the fifth houre of the night not being silent as before but of purpose with a loud voice to awake him from his sleep But perhaps some will say Galen did not command sleep till two hours after bloud-letting I answer it had been well if the sick could have slept immediately after he had been let bloud and in no place doth Galen disallow that for we know we cannot alwayes sleep when we desire it But seeing the aforesaid sick man could not sleep comming againe two houres after he bade him lye still that he might sleep which Galen had not done if he had judged sleep to be hurtfull after blooding If any man object that sleep is prohibited lest the ligature should be loosed and the patient bleed againe that is nothing for that may be prevented by the diligent care of the by-standers and the sure binding of it As touching drink Good to drink after bleeding Amatus the Portugall proves that it is not hurtfull immediately after blood-letting but very wholsome commanding that the patient doe presently drinke a little cold water for in regard that the veines are emptied it is instantly distributed into the whole body and doth both easier sooner and safelier coole the body CHAP. XXVII That blooding and purging is not hurtfull for women with child ANd this Errour is none of the least that if a woman with childe be sick they will not suffer her to take Physick nor to be let bloud for fear of an aborsement which is contrary to reason the authority of the Ancients and daily experience To reason because a woman that labours with an acute disease as a Fever or a Pleurisie is in very great danger as saith Hippocrates Aph. 30. ib. 5. * it is mortall for a woman with childe to be taken with an acute disease Fevers in women with child are most dangerous Therefore no delay is to be made in applying remedies Again in respect that the child is nourished with the mothers blood if she be sick there is danger lest through that sicknesse and the corruption of the blood the childe perish which if it happen as sometimes it doth then is the mother in danger both by reason of the disease and of the dead childe namely lest she being weakened by the disease the childe dye through putrefaction of the blood and she bee not able to bear the childe at least never doth an aborsement happen without danger Now it is evident enough that these evills cannot be prevented without taking away the cause for indeed no disease can be cured otherwise and the cause cannot be taken away without blood-letting The disease is not cured till the causes be taken away or purging They that think it such a dangerous thing for women to use these remedies and thereupon do not admit of them let them seriously consider this Note If a Physician can cure a woman with childe sick of a putrid Fever without blood-letting or purging much more easily may he cure her of the same disease without these remedies when she is not with childe and so the use of them might be quite abandoned But if he cannot cure her not being with childe without those remedies he cannot then cure her being with childe and sick of the same disease For the same disease indicates the same remedie and the being with child doth not take away the indication of the disease but onely after a sort alters the quantity of remedies and the manner of using them Yea much rather are these remedies to be used in women with childe inasmuch as they stand in greater need of help than others But they think that all the nourishment is drawn from the childe by blood-letting and that there is danger of abortion by purging and other remedies The danger to the childe is from the disease not the remedy All this while not knowing that great danger hangs over the childe by reason of the blood being corrupted to wit lest it die and kill the mother who is already weakened with the disease so that there is more danger of abortion from the disease than from the remedy And first we must never take away such a great quantitie of blood as that thereby nourishment should be withdrawn from the infant but rather we observe that the infant becomes more lively after the corrupt blood is taken away The child becomes more lively after bleeding for there is blood enough left behinde to suffice both the child and its mother Again a purgation especially a gentle one although reiterated if need stand can do no hurt A woman with child may take a purge being given by a discreet Physician but rather good for the strength of the Physick doth scarce reach unto the childe or at least in such a long circuit the noxious part of its strength is lost But what if it should attaine to the childe yet it cannot kill it if it be exhibited in a moderate quantity Onely the blood comes unto the the childe which by vertue of the Physick is purged from noxious humours Also in women with childe the wombe resists it much for the safeguard of the infant for in them the retentive faculty is more busie then the expulsive This Errour Secondly oppugnes Authoritie for Hippocrates commends purging for women with childe from the fourth Moneth till the seventh Women with childe may take Physick if there be an ebullition of humours in them Sect 4. aph 1. from the fourth moneth till the seventh onely they must bee more gently dealtly withall than others but when the infant is younger than this or elder it is best wholly to abstaine Which if it were Hippocrates his opinion notwithstanding the vehemency of his remedies Our purges more safe then the Ancients were much more is it true of ours which are farre more gentle for the purgations of the Ancients were more dangerous than ours Againe Experience testifies that the childe cannot bee so easily expelled by the use of physick 7. Epid. as the history of Harpalaus his sister manifests who being foure moneths gone with childe and sick of a Dropsie and Asthma the infant being so weak that it had not stirred of a long time tooke Aethiopian Cumin with honey and wine which though it was exceeding bitter diuretick and therefore of great force to provoke the flowers yet being discreetly used did her good and neither hurt the child nor provoked her flowers intimating thus much that the child is not alwaies killed by taking Physick unlesse the Physick be very strong and constantly used There is a notable story out of Avenzoar whereof we have made mention in another place who not knowing that his wife was with childe did administer unto her exceeding strong physick and yet the childe was not hurt thereby I will saith he relate what befell me while I was in the prison of Haly my wife was with childe and I knew it not and she was troubled with
such a discase that of necessitie I was to give her a purge and such an one it was that none would thinke that a woman with childe taking it in but a small quantitie could save her childe unhurt and yet shee tooke it without any harme to her selfe or her childe but when afterward I perceived that shee was with childe I was sorry for that mistake and craved pardon for it of God and shee brought forth a sonne whom I have now at home with me Thus Avenzoar a Physician of principall note among the Arabians Hercules Saxonia writes that while he was as yet in his mothers wombe and Physicians thought him to be a * Or false conception Mole they administred very strongremedies to cast out the Mole but all in vaine for the infant remained unhurt and afterwards became a most excellent interpreter of Physick This happens oftentimes because the force of the Physick is much weakened before it come to the infant and the wombe endeavours to its utmost to keep in the childe and but with great violence will not part with it before the time There is another reason taken from the birth for when the womb endeavours to put forth the perfect infant then doe these remedies help the travail but they availe little or nothing when the womb strives to retaine the infant I have often seen blooding and purging even in the eigth moneth prescribed with good successe for women that laboured with an acute disease CHAP. XXVIII That Physick is good for women in child-bed WHat wee have said of women with childe may be said likewise of women in childbed if they bee sick of acute diseases as a Fever Pleurisie and such like for they are wont to bee troubled with many diseases in that very respect that they are in childebed but there is a different reason between them and women with childe for in women with childe their flowers are stopped and doe never flow without danger to the infant but in women in childbed the humours that were gathered together in the matrix do flow out and are never suppressed but with very much danger and thereby they fall into grievous diseases for the curing of which Physick is to be administred Speedy help is to be procured for women in childbed and by so much the more speedily as in them all things are most dangerous For besides this that the secundine or after birth sometimes staies behinde their flowers also doe either flow too fast or are suppressed or flow but slowly from whence divers great and perillous diseases as continuall Fevers The diseases to which they are usually incident burning Fevers Frenzies vomiting loathing of meat Epilepsies inflammation of the bowels Plurisies and other such diseases do arise So likewise it may fall out that by an ill regiment of body alone together with corrupt humours lurking within exagitated and stirred up in the birth as also by an erroneous diet although neither the flowers be suppressed nor flow immoderately such diseases may happen These cases are difficult and dangerous and can scarce by natures strength alone be amended For if they come by suppression of the flowers they cause grievous symptomes and fevers with watchings and frenzie but if they arise from an 〈◊〉 wholsome regiment of body they are so much the more dangerous in women in childbed because they betoken a great putrefaction of humours within the body which the expurgation of the flowers could not take away nor amend When these things happen it is necessary by the consent of all Physicians to attempt something by blood-letting and purging and other altering remedies which the Physician shall think convenient But what veine must be pierced when how and with what remedies she must be purged is not my purpose to explicate in this place in that I am not now reading a Physick Lecture but onely discovering to the people their Errours in Physick Onely thus much I will adde that it is not safe to open the upper veines lest the flowers bee thereby suppressed and drawn back again into the body CHAP. XXIX That it is not hurtfull to take Quicksilver by the mouth THis Errour is to bee pardoned in many because it is maintained by the suffrage and consent of ancient Physicians Lib. 5. cap. 7. * Dioscorides saith that Quicksilver drunk hath a deadly qualitie and that by its ponderositie it gnawes the internall parts Lib. 6. cap. 28. and in * another place he saith it causes the same symptomes that the spume of Silver doth Tetrab 4. serm 1. cap. 79. With whom assents * Aetius And Galen himselfe reckons it among the poysons And so doth Avicenne although he differs from himselfe when he writes concerning the qualities of it Lib. 1. tract 2. cap. 47. for in * one place he saith it is cold and moyst but in * another place Fen. 6. lib. 4. tractatu 1. cap 3. hee reckons Quicksilver among hot and sharp poysons Some will have naturall Quicksilver to be cold and the artificiall hot which controversie in this place we will not spend time to decide Also some moderne Physicians will have it to be a poyson If it be taken in too great a quantitie it congeales the blood saith Conciliator producing the example of a certaine Druggist who being in a burning Fever instead of a glasse of water to quench his thirst unhappily chanced to light on a glasse full of Quicksilver and drinking up a great quantity thereof he dyed congealed insomuch as when his dead body was opened the Physicians found the blood about his throat congealed and frozen Fernel likewise is altogether against the using of it But others more rightly taught by experience do affirme that it is not so hurtfull As for Dioscorides he saies that it hurts onely by reason of its weight and ponderositie which it cannot doe unlesse it bee taken in a great quantity Galen confesses that he never made triall of it whether it kills or no being taken by the mouth or applyed outwardly so that if at any time he reckoned it among the poysons he seems to have done it according to other mens opinion not out of his owne judgement and experience And the moderne Physicians have found by experience that it may safely be administred if it doe not exceed due measure For no medicine is taken in excessive quantitie without hurt to the body And therefore if it did congeale the blood as Conciliator speakes that was onely by reason of the too great quantity and for that cause it must not bee thought to be of a more noxious quality than other medicaments Neverthelesse Rorarius tells a contrary story 9. simpl In contrad Galeni 20. I knew saith he a Germane who being drunke and sleeping in a Goldsmiths house hee awaked out of his sleep being very thirsty and groping about for drinke by chance he lighted on a vessell in which was three pound of Quicksilver and powring out that
I could finde by urine alone a certaine knowledge of a womans conception nor of the epilepsie nor of a quartane feaver for it is but a deceitfull and equivocall messenger Which things indeed doe very much agree with our times I have often seene that opinion which by the urine the Physician had declared to have beene changed when he saw the sicke partie and which is more many simple fellowes that impudently meddle with Physick being called to the patient by whose urine they had before fully explained the disease not onely to have changed their opinion but to become lesse able to judge at al of the disease although they had both the Patient and his urine before their faces Fiftly the urine is altered by meates drinks exercises aire sleepe washing and divers other causes and so makes the judgment to be but conjecturall therefore Avicenne after six houres others after two houres would not have an urine looked into How grosly then doe they erre that rashly judge of urines that be brought to them many miles Hence it comes to passe that many that are noe Physicians but meerly made to cheat the people doe promise more then good Physicians are able to performe Nor can I except even ministers that practise Physick who of all men should be most holy Sixthly * Galen sayes well that in urine there are noe signes that doe certainly portend the frenzy 2. proch text 2. or the affects of the head for it onely signifyes saith he the distempers of the liver kidneys and bladder but there be other signes and symptomes of the diseases of the braine Yet Actuarius saith that the diseases of the liver braine necke breast yea and of his joynts also may be discerned by urine and Hippocrates writes that when a mans urine is like to the urine of a beast it shewes a paine in the head In like manner the excrements of the whole body have recourse as Physicians say to the belly and the urine by which it may be changed thus thinne fleame falling from the head makes a frothy urine 4 aphot 73. and Hippocrates thinkes that the grievous frettings and gripings of the gutts and hypochondres may be resolved by urine But this belongs onely to prognostickes for the very gripings themselves cannot be knowne by the urine much lesse their solution But the most witty Argenterius did deservedly laugh at Actuarius for endeavouring to point out in urine the signes of diseases in the braine the breast and the joynts For though the excrements of the whole body may be evacuated by the urine yet that happens not alwaies for many parts although grievously affected doe not alter the urine at all Moreover the excrements are but the causes of diseases and not diseases themselves As for that which may be said of the headach and the frenzy Galen answers it Text 4 Sect 1. proch * where he saith that the signes of the frenzy are either those that are alwayes in the phreneticke and in them onely or which are alwaies in them but not in them onely or which are neither alwaies in them nor in them onely but sometimes are apparent and sometimes not and happen from other causes From whence it is manifest saith hee that neither in urine nor in dejections of the belly nor in spittle nor in vomits are there any signes of the Frenzy Neither doe troubled Urines nor such as have any elevation aloft nor frothy Urines alwaies betoken the aforesaid affects but doe likewise proceed from other causes and if at any time they declare any of these they doe it with other signes for the aforesaid affects may bee without such Urines From whence it may bee concluded that those signes which doe not alwaies accompany a disease nor yet folely cannot indicate any disease but such are urines For Galen teaches that they by chance may betoken a frensie because they iddicate a windy blood but not by themselves and properly Therefore saith he in the afore cited place what hath been said of Urines makes nothing to a judgement of the Frensie yet they doe conduce to the discerning whether the sick bee in any great danger or no. And therefore in all diseases it is not amisse to consider the Urine that the danger may be discerned Galen teaches in many places that the excrements are signes of the parts affected and of the disease as that the dejections are signs of the belly the spirtle of the breast snot of the brain and the urine of the liver and veines to wit that they are signes of the concoction which is made in those parts but seldome of the diseases themselves Therefore Urine cannot shew forth all diseases as for example the Plurisie is known by a paine of the side a Feaver a hard Pulse difficultie of breathing and cough without the urine and spittle for if these come likewise they shew the cause and prognosticks of the disease already known by other signes For though the Plurisie and Frensie cannot be knowne by urine yet if the urine appear very much changed it is an ill signe for it hetokens a distemperature not onely of the vitall and animall but of the naturall parts also And when many parts are out of frame the sick lies in so much the more danger Moreover sometimes the Urine shewes whether the disease be joyned with a Feaver or no for Galen teaches that in the affects of the belly 2. De Cris cap. 7. if they be without a Feaver only the excrements of the belly are to be looked into but if with a Feaver then the urine likewise not that wee may know the disease it selfe but that we may the better judge what will be the issue of the disease already known CHAP. II. That the sexe and being with childe cannot be discerned by Vrine whereof a certaine story THey that bring Urines to Physicians doe often aske them whether it be a mans or womans water and whether the woman be with childe or no. It is admirable to see how cunningly some in this case deale with the people But that neither the sex nor graviditie can bee discerned I will demonstrate For although the Urine of a young man and an old man of a man and a woman be different each from other yet that is onely in colour and consistence which seeing they may bee changed by divers other causes it will not properly shew whether it be a mans or a womans for a cholerick woman after exercise and the use of hot meats will make higher coloured urine than a flegmatick man Moreover she which hath a Feaver or some other disease without doubt changes her urine according to the nature of the disease How shall he therefore that lookes into an urine discerne the Sex when he knowes not the temperature of them that made the urine Therefore if a healthfull man be compared with a healthfull woman a cholerick man with a cholerick woman and a sick man with a sick woman
and no externall thing happen which may change the urine perhaps the womans urine may be in some respect discerned from the mans but otherwhiles not at all when oftentimes it is unknown from whence the urine is brought to the Physician And so it is to be understood which some Physicians write concerning the difference betwixt a mans water and a womans for because men are said to be hotter and are given to exercises they make thinner urine and higher coloured with fewer contents but women because colder make whiter urine with a larger sediment A whitish colour saith Fernel is a signe not onely of cruditie but of the Sex likewise But even the hottest man may make such urine by reason of the causes that change urine Therefore in this there is no certainty and it is too much rashnesse to pronounce any such thing by urine Concerning women with childe A woman cannot be known to be with child by urine it is a greater doubt and it is ordinary with women for this cause alone to send their waters to a Physician Avicenne teaches to know it by a sediment like unto carded cotten and by some other markes But seeing experience shewes the contrary he is deservedly to be rejected It is not necessary for every urine of a woman to have a sediment but that only which is well concocted First Hippocrates who hath exactly searched out all the signes of conception never made mention of urines Secondly the urine is not changed by the graviditie it selfe but onely by the suppression of the flowers which as cannot be denied may alter the urine by the reflux of blood and excrements into the veines But that same change of urine may appeare as well in Maids by the stopping of their flowers yea in all diseases that arise from the like suppression as also in the obstructions of other internall parts Thus urine will manifest here no proper or peculiar thing Wee see urines sometimes of a low colour as happens frequently in obstructions sometimes very high coloured sometimes like to the healthfull when the woman with childe is in health sometimes thinne sometimes thick such as may likewise be seen in other affects But if the woman bee sick the urine is so changed by the violence of the disease that all the signes of being with childe if there bee any are obliterate Thirdly that the knowledge of graviditie is not so easie Hippocrates himself shewes who after he had reckoned up many probable signes of it as if those were not certaine he betakes himselfe to some Empyricall signes Aphor. 41. lib. 5. If you would know saith he whether a woman hath conceived or no give her some water mixed with honey to drinke when shee goes to sleep if shee feeleth gripings of her belly shee hath conceived if not she hath not And in his booke of the Barren he saith Stampe Honey and Anise well together dissolve it in water give it her let her sleep if she feele gripings about her navell shee is with childe but if not she is not So that hence it may appeare how hard a thing it is to know if a woman be with childe before the stirring of the infant when besides many other signes Hippocrates hath recourse to such Empyricall signes How foolish then are they that professe themselves to be able so easily to divine that by urines Avenzoar a Physician of principall note among the Arabians reports that he was deceived in his own wife although hee had seen her urine and had other signs whereby he could know a woman to be with childe if the knowledg thereof were so easie Saxonia relates that he was judged by Physicians to be a * mole Or false conception and that his mother did take many medicines to destroy the conception which yet did not prevail And to this opinion do all the modern Physicians assent who have written of the diseases of women Hither is to be added a certain fable A merry story which hath been related to me as a story by men of good note and this is it A certain maid did carry her Mistresses urine to a Physician and having by chance spilled it not knowing now what to doe she catched the urine of a Cow which at that time by good hap staled and carryed it to the Physician he gave answer that the patient did eat too many sallets Indeed the Physician was worthy to be commended for his skill who could divine that I say this is a fable because I have heard the same in divers places of sundry Physicians as also because it is alwayes ascribed to some Physician that is dead the like to whom is no man living And its true indeed no man this day is living or ever was that could certainly know a beasts urine from a mans If the urine be like to that of beasts that are accustomed to the yoke Aphor. 70. lâ—b 4. paine of the head is either present or will ensue saith Hippocrates noting that a man may make urine like in colour and consistence to that of beasts Therefore hitherto it hath been doubted in what respects a mans urine might be discerned from other liquors I know there are some rules and marks prescribed by Avicenne and others whereby they may be discerned from each other but they are all false and uncertain And nothing is more easie then to deceive a Physician though wary by shewing him him other liquours and urines But if a man may make urine like to that of beasts how can a Physician not knowing from whence it comes discerne one from the other CHAP. III. The Solution of the arguments that seeme to favour looking into Vrines SOme that too much approve Ouroscopie or looking into Urines do use the authority and arguments of Hercules Saxonia a very learned Physician heretofore among the Italians who desired to patronize a little Ouroscopie For he would have not only the causes of diseases but also their Idea's magnitude and states to be known by urine not in generall only but also in particular whose opinion we will briefly lay down First saith he urines shew diseases in distemperature without matter and with matter A hot distemper without matter is either universall or of a determinate part and this is sometimes without a fever sometimes with a fever An hot universall distemper doe these urines shew to wit reddish saffron colour greene black fatty atomous branny or scaly sediments and sharp urines Neverthelesse these doe not shew a distemper without matter but with matter for urine hath not these colours but by the mixture of humours hence in a diary fever Galen writes that the urine is made somewhat reddish through the mixture of choler Moreover 1. ad Glauc cap. 2. 3. method cap. 2. 10. de crisib cap 12. these doe only betoken a hot distemper in generall not any particular sort of it for a hot distemper may be Synochus a burning fever or a tertian it
that there is no sympathy betwixt the stomach and the hands because there is a threefold reason of sympathie A threefold reason of sympathy First of vicinitie the second of familiaritie of function the third by communion of vessels which things we may apply to the Liver and the hands For betwixt them there is no vicinitie or nearnesse in regard of scituation no familiaritie of function if there be any sympathy it must be of the third kinde to wit by communion of vessels but the vessels that issue out of the Liver are not carried to the hands alone but to the whole body In the hands besides the veines there are arteries which convey to them a greater heat from the heart Therefore from the hands ought not to be inferred rather the heat of the Liver then of the heart Besides the heat of the Liver is perpetuall or at least of long continuance but that heat of the hands is fugitive 6. Epid. Sect. 2. text 32. Fen. 13. lib. 3. tract 1. cap. 3. 4. Colliget cap 4. often goes and comes again Againe other Authours attribute it to the Spleen to wit if the Spleen tend upwards but if it incline downwards the lower parts are said to be hot * Avicenne will have long fingers to shew the magnitude and heat of the Liver but * Averrhoes laughs at him And the man whom thou knowest saith that the shortnesse of the fingers betokens a little Liver and herein it appears that he knew not wherein the power of forming did consist and considered not but in the parts themselves but let him goe with the rest Which are the words of Averrhoes who believed not that the signes of the temperature or conformation of the Liver could be drawn from the hands seeing there is no more peculiar sympathy between these parts than others Therefore Galen in Arte parvâ when he explicates the signes of an hot Liver omitted that figne of the heat of the hands as did the rest of the Greeks Aetius Aegineta and others Argenterius in his commentary on the forenamed place of the Art of Physick blames Galen for omitting this sign But more rightly do others defend Galen because that signe is nothing else then the vaine imagination of the vulgar for not onely the hands but the whole body is necessarily made hot neither is that heat of the hands permanent but unstable and uncertain CHAP. XII Of them that complaine of a hot Liver but a cold Stomach IT is a common and ordinary thing for many to complaine of the heat of the Liver and coldnesse of the Stomach because they feele winde and crudities in their Stomach together with some running heats in the body as in the face hands and feet But these are to be admonished of some things First it is certaine that the Stomach because it is a spermaticall part membranous and bloodlesse and white is of a cold temperament The Stomach is naturally of a cold temperament but to thinke that the heat of the Liver can hurt it is an absurditie For Galen writes that it was fenced about by Nature on every side with hot Intrailes that it might more compleatly execute its functions it lies in the middle between the Liver the Spleen the Caule and the gut Colon and is encompassed with them on every side that like a cauldron among a great many fires it may be made hot by them wherefore Riolanus in his Anthropographie doth not thinke it a thing probable that the heat of the Liver should diminish the heate of the Stomach but rather augment it Secondly it ought to be observed that the forenamed symptomes doe often happen in them that be in health that have a hot temper of the bowels but use an ill diet For by too much drinking either of wine and of Ale and Beere abundance of crudities in the belly doe grow and swimmings belchings windinesse and spittings doe arise for it is an ordinary thing Strong drinks breed cold diseases for cold affects to proceed from too much gulleting even of hot drinks which do not happen by a distemper of the part but through the fault of him that takes them In the mean while the Liver drawes unto it the thinner spirits of those drinkes whereby it is enflamed and so distributes too hot blood to the whole body Thence it is that they seem to feele heat in the body and cruditie in the Stomach at the same time And so they falsly accuse the contrary distempers of the parts not blaming their owne intemperance But if they would live soberly and use moderate drinkes they should experience no such matter Thirdly some are troubled with it although they live soberly and such are hypocondriacke persons whose * They are the parts contained in the belly hypocondres are hot and dry and obstructed which evill is very common in this country and it arises most commonly from the aforesaid cause namely a disordered diet But in them the Stomach is not made colder by reason of the vicinitie of the hot hypocondres but because many melancholy and flatulent humours are cast into the stomach which vitiate concoction whereupon they thinke they have a colder stomach than indeed they have Thence it is that Physicians demand how it comes to passe that hypocondriake persons seeing they are oppressed with a hot disease doe neverthelesse abound with winde and cruditie◠The cause whereof although some Physicians referre to the cold Stomach yet it is better as we have said to referre it to the corrupt humours weakning the temper of the Stomach from whence proceed not onely tart crudities which come from cold but also nidorous belchings which doe arise from heate especially if the party cat nidorous meat as fried Egges and the like Hence one sayes well that the symptomes in an hypochondriake passion are many of them cold but the cause is hot CHAP. XIII That the Husband cannot breed his Wives childe AMong very many Errours this seems most worthy to bee laughed at that the husband is thought to bee sick and troubled with the same symptomes wherewith a woman with child is wont yea and many will have this thing to be confirmed by experience I had a patient sick of a Feaver with a very high coloured and troubled urine who would not be perswaded of any other cause of his sicknesse then his wives being with childe I doe not remember that I have read of it at any time nor heard it observed in any place but in England It is certaine that women with childe in the first moneths of their conception are wont to bee troubled with very many and sundry symptomes especially they that are of cacochymick and impure bodies Now they doe usually arise from the retention of their Flowers For seeing Nature is wont to use that Flux not only for the purging out of superfluous blood but of corrupt and vitious humours also such blood being retent and kept in they are likewise retained
That blood retained because for the smalnesse of the young one in the beginning of her graviditie it is not at all spent for the nourishment thereof doth putrifie and hath recourse either to the noble parts or at least annoyes them with filthy vapours which it sends forth from whence arise the aforesaid symptomes in the stomach intrailes belly head and the whole body as vomiting loathing of meat unsatiable longing and lusting gripings dizzinesse of the head and such like Seeing therefore the husband hath not in him the causes of these affects but his wife onely it stands with reason that shee onely should be sick Nor if any husband be sick when his wife is with childe was hee infected by his wife for that distemper may happen through some peculiar fault of his owne body As while I write this it raines yet neither is my writing the cause of the raine nor the raine of my writing It is no new thing for husbands and their wives to bee both sick together But it is a wonder and heretofore a thing unknown that graviditie or a womans being with childe is a contagious disease and that not other women but men only whom nature hath freed from this travaile should be infected therewith Furthermore it is observed that the same symptomes do not happen to all women or at least not all to every one and yet it often falls out that when the woman is in good health the husband is sick yea sometimes being many miles off But if he endure that by his wives being with childe how comes it to passe that she continues well at the same time For naturall causes doe sooner worke upon the near than upon the remote subject And for that cause seeing the woman carries about her such noxious humours she should be sooner and more grievously sick I know something might be said of simpathy antipathy contagion fascination and other such trifles But if these things be so why do not maids and widows who are very often troubled with the like symptomes through suppression of their flowers infect their bedfellows and familiars seeing there is the same cause and without doubt they may have a sympathy with some of them To cause a contagion not only the efficacie of the agent but also a disposition and analogy in the patient is requisite But who believes not that another woman is more prone to receive and take the symptomes of gravidity than a man seeing they were all created for propagation of children and therefore one woman ought to take great heed to her self of another Moreover it may happen that a woman that is sore troubled with the green sicknesse as they call it is married to a man whom notwithstanding although her flowers be suppressed she shall never infect why then when the same woman is with childe and there is no other reason of sickness then suppression of the flowers shall her husband be sick Men would be in an ill case if as often as there were a suppression of their wives flowers so often they not their wives should bee sick But because by the very relating of it the absurdity of this errour doth appeare I will adde no more Iupiter bore Bacchus in his thigh and Pallas in his brain but let this be proper to him alone CHAP. XIIII Whether forraine Physicians and Aliens can know the temper of the sick of another Countrey TO know the temperature of the sick conduces much to the knowledge of diseases and their cure and this businesse requires a long and difficult handling I will onely say thus much that some are of opinion that Strangers cannot know the temperature of them of another Country as French men of the English But that is repugnant to the nature of the Art of Physick the precepts whereof are generall The precepts of Physick are generall and may easily be applyed to any Country For every art is of universals not of particulars therefore here in England all that are skilfull Artists doe practise Physick according to the precepts of Galen and Hippocrates which if any man doe well understand he is able to discerne the diversitie of men according to their ages countries and the different temper of the aire and what medicaments are convenient for them Concerning which Hippocrates hath written an excellent book of aire waters and places For the Art of Physick wheresoever it is taught doth lay downe marks and signes which are taken from Countries both for the knowledge and prognostication of diseases and indications which the diversitie of Countries doth afford for the appointment of a right diet letting of bloud prescribing of purges and administring of all other remedies Otherwise it were no Art if it should accommodate its precepts to some particular place only Galen who was borne and brought up in Greece practised Physick at Rome Hence 3 prognost Hippocrates saith that his documents may be applyed to any Country either hot or cold to Lybia Delos Scythia and the rest Also the Arabians have borrowed from the Greeks their precepts of curing which are the very same with the Galenists which we promiscuously follow Therefore it was wisely ordered by the Spaniards and Portugals that in India where they beare rule Physick should be practised after the self same manner that it is in Europe according to the doctrine of Galen and Hippocrates I know much might be said of that variety of temperature which Countries doe give to the inhabitants for even in one and the same Kingdome there is a great diversitie of inhabitants in respect of the divers situation of the Countryes nature of the soyle blowing of the wind and other causes for the diligent search of all which the Art of Physick layes down rules And yet whatsoever the Climate and Country be even in the most Northern Climates there are men of every temper hot cold cholerick flegmatick sanguine melancholick One that without license practised Physick a Surgeon by profession that he might doe me a displeasure was often wont to say that Frenchmen cannot understand the nature and constitution of the English I once asked him what was that constitution of an Englishman wherein he differs from a Frenchman by what signes he could know it seeing that in every place are men of every temperature which things seeing they cannot be knowne but of a learned Physician it is no wonder if every simple medicine-monger be ignorant of them For it is a thing exceeding hard to be known Therfore Galen said that if he could but perfectly know the temperature of his Patients he should be another Aesculapius I will now only adde thus much that what is talked by the vulgar concerning the temperature of divers people is well understood but of few for all men have their proper temperaments differing from others ingendred in them from the principles of generation they cannot therefore have any thing common in which all men can agree That same therefore is onely a certain
But the broth of a young Cock doth nourish very well and tempers the humours and therefore is very good for them that be sick I read in the old copies of Dioscorides and others except that Translation of Ruellius as Mathiolus reports That the broth of a young Cock especially is given to temper vitious humours and in the heats of the stomach simply prepared But Mesues saies very well of this businesse * Cap. 23. de simpl purg where after he had reckoned the flesh of young Cocks and Hennes among the best meats hee addes as Silvius interprets The nitrous and salt flesh of old Cocks especially unfit for meat is Physicall chiefly in the broth thereof but principally of hazled cocks which are quick for motion hot for copulation strong to fight meane betwixt fat and leane and the elder they be the more Physicall they are saith Galen This broth in respect of the nitrous and salt substance of it is hot it cleanseth detergeth attenuateth discusseth winde being boyled with the seed of Dill or wild Carrot Polypodie and Salgemme it asswageth the paine of the stomack colon small guts and reines arising from wind opens obstructions purgeth fleagme with Turbith and Carthamum and therefore it is good against the paines of the gowt that arise from thence c. From whence it is manifest that an old cock is not used for to nutrifie but for the Physicall vertues thereof wherefore for the future they shall doe better that shall administer young cock-broth to the sick for to nourish them For the opinion of Hippocrates Galen and of all Physicians is stable that old flesh is not fit for nourishing and therefore we must conclude that it is not convenient for the sick CHAP. IX That gold is in vaine boyled in broth for them that are in a Consumption IT is usuall with some to put gold into the broth of the sick especially for them that are in consumptions which although I doe not hold to be hurtfull or any way pernicious to them yet I thinke it is altogether unprofitable Touching the vertue of gold there is indeed no small controversie among Physicians The vertues of gold For many excellent Physicians are of opinion that it is good for the affects of the heart to renew the sight to cure the palpitation syncope leprosie epilepsie and being quenched in wine to cure the paines of the spleene to help those that be melancholick and to hinder putrifafaction Fen 5. cap. 7. Avicenne saith that in gold there are hidden qualities which are good against poyson if a new borne child hold it in his mouth he need never feare the Devill if a woman with child drinke it she shall not bring forth an abortive But in his book de medic cordialibus he places gold betwixt silver and the hyacinth and he will have it to be of more vertue than silver but lesse than the hyacinth The filings of gold is an ingredient in the remedies against melancholly But hee addes that silver is somewhat cold and dry Of Silver and that the operation thereof is like to the hyacinth save that it is weaker Of the Hyacinth Now to the hyacinth he attributes the vertue of cheering and comforting the heart and of resisting poyson which vertues saith he doth flow from the hyacinth as the vertue of drawing iron from the loadstone neither can gold be dissolved and overcome by our heat as vegetables are for saith he the substance thereof doth not yeeld thereto but only our naturall heat helps the penetrating quality thereof Fernel himself highly commends it in that it partakes not of the malignity that is in most mettals Also Paracelsus contends that all diseases even the leprosie and the gowt may be cured by the use of it And them doe many moderne Physicians follow and mixe gold in sundry medicaments But others deny all these things Antonius Musa Brassavolus Andreas Baccius of Baths Fallopius Erastus Rondeletius Duretus and other excellent men Savanarola extolls aqua vitae above all gold as being drawne out of a vegetable and so a cordiall familiar to the nature of man This controversie I will not make mine in this place for though gold may seeme to be an excellent cordiall and a strengthening medicament though it be not hurtfull to seeth it in broths yet it doth no good at all for nothing is dissolved from it nor passes into the liquor except some drosse because of the substance which is so very compact as it can bee dissolved with no fire with no boyling Againe it is not easily * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consubstantiated with us it cannot be overcome by our heat nor doth it turne into bloud nor can it repaire the losse of spirits seeing it is so different from our nature and cannot be converted into it for the substance of mettals is so different from the nature of man that after what manner soever they be prepared they can never become aliments and for that cause gold can never cure the leprosie nor a hectick nor a consumption nor diseases that are caused of evacuation which diseases need not only alteration but also addition of some substance which no mettall can supply Seeing then that those that that are hectick doe not require to be corroborated in quality alone but to bee repaired by a substantiall moysture in vaine shall gold bee sodden in their broths for verily it cannot repaire the losse of radicall moysture seeing it it is not converted into aliment but is voyded as it was taken or boyled without any diminution of the weight Yet all this doth not take from it the cordiall vertue which perhaps is in it to conquer poysons and melancholy diseases but only proves there is no vertue in it for nourishing Gold nourishes not Sennertus cheated by a Germane Impostor Not long since the good man Daniel Sennertus in the preface of his booke de consensu Chymicorum being deceived by a Germane sycophant wrote that a hen being crammed a whole moneth with leafe gold doth so perfectly turn the gold into her owne substance that three pure golden lines as if they were drawne by a workman may be seene in her breast which is indeed an extraordinary manner of nourishing to wit for the food that is taken so to retaine its owne nature even to the third concoction that it should be altogether unchanged this is plainely repugnant to the nature of the body nourished that it should notwithstanding be turned into the substance thereof But they that have made triall can testifie that this experiment was false as that learned man and heretofore well knowne of me at Montauban Petrus Laurenbergius under whom at that time I studied Philosophy doth professe of himselfe in his examination of the Aphorismes of Augelus Sala But this is not the onely deceit of the Chymicall Impostors who to one true experiment doe use to annex a great many false ones and extoll such vertues of
his Chapter of palpitation Therefore Mercatus counsels that with exceeding great caution wee use the helps which further concoction or discusse winde For we are often deceived saith hee by windinesse and we are enforced to discusse it not without the great hurt of the sick These things are especially to be observed of them that abound with hypochondriack windiness whose bowels doe boyle with heat but stomacks seeme to bee somewhat cold Some perhaps will object that Physicians doe prescribe pepper grossely beaten and Aetius commends the use of wormewood for this hypochondriack windinesse Gross pepper commended But as Amatus the Portugall a most skilfull Physician observes pepper grossely beaten is good because it goes not to the bowels but only strengthens the stomack and so it heats not the liver Againe the heat thereof is extinguished in the first passages and is soon dispersed Lastly it detergeth casteth out sharp humours Wormwood commended Also wormewood is good because as Galen teaches it binds the stomack it helpeth by its detersion not against flegmatick but adust cholerick humours which foment this disease and purgeth them out by siege and urine CHAP. XIV That Midwives doe ill who give to women in Childbed nothing but hot drinks I Have often heard women in Child-bed complaine of a grievous thirst and heat because it is a maxime received by evill observation that they may take no cooling thing but only drinks actually and potentially hot as burnt wine which drink is too common in England brewed with hot spices cinnamon water and the like to wit to strengthen and comfort them for ever the by-standers are solicitous of those strengthning meats and drinks as also that the cold may not hurt them for by reason of cold gripings in their belly doe often happen especially af-the birth But this is a very great errour and often pernicious to women in Child-bed but alwayes very tedious Now there are divers conditions of women in Child-bed for some of in them a morbous preparative and the sickly humours being moved with the travaile of the birth do bring forth in them divers diseases but others enjoying a more perfect health doe quickly returne to themselves and by little and little grow well againe without any dangerous symptome To the former those strong and hot drinkes are very hurtfull for they inflame the inward parts and amend not the morbous humours at all but increase and corrupt them And to the latter sort which otherwise would recover their health they may cause feavers and such like diseases Now although I doe not approve of very cold drinks but rather would have them to bee somewhat warme yet I cannot allow of hot drinks for the forenamed reasons If there be a feaver Physicians doe prescribe altering and cooling syrupes why not also cooling drinke Therefore I have oftentimes permitted drink not so strong and somewhat cool to women in Child-bed burning and thirsting after small beere by which they have felt themselves much refreshed much more will such drinkes bee convenient for them if they bee in a feaver So likewise they doe ill who feed them with much meat and very nourishing for in the beginning their diet should bee slender and sparing as in them that have been wounded because nature is weak and not able to digest a great quantity of meat 2 acut Thus Hippocrates teacheth that after a large evacuation we must not presently hasten to a full diet for hereby there is feare lest the excrementitious humours bee multiplyed a feaver ensue and other symptomes happen But let them be fed sparingly as with broths till all feare of a feaver and other symptomes be quasht and she be well purged from her flowers and then by degrees they must passe to a fuller dyet and thus without any danger their strength is renewed in them This errour doe almost all observe that have written of womens diseases Rodericus a Castro saith Cap. 1. lib. 4. It hath been alwayes a vexation to tolerate women that have the charge of keeping a woman in child-bed for unlesse they cheere her up with delicate meat and wine they thinke that they doe no good at all for they have I know not what lawes and rules exceeding hurtfull to the poore women but sacred to themselves which being neglected a prudent Physician may give order to provide those things which he shall judge to be needfull So Petrus Salius doth very much reprove the same errour among the Italians As concerning their dyet saith he know that it is a common errour almost of all women to think that women in childafter the birth must presently bee refreshed and nourished with the best meats and therefore presently proceed to capons broth and their flesh to spices and strong wines except a disereet woman be by or a skilfull Physician bee sent for who may correct such errours Hee bids therefore that they abstaine from flesh wine spices and other things which are apt to breed or augment a feaver CHAP. XV. Two Errours about the choyse of Nurses THose Gentlewomen that will not undergoe the trouble of nursing their children themselves doe sometimes even by the advice of Physicians unlesse necessity enforce them otherwise reject those Nurses whose milk is old that is to say which have given suck a long time to wit a yeare or two for they thinke that milke is not so wholsome for a new born child And therefore they sometimes preferre a Nurse although elder which hath but lately given suck before one that is young if she hath given suck longer But I thinke they are in a great errour The breast doth every day afford fresh and new milk who suppose any milk to be old seeing that every day the breasts of Nurses doe afford new and fresh milke If therefore you suppose a Nurse to be young well behaved of a good constitution using a good and wholsome dyet and abstaining from venery it matters not how long she hath given suck For seeing that the milke doth participate of the nature of its materiall and efficient causes and is generated out of these causes only if the Nurse be healthfull and free from care anger and sorrow of minde and feed on good and wholsome meats there is no doubt but she gives alwaies good and wholsome milk For the milk doth partake of the nature of bloud of which it is made Milk is made of bloud I which if it be good the milk cannot be bad but in a healthfull body nourished with wholsome meats good bloud is alwaies made And of good bloud is not wont to be made bad and unwholsome milk if the body be in health Nor can giving suck it self alter or vitiate the milk forasmuch as nature ordaines nothing that is evill and it would be ill for the child if every day the Nurses milk were made worse by giving of suck It is not worse for giving suck Experience shewes in women of the meaner
cold and moyst liquor being halfe asleep he drunke up all the quicksilver and forthwith cast himselfe againe upon his bed and awaking in the morning and feeling in the linnen some cold humour neare him hee found quicksilver So Avicenne in his second Chapter concerning poyson writes that many of them that drinke of it are not hurt at all for by its naturall disposition it comes forth by the lower region And therefore it cannot be poyson in any respect unlesse by its gravitie not by any deadly qualitie Quicksilver used to facilitate the birth and to cast our the after birth Rorarius in the forenamed place reports that he knew very many women who without any bodily harme used it to facilitate the birth or to cast out the secundine or after-birth Some likewise affirm that they have administred Quicksilver to children half dead through worms Good against wormes in children who were thereby presently restored to health The same writes Brassavolus a famous Physician in his examination of Simples namely that he hath given it to children in the weight of a Scruple but if to children much more safely to them of riper age And many doe assent to Brassavolus The same Contrad to Avicen Rorarius reports that naturall Quicksilver hath not any venomous quality in it but that that it kills by its weight alone so as he hath not only heard of it but also seen it safely administred by some Physicians and women likewise to children halfe dead through wormes and to women in childbed to facilitate the birth and to bring down the after-birth Amatus the Portugall upon Dioscorides calls all them that speaks against it unexperienced Physicians because it is deadly onely by reason of its ponderosity as saith Dioscorides and he saith that it is prescribed by the Spanish Physicians as a most excellent Antidote Used against fascination for children that are bewitched and for such as are troubled with wormes even with good successe and without any evill symptome at all And hee tells a story of a certaine boy tenne years old which drunk up more than a pound of Quicksilver in stead of wine and felt no symptome from it except the weight thereof and by the help of Clysters purged it all out again and remained free from all further harm Also Matthiolus a famous Physician seems in divers places to be of the same opinion as in one place he saith Cap. 28. lib. 6. unlesse it be drunke in a great quantity it kills not because that both by its weight and fluid substance it quickly passes out by the inferiour parts without making any stay at all in the stomach and guts Wherefore it is no wonder what Avicenne wrote that there are some who drinke Quicksilver and feele no hurt thereby for it quickly slides through the body if so bee they that have drunk it doe but walke to and fro for a good space The women of Goritia do for their last remedy administer a scruple of Quicksilver to be drunk of women that have hard labour in childbirth Nor are they wanting that give it to children to kill the wormes of the belly to the quantity of two seeds of millet without any harm to them at all Cap. 70. lib. 5. And in * another place he saith that for such like examples he is easily perswaded that Quicksilver is not so deadly except it exceed due weight or measure But most clearly in his Epistle to Stephanus Laureus Lib 4. Epist in which hee permits children to take Quicksilver seeing that there is no other deadly qualitie in it save that it hurts the intestines by its weight as may be seen more at large in his works Me thinkes the authority of so many excellent Physicians might suffice to convince men of the truth hereof but besides these many Physicians even of our dayes have found the same true by experience It s best for the flegmatick I my selfe who write these things have often given it and never but with good successe especially in the phlegmatick in whom it workes much better than in others Therefore whatsoever evill symptomes Fernelius Palmarius and others do affirme to arise from it as Stupefaction Convulsions Tremulations Lethargy paine of the Guts and such like are true of it being either ill prepared or being administred in too great a quantity for nothing is absolutely and in every respect perfect it were not a medicament if it should never hurt in what dose soever it be given Experience alone shewes the strength of medicines which hath likewise manifested that there is not in quick-silver that noxious quality which the Ancients have attributed thereunto CHAP. XXX That quick-silver even without any preparation is unhurtfull SOme man although convinced with the fore-named testimony will notwithstanding thinke that it ought to be exactly and diligently prepared and indeed the name of preparation seems to point at some notable thing But it is plaine enough that what we have said is to be understood of crude and unprepared quick-silver for even this did Brassavolus Matthiolus Amatus the Portugall and others administer to children and women in child-bed It is administred quick saith Matthiolus in his Epistle to Laureus and not quenched or dissolved as so me think For that which is quenched doth stick to the stomack and bowels and stirres up grievous symptomes Where it is to be noted that quick-silver is prepared divers wayes both for purging and for provoking of sweat But in none of these preparations is the nature thereof taken away but onely hidden and though it be diversly commixed yet it remaines entire and with a little art returnes to its own nature Mercury sublimate and precipitate most dangerous poysons But especially it is fixed by the mixture of salt spirits in sublimate and precipitate so as that which before might be used without danger is now become a most violent poyson for seeing that of it selfe it is of a quick operation those sharp spirits one drop whereof doth burne whatsoever it touches doe the more increase it I know some have been so bold as that they have put a graine or two thereof into the pills intituled Barbarossae which is too grosse adventurousnesse But yet from thence it is manifest that the crude as they call it is not so hurtfull as that which is prepared after this manner Crude Mercury safer then any preparation of it because the crude Mercury holds faster together and is very moveable and therefore is quickly voided out of the belly Some therefore have ingeniously invented a sweet Mercury as they call it which they pretend may bee given without harme Mercurius dâ—lcis which thing I have found true by experience and thus the people that are otherwise terrified with the very name of quick-silver under colour of a white powder are beguiled with a profitable deceit Neverthelesse I doe not believe that it may be more safely used than the crude for
stone Men should not therefore give credit to them that prescribe remedies for it Duretus upon Hollerius reports that hee saw the bladder exulcerated with such remedies and death ensue the stone not being worne at all A certaine man as Duretus reports fearing the extreame paine of cutting by the advice of some drank juyce of Limmons for 3 months together and died with exulcerations in his stomack caused by that juyce For sharp medicines must of necessity molest and exulcerate the parts through which they passe with their sharpnesse Sanctorius in his Commentaries upon Galens Ars parva tells a story of an Italian Physician who while hee used Electuarium de vitro to break the stone of the bladder in stead of lessening the stone brought in a mortall dysenterie flux He tells also of another who by the advice of a certaine quacksalver used very forcible diureticks which when by their abstersive quality they had evacuated very much fleagm insomuch as the sick seemed to be more at ease yet the stone being made sharper began to prick the bladder more vehemently and made a Gangraenous Ulcer as was seen when the body was dissected and so the sick died miserably Capivaccius also confesses that hee knowes not any remedies which can break the stone of the bladder Cap. 94. text 3. And Galen in Arte parvâ reckons onely cutting among the remedies for the stone in the bladder where Argenterius observes well that even from hence is their opinion refuted which think the stone may be cured with remedies taken by the mouth CHAP. XLII That the wormes of the belly are not presently to be killed in Fevers IT falls out sometimes that both children and young men are grievously troubled with wormes and that divers diseases in the body do arise from thence among which a Feaver is not the least which is of a double nature for either it is caused by the wormes themselves and then it is a very gentle Fever or it comes from other causes Dangerous Fevers from wormes and concurres with the wormes and this is usually a malignant and violent Fever which is thought to have been sometimes called by Hippocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fierce and wilde as a beast In the curing of these wormes the people many times doe erre much First in that they thinke when there are wormes together with a Fever that the fever is alwaies caused by the worms when rather the wormes doe oftentimes proceed from the matter of the Fever For as Aetius teaches Cap. 39. lib 1. tetrab 3. if they breed about the beginning of the disease they take their substance from the corrupt matter if about the height from the malignitie of the disease if about the declination from the change to a better which also are quickly voided Therefore in the beginning of acute diseases they betoken a malignitie of the disease for when wormes are the cause of a Fever that Fever is never violent and acute but most commonly they appear in a malignant fever which is to be noted for in the former case the cure of the wormes is the cure of the Fever but in this latter when the Fever is cured the wormes are wont to be cast forth by nature it selfe the disease tending to a crisis as Hippocrates teaches in divers places as in his Prognosticks and in his booke de crisibus Secondly they erre in that in this case they consider onely the worms and presently direct their cure to them neglecting the disease on which they depend or making it worse with their remedies undiscreetly administred for oftentimes those things which kill the wormes doe increase the feaver Seeing therefore worms Note because they are in every respect besides nature are to bee killed and expelled yet that ought not to be done with any kindes of remedies indifferently but the nature of the disease that doth accompany them is to be regarded to which especially remedies must be applied for when it is once cured nature it selfe casts them out in the declination of the disease Wherefore because they are so ordinary in malignant Fevers those remedies which do cure malignant Fevers do serve for them likewise such are many Cordials as Harts-horne Unicornes-horne Corall Triacle Mithridate the seed of Citron c. And there are scarce any Cordialls which are not good against wormes although not alwaies hence it is that we see many of those remedies which are said to bee good against wormes to doe no good at all namely because they are used after the manner of Empyricks without any difference of causes and regard of the other circumstances which ought to be respected Let us hear what Rondeletius saith excellently concerning this subject in his Chapter of Wormes When Wormes saith he are voyded in acute diseases as burning Feavers and other diseases of old men and children wee ought not to convert our whole intention against them as women doe and Physicians that study to humour them whereby it comes to passe that the sick do perish in that the disease is neglected or because they bend themselves more to the curing of the wormes then of the disease as if one bee holden with a continuall Fever or some other Cholerick disease or a flux of the belly or if in the beginning of acute diseases one chance to voyd wormes they commonly give Wormeseed which doth inflame the Feaver more or else they are wont to administer Corall and other things which are astringent to kill the wormes all which are very ill for the principall diseases as very bitter things for the Fever and flux of the belly and astringent and drying things for Fevers Wherefore the Physician ought diligently to distinguish whether the Fever depend upon the wormes or whether the wormes which are alwayes within the belly be cast out by some other cause And if one perceive that the Fever doth proceed from another cause because it is a Quartane or a Tertian or a true Quotidiane and that there is no other ill symptome they must be let alone or only those medicaments prescribed which are good against the principall disease and the worms Which words of his we have set downe at large because they doe so plainly explicate this whole businesse Forestus also in his observations and Mercatus in his Chapter of the worms and others do observe the same CHAP. XLIII That Cinnamon is not well prescribed to stay womens fluxes IT often falls out that women are troubled with an immoderate flux of their flowers or of their courses or other humours for the curing of which I have oftentimes known Cinnamon to be prescribed by other women as a very astringent remedy Indeed in a Diarrhaea and the fluxes of the belly I deny not but it may sometimes be good for it corroborates and strengthens the stomach and bowels whose weaknesse is many times the cause of a flux of the belly but it is to no purpose at all to use it for the staying of the
ill permitted to children c. 16. That solid meate ought not to be given to children before the comming forth of their teeth c. 17. That a man may drinke liberally for healths sake c. 18. That red cloths are not to be preferred before others for the voiding of the Measills c. 19. That many doe ill who endeavour to drive away a disease beginning by labour c. 20. The Fourth Booke Of the Errours of the People about the use of remedies OF them that despise those remedies that are chymically prepared chap. 1. That the use of Mineralls is not to be rejected c. 2. Of them that attribute to much to Chymicall remedies c. 3. That the remedies are not to be changed although the cures doe not presently follow c. 4. Of them that reject all remedies if they be not presently cured c. 5. That remedies are not to be rejected for their unpleasantnesse c. 6. Whether homegrowing remedies bee sufficient for any Country c. 7. Of those that feare to be let blood and purge least they accustome themselves to it c. 8. That no regard is to had of the Starres for letting of bloud and purging c. 9. Of the ridiculous Physicall observations of Almanacke-makers c. 10. That it not hurtfull to purge in the dogge-dayes c. 11. That purgations are often to be reiterated c. 12. That purging pills should not be taken after supper c. 13. That Physicall potions may not onely be taken hott but cold also c. 14. That it is not hurtfull to take cold drinkes on the day of purgation c. 15. Of them that will never bee purged but in the beginning of the spring c. 16. That purging ought not to be rejected although the sicke doe not eate no meat c. 17. That a purge is not much to bee disliked because some times it is cast backe by vomit c. 18. That purging ought not to be feared although there be a flux of the belly c. 19. That the use of Clysters is voyd of danger c. 20 That Clysters are not well injected by bladders 21. Of vomits that possets ought not to be drunke immediately after one hath taken a vomit c. 22. That old men may be blouded without danger c. 23. That it is but a vaine thing to be so curious in the choyce of the veines in the arme c. 24. That it were better to observe the quantity of blood by measure then by ounces pounds and weights c. 25. That sleepe and drinke ought not to be wholly forbidden after bloodding c. 26. That bloodding and purging is not hurtfull for women with child c. 27. That Physick is good for women in childbed c. 28. That it not hurtfull to take quickesilver by the mouth c. 29. That quickesilver even without any proparation is unhurtfull c. 30. Of Tobacco c. 31. Of the right use of Tobacco c. 32. That the fume of Tobacco doth not goe up into the braine c. 33. Whether Tobacco bee a preservative against the plague or no c. 34. Of the unseasonable use of Cordialls c. 35. Of the Errours about the Bezaar stone c. 36. Of the the temperature and dose of the Bezaars stones c. 37. Of the Vnicornes horne c. 38. Of certaine distilled waters ordained amisse for to drive away fevers c. 39. That julips and other cooling potions ought to bee administred in a large dose c. 40. That the stone of the bladder cannot bee dissolved taken by the mouth c. 41. That the wormes of the belly are not presently to be killed in fevers c. 42. That Cinomon is not well prescribed to stay womens fluxes c. 43. That Opium rightly prepared ought not to be feared c. 44. Of remedies that are applyed to the head to provoke sleepe c. 45. That fomentations made with bladders are but of small efficacie c. 46. Of the applying of young whelps and pigeons to the soles of the feet c. 47. Of the Weapon oyntment c. 48. Of the curing of the Kings evill by the touch of the seventh Sonne c. 49. Of the Antimoniall Cuppe c. 50. 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