of the wombe be hard and solid it must of necessity be close shut Sect. 5. Aph. 55. If women with chiid fall into a feaver and are emaciated or made lean without some manisest cause they have difficult and dangerous travail or else are in danger of abortion Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A Strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight intestine of the wombe or suppurated reins but the Hicket an inflamation of the liver Sect. 5. Aph. 62. They which have cold and thick wombes or else if their matrix be overmoist do not conceive for the genitive matter is extinguished in them neither they which have over dry and hot wombes because the seed is corrupted for want of nutriment But they are most fruitful which are of a middle and moderate constitution and temperature CHAP. LI. Of the Menstruum or Womens Purgations Sect. 5. Aph. 32. VOmiting of blood is stayed by the breaking forth of the monthly purgations in women Sect. 5. Aph. 33. An Haemorrhagia or bleeding at the nose is beneficial to women in the deficiency of their monthly courses Sect. 5. Aph. 36. Ill coloured purgations of women and not proceeding alwayes at their appointed seasons signifie a necessity of purging Sect. 5. Aph. 39. It is an absolute sign of the deficiency or failing of her monthly purgations if a woman who neither is with child nor never brought forth child hath milk in her breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 50. If you would stop the menstruous flux in women you must apply great Cupping-glasses to their breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 56. A Convulsion happening to women in the time of her menstruous purgations is naught Sect. 5. Aph. 57. Both the overflowing of the monthly Terms and the suppression thereof do cause Diseases Sect. 5. Aph. 60. If a Woman with child have her courses it is impossible that her child should be healthful Sect. 5. Aph. 60. If a woman have not her monthly purgations and neither horror nor feaver succeed but a nausea or abhorring of meat happeneth unto her believe her to have conceived with Child Sect. 6. Aph. 29. A woman is not troubled with the gout until her monthly purgations have left her CHAP. LII Of Conception Sect. 5. Aph. 41. IF you would know whether a woman have conceived with child or not give her water and hony mingled together when she goeth to sleep and if she have wringings and gripings of the belly she hath conceived otherwise she hath not Sect. 5. Aph. 42. If a woman be with child with a male she is better coloured than if she were with child with a female Sect. 5. Aph. 43. An Erisipilas in the wombe of a pregnant woman is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 46. They which do not conceive by reason of a preternatural grosseness have the Orifice of their wombe pressed by the Kell neither will they be pregnant or conceive until they are extenuated or grown thinner Sect. 5. Aph. 59. If a woman do not conceive and you desire to know whether she be fruitful or wil conceive apply suffumigations to her beneath she being very well wrapt close with Clothes and if the sent or smell be perceived to passe to her nostrils and mouth you may conclude her not to be unfruitful of her self Sect. 5. Aph. 61. See this Aphorisme the last but one in the sore-going Chapter of Womens monthly purgations CHAP. LIII Of Abortion or Miscarriage Sect. 5. Aph. 30. BReathing of a vein doth cause Abortion but more especially if the birth be somewhat big Sect. 5. Aph. 37. If the breasts of a pregnant woman grow thin and slender on a suddain there is danger of abortion Sect. 5. Aph. 38. If either of the breasts of a pregnant woman with child with Twins grow thin and slender she miscarries with one of her burthens if her right breast grow thin she aborts a male if the left a female child Sect. 5. Aph. 44. Women which are made lean by some preternatural cause do abort until they grow more full bodied Sect. 5. Aph. 45. They which abort the second or third month without some especial occasion have the vessels of their wombe filled with filthy matter so that by reason of that burthen they do break and cannot contain the issue Sect. 5. Aph. 55. If pregnant women fall into a feaver and are very much wasted without some sensible cause either have difficult and dangerous labour or else fall into a hazard of abortion Sect. 7. Aph. 7. A Tenasmus or a frequent and vain desire of going to stool without any performance coming upon a pregnant women doth make her abort CHAP. LIII Of the Issue and the Birth Sect. 5. Aph. 35. SNeezing happening to one troubled with the suffocation of the Matrix or else to one in hard travail is commodious Sect. 5. Aph. 48. Male Children are born in the right and females in the left side of the wombe Sect. 5. Aph. 52. Store of milk flowing forth of the breasts of a woman with child signifies a weak child but solid and firm breasts argue a stronger and more healthful child Sect. 5. Aph. 53. When the child is like to dye in the wombe the breasts of the mother grow slender but if they become hard she will have grief either in her breasts her hips in her eyes or knees and she will not corrupt her issue Sect. 5. Aph. 55. Feavers and extreme wastings happening to women with child argue either a difficult and dangerous travail to them or a hazard of abortion Sect. 5. Aph. 6. It is impossible that that child should be healthful which is bread by one who hath her monthly courses in the time of her Child-bearing CHAP. LIV. Of the affects of the Joints Sect. 2. Aph. 46. WHen two pains are felt at one and the same time in different places of the body the one doth very much obscure the other Sect. 1. Aph. 16. Great droughts cause consumptions sore eyes pains of the joynts difficulty of Urine and excoriations of the bowels Sect. 3. Aph. 20. In the spring season madness melancholly the falling evil fluxes of blood squinances rheums hoarseness coughs leprosies tetters dry itches ulcerous pimples small swellings and pains of the joynts do afflict mens bodies Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Difficulty of breathing catarrhes stranguries difficulty of making water pains of the joynts and reins vertigoes and apoplexies are incident to old men Sect. 4. Aph. 20. Extreme gripings and twistings of the bowels heaviness of the knees and a pain of the loins without a feaver tell us that purging downward is necessary Sect. 4. Aph. 31. When a sense of wearyishness occasioned by Feavers is present then tumours do arise about the joynts but especially about the mandibles Sect. 4. Aph. 32. But if any part be full of pain after the recovering from a Disease the abscesses are made to that part Sect. 4. Aph. 44. Small tumours and pains of the joynts do appear to such who have had long feavers Sect. 4. Aph. 45. They who have
nerve or any small particle of the jaw bone or the foreskin of the yard be divided or cut a sunder it is neither nourished neither doth it grow together again CHAP. XLVIII Of the affects of the Bladder Sect. 3. Aph. 5. IF the season of the year be cold with North-winds it causeth coughs exasperates the jawes hardeneth the belly suppresseth urine causeth horrors and pains of the sides and breast when it so prevaileth such accidents are to beexpected in Diseases Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Great Droughts cause consumptions sore eyes pains of the joynts and stranguries with Diseases of the bowels Sect. 3. Aph. 22. In the Autumn many Summer Diseases do happen and quartan and erratick feavers Diseases of the spleen dropsies consumptions the strangury lienteries and dyfenteries Sect. 3. Aph. 31. These Diseases are contingent to old men Asthmaes catarrhes the strangury stopping of urine and pains of the joynts and reins Sect. 4. Aph. 69. Urines in Feavers if they change from thick and such as have curdled stuffe in them and few too many and thin do ease the patient especially if such are made wherein there appears a sediment at the beginning or not long after Sect. 4. Aph. 70. Troublesome Urines like those of kine in Feavers argue either the head-ache to be present or to ensue Sect. 4. Aph. 71. When a Crisis doth happen the seventh day the urine hath a red cloud the fourth day and other things answerable thereunto Sect. 4. Aph. 74. When an abscess is expected to the joynts plenty of urine thick and white frees from the abscess c. Sect. 5. Aph. 72. Cleer and white urines are all bad but that appears chiefly in Phrenetick persons Sect. 4. Aph. 73. See this Aphorism in the Chapter of the affects of the Hypocondries Sect. 4. Aph. 75. If blood or corrupt matter be sent forth with the urine an exulceration of the reins is thereby signified Sect. 4. Aph. 76. When small peices of flesh or things like hairs are carried forth with the urine they are brought from the reins Sect. 4. Aph. 77. When things like bran are voided with the urine the bladder hath a scab Sect. 4. Aph. 79. Blood issuing forth wilfully with the urine shews a vein to be broke in the bladder Sect. 4. Aph. 79. Sandy sediments seething in the urine argues the stone in the bladder Sect. 4. Aph. 80. He that pisseth blood and matter like curdled milk with his urine and if he hath a strangury and the pain fall to the Perinaeum and the lower belly hath a Disease in those parts which belong to the bladder Sect. 4. Aph. 81. He that pisseth blood and corrupt matter and small scales with an ill odor in the urine hath an ulcer in the bladder Sect. 4. Aph. 82. If a tumour grow in the conduit of the urine if that suppurate and break a solution happens Sect. 4. Aph. 83. Very much urine made in the night argues but few excrements by stool Sects 5. Aph. 22. See this Aphorism in the Chapter of the affects of the Privities Sect. 5. Aph. 58. The strangury succeeds the inflamation of the the streight intestine and the wombe and suppurated reins but the Hicket the inflamation of the liver Sect. 6. Aph. 6. The affects of the reins and the bladder are not easily cured in old men Sect. 6. Aph. 18. If the bladder brain midriffe or any thin bowel stomach or liver be cut into or divided it is deadly Sect. 6. Aph. 44. The Iliack passion succeeding a Strangury kils within seven dayes unlesse plenty of urine be made with a succeeding Feaver Sect. 7. Aph. 32. Urines with bilious sediments but thin at the top do signifie an acute Disease Sect. 7. Aph. 34. Urines with bubbles at the top argue a Disease of the reins and a long one too Sect. 7. Aph. 35. But when a fatnesse is gathered together upon the top of the urine it signifies an acute Disease of the reins Sect. 7. Aph. 39. This Aphorism is the same with Sect. 4. Aph. 18. in this Chapter Sect. 7. Aph. 48. Drinking of wine and breathing a vein doth take away the strangury or difficulty of making water but the inward veins must be opened CHAP. XLIX Of the Testicles Sect. 8. Aph. 11. IF the right Testicle be cold and convulsive it is mortal CHAP. L. Of the affects of the Wombe Sect. 3. Aph. 12. IF the wind be Southward in the winter and the season very wet and the spring extraordinary dry with North winds women with Child which expect to be delivered in the spring do abort upon any occasion and they which are delivered produce but weak and sickly Infants so that either they dye presently or if they live are small and sickly c. Sect. 3. Aph. 14. A dry and cold Autumn with North winds is commodious for those who are of a moist constitution and for women c. Sect. 3. Aph. 28. The Diseases of Children are usually dissolved by their Crisis some within forty dayes some within seven months and others within seven years or about the time of fourteen years But those Diseases which continue to children and do not leave them at the age of fourteen to Males and to Females all the time of the eruption of their monthly purgations usually are of a long continuance Sect. 4. Aph. 1. Women with Child may be purged if the humour incline of it self to evacuation in the fourth month unto the seventh but in these less But when the issue is newly conceived or very big we must be very wary and circumspect Sect. 5. Aph. 28. Suffumigations of sweet Odors doth bring down the courses in women and were also profitable for other things if they did not cause a heavinesse in the head Sect. 5. Aph. 30. Phlebotomy or opening a vein doth cause women with Child to abort and then most certainly if the issue be very big Sect. 5. Aph. 31. If a woman with Child be taken with an acute Disease it is mortal Sect. 5. Aph. 34. A Diarrhaea or flux of the belly doth endanger abortion to great bellied women Sect. 5. Aph. 45. If women of a rare texture or thin habit of body do miscarry or abort in the second or third moneth without a manifest occasion the vessels of the wombe called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are full of corrupt matter so that by reason of their fulnesse and burthen they cannot sustain the Infant but are burst in sunder Sect. 5. Aph. 47. If the wombe be suppurated in that part which extends it self to and resteth upon the hip-bone the cure must be wrought by Linements dipped in convenient Medicines Sect. 5. Aph. 49. Medicines causing sneezing do expel the after-birth but after the taking of them the Nostrils and the mouth of the Patient must be close stopped Sect. 5. Aph. 51. When women have conceived and are with Child the Orifice of their wombe is contracted and shut close Sect. 5. Aph. 54. If the Orifice
a gnawing of the mouth of the Stomach a dizzinesse with a dimnesse of sight and a bitternesse in the mouth we must then conclude that to such bodies Purging upward by vomit is necessary Sect. 4. Aph. 18. Griefs happening above the midriffe which need Purging instruct us that in such distempers Medicines which Purge upwards are necessary Sect. 4. Aph. 19. They which do not thirst having taken a Purging Medicine while the Physick doth work will not cease Purging untill they do thirst Sect. 4. Aph. 20. If a tormenting pain of the Bowels a heavinesse of the knees and grief about the Loins be present without a Feaver these Signes do shew unto us that there is a necessity of Purging the body downward CHAP. VI. Of the time of Purging Sect. 1. Aph. 24. IN acute Diseases we must very seldome or at the beginning use Purging Medicines and if it be convenient to use them we must be wary and circumspect in using of them Sect. 2. Aph. 29. If moving of the body be convenient do it at the beginning but in the state of the Disease it is better to let it rest Sect. 4. Aph. 4. In the Summer time clense the upper Belly with Medicines but in the winter rather Purge the lower Sect. 4. Aph. 5. Medicines are troublesome to the patient either in the dog dayes or a little before them Sect. 4. Aph. 10. In extreme acute Diseases if the humor of its own propensity intend to excretion we may and ought to purge the same day For in such cases delayes are dangerons CHAP. VII Of Purging of Women with Child Sect. 4. Aph. 1. WOmen with Child may be purged if the violence of the humour tend to expulsion in the fourth month unto the seventh but in the latter lesse But in riper and younger issues we must be very fearful and cautious Sect. 5. Aph. 29. This Aphorisme is the same with the former therefore to avoid a tedious repetition I have forbore the inserting of it Sect. 5. Aph. 34. If a Diarrhaea or strong flux of the belly seize a woman with Child she is in danger of abortion CHAP. VIII Of judgement by Purging Sect. 4. Aph. 19. IF they who having taken a purging potion do not thirst while they are purged they will not make an end of Purging untill they do thirst A Convulsion occasioned by a purging potion is mortal CHAP. IX Of Phlebotomy or Letting Blood Sect. 5. Aph. 30. PHlebotomy or opening of a Vein doth cause Women with Child to abort and then chiefly if the Child be of any maturity or bigness Sect. 5. Aph. 68. The opening of the straight Vein in the Forehead profiteth him which is troubled with a pain in the hinder part of his head Sect. 6. Aph. 47. If bleeding or purging be requisite and needful the Spring is the most convenient time to use either means Sect. 7. Aph. 46. The means to Cure the pains of the Eyes after the exhibiting of a potion of Wine and the using of a bath of warm water is by Phlebotomy Sect. 7. Aph. 48. The dropping of Urine which is called the Strangury and the difficulty of making of water is Cured by a potion of wine and the opening of a vein But the inward veins are to be breathed CHAP. X. Of the application of Cupping-glasses Sect. 5. Aph. 50. THe most compendious and ready way to stop the flowing of the tearms in Women is by applying Cupping-glasses to their breasts Distinction the fourth containing such Aphorismes as unfold and and declare the preternatural affects incident to the body of man and distributed to it according to the Ages winds and seasons of the year HItherto we have taken a view of such Aphorismes which have treated of the General Cure of Diseases in this Distinction we shall expose to the Reader those Aphorismes which speak of or mention all the preternatural affects as they have respect unto particular parts the times of the year and ages c. And begin first with the Diseases of the Ages and seasons of the year CHAP. I. Of the Diseases of several Ages Sect. 2. Aph. 39. OLd men generally are lesse Sick then young men but if they are taken with any continual Disease they usually accompany them to their graves Sect. 2. Aph. 54. A long and tall stature of body in young men is decent and not unseemly but in old men it is unprofitable and worse than a lower stature Sect. 3. Aph. 18. Concerning the seasons of the year Children and such as are next to them in years live best and are most healthful in the Spring and the fore part of the Summer but in the Summer and so to the Autumn old men But for the remainder of the Autumn and part of winter such as are of a middle age between the two former live best and are most healthful Sect. 5. Aph 9. Consumptions usually happen to man from the Age of Eighteen years unto the Age of Five and Thirty CHAP. II. Of the Diseases of Children Sect. 3. Aph. 24. DIseases of this nature happen to Children and new born Babes creeping Ulcers of the mouth called Aphthae Vomitings Coughs Watchings Tremblings Inflamations about the Navil and moistnesse of the Ears Sect. 3. Aph. 25. When they come to breeding of Teeth Itchings and prickings of the Gums Feavers Convulsions scourings and then especially when they begin their sharp Teeth called Dogs Teeth and these Evils happen to those Children especially who are of a Corpulent body and are usually costive Sect. 3. Aph. 26. But when they are somewhat elder Inflamations of the Tousills called the Almonds of the Ears beatings upon the inward part of the Vertebra which is in the hinder part of the head difficulty of breathing the Stone Round-wormes and others thin and small called Ascarides in the streight bowell Warts continual standing of the Yard swellings about the neck called Kernels with other small pustles or pimples but especially such before mentioned CHAP. III. Of the Diseases of Young men Sect. 3. Aph. 27. MAny of the afore-named Diseases are also incident to those who have attained to riper years and the age of Fourteen years but now more especially continual Feavers Fluxes of blood out of the Nostrils are common to this Age. Sect. 3. Aph. 29. Diseases usuall to young men are spittings of Blood Consumptions acute Feavers the falling Sicknesse and other Diseases but these especially CHAP. IV. Of the Diseases of Men. Sect. 3. Aph. 30. BUt to those who have past their youth frequent Asthmaes Plurisies inflamations of the Lungs Lethargies Phrensies burning Feavers continual Fluxes of the Belly Choler Dysenteries and Lienteries and the Flux of the Hemorrhoide veins are usual CHAP. V. Of the Diseases incident to Old Age. Sect. 3. Aph. 31. BUt to Old men difficulty of breathing Catarrhes causing Coughs the Strangury and difficulty of making water pains in the joynts and Reins Vertigoes Apoplexies and ill habit of the body it chings over all the body watchings
moistnesse of the Belly Eyes and Ears redness of the Eyes and difficulty of hearing We should here set down such Aphorismes which touch the Diseases of Women but we shall refer the Reader to the Chapter which speaks of the affects of the Wombe hereafter CHAP. VI. Of the Diseases of the times of the year Sect. 3. Aph. 1. THe changes of the seasons of the years breed Diseases chiefly And in them there are great mutations of heat and cold and other things are contingent according to their alteration and change Sect. 3. Aph. 4. Throughout the seasons of the year when in the same day there is sometimes heat sometimes cold we must expect Autumnal Diseases Sect. 3. Aph. 8. When the air is in a good order and setled and the seasons are well constituted such Diseases are caused which easily come to their state and are easily dissolved But in a bad constitution of the air and seasons such Diseases which hardly come to their state and are not easily dissolved Sect. 3. Aph. 19. Diseases of all kinds do afflict mans body at any time of the year but some special Diseases are both caused and expressed at particular times and seasons of the year CHAP. VII Of Diseases happening in the Spring Sect. 3. Aph. 9. IN the Autumn most acute and deadly Diseases do arise but the Spring season is most wholesome and lesse destructive Sect. 3. Aph. 18. Children and boyes live best and are most healthfull in the Spring and the first part of Summer but in the Summer until the Autumn Old men and in the remainder of the Autumn and Winter such as be of a middle age Sect. 3. Aph. 30. In the Spring season madnesse melancholly the falling evil fluxes of blood squinancies rhumes hoarseness coughs leprosies dry Itches the Disease called Elephantiasis many ulcerated pustles small swellings and pains about the joynts do appear CHAP. VIII Of the Diseases happening in the Summer Sect. 3. Aph. 6. IF the Summer season be constituted as the Spring was then we must expect Feavers accompanied with much Sweats Sect. 3. Aph. 13. But if the Summer be extraordinary dry and the North winds blow cold and if the Autumn be extreme wet with South winds expect that about the winter men should complain of Head-aches coughs hoarseness heaviness of the head occasioned by Rhumes and some of Consumptions Sect. 3. Aph. 21. Some vernall Diseases may appear in the Summer and Quotidian Feavers burning Feavers and very many Tertian and Quartans Vomitings Diarrhaeaes Sore Eyes Pains of the Ears exulcerations of the mouth putrid ulcers of the Privities and red angry pimples caused by bilious Sweats CHAP. IX Of the Diseases happening in the Autumn Sect. 3. Aph. 9. THe Autumn doth produce most acute Diseases and mortal but the Spring is most wholesome and lesse pernitious Sect. 3. Aph. 10. The Autumn season is naught for Consumptive persons Sect. 3. Aph. 14. If in the Autumne the wind be North and the air very cold and without rain the season is convenient for moist constitutions and women but to other constitutions it occasions bleer eyes acute Feavers Quotidians and to some Melancholly Sect. 3. Aph. 22. Many Aestival Diseases do arise in the Autumn and Quartane Feavers and Erratick Feavers tumours of the Spleen Dropsies Consumptions Stranguries Lyenteries and Dysenteries Sciaticaes Squinancies frequent Asthmaes Iliack passions the Falling evil Madnesses and Melancholly CHAP. X. Of the Diseases happening in the Winter Sect. 3. Aph. 11. If the Winter be extreme dry and cold and the wind North but the Spring very wet with South winds of necessity we must expect acute Feavers sorenesse of the eyes excoriations of the bowells the next Summer but especially to the Female Sex and to men of a moist constitution But if the winter be very rainy and mild and calm with South winds but the Spring extraordinary dry with North winds women with Child which expect deliverance in the Spring will abort upon every slight occasion And if they are delivered they will produce weak and sickly Children such as will suddenly dye or if they live will be alwayes sickly and small But to other people excoriations of the bowels and bleer eyes will arise but to elderly persons Fluxes killing in a small space Sect. 3. Aph. 13. A very dry and cold summer with North winds and a moist Autumn with South winds succeeding doth produce head Aches in the winter coughs hoarsenesse heavinesse in the head and to some Consumptions Sect. 4. Aph. 23. In the winter Plurisies inflamations of the Lungs Lethargies Rhumes in the head hoarsenesse Coughs pains in the Breast Sides and Loins Head-aches Megrimes and to some Ptisicks are occasioned CHAP. XI Of Diseases caused by the Winds Sect. 3. Aph. 5. SOuth winds produce dulnesse of hearing and sight with a heavinesse of the head they make the body dull and faint when such winds are prevalent we must expect such accidents in Diseases But North winds cause coughs exasperates the jaws hardens the belly suppresseth the Urine stirs up cold horrors and pains of the sides and breast When such winds are prevalent sick bodies suffer such things Sect. 3. Aph. 7. Foggs and fowlnesse of air produce acute Feavers and if the year shall be so disposed for the most part we must expect Diseases answerable to the condition and season so constituted Sect. 3. Aph. 8. A good and seasonable constitution of the air produceth such Diseases which are easily consistent and easily cured But ill constituted seasons such as are not easily consistent nor easily cured Sect. 3. Aph. 14. North and dry winde in the Autumn are commodious for moist constitutions and women but to others they beget sorenesse of the eyes acute Feavers Quotidians and to some also Consumptions Sect. 3. Aph. 15. Amongst all the seasons of the year great droughts are more wholsome and lesse destructive then continual rains and frequent showring weather Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases for the most part are caused by continual Showres as long Feavers Diarrhaeaes putrid Feavers the falling evil apoplexies and squinancies But by great droughts are occasioned Consumptions Bleer eyes Sciaticks droping of Urine and Dysenteries Sect. 3. Aph. 17. Continual North winds do condense the pores of the body renders men stronger nimbler better coloured and better liking dryes the belly causeth prickings of the eyes and if the breast be possest by any preceeding grief they stir it and provoke it But South winds dissolve the body and moisten it they cause dulnesse of hearing heavinesse of the head and vertigoes they produce difficult motion to the eyes and body and moisten the belly Distinction the fifth containing the Aphorismes pertaining to Feavers THat a Physician may satisfie and perform all his intentions required find out all requisite Medicines and apply them seasonably it is not sufficient onely to preserve the strength of the Patient and remove morbifick causes but it is also necessary that he know the nature of the Disease and the part
follow Sect. 6. Aph. 27. They certainly dye who are either burnt or cut for an impostumation of the breast or for a Dropsie if matter or water slow forth upon heaps Sect. 6. Aph. 41. When an impostumation is in the body and it gives no signification of it self the want of that discovery is either caused by the thicknesse of the matter or place wherein it is contained Sect. 7. Aph. 15. Spitting of suppurated matter from spitting of blood is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 38. Distillations upon the upper ventricle are turned into suppuration within the twentieth day Sect. 7. Aph. 44. When suppurated persons are cauterized or lanced if pure and white matter issue forth they escape but if it be somewhat bloody filthy and ill favoured they perish CHAP. XXV Of the Ptysick or Consumption Sect. 4. Aph. 48. A Dry and cold Summer with North winds and a wet Autumn with South winds cause head-aches in the winter coughs hoarsnesse and rheums and to some consumptions Sect. 3. Aph. 22. Many Diseases which are usually in the Summer appear in the Autumn as quartane and erratick Feavers diseases of the spleen dropfies consumptions lienteries and dysenteries c. Sect. 3. Aph. 29. Young men are afflicted with spittings of blood consumptions acute feavers the falling evil and many other Diseases but especially those mentioned Sect. 4. Aph. 8. In purging consumptive persons we must be very wary and fearfull in exhibiting vomitive medicines Sect. 5. Aph. 9. Consumptions happen especially from the eighteenth year of our age until the five and thirtieth year Sect. 5. Aph. 11. It is a mortal sign when the spittle of such as are in a consumption being cast upon the coals sends forth a grievous smell if the hair of the head fall off likewise Sect. 5. Aph. 12. It is an argument of death when the hair of the head of consumptive persons falls off if a loosenesse of the belly succeed Sect. 5. Aph 13. Frothy blood cast forth by spittle is voided from the Lungs Sect. 4. Aph. 14. A Flux of the belly is mortal to consumptive persons Sect. 6. Aph. 12. In the curing of the Hemorrhoids or piles unlesse one vein be left open there is danger that a dropsie or consumption will succeed Sect. 7. Aph. 16. A consumption and flux are caused by spitting out suppurated matter But when the spitting ceaseth the sick dye Sect. 8. Aph. 7. You have this Aphorisme before in the same Chapter Aph. 5. whether I refer you Sect. 8. Aph. 8. All things which incline or tend to consumptions are vehement but some are mortal but it would be advantageous if the Disease should seise the body at such a time when the season did afford some help for the Disease as the Summer for a burning Feaver the Winter for the Dropsie for that which is according to nature doth obtain the victory but in the Diseases of the Spleen it is rather cause of fear CHAP. XXVI Of the Plurisie Sect. 3. Aph. 23. BUt in the Winter season plurisies inflamations of the lungs and apoplexies Sect. 5. Aph. 8. If Pluretick persons are not clensed within fourteen dayes the matter turns to impostumation Sect. 5. Aph. 15. Pluretick persons being suppurated if they are clensed within forty dayes after the impostume is broke are freed otherwise they grow into a consumption Sect. 6. Aph. 5. We must learn whether the pains in the sides in the breast and in other parts do differ much Sect. 6. Aph. 6. A Flux of the belly succeeding a plurisie or the inflamation of the lungs is a bad signe Sect. 6. Aph. 33. They which have sour belchings are not much troubled with plurisies Sect. 7. Aph. 11. An inflamation of the lungs coming upon a plurisie is bad CHAP. XXVII Of spitting of Blood Sect. 3. Aph. 20. YOung men are troubled with spittings of blood consumptions acute feavers the falling sicknesse and many other Diseases but especially these Sect. 4. Aph. 25. Any blood whatsoever voided upward is bad but if black blood be voided downward it is good Sect. 5. Aph. 13. Frothy blood cast forth by spittle is brought from the lungs Sect. 6. Aph. 10. Matter water or blood voided by the nostrils the mouth or the ears take away the headache and the vehement pains thereof Sect. 7. Aph. 37. Vomiting of blood happening without a feaver is good but bad with a feaver and the distemper must be cured with such Medicines which have a cooling and restringent quality in them CHAP. XXVIII Of the affects of the Heart Sect. 2. Aph. 36. MEn of unblameable and perfect health do quickly faint when they are purged and such also who use ill dyet Sect. 2. Aph. 41. Such as are often and violently taken with a Sincope or Swounding without some manifest cause dye suddenly Sect. 4. Aph. 17. Abhorring of meat gnawing of the mouth of the stomach a vertigoe withdrowsiness and a bitterness in the mouth without a feaver do instruct us that purging by vomit is necessary Sect. 5. Aph. 56. A Convulsion or Sincope happening to women in the time of their purgations is naught Sect. 7. Aph. 8. Faintings vomitings and swoundings are caused by the rupture of a tumour inwardly CHAP. XXIX Of the affects of the Breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 37. IF the Breasts of a woman with Child grow slender on a suddain she is in danger of aborting or miscarrying Sect. 5. Aph. 38. If one of the Breasts of a woman with Child with Twins grow slender she will abort with one of her Children and if the right Breast grow slender she will miscarry a Male if the left a Female Sect. 5. Aph. 39. If a woman which neither is with Child nor never had Child have milk in her Breasts her monthly purgations have failed Sect. 5. Aph. 40. When blood is gathered together into a tumour of swelling about the Breasts raging or madnesse is thereby signified to those women Sect. 5. Aph. 50. If you would stop the flowing of womens courses apply very large Cupping-glasses to their breasts Sect. 5. Aph. 52. Plenty of milk runing forth of the Breasts of women with Child argue a weak Child but if the breasts are solid they argue a more strong Child Sect. 5. Aph. 53. They which are like to miscarry will have slender breasts but if their breasts grow hard they will have a pain in the breasts or in the hips in their eyes or in their knees and will not miscarry CHAP. XXX Of the affects of the Stomach Sect. 1. Aph. 15. IN the winter and spring our stomachs are most hot and our sleeps most long therefore in those seasons our meals ought to be more plentiful because when there is most natural heat our bodies need more plentiful nutriment which Ages and Wrestlers signifie unto us Sect. 2. Aph. 21. A draught of Wine takes away hunger Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat of the Stomach and a gnawing of the mouth of the stomach in Feavers is naught Sect. 6. Aph.
or levity of the bowels it is a good signe Sect. 6. Aph. 15. A voluntary vomiting happening to him which hath had a long flux doth take away the flux CHAP. XLII Of the Iliack Passion Sect. 3. Aph. 22. MAny Aestival Diseases happen in the Autumn and Quartan and Erratick Feavers Diseases of the Spleen Dropsies Consumptions dropping of the Urine Lienteries Dysenteries pains of the Hips Squinances frequent Asthmaes Iliack passions the Falling Evil Madnesse and Melancholly Diseases Sect. 6. Aph. 44. If the Iliack passion succeed a Strangury the Sick dyes within seven dayes unlesse plenty of urine be voided and a feaver succeed Sect. 6. Aph. 10. Vomiting Hicket a Convulsion or Dotage occasioned by the Disease of the thin bowel called Ileum is bad CHAP. XLIII Of the pain of the Belly Sect. 4. Aph. 11. VVHen the Bowels are wrung or wrested pains are felt about the navil and grief of the loins is present if the distemper be cured neither by a purging Medicine nor any other means it is confirmed into a dry dropsie Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat about the belly and a gnawing of the mouth of the Stomach is a bad signe in Feavers Sect. 6. Aph. 5. We must observe and learn whether the pains of the breast sides and of other places are much different or not Sect. 6. Aph. 7. Pains which are caused about the belly if they are high and sublime are more light and easie but if they are not sublime they are more vehement Sect. 6. Aph. 40. A succeeding Feaver dissolves such pains which arise about the Diaphragme without an inflamation Sect. 7. Aph. 22. Suppuration or impostumation is caused by a continual grief of those parts which appertain to the belly A coldness or chilness of the extreme parts caused by a vehement grief of the parts which belong to the belly is bad Sect. 7. Aph. 29. He that pisseth blood and stuffe like curdled milk and hath the Strangury if the grief extend it self to the Rorinaeum lower belly and parts about the privities hath a defection in those parts which appertain to the bladder CHAP. XLIV Of Tenesmus or often desire to go to stoole Sect. 7. Aph. 27. IF a Tenosmus or an often and vain desire of going to stool without voiding any thing happen unto women with Child it will cause abortion or miscarriage CHAP. XLV Of the affect of the Fundament and Hamorrhoides Sect. 3. Aph. 30. THey which are beyond their youth frequent Asthmaes plurisies inflamations of the lungs lethargies phrensies burning and continual feavers Diarrhaeaes cholers excoriations of the bowels lienteries and profusion of blood by the veins in the fundament called the Haemorrhoides Sect. 4. Aph. 25. Evacuations of blood upward be the blood of what condition soever is bad but if black blood be cast down beneath it is good Sect. 6. Aph. 11. The Haemorrhoides or a flux of blood by the mouth of the veins in the fundament whereby nature doth usually ease it self are convenient and beneficial in melancholly affects and Diseases of the Reins Sect. 6. Aph. 12. In the cure of the Haemorrhoides or continual flux of blood by the veins in the Fundament unlesse one vein be preserved and kept there is danger that a dropsie or consumption may succeed Sect. 6. Aph. 21. If the veins do swell with melancholly blood or if the Haemorrhoidical veins flow and empty the body of blood madnesse is thereby dissolved CHAP. XLVI Of the affects of the Reins Sect. 3. Aph. 3. DIseases accompaning old age are difficulty of breathing Catarrhes causing coughs stranguries difficulty of pissing pains of the joynts and the reins c. Sect. 4. Aph. 75. An exulceration of the reins or bladder is signified by blood or suppurated matter sent forth with the Urine Sect. 4. Aph. 76. Small peices of flesh or something like hairs carried out with the Urine are sent from the reins Sect. 4. Aph. 78. Blood issuing forth freely with the Urine doth signifie the rupture of a vein in the reins Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A Strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight intestine an inflamation of the wombe and a suppuration of the reins Sect. 6. Aph. 6. The vices of the reins and bladder in old men are hardly cured Sect. 6. Aph. 11. The Hemorrhoides or blood sent forth by the veins in the fundament is beneficial in melancholy affects and Diseases of the reins Sect. 7. Aph. 34. Bubbles standing on the top of the Urine do signifie a Disease of the reins and the length thereof Sect. 7. Aph. 35. When the upper part or superficies of the Urine is fat and greasie thick and gathered together then is signified a Disease of the reins and that a sharp one too Sect. 7. Aph. 36. But when the aforesaid signes do happen in those whose reins are Diseased and pains are felt about the Muscles of the back bone if they are carried to the external parts expect that the abscess will be external but if they tend more to the inward parts it is to be feared that the abscess will be inward CHAP. XLVII Of the Affects of the Privities Sect. 3. Aph. 21. IN the Summer time some of these Diseases and continual and burning feavers very many tertians and quartans vomitings fluxes of the belly sore eyes pains of the ears exulcerations of the mouth corruptions of the privities and small pustles caused by cholerick Sweats Sect. 4. Aph. 42. A small Ulcer growing in the Yard if there happen a suppuration and break a solution succeeds Sect. 5. Aph. 22. Heat causing suppuration doth not exhibit unto us the certainest signes of security in every ulcer it softens the skin extenuates it takes away pain aswage rigors convulsions and cramps dissolves heavinesse of the head is very much available for broken bones and for such especially which are bare of flesh and for those cheifly who have ulcers in their head for such also who are stupified with cold or are ulcerated for creeping and eating sores in the fundament yard wombe and bladder to all these things heat is acceptable and doth cause a crisis but cold is an enemy and destructive Sect. 5. Aph. 62. Women which have cold and condens'd wombes do not conceive nor they whose wombes are overmolst for in such the seed is extinguished neither such who have extraordinary dry wombes and very hot for in those the seed is corrupted for want of nutriment But such who have naturally a moderate temperature between those two extremes do prove fruitful Sect. 5. Aph. 63. There is the same reason also in men for either by reason of the rarity of the body the spirit is diffused abroad so that it cannot send forth the seed or by reason of its constipation or thickness the humour cannot be sent forth or by reason of its coldness the seed is not heated so that it may be gathered to its proper place or the same may happen by heat Sect. 6. Aph. 19. If a bone a grissel a