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A90749	Platerus golden practice of physick fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures, in respect to the kinds, and several causes, from whence they come. After a new, easie, and plain method; of knowing, foretelling, preventing, and curing, all diseases incident to the body of man. Full of proper observations and remedies: both of ancient and modern physitians. In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick. By Felix Plater, chief physitian and professor in ordinary at Basil. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts. Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick, and astrology.	Platter, Felix, 1536-1614.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670. aut; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. aut	1664 (1664)	Wing P2395A; ESTC R230756	1,412,918	573

with pain and knawing or ulceration of the flesh Scabies or Scabrities is so called because it makes the skin rough and with a crust and is moist or dry The common moist itch and scab The moist is with Pustles that have sanies and Pus one is called vulgar in which many Pustles called Ephelides do arise from which broken sanies or thin matter cometh if they be a little inflamed and red they impostume and are covered with a dry crust made of the dryed matter which is blew or black or otherwise Colored The itch goeth before this scab which causeth pustles by scratching which break when the skin is broak there is after a cutting pain and if the pustles be inflamed there is burning pain This scab or itch is so frequent that scarse one is freed but in his life time hath it There is Another moist scab less usual then the former The Cruel scab called Agria or Fera in Dutch Herbrolen but worse with little pustles out of which cometh a rough humor like Honey alwaies moist and covering the parts with a thick white green or black scab Some call this Fera or Agria The Germans call it den Herbroten or Harbroten when the part affected is like a toast covered with hairs This is often in Infants heads seldom in aged somtimes it is in the Eye-brows Cheeks and Face very noysome and in other parts There is another kind of scab peculiar in the Head Running Vlcers of the Head called Tinea Achores or scald which with many sinal holes peircing to the Skul out of which come glutinous matter that being dried causeth a crust or scab therefore they are called sordid running Ulcers by the Greeks Achores and because the skin looks like Moath-eaten cloth it is called Tinea a Moth. And the English call it the running scab of the Head and the scald And if the holes be large and the matter like Honey Favus it is called Favus from the likeness it hath to a Honey comb This is perverse and usual in children spoyling the roots of the hairs which are white and thick when the hair is pulled off and after it is cured it leaves many bear places in the Head which is ill favoured to be seen There are other pustles which may be referred to the moist scab which have a dryness at the top and sweat and moisture Some whereof are with greater Imflammation and Ulceration as those called Terminthi because they are as big as Lupines or Pease Terminthus The Germans call them Huntsblatern they are black round and red and inflamed about very burning and quickly dry and when the scurfe is taken off or lifted up matters comes forth They are most usually in the feet and many together Galen desicribes them to be most common in Women and some say they are a kind of Phyma Epinychtis is not unlike this it is as big as a Terminthus Epinychtis blew and very red round about and burns very much at night and turns to an Ulcer and sends forth s●ymy matter Also there are waterish pustles called Phlyctaenae that being broken have a scurse and are painful Phlyctaenae they are smal as bubles or greater like bladders which broaken send forth clear water with pain and a crust they may be in any part There is another kind that hath yellow transparent bladders Herpes Phlyctanodes which being whol itch and burne and being open yellow water comes forth with great burning and Inflammation and a running Ulcer it is called Herpes Phlyctanodes The dry scab or Scabrities is so called in distinction from the moist The dry scab which hath dry pustles without matter and makes the skin rough and itcheth much It is of two sorts one is in the extremity of the skin with little pustles dry red and corroding more or less sweating moisture forth with intolerable itch called Prurigo or in Greek Cnismos of some Impetigo and Psora or Scab And Rubrica it is about the Emunctuaries in the Groyns and Arm-pits Prurigo or Cnismos and bending of the Knees and Arms and most usual in the Neek The other kind of dry scab is worse The foul scab called foul and in high Dutch Mager because it makes the body lean and dry by degrees it comes of it self or from a Herpes not cured And is at first greater then Prurigo making the skin rough and dry the Greeks call it Lichen it is chiefly in the Legs and Arms somtimes if the scabs creep and make the skin more rough hard and swollen with chous and being rub'd bran fals off and then the Greeks call it Psora It is not only in the Feet and Arms but in other parts especially the Neck and Face and Head in the Hair like a scurfe of Clay or Chalk from which a dry scale falls and it is horrible to behold If it last long it corrods and makes clefts in the skin and there fals thick scales yellow or blew this is the Greek Leprosy not the Elephantiasis of the Arabians Greek Leprosy though they are taken one for the other but this is more incurable and returns again and is as horrible as Elephantiasis especially if it eat off the Nose We call this the worst Scab Papula or Herpes comes forth with little Pustles Papula or Herpes of the Greeks first with itching and then burning but with Inflammation or Feaver and though the Pustles dry new come about them as if they were begotten of the former Some are like Millium seed called Herpes miliaris which creeps but sooner stayes Herpes miliaris Others are dry little Pustles and are deeper in the skin and break into Ulcers with one Matter and when cured returns with new dry Ulcers broad and high This is called Estheomenus or in high Dutch Den worm from its creeping and corroding if it last long it turns to Impetigo and then into a Psora and after into the Greek Leprosie but not into Elephantiasis When it ulcerates it is like Erysipelas ulcerated and call'd the holy fire or wild fire but Erysipelas comes suddenly with Inflamation Redness Holy or wild Fire Feaver and being ulcerated hath greater Pustles or Bladders and after them a moist Ulcer which is not so in Herpes but dry and without matter The Carbuncle or Anthrax in Greek hath many Pustles Carbuncle Anthrax in Greek or Persian Fire smal like burnings very hot called thence Persian Fire with a black Crust like a Cole and thence called Carbo or live Cole because of the redness round about under which after suppuration there is no matter but a blak Lump of Flesh fastned to the Roots with a Feaver and great weakness Like this is the Anthrax of the back between the shoulders with many Pustles together red which broken there comes matter forth as from a spunge which turns to a hollow Ulcer over all the upper part of the Back with lumps This

are easily the cured A heaviness of Eyes and Lids after sleep such as wrings them and suffers them not to be easily opened foretelleth heaviness of head and aboundance of Vapors and Humors these must be prevented If a false Ophthalmy come from a Flux of blood there is little danger except it turn true But if Inflammation of the Eyes follow the true Ophthalmy is more dangerous especially if a great Tumor cover the black of the Eye That is worst which suppura●●● and turns into an Imposthume and so into an Ulcer which if deep there is danger of loosing the Eye also a not suppurated Ophthalmy true or false if long of continuance darkneth the Pupil or leaves a spot and causeth dimness or blindness But the Inflammation made in the outward corner of the Eye in an Aegilops goes somtimes soon away but neglected suppurateth and proveth a lasting and perverse Ulcer which turns to a Fistula and is scarse cured An Epiphora also is very stubborn from a waterish humor and continues many daies or months sometimes a whol Winter and in old Persons all their lives I have known Phlyctaenae or Pearls coming of outward causes that were cleer and not red to go away of themselves and they which are red and painful and break leave excoriation behind them Excoriations and Scabs by reason of the moistness of the part are not soon cured and are worse if they ulcerate if it turn mattery or callous it is stubborn and somtimes incurable piercing the Eye and putting it out or covering it with a Callous or Scar. When a Wound of the Eye pierceth the Cornea or horney Tunicle the humors fall out and the Eye sinks in and is blind An outward or superficial wound turns to an Ulcer hard or easie to be cured A puncture causeth Inflammation if it be not looked unto As for the Cure when any of these Diseases will not away of themselves All kinds of Eye-sores as Itching Puncture Ophthalmy true or false Aegilops Roughness Scabs Ulcers Wounds Fistulae's are cured by taking away the Cause then have at the Causes which either are external as hard bodies that get into the Eye or hairs of the Eye-brows or Air or Light which molesteth Or also from things taken in or from motion extraordinary of mind or body or from filth or tears If any of these Causes procure an Ophthalmy or exulceration or the like or increase them they must be removed or amended or prevented But if an Ophthalmy come from a Defluxion of blood or an Epiphora from a Defluxion of flegm● or if the Eyes formerly weak have new Defluxions then we must evacuate by opening a Vein or Artery or cutting or burning of holes or by Cupping by Leeches Frictions or the like or by Stool Nose Mouth by Vomitting Sweat Urin or derive the humor another way and so consume it by things given or applied and stop the flux to the Eyes by outward applications But the cause of the Disease it self must be cured by Topicks to the Eye according to its condition All which shall be done as followeth by the order declared being appropriated to the Causes and to the Disease Things that get into the Eye if they be thin come out again of themselves if they be more solid they get out by the motion of the Eyes and Lids and tears that come from thence to wash them away But if they stick they must be taken out by Art This is done easiest when they are in the corners of the Eyes and may be seen when the Eye is opened or the Eyelids lifted up And then make a tent of Linnen and the like and wipe them out But if they lie out of sight or having been seen return upon touching or the motion of the Eye then they must be taken out with smooth and slippery things put into the Eye and by putting one Eyelid over the other these are best when pouderous as little small Pibbles or precious stones as the Swallow stone which is made of Mamor or the Jasperstone or the Cray-fish stones called Crabs-eyes which seem to be made for that very purpose to be put into the Eye the one side being hollow or concave for the Ball of the Eye the other convex for the Eyelid Rhasis saies this may be better done with a little Pensil anoynted with Turpentine drawn through the Eye under the lid that they may stick unto it and so be brought forth but this way wil presently fail by the watering of the Eye Sneesing or often blowing of the Nose are good to shake out or at least to remove things in the Eye they appear to be strongly driven through the Nose by which the Eyes are moved and the tears provoked to wash them out For which Washing other things are good that provoke tears as of often motion of the Eye when the Eyelids are kept open this drives things out When crooked hair in the Eye-brows prick the Eyes by reason of some fire that singed or dried them or the like they must be cut off and then they will grow better if the pores be not in fault and then if they be they must be constantly cut or pul'd out or the Eyebrows burnt which being not to be done without pain and seeing it is not decent to want hair upon the Eyebrows they may be set right with the infusion of Gum traganth Mastick or the like as some do their Mustachoes to keep them out of their mouth and which some take for an Ornament Hot Air because it is naught for red inflamed Eyes must be tempered or avoided or changed for cold Air which is good in this case but very cold Air especially with Wind is hurtful in all Diseases of the Eyes And Smoaks especially of new quenched Lime which is sharp and pricks the Eyes and very strong scents as Oyl of Spike of stinking things or Jakes all these are to be avoided in sore Eyes Also Brightness from flame especially which cannot be endured or from light at which the Patient is unwilling to look And therefore they ought to have a black Veil before the Eye if other things are not applied to keep away light Meats and Drinks must be avoided that inflame the body and make the Face and Eyes red as strong Wine Onyons Mustard and Radishes And it is good in an Epiphora to keep a slender Diet and abstain from Suppers Also 't is hurtful to sore Eyes to move them much to look too stedfast upon any thing or to read or write much or to move the Head too much or hang down the Head therefore let him stand upright and sleep with his Face upward on the contrary side Also it is naught to rub the Eye from which they hardly abstain Also to watch long or lament to cause crying and shedding tears these all must be abstained from And from things that are apt to get in as dust flies And take heed what midicines are used lest they be too

we first open the skin till it lyeth bare and then we cut it out by the Roots in doing of which you must take heed of hurting a Nerve or other Vessel For which cause when the Scrophula is under the Chin and deep it is dangerous but if it be there or in any part else outwardly hanging forth it is safer provided that you cut not the kernels which are hardned between the Vessels especially those in the Joynts or a Nerve or Tendon which will cause Contraction of the part We have often taken them off with a potential Cautery which maketh an Eschar in the skin without pain or made them better ripen with other Medicines thereby It is difficult to use potential or actual Cauteries that burn because of Inflammation but if the place be not dangerous it may be done Some think that they are taken away or kept from growing if pricked with the finne of a thornback It is thought that some Kings have the Gift from God to cure them by touching especially they of France to whom they come at a set time in multitudes also that the Kings of England have the same Some think that the seventh Son that comes in order without a Sister between hath the same Gift I had a friend one Picto in France that studied Physick who told me that when he was a Child he touched many publickly in the Church using many superstitious Ceremonies Struma is either simple or compound The cure of Struma either in the throat or hanging therein if it be haereditary to the Countrey and grown great and hard is incurable and not to be broken but must be all the life except it be cut off at the first if it be not haereditary or belong to the Soyle or Country you may attempt it and after purging use Applications you need not purge so often as when there are many Scrophulas except other Causes require it But you must mix those things which consume it by which we have found that they have coased growing and vanished being not confirmed You may give things mentioned for Scrophulas especially Pouders of Spunge Amiantus stone stinking Gladon Broom flowers and the Compound Pouders mentioned and Conserves for vulnerary Drinks they will be needless because it seldome ulcerates As for outward Applications they must be stronger then those for a Scrophula because a Struma is more difficult to be cured and they must stick faster as Emplasters of Gums or Cataplasmes of Roots and Roundheads and other Herbs or of Dungs with the stronger Pouders as of Ashes and Lime either by themselves as mentioned or with Vinegar or other strong Liquor We take off Strumas by Incision if they be confirmed and be uncomely and hinder breathing as we do scrophulas and it is safe when they hang out but it is dangerons when they are so rooted into the Vessels that they cannot be taken off without hurting them and then it is better to let them alone then to endanger the Patient and dishonour your self It may be done also with a Cautery as a scrophula I leave it to the Judgement of those who have seen it whether the great Struma may be cured by a touch or not A cold Parotis is a kernel behind the Ears hard without pain The cure of a Parotis which is without pain If it be old and scirrhous it cannot be cured without cutting but that which is young and in the increase or not quite hardned may be cured better then kernels in other parts by Discussion or maturation or Imposthumation or by Ulceration by which means divers sorts of matter may flow forth or come forth in a bag somtimes hard as a Stone This Cure is done with some things used in Scrophula's as first by Evacuations of the same sort to take away plenty of Humors and Excrements and altering Medicines to hinder the increase of thick Humors And then by giving things that consume a Scrophula there mentioned if it last long And because there is not so many Glanduls or Kernels as scrophulas we need not use so many things Of those which were mentioned these are fittest things made of Gums Plants Roots round Roots Dungs and Pouders And when it tends to Maturation you must mix things that help it as this Cataplasm made of Onions or Lillies Roots of Marsh-mallows or Orris baked under the Embers and bruised with Figs Meal of Lineseed and Foenugreek Honey Oyl and Grease Or if it incline to break Take four ounces of baked Figs Leaven one ounce and an half green Flower-de-luce roots one ounce Aloes two drams Niter one dram mix them with Oyl and Grease Or you may ripen this Tumor with things mentioned for Imposthumes that follow Inflammation and open it when it is ripe and then cure it as an Ulcer If it be old and scirrhous cut it out as we shewed in Scrophula or burn it off taking heed of the great Vessels A cold Bubo that is a swollen hard Kernel without heat in the Groin The Cure of Bubo without pain or Arm-pit is somtimes scirrhous and incurable as that of the Plague which hath continued to my knowledg all their life somtimes it may be discussed but it seldom comes to an Imposthume as that with Inflammation and if it do there will be a malignant Ulcer This must be ordered almost like the Parotis behind the Ear with the like Evacuations first and Alteratives among which some of those which were good to cure Kernels may be used for a Bubo Apply such things as are mentioned in Parotis and Scrophula choosing those which most discuss and soften And if it tend to Maturity proceed as you did in Parotis and Imposthumes We cannot well use Incision or Cautery because they lye too deep The Stones being swollen and hardned without Inflammation The Cure of hard and soirrhous Stones though Inflammation usually go before if they grow scirrhous they so continue and are troublesome chiefly in riding And if both Stones swell and the spermatick Vessels grow hard the Man will be unfit to get Children But if this Tumor be looked to in time it may be taken away In the Cure of this having first used general Medicines you must use more Digestives then Mollifiers in your applications least Suppuration be too quick and so the stones putrifie and be lost as hath often been And you must apply things mentioned in the Scrophula Cataplasmes Plaisters and Fomentations which work powerfully and if it tend to an Imposthume you must bring it to suppuration As we shewed in Imposthumes open it and cure it as an Ulcer If it will not yeeld to Medicines but the Stones continue very hard and painful you must take them off by gelding as we shewed in Sarcocele The Cure of Tumors which come of nourishing Juyce in fleshy parts is as that of Scirrhus and those in the belly which come from an internal scirrhus and like the Cure of those which contain strange Matter

belly they break out violently in great quantity and with great weakness and danger of life Or if the purging after Birth be too great especially after Abortion which is no less dangerous That Flux which women have in age when their Courses have lest them is preternatural and cannot continue without harm must be also stopped and the rather if it be large often and of long Continuance That bleeding which comes from external violence especially from Copulation if it be at the loss of Maiden-head because it is not much and hurts not and is a good sign is not regarded especially if the Terms come the sooner for it But if it be great and from some great hurt either at the first or other Copulations it must be stopped That bleeding which comes from the tearing of the neck of the Bladder in a woman when a Stone is taken out requires no other Cure but that of other wounds The Cure of all Bleedings at the Womb is by Evacuation of blood and turning it from the womb with things that make it more pure thicker and less flowing and stop the places by which it is carried thither Or that act by a hidden Property you must proceed according to the cause with some of these as considering whether it came by violent use of hot and sharp Meats the violent Motions of Body or Mind Blood-letting is good to prevent it in those that are subject to it if it be in the Arm and in women with Child if they formerly had the same in Child-birth for it hath bin so often used to the same woman being full of blood and hath not taken the Nourishment from the Child as some suppose In the time of the Flux to drive it back it is good to open a Vein in the Arm or Hand or other place above not below for in the Foot it provokes the Terms And you must take a little at a time and by degrees for much will weaken Great Cupping-glasses or many little ones are applied under the breasts to draw up the blood because the Veins there and of the womb consent And they may also be applied to the right side and to the shoulders Frictions of the extream parts are here also good If water in the blood causeth it to be fluid you must sweat often in dry baths before the flux to prevent but in the flux it will heat and move the Humors and do more hurt then good If there be Water and Choler in the blood which causeth the flux you must purge them away But this is better to prevent before the flux comes from them you may use the stronger Medicines which you cannot well do in the flux because it would more weaken and inflame the body and by moving it increase the Flux And then if the belly be bound use gentle Lenitives that leave an Astriction as Rhubarb Myrobalans and the like mentioned in Dysenteries And this Potion Take Tamarinds and stoned Prunes each six drams yellow Myrobalans half an ounce boyl them in Water and the third part Wine and when it is strained infuse half a dram of Rhubarb of Spikenard one scruple strain them and add Syrup of red Roses dryed one ounce give it at once It will work better with a little Senna and not stir up Nature much because the Juyce being taken out by Decoction is very like the Juyce of Rhubarb and of Saffron Colour by which we gather that it doth not differ in strength And because it is used as Rhubarb in many diseases from Choler Or this Take yellow Myrobalans poudered two drams infuse them in red Wine with one scruple of Spike strain them add Syrup of Roses solutive one ounce Rhubarb finely poudered two scruples or a dram give it at one dose Half an ounce of Tryphera Persica taken doth the same because it hath many astringents and things that allay the heat of the blood It is not safe to give other hot and sharp Compositions which have Scammony or Agarick or Turbith in a great flux because by pricking they force the Terms We give things that alter which thicken the blood and allay its heat and bind the Passages and stop it Many whereof have been mentioned in the Bleeding at the Nose and Spitting blood which are good here but these are chiefest that follow Let them eat things that breed thick blood of Flower of Bread-corns and Pot-herbs of glutinating flesh and green Cheese to which they add sour Milk and Eggs and the like mentioned in immoderate Pissing Let them use astringent Fruits crude or boyled or divers Sauces made hereof as Quinces Pears Services Cornel-berries Medlars Mul-berries Black-berries Sloes Straw-berries Currance Myrtles Of Pot-herbs Purslane Lettice Endive Succory Sorrel Plantane boyled in broath or raw in Sallets to which you may add other plants mentioned in the Decoction which tast less like Physick Let him drink Decoctions often and if they must be kept boyl them to Syrups The best ordinary Syrups are of Myrtles and red Roses dryed Or this Decoction Take Comfrey roots one ounce Plantane with the Roots Shepheards-purse Yarrow each one handful red Rose flowers one pugil Pomegranate flowers two drams Myrtle and Plantane seeds each one dram boyl them in Rain-water add to the straining as much Sugar as will make a Potion for three doses or boyl it to a Syrup with Sugar Decoctions may be made of divers others mentioned in Bleeding at the Nose as of Herbs for the vulnerary or wound-drink of Winter-green Agrimony Horse-tayl Sanicle wild Tansey Moufear Comfrey Solomons-seal Straw-berries Bears-ear Sumach Shepherds rod Lungwort Blood-wort Burnet Sorrel Purslane Moon-wort wild Basil Mints Arsmart Phoenice Rock-Comfrey flower Leaves and Roots Myrtle leaves Mastick leaves Olive leaves Oak leaves Brambles also Roots of Avens Ras-berries Water-lillies Sulphur-wort Sanders Brasil Lote-tree Olive-tree Pomegranate-peels Roses Grapes The Indian Milium-flower gentle Some Juyces are given either crude or boyled to a syrup as those of sour Fruits Quinces Pomegranates Currance Bar-berries These Juyces with Sugar may be set in the Sun and so they will have a tast and scent like wine These Juyces are made into Lozenges with Sugar and are very delicate with Rose and Plantane water and the like And instead of these you may use other sour Juyces as of Citrons c. You may likewise use the Juyce of some plants by themselves or boyled as of Plantane Sorrel Purslane made into Syrups and of Shepheards-purse and Yarrow and as Dioscorides teacheth the Juyce of Water-bettony and Goats-beard and Arsmart Waters simple or mixed are of Plantane red Roses Shepheards-purse Purslane Sorrel and the like abovesaid Some approve the water of Snails and that wherein Iron is quenched Mucilaginous or slimy things also as whites of Eggs Mucilage of Quince-seeds Gum Traganth c. The old Conserve of Roses and Tablets of Pouder of red Roses with Sugar candied or conserved Comfrey-roots also the Conserve of Peach-flowers or others of Sorrel or of the Plants