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A90381	De morbis puerorum, or, a treatise of the diseases of children; with their causes, signs, prognosticks, and cures, for the benefit of such as do not understand the Latine tongue, and very useful for all such as are house-keepers, and have children. With the contents of the several chapters, as also an alphabetical table of all the diseases mentioned herein. By Robert Pemell practitioner in physick, at Cranebrooke in Kent. May the 29. 1653.	Pemell, Robert.	1653 (1653)	Wing P1132; Thomason E721_3; ESTC R207213	39,973	64

the brain Let the nurse take often of this pectoral decoction Take of Figs and Jujubes of each twenty in number Sebestens thirty in number Raisons of the sun stoned ten drach Licorice 2. drachmes Maidenhair Hyssop and Violets of each an ounce boyl them in three pints of water to the consumption of the third part then being strained give it as before If the child be bound you may give it sirup of Roses Manna or Cassia And give the child oyl of sweet Almonds with white Sugar candy which will not onely loose the belly but ease the Cough If shortnesse of breath proceed from fulnesse of the stomach and hypochonders then give the child some Hony mixed with a little Fenegreek seed and Comin seed in powder Afterwards give the juyce of Fennel in milk or sirup of Jujubes or sirup of Maidenhair or make Almond milk with some Pine kernels in Colts foot water or Scabious water and sweeten it with sugar Candy Or Take one ounce of sugar Pellets and being dissolved in two ounces of Hyssop water warm them on the fire and give a spoonful often of it Or you may give sugar Candy and Hyssop water in the same manner If the child be of any bignes you may give it often pectoral Roules or Trosses to eat or sugar Pellets Let the breast be anointed morning and evening warm with oyl of sweet Almonds mixed with Capons grease or sweet Butter or with the oyntment called Pectorale Or Take of the oyntment called Resumptivum oyl of sweet Almonds of each one ounce Capons grease and Goose grease of each two drachmes mix them together and use it To dry up the Rheume lest the childs headclothes be perfumed with the powder of red Roses and Frankincense at night And you may bath the childs feet with a decoction made with Rosemary Sage Marjoram c. And afterwards anoint the feet with oyl of Bayes or oyl of Costus warm And because the Rheume sometimes falls down by the rough artery so that the nostrils of the child are dry and much stopped therefore you must anoint the same with fresh Butter or put up some therein or with oyl of sweet Almonds or with this following Take of the juyce Beets of and Marjoram of each two drachmes of the juyce of Chickweed half an ounce oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce mix them together and anoint the nostrils therewith or put up Basil Cloves or Marjoram in powder into the nostrils to provoke sneesing that thereby the matter which flowes down by the rough Artery may flow out of the nose If the Cough hinder the child from sleeping give it at night of sirup of Jujubes sirup of Violets and sirup of white Poppy of each a like quantity mixed together or give Conserve of red Roses if the child be of any bignesse CHAP. 13. Of vomiting and weaknesse of the stomach MAny times the childs stomach is so weak that it cannot retain any sustenance taken The cause The cause hereof is either abundance of milk which the child greedily sucketh or the ill quality of the milk or worms from whence ill humours are stirred up and so cause vomiting It may also proceed from flegme falling down upon the stomach but this is more rare in children and doth not often happen The signs If it come from abundance of milk sucked the Nurse may soon know it besides the childe after vomitting is better If it proceed from the corruption of the milk 't is known by the quality thereof for the milk is yellow green or of some other bad colour which is vomited up and hath an ill savour or smell also the milk of the Nurse is not good If worms be the cause then you have the signs in the Chapter of worms The Prognosticks Vomiting in children is most times little dangerous for it is a common saying among women that those children are most lively and vivacious that being young do vomit and there wants not reason to second this opinion for the child being newly born hath some vitious humours in the stomach which was collected in it's mothers womb and then receiving fresh nourishment from the Nurse which it was not accustomed to moreover the stomach being lax or loose moist and weak it soon happeneth that the milk is corrupted Therefore if these vitious humours be cast out by vomit it is far better then if they were retained in the stomach If vomiting proceed from abundance of milk there is lesse danger and most times after vomiting the childe is better If from the corruption of the milk it is worse because thereby may follow other dangerous symptomes If vomiting continue long it is dangerous because it may bring an Atrophy or leannesse of the whole body and so death at length If that which is vomited be white and flegmatick 't is better then if it be yellow green or blackish The cure If vomiting proceed from too great plenty of milk sucked then let not the childe suck so often nor so long If it come from corruption of the milk then the fault of the milk must be mended as is before declared and that which is corrupt must be cleansed by the use of syrupe of Roses solutive or hony of Roses solutive Now that the stomach of the childe which is weak and loose may be strengthened you may use syrupe of Mints syrupe of Q●inces c. Or A powder or lohoch Take of wood Aloes red Coral Mastick of each half a drach Galangal half a scruple make them into powder and give of it to the child in milk as much as will lye upon two pence or three pence at a time or make a lohoch or licking medicine thereof with syrup of Quinces and give it often to the childe Marmalade of Quinces also is very good for the child or a Quince rosted tender and given with Sugar and Cloves in powder Apply outwardly to the stomach the plaister of a crust of bread the Cerot called distomachale or a crust of bread wet in Muscadel Or Take oyl of Mastick oyl of Quinces oyl of Mints oyl of Wormwood of each half an ounce oyl of Nutmegs by expression half a drachme Cloves in powder a scruple mix them together and anoint the stomach therewith morning and evening warm Or Take of red Roses half a handful Mints a drachme Cyperus roots and Myrtle berries of each two drachmes Boyl them in red wine and bathe the childes stomach therewith warm Or Wet a spunge or wollen cloth therein and lay it warm to the stomach Or Take Mastick Frankincense red Roses of each two drachmes Cloves a scruple make them into powder and with the juice of Mints or the distilled water thereof make a Pultis and lay it to the stomach Or Take of oyl of Mastick or oyl of Wormwood two ounces wax one ounce and a half Cloves Mace and Cynamom in powder of each two drachmes make all into an oyntment adding thereto a little Vinegar Anoint the stomach with it

is subject to watchings else use not the last Outward means Outward means are these following make a Bath if it be Summer of the tops of Dill Cammomil flowers Mallowes Willow leaves Vine leaves and the heads of Poppy white or red and wash the feet therewith You may anoint the temples with oyl of Roses or oyl of Violets or water Lillies or with Populeon oyntment or you may use oyl of Nutmegs made by expression to the temples warm or you may make a Pulcis of white Poppy seed womans milk or Rose water or Nightshade water and the white of an egg with a little Saffron Anoint the nostrils with oyl of Violets mixed with the juice of Nightshade If it proceed from breeding of teeth then use those means set down in the Chapter of breeding teeth Let the Nurse use a good dyet and means that may cause sleep as Almond milk made with a decoction of Lettice and white Poppy seeds Or she may take a spoonful of sirup of white Poppy for three or four nights together in Posset drink CHAP. 11. Of Fear Starting and terrible dreams AMong the diseases that are incident to children Hippocrates mentions great fears and startings which is nothing else but troublesome sleep accompanied with terrible dreams The cause The causes hereof are impure and filthy vapors which mingle themselves with the animal spirits and trouble the same representing terrible fancies to the imagination now these vapors arise from the bad concoction of the stomach Therefore this disease is very subject to children who suck the milk very greedily or eat abundantly and so receiving more nourishment then the stomach can digest it is corrupt and so these vapors arise to the brain and trouble he animal spirits Neither is it absurd to say that these vapours do not onely ascend by the * Oesophagus is that part by which meat and drink are turned down into the stomach Oesophagus or gullet but that by the veins they ascend up to the head Elder children are subject to this disease as well as younger Galen saith these fears are caused when there is a natural imbecibillity or weaknesse of the childs stomach and the meat received is corrupted in it which cause vapours to arise up to the head and bring these startings Sometimes they come from worms and when they breed their teeth The signs The signs are manifest for they often start in their sleep screech and cry out suddenly and many times they shake and are all in a water and most times a hot and stinking vapour proceedeth out of the childs mouth The Prognosticks This disease must not be sleighted because many times it is the forerunner of the Falling sicknesse The cure For the cure hereof means must be used to take away the corrupt humours in the stomach Let the Nurse keep to a moderate dyet and use meats that hinder corruption and abstain from all vitious and corrupt food as Pease Beans Leeks Onions Colewort c. that so the milk may be good which the childe sucketh Let the childe suck but sparingly and moderately least by too often sucking the stomach be oppressed neither let the childe after sucking or feeding be laid to sleep but kept watching a while that so the nourishment may descend to the bottome of the stomach and the concoction be the better When it is laid to sleep let it not be much rocked for overmuch shaking of the child hindreth digestion and causeth the childe many times to vomit To remove the corrupt food in the stomach let the childe take oyl of sweet Almonds or sirup of Succory or Manna or a little hony of Roses solutive you may give a spoonful or two of either for these will cleanse the corrupt humours and provoke to stool Give the child half a scruple or more of Pyony seeds in a little milk morning and evening or give it a little Magister of Coral Or Take Magister of Coral a drachme species Pleres Archonticon a scruple Sugar dissolved in Rosewater one ounce make rouls or cakes and give of them to the childe or dissolve them in beer and so give them Let the stomach be anointed morning and evening with oyl of wormwood Mints Nardus Mastick or oyl of Nutmegs Or Take oyl of Wormwood and Mastick of each a drachme Cloves in powder ten grains wax half a drachme make a Liniment and anoint the stomach therewith If starting come of worms or from a feaver then use those means set down in the several Chapters Great care must be taken against all occasions of fear and frighting be taken away CHAP. 12. Of Rheume the Cough and shortnesse of breath THe Cough Rheume and shortnesse of breath doth oftentimes much molest and disquiet children The cause The cause of rheume in children is from their natural constitution or moist temper of brain from which many excrements are easily heaped together And this happens from abundance of milk oppressing the stomach from whence many vapours arise up to the brain and fill the same For if the brain be filled with excrementitious humours or molested with the cold air which the child was not used to in the mothers womb or with too much heat or being kept too hot either the head or body the matter gathered together in the brain doth plentifully fal down to the nostrils mouth or lungs Now if these excrementitious humours cannot be purged by the nostrils they slide down into the rough artery cause a cough If they fall down to the lungs they cause shortnesse of breath The Signs Whether the humor be hot or cold is easily known for if it be hot the humour is more thin and the child doth often sneese the face and cheeks are hot and the mouth of the child is hot which may be perceived by the nipples of the nurse as also in sucking If the humour be cold then the contrary is found Now whether the shortnesse of breath proceed of matter descending from the head or from a phlegmatick blood ascending from the veins to the lungs may be thus known if it come from the head there is a cough and rheume doth follow and sometimes as they breath they snort and make a noise because the air is stopped coming from the lungs But if it come from a flegmatick humour arising from the hypochonders then there is neither cough nor rheume and the hypochonders are puffed up and swollen The Prognosticks Rheumes and also the cough following and shortnesse of breath in infants and children are not to be neglected because strong Coughing doth not onely cause watchings and vomiting but Ruptures and Rheumes also bring suffocations and death many times These Rheumes and Coughs in children are not so easily cured because those medicines cannot be used which bring expectoration or spitting and to cause the matter to be easily spit out The cure Let the nurse keep a temperate dyet avoiding all sharp and salt meats as also all things that cause vapours to ascend up to