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A31225	The chymical Galenist a treatise, wherein the practise of the ancients is reconcild́ to the new discoveries in the theory of physick, shewing that many of their rules, methods, and medicins, are useful for by George Castle ...	Castle, George, 1635?-1673.	1667 (1667)	Wing C1233; ESTC R21752	90,129	232

a pain and Swelling of their Belly a rumbling in their Sides under the Ribs They have a weak Pulse a trembling at the Heart a pain in the Head a redness in their Lips Face and Eyes which are sometimes distorted sometimes so fast shut that they can hardly be opened And being now high in the Fit they are ready to be strangled are deprived of Voice Sense and Motion except such as is Convulsive some cry out with a despairing Voice and presently fall down for dead their Pulse is then very weak and sometimes none to be felt When the Fit is going off their Cheeks redden they recover their Senses their Eyes with a very dull and heavy Aspect are opened and at length fetching deep sighs and sometimes pouring forth showres of tears they come to themselves This is the Picture of that dismal Disease which most frequently afflicts poor miserable Women though Men are not exempted from it In some all or most of these Symptoms meet in others only the strangling or danger of being choked with some other Accidents are observable But generally the Fits are so terrible and amazing to them who consider not the reasons of these affections that by the Vulgar the persons subject to them are believed to be bewitched or possessed by the Devil The ancient Physitians do with one consent deliver That Seed and menstruous Blood corrupted in the Womb and Genital Parts do send forth malignant Vapors which with violence carry up the Womb against the Diaphragm and Organs of 〈◊〉 spiration and thereby suddenly stop the motion of the Heart and Lungs and from this impetuous motion of the Womb they suppose to be caus'd that sense of a Globe rising upward in the Belly But they who have so much insight in Anatomy as to know That the Womb is immoveably fixed to its place by Ligaments and that in Virgins it is usually not much bigger than a Walnut and do consider that in Women with Child the Womb presses upon the very stomack and yet never causes these Accidents And that oftentimes in Dropsies of the Womb that part is extended to a vast bigness and is full of putrid Humors and yet none of these Suffocations or other Accidents are caused They I say who consider this cannot allow that these stupendious Symptoms can be produced by that cause The Learned Doctor Highmore in his Exercitation upon the Hysterical Passion having examined all the Hypotheses invented either by the ancient or modern Physitians Highm de Passion Hystericâ to solve the Phaenomena of this Distemper and finding them all very insufficient to give a satisfactory Account delivers most ingenuously his own Opinion and supposes all the Symptoms to be caused by an overstuffing of the Ventricles of the Heart and Vessels of the Lungs with thin servous and fermenting blood which does so distend and fill them that the Lungs are thereby rendred unfit to comply with the motion of the Diaphragm and Chest and the Heart disabled to discharge its self by its Pulses of the burden which oppresses it though it attempts to rescue its self by more frequent pulsations and from hence necessarily to follow first A difficulty of Breathing and then a Suffocation which that Nature may avoid she calls to her Succor the Animal Faculty which lest she perish together with the Vital pours forth the whole force and strength of her spirits though in so much disorder that by their confused Sallies those irregular motions are caused in the Body which men call Convulsive This is the account according to my best apprehension of his meaning of the descriptive Definition which that excellent person gives of this Disease And I am so much of his Opinion as to believe That very often a Dyscrasie or Distemper of the Blood and probably of the Serum or Whey of it is one cause of this Distemper But I beg his pardon if I am apt to believe That even then when these Fits are caused from a Serous Dyscrasie in the Blood they are rather to be attributed to the Impurities and sharp Salts which are either cast off upon the Brain and from thence distributed through the Nerves into remote parts of the Body or else upon some of the Bowels where those pungent juices pricking and vellicating the extremities of the Nerves cause the original and whole system to participate of their disorders than to the Bloods stuffing and distending the Vessels of the Lungs and Heart For besides that there are many Women Cachectical and Hydropical whose Vessels are filled with little else but waterish Blood and Whey who are notwithstanding very free from Fits of the Mother It is often observed that Women of a ruddy Complexion who have a brisk and lively heat in their Blood and that rich with spirits which purges its self every Month in its constant periods are oft-ten miserably afflicted with Hysterical Paroxysms For they are not seldom such as have an excellent good appetite and digest their meat well whose Lungs are not flabby weak or disposed to a Consumption and whose Blood when it is let out of their Veins and setled is observed to be thick and full of Fibers all which are Qualifications quite contrary to those which are required by Dr. Highmore's Hypothesis if I mistake him not to render a person liable to Hysterical Passions Moreover in my Opinion crude and waterish Blood is altogether unfit to be set so impetuously on fire as to cause so extravagant a Fermentation in the Ventricles of the Heart that by overstretching the Lungs they should be unable to disburden themselves of the Blood For we find that Cachectical and Hydropical persons and Maids in the Green-Sickness are troubled with a shortness of Breath upon Exercise and walking up steep Places or Stairs which undoubtedly is caused for that the Blood of such persons being thin and waterish and wanting its due proportion of the sulphureous and inflammable part does not afford a sufficient quantity of vital Oyl to the Lamp of the Heart and therefore when upon exercise and motion there is a greater quantity of Blood than ordinarily sent into the Heart that being not well rarified and fired in the right Ventricle passes not so swiftly through the Lungs to theleft as it ought to make room for that which is to succeed so that at the same time the Lungs and Heart are overburdened upon which a difficulty of Breathing a beating and throbbing at the Heart must necessarily ensue Besides in Feavers where the Blood is most of all rarified and fermented except the matter of the Disease be cast upon the Brain Hysterical Symptoms do not constantly happen and yet the sulphurious part of the Blood fired is much more apt to fill and distend the Chambers of the Heart and Vessels of the Lungs than the Whey It is farther observable That Women who have their Courses too frequently and vent by the Womb overgreat quantities of Blood are often troubled with

has been familiarly taken notice of and discoursed by the Physitians which has not been long the name has from them been deriv'd down to the Nurse-keepers and Searchers and is grown so common in their mouths that Diseases which either they understand not or have a mind to conceal are now often given in under the name of the Scurvy The Rickets is I think very rightly supposed by the Learned Doctor Glisson to be a Disease wholly new and to have had for one of its chief its procatactick Causes the Peace Security and Plenty which the Nobility and Gentry of this Nation had long enjoyed immediately before the first breaking forth of it Glisson de Rachid p● 241. From whence they had addicted themselves to a more soft delicate and debauched way of living and by that means contracted a constitution of body more effeminate flabby and unfirm than their Ancestors who by continual Toils Wars Dangers and other Manly Exercises not only preserved their own strength of body and generosity of mind but also deriv'd it entire to their Children But I do not find that it is observed by any able Physitian That the face and appearance of it is in the least altered from that in which it discovered its self at its first eruption neither is it entered into any stricter complication with the Pox and Scurvy than formerly Glisson de Rachid c. 20. These being Diseases as Doctor Glisson himself tells us very little a-kin and only by accident sometimes meeting in the same body For the increase of the Consumption in the Bills of Mortality Mr. Grant himself gives so sufficient a Reason that we need go no farther to enquire the cause of it nor to ascribe it to the alteration in the nature of that Disease since he affirms That almost all who dye of the French Disease are put into the Bills of Mortality under the name of Consumption For upon enquiry he sayes he found That all mentioned to dye of the French Pox were returned by the Clerk of St. Giles 's and St. Martins in the Fields dead of the Consumption from whence he concludes Grant Bills Mortal c. 3. That only hated persons and such whose very Noses were eaten off were reported by the Searchers to have dyed of this Malady The Stopping of the Stomack I can imagine to be nothing else but the Disease which Physitians call Asthma or Dyspnaea because I find not the least mention of this very frequent Malady in the Weekly Bills and that I observe there is nothing more usual with the Vulgar in their complaints to Physitians than to assign those Distempers to their stomacks which properly belong to their Lungs The Rising of the Lights is I think truly enough believed by M. N. to be that frequent Symptom which is vulgarly called Suffocatio uterina or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And I am not of Opinion that that Suffocation is only the proper affect of Women and that solely it is caused from the disturbance of the Womb For I have seen some men very much troubled with a rising up in their Throats and especially in Hypocondriacal Distempers no less apprehensive of being choaked than Hysterical Wo It is worth the taking notice of in this place that the Author of Medela who everywhere else inveighs so bitterly against the Aristotelean and Galenick Philosophy when he pretends to give some account of the reasons and causes of these Symptoms for want of truer apprehensions of his own shelters himself under the very weakest and most exploded part of that Philosophy And flies to the pitiful and jejune notions of Vapors raised in the Lower-belly especially about the Spleen in the stomack and about the Midrif and in the Cavity of the Omentum which must needs whilst they continue there hinder the free motion of the Midrif And a little farther that there may be no scruple left of his Ignorance in Anatomy he acquaints us with the playing of the Scorbutick malignant Vapors through the Veins and Arteries to the Lungs and by communication thence to the heart Which Opinion is so contrary to the Doctrine of Circulation that there is scarce a Butcher who is not able better to inform him and he may learn at every Shambles for 't is not fit he should prophane a Theatre that not one drop of blood enters the Lungs before it has passed the right Ventricle of the heart And now by reason this is a Subject very well worthy of a more accurate Disquisition and the Account which M. N. has pretended to give seems very lame and unsatisfactory I will beg leave to digress and offer some apprehensions which I have concerning the Hysterical Passion and other Distempers which seem to come very near it and agree in many of the Symptoms and Accidents A Digression concerning the Hysterical Passion THough the Disease called Hysterica Passio be by almost all Authors treated of as only peculiar to Women and proceeding only from the distemperature of the Womb yet as I have before observed it may upon grounds drawn from Reason and Experience be very truly affirmed That Men also are liable to most of the Symptoms of it and that even in Women they are often caused when the Womb is not in the least concern'd in the guilt And the reason why this Sex is more frequently than that other afflicted with this Malady may very well be ascribed to their more delicate constitution and soft texture of their nervous parts whereby they become more liable to convulsive motions and upon the vellicating and twitching of any one part endued with exquisite sense to have Convulsions communicated to the whole nervous System from whence the whole frame of the Body is put into disorder as we see Clocks and Watches whose Springs and Wheels are contriv'd with too subtil and nice workmanship are oftner in fault than those of more plain work For the better understanding of the Nature of this Disease and of the Causes from whence all the Symptoms do flow it will not be improper to give those Descriptions of it which are delivered by Authors and of the Accidents which in some particular persons have occurr'd to my own observation The Paroxysms or Fits of this Disease in some move regularly and return at certain set-times in others are uncertain and wandring Some persons they invade in an instant in others they give notice and warning by certain signs which forerun the Fit and are a Prologue to the Tragedy As a dulness of Spirits Laziness Faintness Paleness of Face Sadness of Countenance The Parties press their Belly with their hands and perceive something to rise up to their apprehensions as big as a Cannon-Bullet their Legs fail them and tremble they find something rise up to their Throat ready to choke them Then they grow drowsie lose their understanding some laugh others weep some do both Besides they find a gnawing pain at the mouth of their Stomack a loathing of Meat

very many little Holes belonging to each Swelling through which sayes he it is very probable that the Worms us'd to go down into the stomack and return back again Not only in almost all sorts of Animals but in Metals and Stones as I have before intimated Insects may be generated Muffet observes That Millers who pick their grinding stones to make them ruffer when they are grown too smooth with grinding do often find Worms in the stones And he tells us that Platerus himself told him that he found a live Toad in the Center of a huge stone which he divided asunder with a Saw and he sayes the same thing happened in the Quarry of one Mr. W. Cave in Liecestershire Neque sane video sayes that learned Author cur magis in animalibus lapides quam in lapidibus animalia nasci queant atque ut nobis metallicos spiritus sacile tribuo ita illis animales concedere salvâ virtutis ●ge non timeo Habent enim illi invisibiles tacitos meatus nervos venas sinus quibus alienum humorem aliena semina peregrinos spiritus vel attrahunt vel saltem vi illatos admittunt And indeed no wonder since animarum plena sunt omnia since the whole Creation is full of life and soul if in all bodies whatsoever which undergo either a quick or slow fermentation Worms Insects r Animals be continually produced But in humane bodies whose Juices and Blood are subject to disorderly and morbifick fermentations upon dissolution of the Crasis and Temperature of those Liquors a generation of Infects must of necessity frequently ensue For although whilst a man is in health and a due temperament of the vital animal and natural Constitutions is maintain'd by the power of the Spirits all heterogeneous Seeds are either kept under and supprest or else as offensive guests presently exterminated out of the Body when once by Diseases the Spirits are abated and the right tone and temper of the parts and mixture of the Juices is debauched those extraneous Ferments which were before kept in subjection rebell and being as it were at their own dispose and uncontrolled effect those generations which are most sutable to the nature of their Seminalities From this cause it proceeds That oftentimes putrid and malignant Fevers are accompanied with Worms which are more commonly the Effects than Causes of ●ose Distempers and are not produced by any intermixture of a Pocky and Scorbutick Ferment but from the Salts or Seminalities of those Infects which in the disorder and confusion of the Body in Fevers are set at liberty For those subtil and active parts of matter getting loose during the intestine motion or hurly burly of the Particles of the Blood and Liquors from other Concretions to which they were united immediately seize upon some or other of the more gross parts then form Organs for motion and presently become Animals From this Reason it is That Children at the time of breeding their Teeth which puts them into a feverish Distemper are most commonly troubled with Worms as Hippocrates observes in his Aphorisms who speaking of the time of Childrens breeding Teeth and the Diseases which they are then subject to sayes thus Ipsis vero grandiusculis tonsillarum inflammationes Tileman in Hippoc. Aph. vertebrae in occipitio introrsum luxationes asthmata calculi lumbrici rotundi ascarides c. And indeed not only in the Body of man but in almost all other Bodies in the World upon Fermentations new Productions and Generations of Animals do usually happen The learned Doctor Ent in his Apology for the Circulation observes That small Flies are produced by that acid spirit of Moscatel Wine which from them has its denomination which evaporate in the first Ebullition And the same Author affirms That if a man put a small quantity of Vitriol into Wine or Water he shall presently produce a great number of Worms And to this purpose he gives an excellent account of the generation of Insects Insecta omnia sayes he licet non semper mutuantur ab aliis Dr. Ent. Apol. pro Circ p. 247. idque vel a plantis arescentibus ut culices vel e Succis fermentatis ut muscae espiritu vini vel e rore ut erucae alia aliter unus tamen horum generationis modus est Spiritus nempe acidus subtilis volatilis qui a leni calore vivificatur pro subjecti natura quae in sale ejus fixo potissimum nidulatur varia quoque animantia producit Hic Spiritus concentratur sive unum in locum colligitur in iis quae corde praedita sunt In Erucis autem vermibus aliisque Spiritus ille per universum corpus diffunditur tota cor sunt Here we see this learned Philosopher and Physitian does not ascribe the generation of Worms to the Pocky and Scorbutick Ferments but to Salts from the difference of which it often comes to pass that not only common Worms but Insects of different species and even Serpents have been produced in almost every part of humane Bodies and though one would imagine that the Bladder of Gall by the bitterness of the Juice which it contains which is very forcible to destroy Worms and the Spleen by the sharpness of its Liquor should be exempted from being liable to produce those Creatures yet even in these parts great numbers of Worms have been found Muffet tells us of a Disease which at one time was very frequent in Germany and Hungary which the Polonians called Stowny Roback and the Germans Hauptwurm it seized them with a violent Hemicrania insomuch that they fell into a madness or phrensie and when they were dead upon Dissection of the Brain they found a Worm in it The Physitians cured this Disease with Garlick in Spirit of Wine which certainly cured all who took it inwardly but the rest inevitably perished The same Author tells us of a Student in Cambridge who vented a Worm by Urine which had a great many Feet and that Pennius observ'd a great many Insects in the Hypostasis of the Urine of a person labouring of an Apostem of the Kidneys He tells us likewise that at Francfort he saw Worms like Ascarides come out of a Womans womb Anno Domini 1663. I was called to a Family in which one after another six or seven persons fell sick of a malignant Fever it was of a dull sluggish motion and continued upon them whom it seized a Month or Five weeks before they recovered One remarkable Accident which accompanied it was a continual Cough by which the persons affected did continually both day and night bring up an incredible quantity of ill-coloured and very bad scented phlegm of which the Nurse-keeper bringing me one day a Porringer full shew'd me in it a twist as it were of Horse-hairs each at least half as long as my finger we observed every one of them to be animated and endued with a brisk and lively motion It will