a gnawing of the mouth or the stomack a darksom giddiness of the brain and bitterness of the mouth it signifieth that he had need to be purged upwards For these are three symptomes by which the Physician may know the Patient hath need of being purged upward APH. 18. Whosoever having need of hath pains above the Middriff it is a sign he must be purged upwards but the pains which are under the same shew a purging downwards to be needful For which way the humor naturally desires to go that way you must by the help of medicines send it APH. 19. Those which do not thirst while they are purged by a medicinal potion shall not leave purging while they do thirst Because the excrements being evacuated the mouth of the ventricle is dryed up which causeth thirst APH. 20. If there be gripings about the Navel without a Feaver and heaviness of the knees and pain of the loyns they signifie that there is need of purging downward Because that all these symptomes shew that the noxious humors motion and violence is downward APH. 21. Black excrements of the belly like unto black blood coming forth of their own accord both with a Feaver or without are most evil and by how much the more the evil colours are so much the worse the excrements are But such things to be expelled out by a medicine is far better and that by how much the more colours there shall be For if they come out of their own accord it shews there are many ill affected humors in the body which driven out by Physick the body remains sound APH. 22. In the beginning of any disease if black choller come forth either above or beneath it is deadly For it signifies that nature is ill affected which never evacuates superfluous things till they be concocted wherefore if black choller come forth in the beginning of a disease it is evacuated by its proper malice and not by the law of Nature APH. 23. Those which are pined or brought low by sharp or long diseases or by wounds or any other means and do void black choller or as it were black blood do dye the next day following Namely through the imbecility of faculty and greatness of the disease APH. 24. A Bloody flux if it proceed from black choller is mortal Because it ulcerates the entrails with an ulcered cancer which can hardly be cured in the outward parts to which medi caments may be applyed therfore much less there where no such medicaments can be applyed APH. 25. For blood to be carried upward of what kind soever it be is an evil sign but if black blood be avoided downwards it is good For if it be carried upwards it shews there is some vessel opened extended or broken in the upper parts And in this place by carrying upward is meant through the mouth not through the nostrils which for the most part is good APH. 26. If any man being afflicted with a bloody-flux void as it were little pieces of flesh it is a mortal sign For then the exulceration is so great that it can no way be healed APH. 27. To those which have store of blood flowing from what part soever in Feavers their bodies become come moist after they have been refreshed Because the natural heat is weakened by store of blood flowing and though here mention be made onely of Feavers yet it holds in other diseases likewise APH. 28. Those which avoid chollerick excrements downward if deafness come thereupon they cease from avoiding them And those which are affected with deafness are cured of it by avoiding of chollerick excrements He means not a permanent deafness for that is not so cured but of a transitory or supervening deafness caused by cholerick humors molesting the brain which must needs cease when they come down APH. 29. If cold shakings happen to them that are sick of an Ague the sixt day they have a difficult Crysis and we cannot well judge of the disease Because for the most part they presage either death or return of the disease APH. 30. In them which are afflicted with fits of Agues whensoever the Ague shall leave them if it return the same hour the next day it is wont to have a difficult Crysis and determination That is to say it will not easily be dissolved APH. 31. Imposthumes are caused neer the joynts and especially neer the jaw-bones or mandibles to them which feel weariness or lassitude in Feavers Because the heat of the Feaver having drawn the humors up into the head when they fall down again the jaw-bones being very weak cannot expel them to other parts of the body but there they must rest And the joynts heated by motion attract the humors of the body APH. 32. Those which recovering from a disease have a pain in some place shal have Imposthumes or botches in that place He speaks of such as recover and yet have some reliques of feaverish matter remaining in their bodies APH. 33. If any part be pained before the disease there is the seat of the disease Therefore if it be a principal part we must indeavor to divert the humors from thence APH. 34. If a suffocation of the breath do happen upon a suddain to one afflicted with a Feaver no swelling appearing in the jaws or gullet it is deadly For it is a sign that Phlegm stoppeth his breath and respiration without which he cannot live APH. 35. If to one afflicted with a Feaver the neck be suddainly turned awry and he can scarce swallow and no swelling appear it is deadly For it shews there is an inflammation in the muscles lying before the throat or in the throat it self APH 36. Sweats are good to those who are sick of an Ague if they issue forth the third fifth seventh ninth eleventh fourteenth seventeenth one and twentieth thirty and four and thirtieth days for those sweats work the dissolution of the disease those which happen otherwise signifie pain and length of the disease or a return of the same For these are the onely days of Critical sweats in which we may be judge of the dâ—ssolution of the disease APH. 37. Cold sweats with a sharp Feaver betoken death but with a milde and gentle Ague length of the disease Because it shews that the Patients body doth so much abound in cold humors that neither the natural nor the sharp Feavers heat is able to heat them APH. 38 In what part of the body the the sweat is there is the disease Because in that part stick the redundant and noxious humors APH. 39. And in what part of the body there is heat or cold there the the disease is setled Namely in an excessive manner and not proceeding from any external cause for it shews a distemperature contrary to health APH. 40. And when alterations do happen in the whole body and it is sometimes cool and sometimes hot or one colour arises after another it signifies continuance of the disease Because Nature
varices whose hair do fall their hair will grow again Because those vicious humors which before corrupted the hair are now gon down into the legs APH. 35. If a cough come upon those which are troubled with a Dropsie it is an evil thing For it signifies the watery humor to be so increased that it hath seised upon the rough artery and so causeth danger of suffocation APH. 36. Phlebotomy cureth the difficulty of making urine but we must open the inward veins Namely that difficulty which proceeds from inflamation or fulness APH. 37. If a tumor appear in the neck to him that is troubled with a Squinancy or Quinzy it is good Because the humors are come from the inward parts to the outward APH. 38. Those who have hidden or deep Cancers are not to be cured of them for they which are healed die soon and those which are not healed live longer For fear of provoking or irritating them APH 39. A Convulsion is caused by repletion or evacuation So is also the Hicket Namely when the nerves are filled with some thick or clammy humor or over dryed And the Hicket is said by Galen to be as it were a Convulsion of the stomack APH. 40. They who have pain about the the hypocondrium without an inflammation are cured by a Feaver happening to them Because the humors which caused it are dissolved by the heat of the Feaver APH. 41. If a suppuration or corrupt matter hidden in the body doth not shew it self it is by reason either of its own thickness or of that part of the bodies thickness where it lies hidden Yet we may find that there is such corrupt matter hidden by two signs namely by the pain and by a Feaver which it causeth APH. 42. If the Liver wax hard to them which are affected with the yellow-Jaundies it is an evil sign For it signifies there is either a hard tumor or an inflammation in the Liver APH. 43. The splenetick which are taken with a bloody-flux in the bowel do dye of the Dropsie or a slipperiness of the bowels following a long flux By splenetick he means those who have a tumor in the spleene bred there by a melancholly humor APH. 44. They dye within seven days to whom the disease called Ileos or pain in the small guts shall happen after a Strangurie unless a Feaver supervening store of urine issue forth For the Feâ—â—â—er with its heat concocts and exâ—â—â—â—ates the thick humors so that they may go out through the passage of the urine APH. 45. If ulcers continue a yeer or longer the bone of necessity must grow foul and the Cicatrices be hollow Because the bone being perished under the flesh cannot grow up again as was said Aph. 19. of this Section APH. 46. Those which become Crook-backt by shortness of wind or a cough before they attain to ripeness of years doe die quicklie Because their brest or bulk doth not increase as their lungs and heart doth they must in a short time to suffocated APH. 47. Those are to be let blood or purged in the Spring time to whom opening of a vein or purging may do good For the Spring time being temperate is most fit for purging or leting blood APH. 48. The difficulty of the intestines guts coming upon them which are diseased with the spleen is good Because the thick and melancholly humors are thereby evaâ—uated as Aph. 4â— APH. 49. Goutie diseases the inflammation being asswaged within fortie dayes decease For the inflammation wil be cured within forty dayes if the Physitian prescribe right and the patient be truly obedient APH. 50. It must needs be that a Feaver and Vomiting of choller must come upon them which have their brain wounded A Feaver because any principall members inflammation causeth a Feaver and the vomiting of Choller because of the consent and agreement which is between the braine and the stomack to which some of the great nerves discend from the braine APH. 51. Those which are in health being sodainly taken with the head-ache and presently become dumb and snort die within seven days unless a Feaver come upon them in the mean while Because the Feaver heats attenuates and resolves the windie spirit and the pituitous humors which cause these symptomes APH. 52. We must consider in their sleeps if any part of the eyes appear for if any of the white of them appears the eye lidds not being fast closed if it doe not happen by a Flux of the bellie or by the taking of some medicinall potion it is an evil and verie deadly signe If it happen not through some externall cause for it signifies an imbecillitie of the facultie which moves the eye lids APH. 53. That doting which is done with aughter is not so dangerous as that which is done with earnest sadnesse For it does not proceed from so adust a Choler as that which is done with earnest sadness APH. 54. Painfull breathings in sharp diseases with a Feaver as it were of such as sigh and mourne are evill For it signifies either a hardness of the nerves or muscles or a weakeness of naturall strength or some affect that causeth paine or is convulsory APH. 55. Paine of the Gout doe most commonly afflict and are provoked in the Spring and Autumn In Spring because the humors gathered together in the winter are expelled from the stronger parts to the weaker and in Autumn by reason of its inequalitie and because the evill humors gathered together by eating of fruits in Summer settle in those we akest parts APH. 56. The falling down of humors are verie dangerous in melancholie diseases at those seasons And declare an Appoplexie or a convulsion or maddness or blindness If they fall down to the ventricles of the brain they cause an Apoplexie if to the nerves a convulsion if to the substance of the braine madness if to the eyes blindness APH 57 Apoplexies are caused most especiallie from the fortieth to the sixtieth year He means those Apoplexies which proceed from melancholie which in those times abound in our bodies APH. 58 If the Call hang foorth of the bodie it must of necessity putrefie SECT VII The Argument This seaventh Section is altogether prognosticall and foretelling things to come and herein he intreateth of presages of health and death APHORISM 1. COldness of the extreame parts in sharp diseases is evill Because is shews there is a mightie â—nflamation in some of the inward parts which like a cupping glasse draws all the blood to it and so leaves the extream parts cold APH. 2. Flesh black and blew because of a foule diseased bone is an evill thing For it shews there is a great putrefaction of the bone and extinction of the natural heat APH 3. The hicket and redness of the eyes after vomiting are evill For these two together shew there is a great inflamation either in the ventricle or the braine APH. 4 After sweate cold shiverings and shakings are not good For it is
laxative and loose to a woman with child there is danger fo abortment Because the food is not distributed to the liver and other parts of the body so that the food is taken away from the conception as when she is let blood APH. 35. Sneesing happening to a woman grieved with suffocations of the womb or that hath a difficult deliverance is good For by a vehement shaking of nature it excites it redintegrates the natural heat which was almost extinguished and shakes off such noxious humors as hanged upon some part of the body APH. 36. The monethly courses being discoloured and not coming forth always in the same manner and time declare a purgation to be necessary for the woman To purge those humors which cause the discoloration and the alteration of time APH 37. If the paps be suddenly extenuated and become lank to a woman with child abortment doth follow This also happeneth for want of food for the conceived child APH. 38. If one of the dugs be extenuated and become lank to a woman conceived with child with twins she bringeth forth one of them before the due time and if the right dug become slender she bringeth forth the male if the left the female For likewise the male conceptions lye on the right side the female on the left as is set down Aph. 48. APH 39. If any woman neither with child nor having been delivered of child have milk in her breasts her monethly courses have failed her The blood which should have turned to monethly terms turning to milk in the breasts APH. 40. Women in whose dugs there is blood heaped together wil be mad For that blood is very bilious which striking up into the head causeth madness APH. 41. If you will know whether a woman have conceived or no give her a potion of hony and water mixed together going to sleep and if she feel gripings and wringings of the belly she hath conceived if she do not she hath not conceived For such a potion is very windy and the woman having conceived her womb doth press down and keep together the intrails APH. 42 If a woman conceived with child bear a male she is fresh and well-coloured if she bare a female she is ill-colored This Aphorism is one of those which for the most part are true though not always APH. 43. If the inflammation called Erysipelas be bred in the womb if the woman be with child it proves deadly One reason is because the chief cure for an Erysipelas is letting of blood and that must not be done to a woman with child for fear of an abortment Aph. 30. APH. 44. Those women which are very lean contrary to nature and do bear children do suffer untimely deliverance until they grow fatter Because that food which should be for the child in the womb goes to the nourishing of the mother APH. 45. Those women which being reasonable fat and make abortion the second or third month without any manifest cause have the ends of those vessels which come to the womb called acetabula or Cotylidons full of a pituitous or phlegmy humor neither can they contain the conception coming to any weight but they being broken it falleth down Wherby she must of necessity abort APH. 46. Those which are fatter then nature requires and cannot conceive have the orifice of the womb compressed and closed together by the fat Call of the guts and cannot until they grow leaner He means the inward orifice of the womb for it hath two APH. 47. If the womb shall Aposthumate in that part where it lieth neer the hip or huckle-bone it must be cured with tents dipped in a liquid medicine called in Greek Emmoton It must be thus cured the sore being first broken either by art or nature APH. 48. Men children for the most part lye on the right side of the womb and females on the left side This is because the womb is warmer on the right side by reason of its vicinity to the Liver APH. 49. A medicine procuring sneezing put into the nostrils doth drive and force out the Secundine so that you stop the nostrils and mouth close with the hand Which if it remained would putrifie there and with the stench offend the head APH. 50. If a woman will stay her courses apply a very great cupping-glass under her breasts For there be veins which come up thither from the inferior parts APH. 51. Those women which are conceived with child have the orifice of the womb shut and closed up That the air may not get in and corrupt the seed and that the heat of the womb may not get out APH. 52. If milk flow plentifully out of the dugs of a woman bearing a child in her womb it signifieth that the child is weak but if the paps be hard and stiff they declare a stronger conception Because it shews in the former part that the child is not able to draw it for his own nutriment But when they are solid it shews it hath nutriment enough and that which superabounds goes to the breasts and is there turned into milk APH 53. The dugs and paps become slender and lank to those women which shall abort but contrarily if they become hard pain shall molest the paps hips eys or knees but they shall not suffer abortment Because of the superfluous matter which is brought thither from the womb APH. 54. Those women which have the mouth of the womb hard must of necessity have it shut up This Aphorism had been better placed immmediately after the Aphorism 51. APH. 55. Child-bearing women which are taken with Feavers or are brought to a low state without any manifest cause do bring forth their birth painfully and with danger or are in danger of life by an untimely deliverance Because it shews a great weakness or imbecility in them APH 56. If a Convulsion or swouning happen to a woman in her flux of monethly terms it is an evil thing If they be vehement or last long it may be deadly because the womb is exhausted and draws all the noble parts into a simpathy with it APH. 57. Womens terms flowing immoderately diseases are ingendred and being supprest or stopt diseases happen from the womb By their immoderate evacuation the whole body is cooled and its forces weakened if they be stopt in progress of time excremental humors gather together in the womb APH. 58. The strangurie or dropping out of the urine doth happen by the inflammation of the straight gut and likewise of the womb or if the reins be ulcerated But if the liver be inflamed the Hicket succeeds By reason of the vicinity of the bladder to the straigbt gut and the womb and because of the purulent matter of the reins passing through the bladder and the hicket is caused by a high inflammation of the liver because it swells the liver and oppresses the ventricle and the bilious humor falling from the liver comes into the ventricle APH. 59. If a
a signe that nature is weake and that the sweat hath not had power to drive out all the noxious humors APH. 5. After madness a bloodie Flux the dropsie or an extansie or trane is good For it signifieth that the noxious humors are gone from the head to the lower parts APH. 6. Abhorring of meat in a long disease and the excrements avoided down without mixture of humors are evill Because it shews the inbecilitie of the concocting facultie and that all natural humidity is dried up by the seaverish heat APH. 7. Cold shakings and fond dotings after much drinking of wine are evill The first by reason it is a signe that the native heat is extinguisht by the much drinking of wine And the doting proceeds from the heads being full of fervent blood and vapour APH. 8. After the breaking of an imposthume inwardly faintnesse vomiting and swouning He speakes here of the breaking of imposthumes which break in the stomack for the symptome of vomiting followes none else APH. 9 After a Flux of blood a Delirium or raveing or a convulsion are evill For it shews a great drought of the bodie and weakness of the brains forces APH. 10 After the Iliack passion or colick the hicket raveing or convulsion are evil Which are caused by the foulness of the stomack and consent which is between the braine and the stomack APH. 11. After a pleurisie an Inflamation of the lungs is evill Because it signifies that part of the noxious humors is gone from the Iess noble part of the ribbs to the more noble viz. the lungs APH. 12. A phrensie after an inflamation of the lungs is evill The inflamation of the lungs sending up vapours into the head and they possessing the braine cause a Phrensie APH. 13. A Convulsion or the Cramp after hot burnings are evill Because it signifies a great dryness of the nerves or sinewes APH. 14. Astonishment and raving through some blow of the head is an evill signe Because it signifies that the wound hath penetrated to the â—raine APH. 15. The spitting out of corrupt matter after the spitting of blood is evill Because it signifies that the lungs are exulcerated APH. 16. A consumption and a Flux of the haire or of the bellie coming after the spitting of corrupt matter are evilsignes for when the spitting is stopped the diseased doe die The first part of this Aphorisme is averred Aphorism 11. and 12. of the 5 Section to which we referr you The reason of the second part is because if the spitting be stopped the lungs are so oppressed with the abundance of flegme lying on them that the patient is suffocated and strangled for want of breath APH. 17. The hicket comming through an inflamation of the liver is evill For it shews the greatness of the inflamation of which the stomack also participates and being bitten by store of choller swiming in it it causes the hicket APH. 18. A convulsion or raving caused through watching is an evill thing For watching doth extreamly evacuate and exiccate the body which causeth both the raving and convulsion APH. 19. After the laying bare of a bone the inflamation and hot tumor Erisipelas is evill For it sheweth a confluction thither of hot blood and choler which corrode and consume the adjacent flesh APH. 20. Putrefaction or impostumation after from the inflamation Erisipelas is evill For it shews the malignitie of the said Erisipelas which doth not only exulcerate the upper parts of the bodie but feeds deeper in and creeps on to the sound parts APH. 21. A Flux of blood after a strong pulse in vlcers is evill First because it shews an extreame inflamation to be joyned to the ulcer secondly because this eruption or Flux cannot be unless the month of the artery be opened which is very difficult to be stopped APH. 22. After a long paine of the parts belonging to the bellie an imposthumation is evill Which it must needs come to at last unless death of the patient prevent it APH. 23. After avoiding of unmixed excrements downwards a bloodie Flux is evill For such humors will erode and perish some parts of the intestines APH. 24. Raving or Delirium ensues after the wound of a bone if it penetrate into the hollow or void space He speaks here of the bones of the head onely as appears by the 14. Aph. APH. 25. A convulsion after the taking of a purging potion bringeth death Because is signifies an incurable drought APH. 26. A great cold of the uttermost parts through vehement paine of the parts belonging to the bellie is evill The reason whereof is set downe in the comment of the 1. Aphorism of this Sect. APH. 27. If the disease called Tenesmus shall happen to a woman with child it is the cause of abortment This Tenesmus is a great provocation or desire to goe to stoole and when they come thither can doe nothing APH. 28. If either a bone cartilage or sinew shall be cut in the bodie it doth neither increase nor grow together againe This was spoken afore in the 19. Aphorism Sect 6. APH. 29. If a strong Flux of the bellie shall come upon him that is diseased with a dropsie called Leacophlegmatia it dissolveth and cureth the disease Because it evacuates the efficient cause of the disease which is abundance of white flegme from whence also comes the diseases name APH. 30. They have a falling down of flegmatick humors from the head which doe a vid froathie excrements out of the bellie For phlegmatick humors being windie it is no marvell if they be froathie APH. 31. Sediments in urines made in the time of agues like unto course wheat-meal doe signifie that the sickness shall continue long For it shews a kind of gross thick humor which cannot be disolved or voided in a short space APH. 32. Cholerick sediments in urins which at the first were thinn doe signifie a sharp disease For choller always causeth sharp diseases And urines are always faithfull messengers of the affections of the veines APH. 33. Those which makes diverse urines have a vehement disturbance in their bodie For when the urines are so it shews a manifoldness of humors to be viciously diseased APH. 34. The urins in which bubbles doe swim a loft signifie a disease of the reins and that the disease will endure long For those bubbles proceding from humiditie which is extended about by a flatuous spirit doe cause a cold disease which cold diseases are long APH. 35. Those to whom a fattness swims upon their vrine together on a sodain it is a signe the disease is in the reins and asharp one too For if the disease were in the whole bodie it would come forth by little and little and it is a sharp one for the head of it melts the fat of the reins APH. 36. If also paines be caused to those which are diseased with the grief of the kidneys about the muscles of the back bone and have the signes abovesaid if they
likely such as the temperature of the year is APH. 9. In Autumn universally there are most sharp and deadly diseases but the spring time is most wholesom and free from deadly diseases The reasons whereof are first by reason of its ineqnality the mornings and evenings being cold and the midday hot Secondly because the preceding Summer hath made the humors adust Thirdly because the said Summer hath weakened the forces Fourthly because the morning and evenings ambient coldness drives the vicious humors into the body And fiftly because there is abundance of fruits eaten in that season the eating of which breeds store of evil humors APH. 10. Autumn is hurtful to such as are in a consumption By reason of its dryness coldness and inequality APH. 11. Amongst the parts of the year if the Winter be extraordinary dry and the Spring very rainy and subject to southerly winds It must of necessity fall out that in Summer sharp Agues Rheums in the Eys and Bloody-fluxes do happen especially to women and men who are of a moist nature By reason of the abundance of humors which are subject to putrefaction APH. 12. Contrarily if Winter be Southernly full of rain and warm and the Spring dry and northernly women whose child-birth and deliverance happeneth neer the Spring do upon the least occasion suffer abortment and untimely birth or if they be delivered at their due time they bring forth such weak and diseased children that either they die quickly or live but weakly and sickly To others there happen bloody-fluxes and hot inflammations of the eys and to old men rheums which shortly kill them This Aphorisms meaning is plain enough now the particular causes why these several diseases happen are set down at large in GalensComments to which we refer the Reader APH. 13. Summer being dry and the wind northernly Autumn full of rain and the wind southernly vehement pains of the head are to be expected in the Winter following Also coughs hoarsnesses rheums distillings at the nostrils and to some pining Consumptions Having in the preceding Aphorisms spoken of the Winter and Spring he now speaks of the other two seasons namely Summer and Autumn APH. 14. A northernly and dry Autumn is profitable and good to men which are of a moist temperature and also to women to others it causeth hot inflammations in the eys and Feavers partly sharp and partly long and some also are troubled with Melancholly This Aphorism ought to be annexed to the former as part of it APH. 15. Of all the seasons throughout the whole yeer dryness and droughts are more wholsom and less dangerous to mans life then daily showers of rain and moisture This Aphorism by right should have been placed after the 17th of this Section and the 17 after the 5 as Galen shews in his Comment upon this present Aphorism APH. 16. When there is much rain these diseases for the most part are ingendred namely long contlnuing Agues Fluxes of the belly corruption of humors Falling-sickness Apoplexies Squinancies But when there is much drought there happen Consumptions Rheumes in the eys pains of the joynts difficulty in making Urine and passions of the intestines or inward parts This Aphorism is as it were an explication of the former by which some ignorant men might infer that in a dry year there would be no diseases at all ingendred APH. 17. Daily seasons of weather being northernly do close and strengthen the body and make it nimble well coloured and quick of hearing They dry and harden the belly but bite and offend the eys and if any pain have possest the breast they make it more grievous Contrariwise southernly seasons loose and moisten the body and weakens it dull the hearing cause heaviness and giddiness of the head mistiness and dimness of the eys dulness and laziness of the body and make the belly loose and laxative For the northern wind is cold and dry and the southern hot and moist APH. 18. As touching seasons of the year in the Spring and beginning of Summer children and those which are neerest to them in age live in very good health in Summer and some part of Autumn old men live best but in the rest of Autumn and Winter they of a middle age Summer is good for old men by reason of the frigidity of their nature Winter for men in the strength of their age because it abates and is contrary to their bilious temper APH. 19. Any diseases are ingendred in any times of the year yet many are rather caused and stirred in some one more then in another Intending in the following Aphorisms to set down what diseases are peculiar to several times of the year he promises this as a general one APH. 20. In the Spring there happeneth madness melancholly falling-evil fluxes of blood the squinancy rheumes distillations of humors coughs leprosies dry scabs morphues and many ulcerous wheals pushes and pains of the joynts Which diseases for the most part being not dangerous but rather conducing to health by driving out noxious humors out of the inward to the outward parts of the body this Aphorism rather confirms then opposes the latter part of the ninth Aphorism APH. 21 In Summer there are some of those diseases before spoken of in the Spring also continual Feavers and burning Agues and many Tertians and Quartans Vomitings Fluxes of the belly inflammations of the eys pains of the ears ulcerations of the mouth putrefactions of the genitals and sweatings Namely in the beginning of Summer are incident some of those diseases which were also towards the latter end of the Spring for it being of the same temperature they must ingender the same diseases APH. 22. Also many Summer diseases are in Autumn both Quartans and uncertain wandring Agues swellings of the Spleen Hydropsie Consumptions Strangury Looseness excoriations of the bowels aches of hucle-bone Squinancies shortnesses of breath streight pressings or drawing together of the bowels in some part of them the Falling-sickness madness and melancholly The beginning of Autumn and end of Summer have the same affinity as the beginning of Summer and end of the Spring APH. 23. In Winter are ingendred Plurisies inflammations of Lungs Lethargie Rheums in the nostrils hoarsness coughs pains of the breasts sides and loyns head-aches swimmings and giddinesses of the head causing dimness to the eys and Apoplexies This and the precedent Aphorisms concerning seasons are to be understood when seasons do hold their own order and temperature APH. 24 But as concerning ages these diseases do happen to little children and lately born Ulcers in the mouth Vomiting Coughs want of sleep great fears inflammations of the Navil moist runings at the ears Having spoken of the seasons of diseases he now sets down in what ages such and such diseases use to happen beginning with infants newly born APH. 25. The time of Teeth-breeding coming there happen itching of the gums Feavers Convulsions Fluxes of the belly especially when they bring forth
their dogteeth and especially those children chiefly that are most fat and have their belly bound Which time of teeth breeding begins commonly at seven moneths of age and sometimes at four the dogteeth at a year or ten moneths APH 26. When children begin to be a little elder they are subject to the inflammations of the Almonds of the mouth dislocation of the turning joynts in the nape of the neck inwardly shortness of wind breeding of the Stone round-worms gut-worms long hanging warts Satyrasms Stranguries Scrophules in the neck and other risings especially those before declared Now he sets down those diseases which children are subject to after they are past teeth-breeding to twelve or fourteen years of age APH. 27. Moreover to those which are greater and coming to ripe age there happen many of those former diseases but more long continuing Agues and fluxes of blood at the nostrils This Aphorism concerns children about twelve thirteen or fourteen years of age and ripeness of age comes sooner or later according to the beat or coldness of constitutions APH. 28. The diseases of children for the most part some of them attain to the Crysis or alteration within 40 days some within seven moneths some within seven years others when they come to ripe age But those which shall continue longer and shall neither be dissolved in men children when they come to be about fourteen yeers or fifteen or maiden children when their monethly terms do break forth do use to last a long time Or as Heurnius saith in his Comments do last as long as they live APH. 29. To young men there doth happen spitting of blood Consumptions sharp Feavers falling-sicknesses and other diseases but especially these we have now rehearsed This age according to Heurniusis when their voice breaks and they begin to speak big nostrils dimness of sight Glaucoma and dullness of hearing Here by old men he means those who have attained to their last age SECT. IV. The Argument This fourth Section is variable but for the most part is reduced to evacuation and prognostick signs of future events APHORISM 1. THou shalt purge child-bearing women if it be needful at the fourth moneth after conception and so unto the seventh but those more sparingly but the conception being younger or elder thou shalt abstain Because in those moneths the ligaments wherewith the conception is fastened to the womb are strongest and thickest and not casâ—e to be broken by the commotions of purging medicines APH. 2. Such things are to be drawn out of the body by the use of purging medicines as they are which issuing out of their own accord would do good to it But those which issue out in a contrary manner are to be stopped For it is good in artificial purges to imitate Nature APH. 3 If such things be purged as should be it is good and the Patient doth easily endure it But if you do otherwise the patient doth indure it painfully This Aphorism being the same with the 2 and 25 of the first Section it needs no further explication and some have in this place left it quite out APH. 4. In Summer it is more convenient to purge the upper Venters in Winter the inferior by stool For in Summer choller is the predominant humor and naturally by reason of the ambient heat all things are carried upwards so it is best to purge by Vomit APH. 5. Under the Canicular or Dog-star and before it purgations are painful and difficult Because the ambient heat seeks to draw the humors outwards by sweat while the purgation forces them out by stool APH. 6. Lean and slender men are easily provoked to Vomit and therefore must be purged by vomit unless it be in Winter For slender men are for the most part chollerick which choller if they have a facility in vomiting should be purged upward unless it be in Winter for then the inferior venters must be purged by stool APH. 7. Purge those which do not vomit easily and are in good plight downwards by stool so it be not Summer For at any other time of the year you may securely do it APH. 8. Do not purge them upwarâ—s which are subject to a Consumption or Phtysick For fear of hurting the instrumental parts of respiration which are weak APH. 9. Thou shalt purge melancholly folk strongly by stool in like manner beginning the contrary way of purging For light matter bending upward must be drawn out by the upper parts but the heavier and grosser matter by the lower parts APH. 10. We must purge in very sharp sicknesses if the matter do move to the purging of it and that the very same day wherein the sickness doth begin for delay in such diseases is very hurtful and dangerous Before the strength of body fail or diminish or the aguish heat increase or the humors which wander up and down the body settle about some principal part APH. 11. Those which have gripings and wringings in the belly and horrible pain about the navel and the loyns and cannot be eased and dissolved by medicine or otherwise they will fall into a dry Dropsie Which is called a Timpany APH. 12. Those are not to be purged in Winter by vomit whose stomack and belly cannot retain meat until it be digested He means such purges as are general and purge the whole body for in particular purges you may do otherwise As if we would onely ease the ventricle of phlegm we may do it by vomit in Winter And by the same reason if yellow choller be in the intestines only we may in Summer purge it out by stool APH. 13. Their bodies are to be made moist before hand with plenty of food and with ease and rest who taking a potion of Hellebor do hardly and painfully vomit Because if the nerves and other dry parts of the body be not moistened the Hellebor which is hot and dry in the third degree and is very drawing may cause deadly Convulsions APH. 14. Hellebor being drunk the body ought rather to be moved then yielded to sleep or rest For the sayling in a ship doth manifest that our bodies are provoked and stâ—irred by motion And seeing that motion of it self provokes the body to vomit much more will it do it with the help of a medicine And rest keeps the body in the same state motion changes and alters it APH. 15. If you will have Hellebore to work more forcibly move and stir the body but when you will stay it procure sleep and do not move For since motion sets it more violently a working rest must needs cause it to stay seeing contrary operations work contrary effects APH. 16. Hellebor is very dangerous to them which have a healthful body for it ingendreth Convulsions For it is one of its chief qualities to cause distentions so finding no excrements in the body it falls upon the solid parts and especially the nerves APH. 17. If he which hath not an Ague doth loath his meat hath
cannot in a short time concoct and subdue several defects or diseases APH. 41. Much sweating caused through sleep without any manifest outward cause signifies that the body is fed with store of food But if this happen to one that feeds sparingly it shews that the body wants evacuation By reason of the evil humors and excrements which are the causes of that sweating APH. 42. When there is much sweat cold or hot always issuing forth the cold signifies a longer the hot a shorter disease Because it shews the matter to be thin which nature can easily concoct and shake off APH. 43. Continual Feavers which afflict every third day more vehemently and do not cease are the more dangerous but if they cease and pause in any manner they signifie that there is no present danger For it sheweth the Phlegm doth not trouble any noble part and that no venemous force hath laid siege to any principal part And natural strength doth recollect it self during the intermission of the Feaver APH. 44. Swellings and pains about the joynts are caused to them who are afflicted with long Agues By the humors setâ—â—ng in those places unless they be carried away by a thick white urine making APH. 45. Those which have swellings and pains of the joynts after long Ague feed over liberally For the disease being gone no other reason can be given for this redundancy of humors APH. 46. If a cold shivering fit the Feaver being without intermission do assail the sick man being already weak it is a deadly sign For it shews nature to be so far spent that it is able onely to stir but not to thrust out the excrement or if it doth the sick man fainteth therewith APH. 47. Excrements avoided in Feavers not intermittent by vomit or spitting if they be of a leaden colour bloody stinking or cholerick they are all evil but if they come forth conveniently they are good Leaden colour because they signifie a mortification of those parts from whence they come bloody because they signifie an opening of some vessels Stinking because they signifie putrifaction Châ—lerick because they testifie abundance of choller APH. 48. In continual Feavers if the exterior parts be cold and the inward burn and the Patient be thirsty it is a deadly sign Because the â—eat of that inward part draws all the blood to it whereby the heart is oppressed APH. 49 In continual Feavers if the lip eye brows or nose be turned aawry if the sick man do not see nor hear which soever of these shall happen the body being weak death is neer at hand For all these are signs that the moving animal faculty suffereth APH. 50. If there happeneth in a continual Feaver defficulty and hardniss of breathing with delirium and doting these signs are deadly Because it signifies that both the brain and the instruments of breathing do suffer APH. 51. Aposthumes in Feavers which are not dissolved in the first Crysis or judgement signifie length of the disease Because they shew that there is a multitude of noxious humors which nature could not expel at one Crysis APH. 52. It is not absurd to weep and shed tears in Feavers and other diseases voluntarily but to weep against the will is very absurd and inconvenient Because that weeping against the will shews a weakness and imbecility in the retentive faculty APH. 53. They have fierce and vehement Feavers who have a tough and clammy moisture about their teeth in those Feavers For those clammy moistures cannot grow there so abundantly without excessive heat which dries up the pituitous humor APH. 54. Those who have long lasting dry coughs in burning Feavers which do not provoke much are not wont to be very thirsty For by that motion which is made in coughing there is some humidity drawn from those places which are adjoyning to the rough artery APH. 55. All Feavers proceeding from tumors in the groyn and other adenous parts are evil except diary Feavers which last but one day For those Feavers come when those tumors are caused by some outward thing as some blow or the like and not by any inward inflammation APH. 56. Sweat coming often upon one sick of an Ague not ceasing is evil for the disease is prolonged and it signifieth that there is much moisture Which abundance of moisture asketh nature much time to concoct and disperse APH 57. If oâ—e have Convulsions or Cramps a Feaver coming dissolveth them Because the Feaver doth heat extenuate and shake off those cold humors which filled up the nervous parts APH 58. If a cold shaking fit doth come upon him which hath a burning Feaver it dissolveth it For a burning Feaver being caused by choller putrifying in the veins and a cold shaking by the cholers being swiftly carryed about the sensible parts of the body it shews that the choler is come out of the veins to the skin APH. 59. An exquisite and perfect Tertian Feaver cometh to his Crysis or state in seven circuits or fits at the utmost An exquisite Tertian is that which is caused by yellow choler carried up and down the sensible parts of the body keeping its nature pure and sincere APH. 60. Those that wax deaf and thick of hearing through Feavers are delivered from it by flux of blood at the nose or by the belly It is no marvel if diseases cease when the noxious humors are translated or carried away APH. 61. Unless the Feaver leave the patient in the odd days it is accustomed to return again If this Aphorism should speak of all Feavers it were false if of acute and continual Feavers it is true APH. 62. Those which have the yellow Jaundise upon Agues before the seventh day have an evil sign Because the yellow Jaundies proceeds from the inflammation of the Liver APH. 63. Those Feavers which have their shaking fits every day are every day dissolved Yet there remains some fire wherby the paroxism is renewed APH. 64. It is a good thing for them which have the yellow-Jaundies coming on them in Feavers on the 7 day ninth eleventh or fourteenth unless the right Hypocondrium be hard for then it is evil For the Hypocondrium being hard signifies there is an inflammation of the Liver APH. 65. In Feavers a vehement heat about the Stomach and a gnawing about the heart is bad Because it signifies an ebullition of choler in the tunicles of the ventricle or stomach APH. 66 Convulsions and vehement pains about the bowels in sharp Feavers are evil For vehement Feavers dry and stretch the nerves like fire and by the same vehemence of heat and drought the bowels are pained APH 67. In feavers great fears or Convulsions after sleep do prognosticate evil For fears signifie the repletion of the head with melancholy humors and Convulsions abundance of phlegmatick humors APH. 68. The breath not keeping its due course is evil for it doth signifie convulsion Caused by the over-drying of the muscles and nerves which move the stomack APH. 69. Urines
in a Feaver being thick clotted and little in quantity do profit them that make them if afterwards thin urine and much in quantity be avoided by them But those urines most commonly become such in which the hypostasis or sediment shal appear presently after they are made or not long after Because the gross humors causing the Feaver are expelled in the humor which makes the urine which comes afterwards to be thin in respect of that APH 70. Those who have their water troubled or unclean in Agues such as are the waters of Cattel have or shall have head-aches Because the windy or flatuous spirit is easily drawn up into the head together with heat APH. 71. Those which shall have their Crysis or alteration of the disease the seventh day have a little red cloud in the urine the fourth day and other things thereunto belonging accordingly These red clouds are seldom seen though the white be frequent and are both of them signs of concoction APH. 72. Urines very cleer and white are bad especially in those who are afflicted with phrensies Because such urines are signs of an extreme crudity And Galen saith he never knew any one who was afflicted with a phrensie and made such water saved APH. 73. Those which have an inflation of the Hypocoâ—dria and a rumbling pain of the loyns succeeding have their bellies moistned loosened except the wind break forth downwards or store of urine do issue forth And these things happen in Feavers Namely in essential not symptomatical Feavers and such as are diseases of themselves APH. 74. Those that have hope of Aposthumations to come about the joynts much urine thick and white doth deliver from the Aposthume such as is wont to be avoided in painful Feavers the fourth day when also blood shall be voided out of the nostrils there shall be a dissolution deliverance speedily For those urines purge out the humors which would cause the aposthumations and especially if there be a bleeding at the nostrils joyned for then the causes issue out two ways APH. 75. If any piss blood or filthy matter it signifies an exulceration of the Kidneys or bladder That is if he do it for a continuance for otherwise it may proceed from some other cause APH. 76. Those which have small pieces of flesh or as it were hairs issuing forth together with thick urine do avoid those excrements from the Kidneys Those small pieces of flesh are part of the reins or kidneys and are a manifest sign of their being ulcerated but the hairs are onely bred there but are no part of them APH. 77. Those which avoid thick urine with certain things like bran have their bladder infected with scabbedness If the defect be not in the veins for such stuff comes sometime from them APH. 78. If any piss blood on a suddain it is a sign there is some vein of the Kidneys broken Namely meer and pure blood and without any external cause APH. 79. They in whose urine appeareth an hypostasis or sediment full of sand have their bladder troubled with the stone This Aphorism is mutilated and defective for the sand may come as well from the kidneys as from the bladder APH. 80. If any one piss blood or clots of blood and make his water by drops having pain in that part of the belly which is between the Navel and the secret parts named hypogastrion or at the seame line of the skin of the Cods called perinaeum and at the place called pecten where the hair about the privy members groweth then the places about the bladder are diseased Namely all the parts belonging to the bladder and not the bladder onely APH. 81. If any one piss blood or filthy matter or little scales and there be also a stinking or strong smell it betokens an exulceration of the bladder The two first accidents may happen upon the exulceration of any of the instruments serving to make water but the scales and stink are proper signs of the bladder being ill-affected APH. 82. Those which have an Aposthume bred in the urinary passage are delivered from it the same being brought to suppuration and broken Which suppuration and breaking gives the urine free passage APH. 83. Voiding of much urine in the night doth signifie small evacuation of excrements by the Fundament He makes particular mention of the night because at that time by reason of the sleep Nature is most busie about her concoction and distribution SECT V. The Argument This fift Book or Section is variable yet it doth almost wholly intreat of the diseases of women and of the good and bad dispositions of the womb APHORISM 1. A Convulsion after taking Hellebore is deadly Namely after white Hellebore and that for five causes First by reason of the agreement which is â—etween the nerves and the mouth of the Stomack Secondly by reason of the biting humors which it draws to the mouth of the stomack Thirdly by reason of the abundant evacuation the Hellebore causeth Fourthly by reason of the attractive faculty by which it draws the moistness from the nerves And fiftly because it vehemently dryes up the substance of the nerves APH. 2. A Convulsion caused by a wound is deadly Not always but for the most part APH. 3. The Hicket or a Convulsion after a copious flux of blood is evil Because of the great emptiness caused by the copious flux of blood and because the Hicket is caused by a depraved motion of the ventricle APH. 4. After an immoderate purgation a Convulsion or Hicket is evil For the same reason that they are evil after taking of Hellebore Aph. 1. APH. 5. If one that is drunk suddainly fall dumb he shall die with a Convulsion unless he be taken with a Feaver or presently recover his speech as soon as his surfet is dissolved Obj. How can wine being hot cause a Convulsion which is a cold disease A. Wine is hot moderately taken over abundantly cold as a little oil powred upon a fire will increase it but an over abonnding quantity thrown upon a little will put it out APH. 6. Those who are taken with a Cramp or distention called Tetanus die within four days or if they overpass them they recover Because it is a sign that nature hath overcome the disease APH. 7. The falling sickness which is before ripeness of years may be cured but that which comes after five and twenty yeers of age for the most part accompanies us to death By ripeness of yeers he means 25 yeers of age yet they are not all curable before that age unless they take a care in dieting themselves APH. 8. Those which have a plurisie unless they be purged upwards within fourteen days shall have their disease turned into an imposthume Namely spitting and purging such matter upward APH. 9. A Consumption likely happeneth in that age which is from the 18 to the 35. Namely that Consumption which comes by an exulceration of the Lungs APH. 10. Those who have
the evil cause of the Squinancy and escape it that evil passeth to the Lungs and they dye within seven days but if they escape the humor imposthumates And if that imposthumated humor be not purged out it breeds a Consumption APH. 11. If the spittle which they void by coughing that are affected with a Consumption do stink vehemently being cast upon the coals and the hairs of the head do fall off it is a deadly sign For the more faculties are weakned in so much the worser case the Patient is APH. 12. If a flux of the belly happen to them which have their hair falling away by a Consumption death is neer at hand Because it proceeding from weakness also it shews a further weakening of the natural faculties APH. 13. Those which cough forth frothy blood do retch and draw the same out of the Lungs And it is part of the very substance and flesh of the Lungs APH. 14. If a flux of the belly happen to him which is in a Consumption it is deadly This affirms what was said before Aph. 12 and moreover that a flux of the belly added to a Consumption is alone sufficient to kill without falling away of the hair APH. 15. Those which are infected with an imposthume by a Plurisie if they be purged from the corrupt matter within forty days after the breaking of the imposthume are cured or otherwise they pass into a Consumption For the matter will otherwise be so putrified that it will perish the lungs APH. 16. Hot water too often used bringeth these discommodities tenderness of the flesh distemperature of the sinews heaviness and stupefaction of the mind fluxes of blood faintings and swounings and to these things succeeds death Hippocrates here wisheth us to shun the excessive use of any thing though never so temperate APH. 17. The use of cold water bringeth Convulsions distentions or Cramps blackness and cold Aguish shakings This is also not of the use simply but of the immoderate use of cold water APH. 18. Cold water is hurtful to the bones teeth sinews brain and marrow of the back But that which is hot is good and profitable All the parts here rehearsed are by nature the coldest APH. 19. We must heat those things which are over cold except those which pour forth or are inclined to pour forth blood abundantly For when there are more diseases then one coupled together we must make hast to cure that first which is most urgent APH. 20. Cold water biteth and nippeth Ulcers hardeneth the skin hindereth a soreness from maturation of the corrupt matter causeth blackness bringeth forth cold shivering fits of Agues Convulsions and distentions of the sinews This Aphorism relates some other hurts which cold water doth APH. 21. Notwithstanding there is some time when in the Cramp without an ulcer in a wel flesht young man in the midst of Summer plentiful pouring out of cold water doth call back the heat and so the heat dissolves the Cramp This is not done by any vertue of its but accidentally by drawing the natural heat outward in such well flesht young men APH. 22. Hot water yieldeth unto us a great token of security and safety when it causeth suppuration yet not in all Ulcers It softneth and mollifieth the skin and maketh it thin it doth appease pain it mitigateth and assawageth cold shakeings Convulsions and distentions It dissolveth the heaviness of the head It profiteth broken bones very much especially if they be bare without flesh and principally in the head if they be ulcerated it profiteth those things which are mortified and ulcerated through cold eating Ulcers in the Fundament privy members womb and bladder To all those hot water is a friend and of good judgement but cold water is an enemy and destroyer Not in all ulcers because some wil not be brought to supuration by heat APH. 23. We must use cold water to those sores from whence blood doth issue or is about to issue yet not to the same place but neer to it And if any inflammation or burning of the parts do incline to a red and bloody color with fresh cleer blood apply cold water to them but if the inflamations be inveterate and old it maketh them black It helpeth the inflammation called Erysipelas if it be not ulcerated for if it be it hurteth it Now he relates what things cold water is good for APH. 24. Cold things as Snow and Ice are hurtful to the breast they procure coughs they cause ruptures of the veyns and produce Rheumes He hath spoken of the effects of cold water now he speaks of the hurt which other cold things do APH. 25. Cold water poured out abundantly doth ease and diminish the tumors and pains of the joynts which are without ulceration And also gouty swellings and pains and Convulsions for the most part and dissolveth the dolor and diminisheth it for a small benumming hath the force of dissolving and putting away of pan The end of this phorism is a reason of the whole Aphorisms assertion As if he should say a little benumming puts away pain cold water benumeth therefore c APH. 26. Water that is quickly made hot and quickly cools is most light He means not by weight but he speaks of that water which doth not long burthen the belly and quickly passeth through APH. 27 It is good for them who desire to drink in the night to fall asleep when they are very thirsty Because sleep concocts the food which being concocted ingenders blood which nourishes and moistens the parts of the body APH. 28. A Fumigation of odoriferous spices brings forth womens terms and would be also profitable for many other things if it did not breed heaviness of the head For it doth excite the expulsive faculty of the womb and open the obstructions of the veines which touch the womb APH. 29. Thou shalt pruge a woman with child if necessity require the 4th month after conception until the 7th month though those that come neer the 7th not so much but the conception being younger or elder thou shalt abstain This Aphorism is the same with the first of the fourth Section APH. 30. A woman with child a vein being opened aborteth and so much the rather if the conception be of any bigness Because it taketh away part of its food namely the conceptions APH. 31. It is pernicious and deadly if a woman great with child be taken with any sharp disease For large feeding will kill the mother by increasing the disease and little store of food will starve the conception APH. 32. A woman is cured from vomiting blood by her monethly terms issuing forth By the Physicians drawing down the blood to the lower parts APH. 33. A flux of blood at the nose is good for a woman whose monthly terms do fail contrary to the course of nature For if this happen not contrary to the course of nature such a failing is nothing APH. 34. If the belly be very
woman do not conceive and thou wouldest know if she shall conceive at all let her be wrapped round about with clothes make a fume under the lower parts and if the scent be perceived to pass through her body to her nostrils and her mouth know that she is not barren by any default in her self Because then the body is cleer of all vitious humors and the womb it self is in a good temper APH. 60. If the monethly purgations keep their course in a woman that is with child it is impossible that the conception should be well Because it wants its aliment and food being fed by that menstruous blood al the while it is in the womb APH. 61. If a womans monthly courses stop and she have neither shivering cold nor Ague coming upon her and she loath her meat make account that she is conceived For at the first conceiving of a woman the child cannot make use of those courses for its food APH. 62. Those women which have their womb cold and dry do not conceive nor those which have it over moist for the seed is extinguisht and perisht in them Also those women cannot conceive which have those places over dry and hot for the seed corrupts for want of nourishment But those women which have obtained a moderate temperature of the places in respect of both the oppositions and contrarieties they are fruitful This Aphorism by right should be placed next to the 59 Aph. APH. 63. The same consideration and reason is likewise to be respected in men men for either through the spongy substance of the body the spirits are dissipated and scattered abroad so that the seed cannot be cast forth or else the humor doth not issue forth because of its grosness or thickness or else because of coldness it doth not grow hot to be collected in its proper place or by the means of heat the very self same thing may happen This Aphorism is held to be spurious and none of Hippocrates both by Galen and others APH. 64. It is not good to give milk to those who are troubled with the head-ach or with Agues nor to those who are troubled with flatus Hypocondriacus nor to those who are troubled with thirst It is also naught for them which avoid cholerick excrements downwards or to those which have sharp Feavers or have had some copious evacuation of blood But it is good for those which are in a Consumption so they be not troubled with any vehement Feaver It is also good for long lingering and mild Agues so there be none of the sore spoken of signes And those who are brought low without any apperant reason or occasion The particular reasons for these particular assertions may be seen at large in Galen Fuchsius and Heurnius Comments which would be too long to reherse here APH. 65 They are seldom troubled with Convulsions or madness which have apparent tumors with their ulcers But Convulsions and distentions happen to them to whom the tumors shall suddenly vanish away if they happen on the hinder part of the body But if they happen on the fore part there happeneth madness vehement pain of the side suppuration or spitting of matter and the bloody-flux Because the humors reside there And if they go away by degrees also there is no danger for it shews that the noxious humors are shaken off and dissolved APH. 66. If no tumor nor swelling appear in great and bad wounds it is a great evil Because it signifies a passing of the noxious humors to the principal parts APH. 67. Soft tumors are good raw and indigested ones evil Because the first signifie there is a concoction and in the second there is none APH. 68. To one who hath a pain in the hinder part of his head the vena recta in the fore-head being opened doth good The vena recta is that which is over against that which is opposite to that vein which nourisheth the part which is evil affected so the opening of it doth both evacuate and divert the noxious humors APH. 69. Cold shakings and shiverings for the most part do begin to women from the loyns and through the back come to the head But to men they do rather begin in the back part then in the forepart as from the hinder part of the thighes and from the elbows the rarity and thinness of the skin is a token thereof which thing the hair there growing doth declare and manifest For the thicker the skin is the lâ—ss will hair grow upon it APH. 70. Those which are taken with a Quartan Ague are not at all taken with Convulsions but if before they have been taken upon the coming of the quartan they are delivered He means here such Convulsions as come by repletion of the nervous parts with thin and pituitous humors which by a quartan are both expelled and concocted APH. 71. Those who have their skin acide and dry die without sweating but those who have a loose and open skin end their life with sweat He speaks here of those who have a Feaver APH. 72. Those that are diseased with the Jaundies are not much molested with windiness By reason of the heat and strength of the parts belonging to the stomack which causeth them to concoct the food fully and perfectly SECT. VI The Argument This Section doth almost altogether concern that part of the Art which foretelleth good and evil things to happen in diseases APHORISM 1. IN a long lubricity and slipperiness of the guts if a sowerish belching do happen which was not before it is a good sign For it signifies that now the food remains a while in the stomack till such time at least as it begins to concoct APH. 2. Those which have ther nostrils more moist then others by nature and their seed also do enjoy their health but badly but those which have the contrary properties are more healthful By the nostrils he means the brains which purge that way and by the humidity of the Seed the humidity of the whole body the seed coming from the blood APH. 3. In long fluxes of the bowels loathing of meat is evil and with a Feaver it is worser Because it signifies a mortification of the nourishing faculty APH. 4. Ulcers which are every way smooth and bald Because of an evil humor lying in the bottom which eats up the roots of the hair as salt earth doth the herbs roots which grow on it APH. 5. In the pains of the sides breast and other parts we must consider whether they increase or differ much or keep at a stay Whither they differ namely in their kind or in their vehemency whether they be pricking stretching or provoking APH. 6. The diseases and infirmities of the Kidneys and Bladder are of hard and difficult curation in old men â—hich old age begins at fifty years which Hippocrates confirms in his sixt Book Epidemion where he saith he never saw or knew an ulcer of the reins or bladder
be felt towards the outward parts look and expect that the imposthume shall be also outwardly But if the pains bend and decline rather to the inward parts we must then expect the imposthume will be inwards Namely if the paine hath been long and great APH. 37. Vomiting of blood is wholsome to them which doe it without a Feaver but if it be with a Feaver it is an evill thing and the cure and remedie of the same is to be performed with things that have a cooling and binding â—ualitie All vomits of blood are bad Sect. 4. Aphorisme 25 therefore this must be here understood comparatively namely that it is more tolerable without then with a Feaver APH. 38. Distillations upon the upper bellie come to suppuration and ripeness within twenty dayes By the upper belly he means the stomach whose heat causeth the suppuration to be made so soon APH 39 If any one piss blood or clots of blood and be diseased with the Strangury the pain falling into the Perinaeum Hypogastrium and Pectinem the places and part about the bladder are diseased Perinaeum is the part between the privie Members and the Fundament Hypogastrium the bottome of the belly And Pecten that part under the bellie where the haire grows APH. 40 If a mans tongue sodainly become feeble or any part of the body benummed without feeling it is a signe of melancholie For they proceeded from a thick juice which is partly melancholie partlie phlegmatick APH. 41. If the hicket happen to old men purged above measure it is not good Because such a hicket is bad in all especiallie in old men because in them all diseases are greater and more to he doubted by reason of the imbecilitie of that age APH. 42. If the feaver be not caused by choller much warm water poured upon the head doth disolve it Vnder the name of choler â—e doth here comprehend all other humors as Phlegme blood and black choler APH. 43. A woman hath not the use of both hands alike By reason of the imbecilitie of womans nature APH. 44. If a cleare and white matter doe issue out from them which are affected with corrupt matter when they suffer cauterizing or incision they doe escape but if bloodie stinking and filthy matter doe issue forth they die By being affected with corrupt matter he means all which have anie corrupt tumor but especially such as have it gathered between the lungs and the brest APH. 45. If clear and white matter doe issue from them whose liver is corrupted and is burnt they recover health for the corrupt matter is contained in the coat but if that which cometh forth be like the lees of oyle they die The reason of the Aphorism is set down in it when he saith the matter is contained in the coat for if it penetrate into the flesh or substance of the liver they dye APH. 46. Cure and heale pains of the eyes which proceed from drinking of strong wine and bathing in hot water by opening of a veyne This Aphorisme is by Gallen and Heurnius held to be spurious and not worthy of Hypocrates alludes to the 31. Aphorism of the 6 Section yet it much differs from it APH. 47. If a cough come upon one diseased with the dropsie he is irrecoverable This and the 35 Aphorisme of the 6 Section are all one APH. 48 Drinking of neat strong wine and the opening of a veine dissolves the Strangurie and Dysurie but the inward veins must be opened He speakes not of all Stranguries and Dysuries but only of that Strangurie or dropping of urine which is caused by coldness and of that Dysurie or the urines painful comming out which proceeds from a viscous and flatuous humor APH. 49. A swelling and redness arising on the brest of him who have a Squiancie is good for the disease inclineth outwards This differs nothing from the 37 of the sixt Section but only in the place of the rednesses arising so that in both Hippocrates scope is to shew that in this disease it is good to have thè humors tend outward APH. 50. They die within three dayes whose braine begins to corrupt but if they overpasse them they shall recover their health Because the brain is a principal and most noble part But if they scape three daies it may be hoped the disease may remitt and that the naturall forces will ouercome it APH. 51. Sneezing is provoked out of the head the brain being much heated or the void space of the head being much moistned For the aire inclosed within doth breake forth and it makes a noise because it passeth through a narrow place He speaks in this Aphorisme only of that sneezing which is caused by the motion if nature desires to driue out flatuous spirit out of the head APH. 52. Those who are grieved with vehement pain of the Liver are delivered from it if an Ague come upon them Which vehement pain cometh by windiness which the feaver disperses APH. 53. Those which have occasion to have blood taken from them must be let blood in the Spring This is part of the Aph. 47. Sect. 6 look upon that's Comment APH. 54. Those which have phlegm inclosed between the ventricle and the middriff which is painful to them having no passage into either of the bellies are delivered from the disease the phlegm being turned through the veins into the body Matter may come out of the veins into any place of the body and being extenuated return into them again APH. 55. Those have their belly filled with water and die whose Liver replenisht with water makes an eruption of it in the upper part of the belly where the Caul is This Aphorism speaks what is for the most part for by the help of nature and medicaments such may be cured APH. 56. Wine being drunk with an equal proportion of water puts away sorrow yawning and cold shaking For wine by its moderate heat expels most of those matters which cause these symptomes and tempereth the rest APH. 57. Those which have a little swelling in the urinary passage they are delivered from it the same being brought to suppuration and broken This Aphorism is the same as the 82 of the fourth Secton where it was explained APH. 58. They must of necessity become dumb presently which have their brain vehemently shaken troubled by some outward occasion In the word dumbness he here comprehends all other voluntary motions APH. 59. Hunger and fasting is to be indured by bodies consisting of moist flesh For fasting dryeth the body He means so much fasting as will serve to correct the humidity of the flesh APH. 60. Where there is alteration in the whole body and it becometh cold and hot again or changeth from one colour to another it signisies length of the disease This Aphorism is repeated from that which is Sect. 4. Aph. 40. APH. 61. Much sweat hot and dry frequently issuing forth declares abundance of moistness which in a strong body is to