laxative and loose to a woman with child there is danger fo abortment Because the food is not distributed to the liver and other parts of the body so that the food is taken away from the conception as when she is let blood APH. 35. Sneesing happening to a woman grieved with suffocations of the womb or that hath a difficult deliverance is good For by a vehement shaking of nature it excites it redintegrates the natural heat which was almost extinguished and shakes off such noxious humors as hanged upon some part of the body APH. 36. The monethly courses being discoloured and not coming forth always in the same manner and time declare a purgation to be necessary for the woman To purge those humors which cause the discoloration and the alteration of time APH 37. If the paps be suddenly extenuated and become lank to a woman with child abortment doth follow This also happeneth for want of food for the conceived child APH. 38. If one of the dugs be extenuated and become lank to a woman conceived with child with twins she bringeth forth one of them before the due time and if the right dug become slender she bringeth forth the male if the left the female For likewise the male conceptions lye on the right side the female on the left as is set down Aph. 48. APH 39. If any woman neither with child nor having been delivered of child have milk in her breasts her monethly courses have failed her The blood which should have turned to monethly terms turning to milk in the breasts APH. 40. Women in whose dugs there is blood heaped together wil be mad For that blood is very bilious which striking up into the head causeth madness APH. 41. If you will know whether a woman have conceived or no give her a potion of hony and water mixed together going to sleep and if she feel gripings and wringings of the belly she hath conceived if she do not she hath not conceived For such a potion is very windy and the woman having conceived her womb doth press down and keep together the intrails APH. 42 If a woman conceived with child bear a male she is fresh and well-coloured if she bare a female she is ill-colored This Aphorism is one of those which for the most part are true though not always APH. 43. If the inflammation called Erysipelas be bred in the womb if the woman be with child it proves deadly One reason is because the chief cure for an Erysipelas is letting of blood and that must not be done to a woman with child for fear of an abortment Aph. 30. APH. 44. Those women which are very lean contrary to nature and do bear children do suffer untimely deliverance until they grow fatter Because that food which should be for the child in the womb goes to the nourishing of the mother APH. 45. Those women which being reasonable fat and make abortion the second or third month without any manifest cause have the ends of those vessels which come to the womb called acetabula or Cotylidons full of a pituitous or phlegmy humor neither can they contain the conception coming to any weight but they being broken it falleth down Wherby she must of necessity abort APH. 46. Those which are fatter then nature requires and cannot conceive have the orifice of the womb compressed and closed together by the fat Call of the guts and cannot until they grow leaner He means the inward orifice of the womb for it hath two APH. 47. If the womb shall Aposthumate in that part where it lieth neer the hip or huckle-bone it must be cured with tents dipped in a liquid medicine called in Greek Emmoton It must be thus cured the sore being first broken either by art or nature APH. 48. Men children for the most part lye on the right side of the womb and females on the left side This is because the womb is warmer on the right side by reason of its vicinity to the Liver APH. 49. A medicine procuring sneezing put into the nostrils doth drive and force out the Secundine so that you stop the nostrils and mouth close with the hand Which if it remained would putrifie there and with the stench offend the head APH. 50. If a woman will stay her courses apply a very great cupping-glass under her breasts For there be veins which come up thither from the inferior parts APH. 51. Those women which are conceived with child have the orifice of the womb shut and closed up That the air may not get in and corrupt the seed and that the heat of the womb may not get out APH. 52. If milk flow plentifully out of the dugs of a woman bearing a child in her womb it signifieth that the child is weak but if the paps be hard and stiff they declare a stronger conception Because it shews in the former part that the child is not able to draw it for his own nutriment But when they are solid it shews it hath nutriment enough and that which superabounds goes to the breasts and is there turned into milk APH 53. The dugs and paps become slender and lank to those women which shall abort but contrarily if they become hard pain shall molest the paps hips eys or knees but they shall not suffer abortment Because of the superfluous matter which is brought thither from the womb APH. 54. Those women which have the mouth of the womb hard must of necessity have it shut up This Aphorism had been better placed immmediately after the Aphorism 51. APH. 55. Child-bearing women which are taken with Feavers or are brought to a low state without any manifest cause do bring forth their birth painfully and with danger or are in danger of life by an untimely deliverance Because it shews a great weakness or imbecility in them APH 56. If a Convulsion or swouning happen to a woman in her flux of monethly terms it is an evil thing If they be vehement or last long it may be deadly because the womb is exhausted and draws all the noble parts into a simpathy with it APH. 57. Womens terms flowing immoderately diseases are ingendred and being supprest or stopt diseases happen from the womb By their immoderate evacuation the whole body is cooled and its forces weakened if they be stopt in progress of time excremental humors gather together in the womb APH. 58. The strangurie or dropping out of the urine doth happen by the inflammation of the straight gut and likewise of the womb or if the reins be ulcerated But if the liver be inflamed the Hicket succeeds By reason of the vicinity of the bladder to the straigbt gut and the womb and because of the purulent matter of the reins passing through the bladder and the hicket is caused by a high inflammation of the liver because it swells the liver and oppresses the ventricle and the bilious humor falling from the liver comes into the ventricle APH. 59. If a
woman do not conceive and thou wouldest know if she shall conceive at all let her be wrapped round about with clothes make a fume under the lower parts and if the scent be perceived to pass through her body to her nostrils and her mouth know that she is not barren by any default in her self Because then the body is cleer of all vitious humors and the womb it self is in a good temper APH. 60. If the monethly purgations keep their course in a woman that is with child it is impossible that the conception should be well Because it wants its aliment and food being fed by that menstruous blood al the while it is in the womb APH. 61. If a womans monthly courses stop and she have neither shivering cold nor Ague coming upon her and she loath her meat make account that she is conceived For at the first conceiving of a woman the child cannot make use of those courses for its food APH. 62. Those women which have their womb cold and dry do not conceive nor those which have it over moist for the seed is extinguisht and perisht in them Also those women cannot conceive which have those places over dry and hot for the seed corrupts for want of nourishment But those women which have obtained a moderate temperature of the places in respect of both the oppositions and contrarieties they are fruitful This Aphorism by right should be placed next to the 59 Aph. APH. 63. The same consideration and reason is likewise to be respected in men men for either through the spongy substance of the body the spirits are dissipated and scattered abroad so that the seed cannot be cast forth or else the humor doth not issue forth because of its grosness or thickness or else because of coldness it doth not grow hot to be collected in its proper place or by the means of heat the very self same thing may happen This Aphorism is held to be spurious and none of Hippocrates both by Galen and others APH. 64. It is not good to give milk to those who are troubled with the head-ach or with Agues nor to those who are troubled with flatus Hypocondriacus nor to those who are troubled with thirst It is also naught for them which avoid cholerick excrements downwards or to those which have sharp Feavers or have had some copious evacuation of blood But it is good for those which are in a Consumption so they be not troubled with any vehement Feaver It is also good for long lingering and mild Agues so there be none of the sore spoken of signes And those who are brought low without any apperant reason or occasion The particular reasons for these particular assertions may be seen at large in Galen Fuchsius and Heurnius Comments which would be too long to reherse here APH. 65 They are seldom troubled with Convulsions or madness which have apparent tumors with their ulcers But Convulsions and distentions happen to them to whom the tumors shall suddenly vanish away if they happen on the hinder part of the body But if they happen on the fore part there happeneth madness vehement pain of the side suppuration or spitting of matter and the bloody-flux Because the humors reside there And if they go away by degrees also there is no danger for it shews that the noxious humors are shaken off and dissolved APH. 66. If no tumor nor swelling appear in great and bad wounds it is a great evil Because it signifies a passing of the noxious humors to the principal parts APH. 67. Soft tumors are good raw and indigested ones evil Because the first signifie there is a concoction and in the second there is none APH. 68. To one who hath a pain in the hinder part of his head the vena recta in the fore-head being opened doth good The vena recta is that which is over against that which is opposite to that vein which nourisheth the part which is evil affected so the opening of it doth both evacuate and divert the noxious humors APH. 69. Cold shakings and shiverings for the most part do begin to women from the loyns and through the back come to the head But to men they do rather begin in the back part then in the forepart as from the hinder part of the thighes and from the elbows the rarity and thinness of the skin is a token thereof which thing the hair there growing doth declare and manifest For the thicker the skin is the lâ—ss will hair grow upon it APH. 70. Those which are taken with a Quartan Ague are not at all taken with Convulsions but if before they have been taken upon the coming of the quartan they are delivered He means here such Convulsions as come by repletion of the nervous parts with thin and pituitous humors which by a quartan are both expelled and concocted APH. 71. Those who have their skin acide and dry die without sweating but those who have a loose and open skin end their life with sweat He speaks here of those who have a Feaver APH. 72. Those that are diseased with the Jaundies are not much molested with windiness By reason of the heat and strength of the parts belonging to the stomack which causeth them to concoct the food fully and perfectly SECT. VI The Argument This Section doth almost altogether concern that part of the Art which foretelleth good and evil things to happen in diseases APHORISM 1. IN a long lubricity and slipperiness of the guts if a sowerish belching do happen which was not before it is a good sign For it signifies that now the food remains a while in the stomack till such time at least as it begins to concoct APH. 2. Those which have ther nostrils more moist then others by nature and their seed also do enjoy their health but badly but those which have the contrary properties are more healthful By the nostrils he means the brains which purge that way and by the humidity of the Seed the humidity of the whole body the seed coming from the blood APH. 3. In long fluxes of the bowels loathing of meat is evil and with a Feaver it is worser Because it signifies a mortification of the nourishing faculty APH. 4. Ulcers which are every way smooth and bald Because of an evil humor lying in the bottom which eats up the roots of the hair as salt earth doth the herbs roots which grow on it APH. 5. In the pains of the sides breast and other parts we must consider whether they increase or differ much or keep at a stay Whither they differ namely in their kind or in their vehemency whether they be pricking stretching or provoking APH. 6. The diseases and infirmities of the Kidneys and Bladder are of hard and difficult curation in old men â—hich old age begins at fifty years which Hippocrates confirms in his sixt Book Epidemion where he saith he never saw or knew an ulcer of the reins or bladder
the evil cause of the Squinancy and escape it that evil passeth to the Lungs and they dye within seven days but if they escape the humor imposthumates And if that imposthumated humor be not purged out it breeds a Consumption APH. 11. If the spittle which they void by coughing that are affected with a Consumption do stink vehemently being cast upon the coals and the hairs of the head do fall off it is a deadly sign For the more faculties are weakned in so much the worser case the Patient is APH. 12. If a flux of the belly happen to them which have their hair falling away by a Consumption death is neer at hand Because it proceeding from weakness also it shews a further weakening of the natural faculties APH. 13. Those which cough forth frothy blood do retch and draw the same out of the Lungs And it is part of the very substance and flesh of the Lungs APH. 14. If a flux of the belly happen to him which is in a Consumption it is deadly This affirms what was said before Aph. 12 and moreover that a flux of the belly added to a Consumption is alone sufficient to kill without falling away of the hair APH. 15. Those which are infected with an imposthume by a Plurisie if they be purged from the corrupt matter within forty days after the breaking of the imposthume are cured or otherwise they pass into a Consumption For the matter will otherwise be so putrified that it will perish the lungs APH. 16. Hot water too often used bringeth these discommodities tenderness of the flesh distemperature of the sinews heaviness and stupefaction of the mind fluxes of blood faintings and swounings and to these things succeeds death Hippocrates here wisheth us to shun the excessive use of any thing though never so temperate APH. 17. The use of cold water bringeth Convulsions distentions or Cramps blackness and cold Aguish shakings This is also not of the use simply but of the immoderate use of cold water APH. 18. Cold water is hurtful to the bones teeth sinews brain and marrow of the back But that which is hot is good and profitable All the parts here rehearsed are by nature the coldest APH. 19. We must heat those things which are over cold except those which pour forth or are inclined to pour forth blood abundantly For when there are more diseases then one coupled together we must make hast to cure that first which is most urgent APH. 20. Cold water biteth and nippeth Ulcers hardeneth the skin hindereth a soreness from maturation of the corrupt matter causeth blackness bringeth forth cold shivering fits of Agues Convulsions and distentions of the sinews This Aphorism relates some other hurts which cold water doth APH. 21. Notwithstanding there is some time when in the Cramp without an ulcer in a wel flesht young man in the midst of Summer plentiful pouring out of cold water doth call back the heat and so the heat dissolves the Cramp This is not done by any vertue of its but accidentally by drawing the natural heat outward in such well flesht young men APH. 22. Hot water yieldeth unto us a great token of security and safety when it causeth suppuration yet not in all Ulcers It softneth and mollifieth the skin and maketh it thin it doth appease pain it mitigateth and assawageth cold shakeings Convulsions and distentions It dissolveth the heaviness of the head It profiteth broken bones very much especially if they be bare without flesh and principally in the head if they be ulcerated it profiteth those things which are mortified and ulcerated through cold eating Ulcers in the Fundament privy members womb and bladder To all those hot water is a friend and of good judgement but cold water is an enemy and destroyer Not in all ulcers because some wil not be brought to supuration by heat APH. 23. We must use cold water to those sores from whence blood doth issue or is about to issue yet not to the same place but neer to it And if any inflammation or burning of the parts do incline to a red and bloody color with fresh cleer blood apply cold water to them but if the inflamations be inveterate and old it maketh them black It helpeth the inflammation called Erysipelas if it be not ulcerated for if it be it hurteth it Now he relates what things cold water is good for APH. 24. Cold things as Snow and Ice are hurtful to the breast they procure coughs they cause ruptures of the veyns and produce Rheumes He hath spoken of the effects of cold water now he speaks of the hurt which other cold things do APH. 25. Cold water poured out abundantly doth ease and diminish the tumors and pains of the joynts which are without ulceration And also gouty swellings and pains and Convulsions for the most part and dissolveth the dolor and diminisheth it for a small benumming hath the force of dissolving and putting away of pan The end of this phorism is a reason of the whole Aphorisms assertion As if he should say a little benumming puts away pain cold water benumeth therefore c APH. 26. Water that is quickly made hot and quickly cools is most light He means not by weight but he speaks of that water which doth not long burthen the belly and quickly passeth through APH. 27 It is good for them who desire to drink in the night to fall asleep when they are very thirsty Because sleep concocts the food which being concocted ingenders blood which nourishes and moistens the parts of the body APH. 28. A Fumigation of odoriferous spices brings forth womens terms and would be also profitable for many other things if it did not breed heaviness of the head For it doth excite the expulsive faculty of the womb and open the obstructions of the veines which touch the womb APH. 29. Thou shalt pruge a woman with child if necessity require the 4th month after conception until the 7th month though those that come neer the 7th not so much but the conception being younger or elder thou shalt abstain This Aphorism is the same with the first of the fourth Section APH. 30. A woman with child a vein being opened aborteth and so much the rather if the conception be of any bigness Because it taketh away part of its food namely the conceptions APH. 31. It is pernicious and deadly if a woman great with child be taken with any sharp disease For large feeding will kill the mother by increasing the disease and little store of food will starve the conception APH. 32. A woman is cured from vomiting blood by her monethly terms issuing forth By the Physicians drawing down the blood to the lower parts APH. 33. A flux of blood at the nose is good for a woman whose monthly terms do fail contrary to the course of nature For if this happen not contrary to the course of nature such a failing is nothing APH. 34. If the belly be very
their dogteeth and especially those children chiefly that are most fat and have their belly bound Which time of teeth breeding begins commonly at seven moneths of age and sometimes at four the dogteeth at a year or ten moneths APH 26. When children begin to be a little elder they are subject to the inflammations of the Almonds of the mouth dislocation of the turning joynts in the nape of the neck inwardly shortness of wind breeding of the Stone round-worms gut-worms long hanging warts Satyrasms Stranguries Scrophules in the neck and other risings especially those before declared Now he sets down those diseases which children are subject to after they are past teeth-breeding to twelve or fourteen years of age APH. 27. Moreover to those which are greater and coming to ripe age there happen many of those former diseases but more long continuing Agues and fluxes of blood at the nostrils This Aphorism concerns children about twelve thirteen or fourteen years of age and ripeness of age comes sooner or later according to the beat or coldness of constitutions APH. 28. The diseases of children for the most part some of them attain to the Crysis or alteration within 40 days some within seven moneths some within seven years others when they come to ripe age But those which shall continue longer and shall neither be dissolved in men children when they come to be about fourteen yeers or fifteen or maiden children when their monethly terms do break forth do use to last a long time Or as Heurnius saith in his Comments do last as long as they live APH. 29. To young men there doth happen spitting of blood Consumptions sharp Feavers falling-sicknesses and other diseases but especially these we have now rehearsed This age according to Heurniusis when their voice breaks and they begin to speak big nostrils dimness of sight Glaucoma and dullness of hearing Here by old men he means those who have attained to their last age SECT. IV. The Argument This fourth Section is variable but for the most part is reduced to evacuation and prognostick signs of future events APHORISM 1. THou shalt purge child-bearing women if it be needful at the fourth moneth after conception and so unto the seventh but those more sparingly but the conception being younger or elder thou shalt abstain Because in those moneths the ligaments wherewith the conception is fastened to the womb are strongest and thickest and not casâ—e to be broken by the commotions of purging medicines APH. 2. Such things are to be drawn out of the body by the use of purging medicines as they are which issuing out of their own accord would do good to it But those which issue out in a contrary manner are to be stopped For it is good in artificial purges to imitate Nature APH. 3 If such things be purged as should be it is good and the Patient doth easily endure it But if you do otherwise the patient doth indure it painfully This Aphorism being the same with the 2 and 25 of the first Section it needs no further explication and some have in this place left it quite out APH. 4. In Summer it is more convenient to purge the upper Venters in Winter the inferior by stool For in Summer choller is the predominant humor and naturally by reason of the ambient heat all things are carried upwards so it is best to purge by Vomit APH. 5. Under the Canicular or Dog-star and before it purgations are painful and difficult Because the ambient heat seeks to draw the humors outwards by sweat while the purgation forces them out by stool APH. 6. Lean and slender men are easily provoked to Vomit and therefore must be purged by vomit unless it be in Winter For slender men are for the most part chollerick which choller if they have a facility in vomiting should be purged upward unless it be in Winter for then the inferior venters must be purged by stool APH. 7. Purge those which do not vomit easily and are in good plight downwards by stool so it be not Summer For at any other time of the year you may securely do it APH. 8. Do not purge them upwarâ—s which are subject to a Consumption or Phtysick For fear of hurting the instrumental parts of respiration which are weak APH. 9. Thou shalt purge melancholly folk strongly by stool in like manner beginning the contrary way of purging For light matter bending upward must be drawn out by the upper parts but the heavier and grosser matter by the lower parts APH. 10. We must purge in very sharp sicknesses if the matter do move to the purging of it and that the very same day wherein the sickness doth begin for delay in such diseases is very hurtful and dangerous Before the strength of body fail or diminish or the aguish heat increase or the humors which wander up and down the body settle about some principal part APH. 11. Those which have gripings and wringings in the belly and horrible pain about the navel and the loyns and cannot be eased and dissolved by medicine or otherwise they will fall into a dry Dropsie Which is called a Timpany APH. 12. Those are not to be purged in Winter by vomit whose stomack and belly cannot retain meat until it be digested He means such purges as are general and purge the whole body for in particular purges you may do otherwise As if we would onely ease the ventricle of phlegm we may do it by vomit in Winter And by the same reason if yellow choller be in the intestines only we may in Summer purge it out by stool APH. 13. Their bodies are to be made moist before hand with plenty of food and with ease and rest who taking a potion of Hellebor do hardly and painfully vomit Because if the nerves and other dry parts of the body be not moistened the Hellebor which is hot and dry in the third degree and is very drawing may cause deadly Convulsions APH. 14. Hellebor being drunk the body ought rather to be moved then yielded to sleep or rest For the sayling in a ship doth manifest that our bodies are provoked and stâ—irred by motion And seeing that motion of it self provokes the body to vomit much more will it do it with the help of a medicine And rest keeps the body in the same state motion changes and alters it APH. 15. If you will have Hellebore to work more forcibly move and stir the body but when you will stay it procure sleep and do not move For since motion sets it more violently a working rest must needs cause it to stay seeing contrary operations work contrary effects APH. 16. Hellebor is very dangerous to them which have a healthful body for it ingendreth Convulsions For it is one of its chief qualities to cause distentions so finding no excrements in the body it falls upon the solid parts and especially the nerves APH. 17. If he which hath not an Ague doth loath his meat hath
in a Feaver being thick clotted and little in quantity do profit them that make them if afterwards thin urine and much in quantity be avoided by them But those urines most commonly become such in which the hypostasis or sediment shal appear presently after they are made or not long after Because the gross humors causing the Feaver are expelled in the humor which makes the urine which comes afterwards to be thin in respect of that APH 70. Those who have their water troubled or unclean in Agues such as are the waters of Cattel have or shall have head-aches Because the windy or flatuous spirit is easily drawn up into the head together with heat APH. 71. Those which shall have their Crysis or alteration of the disease the seventh day have a little red cloud in the urine the fourth day and other things thereunto belonging accordingly These red clouds are seldom seen though the white be frequent and are both of them signs of concoction APH. 72. Urines very cleer and white are bad especially in those who are afflicted with phrensies Because such urines are signs of an extreme crudity And Galen saith he never knew any one who was afflicted with a phrensie and made such water saved APH. 73. Those which have an inflation of the Hypocoâ—dria and a rumbling pain of the loyns succeeding have their bellies moistned loosened except the wind break forth downwards or store of urine do issue forth And these things happen in Feavers Namely in essential not symptomatical Feavers and such as are diseases of themselves APH. 74. Those that have hope of Aposthumations to come about the joynts much urine thick and white doth deliver from the Aposthume such as is wont to be avoided in painful Feavers the fourth day when also blood shall be voided out of the nostrils there shall be a dissolution deliverance speedily For those urines purge out the humors which would cause the aposthumations and especially if there be a bleeding at the nostrils joyned for then the causes issue out two ways APH. 75. If any piss blood or filthy matter it signifies an exulceration of the Kidneys or bladder That is if he do it for a continuance for otherwise it may proceed from some other cause APH. 76. Those which have small pieces of flesh or as it were hairs issuing forth together with thick urine do avoid those excrements from the Kidneys Those small pieces of flesh are part of the reins or kidneys and are a manifest sign of their being ulcerated but the hairs are onely bred there but are no part of them APH. 77. Those which avoid thick urine with certain things like bran have their bladder infected with scabbedness If the defect be not in the veins for such stuff comes sometime from them APH. 78. If any piss blood on a suddain it is a sign there is some vein of the Kidneys broken Namely meer and pure blood and without any external cause APH. 79. They in whose urine appeareth an hypostasis or sediment full of sand have their bladder troubled with the stone This Aphorism is mutilated and defective for the sand may come as well from the kidneys as from the bladder APH. 80. If any one piss blood or clots of blood and make his water by drops having pain in that part of the belly which is between the Navel and the secret parts named hypogastrion or at the seame line of the skin of the Cods called perinaeum and at the place called pecten where the hair about the privy members groweth then the places about the bladder are diseased Namely all the parts belonging to the bladder and not the bladder onely APH. 81. If any one piss blood or filthy matter or little scales and there be also a stinking or strong smell it betokens an exulceration of the bladder The two first accidents may happen upon the exulceration of any of the instruments serving to make water but the scales and stink are proper signs of the bladder being ill-affected APH. 82. Those which have an Aposthume bred in the urinary passage are delivered from it the same being brought to suppuration and broken Which suppuration and breaking gives the urine free passage APH. 83. Voiding of much urine in the night doth signifie small evacuation of excrements by the Fundament He makes particular mention of the night because at that time by reason of the sleep Nature is most busie about her concoction and distribution SECT V. The Argument This fift Book or Section is variable yet it doth almost wholly intreat of the diseases of women and of the good and bad dispositions of the womb APHORISM 1. A Convulsion after taking Hellebore is deadly Namely after white Hellebore and that for five causes First by reason of the agreement which is â—etween the nerves and the mouth of the Stomack Secondly by reason of the biting humors which it draws to the mouth of the stomack Thirdly by reason of the abundant evacuation the Hellebore causeth Fourthly by reason of the attractive faculty by which it draws the moistness from the nerves And fiftly because it vehemently dryes up the substance of the nerves APH. 2. A Convulsion caused by a wound is deadly Not always but for the most part APH. 3. The Hicket or a Convulsion after a copious flux of blood is evil Because of the great emptiness caused by the copious flux of blood and because the Hicket is caused by a depraved motion of the ventricle APH. 4. After an immoderate purgation a Convulsion or Hicket is evil For the same reason that they are evil after taking of Hellebore Aph. 1. APH. 5. If one that is drunk suddainly fall dumb he shall die with a Convulsion unless he be taken with a Feaver or presently recover his speech as soon as his surfet is dissolved Obj. How can wine being hot cause a Convulsion which is a cold disease A. Wine is hot moderately taken over abundantly cold as a little oil powred upon a fire will increase it but an over abonnding quantity thrown upon a little will put it out APH. 6. Those who are taken with a Cramp or distention called Tetanus die within four days or if they overpass them they recover Because it is a sign that nature hath overcome the disease APH. 7. The falling sickness which is before ripeness of years may be cured but that which comes after five and twenty yeers of age for the most part accompanies us to death By ripeness of yeers he means 25 yeers of age yet they are not all curable before that age unless they take a care in dieting themselves APH. 8. Those which have a plurisie unless they be purged upwards within fourteen days shall have their disease turned into an imposthume Namely spitting and purging such matter upward APH. 9. A Consumption likely happeneth in that age which is from the 18 to the 35. Namely that Consumption which comes by an exulceration of the Lungs APH. 10. Those who have