Here followeth the 5 Section The Argument THe fift Book or Section is variable yet almost it doth wholly intreat of the diseases of women of the good and badde dispositions of the wombe 1 A Conuulsion by taking Elleborus is deadlie 2 A Convulsion after a wound is pernicious and deadly 3 The hicket or a convulsion after a copious flux of bloud is euill 4 After an immoderat purgation which the Greeks call Hypercatharsis a convulsion or hicket is euill 5 If any drunken man do suddainly waxe dumbe he shall die with convulsion vnlesse hee be taken with a feuer or presently recouer his speech at that hower in which the surfet is dissolued 6 Those which are taken with the cramp or distention named Tetanus do die within fowre daies but if they shall ouerpasse them they recouer their health 7 The falling sicknesse which is before ripenesse of age is remoued awaie but that which hapneth after the 25. yeer of the age doth for the most part accompany vs vnto death 8 Those which are sick of a plurisie vnlesse they bee purged vpwardes within fowrteene daies shall haue the disease turned into an impostume 9 A consumption most especially hapneth in those ages which are fro the 18 yeere to the thirty and fift yeere 10 Those which haue the euill cause of the squinancie conuerted into the lungs do drie within seuen daies but if they escape them they are affected with corrupt and filthy matter called empiema 11 If the spittle which they auoid by coughing that are affected with a consumption doe stinke strongly being cast vpon the coles and the haires of the head doe fall off it is a pernicious deadly signe 12 If a flux of the belly happen to them which haue their haire falling awaie by a consumption death is neare at hand 13 Those which cough forth frothy bloud do â—etch and drawe the same out of the lungs 14 If a fluxe of the bellie come vpoÌ„ him which is in a consumption it is a pernicious signe 15 Those which are infected with an impostume by a plurisie if they be purged from the corrupt matter within fortie daies after the breaking of the apostume are cured or otherwise they passe into a consumption 16 Hot water too often vsed bringeth these discommodities tendernesse of the flesh distemperature of the sinewes heauinesse drowsinesse of the minde fluxes of blod swounings faintings of life to which death is incident 17 But the vse of colde water bringeth convulsions the crampes called Tetani blackness cold shakings vsuall in some feuers 18 Colde water is hurtfull to the bones teeth sinews braine and marrow of the backe but that which is hot is good and profitable 19 Wee must heate those things which are ouercold except those which powre forth bloud or are inclined to powre forth bloud in short time 20 Colde water biteth and nippeth vlcers hardneth the skinne hindreth the sorenesse from maturation of the corrupt matter causeth blacknesse bringeth forth colde shiuering fittes of agues convulsions crampes and distention of the sinewes 21 Notwithstanding ther is some time when in the crampe without an vlcer in a well flesht young man in the middest of sommer plentifull powring out of colde water doth call back the heate and so the heate doth dissolue the crampe 22 Hot water yeeldeth vnto vs a great token of security and safety in that vlcer and sore in which it causeth ripe and wel digested matter it softneth and mollifieth the skinne it maketh it thinne it dooth appease paine it mitigateth and asswageth colde shakings convulsions the cramps named Tetani it dissolueth heauinesse and paine of the head it profiteth broken bones very much especially if they bee bare without flesh and principally in the head also it profiteth those things which are mortified exulcerated through colde Lastly it is profitable to eating vlcers in the suÌ„dameÌ„t priuie members wombe bladder to all those hot water is a friend and comforter but cold water is an enemie and a destroyer 23 We must vse cold water to those sores from whence bloud dooth issue or is about to issue and not to be applyed in the same place by which it issueth but to those places from whence it floweth And if anie inflammation or burning of the parts do incline to a red and bloudie colour with fresh cleare bloud apply colde things or cold water vnto them but if the inflaÌ„mations bee inueterate and old it maketh them black Also it helpeth the fiery inflammation named Erysipelas if it be not vlcerated For being vlcerated it hurteth 24 Things that are verie colde as snowe and yee are hurtfull to the breast they procure coughs they cause ruptures of the veins and also rhumes 25 Cold water powred forth aboundantly doth ease and diminish the tumours and paines of the ioints which are without vlceration also gowty swellings and pains and convulsions for the most part dissolueth dolour and pain for a smal benumming hath the force of dissoluing and putting awaie of paine 26 Water that is quickely made hot quickly cold is most light 27 It is good for them which haue great desire to drinke in the night to fall a sleepe being verie thirstie 28 A fumigation or perfume of odoriferous spyces dooth bring forth the terms It would also be profitable for manie other things if it did not breede heauinesse and pain of the head 29 Thou shalt purge a woman with childe if it bee needful the fowrth month after conception and so forwards vntill the beginning of the seuenth month but those that come neere the seauenth month not so much but the foetus being yonger or elder thou shalt abstaine 30 A woman with child a veine being opened aborteth is deliuered before due time and so much the rather if the foetus bee of any bignesse 31 It is pernicious deadlie if a woman great with childe bee taken with anie sharp disease 32 A woman is cured from vomiting bloud her moÌ„thly tearms issuing forth 33 A flux of bloud at the nose is good and healthfull to a womaÌ„ her flowers failing contrarie to the due course of nature 34 If the wombe bee verie laxatiue and loose to a woman with childe there is danger of aborcement 35 Sneesing hapning to a woman grieued with suffocation of the wombe or hauing a painfull and difficult deliuerance is good 36 The monthly courses being discoloured neyther comming forth alwaies in the same maner and time do declare that a purgation is necessarie for the woman 37 If the paps be suddenlie extenuated and become lanke to a woman with childe aborcement dooth follow 38 If one of the dugs be extenuated and become lank to a woman coÌ„ceiued with child with twins she bringeth forth one of them before due time And if the right dug becom sleÌ„der she bringeth forth the male childe before due time but if the left dug becom lank she maketh aborcement of the female 39 If any woman neither with
child nor hauing bin deliuered of childe haue milke in her breasts her monthly courses haue failed her 40 Madnesse is signified to happen to those women in whose dugs or paps there is bloud collected and heaped together 41 If you will know whether any woman haue conceiued or no giue her a potion of hony water mixed togither going to sleep if she feele gripings and wringings of the belly she hath conceiued if she doe not shee hath not conceiued 42 If a woman conceiued with childe doe beare a manchilde shee is well and fresh coloured if she beare a maide childe she is ill coloured 43 If the inflammation called Erysipelas be bred in the womb or mother it is a perniuous and deadly thing 44 Those women which are verie leane contrarie to nature and doe beare children do suffer vntimelie deliuerance vntill they come to better plight and be fatter 45 Those women which being reasonable fat making abortion the second or third month without anie manifest cause haue acetabula vteri plena mucoris neither are they able to coÌ„taine the foetus because of his heauy weight but those Cotylidons being broken it falleth downe 46 Those which are fatter then Nature requireth and doe not conceiue childe haue os vteri compressed closed togither by the omentum and cal of the guts and therefore they cannot conceiue vntill they waxe leaner 47 If the wombe shall apostumate in that part where it lieth neer the hip or huckle bone it is necessary to cure it with tents lipped in liquid medicines such as the Greekes do call Emmota 48 Men children doe lie are carryed on the right side of the womb and women children rather on the left side 49 A medicine procuring sneesing put into the nostrills doth driue and force out the secuÌ„dine so that you stop the nostrils mouth close with the hand 50 If it please a woman to restraine her accustomed courses apply a very great cupping glasse to her brests 51 Those women which are conceiued with child haue the mouth or gate of the mother shut and closed vp 52 If milke flowe plentifully out of the dugs of a woman bearing a child in her wombe it signifieth that the childe is weake but if the paps be hard and stiffe they declare a stronger coÌ„ception 53 The dugges and pappes becom slender and limber to those women which shal loose their foetus But contrarilie if the pappes become hard paine shall eyther molest the pappes hips eies or the knees but they shal not suffer aborcement 54 Those women haue the mouth or gate of the womb closed or shut vp which haue the same hard 55 Childe-bearing women which are takeÌ„ with feuers or are brought to a lowe state without a manifest cause doe bring forth the birth painfully and with danger or are in hazard of life by vntimely vnseasonable deliuerance 56 If a Convulsion or swouning happen to a flux of a womans flowers it is an euill thing 57 Womens terms flowing immoderately diseases are ingendred being supprest stopt of their due course diseases do likewise happen from the wombe 58 The strangurie or dropping out of the vrin dooth happen by the inflammation of the straight gut likewise of the wombe or mother to the reins that be exulcerated also if the liuer be inflamed the hicket or yexing doth happen in the meane while 59 If a woman doe not coÌ„ceiue and thou wouldest know if she shall conceiue at all let her be wrapt and lapped round about with clothes and make a sume vnder the lower parts and if the sent bee perceiued to passe through her bodie to her nostrills her mouth knowe that shee is not barraine by any default in hir selfe 60 If the monthly purgations doe keepe their course to a woman with child it is impossible that the foetus should be in health 61 If a womans monthly courses stop and she haue neither shiuering cold nor ague comming vpon her and shee loath her meate make account that shee is conceiued 62 Those women which haue their wombe cold drie doe not conceiue and such as haue them ouer moyst cannot bee conceiued for the seede is extinguisht perished in them Also those women cannot conceiue which haue those places ouer drie and hot for the seed becoÌ„meth corrupted for want of due nâ—â—rishment But those women which haue obtained a moderate temperature of the places in respecte of both the oppositions and contrarieties doe excell in fruitfulnesse 63 The same consideration and reason is likewise to be respected in men for either through the spoungy and poery substance of the body the spirits are dissipated and scattered abroade so that they cannot cast forth seede or else the moisture dooth not issue forth because of his grossenesse thicknesse or else because of coldnesse it doth not coÌ„ceiue any heat that it may be collected in his proper place or the verie same thing doth may happen through heate 64 It is not good to giue milke to them which are troubled with headach or with agues nor to those which are troubled with the disease called status Hypochondriacus nor to those which are troubled with thirst It is also nought for them which auoide cholericke excrements downewards or to those which haue sharpe feuers or haue had some copious euacuation of bloud But it is good for those which are in a consumption so they be not troubled with any vehement feuer It is also good for long lingring and milde agues so that none of the signes before spoken be present It is good also for them which are brought lowe without any apparant reason or occasion 65 They are not much trobled with convulsions or with madnesse which haue apparant and euident tumors with their vlcers or sores But convulsions and the crampes named Tetani doe happen to them to whome the tumors shall suddenly vanish awaie if it shall happen on the hinder part of the bodie but if they happen in the forehead or forepart there hapneth madness vehement paine of the side Empiema and spitting of matter Dysenteria if the tumors or swellings shall be red 66 If no tumour nor swelling appeare in great and badde wounds it is a great euell 67 Soft tumore aregoods but those which are hard and vndigested are euill 68 To one which hath pain in the hinder part of the head the venarecta in the forehead beeing opened doth profit 69 Colde shakings and shiuerings for the most part doe begin to women from the loines and through the back do come to the head But to men they doe rather beginne in the backe part then in the forepart as from the hinder parte of the thighes and from the elbowes the raritie and thinnesse of the skinne is a token ther of which thing the hayre there growing dooth declare and manifest 70 These which are taken with a Quartane ague are not much assaulted with convulsions but if before they haue bin assayled vpon
beeing asswaged within fortie daies do cease 50 It must needs bee that a feuer vomiting and perbraking of choler must come vpon them which haue their braine diuided or wounded 51 Those which are in health being sodainly taken with headache and thereupon presently become dumbe and snort doe die within seauen daies vnlesse a feuer come vpon them in the meane while 52 But we ought to behold in their sleepes also if anie part of the eies do appeare vnderneath the liddes for if anie thing appeare of the white of them the eye lids not being fast closed if it doe not happen by a fluxe of the belly or by som medicinall potion it is an euil and a verie deadly signe 53 That doting which is done with laughter is not so daungerous but that which is done with earnest sadnesse is more daungerous 54 Painefull breathings in sharp diseases with a feuer as it were of such as sigh mourne are euill 55 Paines of the gowt doe most commonly afflict are prouoked in the spring and autumn 56 The falling down of humors are very dangerous in melancholicke diseases at these seasons and do declare an apoplexie or a cōvulsion madness or blindnesse 57 Also apoplexies are caused most especially from the fortith to the threescore yeers 58 If the Call Omentum shal hang forth of the bodie it putrifieth of necessitie 59 Those that are afflcted with long pain of the hips hauing the huckle bone cōming forth returning in again into his place haue clammy flegme collected and gathered together in the hollownesse of that part 60 Those which haue the huckle bone being the hed or vpper part of the thigh comming out and tormented with the ache called sciatica shal haue the thigh of feeblished and consumed and they doe halt and are lame vnlesse they are burned with hot iron instruments The end of the sixt Section of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates Here followeth the 7. Section The Argument THIS seauenth booke is altogether prognosticall and foretelling things to come in which he intreateth of the presagements and foretokens of health and death 1 Coldness of the extream parts in sharpe diseases is euill 2 Flesh black and blew because of a fowle diseased bone is an euill thing 3 The hicket after vomiting and also rednesse of the eyes are euill 4 After sweate colde shiuerings and shakings are not good 5 After madnes which the Greekes call mania a blodie fluxe the dropsie or an extasie or traunce is good 6 Abhorring of meate in a long disease and the excremēts auoided downwards without mixture of humors are euill 7 Cold shakings and fond doting after much drinking is euill 8 After the eruption of an impostume inwardly faintnesse and loosenesse of the parts of the bodie vomiting swouning doth ensue 9 After a fluxe of bloud Delirium or a convulsion is euill 10 After the Iliack passion vomiting the hicket doting and convulsion are euill 11 An impostume of the lungs named peripneumonia after a pleurisie is euill 12 A phrensie with a peripneumonia is euill 13 A convulsion or the crampe Tetanus because of hot burnings is euill 14 Astonishment and doting called Delirium thorough some blowe of the head is an euill signe 15 The spitting out of corrupt matter after the spitting of bloud is euill 16 A consumption or pthisis and a flux of the bellie comming after spitting of corrupt matter are euill signs for when the spitting is stopped the diseased doe die 17 The hicket or singult comming through an inflammatiō of the liuer is euill 18 A convulsion or delirium caused through watching is an euill thing 19 After the laying bare of a bone the inflammation and hot tumor Erisipelas is euill 20 Putrefaction or impostumation from the inflammation Erisipelas is euill 21 A fluxe of bloud after a strong pulse in vlcers is euill 22 After a long paine of the parts belonging to the belly an impostumation is euill 23 After auoyding of vnmixed excrements downewards a bloody fluxe is euill 24 Delirium or foolishness doth insue after the wound of a bone if it shall penetrate into the hollowe or voide space 25 A convulsion after the taking of a purging potiō bringeth death 26 A great coldnesse of the extreame and vtmost parts through vehement pain of of the parts pertaining to the belly is euill 27 If the disease called tenasmus shall happen to a woman with childe it is the cause of aborcement 28 If either a bone cartilag or sinew shall be cut in the bodie it doth neither increase nor growe togither againe 29 If a strong flux or loosenesse of the bellie shall come vpon him that is diseased with the dropsie named leucophlegmatia it dissolueth and cureth the disease 30 They haue a falling downe of flegmaticke humors from the head which doe auoide frothie and fomie excrements out of the belly in their laxnesse and loosenesse of the same 31 Sediments in vrins made in the time of agues like vnto course wheate meale do signifie that the sickness shall continuew long 32 Cholericke Sediments appearing in vrins but being before thinne and waterish do signifie a sharpe disease 33 Those which make diuers vrins haue a vehement disturbance and vnquietnesse in the bodie 34 The vrins in which bubbles doe swimme aloft do signifie the disease of the reines and that the infirmitie and weakenesse shall indure long 35 It is a signe that the disease is of the reines and a sharp disease to be present to them in whose vrin a fattie and thicke superficies appeareth 36 If also paines be caused to those which are diseased with the griefe of the kidnies about the muscles of the backe bone and haue the signes abouesaid if they be felt towardes the outward parts looke and expect that the Apostume shall also bee outwardly but if the paines bend and incline rather to the inwarde parts wee must then feare that the apostume shal be inwardly 37 Vomiting of bloud is wholsome to them which doe it without a feuer but if it be with a feuer it is an euill thing and the cure and remedie of the same is to bee performed vvith things that haue a cooling and a binding qualitie and virtue 38 Distillations vpon the vpper bellie doe come to suppuration and ripenesse within twentie daies 39 If anie one pisse bloud or clots of bloud and bee diseased with the disease named the stranguria the paine attaining to the part of the bellie called Abdomen or Hypogastrion the place named pecten and also to perinaeum the places and partes aboue the bladder are diseased 40 If the tong be sodainely become feeble or anie part of the bodie being astonished be benūmed without feeling it is a sign of melancholie 41 If the hicket do happen to olde men purged aboue measure it is not good 42 If the feuer be not caused of choler store of warme water powred vppon the head doth dissolue the feuer 43 A woman hath not the vse of both hands