the Vessel in sunder being brought to light that the heat of the parts may compress the end of it Some when the Spring comes that Frogs first cast forth their spawn take a coorse linnen cloth so much as may serve and wash it often in this spawn and lay it in the Sun to dry and this they repeat three or four times and so the cloth being dryed at the time they need it they cut a piece off twice greater then the wound and lay it on the wound BARRENNES For. prescribed this that followeth Take Saffron long Pepper Cardamnum Pellatoty of Spain of each half a dram tails of Scincus with the Reins 2 scruples Galanga 4 Scruples Rape seed Parsnip seed Rocket seed Nettle seed ash-keys of each one dram Leeks white Ginger choise Cinamon of each 2 drams Electuary diasatyrion of Mesues description 6 drams with syrup of preserved Ginger make an Electuary keep it in a Vessel of glasse Take one hour before supper the quantity of a Nut and drink a cup of wine upon it Let the Patient take about bed time one dram of this following powder with wine Take white Ginger 1 dram Gallinga 2 drams Bulls pisle 3 drams make a powder Root of Egyptian Bean raw or boyled eaten Oyl of Marjoram with Hares runnet and a little Musch The secret of Lobelius Schrekevos commends this following as revealed by God Take yolks of Eggs fresh butter Bulls pisle Chiches Galanga Satyrian Zedoary Ginger preserved Mints Cocks and Wolfs testicles of each 1 dram Rocket seed Cloves Ginger Pepper long white and black Anniseed Ash keys Cinamon of each half a dram brains of Pigeons and Sparrows well boyled and roasted of each half a pound the heart of the Indian Nut Pine kernels cleansed Fistich nuts sweet Almonds cleansed Mallow seed Mercury Hasle-nuts shaled Dates of each 2 drams boyl all in sheeps milk and water bruise them strongly and add Tailes of Scinci half a dram make a Confection with Honey of Roses or Sugar what may suffice boyl all at a soft fire for an Electuary Helidaus holds this for a secret Take Pennyroyal Origanum of each two handfuls boyl them in Malligo wine adding musk three grains let both be perfumed Also the fume of Sage boyled received The same Author giveth one or at most three grains of Amber in a rear Egg in the morning shavings of Ivory and powder of Sage of each alike the decoction of Eringo roots in wine CACHEXIA is a cold and moist distemper of the body with a symptome of the colour changed and a disease of magnitude by the swelling of the Feet The Cause is a watery Flegmatick raw blood the fault is of the Liver the Spleen of the stomach of the Brain an nicer of the Reins because the wheyish humour running back hath infected the blood stopping of the Courses too much glutting and craming themselves Signs Diagnostick A pale leady colour a soft tumour about the Eyes Cheeks Feet Hands Prognostick It often afflicts children by too much greediness old men and women It may be cured unlesse it come from an incurable disease The Cure The vicious matter must be evacuated The cause must be removed The distemper must be taken away by general remedies and topicals The Powder called Cachectical is profitable as some other powder of filings of Steel steeled wine Senn. l. 3. p. 6. s 2. c. 2. Fer. l. 9. A CANCER is a hard Tumor sharp unequal round unmoveable wan sticking deep in the Veins that swell with a black humour and are spread in the body like to a Crab. The Cause is black choler Heurnius in Aph. 38. s 6. saith there is a double poyson one putrifying which is enraged by suppurating remedies another corroding that is enraged by Cleansers Signs Diagnostick The Tumor is hot and painful and is ulcerated The Ulcer is foul and stinking the lips of it are swolne thick wan Prognostick Aph. 38. s 6. by hidden Cancers are understood such as are not ulcerated Senn. Fabr. cent 3. obs 87. No Cancers though they be of the Breasts are cured by cutting off but they will grow again Cancers of the Lips How they must be extirpated Pareus teacheth l. 6. c. 29. The Cure It is performed by exact cutting away The increasing of an ulcerated Cancer must be hindered and of one that is not ulcerated that it come not to ulceration Palliative is made 1. By Diet. 2. By evacuatives and alteratives 3. By revulsion and derivation by Issues 4. By Topicals The juyce and decoction of Nightshade Endive the flesh of Snails boyld River Crabs green Frogs Oyl of Frogs See Senn. l. p. 1. c. 20. ashes of Crabs Senn. Scabious heath Robert Chervil Dill Honey-suckles Mans dung in powder For. l. 17. ashes of Mullens of the lesser Celandine of Robert Oyl of Eggs and wan mixed in a leaden Mortar with water of Night-shade with a leaden pestle Asses milk is good and Treacle Wild Cresses bruised or in fomentation also blood-suckers laying on of Cats and young Whelps divided Powder of Galls of burnt Crabs mingled with Oyl of Roses and laid on with Lint Pareus his Plate of Lead anointed with Quick-silver is excellent and an Antidote for all malignant Ulcers but because it keepeth in vapours Forestus liketh it not Par. l. 8 bids that it be made full of holes Crato Ep. 59. Crabs eys ground small on a Marble taken in broth or wine can do much in the greatest pains of a Cancer Aegyptiac is mortal for cancerous Ulcers Fabr. l. 3. obs 86. An old woman cured a Cancer laying on Sage chewed with her Teeth For. l. c. The Cure of that is ulcerated is done by Minerals with Unguent of Tutty Diapampholigos or juyce of Nightshade clarified and stirred in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle 8 ounces of common Tutty ten times washed in Night-shade water 2 drams of burnt lead washed likewise 1 dram Oyl of Roses half an ounce juyce of Nightshade what may suffice make a Liniment in a leaden Mortar with a leaden Pestle Some lay on daily a Hen which the Cancer eats For. l. c. Emplaister of Ceruss it is truly cured either by Section or burning or burning means If there be good blood and matter that runs from it the cure is perfect See Senn. l. c. No Atractives or Digestives profit nor Oyls or fat things except Juyces white wax and Goats suet For. l. 28. A small Cancerous push growing slowly about the Chin Mouth Nose is called Nolime tangere A Cancer in the Legs and Shanks is called a a Wolf Senn. l. c. Blood is sometimes commodiously drawn by distance of time The hearb Carduns benedictus and also the Eys of Crabs Magistral is given succesfully in water Arsemart Senn. l. 4. p. 3. s 1. c. 7. See there the manner of Section See what must be looked to concerning the Muscle of the Brest in the Anatomists A Hen cut through the middle is excellent to lay on being every day renewed Famous
pains it is best to commit them to Nature rather then to open them Great effusions of blood are from the outward Vein The Cure The blind Piles if they swell we must take care to void out the blood Chafing with sharp things with leaves of Mercury Pellitary Borrage cold with juyce of Beets Sowbread Centory the lesse yet lest the pain should increase we must add Anodyns Oyl of Elder and the liquor that is made of the flowers of Mullens in a glasse set in the Sun is great help if you anoint them with it Pilewort the lesser Celandine inwardly outwardly worketh marvelously But if the pain be great and there be fear of Inflammation open a vein in the Arm after that in the Ankle if the pain cease not After the opening of a Vein set on Leeches when they are fallen off let the blood run till it stop of it self or let the sick sit over a Bath of hot water by the vapour whereof the blood is moved let a vessel swim in the water to receive the blood or let it be drawn with a Cornicula The pain is appeased with cooling Axodyns both injected applyed Also with Moistners chiefly oyl of Violets injected to one ounce A certain woman applyed the ashes of burnt Cork with the yolk of an Egg oyl of Roses mingled and it was miraculous Section is not safe because it will easily ulcerate Purging by Hiera will provoke heat and Tumors in the Fundament and the Piles Solen Also Chafing of the neather part Fume of Mother-wort boyld in Wine the same But if they were never wont to run nor there be hoeps that they will run we must use means premising Generals Purgatives of the second sort For. that they may dry up by digestives and driers as with Bole-armenick Mulleus Pilewort Plantain Yarrow Hypericon Scabious Dogs-tongue root of the lesser Celandine in Fomentations Insessions Vapours the smoke of Brimstone Onions boyled with Butter Amatus when all other remedies failed took an Orange made hollow filled with oyl of Roses and Lavender-seed upon hot embers and laid it on hot and oft times renewed it If they run but little the ways must be softned and Aloes must be given If they run too much the cure must be with Revulsives Alteratives Astringents Prevention is by Purgatives c. Rulandus stopt them on himself with little red bags applyed by turns filled with Acorns beaten or Oke leaves boyld a long time in Wine Senn. observed so did Plat. and Fern. that oft times without blood or pain snotty and whitish filth which some falsly take for putrefaction was sent forth for a long time after long melancholick diseases riding The matter is made of corrupt blood as the Whites in women are like to whites of Eggs. See Topicalls PILES of the Matrix As in the Fundament so in the neck of the Womb Piles are found if the Veins in those parts are extended they are found out by Speculum The Cure Generals premised the pain must be abated every way by Insession c. If the pain be not or abated if they bleed not but swell the Ancients did only Scarify them but rather let them be dryed by Generals and by Driers If they swell much we must use means to evacuate them by Softners in form of vapour and by Chafing setting on of Leeches The last means is Incision which yet is dangerous They are painful and by their pain alone are they known from the Courses FRENCH-POX is an occult disease of the Liver and the other parts whether it be cold or hot with plenty of naughty humours it is bred from unclean copulation Fiorav saith it was bred from eating mans flesh Leoninus from the Stars and moisture in the year 1493. Others say from a Leprous man lying with a whore Hurtenus l. 6. de Guai thinks it was brought from Spaniola It is cured 1. By Guaicum China roots which want smell and cast and are not hot Sarsoparilla leaves of Saponariad as Take bark of the wood one ounce pour on water six pound Zwinger op 234. or Take shavings of the wood one pound the bark one ounce infuse them in ten pound of pure water boyl them till three parts be wasted Laur. With the froth kept anoint the Fore-head the Temples c. Drink every morning eight ounces To the reliques add of the wood two ounces water twelve pound boyl all to five pound for drink Boyl the dregs again to wash the Hands c Fore-head 2. By Quick-silver which Senn. thinks to be hot See Fern Laur. Par. who acknowledgeth two parts to be in Quicksilver which thing Senn. rejecteth It is poyson though quick it doth lesse harm because it soon runs through It is pressed through a Rams skin then it is given to a Dog who shits it forth it is cooked in Vinegar with hearbs for the Nerves Senn. thinks this profits little with Hogs grease c. Let them stay on the skin and not peirce so deep to the bottom Take Hogs grease six ounces fresh Butter three ounces oyl of Worms and of a Fox of each one ounce and half boyl in these Sage Rosemary c. Quicksilver prepared six ounces Wax what may suffice anoint the insides of the Feet Hands and the Joynts and back lest spitting should cause Ulcers in the Mouth For. prevents that with a Gargarism of oyl of sweet Almonds When you are anointed hold a gold Ring in your Mouth give Pills of gold dust so the reliques of the Quick-silver will stick to the gold Mercury doth not cure the disease but taketh away the cause by a Purgative quality 3. By Plaisters 4. By Fumes which way is the most dangerous as Take Vermilion one ounce Mastick Mace Tutty of each two drams Benioni Myrrh Storax Frankinsence of each half an ounce make them up with Turpentine and take a fume of it If an Infant be affected the Nurse for five days must preserve her self with Treacle water let her alwaies wash her Nipple The pushes of the child must be anointed with Unguent of Elecampane and a little Mercury Paercus for the Plague and spotted Feavers used an ointment with Mercury If they refuse the decoction of the wood Take Sarsaparilla three ounces Bark of Guaicum one ounce Cinamon one dram and half Senna leaves half an ounce Sugar six ounces make a powder the Dose is half a dram The quantity of Senna is variable Let him sweat in the morning upon it own hour and beware the North wind Monav. cp 242. and Zac. l. 1. bist 72. holds the Spanish disease to be well known and to proceed from too much Venery Unguent of Mercury must be new made for by fermenting it looseth its Porces Par. l. 20. c. 5. holds that the Pox is poyson by it moisture only Let not the diet be thin to lessen the Forces because the disease is chronical only in acute diseases which are short a thin diet is profitable Small Wine is allowed
swath-bands Let the sick take up a heavy thing with his Hands it is retained by Cupping glasses and Astringents From hence may grow what the Germans call Dasz Wehe thun See Senn. of Dislocation TONGUE great or a Tumour sometime it is without pain from the plenty of profitable nourishment flowing to it sometimes from Cacochymia and then it is either Oedema or Cancer or Inflammation and sometime from the French-Pox from anointing with Quick-silver from biting or touching of some venemous creature The cure If it be from plenty of blood or Inflammation it must be pulled back and evacuated as in Phlegmone In Galen it was revealed to a Countrey-man in his dream to use a double cloth of linnen wet in juyce of Lertice If it be Oedema or from the French-Pox or Poyson it is cured as Oedema If it be a cancerous swelling it is incurable TERMS of women flowing It is made the same way as bleeding at the nose c. The signs are the same It is often incurable Diapedesis is most easy Anastomosis easy corroding is hard to cure The Cure We must by times make Revulsion by opening a Vein Cupping glasses set to the Brests 5. Aph. 50. Cholerick humours must be temperd purged We must bind by inward and outward means A certain old woman cured one that was incurable giving nine times one dram of powder of mens bones with red Wine If it be from ill humours we must not stop suddenly Guainerius giveth for a great experiment one dram of the ashes of Goats dung If such an irregular Flux follow child-bearing women use this secret they dry a Wal-nut and powder it and give it at thrice in red Wine or Martlemas flesh above a year old tosted and dried in an earthen dish For. used this that followeth with profit Take red Coral Bole Armenick Datestones of each half a dram give it at twice in a rear Egg. Let all Topicals be astringent Injections are good and the juyce of Yarrow Plantain Bloodwort c. Pessaries washing the Legs with cold water roots of Nigella held under the Tongue Blood-stone roots of Corn-Poppy Tree moss bound under the Arm-pits Sanicle and Straw-berry leaves bound under the Feet TERMS stopt It proceeds either from the fault or want of blood or from straightness of the Passages It differs from Conceiving because women with child for the most part keep their natural colour are merry but in Terms stopped it is contrary Symptoms that befall great-bellyed women at the beginning to grow lesse but not so here in great bellyed women the motion and situation of the child is perceived the third Moneth but not so here If it last fix Moneths Hipp. saith it cannot be cured Straightnesse procceds either from grosse humours or a swelling or an astringent Bath The Cure They are not to be provoked in starved Cachectical people who have but little blood They must be moved when they were wont to run before In the Inflammation or falling down of the Matrix move not the Courses If it come from Obstruction as it often doth and there be Plethora open a Vein in the Arm to take away Plethory for if that remain to cut a Vein in the Ankle will do no good for being that all blood is so drawn to the Womb one hindreth and detaineth another Contrary to this Zach. hist 76. l. 1. useth Cupping glasses with Scarification Ligatures Chafings of the lower parts Mercurialis mightily commends Causticks below the Knees which Sen. denieth because they derive other humours from the Womb. Afterwards we must purge alter and that often Lastly give things that move the Terms as the powder of Ladies Take seeds of broad Cummin Ammeos Cinamon of each two ounces and half Cumin seed three ounces seeds of Fennel Smallage Carways Nutmegs sweet Calamus Galanga of each one dram and half Ginger Mac̄e Cloves of each one dram Saffron three drams and half make a powder Let the Topicals be Emollients and such as move the Terms as Baths Oyls Fumes Evaporations Clysters Pessaries For. in the stopping of the Terms with Cachexia first exhibited Pils of Hiera with Mugwort water then a long Purgative decoction then a Purgative Potion Treacle one dram with two ounees of white wine the first decoction was repeated such a Potion Take Diacatholicon six drams Electuary Indum majus three ounces syrup of Maiden-hair and Mugwort of each half an ounce with three drams of the decoction of Mugwort Rennyroyal Balm for one Dose A Bath of things fit for the Matrix after the Bath he anointed the Thighs with an unguent Take oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Butter fresh Marrow of Calves Legs of each one ounce oyl of bitter Almonds Mucilage of Marsh-mallow seeds Linseed Fennygreck of each two drams juyce of Rue Mugwort of each half an ounce a little Wax make an unguent After give one dram of Treacle with one ounce of the broth of red Chichs When the first quarter of the Moon was at hand he opened the Saphena but when the Veins did not appear he set Cupping glasses with Scarification to the Legs and so cured it If these had not helped the Authour would have proceeded to the decoction of the wood mingling Dittany the force whereof Jacchinus often proved Savin Nigella seed one dram in the decoction or the meal of it bound in a woollen cloth and set under is excellent See Difficulty of Child-birth TERMS dropping This proceeds either from thickness and sharpness of blood straightness of the Passages and it causeth pain or from the weakness of the retentive Faculty and thinness of blood and it is without pain It is cured the sharpness being allayed the Faculty strengthned the straightness removed c. TENESMUS The next cause is something provoking the expulsive Faculty the remote cause is stone of the Bladder sharp Medicaments Worms salt humours a Dysentary an Ulcer of the Sphyncter long Hickop is deadly Dysentary The cure The humour must be softened with Clysters evacuated as the variety of the humour requireth they must be injected in small quantities The pain must be asswaged by Topicals Suppositories are profitable also fumes if from an Ulcer Dysentery it must be cured by fumigations under The TREPAN hath place only in three cases 1. When the Bone presseth the hard Membrane 2. When it pricketh 3. If matter be gathered within the Skull Never apply it to the Bone wholly broken but to the sound yet as near as may well be to the fracture It must not be used 1. In a Bone so broken that for the greatest part it is divided for so it would be pressed into the Membrane 2. On the sutures for then rather two or three small Trepanes should be applyed on both sides the future 3. On that Region of the Fore-head which is near the Ey-brow by reason of the hollow between both tables 4. To the lower parts of the skull lest the Brain fall out by the hole 5. To Childrens forepart of the Head 6.
A Compleat PRACTICE OF Physick Wherein is plainly described The Nature Causes Differences and Signs of all Diseases in the Body of Man VVith the choicest CURES for the same By John Smith Doctor in Physick LONDON Printed by J. Streater for Simon Miller at the Star in S. Pauls Church-yard 1656. The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader WHen I consider that men in this our scribling age care not what foolish and nonsensical stuff they obtrude upon the world so that thereby there may but a little profit accrue unto themselves I am almost deterred from presenting to thy view this Treatise lest thou shouldst at first sight conceive it to be of the same Genius yet I hope nay am confident to find thee more ingenious then inconsiderately to passe censure without perusal of the Book it self which I presume is such as cannot but give the most judicious Reader satisfaction containing in it self not only most select Remedies for every Disease but also laying open to the meanest capacity the Causes Symptoms or Signs of them so that any one that is not either wilfully or maliciously blind cannot but plainly see this Treatise most wonderfully conducing to the publick good and such as may by Gods blessing which is in all things the Primum mobile be a means to help many at their need who either by reason of their own vvants or distance of place cannot conveniently repair to a Physitian Of those remedies the Author here makes use of I hope no one will have cause to doubt They are such as contain in them all the marrow of Sennertus Riverius and all other Authors any way Famous or Excellent a Catalogue whereof you will find hereunto adjoyned The method of the Book is new and never before attempted but such as thou wilt plainly perceive is best for the ease satisfaction of the Reader One thing more I have to say which also is one main reas of my publishing this Treatise that is The earnest desires of many learned friends of the Author that this work of his might not any longer ly in private hands or the publick be hindred of so great a benefit and that also my learned friend Doctor John Smith might be had in perpetual remembrance for his good will to his Countrey and Common-wealth April 6. 1656. Which also is the earnest desire of your real friend J. Ridgley Authors made use of in this Treatise A Arantius Arculanus B Bauhimus C Crato Celsus D Doringus F Fabritius Faber Forestus Fernelius Fuchsius Florentinus G Galen H Hippocrates Heurnius Hollerius Hen. de Braâ— Helideus Horstius Dr. Harvey I J. Lipsius L Laurentius Lobelius M Dr. Maynard Massarias Mnesitius of Athens Mercatus P Paraeus Platerus Paracelsus R Rulandus Rondeletius Riverius S Schenkius Sennertus Spiegelius Scaliger Sanenarola Schrekeros Smetius T Trallianus V Valesius W Wierus A Compleat Practice OF PHYSICK ABORTION is a symptom of things thrust out The Cause is the expulsive faculty provoked or the retentive hurt which is done by the air too much voiding of excrements motion Venery diseases natural debility of the womb or the child of the retentive faculty by the first birth the stinck of a candle put out Castoreum Galbanum from the child diseased by naughty seed from want of superfluity of nourishment from the disease of the mother distempers sharp fevers loosness of the Ligaments the womb gaping shortness of the Intestins dissolved unity of the parts adjoyning from swooning convulsion pain sneesing slipperiness of the matrix from a flegmatic humour Aph. 45. s 5. Diagnostick Signs Aph. 37 38 52. 53. Prognosticks In Abortion women are in worse condition then in natural birth for unripe apples fall not unless they be pulled oft times especially the first Abortion causeth barrenness Abortion is most dangerous in the sixth seventh and eighth moneths Preservation The cause must be resisted it oft times proceeds from a stegmatick humour Internal and Topical remedy must be astringent Specialties are Corals cochineal shaving of Ivory Take Red coral prepared I dram Pearl prepared half a dram shavings of Ivory I dram Mastick half a dram Manus Christi with Pearls 2 drams make a powder The Cure If you cannot prevent it you must by all means procure Abortion Question Whether straightnesse of the Matrix can cause Abortion It is affirmed as straightness of the stomach may case vomiting Affection Hypochondriacal is a sink of humours melancholick and oft times of slegmatick and cholerick collected in the branches of vena porta the Caeliaque artery and the Meseraiques especially in the left hypochondre by reason of the concoction of the spleen hurt without putrefaction from whence vapours that have the nature of these things and part of the humour do stir up various symptoms as loathing vomiting belching sowre corruption and burnt like sut whence it is that Senn. will have the case of Fabr. Cent. 4. obs 32. not to proceed from the seed but to be hypochondriacal many winds which Senn. will have to be contained in that cavity of Spiegelius on the left side sadnesse after meat costiveness by the drines of the vessels heat of the hypochondres urine sometime thick sometime thin troubled panting of the heart swooning thirst difficulty of breathing Vertigo falling-sicknesse palsie Wearinesse troublesomesse it differs from hypochondriacal melancholy because in the affection hypochondriacal many are not melancholy The Cause is a sink of humours collected by reason of the cold of the stomach weaknesse of the spleen hear of the liver driness of the intestines the Pancreas obstruction of the vessels especially of the Pancreas and fault of the milky veins chiefly in virgins and in women by the fault of the womb and stopping of their Courses Diagnostick signs If it come from the Spleen it is stretched out and hard the face is ill coloured If from the Liver that is stretched forth If in the Mesentery vessels c there are winds noyses and hard nesse If in the stomach concoction is hurt If from the womb there is a noise of the womb and the Courses are stopped Prognosticks The disease is obstinate by reason of a contrary temper of the bowels and grosnesse of the humour The Emrods Melancholick veins the Courses do often cure it also bleeding of the left nostril black urine Women are seldom troubled with it but never cured Thick urine is best The Cure The first Indication is that the humours must be evacuated by gentle moistures and coolers by opening the Emrods by vomit by diureticks If this be fruitlesse we must respect two things 1. Steel which is the best for all obstructions and melancholick diseases by reason of the brimstone it abounds with wherefore we must see to it that it be not over calcined for so it will rather bind the brimstony part being taken away the filings of steel or prepared steel is given which is done if the filings be steeped in vinegar dried and powdered or else the crocus or
Feet and Hands must be bathed in water wherein Turnips especially frozen are boyled or anoint the part with oyl of wax or Bays also with Honey Turpentine If they be ulcerated anoint them with oyl of Roses boyled in the root of a Rape or Radish made hollow or with the ashes of Crab-fish with Honey and Oyl of Roses When the part is mortified it is cured as a Gangreen Child suffocated may be known if it were very well before if the Mouth and Nostrils be wet with froth if the Lungs diffected be frothy The COUGH The cause is 1. a naked distemper and then there preceeded Procatactick causes 2. A humour now what that is is known by by the spittle a Catarrh 3. Dissolved unity of the Lungs 4. Inflammation of the Liver Spleen Dropsy 5. Smoke dust sowre things and many external things Worms The cure The cause must be taken away and the Cough if it be from a Catarrh is cured as a Catarrh and by expectorating means If it come from a thin hot sharp matter after generals we must cool moisten thicken also this that followeth is good Take Honey Butter of each half an ounce Cummin-seed 1 dram mingle it give it by a spoon Forestus often prescribeth to short-winded people in a Consumption Take juyce of Colts-foot half a pound Mucilage of Marshmallowes drawn with barley water one ounce Sugar what may suffice make a Lohock fumes of leavs of Alchoof drawn up by a pipe are good 1. Generals being premised 2. If there be no Feaver 3. Whilst the forces remain 4. Fasting 5. Let it be first tried in the smallest quantity 6. If there follow difficulty of breathing it must be cured by moistnesse If there be fear lest by coughing a vein should break or the sick should be choaked or the Lungs corroded being forced to it we use Narcoticks especially if there be long watchings as syrup of Poppies Juyce of Hounds-tongue For. proved this that followeth often Take juyce of common Parsley half an ounce Womans milk one ounce powder of Cummin one scruple give it a boy to drink warm and anoint his stomach DIABETE The Cause is the retentive faculty or the Reins hurt either by plenty or by quantity of the Urines plenty of Urine is made from heat of the Liver Spleen melting the watry humour from the weaknesse of the stomach loosenesse of the passages It comes chiefly in burning and malignant Feavers Signs Diagnostick It beginneth by degrees that it can hardly be known there is heat in the bowels Prognostick It brings consumption and death if not cured at first The Cure Opening a Vein purging vomiting sweating are not good but internal and topical astringents and coroboratives which moderately cool Also Narcoticks may be used DIARRHOEA is a flux of the Belly caused by excrementitious humours The cause is the obstruction of the Veins of the Liver or weaknesse of the Liver or a preternatural disposition of the whole body with or without a Fever or a hectick Feaver burning Consumption Inflammation of the bowels whence followeth a Syntectick or melting flux or corrupt meat or worms or the Liver and choller or the Spleen and a melancholick humour or the Matrix or the Brain or hypercatharsis or toothing of Children Signs Diagnastick See the signs of obstruction and the weaknesse of the Liver If from corrupt meat such kind of meat was eaten or the stomach is weak If from the Liver or the Spleen there are signs of their infirmities and signs of any other part hurt are not Prognostick The Belly to be loose for one or some dayes is healthful so there be no Feaver and it stop in seven daies The cure If it come from obstruction first we must open by things that are good for the Liver then we must cleanse then we must bind and strengthen If it be from a sharp humour corrupt meat first we must cleanse and take off the acrimony of the humour as Take the decoction of unhulled Barley three ounces syrup of Roses one ounce Violets half an ounce A vein may be opened Then we must gently evacuate by Clysters Potions Pills of Rheubarb Mirobolans Mastick whereof make Pils which are safely given in all fluxes Take Citron and Chebul Mirobolans of each half a dram Mastick one scruple Spick fix grains with Honey of Roses make Pills Take first half a dram then I scruple not but when the greatest part of the matter is voided and if the Forces be much weakned In these two cases we must bind which is done within eight or twelve dayes first by Topicals and Diet after that by internals and all derivations as opening a vein and Ligatures to take away the flux If it come with a Feaver and be critical we must do nothing but prescribe Diet. Yet if it be too much the acrimony of the humour must be removed and we must bind and strengthen If it be more sparing we must help it forward If it be symptomical it must be cured as before If there be melting it must be cured by Restoratives and a little astringent also with Narcoticks as three heads of Poppy may be boyled in a Clyster If it happen to Children toothing it comes either from salt fleam flowing from the Head or from the Milk corrupted by a Feaver Give Honey syrup of Roses syrup of Succory with Rheubarb Then bind by Topicals DYSENTERY is an exulceration of the Intestins with a frequent bloody dejection and mattery with pain and torments of the Belly rising from a sharp eating matter peculiarly an enemy to the Intestins The Cause chiefly is a cholerick humour offensive to the Intestins by a hidden quality the remote cause eating of Grapes drinking sweet wine or cold water the humours being Coagulated and after that corrupting obs 46. cent 3. water running through leaden pipes that are old drank by reason of the plenty of Mercury and lead Ore Purgatives mingled with meat Poysons as Quicksilver Clouds malignant aire contagion Differences There are three degrees 1. Wherein are fat bodies mingled with a little moisture 2. Wherein are shavings of the Intestins 3. Wherein is the substance of the Intestins voided like peices of flesh The last of these is meant Aph. 26. s 4. Signs diagnostick They are known by the definition A Feaver is not alwayes joyned Aph. 3. s 6. It must be diligently distinguished from an Impostume in the Guts If the small Intestins be affected it makes a pricking pain blood is perfectly mixed with the dung or voided after it If the great guts either corruption swimeth above or sticketh outwardly unto them Prognostick These happen out chiefly about the Summer and beginning of Autumn Black spots behind the Ear with great thirst is mortal Women old men children are more greivously afflicted The Cure 1. The cause must be evacuated and tempered by opening a vein and purging by turns as with syrup of many infusions of damask Roses or rather first with simple infusions of Mirobolans Tamarinds Rheubarb
many of them make injection of some liquour which if it run at once through all the holes of the same colour it is one Fistula If it hath lasted many years and do shut suddenly it is mortal The Cure is either Palliative when by General means Revulsives Settaces and by Topicals the matter is voided and pulled back Lime water and also Ly Treacle water or True which is accomplished general means being first used and by vulnerary potions The Callous must be removed and first the Orifice of the Fistula must be enlarged either by fire or Steel instruments or which is more commodious with Tents made of Sponge Elder piths Gentian roots Bryony Rape roots as in Issues Perhaps it were not unfit to make an Issue in the opposite part long before the cure to make diversion The Callous is afterwards taken away either with fire or the Instrument or Medicaments as Unguentum Apostolorum ashes of Fig-tree decoction of Bryony root and Centory the lesse especially or with stronger as Aegyptiac They differ according to the age of the Patient and temper c. The root of black Hellebour is not safe the green water whereby sometimes the whole Callus is taken off like to a Sheath If this be in vain in a part that can admit Incision open the whole Fistula with an Instrument take off the Callus with a knife or with fire yet lay a good defensative about the part The rottennesse of the bone must be cured if there be an Eschar it must be taken away Nicol. Florentinus saith that this which followeth will draw forth broken bones and such as are rotten will eat off the dead flesh and cure the Fistula Take burnt Salt Tartar Agarick powder them mingle them with Honey See F. 570. l. 5. A FISTULA of the Chest It is almost incurable 1. Because the Muscles are in perpetual motion 2. Because the Pleura is without blood 3. Because it cannot be cut The Cure is by drying Diet vulnerary Drinks by general and Topical means a little Aegyptiac may be added to the injections If there be very much corruption a golden silver or leaden pipe may be put into the Brest full of holes streightly bound fitted with a great Spunge dipt in Wine and Aqua vitae set to the Orifice that the sick having his Nose and Mouth stopped may through that void out the filth A FISTULA of the Gums is cured by generals a decoction of Agrimony with Allum or by a Caustick or by pulling out the Tooth as Celsus thinks A drop of Ammoniacum is an excellent remedy For. Honey of Roses one ounce and one or two drops of oyl of Vitriol mingled is excellent Crato Ep. 183. WOMENS FLUX It is distinguished from an Ulcer for that which floweth from an Ulcer of the Womb is thicker and more stinking comes forth not so much will not admit copulation from the Seed because in the Flux the humour is thin or watery blood and runs alwaies The Cause is the fault of the Matrix or the whole Body or some principal part Some have fallen into this by some purging Medicament taken some after Bathing Prognostick It brings the Patient to a Dropsy a melancholick Ulcer The Cure First the cause must be evacuated the distemper of the part must be taken away the matter must be dried by general and topical means also by Diureticks See Senn. Then it must be dryed by Astringents Senn. For. The Form in the first Creation was given to natural things which as it is communicative of it self is multiplyed either by Seed as in living Creatures which are said to generate not when they generate their young but their Seed but there are in Plants forms that are distinct from the Soul as the purgative force left in the Carkase of Rheubarb sheweth Those forms may be mingled as the form of a Pear grafted on an Apple tree also the form of an Asse and a Mare also of a Man and Woman according to Senn. or it is communicated by Atoms which contain the forms in them hence is the beginning of all things that breed of their own accord A FRACTURE The signs are that we can feel the pieces of the broken bone by the touch we hear the crackling of them the part is hollow which the bone left bunched where it came in it is painful and unlike to the sound part Signs Prognostick That which is long-waies is soonest cured for there needs no reduction If it be in the joynts it is most dangerous FRACTURES of the Nose Cheek-bones Canal-bone Brest Shoulders Ribs Back-bone Ankle Heel Hand Foot fasten again in twenty or twenty four days of the Leggs and Arms in fourty days Marrow bones are sooner fastned then hard bones The cure The first scope is to reduce the bones which is done by extention which those that are moist will best endure to set them again either by the hands or by Glossocomion wherein when the bone is sufficiently extended the coard stretched must be let slack You shall know that the bones are restored if the pain suddenly cease If you feel no inequality if it be like to that is sound 2. That the bones restored may be kept so by Medicaments of the white of an Egg what is sufficient and Bole-Armenick half an ounce by forms made of linnen cloth three or four double which fill up the hollow as in the Ham or make the slenderness of the part equal as in the Wrist by Splints which because at this day we want they are made of much paper and thin Chips of Wood yet soe that the Wood be not green Fab. c. 4. obs 98. makes of soles of Shooes of plates of white Lead or Iron about the ends let them be alwaies thinner and where they lye upon the Fracture let them be thicker by wispes or wreaths made of small sticks about a finger thick wrapt up in linnen For a Fracture of the Leg or Thigh two are laid on from the Heel to the Groin that by their stiffnesse they may hold the part unmoved by boxes made of plates of Iron or Wood. The use of them is in the Bed or when they are taken out of their bed by Swaths which are either of leather as in a Fracture of the Nose or of wollen as in Inflammation where there needs no Ligature or linnen Every part must be so bound as we would have it remain If on the right side the Fracture be more eminent or in the outside you must begin to swath on the outside and bind it harder on that side but if in the inside now-a-days contrarily the first band is put upon the part disjoynted or broken and there they bind it fast with thick rollings toward the Body The second band laid on they swathe with fewer rollings toward the extrem parts The third is put upon the end of the part that is hurt and is rolled gently upward cutting the rollings of the first and second Swath-band cross-wise and
of Eggs another with the liquor of Snails strewed with salt the place being first rubbed with a sharp cloth he cured with oyl of Nuts decoction of Southern wood Mugwort oyl of Juniper Conies-fat Goats dung ashes of Walnut shells Mouse ashes with Honey Fat of green Frogs dried first using the Ly of the ashes of Frogs produceth hairs every where even in those that are Lepers ashes of Nigella with goldsmiths water cured one that was bald by Quick-silver For. used Goats milk and nervous things hot urine The fat of a Pike the froth of lean flesh Monav. Ep. 284. commends Ladanum chiefly HAIRS are made black by the decoction of astringent things by Internals purging fleam By Topicals the green shells of Wal-nuts Cypress-nuts Galls boyld oyl of Nuts Cadmia a Ly wherein Coliquintida is boyled Myrobolans as well inwardly as applyed outwardly Cloves Bean-stalks They are made yellow if they be washed with Ly of the Ashes of the old Cole-worts adding Barley straw Some to that Ly add green wheat Liccoris shavings of Box or put Saffron in the Ly the decoction of Broom flowers Mullens with yellow flower Citron Pills water and oyl of Honey They are made to curle if you wash them in the decoction of the root of dwarf Elder or anoint them with Harts-horn and oyl of Olives The ends of the Hairs cleave from a burnt humour It is cured by a cooling Diet by purging black choler by an emollient fomentation Worms which shorten the Hair are described by few they can scarce be seen by the Eyes they eat the ends They are killed by Vinegar of the infusion of Nettle-seed also by Scabious Southern-wood Centory c. Platting of the Hair Die Mahrflechten it troubles Men and Horses It began in Poland It is hereditary springing from the water and aire If the platting be cut off the poyson slips in again and makes dangerous affects Opening a Vein and purging are useless here HICKOP The Cause is the rending of the upper orifice which proceedeth from humours vapours rising from the Womb Hypochondres driness inflammation of the Liver a Wound of the Membranes of the Brain The cure The Ancients held their breath held cold water in their Mouth they sneezed If it be vehement Hickop cure the symptom neglecting the cause by Narcoticks as by syrup of Violets Poppeys or this following of For Take seeds of Dill or Carways one dram white Poppey seed two scruples Manus Christi with Pearls one ounce make a Nodulus infuse it in small Beer If it be by consent take away the cause if from cold by heaters if from wind likewise If it be from too much evacuation it is cured by sharp moistners If it be from plenty of meat evacuate it If it be from poyson first give a Detergent then Specifical to drink If from worms drive them out Castoreum Cumin bound to the left Wrist For. anointed the Back-bone against the Region of the Stomach with oyl of Violets he gave syrup of Violets to moisten and syrup of Mints to strengthen Astringents of syrup of Mints Wormwood are not good till the matter be evacuated YELLOW JAUNDIES is a spreading of the Gall. If it come from the straightness of the Passages or from the Vessel of the Gall the Excrements of the Belly are white there is no Feaver but heavinesse it cometh suddenly without losse of strength If effectual remedies do not profit the straightnesse proceeds from the stone If there be signs of the Liver affected that is affected If it lasteth long it threatneth a Dropsy The cure First we must open and chiefly by Dodder than which there is nothing better Saffron Agrimony Hore-hound Centory the lesse Germander Wormwood The yellow stone found in the Gall of a Bull is profitable One dram of Earth-worms with juyce of Succory roots of greater Celandine Elecampane Tartar Vitriolated Cremor Tartar dissolved in steeled Wine spirit of Salt A decoction of Straw-berries 3 handfuls Raysins four ounces Hore-hound half a handful For Children seeds of Columbines Openers and Purgatives may be mingled After that we must evacuate Galâ—l de vi purg denieth here to open a Vein For. useth it in Plethorick Bodies The Purgatives may be strong For. gave a woman with child that had the Jaundies half an ounce of Electrary of the juyce of Roses Rheubarb one scruple Diagridium one grain Spicknard three grains with water of Balm Hops Fennel of each one ounce at once It is a sign the obstruction is opened when the excrements of the Belly are again yellow coloured and the urine is not so yellow as it was If it proceed from the Colick when the Passage for Choler is stopped by stâ—am and winds it is cured as the Colick From the Colick come the Jaundies from the Jaundies the Colick If it come from heat of the Liver without a Fever here is too great quantity of choler from thence groweth a Feaver the Urine and dung are yellow the hands and Feet are hot The Cure Opening a Vein is convenient if there be Plethory the distemper must be corrected and the cause evacuated If it be critical the urine and dung hold their natural colour it must not be cured If it be symptomatical on a day that is not critical the matter not concocted invadeth It is taken away the Feaver being cured If it come from inflammation of the Liver it is cured as an inflammation of blood If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes Rondeletius promiseth health to women with child if these things following be laid to their Wrists and Feet Take the leaves of Missleto of the Oke two handfuls Celandine Hore-hound of each half a handful beat them in a mortar with a little wine Par. useth this that followeth Take goose dung two drams white wine three ounces drink it two hours before meat Querc gives Goose dung one dram or half a dram or dung of a white Hen half a dram for four days BLACK JAUNDIES It is commonly thought to come from the Spleen when the melancholick humor is not attracted Platerus saith preternatural Choler is the cause of it which is collected in the Vessel of the Gall and is corrupted in the meseraique Veins and gets a green and black colour from corruption Because in the Spleen there is no cavity no hollownesse nor can it be carried to the hollow Vein because it invadeth suddenly It is cured as the Yellow Jaundies by steel c. If the colour cease not it must be discussed by sweaters also by a dry Bath and after the Bath rub the Body with emulsion of Hempseed A Tench cut through the back layd to the Abdomen or Soles of the Feet draws forth the yellow and black humour The ILIACK Passion is the motion of the Guts turned wherein the Chylus is not rightly distributed and the dung is retained and at last are cast forth at the Mouth The cause is said commonly to be the inflammation of the Intestins from the hardnesse
and plenty of dung also from a Hernia or from poyson Yet Senn. doth not believe it can be from obstruction of the small Guts for the Excrements could not come forth at the Mouth but he saith that as in vomiting the circular fibres of the stomach so in the Iliack Passion the cause is in the winding of the small Guts because Clysters in the Iliack Passion are often cast forth by vomit and Suppositories also The cause of that motion is 1. The inflammation of the Intestins 2. Retention of the dung 3. Ulceration Most commonly it seizeth on the small but sometimes the great guts also Signs Diagnostick The Belly stopt Vomiting more then in the Colick the pain lesse If the small Guts be affected vomiting and nauseating is greater Prognostick All Iliack Passions are dangerous When the dung is vomited up it is mortall Aph. 44. s 6. Aph. 10. s 7. it killeth in four days The cure Emollients are useful internals and Topicals One ounce of oyl of sweet Almonds is singular Let the Fundament be alwaies fomented with Emollients Apply Emollients to the Abdomen A Bath is good fat broths softning Clysters If it come from inflammation it is cured as inflammation of the Guts If from the dung hardned it is cured as the Colick If it cannot be cured Hippocrates with a pair of Bellows separates the guts from the dung by blowing them and then giveth a Clyster If it come from Hernia it is cured as a Hernia IMAGINATION of it self neither alters nor moveth because it is an apprehending power and the action of it is immanent but only by accident so far as it maketh for desire or hate and so the natural Faculty of moving is drawn into consent which either sends or brings back the humours and the Species It produceth diseases only by frights and fears whereby the humours are moved and corrupted But if the imagination be of a great Nose a great Nose is not made It cureth not a disease by it self but so far as it makes confidence and joy It affects the Infant with ill conformation by the Passions of the mind and the motion of the humours and spirits proceeding thence whereby the forming faculty is troubled In a determinate conformation when bloody spots are made like Mulberries the Imagination doth represent such forms to the forming Faculty as the soul of the Mother so affected affects the soul in the Seed and that the Infant Regiment of INFANTS The Navil string being cut off if the Infant be plethorick let the blood run forth if it be lean let the blood be pressed inward with the Hand yet the Infant will have fewer Small-Pox if the blood be not pressed in with the Hand as Riol observed If it be of a reddish colour and cryeth aloud it is sound Let it be washed with wine of the decoction of Rose leaves Myrtils c. Galen bids strew it with Salt but amiss An Excrement like to chalk sticking in the Mouth must be wiped out with a stick tied in a clout wet with oyl of sweet Almonds Honey and Sugar All the common Joynts must be unfolded Before the Tet be offered to it give it Honey or syrup of Roses with oyl of sweet Almonds and Sugar Some say that the Mothers Milk is not good for the Child till the excremental blood that is with the after-burden be purged away But the condition of the Milk must be considered if it be bad give it not if it be wheyish Spiegelius saith it cannot hurt but it doth much profit Put no great light nor a candle neer the Child Let it ly one Month on the Back and afterwards on the side Let the light be right over against the Eys wherefore the sides of the Cradle must be vailed that the Child may look only straight forward Hanging Cradles are the best Let them sleep more then wake The Body of the Infant must be daily rubbed gently After four Months the Hands and Arms may be let loose from swath-bands Let it never accustome it self to one Breast only for so it will use but one Hand After some moneths make it Pap of Wheat-meal a little dried at fire or of the whitest Bread before it have teeth solid meats must not be given it When the teeth come forth use it to more solid meats Let it not stand too young Put it in a little Cart to learn to walk put a roundle about the Head The Child must not be removed from sucking till the number of its teeth be compleat It is best weaning it when the Moon increaseth in Spring and Autumn INFANTS Feavers They proceed either from corrupt Milk or breeding of Teeth or Worms The Nurse or Mother must be purged with Diacatholicon syrup of Roses c. Give the Infants Alteratives as the juyce syrup of Violets syrup of juyce of Lemmons water of Endive Succory Violets The Back-bone must be anointed with the Mucilage of Flea seed with oyl of Violets and Wax Lay an Astringent as oyl of Quinces to the stomach Heurnius commendeth this which followeth Take conserve of Violet flowers two ounces Borrage half an ounce Pulp of Cassia new drawn one ounce Mucilage of Flea seed half an ounce the Dose is one or two drams Syrup of Roses Violets of Succory with Rheubarb Cassia may be given c. Senn. saw a Child dy by 3 drops of oyl of Amber given to it by an old wife the Belly is loosened most conveniently by suppositories clysters whey syrup of Roses A disease of Infants called Siriasis which is an inflammation of the Brain and the Membranes which there followeth upon a hollownesse in the forepart of the Head and the Eys It comes from flegmatick blood corrupting also from milk too hot Women call this Das blatt Schissen because the Membrane of the Fountain falleth and causeth a hole In three days commonly it killeth the Belly must be loosned with oyl of Roses the Fountain must be anointed afterwards add oyl of Camomil the Nurse must use cold and moist Diet and dwell in a colder aire Fear in sleep if it come from worms or a Feaver it is cured by a particular way If it come from corrupt Milk Vomit removeth it Give Honey of Roses solutive with Milk confection of Jacinth or Coral Hang upon the Infant outwardly a Wolfs tooth Corals the horns of Italian Beetles which they call the flying Hart. Watchings If they proceed from corrupt Milk take that away if from worms remove them The Nurse but not the Childe must take sleeping Medicaments Washings of the Feet are rather profitable of Dill Mallow leaves Willows Vine leaves c. The soles of the Feet are profitably anointed with the marrow of Harts bones Oyl of Dill new is safely applyed to the Head to the Nostrils oyl of Violets with a little juyce of Lettice for an Ointment Moisture of the Ears which unlesse it be cured the Bones corroded will cause deafnesse the pain must be mitigated with