whole fabrick furnished with instruments But we suppose that the seed of man doth onely potentially contain the form of man For the soul of man being extrinsecally adventitious we cannot affirm that the seed comprehends the humane soul onely potentially as it hath an aptitude to induce those dispositions which are requisite for the entertainment of a more noble form So neither in other living creatures must we imagine the seed to be actually animate but potentially onely because it hath that conformative power contained in the spirit by which it generates according to its own likeness when the seed is laid in a convenient place and hath subject matter But it is no absurdity to affirm such a power given to the form of seed there being found in many inanimate things as in load-stones rubarb and the like many and notable faculties which have not the advantage of any influence from a soul Yet this point of doctrine is very intricate and notably fenced with difficulties which Sennertus shews us in his Philosophical Hypomnema's Corruption therefore seiseth on the form of the seed upon the first arrival of the soul to the body now fashioned and prepared to welcome this guest which is said to live the life of a plant so long as it is simply nourished but when the organs of sense and motion are compleat it lives an animal or sensitive life and lastly proceeds to the operations of a rational soul when it hath acquired a well tempered brain and disposition of spirits A COROLLARY There hath been a long-started controversie between Physicians and Peripateticks whether women afford prolifical seed For all the Physicians after Hippocrates obtrude the affirmative for the defence of which they appeal to the common experience of women who relate that in that coition by which they conceived they sent out something causing more pleasure Which also the contrivance of feminine parts will serve to confirm Nature having placed in them very large testicles for the elaboration of the seed plenty of which being whitish and well concocted is often found in them in dissection Hence we may conclude that there is no third thing proceeding from the commixtion of male and female seed which is fit for the generation of the Childe But the Peripatericks in obedience to their grand Master Aristotle suppose that the seed of women is termed seed by analogy onely and homonymie concurring not to the generation of the fetus but onely by provoking to coition and useful to moisten the sides of the wombe which assertion they seem to make impregnable by the fortifications of strong reasons First If a woman had prolifical seed she might generate without obliging man to a copulation for she would have the seed and menstruous blood the only two necessaries to generation of the Childe Secondly One being by it self cannot be the result of two actual beings but onely accidentally aggregate Therefore out of two seeds the fetus cannot be produced To which objections and others of the same nature I answer Both seeds as well of male as female though they be prolifical are not sufficient by themselves to generate the fetus but a due commixtion of both is requisite in the wombe by which the delineation of the Embryo is perfected And so out of more compleat beings proceeds not one being by it self but yet out of divers incompleat beings one compleat is produced is an opinion subject to no absurdity CHAP. II. Of Menstruous blood There is not onely a concurrence of the seed but of the Menstruous blood also to the generation of the fetus which is another principle onely material not efficient as seed THE Mothers blood harbours none or very few spirits therefore it hath no efficient virtue but onely supplies matter out of which all the carnous parts are compounded as the spermatick of the seed And this blood is called menstruous because in well affected women which are neither with childe nor give suck it flows out every moneth And the menstruous blood is an excrement issuing from the last aliment of the carnous parts which at certain times and observed limitations is in a small quantity purged out of the wombe for the generation and nutrition of the fetus Hence it appears that menstruous blood is an excrement and useful as to its substance being converted into the parts of the fetus and the nutrition of them And this blood is usually in women plentifully because of the weakness of their heat which cannot digest all the blood made in the liver as also because of their soft and moist temper which breeds plenty of humors Hence it is that that blood exceeding in quantity is returned into the bigger veins from the flesh now filled and as it were satisfied and by them is thrust out by the veins of the wombe The time for the expurgation of this blood is twofold universal and particular The universal is from twelve or fourteen yeers of age to fifty or fifty five Before the twelfth or fourteenth yeer the vessels of women are narrow and the heat almost extinct by the plenty of humors cannot expel the reliques and before that age great plenty of the blood is spent in the augmentation of the body But after the twelfth or fourteenth yeer heat begins to move in a vigorous lustre the vessels are enlarged the breasts swell the body by a pleasant tickling is insinuated into lust and the genitals are fenced with new down But on the other side after fifty or fifty five the effluxions of menstruous blood cease because the heat being weakened is not able any more to generate such plenty of blood as may leave some reliques of which if there be any it cannot commodiously drive them away The particular time is limited by the space of a moneth and that by the space of three or foure dayes This evacuation of the menstruous blood returns usually every moneth which all attribute to the motion of the Moon Emperess of the humors and experience informs us that this purgation is commonly contingent to the more youthful about a new Moon but to the ancient about full Moon This caused that common piece of Poetry The Moon when old she fils the round Old Womens purgaments abound But when her horns begin to grow From Women young purgations flow A COROLLARY Hence is moved a notable question Whether menstruous blood be of a noxious quality The accurate decision of which see in Laurentius Quest 8. Book 8. of his Anatomy CHAP. III. Of Conception Conception is then said to be when the seed of both sexes are coupled and cherished in the cavity of the wombe and their formative virtue is become actual MAle and female while for posterity sake they condescend to venereous copulation send forth their seed together and at the same time the male into the neck of the wombe the female into her proper closet of the womb which wombe hath an admirable propriety of attracting the seed of the male wherefore
It is peccant in quantity when it is too copious or deficient It is peccant in quality when it is too dry or moist c. Thirdly by an hereditary disposition when a Mans parents are ill-shaped And so in the first generation diseases are caused in the shape After the first generation they are contingent in or after the birth In the birth by preposterous commotion or inconvenient eduction For instance when an infant starting from the wombe puts forth his foot arm or sides while by his own bulk or the narrowness of the wombe it endevours its exit too much or is unskilfully handled by an ignorant Midwife After birth the shape of the parts is deformed by many external and internal causes External causes mishaping a man are when the infant being yet tender is not conveniently entertained in swathings or is rashly crushed any other way as also if any member broken or dislocated fall not into the hands of a good Artist in Chirurgery or if they being well restored by the error of the patient distorted to a relapse or disordered by a fall stroke or too much motion and agitation But by internal causes the shape is unfashioned when the humors are rallied copiously in the parts as is evident in preternatural tumors in the face of Lepers in the belly of hydropical men and such like Astriction obstruction and dilatation are produced by a multitude of causes which coarctate obstruct or dilate the passages or cavities which to number to a particularity is a task almost impossible Asperity and levity is produced by many causes internal or external For instance bones wounded broken or eroded loose their natural laevity the inner part of the aspera arteria is unequal and causeth an hoarse and inharmonical voyce being drench'd with too much humor dry deterse or ulcerated which reason also will hold good in the rest But in parts naturally rough and rugged laevity is caused by viscid and glutinous humors adhering to the uncertunicles as in a Lieuteria so also things wounding and eroding by accident when a skar is induced on a cured ulcer by which that internal superficies is more smoothed and lesse fit to contain Magnitude is increased in the body by too much plenty of blood and fat Magnitude is increased in a part either by affluxion of laudable blood or vicious humors collected by fluxion or congestion So in some women the caule grows very fat by reason of the plentiful affluxion of blood and enlarges to such a bulk that by compression of the orifice of the wombe it induces sterility So vicious humors cause various kinds of swellings Magnitude in the whole body is diminished for want of aliment As in a Pthisis Marasmus and notable leanness Magnitude is diminished in a part when it doth not take in convenient aliment or cannot dispose of it The number of the parts is increased in birth or after birth In birth by the redundancy of seminal matter As when six fingers or three testicles are generated After birth by vicious matter As appears in warts or a pterygium c. The number is diminished in birth by defect of matter after birth by all those things which are able to amputate or destroy any part The situation of the parts is changed either by default of them or the parts containing them or the ligaments connecting them The situation of the parts is changed by default of the parts themselves by their overmuch crassity or gravity So the caule or intestines being too crass or too fat are by their owne weight of overburdened to a rupture or else they dilate the peritonaeum and fall down into the scrotum The situation is changed by default of the parts containing when they being broken or loosened cannot duely execute their office So when the peritonaeum is by any means broken or loosened it cannot keep the parts in it contained in their proper station The situation is changed by default of the ligaments when they are too loose or infirm so that they cannot retain the parts to the connexed in their natural place So the wombe the intestinum rectum and other parts do usually fall by too much extension or the weakness of their ligaments The connexion of the parts is destroyed by many internal and external causes In the joyntings peculiarly the connexion is changed by three causes 1 By defect of an entertaining room viz. an hollowness 2 By defect of a bone to be entertained 3 Of a ligament containing and making firm the articulation First there is a defect in the place entering when either the cavity receiving is too broad or superficiary or when the ridges are taken away or the brims hurt Secondly in the bone entertained there is a defect when it is bigger or less than is convenient or any other way out of shape Thirdly there is a defect in the ligaments when they are too loose or infirm From all these causes luxations are usually produced to which may be added violent and innordinate motions CHAP. V. Of the Causes of common diseases THE Causes of common diseases were proposed in the recital of their differences because they are thence derived therefore lest the repetition of them should be vain we refer to the fifth chap. of the first Section CHAP. VI. Of the Causes of the Accidental differences of diseases THE same causes which usually concur to the production of Similar Organical and common diseases are also the causes of Accidental differences as they are fraught with various conditions viz. if they be intense or remiss light or obstinate gentle or malignant or any other way affected they cause diseases great or small acute or chronical gentle or malignant and such like The fourth Section of PATHOLOGY Of the Nature Differences and Causes of Symptomes CHAP. I. Of the Nature of Symptomes A Symptome is a preternatural affection following the Disease as the effect of its cause and not being able to subsist without it THIS term affection is here taken in a signification somewhat more large than in the definition of a disease whereas not all symptomes have a permanency or position of parts in their subject but most part of them have a positive essence in a tendency to being for actions either whole or not well hanging together consist in the motion of the parts and are perpetually in a tendency to perfection Excretion and retention is proper to them so long as they are in that progress if we consider them in the mood of their formality But the simple or patible qualities are sometimes fix'd and permanent We also alleage that symtomes follow the disease because as we said they are by it effected but the effect is the attendant of its cause whence it also appears that it is different from its cause for that the cause of diseases precedes but the symptome follows But for the more clear understanding of the nature of symptomes the succeeding Theorems are proposed Every symptome depends mediately or
to the fury of North windes snowes and showers and those that lie to the North this is the cause that most Germans are pituitous Time Winter season Meat and drink Meat and drink of a refrigerating and irrigating quality as lettice purslane and summer fruit and drinking of water which by cooling the ventricle and liver cause them to produce plenty of flegm Quiet An idle and sedentary life Sleep Much and profound sleep especially after meat Passions A life void of care study or anxiety or one much troubled with them because they by dissipating the native heat refrigerate the body By the use of things hot and dry they are helped and by things moist and cold they are hurt The Effects Animal Actions Principal Imagination good enough and an easie apprehension of things but a speedy forgetfulness because on humid things impression is easily made and as easily obliterated A drowsy and dull mind a slow and heavy wit Remisse anger and easily appeased Sleep A great propensity to sleep Dreams Dreams of cold waters rains snowes drownings rivers pooles seas and white things Sense A dullness of the senses Motion A slowness but continuance of motion because the spirits being somewhat thick are not soon dissolved Vital Actions Pulse A smal slow and soft pulse Natural Actions Hunger A dejected appetency and this reason Hipp. gives that old men can easily tolerate hunger Thirst None or very little thirst Accretion Slow growth because the heat being weak requires much time to subdue the forces of moisture Venery Slowness to venery The moderate use of which is advantageous to them as reinforcing the heat which thereupon concocts the flegm and reduces the body to a better temper but by the too frequent use thereof the body is too much cooled The Passions They are better in health in clear weather in cold and rainy worse They are subject to cold diseases as catarrhes dropsies pituitous distempers lethargies palsies and the like The Excrements By mouth and nostrils The excretion of humor thick white and insipid conveyed thorough the nostrils and mouth The belly Mucous and whitish feculency Bladder White or pale Urine and that thin if there be obstructions otherwise muddy and thick with plentiful sediments Womb. The flowings of the womb in women white The Habit of the body Skin first A skin to the touch cold feet chiefly and hands very cold in winter Qualities second A soft and smooth skin Third The colour of the same white Hair Hair soft and smooth and from the beginning thin Second quality Yellow hair because flegm by longer coction is so coloured Third figure Direct hairs because the skin being void of dryness the passages in it are easie thorough which the excrements may freely passe Passions Hairs of slow growth but never disrobed by baldness Vessells The narrowness of the vessels and no veins appearing in the eyes Flesh A soft habit of body and fat yet not carnous CHAP. III. Of the signs of Blood predominant in the body The blood predominant in the body is evident by The Material Causes The use of meates of good juyce and easie concoction such as new bread very white and well baked soft boiled egges young flesh and of good nourishment especially that of Hens Partridges Pheasants Calfes Kids c. clear fountain-water generous wine healthfully tempered Retentions Suppressions of usuall vacuations as of issuing of blood in the younger of the Hemorroids in the more aged or the monthes in women The Efficient Causes Parts An hot and moist temper of the heart and liver Descent Sanguin parents Age. The Age from Childhood to Puberty Region A Country perflated by meridional and Southerly winds Time Spring Time Exercise Idleness or but little exercise which creates an appetite without any resolution of the body Venery Unfrequent use of Venery Sleep Sweet and moderate sleep Passions A Life free from care exhilarated with joy and mirth and affluences of delights The large emission and voluntary profusion of blood is commodious for such and the discarding of all such things as may any way diminish the copiousness thereof The Effects Animal Actions Imagination A happy imagination and comprehension of things because moisture readily receives an impression Ratiocination A dulness and stolidity of mind profuse laughter impudence incontinence in very sanguin complexions In others mirth and hilarity of the mind with easie and free discourse and a great inclination to love Memory A memory somewhat weak Sleep Profound sleep yet lesse than in persons pituitous Dreams Dreams of red things of mirth pleasantness marriages gardens musical notes Kings Princes and Nobles Motion Moderate motion but heavy and soon tyred Vital Actions Pulse A great Pulse slow and full Natural Actions Hunger A mediocrity of appetite unlesse the humors abound which breed satiety Thirst Mediocrity also of thirst Venery Inclination to venery but not so much as in persons bilious An easie toleration of venery by reason of the copiousness of seminal matter Passions An easie falling into continuall feavers flegmons and little inflammations c. Excrements Thorough divers parts Frequent and copious excretions of blood expelled thorough the nose womb and Hemorroides The Bladder Copious Urine of a laudable colour and consistence and sometimes replenished with a multitude of contained in it Belly Feculency ruddy and of an indifferent consistence The Habit of the body Qualities A skin hot and soft to the perception of the Touch. Second A florid and ruddy colour of the face Third hair An indifferent plenty of haire of a yellowish colour and a speedy generation of them Vessels Indifferent largness of the vessels A carnous and well compact habit of the body A COROLLARY A true Plethorick void of all Cacochymie is discovered most usually by the same signs if we add an extension of the vessels and voluntary lassitude CHAP. IV. Of the signs of Melancholy predominant in the body THE redundancy of Melancholick humor in the body is demonstrated by the following signs The Material Causes Aliments Use of too crass and hard aliment of a terrene substance such as brown and branny bread black and thick wine troubled and muddy water pulse old cheese beefe hares pork marish-fowle especially salted or hardened in the smoak great fishes hard and salt cabbages parsnipes c. Retentions The customary evacuation of Melancholy retained spontaneously or artificially by the Hemorroides the belly the crooked veins or the Itch c. The Efficient Causes Parts A cold and dry temper of the liver and heart with the infirmity or obstruction of the milt by reason of which it is disabled to attract Melancholick humor and conveniently to expell it Descent Melancholick Parentage Age. Consistency of age from the forty to sixty Region A County whose aire is of an unequal constitution Time Autumn season Watching Immoderate watching because it dryes the body and dissolves native heat Passions A Life agitated with studies cares anxieties and griefe Helpfull and hurtfull They are pleasured by things hot
man escape that ever made such water yet it is less pernicious if the sediment be only black and still less dangerous if onely that which is in the middle be black and much less it is to be feared if the cloud appears onely of that colour Yet here it is to be noted that black urines are not alwaies evil For first in melancholy persons such urines may be critically made As Galen in comment in 3. Epid. Sect. 3. text 74. relates that he knew a certain woman who was much helped by the evacuation of such waters Secondly in splenetick persons black urines may be safely voided that is when the spleen empties it self through those parts as happened to Herophon in 1. Epid. Sect. 3. aegr 3. who being oppressed with an acute Feaver from the beginning to the fifth day made black and thin water the fifth day his milt swelled the eighth day the swelling ceased his urine was more coloured and had a little settlement the seventeenth the disease had a prosperous judgement Thirdly urines of this nature being joyned with an efflux of blood from the nose are less dangerous because the thinner and hotter parts of the blood wherein the danger lay is voided by bleeding as you may see in 1. Epid. Sect. 3. Aegr 7. where Meto being taken with a Feaver the fourth day there flowed out of his right nostril a little blood twice his urine was blackish having a blackish matter hanging in the middle dispersed without settlement the fifth day clear blood flowed more copiously out of the left nostril he sweat was judged After the Crisis he was walking and talked idle making thin and blackish water he slept and came to himself his fit returned not but he bled often and that after the Crisis Fourthly black urine appearing upon a suppression of the months when they flow copiously they cause a solution of the disease as for example in 3. Epid. Sect. 3. Aegr 11. where mention is made of a woman of whom judgment was made the third day of that made thin and black water but at the time of the Crisis her courses descended very plentifully The Quality Much urine and well concocted upon the decretory day are good For they shew that the matter causing the disease is overcome by nature and is conveniently expelled through the proper places Such urines Hipp. observed in Nicodemus of whom he saith that on the twenty fourth day he made much white water wherein was much sediment and was judged with sweating and of Pericles the same Hipp. speaks that the third day the Feaver was asswaged much concocted urine appearing in which was much sediment then also he saith that Chaerion was saved by making much bilious urine Much urine thin and watry without any contents in it profit nothing are evil For they proceed from a multitude of excrementitious and crude humors or from a hot distemper of the kidneys which is thought to cause a diabete or from a colliquation of the whole body whence proceeds a great dissolution of the natural heat So 3. Epid. Sect. 2. Aegr 12. a certain woman on the eighth day made much water without any profit or amendment and the fourteenth day died Little urine and thin not answering to the quantity of drink taken in any disease are evil For it shews a weakness of the separating and expulsive faculty or an intense heat parching up the moisture of the body as appeared in the wife of Dromeada and in the youth of Metibza and in the daughter of Euryanactes and in the woman that lay ill at the house of Pisamenus and in her that lay ill at the house of Pantimedes all which persons made thin and little water and soon afterwards died Stoppage of the urine in acute diseases is pernicious For the suppression of urine in acute diseases as Galen teaches in his comment in 3. Epid. is caused either by a fiery heat consuming the serous humors of the bloud or by an extinction of the natural functions as happened to Silenus whose urine stopped the fixth day the seventh day he made no water and the eleventh day he dyed Also in a woman that lay sick of a quinsie in the house of Ositon at Cizicum and a youth of Morlibia whose urine stopped a little before their death But that is the worst suppression of the urine that follows a coldness of the body as Hipp. teacheth 1. Coac Sect. 1. Aph. 5. after coldness pernicious is that suppression of the urine that precedes a coldness of the body because it signifies a critical evacuation which will be accomplished especially by sweating So on the other side it is worst of all when it follows that coldness because it shews that the action of the bladder is totally destroyed and that the heat thereof is extinguished by that perfrigeration The contents the urine Urines that have either sediment or matter hanging in the middle nor cloud are evil Those urines wanting content are evil if it be not caused by famine labour or watching or a nephritical disposition of the reins or that the bodies were not very cholerick For they signifie great crudity of humors or concoction of them or weakness of the bowels or inflammation of them or else vehement obstructions Urines that have little sediment are evil They indeed are less evil then those that have no contents because they proceed from the same though from lesser causes of these speaks Hipp. in 1. Epid. Thin urine and unconcocted discoloured and little or having thickness and few sediments are evil The sediments that appear like meal are evil those that appear like slates are worse but those that seem like bran are worst of all Hipp. 2. prog These kind of settlements according to Galen 1. of Crit. chap. 12. are caused by an immense heat melting and burning the fat and the very substance of the flesh But when this burning heat preys upon the solid parts first it assails the more soft and newly substantiated fat afterwards the more solid and when all the fat is melted and consumed then it falls upon the more tender and newly compacted flesh after that upon the more solid flesh and lastly upon the most solid parts themselves By the new fat thus melted by the heat of the Feaver are caused oyly urines But by the more solid fat being melted as also from the flesh raggedly dissolved and likewise from thick blood parched are caused those sediments resembling meal as Galen teacheth in comment of this Prognostick From the solid parts unequally dissolved proceed those sediments which are like slates as also those resembling bran when the heat is more intense whence it plainly appears that the slaty sediments are worse then the mealie ones and the brannie sediments worse then the slaty how pernicious those sediments are will appear by the judgement of Galen of that resembling meale which is not so bad as the rest in Com. in Aph. 31. Sect. 7. he thus writes such urines are
not and is without pain so is difficulty of breathing for should they continue obstinately and long they would rather portend an inflammation of the Liver CHAP. X. Of the signes of future Crisis by the moneths and hemorrhoids AFuture flux of the months and Hemorrhoids is known by the same signes yet here lyes the difference for if they appear in a woman wont to have monthly purgations the flux comes through the womb But if in a man accustomed to the Hemorrhoids then we may imagin that the Crisis will be by the Hemorrhoids But the signes common to either evacuation are these A pain and heaviness in the loyns and heat thereof A pain and distention in the hypogastrion A distemper at the mouth of the stomach When the blood descends to the lower parts filling and stretching vena cava it causes a pain heaviness and heat in them because the vena cava descending rests upon the loyns from which place very great branches thereof are carried to the hypogastrium which cause a pain and stretching in those parts Whence also proceeds a disturbance at the mouth of the stomach because of the great sympathy and agreement of the parts above the loyns and hypogastrium with the stomach CHAP. XI Of the signes of an ulcer THe following aphorismes do briefly declare when an ulcer will break out in any disease Such as are detained with long Feavers have long swellings and pains do arise in their joynts Aph. 44. Sect. 4. Those feavers are said to be long which last above forty dayes and are caused by a thick cold and contumacious matter and therefore because that matter cannot easily be evacuated by excretory cause nature often expels it to the weaker parts and there begets an ulcer Those who void crude and thin urine for a long time if other symptomes promise life an abscession is to be expected in the parts below the midrif Hipp. 2. prog It hath been said before that the signes of crudity remaining for a long time if the strength be impaired portend death because it is to be feared that the patient cannot hold out till the matter be concocted But if the strength of the body is in a good condition and other signes do promise a recovery it is to be hoped that the patient may be cured not by a perfect solution but by permutation or abscession When the urine stops with a coldness in such as are very sleepy it is a hopeful signe of ulcers near the ears Hipp. Coac For that sleepiness shews a great oppression of the brain at which time coldness coming on produces either an ulcer or a great convulsion Those who are sick of a Feaver having a weariness and faintness upon them may expect an ulcer in their joynts or about their jaws For a voluntary faintness in feavers proceeds from an abundance of thick and crude humors and those feavers are most difficultly judged and their judication is commonly by the breaking forth of an ulcer If on the patients recovery any part be distempered t is a signe that some ulcer will break out there Not onely the pain which afflicts any part at the declining of the disease but also all the symptomes that shew a weakness in the part are signes of an ulcer thereabout Note from Hipp. Aph. 74. Sect. 4. that while the signes of an approching ulcer appear if the urine be copious thick and white it takes away all fear of an abscession and that more certainly and speedily if there happen a bleeding together with this kind of urine CHAP. XII Of the signes of those things which will happen to one already sick or falling into a disease and first of the signes of approching madness MAny things usually fall out in diseases besides the Crisis as vehement symptomes the changing of one disease into another all which things if they can be foreseen by the Physician gain him a very honourable esteem and are of a special utility to the patient Therefore we shall endeavour to lay down their symptomes according to the foresaid method beginning from the signes of approching madness which are known by these rules Animal actions Principal Forgetfulness presently happening in acute diseases foretels a phrensie For it shews that the brain is affected and that the matter causing the discase is hurried up thither from the lower parts Less principal Sleep and waking Troubled and tumultuous sleeps foretel deliration This Hipp. taught in Coac in these words Turbulent and furious wakings out of sleep bring madness For they shew the brain to be very much affected and unsetled from its natural condition Continual watching brings madness Hipp. 2. prog For both of these affections are produced from the same cause viz. from a hot and dry distemper of the brain as Galen teaches in 4 of presage by pulse A more remiss distemper causeth watchfulness and a more intense one madness The hearing A thingling and sound in the ears or deafness often precedes madness especially if it appear with urine that hath matter lifted up and hanging in it Hipp. 1. prorrhet For these things do shew that the noxious matter is carried up to the brain which excites madness The sence of smelling too exquisite denounces madness For it shews an unwonted driness of the brain and an attenuation of the spirits which disposeth the brain to madness Feeling vehement and continual pain of the head in acute feavers portends madness especially when it is observed most in the ears or which is joyned with revulsions of the midrif for it signifies that the humors are copiously carried up to the brain and do vehemently distemper it Pain of the side which with cholerick spittle vanisheth away without any manifest cause is a signe of madness For it shews a translation of the cholerick humor from the side to the brain Pains in the leggs hasten madness and that as well at other times as especially if there is a bad enaeorema in the urine Hipp. in Coac There is so great a sympathy of the legs with the principal parts that as in a rupture of the heel there do happen peracute trembling sobbing feavers which last but little hot and mortal so in the pain of the legs which is caused by a malignant humor there is a feaver stirred up in the heart and madness in the brain the pestilent humors easily invading the brain Now although these pains not onely of the legs but also of the thighs back and other ignoble parts do portend madness yet they performe it more certainly if soon after appearance they withdraw again for they signifie a translation of the morbifick matter to the brain as you may see in Hipp. 3. Epid. Sect. 3. Aegr 5. where Calvus on a sudden had a pain in his right thigh and no remedies prevailed The first day he had a burning and acute feaver and the pain increased the third day the pain ceased and a madness with much tumbling and tossing ensued the fourth day about noon be dyed
the hollow gristly pipes that spread themselves through the body of the lungs being branches of the wind-pipe Bronchorele swelling in the wind-pipe Bubo a sore in the groin C. CAcochymy the abounding of evil humors Calcined burned to ashes in a crucible Calidity heat Callosity a brawny hardness in the skin Carminative medicines that break the wind Cartilage gristle Carotides branches of the great artery going up to the head with the jugular veins Carnosity fleshiness Caries foulness rottenness or corruption of a bone Cataplasme a pultise Catarrhe a defluxion of the humors from the brain Catoche a waking drousiness and dulness of the sences Cavity hollowness Caustick medicines to burn the skin for issues Cephalick belonging to the head Chorion the outmost skin wrapping the child all over Chyle white juyce coming out of the meat digested in the stomach Cicatrize to bring to a scar or close up a wound Colature straining Collyrium an eyessalve Coma heavy and long sleep Condensation a thickening Congelation freezing together Consistence body stiffened with cold or substance Constipation stopping up Contiguity nearness Corneatunica a coat of the eye like horn Corrode biting fretting Crisis a breaking away of the disease by natures conquest of the cause Crassity grosness D. Decoction the liquor wherein things are boiled Defecated cleansed from dregs Deliration dotage raving talking idlely Deliquium a fainting or swouning Density thickness Deterse scoured cleansed Diabete a plentiful sending forth of urine which a violent thirst and consumption succeeds Diagridiate medicines that have scammony in them Diametrically directly opposite Diapedesis an issuing of bloud through the pores of the veins Diaphanous transparent clear Diaphoretick sweats caused by nature oppressed with a malignant humor and forcibly driving it out Diaphragma the midriffe Diastole the extending or swelling of an artery Diathesis disposition Discrete quantity uncontinued parted Dislocation displacing Disparity unevenness Diureticks medicines provoking urine Dyscracy evil temper or disposition Dysenteria qloudy flux Dyspnaea snortness of breath E. EMbrocation bathing bedewing moistening Emplastick sticking Emprosthotonus a Cramp in the forepart of the body Empyema a corrupt matter between the breast and lungs following a pleurisie Emulsion milkes made of cool seeds Eneorema that which hangs like a cloud in urine Enaergetically effectually Ephemeral daily returning Epiala a feaver produced by cold flegm Epicrasis a gentle evacuation of bad humors and receiving good instead Epilepsie a convulsion of the whole body by fits Epiploon the caul Epoulotick causing or inducing a scar Erosion fretting eating Eruginous rusty Erisipelas a swelling caused by choler Exacerbation the fit of a disease Excoriation fleaing the skin away Eucrasy a good well disposed temper F. FArinaceous mealy like meal Fissure cleaving dividing parting Friable apt to crumble short Frigidity coldness Fuliginous smoky misty Fungous spungy G. GIbbosity crookedness of the back Glasteous of the colour of woad Glutinous clammy like glue Gracility slenderness Gravative burdensome heavy Gravity heaviness Grumous ful of clodds or lumps Gypseous limy H. HAbit the whole bulk and substance of the body Hallucination error in judgement Haemorrhagia breaking forth of the bloud from any part of the body Haemorrhoides veins of the fundament to which leeches are applyed Hepatitides veins coming out of the liver Heterogeneous of another nature or kind Homogeneous of the same nature or kind Humidity moisture Hydromel hony and water Hypochondrium theforepart of the belly about the sides and short ribs above the navel Hypogastrium the lower part of the belly under the navel Hypostasis the settling of urine Hysterical troubled with fits of the mother I. IChor raw unconcocted bloud Idiopathy any ones particular and proper affection Idiosyncracy any ones proper and peculiar temper Igneous fiery burning Immobility staiedness fixedness not moveable Intestinum rectim the straight gut Intercostal between the ribs Invalidate to weaken Irrepent creeping in secretly L. LAevity smoothness Levity lightness Lienous troubled with the spleen Lienteria a flux when meat goes away unconcocted Lipothymia fainting or swouning Lipyria an hot feaver the outward parts being cold Lithontripticks medicines to break the stone Lubricity slipperiness Luxation loosening of one joynt from another M. MAgisterial medicines invented by a Physician for his patient contrary to common ones in shops Malacia immoderate lust of women with child Marasmus a consuming feaver Masticatory medicines to be chewed to bring away rheume Membranes skin or coat of the arteries or veins Meninx the filme enwrapping the brain Mesaraick veins little veins conveying the chyle from the stomach to the liver Mesenterium the skin which knits the guts together Morbifick matter causing the disease N. NArcotick stupifying medicines which dull the sense of feeling and cause deep sleep Nauseousness sick stomach inclining to vomit Nephritical troubled with pain in the reins Nephrocatarticks medicines to purge the reins Nidorous swelling of burnt fat or scorched meat O. OBesity fatness Obturation shutting stopping Oesophagus the mouth of the stomach Oleaginous oyly Ophthalmia an inflammation of the eyes Opisthotonus a convulsion when the body is drawn back Organ peculiar parts of the body Osseous bony full of bones Oxycratium vinegar and water mingled Oxydorticks medicines making the eyesight quick Oxyrohodine vinegar of roses Oxysaccharum syrup of vinegar and sugar P. PAraphrenitis a hot distemper communicated to the brain causing a disease like a phrensie Paregoricall mitigating asswaging Parenchyma the substance of the bowels Paroxysme a fit of any disease Pathognomonical properly signifying the species of the disease Pathology treatise of diseases Pepasmus the producing a thing to ripeness and concoction Pepsis concoction ripeness digestion Peripneumony an inflammation of the lungs Peritoneum the inner coat of the belly which covers the gut Pharmaceutick any medicines made by the Apothecary Phlegmon an inflammation or swelling caused by bloud Phthisis consumption corruption Physiology treatise of nature Pica lust of women with child Pituitous flegmy Plethora abounding and fulness of bloud Pleura a thin skin investing the inside of the ribs Podagrical gouty Polypus an excrescency of flesh hanging down to the lower part of the nose like the fish Polypus Porraceous green of the colour of leeks Primigenious primitive first produced Procatarctick first working primary occasions and causes Puerility childs age Pulsifick causing to beat Pungitive pricking Purulent ful of matter and corruption Pyrotick hot burning Q. Quadruple four-fold R. RArity thinness Refrigeration cooling Respiration breathing Retentive power whereby the parts hold fast nourishment drawing back of bloud or humor from the parts affected S. Salprunellae salt-peter purified with brimstone Salsuginous salt Salubrity healthiness Sarcotick producing flesh Scirrhus an hard swelling without pain Sediment settling of urine Semeiotick shewing the signes or Symptonmes of diseases Serum wheyish humor affording matter of urine Siccity driness Spagyricks Chymical Physicians Spasmus a cramp or convulsion Spermatick full of seed Spinalis medulla marrow of the backbone Spumous frothy Struma a swelling in the neck the kings evil or a bunch in the back Sudoriferous causing sweat Superficies the outside of any thing Suppuration a collection of matter in an impostume when it is ready to break Syderation blasting with heat Syllogizing reasoning by argument Symbolize to be like Symmetry just proportion Symptome an evil disposition of body which depends upon and accompanies a disease Synochical continual symptomatical feaver without fits caused by a foregoing disease Systole contraction falling or sinking of the artery T. TAblets medicines made up four square Tenesmus a continual desire of going to stool and voiding nothing butslime or bloudy matter Tensive stretching out Tetanus an extending cramp Therapeutick treatise of healing medicines Tophaceous sandy Transpiration passage of vapours through the pores Trochissated made up in form of a little bowle V. VAletudinary sickly Ventricle the stomach Vertebra the turning bones of the whole back Vertigo swimming in the head Vesicatory medicines applyed to the skin to cause blisters Vitelline like the yolk of an egge Vitreous like glass Ureters passages conveying the urine from the kidney to the bladder Vulnerary belonging to wounds FINIS