description and use 713 Viper See Adder Virginity the signs thereof 747 Vital parts which 56 their division ibid. Vitreus humor 130 Viver or as some term it the Weaver a fish his poysonous prick and the cure 515 Ulcers conjoyned with tumors how cured 188. in what bodies not easily cured 294. their nature causes c. 327. signs 328. prognosticks 329. their general cure 330. signs of a distempered one and the cure ibid. a painful one and the cure 321. with proud flesh in them ibid. putrid and breeding worms 332. a sordid one ibid. a malign virulent and eating one 333. advertisements concerning the time of dressing ulcers ibid. how to binde them up 334. such as run are good in time of the plague 328. Ulcers in particular and first of the eyes 334. of the nose 335. of the mouth ibid. of the ears 336. of the windepipe weazon stomach and guts 337. of the kidnies and bladder ibid. of the womb 338. that happen upon the fracture of the leg rump and heel 365. how to prevent them ibid. they must be seldome drest when the Callus is breeding 366 Umbilical vessels how many and what 594 Unction to be used in the Lues Venerea 467. their use 468. cautions in their use ibid. and the inconveniences following the immoderate use 469 Ungula or the web on the eye the causes prognosticks and cure 406 Unguentum adstringens 706. nutritum ibid. reum ibld. basilicum sive tetrapharmacum ibid diapompholigos 707. desiccativum rub ib. enulatum ib. Album Rhasis ib. Altheae ib. populeon ib. apostolorum ib. comitissae ib pro stomacho ib. ad morsus rabiosos ibid. Unicorn if any such beast what the name imports 523. what the ordinary horns are 524. not effectual against poyson ibid. effectual onely to dry ibid. in what cases good 525. Voices whence so various 136 Vomits their force 25. their description 197 Vomiting why it happens in the Colick 73. the fittest time therefore 450. to make it easie ibid. Voyages and other employments wherein the Author was present of Thurin 756. of Morolle and Low Britain 757. of Perpignan 758. of Landresie 759. of Bologn ibid. of Germany ibid. of Danvillers 760. of Castle of Compt 761. Of Mets ibid. of Hedin 765. Battel of St. Quintin 771. Voyage of Amiens of Harbor of Grace 772 to Roven ibid. battel of Dreux 773. of Moncontour ibid. Voyaâ—e of Flanders 774. of Burges 777 battel of St. Dennis ibid. voyage of Baion ibid. Urachus 93 Ureters their substance c. 85 Urine stopt by dislocation of the thigh-bone 391. suppression thereof how deadly 421. how it happens by internal causes 434. by external 435. prognosticks ibid. things unprofitable in the whole body purged thereby ibid. bloody the differences and causes thereof 436. the cure 437. scalding thereof how helped 474. a receptacle for such as cannot keep it 568. Urines of such as have the Plague sometimes like those that are in health 536 Utelif a strange fish 45. Vvea tunica 142 Vulnerary potions their use 482. the names of the simples whereof they are composed ibid. their form and when chiefly to be used 483 Uvula the site and use thereof 136 the inflammation and relaxation thereof 209. the cure ibid. W. WAlnut tree and the malignity thereof 519 Warts of the neck of the womb 638. their cure ibid. Washes to beautifie the skin 721 Wasps their stinging how helped 513 Watching and the discommodities thereof 24 Water its qualities 3. best in time of plague 530 Waters how to be distilled 729 Watrsh tumors their signs and cure 191 192 Weapons of the Antients compared with those of the moderm times 287 Weazon the substance c. thereof 109. how to be opened in extreme diseases 208. the wounds thereof 273. the ulcers thereof 337 Weakness two causes thereof 178 Web on the eye which curable and which not 406. the cure ibid. Wedge-bone 121 Weights and measures with their notes 702 Wen their causes and cure 193. c. how to distinguish them in the brest from a Cancer 194 Whale why reckoned among monsters 676. they bring forth young and suckle them 677. how caught ibid. Whalebone ibid. Whirl-bone the fracture and the cure 362. dislocation thereof 394 White lime 69 Whites the reason of the name differences c. 636. causes 637. their cure ibid. Whitlows 223 Wine which not good in the gout 452 Windes their tempers and qualities 13 20 Winter and the temper thereof 6. how it increaseth the native heat ibid. Wisdom the daughter of memory and experience 598 Witches hurt by the Divels assistance 661 Wolves their deceits and ambushes 44 Womb the substance magnitude c. thereof 89. the coats thereof 92 signs of the wounds thereof 280. ulcers thereof and their cure 338. when it hath received the seed it is shut up 593. the falling down thereof how caused 604. it is not distinguished into cells 617. a scirrhus thereof 622. signs of the distemper thereof 623. which meet for conception ibid. of the falling down preversion or turning thereof 624. the cure thereof 625. it must be cut away when it is putrified 626. the strangulation or suffocation thereof 628. See Strangulation Women their nature 18. how to know whether they have conceived 593. their travel in childebirth and the cause thereof 599. what must be done to them presently after their deliverance 602. bearing many children at a birth 648 Wonderful net 120 Wondrous original of some creatures 669. nature of some marine things ibid. Worms in the teeth their causes and how killed 415. bred in the head 488. cast forth by urine 489. how generated and their differences 490. of monstrous length ibid. signs 491. the cure 492 Wounds may be cured only with lint and water 35 Wounds termed great in three respects 229 742 Wounds poysoned how cured 500 Wounds of the head at Paris and of the legs at Avignon why hard to be cured 301 Wounds what the divers appellation and division of them 227. their causes 228. and signs 229. prognosticks ibid. small ones sometimes mortal 230. their cure in general ibid. to stay their bleeding 232. to help pain 223. why some die of small ones and others recover of great 249. whether better to cure in children or in old people 250. wounds of the head See fractures Of the musculous skin thereof 255. their cure 256. of the face 267. of the eye-brows ibid. of the eyes 268. of the cheek 170. of the nose 272. of the tongue ibid. of the ears 273. of the neck and throat ibid. of the weazon and gullet ibid. of the chest 274. of the heart lungs and midriff ibid. of the spine 275. what wounds of the lungs curable 277. of the Epigastrium or lower belly 280. their cure 281. of the Kall ibid. of the fat ibid. of the groins yard and testicles ibid. of the thighs and legs 282. of the nerves and nervous parts ibid. of the joints 284. of the ligaments 286 Wounds contused must be brought to suppuration 294 Wounds made by gun-shot are not burnt neither must they be cauterized 288. they may be dressed with suppuratives 289 why hard to cure ibid. why they look black 291. they have no Eschar ibid. why so deadly 292. in what bodies not easily cured 294. their division ibid. signs 295. how to be drest at the first ibid. how the second time 299. they all are contused 305 Wounds made by arrows how different from those made by gunshot 308 Wrist and the bones thereof 155. the dislocation thereof and the cure 388 Y. YArd and the parts thereof 87. the wounds thereof 281. to help the cord thereof 419. the malign ulcers thereof 471. to supply the defect thereof for making water 569 Yew-tree its malignity 519 Z. Zirbus the Kall the substance c. thereof 69 70 FINIS
being fastned so stiffly to the roots thereof that it cannot be turned up nor drawn down or over the Glans The first manner of constriction is termed Phimosis the later Paraphimosis The causes The Phimosis happens either by the fault of the first conformation or else by a scar through which occasion the Prepuce hath grown lesser as by the growing of warts Now Paraphimosis is often occasioned by the inflammation of the yard by impure copulation for hence ulcers breed between the Prepuce and Glans with swelling and so great inflammation that the prepuce cannot be turned back The cure Whence it is that they cannot be handled and cured as you would and a gangrene of the part may follow which may by the contagion bring death to all the body unless it be hindred and prevented by amputation but if a scar be the cause of the constriction of the prepuce the patient being placed in a convenient site let the prepuce be drawn forth and extended and as much as may be stretched and enlarged then let the scar be gently cut in three or four places on the inner side with a crooked knife but so that the gashes come not to the outside and let them be an equal distance each from other But if a fleshly excrescence or a wart shall be the occasion of this straitness and constriction it shall be consumed by the same remedies by which the warts of the womb and yard are consumed or taken off But when as the prepuce doth closely adhere to the Glans on every side the cure is not to be hoped for much less to be attempted CHAP. XXXIII Of those whose Glans is not rightly perforated and of the too short or strait ligament bridle or cord of the Yard SOme at their birth by evil conformation The cause have not their Glans perforated in the middle but have only a small hole underneath toward the bridle and ligament of the yard called the cord Which is the cause that they do not make water in a strait line unless they turn up their yard toward their belly neither by the same reason can they beget children because through this fault of conformation the seed is hindred from being cast directly into the womb The cure is wholly chirurgical and is thus performed The prepuce is taken hold of and extended with the left hand but with the right hand The cure the extremity thereof with the end of the Glans is cut even to that hole which is underneath But such as have the bridle or ligament of the yard too short so that the yard cannot stand straight but crooked and as it were turned downwards in these also the generation of children is hindred because the seed cannot be cast directly and plentifully into the womb Therefore this ligament must be cut with much dexterity and the wound cured after the manner of other wounds having regard to the part Children also are sometimes born into the world with their fundaments unperforated Such as are born without a hole in their fundament are not long-lived for a skin preternaturally covering the part hinders the passage forth of the excrement those must have a passage made by art with an instrument for so at length the excrements will come forth yet I have found by experience that such children are not naturally long-lived neither to live many dayes after such section CHAP. XXXIV Of the causes of the Stone THe Stones which are in the bladder have for the most part had their first original in the reins or kidnies to wit Why children are subject to the stone in the bladder falling down from thence by the ureters into the bladder The cause of these is twofold that is material and efficient Gross tough and viscid humors which crudities produce by the distempers of the bowels and immoderate exercises chiefly and immediately after meat yield matter for the stone whence it is that children are more subject to this disease than those of other ages The cause But the efficient cause is either the immoderate heat of the kidnies by means whereof the subtiler part of the humors is resolved but the grosser and more earthly subsides and is hardned as we see bricks hardned by the sun and fire or the more remiss heat of the bladder sufficient to bake into a stone the faeces or dregs of the urine gathered in great plenty in the capacity of the bladder The straightness of the ureters and urinary passage may be accounted as an assistant cause For by this means the thinner portion of the urine floweth forth but that which is more feculent and muddy being stayed behinde groweth as by scale upon scale by addition and collection of new matter into a stony mass And as a wick oftentimes dipped by the Chandler into melted tallow by the copious adhesion of the tallowy substance presently becomes a large Candle so the more gross and viscid faeces of the urine â—â—ay as it were at the bars of the gathered gravel and by their continual appulse are at length wrought and fashioned into a true stone CHAP. XXXV Of the signs of the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder Why the thigh is numm in the stone of the reins THe signs of the Stone in the Reins are the subsiding of red or yellow sand in the urine a certain obscure itching at the kidnies and the sense of a weight or heaviness at the loins a sharp and pricking pain in moving or bending the body a numness of the thigh of the same side Signs of the stone in the bladder by reason of the compression caused by the stone of the nerves descending out of the vertebrae of the loins of the thigh But when the stone is in the bladder the fundament and whole perinaeum is pressed as it were with a heavy weight especially if the stone be of any bigness a troublesom and pricking pain runs to the very end of the yard and there is a continual itching of that part with a desire to scratch it hence also by the pain and heat there is a tension of the yard and a frequent and needless desire to make water and sometimes their urine cometh from them drop by drop A most grievous pain torments the patient in making water which he is forced to shew by stamping with his feet Why such as have a stone in the bladder are troubled with the falling of the fundament bending of his whole body and the grating of his teeth He is oft-times so tormented with excess of pain that the Sphincter being relaxed the right gut falleth down accompanied with the swelling heat and pain of the Hemorhoid veins of that place The cause of such torment is the frequent striving of the bladder to expell the stone wholly contrary to the nature thereof whereto by sympathy the expulsive faculty of the guts and all the parts of the belly come as it were for
contrarie the urine becom's more clear That purulent matter which flow's from the lungs by reason of an Empiema or from the liver or any other bowel placed above the midriff the pus which is cast forth with the urine is both in greater plentie and more exactly mixed with the urine than that which flow's from the kidnies and bladder It neither belong's to our purpose Cure or a Surgeon's office either to undertake or deliver the cure of this affect It shall suffice onely to note that the cure of this symptom is not to bee hoped for so long as the caus remain's And if this blood flow by the opening of a vessel it shall be staied by astringent medicines if broken by agglutinative if corroded or fretted asunder by sarcotick CHAP. LII Of the signs of the ulcerated kidnies I Had not determined to follow or paticularly handle the causes of bloodie urines yet becaus that which is occasioned by the ulcerated reins or bladder more frequently happen's therefore I have thought good briefly to speak thereof in this place The signs of an ulcer of the reins are Why the matter which flow's from the kidnies is less stinking than that which flow's from the bladder pain in the loins matter howsoever mix't with the urine never evacuated by it self but alwaies flowing forth with the urine and resideing in the bottom of the chamber-pot with a sanious and red sediment fleshie and as it were blodie fibres swimming up and down in the urine and smel of the filth is not so great as that which flow's from the ulcerated bladder for that the kidnies seeing they are of a fleshie substance do far better ripen and digest the purulent matter than the bladder which is nervous and bloodless CHAP. LIII Of the signs of the ulcerated Bladder ULcers are in the bottom of the bladder and the neck thereof Differences The signs of an ulcer in the bladder are a deep pain at the share-bones the great stench of the matter flowing there-from white and thin skins swimming up and down in the water But when the ulcer possesseth the neck of the bladder the pain is more gentle neither doth it trouble before the patient come to make water but in the verie making thereof and a little while after But it is common both to the one and the other that the yard is extended in makeing of water to wit by reason of the pain caused by the urine fretting of the ulcerated part in the passage by neither is the matter seen mixed with the urine as is usual in an ulcer of the upper parts because it is poured forth not together with the urine but after it CHAP. LIV. Prognosticks of the ulcerated Reins and Bladder ULcers of the kidnies are more easily and readily healed then those of the bladder Why ulcers of the bladder are cure with more difficultie for fleshie parts more speedily heal and knit then bloodless and nervous parts Ulcers which are in the bottome of the bladder are incureable or certainly most difficult to heal for besides that they are in a bloodless part they are daily vellicated and exasperated by the continual afflux of the contained urine for all the urine is never evacuated now that which remains after makeing water becomes more acrid by the distemper and heat of the part for that the bladder is alwaies gathered about it and dilated and straightned according to the quantity of the contained urine therefore in the Ischuria that is the suppression or difficulty of making water you may sometimes see a quart of water made at once Those which have their legs fall away having an ulcer in their bladder are near their deaths Ulcers arising in these parts unless they be consolidated in a short time remain uncureable CHAP. LV. What cure must be used in the suppression of the Vrine IN curing the suppression of the urine the indication must be taken from the nature of the disease and cause thereof if it be yet present or not But the diversitie of the parts Scopes of cure-ring by which being hurt the Ischuria happens intimates the variety of medicines neither must we presently run to diureticks and things breaking the stone which many Empericks do To what suppression of the urine diureticks must not be used For hence grievous and malign symptoms often arise especially if this suppression proceed from an acrid humor or blood pressed out by a bruise immoderate venerie and also more vehement exercise a hot and acrid potion as of Cantharides by too long abstaining from makeing water by a Phlegmon or ulcer of the urinarie parts For thus the pain and inflammation are increased whence follows a gangrene and at length death Wherefore attempt nothing in this case without the advice of a Physician no not when you must come to Surgerie To which and when to be used For diureticks can scarce have place in another case then when the urinarie passages are obstructed by gravel or a gross and viscid humor or else in some cold countrie or in the application of Narcoticks to the loins although we must not here use these before we have first made use of general medicines now diureticks may be administred sundrie waies as hereafter shall appear â„ž agrimon urtic. parietar surculos rubros habentis an m i. rad asparag mundat â„¥ iiii gran alkekengi â—n â—x sem malvae â„¥ ss rad acor â„¥ i. bulliant omnia simul in sex libris aquae dulcis ad tertias deinde coletur Let the patient take â„¥ iiii hereof with â„¥ i. of sugar candie and drink it warm fasting in a morning three hours before meat Thirty or forty lvie-berries beaten in white wine and given the patient to drink some two hours before meat are good for the same purpose Also Ê’i of nettle-seeds made into fine powder and drunk in chicken-broth is good for the same purpose A decoction also of grummel Goats-saxifrage pellitory of the wall white saxifrage the roots of parslie asparagus acorus bruscus and ortis drunk in the quantity of some three or four ounces is profitable also for the same purpose Yet this following water is commended above the rest to provoke urine and open the passages thereof from what cause soever the stopping thereof proceeds A diuretick water â„ž rad osmund regal cyp bismal gram petrosel foenic. an â„¥ ii raph crassior in taleol â„¥ iiii macerentur per noctem in aceto albâ— aceâ—â—imoâ— bulliant postea in aquae fluvialis lb. x saxifrag crist marin rub tinct millii solis summitat malvae bismal an p. ii berul cicer rub an p. i. sem melon citrul an â„¥ ii ss alkekengi gra xx glycerhiz â„¥ i. bulliant omâ—ia simul ad tertias in colaterâ infunde per noctem fol. ser oriental lb. ss fiat iterum parva ebullitio-in expressione colatâ infunde cinam elect Ê’ vi colentur iterum colatura injiciatur in alembicum vitreâ—â— postea tereb venet
read the same approved by Celsus L b. 4. cap. 22. It is the last saith he and most effectual medicine in longer diseases to cauterize with hot irons the skin of the hip in three or four places and then not to heal up these ulcers or fontenels as soon as may be but to keep them open by putting thereinto bullets of gold or silver or pills of gentian or wax melted and wrought up with the powder of vitriol mercury and the like cathereticks until the affect against which we use this remedy be helped for by this means many have been helped Therefore three or four actual cauteries or hot irons shall be so thrust in about the joint of the hip that they may enter into the flesh some fingers breadth yet so that you shun the nerves Cauteries here do good The use of cauteries in the Sciatica for that by heating the pâ—t they heat and dissolve the cold humors they cut attenuate and draw forth the gross and viscid so that they flow out by the ulcers together with the quitture Over and besides the ligaments are strengthned by their cicatrization and their looseness helped and by this means the whole part is notably corroborated CHAP. XXIIII Of the flatulent convulsion or convulsive contraction which is commonly called by the French Gout Crampe and by the English The Crampe THat which the French call Goute Crampe we here intend to treat of What the Cramp is induced thereto rather by the affinity of the name then of the thing for if one speak truly it is a certain kind of convulsion generated by a flatulent matter by the violence of whose running down or motion oftimes the neck arms and legs are either extended or contracted into themselves with great pain but that for a short time The cause thereof is a gross and tough vapor insinuating it self into the branches of the nerves and the membranes of the muscles The cause thereof It takes one on the night rather then on the day for that then the heat and spirits usually retire themselves into the entrails and centre of the body whence it is that flatulencies may be generated which will fill up distend and pull the part whereinto they run just as we see lute-strings are extended This affect often takes such as swim in cold water and causeth many to be drowned though excellent swimmers their members by this means being so straightly contracted Who subject thereto that they cannot by any means be extended For the skin by the coldness of the water is contracted and condensed and the pores thereof shut so that the engendred flatulencies have no passage forth Such as give themselves to drunkenness and gluttony or sloth and idleness are usually more frequently troubled with this disease by reason of their heaping up of crudities The cure Therefore it is cured by moderate diet and ordering of the body and exercise of each part thereof for thus they gather strength and the generation of the flatulent matter is hindred In the very time when it takes one the patient shall be cured by long rubbing with warm clothes and aquâ vitae wherein the leaves of sage rosemary thyme savory lavender cloves ginger and the like discussing and resolving things have been infused The extension and flexion of the members or joints and walking are also good The end of the Eighteenth Book The NINETEENTH BOOK Of the LUES VENEREA and those Symptoms which happen by means thereof CHAP. I. What the Lues Venerea is THe French call the Lues Venerea the Neapolitan disease the Italians and Germans as also the English term it the French disease the Latines call it Pudendagra others name it otherwise But it makes no great matter how it be called if the thing it self be understood Therefore the Lues Venerea is a disease gotten or taken by touch but chiefly that which is in unclean copulation and it partakes of an occult quality commonly taking its original from ulcers of the privy parts and then further manifesting it self by pustles of the head and other external parts and lastly infecting the entrails and inner parts with cruel and nocturnal tormenting pain of the head shoulders joints and other parts In process of time it causeth knots and hard tophi What hurt it doth to the body and lastly corrupts and fouls the bones dissolving them the flesh about them being oft times not hurt but it corrupteth and weakneth the substance of other parts according to the condition of each of them the distemper and evill habit of the affected bodies and the inveterition or continuance of the morbifick cause For some lose one of their eies others both Some lose a great portion of their eie-lids other-some look very gastly and not like themselves and some become squint-eied Some lose their hearing others have their noses fall flat the palat of their mouths perforated with the loss of the bone Ethmoides so that instead of free and perfect utterance they faulter and fumble in their speech Some have their mouths drawn awry others their yards cut off and women a great part of their privities tainted with corruption There be some who have the Vrethra or passage of the yard obstructed by budding caruncles or inflamed pustles so that they cannot make water without the help of a Catheter ready to dye within a short time either by the suppression of the urine or by a gangrene arising in these parts unless you succor them by the amputation of their yards Others become lame of their arms and other-some of their legs a third sort grow stiff by the contraction of all their members so that they have nothing left them sound but their voice which serveth for no other purpose but to bewail their miseries for which it is scantly sufficient Wherefore should I trouble you with mention of those that can scantly draw their breath by reason of an Asthma or those whose bodies waste with an hectik feaver The Leprosie sometimes the off-spring of the Lues Venerea and slow consumption It fares far worse with these who have all their bodies deformed by a leprosie ariseing there-hence and have all their throttles and throats even with putrid and cancrous ulcers their hair falling off from their heads their hands and feet cleft with tetters and scaly chinks neither is their case much better who having their brains tainted with this disease have their whole bodies shaken by fits of falling-sickness who troubled with a filthy and cursed flux of the belly do continually cast forth stinking and bloody filth Lastly there are no kinds of diseases no sorts of symptoms wherewith this disease is not complicate never to be taken away unless the virulency of this murrain be wholly taken away and impugned by its proper antidote that is argentum vivum CHAP. II. Of the causes of the Lues Venerea The Lues Venerea the scourge of Whore-mongers THese are two
languisheth and becommeth dull By this we have delivered it may be perceived that the running of virulent strangury is not the running of a seminal humor fit for generation of issue but rather of a viscous and acrid filth which hath acquired a venenate malignity by the corruption of the whole substance CHAP. XVII Of the causes and differences of the scalding or sharpness of the urine The cause of a particular repletition of the privy parts THe heat or scalding of the water which is one kinde of the virulent strangury ariseth from some one of these three causes to wit repletition inanition and contagion That which proceeds from repletion proceeds either from too great abundance of blood or by a painful and tedious journy in the hot sun or by feeding upon hot acrid diuretick and flatulent meats causing tension and heat in the urinary parts whence proceeds the inflamation of them and the genital parts whence it happens that not only a seminal but also much other moisture may flow unto those parts but principally to the prostata which are glandules situate at the roots or beginning of the neck of the bladder in which place the spermatick vessels end also abstinence from venery causeth this plentitude in some who have usually had to do with women especially the expulsive faculty of the seminal and urinary parts being weak so that they are not of themselves able to free themselves from this burden For then the suppressed matter is corrupted and by its acrimony contracted by an adventitious and putredinous heat it causeth heat and pain in the passage forth The prostata swelling with such inflamed matter in process oftime become ulcerated the abscess being broken The purulent sanies dropping and flowing hence alongst the urinary passage causes the ulcers by acrimony which the urine falling upon exasperates whence sharp pain which also continueth for some short time after making of water and together therewith by reason of the inflamation the pains attraction and the vaporous spirits distension the yard stands and is contracted with pain as we noted in the former Chapter But that which happens through inanition The causes of the inanition of the genital parts is acquired by the moderate and unfit use of venery for hereby the oily and radical moisture of the fore-mentioned glandules is exhausted which wasted and spent the urine cannot but be troublesome and sharp by the way to the whole Vrethra From which sense of sharpe pain the scalding of the urine hath its denomination That which comes by contagion is caused by impure copulation with an unclean person or with a woman which some short while before hath received the tainted seed of a virulent person or else hath the whites or her privities troubled with hidden and secret ulcers or carrieth a virulent spirit shut up or hidden there which heated and resuscitated by copulation presently infects the whole body with the like contagion no otherwise then the sting of a Scorpion or Phalangium by casting a little poison into the skin presently infects the whole body the force of the poison spreading further then one would believe so that the party falls down dead in a short while after Thus therefore the seminal humor contained in the prostatae is corrupted by the tainture of the ill The reason of a contagious Strangury drawn thence by the yard and the contagion infects the part it self whence follows an abscess which â—asting forth the virulency by the urinary passage causeth a virulent strangury and the malign vapor carried up with some portion of the humor unto the entrials and principal parts cause the Lues Venerea CHAP. XVIII Prognosticks in a virulent Strangury WEe ought not to be negligent or careless in cureing this affect for of it proceed pernicious accidents as we have formerly told you and neglected A virulent Strangury continues with some during their lives it becoms uncurable so that some have it run out of their urinary passage during their lives oftimes to their former misery is added a suppression of the urine the prostatae and neck of the bladder being inflamed and unmeasurably swelled Copulation and the use of acrid or flatulent meats increase this inflamation and also together therewith cause an Ischuria or stoppage of the urine they are worse at the change of the Moon certain death follows upon such a stoppage An History as I observed in a certain man who troubled for ten years space with a virulent strangury at length died by the stoppage of his water He used to be taken with a stopping of his urine as often as he used any violent exercise and then he helped himself by putting up a silver Catheter which for that purpose he still carried about him it happened on a certain time that he could not thrust it up into his bladder wherefore he sent for me that I might help him to make water for which purpose when I had used all my skill it proved in vain when he was dead and his body opened his bladder was found full and very much distended with urine but the prostatae preternaturally swelled ulcerated and full of matter resembling that which formerly used to run out of his yard From what part the matter of a virulent strangury flows whereby you may gather that this virulency flows from the prostatae which runs forth of the yard in a virulent strangury and not from the reins as many have imagined Certainly a virulent strangury if it be of any long continuance is to be judged a certain particular Lues Venerea so that it cannot be cured unless by frictions with Hydragyrum But the ulcers which possess the neck of the bladder are easily discerned from these which are in the body or capacity thereof For in the latter the filth comes away as the patient makes water and is found mixed with the urine with certain strings or membranous bodies coming forth in the urine to these may be added the far greater stench of this filth which issueth out of the capacity of the bladder Now must we treat of the cure of both these diseases that is the Gonorrhoea and virulent Strangury but first of the former CHAP. XIX The chief heads of curing a Gonorrhoea LEt a Physician be called who may give direction for purging bleeding and diet if the affect proceed from a fulness and abundance of blood and seminal matter Diet. all things shall be shunned which breed more blood in the body which increase seed and stir to venery Wherefore he must abstain from wine unless it be weak and astringent and he must not onely eschew familiarity with women but their very pictures and all things which may call them to his remembrance especially if he love them dearly strong exercises do good For a Strangury occasioned by repletion as the carrying of heavy burdens even until they sweat swimming in cold water little sleep refrigerations of the loins and genital
parts by anointing them with unguentum rosarum refrigerans Galeni nutritum putting thereupon a double cloth steeped in oxycrate and often renewed But if the resolution or weakness of the retentive faculty of these parts be the cause of this disease contracted by too much use of venery before they arive at an age fit to perform such exercise For the decay of the Retentive faculty in this case strengthning and astringent things must both be taken inwardly and applyed outwardly But now I hasten to treat of the virulent Strangury which is more proper to my purpose CHAP. XX. The general cure both of the scalding of the water and the virulent Strangury Diet. WE must diversly order thy cure of this disease according to the variety of the causes and accidents thereof First care must be had of the diet and all such things shunned as inflame the blood or cause windiness or which nature are all diuretick and flatulent things as also strong and virulent exercises Purging and bleeding are convenient especially if fulness cause the affect Womens companies must be shunned and thoughts of venereous matters the patient ought not to lye upon a soft bed but upon a quilt or mattrice and never if he can help it upon his back boiled meats are better then rosted especially boile with sorrel lettuce purslain cleansed barly and the four cold seeds beaten for sauce let him use none unless the juice of an orange pomegranate or verjuice let him shun wine and in stead thereof use a decoction of barly and liquorice an hydromel or hydrosaccarum with a little cinnamon or that which is termed Potus divinus In the morning let him sup of a barly cream wherein hath been boiled a nodulus of the four cold seeds beaten together with the seeds of white poppy for thus it refrigerateth mitigateth and cleanseth also the syrups of marsh-mallows and maiden-hair are good Also purging the belly with half an ounce of Cassia sometimes alone otherwhiles with a dram or half a dram of Rubarb in powder put thereto is good And these following pills are also convenient Pills â„ž massae pilul sine quibus ℈ i. rhei electiÊ’ss camphurae gr iiii cum terebinthinâ formentur pilulae The force of Venice-turpentine in this disease let them be taken after the first sleep Venice turpentine alone or adding thereto some Rubarb in powder with oil of sweet almonds newly drawn without fire or some syrup of maiden-hair is a singular medicine in this case for it hath an excellent lenitive and cleansing faculty as also to help forwards the expulsive faculty to cast forth the virulent matter contained in the Prostatae You may by the bitterness perceive how it resists putrefaction and you may gather how it performs its office in the reins and urinary parts by the smell it leaves in the urine after the use thereof But if there be any who cannot take it in form of a bole you may easily make it potable by dissolving it in a mortar with the yolk of an egg and some white wine How to be made potable as I learned of a certain Apothecary who kept it as a great secret If the disease come by inanition or emptiness it shall be helped by fatty injections oily and emollient potions and inwardly taking and applying these things which have the like faculty and shunning these things which caused the disease How to cure that which happens by contagion or unpure copulation it shall be abundantly shewed in the ensuing Chapter CHAP. XXI The proper cure of a virulent Strangury An injection to stay inflamation FIrst we must begin with the mitigation of pain and staying the inflamation which shall be performed by making injection into the Vrethra with this following decoction warm â„ž sem psilii lactucae papav albi plantag cydon lini hyoscyami albi an Ê’ii detrahantur muceres in aquis solani rosar ad quantitatem sufficientem adde trochisc alborum Rhasis camphoratâ—rumin pollinem redaâ—torum Ê’i misce simul fiat injectio frequens For this because it hath a refrigerating faculty will help the inflammat on mitigate pain and by the mucilaginous faculty lenifie the roughnesse of the Urethra and defend it by covering it with the slimy substance against the acrimony of the urine and virulent humors In stead hereof you may use cows milk newly milked or warmed at the fire The faculties of milk against a virulent strangury Milk doth not only conduce hereto being thus injected but also drunk for it hath a refrigerating and cleansing faculty and by the subtilty of the parts it quickly arrives at the urinary passages Furthermore it will be good to anoint with câ—rat refriger Galeni addita camphora or with ceratum centalinum ung comitissae or nutritum upon the region of the kidnies loins and pâ—rinoeum as also to anoint the cods and yard But before you use the foresaid ointments or the like let them be melted over the fire but have a care that you make them not too hot least they should lose their refrigerating quality which is the thing we chiefly desire in them Having used the foresaid ointment it will be convenient to apply thereupon some linnen cloths moistened in oxycrate composed ex aquis plantaginis solani sempervivi rosarum and the like If the patient be tormented with intolerable pain in making water and also some small time after as it commonly commeth to pass How to make water without pain I would wish him that he should make water putting his yard into a chamber-pot filled with milk or water warmed The pain by this means being asswaged we must come to the cleansing of the ulcers by this or the like injection â„ž hydromelitis sympt â„¥ iv syr de rosis siccis D t rgent injections de absinth an â„¥ ss fiat injectio But if there be need of more powerful detersion you may safely add as I have frequently tried a little aegyptiacum I have also found this following decoction to be very good for this purpose â„ž vini albi odoriferi lb ss aquar plantag ros an â„¥ ii auripigmenti Ê’ss viridis aeris ℈ i. aloes opt Ê’ss pulverisentur pulverisanda bulliant simul Keep the decoction for to make injection withall You may increase or diminish the quantity and force of the ingredients entring into this composition as the patient and disease shall seem to require The ulcers being thus cleansed we must hasten to dry them so that we may at length cicatrize them How the cleansed ulcers may be dried This may be done by drying up the superfluous moisture and strengthening the parts that are moistened and relaxed by the continual defluxion for which purpose this following decoction is very profitable â„ž aq fabrorum lb i. psidiarium balaust nucum cupres conquassatorum an Ê’iss semin sumach berber an Ê’ii syrup rosar de absinth an â„¥ i. fiat
decoctio You may keep it for an injection to be often injected into the Vrethra with a syringe so long as that there shall no matter or filth flow over thereat for then there is certain hope of the cure CHAP. XXII Of Caruncles or fleshie excrescences which sometimes happen to grow in the Urethra by the heat or scalding of the urine A Sharp humor which flows from the Glandules termed Prostatae How caruncles come to grow upon the ulcers of the genital parts and continually runs alongst the urinary passage in some places by the way it frets and exulcerates by the acrimony the Vrethra in men but the neck of the womb in women In these as also is usual in other ulcers there sometimes grows up a superfluous flesh which oftimes hinders the casting or coming forth of the seed and urine by their appropriate and common passage whence many mischiefs arise whence it is that such ulcers as have caruncles growing upon them must be diligently cured But first we must know whether they be new or old Callous caruncles hard to cure Signs For the later are more difficultly to be cured then the former because the caruncles that grow upon them become callous and hard being oftimes cicatrized We know that there are caruncles if the Catheter cannot freely pass alongst the passage of the urine but finds so many stops in the way as it meets with caruncles that stop the passage if the patient can hardly make water or if his water run in a very small stream or two streams or crookedly or only by drop and drop with such tormenting pain that he is ready to let go his excrements yea and oftimes doth so after the same manner as such as are troubled with the stone in the bladder After making water as also after copulation some portion of the urine and seed staies at the rough places of the caruncles so that the patient is forced to press his yard to press forth such reliques Sometimes the urine is wholly stopped The supprest urine comes forth whereas it can get vent whence proceeds such distension of the bladder that it causeth inflammation and the urine flowing back â—nto the body hastens the death of the patient Yet sometimes the urine thus supprest sweats forth preternaturally in sundry places as at the fundament perinoeum cod yard groins As soon as we by any of the fore-mentioned signs shall suspect that there is a caruncle about to grow it is expedient forthwith to use means for the cure thereof for a caruncle from a very little beginning doth in a short time grow so big that at the length it becomes incureable verily you may easily guess at the difficulty of the cure by that we have formerly delivered of the essence hereof besides medicines can very hardly arrive thereat The fittest time for the cure Why venery must be eschewed The fittest season for the undertakeing hereof is the Spring and the next thereto is Winter yet if it be very troublesome you must delay no time Whilest the cure is in hand the patient ought wholly to abstain from venery for by the use thereof the kidnies spermatick vessels prostatae and the whole yard swell up and wax hot and consequently draw to them from the neighbouring and upper parts whence abundance of excrements in the affected parts much hinder the cure You must beware of acrid and corrodeing things in the use of detergent injections for that thus the Vrethra being endued with most exquisite sense may be easily offended whence might ensue many ill accidents Neither must we be frighted if at sometimes we see blood flow forth of secret or hidden caruncles For this helps to shorten the cure because the disease is hindered from growth by takeing away portion of the conjunct matter the part also it self is eased from the oppressing burden for the material cause of caruncles is superfluous blood Wherefore unless such bleeding happen of it self The particular cure it is not amiss to procure it by thrusting in a Catheter somewhat hard yet with good advice If the caruncles be inveterate and callous then must they be mollified by fomentations ointments cataplasms plasters A fomentation and fumigations you may thus make a fomentation â„ž rad alth lilior alb an â„¥ .v. rad bryoniae foenic. an â„¥ iss fol. malvar violarum parietar mercur an m. ss sem lini foenugr an â„¥ ss caricas ping nu xii florum chamaem melil an p i. contundantur contundenda incidenda incidantur bulliant omnia in aquà communi make a fomentation and apply it with soft spunges Of the mass of the strained-out things A cataplasm you may make a cataplasm after this manner â„ž praedicta materialia terantur trajiciantur A liniment adde axungiae porci unguenti basiliconis an â„¥ ii fiat cataplasma let it be applied presently after the fomentation You may use this following liniment whilst the cataplasm is providing â„ž unguenti alth agrippae an â„¥ iss aesipi humidae axung human an â„¥ i. butyri recentis olei lilior chamaem an Ê’vi liquâ—fiant simul addendo aquae vitae â„¥ i. fiat linimentum let it be applyed outwardly upon the part wherein the caruncles are For the same purpose plaisters shall be applied which may be diversified and fitted as you shall think good yet Emplastrum de Vigo truly made exceedeth all the rest in a mollifying faculty and in wasting such callous hardness Vigoe's emplaster effectual to soften a Caruncle The following fumigation is also good for the same purpose take some pieces of a mill-stone for this we use in stead of the pyrites mentioned by the Antients or else some bricks of large size after they are heated hot in the fire let them be put into a pan and set under a close stool then cause the patient to sit thereon as if he were going to stool then pour upon the hot stones equal parts of very sharp vineger A suffumigium and very good aqua vitae and casting clothes about him that nothing may exhale in vain let him receive the ascending vapor at his fundament perinoeum scrotum and urethra Moreover that this medicine may work the better effect you may put the patient naked into the barrel noted with this letter A. so that he may sit upon a seat or board perforated on that part whereas his genitals are then place the pan holding the hot stones between his legs then presently sprinkle the stones with the fore-mentioned liquor by the door marked with the letter B. Thus the patient shall easily receive the fume that exhales there-from and none thereof be lost he covering and vailing himself on every side Ad. Glauc lib 2. cap. 5. Such a fumigation in Galen's opinion hath a faculty to penetrate cut resolve soften and digest scirrhous hardnesses A Barrel fitted to receive the fume in CHAP. XXIII What other remedies shall be
you may also put now and then to the patients nose a nodulus made with a little vineger and water of roses camphire the powder of sanders and other odoriferous things which have a cooling faculty this also will keep the nose from pustles CHAP. III. What parts must be armed against and preserved from the Pox. THe eies nose throat lungs and inward parts ought to be kept freer from the eruption of pustles then the other parts for that their nature and consistence is more obnoxious to the malignity of this virulency and they are easilyer corrupted and blemished Therefore lest the eyes should be hurt you must defend them when you first begin to suspect the disease How to defend the eyes with the eie-lids also moistning them with rose-water verjuce or vineger and a little camphire There are some also who for this purpose make a decoction of Sumach berberie-seeds pomgranate-pills aloes and a little saffron the juice of sowr pomgranates and the water of the whites of eggs dropped in with rose-water are good for the same purpose also womens milk mixed with rose-water and often renewed and lastly all such things as have a repercussive quality Yet if the eies be much swoln and red you shall not use repercussives alone When the eyes must not be defended by repercussives onely but mix therewith discussers and cleansers such as are fit by a familiarity of nature to strengthen the sight and let these be tempered with some fennel or eie-bright water Then the patient shall not look upon the light or red things for fear of pain and inflammation wherefore in the state of the disease when the pain and inflamation of the eyes are at their height gently drying and discussive things properly conduceing to the eyes are most convenient as washed aloes tutty and Antimony in the water of fennel eie-bright and roses The formerly mentioned nodulus will preserve the nose and linnen clothes dipped in the fore-said astringent decoction put in the nostrils and outwardly applied How to defend the nose We shall defend the jaws throat and throtle and preserve the integrity of the voice by a gargle of oxycrate or the juice of sowr pomgranates holding also the grains of them in their mouths How the mouth How the lungs and often rouling them up and down therein as also by nodulaes of the seeds of psilium quinces and the like cold and astringent things We must provide for the lungs and respiration by syrups of jujubes violets roses white poppies pomgranates water-lillies and the like Now when as the Pox are throughly come forth then may you permit the patient to use somewhat a freer diet and you must wholly busie your self in ripening and evacuating the matter drying and sâ—aling them But for the Meazles they are cured by resolution onely and not by suppuration the Pox may be ripened by anointing them with fresh butter by fomenting them with a decoction of the roots of mallows lillies figs line-seeds and the like After they are ripe they shall have their heads clipped off with a pair of scissers or else be opened with a golden or silver-needle How to prevent pock-arrs lest the matter contained in them should corrode the flesh that lies thereunder and after the cure leave the prints or pock-holes behinde it which would cause some deformity the pus or matter being evacuated they shall be dried up with unguent rosat adding thereto ceruss lithrarge aloes and a little saffron in powder for these have not onely a faculty to dry but also to regenerate flesh for the same purpose the flowr of barly and lupines are dissolved mixed with rose-water and the affected parts annointed therewith with a fine linnen rag some annoint them with the sward of bacon boiled in water and wine then presently strow upon them the flower of barly or lupines or both of them Others mix crude hony newly taken from the comb with barly-flower and therewithall annoint the pustles so to dry them being dried up like a scurse or scab they annoint them with oil of roses violets almonds or else with some cream that they may the sooner fall away the pustles being broken tedious itchings sollicit the patients to scratch Remedies for excoriation whence happens excoriation and filthy ulcers for scratching is the occasion of greater attraction Wherefore you shall binde â—he sick childes hands and foment the itching parts with a decoction of marsh-mallows barly and lupines with the addition of some salt But if it be already excoriated then shall you heal it with unguent album comphorat adding thereto a little powder of aloes or Cinnabaâ—is or a little desiâ—catâ—vum rubrum But if notwithstanding all your application of repelling medicines pustles nevertheless break forth at the eyes then must they be diligently cured with all manner of collyria haveing a care that the inflammation of that part grow not to that bigness as to break the eyes and that which sometimes happens to drive them forth of their proper orbs If any crusty ulcers arise in the nostrils they may be dried and caused to fall away by putting up of ointments Such as arise in the mouth palate and throat with horsness and difficulty of swallowing may be helped by gargarisms made with barly-water the waters of plantain and chervil with some syrup of roses or Diamoron dissolved therein the patient shall hold in his mouth sugar of roses or the tablets of Elect. diatragacanth frigid The Pock-arrs left in the face For the ulcers of the mouth and jaws if they bunch out undecently shall be clipped away with a pair of scissers and then annointed with fresh unguent citrin or else with this liniment â„ž amyli triticei amygdalarum excorticarum an Ê’iss gum tragacanth Ê’ss seminis melonum fabarum siccaram excorticat farniae hordei an â„¥ iiii To help the unsightly scarâ— of the face Let them all be made into fine powder and then incorporated with rose-water and so make a liniment wherewith annoint the face with a feather let it be wiped away in the morning washing the face with some water and wheat-bran hereto also conduceth lac virginale Goose ducks and capons grease are good to smooth the roughness of the skin as also of oil of lillies hares-blood of one newly killed and hot is good to fill and plain as also whiten the pock-holes if they be often rubbed therewith In stead hereof many use the sward of Bacon rubbed warm thereon also the distilled waters of bean flowers lillie-roots reed-roots egge-shels and oil of eggs are though very prevalent to waste and smooth the Pock-arrs A Discourse of certain monstrous creatures which breed against nature in the bodies of men women and little children which may serve as an induction to the ensuing discourse of worms A comparison between the bigger and lesser world The anergation of winde in mans body Of water As in the macrocosmos or bigger world so in
appetite whereby they require many and several things without reason a great part of the nourishment being consumed by the worms lying there they are also subject to often fainting by reason of the sympathy which the stomach being a part of most exquisite sense hath with the heart the nose itches the breath stinks by reason of the exhalations sent up from the meat corrupting in the stomach through which occasion they are also given to sleep but are now and then waked there-from by sudden startings and fears they are held with a continued and slow fever a dry cough a winking with their eye-lids and often changeing of the colour of their faces But long and broad worms being the innates of the greater guts Signs of worms in the great guts Signs of Ascarides shew themselves by stools replenished with many sloughs here and there resembling the seeds of a Musk-melon or Cucumber Ascarides are known by the itching they cause in the fundament causing a sense as if it were Ants running up and down causing also a tenasmus and falling down of the fundament This is the cause of all these symptoms their sleep is turbulent and often clamorous when as hot acrid and subtill vapors raised by the worms from the like humor and their food are sent up to the head but sound sleep by the contrary as when a misty vapor is sent up from a gross and cold matter They dream they eat in their sleep for that while the worms do more greedily consume the chylous matter in the guts they stir up the sense of the like action in the phantasie They grate or gnash their teeth by reason of a certain colvulsifick repletion the muscles of the temples and jaws being distended by plenty of vapors A dry cough comes by the consent of the vitall parts serving for respiration which the natural to wit the Diaphragma or midriffe smit upon by acrid vapors and irritated as though there were some humor to be expelled by coughing These same acrid sumes assailing the orifice of the ventricle cause either an hicketting or else a fainting according to the condition of their consistence gross or thin these carried up to the parts of the face cause an itching of the nose a darkness of the sight and a sudden changeing of the colour in the cheeks Great worms are worse then little ones red then white living then dead many then few variegated then those of one colour as those which are signs of a greater corruption Why worms of divers colors are more dangerous Such as are cast forth bloody and sprinkled with blood are deadly for they shew that the substance of the guts is eaten asunder for oftimes they corrode and perforate the body of the gut wherein they are contained and thence penetrate into divers parts of the belly so that they have come forth sometimes at the navel having eaten themselves a passage forth as Hollerius affirmeth When as children troubled with the worms draw their breath with difficulty and wax moist over all their bodies it is a sign that death is at hand If at the beginning of sharp fevers round worms come forth alive it is a sign of a pestilent fever the malignity of whose matter they could not endure but were forced to come forth But if they be cast forth dead they are signs of greater corruption in the humors and of a more venenate malignity CHAP. V. What cure to be used for the Worms The general indications of cureing the worms IN this disease there is but one indication that is the exclusion or casting out of the worms either alive or dead forth of the body as being such that in their whole kind are against nature all things must be shunned which are apt to heap up putrefaction in the body by their corruption such as are crude fruits cheese milk-meats fishes and lastly such things as are of a difficult and hard digestion but prone to corruption Pap is fit for children for that they require moist things but these ought to answer in a certain similitude to the consistence and thickness of milk that so they may be the more easily concocted and assimilated and such only is that pap which is made with wheat flower not crude but baked in an oven that the pap made therewith may not be too viscid nor thick if it should only be boiled in a pan as much as the milk would require or else the milk would be too terrestrial or too waterish all the fatty portion thereof being resolved the cheesie and wayish portion remaining if it should boil so much as were necessary for the full boiling of the crude meat they which use meal otherwise in pap yield matter for the generating of gross and viscid humors in the stomach whence happens obstruction in the first veins and substance of the liver by obstruction worms breed in the guts and the stone in the kidnies and bladder The patient must be fed often and with meats of good juice lest the worms through want of nourishment should gnaw the substance of the guts Now when as such things breed of a putrid matter the patient shall be purged and the putrefaction represt by medicines mentioned in our Treatise of the Plague Wherefore and wherewith such as have the worms must be purged For the quick killing and casting of them forth syrup of succory or of Lemmons with rubarb a little treacle or methridate is a singular medicine if there be no fever you may also for the same purpose use this following medicine â„ž cornu cervi pul rasur ebâ—ris an Ê’i ss sem tanacet contra verm an Ê’i fiat decoctio pro parvâ dosi in colaturâ infunde rhei optimi Ê’i cinam ℈ i. dissolve syrupi de absinthio â„¥ ss make a potion give it in the morning three hours before any broth Oil of Olives drunk kills worms as also water of knot-grass drunk with milk and in like manner all bitter things Yet I could first wish them to give a glyster made of milk hony and sugar without oils and bitter things lest shunning thereof they leave the lower guts and come upwards for this is natural to worms to shun bitter things and follow sweet things Whence you may learn that to the bitter things which you give by the mouth you must alwaies mix sweet things that allured by the sweetness they may devour them more greedily that so they may kill them Harâ—s horn good against the worms Therefore I would with milk and suger mix the seeds of centaury Rue wormwood aloes and the like harts-horn is very effectual against worms wherefore you may infuse the shaveings thereof in the water or drink that the patient drinks as also to boil some thereof in his broths So also treacle drunk or taken in broth killeth the worms purslain boiled in broths and distilled and drunk is also good against the worms as also succory and mints also a
decoction of the lesser hous-leek and sebestens given with sugar before meat it is no less affectual to put wormseeds in their pap and in rosted apples and so to give them it Also you may make suppositories after this manner Supposâ—ory against the Ascarides and put them up into the fundament â„ž coralli subalbi rasurae eboris cornu cervi usti ireos an ℈ ii mellis albi â„¥ ii ss aquae centinodiae q. s ad omnia concorporanda fiant Glandes let one be put up every day of the weight of Ê’ii for children these suppositories are chiefly to be used for Ascarides as those which adhere to the right gut To such children as can take nothing by the mouth you shall apply cataplasms to their navels made of the powder of cummin-seeds the flower of Iupines wormwood southern-wood tansie the leaves of artichokes Rue the powder of coloquintida citron-seeds aloes ars-smart hors-mint peach-leaves Costus amarus Zedoaria sope and ox-gall Such cataplasms are oftimes spread over all the belly mixing therewith astringent things for the strengthening of the part as oil of myrtils Quinces and mastich you may also apply a great onion hollowed in the midst and filled with aloes and treacle and so rosted in the Embers then beaten with bitter almonds and an ox-gall Also you may make emplasters of bitter things as this which follows â„ž fellis bubuli succi absinth an â„¥ ii colocyn â„¥ i. terantur misceantur simul incorporentur cum farinâ lupinorum make hereof an emplaster to be laid upon the Navel Liniments and ointments may be also made for the same purpose to annoint the belly A plaster against the worms you may also make plasters for the navel of pillulae Ruf. annointing in the mean time the fundament with hony and sugar that they may be chased from above with bitter things and allured downwards with sweet things Or else take worms that have been cast forth dry them in an iron-pan over the fire then powder them and give them with wine or some other liquor to be drunk for so they are thought quickly to kill the rest of the worms Hereto also conduceth the juice of citrons drunk with the oil of bitter almonds or sallet-oil Also some make bathes against this affect of worm-wood galls peach-leavs boiled in water and then bathe the childe therein But in cureing the worms you must observe that this disease is oftimes entangled with another more grievous disease as an acute and burning fever a flux or scouring and the like in which as for example sake a fever being present and conjoined therewith if you shall give worm-seeds old Treacle myrrh aloes you shall increase the fever and flux for that bitter things are very contrary to these affects But if on the contrary in a flux whereby the worms are excluded you shall give corral and the flower of Lentils you shall augment the fever makeing the matter more contumacious by dry and astringent things Therefore the Physician shall be careful in considering whether the fever be a symptom of the worms or on the contrary it be essential A fever sometimes a symptom and sometimes a disease and not symptomatick that this being known he may principally insist in the use of such medicines as resist both affects as purgeing and bitterish in a fever and worms but bitter and somewhat astrictive things in the worms and flux CHAP. VI. A short description of the Elephantiasis or Leprosie and of the causes thereof THis disease is termed Elephantiasis because the skin of such as are troubled therewith is rough scabious wrinkled and unequal like the skin of an Elephant Yet this name may seem to be imposed thereon by reason of the greatness of the disease Some from the opinion of the Arabians have termed it Lepra or Leprosie but unproperly for the Lepra is a kinde of scab and disease of the skin which is vulgarly called Malum sancti manis which word for the present we will use as that which prevails by custome and antiquity Lib. 4. cap. 1. Lib. 2. cap. 11. Now the Leprosie according to Paulus is a Cancer of the whole body the which as Avicen adds corrupts the complexion form and figure of the members Galen thinks the cause ariseth from the error of the sanguifying faculty through whose default the assimulation in the flesh and habit of the body is depraved and much changed from it self and the rule of nature But ad Glauconem he defines this disease An effusion of troubled or gross blood into the veins and habit of the whole body This disease is judged great for that it partakes of a certain venenate virulency depraveing the members and comeliness of the whole body Now it appears There is a certain hidden virulency in the Leprosie that the Leprosie partakes of a certain venenate virulency by this that such as are melancholick in the whole habit of their bodies are not leprous Now this disease is composed of three differences of diseases First it consists of a distemper against nature as that which at the beginning is hot and dry and at length the ebullition of the humors ceasing and the heat dispersed it becomes cold and dry which is the conjunct cause of this symptom Also it consists of an evill composition or conformation for that it depraves the figure and beauty of the parts Also it consists of a solution of continuity when as the flesh and skin are cleft in divers parts with ulcers and chops The Leprosie hath for the most part three general causes that is the primitive antecedent and conjunctive The primitive cause of a Leprosie How they may be leprous from their first conformation The primitive cause is either from the first conformation or comes to them after they are born It is thought to be is him from the first conformation who was conceived of depraved and menstruous blood and such as inclined to melancholie who was begot of the leprous seed of one or both his parents for leprous persons generate leprous because the principal parts being tainted and corrupted with a melancholick and venenate juice it must necessarily follow that the whole mass of blood and seed that falls from it and the whole body should also be vitiated This cause happens to those that are already born by long staying and inhabiting in maritime countries whereas the gross and misty air in success of time induceth the like fault into the humors of the body for that acccording to Hippocrates such as the air is such is the spirit and such the homors Also long abideing in very hot places because the blood is torrified by heat but in cold places for that they incrassate and congealing the spirits do after a manner stupifie may be thought the primitive causes of this disease Thus in some places of Germany there are divers leprous persons but they are more frequent in Spain and over all Africa then in all the
point by the ring Into the open and hollow mouth of this instrument which is noted with the letter C. the patient must put his yard and into this concavity or hollowness goeth a stay somewhat deep it is marked with the letter B. and made or placed there both to hold or bear the end of the yard and also by his close joint that it must have unto the vessel to stay the urine from going back again when it is once in But the letters A. and D. do signifie all the instrument that the former part and this the hinder part thereof Now this is the shape thereof The figure of an Instrument which you may call A Basm or Receptacle for the Vrine Those that have their yards cut off close to their bellies are greatly troubled in making of urine so that they are constrained to sit down like women for their ease I have devised this pipe or conduit having an hole through it as big as one finger which may be made of wood or rather of latin A. and C. do shew the bigness and length of the pipe B. sheweth the brink on the broader end D. sheweth the outside of the brink This Instrument must be applied to the lower part of os pectinis on the upper end it is compassed with a brink for the passage of the urine for thereby it will receive the urine better and carry it from the patient as he standeth upright The description of a Pipe â—r Conduit serving in stead of the yard in making of water which therefore we may call an artificial yard CHAP. X. By what means the perished function or action of a thumb or finger may be corrected and amended WHen a sinew or tendon is cut clean asunder the action in that part whereof it was the author is altogether abolished so that the member cannot bend or stretch out it self unless it be holpen by art which thing I performed in a Gentleman belonging to Annas of Montmorency General of the French Horse-men An history who in the battle of Dreux received so great a wound with a back-sword upon the out side of the wrist of the right hand that the tendons that did erect or draw up the thumb were cut clean in sunder and also when the wound was throughly whole and consolidated the thumb was bowed inwards and fell into the palm of the hand so that he could not extend or liâ—t it up unless it were by the help of the other hand and then it would presently fall down again by reason whereof he could hold neither sword spear nor javelin in his hand so that he was altogether unprofitable for war without which he supposed there was no life Wherefore he consulted with me about the cutting away of his thumb which did hinder his gripings which I refused to do and told him that I conceived a means how it might be remedied without cutting away Therefore I caused a case to be made for it of latin whereinto I put the thumb this case was so artificially fastened by two strings that were put into two rings made in it above the joynt of the hand that the thumb stood upright and straight out by reason whereof he was able afterwards to handle any kind of weapon The form of a thumb or finger-stall of Iron or Latin to lift up or erect the thumb or any other finger that cannot be erected of it self If that in any man the sinews or tendons which hold the hand upright be cut asunder with a wound so that he is not able to lift up his hand it may easily be erected or lifted up with this Instrument that followeth being made of an equal straight thin but yet strong plate of latin lined on the inner side with silk or any such like soft thing and so plac't in the wrist of the hand that it may come unto the palm or the first joynts of the fingers and it must be tied above with convenient stayes and so the discommodity of the depression or hanging of the hand may be avoided therefore this Instrument may be called the Erector of the Hand The Erector of the Hand CHAP. XI Of helping those that are Vari or Valgi that is crook-legged or crook-footed inwards or outwards What Varus is THose that are said to be Vari whose feet or legs are bowed or crooked inwards This default is either from the first conformation in the womb through the default in the mother who hath her legs in like manner crooked or because that in the time when she is great with childe she commonly sits with her legs across or else after the child is born and that either because his legs be not well swathed when he is laid into the cradle or else because they be not well pleased in carrying the infant or if he be not well looked unto by the Nurse when he learneth to go for the bones are very tender and almost as flexible as wax What Valgus is But contrariwise those are called Valgi whose legs are crooked or bowed outwards This may come through the default of the first conformation as well as the other for by both the feet also and the knees may be made crooked which thing whosoever will amend must restore the bones into their proper and natural place so that in those that are varous he must thrust the bones outwards as though he would make them valgous neither is it sufficient to thrust them so but they ought also to be retained there in their places after they are so thrust for otherwise they being not well established would slip back again They must be stayed in their places by applying of collars and bolsters on that side whereunto the bones do lean and incline themselves for the same purpose boots may be made of leather of the thickness of a testone having a slit in the former part all along the bone of the leg and also under the sole of the foot that being drawn together on both sides they may be the better fitted and sit closer to the leg A plaister to hold fast restored bones And let this medicine following be applyed all about the leg â„ž thuris mastich alces boli armeni in â„¥ i. aluminis roch refine pini sicca subtilissimè pulveris an Ê’iii farinae vilat â„¥ ss album â—vor q. s make thereof a medicine You may also add a little Turpentine lest it should dry sooner or more vehemently then is necessary But you must beware and take great heed lest that such as were of late varous or valgous should attempt or strain themselves to go before that their joynts be confirmed for so the bones that were lately set in their places may slip aside again And moreover until they are able to go without danger let them wear high shoos tied close to their feet that the bones may be stayed the better and more firmly in their places but let that side of the soal of the shooe
temperature of his inâ—ward parts so that disâ—ases are oft times hereditary the weakness of this or that entral being translated from the parent to the child Wherefore many diseases are heredetary How seed is to be understood to faâ—l from the whole body There are some which suppose this falling of the seed from the whole bodie not to â—e uâ—derstood according to the weight and matter as if it were a certain portion of all the bloud separated from the rest but according to the power and form that is to say the animal natural and vital spirits being the frâ—mers of formation and life and also the formative faculty to fall down from all the parts into the seed that is wrought or perfected by the Testicles for proof and confirmation whereof they alledge that many perfect sound absolute and well proportioned children are born of â—ame and decrepit Parents CHAP. I. Why the generative parts are endued with great pleasure What moveth a man to copulation A Certain great pleasure accompanieth the function of the parts appointed for generation and before it in living creatures that are of a lusty age when matter aboundeth in those parts there goeth a certain fervent or furious desire the causes thereof many of which the chiefest is That the kind may be preserved and kept for ever by the propagation and substitâ—tion of other living creatures of the same kind For brute beasts which want reason and therefore cannot be sol citous for the preservation of their kind never come to carâ—al copulation unless they be moved thereunto by a certain vehement provocation of unbridled lust and as it were by the stimulation of Venery But man that is endued with reason being a divine and most noble creature would never yield nor make his minde subject to a thing so abject and filthy as is carnal copulation but that the Venereous ticklings raised in those parts relax the severity of his minde or reason admonisheth him that the memory of his name ought not to end with his life but to be preserved unto all generations as far as may be possible by the propagation of hâ—s seed or issue Therefore by reason of this profit or commodity nature hath endued the genitals with a far more exact or exquisite sense then the other parts by sending the great sinews unto them and moreover she hath caused them to be bedewed or moistned with a certain whayish humor not much unlike the seed sent from the glandules or kernels called prostata situated in men at the beginning of the neck of the bladder but in women at the bottom of the womb this moisture hath a certain sharpness or biting for that kind of humors of all others can chiefly provoke those parts to their function or office and yeeld them a d lectable pleasure while they are in execution of the same For even so whayish and sharp humors when they are gathered together under the skin if they wax warm tickle with a certain pleasant itching and by their motion infer delight but the nature of the genital parts or members is not stirred up or provoked to the expulsion of the seed with these provocations of the humors abounding either in quantity or quality only but a certain great and hot spirit or breath contained in those parts doth begin to dilate it self more and more which causeth a certain incredible excess of pleasure or voluptuousness wherewith the genitals being replete are spread forth or distended every way unto their ful greatness The yard is given to men whereby they may cast out their seed directly or straitly into the womans womb and the the neck of the womb to women whereby they may receive that seed so cast forth by the open or wide mouth of the same neck and also that they may cast forth their own seed sent through the speâ—matick vessels unto their testicles The cause of folding of the spermatick vessels these spermatick vessels that is to say the vein lying above and the artery lying below do make many flexions or windings yet one as many as the other like unto the tendâ—ils of vines diversly platted or folded together and in those folds or bendings the blood and spirit which are carried unto the testiles are concocted a longer time and so converted into a white seminal substance The lower of these flexions or bowings do end in the stones or testicles But the testicles forasmuch as they are loose thin and spongeous or hollow receiving the humor which was begun to be concocted in the fore-named vessels concoct it again themselves but the testicles of men concoct the more perfectly for the procreation of the issue and the testicles of women more imperfectly because they are more cold less weak and feeble Wâ—mens testicles more imperfect but the seed becommeth white by the contact or touch of the testicles because the substance of them is white The male is such as engendreth in another and the female in her self by the spermatick vessels which are implanted in the inner capacity of the womb Why many men and women abhor venerous copulation But out of all doubt unless nature had prepared so many allurements baits and provocations of pleasure there is scarce any man so hot and delighted in venerous acts which considering and marking the pâ—ace appointed for humane conception the loathsomness of the filth which daily falleth down into it and wherewithall it is humected and moistned and the vicinity and nearness of the great gut under it and of the bladder above it but would shun the embraces of women Nor would any women desire the company of man which once premeditates or fore-thinks with her self on the labour that she should sustain iâ— bearing the burthen of her childe nine moneths and of the almost deadly pains that she shall suffer in her delivery Men that use too frequent copulation Why the str ngury ensueth immoderate copulation oftentimes in stead of seed cast forth a crude and bloody humor and sometimes meer blood it self and oft-times they can hardly make water but with great pain by reason that the clammy and oily moisture which nature hath placed in the glandules called prostatae to make the passage of the urine slippery and to defend it against the sharpness of the urine that passeth through it is wasted so that afterward they shall stand in need of rhe help of a Surgeon to cause them to make water with ease and without pain by injecting of a little oyl out of a Syringe into the conduit of the yard What things necessary unto generation For in generation it is fit the man cast forth his seed into the womb with a certain impetuosity his yard being stiff and distended and the woman to receive the same without delay into her womb being wide open lest that through delay the seed wax cold and so become unfruitful by reason that the spirits are dissipated and consumed The yard is
the shortness of the ligature ligament that is under the yard doth make it to be crooked and violate the stiff straightness thereof so that it cannot be put directly or straightly into the womans privy parts There be some that have not the orifice of the conduit of the yard rightly in the end thereof but a little higher so that they cannot ejaculate or cast out their seed into the womb The sign of the palsie in the yard Also the paritcular palsie of the yard is numbred amongst the causes of barrenness and you may prove whether the palsie be in the yard by dipping the genitals in cold water for except they do draw themselves together or shrink up after it it is a token of the palsie for members that have the palsie by the touching of cold water do not shrink up but remain in their accustomed laxity and looseness but in this case the genitals are endued with small sense the seed commeth out without pleasure or stiffness of the yard the stones in touching are cold and to conclude those that have their bodies daily waxing lean through a consumption or that are vexed with an evill hâ—bit or disposition or with the obstruction of some of the entrals are barren and unfertil and likewise those in whom some noble part necessary to life and generation exceedeth the bounds of nature with some great distemperature and lastly those who by any means have their genital parts deformed Magick bands and enchanted knots Here I omit those that are withholden from the act of generation by inchantment magick witching and inchanted knots bands and ligatures for those causes belong not to Physick neither may they be taken away by the remedies of our Art The Doctors of the Canon laws have made mention of those magick bands which may have power in them in the particular title De frigidis maleficiatis impoteatibus incantatis also St. August hath made mention of them Tract 7. in Joan. CHAP. XXXVIII Of the barrenness or unfruitfulness of Women A Woman may become barren or unfruitful through the obstruction of the passage of the seed The cause why the neck of the womb is narrow or throng straitness and narrowness of the neck of the womb comming either through the default of the formative faculty or else afterwards by some mischance as by an abscess scirrhus warts chaps or by an ulcer which being cicatrized doth make the way more narrow so that the yard cannot have free passage thereinto Moreover The membrane called Hymen the membrane called Hymen when it groweth in the midst or in the bottom of the neck of the womb hinders the receiving of the mans seed Also if the womb be over-slippery or more loose or over wide it maketh the woman to be barren so doth the suppression of the menstrual fluxes or the too immoderate flowing of the courses or whites which commeth by the default of the womb or some entrail or of the whole body which consumeth the menstrual matter and carrieth the seed away with it The cold and moist distemperature of the womb extinguishes and suffocates the man's seed The cause of the flux of women and maketh it that it will not stay or cleave unto the womb and stay till it be concocted but the more hot and dry both corrupt for want of nourishment for the seeds that are sown either in a marish or sandy ground cannot prosper well also a mola contained in the womb the falling down of the womb the leanness of the womans body ill humors bred by eating crude and raw fruits or great or overmuch whereof obstructions and crudities follow which hinder her fruitfulness Furthermore by the use of stupefactive things the seminal matter is congealed and restrained and though it flow and be cast out yet it is deprived of the prolifick power and of the lively heat and spirits the orifices or cotyledones of the ve ns and arteries are stopped and so the passage for the menstrual matter into the womb is stopped When the Kâ—ll is so far that it girdeth in the womb narrowly it hindereth the fruitfulness of the woman because it will not permit the mans seed to enter into the womb Moreover the fat and fleshy habit of the man or woman hinder generation For it hindreth them that they cannot join their genital parts together Aph. 36. sect 5. Gal. lib. 14. de usu par cap. 9. Arist in prob sect dester quae 3. 4. and by how much the more blood goeth into fat by so much the less is remaining to be turned into seed and menstrual blood which two are the originals and principals of generation Those women that are speckled in the face somewhat lean and pale because they have their genitals moistened with a saltish sharp and tickling humor are more given to Venery then those that are red and fat Finally Hippocrates sets down four causes only why women are barren and unfruitful The first is because they cannot receive the mans seed by reason of the fault of the neck of the womb the second because when it is received into the womb they cannot conceive it the third is because they cannot nourish it the fourth because they are not able to carry or bear it untill the due and lawful time of birth These things are necessary to generation the object will faculty concourse of the seeds and the remaining or abiding thereof in the womb untill the due and appointed natural time CHAP. XXXIX The signs of a distempered Womb. THat woman is thought to have her womb too hot The signs of a hot womb whose coâ—â—ses come forth sparingly and with pain and exulcerate by reason of their heat the superfluous matter of the blood being dissolved or turned into winde by the power of the heat whereupon that menstrual blood that floweth forth is more gross and black For it is the propriety of heat by digesting the thinner substance to thicken the rest and by adustion to make it more black Furthermore she that hath her genitals itching with the desire of copulation will soon exclude the seed in copulation and she shall feel it more sharp as it goeth through the passages That woman hath too cold a womb whose flowers are either stopped or flow sparingly and those pale and not well colored Those that have less desire of copulation have less delight therein The signs of a cold womb and their seed is more liquid and waterish and not staining a linnen cloth by sticking thereunto and it is sparingly and slowly cast forth That womb is too moist that floweth continually with many liquid excrements The signs of a moist womb which therefore will not hold the seed but presently after copulation suffereth it to fall out which will easily cause abortion The signs of too dry a womb appear in rhe little quantity of the courses in the profusion of a small quantity of seed by the desire of
therefore laying aside the composition of Cerats let us speak of Emplasters Emplasters An Emplaster is a composition which is made up of all kinde of medicines especially of fat and dry things agreeing in one gross viscous solid and hard body sticking to the fingers The differences of Emplasters are taken from those things which the variety of ointments are taken from Of those things which go into the composition of an Emplaster some are only used for their quality and faculty as Wine Vinegar Juices Others to make the consistence as Litharge which according to Galen is the proper matter of Emplasters Wax Oil and Rosin Others be useful for both as Gums Metals parts of beasts Rosin Turpentine to digest to cleanse and dry Of Emplasters some are made by boiling some are brought into a form without boiling those which be made without fire do sudâ—â—â—â—y nor are they viscous they are made with meal and powder with some juice or wit◠〈◊〉 â—umid matter mingled with them But plasters of this kinde may rather be called hard 〈◊〉 or cataplasms for plasters properly so called are boiled some of them longer som◠〈◊〉 according to the nature of those things which make up the composition of the Emplâ—â—â—herefore it will be worth our labor to know what Emplasters do ask more or which less beâ—◠〈◊〉 or roots woods leavs stalks flowers seeds being dried and brought into powder are 〈◊〉 be added last when the plasâ—er is boiled as it were and taken from the fire least the virtue of these things be lost But if green things are to be used in a composition they are to be boâ—led in some liquor and being pressed forth that which is strained to be mingled with the rest of the composition or if there be juice to be used it is to be bruised and pressed forth which is so to be boiled with the other things that nothing for the quality is to remain with the mixture as we use to do in Empl. de Janna seu Betonica Gratia Dei The same is to be done with Mucilages but that by their clamminess they do more resist the fire But there doth much of oil and hony remain in their plasters when they are made Those juices which are hardened by concretion as Alces Hypâ—cystis Acacia when they are used in the composition of a plaster and be yet new they must be macerated and dissolved in some proper liquor and then they are to be boiled to the consumption of that liquor Gums as Opopanax Galbanum Sagapenum Ammoniacum must be dissolved in Wine Vinegar or Aqua vitae then strained and boiled to the consumption of the liquor and then mixed with the rest of the plaster And that they may have the exact quantity of Guns and Pitch it is necessary that first they be dissolved strained and boiled because of the sticks and sordid matter which are mingled with them You must have respect also to the liquor you use to dissolve them in for Vinegar of the best Wine doth more powerfully penetrate then that which is of weak and bad Wine Other Gums which are drier are to be powdred and are to be mingled with plasters last of all Metals as Aes ustum Chalcitis Magnes Bolus Armenius Sulphur Auripigmentum and others which may be brought to powder must be mingled last unless advice be given by long boiling to dull the fierce qualities of them The like consideration is to be had of Rosin Pitch and Turpentine which must be put in after the Wax and may not be boiled but very gently but the fats are mingled whilst the other things are boiling The Litharge is to be boiled with the oil to a just consistence if we would have the plaster dry without biting Ceâ—uss may endure as long boiling but then the plaster shall not be white neither will the Litharge of silver make a plaster with so good a color as Litharge of gold Moreover this order must be observed in boiling up of plasters the Litharge must be boiled to his consistence juices or mucilages are to be boiled away then add the fats then the dry Rosin Wax-Gums Turpentine and after them the powders You shall know the plaster is boiled enough by his consistence Signs of a plaster perfect y boiled gross hard glutinous and sticking to the fingers being cooled in the air water or upon a stone Also you shall know it by his exact mixtion if that all the things become one mâ—sâ— hard to be broken The quantity of things which are to be put into a plaster can hardly be described but an artificial conjecture may be given by considering the medicaments which make the plaster stiff The quantity of things to be put into plasters and of a consistence and the just hardness and softness they make being boiled Wax is not put into such plasters wherein is Labdanum for that is in stead of Wax For if there shall be in the composition of a plaster some emplastick medicaments the Wax shall be the less Contrariwise if they shall be almost all liquid things the Wax shall be increased so much as shall be necessary for the consistence of the plaster The quantity of the Wax also must be altered according to the time or the air therefore it is fit to leave this to the art and judgment of the Apothecary Emplasters are sometimes made of ointments by the addition of wax or dry rosin or some other hard or solid matter Some would that a handful of medicaments poudred should be mingled with one ounce or an ounce and an half of oil or some such liquor but for this thing nothâ—ng can certainly be determined Only in plasters described by the Antients there must be great care had wherein he must be very well versed who will not err in the describing the dose of them and therefore we will here give you the more common forms of plasters â„ž ol chamaem aneth de spica liliacei an â„¥ ii ol de croco â„¥ i. pingued porci lb i. pingued vitul Empl. de Vigo with Mercury lb. ss euphorb Ê’ v. thuris Ê’ x. ol lauri â„¥ i ss ranas viv nu vi pingued viper vel ejus loco human â„¥ ii ss lumbricor lotor in vino â„¥ iii ss succi ebuli enul ana â„¥ ii scoenanthi staechados matricar an m. ii vini oderiferi lb ii litharg auri lb i. terebinth clarae â„¥ ii styracis liquid â„¥ i ss argenti vivi exstincti so much as the present occasion shall require and the sick shall be able to bear and make up the plaster they do commonly add four ounces of quick-silver yet for the most part they do increase the dose as they desire the plaster should be stronger the worms must be washed with fair water and then with a little wine to cleanse them from their earthy filth of which they are full and so the frogs are to be washt and macerated in wine and so boiled together to
linnen-clothes dipped therein A water also distilled of snails gathered in a vine-vine-yard juice of lemmons the flowers of white mullain mixed together in equal proportion with a like quantity of the liquor contained in the bladders of Elm-leaves is very good for the same purpose Also this â„ž micae panis albi lb iv flor fabar rosar alb flor nenuph. lilior ireos an lb ii lactis vaccini lb vi ova nu viii aceti â—pt lb i. distillentur omnia simul in alembico vitrâ—c fiat aqua ad faciei et manuum lotionem Or â„ž olei de tartaro â„¥ iii. mucag. sem psilii â„¥ i. cerus in oleo ros dissolut â„¥ i. ss borac sal gem an Ê’ i. fiat linimentum profacie Or â„ž caponem vivum et caseum ex lacte caprino recenter confectum limon nu iv ovor nu iv cerus lâ—t in aq rosar â„¥ ii boracis â„¥ i ss camph. â„¥ ii aq flor fabar lb iv fiat omnium infusio per xxiv horas postea distillentur in alembico vitreo The marrow of sheeps-bones good to smooth the face There is a most excellent fucus made of the marrow of sheeps-bones which smooths the roughness of the skin beautifies the face now it must be thus extracted Take the bones severed from the flesh by boiling beat them and so boil them in water when they are well boiled take them from the fire and when the water is cold gather the fat that swims upon it and there with anoint your face when as you go to bed and wash it in the morning with the formerly prescribed water How to make Sal ceâ—ussa â„ž salis ceruss Ê’ ii ung citrin vel spermat ceti â„¥ i. malaxentur simul et fiat linimentum addendo olei ovor Ê’ ii The Sal cerussae is thus made grinde Ceruss into very fine powder and infuse lb 1. thereof in a bottle of distilled vineger for four or five daies then filter it then set that you have filtred in a glased earthen vessel over a gentle fire until it concrete into salt just as you do the capitellum in making of cauteries â„ž excrementi lacert ossis saepiae tartari vini albi rasur corn cerv farin oriz. an partes aequales fiat pulvis infundatur in aqua distillata amygdalarum dulcium limacum vinealium flor nenuph. huic addito mellis albi par pondus let them all be incorporated in a marble morter and kept in a glass or silver vessel and at night anoint the face herewith it wonderfully prevails against the redness of the face if after the anointing it you shall cover the face with a linnen cloth moistened in the former described water â„ž sul lim Ê’i argent viv saliv extinct Ê’ii margarit non perforat Ê’i caph Ê’ i ss incorporentur simul in mortario marmoreo cum pistillo ligneo per tres horas ducantur et fricentur reducanturque in tenuissimum pulverem confectus pulvis abluatur aquâ myrti et desiccetur serveturque ad usum adde follorum auri et argenti nu x. When as you would use this powder put into the palm of your hand a little oyl of mastich or of sweet-almonds then presently in that oyl dissolve a little of the described powder and so work it into an ointment wherewith let the face be anointed at bed-time but it is fit first to wash the face with the formerly described waters and again in the morning when you arise How to paint the face When the face is freed from wrinkles and spots then may you paint the cheeks with a rosie and flourishing colour for of the commixture of white and red ariseth a native and beautiful color for this purpose take as much as you shall think fit of brasil and alchunet steep them in alum-water and therewith touch the cheeks and lips and so suffer it to dry in there is also spanish red made for this purpose others rub the mentioned parts with a sheeps-skin died red moreover the friction that is made by the hand only causeth a pleasing redness in the face by drawing thither the blood and spirits GHAP. XLV Of the Gutta Rosacea or a fiery face THis treatise of Fuci puts me in minde to say something in this place of helping the preternatural redness which possesseth the nose and cheeks Why worse in winter then in summar and oft-times all the face besides one while with a tumor otherwhiles without sometimes with pustles and scabs by reason of the admixture of a nitrous and adust humor Practitioners have termed it Gutta rosacca This shews both more and more ugly in winter then in summer because the cold closeth the pores of the skin so that the matter contained thereunder is bent up for want of transpiration whence it becomes acrid and biting so that as it were boiling up it lifts or raiseth the skin into pustles and scabs it is a contumacious disease and oft-times not to be helped by medicine For the general method of curing this disease it is fit that the patient abstain from wine Diet. and from all things in general that by their heat inflame the blood and diffuse it by their vaporous substance he shall shun hot and very cold places and shall procure that his belly may be soluble either by nature or art Let blood first be drawn out of the basilica then from the vena frontis and lastly from the vein of the nose Let leeches be applied to sundry places of the face and cupping-glasses with scarification to the shoulders For particular or proper remedies if the disease be inveterate Remedies the hardness shall first be softned with emollient things then assaulted with the following ointments which shall be used or changed by the Chirurgian as the Physician shall think fit â„ž succi citri â„¥ iii. cerus quantum sufficit ad eum inspissandum An approved ointment argenti vivi cum saliva et sulphure vivo extincti Ê’ ss incorporentur simul et fiat unguentum â„ž boracis Ê’ii farin ciser et fabar an Ê’ i ss caph Ê’i cum melle et succo cepae fiant trochisci when you would use them dissolve them in rose and plantain-water and spread them upon linnen cloths and so apply them on the night-time to the affected parts and so let them oft-times be renewed â„ž unguenti citrini recenter dispensati â„¥ ii sulphuris vivi â„¥ ss cum modico olei sem cucurb et succi limonum fiat unguentum with this let the face be annointed when you go to bed in the morning let it be washed away with rose-water being white by reason of bran infused therein moreover sharp vineger boiled with bran and rose-water and applied as before powerfully takes away the redness of the face â„ž cerus litharg auri sulphuris vivi pulverisati an â„¥ ss ponantur in phiala cum aceto aquae rosarum linnen cloths dipped herein shall be applied to the
the fiery and aiery parts wherefore the Wine becoming sowr there remains nothing of the former substance but phlegm wherefore seeing phlegm is chiefly predominant in Vineger it first rises in distillation Wherefore he that hopes to distil the spirit of Vineger he must cast away the phlegmatick substance that first substance that first rises and when by his taste he shall perceive the spirit of Vineger he shall keep the fire thereunder until the flowing liquor shall become as thick as hony then must the fire be taken away otherwise the burning of it will cause a great stinch The vessels fit to distil aqua vitae and Vineger are divers as an Alembick or Retort set in sand or Ashes a Copper or brass-bottom of a Stil with a head thereto having a pipe comming forth thereof which runs into a worm or pipe fastned in a barrel or vessel filled with cold water and having the lower end comming forth thereof whose figure we shall give you when as we come to speak of the drawing of oyls out of vegetables CHAP. IX Of the manner of rectifying that is how to increase the strength of waters that have been once distilled The first way TO rectifie the waters that have been distilled in Balneo Mariae you must set them in the Sun in glasses well stopped and half filled being set in sand to the third part of their height that the water waxing hot by the heat of the Sun may separate it self from the phlegm mixed therewith which will be performed in 12. or 15. dayes There is another better way to do this which is to distil them again in Balneo with a gentle fire or if you will put them into a Retort furnished with his receiver and set them upon chrystal or iron-bowls or in an iron-mortar directly opposite to the beams of the Sun The second as you may learn by these ensuing signs A Retort with his receiver standing upon Chrystal-bowls just opposite to the Sun-beams A. Shews the Retort B. The receiver C. The Châ—ystal bowls Another Retort with his receiver standing in a Marble or Iron-mortar directly opposite to the Sun A. Shews the Retort B. The marble or Iron-mâ—â—tar C The receiver CHAP. X. Of Distillation by filtring YOu shall set three basins or vessels of convenient matter in that fite and order that each may be higher than other that which stands in the highest place shall contain the liquor to be distilled and that which stands lowest shall receive the distilled liquor Out of the first and second vessel shall hang shreds or pieces of cloth or cotton with their broader ends in the liquor or upper vessel and the other sharper ends hanging down whereby the more subtil and defecate liquor may fall down by drops into the vessel that stands under it but the grosser and more feculent part may subside in the first and second vessel You by this means may at the same time distil the same liquor divers times if you place many vessels one under another after the fore-mentioned manner and so put shreds into each of them so that the lowest vessel may receive the purified liquor In stead of this distillation Apothecaries of-times use bags The description of vessels to perform the distillation or filtration by shreds A. Shews the vessel B. The Cloths or shreds â„ž litharg auri diligenter pulveris â„¥ iii. macerentur in aceti boni â„¥ vi trium horarum spatio seorsim etiam in aqua plantaginis solani rosarum aut commun sal infundatur then distil them both by shreds then mix the distilled liquors and you shall have that which for the milky whiteness is termed Virgins milk being good against the redness and pimples of the face Cap. 44. of fuci as we have noted in our Antidotary CHAP. XI What and how many waies there are to make oyls YOu may by three means especially draw to extract the oyls that you desire The first is by expression and so are made the oyls of Olives nuts seeds fruits and the like Oyls by expression By infusion By distillation Under this is thought to be contained elixation when as the beaten materials are boiled in water that so the oyl may swim aloft and by this means are made the oyls of the seeds of Elder and danewort and of Bay-berries Another is by infusion as that which is by infusing the parts of plants and other things in oyls The third is by distillation such is that which is drawn by the heat of the fire whether by ascent or by descent or by concourse The first way is known by all now it is thus Take almonds in their husks beat them work them into a mass then put them into a bag made of hair or else of strong cloth first steeped in water or in white-wine then put them into a press and so extract their oyl You may do the same in pine-apple-kernels Hazel-nuts Coco-nuts nutmegs peach-kernels the seeds of gouâ—ds and cucumbers pistick-nuts and all such oily things Oyl of bayes may be made of ripe bay-berries newly gathered Oyl of Balberries let them be beaten in a mortar and so boyled in a double vessel and then forthwith put into a press so to extract oyl as you do from Almonds unless you had rather get it by boiling as we have formerly noted Oyl of Eggs is made of the yelks of Eggs boyled very hard when they are so Of Eggs. rub them to pieces with your fingers then frie them in a pan over a gentle fire continually stirring them with a spoon until they become red and the oyl be resolved and flow from them then put them into a hair-cloth and so press forth the oyl The oyls prepared by infusion are thus made make choise of good oyl wherein let plants or creatures or the parts of them be macerated for some convenient time that is until they may seem to have transfused their faculties into the oyl then let them be boiled so strained or pressed out But if any aquosity remain let it be evaporated by boiling Some in compounding of oyls add gums to them of which though we have formerly spoken in our Antidotary yet have I thought good to give you this one example Oyl of S. Johns-wort â„ž flor hyper â„ž ss immitantur in phialam cum flo cent gum elemi an â„¥ ii olei com lb ii Let them be exposed all the heat of Summer to the Sun If any will add aqua vitae wherein some Benzoin is dissolved he shall have a most excellent oyl in this kinde Oyl of mastich is made Ex olei rosati â„¥ xii mastich â„¥ iii. vini optimi â„¥ viii Let them all be boiled together to the consumption of the wine then strain the oyl and reserve it in a vessel CHAP. XII Of extracting of Oyls of vegetables by Distillation ALmost all herbs that carry their flowers and seeds in an umble have seeds of a hot subtil and aiery substance and
consequently oily Now because the oily substance that is contained in simple bodies What oyls are to be drawn by expression is of two kindes therefore the manner also of extracting is two-fold For some is gross earthy viscous and wholly confused and mixt with the bodies out of which they ought to be drawn as that which we have said is usually extracted by expression this because it most tenaciously adheres to the grosser substance and part of the body therefore it cannot by reason of this natural grossness be lifted up or ascend Othersome are of a slender and aiery substance which is easily severed from their body wherefore being put to distillation it easily riâ—es such is the oily substance of aromatick things as of Juniper Aniseeds Cloves Nutmegs The first manner of drawing oyls by distillation Cinnamom Pepper Ginger and the like odoriferous and spicy things This the manner of extracting oyls out of them let your matter be well beaten and infused in water to that proportion that for every pound of the material there may be ten pints of water infuse it in a copper-bottom having a head thereto either tinned or silvered over and furnished with a couler filled w th cold-water Set your vessel upon a fornace having a fire in it or else in sand or ashes When as the water contained in the head shall wax hot you must draw it forth and put in cold that so the spirits may the better be condensed and may not flye away you shall put a long-neckt-receiver to the nose of the Alembick and you shall increase the fire until the things contained in the Alembick boil Another way There is another manner of performing this distillation the matter preserved and infused as we have formerly declared shall be put in a brass or copper-bottom covered with his head to which shall be fitted or well luted a worm of Tin this worm shall run through a barrel filled with cold-cold-water that the liquor which flows forth with the oyl may be cooled in the passage forth at the lower end of this worm you shall set your Receiver The fire gentle at the first shall be increased by little and little until the contained matter as we formerly said do boil but take heed that you make not too quick or vehement a fire for so the matter swelling up by boiling may exceed the bounds of the containing vessel and so violently flye over Observ ng these things you shall presently at the very first see an oily moisture flowing forth together with the waterish When the oyl hath done flowing which you may know by the color of the distilled liquor as also by the consistence and taste then put out the fire and you may separate the oyl from the water by a little vessel made like a Thimble and tied to the end of a stick or which is better with a glass-funnel or instrument made of glass for the same purpose Here you must also note that there be some oyls that swim upon the top of the water as oyl of aniseeds othersome on the contrary What oyls fall to the bottom which fall to the bottom as oyl of Cinnamon Mace and Cloves Moreover you must note that the watrish moisture or water that is distilled with oyl of Anniseed and Cinnamom is whitish and in success of time will in some small proportion turn into oyl Also these waters must be kept several for they are far more excellent then those that are distilled by Balneo Mariae especially those that first come forth together with the oyl Oyls are of the same faculties with the bodies from whence they are extracted but much more effectual for the force which formerly was diffused in many pounds of this or that medicine is after distillation contracted into a few drams For example the faculty that was dispersed over one pound of Cloves will be contracted into two ounces of oyl at the most and that which was in a pound of Cinnamon will be drawn into Ê’iss or Ê’ii at the most of oyl But to draw the greater quantity with the lesser charge and without fear of breaking the vessels whereto glasses are subject I like that you distil them in copper-vessels for you need not fear that the oyl which is distilled by them will contract an ill quality from the copper for the watrish moisture that flows forth together therewith will hinder it especially if the copper shall be tinned or silvered over I have thought good to describe and set before your eyes the whole manner of this operation A Fornace with set vessels to extract the Chymical oyls or spirits of Sage Rosemary Tyme Lavander Anniseeds Fennel-seeds Cloves Nutmegs Cinnamon Pepper Ginger and the like as also to distill the spirit of Wine of Vineger and Aqua vitae In stead of the barrel and worm you may use a head with a bucket or rowler about it A. Shews the bottom which ought to be of Copper and tinned on the in side B. The head C. The barrel filled with cold water to refrigerate and condensate the water and oyl that run through the pipe or worm that is put through it D. A pipe of brass or lattin or rather a worm of Tin running through the Barrel E. The Alembick set in the fornace with the fire under it Now because we have made mention of Cinnamon Pepper The description of Pepper and other spices which grow not hâ—re with us I have thought good to describe there out of Thevets Cosmography he having seen them growing Pepper grows upon shrubs in India these shrubs send forth little branches whereon hang clusters of berries like to Ivie-berries or bunches of small black grapes or currans the leaves are like those of the Citron-tree but sharpish and pricking The Iadians gather those berries with great diligence and stow them up in large cellars as soon as they come to perfect maturity Wherefore it oft-times happens that there are more then 200 ships upon the coast of the lesser Iava an Island of that country to carry thence Pepper and other spices Pepper is used in antidotes against Poysons it provokes urine digests attracts resolves and cures the bites of Serpents It is properly applied and taken inwardly against a cold stomach The uses thereof in sauces it helps concoction and procures appetite you must make choice of such as is black heavy and not flaccid The trees which bear white and those that bear black pepper are so like each other that the natives themselves know not which is which unless when they have their fruit hanging upon them as the like happens upon our Vines which bear white black Grapes The tree that yeels Cinnamon grows in the mountain of India The Cinnamon tree and hath leaves very like to baye-leaves branches and shoots at certain times of the year are cut from this tree by the appointment of the Kâ—ng of that Province the bark of which is that we term
descent Crucibiles and another such-Vessels for Calcination Hair-strainers Bags Earthen-platters Vessels for circulation as Pelicacanes Earthen-basins for filtring Fornaces The secret Fornaces of Philosophers The Philosophers egg Cacurbites Retorts Bolt-heads Urinals Receivers Vessels so fitted together that the lowermost receives the mouth of the uppermost whence they may be termed conjoined Vessels they are used in distilling per descensum Marbs exquisitely smooth for distillations to be made in Cellars Pots to dissolve calcined metalls in A Catalogue of the Surgeons Instruments mentioned in this whole work RIngs wherein little Lancets lye hid to open Impostumes Trunks or hollow instruments going with springs A vent or cooler for the womb made like a pessary Hollow tents Sundry Cauteries as flat round sharp-pointed cutting c. Constrictory rings to twitch or binde the Columella Speculum Otis Ocul Ani Vteri A trunk or pipe with an actual Cautery in it Crooked Knives A pipe in form of a quill Divers trusses with one or more bolsters A shoulder-band to be put about the neck to hold up a truss A needle to draw through a golden wier c. Pipes with fenestels and needls fit for futures Cutting Mâ—llets Mullets only to hold and not to cut Mullets to take forth splinters of bones Mullets to draw teeth An incision-knife Scrapers to plain or smooth the bones or else to cut them Cutting or hollow scrapers A leaden mallet to drive the Scrapers or Chizzels into the scull A Gimblet in shape and use resembling that which Coopers use to lift up the sunk staves of their cask withall Levatories of which kinde is the three-footed one Old Levatories which taken by their handles and their tongues put under the deprest bones lift them up Saws A desquamatory Trepan Pliers to take forth splinters of bones A Gimblet to perforate the scull A Trepan fit to divide the scull with the scrue point or piercer brace and cover or cap that keeps it from running in too far A plate to set one foot of the Compass upon A cutting pair of compasses both open and shut a fit instrument to depress the Dura mater without hurting thereof A syringe to make injection withall A pair of Pincers with holes through them to make up the skin for making a Seton Setons as well drye as moistened with ointments The Beaks of Crows Parats Swans Ducks Lizards Cranes are either strait crooked toothed or smooth Catch-bullets and Pliers to draw forth pieces of mail and splinters of bones that lye deep in Hollow and smoth Dilaters diversly made for the different wounds of the parts Probes fit for to put flamulas into wounds and these are either strait or crooked perforated or unperforated Scrued mullets to draw forth barbed heads of crrows and the like Lancets to let blood and scarifie as well strait as crooked A Pyulcos or Matter-drawer Ligatures bands swathes thongs of leather woollen linnen round slit sown together again some are upper binders other under-binders Again these are either expressing or else containing and that either the applied medicine or the lips of wounds or members put in a fit posture which therefore they call a sarcotick Ligature Thred Bottoms or clews of thred or yarn Pledgets compresses boulsters doubled cloaths Ferulae or Splints Casses Boxes Junks Glossocomies Ambi a kinde of Glossocomy A pully with its wheels and wooden and Iron-pins whereon the wheels may run Ropes as well to draw and extend as hold up the member c. Scruepins A hand-vice Hooks Buttons or staies to fasten to the skin to hold together the lips of the wounds Lint cussions pillows linnen-cloathes Files Dentiscalpia Dentifricia Dentispiscia Catheters guiders of the work Abathing chair or seat bathing-tubs half-rubs caldrons funnels with all other circumstances belonging to a bath Stoves or hot-houses to sweat in Cocks to turn and let out water A Gimblet to break the stone Hooks Hollow probes slit on the upper sides Winged instruments to draw forth stones An instrument to cleanse the bladder Spatulas straight and crooked Cupping-glasses Horns Pipes or Catheters to wear Caruncles Artificial members as eyes of gold enamelled c. An Urinal or case to save the water in An artificial yard Crutches Nipples or leaden covers for sore breasts Griffius talons to draw forth a mola out of the womb A sucking-glass to draw a breast withal Pessaries both long and oval Syringes to give glysters as also to make injection into the ears and womb The Effigies of HIPPOCRATES of Côos the Prince of Physicians INVICTUM Hippocrates quòd te potuere superbae Eoî numquam flectere Regis opes Cecropidae fronti ex auro fulgente coronam Promeriti memores imposuere tuae Gratia sed levis est Actaeis tantus Athenis Nec fuit hinc uni quám tibi partus honos Nam quòd quae recreent languentia corpora morbo Paeonias fueris promere largus opes Sed tua tam fundit quà m magni machina mundi Gratia insignis tam tua fama volat BON. GRA. PARIS MEDIC Select Aphorisms concerning Surgery collected out of the Aphorisms of the great HIPPOCRATES Aphor. 27. sect 6. WHosoever being suppurate or hydropical are burnt or cut therefore if all the matter or water flow forth at once they certainly dye 31. 6. The drinking of wine or a bath fomentation blood-letting or purging help the pains of the eyes 38. 6. Such as have hidden or not ulcerated Cancers had better not to cure them For healed they quickly dye not cured they live the longer 55. 6. Gouty-pains usually stirr in the Spring and Fall 28. 6. Eunuchs are not troubled with the Gout neither do they become bald 49. 6. Whosoever are troubled with the Gout have ease in forty daies the inflammation ceasing 66. 5. In great and dangerous wounds if no swelling appear it is ill 67. 5. Soft tumors are good but crude ones ill 25. 6. For an Erysipelas or inflammation to return from without inwards it is not good but to come from within outwards is very good 19. 7. An Erysipelas comming upon the bearing of a bone is evil 20. 7. Putrefaction or suppuration comming upon an Erysipelas is ill 21. 6. If Varices or Haemorrhoides happen to such as are mad their madness ceases 21. 7. A flux of blood ensuing upon a great pulsation in ulcers is ill 26. 2. It is better that a fever happen upon a convulsion then a convulsion upon a fever 4. 6. Those ulcers that have the skin smooth or shining about them are evil 18. 6. The wound is deadly whereby the bladder brain heart midriff any of the small guts stomach or liver are hurt 45. 6. Whatsoever ulcers are of a years continuance or more the bone must necessarily scale and the scars become hollow 2. 7. The bone being affected in the flesh be livid it is ill 14. 7. Stupidity and lack of reason upon a blow of the head is evil 24. 7. A Delirium happens if a bone to wit the scull be
remained dumb some three years An history It happened on a time that as he was in the field with reapers he drinking in a wooden dish was tickled by some of the standers by not enduring the tickling he suddenly broke out into articulate and intellegible words He himself wondring thereat and delighted with the novelty of the thing as a miracle put the same dish to his mouth just in the same manner as before and then he spake so plainly and articulately that he might be understood by them all Wherefore a long time following he alwaies carried this dish in his bosom to utter his mind untill at length necessity the mistress of arts and giver of wit inducing him he caused a wooden instrument to be neatly cut and made for him like that which is here delienated which he alwaies carried hanging at his neck as the only interpreter of his mind and the key of his speech An instrument made to supply the defect of the speech when the tongue is cut off The use of the Instrument is this A. sheweth the upper part of it which was of the thickness of a nine-pence which he did so hold between his cutting teeth that it could not come out of his mouth not be seen B. sheweth the lower part as thick as a six-pence which he did put hard to the rest of his tongue close to the membranous ligament which is under the tongue That place which is deprest and somewhat hollowed marked with the letter C. is the inner part of the instrument D. sheweth the outside of the same He hanged it about his neck with the string that is tied thereto Textor the Physitian of Bourges shewed me this instrument and I my self made trial thereof on a young man whose tongue was cut off and it succeeded well and took very good effect And I think other Surgeons in such cases may do the like CHAP. VI. Of covering or repairing certain defects or defaults in the face IT oftentimes happeneth that the face is deformed by the sudden flashing of Gun-powder or by a pestilent Carbuncle so that one cannot behold it without great horror Such persons must be so trimmed and ordered that they may come in seemly manner into the company of others The lips if they be either cut off with a sword or deformed with the erosion or eating of a pestilent Carbuncle or ulcerated Cancer so that the teeth may be seen to lie bare with great deformity If the loss or consumption of the lip be not very great it may be repaired by that way which we have prescribed in the cure of hare-lips or of an ulcerated Cancer But if it be great then must there be a lip of gold made for it so shadowed and counterfeited that it may not be much unlike in colour to the natural lip and it must be fastned and tied to the haâ— or cap that the patient weareth on his head that so it may remain stable and firm CHAP. VII Of the defects of the Ears SUch as want their Ears either naturally or by misfortune as through a wound carbuncle cancer or the biting of wild beasts if so be that the Ear be not wholly wanting wasted consumed or torn away but that some portion thereof doth yet remain then must it not be neglected but must have many holes made therein with a bodkin and after that the holes are cicatrized let some convenient thing made like unto the piece of the Ear that is â—ost be tied or fastned unto it by these holes But if the Ear be wholly wanting another must be made of paper artificially glewed together or else of leather and so fastned with laces from the top or hinder part of the head that it may stand in the appointed place and so the hair must be permitted to grow long or else some cap worn under the hat which may hide or cover the deformity unless you had rather have it to be shadowed or counterfeited by some Painter that thereby it may resemble the colour of a natural Ear and so retain it in the place where it ought to stand with a rod or wier comming from the top or hinder part of the head as we have spoken before in the loss of â—he Eie and the form thereof is this CHAP. VIII Of amending the deformity of such as are crock-backt THe bodies of many especially young Maids or Girls by reason that they are more moist and tender then the bodies of Boyes are made crooked in process of time especially by the wrenching aside and crookedness of the back-bone Causes of crookedness It hath many causes that is to say in the first conformation in the womb and afterwards by misfortune as a fall bruise or any such like accident but especially by the unhandsome and undecent situation of their bodies when they are young and tender either in carrying sitting or standing and especially when they are taught to go too soon saluting sewing writing or in doing any such like thing In the mean while that I may not omit the occasion of crookedness that happens seldom to the Country-people but is much incident to the inhabitants of great Towns and Cities which is by reason of the straightness and narrowness of the garments that are worn by them which is occasioned by the folly of mothers who while they covet to have their young daughters bodies so small in the middle as may be possible pluck and draw their bones awry and make them crooked For the ligaments of the back-bone being very tender soft and moist at that age cannot stay it straight and strongly but being pliant easily permits the spondels to slip awry inwards outwards or side-wise as they are thrust or forced The remedy for this deformity is to have breast-plates of iron full of holes all over them whereby they may be lighter to wear and they must be so lined with bombaste that they may huâ—t no place of the body Every three months new plates must be made for those that are not yet arrived at their full growth for otherwise by the daily afflux of more matter they would become worse But these plates will do them small good that are already at their full growth The form of an iron Breast-plate to amend the crookedness of the Body CHAP. IX How to relieve such as have their urine flow from them against their wills and such as want their yards IN those that have the Strangury of what cause soever that malady commeth the urine passeth from them by drops against their wills and consent This accident is very grievous and troublesome especially to men that travell and for their sakes only I have invented the instrument here beneath described It is made like unto a close breech or hose it must be of latin An inâ—â— for such as cannot hold their water and to contain some four ounces it must be put into the patients hose betwixt his thighs unto which it must be tied with a
excrements drawn unto the skin by the heat of the bath may break out the sweat cleansed let them use gentle frictions or walking then let him feed upon meat of good juice and easie digestion by reason that the stomach cannot but be weakned in some sort by the bath The quantity of meat is judged moderate the weight whereof shall not oppress the stomach Venery after bathing must not be used because to the resolution of the spirits by the bath it adds another new cause of further spending or dissipating them Some wish those that use the bath by reason of some contraction pain or other affects of the nerves presently after bathing to dawb or besmear the affected nervous part with the clay or mud of the bath that by making it up as it were in this place the virtue of the bath may work more effectually and may more throughly enter into the â—ffected part These cautions being diligently observed there is no doubt but the profit by baths will be great and wonderful the same things are to be observed in the use of stoves or hot-houses for the use and effects of baths and Hot-houses is almost the same which the antients therefore used by turn so that comming forth of the bath they entered a stove and called it also by the name of a bath as you may gather from sundry places of Galen in his Methodus med wherefore I think it fit in the next to speak of them CHAP. XLIII Of Stoves or Hot-houses SToves are either drye or moist Drye by raising a hot and drye aiery exhalation The differences of Stoves How made so to imprint their faculties in the body that it thereby waxeth hot and the pores being opened run down with sweat There are divers wayes to raise such an exhalation at Paris and wheresoever there are stoves or publick hot-houses they are raised by a clear fire put under a vaulted furnace whence it being presently diffused heats the whole room Yet every one may make himself such a stove as he shall judg best and fittest Also you may put red hot cogle-stones or bricks into a tub having first laid the bottom thereof with bricks or iron-plates and so set a seat in the midst thereof wherein the patient sitting well covered with a canopy drawn over him may receive the exhalation arising from the stones that are about him and so have the benefit of sweating but in this case we must oft look to and see the patient for it sometimes happens that some neglected by their keepers otherwise employed becoming faint and their sense failing them by the dissipation of their spirits by the force of the hot exhalation have sunk down with all their bodies upon the stones lying under them and so have been carried half dead and burnt into their beds Some also take the benefit of sweating in a fornace or oven as soon as bread is drawn out thereof But I do not much approve of this kinde of sweating because the patient cannot as he will much less as he pleaseth lye or turn himself therein The delineation of a bathing tub having a dâ—uble bottom with a vessel near thereto with pipes commiâ—g therefrom and entring between the two bottoms of the Tub. CHAP. XLIV Of Fuci that is washes and such things for the smoothing and beautifying of the skin THis following discourse is not intended for those women which addicted to filthy lust seek to beautify their faces as baits and allurements to filthy pleasures but it is intended for those only which the better to restrain the wandring lusts of their husbands may endeavour by art to take away those spots and deformities which have happened to fall on their faces either by accident or age The color that appears in the face either laudable or illaudable As the color of the skin is such is the humor that is thereunder abundantly shews the temper both of the body as also of those humors that have the chief dominion therein for every humor dyes the skin of the whole body but chiefly of the face with the color thereof for choler bearing sway in the body the face looks yellowish phlegm ruling it looks whitish or pale if melancholy exceed then blackish or swarth but if blood have the dominion the color is fresh and red Yet there are other things happening externally which change the native color of the face as sun-burning cold pleasure sorrow fear watching fasting pain old diseases the corruption of meats and drinks for the flourishing color of the cheeks is not only extinguished by the immoderate use of vineger but by drinking of corrupt waters the face becomes swoln and pale On the contrary laudable meats and drinks make the body to be well colored and comely for that they yeeld good juice and consequently a good habit Therefore if the spots of the face proceed from the plentitude and ill disposition of humors the body shall be evacuated by blood-letting if from the infirmity of any principal bowel that must first of all be strengthened but the care of all things belongs to the Physician we here only seek after particular remedies which may smooth the face and take away the spots and other defects thereof and give it a laudable colour Waters wherewith to wash the face First the face shall be washed with the water of lilly-flowers of bean-flowers water-lillies of distilled milk or else with the water wherein some barly or starch hath been steeped The dried face shall be anointed with the ointments presently to he described for such washing cleanseth and prepareth the face to receive the force of the ointments no otherwise then an alumed lye prepairs the hairs to drink up and retain the color that we desire Therefore the face being thus cleansed and prepared you may use the following medicines as those that have a faculty to beautifie extend and smooth the skin as Compound liquors wherewith to wash the face Virgins milk â„ž gum tragacanth conquess Ê’ii distemperentur in vase vitrio cum lb ii aquae communis sic gummi dissolventur inde albescet aqua Or else â„ž lithargyri auri â„¥ â—i cerus salis câ—m an â„¥ ss aceti aquae plantag an â„¥ ii caphur Ê’ ss macerentur lithargyres câ—rusa in aceto seâ—â—sim per tres aut quatuor horas sal vero camphora in aqua quam instituto tuo aptam delegeris then filter them both several and mix them together being so filtered when as you would use them â„ž lactis vaccini lb ii aranciorum et limon an nu iv saccari albissimi et alum roch an â„¥ i. distillentur omnia simul let Lemmons and Oranges be cut into slices and then be infused in milk adding thereto the sugar and alum then let the mall be distilled together in balneo Mariae the water that comes thereof will make the face smooth and lovely Therefore about bed-time it will be good to cover the face with