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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