of both motions both the Midrif and Lungs t is no wonder that that also if the Brain be very much hurt so that all Voluntary motion do cease as it comes to pass in the Apoplectical the Midrif or Muscles of the Breast then contributing nothing to Motion but the Lungs only after a sort moving themselves stil and whils they are dilated and filled with Air which they do by their prover Natural motion a little lifting up the Breast do a little while Persevere but very much hinderd and difficult so that unless that hurt of the Brain do speedily cease the Patient must needs be choaked breathing being wholly taken away but when voluntary motion is not wholly taken away with the senses that then respiration doth remain still more free But if the Brain be affected with a less affect compared to the former by which the senses are only opprest as in a sleepiness or gentle Stupidity then motion though it do rest a little by reason of Sleep and Consternation yet nevertheless it doth persevere or if this come to pass only by reason of the spirits of the Brain only extravagant as shall be said in a Convulsion and Catalepsis that motion doth also continue and they sooner return to themselves as shall be explained how this comes to pass in the Particular causes from which these proceed But the causes of all Consternation of Minde that happen are either some offect so hurting the Brain which gives Sense and Motion by it self or by consent that these its Functions do more or less fail as are Distemper Repletion from a flegmatick or sanguine Humor some eminent hurt a Tumor a distemper of the Brain proceeding from a Vapor or Malignant quality or a defect of the Animal spirits of the Brain of all which causes and their effects we will now treat in Particular A cold Distemper only without matter altering the Brain A cold Distemper the Cause of Stupidity a Moist of immoderate Sleep because it is wont to hurt the Functions may make it Stupid And if it be Moist too which is seldom without matter it may also cause Immoderate Sleep as somtimes by Reason of Age or the continuance of a Disease a distemper left in the Brain doth make men perpetually Prone to Sleep or as it was said in the Weakness of the Minde more dul which we have taught doth happen rather by reason of Weakness then Coldness Or induced by other causes especially from the cold external Air the North Wind blowing outwardly cooling the Head or by the Pores percing to the Brain it may cause a great Stupidity They write also that a watchful Stupidity or Catalepsis may arise from a Cold and dry distemper congealing the Spirits but whenas the Spirits cannot be congealed or if they could be then a greater Stupidity would follow we cannot at all allow of this That Convulsions are somtimes caused from Dryness which they call Inanition is a common opinion which doth not happen in this Convulsion but in a Particular one as we shall there explaine Flegm is very often the cause of Sleep and Supidity under which Name we comprehend all the Watery Cold and Moist Excrements of the Brain which immoderately heaped up within the Skul as the Brain doth ever and a non heap up such things from Flegmatick blood varried up to it and the weakness of the part if it be supprest and flow not forth through the passages appointed for it then if it perfuse the substance of the Brain with a large humor and cool it it causeth a Carus Or if by its long impulse it so moisten the same that that great bulk of the Brain becoming more soft and lax do suddainly flow abroad and sink and press the original of the Nerves at the basis of the Skul proceeding from the Brain and stop the passage of the Animal spirit it procures a grievous Apoplexy As when Flegm doth suddainly fill the Ventricles or Cavities of the Brain not by obstructing whenas the Animal Spirit is not seated in them but every where in the substance of the Brain and Nerves neither doth it pass through the Ventricles but after the same manner by oppressing the basis of the Brain it may also induce an Apoplexy the which notwithstanding if the humor descending from them do follow the course of the Nerves may end in a Palsie That all these things are thus in a Carus and Apoplexy we have learnt from the dead because this humor hath somtimes flown from their mouths in a plentiful manner And we have observed also by diligent dissection that the thick Membrane of the Brain open'd in some abundance of Humor hath presently lept forth by the Region of the Head and descended even to the Breast and the very substance of the Brain in a certain old Woman which died of an Apoplexy dissolved like to Cream after the same manner hath run all over her Face But we know that these affects proceeded from the Cause by the precedent constitution of the Body especially in old Age which is Obnoxious to this evil and from a cold constitution of the season and Air and because they have first complained of a heaviness in the Head and a weight with slaggishness darkness of the sight and also of a want of that accustomary voiding of Flegm by the Nose and Mouth and because in the dead of an Apoplexy especially oft times a great quantity of Flegm flows forth by the said passages From the same Flegmatick Humor obstructing the passages of the Brain many have written that as an Apoplexy so also an Epilepsie may be caused and therefore as in that so in this that all the senses are abolisht but do presently return again because the Brain by concussion doth speedily shake it of and then that motion with the senses doth no way cease here as is an Apoplexy because the Ventricles are not altogether but only in part obstructed or as others will have it the former only are obstructed the hindermost being unhurt so that a portion of the Spirits may nevertheless pass by to the Nerves Which though it may be condemned for many things yet let it suffice to have brought this especially to destroy this opinion viz. that if a sufficient quantity of the Animal Spirits did not descend the Functions of the Brain would rather follow to be impared in sense and motion then partly abolisht partly depraved and that if Flegm were the cause and that suddainly shaken of from the Brain did flow down it would induce that Palsie which is wont to follow an Apoplexy for the same Reason They teach that Flegm putrifying in the Brain doth Cause a Lethargie and a Feaver its companion is kindled from thence but whenas we have shewed in Feavers that from the Putrefaction of Flegm especially in the Head that a Feaver can in no wise be kindled and we find no reason how the same Flegmatick Humor being putrified by its coldness
Spirits of Wine a deadly Stupidity and also an excessive heat is raised in which case as also in others raised from the like cause we give Natural Milk and Factitious made of Almonds and Guord Seeds also Butter common Oyl and Oyl of Almonds and other Fat and mucilaginous things the which also we said were proper in corroding poysons Also Acid things given as they do quel the heat of Acrid humors and Choler so also the efficacy of Narcoricks which I am wont rather to give as Acid juyces or syrups or Vinegar it self which therefore we have said elsewhere is the most certain Remedy for Drunkenness the other things which do it by a certain propriety shal be explained in the Remedies If a malignant quality The Cure of a sleepiness stupidity from a malignant quality which we cannot rightly explain come from without from the Stroke of a Beast from whence a Sleepiness or stupidity ensues then things antipharmacal resisting these Poysons must be given such as are described in their place but if that such a Malignity be raised up in the body as in Malignant Feavers we have said that then also a Sleepiness and Stupidity doth happen and then applying those things which the malignity of the same method of cureing is to be observed which was mentioned in a Lethargy If a Daemonical Sleep delude Witches as we have said The Cure of Daemonical sleep from an evil Spirit seeing the cause is preternatural it will not be cured by natural Remedies but by prayers and amendment of life but if they refuse to do that they are worthy to be purged by sire The animal spirits being spent in the Brain The Cure of an Apoplexy from the wasting of the animal Spirits if a man become Apoplectical death it self prevents al manner of cure which we ought to foretel to be ready at hand But the Spirits being spent in the Brain by great meditations if sometime they become stupid they easily come to themselves again upon the return of the spirits The Cure of an Epilepsie Catalepsie and Stupidity from the too much profusion of the animal spirit out of the Brain but if that by some vehement affection of the mind the spirits be so carried forth that being taken with a grievous stupidity with Rigor they become Cataleptical then the evil is very pertinacious and that especially if this disease have its original from Melancholly for those thus affected are hardly cured and though they be freed from it yet they continue Stupid and Melancholly And if from Anger also they fall into an Epilepsie they are not free from danger in which species whiles they are in the Fit the same Remedies are likewise applied which are used in the rest of the Epilepical to the quickly taking off of their fits the which ceasing the cause must be turn'd away this being done if the evil do stil return whenas by that we know that the internal cause is yet present which the external did first move then the care must be fitted to the taking away of that which in a Catalepsis they apply to Melancholly in an Epilepsie to the purging of Flegm as shal be said But if that a Convulsion or which seldomer comes to pass a Catalepsis do follow from a Disease of the Nerves drawing the Brain into consent and somtimes affecting of it too the Cause it self must be diligently considered and according to that we must foretell and order the cure which we have said was in that continued Epilepsie as also somtimes in a Catalepsis but seldom hapning a certain malignant melancholly and poysonous humor consisting in the hidden parts of the body of the Veins about the inward parts of the body or also the outward parts and otherwise lurking in the habit of the body or also within the Skul arising from some fault that doth not yet destroy the brain but by course affecting the Nerves but of a milder and Shorter Epilepsie certain evaporations proceeding here and there from the inward bowels from a Causeless persevering and sometimes also Pains or only Troubles when though they have no such great cause in weak Children yet they may produce Epileptical fits but of the rest of Convulsions which are Short we said the internal causes were a poysonous humor also in the Veins in Feavers which these Convulsions do follow or otherwise Acrid Pernicious cholerick or serous humor or blood corrupted or it depends on the taking of things destructive or poysonous or proceeds from grievous pain either from a Wound or the biting of Beasts In all which species since they are all difficult we must not rashly foretel any thing of good although a fit cure and benefit of nature doth somtimes mitigate the Prognostick to wit The long continued Epilepsie so called if it begin before the time of youth and cease not when that time comes viz. when men can eject seed or when women have their courses as also that which first begins after youth is Incurable and desperate which will afflict them to the last day of their lives for a long time unless the cruelty of the symptomes doth make death more speedy but from the Shorter Epilepsie that Convulsion which is called the Worse is deadly and that also which is called the Milder species wants not its danger Which things since that they are thus these Prognosticks being premised the Cure must nevertheless be attempted which we shal not first of al divide according to the Causes seeing they are so various and abstruse but proceeding by the manner of operation we shal explain how by medicines emptying and altering found out partly by Use and partly appropriated to the Cause for some Reason we ought to heal Epilepsies and Convulsions or at leastwise to keep off or mitigate their fits Evacuating Remedies are those which do carry another way the Causes procreating or Fomenting Convulsions whether they be vapors or humors either by revelling and deriving from the part affected or by Repelling and hindring them to come to the part and that either by opening made by Cutting Sucking Burning or by Purgations ordered by divers passages of the body or by other operations outwardly applied Amongst the kinds of Cutting Phlebotomy presents it self for the lessuing of the blood which in a long continued Epilepsie wil take place if the Patient be Plethorick or the Hemthoids which before were accustomary be supprest some general eminent and appearing Vein being made choyce of for this purpose yet many do advise to open the Shoulder-vein called the Cephalick for the heads sake also blood taken from the Veins of the Ham and Ankles is very convenient and so much the more if the Courses be stopt in Women the which also some commend if taken from the Veins of the Forehead and Tongue and if we do conjecture its cause to depend upon malignant blood these detractions of blood must be often repeated whenas we have shewed that in Madness
in a Cause not very much unlike this is the Principal Remedy whence here also if it proceed from corrupt blood this kind of Remedy often used wil profit very much as also in a Catalepsis if it arise from the like reason whenas 't is sometimes cured by a Haemorhage flowing voluntarily from the Nose But in other causes placed out of blood espeally in bodies wasted with a long Epilepsie and also in Convulsions following Diseases in which the strength of the Patient suffering the Convulsion is impaired by the cruelty of the Disease it is no waies to be advised to draw blood but Scarification is not unprofitably ordered instead of bleeding in Children and Aged whenas we would rather turn the blood another way then let it out making it at those places where our intent is to draw the blood and also a Paracenthesis and Opening made by Setons and Trepanning by taking out part of the Skul-bone may be made tryal of in these desperate Diseases Sucking drawing forth blood is done by help of Leeches which being applid to the Forehead and the rest of the compass of the Head they write doth good in Curing of an Epilepsie but especially when the Hemroids are supprest being fastned to the Fundament by sucking out this blood which we can otherwise hardly provoke by any other Art in this case they are very convenient Burning made both by an actual and potential cautery as in desperate Diseases it is the last Remedy so here also the evil preserving especially if the cause be in the Head it may at length not irrationally be applied if by chance by this means the cause may be derived from the Nerves to the more ignoble parts by which means 't is reported that at Florence they are wont to burn the the Head of new born Infants to avert the Epilepsie which in those places is accostomary to Infants for which causes and being moved by experience we think it not unadvised to attempt burning with a red hot Iron the which whiles they are possest with the Fit and are stupid we may act in them without any sense of pain or by applying a Caustick to experiment the same in a long continued Epilepsie if it reject all other Remedies which some also do apply not only in that part of the Head where the Sutures meet but also in the Neck and Feet or if in some certain place an Air elevated doth cause an Epilepsie a Caustick applied to this part doth very much revel it Purgations by the appointed places of the body the Belly Mouth Nose and Womb in Women are ordered divers waies amongst which that dejection which is made by the belly carrying forth divers excrements which is wont to be caused by the use of Purgers is diversly accomplisht according to the divers kinds of Convulsions For in a long continued and falling Epilepsie whenas in all long continued diseases there is plenty of excrements that the body may be made pure it must be purged again and again by course and as often as they are heaped up anew at convenient times first by washing the Belly afterwards by preparing and bringing forth humors which give occasion of this affect In which whenas Authors as it was said do so much vary 't is no wonder that also divers purging medicines are ordered by them for many use above the rest Phlegmagoges and those which draw Flegm from the head who are perswaded that an Epilepsie is bred from that humor others who hold that Yellow or black choller is the cause contend that amongst Purging medicine Cholagoges rather or Melanagoges are more prevalent than the rest but we as we find the body either stuft or polluted with humors do fit our Remedies to the drawing forth of this or that humor making our choice of them from this especially whether there be need of Gentler or Stronger Catharticks to expell the humor ommitting that too scrupilous and obscure propriety and similitude of Catharticks with the humors we choose those which are either more mild or more efficacious as the nature of the humor and the strength and constitution of the body do require and those which are approved of by the ancient and modern especially in this case commended by the authority of Dioscorides of which sort for the Gentler we allow of Whey Agarick Seny and for the Stronger Hellebore and being according to the aforesaid intention we think them conducible in an Epilepsie but chiefly having a care that when an acrid or malignant matter doth cause an Epilepsie we do not stir the body beyond measure with too Hot or Acrid or too strong Purgers and if the cause be doubtful or abstruse that by too solicitously relying on the emptying of one humor according to the common opinion we do not more weaken the bodies than help them and also to the like fit Cathartick medicines those things must be mixed which by a peculiar vertue visit resist an Epilepsie are proper to the Nerves amongst which the juyce of Peony taken plentifully doth also loosen the Belly and those things which do prepare to if it have need of preparation all which shall be explained in things that alter and also those things which do open the Courses and Hemorrhoids if they be stopt being mixt with them do procure that they are easier provoked because the expulsive faculty is then forced divers waies But that we may demonstrate these thinge also by examples observing this method in a long continued Epilepsie as also in a Catalepsis we must thus proceed First of all the Belly must be moved that the excrements and the filth mixt with them may be brought forth from the first passages and that both before the use of Purgers and also sometimes in the Fit that they may fooner come to themselves or by course also if the belly do not sufficiently answer your desire Which may be done by any Suppositories or by putting up these following Take of Honey the juyce of Rue of each alike quantity boyl them and add towards the end as much Salt as is sufficient and a little pouder of Peony root Or cast in Clysters First Laxative then Stimulating at last Stronger appropriate both to the Brain and Nerves Of which sort this may be the chief for the Flegmatick Take of the roots of Lillies fresh Peony of each one ounce and an half of round or common Birthwort half an ounce the herbs Mallows Beets Sage Rue the lesser Century of each one handful the flowers of Lavender or french Lavender Rosemary Primrose Chamomel of each one pugil Bran one pugil Seed of Peony one dram and half Carawaies one dram make a decoction dissolve of juyce of Mercury or Beetss Honey or Red Sugar of each one ounce Hiera Piera and Logadij of each two drams Oyl of Rue one dram and an half a little Salt make a Clyster The humor abounding is prepared before Purging as it is either Flegmatick or Cholerick or Melancolick giving what
Brain being long and much smitten an Apoplexy which evils these Symptoms of Suffocations invading oftentimes by fits are wont to foregoe and foretel But that such like Vapors are for the most part raised up from the Veins as from crude impure bad and Malignant blood yet not putrefied otherwise a Feaver would be caused hath been shown in a Madness and an Epilepsie for as there diversly here and there in the Body such vapors being raised from blood collected in the branches of the Vena Porta and Cava molesting the Brain do produce the forementioned accidents so also in the lower Belly cheifly being collected as in a sink of Excrementitious blood and abundantly in great plenty flying upwards to the Midrif and molesting that either they create Suffocation only or other discommodities moreover But from the Mesaraick Veins especially the greater dispersed every where about the Heart to the Bowels Vapors from the Mesaraick Veins affecting the Midrif the Cause of a Night-Mare and in which by reason of the many Excrements of the first Concoction impure blood is easily collected such like Vapors somtimes arising and stopping about the Midrif they produce a Suffocation which they call the night Mare which invades rather in the night then when Concoction ought to be made because at that time the evil Vapors collected therefore the most part are wont by the accession of Crudities to be increased and moved and to be carried upwards and by reason of lying down to torment the more Whence in their Dreams feeling these streits they Dream of divers causes whence they proceed and being often raised up if the Mind moreover be somwhat affected with them they remain in the same perswasion and though they being raised and set upright the Vapors being then discust the evil ceaseth yet often returning if the Fewel of the evil remains at last it threatens and brings more grievous accidents to the Brain as hath been said The cause of which evil certainly depends upon an ill course of Diet and that a long time continued as in other affects sprung also from Vapors there especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholly and Intermitting Feavers as hath been shown in them This is therefore an accustomary affect to Children and those of ripe Age who do sooner and longer offend in their Dyet In the Female sex this more commonly proceeds from the Veins of the Womb Vapors from the Veins of the Womb affecting the Midrif are the cause of the Suffocation of the Womb. in the strangulation of the Womb therefore so called which when being derived from the branches of the Vena Cava and many of them and great ones do creep along the Womb and its Membranes if the filth of the blood doth stop in them which from the whol Mass of it is wont to be purged thither in impure Bodies that at the set time it may be emptied by the Courses Which is wont to come to pass more commonly in the unmarried by a stoppage of the Courses not so easily in the married by reason of Copulation and the Vapors from thence assail the Midrif they produce divers kinds of Suffocations of the Womb as they prejudice the Midrif and the neighboring parts or those that consent with it and as the plenty and nature of those Vapors is diverse For if it hurt only the Midrif either it breeds only a Dyspnaea if the plenty or offense be less or if it be greater it breed only an Agony of Suffocation but if that it also brings hurt to the Stomach that is continued to the Midrif then with a Dyspnaea and Compression of the orifice of the Stomach which they call the heart Nauseousness Vomiting a Vertigo and pain of the Head being caused by consent the Hysterical accidents do shew themselves Which passions are wont to happen in great bellied Women at the first Month the young one being not yet increased nor able to consume the blood that is retained especially if it be impure from which also they take a sign that they are with Child Hysterical Women are far more grievously affected if these Vapors especially the Poysenous being communicated to the Heart too by reason of its communion as it hath been said do also bring dammage In which species the Motion of the Heart wholly ceasing all breathing also ceaseth and as it were seazed on by a Syncope the Virgins fall by degrees to the ground and are held in that fit some a short time others the space of an hour before they come to themselves But at other times the Midrif by reason of the consent which it hath with the Brain as hath been said or both together affected with these Vapors with the said strangulation of the Womb that called the Madness of the Womb or Convulsive Motions and other hurts of the Brain offended do manifest themselves All which also may be varied not only by reason of the parts affected but also if a Poysenous cause be joyned according to the divers Nature of the Poyson by which they are wont chiefly to beset this or that part as we have expounded in other diseases of the Womb that vitious blood breathing forth such like Vapors is generated from divers causes and collected about the Womb. Amongst which they have beleeved that the seed retained and corrupted is not the least cause in Virgins with whom this affect is familiar the which yet can scarce be as long as it is contained in its proper Vessels and if poured out of them it be retained it rather produces an Erosion of that part then such accidents as we shall explain elsewhere Winds filling the Capacity of the Belly because they distend that Wind hindering the Midrif is the cause of a Dyspnaea as also the Midrif which shuts up the upper parts of it they cause a Dyspnaea which also the puffings up with Wind of the Stomach and Cholick Gut that lies under the Stomach do effect by reason of the neerness and Adherency with the Midrif and they know that they proceed from thence by the murmuring and distension of that place but that they write that they would no waies have a Night-Mare to be caused by the same Winds or thick Vapors the far more grievous evils which do then fall out and follow from thence do sufficiently declare A watery Humor also distending the Belly and drawing a sunder the lower Ribs of the Breast A Humor possesssing the Midrif is the cause of a Dyspnaea extending the Midrif doth breed a difficulty of breathing in an ascites Dropsie as shall be declared in a Dropsie But the Humor which is collected in the Cavity of the Breast doth cause a Dyspnaea rather by hindering the Lungs then the Breast as we shall shew in the Lungs The Bowels lying under the Midrif and growing to it The Bowels hindring the Midrif are the cause of a Dyspnaea or hanging by it if they acquire too great a bulk drawing down the Midrif with
Inject with a Syringe into the bladder things that loosen the passages as Oyl of sweet Almonds or in which Mallows was boyled or that prick as Oyl of Scorpions to cause Urin and the Stone to be voided Or Whey or other clensers as Honey and Aloes if the humor be thick or things that break the Stone If there be a Caruncle or hardness inject Mollifiers and Clensers as Aegiptiacum and after Dryers as that of Litharge Tutty Antimony Ceruss and Aloes thrust in at the end of a Wax Candle If the Bladder be ful of Urin put in the Catheter which is good in all stoppages for it drives back the Stone breaks the Caruncle and dissolves clotted blood or matter it is made hollow that the Urin may flow through it Chimches Fleas and Lice may be put into the Yard or smal Hairs to provoke Urin. They say Galbanum applied like a Plaister to the top of the Yard provokes Urin. Also a Fume of Hedghogs bristles and Agarick and of Grass-hoppers doth it in Women Somtimes the only pressing of the swollen Bladder with the hand doth it And when a Stone is gotten into the Yard it may be pressed out by degrees Somtimes they must be cut for the Stone or Caruncle when other means fail as we shal shew in the Stone CHAP. IX Of the Defect of Bringing forth Children or other things The Kinds THere is a Defect of natural excretion by which a Woman sends forth at a fit season either a Child or a deformed Mole The Birth is Defective when it is difficult as it may be preternaturally and naturally Or when it is not at its time appointed by nature or before it or when part thereof remains behind Birth becomes difficult and painful when it is Natural when the Child is ripe A natural difficult Birth and the Woman hath foregoing signs by which she is provoked to hold her breath and press the Muscles of the belly as in other digestion All which are increased when the Child comes forth Also after birth some pain remains called after-pains of which seeing they are natural to the bringing forth we shal speak in the hurt of that Function rather than in pains Somtimes Travail is not preternatural from some impediment and so with more difficulty and slower as is mentioned A preternatural difficult Birth in which great pain afflicteth with straining heat and sweating when the Child sticks cross in the passage where the Midwife may feel it or when the Hand or Foot hangs out and not the Head for when that comes first the birth is easie Hence it is that either the Mother or the Child often dies It is said to be no Birth when the Woman goes beyond the natural time Birth hindered which is usually the tenth month though the seventh month be also allowed and there is nothing brought forth though the Child be ripe or there be a mole And then she falleth to sounding which kind of fainting is here most deadly through pain labor and bleeding Also shee hath her throws at the time and seems to be fit for Travail and is so disposed by the Midwife and her Urin breaks from her as is usual in that condition But all these cease and no birth followeth And if they return not the Child is dead and putrifies and breeds Feavers and Faintings and so infecteth the body that the Mother dieth as many have done especially one who went five months beyond her time with a dead Child and a stinking flux with the Navel-string hanging forth before she died which so infected that the Womb and Child were black and very stinking when shee was opened And when the Mother lived shee had somtimes cleer bladders about her Navel which signified putrefaction through which the Back-bones of the Child were seen and taken forth after they brake This causeth death as we shewed if it be not speedily voided and may be before the Child is perfect and then it must be cast out presently and it is easily done while it is little but when it is great there is as we said want of birth As also if there be a false conception or Mole which the sooner it is cast out the less is the danger therefore when we are certain thereof if nature be slow we help her with Medicines The Child is known to be dead if the Mother feel no motion which shee formerly felt and the belly is stil big which often deceiveth by the Terms reteined and these breaking forth it suddenly falleth flat about the flanks And if the Womb be cold and the Paps which were swollen grow lank At length if it continue there followeth water matter and filth and pieces of the secondine hang out there is a Feaver Heart-pain and Swounding We shal shew in depravate Conception when there a Mole and no Child and how you shal know it The Birth is imperfect when the Child is voided and the Secondine remaineth whol or torn Imperfect Birth growing to the Womb or stopped and causeth great danger of a Feaver or sudden Swounding or Death The Causes The Scripture witnesseth that natural difficulty of Travail was caused by original sin Sin from Eves fall in Paradise for which the Creator was pleased to inflict pain in Travail Yet let us shew some natural cause of both why it should be naturally or preternaturally defective or imperfect which is either from the greatness of the Child Situation or weakness or form of the Womb having three orifices or from streightness of the Neck thereof When a Child ready to be delivered is great as when it can no longer be contained in the Womb Greatness of the Child but seeks another mansion and Diet in respect of the passages the Delivery cannot be without pain though it be natural And the rather when the Child being great by the Father is born by a little Woman which brings forth with great danger alwaies As also when there is monstrous Conception or many at once There is also either no birth or very hard Evil position of the Child when the decent roundness of it is changed by breaking the coats and flowing of water whereby the Child comes not forth with the Head first but the Feet or lieth cross or when the hands or feet which were close to the sides are stretched out And in regard the strong Throws of the Mother are required in Travail Weakness of the Mother the more couragious the Woman is the easier is the Delivery so they that are weak as very young and old Women and such as are weak-spirited and fearful dul and sloathful are tired out and in great danger If the Vessels by which the child wrapt in Membranes with a cake of flesh in the middle cleaveth to the Womb be not ripe The Vessels connexion not divided in the Womb. they are unfit to be divided like the stalks of unripe Apples without tearing and force and bleeding nor doth bleeding
in man or woman or with a mishapen one not fit for the work or if it be cut off or the head cut or if the stones are both taken out the Cure is impossible And Women that have the womb so closed that it can be opened by no Art without danger of life they are incurable Other defects in men and Women as Tumors Ulcers Wounds or Bruises stoppage of the passage of the Yard shal be spoken of in other Treatises But we shal here shew the Cure of the streightness of the passage in man and the largeness of the Hymen or Membrane in Women but if none of these appear and the Yard wil not stand nor seed be spent or if the Woman without or with little delight perform the act and these be in sound people there is some original fault which we perceive by what they have been from their youth And this is incurable Or when it comes from Incantation which is not our part to untie But when from Weakness Coldness or other Diseases which hindreth Seed or makes it unprofitable though long continuance may make difficulty yet in these cases chiefly we undertake the Cure We give things that cause seed and this as we said by its plenty and sharpness stirs up a desire to the Act and disposeth the members for it These are such as cause much blood which is the matter of which seed is made To these we add hot things which may make the blood hotter and by consequence the seed which will more stimulate or provoke and by its heat and thinness come sooner and in greater plenty to the Yard And when the serum is hereby inflamed and carried to the bladder it being neer to the seminal vessels promotes the cause as we have seen by the use of Spanish flies the Bladder hath been so inflamed that it hath been ulcerated and the Urin hath been much and bloody and the heat so sent to the parts adjacent that they have violently provoked Lust this sharpness of seed may be cured with Salts mixed with other things as I shal shew And we shal shew that it is our opinion that such medicines work by a manifest quality rather than by stretching the Yard with Wind as some say which cannot be besides their secret hidden quality which was observed by the first teachers of such things from the whiteness of the flesh fruits and roots resembling seed Or because taken from Lecherous Creatures Or from their shape resembling Stones as the Satyrions or plants called Dogs-stones or like a rough wrinkled Cod as Toad-stools or Mushrooms Many things are given for this especially at Supper or after at Bed-time if we expect the effect that night or if you wil have them successively to work in the morning Of meats they are best that nourish wel and cause much blood and they are chosen which are white and ful of marrow as Brains Stones especially of the most lecherous Beasts as of Cocks Quails Sparrows Foxes Also the flesh of the Castor because his Stones cannot be eaten by reason of their stink but they are thought to be Bladders and not Stones The flesh of Craw-fish Crabs Lobsters Oysters and other hard Fishes that have Gristles Cuttle-fish Polypus Milk Eggs Almonds Nuts Pine-nuts Pistachaes Chesnuts Beans Pease Rise Barley Hartichoaks Parsneps Rapes Scirroots and roots of Goars-beard and such as cause Milk cause Seed also also Onions Leeks Mushrooms also Rocket Coleworts Asparagus all these diversly dressed and eaten do the same especially if they be prepared and salted for Pepper stimulateth and provoketh Venery and we suppose that when such things are so eaten it comes rather from the Sawce than the Meat The usual meats to provoke Venery is the white Broath called in Dutch Beinwarm made of Wine Egs Sugar and Butter with which the Bride-groom restoreth himself in the morning Or that called Lebersuls made of Piggs Livers which helps Conception with Wine Spices and Saffron this according to Diascorides increaseth Venery and that which the Germans give at Weddings called Pseffer strong of Pepper and that congealed saffron'd Galren made of juyce of Flesh and Fishes wel spiced Divers Junkets are made of Sugar Honey and Spices given after Supper or at night at the Greeks Collation time called Epidorpismus As dried Confections of Kernels and Seeds with Sugar among which Rocket seed Pine and Pistacha Nuts are the chief Or March-pane as this Take Almonds and small Nuts each four ounces Pine and Pistacho Nuts each one ounce beat them Cinnamon half an ounce Pepper one dram Ginger Cloves Nutmegs Cardamoms the great each half a dram Rocket seed two drams and if you wil have it yellow Saffron or red Saunders and Sugar as much as is fit mix them and bake them in an Oven like Bread The Bread of Life called in High Dutch Lebfuchen wel spiced and honeyed was invented with the rest to provoke Venery Rocket Water-cresses and other sharp Herbs eaten at supper with Botargo or Honey after the Spanish fashion provoke much Strong sweet Wine wel spiced with Cinnamon and Pepper taken moderately heats and refresheth the body and makes it fit for the work but immoderately stupifies and makes unfit and sluggish There are divers pouders to be given with Wine Milk or the like or made up with Sugar in Tablers The first Take Pepper ten grains only bruised that it burn not the mouth let him drink it in Wine or Milk at bed-time The second Take Pepper half a dram Saffron half a scruple make a Pouder take it with any convenient Liquor The third Take Pepper one dram Nutmeg half a dram Salt one dram take it in a reat Egg. The fourth Take Pepper a dram Ginger Rocket seed and Leek seed each half a dram Sugar two drams take a dram The fifth Take Rocket seed two drams Ashen keys Burdock Line and Annise seed each a dram Parsnep Nepp Radish Onion Leek Mustard Nettle Water-cresses and Asparagus seeds each half a dram Pepper a dram and half Ginger Galangal Cloves Mace each half a dram Saffron a scruple Ivory shavings a dram pizle of a Deare or Bull the flesh of the Scincus each half a dram Sugar as much as all the rest Cinnamon two drams make a Pouder give two drams The sixth better than the rest Take Rocket seed half an ounce Parsnep Rape and Leek seed each a dram Watercress seeds and Pellitory roots each half a dram Pepper a dram Ginger Cinnamon of each half a dram Saffron a scruple spanish Flies without wings nine Boraxa dram Musk some grains Sugar an ounce make a fine Pouder give a spoonful at first in Warm Milk and more if it fail The seventh and strongest of all Take two spanish Flies the wings being taken off Cinnamon one scruple Sugar Candy one dram give it in Milk if it do not the feat take three the next time The Chymists highly commend the blood of Satyrion which Quercetan teacheth how to prepare Among Electuaries the
Diasatyrion of Nicolas one dram was invented for the same use also Confectio Anacardina which inflameth highly Another may be made thus Take Satyrion and Eryngus roots candied each one ounce Ginger candied Conserve of Acorus each half an ounce Pine and Pistacha Nuts each three drams the Kernels of Indian Nuts one dram Line seed and Ashen keys each two drams Roeket seed one dram and an half the Electuary of the three Peppers one dram the species of Diambra and Diamoschu each half a dram Cinnamon one dram of Stags or Buls pizle and Scincus of the Sea dried each half a dram for Women add the dried matrix of a Hare and an ounce of Sugar add Honey as much as is fit for an Electuary give two drams or more The nauseous Pils are thus made Take of Mouse-dung half a dram Rocket seed a dram Pepper half a dram spanish Flies the wings taken off five mix them with Turpentine give a dram You may make a Syrup to be kept til you have occasion thus Take the green roots of Eryngus Satyrion and Parsneps each two ounces roots of Pellitory and Dracunculus each half an onnce Rocket two handfuls Watercresses Hedg-mustard each one handful Rocket seed half an ounce Line seed Ash-keys Asparagus seed each two drams Anise seed which is thought to cause Milk half an ounce Dates five boyl them in white Wine and add to the strained Liquor Sugar Cinnamon and Pepper boyl them to a consistence or height give an ounce alone or with white Wine We have observed that gentle Purges corrected with hot Spices whether they work or not do vehemently provoke Venery so that before they work they cause erection as some have confessed to me who thought I had mistaken in my intention when I gave the Medicine Sweet scents provoke not only by refreshing but by heating and piercing as Amber-greece Musk Civet In men outward applications are best for the Yard and beneath by the heat whereof the blood may come to erect that part and that blood may come into the seminal vessels to make seed we anoynt the Stones Loyns and Privities and sometimes the soles of the Feet these are made of hot Attractives Of usual Oyls thus Take of Oyl of Pepper Euphorbium and Castor each equal parts Or thus Take Juyce of Rocket Watercresses Aqua vitae each an ounce Pellitory roots two drams Mustard seed one dram Euphorbium half a dram Line seed Oyl one ounce and half boyl and strain them Otherwise Take Oyl of Nutmegs by expression two drams Oyl of Spike two drams Oyl of Cloves half a scruple mix them for an Oyntment Without Oyls thus Take the Gall of a Bore or Hogg one dram Civet half a scruple Honey anoynt the Yard and parts adjacent if you add three or four spanish Flies it wil be better Oyl of Ants which have wings made by boyling of them in Sallet Oyl is excellent Also the Fat of a Hedg-hog A good Oyntment Take roots of Pellitory Pepper Ginger Mustard seed each one dram Euphorbium half a dram Castor one scruple dried Ants half a dram pouder them add Oyl of Spike and a little Wax make an Oyntment They say that if the right Toe be anoynted with Oyl of Spanish Flies it will provoke Venery which we cannot deny to be possible from the vertue we have declared in them for provoking bloody Urin of which we have experience These Oyntments in the Loyns and Privities of Women stir them up when dull But privately before Copulation let the man anoynt his Yard wit Civet or Gall of a Hen. The use of hot natural Baths is counted the best Remedy to restore heat in cold and decaied persons Also other Baths and Fomentations for the Feet and other parts being actually and potentially hot do the same As the Decoction of Flower-de-luce roots Nep Calamints Nettles Marjoram Rocket Hedg-mustard Lavender flowers and of Chamomil and the like It is good to wrap the Feet in soft furrs which by their gentle tickling stir up Women and effoeminate Persons to preserve the Heat and prevent Cold. Somtimes weakness is taken away by manual Operation in a Man when the Fore-skin is so strait that it will not uncover the Head of the Yard we stretch or divide it by cutting In women when the neck of the womb is too strait or covered with the skin called Hymen or with a Callus we open it with a thin Groat or Instrument made on purpose to cut both sides Other things belong to the Cure of Incantations as shaking of the Pillows pissing through the wedding-ring or the Axle-tree of the Plough or the changing of shifts before they go to the sport shiftings of the left Foot and the like these belong not to us Nor care we for Amulets to which much is attributed They say the ashes of a black Lizard carried in the left hand cause Erection and in the right hand hinder it Imagination and apprehension of former sport provoke Venery extreamly by remembrance beholding or hearing of things passed and much more touching Sweet affections as Joy advance Sorrow and grief hinder the Act This joy is brought by recreating the senses as the Sight the Hearing and the rest especially by Musick CHAP. XVIII Of Lust or Leehery The Kinds WE call that Lechery which is an immoderate inclination to Venery A Venerial Itch. and it is either continual or an often itching and lust which being unsatisfyed disturbeth and provokes people to sordid nasty actions except they have government This is somtimes in Males and Females but differeth in that men are sooner hot Women are longer cooling There is another kind which is far worse and preternatural Lustful fury called an insatiable frensie in lust which when it is excercised hath no allay but grows higher and is unsatisfied This is oftner in Women then Men as weakness is oftner in men then women As in foul and pocky women or the like which have the Priapismus or Frensie of the womb so called The History of impudent Semiramis and of other sheweth that some have been so and unsatisfied with innumerable men and this Disease occasioneth many to try unlawful things and to fal into great sins to appease lust And somtimes when the fury of the womb comes they desire Copulation with beasts as she of whom I spake in the treatise of Madness which desired the English Dogs to Lime her This is more seldom in men though some are so Lascivious Priapismus or immoderate erection that they can do it often in one night not naturally but by the pride of appearing strong and by provocations and forcing these have somtimes a venemous Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins This is called Priapismus Tentigo or Satyriasis from Satyrs painted with standing Yards And there is another Disease called by that name which we shall after mention The Causes All Causes of immoderate lust come either from much seed sharpness or motion which stir up Venery or from
same with that of other Inflammations namely plethory or fulness of Blood or Heat or thinness of the same which sends it self thither rather than to another part by reason of the disposltion of the place this comes often from a Synoch Fever when the Blood is first burnt in the Veins and then a part therof is sent thither as I shewed in Fevers hence Quinsies and Instammations of other parts as Gullet Mouth Tongue are the symptoms of these Fevers that begin with them or come presently after them Also Blood carried thither from other Causes may make Inflammations in the Throat but a Fever is not joyned therewith except it come from other Causes But it may come from the pain which these parts receive from other Diseases or from Inflammation of the Jaws by actually or potentially hot things as Pepper Cuckowpints Laurel given in jest sometimes Or from very cold Drink while the body is hot by reason of the sudden repercussion when the blood flieth back and returneth again with force because the blood is stir'd up and sent out of the Veins except it come from a Synoch as we said Also I observed that this came from too much straining in Child-bearing the blood being driven to the upper Veins of the Neck in a Woman that died And it is probable that it may come from other strainings roaring or holding breath at going to stool A Humor falling from the Head A defluxion into the Jaws Tonsils Palate is the cause of a Bastard Quinsie falling of the Almonds and Uvula under the tunicle of the Palate if it be carried to the Muscles of the Throat wil cause a Bastard Quinsie which is stronger or weaker as the Flux is upon the inward or outward muscles as we shewed in the Flux of Blood and for that Cause wil cause a tumor more or less apparent but if the Flux fall upon the upper Glandules or Tonsils or the Palate only which being a loose and soft piece of Flesh easily receive the humors it will cause the Paristhmia and Columella The natural and efficient cause is the same with that of all Defluxions the adjuvant or helping cause is a fitness of the parts to receive it because they are close under the Head or because they are loose or weak and they are sooner hurt if they have formerly been oftended from other Causes The Solution of Continuity causeth pain expressing the sense of an Ulcer This is an Ulcer An Ulcer in the Jaws Tonsils or Almonds Palate Gullet is the cause of an ulcerous pain and Consumpion of the Palate an Excoriation or Rawness or Wound in the Jaws from divers causes An Uulcer comes often after the said Inflammations of the Jaws Tonsils and and Palate suppurated and turned to an Imposthume after breaking or from a sharp defluxion that first caused a tumor or presently exulcerated there comes an Excoriation of the tunicle of the Jaws Tonsils or Gullet which infects the Palate and eats upon other parts adjacent Also it may come from a malignant matter which seizeth upon the membranes so much in the Leprosie and French Pox hence come those stubborn Ulcers in the Palate and Jawes and Nostrils that eat up the Glandule and Uvula Also the Gullet may be cleft and excoriated from Vapors that are hot and sharp in malignant and sharp burning Fevers from whence they may feel pain a long time after in swallowing down to the Stomach A Wound in the Jaws and Gullet causeth an ulcerous pain in them Also a pain in the Gullet may be from sharp and pricking things fallen by chance into the Jaws and Gullet that would them and the greater if there be an Inflammation If these wounds come externally they shall be spoken of in external wounds The Cure If these diseases come from a defluxion of humors upon the parts of the jaws Praediction or Foretelling and there is Inflamation in the first sort of a true Quinzy it is very violent and kils in eighteen houres space the other is sharp and is judged the second third or fourth day at farthest The hope of Cure is more when the tumor is outwardly and admits of applications and may be better clensed when broken The third is less dangerous because the tumor is outward That which is in the lower Glandule is more or less doubtful of Cure as it is joyned with any kind of Quinzy The safest is the Inflamation of the Tonsills and Palate because they are more visible or of the Gullet to which Remedies may be swallowed except the Inflamations bring greater danger by spreading to other parts But if a Defluxion of any other humor cause a bastard Quinzy it is not without danger if it obstruct inwardly that is better which extends outwardly and causeth a tumor in the Neck That humor that fills the Almonds and Pallate is casier cured As for the Cure The Cure of a true and false Quinzâ— Paristhmia Uvula Columella or Gulet inflamed or swallow by taking away the Cause it differs as the Defluxion is of blood or an Inflammation of the Jaws or Almonds or Tonsill or Palate or Gulet the cure of which agrees in many things or as the Defluxion is of another humor upon the Jaws in a bastard Quinzy or upon the Tonsills or Uvula or Guler then the cure differs from the former In al we proceed as followeth In every Inflamation of the Jaws or any part of them a vein is to be opened when it is great or to prevent it from being great especialy when the body is plethorick in a Quinzy especialy it must be quickly done open a vein in the arm first for revulsion that that which is most visible or the cephalike or head vein which is most usual or that by the thumb bleed foundly and if need be often Hippocrates perscribes the vein under the breasts to be opened for women or that in the foot if their courses be stopt In women with child bleed also but sparingly after revulsion open that vein under the tongue for derivation the same day or presently after because the disease is acute Archigenes opens the forehead vein others that in the neck In a cold Defluxion if there be pain or streightness bleed also Cupping glasses to the shoulders neck and under the breasts do the same especialy if they be placed in a Quinzy in the top of the neck upon the second Vertebra that they may breath and swollow better and they are better with scarification which is good also under the Chin and in the Cheeks also Horsleeches may be applyed instead thereof and in great necescity Vesicatories and Causticks to the neck or head this is done by way of prevention to those that are subject to this disease all these are good in other Defluxions Also Frictions and Ligatures and washings are good in al Defluxions to cause revulsion We apply to the head things that stop fluxes and strengthen it after purging An
from the Feaver and pestilential they are small at the first and then grow great and have often an Anthraâ— or Carbo with them Also in the glandulous parts of the Superficies as the Papps and Stones Tumors in the Papps and Stones are outward Tumors as in the Glanduls mentioned when they are inflamed swollen hot red and pained This is called Inflammation of the Papps and stones which turnes often to a scirrhus Or somtimes these pars swel without a manifest Instammation and are stretched and pained as the breasts with milk and the stones in the colick Also these kinds of Inflammations are in other spungy parts of the body Tumors with Inflammation of divers parts as in the heels when they swel are rough and hot and then ulcerate and are often lost or in the Glans or head of the yard whose Inflammation somtimes makes a great tumor so that the praeputium or foreskin streight binds it at the root This is likewise in the prepuce and in womens Privities and in the Fundament And in the Mouth and Lips and Eyebrows with great pain by reason of exquisite sense and it often turnes to perverse ulcers and Gangrens Also in the gristly parts in the superficies as in the Nostrils and Ears there is Inflamation and the gristles are made foul thereby when it increaseth and the Nose faleth But Inflammation in the joynts is with greater pain and hurt as in the Arms and Legs And this is often in the joynts of the fingers and toes about the roots of the Nayles Paronychia Pannaritium and this Inflammation is called Paronychia and Pannaritium which a Sphacelus often followeth and corruption of the outward bone and somtimes of the inward bone of the finger whereby it laid bare or lost and the Nerves and Tendons hurt this is called the worm because pain seems to creep while it is inflamed and turns to an impostume There is another Inflammation between the Thumb and forefinger with a tumor called by the Germans Grippelen or fork because it is between the fingers Fork or Grippelen An Impostume Apostume or Impostume is a tumor which follows other humors in the superficies it is called Abscessus because the skin comes from the flesh This may come from all sorts of Inflammations except they be insensibly dissolved as from a flegmon in general or from Tuberculum whose Impostum is called Furunculus And from Phygethlon whether it be a Bubo or Parotis and soonest from a Phyma Also it may come from swelling of the paps and stone and other spungy parts or gristly inflamed And from the joynts inflamed which are very troublesome and that from the Paronychia or Inflammation in the finger if it Impostumate is perverse and deep and corrupts the Nerves and bones All these Impostumes coming from divers Inflammations are divers If the Inflammation be only superficial the humor greater or lefs shining and hard at first and after grows soft and pointed which is called the Eye out of which the matter labors to get forth which you may perceive by the motion of it being touched it is of one sort And it is of another sort when it comes from an Inflammation that lyeth deeper for then it is not so eminent somtimes it is almost wholly hidden till by a pustle breaking which the Chirurgions cal Exitura or outlet it appears This is of the same color with the skin and makes a doubt whether there be an Impostume or not Exitura or outlet of the Chirurgions we conclude that there is matter because pain is still felt there and because it is wet like dew and being pressed with the finger the matter seems to go back and there is a hollow When an Inflamation turns to an Impostume the pain doth not abate but increase rather and creaseth not till it be opened and it itcheth when the matter labors to come forth Nor doth a Feaver with Inflammation cease but increaseth with the pain while the Impostume or matter breedeth according to Hippocrates The matter in an Impostume is divers as pus or sanies or flesh which comes from the ulcer A Cancer is a tumor which cometh of it self in the superficies of the body that hath more malignity then pain Canter for which cause the Chirurgions cal other perverse Tumors and Pustles as a Furuncle and Carbuncle by the name of Cancer as that under the Eye and the Polypus in the Nose and the Gangreen of the Gums and Ulcers of the prepuce And they call an Elephantiasis with Tumors and Ulcers in divers parts a Cancer also as we shew'd From these a true Cancer called Carcinos differs much Wolf or Noli me tangere Which is called also Lupus or Wolf because it devours the flesh and Noli me tangere or touch me not because it will not endure sharpe Medicines This may be in any part Hips Legs Knees Arms Neck Face and Breasts often and in the privities and in the Mouth and Lips It begins at first with a little tumor scarse to be seen then it is as big as a pease then as an Hazel-nut then as a great Apple hence it is called Cancer from creeping on and resembling a crab not the Astacus or Crayfish to whose Legs the Veins are compared but the true sea Crab called Gallus marinus which is round as this tumor is uneven and with tubercles or little swellings and full of Veins swollen about blew and black hard also and with a crust like a crabs shell and sticking close to the part And Archigenes saies it is so called because it holds whatsoever it catcheth The pain is little or none at the first which causeth the neglect but it is known by the pricking of the skin like a needle which increaseth with the tumor At length this tumor is laid naked by the opening of the skin A Cancer ulcerated and then it is called Carcinoma or a Cancer ulcerated out of this comes filthy Sanies or thin matter stinking yellow green first and then black Carcinoma The flesh is uneven and corrupt and grows out like Ice-sickles with hard and inverted Lips which are somtimes so big that they have covered a great part of the face and made the Ear seem to grow thereto as I have seen When this Carcinoma or Cancer ulcerated is naked it bleeds by which through want of strength with a gentle feaver comes death which I observed in a Dyer in little Basil in 1552. whose right Cheek was swollen to the great corner of his Eye with Ulcers with Lips turned in and stinking in the hollow all over which bled often very much and after great misery with a gentle feaver brought his much desired Death The chief kinds of Pustles are scabs Papulae and Carbuncles Pustles in the superficies of the body which have divers kinds under them these are less then Tubercula yet they itch with burning and Inflamation and somtimes without
conclusion of boyling you do add half an ounce of Verdigreese it wil be green and beter Or Take the pouders above mentioned and with as much Rosin of Turpentine distil a Water first then an Oyl Or Take the pouders aforesaid three ounces add Mummy Gum Arabick Sagapenum Sarcocol Sanguis Draconis Opopanax each half an ounce Labdanum Benjamin Storax Calamita each two drams Amber six drams Spike three drams Storax liquid two drams Turpentine as much as all distil them This Balsom will be better with Verdigreese Some add Spices that Balsomes may be good in cold Diseases and pleasant as Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon Galangal Cubebs Wood Aloes Zedoary which do little for wounds also Musk and Ambergreese others ad Castor and Euphorbium for cold Causes So make a Balsom of Rhubarb oyl of Roses or Worms with Frankincense Mastick Opoponax Camphire by boyling and straining Or Take old Oyl a pint Wine half a pint juice of Daffadil and Sideritis each three ounces Turpentine two ounces Gum Elemi Frankincense Mastick each an ounce and half Sanguis Draconis Aloes each an ounce Roots of Comfrey and Birthwort each six drams flowers of St Johnswort halfe an ounce boyl them gently and strain out the oyl Or Take Common Oyl or of Linsced eight ounces Oyl of Bayes two ounces Oyl of Turpentine an ounce Oyl of Juniper berries distilled or of Spike or Petroleum half an ounce Turpentine two ounces Colophony Mastick each an ounce Aloes three drams burnt Brasse two drams white Calacanthum a a dram Set them hot in a brass Vessel stirring them till they are green strain it or boyl it and add Verdigreace three drams add Oyl of Cloves Another Balsome that cures presently Take Liquid Storax Myrrh Sanguis Draconis Carpobalsome Gum Arabick Sarcocol Bdellium Opopanax Aloes Hepatick each a dram Oyl of Mastick two drams Venice Turpentine as much as all digest them eight dayes in a hot place then distill them The Chymists Balsamum Take flowers of Sulphur thrice calcinated two ounces Camphire a dram and half pouder them add Oyl of Turpentine four ounces distill an Oyl Liquid Varnish is added such as Joyners use A Balsome Take Oyl of Linseed a pint Gum of Varnish Mastich each an ounce and half Frankincense half an ounce Litharge an ounce Chrystal poudered or burnt Bones half an ounce white Calcanthum three drams boyl them gently add Turpentine oyl of Spike or Petroleum each half an ounce and strain it adding Verdigrease two drams this is our Balsome and it is excellent Turpentine with Yolks of Egges and Honey cures smal Wounds Or use Juyces of Herbs with Honey Yolks of Egges and Turpentine with drying Pouders mentioned Or Take Juice of Roses Plantane each two ounces Vinegar an ounce Oyl of Roses Omphacin three ounces Oyl of Yolks of Eggs and Turpentine each an ounce boyl them to the Consumption of the Juyces add Litharge Ceruse Tutty each two drams Allum a dram Omphacium three drams and a little Wax Or use Juice of Tobacco with oyl and Turpentine Pitch and wax boyled this is in great request Juice of Nettles and Urine cures wounds wonderfully For Head wounds Take Juice of Bettony six ounces Oyl of Roses Turpentine Wax each two ounces Womans Milk or Butter Wine or Vinegar each an ounce and half boyl them to an oyntment or with Rossin make a Plaster Another for the Head Take Topps of smal Centaury Leavs of woodbine dryed Bettony poundered each two ounces and an half Steep them in Wine boyl them and add Honey two ounces Milk an ounce Turpentine and Wax each six ounces boyl them till the juices are gone add Frankincense Mastick Gum Arabick or Elemi each an ounce and with Turpentine make a Plaster If the Skull be broken Take Juyce of Vervain Bettony Burnet Periwinkle Celandine Smallage each an ounce Turpentine four ounces wax two ounces boyl them til the Juyces be consumed add Comfrey roots and round Birthwort each half an ounce Orris roots two drams Sarcocol Myrrh Mumy Amber each a dram and half make a Plaster Or Take Honey of Roses two parts Oyl of Roses or of Eggs one part Turpentine half a part mix and dip a Scarlet Silk therein and put it into the Fracture the Chymists use Oyl of Turpentine and Oyl of Myrrh Some use the inward bark of the Tile Tree to roul the Wound or Paper wet in Wine Or Sponge Or Spiders Webs to glew smal Wounds and stanch Bood Or Puffoyst which drieth and glutinateth Or boyl or steep a Rowler in Allum water Or Bruise Herbs with Meal Or thus Take Comfrey roots and Alkanet Celandine Centaury Acrons beat them with Oyl of Roses and Grease Fomentatations are made or Injections of Comfrey Bugle Selfeheal or Saracens consound Rock Comfrey Sideritis St Johns-wort Pyrola Adders tongue Crowfoot Yarrow Achillea Mousear Dogs tongue Burnet Agrimony Horstaile Vervain Strawberry leaves Pauls Bettony Hedg-Hyssop Scordium Woad five leaved Grass Centaury the less Eupatorium Lysimachia Ground-pine great Celandine Tobacco also of Birthwort Tormentile Snake-weed Smyrnus Lycopsis Centaury the great Poterium Daffadil roots bark of Elme Tile Tree Pine Leaves of Cypress Myrtles Oaks Elm Medlars Cornil pear tree Sumach Cistus Helianthemum Verbascum Shepherds purse Plantane Lonchitis Moonwort Vitex Polyenemus wild Coleworts Anagallis Solomans seals Polygonum Goosgrass Clymenus Argemone great white Bottles Herb Trinity Balsam Conyza Erigerus Goats beard Bettony Sage Polymontane Rosemary and Roses Flowers of Labrusca Myrtle seeds Juniper Berries Acrons Dates Boyl them in Water or Wine adding Vinegar and drying Pouders and Allum Or wash Wounds with the distilled water of them Or distill this Take Juice of Plantane Agrimony St Iohns-wort twelve ounces white Wine three ounces Allum three ounces Mastich Frankincense each half an ounce Orpiment a dram whites of two Egges Destill a water Or you may still a water with a strong Fire out of pouder of Bricks and Wax washed often in Wine Some use the water that is in the Leaves of Elme You may make fine Pouders with Allum to sprinkle upon Wounds of the Ingredients for the Plaster Or for the Head especially if the Skul be broken of Orris Birthwort Flower of Orobus and Frankincense Myrrh and Sarcocol or Aloes and Sanguis Draconis or of bark of Pitch tree and of All-heal roots and Capers and Cypress roots and when there are scales of Bones in the wound use scales of Brass Pumice stone and Crocus Martis in pouder and for the Head grains of Kermes Saunders Cypress nuts and Myrtles and when you will dry more Tutty and Antimony If the Brain appear Sprinkle Aloes alone Mans Blood or Goats dryed is a good Pouder to glutinate wounds Or the red Liquor of the Blood-stone rubbed upon a whet-stone or the white Liquor of the Galactitis dryed There are also Potions to cure wounds called Vulnerary good not only when they peirce to the Stomach and parts whither they can reach but for wounds in the Breast and other parts and some say these Potions are of that
Blackness to go about to cure it is to make a black More white according to the Proverb Blackmores which is impossible There is another vulgar Swarthyness Ordinary Swarthiness the Cure of it when the skin is darkish and dusty Naturally is nothing set by of them who think true Beauty doth not consist in whiteness and therefore they think a Man is not discoulored thereby and will not require cure But such as love to be neat and think themselves less fair and acceptable to others thereby desire to mend it if they cannot cure it When the skin is black by wrinkles that shadow it and make it dark when the wrinkles are not confirmed as when they come from an external cause or Disease that hath made the skin loose when the causes are removed they will cease and the skin will be stretched and its wrinkles and return to its former Complexion but if the skin be dryed and straightned especially by Age as in old people though they seem impossible to be taken away and the Physitian that permiseth to do it seems to be mad as the Poet saith He 's worthy of a filthy aged Quean That wrinkles from her body taketh clean Yet for the taking away if not diminishing of the same there are Remedies which old Men desiring to seem yong do much affect These are done by a two sold Art Medicines by the beautifying Art by one called comptorian Art which is for Neatness making an artificial white but instable and fading over the black which is Natural so deceiving the Spectators Fucus and this is called a Fucus the other is called the cosmetick art and doth not add another colour nor deceives Medicines made by the Cosmetick Art but only amends this dull colour of the skin making it more neat bright and constant in colour taking away or mending the wrinkles and correcting the dark complexion Afterwards that there may be more Beauty with red colour applyed to certain parts called then Fuci by the comptorian Art they make the Body of better colour We shall shew how this is done by Remedies that whiten clense take away wrinkles and make red The white Medicines called Fucuses with which women that affect to be beautiful and which would be unseemly in Men do paint their Face Hands and other places that are naked and seen are made of white stuff and that is chosen for the most part which is cleansing and digesting or such things are mixed therewith for so they make fair not only by whiting which is but of smal continuance and little Ornament but maketh a new colour in the skin by sucking continually forth that Moisture which makes it black and it attenuateth the skin by clensing and so makes it more clear and neat And therefore when the skin is thicker and harder then usual sosteners are mixed not only to procure a decent colour but to mollifie the Hands and Face which is commendable for which cause that the Face may alwaies shine which is accounted comely they add some fat things These paints being thus made in form of a Liquor white as Milk or of an Unguent must be applyed and suffered to dry on And if they be discoloured by their thickness which women of the honest sort do fear exceedingly before they go forth do usually wash with some comely decoction which is no paint as shall be declared so gently that some of the white still remain with and that when the paint seems to be quite gone will restore it and it will continue long and therefore they wash often after it before they go forth into view The matter of these is taken from divers white things as follow of Ceruss which being very white and sticks well by reason of its fineness and Fatness is proper if first it be poudered and seifted washed often and dryed or boiled in water till it may be made into Troches one whereof being taken in the palm of the Hand with a little convenient Liquor will serve to paint the Face Of the white Dragon Roots there are made Troches as the former like Ceruss and white Starch called Gersa which besides the whiteness it makes doth cleanse very much and it is made of the Juyce of Dragon Roots dryed gently by the fire or Sun and so brought into Balls or Troches Or take the Roots aforesaid and after they are cleansed beat them and then with warm water or other convenient Liquor dissolve it and strain it and so let it stand till there be a white cream at the bottom from which pour of the water at the top and pour on fresh which after a little time you must also pour off from the residence at the bottom as before and this being three or four times done let that which remains be dryed and made up for your use into smal Troches The common way of preparing this Gersa is of the dryed Roots of Dragons which being first peeled from their external black coat must be beaten into pouder and then dissolved in water and gently dryed again and then again poudered and washed after this manner three or four times and made into Balls or Troches and kept for use The same way may be made as well of the great Aron or Cookow pintle Roots in defect of the other as white and as forcible or of both together Of the white Brittle root of the wild Cowcumber you may also make the same You may make other forms of Dragon Roots and Ceruss thus Take of Dragon Gersa prepared as before one ounce of Ceruss prepared of Borax two drams and if you please of Camphire half a dram with the Infusion of Gum Traganth made in Rose water make Troches for your use you may mix some things that are in Unguantum Citrinum therewith Sometimes you may mix prepared Ceruss and Dragons with Oyl of sweet Almonds or de Been and a little white if you please to make it into an Oyntment Of sublimate Mercury there are excellent washes made which cleanse and make white which are divers waies prepared least they should exulcerate mixing things which work the same effect more gently and least any part of it should touch the Teeth and make them black as is usual she must keep water in her Mouth while she useth it A water like Milk is made thereof which is more plain and profitable thus Take of finely poudered Sublimate half an ounce two or three whites of Eggs well beaten of the Emulsion of white Poppy seeds made of one pound of the seed and ten pints of water stir them very well in a stone Mortar first putting in the whites of an Egg by degrees then the Emulsion as is sufficient which is known by a Pin or put therein for when it is not discoloured after some continuance there it is right but if it be then pour on more Emulsion To this we add two ounces of Borax or of Sugar Candy Another white wash is thus
made Take of the whitest Barley flower or Starch made into a past with Goats Milk bake it gently in an Ouen and when it begins to be hard take it out and mix it with so much Goats Milk as will make it all like thick Milk take five pints of this and two drams of Sublimate mix them well together more or less till by the proof above mentioned with a pin you find it right then use it adding sometimes Ceruss one dram Borax two drams of sea Snails calcined half an ounce with a little Camphir A dry past made of Sublimate like Chalk or Starch is often used a portion whereof being tempered in the hand with a little wine out of your Mouth or Rose-water may anoint the Face or mingled with Pomatum Oyl of Gourds seeds or sweet Almonds it is made thus Take of Sublimate poudered one ounce of Quick-silver two or three drams of Juyce of Lemmons or Vinegar a little stir them till they wax white and then stir them well fasting spittle of one that cheweth Sugar Candy then with whites of Eggs stir them into the form of a past or Liniment Then wash it with a good quantity of Spring water and let them boil together a little and then stand to settle and let the clear water at the top be poured off by degrees and fresh water be poured on and then after boyling and setling be poured of as formerly Do it thrice but the last time with Rose-water or Bean-water or of Myrtles and boil it till it be almost consumed and let the bottom or residence be set in the Sun or in an Oven till it be dry sometimes this infusion is made without boiling only by long steeping and changing the water sometimes and then drying the residence Sometimes a dram of Camphire is added to the sublimate and Quick-silver the quantity of a dram and to make it more dear rather then for profit as much of the pouder of Pearls or sea Snails calcined with some Leaves of gold and silver to repress the malignity of Quick-silver and of sublimate There is the like made by the women of Monpelier which is Take of the best sublimate four ounces of Quick-silver mixed with the fasting spittle of one that chewed Sugar Candy half an ounce beat them well in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestil till it be white then tie it in a white silk Clout and put it into a new glassed earthen pot full of water and set it upon the Embers and after the water is grown hot pour it off and add fresh and do so the second time and let your Mercury be sweetned with so doing nine times and let the Body that remains in the silk Rag be dryed and made into formes as big as Vetches dry them in the shade and keep them for use The way is to take one piece and dissolve it in Oyl of sweet Almonds for a Liniment for the Face There is a white wash made of Litharge by steeping or boyling it which they call Virgins Milk this gives the Face a good Colour but because it doth take Redness away too much we shall speak of it hereafter in Redness Washes may be made also of Borax which the Goldsmiths use and is made of water being finely poudered and mixed with Oyl of Guord seeds or other Oyl Or with the Infusion of Gum Traganth to anoint and you may mix Ceruss with Borax Of stones as white Marble Alabaster Amiantum specular stone Loadstone which is called Talcum Crystal white Coral and divers Sea-fish shells either crude or first calcined made up with Oyl Liquor or Pomatum are made also Oyntments and these Washes as Take of some of the aforesaid half an ounce Ceruss two drams Borax one dram white Frankincense and Camphire each half a dram of Juyce of Lemmons one ounce of Oyl of sweet Almonds or other Oyl as much as will make a Liniment Or let her use instead of these the Vnguentum citrinum which is made of the stones aforesaid Alabaster the speculiar stone or Talcum Christal Coral and shells the Navel shell Fish the purple Fish the Trumpet Fish Ceruss Borax white Frankincense Camphire and Gersa of Dragons Niter Starch-Traganth Hogs Grease and Hens Grease and the Juyce of Citrons from whence this Oyntment is named Citrinum The Face or Hands being rubbed with the fine Pouder of Talcum it makes them wonderful white so that if it continue any time it will not easily be taken off Eggs shells calcined and poudered finely make an oyntment with the things mentioned also very excellent Also a good Oyntment is made of Starch incorporated as before and you may add the white flower of dryed Melon and Pepon-seeds Also an Emulsion of Melon-seeds and Almonds with their water doth beautifie the Face Some Women use it thus They take one or two bitter Almonds and put them in a Clout and chew them fasting and so anoint the Face with the Spittle mixed with the white Emulsion Those cleansing Remedies external which differ from a Fucus only in that they paint not white are made as the other and are as follow with which the Face is to be washed or anointed Stilled Waters are most usual as of these Simples Solomons Seal Bean-flowers Roots of Dragons or Cuckow-pintles Sowbread Raddish Gentian Mallows Lillies Mullein Water-lillies Melons Kidney Beans Pine-nuts with sweet Waters as of Roses with Musk or Camphire of Orenge flowers Orris Roots c. The Waters of Lillies and Rosin of the Fir-tree doth make a thick Skin thin Many Compounds are for the same use thus made of Guords Melons being ripe and divided distilled with Goats Milk and Eggs beaten together Or of Lemmons Oranges Citrons distilled as the former Another is made of Bread thus Take of common white Bread or of Barley or Bran the Crust taken off two pounds of Goats Milk three pints of Eggs beaten ten distil a Water of them You may add three ounces of Sugar and so distil it Or half a pint of Wine and one or two Lemmons or one ounce and an half of the Juyce and one dram of Camphire Or Take the aforesaid and add of Bean or Pease Meal or of Rice three ounces of bitter Almonds two ounces of the four great cold seeds one ounce distil them That it may cleanse more add of Dragon Roots and Solomons seal each one ounce and an half of Orris Roots one ounce and of Mastich half on ounce Borax two drams Also the Water of Rice macerated or steeped in Lemmon or Bean water till it swell distilled to a pint ad half an ounce of the pouder of Mastich And the white of Eggs mixed with the Juyce of Lemmons make a good Water distilled to which before the stilling you may add Borax Allum and Salt The Venetian Paint is not to be omitted which is thus made Take of the whitest Lard that is sweet and cut it small as much as you please of the white Flowers of Bindwood of the
bitterness that it is not commendable we may also make it sweet sented with Sanders Wood Aloes Angelica Root Lavender flowers Rose-water or Musk c. Others may be added as this for the Hands Take of Ceruss half an ounce of Starch three drams of Borax and Camphire each two drams of Egg shells calcined half a dram to them being poudered add of Lilly and Water lilly and Rose-water six pints of Lilly Roots two ounces of Bread Crumbs half a pound boyl them well then add twelve Yolkes of Eggs beaten strain them and keep them for your use Or make an Infusion of Gum Traganth in Milk and juyce of Lemmons adding Ceruss Starch and the like and so anoint the Hands Also there is a paste of the Roots Daffodils boyled and beaten adding Tartar and beaten Eggs. Where you will more mollifie when the Hands are very hard anoint with the Oyl of Guord seeds or of sweet or bitter Almouds dissolved with white Wax also you may add the pulp of white Lillies and Oyl of Tartar to cleanse The pulp of Melons rubbed doth make the Hands soft and clean To diminish or take away wrinkles if possible Remedies against wrinkles in the Face especially and sometimes in the hands that the skin may seem less cloudy and folded and uneven there have been proper Remedies declared albeit there are some cleansing Paints as aforesaid proper for the same these that follow are proper and such as by a cleansing Quality or by mollifying do enlarge the skin that was bound The seeds of wild Caraway bruised applyed with a Cerot are commended by Dioscorides Also Briony Roots with Orobus Faenugreek and Chalk or Earth of Chios Others approve the Water of Pine-apples that are green the Flowers of Mullein also the Roots of Asaron and Solomons Seal The Water of the Flowers and Roots of Lillies with May dew is admirable The Juyce of Lemmons Primrose Cuckow-pintle Roots and of stinking Gladon do lift up the skin and make it break and a new one come under it The Decoction Jesamine seeds also of Figgs with Briony Roots Oyl of Myrrh Jesamins Acorns Tartar bitter Almonds Pine-nuts and Ivy-berryes An Emplaster Take of pure Wax one ounce dissolve it with Asses Milk stir them and when they are cold take them off and add an ounce of Oyl of sweet Almonds Allum and Sperma Caeti each half an ounce dissolve and spread them and apply it to a wrinkled Fore-head or the like Let the Meal of Lupines be rubbed on with Goats Gall. Or Take of Hens Grease two ounces of white Wax one dram of Rose-water one ounce dissolve them add of Ceruss two drams of white Coral one dram of Camphire half a dram make an Oyntment Pomatum is in great Use The Fume of Myrrh cast upon coals and received on the Face is said to be good They also study to take away Wrinkles from other parts of the Body as those which are left after Child-bearing upon the Belly This is done with this Oyntment made of the Suet of a Kid or Ram in Rose-water or Pomatum with a little Butter and the white of an Egg with the the pouder of Mastich and Frankincense Or Take of Mastich and Frankineense each half an ounce of Myrrh two drams of burnt Harts-horn one dram of Amiantum two drams of Salt Ammoniack one dram of Barley Meal two drams of Nigella one dram of rosted Squills half a dram with Honey make an Oyntment Medicines that make red are used by Women that study Ornament Medicines that make the Lipps and Cheeks red to their Cheeks and Lips and so they take away the Paleness and ill Colour by painting with these that follow The Roots of great Madder rub'd upon the Cheeks makes them red and also if these be mixed with Oyl anointed The Pouder of Briony Roots mixed with Water or Honey if the Cheeks be washed with the infusion or anointed therewith it will make them red They write that the Sea Onion and Dill seed anointed with Honey and Wine will do the like That Red which Painters make of Sanders and shavings of Brasil steept or boyled in Water Wine or Vinegar with Allum will paint the Cheeks and Lips red The Spanish Women do colour the inside of their dishes with Cuchynelle and call it Vermillion of Spain and so keep it and when they will use it they spit upon it and paint their Cheeks The cheeks being rubbed with Scarlet or Silk dyed with Cuchineile or Crimson dipt in a little Aqua vitae turn red Some Women rub their cheeks with red Leather to make them red I have observed that if one rub her cheek with ripe Mulberries and then after with a green and wash with Water thereupon there will remain a flourishing colour long after That Cure which belongs to particular Discolorations is either for Commaculations or Spots The Cure of commaculations is according to the cause which is external either Air Filth or other things that discolour the Skin They who by Labour and Travail are Sun-burnt The Cure of Sun-burning think it no dishonor but a commendation and therefore care not for the cure because in the Winter it usually decreaseth But if this Blackness displease we must prevent it and destroy it Thus we prevent Sun-burning A broad brim Hat or the like or Gloves for the Hands prevent sun-burning Or defend them with anointing with whites of Eggs or the Mucilage of Fleabane or of Quinces Extracted with Rose-water or with the Infusion of Gum Traganth made therein To these are added Butter or Suet or Pomatum or Oyl of sweet Almonds or Cream of Milk in a small Quantity least the Face being anointed with those fat things or without those by the use of dryers should appear extended The pulp of the Juyce of Melons doth the same and of Guords adding some of the unctious things mentioned Or anoint with this before you go into the Sun Take of Pomatum two ounces of Ceruss dissolved in Rose-water one dram of Frankincense and Mastick each half a dram of Mucilage of Quinces one ounce make a Liniment This blackness by Sun-burning is sometimes cured by Nature which supplyeth continually the Burning which is new and little with a fresh skin if they keep out of the Sun except it pierce to the true skin and then it will scarce go away of its own accord And then it must be cured by paints and cosmetick Remedies as the Natural blackness which have been already described and therefore shall not be repeated Moreover we cure this by taking away the burnt skin from the Face and Hands except the Impression be too deep as we have said This is done by lifting and raising the scarfe skin to make it fall off by this following Remedy Take of the Roots of white Lillies one quarter of a pound reast them in the Embers then beat them with one ounce of sugar candy lay it upon the Face and repeat it often alwaies anointing with Honey when
discovery as also of the Pulse which hath no Alteration The Venereal Disease called by that name The French Pox. because it comes from Venery and because it is there frequent and came from thence the Neapolitan Disease or French Disease may be more truely called the Indian Disease thence it came first doth corrupt the body with as many accidents as the Elephantiasis and makes it filthy sick and uncomely And in this there is great pain and if it be alone it is referred to the pains about the bones but if it be mixed with other accidents it is to be referred hither And these accidents are to be diligently searched into because it is infectious and that it being known betimes the unsound may be separated from the sound for which end there are proper Hospitals These accidents following are the chief The Hair usually falls off in the French Pox which is a sign One kind of French Pox. especially about the Temples Forehead and Eye-brows and in men the beard falls and this is a more certain sign if other accidents concur albeit if there be no sign of another Disease it will be a sign of the Pox alone and also if they confess that they have had to do with unclean Women The skin is sometimes sprinkled with small Spots Another kind of French Pox. red and like Fleabits or Freckles dark yellow or blew in many places in the Face Neck Breast Belly Privities somtimes all over And we have somtimes seen these Spots so joyned together that the skin hath been broadly infected especially in the Breast and Back and somtimes in the Belly or other places which being pressed the strange colour flew away and the pit was white and presently returned to its former colour These Spots either alone if we can discover no other cause thereof besides unclean Copulation declare the beginning of the Pox or some small kind of it as also the falling off of the Hair alone or with other accidents they will be more certain and shew the Disease to be worse High Pustles without pain are somtimes in the skin The third kind of french Pox. reddish or yellowish round hard and covered with a dry Scurfe in the Forehead Ears Nostrils Jaws and in the Head also in the Neck Breast Arms and other parts and these certainly declare the Pox. Besides there are divers malignant Pustles in the inward parts the Mouth Jaws Nostrils and Praepuce or Foreskin of a mans Yard and Womens Privities these if many together do certainly signifie the Pox especially if other signs went before or come after In Children infected these Pustles in the Mouth are the chieft sign of it There come also filthy Ulcers from the Pustles mentioned in divers parts yet chiefly in the tender parts of the skin Face Nose Lips and about the Privities and that cancer in the Praepuce or Fore-skin of the Yard and those in womens Privities also in the Jawes Mouth as the little sores called Aphthae or thrush Nostrils and in the Posteriors Some of these creep on and corrode the subject parts and corrupt the bone and bring hurt to the parts either by Lameness or loss of the same Others disfigure the Face by eating off the Nose others corrode the Lips so that they cannot drink or sup which must be done by the lips as I have seen Others have eaten through the Palate and consumed the Vvula whereby the voice hath been hoarse and they have spoken through the Nose and snuffled Also these Ulcers corrupt the Glans Nut or Head of the Yard and makes them unfit for Venery as we shewed in corroding Ulcers such as hinder Functions and Actions By these especially if many together and mix'd with other accidents we certainly discover the French Pox. Pains about the Bones without flesh as in the Shins The fourth kind of the French Pox. Shoulders Head Fore-head and Temples somtimes in the Breast which is only pained in this Disease These pains are great and worst towards night and when they are touched neither will they be asswaged with Anodines or Stupefactives as other parts but worse thereby These if without other signs are to be referred to the pains in the Habit of the Body And if they be joyned with other accidents they make a distinct Pox from the rest and it is easily known Besides these there are other accidents which are signs of the Pox which being alone because they may be also in other Diseases cannot determine certainly except after copulation with unclean Women they cause a suspicion And then also we cannot undoubtedly pronounce it the Pox except there be other signs for before ever the pox was known there were venereal Buboes or Swellings in the Groin without Infection that came by Copulation and other accidents which we shall explain And if they come from the Pox there will presently be other signs as pain about the Bones falling of Hair Spots or Pustles These following accidents are both in the Pox and in other diseases and are exactly described elsewhere therefore we shall but touch upon them here The Swelling in the Groin called Bubo venereus sometimes breaks forth in the beginning and vanisheth presently or if it remain it grows hard or comes to matter nor is it unlike that Bubo which is without the Pox. These are Swellings called Condylomata in the Privities of a Woman and of a Man also which are also like those that are without Infection There are clifts also in the Hands and Feet and the skin in the Palm of the Hand being thick comes off without pain as we shewed it may without the Pox. It is observed that the Nails and Hair also fall off Somtimes there are Nodes or Knots in that kind of pox which is about the bones with pain in the Forehead Shins and other parts without flesh as we shewed in pains about the Bones which are without the Pox and yet very like it Somtimes there is matter that flow from the Privities both of Man and Woman fouling their Linnen with a yellowish stain which follows a venemous Matter or Seed mentioned in the infectious or virulent Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins this is joyned with the Pox and is somtimes without it There is also here a burning of Urine with dropping of the same as in other Diseases As for the other accidents that hinder Actions because they come not of themselves from this Disease but by accident from other Causes and Diseases if they grow troublesom being general and belonging to other Diseases of continuance and do not constitute the Pox neither can we take any certain signs thereof from them we willingly pass them by As we counted it also to be superfluous to predict or foretel any thing hereof by the Urin or Blood being contrary to experience and we think it sit to cherish the people in their Folly of supposing all things may be known by urin The Scurvey is called by Pliny and
Injection to heal Take Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half Horstayl and Plantane each one handful Litharge six drams boyl them in Iron-water and in one pint thereof dissolve Honey of Roses or Sugar of Roses two ounces Turpentine one dram dissolve it in the Yolk of an Egg for an Injection Or thus Take the white Troches of Rhasis half a dram Lapis Calaminaris Tuity burnt Lead Bole each a dram dissolve them with convenient Liquor or Milk or Whey Another Take Ceruss half an ounce Lytharge two drams Tutty prepared three drams Starch one ounce make a Pouder and inject it with Water or drop it into the Nut or head of the Yard A good Water for an Injection Take Comfrey roots half a pound Roots of Snakeweed Tormentil each two ounces ten Heads of Daffodil roots Horstayl and Plantane each two handfuls Tops of St. Johns-wort with the Flowers two pugils Allum one ounce Honey of Roses as much as is sufficient twelve Eggs beaten if the Herbs be dry sprinkle them with Plantane-water and distil them all If you add to these Injections some Drops of Spirit of Vitriol or of Salt they will be stronger And if these spirits be used alone with Whey they will cleanse and heal The Balsom of Suphur invented by Roland doth cleanse and heal excellently These may be dropped into the Yard if the Ulcer be not too deep as also Juyces They put some Oyntments also as Pompholygos with a wax Candle which is better then other Instruments because it will bend better in the crooked Passage But you must remember that you tye it with a thread least it should get into the Bladder and the Oyntment go beyond the Ulcer The distilled Oyl of Henbane dropp'd into the Yard doth asswage pain You must anoint the seam or suture between the Stones and the Fundament and soment it when there is heat and it will be felt within and the Passages must be loosned with Oyntments mentioned in the Ulcer in the Neck of the Bladder to which add Opium if the pain be great Anoint also the part with Oyntments there mentioned to heal the Ulcer And let the Diet be as there menâ—ioned The Excretion of slimy Matter from the Yard without Urin The sure ofe Uâ—cer in the Neck of the Bladder the slimy Matter and in Women from the Urin-passage is cured as that of the Stone and Matter with Injections which cleanse the slimy Matter and if it stick in the Yard it must be drawn out Or if you put the Yard into a hollow Raddish the matter will be drawn forth The Matter which comes from the Womb The Cure of the ulcer in the womb the matter that slows from it as also from other parts of the Body is to be cured as the Ulcer of the womb When it flows by any other Orifices from any internal filthy Ulcers which lye deep in the Body and are made of Imposthumes that break or are opened you must cleanse and heal As we shewed in Ulcers Imposthumes and Wounds And we shewed in the Cure of Empyema how you should order the Matter that flows from the Breast after Incision CHAP. VII Of Excretion or Voiding of Water The Kinds VVE call that a watery Excretion when a moist Humor thicker or thinner made of the Excrements of Flegm or of that which is Natural and crude and of the Serum or Whey mixed together so that the one is more then the other floweth forth Which Excretion is preternatural chiefly when it is much and often and corrupted or comes not out at the proper place This comes from divers parts besides that of Spitting Vomiting Pissing and Purging Of which shall be spoken in their places Tears flow from the Eyes often which are like Whey Tears or Serum or Flegm mixed with water they break out in sound people especially in Children and doting old Men from a small Cause and in others from a great Passion of Mind And therefore are not counted preternatural But when they are troublesom and of long Continuance in some Diseases of the Head and Eyes they are Symptomes of the same Some Tears are hot and sharp others cold There is often water from the Nose which is natural The dropping at the Nose because it is by the right way but when it aboundeth it is preternatural And it is in some from whose Nose water flows like tears and a drop hangs at the end of it Or it is like slimy Flegm which being usual in children is counted less noisom then in Men. The same is in the Kind of Defluxion called Coryza Coriza or Pose there falls at the first a thin moist Humor constantly actually cold sometimes hot and sharp that makes the Nose smart and provokes Neesing and causeth Tears inflamming and corroding the Nostrils and Lips with great Spitting Hawking and Coughing somtimes And this Humor at the last is thick white or of another Colour The same happens in other Diseases of the Head and Defluxions As was shewed There comes a water out at the Ears thin or thick somtimes Water from the Ears but seldom And a certain Maid had divers measures of water that flowed from her Ear without any other hurt It is usual in Women to have the white Flux The Flux of the womb or the Whites And because it useth to come when women are past their Courses they are called the white Terms But these use to be out of order and with women that have their Courses and last more or less time And somtimes they trouble such as have their Courses stopped As those who are past them and are in old Women In Virgins it is but seldom and often in women with Child Somtimes this Flux is of water and very much and clear and milk somtimes sharp or salt yellow green or black somtimes mattery stinking Sometimes it is mixed with Flegm that is tough without scent cold and little or as much or more then the water If this Flux be immoderate there is no other accident and both Wives and Virgins have it many months and years without hurt But if it be immoderate there is an evil Habit of Body therewith Also Faintness and Weakness also Barrenness in some although it hinders not some If the matter befoul there is an Itching Pricking and Heat in the Privities And it is very noisom when it stinks and makes the Husband loath her Usually there sweats a whey or water out of the Pores of the skin Preternatural Sweat it is Natural and common to all Complexions but it is preternataral when it is too much or soul as it is in Diseases and somtimes without There is too much Sweat without a Disease when it is caused oftner then it should be or continued longer so that they faint and if it be often they grow faint The Sweat is evil when it stinketh This is somtimes al over the Body or in the parts as Feet as we shewed
shewed the force in Elephantiasis And for Figgs they thought from the likeness of the seeds to Lice that they bred them but were deceived VVashing often with Lye rubbing and combing the Head is good to take away Grease and Dandrough and in other parts of the Body VVe use strong Dryers and Cleansers to the Disease it self to kill the Lice and take away filth that breeds them which are bitter or sharper They cannot do it by being taken inwards But some eat Garlick or drink it with the Decoction of Organ to kill Lice and Worms And some Countrey-fellows eat Garlick to keep off the flies Outward things are best to kill them and take away Itching as Lotions for the Head and other parts As this Take Birthwort one ounce and an half Hellebore roots half an ounce Beets Arsmart Wormwood Horehound Tamarisk Tops of the lesser Centaury each one handful Staphisager Lupins each half an ounce Berries of the Spindle-tree and Agarick two drams boyl them in Lye And wash the part affected It is stronger with Salt Allum or Niter or Vinegar especially of Squills When we wash the Head we use things proper for it as Bettony Sage French Lavender For Lice in the Eye-brows wash with Vinegar and Aloes and Salts A Pouder to drive Lice from the Hair Take Staphisager two drams Salt three drams Aloes one dram Cinnabar two drams The Oyntment also of Quick-silver mentioned is best here for it kills infaillibly all sorts of Lice and Itch. It may be thus made Take Quick-silver one dram Turpentine two drams Hoggs grease Butter or Oyl six drams make an Oyntment Or instead of Quick-silver use two drams of Cinnabar which is made of Quick silver and Brimstone Or for the Lice in the Hands use one dram of Sublimate instead of Quick-silver There are other Oyntments of Staphisager and Grease Thus Take Staphisager half an ounce white Hellebore one dram and an half Pepper Niter each one dram Grease Butter or Oyl with a little Wax make a Liniment To these add some of that with Quick-silver or one dram of Sandarck The usual Oyntment in shops is this Take Staphisager white Hellebore Salt Quick-silver Hoggs grease Oyl of Bayes Soap and Vinegar Another Oyntment of bitter things Take Aloes two drams Myrrh Gum of Ivy each one dram Hogs gall or of an Ox one dram and an half Quick-brimstone Allum each one dram Oyl of Wormwood or bitter Almonds as much as will make a Liniment A Paste made of Ox gall or other Gall and Meal of Lupins and held in the Hands long kills the worms there The linnen Clouts that Gold-smiths use when they guild Silver with Gold and Quick-silver applied to the part kill Lice insaillibly The Fume of Henbane seed taken into the Palm of the Hands kills the worms there But we suppose it rather allayes the Itch as anointing with the Oyl of Henbane seed or Poppies or Syrup of Poppies or a little Opium dissolved in Aqua vitae Smoak your Cap with Tobacco and the Lice will be killed Also Tobacco ashes and Piss cureth Crab-lice The worms in the Hands are picked out with a needle not thrust in deep to wet the part and hinder the sight of them And then wash the Hands with Wine or Vinegar Salt Allum or Niter often A very fine Comb will take them out of the Head Or a rubbing Brush which is invented for that purpose with which Women daily cleanse their Childrens Heads CHAP. XIV Of the Voiding of living Creatures or Animata The Kinds THose Bodies are called Animate which live are nourished and grow like Plants and yet have no sense or motion They are preternatural and so is the Voiding of them These are chiefly from the Womb and the Fundament There is an insensible and unmoving Body called a Mole sent forth from the womb A Mole without shape being soft flesh without bones full of veins covered with a skin Somtimes it is more membranous and still without shape such as I saw voided by a woman through the use of a Pessary after eigteen years barrenness Somtimes it is like a Sea-star as I have seen and cast into the water to the great amazement of the Beholders and somtimes it is of other forms This casting forth of a Mole is like a mischance or abortion before or after the time with such striving and voiding of blood And the accidents before are like those of Women with Child We spake of the Tumor of the Mole and its accidents and causes in the Tumors of the Belly The like but seldom come from the Fundament The long Membrane from the guts called Fascia The broad worm or fillet of the Guts called Taenia of divers kinds One is like a long Ribband like the smal Guts as long as they but not hollow a fingers breadth this they cal a flat worm but it is a Taenia or Fillet of the guts nothing like a worm nor is it alive or moveth coming forth so long that the Patient is frighted least his Guts should come forth In which there are black stroaks a fingers space distant all a long like the Vertebrae or Spondils This Taenia The Gourd-worm though very long is of many little parts which may be divided and they are like the Seeds of Gourds and are so called from thence This is seldom whole but in pieces every one of which is called a Gourd-worm but they are only pieces of the long Fillet or Fascia There is another kind of Taenia as long as the rest The Ligula or round point from the Guts but not so broad round like a worm and even called Ligula or a point it moveth not seldom seen from men but usually from doggs whol or broken not coming forth till it be drawn out There are no accidents of this Disease but the sudden fright and the Patient is well Except there be a greediness before and a heaviness in the Belly And if any part remain and stink the Symptoms are worse then if worms died in the Belly The Causes The Cause of these Bodies breeding is either Seed or Chyle VVe shewed in the Swelling of the Belly Conceiving of imperfect Seed is the cause of a Mole that imperfect Seed caused a Mole And the cause of voiding it is that of Abortion the expulsive faculty of Nature burdned with the preternatural weight which divideth the Vessels by which it grows to the womb and sends it forth the proper way And the sooner when there is external help Of which we spake in Abortion As we shewed long worms bred of Chyle that is too thick or fat The Chyle is the cause of the Taenia and Gourd-worm so if it be so much that it be in the thin Guts from the Stomach to the Colon growing thereto that Membrane called a Taenia is caused This Chyle is not in the whole compass of the Guts but in some part as broad as it comes forth only there where the