Ear are very nerveous Note the outward part of the ear is fleshy and cartilaginous The humidities of the ears are reckoned amongst Childrens Diseases by some but not the humidities of the Nose or Palate because the Expurgation by the Nose and Palate is natural to men and Children but the expurgation by the Ears is not natural The Cause of it is the great humidity of the Brain which cannot be all evacuated by the Mouth and Palate so that excrementitious humours which abound are evacuated by all Passages wherefore many will not drye up this humidity unlesse it ulcerate or threaten obstruction or deafnesse The Cause of the pain in the ear are the humours especially Choller Ichorous matter Wind or Worms Prog. The Pain of the Ear is very dangerous The Cure is 1. The mitigation of the Pain with luke warm milk or Water and the Oyl of Roses mix'd and a Cloth dipp'd in it and laid upon the Ear a Decoction of the heads of Poppy and as the Causes of the Pain are so ought remedies to be for the taking them away If the pain is from hot humours the part is red and hot and cur'd by cold things if from cold by luke-warm things if from Wind the Diet ought to be such as discusses Wind for which purpose Coriander is good for the Nurse to use and that the Child sleep upon the ear which pains him thereby natural heat is augmented and dissipates the Wind the Oyl of Cammomile or Anniseeds poured into the Childs ear is very good if the pain be from an Ichorous matter wipe and clense continually the Ear with Hony or Hony and water if from Worms put into the Ear bitter things that kill the Worms as the Oyl of bitter Almonds See the Chapter of Worms If there be humidity of the Ears and the Child old enough to be purged let him take three dayes this drink Take of the Leaves of Mirtles Bettony Staecados Violets of each half a handful let a Decoction be made according unto Art then take thereof two Ounces and an half of the Syrrup of Wormwood and Staecados of each two drams mingle them afterwards purge the head thus Take of the Pills of Agarick half a dram of Castor one grain two Cloves mingle them and with the Hony of Roses solutive make five little Pills The head being purged for the drying up of the humidity if it be cold infuse into the Ears the Oyle of Irnie or Rue If hot the Oyl of Roses with the Oyl of Cammomile Observe in the use of remedies that they be always lukewarm when you use them neither hot nor cold not in a great quantity but by drops and that the Child lye on the Ear that pains and observe the moisture flowing out of the Ears is not to be stopp'd CHAP. IX Of the inflamation of the Glandules in the mouth call'd the Almonds of the Ears THe Inflamation of these Glandules is reckoned by some amongst Childrens Diseases but onely in Children after breeding of Teeth Others say this Disease may be in Infants but in them it would then be very mortall by the plentifull flowing of humours which often strangles If the Gums are inflamed in Infants and the Glandules ulcerated before breeding of Teeth why may they not be inflamed what should hinder that an infant may not have this disease sometime and not be choak'd as I conceive The inflamation of these Glandules is an Intumescency of them made by a flux of humours The internal cause are all the humours especially Phlegm The external causes are a hot or extreme cold Air violent exercises hanging down the head vociferations strong drink and meat that heat the blood The Signes are if the mouth be opened heat pain rednesse and Swelling near the root of the Tongue difficulty in breathing and swallowing Prog. This Disease usually causes the Quinzey and inflamation of the Lungs and divers other dangerous Diseases 2. If a loosenesse of the belly happen upon this Disease the Flux cures it The Cure is 1. in a good Dyet avoiding any excesse of the air smoak the Sun all exercises of the body vehement motions of the mind especially anger bathing if the belly be bound move it with a gentle Clyster or suppository not by a remedy at the mouth for it is dangerous abstain from wine and use Barly water with the Juyce of Granates and Mulberries and Quinces let the meat be such as may be supt as Barly Broth bread boyled in broth with the Juice of the Seeds of Limmon the Yelks of Eggs in broth with the Juice of Granates 2. In revulsion of the humour by daily rubbing Ligatures especially Cupping-glasses applyed to the Loins and lower parts not the upper parts lest it draw the humor to the part affected 3. Repelling the humour by cooling and astringing remedies as the Sirrup of Mulberry Granate Mirtle with Barly water Rose water Plantain or Oak-bud water and wash the mouth with it to which purpose may be red Roses powdered finely and other astringent powders 3. Dissipating evacuating the humour with remedies that by a moderate heat attenuate and turns the matter into a wind Take the leaves of Dill Flowers of Camomile of each half a handfull of Bran half a Pugill the leaves of Marjarome six Drams of Common water a pint and an half boil it according to Art strain it and add three ounces of clarified Hony gargarize with it being Lukewarm If the matter cannot be discust but it begins to ripen help it with annointing the neck with the Oyle of Almonds or by applying a plaister of Diachilon The ripening of it is helpt inwardly by the roots of Mallowes or Figs boyled and Gargarizing and washing the mouth with it CHAP. X. Of the Sorenesse of the mouth THe Ulcers of the mouth in Children are Ulcers of the Superficies of the mouth that is the whole internal part of the mouth with a fiery heat They are easily caused in Infants by reason of the tendernesse and softnesse of the Palat of Children they being unaccustomed to meat being newly born and by their greedinesse and sucking more then they can digest wherefore it is a great fault in Nurses that whensoever the Child cryes to quiet them with giving the Breast for it is a rule amongst Physicians that milk should not be given not above three or four times in a day The cause is whatsoever is corroding or accrimonious or sharp whether the humours of the body meat or medicaments In Children they are chiefly caused by the sharpnesse and corruption of the Milk whereby ill vapours are sent from the Stomach into the mouth The external causes are whatsoever may heat the head of the Child as the air being hot the use of hot meats immoderate exercises and drinking of strong Wine The Signes are Swallowing with pain and difficulty if they are malignant they for the most part follow ill and pestilentiall Feavers besides they are fetid black or livid causing pain and
make a Clyster which is very good So is this Take of Mullen the greater Comfrey of each half a handful boyl them according to Art Take thereof two Ounces and an half of the Syrrup Deribes one Ounce mingle them Whey in which Steel is quench'd is good and may be given to six or eight Ounces at once If the Guts are sore this Confection is very useful Take of the Conserve of Barberies one Ounce of Thus one dram of Mastick half a dram of the powder of the great Comfrey two Scruples mingle them the quantity to be used is two or three drams every morning The Broth of an old Hen in which Mullen is boyled is good for all old and petuitous Fluxes So is the heart of a Beef burnt and powdered taken in Milk in which Steel is quench'd or in the Decoction of Mullen half a Scruple of it or a Scruple is to be used at once Clysters are good Take the Water of Barly in which Steel is quench'd eight Ounces Red Sugar one Ounce make a Clyster this is good in the beginning because it moderately dries absterges and mundifies the Ulcers afterwards the Ulcers are to be dryed and healed to which purpose use this Take of Whey in which Steel is quench'd nine Ounces of Thus Bole-Armonick and of Comfrey the great of each three drams Sanguis Draconis five drams mingle them and make a Clyster CHAP. XX. Of the Tenesme AFter a Loosness and in the Loosness and from them a distemper usually arises called a Tenesme which is a certain vain desire of evacuating the Filth of the Belly with pain and trouble The Cause is A hot or cold distemper of the Spyncter of the great Gut most commonly from a humour thick viscid and sharp adhereing to it where it stimulates the expulsive faculty which endevouring to expel the viscous and sharp matter but cannot in regard of the tenacity of the humour the Tunicle of the Gut is as it were strain'd into pieces and in the same divulsion the appetite and pain is made The antecedent causes most frequently are Preceeding Fluxes for the humors continually touching the great Gut distempers it if the humours are hot the distemper is hot if cold the distemper is cold whereby sometimes there is not only made a distemper but an Inflamation The Signs are manifest because the Child desires and endevours often to expell the filth of the Belly and with such endevours that sometimes the Fundament falls and comes down the Filth that is evacuated is very little slimy and bloody if it be from a hot cause a heat is perceived by the Children in the Fundament there is a rednesse and cold remedies help if from cold there is a lesser pain a little or no heat no rednesse and hot things help Prog. This Disease if it be diligently handled in the beginning ends well but it sometimes happens by continual pains watchings and crying of Children that it brings them into mortal Feavers and Consumptions The Cure is of sucking Children by ordering the Nurse if a Child somewhat great by abstaining from meats that are acid sharp salt and sweet and to use such as provoke Urine If the cause be hot to asswage the pain then lessen the desire of going to Stool Make a Decoction of Mullein or Dyptams and sit in it Take Mirabulous Chebules and the Leaves of Mullein and boyle them in Red wine and dip a Sponge in it and apply it to the fundament Turpentine put upon the Coales that it fume and smoke the fundament is very good if these will not help Take of Opium four grains of Saffron one Scruple of Thus one Scruple and make a Suppository of it with the White of an Egg roasted put it into the Fundament it takes away pain dryes up the humours that causes the distemper especially the hot humors CHAP. XXI Of the pain of the Guts THe Guts being very full of Turnings and windings and rowlings and very long retain the humors a great time in them which makes the internal Tunicles of the Guts bare and naked from the slime which covers the Guts and makes their sense dull for their receiving of hard and sharp excrements and corrodes the substance of them and distends them whereby there is a vehement torment and pain The cause is either wind that cools the Guts and oistends the Tunicles of them or humors that are cold or hot which distemper them or causes a Solution of continuity somtimes Worms is the cause The external causes are the coldnesse of Air Feet and meat also sweet meats and Summer fruits If it be from Wind the pain is sometimes vehement sometimes gentle goes and comes breaks forth upwards and downwards If from humors the pain is more durable and constant if from Phlegme that Filth that is evacuated is but little and slimy If from Choller the Excrements of the Belly are yellow If from the corruption or sharpnesse of Milk there are notes of the badnesse of the Milk and the Filth and Excrements evacuated resemble corrupted Milk Prog. Pains that are persevering are dangerous especially the vehement pains in the Guts of Children proceeding from Worms which many times kills them The Cure is If the pain is from corrupted Milk change the Nurse if the be so vehement that it will not allow time to correct the milk if from wind the Nurse is to abstain from all windy meats and use Coriander and Fennelseed So ought the Child that is elder to use Auodynes such things which heat in the first degree and evacuate the matter of pain and attenuate and dissipate it annointing the Childs Belly with the Oyle of Anniseed If it is not effectual put a Clyster-pipe in the Fundament so the Wind is drawn forth sometimes if not make three Ounces of the Oyle of Anniseed lumbricated is sufficient for a Clyster If the Child be great use Cummin or Anniseed in Sweet Oyle and the Oyle afterwards being strained take of it 6. or 8. Ounces for one Clyster Observe the Wind ought to be expelled out of the Guts by gentle remedies if more hot are used the pains usually are increas'd if the Cause of the Wind be in the Guts If the cause is a petuitous humour in a Child that is somewhat great the gentle remedies above mittigate pain afterwards take the Leaves of Dill Marjerome Cumminseed of each half a handful boyle them according to Art Take Take of the Decoction three Ounces of Oxymel Simple and of the Syrrup of Byzantine of each three Drams the humors being prepared purge with one dram of Hiera in Wine if the Child will take it and there being no Feaver otherwise Take of Electuary Lenitive 5 drams of Hiera Picra one dram mingle them and make a Bolus If the pain is from hot and sharp humors use outwardly the means as is said before Take of Barly water six Ounces Oyle of Anniseed two Ounces the Yolk of an Egge and make a Clyster
the Filth and slimy humour from it which is requisite also to be done 2. Retaining it in its place after it is put into it which is done by astringent remedies which ought not to be very strong because they exasperate cause pain and want of sleep to which use serves Terra Lemnia Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence and Cerusse which are to be sprinkled upon the part apply to the Fundament a Spunge dipp'd in an Astringent Decoction of Sanicle Herb-robert Acornes or Leaves of Oake or the greater Comfrey CHAP. IX Of the Galling of Children THe Galling of Children are certain Ulcers in the Skin or Excoriations which happen to Children between the Thighes sometimes they are in the Feet Lips and between the Thighes in those of elder years The Cause is 1. External sharp Urine especially in fat Children sharp and cholerick Filth of the Belly and Foulness of Cloaths walking rough Cloathing and violent motion drawing the sharp humours to the Skin or exasperating the humours in the Skin 2. Internal and immediate a sharp and corroding humour which is either generated in the part exulcerated or it flowes from the body into those parts 3. Antecedent the fault of the Milk if the Child suck In elder ones an ill Diet especially meats that are hot sweet salt or corroding The Signs are obvious because the part is red and pain'd especially if it be touch'd and rubb'd Presage If they are neglected they turn into ill Ulcers and are dangerous otherwise they are easie to cure The Cure is if the Child suck let the Nurse use a good Diet and abstain from Motion Watching Anger Wine and all meats that are sharp salt and corroding If she be of an unhealthy blood let her purge The Child is also to be often wash'd and clens'd from his filth and excrements and his Cloathes are to be clean and not hard If the Child doth not suck the like Diet is to be used as is advised for the Nurse and the same remedies for preparing and purging of the humours and outwardly to be applied are convenient which are advised in the Fourth Chapter to which I refer you To them may be added Dear-Suet or the Suet of a Goat Take a Turnip make a Hole in it then fill it with the Oyl of Roses and Roast it of which make a Liniament CHAP. X. Of Chilblanes and Kybes CHilblanes usually follow Tumours and Swellings and the matter of it is dry sharp and corroding and makes an Ulcer which for the most part is dry and no matter or humour issues of it It happens to Children chiefly because they lesse feel the cold and defend themselves against it and so are most frequently hurt with the cold It happens to he hands and Feet and not other parts of the body because 1. The hands and feet are farthest from the fountain of heat the heart 2. They are without Flesh and have no defence from outward injuries and do abound with Nerves and Bones whereby we have great pain and are more cold in these parts then in other parts insomuch that these parts many times corrupt and putrefie with cold by what is said Chilblanes may be defined A dry Ulcer in the hands and feet chiefly in Infants The Cause is cold or shoes that hurt being too straight rough or hard The Signs are An Inflamation more or lesse sometimes Pustules afterwards exulcerations a little pain but the Itching greater a purulent Ichor comes from it that seems to be like ripened or thin matter The Presage It is not dangerous if it be not neglected if it be a Mortification of the Feet may happen and so Death The Cure is in 1. Preservation from it wherefore avoid straight and hard shoes defend your feet from the cold Air and rub your feet with salt and hony mingled which is good in the begining when the swelling only appears so is the washing your feet with salt water or with a Decoction of Betes And when there is only a Swelling these are good as Turnips boyled and applied in the manner of a Plaister Bran boyled in Wine Take of the Gumme Ammoniacum one Dram of Resin two Drams dissolve them over the fire add thereto six Drams of Common Oyl of Wax half a Dram let the Wax be dissolved then add Flower of Fengreek Frankinsence and Mastick of each two Drams mingle them 2. In curing the Ulcer Aloes alone or mix'd with sweet wine cures it being laid to it if the Ulcer be sordid clense it with the Ointment called the Ointment of the Apostles when it is clensed that no filth is left then skin it with the Plaster called Diapalma CHAP. XI Of the Scab THE Scab is a Swelling with a distemper and exulceration of the Skin The Cause is a corrupted blood mixt with salt Phlegme and burnt Choler either generated in the womb of the Mother by the menstruous blood or after the Child is born by the corruption of milk or fault of Diet by which the Liver chiefly is intemperately hot or the blood is corrupted by contagion which being expell'd to the Skin there sticks exulcerates it and makes it sore The Signs are manifest and are in the Definition The Cure is in 1. A convenient Diet the meat ought to be boyled not roasted of an easie Disgestion not salt hot or having ill qualities unclenliness and unseasonable exercise are to be avoided 2. Tempering and purging the humors as in the fourth Chapter 3. By provocation of Sweat with a Decoction of Scabius Harts-horn Fumitory and Cardus benedictus 4. External Remedies which gently clense and drye Quicksilver is much commended but it is only convenient if the Scab be contumacious and in the oldest Children Unguentum Enulatum is profitable but be careful it be without Mercury Take of the Oyl of Roses four Ounces live Brimstone one Ounce the Juice of Limons two Ounces the Resine of Pine-tree one Ounce mixe them and make an Oyntment of them Take of Turpentine four Ounces wash'd in-Rose-water the Juice of four Oranges the Yelks of four Eggs and an Ounce of the Oyl of Roses mingle them all and make an Ointment of them which is excellently good if the Scab be old and dry Elecampane powdered and with Hogs grease made into an Oyntment is highly praised so is Brimstone finely powdered and annointed with Milk Also Garlick beaten very smal and mix'd with Hogs grease is very good CHAP. XII Of the Itch. THe Itch is a pain exciting a desire of Scratching without the unevennesse or exulceration of the Skin The Itch is sometimes in the whole body but most frequently in the Soles of the Feet by reason of the hardnesse and thicknesse of the Skin hindering the humours to evaporate The Cause is Choller or salt or thin Phlegme thereby insinuating it self into the smallest pars but it is viscid and clammy that it may adhere and cleave tenaciously to the parts It is caused in the Womb of the Mother by the Menstruous blood or
by the corruption or fault of the Milk or by meats and drinks that are hot salt or other things that heat the Liver The Signs are manifest The Cures are 1. By attemperating the humours with the Whey of the Milk of Goats and the Syrrup of Fumitory 2. In evacuating the humors Take a Dram of Rhabarb infuse it all night in a little Water strain it and add three Ounces of Whey and two Ounces of the Syrrup of Roses solutive 3. Mitigation of the pain and discussing of it by Baths of Water in which are Mallowes Cammomile or Pellitory So much of External Diseases The Second Book Of Universal Diseases in CHILDREN CHAP. I. Of Feavers in Children in Generall HItherto have been considered External Diseases Internal are either Universal which affect the whole body or perticular which affect some parts A Feaver is an Universal Disease so is the Small Pox and a Consumption which three Diseases will be considered in this Book Although Feavers and their Causes are common to all Ages yet in regard Infancy is most obnoxious to them and hath peculiar considerations in the Cure of them Limiting the strength quality and quantity of the remedy it will not be altogether improper to call Feavers Childrens Feavers Children are subject to Diseases that are accidental and Symptomatical proceeding from other Diseases as in breeding of the Teeth Inflamation of the Gums c. and also to Feavers essentiall and of their own accord and to all sorts of them but especially a Synoche Feaver in regard their bodies are hot and moist their temperament sanguine and their bodies dense by which transpiration of the heat is hindered which increases and produces a Feaver Children may have a Quartan Feaver though their natural temper be contrary to it because 1. Humours partake aswell of the matter as of the Agent and Temperament of the body wherefore as Humours and Excrements of the body do not shew the Temperament for old men are cold and dry of temper yet they abound with Phlegme so do they not only depend on it but on Diet likewise which in Children is very often grosse and unorderly eaten and so Crudities and very thick humours are made 2. If the Mother was elderly and of a Melancholy temper the menstruous blood with which the Child was nourish'd may much alter the temper of the Child 3. A Quartan Feaver is not always made from Melancholy but may be made from any humour that is thick The Internal Causes are the humours of the body The External Causes are chiefly 1. The Air If the Winter be cold and dry and the Spring hot and moist bodies cannot be cooled in the Summer but burn and cause Feavers besides in the Summer Childrens bodies are more thin and spare 2. Unseasonable and immoderate exercise being full or empty 3. Immoderate and ill Diet whence are Crudities Obstructions and Putrefying and so Feavers Presage All Feavers in Children for the most part are not dangerous because the natural Faculty is strong and active in them and can resist powerfully the Causes of Feavers Children sometimes by Feavers have an Hectick Feaver not by the difficulty of the Curing it or the greatnesse of the Feaver but by the morosity of the Child that will not be govern'd The Cure is If the Child suck the Nurse is to be cur'd with such things that alter and purge as the kind of Feaver seems to require It is much doubted how blood is to be lessened in Children that have Feavers Some think that after the Fifth Month Cupping-glasses may be applied and blood drawn out by them Others think not before a year which opinion is most safe because this Age is wont greatly to be overcome by pain and trouble and Cupping glasses are painful but after a year Cupping glasses may be applied but only to sanguine and strong Children And then not to the part above but on the Thighs because the Spirits and strength are not so wasted from those parts as from above And only to the taking away an Ounce of blood and no more Besides these remedies others may be added Inwardly may be taken the Juice of Granates which is highly praised with Oxymel and Citron It may be made thus Take of the Juice of Granates one Ounce of Simple Oxymell half an Ounce you may give the Child a Dram at a time unto half an Ounce but it is better to mixe the lesse quantity of Oxymel because the Childs Nerves are very infirm and Oxymel and all sower things hurt the Nerves wherefore the Syrrup of Maidenhair Syrrup of Red Poppies are good If the Child is bound in his belly you may not use purging Medicaments because the Childs body is hot naturally and is more heated by the Feaver so it is dangerous to add the heat of a purging Medicament wherefore it is better to use a more gentle Clyster or Suppository Take of Whey half a pint of Hony half an Ounce of Salt half a Dram mingle them make a Suppository of Flesh and Hogs grease or the common Suppository for strong Suppositories are dangerous Outward remedies may be used 1. Things very gentle may be applied to the head or Feet to provoke sweat as the Root of a Reed if the Childs body which is Dense be opened by Sweat the heat and putrid vapours will go forth 2. Cloths dipped in Cichory Endive Plantane or Rosewater applied to the Breast Side or Back for cooling The Liver and Stomach ought to be helped in Concoction in all Feavers much more here which is done by cooling and binding remedies applied to them Take of the Oil of Mastick half an Ounce powder of Red Corall Sanders and Red Roses of each two Scruples of Wax a little make an Oyntment of it but if the Child be between seven and fourteen years he must be handled in another manner which shall be set forth in the following Chapter CHAP. II. Of a Synoche Feaver EVery Synoche putrid Feaver in Children is from obstruction made by gross humours in hot moist and sanguine bodies and the putrid matter is in all or the greater veins The Cure of it in a Child between 7. and 14. years will be in removing the obstructions and tempering the Febrish heat which will be done by 1. A convenient Diet let the Air be cold motions of the body and mind avoided if the belly move not use a Clyster or Suppository let the Drink be water or Barly water the Diet sparing only Barly broth or Broth of Meat But because this will be accounted too strict and hard to indulge you may add to the Broth bread and sometimes the Yelk of an Egge but be careful you do not nourish too much because the strength and the Disease are nourish'd together The time of eating let it be as it was when the Child was well 2. Blood-letting Some think that Blood-letting ought not to be before the Child is 14. years old because that which the opening of a Vein ought
putrifies it doth resemble the nature of Choler not that it is true pure Choler because it cannot be imagin'd how heat before the Disease or in it can make the most hot humour as Choler is in the head that is moist and almost water nor pure Phlegme because it is cold and moist and the humidities of Children are hot therefore old men waxe gray because they abound with Phlegme Children not because they abound not with Phlegme that is cold and moist The External causes are a very hot Air blows falls Milk that is very hot by the Nursés using hot drinks Milk hath the power of making one drunk and one observes well tender Kids of Goats are made mad with Milk and there is no doubt but the tender Brain of Children are much offended by the Milk of Nurses The Signs are the Hole and cavity of the Anterior part of the head because the heat of the Inflammation dries the Brain which being drye the Skull is deprest and sunk with its own weight and makes a hollownesse of the eyes by the same cause is a heat of the whole body and dryness continual Feaver palenesse of Countenance weaknesse losse of Appetite want of sleep and a loosness of the Belly Prog. This Disease is very dangerous in Children because they are more easily extenuated by their heat it is wont to kill in three days afterwards there is hopes the Disease declines and the strength increases The Cure is in 1. Dyet let the Nurse drink only water and use such Meats which greatly cool as Ptisan and Barly Broth with the Emulsions of the Seeds of Poppy-Broths with Lettice and Endive the Nurse and Child are to be kept in a cold Air in great quiet of mind and body Purges are unprofitable or hurtful but if the Child be costive his belly may be loosned with a common Suppository or this Clyster Take of Barly water Three Ounces of Whey Five Ounces red Sugar half an Ounce mingle them Outwardly use two Ounces of the Oyl of Roses with the Yelk of an Egge it mitigates pain concocts and dissolves the humour the Juice of Lettice Pomkins and Melons the flesh whereof may be pounded and the Juyce prest out and the Leaves of Lettice steep'd in it and laid upon the head or a Cloth dipp'd in the Juice These Medicaments are often to be changed lest by staying too long on the head they heat and dry and hurt as much as help and in the Winter they are to be laid on lukewarm in the Summer cold Nor is it safe to exceed these cold remedies and use the coldest lest the temper of the Brain is destroyed When the Inflamation is appeased then leave the use of the cooling remedies and use discussive ones and first such as are gentle the yelk of an Egge of Oyl of Cammomile two Ounces mingle them afterwards a stronger discutient Take the Flowers of Cammomile the Leaves of Penny-royal and Dill Bran tyed in a Cloth half a Pugill boyl them according to Art then take half a pint of the said Decoction the Oyl of Cammomile and Anniseed of each an Ounce shake them well together and apply them warm to the Head CHAP. VII Of the running at the Nose Cough and difficult Breathing THe running at the Nose Cough and difficult Breathing in Children are the effects and issue of a Distillation which as some observe is the mother of all Evill and is a desluxion of a petuitous humour into the parts subjected if the matter flowes to the Nose it is called the Pose and running at the Nose if it descends to the breast and is expelled by the Spirit that goes out it 's called a Cough but if the same matter falls upon the Lungs and stops the ways of the Spirit and oppresses the body of the Lungs it produces a difficulty in breathing this matter seldome makes hoarsness in Children because sucking Children by their daily use of Milk cleanses the Phlegme that it doth not stick about the Jawes in those that are elder hoarsnesse is seldome because they are hot about the Jawes which dryes up the Phlegme These Distempers are Symptomes and effects of a very moist Brain sometimes cold because Infants draw Air more cold then they were used to which cools the Brain and it is sometimes hot by its natural temper which is very hot by Air that is hot Fire Smoake too hot cloathing of the head and the gluttony and intemperance of the Nurse The Signs are manifest of the Cough Poze and difficulty of Breathing if they come from a hot cause the Child sneezes often the colour of the countenance of the Child is florid and red the Jawes are red and whilest the Child sucks the Breasts are heated that the Nurse perceives the heat If from a cold cause there is seldome sneezing no change of the Colour of the Countenance no heat perceived in the mouth Prog. These Distempers are not dangerous if they be not neglected otherwise they produce Broken Bellies and other Diseases and often Death The Cure is 1. in Diet let the Air be temperate without Excesse avoid Wine and Meats that are windy and grosse and such as flye to the head as Spice and meats prepared with them If the matter is cold a little Spice and hot meats may be allowed but sparingly for all which fly to the head are apt to attenuate and loosen both the cold and hot matter which causes these Distempers and many others 2. Evacuating and diverting the humour by loosning the Belly of the Child by a Clyster or Suppository or by a Vomit which is very good to evacuate the Phlegme which you may do by dipping your finger in Hony and pressing down the Tongue of the Child also to evacuate the matter Take of the Hony of Violets one Ounce of the Powder of Ocymi one dram mingle it and put it in the Mouth of the Infant and then give him the Breast in a cold cause Mirrh and Hony are commended In a hot cause Take one dram of the Seed of White Poppy of Tragacanthy half a Dram of the Seed of a Goard three Drams bruise them all and with a Decoction of Sobestens make a Liquor or you may powder them and take half a Scruple mingle them with a little hony of Violets and give it the Infant to lick If the Breath be difficult with the Cough use the Syrrup of Hyssop in the place of the Hony of Violets It is also convenient to keep the Breast of the Child easie and not straight that it may dilate wherefore annoint the Breast and Back with the Oyl of sweet Almonds which is also good if it be swallowed and taken inwardly CHAP. VIII Of the pain and humidity of the Ears THe pain of the Ears is reckoned by all Physicians amongst the Diseases of Children It is a grievous sense which vehemently affects the parts about the passage of hearing which is very sharp in regard the inward parts of the
weakness or the fault of the matter of the Teeth being not sufficiently glutinous and earthy or by a privation of matter by Worms or a loosnesse in the seventh year Teeth fall out and others grow in their places growing of Teeth continues until fourteen years afterwards very few grow unlesse they be those called Posteriores Gemini which sometimes grow at 80 years The sooner Teeth come forth the less pain but they are the weaker Teeth come forth in the Spring and Summer more easily but with worse Symptomes and effects in the Winter with more difficulty but with lesse danger for they are lesse troubled with a Feaver Loosness or Vomit because their inward heat is more strong But a modern Author says that in every time of the year some are more troubled some lesse according to the natural constitution of Children which the times of the year cannot hinder The Teeth are of an equal number in men and women being 32. The Cutting Teeth which are four above and below grow first which are made of a thin matter and as they are made first so weaker and are broke fall out sooner then the rest the next are the Teeth called Dogs Teeth whose use is to break the meat as to cut is before breaking so the Teeth that cut are first afterwards the Teeth that break the meat afterwards the great and grinding Teeth grow whose matter is more hard and earthy and therefore they break out the more slowly and last of all the Gemini which never are renewed and grow again Hence it appears why the breeding of Teeth causes so many evils if they should grow in the Womb they would not be troublesome but growing after the Birth of the Child and in that time when the Gums are most soft which being bruised and crushed by a hard body as the Bone is causes great pain The Signs are the Childs crying loosnesse pinching the Paps whilest they suck the Inflammation and heat of their mouths and when their Gums are rubbed they are eased Prog. The breeding of Teeth is alwayes dangerous by reason of the great and grievous Symptomes and effects it produces as Convulsions Feavers and other evils If the Child is loose he is lesse troubled with Convulsions and fat Children more than lean yet there may be Convulsions by the sharpnesse of pain If the Child hath an acute Feaver there is seldome Convulsions by fulnesse it being remedied by the Feaver Teeth come forth more slowly most commonly with a little Cough because there is a defluxion in the mouth which argues the weaknesse of the brain The Cure is in a cold dyet of the Nurse and the pap kept cool which much refreshes the Child the Child is not to eat any hard meat and the Gums are to be cooled and relax'd the Juice of Mallowes and Lettice cools Take the Juice of Mallowes half an Ounce of Butter washt in Mallow-water half one Ounce half the yelke of an egge mingle and anoint the Gums with it this that followes is stronger Take of the Juice of Night-shade half an Ounce of the Oyle of Roses six Drams of Butter washt in Lettice-water three Drams mingle them and anoint the Gums with it it being cold rubbing the Gums with your finger for it often mitigates pain The Gums are relax'd by things that are fat as all fat of a Hen c. Oyl of Almonds and the Brains of a Hare boyled in the place whereof may be the brains of a Hen Hony boyled is much commended It is conceived by some that the breeding of Teeth is the more easie by hanging about the neck Corral a Jaspis-stone or the Root of wilde Colothwiths which others think superstitious CHAP. XIII Of the Hiccough CHildren are more chiefly affected with Diseases in the lower Venter in three parts the Stomach Bladder and Guts which follow in their order The Hiccough is a motion like to a Convulsion in which the Stomach endevour to expell what is hurtful infixt in the mouth of it The cause is in Children the plenty or quality of the Milk or nourishment being too cold sharp or corroding vehemently irritating the expulsive faculty sometimes but rarely it comes from emptiness The external causes are a cold Air hot and sharp meats as Pepper The Signes are manifest for as the Proverb is Love and the Hiccough cannot be hid if it is from fullnesse the Child is greedy and Vomits if from cold it is known by rhe Nurses using cold meats and externall injuries that preceeded it if the Childs Stomach is fomented with hot Cloathes it ceases presently if from evacuation fasting flux or vomit preceeded it if from acrimony the meats are corrupted or the milk is sharp and biting and the Child often mourns and grieves and there are pains of the Belly besides the Ordure shewes it Prog. The Hiccough in Children for the most part is safe if it be made from emptiness it is mortal for Children which are naturally full and very moist if they are vehemently dryed by a great cause they are hardly restored If a Hiccough be with the Falling-sicknesse or another kind of Convulsion it is Mortall The Cure is if the Hiccough be from 1 cold use hot things inwardly and and outwardly Take the Syrrup of Mint or Betony outwardly the Oyl of Anniseed Chamomile and Wormwood besides Plaisters and Ointments that are hot and set forth in several Chapters 2. Plenty or quality of Milk correct it as is shewed in several Chapters and if it be from the Acrimony of the Milk let the Child use a little quantity of this Take of Saccharum Rosatum half an Ounce of Bole Armenick half a Scruple mingle them If from Evacuation the same remedies are good as are for Leannesse from Evacuation see the Chapter of Leannesse Bathing with sweet Water and Broth is good in elder Children the Yelks of Eggs and all Meats that easily nourish It is related by some that the Herb called Alyssus held in the hand look'd upon or smell'd to cures the Hiccough by Propriety of Substance Others say that Sneezing and holding the Breath cures all Hiccoughs but these Helps are too difficult for Children and Infants Sneezing and Vomiting because they evacuate the matter is commended CHAP. XIV Of Vomiting and a vain desire of Vomiting BEsides the Hiccough the vain desire of Vomiting and Vomiting happens to Children for the matter that troubles the Stomach is either infixed deeply in the mouth of the Stomach and so makes a Hiccough or infixed but not profoundly and either in the Mouth or Tunicles of the Stomach whence it is a vain desire of Vomiting or else the matter is contained in the Space of the Stomach and so makes a Vomiting The Causes of Vomiting or a vain desire of Vomiting in Children are The humidity and laxity of the Stomach the plenty of cold humours falling from the head the plenty of Milk or Meat the Acrimony and coldnesse of the same Milk The External causes
are a bad Air stinck or an ill tast the use of Oyly and fat things The Signs of Vomiting are manifest it is known if it be from 1. Coldness by the cold Diet of the Nurse preceding it and the help from hot things Besides the Milk is kept some time if the Stomach be cold it presently rejects the Milk 2. Acrimony then Children languish and are afflicted before and after Vomiting 3. Plenty then Vomiting eases evacuating the cause of Laxity Prog. Vomiting which is from taking more then the Stomach is able to bear and Vomiting only that which offended and retaining and correcting the rest the Child is not sick but more cheerful the Stomach being strong and the fault only in the quantity of the Milk 2. Vomiting immediately only what is taken if it continue causes a Consumption and Death The Cure is The Milk is to be corrected by lessening the quantity of it in suckling the Child and altering by purging and correcting the temper of the Nurse as is directed in several Chapters If the fault be in the Childs Stomach by the weaknesse of it Cloves or Coriander chewed by the Nurse and instill it into the Mouth of the Child sometimes alone sometimes with the Syrrup of Mirtles Quince or Granates is commended Outwardly apply the Plaister called Emplastrum de Crusta Panis or take the Oyl of Mirtles two drams of the Juice of unripe Grapes or one dram and an half red Wine one dram boyl them to the Consumption of the Wine then add Mastick Mirrh Acaciae and Frankinsense of each half a dram Wax and refine as much as will susfice to a soft Plaister let the Child wear this constantly above the Stomach CHAP. XV. Of the unvoluntary pissing of Children INvoluntary pissing or not holding of the Water in Children is more familiar to them then those that are elder because Children are rather governed by their appetite then will and cannot hold their water longer but this Incontinency of Urine is not here intended it being not a Disease but the involuntary pissing here meant is an Affection preternatural by which Children are forced and involuntarily make water at all times The cause is in Children an Imbecillity and cold and moist temper of the Muscle of the Bladder called Sphincter proceeding from pituitous and thick humours Sometimes the resolution of the Sphincter the motive faculty being not sent to it by reason of the obstruction of the Nerves especially about the Spinal Marrow from the like humour The External Causes are the coldness of Air and Meat drinking of cold water blowes about the Back and falls The Signs are elder Childrens wetting of their Clothes their inward garments being always wet with pisse but in Children newly born it is hard to know whither in an often sucking an often pissing is involuntary and that Age gives no testimony of voluntary pissing Prog. Involuntary pissing is more hard to Cure if it come from an obstruction then cold and moisture If it comes from an External Cause it is mortal especially from a fall or Luxation The Cure is in 1. By a Diet which is hot and dry as you have in several Chapters you are to abstain from meats that move Urine 2. The Belly loosned by a Clyster or Suppository use this Syrrup Take of the Leaves of Calamint Plantane and Mint of each half a handful the Seeds of Rue two drams boyl them according to Art Take of the Syrrup of Purslane Red Roses and Wormwood of each half a dram mingle them together After the humours are prepared purge with two Scruples of Pill Hiera cum Agarico or Take of Mirabuline Chebuline one dram of the Seed of Rue half a dram of the Flowers of Violets and Roses of each half a Pugil boyl them according to Art Take thereof three Ounces Trochische of Agarick two Scruples and an half infuse it all night then presse it and add the Syrrup of Roses Solutive two Ounces the body being purged outward remedies are to be used as Baths which heat drye and are binding it is good to annoint the Loyns and Parts nearest to the Bladder with the Oyl of Wormwood or the Oyl of Worms foment those parts with this Take of Calamint Mint Rue Marjerome red Roses of each an handful Galengal and Cyprus of each two drams boyl them in red Wine according to Art If these will not prevail then Blisters will be useful Divers remedies are propounded by Authors that are supposed by a Propriety to cure this Distemper as the Brain and Testicles of a Hare burnt and given to drink in White-wine the Bladder of a Sheep or Sow used in the like manner and divers others CHAP. XVI of the Strangury and Suppression of Urine THe difficulty of Urine is either when that no Urine is made which is called Ischury or when the Urine is made by Drops which is called a Strangury both which distempers differ only in degree The Causes are a coldnesse sometimes alone sometimes with moisture weakning the expulsive faculty that it cannot expell the Urine or if it doth not in such a manner as it ought so that the expulsive faculty is essentially hurt or the cause is either from a Stone or the humours viscid and thick The External Causes are an Air that is cold grosse thick and cold meats and drinks especially the Milk of the Nurse for as the manner of Diet is such is the Milk as the Milk is such are the Children that suck it The Signs are manifest for the Child makes no water or by drops and with groaning If it be from a cold distemper then if the parts be rubb'd heated or compress'd the Urine comes forth if from Obstruction if you compresse them no Urine is made it is known also by the course of Life preceeding to it and by the Childs being said before to have Urine that was thick and muddy Prog. The Strangury and Ischury in Children are difficult distempers for all distempers in Children of the natural faculties are dangerous The Cure is 1. In a good Diet avoiding fulness grosse and thick meats and drinks 2. Expelling the Excrements in the Stomach and first passages by loosning the Belly with two or three Ounces of the Hony of Roses then prepare the humours thus Take of the Simple Hony of Roses Simple Oxymel of the Syrrup of Bettony of each three drams mingle them and give it alone or else with Broth afterwards purge Take of Cassia five dâ—ams of Species Hiera one dram and an half mingle them or Take the Hony of Roses Solutive two Ounces of Electuary Lenitive three drams two Ounces and an half of a Cordial Decoction of Violet Roses mingle them and make a Drink 3. Provoking of Urine the Decoction of Grownsell Saxifrage Centmade or Red Cicers is much commended or Take the Roots of Asparagus half an Ounce the Leaves of Saxifrage and Maidenhaire of each one handful red Cicers one Pugil make a Decoction according unto Art give three
Ounces of Wax a little and make an Oyntment of them Remedies also are convenient which are put in at the Nose or Ears As the Oyl of Cammomile with a little Ireos or Brimstone or the Oyle of the Gumme called Sagapenum with a little Castor Some commend the Brain of a Wolf dried and sprinkled with Musk put into the Nose In the use of these Remedies you are to take notice that if the water moves from the internal to the external parts it is incurable Likewise if the Water is plentiful which is collected out of the Skull the use of inward or outward remedies are in vain because as strong internal remedies in this tender Subject are not convenient so moderate and weak remedies do not prevail the like is also in external Medicaments wherefore there is only hope in a sensible evacuation by Chyrurgery and Incision which is to be used if the water be not discuss'd within three weeks by the preceeding means Incision is dangerous in regard of the tenderness of the Age and greatness of the distemper and ought to be the last remedy and not to be used upon Children newly born but in others of elder years In the making Incision if the Tumor hath a great point the head of the point is to be opened with two or three Cuttings and in the lowest part for the easier evacuating the humour which Evacuation ought not to be at once but by degrees lest the Spirits are dissipated and care is to be taken that the coldness of the Air doth not hurt the Brain After Incision is made and the water evacuated by little and little Proper Medicaments to wounds are to be used as Linnen wet in Oyl or Wine which Medicaments are to be straightly bound if the Child is very strong but if very tender and weak the place that is cut is to be only covered with some soft Wool or the like dipt in Medicaments proper for wounds If after Incision the Flesh will not grow by the fault of the bone as if often happens scrape the bone gently that the fault may be removed and the flesh grow If the Water is between the skin and the Temp'ral Muscles or between the Muscles and the Skin it is mortal to make Incision but you must expect the setling of the Water in the sides of the Muscles not belonging to them Some there are that use Caustick Medicaments and burn many Ulcers in the Childs head and if it is not effectual then they come to Incision but it is very dangerous for exulcerations in the Childs head which is full of water are never or hardly cureable CHAP. III. Of the Kings Evill THe Kings Evill is a hard or Schirrous Tumour contrary to nature growing for the most about the Neck and chiefly of Children The immediate cause is sometimes Flesh but very seldome Sometimes the Glandules turn into this Tumour but most frequently Phlegm or Melancholy hardned Some think the Cause is an Alamentary Juyce hardned because they are not changed into a disgested matter nor do putrefie and continue a long time The Antecedent causes are youngness of Age cold and moist temper softners of Flesh and Muscles and shortness of the Neck thereby the humours fall easily from the head in the neck and cleave tenaciously The external causes are the coldness and moisture of the Climate Idlenesse drinking crude and thick waters the use of Cheese Fruits and grosse food but chiefly voracity and imoderate eating wherefore Children and Infants are principally troubled with this Disease If the matter is not viscous and glutinous although it condenses yet it is not coated or contained in a Membrane but if part of the matter is glutinous when it is congealed by the cold of the Part or Glandule a skin is made round about and consequently a Bladder or Membrane in which afterwards the matter by degrees thickens the thinner part being in time consumed The difference of this Disease is taken from 1. Magnitude some being as great as a Melon others moderate and little as a Pea. 2. Nature Some gentle without pain or inflamation and with a moderate hardness Some moderate between a Schirrus and an Aposteme or Malignant with pain and inflamation and very great hardnesse 3. Constitution some being elevated and move hither and thither others as if they were impacted and unmoveable 4. Place Some are about the hinder part of the head others about the auteriour part some in the Skin others profound and about the noble great vessells 5. Plenty Some are accumulated into an heap others not The signs are Tumour sometimes round sometimes somewhat long sometimes of the same colour with the Skin sometimes more red hard and without pain and move not to and fro being handled The Kings Evill is known from hardned Glandules because 1. The matter of Glandules is more subtile and thin then the matter of this Disease which is more thick viscid and contumacious hence it is that as often as the thin and subtile matter is incraffated the Kings Evill is made of the Glandules 2. Hardned Glandules are more separated from the next Flesh that it it is easie to discern them from the flesh by Feeling the contrary is in the Kings Evil. 3. The Kings Evill hath for the most part a Membrane or Coat the Glandules not Some distinguish them thus Take the Leaves of Ivy and Citron and bruise them together lay them upon the Tumour and if in three dayes the Tumour lye hid it is a sign of the Glandules but if they are exasperated by the Medicament then it is a sign that it is the Kings Evill The Presage is This Disease is troublesome and wearisome to the Patient and Physician for whatsoever way you deal with them they are exasperated and if they seem to be cur'd return again It is very difficult to cure but with lesse difficulty and danger in Infants and Children then in youth because they often degenerate into Cancers and dangerous Ulcers The Kings Evill that is little superficial and gentle are not very dangerous are more easily cur'd but such as are great deep and malignant are pernicious and for the most part incureable The Kings Evill though it is most exactly cur'd yet it returns again which is not from the motion of the Moon as some have thought because they have return'd after a Month a year or two years but the cause is 1. The Viscosity thickens and contumaciousnesse of the matter which is not perfectly eradicated and extirpated in the Cure but some part is left which vitiates and corrupts the temper and nourishment of the part 2. The Coat or Membrane which is tenaciously infix'd that it can scarce be extirpated and so is fill'd with new matter if it be extirpated yet there remains some roots or ligaments out of which the Membrane or Coat growes again and so the Tumor or Kings Evill remains The Cure is taking away the antecedent cause and correcting the Debility of the Parts
which make Phlegme all which is done by 1. A Convenient Diet let the Air be hot and dry the sleep little exercise moderate avoid much rubing or kembing of the head and bearing weight on the Head avoid all perturbations of the mind except moderate anger and Wine that is strong and thick if you use Wine do it moderately and mixe it with water Let your meat be attenuating and drying as Bread well bak'd and with Anniseeds or Coriander-seeds Let your flesh be of Wild-fowl and rather roasted then boyled avoid Spices as filling the head with vapours and all thick grosse viscid and cold meats as Beef Cheese Milk Eggs fried or hard and the like Hence it is that the Children of poor persons are more troubled with this Disease then the Children of rich men because they eat grosse and ill Diet which makes and â—oments the humour 2. Purging Take of the Leaves of Senna half an Ounce of Polypode two Drams Ginger 15. grains half an Ounce of Raisins stoned Sebestens Pruins of each three in number of the Flowers of Borrage Violets Red Roses and Rosemary of each half a dram boil them in a pint of fountain water until half be consumed Take of the Decoction two Ounces of the hony of Roses two or three Ounces Let the humours be prepaired thus Take of the Leaves of Brownwort Plantain Dry Bettony and Mint of each half an handful boyle it according to Art of the Syrrup of Roses and Oxymel of each half an Ounce mingle them After the humours are prepared purge thus Take 30 or 40. grains of the Pills of Agarick or infuse two Drams of the Trochische of Agarick in three Ounces of the Water of Bettony all night strain it and add 2. or 3. Ounces of the Hony of Roses solutive Observe that most gentle Remedies often used is better then violent and hath often cur'd 3. By the restraining of the moving of the humour into the Part by rubbing Cupping-glasses and Blisters and there is no remedy so effectual and fit for derivation diversion and evacuation of the humour and in all Swellings and Tumours in Children about the Neck as is the exulceration of the Skin of the Head which is best done with Mustard-seed and a Nettle but with prudence and moderation but have a care you use not Cautharides which cause great pain and pissing of blood 4. By discussing the humour in the part if it be moderately thick and viscid which is done by inward Medicaments as by the use of the Trochische of Vipers and Treacle but principally by outward Medicaments first by softning it and then by dissolving it Emollient or softning Medicaments are the Plaister of Diachilon with the Gums or this Ointment Take four Ounces of Diachilon one Ounce of Hyssop four Ounces of the Root of Ireos finely powdred mingle them and with the Oil of Almonâ—s make an Ointment which use several days until the matter is softned then use Discutients as drye Figs or a Plaister made of Hony or the root of a wild Cucumber bo led in old Oyl to the form of a Plaister is very effectual so is this following which is stronger Take of Stavesacre Nitre of each two Ounces Rocket four Ounces with as much Turpentine as is convenient make a Plaister The Ashes of Colworts mixt with Hony is also very good Observe that strong Discutients may not be used lest Feavers are caused and the tender Flesh of the Child hurt If the matter be very viscid and contumacious it is not cur'd but by cutting or burning it which is very dangerous and turns them into Cancers that are mortall as is experienc'd in the using such remedies for the Kings Evill in the Neck Breasts or Grayn CHAP. IV. Of Pustules and little Risings in the Head PUstules or Risings or Swellings for the most part they are in the Head but sometimes in the whole body In the beginning they are small and little afterwards they are sore and make hard white Scabs and Crusts by the driness of the humour In sucking Children they are call'd Crusta in those of elder years they are called Achores they are ulcerous Tubercles or Ulcers with small risings perforating the skin with small holes through which passeth a sanious or filthy matter The cause is as some think a nitrous and salt Phlegme mixt with Choler Others a putrid corrupted and Ichorous blood but I consent to them who think the humour is mix'd partly thick and partly thin waterish salt and nitrous and according to the various mixture of the humours with the salt waterish humours the various colours of the Sores arise being thereby black red white or yellow and those humours are either generated in the womb of the Mother out of the Menstruous blood or after the Child is born by the fault of Milk or Diet nature purifying and purging her self sends them forth into the outward parts of the body The signs are manifest to Sight the Child cries cannot sleep and are watchful the Child Itches and after Itching they are sore a bloody humour passes forth and oftentimes the Child is lowsy If they proceed from blood there is a redness pain and more easie Itch but if from a more sharp humour there is a great Itch. The Presage Pustules sometimes degenerate into great Ulcers and sometimes corrode the Skull by the Malignity and badness of the humour that the Membranes may be seen They many times preserve Children from great and many Diseases as Feavers Falling-sicknesses and others by natures purging her self by the skin They heal frequently of their own accord by Time and Age. The Cure is in 1. A Convenient Diet by avoiding salt sharp hot and sweet things fish and fruit If the Pustules are moist a drye Diet is convenient as the eating of Wild-fowl roasted bread twice bak'd c. which ought to be us'd only by the Nurse if the Child suck 2. Evacuation of the humours by Blood-letting Leeches or Cupping-glasses and purging the Nurse if the Child suck not prepare the humours with Cichory Eudave Fumitory and Agrimony of each an handful boyle them in a pint and an half of Water until half a pint be consumed Take thereof three Ounces and add the Syrrup called Syrrup Byzantius and the Syrrup of Fumitory of each half an Ounce or temper the humour that is faulty with the Syrrups of Borrage and Fumitory The humours being prepared Take of Rhabarb one Dram infuse it all night in three Ounces of Endive-water in the Morning strain it well and add an Ounce and an half of the Syrrup of Roses solutive The Body being purged the part excoriated is to be cur'd by outward Remedies A Bath of common Water in which the Leaves of Scabius Agrimony and Plantane are boyled is very good The Ointments of Litheridge Cerusse or Diapompholiges cures it CHAP. V. Of Chapt Lips in Children THe Lips are made not only for Beauty but also for use for the defence of the Mouth and
of Mastick and Tormentill of each half a Dram mingle them and make a Liniament the senting of the Clothes with Fumes of things that are binding are also convenient If Leannesse arise from the drynesse of the whole body use Bathing with fresh water in which are boyled Mallowes Lettice Water-Lillies or Endive and a Liniament may he made of the Oyl of Roses Violets Butter without Salt and Hogs grease Clysters are also good in these cases made of Milk or Bread boyled in broth or made of Eggs because they may nourish Children being they are next to Generation that is the state which they had in the womb in which they were nourish'd by the Navil without the Concoction and preparation of the Stomach Observe that Plaisters to draw nourishments to the parts are not convenient for Children because their bodies are as Wax and that sort of remedy by the heat of it doth enervate and wast the flesh of Infants If the Child is bewitcht a Saphir or Carbuncle hung about the Childs Neck is conceived good so is Hartsthorn hung in the house and many more which I omit as superstitious or false If the Child doth not suck but is nourish'd with solid Meats then the Cure is by removing 1. The External Cause or the Internal Disease if it be the cause of it caused by proper remedies to it Afterwards by procuring a good Nourishment distributed and assimulated which is done by a convenient Diet. Let the Air be temperate and moist heat hurts and be careful the Child is not Clothed too hot Let the sleep be long the mind quiet the Exercise moderate and that which is slow fatness and swift exercise consumes the Belly moderately loose Baths used seasonably Wine that is thin thick Wine obstructs and is not vehicle for the meat Odoriferous somewhat sweet not sharp but very moderately used The Meat nourishing somewhat fatty Juicy neither salt nor acide unless it be to provoke a Stomach as the Flesh of Fowl Veal c. Eggs the Brains of a Calf or Hog-bread boyled in Broth Rice boyled in Milk Parsnip steep'd in Milk Raisins and Almonds Besides these there are meats that fatten either by a quality 1. Manifest by helping concoction as Spices by being gratefu to the Stomach and increasing the native heat of it as Cinamon Cloves and Nutmegs Take the Pulpe of a boyled Capon and Patridge of each half an Ounce of the Pine Kernell Pistack Nut steep'd in Mallagoe Wine half an Ounce of Sweet Almonds an Ounce Cinamon Clove and Nutmegs of each an Ounce and an half Fine Sugar as much as suffices make Lozenges they are pleasant and fatten much or by apposing and fastning the meat as all Diureticks and Diaphereticks do which opens the wayes and carries the nourishment to the parts So doth Drinking likewise between Meals or by apposing and fastning the meat to the parts by their tenacious and viscid humidity which humidity in hot and drye bodies is to be cold and in cold bodies hot 2. By a Propriety and an occult quality as Sarcocolla now the Indian Nut is in great use the Marrow whereof being finely bruised an Ounce or two or half an Ounce is mix'd with broth Take of sweet Wafers and Sarcocolla of each one pound make a past with Butter and drye them then powder it and use five Ounces in cold water Observe cold water is praised by many and cold meats but this is by a manifest quality and good where Leanesse is by the great heat of the Liver The Third Book Of Inward DISEASES of several parts CHAP. I. Of the Epilepsy or Falling-Sicknesse IN the two precedent Books you have the External and Universal Diseases in this Book you have Inward Diseases belonging to particular parts of the body but in regard Children especially before 7. years of Age have not the use of reason reason being as it were drowned and drunk with moisture and humours which made one say the Souls of Children differ nothing from the Souls of Beasts for whilst we are Infants we all live the Lives of Beast using only the faculties of the Vegetative and Animal Souls therefore the faults of the Actions of the rational faculty as Phrenzy and Madness are not considered by Physicians amongst Childrens Diseases which likewise I omit in this Book The Epilepsy hath several Names I shall only mention three of them here It is called 1. A Childs Disease because Children are most frequently troubled with it by the cold distemper and large moisture of the Brain 2. An holy and divine Disease so divers of the Ancients testifie in their Writings 3. Lunatick 26. Matth. the Lunatick there was the same with this because as one excellently says they who are conceived in the change of the Moon when the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun without Light they have the Falling Sicknesse The Falling Sicknesse is a preternatural involuntary and intermitting contraction and retraction of all the Muscles and Nerves The mediate cause of an Epilepsy by consent is a Vapour raised from the lower parts to the head which some think is but seldome whether it be from fear corrupted Milk in the Stomach Worms breeding of Teeth the Small Pox Meazles or Feavers The immediate Cause of the Falling Sickness when the Brain is primarily affected is a thin humour or vapour because it is made and gone quickly therefore the matter of it must be such as may go away and return quickly which cannot be in a thick humour which must be dissolved by concoction which is done in time and not suddenly which vapour or thin humour by a peculiar vertue doth prick the Membrane of the Brain and part where the Nerves begins causing a Constriction of the passages and exciting the sensible parts to an Expulsion of what is hurtful thence is the shutting out and Retraction of the sensique Spirits and by a defect of them follows a diminution or cessation or abolition of the Actions of the mind and thereby all the parts of the body have a convulsive motion A cold and moist temper of the Body hereditary Disposition and the Nativity being in the Eclipse of the Moon are Dispositions to this Disease The external Causes are 1. Things which administer matter as grosse and vaporous meat as old Pigeons Sparrows Eales c. 2. Things that excite it as Moon-shine the smell of stinking things also great fear and tickling Signs of the coming of it in children are because the Child is born of Parents that have the Falling Sicknesse in those that are elder Pains of neck back heart fears and inordinate motions in the sleep often spitting Signs of the Paroxysme and when it is upon the Child are as 17. Matth. a noise crying out falls in the fire foames out of his mouth and is without sense so was the Child cur'd by Christ in the Chapter aforesaid but that Child was Epileptick and possest with a Devil as one learnedly sayes or as another sayes the
are profound If benigne and not malignant they are without a Swelling or profoundity If from blood they are hot and red If from Phlegm they are lesse hot lesse painfull and are white If they are made by Melancholy they are blackish and dark coloured Prog. All Ulcers of the mouth are hard to cure because the Medicament cannot conveniently adhere but those that are black stinking profound very painfull are very dangerous and is a most miserable horrid death of them which dye and are consumed by this Disease The Cure if the Ulcers are benigne they are cured by altering the temper and cicatrizing with cooling and astringing remedies If the milk be bad change the Nurse or correct the Milk by dyet and purging the Nurseas hath bin shewn the Ulcers are healed with Hony of Mulberries or Sirrup of Pomegranates Mirtles or Red Roses dryed with which the Nurse dipping her finger is to touch the Ulcers and if they be contumacious mingle a little powdered Alum with the Sirrup of Mulberries for the Powder of Alum hinders the spreading of the Ulcer and without any notable pain If the Child is somewhat great the dyet ought to be cooling and meats that may be suck'd is to be used as Broths and Eggs with Broth or Verjyce If the Ulcers are great commonly causing inflamations and drawing of the humours Cupping-glasses applyed to the Loins are convenient and to evacuate by them what the age and constitution of the body will permit then purge Gently the Medicaments to be applyed to the Ulcers are the same as in Infants or make a decoction of Millefoyle or Plantain with Red Roses Sanders and take of it four Ounces and mix with it an Ounce of the Sirrup of Mulberries wash the mouth with it In Malignant Ulcers in Infants Take of the Scordiuum finely powdered one Dram of the rinde and Pill of Pomegranes finely powdered two Scruples burnt Alum one Scruple Hony as much as will suffice If the Child is somewhat great the use of the Juyce of Granates especially sowre is good If this is not effectuall use Aqua Magistralis Aluminis Unguentum Egyptiacum or the Flower of braâ—s corrected with a little Sirrup of Mulberries These are not to be used but in great necessity because the Palate hath two broad ways one to the Lunges and another to the Stomach and therefore it is dangerous any venemous medicine should come thither wherefore it is better to use remedies in such a form as cannot go further then the Palat as when the Ulcers of the mouth are touch'd with the Oyle of Sulphur or Sublimate water which is an excellent remedy against all inveterate Ulcers Take of sublimated Mercury twelve Grains the water of Roses and Plantain of each eight Ounces boyle them to the consumption of a half part the use of it is that the Ulcer of the mouth be touched with one drop which if it cause a considerable pain then mitigate the pain with Milk that hath Steel quench'd in it CHAP. XI Of the Ranula of the Tongue THis Disease is an Inflamatory humour of the parts under the tongue and especially of the Veins in Children for the Veins under the tongue being with a petuitous blood sometimes Melancholy which is sweat out or goes out of the mouth of the Veins into the Passages of the flesh and there being collected the humour is elevated into a Tumour or Swelling which is called Ranula It sometimes resembles a soft Aedema which being opened a white matter like to the white of an Egg flowes from it The Cause is a petuitous blood or as some say a petuitous humidity The Signs are manifest to Sight there appears a Tumour with great pain and heat and a hinderance of Speech the colour of the humour is as it were mixt of the colour of the Tongue and Veins Prog. This Tumour if it be neglected is dangerous it sometimes makes a Feaver and suffocates Children The Cure is by a cooling and astringing Diet in using Vinegar Verjuice Limons and the like with meat Clysters are convenient Purges by the Mouth are hurtful If the Child is somewhat large Cupping-glasses applyed to the Thighes are convenient so are Friction and Ligatures after Astringents are good Salt of Armoniacum rubbed upon the part is commended by all Maryroom rubb'd upon the part stronger then it are Flower of Brasse Allume burnt Spunge and Tragacanthum burnt If these cure it not the Tumour must be cut off at the Roots for sometimes the humour is in a Coat which if it be not taken away the humour returns after the Cutting of the humour stay the blood with salt powder of Mirtles Totmentil or Bistorte then Cure it with Myrrh and drying things that cures wounds CHAP. XII Of Dentition and breeding of Teeth THE generation and perfection of Teeth is the work and intent of Nature but in regard the matter out of which they are made suffers not that this Work can be done without trouble and pain It causes that a Disease followes the generating of Teeth which Disease is not intended by Nature Dentition is an Eruption or breaking forth of Teeth first conceived in their proper holes It is said by some to be a violent work of Nature and the gums are as it were prick'd with needles whereby great pain is caused and a supernatural heat in those parts is excited which drawes the humours thither which are made putrid salt and sharp in those parts and being precipitated to the Stomach and guts strongly excites the expulsive faculty and consequently causes loosnesse and sometimes Dysenteries Bones and Teeth are the same according to kind and matter but differ in Species and name The difference of Bones and Teeth in their nature and particular beings appears 1. Teeth are made after the Birth of a Child all other Bones before grow to a certain time and have no sense and never are renewed but Teeth grow during the whole life have an acute sense and grow again It 's observed that amongst the Bones the Teeth only cannot be consumed by fire Neverthelesse they are corrupted and consumed by a putrid Phlegme besides Teeth have no marrow and fat as other Bones have and therefore they are the most hard body They are corrupted with hot things as by washing them with warm water but preserved by moderate cold as by washing them with cold water nor are they hurt by an actual extraordinary cold for in Frost they are not troubled but by a cold that is potential because Teeth have but a little heat and cannot resist a great cold Teeth were made for the breaking of hard meat for speaking and distinguishing of Tasts and therefore they have soft Nerves in them and although Histories relate several have been born with Teeth yet for the most part they break forth in Children about the 7th month sometimes sooner as in them which use more hot milk They are very slow in some sometimes to the Third or fourth year either by
Ounces of it with a little Sugar the Stomach being empty Outwardly are useful the rubbing and compressing the hands being annointed with the Oyl of Scorpions If it help not boyle the Pellitory of the Wall in the Oyl of Rue and make a Plaister and lay it to the parts about the neck of the Bladder or Take a Cruce Glass in which Oyl hath been kept a long time put it in hot water then put the Yard of the Child into the Mouth of the Cruce Glass and it is very effectual CHAP. XVII Of the Stone of the Bladder CHildren are very obnoxious to the Stone of the Bladder and are often troubled with it by their much eating causing much crude humours which stay not in the Reyns but is expelled into the Bladder Female Children are seldome troubled with it because they have the Channel of the Bladder broad straight not contorted and crooked The Stone of the Bladder which is immediately made in the Bladder is more often made in Children then in old men because Children are great Eaters thereby abound with much crude humours which is the matter of the Stone and falls into the Bladder besides Childrens native heat is strong which easily hardens the matter into a Stone old men although they abound with crude and earthy humours because their heat is weak in the Bladder the Stone is not made to which may be added the strength of the expulsive faculty the narrowness of the passage and the tenuity of the humour in Children The Stone which is first made in the Reins is in old men more often then in Children as is proved by experience because old mens expulsive faculty is infirm and the Ureters wide so that the thickest and grosse matter is detained in the Reins and consequently turn then into a Stone The material causes are humours thick petuitous and tenacious the efficient cause is the greatnesse of the heat The immediate internal causes are chiefly the narrownesse and straightnesse of the passage or Channel then the hereditary disposition and propriety from parts and the Milk of the Nurse being bad either from Diet or temper for when the Child doth suck impure Milk if the Child hath large Veins from the Stomach to the Bladder the impure matter is carried to the Bladder where it settles with the Urine as muddy water shak'd together in some Vessell and then resting makes a Sediment in the middle which Sediment of the Urine afterwards is conglobated and made round by Phlegme like a little hill and is hardned as Iron in a Furnace The External Causes are the same as in the Strangury The Signes are 1. Groaning and pain in making water 2. The making water by drops 3. The Blood is often mix'd with the Urine 4. The water is somewhat white crude sometimes with a slimy sometimes with a Sandy Sediment 5. Inflamation of the Bladder 6. Itching of the Preputium and foreskin and frequently scratching of the Privities Prog. The Stone of the Bladder is very dangerous and difficult by reason of the pain and in curing Suppression of the Urine which often happens The Stone if it cannot be cur'd by cutting it is mortal for the most part because the Stone growes in Children so great that as the years increase Nature cannot sustain it The Cure is If the Stone be Small and newly begun by such things that break and diminish the Stone by a quality that is either 1. Manifest as by Goats Blood Restharrow Ceterach Saxifrage the Root of Parsley and Fennell Lapis Spongia Lapis Judaicus the Stone that is found in the Call of an Oxe powdered and drank in White wine or a Decoction of Restharrow Take 2. or 3. drams of Turpentine wash'd and melted and mingle it with two Ounces of the Water of Restharrow it is much commended 2. Or an Occult quality and propriety as the Throat of a Hen burnt and powdered and given in Wine So Eryngoes boyled breaks the Stone by propriety Before the use of these remedies the Child is to be put into a Bath Water for some dayes in which Mallows are boyled that the matter may be somewhat softned and more easily and safe done in Children in Men. CHAP. XVIII Of Costivenesse and being bound in the Belly COstivenesse is a preternatural disposition in Children by which they discharge not the filfth and Ordure of the Body either in a due hour and time or in a due measure The Filth ought every day to be expelled and if much be eaten or that is not nourishing the greater the quality of the Excrements ought to be expelled The Causes are the offending the Guts either not by sending the expulsive faculty to them by a resolution of some Nerve or Muscle by a distemper or obstruction or because Choller is not sent to the Guts by which the Guts are stimulated and excited to an Expulsion Or the Expulsive faculty of the Guts is hurt by some Tumor or Skin or some distemper The Guts are offended also by some Errors within by viscid and thick humors wrapp'd and mix'd with the Filth and so gather the Filth together that they fasten them to the Guts that they cannot go forth or with great difficulty or Externally by the coldness of the Air for it is certain that Costivenesse is more in the Winter than Summer much sleep idleness great Meditations they drye the Belly drink that is thick and binding and sparingly used the same Errors also in meats as also preposterous eating taking first astringent things afterwards liquid and they that are accustomed to dine and omit it are bound in their Bellies The Signs are the Child 's not discharging his Belly every day and complaining and if the Child is somewhat great it is troubled in the head and when the Child empties it self it is with pain groaning If it proceed from a cold distemper the body consumes is pale windy and belching if from gross and viscid humours they will appear in the Filth if from the want of Choller sent to the Guts the Colour of the body will be muddy and the Filth of the Guts white or somewhat Ash-coloured Prog. The Astriction of the Belly in most are dangerous especially in Children which great eaters for which Diseases are generated in them in time and in the Time of breeding of Teeth cause Inflamation Feavers and Convulsions the body being full The Cure is 1. In moving the Belly in sucking Children that the Nurse use meat that loosen the Belly as Mallows Dry Figs Raisins and the Broth of Coleworts and all such meats which can loosen the Belly for as the Milk is made out of Blood and it out of meat so it is not to be doubted that the Milk is affected with such meats as the Nurse eats The remedies that are to be used to the sucking Child ought raiher to be External then Internal The External are Suppositories made out of hard Hony or the roots of Mallowes Garlick roasted in Ashes and put
into the fundament of the Child provokes Stool So doth Coriander Candied with Sugar put into the Fundament for it tickles the expulsive faculty and causes no pain Besides these remedies to make the body soluble there are others to be applied to the Navil as half the White of an Egg boyled hard and fill'd with Butter and a little Coloquintida or two Grains of Scammony the Gall of Beef laid to the Navil doth the same so doth the Juice of Cyclaminis with an equal portion of the Oyle of Sweet Almonds and Hens grease If the Child is somewhat great the use of Turpentine is much commended it clenses the Liver and Spleen Likewise Bread that hath some Bran in it and Raisins continually used The broth of Coleworts and Mallowes may be likewise used or the Suppositories directed above 2. In removing not only Astriction but also the Causes of it therefore if it be in an Infant that the Nurse uses convenient Diet and such as doth not bind avoiding idlenesse the use of Wine that is sharp and binding meats that are grosse and binding as Barberies Medlers Cervices and the like and whatsoever is binding If the Astriction of the Belly be in a Child that is somewhat great he is to use meats that loosen the belly and to abstain from those that are binding his sleep watching and exercises are to be moderate and to avoid North winds If Astriction be from a cold distemper of the Guts if in Infants the Milk ought to be corrected with meats that heat or the Nurse changed and remedies applied to the Stomach or Navil of the Child Take half a Pint of the best Wine of the Leaves of Calamint Abrotanum Mint Marjerome of each half a handful boyl them and with a Sponge foment the whole Belly or use this Oyntment Take the Oyle of Spikenard or Mint of each three drams the powder of Cloves half a Scruple a little Wax mingle them make an Ointment If Astriction is from cold and viscid humours use such things that are attenuating as Oxymel and the Syrrup of Harehound these are very useful if the Child lick them or the Nurse take them If from the want of the coming of Choller to the Guts then obstructions are to be removed in a Child that is somewhat great a Decoction of Rubra Tinctorum Red Cicers the Roots of Fennell or Asparagus and the use of Maidenhaire is convenient stronger remedies in Children are not to be used CHAP. XIX Of the Flux and Loosnesse of the Belly THe Flux is too great a Laxity of the Belly by which Children do expel more filth more often then ought to be by reason of the Meat and Drink The cause is a cold Distemper of the Guts by which the Concoction is vitiared and so the corrupted Meats cause the Flux and also a moist distemper whereby the retentive faculty which consists in dryness is weakned and being not able to retain the filth causes that the expulsive faculty excited by them expells more and more often then it ought to which may be added the humidity that comes from the head to the Stomach and from thence to the Guts also corrupt meats which when they have Acrimony and are past to the Guts irritate their expulsive faculty likewise sharp and biting thin humours do the same such as are in the Breeding of Teeth The External Causes are the South Wind immoderate exercises of body the use of liquid meats and such as are apt to loosen the Belly The Signs are manifest Children very often evacuate the Filth of their Belly and it is more fluid and liquid then it ought If it be caused by the Corruption of meats the Ordure and Filth stink and appear unconcocted and the Child breaks Wind often if from breeding of Teeth the Signs you have in the Chapter of Breeding of Teeth If from Bilious and Ichorous humours the Filth and Dung is bilious and yellow and if they have hurt the Guts the Dung will be bloody and covered with a bloody slime If from a distemper there will be the Signs of a moist or cold distemper and no Signs of any other causes If from a Distillation the Child will have a Catarrhe not falling to the Lungs and the Filth will be frothy It it be from external Causes it is known by a careful and diligent observation of the manners and life of Children Prog. A Dysentory in Children is very dangerous The loosness of the Belly one or more dayes is healthful if there be no Feaver and if it is stopt within 7 dayes An unseasonable stopping of the Flux in Children is mortal If the Flux continues and perseveres and is very long it causes a Consumption and Death The Cure is 1. In an Infant if the Milk be bad by changing the Nurse in long Fluxes nothing hath been found better if it cannot be corrected If the Cause is hot the Nurse is to use a cooling Diet abstaining from Wine and using water in which Steel hath been quench'd or Wine somewhat binding but a very little of it also meats somewhat astringing and cooling as Barly Broth with the Juice of Quinces Rice and the like Annoint the Childs Navil and Stomach with this Take the Oyl of Mirtles Quinces of each three drams the Powder of Mastick Red Corall and Acaciae of each half a Scruple a little Wax make a Liniament If the Cause be cold the Nurse is to use a Diet that is hot as Wine somewhat binding Spice the best Flesh Mint Marjerome boyled in Broths Take the Oyle of Wormwood and Mastick of each three drams the Powder of Sothernwood Comfrey and Bole Armonick of each half a Scruple a little Wax mingle them and make a Liniament the Bag of a Hare is very good but the Child is not to suck when it is used but let the Child take Pannado with the Milk of Almonds for as the Bag thickens Milk outwardly so if it should be used unseasonably it would be dangerous if it should do the same and not above half a Scruple at a time is to be used The Cure of a Child somewhat great is If the Flux comes from 1. Corrupted Meat stop them not nor retain them but only comfort and strengthen the Stomach Take of the Oyls of Spicknard and Mastick of each five drams of the powder of Red Corral one dram and an half of Wax a little mingle them 2. If from petuitous humours falling from the head provoke Urine with a Decoction of the common Seeds of the Roots of Parsley Fennel Asparagus Birtcher Broom for they divert the Phlegme from the Guts 3. If from bilious humours temper them and take care they do not exulcerate the Guts wherefore let the Child abstain from Wine meats that are hot salt acrimonious and sweet and use Barly Btoth with the Syrrup of Barberies Quinces or Granate Take of the Decoction of all the Myrabulous six Ounces the Juice of Millet strained four Ounces mingle them and