the Head by the Tincture of the Chrysolite and other appropriate Remedies II. Another is that of the whole Body when a Melancholy blood aboundeth throughout the whol body and is from thence transmitted unto the brain It is known by this that the deliry or dotage is indeed continual but yet so that it is with some certain exasperations exacerbations and remissions and likewise in that there are present signs of Melancholy abounding in the body and that there went before the Causes thereof It ariseth from its own proper Causes of which we shal speak further in the Differences It is Cured by the frequent repetition of Venesection or blood-letting But because there are but very few spirits in Melaucholly persons it must not be of too much blood at once it may be either in the left Arm or in the Ankle or else the thigh Veins if large may be opened by Leeches 2. By a Preparation of the Humor by the Syrup of Odoriferous Apples Fumary with the cream of Tartar Tartur vitriolate by the fection of Alkermes the Whey of Milk with the Juyce of Cichory and Fumary 3. By a gentle Evacuation thereof often Reiterated and corrected by such things as corroborate the spirits and the principal parts and likewise by those things that Humectate moisten and mollifie but then the Evacuation may and ought to be stronger if so be the blood be over thick and unless the body be already extreamly and over much wasted This Evacuation must be seconded and followed by Moystening Baths unto the which Emollients are to be added 4. By drinking of tart sharp and somwhat sowr potions and also by the use of hot baths 5. By the strengthening of the Head both by internals and externals among which Embrochations are highly and indeed cheifly commended 6. By a Diet in the which there ought to be a careful and continual abstinence from al sorts of pulse It is divided according to the Nature and diversity of the Causes 1. One is from Causes altogether external as Fear watchings Cares al which exsiccate and dry up the Radical Moisture have in them a power sufficient to alter and change the blood in the whol Body and to detain the Melancholy Humor Now then
the sound and noise that it maketh wil soon discover Chap. 4. Of the Diseases of the Adnata Tunicle Article I. Of the Ophthalmie THe Parts Constituting the Eye either they are the Tunicles Viz. Adnata Cornea Vvea and Aranea or else they are the Humors thereof The Diseases of the Adnata are the Ophthalmy Pterygium Panniculus and Hyposphasma of the which two latter this is common to the Cornea Tunicle that unto the Eye-Lids The Ophthalmy is an inflamation of the Adnata Tunicle arising from a sharp blood distending the smal Veins thereof The SIGNS are redness of the Eyes a flowing forth of tears a pain c. The CAUSE is Blood which either alone or else castigated by other Humors sliding forth unto the part affected either by an afflux or else by congestion is dispersed thorow the Veins and so distendeth them The CURE is Difficult if it arise in cold Regions and in a cold time because then the Members are more than at other times streightened and confined if it infest and annoy little Children because that it continually followeth from a tender and weak Head if the pain presevere and long abide because it argueth a matter either corroding or vehemently distending or suppurating if it be by consent from the Membranes of the Brain and the parts contained within the Skin if there appear in the Eye smal grains of filth because these signifie a slowness of Maturation It is more easie if it be by Consent from the external parts if the tears be more abundant and more smarting because it cometh the sooner to an end if the belly be quick in regard that the loosness of the belly freeth the party from it It is to be accomplished according to the Method of other Inflamations It is to be noted in this that somtimes by Venesection the greatest Opthalmies are wholly taken away within the space of an hour 2. That Vesicatories applied behind the Ears do very wel draw back For this purpose there is much commended by Hartman the meat of the Herb Rocket in a quilted bag 3. Errhines and those not overstrong and violent are to be administred if the sick person hath bin wont to evacuate the excrements of the head by the Nostrils 4. Topicks are to be applied but yet not until the end of three whole days and these are to be actually some that warme without any the least mordacity or Carroding quality wel cleansed and purified and corrected by such repellers as are in their own propriety helpeful neither must they be too cool nor too astringent neither over dry and those may presently be put unto the forehead and the neck and they are to be followed with Anodynes which if there be any fear of a greater afflux are very fitly applied to the eye from the very beginning 2. the womens milk is every hour to be changed lest that after long continuance it contract a certain kind of acrimony from the heat of the eye 3. Opium and opiate medicaments are by no means to be adminiâ—tred without great and urgent necessity 4. Great caution must be had lest that there should be any suppuration in the inward parts 5. In the diet wine and the use of baths in the declination of the disease may very wel and without danger be allowed and permitted unto the sick person A Cataplasme of the Crumbs of wheat bread and a rosted apple with the brest-milk of a woman together with a little saffron and sugar of saturn is exceedingly commended And so likewise is the water that is made of the juicy substance of Craw-fish distilled two pints thereof of Rose water one pint and Crocus metalorum half an ounce infused altogether as also of the waters of the eyebright and Fennel of each alike five ounces with metalorum one dram unto which there may be added a fit proportion of rose-rosewater Among the discussives Sarcocol wel washed and the true Tutty of the Arabians which drieth without any kind of biting obtain their place and use The Differences of the ophthalmy is threfold I. One is that we cal Taraxis or a perturbation which is known by this that the eyes only appear to be hotter with a certain redness in them and without any great abundance of tears It ariseth from external Causes to wit 1. the heat of the Sun or the fire and then the Cataplasme before mentioned may very siâ—ly be applied 2. from a pain of the head contracted from the suns scorching heat and then likewise the aforesaid Cataplasme hath its place unless happly general and Universal remedies ought altogether to preceed and take the the first place 3. from wind smoake and dust and the eyes are to be washed with milk luke warme and fleep to be taken thereupon 4. from a blow or a fal and then blood ought immediatly to be drawn forth by opening a vein 5. from the stinging of a Bee Wasp or Hornet and then Repellers of the white of an Egge the breast milk of a woman c. are to be imposed Another is the true and genuine ophthalmy which proceedeth either from hot or from cold causes and to this al that hath been before spoken doth properly and cheifly belong Another is that we cal Chemosis whenas the eye lids are as it were inverted and â—urned the inside outward neither can they be closed and then there appeareth a swelling of something that is white above the black of the eye and this needeth and requireth the stronger sort of remedies II. Another is Periodical which kepeth its intervals it is familiar unto hot moist heads at length it casteth the eyes into a consumption Another is that that keepeth not its periods Another is Contagious III. Another is Moist 〈◊〉 â—hich we have now most cheifly treated Another dry in the which there is but a very smal flux of tears and in the night-time the Eye-Lids contract an hardness It hath its original from a humor that is not much in quantity but very salt and nitrous And it is either with an itching attending it which if tears gently flow forth it is then called Psorophthalmia but if there be no tears at al and that the eyes are only red without any swelling it is then called Xerophthalmia or else without an itching and with a certain hardness of the Eye-lid and then it is-termed Sclerophthalmia The Cure hereof followeth the method of that before mentioned Article II. Of the Nail or little wing the web and the Hyposphagm of the Eye I. The Nail or little wing as they terme it of the eye or as some cal it the arrow is a little membrane that is nervous sibrous and somwhat white which proceedeth forth from the corners of the eyes the greater of them especially and cleaveth fast unto the Adnata tunicle and is somtimes drawn forth in length even unto the Cornea tunicle and very often if it so much increase covereth and over spreadeth the Pupilla or Bal of the Eye
of the incision knife For the Differences see further in Aeginâ—la II. The Dilatation of the Pupilla called Mydriasis and Platucoria is when the Pupilla is inlarged above and besides the ordinary course of nature toward the it is or particoloured circie of the eye It is known by this that the sick persons either by reason of too much of the External light breaking in upon the eyes or else in regard that because of the falling of the Sun beames in an oblique manner upon them these oblique wayes being weaker than those that are perpendicular they are not able to see and discerne so clearly and acutly when they would look upon any object they then a little close their eyes and the one of them being shut the pupilla of the other cannot be dilated It ariseth from the Extension and stretching out of the Vvea of which this said Pupilla is the hole or inlet either by reason of external or else internal causes For the Cure hereof it must be sought for in the differences It is divided in a threefould manner I. One is native and such as is contracted from the very birth Another Adventitious and happening accidentally II. Another is from external Causes as a blow or a fal from on high c. whichâ—â—â— it be altogether without any inflamation is easily and soon cured but not so if it be accompanied with a rupture of the Vvea Another from Causes internal which are particularly expressed in the following difference III. Another is from siccity or drynes extending the Vvea like as we see in skins or hides that are perforated and this is not to be cured without some difficulty The best remedy in this case is Goats milk if the eye be wel washed therewith and as it were drenched therein Another from humidity the cure whereof is so much the more easie if it chance not after an extream and Vehement pain of the Head It is performed universal and general Remedies being first premized by the drawing forth of blood out of the Temple Veins and the Veins in the corners of the Eyes and by the applying of Cupping-Glasses in the hinder part of the Head and Leeches behind the Eares and likewise by the Use of Resolving Medicaments among which salted Water is much commended that have in them but little of astriction Another from blasts blowings which happeneth unto Trumpeters these flaculencies or windinesses are to be discussed scattered as aforesaid in affects of the like Nature III. The straightness or narrowness of the Pupilla which they term Myosis is when it is rendered and made narrower than naturally it ought to be It is known by this that al objects whatsoever that the sick persons look upon seem bigger than indeed they are that the visible species being conveied in through a straight and narrow inlet may be and are dilated in that broader space neer unto the Crystaline humor It ariseth from the contraction of the Vvea It is Cured according to the Nature and quality of the differences It is Divided according to the diversity of the Causes One is from overmuch humidity contracting the Vvea from the Circumference towards the Center For the which those Medicaments that are exsiccating and drying such are Rew and Selandine are a very fit and propper Remedy Another is from a defect of the watery humor and then the Patient wil see and discerne better in the room that is obscure and dark because that the visible species are more aptly and speedily Conveyed unto the Crystaline humor In this case an aliment and supply is to be attracted and drawn unto the part by applying of milk and sweet water unto the head Another is from a more scant and spare afflux of the visive spirits unto the said Pupilla Article II. Of a Suffusion A Suffusion otherwise termed Hypochyma is an obstruction of the Pupilla bindering the sight and caused by a humor consisting in the eye and residing in that part thereof The SIGNS are divers according to the quality and Condition of the rise and original of the augmentation and of the perfection or Period thereof and they shal severally and apart be explained in the differences The CAUSE is a humor either sincere and single or else mingled whether it be there collected or transmitted thiâ—her by the veines of the tunicles the Vvea tunicle or the Nerves It is collected most especially in those eyes that are great and sticking out we term them Goggle eyes in regard that the visive virtue when it is diffused in a wide space is the more infirm and weak and the laxity of the waies or passages affordeth a very facile and easie entrance The CURE is difficult if it chiefly happen from a feave or some extraordinary vehement pain of the head if it chance unto yong childeren or old aged people and none at al if the suffusion be black if the sick person discern not the light It is wrought if at al I. By the drawing forth of the obstructing matter by purging Phlegmagogues and especially hiera and the electuary that they cal diacarthamus but before these we may premise and administer preparatives II. By revulsion of the same matter by Cupping-Glasses Vesicatories c. III By a discussion of the said matter by Topicks mingled with Emollints or mollifiers and the clearing and cleansing of the eyes And here for this purpose there is commended the water called aqua Joelis the remmedy of Bovius formed of the gal of a Cock half an ounce the blood of a mouce three drams and a half and so made up like unto a Colliry with the breast-milke of a woman or else water of mans dung known by the name of aqua stercoris humani Elambicata with the gal of a Weasel and likewise of a hare saccharo caudi rosato and margarites prepared IV. By Chirurgical operation of which we are for further satisfaction in this point to consult those Authors that have treated at large uppon this subject The Differences of a Suffusion are Various I. In regard of its Situation 1. One is in the Center of the Pupilla which Representeth the Objects as though they came and passed through the Windows and this ought not by any means to be attempted by the needles point lest that the whol Pupilla be filled with the peccant Humor flowing thereunto 2. Another resideth between the Vvea and the Cornea Tunicle and then the Pupilla is evidently seen to be extreamly obscured and darkned and the Pupilla is of necessity dilated by Reason of the Humor that distendeth it 3. Another resideth betwixt the Vvea and the Crystalline humor and then the opposite unto the former do manifestly appear 4 Another is seated in a deeper place and then the Pupilla is very narrow and much streightned Another is situate in a place less profound and deep and then the said Pupilla is larger and wider II. They differ in regard of the degrees for One
at ful of the moon it groweth exceedingly and about the change or new moon it becomes altogether as flaggy and smal in appearance c. It hath its Rise from viscous and Clamy humors and cheifly from flegm mingled with the blood which falling down from out of the brain unto the exulcerated nostrils sticks fast in the Ulcers The Cure is by al means to be hastened lest that it turn into the Cancer It is accomplished either by Chirurgery or by cutting it off of which see further in the Practical Authors Or else by Pharmacheutickâ— or medicinal remedies and among them universal and general medicaments being first premised about the new of the moon therâ— are to be administred either the oyl of vitriol uncorrected dropt into wooll and after the flesh shal have been scarrified so applied unto the part affected or else tents of the Gentian Root by the prescript of Hartman or Joel his liniments It is divided after a twofold manner I. One is soft and white which being void of al pain is the more easily and the sooner cured Another inclining somwhat unto a Reddish color which is more difficult in the curing Another Livid or black and blewish which refuseth by any means to be cured and soon degenerateth into a cancer In this affect there are commended the yolks of new laid eggs beaten together in a leaden morteâ— even unto a blackness and then made up into the form of an unguent with one scruple of Camphire Another hard in which Emollients in the form of a fomentation ought to be premized II. Another is profound and deep which in regard that it is neerer unto the brain is therefore withal the more dangerous Another such as is to be discerned by the eyes and hath its existence and being somewhat more outwardly Chap. 2. Of the Hemorrhage or Bleeding of the Nostrils THe Hemorrhage is an immoderate excresion and in the whole kind thereof besides and above the course of nature of the blood by the veins of the nose the said veins being divided rarefied or opened The thing we are now treating of is to be understood of that homorrhage that is Symptomatical and not of that which is meerly Critical which is caused in Feavers by the strength and vigor of nature with signs foregoing of concoction and a Crisis on that day the Judgment is to be made and which dischargeth and terminateth the disease The SIGNES of this Affect are of themselves sufficiently manifest It is foreknown by that Anarropia as they term it or tending upwards of the humors unto the superior parts the which is signified by the pain of the head and neck the heaviness of the temples the dimness of the Eyes the extension or stretching forth of the Hypochondrium involuntary tears difficulty of breathing c. The CAUSES are whatsoever it be that can open divide or rarefie the veins of the nose of al which we shal make mention in the differences The CURE is difficult if it be so immoderate and immeasurable that in cholerick bodies the Choller inflaming and burning the blood the face becometh of a Citron or oringe color in Flegmatik bodies the flegm being multiplied of a leaden color and in melancholly bodyes of a black and duskish color and if it flow forth to the quantity of four pints therof if it befal such as are Phlegmatick and melancholly in regard that they are more cold thereby than are the sanguine or Chollerick if it affect those that are of an high and red color with a certain kind of pain in the head if it doth not terminate and put an end to that disease wherein it happeneth and that a chilness and stifness follow thereupon because that the body being exhausted of spirits is extreamly cooled and chilled and by this means breedeth diseases that last and continue a long while It is not at al to be attempted in those persons that in a burning Feaver are afflicted with pains in the head together with aches in the neck and the whole body and where there is present a weakness with a kind of trembling in regard that this putteth an end unto the disease in those whose monthly Courses fail them in those that are afflicted either with deafness or the distorsion of the back bone and a difficulty of breathing or else with a strong pain in the inferior parts al other things being thereunto answerable and correspondent It is very doubtful if in the affects of the Liver it flow from out of the left nostril and in the affects of the spleen out of the right nostril and especially if it be accompanied with a sweating of the Breast or head if it happen to those that are Feaverish and that thereupon when they begin to Recover the belly is humectated and becommeth overmuch moystned in regard that the nattural innate heat being debilitated a dropsie is very likely to follow thereupon if it happen to be attended with weake faint and as we cal them cold sweaâ—s and therewithal a kind of chilness because that hereby is signified and shown an extream and overgreat dissollution and subversion of the Spirits if in an accute disease it hath together with it joyned a quick and suden motion of the eyes a turbulent and troubelsom sleep frequent watchings or want of duesleep it in acute and burning Feavers on the fourth day there issue forth drop by drop a thick gross and black blood together with other Sympcoms because this argueth evidenceth the imbicility or weakness of nature and lastly if such a bleeding chance to be in diseases of long continuance It is wrought and accomplished I. By Revulsion by opening of the median vein provided that the said venesection be moderate and as often as there shal be cause Repeated on that side the nostril is of out of which the said blood floweth as also by cupping-gasses applied unto the hypochondria if the blood be not naught by Frictions c. II. By those Medicaments that stanch and stop the Hemorrhage or bleeding flux and those either such as are Cooling or astringent and binding or of an agglutinating Nature or else lastly such as act and operate by a secret and occult quallity and theâ—e aforesaid medicaments either to be outwardly applied or else drunk in and taken down inwardly In the number of those Remedies that are internal and to be taken into the body the cheif that we know of are beleeved to be these Sperniolae compositum or the composition of frogs mentioned and prescribed by Crollius three or foure grains hereof to be administred in the water of the herb shepards pouch Crocus Martis with the Juyce of Quinces and some few grains of Opiate Laudanum the Syrup of Coralls of Quercetan in a Chalybeat water the Extract of Crocus Martis three grains therof with plantane water the sperm or seed of frogs collected in the spring time dryed and then drunk with wine Among the External Remedies the unguent of Quercetane
compounded and made of Crocus Martis beaten into a most smal pouder and Crâ—cus Veneris of each two ounces these wel mingled together with the oyl commonly known by the name of Oleum Vici Pomarum Symplicium the water of the sperm of Frogs with a little Champhyre and sugar of Saturn put round about the neck Argilla furnaceâ— that is to say Clay baked in an Oven and wel mingled together with strong vinegar like unto a pultise and applied after the same manner Asses dung or swines dung dissolved in Rose vinegar and then put up into the nostrils the shavings or Fragments of Fungus Betulinus the mushrom or toad stool of the Beech tree the Root of white Succory dig'd up about St. James tide at noon day when the sun is at ful south and chawed betwixt the teeth As for the Magnetical Curing hereof by Vitriol see further in Beccerus in his Medicus Mycrocosmus in the Chap. of the blood c. The Hemorrhage is divided in a threefold manner from the Causes from the blood and from the places from whence the said proceedeth I. One is from that we cal Anastomosis or an opening of the orifices of the veins which either is caused by the abundance of blood and then the face is red the veins strut and are distended and a ful feeding went before and here venesection hath its place the head is by no means to be washed or so much as wet with cold water lest that the blood being there deteined something that is worse follow upon it neither is there any linen cloth to be wet in cold water and at the first begining of it to be cast about the neck lest that the ways and pasges between the brain and the heart should by this means be shut up or else it is caused by the acrimony of the blood and the thinness thereof and then there ready at hand signs of a Cacochymy and in this case we are to do the work with those things that incrassate and thicken as Bole armonick Dragons blood in the shops termed Sanguis draconis and such like Orelse it is caused by the irritation of the facculty and then the very same things as before are present and ready at hand or else by the weakness of the said faculty and then there is blood issuing forth by intervals but it is not much and some disease weakening the liver went before and therfore the Cure ought likwise to be prosecuted with special regard had unto the same Another is from a diairesis as we term it or a division of the veins by some sharp corroding humor and like by other means and then the blood issueth forth in a far greater abundance or there went before some violent Cause or else lastly there are present certain signs of a Cholerick Cacochymy Another is from that we cal diapedesis or as we may to term it a passing through by leaping and then the blood that issueth forth is but very little c. See more hereof in the first Book II. One is of the Arterial blood which is hot somwhat red subtile leaping forth with a froth and with violence Another is of the vein blood and this is Thicker and Blacker III. One is of blood issuing and passing forth out of the veins of the Brain and then there went before a pain of the head and the flux is not easily stanched Another is of the same blood leaping or starting out of the nostril veins and then the contrary of what was said touching the former happeneth and appeareth Chap. 3. Of the Hindering and Hurting of the Smel Gravedo or Stuffing and Sternutition Or Sneezing THe principal burt of the sence of smelling is the abolition or the diminution thereof which differ only in degrees and in the greatness of their Causes And this is caused 1. Either from a distemper of the brain which either possesseth the fore part thereof and then the Tast likewise by reason of the branches of the third pair of nerves of the brain Forming the tongue is abolished the voice is loud and shril and no way to be found fault with the Cure here is to have an especial regard unto the distemper or else it possesseth and resideth in the process of those nerves that constitute and frame the organ of the smelling and then there is no hurt at al to be perceived in the brain or in the other senses Or else it is caused by the narrowness and streightness and that too either of the Brain and then there is present and sensibly to be felt a heaviness in the head and here we may operate by errhines and yet not toomany of them neither and here likewise sternutatories are exceeding useful and profitable or otherwise of the Processes of the brain or of the nose within and the Ethmoid Bone and then the voice and respiration are vitiated and the wonted excrements restrained and kept in The smelling is somtimes totally abolished if the Phlegm by heat be baked and hardened at the holes and enterances of the aforesaid bone which chanceth unto such as being troubled with the pose or distillation called coriza heedlesly and without any consideration go into baths In these cases that that cheifly deserveth commendation is the Root of Gentian fitly put up into the â—osâ—ils Castoreum wel soaked in vinegar and afterwards sweetned the Oyl of Nightshade the Errhin of Zacutus in his seventh Book 15. Chap. P. 517. c. touching which we have before spoken in the Chapter of Cactarrhs II. Gravedo or Coryza is a defluxion of the Excrements of the Brain being crude and thin like water unto the nostrils which is accompanied and attended with a frequent sternutation or sneezing This Malady is wel enough known and by it self discovered It ariseth from the distemper of the brain either hot or cold concerning which enough above III. Sternutation is a violent and involuntary expulsion by the nostrills of the flatulent windy spirits and sharp vapours offending the Brain It is done with a Loude voice as wel because the Windy spirit breaketh forth altogether at once as by reason that it forceth its passage through the streight narrow holes of the nostrils It ariseth either from external causes and then the nostrils are to be supled and gently stroked with the oyl of roses or milk or else from internal humors and vapours brought thither touching which see further in their proper Chapters but is wont for the most part and too commonly to be neglected by the Physitians unless in Plethorical bodies it happen to be accompanied with a distillation in the very first beginning of the disease The little veins in the greater angle of the eyes and that is nighest unto the nostrils being forcibly pressed together do forthwith stay and stop the frequency thereof Title VII Of the diseases of the Tongue and the Symptoms thereof THe Affects of the Tongue are a Tumor or swelling Ranula a blackness a Palsy a stammering an Aphony
the progress with discussion but by Discussion alone and Maturation if they incline and tend toward a suppuration and here Milk boyled or the Decoction of Raisons of the Sun is to be made use of and it is known to be of singular benefit They are divided after a various and Different manner I. Some of them are from an External Cause to wit an anoynting with Quick Silver Meats of a sharp quality corrupted in the Stomach the eating of Mushroms or Toadstools and the Retention of the Menstrua or monthly Courses c. Others from Internal Causes to wit 1. Ill Humors either generated and bred there or else transmitted thither from some other place and then they resemble in color those Humors they proceed from Those that take their original from Flegm are perceived to be less hot than the rest Those from Choler for the most part are inflamed Those in little Children if they be black and have a kind of crustiness over them are pernitious destructive and deadly These require Universal Remedies 2. Vapours that are sent forth either from the whol body or else from part thereof only and that more especially an over hot liver They easily by their Acrimony offend and hurt the uppermost parts of the Mouth by Reason of their softness and tenderness and in feavers they very frequently produce such a like Disease II. Some are Recent and new which are the more easily Cured and healed others old and Inveterate and these not without much difficulty and this as wel by Reason of the quick sense and apprehensiveness of the part which is further Irritated by sharp and piercing Medicaments as that the Medicaments are diluted and vitiated by the Spittle and lastly as by Reason of the speedy hastening of the Malady being in a place hot and moist unto a Rotteness and Putrefaction III. Some of them are Sordid and foul which may be washed with Sugared Water wel mingled with the Oyl of Vitriol Others leaving behind them their Sordid and filthy Vlcers and then the Green water of Platerus is fitly and properly to be administred and this is to be followed by the washing of the Mouth with Plantane Water IV. Some of them do only infest and annoy the uppermost Skin and from thence by degrees creep along into the gums pallat the sides and Root of the Tongue Others Penetrate and pierce more deeply and eat quite through the Palate and the flesh of the Tongue especially in infants in regard they have the softer and more tender bodies There is here to be commended the Decoction of Savory and Betony in Wine if the Mouth be throughly washed therewith as also the Water of Nuts destilled with Vinegar and a Spunge therein dipt and so applied V. Some are in Children which most usually proceed from the Breast-Milk when it is hot sharp and Salt and these are to be Cured with the Syrup of Mulberries together with Honey of Roses or Oxymel or honyed Vinegar Others in such as are Older and grown up to their perfect state and these require and cal for Universals Chap. 2. Of the Stinking of the Mouth THe Faetor or Stinking of the Mouth is the offensive Vnsavoriness of the Breathing proceeding and arising from a stinking Vapor passing out of the Mouth There is no need of Signs The Cheife and neerest Cause is a Vapor which proceedeth I. From Meats either stinking and unsavory in their own Nature as Garlike Onyons c. And the stink soon and of its own accord vanisheth or else such as are corrupted in the Stomack or the void places betwixt the Teeth II. From the Excrements of the intestines when the inferior Orifice of the Stomach by which it openeth it self into the Intestines is not closely shut which befalleth common drunkards and then in this case Cloves Nut-Meg Zedoary the Roots of the French flower-de-luce Rinds of Citron c. Are to be held and kept in the Mouth III. From stinking Humors either in the Stomach and then they are best of al Evacuated by Aloetick Remedies or else in the strainer bone if at any time corrupted or else in an Ulcer and wound of the Lungs the Gums or the intestines IV. From Worms having their residence in the Intestines c. Title XI Of the Diseases and Symptoms of the Teeth Chap. 1. Of the Diseases of the Teeth Article I. Of the Corrosion of the Teeth THe Diseases of the Teeth are Corrosion and Mobility The Corrosion of the Teeth is a diminution of their magnitude from Causes that Eat through them so that they are broken fal forth by piece-meal the said diminution or corrosion now and then producing Fistulaes The SIGNS are easily discovered both by the touch and by the sight thereof and for the most part those that have such Teeth when they are fasting send forth a stinking and Unsavoury breath or Vapor The CAUSES of Corrosion are either External Womens Fucusses or Face paintings made of Hydrarge c. Al sweet meats more especially Sugar as Experience testifieth food taken in too hot or else meats that are overcold taken in immediatly or in a very short while after the hot Food Or else they are Internal to wit 1. Sharp Humors which for the most part run down from out of the Head and then in the Cure we ought so to proceed that in the first place the Flux be stopt 2. That the putrid humidity be quite taken away by the Decoction of the Roots of Capars Bay Berries Gallia Moschata together with mastick put into the hollow Tooth 3. Corruption must be carefully prevented by cleansing of the Teeth with a Pen-knife from meats that stick betwixt them and likewise by washing of the Mouth with Wine And here are commended the Odontalgick Remedy of Crollius one grain thereof wrapt up in Cotton and so put upon the Tooth the little round Bals of Trallianus formed and made of Thebane Opium one scruple Mirrb Styrax Calamite of each a dram white Pepper Saffron Galbanum of each one scruple and so made up with Honey of Squils and then thrust into the Tooth II. Worms which are to be drawn forth by those little Pellets that are formed of the Henbane seed the Onion and Garlick with a sufficient quantity of Goats sewet and so imposed upon the Hollowness of the Teeth Touching the Fistula's of the Teeth these two things are to be noted I. That they destil almost insensibly and by little and little a Corrupt Humor and a kind of Rotten Filth which Somtimes floweth into the Mouth with a stinking Savor Somtimes it is leisurely derived and drawn forth unto the external parts along by the Roots of the Teeth and the passage holes of the Jaw-bone through which the Vessels glide down and slip into the said Jaws and so this Humor exciteh certain little risings and swellings in the Cheek or in the Chin and Somtimes the Ulcer remaineth ever more open II. That it is hardly ever to be Cured unless that the
and strangling which is somtimes grâ—â—ter and somtimes less It ariseth either from those Causes that Compress or press it down as the Relaxation or Loosening of the Vertebrae Inflamations Swellings the halter c. Or else from those Causes that Obstruct as things external fallen thereinto which are to be removed Or else internal to wit Humors thick and of a slimy and Glutinous Nature which are to be Cut attenuated and cleansed forth with the Syrup of Maiden hair Horehound and Liquerish or by reason of Purulent matter and smal stones Particularly that called Grando bred in the Lungs and a certain kind of flesh that is bred and brought forth after wounds and Ulcers III. Wounds either they touch only the Superficies thereof and then they may be cured or else they touch the Cavity thereof and then the Air passeth forth in such a manner that if a candle be put thereinto it is forthwith extinguished if the Cartilaginous substance be wounded especially after a transverse manner it can hardly ever be brought to unite again if the wound be betwixt the two little rings thereof they are now and then Healed IV. Touching Vlcers take this advertisement to wit that they arise from Humors that are sharp and Salt from Poysons and from Medicaments and that they afflict with pain spitting of Blood pure in the beginning but afterwards purulent insomuch that even scales and a kind of Crustiness may now and then be cast forth If they seize upon and possess the Internal Cavity they are then by reason of the Nature and Situation of the Parts very hard to be Cured and lastly that if the Cartilages be eaten through and that there happen thereupon any putrefying affect it is then altogether incurable Title IV. Of the Diseases of the Lungs Chap. 1. Of the Distemper of the Lungs THe Diseases of the Lungs are Intemperies Peripneumonia Angustia or streighness a Wound Phthisis or an Vlcer The Distemper of the Lungs is the declining thereof from its natural temper unto that which is preternatural as wel by reason of External as Internal Causes The SIGNS shal be expressed in the Differences The CAUSES are either External and these likewise various to wit cold or hot potions medicaments applied the Air that being little or nothing altered is carried and conveyed unto the Lungs in such as are destitute of the columella or else they are internal to wit the Humors that are drawn along thither either from the Head or else from some other parts but frequently from the Liver The CURE is to be ordered according to the several Causes where in regard of the humors take notice 1. That in respect of the situation of the part it is not to be removed without much difficulty yet notwithstanding that it ought to be evacuated 2. That if there be there a greater store than ordinary of flegm it is then more fitly to be removed with those Remedies that expectorate and mollifie such as are Eryngo Roots and marshmallow roots common mallows and Raysins than by those medicaments that cut 3. That many hot remedies are not here convenient lest that the thinner parts being wasted the thicker remain behinde The best remedy in this case is Linseed 4. That if there be present an acute feaver together with the matter we ought then to abstain from those medicaments we cal Eclegmata for these by their dryness and clamminess do much if not wholly supress expectoration from whence there followeth a more frequent respiration or thicker fetching of the breath and the matter also by the extraordinary heat becometh the more contumationus and obstinate The Distemper of the lungs is divided after a twofold manner I. One is without matter which indeed hath in it no danger at al of suffocation and is also more easily cured Another with matter which is to be Evacuatted and drawn back like as we shewn above II. One is hot which is known by this that the Cheeks by reason of the sumes ascending become red and that there is evermore a dryness of the tongue together with a thirst which can no way be qualified but by the breathing and drawing in of the cold Air infesting the sick person and likewise that the breathing is more than usually frequent and swift In the Cure Cooling medicaments which through the rough artery are thither to be conveyed ought to be administred where note 1. That those medicaments that are mainly cooling and repelling are altogether enemies and offensive to the Breast by intercepting the passages of the blood and spirit and by their weakening and impayring the very nature of the Breast since that it is Cartilaginous and bony 2. That among the principal internal Remedies we are to account both the white and black Poppy Rheas Violets Endive Barly Water-Lilies and their syrups 3. That the diet ought to be conformable and that for a drink and potion the water of barly with the Syrup of Violets is excellent good III. Another is Cold which is known by this that Cooling Causes went before that the Breathing is but weak slow rare and the Pulse like thereunto and that the Breath that cometh forth is colder then ordinary In the Cure we are to Use medicaments that heat among which these are to be accounted of as very fit and proper to wit saffron which is as it were the very life and soul of the Lungs the Extract of calamus Aromaticus old treacle Coltsfoot Nicotiana or tobako scabious the root of the Flower-de-luce and the root of Aron or Cuckowpint prepared Elixir proprietatis that Mixture they term Simplex oxymel Scillitick c. IV. One is Moist which is known by this that the voice is hoarse the breathing thick and frequent with a kind of wheezing snorting and much spittle In the Curing hereof we ought carefully to avoid those medicaments that are overdrying and astringent The Chymical oyl of sulpher and the flowers of sulphur or brimstone the shops cal this latter flores sulphuris in a rere egge that may be supped up the wine wherein the eyes of crabs or cre-fishes have been mucerated sassafras China root c. are here of singular use and benefit V. Another is dry which is known by this that persons thus affected wast and consume away without any Ulcer at al that the breathing is very little and weak but thick and short that there is present a continual christiness and but smal store of spittle In the Cure hereof Raysons of the sun womens breastmilk and Asses milk the destilled water of Tortoises the broth of veal and the conserve of violets are especially good and profitable Externally a Bath of sweet water ought to be Prescâ—â—bed Chap. 2. Of Peripneumonia PEripneumonia is an inflamation of the Lungs from blood poured forth into the substance thereof with a straightness of the Breast a difficulty of breathing an acute Feaver and a cough The SIGNS are the narrowness of the Breast with a dul and heavy pain that
the body be Plethorical if it be not directly on the side affected 2. That if the courses or the Hemorrhoids be suddenly suppressed then the evacuation is in the first place to be out of the ancle vein or that of the Ham but if the suppression hath been of long continuance out of the arm vein 3. That in derivation the blood is to be drawn forth so long as until the color of it be changed 4. That fomentations may be administred to moderate the pain in a body that is not Plethorical yea even before Phlebotomy but not so when the Body of the patient is Plethorical And for this end and purpose excellent good is the Unguent made of dialthea or of Marshmallows one ounce thereof and half an ounce of the oyl of sweet Almonds with the pained parts ought to be al over anointed and upon it the fine small pouder of Camomile flowers is to be lightly strewed and then the leaf of a Colwort or Cabbage anoynted with Butter or hogs fat is to be laid upon it very hot and this is to be continually done dureing the whol time of the cure adding likewise a little of the distilled oyl of dil Champhyre 5. That forthwith in the very first beginning a sweat may very fitly and properly be raysed and excited by exhibiting either of the water of the Poppy Roses three ounces there of with one dram of the pouder of Corral red Filberds the Jaws of the Luce-fish or Pike or else of the simple Mixture one dram with the water of Carduus Mariae or of the Spirit of Nitre with the spirit of Wine of each one scruple the spirit of Tarttar half a scruple in the water of Poppy Roses or else the simple water thereof c. 6. That pectoral decoctions together with their appropriates are continually to be administred after the premizing of universals that so the spitting may be facillitated 7. That these following have in them a Specifical propriety of operation to wit the flower of the wild poppy of the dry dock and of the white Eglentine or sweet Brier the seed of Carduus Muriae the Bulls pizzle or the pizzle of the Hart or Stagg the shavings of the Boars tooth c. see Petraeus Al which are to be made into a very fine pouder and then to be put upon bread that hath been wel dipt in Scabious water 8. That the impostume may best be broken with a Cataplasm of the herb kaly the roots of the White lily while they are new and fresh c. applied unto the side that is payned 9. That after al those aforesaid Chalybeated milk unless a Feaver hinder it is the best I. One is as we may term it Legitimate and exquisite unto the which only whatever was sayd before as to this poynt is to be referred and understood thereof which I. ariseth either from blood that is pure in which there is a bloody spittle an extension of the veins about the Temples and the forehead with a sence of heaviness neer about the hollow of the Eyes the fore parts of the head or else from a blood that is Cholerick in which the spittle is yellow and which if it suddenly vanish without any apparent cause the sick person is immediately surprised with dotage It is best and soonest of al cured by opening the salvatella vein or thirdly from a Phlegmatick blood in which the spittle is frothy more slow and as it were sweet the syrup of Zacutus in the Eight Book Chap. 3. of his History is very efficacious in this kind or else lastly from a Melancholy blood which very rarely happeneth by way of afflux II. It affecteth either the interior tunicle and then the sick person doth with the more ease lie and rest upon the grieved side in regard that now the tumor is not immediately under it neither doth it in this case distend the grieved part or else the Exterior about the bones and then the case is quite contrary unto the former or otherwise both of them and then the patient lying upon the back is the freer from pain III. It affecteth either the right or the left side or the superior part extending it self to the throat or else the inferior reaching even unto the Hypochondria II. Another is bastard and spurious which is distinguished according to the quality of the matter and the manner of its situation One is from Windiness in which the pain is not fixed but runneth from place to place it is mitigated and oftentimes wholly dispelled by fomentations there went before causes generating windiness the pouder of Cummin sprinkled and strewed upon a Cabbage leafe anointed or spread over with butter and outwardly applied unto the pained part is very successful in giving ease Another from a distilation which hath with it a sence and feeling of a defluxion or something at certain times falling down it is exasperated by being touched neither doth it any whit yield unto fomentations the cure is to proceed according to that of a thin catarth Another is externally when the blood thorow the branches from the Axillar is ramus is emptied forth into the External Muscles of the Thorax and then the pain waxeth very intolerable upon the pressure thereof lying down upon the grieved side is extreamly troublesome there is in this case nothing cast forth by spitting and the transition or passing over of it into that which above we termed Vera or the true and exquisite Pluresy is very facile and easy Chap. 3. Of Empyema EMpyema is the Constipation of the Cavity of the Thorax or Breast from an abundant purulent matter causing and producing a difficulty of breathing with a Cough and a purulent or rotten spitting The Subject is the Cavity and capacity of the Thorax being that void space betwixt the Thorax and the Lungs albeit the Lungs themselves and the vessells thereof may not here be altogether excluded But now indeed because that the Lungs by the Mediastine is divided into two parts the Pus is collected either in the one or the other part or else in both of them together The Signs are a difficulty of breathing with a spitting and a perpetual purulent Coughing a sense and feeling of a heavy and dul pain in the bottom of the Thorax and especially neer about the diaphragm a redness of the Cheeks and that chiefly about three or four hours after meals c. The Cause is that very purulent filth it self filling up the Thorax the abundance whereof together with its stinking smell and acrimony inflicteth very sad and grievous pain and mischief There is some hope of a cure if upon the opening or burning there flow forth a white Pus or corruption if it be rather on the right side than the left and that the Patient be strong and able No hopes if the whole Thorax be lifted up in the breathing if the whol cavity be possessed if the left side if upon the lancing or burning of it that
Breasts or Paps Wax hard and that the swelling so add hereunto the Thorax or Chest that without extream peril it may not be thence removed Another by Resolution in which the thinner part is dryed up by preposterous Medicaments and which Galen Cured by an Evaporation of the sharpest and sourest Vinegar poured forth upon the Pyrites stone we cal it the fire stone Red hot but this was after the use of liquid and moystening Medicaments In the Curing of them al we must be sure that we have a special regard unto the Spleen and the suppressed Courses and that Emollients and Resolvers succeed one the other and be interchangably applied 2. The Scirrhus not Exquisite is known by this that the swelling is bigger than in a Cancer of the color of Ashes with an hardness and the Veins thereof somwhat black and blewish in the outward parts and that it somtimes vexeth the Party especially upon the neer approching of the Menstrua or Courses It ariseth from Black Choler mingled together with Melancholly especially in such as are barren or such which soon ceased their Child-bearing or else lastly those that have altogether a suppression of their Termes or monthly Courses In the Curing hereof among the Repellers without astriction there is commended the Unguent of Frogs of which see further in Castrensis his first Book of the Diseases of Women Chapter 21. See likewise touching the Manual Operation in the Same Author IV. A Windy Tumor which is known by this that the pain is very acute especially in the left breast with an Excruciating and torture of the Arm the whol side the Ribs and the Shoulder blades It ariseth from an Exhalation that is thick and drawn up from the Menstrua or the Seed suppressed or else from some other Excrements and so extending the said Paps In the Cure hereof take notice that a Linnen Cloath soaked in Soapsuds or else wet in Water and then dryed is commended for dissipation and when there is occasion to disperse and Scatter and that the Pain is wel mitigated with bread taken hot out of the Oven and then moystened with the Oyl of Nard the shops cal it Oleum Nardinum and of Rue Article II. Of the Cancer and Greatness of the Paps I. The signs of the Cancer in the Breasts as also the Causes and the Cure may be known and sufficiently understood by what hath been already said in the Second Book touching a Cancer Let it suffice here only to add I. That the Cancer that is not Exulcerated may be rendered and made more milde and gentle if the Courses being recalled return to their pristine state and condition either by the Course and Vigor of Nature or else by the assistance of Art and the help of Medicaments or else if the Body be preserved free from a Cacochymy either by a good order of Diet or else by Medicaments There may likewise be applied unto it that Unguent that it compounded of Lithargyrum two ounces thereof in a Marble Mortar drawn about with a Leaden Pestle and incorporated with rose-Rose-water and the Oyl of Roses of each three ounces II. For the Cure of the Cancer Exulcerated see in Hartman who writeth that the said Cancer may be perfectly Cured with Aqua Fuliginis that hath in it a clensing Faculty and with the Oyl of Arsenick fixed and wel tempered in Plantane Water II. The Magnitude of the Paps unseemly as it is is exposed unto the sight It ariseth from the often handling and stroaking of them and especially from the great abundance of Flatulency and windiness the Retention of the Courses c. The Cure hereof ought therefore to be Endeavored because that by how much the greater and bigger they grow but so much the more easily they may be affected with the Cancer It is performed 1. By Meats that are Astringent but little or not at all flatulent or Windy 2. By Driving back the blood or other the Humors flowing unto them and here the Juyce of Hemlock and the Partridg Eggs anoynted upon the place are much approved of 3. By the Discussion of that that is already gotten unto the part affected for which purpose that Unguent that is compounded of the Dirt or Clay that is to be found in Barbers Mils two ounces thereof the Oyl of Myrtle one ounce and Vinegar half an ounce is much commended 4. By the Compression of them by Artificial ones of Lead anoynted on the inside with the Oyl of the Seed of Henbane c. Chap. 2. Of the Symptomes of the Breasts Article I. Of the want of Milk too great abundance thereof and its Coagulation or Curdling THe Symptomes of the Breasts are the Defect Redundence and Coagulation of the Milk I. The Defect of Milk according to the Nature of the Causes is twofold For one is from a Fauâ—â— in the Blood which faileth by reason of Disâ—â—â— that over dry the body from a distemper in the Liver from much rasting and spareness of Diet and lastly from extraordinary Evacuations of al which there must be care taken in the Cure Now to generate and breed Milk these things following are experimentally found to be good Namely Crystal prepared the leaves Roots and Seed of Fennel while they are fresh and green the ponder of Earth-worms prepared and taken in Wine the Electuary of Zacuthus in the Ninth Book of his Pract. Hist and last Chapter Another is from somthing amiss in the Lactificall or Milk breeding Faculty when it is so weak that it can neither attract the blood nor contract it either by reason of External refrigerating Causes and such as are likewise Astringent or else by reason of other Diseases unto which we ought to have due respect in the Cure II. The Redundance or over great store of Milk proceedeth from the abundance of blood and a strong Lactifical Faculty In the Cure the Luxury and prodigality of Nature in the breeding of Milk is to be restrained and the Milk that exceedeth and is over and above ought to be dissipated and dryed up For this purpose venesection in the first place is approved of and then driving back by Medicaments which ought to be put upon the Paps towards the Arms And also those Medicaments that wast away and lessen the Milk such as that they cal Muria a kind of brinish Liquor or Pickle with the pouder of Cummin and Hemlock Boyled in Chervil Water and Vinegar c. III. The Coagulation or Curdling of the Milk is then Caused when the more thin and subtile parts do by little little exhale the thicker remain behind from whence the Glandules or Kernels wax hard and swellings yea and also impostumes arise In this Case the Infant ought not to be suckled out of the Breasts affected and yet notwithstanding the Milk is to be suckt out lest that which is bred anew should be Curdled by that Milk that is already become as it were Cheese and that part of the Curdled Milk that begins
to be grateful to the Stomach rather solid than liquid rather meats that are Medicinal than exact Medecines mixt with astringent things that the Stomach be not Relaxed not sharp Salt corroding lest they offend the mouth of the Stomach if the Medicines be external they must be applied to the sword-like Cartilage towards the Navel and upon the back to the twelfth and thirteenth Vertebrae II. By taking away the Causes both External and Internal III. By Strengthening the Stomach where appropriate Medicines take place as the Magistral of red Coral the inward Coat of a Hens maw c. 'T is divided into a distemper without or with matter of which in the following Articles Article II. Of the Distemper of the Stomach without matter A Distemper of the Stomach without matter is a preternatural disposition of the similar Parts of the Stomach in its qualities produced by external and Internal Causes without the presence of any Humor Its SIGNS and Causes shal be explained in the differences the Cure relies only on alteration and removing the Causes 'T is divided according to the qualities I. One is Hot which is known from the want of appetite to meat indorous Belchings clamminess of Spittle dryness of the jaws and Tongue it ariseth externally from the six non Natural things encreasing its heat internally from internal Diseases burning Feavers Inflamation of the Liver Spleen c. 'T is Cured 1. With cooling things but lightly and not too long applied 2. With cooling Diet where Barley Water takes place and Emulsions of the four greater cold seeds II. Another is cold which it known from the greatness of appetite unless it be too cold by sour belchings if neither much nor cold meats have been eaten nor flegm do abound by wind and two much spitting It ariseth externally from the six non Natural things internally from the parts incumbent as the Liver Spleen and Muscls of the Belly which induce a coldness 'T is Cured 1. By appropriate heaters but not too much inwardly and outwardly moist lest driness be caused 2. By Diet where Wormwood Wine takes place it is distinguished into a positive of which we have now treated and a privative which is conjoined with driness It ariseth from the defect of innate heat which is Caused by things that heat too much as the frequent use of Wine the want of nourishment the heat and driness of the incumbent Parts as of the Liver of the muscles of the Belly and the Cal. III. Another moist which is known by want of thirst by abundance of spittle c. it ariseth from external Causes inducing moisture it is Cured 1. With dryers without eminent heat or cold as are the ashes of Hens Guts of Swallows burnt harts horn red Coral troschiskes of Vipers Galangal burnt Salt 2. By a contrary Diet. IV. Another dry which is known by the extenuation and Contraction of the Region of the Stomach which is accompanied with a slenderness of the whol body It ariseth externally from a drying Diet too much emptying and fumes of mettals internally from the dryness of the incumbent parts The cure is the more difficult because with the Feaverish heat it induceth a consumption if vomiting happen it argues a great want of innate heat the Cure is performed 1. By moistening which is best of al accomplisht by nourishments that are medicinal 2. by Diet where Milk takes place beginning with a smal dose new layed Eggs Almonds Raisons Pine Nuts c. There is another compound the Nature of which may be collected from the simple those that labor of a hot and dry distemper have little blood unfit for nourishment are lean bound in body with Veins eminent subject to the dry Scab Article III. Of the distemper of the stomach with matter A distemper of the stomach with matter is when the stomach fals from its temper by reason of some humor either generated there or falling thither from some other place The Signs and causes are put in the difinition in the differences they shal be more largely Explained The CURE is finisht 1. By the alteration and evacuation of the peccant humor 2. By strengthning of the part by appropriate external meats Looke into the differences The Differences of this Distemper are Divers One is from the matter generated in the stomach then the symptoms appeare continually the whole body and al the members are sound It is cured by emptying of the matter which is comodiously done by medicines of aloes hiera picra mechoacan and by corroborating the part Another is from matter falling from another part then that part which was periodically affected is no longer troubled some accustomary evacuation is supprest or the usual diet hath bin changed or somewhat stops in the whole body or in some particular part The symptomes are more remisse For the cure we must have respect to the parts that send the matter II. Another is from the matter sticking in the cavety of the stomach then there is a waving or nauseousness which is attended with vomitinge or a loosness Another from the matter impacted in the coates of the stomach then there is a nauseousness without vomiting oftentimes with the hickops III. There is another chollerick viz. hot and dry which besides the former signes is discovered by nauseousness bitterness of the mouth with a certain sence of knawing and sometimes by chollerick vomitings It ariseth from choller either sent thither from the bladder of gal or generated there from corrupt meats 'T is cured 1. By dyet wherein chicken broath seasoned with lettice and endive doth excel 2. By emptying of the matter both by vomits made of the pouder of the down or flower of walnuts dryed in the smoak and given a dram weight in honey and water and purgers compounded of hiera picra 3. By alteration and coolers and moisteners amongst which do excel succory and violet water syrup of pomegranates of coral of Quercetan of strawberries currans tincture of roses letâ—â—ce and succory condite c. IV. There is another flegmatick to wit cold moist which is known both by the signs formerly reckoned up and by a sence of heaviness in the stomach especially some hours after meat by a waving sowr belching it proceeds from thin or thick flegm t is cured 1. By emptyers both by vomit to which in thick flegm we ought to premise things incisive given in a solid form amongst which excels diatrion pipereon diacalaminth the essence of balme penny-royal c. and by purging so that the purges be administred either alone or mixt with preparatives The vomiters are viz. of salt of vitriol given in broth oxymel with the decoction of radish Heurnius his vomiter of hellebor 2. By strengtheners amongst which excels inwardly taken the roots of callamus aromaticus and citron pills and of oranges with the phylosophical spirit of vitriol and the Elixir proprietatis outwardly ointments compounded of the distilled oyls of wormwood mint cudmin peneroyal mastick a
Roses Oxymel of Squils with a Mixture of things a little astringent Another is by default of the Expulsive Faculty which is provoked 1. By an ulcerous Disposition residing in the Superficies of the Guts and Stomach like pustles 'T is known from hence that there was no Coeliaca going before and there is a sense of knawing and pain in the stomach In the cure if the Stomach be in fault eschew vomits let the Belly be loosned with lenitives having some astriction avoid Fat things If the Guts be affected vomiting is good 2. By sharp humors whether generated there or falling from some other part especially the Liver It is known as the former disposition The cure is hard if it be of long continuance because it passeth into a dysentery if it be with difficulty of breathing and a pricking in the side and the humor fal down from the brain so that part of it fall upon the breast because it ends in a consumption If it be long with gripings wormes and paines because these being over it hath a swelling followes The sharpness is abated with the decoction of baâ—ley succory other cooling things if it continue long rhubarb prepared in rose water is effectual 3. From the taking of poyson and then things alexipharmacal must be mixed the juice of dittander with syrup of pomegranates is commended II. A Coeliaca is a suddaine passing of drink and meats out of the stomach into the gutts in which they flow forth like unto chyle or a milky substance The Signs are evident This passage is compleated within six or eight hours after meat so that the thinner and subtler parts of the nourishment are alterd and concocted and so pass into the nourishment of the body yet the body because it is not sufficiently nourisht wasteth a way The pulse is frequent and heat afflicts as if there were a feaver when they are going to stool some light fainting seize on them Before it breake forth the belly is distended and struts out The CAUSE of it is cheifly the il distribution of the chyle which is bred by the obstruction either of the mesentery spleen or liver and then the chyle is voided white the obstructions must be opened Or the weakness of the attractive faculty in the liver and then the chyle is somwhat dyed with a little reddish colour the liver must be strengthened Or the immoderate Quantity or corruptible nourishments and drinke for hence there is much filth heaped up in process of time being increased in those parts t is corrupted and by its quantity or quality provokes the expulsive faculty The CURE Respects the Causes as we have said al the superfluous humor being emptied the flux stayes of it self somtimes on the same day it began sometimes on the next Point 2. Of the Diarrby A Diarrhy is an immoderate frequent and continual going to stoole in which excrementitious and sincere humors by their quantity or quallity stiring up the expulsive facculty of the stomach and guts do flow forth without an inflamation lientery exulceration Tenesmus or vehement sence of paine There is no need to touch upon the Signes for they are explaned in the definition The Cause is al that which doth preternaturally irritate and encrease the expulsive faculty of the stomach and guts on the contrary doth debilitate and destroy the retentive whether it be done by it self or by consent The Cure is difficult if it befal a great bellied woman because it withdraws the nourishment from the child by moving relaxes the ligaments and by raising up of filthy vapors causeth abortion 'T is easier if vomiting succeed because there is a revulsion of the matter from the lower parts to the lower If it happen after an ophthalmy because the matter is revelled from the upper parts to the lower If it be supervenient to one sicke of a dropsie though it be violent at the begining of the disease in ful strength and the bowels sound because there is an evacuation made of the matter causing the disease from the whole habit of the body by the stool It must not presantly be attempted if such matter be purged as ought to be if it do good and they beare it easily if there be no feaver For oftentimes to have a flux for one day or more is healthful if it stop within seven dayes if it be presumed from the circmstances to be critical 'T is accomplished 1. By Emptying of the matter it selfe By rhubarb in substance mechoacan tamarinds myrobalanes and syrup of roses solutive 2. By revulsion which is done by bleeding vomiting frictions ligatures urine sweats 3. By the use of astringents of which if we consider the simples the cheife are tormentil roots Plantane avens sloes The leaves of plantan loosestrife shepherds pouch The seeds of Purslane of cresses torrified The flowers of roses pomegranates Woods red Saunders Spices Nutmegs Minerals terra sigilata bole arminicke Chrystal c. If the compounds they are Tragaea of Elder berries Quercetan in his pharmacopoea c. 21. the bones of a man calcined terra dulcis vitrioli crocus martis burnt hartshorn new treacle old conserve of roses diascordium sperniolae compositum and if the flux be too vehement Philonium Romanum and laudanum opiate 4. The diet in which steele water takes place an immulsion of sweet almonds in tormentil water or the decoction of Oake leaves the pouder of diatragacanthum in reer eggs c. The Differences of a Diarrhy are Various I. One is from things external as purging medicines causing a super-purgation which is stopped with the root of dropwort given in wine by steeled milk given by glyster by laudanum opiate From poysons against which alexipharmaca must be opposed especially some graines of an emrald praepared in a convenient water Another is from things internal of which hereafter II. One is from the whol Body which is either with a Feaver or without a Feaver as shal be said in the following Difference Another is from some part which see in the fifth Difference III. One is with a Feaver the matter causing the Flux being transmitted from the whol Body which is known by this that things very crude moist and watry are cast forth with a noise either often and little at a time or much and altogether and there are present the Signs of a Feaver 'T is hardly Cured if in a disease of long continuance with lothing of meat stools be sincere that is such as have no watery moisture mixt with them because they shew a burning up of the native moisture by a weak heat if they be voided with often noise and too much because that argues a crude stoole from vitious humors this because the often labor of going to stool causeth deliriums and these have danger of fainting depending on them If the stooles be thick white green yellowish frothy because they demonstrate crudities a disturbed flux plenty of yellow choler in the guts a mixture of a windy spirit with the humor
the Epigastrical branch of the Vena Cava and are disseminated to the external parts of the right Gut viz. The Muscles of the Anus but they are two having an Artery joyned with them from the Hypogastrical Artery Yet they seem al to have communion one with another It is known by the sight and because 't is greater 't is also more dangerous In the Cure external things have a convenient Application II. One is by default of the blood which either is too much and then there are signs of fulness we must revel by bleeding in the Arme or if strength wil not bear it by fixing Cupping-Glasses to the Loyns or Hypochondries Or sharp and thin and then it happens most to Southern people especially to men that are Sanguine Serous Humors if strength wil bear it ought to be emptyed if not we must use coolers and things that thicken the blood amongst which Purslane Trochiskes of burnt Ivory and Amber do excel Or it flows from the Liver and then 't is like to Water in which flesh new kill'd is washt The Syrup of corals is good Or from the upper Parts and then the blood is black and burnt Or from the Mesentery and then 't is little somwhat white Serous Or from the Guts and then 't is mixt with the Excrements Another is by default of the Veins which either are opened in which Cause we must use Agglutinatives as the Mushrum which is called the Wolfes Fart c. Burning and cutting the which are dangerous especially in those that are inveterate and of long continuance Or Eaten through and broke and this Evacuation Casts a man into a Dropsie and other Diseases II. The Suppression of the Hemerhoids is an interception of the blood endeavouring to get forth through the Veins of the Anus from whence they are raised up into a Tumor with pain The Signs are a tumor and bunchings out in the heads of the veins of the Anus sometimes hard like unto warts somtimes soft caled like to mulberries somtimes of a purple colour and like to grape stones the pricking paine is somtimes milder somtimes more greivous the Veins being distended whose Mouths hangs as it were out of their heads and the membrane which covers the orifices of the Veins stretcht and prest The CAUSE is Faeculent and thick blood desiring to get forth The CURE must be hastened both because it threatens a dropsie if the blood run back to the liver and because unless it be seasonably remedied by reason of the great attraction and flux of humors it causeth inflamation impostumation or a fistula It is performed 1. By mitigation of the pain which is asswaged by the crum of Barly bread steeped in womans milk adding the yolk of eggs and saffron 'T is taken away with laudanum dissolved in womens milke applied with honey but most of al with Butter Sugar or anima Saturâ—â— with flies of sheeps dung boyled in oyl of flax to the consumption of the creatures with the ashes of corke burnt and boyled with capons grease with the oyntment of road-flax concerning which see Hartman 2. By opening them universals premised by application of leeches or before that be done by an ointment of the Pulp of Coloqintida and oyl of sweet almonds by the juice of onions mixt with aloes applied rubbing first the part with a course cloth Sharp glisters do hurt the guts more then they provoke the hemorrhoids Unless they swel very much and be very painful they ought to be left to nature In the differences of the internal end external veins we must have a care The suppression of those is perceived by the squeezing of the Anus and thrusting up a probe Of these is obvious to the sight Title V. Of the affects of the Mesentery Chap. 1. Of the distemper and obstruction of the Mesentery THe affects of the mesentary are distemper obstruction inflamation impostumation and pain I. The distemper of the Mesentery for the most part is hot and dry which ariseth from the like matter which either is collected there of sent thither from some other part It is collected either in its veins and arteries and then because the breast hath the greatest consent with the hemorrhoidal artery because the trunke from whence the artery ariseth descending from the heart presently at its first rise doth propagate the intercostal branches there are continuall pains felt in the breast or also in its glandules by their laxness easily drinking up the matter The cure must not be neglected because 't is wont to fore-run a dry dropsy But it hath nothing singular except this that by those arteries not onely the first passages but also the whol body might be purged whether you give purging medicines or inject glysters and this perhaps is the cause that purging medicines layd to the navil do move to stool II. The obstruction of the mesentery is twofold one when the milky veins are obstructed which is knowen by this that a chylous and white flux of the belly doth molest and a consumption follows the matter necessary for the nourishment of the body being denyed That ariseth either from a thick crude clammy viscous chyle generated of the like meats or from a tumor of the glandules compressing them Another is when the mesaraick veins are stopt which is known by this that the matter restrained causeth a sence of distension and heaviness beatings of the arteries about the back are troublsome after taking of meat the evil grows more fierce and the stomach is comprest c. That ariseth either from vaporous and thick winds or from sharp humors and then the paine is more vehement sometimes while the evaporation lasteth the evil possesseth the whol cavity of the breast that somwhat is at hand like unto a suffocation somtimes there is a tumor raised about the mouth of the stomach and vaine belchings are produced those things being supprest that should be voided by the lower parts The cure is perfected 1. By openers and those indeedgentle That give strength to the liver and Stomach penetrating incisive drying lesning putrefaction and a little while astringent not by sweet things but bitter reduced into the forme of electuaries or pills but that liquor be drunk after them By tartarous things unless the saltness or sharpness of the humors do hinder by things that savour of Oxymel 2. By purgers unless windiness do hinder and those gentle not constant after the same manner given by little and little liquid 3. By vomiters but not violent Platerus his essence of broom is commended 4. By diuriticks that make thick humors fluid c. the liver is strengthened by Leonius his pills of the refuce of Iron By Mercatus his antidote of steele By Penotus his arcanum of vitriol sulphur and sallows c. Chap. 2. Of the inflammation and impostumations of the mesentery AN inflammation of the mesentery is a tumor of the same arising from humors poured forth with the nourishing blood into its
either by reason of its attraction or reception The Cure is difficult both by reason of the narrowness of the veins in the liver and because more diseases do follow upon this It is performed by things that open obstructions amongst which are commended Riverius his extract of pils of amoniacum made of gum amoniacum dissolved in Vineger of squills three drams the species of biera picra one dram and half crude aloes four scruples Myrrh one scruple Saffron six grains With Syrup of Wormwood Quercetans Pilulae tartareae reformed by Sennertus Tinctura Martis whose description is in Petreus from one ounce to two three and more Deodates pouder compounded of the species of diarrhodon Diatragacanth each two drams Agrimony Madder Roots Ferne poudred Sorrel Purslane seeds each one dram Magistral of pearles Corralls Crocus Martis made without corrosives Crocus Martis prepared by oyl of sulfer each foure scruples with sugar-candy as much as is sufficint given one dram the former tincture being drank after it Pils of steele The decoction of the whitest tartar mundefied and poudered one pound made with foure ounces of crude steel and two gallons of spring water and given two ounces in opening broth Penotus his opening spirit c. In the cure these things come worth observation 1. That universals must be premised before particulars and topicks 2. That medicines ought not to be given to drink but a long while after meat least they carry with them crude humors to the liver 3. Astringents must be added to mollifiers as spicknard burnt Ivory that the tone of the liver may be preserved 4. That things attenuating discussing and resolving ought to be moderate least the thinner parts discussed the thicker doth remaine 5. That we use sweet things not as meats but as sauces 6. The medicines must be given liquid or finely poudered 7. Topicks must never be applied actually cold 8. After the use of steel-medecines the body must be stirred unless black excrements do follow we must abstaine from them The Differences of this obstruction are various I. One is lately which is the easier cleared Another inveterate which causeth putrefaction and a Feaver and produceth a jaundice schirus and dropsie II. One is in the hollow part of the liver which is known from hence that nothing is perceived outwardly by reason that the part lurketh deep the stomach is drawn into consent from whence is loathing of meat nauseousness vomiting thirst liquid excrements It must be cured by things that empty by the stool Another in the gibbous part which is known from hence that the belly prest on that place doth resist the midrif especially because the liver is joyned to it the excrements of the belly appeare bloody by reason of the light change of the chyle into blood The Cure is the easier by reason of the penetration of medicines and the emptying of the obstructing matter by a larger passage we must act chiefly by things that move urine III. One is from Blood either pure which is remedyed only by the opening of the basilica in the right arme or cholerick hot and which is joyned with paine being a long time preternaturally imprisoned in the liver and not timely purged it grows wonderfully thick Or flegmatick viscous and thick which ariseth from gross meats viscous too much by baths or motion forced or carried into the smal veins sometimes it fals from the brain into the stomach by and by passing through by degrees it penetrates with the nourishment into the smal veins of the Liver Another from Winde that is grosse imprisoned under its coate or sticking in the veins which is known from hence that the paine is greater but not continual there is such a great tumor of the right hypochondry that it fils up the whole hypochondry so that the ends of the ribs cannot be perceived yet t is without heaviness and being prest it yeelds it makes no murmuring and gives no suspition of an impostumation lurking there It ariseth either from windy meats from which they must beware or from the weakness of the liver not able to overcome the matter then the matter prepared must be emptied or 't is sent from the neighboring parts and the whole body especially in flegmatick Feavers The Cure in general requires carminatives of which in the dropsie Article III. Of an inflamation of the Liver An inflamation of the liver is a hot tumor of the same arising from blood impacted and putrefying in the substance of the Liver afflicting with a continual feaver a heavy paine and sence of a weight in theright hypochondry The CIGNS are a sence of heaviness in the right hypochondry from the membranes with which the liver is joyned in some to the bastard ribbs A tumor in the same which appeares greater the sick lying on his left side less the body being bowed to the right and the liver sliding under the bastard ribbs A paine reaching from the throat to the bastard ribbs by reason of the heape of matter restrained which puls the membrane that lines the Breast A Feaver whose vehemency follows the greatness of the inflamation and at night is exasperated the inflamation growing hot A dry cough by intervals by reason of the vapors raised up to the lungs and afflicting the midriffe by compression A Difficulty of breathing because the feaver brings a greater necessity of cooling uneasie lying both on the right side because the liver is prest by the stomach and guts and on the left because the liver hanging the membranes are retcht A swift and unequal pulse by reason of the necessity of cooling increased by the hot distemper c. It is distinguished from an inflamation of the muscles of the belly and pleura by the signs mentioned there The CAUSE is blood impacted and putrefied which either is attracted or transmitted or flows thither either by default of its quallity viz. its thinness heat and accrimony or by reason of its quantity and abundance or by the impulse of external causes as while hot medicines are applied to the stomach The CURE is difficult because a principal part is affected and by occasion of it there is iminent the feare of a dropsie or consumption Of little or no hope if the hickops follow because it is a signe that the liver is come to the highest inflamation and so by communion of the nerves the mouth of the stomach is drawn into consent If a loosness follow because this voiding of crude matter proceeds from the weakness of the faculty If a burning and continual feaver accompany it because it signifies that bowel is exceedingly inflamed If it come to Superation which is known by this because that happens after the twentieth day if nature be not weake paines and feavers with other symptomes grow strong yet most by night shakings assail in no order and with no reason which are attended mith an exacerbation of heat because from the impostumation there ariseth a sordid ulcer because t is perpetually
them and make Water by drops with exceeding pain and that while the Stone is gathering together is thin and clear of somwhat whitish color but being concrete 't is wont to settle like unto Oyl with a gravelly sediment white like to scabs if the Stone be brittle The CAUSE and CURE must be fetcht from the Chapter of the stone of the Kidneys If it cannot be broken and expeled it must be cut out concerning which see Chirurgions For breaking of it serves the Composition of Salt of white Tartar one ounce and Parsty Water one pound mixt together and streined through streining paper dyed of a yellow color with Orange Pils also the Pouder of Palmer Worms concerning which consult with the peculiar treatise of Laurembergius And also the blood of a Goate nourisht with Plants that break the stone distilled taking at meat those stuffings which ought to be made of its Kidneys and other Bowels and Guts For mitigation of the Pain a Bath is good which must be followed with an unction of the Cod Pubis and perinaeum with the Compound Oyl made of Oyl of Scorpions bitter Almonds the Fat of a Cony and Hen of each one ounce and an half and the Juyce of Pellitory of the Wal two drams There meet us some Differences of the stone I. One is smal and light in which a vagous and wandering tickling afflicts about the pubes and perinaeum the which is easier broken Another a little bigger in which there is felt the weight of some heavy thing lying upon it so that going through uneven places is difficult and painful and dancing much more diffiult they piss often and the Urin can hardly be kept in which is white thick turbid with a purulent Sediment or like to the snivel of the Nose when they should piss the stone driven in the way the flux of Urin is intercepted there is a most sharp pain towards the latter end of pissing when the stone stirred up by the Course of the Urin as if it were comming forth doth more violently compress the Sphincter muscle at other times it affects the whol passage of the Privity somtimes the Nut. Striving to piss is accompanied with a desire to go to stool because the greatness of the stone from the perinaeum stimulates the right Gut as wel as the Neck of the Bladder This can hardly be Cured any other way than by cutting II. One is concrete which sends no gravel from it in the Urin. Another not concrete in which the Urin doth cast off some gravel and that either white or red which must be distinguished from that of the Kidneys by other signs of the stone of the Bladder III. One is which grows in the bladder it self to which that said before accords Another which descends from the Kidneys through the Vreters into it and then signs of the stone of the Kidneys went before there was a pain reacht from the Kidneys to the bladder according to the length of the Ureters the Nephritical pain is either ceased or troubles little This some do beleeve may be broke by the Indian Plant called by Manardus Payco and by other things IV. One is which doth not cleave to the Bladder and therefore may be taken forth more safely by cutting Another which cleaves to the top of the bladder and hangs down as it were from it and then al the symptomes reckoned formerly are more obscure there have been those seen who have carried it without any paine nay it can by no meanes almost be removed without injury to the patient Of which see Tulpius observat l. 2. c. 5. Article 2. Of an inflamation scab ulcer and fistula of the bladder An inflamation of the bladder doth not so much possess the substance of the bladder which is thin and bloudless as the sphincter muscle of the neck of it The signes of it are a bitter paine in the perinaeum with redness and heat a suppression of the urine with a great endeavoring to piss costiveness of the body because the right gut is streitned by the greatness of the inflamation a distension of the pubes and pecten to the navel by reason of the abundance of water The cause is the same as of other inflamations The cure is difficult because the affect is deadly for the most part about the seventh day especially a Feaver comming and the stoppage of urine and stools yet if it be gentler and the inflamation being changed into matter the impostumation break inwardly and is emptied by the urine there is better hopes and also an erysipelas arising about the superficies of the skin and plenty of water being made sometimes t is suddainly dissolved 'T is ordered after the manner of other inflamations Repellers must not be applyed long because the bladder is membranous and is easily bound up the urine supprest and the nerves hurt II. A Scab of the bladder is known by an itching in the pecten by the strong smel of the urine by a branny sediment residing at the bottom It ariseth from sharp and salt humors corroding the internal superficies of it 'T is cured in old folks hardly the humors are partly to be emptyed partly qualifyed by the four cold seeds violet flowers strawberries either taken inwardly or outwardly injected through the urethra III. There is no need to say what an ulcer of the bladder is it appears from the former The signs of it are scales and matter which flow forth only with the urine and sink in it and so 't is distinguisht from an exulceration of the urinary passage in which the matter and filth either goes before the urine or appeares presently at first comming forth or also flows forth without urine There is a continiual torment about the bladder pubes and perenaeum the urine also is thick and somtimes mixt with matter somtimes with blood c. The causes are divers of which in the differences The cure is of little hopes both because the bladder is membranous and because the urine which is biting by its continual running down hinders its consolidation 'T is ordered after the manner of other ulcers The differences are taken cheifly from the causes I. One is from cantharides and then if it be lately we must give milk plentifully by and by consolidate If it be inveterate it must be cured as other ulcers Another is from sharp urine which the use of pure wine and hot meats hath caused and then we must act with cooling diureticks Another from sharp or salt humors as it were knawing its internal superficies and then 1. We must empty with cassia and turpentine 2. We must temper them with water lillies lettice endive c. Another from the stone of which formerly II. One is in the bottom in which the pain is felt about the pubes Another by the urinary passage in which at the time of pissing the pain is felt more and especially when they begin and when they make an end to piss IV. The
Gut and Womb and purulency of the Kidneys there follows a dropping Upon the falling down of the Womb the Urin comes by drops and is a little biting Another is simple and without pain which is known by a white Watry Urin by the Age Complexion cold course of Diet pregression of a burning Feaver It ariseth either from the refrigeration of the bladder it self and the Muscle shutting its neck and then Diagalanga Mithridate c. are wel taken inwardly Oyl of Rue is wel outwardly applied Or from a Compression of the bladder which is wont to happen in great Bellied Women Article V. Of a Dysury A Dysury is a making of burning Vrin somtimes little somtimes much with pain without interruption arising from Causes both external and internal affecting the Vrinary passage The SIGNS are evident for the pain is easily perceived by the Patient The CAUSES are whatsoever can dissolve the continuity of the Neck of the Bladder or of the urinary Passage or Cause pain in pissing The CURE is Difficult if it fal upon Decreped Old men if a suppression of the Urin happen with it It respects 1. The Cause which must be moved by the aforementioned emptyers which ought to be followed with essence of Turpentine one dram with Parsley water and Syrup of Citrons 2. The Pain which is mitigated with warm Milk cast in by a Catheter by dipping the privities in a Vessel ful of Milk by a Cataplasme of Pellitory of the Wal with Oyl of Scorpions c. The Causes raising the pain do afford us the Differences One is from things external as Cantharides and then milk is good from Poyson and then we must act with things alexipharmacal Another from internal which are 1. The Acrimony of the urin of which formerly The water of bean flowers or its fresh Cods given with Syrup of Liquorish or Poppies six ounces weight before meat is good Also Fallopius his Electuary in Schenkius in Exoter Experim Gent. 4.19 2. An Inflamation whose pain is encreased the bladder being contracted to send forth the Urin and compressed after the emission which oftentimes an exulceration follows 3. A Stone striking against the Neck of the Bladder in pissing 4. The Seed moved in men buâ—sticking in the Passage and by an Acrimony contracted corroding the Passage which is wont to happen in the French Pox. 5. A white and milkie matter which somtimes is sent forth in such abundance that when 't is setteld it fils one half of the Chamber Pot. The which ariseth from a Vitious Conâ—â—ction in which the Salt and Tartarous parts are not separated but are attracted by the Kidneys It is Cured universals premised by the use of Hyppocrist or Mallago Wine Article VI. Of Pissing of blood matter and Hairs Bloody Pissing is a voiding of Blood together with the Vrin arising from the heaping up of the same in the Bldder The SIGNS are that the Urin doth not shine and hath the Color of Water in which the flesh of beasts new killed is washt The CAUSE is explained in the definition and in the Difference more shal be said The CURE must be hastned if the evil be inveterate least it lead to a Consumption or cachexy If it be cast forth in abundance least it stop in the Bladder and putrefie It must be turned against the Cause The Symptoms requires other things being alike things astringent condensing and consolidating amongst which do excel Yarrow with the white flower the Tincture of emralds the Arcanum of agrimony and Cinquefoil Mynsichtus his Decoction c. The Difference is taken from the Parts that pour forth the blood One is from The Kidneys which is known by this that it is plentiful is exquisitely mixt with the whol Urin that being as it were diluted with it 't is thin ruddy liquid and sertles without clotting together It ariseth either from the Anastomosis of some Vessel in them and then 't is made plentiful and high colored or some violence or wound hath went before or there are signs of Fulness or the blood is too thin Or from the corrosion of a Vessel and then the blood is voided in a lesser quantity especially at the beginning Or By a Diapedesis and then the Urin is lightly dyed with a red color The Cure also requires opening a Vein in the Arm which must be followed with the use of astringent means inwardly and outwardly The Trochisks of Gordonius are good Another is from the Liver either weakned or opprest with blood or affected with the same diseases as I said even now and then there are no signs of the Kidneys affected we must consult with the Chapter of the diseases of the Liver Hither belong the suppression of the Hemorrhoids of which in its place a wound of the ureters from stones passing through them from which very little blood flows forth c. Another from the Sphincter muscle of the neck of the bladder and then the Urin is not equally spred over with it the blood setling goes into clots the pain for the most part oppresseth in pissing and burns as it were the Root of the Yard other signs either of an Ulcer or of a Vein broke are present the Cure is the same Another from the inward Passage of the Yard and then it oftentimes comes forth without the Urin that which comes with the Urin clotting together presently sinks II. Purulent Pissing is a voiding of matter with the Vrin heaped up in the Bladder 'T is heaped up 1. By default of the bladder it self either because that is troubled with an Ulcer or because the blood conteined in the bladder is turned into matter and then the matter is voided less mixt with the Urin with branny Scales 2. By Default of the ureters and then a little swims a top like Hairs By default of the Vrinary Passage of the Spermatick Vessels and the parastatae and then in the first place it comes forth sincere 4. By default of the Kidneys Liver breast in as much as those parts do transmit matter through the Veins to the Bladder and then the matter is accurately mixt with the Urin if any thing thicker be a Part it flows forth towards the end III. A Pissing of Hairs or Trichiasis is when with the Vrin a mucous matter is voided somtimes like to Hairs somtimes to thin Leaves Those Hairs somtimes equal the length of one or two hands breadths The Cause of them is a thick and viscous flegm dryed and knit together in the Veins by heat which in its long passage through the narrow Veins of the Kidneys and ureters is extended to so great a length See concerning this Horstius his fifth Section Epistol medica In the Cure Spirits of Turpentine with Syrup of Marsh-mallows is good Read more of this subject in the Guide to Physick and Chyrurgery Riverius Practice of Physick and his Observations and the London Dispensatory Al of the last Editions Englished by me Title X. Of the Affects of the Genital
hangs forth like a Taile The SIGNS and CAUSES are the same as in a Tentigo only that Women fear Copulation The CURE is also the same if it must be cut off it must be done either with a Horse Hair or a silken thred dipt in sublimate water or by Iron Article II. Of the straitness of the Neck of the womb The straitness of the Neck of the womb is either a stopping of the same or of the Orifice of the womb either by compression or a growing together The SIGNS are the Flux of the Courses denied in them in whom they were wont to flow through the Neck a sense of pain with a weight The CAUSE is either natural when it affects from the birth or accidental of which in the Differences The CURE varies according to the Nature of the Differences The Differences are taken from the Part and the Causes I. One is of the outward Orifice which is called of the Pudendum in which the Courses which flow both by the neck and by the womb are disappointed there can be neither Copulation nor Conception because neither the seed nor the man is received Another of the inward which is called the Orifice of the Womb in which the seed received presently flows forth again conception can in on wise be II. One is by way of Compression which is Caused 1. By a Fat Caule lying on the mouth of the womb 2. By a stradling of the Thighs 3. By a stone in the bladder 4. By a Tumor in the right Gut of which in their place Another is by way of growing which is caused 1. Either from the birth and then either flesh stops it which is red to sight soft to touch or a Membrane which is white to sight hard to the touch In the Cure 1. The Part being moistned with warm Fomentations it must be cut streight up taking Care that the Neck of the Bladder be not hurt 2. The humor must be drawn forth and a tenâ—must be applyed dipt in a suppurating Medicine 3. And astringent pouder must be had in readiness for fear of a Flux of blood 4. The following daies the place must be washt with honey water and we must act with things that Cicatrize 2. Or after the birth cheifly from an Vlcer and then either the sides of the Neck are grown together in which case we must use incision but very warily or there is a Callous substance which first must be cut off with a Pen Knife or a Spongy and Luxuriant flesh in which first of al we must use dryers and discussives as brithwort Frankincense Myrrh Mastick afterwards we must apply corrosives without pain at last we must cut it Article III. Of the pustles Condylomata and Hemorrhoids of the womb Pustles of the womb are little bunchings arising in the neck of the womb which by their Acrimony do Cause itching and pain The SIGNS are Itching Pain a folling down of Scales like flower to which we must add a Speculum Matricis that the affect may be the better discovered The Cause is cholerick sharp adust and thick humors which emptied into moist and loose places do insinuate and immerse themselves in them The CURE respects the causes universals being premised where amongst preparatives prevaile syrup of Fumitory of succory with the decoction of hops topicks discussing and mitigating the humor especially baths and halfe baths which must be followed with washing the part with wine and niter But these must be often repeated They are divided into benigne and malligne or venereal which are stuborn and contagious they ought to be washt with the water made of aloes the quantity of one vetch flower of brass the quantity of half a vetch flower of brass the quantity of half a vetch pouder'd and mixt with white wine one ounce plantane water and of rose heads each one ounce and kept in a wide mouthed glass II. Condylomata are swellings of wrinkles in the necke of the womb with heate and paine There is no need of Signes because they appeare to the eyes oftentimes if there be many they resemble a smal bunch of grapes The wrinkles hang forth like knobbs which appear in the fist clutched But they swel more when the courses flow The CAUSE is Thick and Adust humors The Cure in general respects the taking away of the causes and repercussion and drying As concerning the Differences Some are with an inflamation in which the pain and heat is greater the condylona is hard In the Cure we must act with anodyne half baths and perfusions Others without an inflamation which if they be new we must repel and dry if cold and inveterate we must first mollefie then disgest and dry Here take place the pouder of egg-shels burnt the oyntment of trochisks of steele one dram redeuced into pouder and mixt with oyl of roses and wax adding halfe an ounce of the juice of mulein The oyntment of the mad apple concerning which see a Castro l. 2. c. 25. de Morb. Mulier If the condiloma yeild not to these medecines it must be cut off by an instrument and astringent pouder strewed on III. The hemrods of the wombe are smal swellings like unto the hemrods of the anus raised in the necke of the wombe by an afflux of Feculent Blood The Subject is the neck of the womb for there they are where the veins doe end as in the hemrods of the anus and these are lift up by an afflux The Signs are manifest for they are discovered by the sight if a speculum matricis be applied the women looke pale and are troubled with a weariness The Cause is Feculent blood which when sometimes it flows to these veins not at its due time there stopping it becomes thicker that it cannot penetrate the orifices The Cure is order'd 1. By revulsion by opening a vein in the arme 2. By derivation by opening another in the ankle They are divided twofould I. Some are painful which by the paine it selfe are distinguisht from the courses and are cured by things that mitigate the same especially half baths and the Cataplasme of a Castro l. 2. c. 26. de Morb. Mulier And also with opium which notwithstanding is safer in the hemrods of the anus Other without pains to which what is and shal be said ought to be applied II. Some are open which flow either moderately and then the business ought to be comitted to nature Or too much so that the strength is dejected and there is feare least an evil habit of body be induced and then for revulsion blood must be taken from a vein of the arme at several times For purging myrobalanes tamarinds and rhubarb serve At last we must act with things that stop blood Others are blind from which no blood at al flowes forth The Cure is perfected by emptying of blood by emollition and fomentation of the part with mollefiers and things opening the mouthes of the veins and discussing the matter By artificially opening
either a too plentiful or more continued purgation of them than is convenient arising either from the fault of the blood or of the womb or of the veins There is not much need of signs especially if there follow a want of appitite crudety an evil color of the face a swelling of the feet and the rest of the body an atrophy cachexy c. The cause we have layd on the blood the womb or the veins but whence these are in fault shal be explained in the differences The cure is difficult if it be of long continuance None at al if it happen to a woman growing old It reqiures 1. A restraint of them by revulsion interception thickning of the blood stopping up the vessels by astringent means and other things Yet it must be stopt by degrees if there be a great plenty of blood and it happen by way of crisis the which falls out seldom Here take place Heurnius his pouder of the seed of white henbane white poppy each one dram of the bloodstone red coral each half a dram camphure half a scruple given half a dram weight The pouder of amber sanguis draconis the bloodstone red corral purslane seeds each one dram pomegranate flowers two scruples easterne bole armenick two drams given from one dram in three ounces of plantane water Asses milk with steel Ferdinandus his aqua mirabilis histor 33. The trochisks de carabe the benes of a man strongly calcined Zacutus his pills l. 9. prax histor p. 185. His plaister there The plaister of saxonia made of the sut of a chimney volatil floure c. a pessary made of heggs and asses dung with the juice of plantane and the mucilage of quinse seeds Specificks are inwardly Forestus his pouder of a turtil l. 28. obs 10. The salt of the ashes of the same the thin skin of geese feet dryed and given from one dram to two scrupels Outwardly a girdle of the leaves of bastard black hellebore bruised Of which Renealmus obser 21. The differences are divers which do cheifly respect the causes 1. One is from blood which 1. either is derived from the bottom of the womb in which the blood is blacker and for the most part clotted Or from the neck which is more ruddy and fluid 2. 'T is either plentiful or sharp or serous Of which in the following difference Another from the moistness of the womb of which see formerly Another from the fault of the Veins concerning which consult with the third difference One is from plenty of blood which is known by this that either the vessels are opened or broke in women especially whose courses have stopt a long while and afterwards do breake forth more plentifully There are signs of a plentitude the blood which comes forth doth easily concrete into clots In the Cure we must respect 1. Bleeding which if it be ordered for evacuation it concernes a vein in the arme the liver veine cheifly If the strength be feeble 't is ordered in the salvatella of each hand if it be for revulsion it must be done at several times because being repeated it revells more powerfully 2. Cupping-glasses which for evacuation may be applied to any part if you except the lower as to the back shoulders and that with scarification for revulsion they ought to be set to the breasts without scarification and upon a difficulty of breathing ensuing they must be removed 3. Ligatures frictions of the armes c. Another from sharp blood which is known by this that there is a corrosion of the vessels joyned with it there are signs of choler The blood is detained and corrupted in the womb it slides forth in greater quantity In the Cure let purging be administred by syrup of roses solutive and leaves of senny See things that thicken it above mentioned Another from serous and watery blood which is known by this that either the liver is faulty by its weakness or the kidnies by reason of their weakness do not attract the serum The blood flowes forth in lesse quantity and is not easily clotted that which is flowed forth if it be received on a linnin cloath and dryed in the shade discovers it self by the colour The Cure attends the diseases themselves III. One is from an Anastomosis in the cure of which observe that hot things ought to be mixt with cold least the veins be obstructed the ventilation of heat be prohibited and a feaver induced that pessaries may be applied if the opening be in the vessels of the neck where oake leaves and unguentum Commitissae are good that baths must not be used unless they be somwhat cold or whose astringent power overcomes their heat Another is from a Diapedisâ—s which happens very rare it presently requires astringent topicks Another from a Breaking which happens either from a plenitude or from causes that stir the blood especially from hard labor and premising the opening of a vein if ther be need 't is cured by conglutinating medicines Another from a corrosion which is known from hence that little blood flowes somtimes purulent somtimes serous It ariseth from a sharp and corrupt blood somtimes also from sharp medicines amongst Astringents is commended the root of dropwort or ' its decoction Article VIII Of the Womans flux and gonorrhaea The womans flux which otherwise is exprest by the name of the whites is an inordinate voiding from the womb of an excrementitious humor by its whole nature differing from blood collected by the fault either of the whole or of some part 'T is called the womans because it affects women and truly virgins also when as the causes take place in them and there are examples of it Yet more commonly those of riper age especially if they be indewed with a moist and cold constitution do lead a delicate and idle life and feed upon cold and moist nourishments old women also and that unto death by reason of the plenty of flegm and the weakness of the concocting faculty There is no need to enquire the Signs the affect is made known by the relation of the patient her self It differs from a gonorrhaea because in that the matter of the seed flows forth whiter thicker and at longer intervals and 't is voided in less quantity From a nocturnal polution because this is joyned with a phansie of a venereal business and happens only in the sleep From the discolored courses because they observe their periods though not alwaies exactly they do not happen to women with child and those troubled with the suppression of the courses they shew a red colour From matter out of the ulcers of the womb because then the signs of an ulcer stand forth the matter it self is thicker and whiter It it be sanious 't is besmeared with blood and voided with pain We have laid the Cause upon an Excrementitious Humor which Somtimes is raised by purging Medicines Nature being stirred up by their use to attempt excretions somtimes by Baths Nature casting off
must be emptyed especially with things that purge water 3. To open obstructions is commended the cachectick pouder of steele prepared one part Cassia lignea three parts of the whitest sugar four the pouder of young geese turds 4. Sweats are happily moved with antimony diaphoretick 5. The Cachexy of virgins is driven away by the distilled water of Walnutts fresh cut into thin slices steeped in white wine twenty four hours sweetened with Canary sack and exposed some few days to the sun and taken three ounces weight using exercise after it Article 3. Of the dropsy in general The dropsy is considerd either in General or in special The dropsy considered in general is a tumor of the body or of part of it preternatural arising from a watrish and serous humor or a collection of wind The Signs of it are a swelling and puffing up of the body a heaviness difficulty of breathing an extensive pain in the right or left hypochondry a filthy color of the face betwixt green and whitish or declining to a yellowish or lead color little urine and deep dyed continuall thirst partly from the defect of natural and alimental moisture partly from the ascent of hot salt vapors drying up the mouth of the stomach partly by reason of the little aire drawn in whence the heart and lungs also boyl with thirst But concerning the tumor of the feet we must note 1. That they cheifly swel after excercise of the body and in the eveining because the waterish humor by its own weight tends downwards 2. In the night concoction being finisht the swelling bates by reason of the increase of the heat the heat of the bed helping somwhat too 3. They do often swel in those that are recovering either from acute diseases or of long continuance because the languishing heat cannot concoct so much as the patient receives and the crude and serous part which ariseth from thence flyes to the feet without any eminent danger if it be timely taken care of The Cause is the fault of nutrition proceeding from a cold distemper of the liver which is induced either by the extention of heat either immediatly by the six non natural things or mediately by diseases of the whol or of other parts Or by the dissolution or dissipation of it either from too much heat or from other causes The cure is not difficult if the dropsy be of late Difficult if after another disease it seize upon a body weakned If it be inveterate We must observe in it 1. That we begin with gentle things 2. Because the disease is chronical remedies must be used the longer time 3. Least nature be accustomed to them they must be varied 4. Somtimes for a while we must forbear least nature be opprest See the manner in the species Article 4. Of an Ascites The dropsie considered in Specy is either an Ascites or Tympany or Anasarca An Ascites is a distension of the belly from a watry serous and Salt Humor poured forth into its Capacity by default of the Liver Spleen and Kidneys with a Tumor of the â—eâ—t Thighs and somtimes of the God The SIGNS are a swelling of the Belly which begins from the lower parts as being most distant from the heart the fountaine of heat a slenderness of the upper parts the belly being struck a hoarse sound as from a bladder half ful the sick turning from side to side a â—â—ife like the Murmuring or waving of Water The Disease growing strong there follows a difficulty of breathing by reason of the abundance of water lying on the midriffe A Cough somtimes either from the compression of the midriffe or from the peircing of the Water into the breast from whence suffocation in a short time ensues the impression of the Fingers Leaves behind it a manifest mark in the flesh The CAUSE is a watry and serous Humor whence Dropsie people pisse little they that pisse much after great draufts are not taken with a Dropsie And some by abstinence from drink have been restored to health That humor is collected if you consider the place between the stomach and kidnyes through which otherwise naturally the serum is wont to be emptyed especially in the spleen veine the mesaraick and perhaps in the branches of the spleen artery and the roots of those veins about the hollow parts of the bowels gastrical and epiploical Whence after quartanes and long continued feavers whose cause is in the mesaraick veins a dropsy follows If the cause 't is collected from too much drink and moist meats by the accession of the fault of the bowells which either attract or contein the serum by which it comes to pass that it stays in the belly and afterwards is poured forth into its cavity But it is poured forth into the capacity of the belly or that space which is between the peritoneum the caule and the guts cheifly by the epiploick and gastro epiploick branches yet so as neither the caul which hath veins only from the vena porta and can easily receive the burthen of the mesentary and spleen nor the pancreas which in its middle hath a splenicke veine passing to the spleen with the left branch of the celiacal artery are free from fault The humor poured forth although it be cold yet because it contains many salt parts and borrows heat from the neighboring parts 't is hot also but by continuance of time it putrefies from whence is raised a corruption of the bowels a Feaver thirst whiles the vapors strike the mouth of the stomach The Cure is of better hopes if the patient be young and strong If a slave who is able to endure hunger thirst and other troubles if more moisture be voided by urine than is taken if the water which is in the veins flow to the belly or stool the bowels unhurt Of none almost if it come from an acute disease because the bowels the radical moisture being waisted do contract a cold and hectick distemper which cannot be corrected If the water break forth into the caul and that be corrupted If it happen to the splenetick after a longe dysentery because by the passing of the evil humor the symmetry of the innate heat is perisht in the guts and bowels If a cough come upon it because it shews that the watery moisture is so much increased that it penetrates into the breast and doth already possess the rough arteries If impostumations or spots break forth in the thighs if being eased by remedies 't is wholly renewed again because it signifies the bowels are corrupt and possest either with a schirrus or consumption and hectick distemper If it arise from a colliquation because al the strength is dissolved and the body languisheth 'T is perfected 1. By the emptying of the water poured into the belly premising a preparation of thick humors if they intervene But it is emptyed 1. By the Stool by medicines that purge water the gentler as mechoacan Jallop which may be given to
one scruple and an half the Juice of Flowerdeluce clarified which may be given to three drams with syrup of endive six drams Parsly water half an ounce and the pouder of diarrhodon Abbatis one scruple With peach flowers dryed and boyled in wine The stronger as gambugia which is given from six grains to fifteen see Reudenius concerning it Rulandus his extract of esula trochiskes of Alhandal or the same authors Spiritus vite aureus The extract of elaterium most commended by Massaria from one grain to three grains The magistral or Crystal Lunae of Tentzelius given chiefly at the Wain of the Moon from four grains to five Mercurius vitae fixt by longe digestion Crocus Metallorum Absinthiacus of Mynsichtus the same authors Tartarus Emeticus c. All which must be given on even dayes not too often nor the bowels too much corrupted after the use of them we must see whether they bear it wel and the bowels must alwaies be strengthened Concerning a Paracenthesis or tapping see Authors 2. By diureticks which ought to follow purgers of water amongst which beare the palme the pouder of earth worms given one dram weightwth the decoction of asparagus or fennel The salt of ash salinated as Billichius delivers Wine twice or thrice strained through the ashes of bean straw burnt six handfuls the tops of broome Juniper each two handfulls and a halfe woodbine one handful and a half and given six ounces weight 3. By swaeters and dryers as are the Root of swallow wort steept and boyled in Wine Antimony Diaphoretick the decoction of Sassafras wood Treacle in wine the quantity of a smal Walnut with a few drops of Oyl of Sulphur Lapis Serpentis concerning which see Joel Outwardly Mynsichtus his Plaister de Cineribus 2. By strengthning of the parts that the Water be not collected again here are good the Trochiskes of Wormwood Paracelsus his Diacubebae c. 3. by diet which see in Anthors The Differences are taken from the parts by whose default the serum is collected One is by default of the Kidneys that do not attract the serum either because they are Exulcerated and then some matter appears in the urin the piss is much less than in other Causes or because the Vreters are broken and then it ariseth suddainly That comes to pass for the most part in expelling the stone Another is by default of the Spleen which when as it is as it were spungy it ought to draw the water from the stomach by the vas breve that office being delegated to it by Nature which may be carried from hence by the splenick Artery into the Coeliacal by and by from the trunk of the Aorta by the emulgent Arteries to the veins It doth that either too greedily by reason of an inflamation risen in the Veins which is known by a pertinatious flux of the belly which doth neither take away the swelling of the belly nor the pain by reason of a Hectical distemper and either from the weakness of the veins not attracting the nourishment or from the corruption of the same and continual voiding of Cholerick Excrements it afflicts with a heat in the jejunum gut and mesentery Or it neglects it altogether either by reason of the obstruction of the passages tending to it caused by thick humors Or by reason of the dissipation of heat from a schirrous too much emptying the use of hot things the distemper of the neighbouring parts acute Diseases Or by reason of the suffocation of heat by the too much use of cold things from the suppression of the Courses from superfluous Evacuations c. Another is by default of the Liver either for the same causes not attracting the serum or retaining it or by reason of the same inflamation too much attracting and then there is a desire of coughing the Excrements are few and dry by reason the serous Humor is sent into the belly and the rest is burnt up by the heat of the Liver Article V. Of a Tympany and Anasarca A Tympany is a distension of the belly from much wind raised up either by a weak or burning heat contained within its Capacity It is called also a dry dropsie although for the most part 't is joyned with Water The SIGNS are these the Skin appears retcht like the skin of a drum and struck upon gives the sound of a Drum the Navel hangs forth much The puffing up of the belly is greater but the heaviness less Compressing of it doth not leave behinde it so conspicuous a mark but the hollow print is presently filled up belching and Farts often break out noise and rumblings Obmurmurate It must be distinguished from the distension of the breast after wounds which doth possess the breast back Loins Cod Arms Neck nay somtimes the whol habit It proceeds from hence that the Air which ought to pass streit through the mouth to the Lungs and from the Lungs again to be breathed forth through the mouth a way being open between two Muscles or the Muscles and the skin 't is blown from the wound as from a pair of bellows into the space between the skin muscles and hence furthermore it penetrates into the neighbouring parts The CAUSE is wind which if you consider its rise springeth either from a weak heat or from too much and torrefying which resolves into Vapors that which is subtile being violently stirred as is seen in black choler lying under the stomach If the place 't is neither in the stomach because it would be cast forth by belching nor in the Guts because it would be voided by stool but for the most part 't is generated between the coates of the mesentery and Guts For in the dry Dropsie the torments afflict about the Navel greifes and pains of the Loyns but the mesentery forward is united to the smal Guts backward to the vertebres of the Loins from which it springs from whence is this distention yet it is found also in the Cavity of the Guts and it insinuates it self thither through the Orifices of the Mesaraick Veins The CURE requires I. The bringing forth of the matter producing the Wind where takes place Fardinandus his Antipneumatical wine concerning which in the History 38. The Coagulated Spirit of Salt with Wormwood water and spirit of Elder 2. The Discussion of the wind outwardly by a great Cupping-Glass applied to the Belly by frictions with Garlick bruised and boyled in generous wine by a fomentation of a Boyes Vrin and Lapis Prunellae concerning which see Hartman Inwardly by the Decoction of Ebony wood the spirit of Guajcum the Arcanum of Cummin and Carrawais the liquor of the flowers of Mullein c. 3. The correcting of the hot distemper of the Bowels if there be any the strengthning if it be weak II. An Anasarca or Hyposarkidion and Leucophlegmaty is an equal increase of the bulk of the Body preternaturally throughout â—â—e whol body arising from default of the nourishment The SIGNS