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A41254	A new and needful treatise of spirits and wind offending mans body wherein are discovered their nature, causes and effects / by the learned Dr. Fienns ; and Englished by William Rowland ...; Flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus. English	Feyens, Jean, d. 1585.; Rowland, William.	1668 (1668)	Wing F841; ESTC R40884	57,605	138

parts and what evils it causeth we shall now shew what Symptoms it produceth in the habit of the body For it is thin and not only fills vacuity but dissolves continuity tears the membranes in themselves and from the bones and swiftly strikes like a dart upon any part causing great pain Sometimes like cold air it affects the sensible nervous parts without great pain but this is little and very thin and easily vanisheth by the natural heat and Fomentations But it is harder to be discussed when it gets under the skin or membranes of the bones being thicker and more and swells them to a windy Impostume Galen distinguisheth this from Oedema which is from water and yields to the finger and pits deep But an inflation is from wind either under the skin or membranes of the bones or under the Muscles This pits not with the finger but sounds like a drum with a fillip Sometimes it causeth no tumour but lying under the skin through which it cannot breathe being thick it only beateth this the Vulgar call the life And Langius in an Epistle wittily shews the arrogancy and ignorance of some Chirurgions that when they see the Muscles of the Temples Forehead Cheeks or Jaws tremble by wind in the skin and to swell they say there is the soul or life as in a prison also without purging which is less dangerous then bleeding they let blood and beholding the blood to tremble in the Porringer by reason of wind they fear that life is gone forth with the blood and therefore they make the patient drink it off hot Silly fellows that know not that air feeds the vital and animal spirits gets not only into the Arteries of the Brain Lungs and Heart but into all parts by inspiration and the pores and is mixed with the blood by the Anastomosis of the Arteries with the Veins and wind will breed from clammy humours not only in the Muscles and all parts that may be stretched as the Stomach Guts Liver Spleen Midriff and Womb in teeming women which move the womb so that they think the Child moveth And it causeth a trembling not only in the Muscles and other members but chiefly in the Heart And as wind shut up in the bowels of the Earth shakes as it is ready to get forth so wind in the body being comprehended in the muscles or other stretchable parts shakes them till it gets forth Thus Langius and Galen lib. 2. de Art curat ad Glauc confirms him saying that that sort of wind which is gross sometimes lyes under the membranes of the bones sometimes under the Peritonaeum sometimes in the guts and belly sometimes under the membranes about the muscles and the membranous tendons and the spaces of the muscles and other parts Therefore the force of wind is wonderful that like Thunder passeth through insensible passages into private places even into the bones and marrow and causeth pain but being between the bone and the Periostium it teareth them asunder with great pain Hence many complain of pain of the Shins by fits when there is no distemper external neither tumour nor pain when it is pressed except there be much gathered So much of the Symptoms now we shall speak of the Prognosticks of Wind. CHAP. XI Of the Prognosticks of Wind. ALL diseases of wind in any part are hard to be cured if it cannot get forth the thicker and more close it is the longer it remains and causeth worse Symptoms When it separates the parts it causeth pain and pain causeth flux of humours and the humour getting into the crannies of the part stretched causeth a tumour the tumour distends the skin and membranes and contracts them hence the blood being not cooled comes corruption and increase of preternatural heat If this tumour be hard and yield red and beating it is an inflammation if it be white yielding to touch and pit it is an Oedema if it be white yielding and transparent it is an inflation Sometimes wind makes a Dropsie as Hippocrates lib. de Flatibus saith wind gets through the flesh and makes thin the pores and then follows moisture to which the wind before had made a passage and the body is moistned the flesh melts and the humours fall down to the Legs and then comes a Dropsie They in whom wind hath long remained are subject to all these diseases as the Aphorism saith They who have pains about the Navel and Loyns that will not away with Physick or other ways will have a dry Dropsie This wind is not discussed by medicines or other things by reason of the habitual distemper of the part which persevering causeth a Tympany the worst of Dropsies I never knew it cured when confirmed If then it be so dangerous because the wind will yield to no remedies by reason of the cause that feeds it Hippocrates Prognost lib. 1. said well it is very healthful for wind to pass forth without noise but it is better to break with noise then stay and move about and cause pain If any from modesty when they are sound will rather dye then fart let them know that they dote or must endure pain If one fart willingly it signifies no ill but only it were better to be voided without noise For a noise shews much wind or straitness of the vessels but that noise which is heard in new diseases in the Hypochondria pains or swellings is not bad Hippocrates lib. 2. Prognost saith new pains and swellings in the Hypochondria without inflammation are dissolved by noise chiefly if there be stools and urine and if the wind goes not forth it is good that it goes downward These tumours being only of wind are dissolved by their rumbling it shews wind joyned with a humour and sign fies good that is that the wind will go forth with the humour it is mixed with or if not that it will go downward and the pain and tumour will cease And Hippocrates Aph. 73. lib 4. saith they who have stretched Hypochondria with rumbling and after that a pain in the Loyns will have a moist belly or loosness except they fart or piss much The Hypochondria rumbles and swells from wind alone or mixed with humours and if it alone breaks forth upward or downward with the humour it is without danger and the pain and tumour suddenly depart For the Liver and Spleen lying in the Hypochondria if they be much pained it is from strong inflammation or wind if from wind a Fever coming removes the pain As Hippocrates Aph. 52. lib. 7. saith they whose Liver is much pained are cured by a Fever for the heat of it doth discuss the wind Now a Fever doth not follow an inflammation but comes with it nor doth it take off pain but increase it It appears that the heat of a Fever discusseth wind because they in the Jaundice seldom have fits of wind because they are hot of constitution as Hippocrates Aph. 78. lib. 5. saith they in the Jaundice are not

of Aniseeds give it fasting There are also Powders to be taken after meat to warm the stomach and make it concoct and discuss wind as Take Aniseed Comfits three ounces Fennel seed an ounce and half Coriander prepared half an ounce Cummin Caraway Seseli steept in Wine each an ounce Citron peels Cinnamon each four scruples Sugar of Roses as much as all the rest Make a powder give a spoonful after meat and let him not drink more at that time After the humours are purged and the strength restored discuss the wind with this Decoction which doth wonders Take Album Graecum Barley each an ounce and half Boil them gently in three or four pints of French Wine till the Barley break strain it and pour off the clear part then boil it to half then clarifie it and add Cinnamon and Sugar give five ounces thereof thrice a day fasting and he shall break wind wonderfully and his belly fall Also the Confection of Bay-berries Diacyminum Diagalanga Diatrionpipereon Diamoschu dulce discuss wind But as I said use these moderately or they will do much hurt as may appear by this Example A Woman had a Tympany and went to her Physitian he only minded the discussing of wind without giving other things before gave a hot Electuary she felt a greater rumbling after and worse pain and breathed worse and her belly swelled more and it was all over her breast and the tumours were divers at distance I coming said death was at hand and therefore no more was to be done and she died the third day after I judge the hot extenuating Medicine made the cloudy vapours thin that were in a little place and they made larger room For such is the force of heat that by attenuating gross bodies it makes them moist and they turn to vapours For gross things contained in a small place if they grow hot take up more room as appears by Milk half a Skillet full hot and extenuated swells to the top So it is in the Tympany when they use much heat Therefore use moderate hot things which strengthen within and without and stir up natural heat Anoint the stomach with this Liniment Take Oyl of Spike of Mastich each three drams Oyl of Nutmegs and of Mace each a dram dry Mints red Coral Mastich Cummin each a scruple with Wax make a Liniment anoint the stomach hot therewith Then chaff the belly with hot clothes or hands till it be red that the pores may be opened for the wind to get out then bathe with Brandy-wine and Oyl of Rue or apply this Plaister Take Emplaster of Bay-berries half a pound mix it with Goats or Cow-dung and Wine apply it hot Or make Bags of Wormwood Mints Rue hot Seeds Bay-berries Lavender Elder Chamomil Rosemary and Stoechas Milium Bran and Salt Fry them with Wine apply them hot when they cool heat them over a vessel with a hot Iron and Wine in it and apply them again I shall add nothing more of cupping they are famous against all wind but here I value them not Carminative Clysters expel wind sometimes but I shall omit these and admonish this that exercise if strength permit thirst and sweat are chief Cures for this and the other two sorts of Dropsies CHAP. XXV Of the Cure of the Inflation of the Womb. INflations or windy Swellings in the Womb do use sometimes to cause Abortion in the second or third month and wind in the guts doth torment women with child because the weight of the womb compresseth the strait Gut and suffers no wind to get forth Hippocrates lib. de nat mulieb lib. de morb mulieb saith thus of the wind in the womb If there be wind in the womb which rumbleth and the feet and hollow parts of the face swell and the colour be lost and the Terms stopt and the seed flow and she be short-winded and sad and when she wakes from sleep she breathe with a straight neck and whatsoever she eats or drinks troubles her and she sigh and her Nerves are contracted and if her womb and bladder be pained and will not be touched these are the Symptoms of an inflation of the womb All which come from these three distension compression and consent with principal parts Therefore when it is thus saith Hippocrates give a Purge Take Syrup of Mugwort three ounces Syrup of Stoechas two ounces decoction of Mugwort Motherwort Pennyroyal Savin Juniper-berries Anise and Carrot seed a pint make an Apozem to prepare with two drams of the Confection of Bay-berries Then purge thus Take Pills of Agarick two scruples Pil. aureae a scruple Troches of Alhandal four grains with Syrup of Mugwort make five Pills give them at midnight Or if she cannot swallow Pills give some Potion above-mentioned and repeat if need be The day after purging give a dram of Treacle or Mithridate And then anoint the stomach and womb with the Oyntment in the former Chapter to strengthen or foment with Oyl of Rue or this Liniment Take Oyl of bitter Almonds Oyl of Rue and Brandy-wine each an ounce Or use the Bags Cataplasms and Plaisters in that Chapter of Smallage seeds Fennel Carrot Caraway Cummin Bay-berries Bean flour Sheep or Cow-dung with Wine and Oyls Or Electuaries Lozenges that heat and strengthen and Hippocras Wine with Spices or Sack with Oyl of Juniper or of Aniseeds Or a Pessary of Figs bruised a dram Cummin two drams Nitre a dram steep it first in Milk or syringe into the womb the Oyl of Rue with the Decoction of hot Seeds and roul the belly Also Cupping is here good as in all windy diseases CHAP. XXVI Of the Cure of a windy Rupture AS we said in the eighth Chapter a windy Rupture is with or without a Dropsie If it be with it it is cured with the Cure of the Dropsie If without it it hath two intentions curative the one belongs to the antecedent cause which is flegm the other to the conjunct cause which is wind in the Cods or Tunicles of the Stones The first intention is performed by Medicines that evacuate superfluous humours and strengthen see for them Chap. 17. and 18. The latter intention is performed by Topicks chiefly by Fomentations as Take Organ Calamints Pennyroyal each a handful the four great hot Seeds Agnus castus seeds Bay-berries each two drams Salt two ounces Boil them in French Wine to half foment twice a day Or Take Lixivium or Sudds of Barbers four pints Cummin Bay-berries each two ounces Bayes Rosemary each half a handful Salt four ounces Boil them and foment the part with a new sponge twice or thrice a day hot dry it and anoint with this Take Oyl of Castor Rue Euphorbium each six drams Vnguentum Martiatum half an ounce Or lay on this Plaister Take Bean flour half a pound Cummin and Carrot seed each half an ounce Bay-berries three drams flowers of Chamomil and Lavender each a pugil Salt a pugil and half Boil them in Wine to a Pultis