Willis c. de Apoplexâ—â— and turned sometime on one side sometime on the other XXVI They that are stricken immediately with a deprivation of Pulse and Respiration and a little after when they are cold seem to have breathed their last must not presently be laid out and left destitute of the help of Physick Moreover were there no hope of life at all they should not be buried for three or four days Because such sometime either of themselves or by the use of Remedies come to life again Which certainly comes to pass not because the Vital Heat is kindled afresh in the Heart for it was never quite out but inasmuch as the morbifick matter being discussed or evaporated from the Cerebellum the motion of the Heart as that of a Clock Idem when the Weights are hung on is set on foot again Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. The Salt of Elder is highly commended for preservation from the Apoplexy if it be mixt with a third part of the Volatile Salt of Amber and every new and full Moon be given from one scruple to half a drachm in some convenient Liquor Martinus Blockwitius anat Sambuci Sect. 3. cap. 5. de Apoplexia Joh. Theodorus de Bry introduct in vital Philosoph tract 2. de causis curatione morborum c. 8. de gutta Also the distilled Spirit of Elder Berries will doe much good if a spoonfull of it be taken once a week at each quarter of the Moon with a little white bread and Sugar 2. The Solution or Oil of Pearl is a Secret in the Apoplexy if one have lost his Speech drop five or six drops on his tongue and he will recover his Speech 3. Decoction of Sarsaparilla is a divine Remedy in preservation from the Apoplexy for its detersive cutting and opening and strengthens the inner parts of the head especially It may be thus prepared take of Sarsaparilla cut two ounces of Primrose and Lilly Conval Flowers of each an handfull Fennil Seeds six drachms Crato lib. 6. Epist Med. 4. Steep them four and twenty hours in two quarts of Water and boil half away when it is almost boiled put in of Agallochum three scruples and an half Strain it and keep it for use The dose is five or six ounces in a morning with a drachm and an half of Cinnamon Water let the Patient sweat but not so as to weaken him much 4. Having had singular Experience of these Pills in preserving from the Apoplexy I advise the use of them whereof I give a scruple at night every time the Moon is at change and full even in Summer Take of Cubebs Calamint Mastich Nutmeg Cloves each a drachm Amber-grise half a drachm Musk six grains Idem Ibid. p. m. 15. with juice of Marjoram let them be made into Pills Idem singular consil Medic. 34 35 3â— 37. 5. Let him that is subject to the Apoplexy hold a piece of rosted Nutmeg frequently in his Mouth For this corrects the cold temperament of the Brain 6. The use of Caroway-seeds not onely eaten but smelled to is highly commended Also the following Powder is very good for Preservation Take of the Roots of Siseli Creticum one drachm of the Seeds of Rocket Cardamome White Pepper each two scruples mix them and make a Powder Let him take to the quantity of a Bean or mix it with syrrup of Betony It is good to snuff into the Nostrils Idem Ibid. Marjoram Water which hath had beaten Rocket-seed and a little Ginger steeped in it 7. You may preserve your self from the Apoplexy if once a Month you take of Hiera Hermetis three drachms and an half and thrice a week a drachm of Mithridate except in Dog-days The Hiera must be taken in the morning fasting Idem Cons 109. and the Mithridate at Bed-time 8. This Powder is good to preserve from the Apoplexy Take of White Amber prepared three drachms of Peony Root Species Diarrhodon Abbatis each half a drachm Mix them and make a Powder The Dose is a drachm every month next day after the change of the Moon in a little Aqua Vitae The use of it must be continued Idem Cons 113. and so at length the Body will be freed from the Apoplexy and from several other Symptomes 9. A Powder made of a like quantity of White Amber and Species Diarrhodon Abbatis given to a Scruple in Betony or Black-Cherry water is deservedly esteemed as a peculiar Remedy in the Apoplexy and Stone Idem Cons 149. 10. This Balsame bears the bell from all the rest Take of Oil of Nutmeg by expression one ounce David Crus Theatr. morb Heâ—metico Hâ—ppocrat lib. 20. 13. p. m. 19â— Species Diambrae one drachm of Hare's Pasterns half a drachm infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Oil of Castor for two days when you have strained it add Oil of Cloves Cinnamon Lavender Marjoram Cummin Amber each one Scruple of Musk and Amber-grise each half a scruple mix them and make a Balsame shave the head and apply it 11. This Ointment of Villanovanus is of admirable use Take of Galbanum half a pound of Gum Ivy half an ounce mix them and distill them by an Alembick take the Oil and Water and mix them with an ounce of Oil of Brick Idem Ibid. and a pound of Turpentine distill them again separate the Oil from the Water and keep the Oil for an Ointment 12. Claudius Deodate panthei hygiast lib. 3. cap. 21. de specifica particul morb cùratione p. m. 127. Apoplexia sive gutta highly commends the Semilunar Stone found above the eyes of a Carp And Johannes Vincentius Finckius enchirid Dogmatico Hermet cap. 6. de Apoplexia tells us This Stone was a Noble Womans Serret whereby she cured several of the Apoplexy of that especially which seised the Patient with the motion and contraction of the Muscles above the Eyes by giving some of them in Aqua florum Tiliae 13. A most secret and certain remedy against the Apoplexy Take of Lion's Dung powdered two pounds pour Spirit of Wine till it be covered three fingers breadth let them stand in a Viol stopt three days Strain it and keep it for use Franciscus Hildisheim Spicâ—legio 6. p. 536. Then take a Crow not quite penfeathered and a young Turtle burn them apart in an Oven powder them pour on the above-said Spirit of Wine let them stand in Infusion three days Then take of the Berries of the Linden-tree an ounce and an half of Peony seeds powdered one ounce and half Let them be steeped in the foresaid Spirit then add as much of the best Wine and six ounces of Sugar-Candy boil them in a Pot till the Sugar be melted Put it up Let the Patient take a spoonfull of it in Wine often in a day for a whole Month. In the Paroxysm give a spoonfull with Aqua Tiliae and with the same Water rub the Forehead Neck
Temples and Nostrils The Arch-Dutchess of Austria had frequent experience of the Virtue of this Medicine 14. Take Oil of Cinnamon Cloves and Lavender Jo. Bap. Van Helm Tract de Febribus c. 15. p. m. 778. if you know how to change them into Volatile Salt you have got as effectual a Remedy as can be expected from these Simples in an inveterate Vertigo Palpitation Apoplexy and such cases 15. The following Aqua Vitae or Quintessence preserves a Man from yea cures him of the Apoplexy if a spoonfull of it be taken every morning Take of Conserve of Rosemary Flowers Lavender each two ounces of Balm Sage each one ounce of Species Diamoschi dulcis Diambrae each two drachms of the Root of Peony the Seed of the same of Cinnamon each half an ounce of Saffron a drachm of Castor Rocket Seed each two drachms Franc. Joel Oper. Med. Tom. 1. l. 1. Sect. 3. p. m. 91. Apoplexiae curatio of Sugar Candy half an ounce of Juniper Water distilled four pounds bruise them and mix them let them stand Infused in the Sun or some warm place for a Month distill it in Ashes let the dry Matter be taken out of the Glass and pounded and let the distilled Water be poured on it again let them stand in a warm Infusion fourteen days and then distill them in Balneo Mariae 16. I gave a Noble Apoplectick Woman who could not speak for three days Spirit of Black Cherries and she presently recovered her Voice Mr. Thomas Kesler tractatu German 200 process chim processu 53. 17. Essence of Amber with Apoplectick Water Conrad Kunrad Medull distill part 1. p.m. 202. 248. is a most excellent Remedy for an Apoplexy 18. Tincture or Essence of the Amaethist is both an excellent Preservative and Cure The Dose is to fifteen drops 19. Take of Flowers of the Linden-tree and Lilly of the Valley as much as you please Bay-berries two ounces beat them all well together till they be in a kind of Mass Then take some juice of Violets mixt with Sugar pour it on the Mass mix them well and strain the juice hard out Take this and half as much Salt of Wormwood dissolved into Liquor Distill it by a Retort rectifie the liquor that comes over drive it through a Retort again and then bring it over an Alembick that there may be no Phlegm and you will have a most excellent Spirit of which you may give half a spoonfull Idem p. 2. p. m. 137. ad Apoplex with a little Cinnamon or Linden-Flower Water to an Apoplectick person It gives present help and preserves a Man his whole Life from the Apoplexy 20. For the Apoplexy Phil. Muller mirac chim lib. 5. p. m. 83. Take of the best Aqua Vitae one Pint of Juniper Berries two handfulls bruise them and Infuse them in the Aqua Vitae for three days strain it out and put into it of Sage Pennyrial Cresses Saffron each one drachm give a little to the Patient and he will presently recover his Speech 20. Felix Platerus tract de function laes cap. 2. saith That Chymists give the Extract of Sage in Apoplexies as a great Secret Joh. Popp. Tract de Febribus malignis c. 3. de Apoplex 21. A sure secret for the Apoplexy and loss of Speech Take of Oil of White Amber seven grains of Ambergrise and Musk each eight grains of the Water of Lavender Betony each half an ounce of the Water of Marjoram one ounce mix them and make a Liquor which when taken the Speech will be restored 22. The following Water is of admirable Virtue in comforting the Brain and Nerves It powerfully helps the Memory sharpens the Wit strengthens the Judgment Whâ—ther it be taken inwardly or the Part affected be chafed with it it doeth much good Guernerus Rolfinkins Ord. Meth. Med. special consultatoriae l. 2. Cons 25. 17. Every Dose may be exalted with some grains of Magistery of Pearl or Specifick of Antimony Take of the Leaves of Sage with the Tops and Flowers of Marjoram Lily Conval Balm Hysop Lavender each two handfulls of Rosemary Vervain each half an handfull of the Root of Leopards-bane one ounce of Nutmeg Galangale Cinnamon each one ounce of Bayberries Juniper-berries each three ounces of Herb Paris one ounce of Caroway-Seeds Cubebs Cardamome each half an ounce of Whitewine as much as is sufficient Let them be well bruised and Infused for some days or let them stand fourteen days in Horsedung Then distill it in Balneo Mariae Dan. Sennert l. 1. par 2. c. 33. p. m. 665. de Apoplexia 23. Confectio Anacardina as it is proper in all cold diseases of the Brain so in this especially given either alone if the Patient come to himself and can take solid Medicines or dissolved in Aqua Vitae Also distilled Oil of Nutmegs if dropt into the Nostrils and Ears and the Palate be rubbed with it is highly commended 24. A Mineral Antapoplectical Water Take of Creme of Tartar one pound of the Mineral of Antimony a pound and an half Let the Acid Spirit be distilled by a Retort with a moderate fire which let be rectified Take of this six ounces add thereto of Spirit of Venus made of Verdigriece three ounces of the burning spirit of Saturn distilled from his Sugar an ounce and half of the volatile sulphureous Vitriol rectified by the acid spirit four ounces Mix them for use It is an excellent tart Water much to be desired in all Apoplectick Epileptick and Soporous cases It may safely be given to Children in Fits from one drachm to two in some gratefull Vehicle Appetentia nimia depravata Or The Appetite too great and depraved The Contents We must not use too much fat things in allaying it I. Narcoticks must be used cautiously II. A depraved Appetite cured by Sweat III. By Volatile Salts IV. By running of the Haemorrhoids V. Medicines I. FAt and clammy things stay too great hunger yet they are more proper in the beginning when we would provoke Vomit but when the Vomit becomes violent they must be omitted We must also have a care lest we use them over much and the Patient be brought into a contrary condition therefore when the Patient begins to mend Sennertus Fat things and which hinder concoction must be omitted II. But Narcoticks are to be used with caution and strong ones avoided as the Infusion of Mad Nightshade made in Wine which immediately destroys all appetite of Food in the most voracious person Yet strong Wine and Brandy may be used which according to Platerus take away hunger not so much by heating as stupifying As Treacle and Mithridate by the same narcotick quality he thinks do take away the dog-like Appetite Idem III. It is good in the depraved Appetite sometimes to cause a gentle Sweat But we must have a care that the Patient be not stifled with Clothes for it were better not to sweat at all
Cataplasm to the Part grieved doeth much good in ease of the Stone or any Tophus in the Reins or Bladder ¶ If the Stone in the Kidneys be hard and not to be broken Idem c. 37. and by reason of obstruction Urine be stopt the herb Paeony drunk with Wine and Honey is very good 24. Sennertus commends Lignum Nephriticum and Lapis Nephriticus taken either inwardly or onely worn about one Calculus Vesicae or the Stone in the Bladder The Contents Whether it can be broken by Medicines I. By what virtue such do operate II. Diureticks are sometimes proper III. Whether Liquours injected by a Catheter be able to break it IV. Signs are doubtfull and we must not hastily fall on cutting V. It sometimes lies hid by reason of a bad conformation of the Bladder VI. Flesh in the neck of the Bladder resembling the Stone VII When a Catheter is put in the Membrane at the Mouth of the Neck of the Bladder must not be hurt VIII When it is inclosed in a Membrane whether it must be pulled away IX The taking of it out is not impossible X. A correction of Errours that precede the Operation XI Of those that follow XII By what place and means it may best be taken out XIII The Operation may not be performed when the Moon is in Scorpio XIV In the Dog-days fatal XV. Whether the Minor Apparatus be allowable XVI A large Incision should be preferred before a small one XVII A caution in Women XVIII A Stone taken out of a Woman by a Hook XIX The way of taking it out when it sticks in the Urethra XX. XXI Whether Incision of the Hypogastrium may be admitted to get it out XXII A mitigation of the Dysury a Concomitant of the Stone in old men XXIII A Caution in cutting cut Stones that stick in the Urethra XXIV Medicines I. WHether can the Stone in the Bladder be broken with Medicines Many utterly deny it many affirm it but coldly I with Galen Hippocrates Dioscorides Rhasis Avicenna and infinite Classick Authours who prescribe many Simples and Compounds acting by their tenuity acidity asperity and by their Diuretick virtue do hold that there are things in Nature which break the Stone What hinders it I do not see since there is a dissolving Salt as well as a coagulating one and that the virtues of things must not be denied in Plants Herbs and Stones We see also how soft Water by continuance doth hollow the Stone that Iron is eroded by virtue of Simples and that there are Simples which soften Stones and why not break them We read in Aetius l. 2. how Philagrius cured the Stone in the Bladder with Goats-bloud and a Hedge-Sparrow mixt together How a Jesuite at Rome cured a Printer's Son with Millepedes rightly prepared Joh. Freâ—tagius apud Gr. Horstiâ—m l. 4. â—bs 4â— How Rhasis lib. 9. cured an old Stone in the Bladder with his Pills with which Horatius Augenius and his Father and other Physicians cured several of the Stone If the fore-cited Authours commended their Medicines and they had no such Virtue What did they in so weighty an affair but put a cheat on Mankind which to say of Hippocrates is Blasphemy who according to Macrobius never deceived others nor himself ¶ Bartholomaeus Turrianus in latrob lib. 4. f. 269. broke a Stone that was then designed to be cut by giving a little powder of Crystal to drink or rather the dissoluble substance thereof which same Liquour Th. Muffetus mentions de jur praestant Chymicorum Now Crystal is made soluble if it be calcined in a Potter's Furnace at least nine times then it becomes of a brittle substance and put in a Cellar it melts like Oil of Tartar Or let the Crystal Stone be heated in the fire and quenched seven times in the water or Spirit of the Lesser Nettle According to Johannes Praevotius the Stone in the Bladder is broken by a Plaster of White Onions boiled and applyed to the bottom of the Belly If therefore Histories be extant of persons troubled with the Stone that have been cured by Medicines the chief Remedies must be tried before the Patient commit himself to the greatest hazard Gul. Laurembergius his History of a person cured of a great Stone by the use of Sows and Horatius Augenius his History of another Patient are well known But such examples establish no rule they onely convince men of the possibility which we do not deny Several circumstances also cannot be known as whether these were onely gravelly coagmentations and not flinty In this therefore or the like case I can approve of no sort of true Diureticks if the Stone be great hard and like a flint for neither thus can we hinder its increase The distance of the place is far and the ways by which the Medicines pass many if they be weak they lose their virtue before they come at the Urinary passages if strong they carry matter from the whole Body to the Bladder nay these doe more hurt for by their acrimony and tenuity they take away and wash off that Lentor and phlegmy matter that like Mucus usually sticks to the Stone and serves it for a bed this gone the Stone is made sharper raises more intense pains and hurts the Bladder more A Patient of mine experienced this who having used Diureticks for two years found no benefit whether he took Chymical or Galenical things nay he rather daily found more pain Crato Rolfinâ—â—iuâ— lâ—b 9. Co. s 9. Physician to three Emperours experienced the same who seriously disswades men in the pain of the Kidneys from those Diureticks that force the Stone His Eminence Cardinal Cornarius when he had a fit of the Stone and was afflicted with difficulty of Urine being unwilling to observe the Disswasion of his Physicians went contrary to Mercurialis his advice to the Bathes that work by Urine when he took the Waters his pain increased and he died ¶ Guarinonius saith Cons 300. That scarce ever any one saw the Stone broken by Medicines Yet I broke the Stone in the Bladder of a Boy twelve years old and brought it away piece meal by this one Medicine Gâ—t Câ—ist Winclerus in Misc â—râ—riâ—s in â—â— chs 102. Take of purple Violet Seeds half an ounce of Water of Strawberry Rest-harrow Alkekengi each what is sufficient make an emulsion according to Aâ—t Add of prepared Sows 1 drachm Goats Bloud 2 pounds Species Lithontriptic 1 Scruple Spirit of Turpentine half a scruple mix them let 2 spoonfulls be given frequently He voided pretty large pieces and inclining to blackness so that one shell seemed to have grown over another II. Mercatus makes four Classes of Medicines that break the Stone and he reckons those in the third that he thinks do improperly break the Stone and he saith they doe good onely by absterging and rubbing the surface of the Stone And he teacheth that all are such which by their asperity absterge and as it were rub
at several intervals 2. Caesalpinus A large Cupping-glass with much flame set on for an hour cures forthwith like an enchantment 3. I have known this Electuary doe much good Crato l. 1. cons 6. Take of Conserve of Roses 6 drachms Spec. Aromat rosat 2 scruples White-frankincense 1 scruple Mix them make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Chesnut when you go to bed ¶ Take of Sea-wormwood tops Chamaemil each 1 Pugil White-frankincense one drachm Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water Strain it Id. lib. 2. cons 10. To 4 ounces of the Colature add of Syrup of the juice of Chamaemil Feaver-few each half an ounce for 2 doses With this I have eased most violent Pains in the Stomach and Intestines ¶ This is a most present Remedy for the Heart-burn Idem l. 2. p. 314. Take of new Conserve of Roses 2 ounces Spec. Aromat rosat 2 scruples White-pepper 1 scruple Mix them 4. This Liquour appeases the Pain in the Stomach wonderfully if half a drachm of it be given Deodatus panâ—h hyg Take of Mastick 4 ounces the best rectified Spirit of Wine half a pound Galangale 1 ounce Infuse them digest them and distill them by an Alembick 5. Oil of Sweet-almonds taken in some Broth Lael à Fonte cons 35. that hath had Citron-seeds boil'd in it is of great efficacy and so is Emulsion of Citron-seeds 6. The Sapphirine Oil of Chamaemil Hartmannus given to 4 or 5 drops in Mint-water is excellent for the Heart-burn 7. In Heart-burning from acid Phlegm and crude Juices sticking to the Stomach Oil of Aniseeds rubbed on the region of the Stomach is of great efficacy 8. This is highly commended in Pain of the Stomach Take of Nutmeg 2 drachms Spirit of Wine 2 ounces Platerus Honey of Roses till it be sweet boil them a little take 2 or 3 spoonfulls 9. I can reckon up several who have been cured of most bitter Pains in their Stomach Peterius onely by applying a Plaster of Gum Tacamahaca Eust Rhudius art med l. 2 c. 8. 10. Take of Spec. Hierae 2 drachms Diarrhodon Abbaâ—â— half a drachm and with Marmalade of Quinces not aromatized I have made Bolus's and given them to several who commonly the same day were all of them freed from their Symptoms 11. In this Disease I use this I take 3 Eggs and break them Herc. Saxonia and with Oil of Roses and Mastick I make Fritters of them and apply them to the mouth of the stomach It is an excellent Remedy 12. I have often found 1 drachm of Powder of Calamus Aromaticus given in 2 ounces of clarified Juice of Worm-wood hot Solenander very effectual in the Heart-burn 13. About 3 ounces of the Juice of Dill boiled in Water and drunk doth wonderfully relieve the Pain of the stomach Varignana that is with reaching and hick-cough Catalepsis or A waking Senslesness or Stupidity wherein a man retains the form and figure of one awake when nevertheless all the functions of his mind and senses are asleep The Contents Cured by voiding Worms I. Whether Wine may be allowed II. I. A Girl not full eight years old in a Burning-fever was first taken with a deep sleep and then with a Catalepsis her Eyes being quite open She took nothing down for seven days but a little Chicken-broth with Purslane boiled in it she lay pale Bâ—nedictus l. 1. c. 26 â—â—â—â—ur mori speechless and without motion onely she breathed with difficulty The Mother in utter despair of her Daughter gave her a Suppository of Honey with which she voided a knot of forty two Worms without any excrement and presently came to her self Some caliginous Vapours from these Animals in her Belly seized all the Senses of her Brain Fâ—rtis cons 34. câ—n 1. II. Galen 3. simpl allows Malmsey-wine to Cataleptick persons after whose example Amatus permits Cretian Wine is best with some Sage or Rosemary in it Catarrhus or A Catarrh or Defluxion The Contents The Head is often in no fault and therefore not to be tormented with Remedies I. Many Diseases ascribed to it amiss II. Not cured by one way alone III. Concoction must be more attended than Evacuation IV. The Intemperature or the Brain not always to be blamed V. One caused by Cold needs not Medicines VI. Whether Bloud letting in a Cold one be proper VII When it may be stopt VIII When a Purge may be given IX If a salt one falls upon the Breast we must purge X. If we fear a Consumption we must give a strong Purge XI A Vomit is sometimes proper XII When it may be given in a suffocative one XIII The Cure of a suffocative one XIV We must not insist long upon Vacuations and Revulsions XV. A salt one cured with Issues between the Shoulders XVI With a Seton in the Neck XVII When it falls upon the Breast a Vesicatory proper XVIII Becchicks hurtfull in time of Defluxion XIX By the abuse of sweet things it runs the more into the mouth XX. Whether Bath waters and Spaws be good XXI Whether Whey be good XXII Decoctions of Guaiacum not always wholesome XXIII Whether a Fever be the care of it XXIV Decoctions hurtful XXV The use of Bathing XXVI Washing of the Head sometimes good XXVII Fumes when proper XXVIII Plasters to stop it dangerous XXIX Rubbing the Head bad XXX All Anointing hurtfull XXXI Whether a drying Diet be always proper XXXII What posture one should lye and keep ones Head in XXXIII Exercise of the lower parts wholesome XXXIV Venus whether proper XXXV The Cure of a Catarrh falling upon the Breast XXXVI Of a violent one falling upon the external parts XXXVII Medicines I. IT is clear from Galen's Testimony 2. de differ Febr. cap. ult that sometimes a Catarrh is caused by some fault in the bloud when the head is no way out of order Therefore one cannot say absolutely that a Catarrh is the cause of a Fever It is confirmed because the subject bowels or often the whole body may afford fewel to the Catarrh the head continuing altogether unhurt for the Catarrh sometimes arises from fulness of body sometimes from the heat of the subject bowels and sometimes from the weakness of the head as is gathered from Galen ad Glauconem cap. 15. While therefore the subject bowels abound with excrements they conspire in production of the Catarrh Sanctorius mâ—th vit err l. 1. c. 26. either because in a long tract of time they are indisposed or because some errour is committed in the first concoction as when the belly is stufft with excrements in which case the head may be sound They err therefore that apply Remedies as Embrocations Washings c. to the head which is onely hurt by sympathy when the subject bowels should be cured ¶ Oftentimes excrementitious humours that are sent up from the lower parts to the brain cause a Catarrh and acquire a
converted into water and must ascend ¶ Also Spirit of Turpentine given to 12 or 13 drops is a most excellent Remedy 5. In the wind Colick Mesues commends Oleum de Kerva as an admirable thing Capivaccius because it discusses wind most powerfully 6. An admirable Clyster and experienced by me in the Colick Take of Wormwood Rue Fenel each 1 handfull Salt 2 drachms common Oil what is sufficient Seb. Cortilio Boil them and make a Clyster and anoint for several days 7. Speedwell is especially commended which cures the Colick specifically It is boiled in Chicken Broth and to 1 pound of the broth let half a pound of Malmsey wine be added and half a drachm of Myrrh and so given in a Clyster ¶ Take of tops of Sea-wormwood Chamaemil each 2 Pugils white Frankincense 1 drachm Boil them in a sufficient quantity of water and to 4 ounces of the Colature add some Syrup of Chamaemil or Feaverfew for 2 doses I have cured most violent pains in the Intestines and Stomach with it ¶ Oil of sweet Almonds drunk with Malmsey wine is very good I add half a drachm of fresh Sperma Ceti and account it among my effectual and secret Remedies ¶ For preservation from the Colick a Girdle of the Guts of a Wolf dried is good he must be girt with it day and night ¶ The following powder hath been often tried by me in white wine Take of Cinnamon 3 drachms Galangale Calamus Aromiticus each 1 drachm Bayberries 1 drachm and an half Cumminseed 2 drachms burnt Hartshorn 1 drachm and an half Juice of Rue half a drachm Aniseed Fenelseed each 4 scruples Cloves half a drachm make a powder add spec dianisi 1 drachm and an half Sugar 5 drachms 2 scruples Make a powder The following Plaster is famous in the Gripes Take of Emplast de baccis Lauri de Meliloto each 1 ounce mix them make a mass with Oil of Chamaemil and Rue ¶ In the Colick and Iliack Passion 1 scruple of Extract of Calamus Aromticus taken with some Syrup is very good ¶ In the beginning also a Decoction of Speedwell in wine with half a drachm of Myrrh may be drunk when the pain is violent ¶ When no other Remedies would doe good I cut some root of Masterwort put it in a Glass of wine and gave it to drink every day before Supper and the Pains began to cease ¶ Crato experienced the virtue of this Oil in several Take of Gum Galbanum Elemi Ivy Oil of Bays each what is sufficient distill it and keep the first water apart then the clear Oil thirdly the thick Oil. He applies this Plaster to the Muscles of the Epigastrium Crato and successfully discusses the reliques of the Disease 8. Take of Malmsey-wine oil of Nuts each 4 ounces Aqua vitae 1 ounce of distilled oil of Juniper and Rue 2 drachms Mix them give them hot By this Clyster intolerable pains raised by wind and vitreous phlegm are cured to a wonder ¶ Oil of Ground Ivy taken at the Mouth or by Clyster hath an admirable virtue in laying the Colick and other Pains of the Intestines ¶ The Secret of Joseph the Jew fill an earthen pot with Wormwood cut very small pour some of the best Wine to it steep it 24 hours then pour off one part of this macerated juice or liquour into another vessel then set what remains on the fire and boil it pouring on by little and little some portion of the liquour reserved till all the Wine be boiled away you will find a red Powder sticking to the sides of the pot which you must scrape off Câ—audius Deodatus and give of it three days in the morning as much as will lye on a Knifes point in some generous Wine It takes away all Gripes 9. Among outward applications to asswage a Scorbutick Colick nothing is better than green Henbane boiled in Milk put in a cloth and applied to the Belly warm ¶ An ounce and an half or 2 ounces of oil of sweet Almonds taken in some Chicken or Pease Broth is very good to asswage the pain and remove the Convulsions of the Intestines Drawitzius 10. The Quintessence of a Fox-Cub by a certain wonderfull faculty quickly cures the Colick yea he that carries this Arcanum about him in a Glass-bottle well stopt Joh. Peâ— Faber will never be afflicted with any pain in his Stomach and Guts 11. This is a most excellent thing to allay pain Take of the Powder of the Testicles of a Horse prepared 1 drachm Powder of Aniseed 1 scruple Mix them give it in Wine or Broth. ¶ Also half a drachm of the Powder of the Sponge that is found on the wild Rose-tree given in Wine is good Rod. à Foâ—seca ¶ Also a drachm of Rie flower may be given in Wine Jacob. Fontanus 12. If the Colick be caused by Choler it is an admirable remedy to drink 1 drachm and an half of dried Acorns in powder in some Wine or Broth with a few grains of Musk in curing of Men. 13. This makes an excellent Balsam for the Colick if an oil be distilled from a mixture of half a pound of Galbanum and clear oil of Turpentine to which afterward put an ounce of oil of Lavender and distill it again Joh. Freitagius it becomes a generous Balsam which circulated some time with Spirit of Wine becomes most excellent and penetrating if with oil of Venice-Soap and a few drops of Spirit of Camphire mixt with it it be applied to the Navel 14. Wolf's dung powdered and given in Wine is wonderfull good Galen 15. I have found in my practice this Plaster doe much good Frid. Hofmannus Take of Emplastr de baccis Lauri 6 drachms Vnguent de Arthanita 3 drachms Nitre 1 drachm Oil of Amber half a drachm Mix them make a Plaster 16. An efficacious oil of Daffodil is made of Daffodil-flowers steeped in Oil-Olive P. Laurembergius which is proper both anointed outwardly and given in a Clyster 17. An infallible Powder for the Colick Take Crabs N o 100. set them in a new earthen dish in an Oven when the bread is drawn but burn them not Ortolphus Maroldus Make a Powder The dose is a spoonfull or two in good sweet Wine hot and the pain will asswage by degrees ¶ This is a good experiment of Carpus Take some Mouse-dung made up with Oil-Olive into the form of a Chesnut and lay it on the Navel 18. I have often had experience of Oil of Bay-berries or Orange-Pills drawn with Wine by expression Panorolus which being done the Patients in a short time finding ease fell asleep and recovered Simon Paulli 19. There is a singular Medicine made of that yellow bitterish membrane or coat which most closely invests the Kernels of Walnuts 1 drachm of it powdered is given in Wine for the Colick warm 20. Rotten Dung found in Stables where Beasts piss fried
taken with an Opisthotonos and then with a most grievous Tetanus so that he could neither open his mouth nor swallow any thing D. Brambachius orders Palmarius his Cordial Water to be forced down but his throat denies it passage He also prescribes Clysters he orders fumes of Sulphur thinking it an Alexipharmack for Quicksilver and Inunctions for the neck of proper things but all in vain for he died in twenty hours ¶ So a certain Goldsmith as he was gilding silver Corslets Ph. Salmutâ— cent 3. obs 39. and did not take care as he ought to have done of the fume was taken with a shaking in all his Limbs and was perfectly restored onely by the use of Stapedian Treacle-Water having tried other things in vain Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. In a Convulsion caused by a wound in the head this is a most excellent Remedy Take Oil of Snails Worms Sesamum each 1 ounce and an half Fat of a Wether a Fox each 1 ounce Spirit of Juniper Wine 4 ounces Mix them and stir them upon the coals Joh. Agricola till the Spirit be wasted then add Oil of Chamaemil Linseed each 2 drachms Oil of Amber 1 drachm Mix them make an Unguent wherewith anoint the neck ¶ It is very good to hold the bone of a Pheasant's-wing a while in the hand on that side where the Convulsion is 2. Castor is the most secure ready and effectual Remedy of all ¶ Goat's-piss also drunk with water fasting is very good Donat. ab Altomari ¶ Also if you take equal parts of Castor White-Pepper and Parsly and beat them together and take them in a Spoonfull of Honey and two or three spoonfulls of Water fasting It is an excellent remedy for them that have the Convulsion backwards and has been tried by often experience 3. In a Convulsion from repletion a drachm or two of Consectio Anacardina is commended above all other things Jul. Caes Claudinus if a Fever be to be raised ¶ Take a fat live Goose draw her let a Cat cut small some add an Eel also old Bacon Myrrhe Time Elder and Capital herbs be sowed in her belly then let her be rosted and let the second fat that drops be kept for an Ointment 4. This Unguent is good for the Cramp Take of fresh Goose-grease 4 ounces Oil of Cloves half a scruple Crato of Cinnamon 5 grains Mix them 5. Oil or Spirit of Turpentine applied both inward and outward takes away all Cramps and Convulsions with which the Spine the Navel and the other parts affected must be anointed ¶ Water-Lily with red and white flowers dried in the shade and hung on the bed Câ—aud Deodatus or the wall in a moment of time cures all Convulsions as Carichterus testifies 6. Take old Treacle Conserve of Rue each 2 drachms Oil of Box 10 grains Make an Electuary The dose is a small Pill twice a day It is a very profitable Medicine which has a Specifick quality Râ—deric a Fonseca and Oil of Box has a great prerogative in this disease yea and you may anoint the beginning of the Spine the Temples and the Wrist with the same Oil. 7. I learned of an excellent Swimmer that Beetles were admirable good for Cramps and Convulsions Kâ—rcherus who always anointed his nervous parts with Oil of Beetles 8. Take of Oil of Amber half an ounce Mucilage of Briony what is sufficient Oil of Cloves 6 grains Mix them anoint the place with the root of its Nerve Ber h. Penotus and it will presently be dissolved repeat it and presently wrap the part in a Wether's Skin new flain 9. Among Topical Medicines Oil or Balsam of Galbanum is an excellent one ¶ A Weezle rosted in the belly of a Goose as the Cat was is good ¶ Sulphureous Bathes are good ¶ This Electuary is highly commended Take of Castor Sagapenum Opoponax each 1 drachm Succus Cyreniacus 1 drachm and an half Acorus Scordium each 2 drachms three Peppers Schaenanth Caroway each 2 drachms Asarum a rosted Squill each 1 drachm Juice of Stoechas Arabica 1 ounce Honey what is sufficient let what ought be beaten and mixt with Honey of Rosemary Sennertus Make an Electuary The dose is half a drachm in Mede 10. The following Powder leaves a wonderfull effect Take of the Root of Swallow-wort Devils-bit Elecampane Poeony Mace Cloves each 1 drachm and an half Bay-berries half a drachm Rosemary-flowers Sage Mother of Time each 15 grains Spec. Pleres archon Diamoschi dulcis Diambr each half a Scruple Make a Powder The dose 1 drachm August Thonerus with Water of Poeony Black Cherries each 1 ounce and an half 11. For a Convulsion arising from the Head-ach I applyed this wonderfull efficacious and most usefull Ointment often tried by me in such cases which I have ever found sure in a Tetanus and in contractions of the Nerves Take of old Oil 4 pounds Betony Elder Sage each 1 handfull Roots of Marshmallow Acorus Aristolochia rotunda each 1 ounce Earth-worms washed in Wine 3 ounces Opoponax Castor each 3 drachms Flowers of Rosemary Stoechas each 1 Pugil Red-Wine half a pound Juice of Sage Betony each 2 ounces Let all boil to the consumption of the Wine and Juices Strain and press it hard Add of Fat of a Bull a Duck each 2 ounces the Marrow of a Calf's-Leg 4 ounces Mucilage of Faenugreek 3 ounces of both the Stoechas's Nutmeg Cloves each 2 drachms Franc. Valleriola Wax what is sufficient Mix them make an Unguent which I ordered to be applied hot over the Neck 12. This is an incomparable Cataplasm Take of Root of Marshmallow Bryony fresh each 2 ounces Mandrake 1 ounce Leaves of Green Henbane Mallows each 1 handfull Boil them in Milk To them mashed add of Linseed Psyllium and Quince-seed each half an ounce the Fat of a Dog a Goose each 1 ounce Oil of sweet Almonds fresh-Butter each half an ounce Bay-berries 2 drachms Arnold Weikardus Saffron half a drachm Make a Cataplasm Cordis Affectus or Diseases of the Heart See Palpitation Book 14. Swooning Book 17. and Book 19. Cordials The Contents In the Cure of a hot disease hot Medicines are convenient I. The Cure of Worms in the Heart II. A Medicine 1. ALthough in cold Diseases of the Heart Hot things are absolutely convenient yet in hot Diseases simply Cold things are no way expedient but things remissly hot The reason is because when we would change the hot complexion we are not content with coolers by reason the substance of the Heart consists of innate heat which must not be extinguished but coroborated And therefore for the present the conservation of strength is principally respected Because the Heart is the Workhouse of life and heat Therefore Conciliator Enucleatus Sect. 196. although in respect of a cold disease hot things be indicated nevertheless in respect of the part affected moderate and not excessive
we draw not a tooth at the time of a defluxion head-ach swelling of the Gums or when they ake violently And the Chirurgeon must be admonished that he pull it not out violently and forcibly that is at one pull left a great concussion of the Brain or breaking of the Jaw be occasioned Riverius pract l. 6. c. 1. which is attended with a great Haemorrhage or Fever and sometimes Death XXV Some Physicians would persuade a Man that an artificial tooth may be put in the room of one that is pulled out and that it will stick as fast as any other tooth that it will be clothed with the flesh of the Gums and will serve to chew with But he that considers the teeth have Life that they receive Veins Arteries and Nerves that they are sensible and ake Riolanus Enchir. l. 4. c. 8. and are fastened with ligaments will never affirm it XXVI A certain Nun when she had got a tooth which was longer than any of the rest to be cut short thereby to avoid the deformity presently fell down dead in a Convulsion and Epilepsie But a Nerve appeared in that part where the tooth was cut off Casp Barthol Inst Anatom XXVII A bony fungus sometimes grows out of the hole of a drawn tooth so big that it fills the mouth Riolanus Enchir. p. 309. and at last choaks a Man unless prevented by cutting it out and burning it Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians I. For Rottenness of the teeth 1. If the Corrosion come of Worms a Medicine is made of Leek-seeds mixt with Wax Rod. à Fonseca receiving the fume into the mouth 2. This is a most excellent Remedy Take of the Roots of Mastick-tree Cinquefoil sharp Dock each 1 drachm boil them in very sharp Vinegar to a third Petr. Forestus Add to it strained of Salt half a drachm Wash the teeth with it 3. A tooth taken out of a dead man's Jaw if you touch a rotten tooth often with the root of it will cause the tooth to fall out piece meal in a few days Hartman 4. Take of Myrrh Aloe Epatica each 3 ounces Henbane-seed 2 ounces and a half Nettle-seed 1 ounce Saffron 2 ounces Nutmeg 1 ounce Mix them make a Powder pour on it some Spirit of Wine let it stand in a hot place for some days then distill it by an Alembick in which dissolve of Balsam of Sulphur a twelfth part and you will have as excellent an Elixir as ever was used wherewith the Gums must once a-day be anointed It is a most certain preservative of the teeth against Rottenness Joh. Poppius 5. For the Hollowness of the teeth if it proceed from a hot cause Camphire is excellent good whether it be applied as a Plaster Eustach Rud. or the hollow tooth be stopt with it 6. Take of Powder of Myrrh 2 scruples Gum Juniper 1 scruple Alume half a scruple with a sufficient quantity of Honey make it into a liniment with which the rotten and hollow teeth must be rubbed every day ¶ To get out hollow teeth some commend the fat and powder of green Frogs that live upon Trees Dan. Sennertus if it be rubbed on the teeth II. For the Falling of them A tooth of a Man who died through decay of strength not taken off by a violent death or an acute disease Van Helmont causeth any tooth in a living Man to wither and fall out onely by touching it III. For the Tooth-ach 1. Take of Gum Tragacanth 2 drachms Hyssop half an ounce Pellitory of the Wall 3 ounces mixt with Honey and Salt and burnt to a Coal in a Pot Pepper 4 ounces beat them very fine and pass them through a Sieve and then use it which if you doe the teeth will neither ake nor grow loose nor will the gums be inflamed or bleed nor will Caruncles grow thereon nor will they be troubled with defluxions And besides the breath will be sweet and the teeth clean Act â—arius 2. Take of Juice of white Bryony-berries one pound and a half Bark of the root of a Mulberry-tree an ounce and a half boil half away It must be held hot in the mouth give it 7 days one after another He that uses it shall never be troubled with the Tooth-ach ¶ Take the Skin of an Adder burn it and beat it make it up with Oil about as thick as Honey or take the Skin it self unburnt rub the teeth therewith and they will fall out ¶ This is Andromachus his Medicine which asswages the Tooth-ach within an hour Take of Pepper Aetius Pellitory of Spain Juice of Spurge Galbanum each equal parts put it in the hollow teeth 3. If the teeth be touched with the Radius of a Sea-parsnip and the gums scarified Jul. Caesar Baricelius the Tooth-ach quickly ceases 4. Some rub the teeth of Scorbutick persons with the branch of Willow and set it in the smoak of the Chimney and as the branch dries the teeth are cured ¶ I have tried several Medicines and could onely find benefit from Alume which I melted in a Saucer and powdered and with Nutmeg and a sufficient quantity of Honey made it up into the form of a Liniment wherewith now and then I anointed the aking tooth and with good success for the Tooth-ach ceased and I rested well ¶ A Pill of Philonium Romanum put in the tooth having first washed the mouth with Lapis Prunellae dissolved Tho. Bartholinus never failed me 5. Paulus writes that the Tooth-ach is effectually cured with a Decoction of Fern-root in very strong Vinegar ¶ This is certainly experienced Alex. Benedictus that the root of Self-heal dried and rubbed on the Gums of the aking teeth till they bleed cures the Tooth-ach 6. One could find no ease by any remedy till he put Betony in his Nose and then he was cured ¶ Shepherds-purse bruised and the quantity of a Hazle-nut put in the ears is a good and experienced remedy Garlick also bruised with a little Salt and applied to the Thumbs raises Blisters out of which Water runs whereby the Defluxion is derived from the teeth and the Tooth-ach taken away ¶ A Plaster of Burgundy Pitch with Powder of Nutmeg applied to the Temporal Artery hath cured several ¶ Knives touched with a Load-stone Petrus Borellus cure the Pains of teeth ears and eyes onely by the Touch. 7. Take Mastick-seeds and bruise them put them in a Rag and hold it to the inside of the teeth It hath a wonderfull virtue of drawing out viscous humours J. Theod. de Bry. asswaging and at length of curing the Tooth-ach 8. In curing the Tooth-ach nothing is better than Oil of Turpentine with Powder of Camphire Jul. Caes Claudinus the Oil whereof also is very effectual 9. Take some Pellitory of Spain powdered half as much powder of Cloves steep them in Spirit of Wine wet a folded Rag in it
and apply it to the aking tooth ¶ To preserve the teeth the inner rind of Barbery steeped in Water and to wash the mouth therein is very good in the morning ¶ Also Spirit of Vitriol mixt with Water is very much commended because it preserves the teeth from putrefaction and whitens them For a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol mixt with Sugar or Honey of Roses cleanseth the teeth wonderfully Joh. Crato and helps putrid teeth and gums and Ulcers of the mouth 10. Take Oil of Cloves half an ounce dissolve in it of Camphire half a drachm then add some Spirit of Turpentine four times rectified mix them A drop or two with a little Cotton put in the hollow tooth presently stops the Pain Osw Croâ—â—â—us Basâ—chym 11. The Salt of the fruit of the Fir-tree which is called the fixt Stone of the Jovial-tree is good for the Tooth-ach if it be dissolved in a little Vinegar and held a while in the mouth ¶ Take of Wild-poppy Hen-bane Sweet-williams Baum each a like quantity make of them a Crystal Salt put a few grains of it in a hollow tooth It is a certain Remedy Mich. Crugner 12. Take dried Hops rub them a little put them in strong Vinegar boil them a little and strain them Wash the mouth and gums with the Liquour for it is wonderfull Tob. Dorâ—crellius 13. The Quintessence of Coloquintida is a great Secret in curing and easing the Tooth-ach The Dose is half a drachm or a drachm in some Broth or Syrup Pet. Joh. Faber ¶ The chymical Salt of Lizards cures the Tooth-ach admirably 14. A Turnip rosted in the ashes and applied hot behind the Ears is held for a Secret Certainly it repells violently and cures the Tooth-ach effectually as I have had experience and can testifie also of others Fienus 15. Take the leg or thigh a Toad cleanse it from the flesh Leon Fioravantus Rub the aking teeth with the bone and the Pain ceases in a moment 16. The Tooth-ach vanishes when the Archaeus is mortified which is done by sharp Remedies as the root of Pellitory of Spain and of the Nettle with the red flower Franc. Oswald Grembs the white substance whereof being scraped and applied to the tooth wonderfully mortifies its raging 17. The Secret of the King of Poland In a clear day powder a Load-stone and calcine it in a glazed Pot till it wax green Of this with Meal Wine and Gum Tragacanth make Lozenges to put into the teeth which in a moment stop their aking ¶ Take a clove of Garlick Philip. Grulingius a little Treacle a clean Cobweb Mix them make a Plaster apply it for some hours to the median Vein on that side the teeth ake on the most violent Pain ceaseth and returns not in some years 18. If some Oil of Box in Cotton-wooll be put with a Probe into a hollow tooth J. Caldere de Heredia it presently takes away Pain 19. Fill a Womans Thimble full of Salt of Ashe and apply it to the temporal Arteries where you find them beat in a short time it makes a knot in the Artery Riolanus whereby the flux is intercepted IV. For Loosness of teeth 1. I have had frequent experience of this Take Pomegranate flowers unripe Galls dried Roses and Spurge with a little Alume boil them in Vinegar and harsh Wine till a third onely remain Hold the Decoction hot a long time in the mouth Alex. Benedictus 2. Take of Acorns 1 drachm Galls half a drachm burnt Alume Acacia each 2 scruples Red-rose flowers 1 handfull Berph Gordonius Boil them in a quart of Red-wine Let the teeth be often washed with this Decoction Arn. Villanovanus 3. Pimpernel-root chewed fastens the teeth wonderfully V. For Black Foul and Bleeding Teeth 1. There is not a better remedy than a Pumice-stone red hot and quenched in White-wine twice and the third time left till it be cold and then without any farther quenching beaten and washed If the teeth be rubbed therewith it makes them exceeding white Pet. Bayrus 2. Take of dried Rosemary powdered Whitebread powdered each 2 drachms red Coral prepared 1 drachm Alabaster half a drachm mix them make a Powder with which rub the teeth every day and wash the mouth with Rosemary-water In a short time you will find the admirable efficacy And. Libâ—vius VI. For Drawing of teeth 1. Dock-root heat in ashes and continually applied to the tooth draws it out in a short time ¶ Also burn Earth-worms and powder them and having scraped the tooth round about strew it on plentifully and in a day and a night it falls out of it self Therefore use it confidently for it is celebrated often as a Mystery Aetius 2. Clear the tooth a little from its place with a Pen-knife and then strew on it Powder of Euphorbium For this if any thing will draws out bones Or Juice of Spurge mixt with Meal may be put in the tooth and the rest fenced with Wax For Spurge-juice makes the teeth to swell After 2 or 3 days the tooth will be so loose that you may take it out with your fingers Joâ— Heurnâ—us or with an Instrument easily 3. To make the teeth fall onely gut a Lizard and drie it Octav. Horatianus and touch the tooth or the hollow of it with the Powder and it will presently drop out 4. Take a grain of Mastick or Frankincense fit for the hole stop it well carry it day and night but take it out in the morning and wash the mouth with Water something salted a Decoction of Sage or of burnt Harts-horn Put in another grain and continue it so long till the tooth fall out piece-meal Aâ—dr Libâ—vius and this is done without any hurt 5. Bastard Hellebore has a virtue beyond all other things to make teeth fall if you rub them with a bruised leaf Riverius but you must have a care what teeth you touch for they will all fall out 6. Gum of Ivy that grows on an Oak draws out any tooth ¶ Some affirm upon certain experience that if you take a Whelp 3 or 4 days old and cut off his left Ear and with the bloud anoint the teeth Joh. Stenâ— Sâ—robelâ—â—â—gâ—â—s all that are anointed will fall out in the night Diabetes or The Piss-pot Dropsie The Contents Bloud-letting is not proper I. When a Vomit is proper II. Purging is proper III. What Purgers are proper IV. Whether Diureticks be proper V. Sudorificks are suspected VI. Narcoticks are good VII Astringents are not always proper VIII Too much are hurtfull IX Sylvius his Cure X. It must be cured by restoring the tone to the bloud XI Sometimes it proceeds from a cold Liver XII The Cure of it in a young person XIII In a spurious one we must not cool XIV Quinces breed the Diabetes XV. Whether a Bath be proper XVI One quickly cured XVII We
of the disease being removed or the root cut away all the fruits may wither The Medicines requisite to this intention may be reduced to these two heads chiefly 1. That the fewel of the Disease supplied immediately from bad bloud or the nervous juice and more mediately from the bowels and first ways Then 2. That the evil disposition of the brain and of its inhabitants the Spirits which is peculiar to the Epilepsie may be removed As to the first thing indicated in this case Vomits Purges Alteratives Bleeding Issues c. are proper in as much as the impurities are withdrawn from the bowels and humours and their dyscrasies amended And although they cure not the Epilepsie yet they remove impediments they raise nature and excite her to encounter the enemy also they prepare the ways so that Specificks may more certainly exert their Virtues As for Specifick Medicines onely which indeed though not always are reckoned to reach the cause of the Epilepsie it is wonderfull by what power of acting they use to doe good in this disease seeing they are taken without any sensible evacuation or even perturbation in the bowels or humours following thereupon If we may guess since we hold that the procatarctick cause of the Epilepsie consists in a heterogeneous conjunction arising in the Spirits those inhabitants of the brain and inciting them to preternatural explosions it will follow that what things resist or remove such a cause must be of such a nature as that by strengthening the Brain and contracting its pores they exclude that conjunction and so fix the Spirits which are up and down the middle of the brain by dissolving their conjunction that they will not any more be apt and inclined to those irregular explosions Not unlike it may be to Aurum fulminans which if it be ground with Sulphur or be sprinkled with Spirit of Vitriol it loses its fulminant virtue And indeed we may discover such properties either one or both in most Antepilepticks for Poeony Misletoe of the Oak Rue Lily Conval with many others have a manifest astriction in them so that it is very likely their particles taken inwards and so carried in the vehicle of the bloud or nervous juice to the Brain do so contract and shut up its pores which are too lax and open that for the future they do not at all lie open for any passage of the morbifick matter Moreover because these concretes do breathe out as it were an Armoniack or dissipative scent therefore they are said to depurate the animal Spirits and to fix and strengthen them when they are deprived of their heterogeneous conjunction This virtue depurative of the Spirits proceeding from the Sal Ammoniack is apparent in remedies which are fetcht from the animal and mineral families such as are preparations of Man's Skull Bloud Amber and Coral as the other astringent virtue is more powerfull in the parts and preparations of Vegetables Willi◠Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. If you cut the great Toe of the sick party any where and anoint the lips of him that is in the fit with the bloud that drops from it Aetius he will be raised immediately according to Didymus 2. Salt of Corals preserves Children egregiously from Gripes and fits ¶ Pills of Salt of Vitriol are highly commended in the Falling sickness ¶ This is famous for the Epilepsie Take of Cinnabar of Antimony 4 ounces pour on it Spirit of Vitriol first let it stand in digestion 14 days till it become like Gold distill it in a strong fire by a Retort and an elegant Spirit will come out which keep Then take Roots of Angelico Pellitory of Spain Poeony each 1 ounce Flowers of Rosemary Cassidony Lavender Lily Conval each 1 ounce leaves of Marjoram Scordium each 1 handfull Shavings of Elk's Horn Man's Skull Castor each 1 drachm and an half Diamoschu dulcis half an ounce mix them pour to them the best Spirit of Wine till it stand 4 inches above let them be digested in a close vessel in Balneo vaporoso till the Spirit of Wine grow as red as bloud pour it off by inclination draw it off per Balneum till it grow as thick as honey if there be 6 ounces of it add 2 ounces of the Spirit of Vitriol abovesaid Jo. Agricola Digest them in Balneo vaporoso for a month keep it The dose is one or two scruples in a little Lavender or Poeony water ¶ Oil of Wine mixt with tincture of Corals and a few drops of it given to Children presently take away the fit 3. This is a singular and experienced Plaster Take of white Amber Frankincense each 1 drachm and an half Galbanum Opoponax each 1 drachm and an half Misletoe of the Oak 2 drachms Ambergreise 6 grains Musk 3 grains Seed of Male Poeony half a drachm Labdanum 1 drachm and an half a little Oil of Nutmegs Caspar Amthar Bestrew it with powder of Cubebs when you have spread it and apply it to the coronal future 4. I can certainly affirm that I saw an Epileptick person above twenty five years old cured onely by the use of 2 ounces of Weezle's bloud with 1 drachm of Vinegar ¶ Take the Stones of a wild Boar or of a tame one that uses Venus and also the Stones of a Cock dry them in an Oven and powder them let there be 2 ounces of the Boar's stones and 1 ounce of the Cock's then add twice as much Sugar Horat. Augenius Let the Patient take some of this Powder with all his Meat you will find it a most absolute remedy 5. It has been found by frequent observation that children have been preserved from fits by giving them 3 drachms of Syrup of Cichory with Rheubarb as soon as they were born before ever they had sucked Milk J. Caes Baricellus ¶ I gave my own children 2 Scruples of Juice of Rue with a little Gold and by God's blessing they are free from Fits 6. Many of our Country Folks have the bloud of the Epileptick Person himself among their secrets as a singular remedy for an Epilepsie For in the very fit they take away a little bloud from a vein in his Arm and they give it him to sup with a rear Egg. Which experiment has freed not a few from the Fit immediately and has rendred them free from it ever after But after this Liquor they give him Cordials and Bezoardicks to lay him to sweat for so the matter of the Convulsion being stirred and disturbed by his own bloud is discussed and evacuated by sweat ¶ A most noble and sure Antepileptick Powder Take of Man's Skull burnt Man's Bones burnt each half an ounce Powder of the Bones of great green-Lizards 2 drachms Misletoe of the Oak Root and Seed of the Male-Poeony gathered in the decrease of the Moon each 1 drachm prepared Antimony Hoof of an Elk an Ass each half a drachm White Sugar 4 ounces Mix them
that its virtues are unknown to you Before I come to Laudanum Opiatum I endeavour to remove the Headach by the following means Let Ground-Ivy bruised be applied to the Head also Plantain Let this or something like it be applied to the Soles of the Feet and the Palms of the hands Take of leaves of Rue 1 handfull and an half Sowre Leven 2 ounces Pigeon's dung 1 ounce common Salt half an ounce Elder-vinegar what sufficeth Mix them Make a Cataplasm Or Take of Bole-armenick Terra sigillata common white Chalk each 1 ounce and an half Marigold-vinegar what is sufficient Mix them Apply it as before Sometimes also I applied Powder of Cloves wet with Spirit of Wine for I think Barbette Vinegar does harm XLIX A Loosness in the Plague is often a forerunner of instant death Yet I have often known when neither bloud nor bloudy matter has been voided that the things following have done good Let the Patient and the Physician abstain from all acid and salt things of much use otherwise in the Plague As also from plentifull drinking but if he cannot bear his intolerable thirst let the Patient take 2 or 3 spoonfulls of this Mixture Take of the root of Tormentil 1 ounce red Rose flowers 1 pugil shavings of Hartshorn half a drachm seeds of Sorrel Myrtle each 1 ounce Boil them in Steel-water To 9 ounces of the colature add of Confectio Hyacinthi 1 drachm Syrup of Myrtle 1 ounce Mix them Treacle alone has done good to many if a small piece of it has been taken once an hour till a drachm has been taken Binding Clysters drying also and emollient ones are here very necessary yea they should be given twice or thrice every day Lees of White-wine or rather of Red-wine applied hot to the Navel have done much good Idem Sylvius his method of Curing the Plague L. Like as upon examination of all the Symptoms that usually accompany the Plague and upon consideration of the Remedies that serve for prevention of it we have concluded that in most the nature of the deadly poison consists in a volatile and sharp Salt so we think the same will be confirmed from its Cure But that a methodical and rational Cure may be insisted on in the Plague not onely the Functions must be considered which are primarily and chiefly hurt but the parts also as well containing as contained which are affected above others The Functions are they especially that are called Vital and among them those that respect the alteration of the Bloud in the Heart and on which life does proximately depend Among things contained either the whole Bloud or some things concurring to produce the mass of bloud or both are disaffected in the Plague Among the parts containing and the solid we observe both the conglobated Glands to be seized and corrupted by Buboes and the external skin with the parts adjoining by Carbuncles and Spots It is manifest the Bloud it self is very much changed in the Plague when we affirmed that it oftentimes loses its consistency and is more fluid than ordinary And because we believe that all consistency comes to the Bloud from an acid Juice we deservedly conclude that the Acid mixt or to be mixt with the Bloud does most suffer and is corrupted in the Plague Since moreover we have shewn that an Acid can so powerfully be broken and therefore corrupted by nothing as by a Lixivious Salt I think we have deservedly derived the Pestilential poison from it Again when we weighed its quick operation and extreme violence in Reason's balance we concluded this lixivious Salt was volatile and very sharp And seeing among all the Humours hitherto observed in our Bodies onely Bile is found to partake of a volatile Salt we plainly think that we judged according to reason that it is often vitiated by the pestilential poison and is rendred more sharp and volatile than usual So that the pestilential poison joins it self to the Bile as to an humour most homogeneous with it and spoils it But that it exerts its violence upon the Acid as upon a thing opposite and heterogeneous and breaks and corrupts it The pestilential poison I say because at least as far as most Physicians determine is not bred in Man's body but comes to it from abroad and then is afterwards communicated to others by Contagion Therefore the Indications to be observed in the Cure of the Plague must be taken 1. From the Poison it self admitted from abroad into the Body and infecting the Bile both corrupting and infringing the acid Juice and colliquating the Bloud it self and destroying the solid parts by Buboes Carbuncles and Spots 2. From the Bile it self degenerating from its pristine integrity and putting on the nature of a pestilential poison 3. From the acid Juice in our Body broken and corrupted 4. From the Bloud it self melted and destitute of its consistence 5. From the conglobated Glands producing Buboes 6. From any parts seized and corrupted with the virulence of the Carbuncles 7. From the whole Superficies of the Body defaced and sometimes corrupted with many Spots and Tokens First of all the pestilential Poison it self as it is admitted into Man's body beside the Laws of Nature so it indicates its reciprocal expulsion out of it The same as it infects all it meets with in the body and changes it from a laudable state into a noxious it indicates its alteration and correction Secondly Bile as it is made more volatile and sharp by the pestilential Poison does indicate its fixation and contemperation Thirdly the acid Juice of the Body as its acid Acrimony is broken and corrupted by the pestilential Poison indicates the reparation and restitution of the same Acidity Fourthly the Bloud as it hath lost its consistence by the pestilential Poison indicates the recovery of the same The fifth sixth and seventh Indications of Buboes Carbuncles and Spots we shall treat of peculiarly and severally Now we will propound the Indicata of the foresaid Indications 1. The pestilential Poison seeing it frequently penetrates the inner parts by the Pores of the Skin it may most commodiously be expelled by the same and therefore by Sudorificks The same because sometimes perhaps it is inspired in with the Air and doth then also alter and corrupt the Spittle which being continually swallowed down causes loathing in the Stomach it may not inconveniently then be driven again at least in part out of the body And when part is carried off by Vomit the rest that passes with the Air to the Lungs and by and by to the Bloud may most conveniently be thrown off by Sweat with those foresaid Diaphoreticks The same Poison as it is noxious in its quality vitiates and changes for the worse whatever it meets with in the body and that indeed by its salt volatile and sharp quality it may be corrected by a powerfull fixing Medicine and one that takes off the acrimony And because nothing has such a fixing
those of his own Tribe Medicines especially made use of by Eminent Physicians in various Fevers and Agues In Fevers properly so called 1. OIL of Antimony is good almost for all Fevers Agricola ¶ And Spirit of Sal Ammoniack 2. This is a most excellent food in a Colliquative Fever Take the finest flower of Spelt put it in an earthen Vessel with which and Sugar make a stratum super stratum till the Vessel be full The proportion must be 4 ounces of Sugar to a pound of Flower Bake this in an Oven till it be dry Take 3 ounces of this meal mix it with broth of flesh and a fourth part Rose-water and white Saunders half a drachm Augenius Make a Ptisan Of which let the Patient take as often as he pleases 3. Take a piece of Cyprian Vitriol infuse it in 5 pounds of water drink 6 ounces of this blew water every morning for 6 days Borellus if the Patient vomit he will be cured within ten days 4. The Sengreen called Vermicularis bruised with Vinegar and Barley-flower and applied to the right hypochondrium in a Fever that is not excessive burning does much good Believe the experienced ¶ If the Fever be not very burning make two bags of Barley flower as big as ones back and apply one to the whole back Crato when it grows hot expose it to the Air and apply the other 5. Oil Salt or Magistery of Mother of Pearl first made with distilled Vinegar or precipitated with Spirit of Vitriol is an excellent Sudorifick and Antifebrile if it be mixt with Essence of Antimony Crugner made of Antimonium Diaphoreticum I call it Mixtura Antifebrilis Diaphoretica 6. Butter of Pearl is a stupendous and very effectual remedy for the cure of a Hectick Faber 7. Take clear Aloes the best Myrrh and the best Saffron each 1 ounce and an half Let the two former be powdered fine Put them in a capacious and strong Glass seal it by melting the neck of the Glass distill it in a moderate heat lest the Glass break till you see the whole mass concrete at the bottom and the clear Oil to circulate with the water on the sides of the Glass then open the neck of the Glass and pour in some Cinamon Water and distill them in wet Sand Van Helmont upon which scalding water must gradually be poured till nothing more will come over the Alimbeck and with this Medicine I have cured both Quartans and Continual Fevers 8. It is found by experience that Burnet infused in warm Water presently cures a continual Fever ¶ Water distilled off Water Melon is a great Medicine with some for it presently quenches the heat of the bloud ¶ The water of Gourd is excellent in burning Fevers A fresh Gourd is coated with fresh Paste it is baked in a hot Oven with bread and the water which is found within it is kept or a whole Gourd is cut in pieces put in a new earthen Pot is baked and strained out Heurnius and a little Sugar is added 9. In burning Fevers Bezoardicum Solare Martiale Lunare Joviale or Antihecticum Poterii are very good to stop the ebullition of the bloud Hofmannus and they are good in periodical continual Fevers 10. This is a certain experiment in burning Fevers Take Speedwell Mousear each half an ounce Make a Powder infuse it in Wine Kornthaverus let it stand a Month. Let him drink often of it it expells heat and cures any Fever 11. Nitrum Vitriolatum that is the coagulated Spirit of Vitriol is good in all Fevers Mynsiâ—ht 12. Take of Spirit of Vitriol Urine each one pound Mix them distill them by retort and a Crystalline Butter will ascend Of which give one scruple mixt with 3 ounces of water or phlegm of Vitriol to the sick party It is so excellent a Medicine that it has saved many mens lives Poppius for it extinguishes the internal preternatural heat 13. Sal Prunellae from half a scruple to half a drachm is an excellent alterative and much exceeds others if it be dissolved in Carduus Benedictus water and drunk it cools powerfully and quenches thirst ¶ Acidum Tartari Aluminatum has a secret virtue in opening obstructions Rolsinccius and especially in curing Tertian agues 14. Take of choice Manna as much as you please distill it by a Cucurbit with a gentle fire you will have an insipid Spirit Schroderus an excellent Sudorifick in all Fevers 15. The Water or Phlegm of Alume is much esteemed by some in all sorts of Fevers where if it were mixt with its Spirit it is like Angelus Sala it would be more effectual 16. Take of Mucilage of Quince seeds Fleawort seeds Oil of Violets fresh butter washt each 1 ounce white Wax what is sufficient anoint the Spina dorsi Ben. Vict. Faventinus It is admirable good in Fevers of such persons as cannot take Medicines In a Malignant Spotted Pestilential Fever and the Plague 1. In the Plague and after taking of Poison the Essence of Antimony is very good ¶ Mercurius vitae fixatus is very good in Pestilential Fevers ¶ Also the flowers of Antimonium diaphoreticum are an excellent remedy in Pestilential Fevers ¶ An excellent Bezoardick Vinegar Take of the root of the greater Fern Butter-bur Angelica Tormentil Elecampane each 1 ounce Powder of Serpents red Myrrh shavings of Harts-horn each 1 ounce flowers of Marigold Tunica each 2 pugils seeds of Sorrel Citron Carduus Benedictus each 1 drachm and an half Saffron 1 drachm Terra Sigillata Venice Treacle each 1 ounce and an half The best Vinegar 4 pounds Mix them set them in the Sun You will make a Vinegar than which nothing is more effectual 1 spoonfull whereof taken in the morning will preserve you safe from the Plague that day ¶ Vinegar of Antimony The dose 1 scruple that day you take it it preserves you from the Plague ¶ Spirit of Nitre is of great use in Malignant Fevers ¶ This diaphoretick mixture is of great efficacy in Malignant Fevers Take of Spirit of Terra Sigillata 1 drachm Tartar half a drachm Treacle 1 drachm Magistery of Coral J. Agricola Pearl each half a scruple Water of Carduus Benedictus Citron each half an ounce Mix them Make a draught for 2 doses 2. Our Country people in the Plague time defended themselves onely with Vinegar of Marigolds and they escaped without danger Bartholinus 3. A certain Man cured several of the Plague onely by applying a piece of the Monocerot's horn and with an infusion of it in common water for their ordinary drink and he gave this for prevention for they that used such water Bo elius were not infected with the Plague 4. Some say who have tried it that if in the beginning of a Pestilential fever one drink 2 or three ounces of Juice of Marigold Champegius and cover himself with Clothes he will
Paracelsus Apply them they cure any fracture Simon Pauli 2. I do solemnly protest that Meadow-sweet mixt in Plasters has wrought admirable effects in a fracture of the Arm which was almost incurable 3. For breeding a Callus many do commend the Stone Osteocolla in powder a drachm whereof is often given in Comfrey water Sennertus But it is better in grown than in young people because in these it increases Callus too much Fulmen or Thunder The Contents The Cure of one that is Thunder-struck I. If there be a fracture of the bones What must be done II. How the Eschar may be removed III. I. IN June Anno 1671. A Maid 15 years old was struck down with Thunder in the house as it were stonied they in the house treated her as if she had been dead She was laid upon a bed and stript and first of all all one Breast was red intermixt with some blackness as if she had been burnt with Gunpowder Under her breast there were brownish streaks pointing transverse her Belly to the Pubes which was deprived of hair and excoriated and there were some streaks on her left thigh There was at hand some Apoplectick water two spoonfulls whereof I poured into her upon which she presently came to her self and answered well to what was asked her She complained of a great heat in her Throat and of a pain in the part that was hurt Half a drachm of Pulvis Bezoarticus Anglicus was presently given her in Chervil-water after which she sweat well and the heat in her Throat abated Then an Ointment of Cream and White-lead was applied to the hurt place whereby she found much ease But because she continued something feverish eight ounces of an Emulsion was given her made of Seeds of White-popy Columbine Millet Ab Hermannus mis cur an 72. obs 182. and Carduus Benedictus with 2 drachms of Pulvis Bezoarticus Anglicus after which she was well and the Fever ceased The Cuticle was restored to the excoriated Breast by my Emplastrum Dia-saturni II. If any bones be broke the vulgar astringent Cataplasms must not be used lest the evaporation of the venome be hindred but another of Bean-flower Lupines Root of Angelica Swallow-wort Leaves of Rue Scordium Treacle and it must be renewed every day till the strength of the venome be conquered and dissipated But a defensative must be applied above the place Sennertuâ— lest the venomous vapours ascend by the Vessels to the Heart III. If an Eschar be made it must be timely taken off with a Pen-knife and such an Unguent applied Take of powder of the Root of Swallow-wort Angelica each half an ounce Leaves of Rue Scordium each 1 drachm Treacle 2 drachms Spirit of Treacle 3 drachms Honey of Roses 2 drachms Mix them When the Ulcer is cleansed this Sarcotick powder must be strowed on it Take of Root of Angelica Swallow-wort each 1 ounce Myrrhe Mastich Frankincense Leaves of Scordium each half an ounce Aloe Socotrina 2 drachms make a Powder which must be wet with juice of true Tabacco and Sanicle Make Trochius Idem A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK VII Of Diseases beginning with the Letter G. Gangraena Sphacelus or Gangrene Mortification The Contents Defensatives are not proper in every one I. The prevention of one imminent according to Hippocrates II. Narcoticks must be cautiously applied to parts where it is imminent III. Oily and fat things suspected IV. Arsenick is not proper V. An Actual Cautery though safer than a Potential one cannot always be used VI. When it arises from an internal cause it scarce admits of a Cure VII The Cure of one imminent from a Puncture VIII Of one bred of a malignant Inflammation IX There is no curing of a Gangrene after a Fever X. The taking away of a Gangrene by Causticks XI Mortified places require not onely the taking away of the skin but of the flesh also XII If the strength will not bear Amputation what must be done XIII The Leg must be cut off near the Knee XIV We must not be too hasty in Amputation XV. Sometimes it is useless XVI Whether it may be made in a Joint XVII Bâ— a Knife and Botallus his way not to be allowed of XVIII Whether it must be made in the dead or live part XIX The Body must be first prepared XX. Whether Narcoticks may be given XXI After the operation the Patient must be carefully looked after XXII How a Haemorrhagy following may be stopt XXIII The Bâ—ndage on the upper part when Amputation is made must be removed XXIV The part must not be wrapt up too warm XXV How abscission of the middle and ring finger may be performed XXVI Cautions about cutting off a hand affected with a Cancer not ulcerous XXVII Medicines I. IN a Gangrene from afflux of bloud and humours as long as the fluxion continues Defensatives are good When it ceases they may be omitted that the innate heat may reach to the part affected But if any beginning of corruption shew it self we must proceed in the use of them that the way may be stopt to Vapours that are raised from putrefaction and which go to the noble parts In a Gangrene bred of a cold and moist intemperature where no fluxion is they are not proper unless a mortification be at hand to stop the Vapours A Gangrene that is the product of a dry intemperature and want of aliment plainly excludes Defensatives for they by their astriction straiten and stop the ways of the Spirits and of Nutrition But if a mortification be at hand they should not be rejected that the coming of Vapours to the principal parts may be prevented However if it owe its original to a malignant matter bred in the body and driven outwards there is no room for them II. Whatever parts are taken with a Sphacelus we must intercept the Vein exulcerate and heal Hipp. sect 5. l. 2. Epid. That is It can no otherwise be cured than by intercepting a Vein and exulcerating a part And he says a Vein is intercepted when that or those Veins which carry bloud to the gangrened part are cut off in their way by cutting burning or tying By exulcerating he means deep scarification of the part Therefore when signs of a Gangrene begin to appear in a part we must quickly make provision for the whole and if any Vein seem swelled and black it must be intercepted with a Cautery and we must ulcerate the parts that are then dying with deep scarifications or burn them or partly exulcerate them and apply eating Medicines to them and partly burn them But any thing less than these is useless in this Disease Vallesius Câ—â—â—m in locum III. Narcoticks must not be applied except in a little quantity and something corrected with hot things to parts that are indisposed swelled and that are of an ill habit or ready to gangrene because of Incision made in them or for any other
Diagnostick of this is very difficult so I think the Cure of it is no less rare When there is suspicion of it Saline Medicines especially seem to be of use and such of them must be given as are endued with a Volatil or Acid Salt And the same things must not be given together but these for some space of time and when they will do no good others may be tried 1. Spirit of Sal Ammoniack compound with Millepedes or distilled with other Antasthmaticks 3 Ounces The Dose from 15 Drops to 20 thrice a day in some Julep or appropriate Water 2. Spirit of Sea-Salt or Vitriol impregnated distilled and often cohobated with Spirit of Wine and Pneumonick Herbs 3 Drachms The Dose from 15 Drops to 20 in the same manner 3. The Palpitation of the Heart is often a Convulsive Affection and is usually produced by the like cause and way of efficiency whereby other Hypochondriack and Asthmatick Diseases are usually produced The Cure whereof must in like manner be attempted by Antispasmodick Remedies c. Willis Saxonia mentions this last sort Praelect Pract. parte 2. cap. 1. It must be observed says he that it is caused by some fault in the Nerves alone nothing appearing amiss in the Brain Breast or Muscles Which I observed in my Brother whom I perfectly restored by the use of Treacle only applied to the beginning of the Spinal Marrow XVI The Trembling of the Heart which they commonly call the Passion of the Heart is a Disease distinct yea quite another from the Palpitation of it For in the Trembling the Carnous or Motive Fibres seem to be affected by themselves and the Morbifick cause does not in this as in the other Disease consist in the Blood or in the Arteries of the Heart The trembling of the Heart may be described to be a Spasmodick Convulsion or rather a Trepidation of it wherein the Motive Fibres do very quickly make only semicontracted and very speedy Systoles and Diastoles but abrupt and as it were half strokes so that the Blood can be brought into the Ventricles of the Heart and carried out only by small portions The formal reason seems to consist in this that the Animal Spirits belonging to some certain Muscles do start restless out of the Tendons continually into the Flesh and return and so in a perpetual vicissitude they repeat their Excursions and Recursions in the mean time when they are only exalted with small Forces so that they do not fill up the Carnous Fibres and they stay in these Fibres only a short time and although they make sometimes frequent efforts yet they are weak insomuch that the Members and Limbs are not moved out of their places by the Muscles so perpetually agitated and the Heart during its trembling how quickly soever shaken yet it is scarce able to drive the Blood about as is plainly manifest from the little and as it were tremulous pulse and a decay of all strength As to the Conjunct and Procartarctick Causes whereby namely the Muscular Spirits are made so instable or acquire this Desultory Faculty it seems that some Heterogeneous and Elastick Matter having past the Brain and Nervous Ducts then is carried into the Muscles and the Tendinous ends of them where mixing now and then with the Spirits it irritates them so that they can be quiet no where but run hither and thither continually and in the mean time they either omit or do not strenuously perform their proper Offices The cause of the trembling of the Heart is commonly laid upon the Spleen for it is vulgarly supposed that foul Vapours are by this parts being obstructed or otherwise amiss sent to the Heart which seising of it make it so shake and tremble yea as if it were in a cold fit This Opinion has gained some credit because Hypochondriacks or Spleneticks are found to be very subject to the Cardiack Passion But the reason why they that are reckoned Splenetick and Hysterick are so commonly troubled with the Passion of the Heart is the great affinity and intimate communication between the Splenetick and Cardiack Nerves so that not only the affection of one Part does draw another easily into consent but if at any time Spasmodick Matter falls upon the Branches of the Nerves belonging to the Spleen or Bowels in the lower Belly it seldom misses but the same in like manner scises those that belong to the Heart As for the method of Cure to be followed in the Cure of the Passion of the Heart because it is a Disease meerly Spasmodick therefore not Cardick but rather Cephalick and Nervous Medicines are indicated which yet according to the Temperament and Complexion of the Patient must be hot or moderate and sometimes of this sometimes of the other nature That I may comprehend the business in short three sorts of Medicines use to do the most good in this Disease Testaceous Chalybeates and things endued with a volatil salt Therefore first of all provision being made by evacuating the whole Medicines may be prescribed Idem which shall seem to be most useful Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Let a Man take this Potion inwardly which I have seen do good to a miracle Take of Water of Boragè 5 ounces Syrup of Borage 1 ounce Julep of Roses Cinnamon Water each half an ounce dissolved Pearl 2 drachm◠dissolved Gold 1 drachm Crato Mix them 2. Spirit of Balm alone cures the Palpitation of the Heart when the Body is purged Take of Regulus of Antimony 2 ounces the best Gold 2 drachms Melt them in a Crucible then reduce them to Powder add of red Coral Pearl each 2 drachms Mix them through a Sive Add the like weight of the best Nitre Burn them in a hot Fire for three hours Powder them very fine Wash it in sweet Water Put it into a Glass retort with the best Spirit of Wine and distil the Spirit cohobating it three or four times upon the Powder So it is prepared for an excellent Bezoardick Powder which in virtue excels the Bezoar-Stone The Dose half a drachm with Water of Carduus Benedictus Fabe◠Meadow-sweet or Balm It is given to drive out in Palpitation of the Heart Malignant Fevers and the Small Pox. 3. For the Palpitation of the Heart I ordered the following Bag to be applied to the Heart Take of dry Balm 4 handfuls the Cordial Flowers 1 pugil shred them grossly Make a Bag. When it was applied to the Heart the Palpitation ceased to a miracle There is an admirable virtue in Balm both taken inwardly and applied outwardly I took green Balm and Borage bruised them a little laid them upon a hot Tile sprinkled them with a little Rose Water and Vinegar and applied them to the Heart Forestus and the Palpitation of it ceased to the admiration of all Men. 4. The Juice extracted out of Weather's Hearts strengthens the Heart wonderfully Take the Heart of a Weather or a
Head which was followed by a Catarrh upon the left side and a weakness of the same It is certain this Disease came through the abuse of Mercury Hildanus Cent. 5. Obs 93. which carried the Humours from the lower parts of the Body to the Head ¶ But Petraeus in Nosolog Harmonic tom 1. p. 395. sayes that Mercurial Unguents may be safely and successfully used in a contumacious Itch if Universals be premised and the unprofitable and hurtful juice be exterminated the Body yet such Topicks must not be made up of a mass of infinite Medicines for so they will work with better success and quicker effect These Mercurial Medicines rightly prepared and outwardly applied are so far from hindring Nature's motion that they rather precipitate the verminous putrid salt and briny humours which is the reason why of Mercury Sublimate and live Mercury there comes Mercurius dulcis because it has a virtue of changing the temper of precipitating and also edulcorating corrosive Salts And if any Symptomes arise at any time they do not so much proceed from the Mercury as from the mass of ill Humours and Remedies applied amiss Therefore Th. Bartholinus his Countrey Fellow cured all them with his Girdle that had got their Bodies clear by the frequent use of Medicines but he could not save the Cacochymick from death This Rustick tempered Mercury with distilled Oyl of Juniper and made it into a Mass he spread it on a Girdle and commended it for all Malignant affections Cancers malignant Ulcers and Pains in the Limbs In some places it is a Custome to mix Arcanum Corallinum with Oyntment of Roses in the Pox and they account the same an Arcanum in a contumacious Itch. XII A filthy Itch troubled a young Man with felons frequently breaking out of which Ails he could not be cured by Bleeding and several Purges for Six Months time At length I gave him 1 scruple of Mercurius dulcis with half a scruple of Diagridium Riverius Cent. 1. Obs 62. which purged him very well and within a few dayes he was clear XIII A Reverend Father had contracted a filthy Itch all over his Body for 5 or 6 years for which he had tried infinite Medicines to no purpose I in so contumacious a Disease used only the Flesh of Vipers sometimes he eat them boyled in water with a little Salt and drank the Broth after them sometimes he had them baked and turned to a Powder which Powder he used with his Meat together with Sugar Cinnamon or other things In the whole Summer he eat above 160 Vipers Whereby his Skin was renewed and he became wholly as it were another Man And he that once appeared a very old Man became as it were young again that is stronger then usual and fitter to do any business P. Poterius Cent. 3. Obs 81. The use of Vipers is scarce ever beneficial under a long time XIV There is a sort of Itch which Fallopius calls Volatick because it seems to fly all over the Skin It has been certainly observed that one has over-run the whole Body in one Night It is usually accounted by Physicians for an Efflorescence of the Blood How truly the Cure does show which they are so far from Curing that on the contrary the Evil has grown stronger and stronger to death refusing all Medicines In this case necessary purges and sweats being premised there is a desired Secret in the Blood which comes just after delivery from the Womb together with the after-burthen where all or only some part of it if namely the place affected be washed therewith This Remedy is of so great efficacy that it is seldom necessary to repeat it and presently the volatick Itch falls off dead I have with this cured infinite People J. Hartmannus who have been infected with a dangerous Itch. Unctions are here not at all convenient Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. This is very proper which I experienced in a young man Aetius who had a great inveterate Itch and very rough about his Legs which reached from his Knees to the tip of his Toes Take Linseed beat it with water lay it on thick and use it constantly 2. An excellent Oyntment of Salt of Saturn against the Itch J. Agricola Take of Sal Saturni 1 ounce Mastich half an ounce Allum 1 drachm Oyl Olive what is sufficient Mix them make an Unguent It quickly heals and dries up the Itch. 3. The Itch is easily and pleasantly cured with this Take of Oyl of Ben 3 drachms Spirit of Salt half a drachm Petr. Borellus Musk 2 grains Wax what is sufficient Make an Unguent 4. A wonderful Oyntment for the Itch Take of Turpentine washed in Rose water 3 ounces Oyl of Roses 6 drachms the juice of 3 Oranges the Yolks of 3 Eggs. Make an Unguent Tobias Dorncrelliuâ— it has been experienced in an old and dry Itch It may also be allowed to be admirable because it expells the Itch by Urine and makes a Man piss black Urine every Morning 5. Take of live Sulphur 2 ounces Gum Juniper which Booksellers use root of white Hellebore powdered each 2 drachms juice of Spurge Oyl of Linseed each 1 ounce Beat what should be beaten very fine boyl them over the fire into the form of an Unguent and strain them out cast away the dregs and keep the rest for use After Bathing anoint the Hams the inside of the bending of the Arm Rodera Fonseca the Palms of the Hands and Wrists under the Arm-pits and Soles of the Feet rubbing those places with store of Oyntment and then go into a warm Bed for an hour or two and let him be anoynted 3 times every other day I have experienced this Itch in the worst old Itch that could be 6. This is an excellent Remedy for the Itch Take Salt of Tartar purified with Spirit of wine and dissolved in a Cellar Franc. Oâ—â— wald Grembs joyn it with Sal Ammoniac and it cures the Itch. If it be mixt with the Tartar till it grow red it will become more effectual to cure the Itch. 7. Take of green Elecampane half a pound Hogs-lard 5 ounces Beat them together Boyl them on a gentle fire Make an Unguent Amat Lusiaan with which the Pustules may be anointed This Unguent is of admirable vertue so that it operates like an Inchantment 8. When a certain Matron laboured of a contumacious Itch which she had contracted by Contagion I ordered her to take the small twiggs of Birch in defect of the leaves and cut them into short pieces but to hew the greater boughs into chips and to boyl Bark and all in such a quantity of water as that she might sit in a Tub full of it up to her Neck wherein I mixt 2 parts of crude Tartar and one part of Nitre Simon Pâ—â— with which by God's blessing after her Body had been first well prepared she was wholly delivered from
of a spoonful or a spoonful and an half Take of Salt of Tartar 1 ounce small spirit of Wine 1 pound and an half Let them be digested till it grow yellow Then when it is poured off the dreggs infuse therein of leaves of black Hellebore steeped in Vinegar 1 ounce yellow Sanders 1 drachm the yellow rind of Oranges 1 drachm and an half Make a hot and close digestion for 3 dayes Let the clear colature be distilled in Balneo to half and let the remaining Liquor be kept for use Or Take of the root of sharp pointed Dock Polypody of the Oak Nettle Chervil each 6 drachms leaves of Eupatory Speedwell each 1 handful Sanders white and yellow each 1 drachm and an half Carthamus 1 ounce Tartar of white Wine half an ounce boyl them in 2 pounds and an half of Spring-water to half Add of Rhenish wine 1 pound and let it be presently strained To which put of the best Senna half an ounce Rheubarb 6 drachms leaves of black Hellebore half an ounce the yellow of Oranges two drachms Make a close and warm infusion for 12 hours Let the Colature be kept in a Glass stopt The Dose from 5 drachms to 6. Within 4 or 5 dayes they may be repeated as occasion shall require Too often and violent purging destroys the strength spoils the Bowels and in the mean time removes not the Disease After once or twice purging if bleeding be indicated let it be done in the Arm or in the Haemorrhoid Veins by Leeches It is not much matter which Vein is opened for the opening of the Salvatella is not of such moment as is commonly believed All the tedious controversies among Authors about bleeding the Jecorary or Cephalick or any other which should be best are at an end since the Circulation of the Blood is known Phlebotomy is indicated by the plenty and badness of Blood which it is better to take away in small quantities at several times than to take a great deal at once For when the Sanguineous Liquor becomes very impure it is more certainly amended by no sort of Remedy than by letting of it often and in a small quantity because as often as the old corrupt Blood is taken away new which is better and more pure succeeds In the interim care must be had that it be not taken away in too great a quantity at once for when its store is hastily diminished sanguification fails so that a Dropsie or Cachexy follows Therefore since the greatest pains in Physick should be bestowed upon eradicating the cause of the Scurvy especially and upon its own account for this end moreover Digestives and Specifick Remedies or Antiscorbuticks as we intimated but now must be used at all times except the purging dayes to which if there be need Diaphoreticks or Diureticks may be added There are in Authors many sorts of Receipts of Medicines that perform these Intentions I have a mind here to recite some of the choicest which I have thought good to distinguish into two Classes according to the twofold nature of the Scorbutick cause namely the Sulphureo-Saline and the Salino Sulphureous Dyscrasie and first of all I shall treat of those that are proper for the latter sort of Distemper that is where need is of Medicines endued with a certain incitation and very full of volatil Salt Digestive Remedies which restore the ferment of the Stomach and help the functions of it and other parts serving for chylification and Antiscorbuticks or Specificks which remove the Dyscrasie of the Blood are either joyned in the same composition or at least are taken successively on the same day Among Digestive Medicines there are justly reckoned Cream of Tartar salt and tincture of Crystal Tartarus Vitriolatus Chalybeatus Elixir proprietatis Mixtura simplex The use of any of these twice aday does much good Moreover you may easily mix magisterial Tinctures and Elixirs of divers sorts both digestive and appropriate to the Scurvy with the two following Menstrua Take of rectified Spirit of Vitriol 6 ounces alkalisate Spirit of Wine 16 ounces Mix them and distill them in a Glass retort with 3 Cohobations Keep it for use in a Glass well stopped Elixir proprietatis is better made and more easily with the said Menstruum than the common way Take of Winter Bark Lignum Aloes lesser Galangal root each 2 drachms Cinnamon Cloves Cubebs each 1 drachm Seed of Bishopsweed Cresses each half a drachm When they are bruised pour on them the foresaid Menstruum till it stand 3 Inches above Digest them in a body in a sand Furnace 6 dayes Keep the Colature in a Glass well stopt The Dose is 20 drops in Canary or some proper Liquor twice a day Take of the whitest Amber Gum Ivie Carannae Tacamahacae each 1 drachm Saffron half a drachm Cloves Nutmeg each 2 scruples When they are bruised pour on them the foresaid Menstruum and draw the Tincture according to art The Dose is 20 drops as before Take of blew Salt of Tartar 4 ounces digest it in a body with 1 pound of Alkalisate Spirit of Wine to the extraction of the Tincture This may be another Menstruum with which you may make Elixirs out of Gums Spices c. in the same manner as you did with the former Menstruum While these sort of Medicines are given Evening and Morning another sort of Medicines that are Antiscorbutick must be given at medical hours that is at eight before noon and four after which for the most part we give in a solid and liquid form together taking the solid first and drinking the liquid upon it There are several forms and compositions of both sorts ELECTVARIES Take of conserve of Scurvy-grass Roman Wormwood Fumitory each 2 ounces powder of Winter's Bark root of Angelica Wake Robin each 2 drachms Species diatriωn Santalωn 1 drachm and an half powder of Crabs Eyes 1 drachm salt of Wormwood 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Citron rind make an Electuary Take of the Conserve of Scurvy-grass leaves Brooklime made with an equal quantity of Sugar each 3 ounces Troches of Capers of Rhubarb each 2 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Juice of Scurvy grass make an Electuary I usually prescribe Conserves of the outer Peels of Lemons and Oranges of the purple flowers of the Ash-Tree of the flowers and leaves of Lady-smock of the root of sharp pointed Dock and English Rhubarb made with an equal quantity of Sugar which being mixt either among themselves or with other Conserves and Powders may go to the making up of such Electuaries as these Take of the Conserve of the yellow of Oranges of Lemons of flowers of Ash each 2 ounces root of Contrayerva 1 drachm and an half lesser Galangal half a drachm root of Aron 2 drachms Species Aromat Rosat 1 drachm salt of Wormwood 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Nutmegs make an Electuary The Dose of these
Medicines is about the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it For Country people and the poorer sort who desire Medicines easie to be had and cheap I prescribe in this manner Take of leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime each 4 ounces the whitest Sugar 8 ounces Pound them together in a Mortar adding of powder of Winter's bark half an ounce Tartar calcined with Nitre three drachms With a sufficient quantity of Canary make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut every day twice drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it Take of Leaves of Scurvy-grass 1 pound stoned Raisins the whitest Sugar each half a pound faecula of Horse-rhadish root 2 drachms Pound them together in a Mortar and reduce them into the form of an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut twice or thrice a day CONFECTIONS Take of Pulvis Ari Compositus 1 ounce powder of Winter's bark half an ounce Species diatriωn santalωn trochiscs of Capers each 2 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm and an half candied Orange Peel 3 ounces Pound them together in a Mortar Then add of the whitest Sugar dissolved in a sufficient quantity of aqua lumbricorum 3 ounces Make a Confection according to Art Take of candied Eringo and Scorzonera root each 2 drachms preserved Walnuts Myrobalans each No. 2. Electuary of Sassaphras 6 drachms powder of Cubebs Cardamum each 2 drachms powder of root of Zedoary Angelica each 1 drachm and an half Salt of Wormwood 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Walnuts make a Confection Take of the powder of root of China wood of Sassaphras each half an ounce yellow and white Sanders each 2 drachms seed of Rocket Cubebs Cresses Granes of Paradise each 1 drachm and an half Species Dialaccae powder of Cinnamon Orrice lesser Galangale each 1 drachm salt of Wormwood 2 drachms Conserve of the yellow of Orange and Saccharum anthosatum dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Snail-water 3 drachms Make a Confection according to Art The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it In some cases of the Scurvy where the use of steel is indicated either 3 drachms of Steel prepared with Sulphur or 2 drachms of Vitriol of Mars may be added to any of these prescriptions either Confection or Electuary and after taking the Medicine once or twice a day the Body may be exercised according to its strength POWDERS Take of Pulvis Ari Compositus 1 ounce and an half Winter's Bark half an ounce Cubebs Granes of Paradise Cardamome each 2 drachms Salt of Wormwood 3 drachms Lozenges of Oranges 3 ounces Make a powder according to Art The Dose 1 drachm in an appropriate Liquor To the foresaid powder add of the Kernel of the Indian Nut Cacao half a pound Reduce it into a Mass or Paste in a hot Mortar The Dose is about two drachms as you take Chocolate that is boyled in Spring water wherein Rosemary leaves or Scorzonera root or shavings of Ivory or Hartshorn have been boyled PILLS They that like Medicines in a small Dose and in the form of a Pill Take of root of Virginian Snakeweed Contrayerva each 2 drachms Winter's Bark Cubebs Rocket seed each 3 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm and an half extract or Rob of Juniper half an ounce With as much Syrup of Nutmeg as is sufficient make it into Pills The Dose is 4 Pills twice a day with some appropriate Liquor LOZENGES For the more delicate Lozenges or Sweet meats may be prescribed in this manner Take of powder of Winter's Bark Crabs Eyes each 1 drachm and an half powder of Pearl half a drachm whitest Sugar dissolved in a sufficient quantity of aqua lumbricorum and boyled up for Lozenges 6 ounces Spirit of Scurvy-grass 2 drachms Make Lozenges according to Art each of which must weigh half a drachm Let him take about 1 drachm drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it Oraâ—ge Lozenges sold by the Apothecaries in OXFORD Take of Peel of Oranges Lemons Citrons candied each 1 ounce Eringo root candied half an ounce Pine and Pistachio Nuts each No. 20. Sweet Almonds blanched No. 10. Powder of Anniseed half an ounce candied Ginger 2 ounces Species Aromat Rosat Nutmeg each 1 drachm and an half Root of Galangale 1 drachm Cloves No. 10. Ambergrease 4 grains Musk Civet each 2 grains the whitest Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boyled up for Lozenges 1 pound and an half Make Lozenges according to Art Thus much for Medicines that use to be given to Scorbutick Persons in a solid form or a thick substance And that they may do the more good and be carried more easily into the Mass of Blood liquid Medicines for the most part are prescribed to be drunk upon them the most usual forms whereof follow 1. Decoctions Although Decoctions be the most familiar sort of Medicine yet they are rarely used in the Scurvy because Simples which are especially proper for this Disease as Scurvy-grass Brooklime c. lose their virtue which they receive from their volatil Salt by boyling Nevertheless because Medicines are easily and quickly prepared this way they may sometime be admitted And besides experience testifies that some of them have been effectual This easie Medicine is commended by several Authors for Country People and the poor Take of leaves of Water Cresses 3 handfuls the lesser Sorrel 2 handfuls Let them be shred and steeped in 6 pounds of Milk and boyled to the consumption of a third Part. Let 6 or 8 ounces be taken twice a day The Decoction of Wormwood is commended by Eugalenus and others I have often tried the following Remedy with good success Take of tops of Broom 3 handfuls let them be cut small and boyled in three pounds of strong Beer to half Let 2 or 3 ounces be given twice a day 2. Infusions An Infusion added to the Decoction makes a most excellent Medicine Take of root of Scorzonera Chervil each 1 ounce leaves of Agrimony Ground-pine each half an handful burnt Harts-horn 2 drachms Raisins half an handful boyl them in 3 pounds of Spring-water to the consumption of a third part Add of Rhenish Wine half a pound and presently strain it into a Glass Vessel to which put leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime bruised each half a handful Orange peel candied and cut small half an ounce Make a close and warm Infusion for 6 hours Let the Colature be kept in Bottles stopt The Dose is 6 ounces twice a day after a solid Medicine Take of Whey made with white Wine or Sider 1 pound and an half let there be boyled in it of Burdock root Eringo root candied each 6 drachms preserved Juniper berries half an ounce Let the Liquor be boyled to the consumption of a third part and strained into a Flagon in which put leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime each 1 handful Make a hot and close Infusion for 6 hours The Dose is half a pound twice
Nettle each 2 ounces Brooklime 2 ounces bruise them in a Mortar with 10 ounces of the whitest Sugar then add of Scales of Iron very finely powdered 1 ounce powder of white and red Sanders each 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of juice of Nettle make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day Take of the destilled water or Decoction of some temperate Anti-scorbutick two pounds of our preparation of Steel 2 drachms Mix them in a glass The Dose is 3 or 4 ounces Take of Nettle tops Leaves of Brooklime each 4 handfuls When they are bruised strain out the juice keep it in a Glass The Dose is 2 or 3 ounces twice a day with some distilled Antiscorbutick water Of faults in the Mouth arising from the Scurvy Whenever the Scorbutick Infection has seized the Mouth so as the Gums swell and the flesh of them become fungous immediately Remedies which drive away putrefaction from them must be diligently used Among these Washes for the Mouth and Liniments are of especial use both when the Disease begins about these Parts and when it grows worse which nevertheless as they respect divers intentions so they use to be diversly prepared to wit the flesh of the Gums when it first swells must be freed from the Incursions of a Salt and corrupt Blood and Serum afterwards the Flesh grown flaccid and shrunk from the Teeth must be defended from putrefaction and that it may stick closer to the Teeth there must be astriction for these and other intentions Gargarisms or Mouth-washes of divers sorts may be used Of all which the chief ingredients are Vegetables boyled and Minerals infused The Herbs and Roots that are boyled in some proper Liquor either Water or Wine are for the most part either sharp or bitter or styptick and then such Decoctions are impregnated either with a Volatil Lixivial Vitriolate Chalybeate or Aluminous Salt 1. When therefore the Flesh of the Gums by reason of a defluxion of Salt and corrupt Blood and Serum first begins to swell and grow fungous Take of the middle rind of Elder Elm each half an handful Leaves of Savory Sage Rocket Cresses each 1 handful Roots of Pellitory of Spain 2 drachms being shred and bruised boyl them in 3 pounds of Lime-water to the consumption of a third part If edulcoration be required add of Honey of Roses 2 ounces Make a Gargarism Or take of tried Vitriol 1 ounce our Country People call it Captain Green's powder Spring-water 2 pounds mix them in a Glass shake it and when the Liquor is settled and clear use it Or Make a Ly of ashes of Broom or Rosemary or of calcined Tartar or Nitre in 3 pounds of this boyl of the Leaves of Savory Time Rosemary Sage each 1 handful Let the colature be poured upon 2 handfuls of Scurvy-grass Leaves Make a hot and close Infusion for 3 hours strain it again and keep it to wash the Mouth often in a day For the same intention also Liniments at times and especially at Night may be applied that their virtue may be communicated to the Patients even while they sleep There is exstant a Famous prescription frequent among Authors and approved by long experience Take of Leaves of Columbine crisp Mint Sage Nutmeg Myrrh which yet sometimes is omitted each 2 drachms burnt Allum half an ounce Virgin Honey 4 ounces or what is sufficient make a Liniment according to Art 2. If at any time the flaccid Flesh of the Gums part from the roots of the Teeth a gentle scarification is often used moreover let the Mouth be washed with this Decoction Take of tops of Bramble Cypress Leaves of Sanicle Ladies smock each 1 handful boyl them in water wherein Iron has been quenched 3 pounds to the consumption of a third add to the colature of Honey of Roses 2 ounces Mix them Such a Liniment as this may be applied Take of the powder of Florentine Orrice Leaves of Sage St. John's-wort each 2 drachms bole Armonick Sal prunellae each 1 drachms Virgin Honey hot what is sufficient incorporate them well by stirring 3. When the Gums are putrid and corrupt and the Teeth are rotten and loose and send out a nasty stink stronger Medicines and such as exceedingly resist putrefaction may be used an Infusion of Camphorate vitriol or lapis Medicamentosus are especially proper in this Case Or Take of root of Gentian round Birthwort cut each half an ounce Leaves of lesser Centaury Sea Wormwood Savory Columbine each 1 handful boyl them in some lime or lixivial water and sometimes wherein Iron has been quenched or Allum dissolved 3 pounds to the consumption of a third part To the Colature add 2 or 3 ounces of crude Honey Mix them 4. If the falling of the Teeth be chiefly feared Take of the bark of the root of the wild Sloe-Tree 1 ounce Tormentil and of Bistort whole each an handful Pomegranate rind and flowers each half an ounce boyl them in 3 pounds of Spring water the best Honey 2 ounces Mix them Take of Camphorate Vitriol burnt Harts-horn each 1 drachm Nutmeg half a drachm the best Honey what is sufficient Make a Liniment Or Take of the Powder of root of Bistort Pomegranate rind Bole-Armonick burnt Allum each 1 drachm Honey of Roses what is sufficient add of Spirit of Vitriol 1 scruple Make an oyntment 5. If at any time as is sometimes usual putrid and deep Ulcers seize the Gums or other Parts of the Mouth the foresaid stronger Medicines must be often used Moreover a rag dipt in Vnguentum Aegyptiacum dissolved in Spirit of Wine or in an Infusion of lapis medicamentosus or Sublimate may sometimes be applied In these cases the Cure must be left to a skilful Surgeon Of Pains that usually infest the Legs and other Limbs sometimes at Night especially Against these Pains because sometimes they are very bitter beside the general method of curing the Scurvy specifick Remedies and such as oppose this Symptom are indicated therefore in such a case when a man has been well purged and bled if need be it is convenient to set upon the Disease both by Medicines inwardly and applications outwardly As to the former things that move Sweat and Urine often give relief inasmuch as they carry another way the lixivial and acid recrements of the Blood and Nervous juice which used to meet in the part affected especially if such things be used as vindicate both these Humors from that bad disposition as well saline as acid Testaceous powders of Crabs Eyes mandible of a Pike also Spirit and Flowers of Sal Ammoniack Spirit of Blood Tincture of Antimony Coral Decoctions of root and seed of Burdock Groundpine Germander are very good Which sort of Remedies may be taken with distilled Antiscorbutick waters twice or thrice a day Distilled water of Horse-dung adding Scurvy-grass Brooklime Iva arthritica and the like does sometimes a great deal of good In the mean time Fomentations Liniments Cataplasms or
Corals make an Electuary Take of Species diamargarit frigid diarrhodon Abbatis each 1 drachm and an half powder of Pearl 1 drachm whitest Sugar dissolved in Treacle water and boyled to the consistency of Lozenges 4 ounces oyl of Cinnamon 6 drops Make Lozenges according to Art As for Opiates and Anodyne Medicines in some ails of Scorbutick Persons I had rather be deprived of any sort of Medicine beside than of the use of them for I have not found a more excellent Remedy not only for pain and pertinacious watching but in Asthmatick Paroxysms Vomitings Looseness and also in the Vertigo and Convulsive passions whenever nature is beyond measure irritated than to procure Sleep by giving a safe narcotick In the mean time great care must be taken not to give them if any thing in the constitution of the Patient or in the condition of the Disease or time forbid the giving of such a Medicine Beside the usual Hypnoticks in Dispensatories to wit Laudanum opiatum Nepenthe Philonium Diacodium and Syrup of red Poppy I know moreover two preparations of Opium which I use to give in form of a Tincture or liquid Extract from 10 to 20 drops in some appropriate Liquor The diet or course of Life to be observed by Scorbutick Persons is of very great moment in the method of Cure which if neglected or managed amiss other prescriptions of Physick conduce little or nothing to health A diaetetick regiment extends to divers things but it is especially concerned about Air and the site of ones Habitation meat and drink and motion and rest of the Body As to the first such Mansions and Places of Habitation as in respect of the Air or Soil breed the Scurvy must be avoided they that desire either to cure or prevent this Disease must make it their business to chuse an Air moderately hot and dry which also must be thin and pure and sufficiently eventilated Meats of good juice and of easie Concoction are proper the gross and viscid mouldy and rusty also unfermented food or much compounded pulse Milk meats unripe fruits must be avoided I am so far against all things preserved in Sugar and that have much Sugar in them that I think the invention of it and its immoderate use has contributed very much to the vast increase of the Scurvy in this last age For this Concrete consists of a very sharp and corrosive Salt yet allayed with Sulphur as appears plainly from the spagyrical Analysis of it For Sugar distilled by it self yields a Liquor scarce Inferior to Aqua stygia And if you distil it in a Copper Still mixt with a great quantity of fair water although the fixt Salt ascend not so much yet a very hot and pungent Liquor will come over like the strongest Aqua vitae Since therefore we eat such a quantity of Sugar mixt with almost all our Victuals it is very likely that by the daily use of it the Blood and Humours are made Salt and sharp and therefore Scorbutick A certain Famous Author has ascribed the cause of the Consumption in England to the immodarate use of Sugar among us I know not but that the cause of the frequent Scurvy may rather be derived from hence Let the drink be midling Beer mild and well clarified and besides altered with Antiscorbutick Ingredients without an ingrateful tast it must not be thick and sweet nor over stale and sower This may be drunk in a moderate quantity and almost only at set times of Dinner and Supper The custome which has prevailed among many that when they get out of their Bed they immediately take a large Mornings draught as they commonly call it which is very pernicious For by this means seeing the Sanguiferous Vessels are over filled with a stock of fresh Chyle poured in almost at once and Crudities and Morbifick faeculencies are bred in the Blood and the Sanguifick faculty is much weakned truly it were better for most Men unless they whose Stomach while it is empty uses to be troublesomely Contracted and Corrugated to fast till Dinner Nor is the common custome of Mens swilling their full Cups immediately after meals less pernicious Wine and Syder so they be mild sincere and not adulterated taken in a moderate quantity do no harm but if they be adulterated roapy harsh or eagre nothing is more hurtful and injurious to our health Exercise and Labor are of such excellent benefit as well for the cure as prevention of the Scurvy that many either preserve or recover their health by this Remedy alone For the Blood and Nervous juice of such as are idle and lead a sedentary life like standing waters contract slime and filth But by the constant and much exercise of the Body the Humours and Spirits grow clear and vigorous the excrementitious and heterogeneous particles evaporate the obstructions of the inwards are opened and their tone is strengthened Willis Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. When I could get no constant ease at last I took some Cream Chamomil flowers Water Cresses and Juniper Berries boyled in Milk and applied the Cataplasm hot and by Gods blessing I think I have found a Panacaeon for all Scorbutick pains ¶ Take of Elder flowers 2 handfuls boyl them in Wine add 2 drachms of Soap and make a sufficient quantity of Ly Balth. Brunnerus a cloth dipt in which and applied mitigated the pain powerfully 2. For a painful Scurvy All things premised that should be premised let a Decoction of Worms be taken to cause a Sweat afterwards let the joynts be rubbed with this Spirit Take of Flowers of Lilly Conval 2 handfuls Rosemary 1 handful Castor Seeds of Scurvy-grass each 6 drachms Rocket half an ouâ—ce infuse them in the best rectified Spirit of Wine 8 ounces set them in the Sun for 3 dayes strain them out well add of Spirit of Worms 2 ounces and an half Joh. Drawitzius Camphire 1 drachm and an half Mix them with these things I have successfully Cured Scorbutick Gouts 3. Our Syrup for the Scurvy is made of juice of Brooklime and Scurvy-grass with Sugar I have not found a better Medicine for the Scurvy ¶ For the pain of Scorbutick joynts I applied a bag full of rosted Salt rosted Millet Bran and Chamomil Flowers Forestus and when the Bag was applied the pain ceased as if it had been charmed 4. The Essence of wild Pine Take of the tender Branches of wild Pine or Fir a sufficient quantity boyl them in a sufficient quantity of common water for an hour or two Digest and thicken the Colature to the consistence of an Extract pour to it Spirit of Scurvy-grass or of some other Antiscorbutick Herb afterwards digest and filtre it and you will have an Essence The Dose whereof is from 20 to 30 grains in a due Vehicle Grulingius It is highly commended in the Scurvy and Contracture 5. Wall Rue has an excellent efficacy in Curing the Scurvy with which
all the Soldiers having the Scurvy who were besieged in a certain Castle were cured ¶ An Infusion of Brooklime and Scurvy-grass in Whey of Goat's Milk is a vulgar Medicine but does truly a great deal of good in the Scurvy ¶ Goose dung is also commended in this case Hofmannus from the juice of which Soldiers troubled with the Scurvy in a Siege found great relief 6. This is a Secret Take of the middle yellow rind of the root of Sloe-Tree 4 handfuls Pepper powdered 2 spoonfuls boyl them with Beer and Water with this Decoction hot wash the Mouth repeating it several times then Take of the juice of Water-Cresses pour to it some Wine mix them and keep them Jobus Kornthaverus wash and rub the Mouth and Gums often with this ¶ Take the juice of Squills rub the Teeth and Gums so the Scurvy is cured 7. Among Diureticks which are used for the Scurvy Penotus his opening Spirit bears the Bell from all others I make it thus Take the Spirit of Goslarian Vitriol 3 pounds and an half Salt of Tartar 2 pounds and an half calcined Flints 6 pounds put them in an Earthen Retort and destil them increasing the Fire by degrees let the caput mortuum be boyled and the Spirit be impregnated with the Salt when it is boyled out of which and Potters clay make balls which being put again into a Retort let them be destilled and the destilled Spirit be rectified and kept for use ¶ Cnoffelius thus prepared his Narcotick Arcanum Take of Vitriol finely pulverized and dried in a certain heat to whiteness half a pound pour to it 30 ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine set it in Horse-dung for a Month when it is poured from the Dregs distil it in Balneo Mariae till the residence of a yellow Liquor like the distilled Oyl keep this when it is cast forth This is far better and safer as the Author affirms then Laudanum Opiatum The Dose is 12 grains in some convenient Liquor 8. The common People in Holland commend a well known and easie Medicine made of the Leaves of Marsh Trefoil for most Scorbutick Persons especially such as are inclined to the Dropsie with very good success I gave to a certain Scorbutick Person who had a Palsie Consumption and Spots Simon Pauli an infusion of marsh Trefoil by the use of which alone he was perfectly well in 14 days I have done the same in others See before § XII XIII XIV Willis his Cure of the Scurvy Scroti Gangraena or a Gangraene of the Cod. A Man about 40 years old being drunk with Wine fell suddenly into a swelling of his Cod with an acute Fever and a sudden failure of Strength he got a Surgeon to cure it who when he observed the blackness of that Part and the exulceration of the whole Penis yea and danger because there was a manifest Gangraene being doubtful of the Cure desired the advice of a Physician When I was called having first given him a Clyster because he had not been at Stool for 2 dayes I prescribed him a Cataplasm of Scordium Rue Meal of Lupines and of Bitter Vetch with Oxymel Wine c. I gave him Diasenna Fracastorii and now and then Treacle-Water because I observed some Malignity communicated to the Heart for without it he could scarce breathe The next day when we took off the Cataplasm we found the outer Cuticle separated and the third day the Scrotum open of it self and about night ten pounds of Water run out The fourth day his Stones were all bare for the Scrotum was fallen away from the pecten to the perinaeum Here we advised what should be done and by drying and incarnating Remedies we prevailed so far in 14 dayes time that we had not only guarded the Stones Petrus Holtzemius with a Scrotum but Nature also had clothed the Scrotum with new hair the whole glans came again to the penis all the Ulcers of the penis were healed and he was able afterwards to act the part of a Man One forty years old a strong Man and of very good habit of Body when in Summer-time he had heated himself excessively and had drunk a great draught of cold Water was within a few dayes taken with a continual Feaver of which he was rather cured by the benefit of Nature than by Art in the mean time the intemperature and fault of his Liver remained wherefore a little after he fell into a Cachexy for he was first taken with a Jaundice then with a Dropsy Dr. Cronenburgius used all things necessary at last a serous Humor falling into the Scrotum they called Dr. Slotanus to consult Both of them use their utmost Industry in the mean time the swelling of the Cod ceases not but by degrees the Native heat being extinct it turns to a Gangraene in the Part. They scarify the Scrotum all over with a Lancet and wash it with Salt and Treacle dissolved in Vinegar not neglecting Vnguentum Aegyptiacum and a Cataplasm of meal of Lupines of Darnel Aloes Myrrhe Scordium and other things that resist putrefaction They prescribe a very good course of Diet Strengthners and Openers of obstructions inwardly and outwardly In the mean time when the Water ran plentifully out of the Scrotum the Patient grew better At length the gangrened Scrotum part of it fell away by the benefit of Nature and Medicines part also which was gangrened was cut off with a Razor so that the Stones might be seen bare the Ulcer remained open for some Months Fabritius Hildanus Cent. 5. Obs 77. In the mean time Nature by this way evacuated whatever excrementitious Humors were in the Bowels so that the Noble Parts were perfectly restored and the Patient fully cured of his Disease Singultus or the Hickup The Contents The Cure must be varied according to the variety of Causes I. A Periodical one which would only give way to Bleeding II. A Tedious one stopt III. The Efficacy of Opiates IV. To what Place outward Applications must be made V. Antimonial Vomits are best in this Case VI. Vomits repeated do good VII Medicines I. B. Sylvaticus gave to one that had had the Hickup grievously for seven dayes Hiera with Oxymel Rhodius when he had voided above 12 ounces of Phlegm he was perfectly well ¶ Several who have been almost killed with the Hickup after purging for 5 dayes with hiera piera Daretus have put an end to the Hickup ¶ One who had had the Hickup 20 dayes and was in great danger of Death was at length saved by an infusion of Mechoacan Epiph. Ferdinandus ¶ A Boy ten years old Hickuped day and night for 8 dayes I gave him water of Green-Nuts destilled with Radish first steeped in Vinegar Although he did not Vomit yet his Hickup ceased after the second Draught about night he was wholly freed of it Platerus ¶ A Surgeon falling Sick was in a little time so troubled with
Hickuping at turns day and night that he could neither Eat Speak nor Sleep as he ought When he had taken a strong Chymical Vomit he at several times voided a vast quantity of aeruginous and black Choler and his Hickup wholly ceased ¶ A Colonel Idem when he was exceeding Hot quenched his Thirst with cold water mixt with Nitre a good quantity at once upon which he fell into a violent Hickup The Water was thrown off by a Vomit Stomach-Water was given him a Cataplasm of Stomachicks was applied to his Stomach at length when some c onfectio anacardina and lignum Aloes was given him he left Hickuping the third day Timaeus ¶ A Girl thirteen years of Age had been afflicted a whole year with a very troublesome Hickup the Symptome had troubled her the whole foregoing Winter she was free of it in the Summer Riverius about Autumn it came again with its former Cruelty I gave her of Calomolanos 16 grains of Diagridium 8 grains that day her Disease was taken away ¶ A Man of 40 years old was taken with an Hickup which was attended with strange Symptomes In the Dog-dayes he had so swilled himself with cold water that through the immoderate Cold he fell into the Convulsion of the Stomach After I had tried all manner of Remedies I thought a hot Bath might correct this intemperature From which being made of Bay Wild-Time c. he received such benefit that within 5 dayes he was well Idem In the mean time a Bag was applied to the region of his Stomach in which the foresaid Herbs were put ¶ N. being sick of a Malignant Feaver was tormented with a grievous Hickup having tried several things I prescribe 2 grains of Laudanum with an Emulsion of the 4 Seeds Idem wherein a drachm of Sal prunellae was dissolved Within an hour the Hickup ceased and returned no more ¶ I cured one that was ill of a grievous Hickup with one Draught of Seed of Dill Carroway Purslain Forestus and white Poppy boyled in Small Beer ¶ Erysimachus the Physician cured Aristophanes of the Hickup by Sneezing Plato when he could not be cured by holding his Breath ¶ Rainutius Farnesius being almost killed with a deadly Hickup was cured by applying a Weather new opened to his Stomach Severinus ¶ A young Man having wrenched the eleventh vertebra of his back which is over against the upper Orifice of the Stomach was grievously afflicted with a perpetual Vomiting and there was no place for Remedies Rhodius ¶ The Sympathick Hickup which arises from Sympathy with a Rupture incarcerated and is often attended with black Vomiting follows the Patients till Death and is not curable but by restoring the Rupture Rolfincius The same judgment may be given of an Hickup coming upon an Inflammation of the Liver ¶ One that had been vext 3 whole Months with the Hickup could not be cured with any Remedies till the extremity of his Rib which was found turned in and run into the Stomach without any sense or pain Fernelius was gently raised ¶ One that had the Hickup from Windiness recovered by this following Remedy Take of Philonium 1 scruple diagalanga 2 scruples give it in Wine This did another good Take of the best Treacle 1 drachm powder of Dittany half a drachm Forestus give it with a little Wine ¶ A Hickup in Feavers sometimes follows the intemperate use of cooling Juleps as I have observed several so held through the unadvised Rashness of their Physitians Jodocus Lommius and I removed this Symptome contrary to the Opinion of them all by drinking Wine II. A Maid healthy in all other respects was commonly once a year for the most part at one set time afflicted with a Pertinacious Hickup that despised all Medicines At length a Remedy was found bleeding freely in the Arm. It may be because some Flatulent thing joyned with something sharp which disturbed the Blood-vessels of the Diaphragm and by consent the Nerves also might find a Passage by opening a Vein so near Bartholinus III. I have several times cured even the most Contumacious Hickup with this Mixture Take of Quince Wine Simon Schult in M. C. an 1676. Obs 149. Tincture of Roses each 1 ounce Syrup of Quinces half an ounce Extract of Zeodary 15 grains distilled Oyl of Orange-Peel 4 grains Landanum Opiatum 4 grains Mix them The potion must be taken by spoonfuls IV. Opiates above all things conduce to the cure of any Hickup not only as they qualifie all sharp Humors but more over as they obtund the sense of the Stomach and it may be also make the Animal Spirits more torpid to Motion if so be they be used by turns in a small quantity and so long till the Hickup either cease or be notably diminished for example Take of Mint Water 2 ounces simple Treacle-water half an ounce Confectio Alkermes 1 drachm Laudanum Opiatum 2 grains Syrup of Mint 1 drachm Sylvius de le Boe. Prax. l. c. â—9 §. 10. Mix them Give a spoonful V. Galen 5. de loc affect c. 4. sayes that Patients sometimes perceive a weakness of the Gullet when what they take is a long time and with great difficulty in getting down the Gullet to the Stomach which sometimes at the first essay get down easily then again they are forced down as if they stuck like as when one has eaten sowre Pears which by their stypticity straiten the Gullet lying on the Back and hinder the going down Then if they be clapped on the vertebraes of the Back with ones Hand or between the Shoulders upon which the Gullet rests whatever sticks is forced down into the Stomach whereby at length the larynx is dilated and can take in the Air freely Therefore the Ancient Physitians were not amiss who when they were to cure the Hickup or any diseases of the Mouth of the Stomach or Gullet made not their outward Applications to the Epigastrium but applied them to the Back and vertebrae of the Neck which Aetius lib. 15. c. 147. very learnedly teaches If saith he the Hickup be continued we must use Sneezing and Cupping-glasses also over all the Spine and especially about the greater vertebrae of the Diaphragm that is the 12th and 13th vertebra of the Back and draw it to the Spine For the continnual application of Cupping-glasses often rectifies and opens the Mouth of the Stomach contracted and as it were obliquely twisted by the Hickup It is also very good to bind the extreme Parts and dip them in Water This Doctrine of Aetius Galen maintains by an agreeing suffrage 11. Meth. I call the Gullet in this place the Stomach saith he which the Greeks properly call the Stomach sometimes also they so call the Mouth of the Stomach as when they say A Man swoons stomachichally But we apply a Cataplasm for the Gullet which is properly called the Stomach to the Spine and
Mace and a crust of bread or in distilled water or Tincture of Pontick Wormwood Take of powder of Ivory Crabs-Eyes red Coral each 2 drachms Coral calcined 1 drachm red Sanders Cinnamon each half a drachm Make a powder The Dose half a drachm in the same manner Take of the Tincture of Salt of Tartar 1 ounce The Dose 1 scruple to half a drachm twice a day in some appropriate distilled water Idem XXVI In Vomiting from a sharp and hot matter Medicines endued with a sowre and vitriolick Salt are more convenient That famous one of Riverius is proper in this place Take of Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple give it in a spoonful of juice of Lemons Take of Coral prepared two drachms Salt of Wormwood one drachm and an half juice of Lemons four ounces Let them stand in a capacious Glass Add of strong Cinnamon water 2 ounces The Dose a spoonful or two twice a day first shaking the Glass Take of powder of Ivory Coral each 2 drachms Vitriol of Mars 1 drachm Sugar Candy 1 drachm Mix them Divide it into 6 or 8 parts let 1 be taken twice a day in some convenient Vehicle In this case mineral purging waters which have much Nitre in them Idem and Iron Waters use to do abundance of good XXVII If when the Stomach perverts most it takes into a bitter and bilious putrilage as it often does it be therefore incliâ—ed to frequent vomitings Medicines both Acid and Bitter are proper Take of Elixir proprietatis 1 ounce take 1 scruple twice a day in some convenient Vehicle Take of Rheubarb in powder xxv grains Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple Cinnamon water half an ounce juice of Lemons 1 ounce Mix them Take this either by it self or in some convenient Liquor Take of powder of Crabs-Eyes half an ounce Tartar Chalybâ—â—te 2 drachms Sugar Candy 1 drachm Make a powder Idem The Dose half a drachm with some convenient Liquor twice a day XXVIII The cause of a frequent and habitual Vomiting is oftentimes not so much any matter irritating the Stomach as a weakness of its Nervous fibres and it s too great propensity to irritation inasmuch namely as they being very tender and infirm can neither concoct what is taken nor bear the burthen or load of it but are presently irritated by any thing that lies upon them and therefore put the carnous Fibres into emetick Spasms that they may throw off what is troublesome In this Affection there are 2 cases to wit Either a weakness of the Stomach implanted in the very Fibres is contracted from some inordinate courses as Surfeiting dayly and immoderate drinking frequent drinking of Wine or hot Waters and other Errors in Diet inasmuch as these Fibres being distended beyond measure or too much heated or as it were rosted cannot admit or contain animal Spirits in a quantity sufficient Or Secondly these Fibres although of themselves they be well enough yet because of Nerves somewhere obstructed they are deprived of a due afflux of Spirits and thereupon being languid and flaccid they cannot bear what is taken but being oppressed they force it back by Vomit Thus I have known several who without any impurity of Stomach or languor contracted from disorder have been taken as it were with a Palsy in that part and lost their appetite and have been subject to frequent Vomiting In the first case such Remedies are indicated as may by their Stypticity make the too much distended and thin Fibres to corrugate and contract into a narrower room and such as may by their pleasantness draw spirits more plentifully thither and refresh what are languid Take of Conserve of red Roses vitriolate 4 ounces preserved Myrobalanes 6 drachms Ginger preserved in India half an ounce Species de Hyacintho 2 drachms the reddest Crocus Martis 1 drachm Syrup of Corals what is sufficient Make an Electuary The Dose 1 drachm twice a day drinking a draught of distilled water upon it In a weakness of the Stomach or resolution caused by some Nerves being somewhere obstructed Antiparalytick Remedies joyned with Stomachicks will be of great use Take of Elixir proprietatis Paracelsi 1 drachm The Dose 1 scruple twice a day in the following water Take of Cypress tops 6 handfuls leaves of Clary 4 handfuls the outer rind of 12 Oranges Cinnamon Mace each 1 ounce roots of Cyperus lesser Galangale each half an ounce When they are cut and bruised pour to them of Brunswick Mum 8 pounds distill them in common Vessels Tincture of Coral Tartar or Antimony may be used in the same manner In this case Spiritus Salis dulcis also Spirit of Sal Ammoniac or its flowers Willis ibid. give great help Moreover Vomits and Purges and Sweats are often given with benefit I have known this Disease several times happily cured by Bathing in the Bath at Bathe XXIX In Vomiting and the Disease Cholera Laudâ—num may be given with Syrup or Tincture of Roses or with sapa of Quinces and let a Cupping-Glass be immediately applied to the region of the Stomach Mâ—yerne traâ—t de Laudanâ— M. S. and make a Cataplasm of Leaven powder of Mint and Orange Peal with some juice of Mint Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Let this Plaster be applied for it does wonders Take of Mastich Cinnamon Lignum Aloes Zâ—doary Galangale Cloves Anniseeds Marathrum each 3 drachms Mix them Make a powder Mix the powder with Oyl of Mastich and Balm And then with leaves of Wormwood and Mint and baked Bread boyled in Wine make a Plaster â—ordonâ—â— and apply it warm 2. This following applied is found to stop Vomiting presently Take of sower leven 2 drachms dried Mint powdered Mastich powdered each 2 drachms and an half powder of Cloves 1 drachm a little Vinegar Mix them and spread them on a Cloth and apply it warm Grulingius it does excellently well 3. Water cooled in Snow stops a pertinacious bilious Vomiting above all things De Heredia As I have found by experience 4. This is a most excellent Remedy for all Vomiting Take of Cloves grossly beaten half a drachm Roses 1 Pugil red Wine half a Pound Boyl half away Joel The Dose 2 Spoonfuls after meat 5. If enormous Vomiting follow the taking of Antimonial Medicines take 4 drops of Oyl of Cinnamon in Cinnamon-water Kunrad and the Vomiting will presently stop 6. This is admirable good Take Yolks of Eggs fry them in a Frying pan with Oyl of Mastich adding powder of Mastich and Coral till they become a soft cake Rhudius Apply them hot to the Mouth of the Stomach 7. I have learned by experience that Water and Vinegar of Roses with the Yolk of an Egg and a little Salt without any Butter Rosenbergius presently stops Vomiting 8. A crust of Bread dipt in Malmsey Wine or Mint water and sprinkled with powder of Mint Mace Cloves Cinnamon or Spec. Aromat rosat and applied to the Stomach is
his Bowels being hurt I think the wound should not be enlarged for it will do no good but rather harm Because the greater the orifice is the more will the Bowels be burnt by the external Air. But if any of the parts aforesaid be wounded the dilating the orifice of the wound in the Epigastrium will do no good Idem seeing there is no hope of a Cure XLIV But if the Bullet remain within and you have no certain sign that any of the said parts are hurt you must endeavour to get it out the Patient lying upon his wound and turning himself this way and that yet so as that the orifice of the wound may look directly to the ground Then the experienced Artist must search for it and bring it out with a bended Probe But if it cannot be found and if the wound be in a part which may suffer dilatation without much danger it must be opened length-way of the muscles till it will admit a man's fore-finger And the Instrument for dilatation must not be sharp-pointed lest the Guts should be pricked when you perceive the Bullet you must endeavour to get it out by Art but if you cannot well do it let it alone Certainly I have seen some shot in the Belly who have lived after with the Bullet which it may be had fallen out otherwise if we had been forced to seek it and take it out Among which there is an Armour-Smith now alive who was shot a little above the right Groin and the Bullet lodged but could not be got out or so much as be found yet I would not suffer the wound to be enlarged Therefore it must rather be left within than make a Section Idem that is either dangerous or but with little hopes of obtaining one's desir'd end Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. A noble Bezoardick Plaster Take of Wax 1 pound Turpentine half a pound dried Toad half an ounce Bdellium 2 ounces and an half white frankincense half an ounce white Amber one ounce and an half Serpent's Skin dried No. 1. Figs No. 8. incorporate and mix them all according to Art In the end add prepared Magnet 1 drachm liquor Arsenicalis 2 ounces Spirit of Salt half an ounce Boyl them all keeping them continually stirring then pour to them Oyl of Scorpions 1 ounce and an half Mix them Make a Plaster Joh. Agricola It is very good in gun-shot Wounds 2. This is an approved Medicine in a deep wound made by a Shot Take of Bay-berries root of Aristolochia rotunda each one drachm Crabs dried in an oven 1 drachm and an half dried Burnet half an ounce Make a powder which must be boyled in 3 pounds of Wine to a third Let the Patient drink 1 ounce every day Platerus and foment the wound with it or inject it into the wound 3. This drives out all poyson from a poysoned burnt wound by a shot as I have often tried and though it be an ordinary Medicine yet it may be reckoned a great secret Take of Swallow-wort 1 ounce Valerian Tormentil each half an ounce Polypody 2 ounces Garden Angelica 4 ounces wild Angelica Marsh-mallow each two ounces nettle 1 ounce and an half root of Thymelaea 1 ounce and an half root of Scabious Valerian each half an ounce Let them be all gathered between the fifteenth of August and the eighth of September which must then be cut and put in a glazed pot well stopt with a sufficient quantity of vinegar and so let them stand 12 hours Then let them boyl an hour and an half Then pour off the Vinegar and when they are dried and beaten to powder add Quercetanus 12 berries of the herb Paris and 36 leaves Make a Powder the dose is 1 drachm in white wine A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK XIX Concerning Remedies borrow'd from Diet Surgery and Pharmacy Acidulae or Mineral Waters The Contents They cure contrary Distempers I. Not to be drunk rashly II. Whether the necessary quantity should be drunk together at one draught III. In what quantity they are to be drunk IV. The greatest dose is not to be taken it the beginning V. Whether when one is come to the highest Dose he must keep to it VI. The necessary quantity to be drunk in as little time as may be VII How many dayes they are to be drunk VIII Whether to be drunk cold or hot IX How to be emptied when they will not pass of themselves X. Whether the smoaking Tabaco help their passage XI Lying in Bed furthers their passage XII Riding is better than Foot-exercise XIII We must Purge once in eight or ten dayes XIV How one may know when to Dine XV. Sleep at Noon is to be avoided XVI The Waters are not to be drunk in the Evening XVII Whether Women should desist upon their Terms flowing XVIII Whether leanness alwayes prohibit their use XIX Divers cautions in their use XX. Whether artificial Acidulae can be prepared XXI Whether Victuals may be boyled in them XXII Of what parts Acidulae consist what Waters are understood by that name and of their vertue in general XXIII I. SPaw-Waters being endowed with the faculties of both hot and cold Minerals must needs cure both hot and cold Distempers in the same and in divers Bodies And seeing it is the property of heat to rarifie incide and attenuate and of cold to condense astringe and incrassate 't is no wonder that these waters produce contrary effects namely for instance both procure the Terms in Women and also stop their immoderate flowing For these Waters are an Empirical Medicine and the same thing happens to them as to Treacle which seeing it is compounded without reason and receives into it many things that are superfluous and repugnant to one another Heer cap. 9. 13. comes to cure various and those contrary Distempers II. A poor Country-Fellow being a long time troubled with Bleeding at the Nose and with the fluxus hepaticus drank the Mineral waters disorderly observing neither hour nor season yea in the very drinking of them whilst others use AnniseedS or Lozenges to warm their Stomachs he eat raw Apples laughing at those that advis'd him better But before a Month went about one of his Legs gangren'd so that he was glad to have it cut off and within a Month more the like Gangrene seis'd upon the Arm of the other side Heer Obs 23. about which whilst consultation was had whether it should be cut off also the poor Man died miserably III. Whether should the necessary quantity be drunk all together or be divided into several Doses This latter way is the safer for 1. being drunk at one draught the Stomach is so loaden with it that it vomits it up or 2. if it should be kept its weight would make it pass through so quickly that its vertue could not be put into act nor it self be distributed into the Body and 3. seeing they
Fr. Sylâ—â—â— de le BoeÌ„ Tract l. 1. c. 2. than too violently seeing that Sudorificks mend and correct the bad humours though they expell them not And I still prefer liquid and spirituous things before gross ones though Antimonial how dry soever are excellent in this case to wit Antimonium Diaphoreticum Bezoarticum minerale c. IV. Seeing a depraved Appetite differs according to the diversity of the thing craved I will here propound its Cure onely in general which consists in cleansing the Bloud and other humours by amendment whereof the Pica ceases of it self Idem Prix lib. 1. c. 2. I have by experience found that Volatile Salts doe more good than all other Medicines I have yet tried because they provoke the Menses gently and kindly The suppression whereof is often the cause of the Pica V. A Man troubled with the Itch had also the longing Disease for three Months He had the Haemorrhoids and within two days the Disease left him Rhodius Centur. 2. Obs 57. For the matter residing in the Veins affected the Nerves of the Stomach which once removed the party was eased of that trouble Whence it is clear that in this Disease the matter doth not always stick in the Nerves Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians for Excess of Appetite 1. Take of Hiera simplex Galeni one Scruple Petr. Forest lib. 18. Obs 8. of Rhubarb well powdered a Scruple and half with Syrup of Roses solutive make it into Pills N o xv I have cured several of this Disease with these Pills onely taken for some time 2. Hartmâ—nnus prax Chymi aâ—r p. 100. The Philosophick Spirit of Vitriol divers times given in Pomegranate-Wine Syrup of Lemons or Tincture of Roses cures most perfectly 3. Senn. de Boul. m. If in a Boulimy one be troubled with Fainting it is good presently to give him Bread sopped in Wine 4. Weikardus Thesaur Phâ—rm l. 1. c. 11. Antiquity found not a more present Remedy for this eating Evil than Bread and the smell thereof For the Appetite depraved 5. I know Hor. Aug. 3. Epist Cons p. 425. that to give a Drachm and half of the Powder of the Seed of Ammi four days one after another doth admirably help a depraved Appetite for the Women are either cured or much better by it 6. Jul Caes Claud. in Empiriâ—â— Rational p. 238. These two things have great Efficacy in the longing Disease 1. Take of Walnut Buds four Ounces Aloe Socotrina one Ounce Juice of Agrimony half an Ounce Frankincense one Drachm Scoinanth two Drachms Mash them together boil them in water till the water be almost boiled away Then strain it and to what is strained out put as much Honey give one Drachm of this every other day 2. Take of Mustard-Seed half a Scruple of Pigeons Bones burnt to ashes one Drachm and a half Seed of Purslane one Drachm Cinnamon two Scruples Juice of Quinces two Ounces White Sugar three Ounces Mix them in a double Vessel over the fire David Herlic de cur gravid c. 16. 7. This is very good Take in the Month of May the first white Buds of the Vine bruise them and distill them by an Alembick Let a Woman with Child drink a little of this for three or four days and it will neither hurt the Child nor give it any Mark though she should not get what she longed for Jacob. Holler Inst Chir. p. 49. 8. A Decoction of the greater Chamaemil that is very like Southernwood will be of great use in this case for it surpasses all other sorts of Remedies Mercurial de morb Mul. p. 3â— 9. If Women labour under a depraved Appetite Aegineta commends the use of old and odoriferous Wine the Water of Shepherd's Rod especially drunk after Meals also Dill infused in Wine Schroderus 10. Sowre Pomegranates are good for the Pica in Women with Child The Leaves of the Vine are also good Troâ—ula de Regimin Praegnant p. 101. 11. If a Woman with Child long give her Beans with Sugar Arthritis Podagra or The running Gout and Gout The Contents The running Gout and Gout differ in their Causes and Cure I. What should especially be observed in the Cure II. Generous and extraordinary Remedies are required to cure the Gout III. A Gouty person cured by nailing his feet to a Block of Wood. IV. By violent knocking of one foot against the other V. The good of Bloud-letting VI. The Hurt of it in an inveterate Gout VII Whether Bleeding in the Foot be proper VIII Why a Vomit is proper IX Whether Purging be proper X. When you must Purge in the beginning of the Gout XI Violent Purgers often taken doe hurt XII For whom Caryocostinum is proper XIII Whether Hermodactyls should be used XIV Cassia is hurtfull XV. Diureticks good in the Scorbutick running Gout XVI Whether a Cure may be performed by Salivation XVII Whether drinking Vrine be proper XVIII After what manner Alteratives given in the Paroxysm do work XIX Whether Sudorificks be proper XX. Whether Milk be good against the Gout XXI What Preparatives should be used for prevention XXII Whether Narcoticks taken inwardly doe good XXIII In what the Virtue of Antipodagricks consists XXIV Whether Medicines outwardly applied doe good XXV The benefit by Application of Narcoticks XXVI Whether the use of cooling things be safe XXVII Whether Strengtheners should be applied XXVIII The nature of Discutients XXIX Whether it be possible to dissolve the Knots in the Gout XXX A thin Diet is proper XXXI Diet doeth more good than Medicines XXXII Exercise when convenient XXXIII Bleeding will doe little good in old Men. XXXIV Purging will doe none XXXV Vsed by Empiricks XXXVI Sweating must not be procured by Art XXXVII Things that help concoction are proper XXXVIII Remedies must be used constantly XXXIX A Milk Diet good if it can be continued in XL. Medicines The sum of William ten Rhyne's M. D. Treatise of the Gout I. HIppocrates l. de Affect Sect. 3. lays down the peculiar signs of the running Gout 1. Pains of the Joints with remarkable heat not in them onely but the whole Body over insomuch that men seem plainly to be in a Fever 2. The nature of the Pains which at the very first invasion are presently acute although sometimes they are more moderate 3. The running of the Pains from one Joint to another The essence of the running Gout consists in these Three things which distinguish it from the Gout for in this the heat is not so evidently perceived at the first as in the running Gout nor till the corrupt Humour in the Veins be transmitted to the out-parts And the reason of this difference arises hence because in the Gout the Disease is in the little Veins and the inner parts in the running Gout it lies outwardly and nearer the skin 2. In the Gout the Pains at least in the beginning are not so sharp and that by reason
Take of Misy or Vitriol 2 drachms of the best Honey half an ounce Hogs lard 2 drachms Mix them I had rather use such Medicines to bring a Scab which usually comes upon a Carbuncle than use Cauteries because there is not onely simple Putrefaction Sennertus but a malignant Humour VIII The Cure of a pestilential Carbuncle requires that as soon as may be Suppuration be promoted and the fatal propagation of the evil be prevented To doe this I have not found any better means than an actual Cautery which also is a way acceptable to most Chirurgeons but to some this seems too cruel an operation and out of a perverse pity being more sensible of its violence than the Patients themselves they chuse a potential Cautery or a Vesicatory Barbet de Peste p. 197. both which I also use when I think they are either strong enough or I cannot use any other means For sometimes the Physician is forced to give way to the pleasure of the All-knowing By-standers though it be to the Patient's hurt ¶ Carbuncles may be cured by stopping the spreading mortification of the adjoyning parts by separating the mortified part and by cleansing and healing the Sore that is left I have not hitherto known any thing that more powerfully certainly and sooner stops the spreading mortification of Carbuncles than Butter of Antimony if it be anointed round the part affected for then the corruption of the part which so spreads and eats all before it stops Next to this I reckon Magnes Arsenicalis made of equal parts of Arsenick Antimony and Sulphur and mixt in convenient Plasters by help whereof the corrupted part is disposed to its separation which same thing also the Butter of Antimony performs for it does not onely put a stop to the progress of the pestilent Venome but moreover separates the corrupt parts from the sound All Balsams of Sulphur and especially anisatus mixt with Vnguentum tetrapharmacon and basilicon and applied to the Sore do effectually cleanâ—e the parts when freed from the pestilent Carbuncle Sylvius de le Bâ—ë Appeâ—â— ad pr. Tr. 2. in fine And the same Balsam mixt with some common known Plasters doth â—eal up the Sore when it is cleansed IX Sleep is severely prohibited in a Carbuncle because in it men think the Poison is drawn inwards whereas notwithstanding one would conjecture tâ—at in Sleeping the heat inclined outwards from the Heat and Sweats that people are in while they sleep Therefore it is not at all necessary to keep Patients several days from sleep Platerus Pract. l. 2. p. 714. as I have sometimes seen and so afflict and weaken them X. A Boy four years old had been afflicted three days with a Carbuncle in the middle of his Forehead with a red Swelling black in the middle all his Face was puffed up To stop it I order presently a Caustick to be applied to the black part and Vnguentum basilicon with Treacle Oil of Scorpions of Mathiolus and the Yelk of an Egg to the Eschar and a Cataplasm of Plantain to the whole Tumour besides repeated Bloud-letting and Cordials I applied a Vesicatory to his Neck the next day I find the Fever much abated the Inflammation of the Tumour remitted and all things asswaged The benefit of the Vesicatory was here observable for by deriving a great part of the virulent humour it must be believed it performed the greatest share of the Cure Therefore I think it should be used in every one and applied near the part I used no defensative of Bole Riverâ—ius Cent. 4. Obs 9 because of the hurt of Repellents in Diseases of the Face XI In the City Rupecurvensis there is a Disease called Malvat which is a sort of Carbuncle of which all men unless they pass nine days without sleep do dye In the mean time they make section round the Carbuncle and apply Cupping-glasses and at last they are cured with Vnguentum basilicon Without doubt this Disease is contracted from some latent Contagion in Sheeps wool for all the Inhabitants employ themselves in Woollen Manufacture and therefore it onely comes in the Face or Hands of the poorer sort P t. Borellus Cent. 2. Obs 12. And Watching procured by any means does good because in Sleep a concomitant of this Evil the Poison centres to the Heart XII It is distinguished from a Gangrene Sâ—m Clossae us ad Greg. Horsii m l. 7. ob 13. not by sense of the part for that is lost in both but by scarifying the place for if when the Flesh is cut deep it be black and neither froth nor corruption come out but remains dry with inward hardness it is a Carbuncle ¶ The greatest part whereof which gave the denomination to the Disease is as it were turned into a Coal wherefore it is void of sense and treated like a Gangrene circumscribing and limiting it either with Medicines or Instruments Yet a Gangrene requires another Cure because it often happens that the Gangrene is corrected and the part is restored to its natural state those things being evacuated which should be and those applied which vindicate the part from putrefaction Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Aetius tetrab 4. s 2. c. 58. The Leaves of upright Vervain beat in a Mortar with Fat and applied do wonderfully take away the crusts of Carbuncles and stop fluxions to the place 2. Take green Scabious and beat it in a Mortar then add the Yelk of an Egg some old Hogs-lard and a litle Salt mix them well it 's an efficacious Cataplasm Horat. Augenius de Feb. l. 8. c. 10. I have seen a pestilential Carbuncle perfectly suppurated and overcome with this Cataplasm in 5 hours time 3. The Countrey people of Naples have a secret Remedy of the Leaves of Prickly Bind-weed If they that have the Plague apply that side of the Leaf which is smooth and glib to the Swelling it presently draws the peccant matter out Barthol Hist Anatom 27. cent 6. but if they turn the rough and white side it repells the humour inwards 4. A Cataplasm of a sowre-sweet Pomegranate Chalmetaeus or of one sowre and another sweet boiled well in Vinegar is very good to take off the acrimony of the humour in all malignant and inflamed Pustules It is found so by experience 5. This is a wonderfull thing Sebast Cortilio and reckoned for a Secret Beat Comfrey and Daisies between two Stones and apply them for a Plaster 6. J. P. Fab. Spirit of common Salt is a high Alexiterial Medicine if some calcined Gold be dissolved in it ¶ Salt of Toads burnt to ashes extracted with water of Carduus benedictus outwardly applied wonderfully cures pestilential Carbuncles and safely heals all Cankers Idem Half a drachm with Cinnamon-water is sufficient 7. Take of the Root of White-lily Marsh-mallow each 2 ounces Linseed Flowers of Chamaemil Mullein St. John's-wort each 1 handfull
Diaphoenicon frigidum applied hot to the whole Belly is most excellent in any Dysentery the same also may be applied in the beginning 7. Take pure root of Tormentil grosly bruised 6 ounces Pour to it in a glass Body of Tormentil water 16 ounces Let it simmer on a gentle Fire then let it cool and pour off and separate the Decoction carefully from the Root add of fine Sugar half a pound Set it in Sand and with a gentle Fire reduce it to the consistency of a Syrup Then add of the Tincture Oil or Liquour first precipitated with distilled Vinegar and then with Spirit of Vitriol of Corals Mich. Crugnerus mix it well and keep it It is a most excellent Remedy in the Bloudy-flux 8. Oil of Walnuts cures a Flux miraculously if it be taken inwardly and the Belly be anointed therewith ¶ This is reckoned a Secret in stopping Fluxes of the Belly If you take of the Juice of unripe Grapes 10 spoonfuls boil it a little after it is clarified drink a third part of it for it presently stops the Flux and strengthens the Bowels Claud. Deodatus 9. They say Cudweed boiled in Wine is an effectual Remedy Dioscorides 10. Boil a Crab with Wine and Pepper take off the Shells and dry them the Powder of the simple Shell taken twice every day cures any Flux specifically It may also be mixt with other things It is an experienced thing ¶ Distilled water of Celandine drunk Tob. Dorncrellius powerfully stops any Flux as I have heard one say upon his certain experience 11. There is no more present Remedy than Vva quercina in Powder Christoph Engelius for any Bloudy-flux I have cured some of desperate Dysenteries onely with it 12. The Cawl of a Wether fried in Oil of Roses and applied Franc. Osw Grembs is an excellent Remedy to stop the fury of it 13. A linen cloth dipt in the bloud of a Hare not killed by a weapon but in hunting by the bite of a Dog and dried and kept for use if it be made Lint of and given in Wine it cures the Dysentery Yea the Soldiers in Germany when they have killed a Hare in the aforesaid manner dry her in the smoke and give her in drink and so cure the Bloudy-flux infallibly Van Helmont 14. The Liver of a Wolf prepared that is when it has been steeped 3 days in very strong Vinegar and then dried in an Oven upon a Tile is highly commended 15. The Pisle of a Cat is a most certain Remedy in this Disease Frid. Hofmannus the Shavings of it may be mixt in some Electuary 16. It is admirable that Colcothar the Caput mortuum of Vitriol should possess a quality to cure a Bloudy-flux that is if they that are afflicted with the Bloudy-flux do go to stool upon it Christ Langius it cures them This is confirmed by many observations of D. Michael 17. Half a drachm of Crystal finely powdered and prepared taken in some convenient Water is a singular Remedy for a Dysentery Joh. Langius especially for one arising from porraceous and yellow choler 18. I have observed it by experience and beyond all doubt that 2 drachms of Filipendula root given either in Wine or the Yelk of an Egg is good The leaves and roots of which Herb I have often found to doe both the same thing ¶ I have found this Potion doe a great deal of good Take of Syrup of Popy 1 ounce of dried Roses half an ounce Diamargariton frigidum half a drachm burnt Ivory half a scruple Water of Plantain Horse-tail each 2 ounces ¶ This is excellent good to ease pain Take of Acacia Hypocistis the inside of a Quince Sumach Galls each 1 drachm red Coral burnt and washt with Rose-water 1 drachm and an half Opium 1 drachm Cinnamon Cyperus each 1 drachm Syrup of Roses what is sufficient Make a solid Electuary of which make Pills Lud. Mercatus whereof you may give a scruple or half a drachm 19. An Egg boiled in Vinegar and eaten Oribasius stops all Fluxes of the Belly 20. The Feet of a Partridge rosted and one drachm of the Powder given in Coriander water when there is a Fever and when there is none Joh. Praevotius in black Wine cures even a raging Dysentery 21. The dung of a Dog that eats bones dried and powdered and put in a little chalybeate Milk is good for a Dysentery given for 3 days morning and evening I can safely swear I have cured above an hundred of the Dysentery with it in one year as Christopher Landrinus can testifie Joh. David Rulandus 22. The Fruit of the Linden-tree yields an effectual Remedy for any Flux of the Belly Valesc de Taranta as Camerarius testifies 23. The lesser Plantain given with an equal quantity of Daucus is a singular Remedy Gul. Varignana 24. This is very much commended If the Patient for 3 or 4 days morning and evening sit over a red hot Plate of metal upon which 1 ounce of the best Turpentine or Pine Refin must be thrown ¶ This is an admirable one especially in Childrens fluxes if every day morning and evening the Child's anus be fumed with the Powder of young Asses dung carefully dried in an oven and strewed upon red hot Coals Benedict Victor ¶ The following Fomentation also is highly commended Take of Balm 1 pound Mullein 1 handfull put them in a long bag which afterwards boiled in a like quantity of styptick red Wine and strong Vinegar to a third must be applied warm to the Seat 25. Many reckon Cresses seed given alone or mixt with other things a singular Remedy in the Bloudy-flux Arn. Weikardus 26. This is a singular Remedy for any Flux of Bloud Take Frog-spawn and dip a linen cloth at least thrice in it dry it in the shade and doe so thrice Which cloth so prepared and dried you may use Apply a piece twice as large as the place where-out the Bloud flows Keep this as a Secret ¶ This is a singular Remedy for the Bloudy-flux Break a new Egg into a new earthen Pot then take a like quantity of Honey Vinegar and Oil mix them all together and bake them Eat them and you will find a good effect Marc. Ant. Zimara Dysuria or Sharpness of Vrine The Contents It must be cured variously according to the diversity of the cause I. A Vomit is proper II. The benefit of Clysters III. Cassia sometimes suspected IV. Diureticks sometimes hurtfull V. It arises sometimes from the defect of the humour that moistens the urinary passage VI. Sometimes from the site of the Bladder altered VII Sometime from the glandulous Body too much dried VIII Medicines I. A Man threescore years of age was sick of a violent Sharpness of Urine some placed the cause in his Bladder others in his Kidneys But when he was dead of an Apoplexy there was no fault observed in
their temperament wax black which is the last sign of absolute mortification This was the case of N. whose hand was bruised with a stick and when the Ecchymoma had been ill cured by others and was just turning to an Abscess I opened it and found it putrefied a great way and after the rising of a great Swelling it created me no small trouble in the cure Severinus Med. Eff. p. 107. till the ossa phalangis were laid bare and appeared black And he was cured of the Abscess of the Bones with much adoe Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. This is very effectual Take of Flower of Faenugreek 1 ounce of Frankincense Myrrhe or Lacca each 1 drachm Goat's-dung half an ounce Platerus Salt 2 drachms Boil them in Wine Make a Plaster 2. For this purpose some which is an excellent remedy for them especially that are beaten do wrap the Patient in a Sheep-skin newly slayn while it is hot bestrewed with Salt Powder of Myrtle-berries Garden-cresses or if a Sheep-skin be wanting let the Patient be anointed with Oil of Roses Myrtle Worms to which may be added Powder of Red-Roses or Myrtle-berries ¶ And the Root of Solomon's-Seal is most efficacious in curing bruises which either fresh or in Winter-time steeped in Wine and bruised and applied in form of a Cataplasm often in one night takes away the Sugillation so that the natural colour returns to the part affected ¶ Also a rank Nut bruised is commended And if the extravasated bloud cannot be discussed by other remedies cupping-glasses if the place will bear them must be applied which are a most effectual remedy to draw out whatever is contained deep in Sennertus and if there be occasion Scarifications must be used that some of the bloud may manifestly be discharged Empyema or a gathering of corrupted Matter in the Chest The Contents We must sometimes purge gently I. We must use Diureticks and Hydroticks II. Things that break the Abscess inwardly are not safe III. Expectoraters must be various according to the variety of the matter to be expectorated IV. The use of resolving and drying Decoctions hurtfull V. Their Succedaneum VI. We must not insist long upon Fomentations VII Tapping is full of danger though never so well done VIII Whence we must make our estimate of the Patient's strength to bear it IX All the matter must not be drawn off at once X. It must be timely exercised XI XII Rightly administred it is safe XIII The right place for opening XIV It must not be the same in all XV. A caution about the place of cutting XVI Aperture may be made in the ribs XVII Sometime no Pus comes out after cutting XVIII A Succedaneum to Tapping XIX Pus contained within the Mediastinum must be got out by perforating the Sternum XX. If Pus be contained in a proper coat Section must be made where the Swelling is XXI Opening by a potential Caustick the surest way of all XXII Medicines I. WHat can be expected from giving a Purge when the peccant matter can onely be discharged by spitting But Hippocrates lib. de in t affect Purges by Mare's-milk and sometimes by Asse's And Trallianus beside these in some cases allows of Goat's and Cow's Milk and justly indeed because from Milk we have the cleansing of the Body and the cooling and tempering of the Humours all which things are desired in suppurated persons for the cleaner Bodies are the less sick they are tempered humours doe less harm and when the habit is cooled Fevers are less afflictive Wherefore I commend such a kind of Purge but for this a great quantity of Milk that is three or four pounds must be given And what Hippocrates did every day that we must doe at several turns But if the use of Milk do not please Pet. Salius Diversus com in text 7. l. 1. de morb or the Patient refuse it for this same Purging we must make use of Manna Cassia Solutive Syrup of Violets and the like which are proper to evacuate cool and temper II. Urinary Medicines are usually powerfull remedies for that Catarrh which falls down on the Lungs and there putrefies does not take its rise from the head onely but sometimes it is cast off by the whole venous kind upon some weak part Therefore Sweat and Urine is a present remedy for it And a decoction of China-root with Scabious and other things proper for the Breast and Urine Heurnius will doe good III. If the Abscess break not Practitioners bid us give such things as may break it But they do not reach to the part affected It were better to apply Medicines to the side which might draw outwards and afterwards open it with an Instrument or Cautery that the matter may purge outward and not break inward for breaking inward would be dangerous for fear of choaking and when it was broke the matter could not conveniently be evacuated Rondeletius l. 2. c. 15. And when the Lungs are exulcerated Men become consumptive and die IV. In the choice of Medicines we must have respect to the matter which must be expectorated For if the Pus be bilious sharp and corroding we must chuse such as mitigate and allay acrimony as Barley Jujubes Raisins and the like If the Pus be not sharp but thick then attenuating and inciding Medicines must be made use of Sennertus as Hyssop Colts-foot Elecampane-root c. V. The insensible drying and consumption of the purulent matter is usually attempted by drying and resolving Decoctions from which seeing more hurt may be feared through increase of the leanness and Fever than good by consuming a small portion of the matter therefore we deservedly omit this sort of remedy in this case VI. Instead whereof I should more willingly give Sulphureous Waters both Purgative and Diuretick if they were at hand for several days to dry up the Lungs and carry off the matter both ways But in defect of them use may be made of a decoction of the Root of Elecampane Liquorice and China also if you can have good made in distilled-Water of Coltsfoot Lungwort and Maiden-hair about half a scruple of Spirit of Tartar and Spirit of Turpentine being added for one time whereto may be premised a Bolus made of Salt of Urine Fâ—tâ—is consult 41. cent 2. Butter of Sulphur and Turpentine VII External Expectoraters must not be neglected and the Muscles of the Breast must be freed from tension and hardness by anointingâ— and fomentations Yet we must not insist long upon them lest the strength of the Muscles which is here very necessary be spent and by reason of laxity the chest be again made liable to fluxions Rondeletius VIII Tapping is more dangerous than is commonly believed for seeing the Lungs always play on the inner superficies of the Breast and in expiration is but a very little way from it they can scarce avoid the edge of the Knife And then
Make a Powder The dose is 1 drachm with a due quantity of Water of Hartshorn Flowers of the Linden-tree and Lily-Conval ¶ An Amulet for the Epilepsie There is a branch of Elder that grows on an old Willow pieces whereof hung about the Neck have very happy success in either abating or quire curing an Epilepsie They must be gathered in the Months of September and October before the Full-Moon ¶ One of the second sprigs of a Willow cut into small pieces and nine of them tied in a Linen or Silken-rag hung about the neck to the Mouth of the Stomach either before or after a Fit and worn so long till it breaks or falls off of it self is an Amulet The rag when it is fallen must not be touched with ones hands but taken in a pair of Tongs Tâ—om Bartholinus and buried in some remote place lest it should be touched by the sick or any other and so infect them with the Falling-sickness 7. A Medicine diminishing the Epilepsie I have observed that by taking 1 drachm of the Powder of Soapwort-seed once a Month for three New-Moons the Fits have abated much either in number or violence ¶ I have known many perfectly cured by eating a Wolf's Liver ¶ A drachm of Peacock's-dung in Powder drunk in Wine when the Moon is New is a most excellent remedy Pet. Borellus if it be taken once a month for some months together 8. I have known these two Powders very effectual Take of prepared Coriander 2 drachms Seeds of Poeony Purslane each 1 ounce Hoof of an Ass burnt half an ounce Mix them make Powder The dose 2 drachms in 2 ounces of Rue-water Take of Man's bloud taken away by Cupping of Man's Skull each 2 drachms prepared Pearl Galangale Zedoary each 1 drachm Mastick red Amber red Coral Dittany each 1 drachm and an half flesh of a Kite fat Raisins each half an ounce Mix them make a Powder Add 2 ounces of Sugar The dose is 1 drachm in Poeony-water every morning ¶ Some account this a Secret Take juice of Carduus Benedictus purified and boiled up thick 4 ounces juice of Yarrow purified 3 ounces Sugar 4 ounces Mix them boil them into the form of an Electuary The dose 1 spoonfull 9. The Skin of a Wolf taken off that part which sticks to the Spine must be cut into the form of a Girdle about 2 inches broad it must be girt about the Belly and the Loins and worn always that the inside of the Skin may touch the Flesh the hairy side being put outwards ¶ As soon as a Mare 's Foal is foaled it vomits up some matter which unless one take up hastily the Mare immediately devours it This matter dried and Powdered cures the Falling-Sickness by certain experience it seems a wonderfull thing Oil of Vitriol rightly prepared and 5 drops of it taken with Broth in the morning for several days has cured many of this disease ¶ I approve of nothing better Joh. Crato than Peacock's dung given in distilled-water of Carduus or Yarrow than which I have found nothing more effectual 10. Cinnabar of Antimony in equal weight with Magistery of Corals is a Specifick even in inveterate Epilepsies Claud. Deodatus it takes away the disease onely by Sweat at repeated turns and necessary evacuations premised The dose is from 10 to 16 grains in some proper liquour 11. Oil of Box is admirable Rod. à Fonseca for it is Narcotick and Narcoticks by stupefying the Sense use to hinder the Fit 12. In a Fit of the Falling-Sickness I give order to rub Rue between ones hands and to hold it to the Nose or to put a little of it up the Nostrils for by this means I have brought innumerable out of their Fits Forestus ¶ Let the following Amulet be hung on childrens necks Take of green Poeony-root half an ounce of Male Poeony-seeds namely the black 1 drachm and an half when the Root is cut and the Seed bruised put them in a bag and hang them on By this Suspensory I have seen the Fits cease to a wonder and have often experienced the great and excellent virtue of it 13. Dissolve the scrapings of the Whitest Amber in Spirit of Wine that it may be tinged filtrate it Phil. Grulingius and evaporate it to half It is a great Secret in the Falling-sickness It may be given to 15 grains in some appropriate Water 14. This is admirable Take Ears of Barley when they begin to grow ripe burn them to Powder Franc. Hildesheim of which give a little to an Epileptick person every morning in Poeony-water and he will presently be cured 15. A certain illustrious Lady testifies that upon the most sure experiment of a certain Widow the Falling-sickness is cured by a Powder made of Quails-Eggs The Eggs are dried a little Wolf Hâ—eÌ„ferus so as they may be powdered Half a drachm of it to 2 Scruples is given for a dose 16. The Fat of a Rabbet killed by a violent death melted and 4 or 5 drops of it given in Water of Magpies or Swallows certainly gives help ¶ This also is accounted a singular secret The Gall of a black Whelp that sucks they take for a Boy a Dog-whelp for a Girl a Bitch and is strangled Frid. Hofmannus given in some convenient liquour By benefit of this a Son of the Duke of Buckingham's was cured This is much in use in England 17. The famous Spiritus Vitrioli Antepilepticus Hartmanni Take of the finest Hungarian Vitriol 4 pounds add thereto of Urine of healthy Boys new made 8 pounds Digest them for some time in a close Vessel in Balneo Mariae Afterwards in the same distill a two-fold Phlegm the first of which is an excellent Paregorick for Gout-Pains and others to asswage them the other is an excellent Ophthalmick good for all diseases in the Eyes Put the Caput mortuum powdered into a strong earthen Retort in an open fire yet at first but very gentle and drive it over into a large Receiver while the Spirits come over thick there flows out a most pretious Liquour of a Sulphureous smell and something austere tast which being rectified once and again by retort and kept in a Glass well stopt perfectly cures all Fits in Children A Scruple of this may be mixt with Water of Poeony and Linden-tree-flowers of each 1 ounce and kept for use Give half a spoonfull of this said mixture in the Fit the contracted and convulse parts being first reduced and a little after their senses being recollected they will come to themselves which as soon as you observe give them a little more and so a third time But if the Fit should come again as it often does repeat the same process thrice and never fear but at the second time this disease so familiar to Children and Infants may be utterly and radically taken away especially if some comforters of the brain be used afterwards
manner of Juleps Emulsions Ptisans and even simple Water assoon as they are taken This most grievous Symptome is immediately cured to a miracle by taking a drachm of the Salt of Wormwood in a spoonfull of fresh Juice of Lemon Riverius as I have learned by experience L. A certain Person was sick of a slight Tertian in the fit he was so troubled with vomiting that he swooned at the very thought of it I gave him above half a scruple of Pills of Aloes in a Dose two hours before his fit they did their office by gently purging him in the fit Rolfinccius so that he was well in a short time LI. It is manifest from Hippocrates 1. de rat vict who granted Water to one in a Pleurisie when he was very thirsty that when Symptoms arise to that height as to add to the Disease or waste Nature's strength the Indication for Diet should rather be taken from them Nevertheless we must doe our endeavour to give such things as may if possible be proper for the Disease or at least not inconvenient For Hippocrates in the place forequoted has this passage But when any Pain torments you must give Oxymel to drink in the Winter hot in Summer cold And if his thirst be very great he must use Honey and Wine and Water Reason tells us the very same thing that the Intention of Cure must not be changed for every violence of the Symptoms but for that which is considerable for since Symptoms are the effects of Diseases by taking away their cause they vanish but if they be considerable they give the stronger Indication for Cure And their greatness is to be defined when they are the cause of some preternatural disposition which either adds to the Disease or wastes the strength of Nature Which soever of these things happens to be the cause of the greatness of a Symptome the Symptoms may justly then supply the course of Diet and Indication for Cure As to a pleuritick Person who is a little thirsty you must give Oxymel or Melicrate which of them the Disease shall require But if he be troubled with violent thirst you shall not use such things as respect the Disease and its Cause but such as lay thirst for much thirst dries the spittle and makes the Disease difficult of coction and increases the heat of the Fever wherefore we must give Melicrate and Water taking the Indication from the Symptome for Water should not be given for the Disease sake by reason it is an enemy to the maturation of the Grief Thus therefore the greatness of Symptoms must be defined so as the method of Cure and indications of Diet may be taken from them But when such Symptoms arrive at the said greatness that is are instead of a Cause in reference to the Disease they are either as an urgent Cause or Sine qua non the Disease cannot be cured Wherefore the Indication is stronger which is taken from them than from the Disease as may be gathered from the doctrine of complicated Affections Brudus de Viâ—â—â— Febr. l. 3. c. 27. LII In giving of Medicines Cautions and Rules of no small moment are taken from the Pulse Purging and Vomiting are prohibited by an over quick and violent Pulse and also by a very low one for while the bloud is too effervescent evacuation is not very proper both because what is noxious is not voided and also because the strength is much weakned by the perturbation And when the Spirits are broken and the strength is low Physick casts it lower and sometimes rather destroys it Wherefore when a Physician designs evacuation upwards or downwards let him first feel the Pulse and let him attempt these motions onely when Nature is strong and sedate that she may be able to attend the operation of the Medicine and to support the Patient's strength Nor is there need of less circumspection for Diaphoreticks and Cordials which if they be used in the Fever fit they too much increase the violent motion of the Heart and very often break its strength Also when the Pulse is very languid if hot and strong Cordials be used Life may easily be extinguished as when a little flame is quite put out by a strong blast wherefore it is a vulgar observation that Cordials often hasten Death for that in putting the bloud into too great a motion they sooner waste its strength And yet there is need of the greatest Caution and direction of the Pulse in giving Narcoticks for they because they doe their work by extinguishing and fixing the vital Spirits when they are over active if they be used in a weak or faultering Pulse they either render the Spirits too weak for the Disease by diminishing them or they bring a perpetual Sleep by too much suffocating them Wherefore in a languid unequal or formicating Pulse Opiates should be avoided as you would avoid a Snake or a Toad Williâ— de Febr. c. 10. Febris Alba seu Amatoria The White or Love Fever See The Green-sickness Book III. It s Description and Cure HIppocrates in his Book de Virginum morbis calls this the Wandring Fever some have named it the White Jaundice For several Symptoms give intimation of a white and cold humour seeing first of all the menstrua being stopt in time of youth in a hot and moist constitution have caused a coldness in the whole body by suffocating the innate heat obstructions in the Mesentery and Womb concurring not a little thereunto and it may be in the hollow of the Liver which hindring the ventilation of the natural Heat increase the suffocation of it upon which many Symptoms testifie a cold Intemperature The primitive Cause of this Maiden Disease was the intense Meditation of this Virgin in which the innate Heat and Spirits being diverted from the Stomach Crudities were bred the original of Obstructions in the lacteal and mesenterick Veins whence arose a hypocondriack Indisposition and complaints of Illness at the Stomach and rumbling of the hypochondria Moreover the mass of bloud was infected which being made thick and not having free passage through the Veins of the Womb at set times but setling in them has gathered obstructions in the Womb also and made the monthly purgation less which being increased a perfect suppression of them followed For the bloud not having an efflux saith Hippocrates lib. de Virginum morbis through the quantity it rebounds to the Heart and Diaphragm and when these places are filled the Heart becomes foolish then from fatuity comes torpidness then after torpidness a delirium takes them as when a man has sate a long time the bloud being depressed out of the Hips and Thighs into the Legs and Feet causes a numbness and after the numbness the Feet are unable to walk till the bloud return to it self c. And it returns very quickly for it soon flows back because of the rectitude of the Veins and it is not a dangerous place of
scruple leaves of Gold and Silver each N o 3. Make a Powder The Dose in preservation 1 drachm Forestus in the cure 4 Scruples 13. This is an excellent preservative against the Plague Take of Sugar-Candy powdered 4 ounces imbibe it with dulcified Spirit of Salt which is thus made Take Spirit of Salt and Spirit of Wine each equal parts sublime them three or four times by a retort and they will unite inseparably and grow sweet to the form of an Electuary of which take one drachm in the morning fasting Gockelius it will keep off all Putrefaction 14. In a Malignant Fever this is a great secret Nitre steeped in Vinegar of Roses and Juice of Prick-madame applied to the Pulses asswages heat and pain Hayne 15. Heinisius his Pestilential Oil which is made of rectified Oil of Amber Frid. Hof mannus Citron and Camphire the dose from five drops to half a scruple does wonders in Pestilential Fevers 16. I have observed that Bezoardâ—cum minerale is not onely of use in Malignant and Spotted Fevers and the Pleurisie Horstius but is also a present remedy in the Plague Neukrantz 17. Contrayerva-Root is a most excellent Sudorifick in Spotted Fevers 18. Take the Rinds and Seeds of Twelve Lemons Juice of Scordium three pounds Juice of Sorrel Galangal Scabious Carduus benedictus each 1 pound shavings of Hartshorn four ounces old Treacle 6 ounces being cut and bruised mix them together distill them in Balneo The dose 1 ounce by it self or mixt with other Liquours Riverius 19. The Volatile Salt of Hartshorn has an excellent diaphoretick virtue in burning Malignant and Pestilential Fevers Rolfinccius 20. A Liquour against the Plague Take of the burning Spirit of Juniper-berries 8 ounces rectified Spirit of Tartar Spirit of Stag's bloud each four ounces Spirit of Vitriol 20 drops Cinamon Angelica Myrrhe each half an ounce Laudanum opiatum 2 drachms infuse them in Balneo for twenty hours then let the thin be poured off the thick by inclination and keep it This liquour wonderfully resists the Plague and other sorts of Poisons The dose from 15 drops to 20. 21. This Powder is highly commended for cleansing infected houses yea and for preserving them from the Plague if it be used for a fume morning and evening Seâ—nertus Take of Juniper-berries four handfulls Rue Elecampane-root outer rind of Birch Savine Goats-horn rasped each two handfulls leaves of Oak Myrrhe each 1 ounce Mix them Make a powder ¶ I have formerly given this powder in the Plague with good success Take of Bezoar-stone twelve grains Bone of a Stag's heart 1 scruple prepared Emerald prepared Jacinth each 7 grains Make a Powder for two doses in some convenient water Idem 22. They say that Scabious with Nitre and fresh Hog's lard Virdo is a divine remedy to discuss a pestilential Carbuncle 23. The Air must be corrected with a fume of Ram's or Goat's-horn for there is a great and a peculiar safeguard in this and it defends ones clothes ¶ The Place where people sick of the Plague have lain and are taken out is cleansed from the contagion by nothing better than crude Sulphur if it be burnt in the room close shut and the fume be kept in some time and then the Windows set open Weikardus to let it out In Tertian Agues and Quotidians 1. This hath been experienced in Tertian Agues Take of Juice of Gentian condensated 1 drachm or of the liquid 1 drachm and an half Chicken broth 3 ounces Spec. Diarrhodon Abbatis and Aromat Rosat each 1 Scruple Augenius Drink it 2. For Tertians Take a draught of the best White-wine boil it half away and then drink it it will cause one to Vomit much Water I have cured many so Borellus 3. This is experienced for a Bastard-Tertian Take Spiders Webs cleansed mix them with Vnguentum Populeon and make them into six Pills two of which must be applied to the Pulses of the Temples two to the Pulses of the Arms Claudinus and two to the Pulses of the Feet laying Vine-leaves upon them and binding them on three hours before the Fit 4. One may very well purge on the Fit-day I have often tried it and in most the event always answered In Tertians I doe this after the third or fourth Fit in Quotidians later Crato 5. Chamaemil-water drawn off the Juice is an excellent remedy for long and pertinacious Agues if one ounce be given in the morning fasting for two or three days I have often experienced it Rod. à Fonseca 6. I have not found a better remedy as well for preservation as cure of Tertian Agues than Oxysaccharum simplex which resists putrefaction because of the Vinegar and Juice of Pomegranate or Syrup of Lemons For by taking some of it every day I preserved my self from an Ague and others have cured themselves of Agues by it ¶ I have found by long experience that Carduus benedictus is good in a Quotidian Ague Forestus though most use it amiss in all Fevers 7. Juice of Water-Cresses Vinegar Kornthaveruâ— each what is sufficient with a little Salt Give two or three Spoonfulls before the Fit in all Agues 8. The fixt Salt of Wormwood becomes a more generous Medicine if when it is dissolved in Cichory Water as much Sal Prunellae be added and then they be coagulated together according to Art Half a drachm or a drachm-weight given them that are sick of a Tertian in warm Beer sweetned with a little Sugar to make them sweat stoutly is a Medicine much to be preferred before the Antifebrile Crollii made of Shells In Quartane Agues 1. Spirit of Sal Ammoniack is an excellent Secret in a Quartane Ague The dose is from 5 drops to 10 in Cichory-water 2. Agricola The powder of a Man's Skull given in drink to one when he knows not of it has been experienced to cure Quartane Agues 3. Sal Ammoniack seven times sublimed Benedictuâ— and made quite spiritual taken in a draught of Wine or Beer warm let him Sweat 8 days in the morning This is excellent good for Quartans De Bry. 4. This is an experiment against a Quartane Take of Seed of St. John's-wort 2 drachms Ashes of Man's Skull 1 drachm Mix them for 3 doses 3 hours before dinner Crato 5. Some reckon this for a great secret They take 2 drachms of Leaves of Betony powdered in an Egg four hours before the Fit and they repeat it three or four times on other days And certainly it is admirable good in an inveterate Quartane 6. After Universals Rod. à Fonseca I anoint the Chine with Oil of Chamaemil and Dill each alike mixt and hot beginning at the Neck down to the Buttocks and after anointing I wrap him in warm Linen and when I have done this thrice not onely the cold Fit but the Ague ceased Forestus 7. A scruple
the Knife or Razor must be thrice repeated The first Cut separates the finger in the last joint from the metacarpus the second and third takes off the Septum Digitorum on either side of the finger In this operation thrice repeated something carnous or membranous may remain untouched by the Knife and may render the operation more difficult and tedious Now I considering these things contrived an Instrument whereby the finger may be cut off in the last joint together with the Septum on either side at one blow and it is a very sharp and winged Knife whose hind part is semicircular and of a bigness proportionable to the finger to be cut off And though before I disapproved of this way of chopping off Limbs yet in this case because it cannot otherwise be well done Idem of two evils we must chuse the less XXVII A Hand affected with a Cancer not exulcerated is cut off in a sound place that is at the heads of the radius and ulna towards the Wrist But we must take notice to the end the bloud yet infected which the adjoining Vessels contain may run out for being retained it might affect the Arm that neither the Arm must be tied with a rowler above the place of Incision nor must the softer parts be cut with a red hot Knife Scultetus which Barbarians call Cauterium cultellare Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. I have often seen this Cataplasm used with desired success in stopping of a Gangrene Take of Meal of Beans Lupines each 4 ounces Juice of Rue 2 ounces or Powder of Rue 3 ounces Oxymel simplex 6 ounces Lie what is sufficient Sometimes he adds powder of Scordium Mix them Crato Make a Cataplasm 2. Spirit of Salt rightly prepared applied to outward Gangrenes and Ulcers is a high Narcotick Remedy without any pain ¶ All the care consists in the efficacy and virtue of Spirit of Salt for the Salt being saturated with this Liquour and dried is reduced to its natural temper which every one may see by experience for every sharp and biting Salt if it be dissolved in Spirit of Salt Faber is reduced to a wonderfull sweetness 3. Vnguentum Aegyptiacum is a most excellent and principal Remedy for a Gangrene Gul. Fabricius it separates the dead flesh from the live and breeds a laudable Eschar 4. In the cure of a Gangrene after the Eschar is removed if not onely Medicines but the very Air cause intolerable pain this following is very familiar with me I take Ointment of Betony made of the juice to which I either add Oil of Sweet Almonds if there be no inflammation or if there be one as there often is I mix Oil of Roses or Yelks of Eggs and I have never yet found any thing better ¶ Scordium bruised or the juice of it is excellent For experience shews Hieron Fabricius that dead bodies are preserved from putrefaction if they either be stuffed with it or wrapt in it 5. Take of Colts-foot 1 handfull and an half Melilot Mullein Dwarf-Elder each half an handfull Frankincense Litharge each 2 drachms and an half Mastick Myrrh each 1 drachm and an half crude Alume 2 drachms Mix them for a Decoction Grombs When a Gangrene is feared in a Dropsie 6. Let the part affected be washed with Spirit of Wine Camphorate than which I think nothing is more proper for hindring the mortification of any part Hartman 7. I remember one was perfectly cured of a Gangrene in his thigh after rotten Apples bruised had been applied in form of a Cataplasm without the liquour S. Pauli once or twice 8. To bring a place to its natural colour again Vnguentum Aegyptiacum dissolved in Aqua vitae is most excellent Ranchinus 9. I order the scarified places to be moistned with Spirit of Sulphur where the flesh was mortified then I order all the Arm to be fomented with Spirit of Wine hot wherein Powder of Aloes and Myrrh were infused then Powder of Aloes and Myrrh were strewed on the Arm in great quantity and upon the Powder linen cloths wet in Spirit of Wine were applied which Remedy being used a few hours the Arm returned to its colour to a miracle the swelling abated and the Gangrene was stopt Riverius 10. Take of Cow's dung 1 pound Oil of Roses 4 ounces Vinegar 3 ounces Saffron half a scruple Mix them Make a Plaster which must be applied hot every three hours J Dav. Rulandu◠I know by experience it certainly cleanses and cures a Gangrene 11. To prevent a Gangrene Sir Theodore de Mayerne of England used this following successfully applied warm with cloths dipt in it Take of the strongest Vinegar red Wine Spring-water each a like quantity Litharge of Gold well beaten 8 ounces Roche Alume Sea Salt each 2 ounces Gum Arabick Myrrh each 1 ounce Olibanum Mastick each two ounces When the Liquours are mixt put in the Litharge let them boil stirring them continually then add the Salt and Alume then the Gum Arabick Phil. Jac. Sachsius and last of all the Powders boil them to a consumption of a fourth part 12. If it will not give way to gentle Medicines we must use strong ones Take of Mercury what you please dissolve it in Aqua fortis when it is dissolved add to it of Sal Saturni and Vnguentum Rosatum Camphoratum what is sufficient Make an Unguent ¶ This Liquour is very good if cloths be dipt in it and applied It was successfully used in a Gangrene of the Scrotum Take of Vitriol 1 ounce tops of Oak 1 handfull Frankincense 1 ounce Camphire two drachms Sennertus Wine 2 pounds and an half Boil about a third away 13. The Juice of the Herb Alexanders in Unguents stops Gangrenes wonderfully Turnheusetus It is a Secret 14. Salt of Soot is made thus Let Soot be powdered as fine as flower dissolve it in Vinegar let it settle to the bottom of the Vessel separate the Vinegar and dissolve it in other Vinegar continuing it so five times and you will find a Salt which if it be put in a moist place will melt and make a most excellent Oil for Gangrenes and malignant Ulcers Joh. Vigierius Ganglion or A glandulous Swelling The Contents We must have a care how we cut a Ganglion or Lupia I. It must not be brought to Suppuration II. The old and new way of Cure III. I. IF a Ganglion will not yield to Medicines it must be cut out with a Knife unless it be in the hands or in the feet or there be danger of Nerves Veins or Arteries wherewith sometimes it is implicated A Lupia also must be cut out as a Gland like as we did a few days agone near the Jugulars Chalmetaeus with good success II. A Ganglion sometimes when it is deeply radicated hinders the motion of some joint therefore some course must be taken with it betimes
openers and purgers for example Take of extract of Rheubarb 1 scruple Tartarum vitriolatum half a scruple Mix them Make a Bolus upon which let the Patient drink some distilled Water of Agrimony in which after a while ten drops of rectified Spirit of Tartar may be dropt Fortis XXXII Purgatives must answer in proportion to the foresaid preparers and aperients among which since Rheubarb has the prerogative we must not depart from it yet observing this difference that as the substance purges the hollow more than the gibbous part so the Infusion purges the gibbous part more than the hollow of the Liver because it communicates its subtiler parts to the Infusion Let 2 drachms be infused in Agrimony-water adding a little Spike Senna and Polypody of the Oak and to the expression add some Syrup of Roses solutive Idem XXXIII We must not desist from the use of aperients till all pain be quite gone or well abated and the Hypochondria be lighter since the obstruction of the Liver is a chronical Disease and usually cannot be opened in one week nay scarce in a whole year We must be very industrious to take it away for there is the beginning and foundation of all Diseases and unless it be carefully and totally taken away it causes the corruption of the Bloud Inflammations Fevers Schirrhi divers Fluxes of the Belly Cachexy Dropsie Jaundice c. 2. A due order must be observed in giving of all Medicines Universals must always be given before Particulars and Topicks 3. Medicines must not be given till long after Meat 4. They must be Liquid that they may penetrate 5. Attenuant dissolving and discussing things besides that they must be moderate and must also be hepatick and astringent 6. In Diseases of the Liver we must not use sweet things as Meat but as Sauce after recovery but they must not be offered to any while they are indisposed Hofmannus External Topicks must never be cold but always hot or warm XXXIV One at Padua was ill of a deplorable Ulcer of the Liver he was otherwise a lusty Man and addicted to Sea-affairs The Excellent H. S. a Physician of Venice conâ—rary to the advice of the rest of the Physicians got his Abdomen opened with a Razour upon the Region of the Liver that much of the Pus might run out at the wound After which the wound was cured and the Man survived and three years after he leaped and wrought Capivaccius and found no inconvenience XXXV Some are of opinion that an Imposthume of the Liver must not be opened because according to Fernelius 6. de part Morb. cap. 4. and Forestus lib. 19. obs 10. an Ulcer contracted from an Abscess which is continually washed with aliment must perpetually be very foul nor can it ever heal seeing the substance of the Liver is spermatick and can no more be repaired than other such parts This Disease therefore since it is of it self mortal let the Physician abstain from external incision or burning lest he be thought to have killed the Man whom the violence of the Disease destroyed But on the contrary where it is not possible to evacuate the Pus by Urine or any other way Mercatus Pract. lib. 4. cap. 2. intimates that the opening of it with a red hot Iron may be practised by a skilfull and honest Chirurgeon If saith he the abscess appear outwardly certainly it is bad not to cut it because if incision be omitted the Liver is eroded by the Pus and there is no escaping of Death But if you be minded to cut it without a red-hot Iron there will be danger of an hemorrhage and the Man will immediately be destroyed Notwithstanding Capivaccius l. 3. Pract. c. 23. and Saxonia l. 3. Panthaei c. 29. give instances of the opening of it with success Some tumours come to suppuration and because the Liver is of little sense for onely the gibbous part of it has Nerves therefore crude ones cannot be distinguished from suppurable ones but in process of time For then they that suppurate especially on the gibbous part stand out sharp and indicate Section without endangering of Life as I have experienced in several although the common integuments the Muscles and Peritonaeum were cut But if it be in the hollow part it must be purged by Urine as I observed in a Nun. Which cannot be done in a Tumour of the gibbous part When it is cut a Tent may be put in dipt in the White of an Egg. Then we must use digestives as in the wound of that part Marchetti obs 52. Afterwards a cicatrice must be made with Sarcoticks and then with Epuloticks yet all the purulent matter must first be evacuated by help of Tents and leaden Pipes by which it is purged sooner and with more convenience In this manner I have cured several who at this present live well in health ¶ Hippocrates 7. Aph. 46. teaches us how a purulent Liver may be healed But almost all Men judge them desperate who have a purulent Liver The Cure I believe is not so difficult but it may be attempted with some hopes of recovery But Physicians fearing lest the Pus should be found bloudy and fetid in which case they certainly die are afraid lest the cause of death should be imputed to them I visited one whose Liver I immediately judged was inflamed and purulent Others believed he was troubled with a malignant Fever I thought to have cut him over against the Swelling to let the Pus out which remedy was derided After he was dead I ordered the place to be opened which the wretched Man while he lived pointed to as most tormented and the Coat of the Liver was found parted from the Parenchyma and in that space there were five pounds of white Pus Sanctorius as I foretold ¶ Although Hippocrates 7. Aph. 42. says the case is desperate when Pus comes out like to Lees of Oil yet we must not wholly desist from good hope seeing this seems to proceed rather from the natural condition of the suppurated Liver than from the default of heat onely because when the substance of the Liver is inflamed the heat is not such as to be able to turn the substance of it into white Pus But if you will venture on it make the hole large outwardly Mercatus and narrow inwardly Hernia or A Rupture The Contents It does not come in the Groin onely I. Whether we may rely on Medicines taken inwardly II. Rest and long lying in bed the best remedy III. The fashion of a Splenium under the Truss IV. A Truss must be applied to each Groin V. Cutting must not be tried in all VI. A rupture in the Guts cured by Section VII The way of curing one without Section by means of a Caustick VIII The Physician ought not to consent to Castration IX The new way of curing a Rupture false X. The coalition in old Men cannot be expected XI Whether Section
original to the disease besides for the most part it is impossible to raise a Sweat in Hydropick persons Riveriuâ— XXI Diaphoreticks though they be of special use in an Anasarca yet in an Ascites they are either of none or but very rare because used unseasonably they often doe the Patient a great deal of harm without any benefit inasmuch namely as by heating the bloud they cause the waters fluctuating in the cavity of the Belly to rage and as it were to boil so that the spirits and humours are very much disturbed by vapours raised from thence and so a disorder of all the functions does follow and the Inwards themselves are very much hurt as if they were perboiled Moreover by Sweating thus amiss the bloud being forced into fusion and precipitation of the Serum Willis discharges more of it into the nest of the Ascites XXII Sweat must not be raised by Decoctions which by their actual humidity doe harm but by Extracts of Guaiacum Claudinus Sassafras Carduus Benedictus c. XXIII They greatly mistake who try to expell an absolute and full Cacochymie as in a Dropsie by Sudorificks Indeed this is sometimes good in the Venereal Disease but it is onely in this case and that onely sometimes It happens sometimes that in Hydropicks little blisters appear on their Belly by opening of these oftentimes more water comes out in two or three hours time than the best Sweat would get out in a whole night Hofmannus XXIV Let any one be ill of an inveterate Dropsie in the end he is troubled with continual want of Sleep and he that goes to cure this with Narcoticks kills the Patient Hydropicks dye upon taking one grain of Opium If the Patient desire help for his want of Sleep let the Physician prescribe some well-known Medicine lest when the Patient must of necessity dye hastning of his Death be ascribed to Medicines Walaeus XXV Whoever gives an Hydropick person half a drachm of Treacle he highly endangers his Patient's life and his own credit even by giving of one grain For such Opiates do not onely lay the Spirits asleep but they make the shortness of breath worse Hofmannus to which Symptoms almost all Hydropicks are obnoxious XXVI Perforation of the Abdomen is the greatest Remedy which must be used when there are indicant and permittent Intentions The Indicant are watry Matter It is lawfull to perforate in an Ascites onely Avicenna does not tap the Abdomen unless the body be very strong when therefore you come to Patients do not tarry till they grow weak because it will be in vain afterwards to use this remedy Concerning the time Avicenna says You must not dare to tap the Belly as long as any other cure is possible The Moderns explain it thus All things must be tried before the Knife but this is a great errour for Avicenna used other Remedies after Tapping But he would shew us that we must not proceed to Tapping unless we foresee the Disease will not be cured with less remedies When therefore we find the Belly swell fast and other accidents we must presently have recourse to this remedy But if we should try all things first without doubt the Patient would be enfeebled and his weakness would not allow it Capivaccius Hippocrates ¶ We must tap Hydropicks quickly ¶ Aurelianus says there is no other reason why most dye whatever some may object but because this cure is always tried too late and when the disease by diuturnity is become incurable Vallesius XXVII It ought to be considered that Nature her self who being taught by no Man yet does those things that are proper has as it were pointed out to us this operation while she has saved the Patient oftentimes from present death by swelling and opening the Navel in a Dropsie And though it be very difficult to tap the Navel yet when it is swelled we must seek no other place But if the Navel chance not to rise in a blister some other convenient place must be sought And that is on the left-side of the Navel three inches below the Navel and so many on one side of it Yet first as the Patient stands upright if there be not an excessive quantity of Serum or as he sits or lies when his belly is very much swelled the place must be carefully marked with Ink. Formerly Section was made with a Penknife through the skin muscles and Peritonaeum not without fear of hurting the Guts then after Section they put a smooth-shouldred Silver pipe into the wound exactly fitting the hole Which because it was very difficult the Moderns have found out a far more convenient way and that is by a Pipe having a very sharp edge at the end which Barbette Chirurg p. 1. c. 15. describes for by this the Abdomen is perforated by degrees But as soon as it has penetrated into the hollow part presently the water uses to run out at the holes that are on each side of the edge the excessive flux whereof if we would stop we stop the hole of the pipe with a Silver pen exactly fitting it and when we have a mind to let it run again we draw it out When we have a mind often to repeat this operation either a new hole is made or that is opened again which was made before Van Horne Miâ—roâ—ecâ—n A little Lint with an agglutinant plaster applied over it shuts the hole securely XXVIII We must hasten to tapping not the vulgar way which is full of danger but a new and safe way by a Silver pin hollow which is gently thrust into the Abdomen about four inches below the Navel and as many on one side of it and after a sufficient quantity of water is let out it is drawn out again and in like manner at some other time or day it is thrust into the same hole unless it seem good to make a new hole some other where There is no danger in this operation because when the pin is drawn out no more liquour will run out but by applying a Diapalma plaster the opened place is not onely defended from the injuries of the ambient Air but its consolidation is promoted Sylvius XXIX Although Erasistratus Avicenna and Gordonius think it destructive yet if there be all the conditions for the safe performance of it I should willingly order it immediately And these conditions are six 1. That not deplorable persons but such as have strength be tapped 2. That they be not very feverish 3. That there be no Schirrhus in the bowels 4. That the disease be new and the bowels not corrupted by the water 5. All the water must not be evacuated 6. It must neither be in Summer nor in Winter time if it be possible But in a Dropsie of many months the decay of the Inwards may be suspected which alone may dehort from so great a Remedy the unhappy success whereof may easily be
with crudity of the Stomach is a singular Remedy by the use whereof Galen happily cured desperate Hypochondriacks reduced almost to extreme Leanness ¶ The virtue of Mumia Viperina is admirable in renovation of the bloud Bartolettus 3. Aperients in this Disease give great relief among which I attribute the first place to the root of the greater Rhapontick Centaury The bloudy juice is expressed out of the fresh root Make a Syrup with Sugar of which 2 spoonfulls may be taken every morning Crato 4. This is a famous Physician 's secret Water for hypochondriack Melancholy Take of Flowers of Bugloss Borage Stoechas Arabica each half an ounce Rosemary Majoran Balm each 2 drachms Root of Bugloss 4 drachms Betony 2 drachms Water of Borage Bugloss each 4 ounces Powder of Cinnamon Galangal Cloves Saffron Seed of Basil each 1 drachm Pour 5 pounds of Rhenish Wine to them Let them stand in infusion for 2 or 3 days Distill them in Balneo Mariae The Dose 4 spoonfulls Finkius 5. An easie Remedy for this Disease One took onely some Cichory Broth for the first Mess and he recovered Rhodius 6. Sal vitrioli Martis excells all other Medicines Take of Oil of Vitriol or Sulphur half a pound Spirit of Wine 1 pound Put them in a clean Frying-pan Cover them with a Board so within 15 days the Salt will shoot which may be set in the Sun or an Oven to dry stirring it now and then Keep it safe from the Air. The Dose from 12 grains to 20. Riverius A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK IX Of Diseases beginning with the Letter I. Icterus or The Jaundice The Contents Sometimes Bleeding is convenient I. With what and when we must Purge II. A strong Purge not proper III. What Preparation and Purging is needfull IV. Vomits sometimes of use V. The cure by Lice unfortunate VI. Sylvius his cure of the Jaundice VII Chalybeates are good VIII The efficacy of the Waters IX Astringent and cold things must not be applied to the Liver X. The diagnostick and cure of a Jaundice arising from obstruction of the Gall bladder XI The black Jaundice does not always come from the Spleen XII It does not require the same cure with the Scurvy XIII Whether opening of the Veins under the Tongue be usefull in it XIV Medicines I. WHen Bile abounds if the abundance of it be not diminished first bloud must not be let because it is a check to the Bile If a Vein be opened to cool the heat of the Liver bloud must be let sparingly since letting of bloud is not a proper remedy for obstructions and it must be observed whether it comes out black Fortis cons 55. cent â— for when an Icterick was let bloud it appeared all yellow II. The Question is Whether Cholagogues may be prescribed The Affirmative may be maintained because Bile is superabundant therefore Jacchinus lib. 9. cap. 51. prescribes Purges of Scammony Electuary of juice of Roses and the like Mercurialis m. m. lib. 3. cap. 33. propounds the like Catharticks which purge Bile to the end the humours which feed the Bile poured out to the Skin may be carried off The Negative is concluded from Hippocrates lib. de intern affectib where he disswades Cholagogues lest the body be more disturbed Besides frequently in the Jaundice it is not abundance of Bile but effusion of Bile following the obstruction of the Gall-bladder that offends but these will not remove obstructions Observe for a decision according to Mercatus lib. 4. practic cap. 4. that in a Jaundice we must purge two manner of ways First with these Catharticks which carry off and absterge thick and stopping humours that when the Obstruction is opened the bilious humour that is bred may freely pass to the places natural to it by which means alone if you carefully apply attenuants and inciders you will cure the Disease Secondly there is need of such Medicines as diminish and evacuate the Bile which the natural vessels cannot receive Horstius Prob. Dec. 7. Qu. 5. Hippocrates his saying intimates the former Jacchinus and Mercurialis intend the latter III. Whether are strong Catharticks necessary Altimarus according to Aetius his judgment holds the Affirmative because weak things by reason of the driness of the Belly doe no good and Nature translating the matter to the circumference of the Body does not much help these evacuations Mercatus concludes on the contrary judging that strong Purges are very hurtfull because in an obstructed body it is better to Purge the Bile from far by degrees and to get the thick humour out of the obstructed vessel by little and little than by a sudden forcing of the excrement to make the Obstruction greater and firmer as it often happens to the unskilfull and careleâ—s Wherefore it is more advisable to use gentle Purges several times Idem ibid. than by any violence to render the Disease worse IV. The Belly may be loosened with lenitive Electuary and Creme of Tartar The matter contained in the first ways may be prepared with Honey of Roses and Julapium Acetosum or with half an ounce of Creme of Tartar dissolved in Broth. A Purge may be given the first time of Cassia with Lenitive and Pilul de tribus or an Infusion of Agarick Rheubarb Senna c. The second preparation must be made with Syrup of juice of Borage Cichory Byzantinus simplex But because sugared things in Bilious Diseases are not very safe therefore about three ounces of juice should rather be taken in a decoction of Cichory Dodder of Time Agrimony Cinquefoil Germander Horehound Wormwood first taking a Bolus of Extract of Rheubarb with Tartarum Vitriolatum And then he must be purged with a little stronger things respecting rather the thick humours than the bilious such as Diaphoenic Pilul de tribus c. and then 6 7 8 or 9 ounces of Decoct Epith. Mesues may be taken every day upon which about three hours after he may drink one pound of Whey of Goat's Milk then for a few days he may take juices of Cichory Borage Fumitory Mallows prepared in Broth. Both indeed because this Disease according to Galen gives not way to weak Purgatives And because things that purge Choler are bad before the attenuation of the humours according to Aetius with whom Galen agrees lib. de Nat. Hom. who uses deobstruents and afterwards things to purge Bile Therefore we must proceed to stronger Aperients And though Galen lib. de Purg. Med. boast that he has cured Ictericks presently with one Purge that Jaundice was from heat of the Liver and redundance of Bile without any obstruction of the passages Therefore two ounces of Syrupus Fernelii Cachecticus will be very proper in some aperient Broth to which if a just evacuation succeed the taking of it must be insisted on for twelve or fifteen days But if not more efficacious aperients must be given as Crocus Martis Aperitivus Fortis cons
with Purslain Pachequus obs 56. Riv. com Sorrel and Lettuce Also the Heat must be drawn outwards by applying Animals split in the Back LXIV If a lingring Fever arise from Obstructions there is nothing better according to Montanus cons 10. than an Infusion of Rheubarb in Endive-water He says he never met with a Fever from obstructions which was not cured with this Remedy if the use of it were constantly kept to The Infusion of Rheubarb now in common use is made of half a drachm or a drachm of it grosly bruised and tied in a bag and infused in two or three pounds of Spring-water cold for a day The use of it may be continued a month or more according to the contumacy of the Disease LXV We must not give Spirit of Vitriol Sulphur and the like to sucking children in Fevers or any other Distempers as we find them commended by Practitioners in their Books seeing by taking them Milk is curdled in the Stomach Hofmannus Hydrocephalus or The Dropsie in the Head LXVI In an Hydrocephalus if abundance of water be gathered without the Cranium the use of Medicines both internal and external is usually vain for as strong internal Medicines are not proper for this age so moderate or weak ones doe no good the case is the same in externals Wherefore we can have no hopes in any thing but in a sensible evacuation of the humour Now this evacuation must be made by Chirurgery i. e. by Section in performing of which we must observe what Aetius and Paulus write that if the Swelling have an high top it must be cut at once but if it be broad it must be cut at two or three times and places Mercurialis LXVII Some make running Ulcers with Caustick Medicines which Cure childrens heads cannot well bear though they be good in other cases Others advise Burning round the head in divers parts which sort of Remedy they are far less able to bear because the substance of the Brain is very tender Besides the water will neither be discharged quickly nor as it should And it is certain that the Skull if the water abide there long will be prejudiced which makes it more dangerous And Mercatus disapproves of Mercurialis his opening the Head in two or three places because the water is too suddenly discharged which is prohibited in these Diseases LXVIII It must be observed also that Section must always be made in the nethermost part because evacuation may much more easily and readily be made when the water has declivous places to run out at Idem LXIX You must moreover have a care you do not cut near the temporal Muscle till the water fall to one side of it and then you must open carefully in some remote part and apply upon the apertion Lint with the White of an Egg and Oil of unripe Roses Mercatus LXX When Section is made the humour must not be evacuated at once but by little and little And if this must be done in a Dropsie of the Belly it ought much more to be done in a Dropsie of the Head Mercurialis which is the seat of animal Spirits LXXI Aetius his advice must be followed if children be strong that Medicines must be strait tied down but if they be tender and weak it will be enough to cover the wounded place with soft Wooll or a very soft light Cap. Idem LXXII If the tumour proceeds from the Ichors of other humours which tumour Avicenna calls Atas he advises that the Nurse be fed with cooling things as Ptisan and Barley-water to apply Oil of Violets to the Head and to abstain from Bathing because bathing with warm water heats the Head more Idem LXXIII A child newly born was ill of an Hydrocephalus all over his Head with a great dilatation of the Sutures I cured this Disease perfectly onely with Guido's Swathe made in form of a Cap wherewith the whole Head was rolled the two ends being tied in a knot The said Swathe was renewed every day and within fifteen or twenty days the Swelling vanished Formius obs 6. LXXIV And you must have a care in this case how you make an Issue behind in the Head for by communication of Veins the water may easily fall on the Tendons and Muscles of the Neck upon which it may be feared that mortal Convulsions and other Diseases may grow It is better in a strong child to make an Issue in the Arm when other Remedies will doe no good Mercatus LXXV Sometimes a Contusion happens in the child's head by reason whereof a great Swelling full of Bloud arises to which the name of Hydrocephalus suits but improperly And it is caused either by the Midwife's fault who bruises the child's head in the Delivery or by reason of some vessels being open by the forcing of the child to get out some of the Serum and thinner part of the bloud going out by it And it may be the Nurses fault in letting the child fall and dashing it against a thing or in binding the head-bands too strait whereby the veins and arteries that are then tender are compressed This serum and bloud is diffused between the Skull and the Skin sometimes upon the crassa meninx and sometimes upon the Brain it self If the Contusion be flight it may be discussed by the help of Fomentations and Liniments of a Decoction of Roses Flowers of Melilot and Chamaemil adding a Liniment of Oil of Roses and St. John's-wort mixt together Guillemeau de educatione infantium cap. 17. or applying a Plaster of Diachalcit and Diachylum Ireatum But if the Contusion be great it will be in vain to try to dissipate it by Discutients according to Experience ¶ I have a Daughter called Elizabeth thirteen years old born before her time that is fifteen days before the feventh month By reason in the Birth she could not force because of her Weakness the whole affair depended upon the Mother and the Midwife But the Midwife drawing out the Girl by main force so bruised her head that for two months after she was born she voided clotted black bloud at her mouth nostrils and ears In the mean time whatever Food she took it was not given her by the breast but in a spoon She was swathed double round her body while her Nails were wanting But when the time was over that she ought to have remained in the Womb she began to take the breast and to thrive In the eighth month she began to pronounce some words And this present year 1681. she is brisk and well and almost fit to marry Imperforati or They that are Imperforate LXXVI It was Albucasis his Judgment that Midwives ought very carefully to search children when they are new born and if the hole be stopt to open it gently with their Finger or with an Instrument and then to lay on Wooll wet with Wine and Oil then to cure it with Unguents to
having the Hemorrhoids flowing for two years yea the noxious Humour of his Body was thereby amended Rhod. cent 2. obs 9. XL. For helping in some measure the lost Appetite which is a common symptom with Phthisical People I think there has not a more convenient Remedy been as yet discovered than Elixir proprietatis taken in Wine or other convenient Liquor to five or six drops about half an hour before Meal For seeing this Elixir consists of Myrrhe Saffron and Aloes with the Oil of Sulphur prepared per campanam and the Spirit of Wine digested together upon the account of the Myrrh as also of the Saffron it is good for The Phthisick and Cough and the Aloes incides the Phlegmatick viscid Humour and brings it forth gently and slowly yea and does attenuate the Pus it self besides all these are good for cleansing the Ulcer so that it is a most convenient Medicin for a Phthisis whose Acidity may be temper'd with a sweeter mixture wherein it may be taken The same Medicin will likewise promote the fermentation of Aliments in the Stomach that is hindred by the toughness or clamminess of the Pus which is sent into all the Humours of the Body Sylv. tract 4. append sect 180 186. and so likewise will lighten the weight that is troublesom to the Patients after Meal XLI As to drink Wine that is generous and also sweet is commended such as Malmsey and that which is not harsh yet Claret is allowed in colder Climates White is often found to be too acrimonious And though that stronger Wine be never fully fermented yet it is not therefore more hurtful but more profitable For by that part which is sufficiently fermented it recruits the Animal Spirits that are withal enfeebled or not so well drawn out of the Aliments and by that part which is not fermented it breeds laudable Blood and supplies plentiful and profitable Matter for making Animal Spirit In the mean while it is to be taken in a small quantity and conveniently with Bisket whether simple or sugared by the help whereof it is longer stayed in the Stomach affects the Brain less Idem prax med l. 1. c. 24. sect 20. and recruits all the faculties as is clear from Experience Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. There is no better Remedy for a Phthisis than an healthful Womans Milk â—rid Hosm 2. Take of the Blood of an Hog a year old and newly kill'd four pound of the Leaves of Foalfoot and Scabious of each two handfuls of the Conserve of Roses and Borage of each an ounce and half of the Water of Foalfoot fifteen ounces mix them and distil them Sweeten it with Manus Christi as much as is sufficient and take half an ounce of it every morning fasting This is good in an Ulcer of the Lungs and when the Body is wasted Greg. Horst 3. A decoction of Bugle in Mutton Broth is exceeding good River pr. med 4. Balsam of Peru contributes much to the Cure of Ulcers in the Lungs if a drop of it being made up into a Pill or two with Sugar be given daily Idem 5. These following Pills are of great efficacy Take of the Mass of Pil. Ruffi an ounce of Antimon diaphâ—ret and Gum Arabick of each half a drachm with Balsam of Peru make a Mass of Pills Idem of which take a scruple every day for a Month. 6. Take of green Foalfoot eight handfuls of Hyssop two handfuls cut them and put them up in an Earthen Pot with a little Water Lute on the cover which must have a hole in the top but so that the hole be also luted Put the Pot in an Oven when the Bread is half baked and take it out again when the Bread is baked enough and opening the hole in the Cover put a Funnel in it and so draw the Smoak by your Mouth into your Lungs and breath it out again by your Nose It wonderfully helps Expectoration Idem 7. Take of new Goats Milk four pound of fresh Snails cleansed with Salt and good Water and shaken a little that the Milk may the better penetrate them to the number of twenty of Rosemary and if you please of Foalfoot and Wall-rue of each so much as to make an handful in all boil them gently to the consumption of a fourth part of the Milk Strain it and keep it Drink hereof every Morning and Evening about half a pint warm with an ounce of the Conserve of Roses Joh. Zwelf pharm or with the same quantity of white Sugar-Candy The Pleurisy The Contents The generation and methodical Cure of a Pleurisy I. Bleeding is good in every true Pleurisy and in every Person II. It may be performed after the beginning of the Disease III. Whether Blood be always to be let till it change colour IV. In the suppression of the Terms what Vein is to be open'd V. Whether Bleeding be good in a Pestilential and Epidemical Pleurisy VI. Whether a Vein may be opened while the Terms flow VII Sometimes the Vein will not bleed through the violence of the pain VIII Bleeding is hurtful in a flatulent Pleurisy IX It is not always to be repeated for the increase of the accidents X. A Vein is not to be opened in the Tabid Pleuritical XI A Woman nine months gone with Child cured by Bleeding four times and happily deliver'd XII Bleeding is not good in a Pleurisy which is caused by a Fluxion from the Head XIII A few large Bleedings are better than many small XIV Bleeding performed on the ninth day with profit XV. A Pleurisy of both sides cured by large Bleeding XVI Bleeding is hurtful to those who have a pain in their Side from thick viscid Humours XVII The vertue of Cupping-Glasses and Scarifications applied to the part XVIII Whether a Pleurisy may be cured by Paracentesis or Tapping XIX A Pleurisy that could only be cured by Section XX. When there is place for Purgation XXI Purgation is hurtful in a true Pleurisy XXII Whether we may purge in a descending Pleurisy XXIII A bastard Pleurisy cured by purging XXIV How Catharticks and Vomitories help XXV A Pleurisy is sometimes cured by Emeticks XXVI Whether Diareticks be profitable XXVII When there is place for them XXVIII The profitableness of Diaphoreticks and Hydroticks XXIX When to use the Flowers of red Poppy XXX One cured by the Vulnerary Decoction XXXI The efficacy of Antimonium Diaphoreticum XXXII The vertue and nature of Antipleuriticks XXXIII The correction of the fault and lentor of the Blood XXXIV The Cure of a spurious and flatulent Pleurisy XXXV Antipleuritick Pouders are hurtful in a Phlegmatick Pleurisy XXXVI Eclegma's or Lambitives are hurtful in the beginning XXXVII Sugared things are to be abstained from in a Cholerick Pleurisy XXXVIII Whether Acid Potions be profitable XXXIX Whether Narcoticks be to be admitted XL. Too hot things are not to be given XLI Repriments are not to
man wonder here that Laudanum opiatum is added For I maintain that Opium has an excellent virtue in hindring and restraining the vitious effervescency of sharp Humours both in the small Guts and in the Heart and elsewhere without which effervescence noxious and sharp Vapors could not easily be raised and produce Swooning Fits To this mixture many very efficacious things may be added made of divers parts of Animals Tincture of Castor Spirit of Salt of Sal Ammoniac of Urine the Volatil and Oyly Salt of Blood Bones Horns Hoofs The Oyls must be rectified and not only in part be freed from their Empyreuma Sylvius de le Boë but made more penetrating and potent The rectification must be made with Spirit of Wine tartarisate VIII We must observe that when Swooning proceeds from the offence of the Stomach things that call out the Spirits are not proper but rather things that repel them to the Heart as throwing cold water or Rose water in the Face Fortis IX In fear of Swooning and in small Faintings accompanied with troublesome cold the following Mixture may be prepared of Shop Medicines a spoonful to be given often between whiles Take of water of Mint 2 ounces Aqua vitae Matthioli 1 ounce or Tincture of Cinnamon half an ounce oyl of Cloves 6 drops Scurvy-grass 1 ounce Mix them I do not only commend volatil Salts and Aromatick Oyls from Experience but because reason perswades the same drawn from the analysis of the Salts and Oyls and from the efficient cause of this Hypochondriack suffocation that is viscid and acid Phlegm or viscid and acid or austere Vapors compared together For these Salts and Oyls have a virtue to dissolve and incide every Viscid to temper and correct every thing acid and austere and to discuss and dissipate whatever is balituous and windy X. Spirit of Roses refreshes the Heart and Brain and revives the Spirits one drop or two perfumes a great quantity of Water Therefore in Swooning and Fainting the Dose of it is from 5 drops to half a Scruple or a whole one But some mistake and give it cool when yet it is as hot as other Spirit and is fully separated from the cooling parts of the Roses For we must know that simple Medicines made of Vegetables have for the most part the virtue of the Plants whereof they are made and may be put to the same uses Sylvius de le Boe. unless these Plants have different parts Therefore Rheubarb in substance binds XI We must have a care of such Patients that we think not of burying them presently for several have come to themselves in the Grave Let this one Instance suffice In the year 1582. my Host at Cleves who lives at the Sign of the Eagle told me that 17 years before he was taken with a most grievous acute Disease and at length he fell into such a Swoon that all men thought he had been Dead that Johannes Wierus was called to him and found that his Soul was not then separated from his Body and therefore ordered him to be covered up warm in Bed and Cordials to be given him and while he was busie about the recovery of his Patient the Friends were preparing for the Funeral but the next day he came to himself Hildanus XII All that faint for want of Spirits must not be brought to themselves one and the same way for it is necessary to consider in what manner the cause makes its impression and to oppose that For although all immoderate evacuations dissipate the Spirits yet you must cure one way if it proceed from too much Sweating another way if from a Loosness another if from loss of Blood and another if from Vomiting For they that Faint for Sweating or great heat and have a weak retentive faculty are easily raised by throwing a little cold water or Rose water or Vinegar not all over their Skin but only their Face and Hands and that suddenly both that the Skin being condensed the Spirits may not wast so much and that the Patient by the sudden retrocession of the Spirits may be the sooner raised and for the same reason you must take care to cool the Air by throwing such cooling things on the Floor and by Fanning it that the Skin may be made close and the Spirits be thickned Which Remedies you must not use if a loosness be the cause of Swooning for by throwing cold water the Humours are driven inwards which it is requisite to draw outwards Nor must you do it if one faint for plenitude or obstruction But if it arise from some passion of the mind which may draw the Spirits outwards you may use the same Remedy as if it came from Pain or Evacuation In the same manner also you must raise the Patient by pulling him by the Nose especially if the Humors purge downwards If it proceed from Vomiting you must bind heat and rub the Legs if from a Looseness the Arms. Those that Faint for loss of Blood you may raise by the same revulsions and by applying warm wine to the stones in a Man and to the Breasts in a Woman But you may fetch these and all others again by such things as revive the Spirits as white thin odoriferous Wine diluted with steel water If it be occasioned by Sweat by using Sudorificks or holding new baked Bread besprinkled with them to the Nose But in looseness of the Belly Bread in red Wine is of great moment if there be neither internal Inflammation nor a delirium nor any heat Epithemes and sprinkling of cold water by turns and intervals lest all efflux of Vapors might be stopt The use also of cooling astringent things is good such as the juice of a Pomegranate But let them that Faint for Sweat abstain from frictions and Wine except to smell to To them that Faint for Vomiting you must give a draught of old white or black Wine especially if it arise from crude and viscid juices as a draught of cold or hot water if the Humour be bilious sharp or salt All which things you must do except the revulsions if the Patient Faint through violent heat XIII They that are subject to Swoon because of Pain passion of the Mind and diaphoretick evacuations must use such things as allay pain but that which does most good is a thing that stupefies a little for either by stupefying the Sense or procuring rest it stops the Flux a little till the Spirits are recruited and are able to defend the Patient from the cruelty of the Pain and other accidents But because in these Persons the Spirits are extream low Mercatus I advise to use them sparingly and with caution Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. It is good in all Swoonings to apply a large Cupping-glass with much flame to the left Shoulder J. Caes Claudinus 2. When the Body is purged Spirit of Wine rectified and perfumed with Amber and Musk and
which must be separated from its Faeces 3 grains a day may be given for a Dose in Speedwell Water Kircheruâ— 10. This is proved by certain Experience if any one have swallowed Leeches or eaten Mushromes or any poysonous thing let him immediately drink warm Vinegar with a little Salt Kunrad and he will presently be cured by Vomiting 11. Against Opium Let Mustard and Castor be taken in equal quantities and put into the Nose Mercurialis to cause Sneezing 12. Treacle with â—xymel Simpl. or Scylliticum satisfies all Indications for none that ever took this after eating Mushromes died of them Panarolus but all through GOD's Blessing recovered 13. A Decoction of Linseed corrects all Erosions of the Stomach caused by taking Cantharides Platerus and it is reckoned their Antipharmack 14. Against Quicklime the Gall of a Roebuck from 1 scruple to 1 drachm taken in warm Water is an Antidote as also a scruple of Deer's Gall given the same way ¶ Against Gypsum 1 drachm of Mice dung in Wine ¶ Against Aqua fortis Mucilage of Quince seed Marsh-mallow and Gum Tragacanth drawn with Rose water and mixt with Honey of Roses and of Violets ¶ Against Antimony besides Treacle bole Armenick and Oyl of Cloves ¶ Against Arsenick Fossile Crystall powdered 1 scruple taken in Oyl of sweet Almonds also Oyl of Pine-nuts 3 drachms given in drink also juice of Mint 2 drachms ¶ Against Minium burnt Ivory 2 drachms in Wine also Treacle and Mithridate ¶ Against crude Mercury filings or leaves of Gold also juice of Burnet and Wine ¶ Against its Fume a draught of Wine wherein Rosemary Staechas Arabica and lesser Centaury have been boyled as also a draught of Sage and Zeodary water ¶ Against sublimate and precipitate fine powder of Crystal 1 drachm with Oyl of sweet Almonds also 2 drachms of Oyl of Tartar or salt of Wormwood ¶ Against Cinnabar burnt Ivory 2 drachms given in Wine ¶ Against Mushromes Hen's dung or ashes of Vine-branches with a little Nitre drunk with Honey and Water warm Sowre Pears are commended whether green or dry and if they be eaten before Mushromes or boyled with them they render the Mushromes harmless Treacle also is good But let a Man especially use Honey in his Meat which is a peculiar and proper Antidote against Mushromes ¶ Against Napellus Take of the Flies of Napellus they are blew Flies which sit and live upon no other Plant of the like Nature with this N o. 20 Birthwort Bole Armenick each 1 drachm Make a Powder ¶ Against Wolf's bane Opchalsamum 1 drachm ¶ Against Henbane Pistachio-nuts eaten and drunk ¶ Against green Coriander roots of Swallow-wort in Wine ¶ Against Euphorbium Citron seed in Wine wherein Elecampane root has been boyled also terra sigillata Emerauld prepared Crystall c. ¶ Against white Hellebore powder of the Flowers or roots of white Water Lily or Parsnep seed 2 drachms taken in Wine also Treacle ¶ Against the bite of a Viper Bezoar from half a scruple to 1 drachm boyled in Wormwood Wine and given Also Garlick Leeks Onyons Rue Treacle Mithridate Antidotus Matthioli which some highly commend the Dose is 3 drachms in some Cordial water ¶ Against a Scorpion besides the live Scorpion taken and bruised and applied to the Wound and Oyl of Scorpions the Milk of a Fig-tree dropt into the Wound is good ¶ Against the biting of a Leech Agrimony bruised and applied ¶ Against a Spider the Catkins of the Walnut-tree dried in an Oven from 1 drachm to 2 given in Hydromel or white Wine also Treacle and Bole Armenick taken in Vinegar also the dry Reâ—â— of the Fir-tree Against Cantharides Penny-royal taken either in Substance or in Decoction also Terra Lemnia 2 drachms or Winter Cherries N o. 10 with Wine ¶ Against the Venome of Flies Bees and Wasps the Animals themselves bruised and applied to the Part also live Sulphur mixt with Man's spittle Rue or the Milk of the Fig-tree applied to the Place And if there be need Coriander may be given inwardly with Sugar ¶ Against the Brain and Blood of a Cat half a scruple of Musk taken frequently ¶ Against Milk curdled on the Stomach Vinegar simple or of Squills also the juice of Mint new drawn also Milk of the Fig-tree given with Wine and Vinegar also the Runnet of any Animal ¶ Against the poysonous Sweat of any creature Take Bole Armenick Terra Sigillata Bay-berries each 1 drachm the Runnet of a Roe-buck or instead of it of an Hare half a drachm Myrrh leaves of Rue each half a drachm with clarified Honey make an Electuary Senâ—ertus Take 2 drachms every day 15. All things premised that ought it is the best way to drive out the Poyson to the Skin to which purpose this is a most excellent Water Take of Aqua theriacalis camphorata 1 drachm and an half Liquor of Tartar corrected Spirit of Vitriol each half a drachm the oyly Liquor of red Corall 1 drachm Oyl of Turpentine 5 drops of Juniper 4 drops Essence of Celandine half a drachm Water of the root of Colts foot Eryngo each 1 ounce of Elder flowers Wall Gilliflowers each half an ounce red sweet Wine 2 ounces and an half Vid. Vidius Mix them Destill them in Balneo Keep it for use Ventriculi affectus or Diseases of the Stomach See Stomachicks Book XIX The Contents Whether Topicks must be applied for the strengthning of it I. What such the things that are applied to the Back should be II. Plaisters should not be long kept on III. What dry Things are applied must not be cold or astringent IV. An Instrument to scour a foul Stomach V. It admits of an Incision VI. When the Stomach is ill the Diet must be thin VII The Cure of an unaequall Intemperature VIII In a hot Intemperature we must take care of the Liver IX A Vomit is most convenient for an Intemperature with an Humor X. The Efficacy of Hiera in cold Diseases with Phlegm XI Strong Purges are hurtful XII We must use Heaters with caution XIII When Wormwood Wine may be given XIV How far we may heat the Stomach XV. Things with Vinegar in them are not proper in every Crudity XVI A Caution about digesting Powders XVII Strengthning Powders do harm upon account of the Sugar XVIII The use of Pepper is strengthning the Stomach XIX When the drinking of hot or cold Water is good XX. Spirit of Vitriol is hurtful XXI Whether Spirit of Vitriol of Venus be proper XXII All strong destilled Things are hurtfull XXIII Destilled Aquae vitae help not Concoction XXIV Strong smelling Things must not be added to digestive Powders XXV Things that heat the Stomach if the Liver be hot must be taken after Meat XXVI Wormwood worn under the Soles of the feet cures a cold Stomach XXVII Over hot things applied do hurt XXVIII Wine rather hinders Concoction than helps it XIX An austere Wine in a dry Intemperature
Aristolochia rotunda ¶ This is a sure Remedy for Ulcers with worms in them Take of Savin 2 handfuls Camphire half a drachm the middle rind of an Hazle 1 pugil Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Wine pour it into a Vessel put the Ulcerous Foot into it and immediately little Worms will come out Swimming upon the Liquor Repeat this several times Joh. Agricola and the Ulcers will be cured 2. Black earth Snails which are found creeping among the leaves and grass without Houses in Spring time Enzelius mashed together and applied to Ulcers soften all Ulcers wonderfully 3. To inflamed Ulcers apply the narcotick Spirit of Vitriol which is made of calcined Vitriol and Spirit of Wine mixt together and putrefied in a close Glass for a Month. This Spirit separated is good not only to allay all Inflammation Faber and pains of Ulcers but of the Gout it self 4. I take water Frogs and hang them in a Cucurbit so as they may not touch the bottom and burn and so the water which is drawn off get a strong Smell I put fire under it and draw it off gently in Sand and keep it for use For it is most precious in malignant and cancrous Ulcers also in a Polypus Ozaena and in Ulcers of the pudenda and sedes it extinguishes Inflammation and corrects malignity I put not out the fire till they be perfectly dry and no more water will come over but I keep that which comes last by it self for it smells something strong and is not so grateful in Ulcers of the Mouth and Nose The Frogs thus dried I put into a melting crucible and burn them to white ashes They are good not only to stop Blood Guil. Fabricius but in all malignant and sordid Ulcers for if they be strewed thereon they cleanse and correct malignity 5. This is a most excellent Oyntment Take of Oyl of unripe Roses 6 drachms Myrtle unguentum populeon each 3 ounces leaves of Plantain Nightshade each 1 handful shred them and mix all together let them stand 8 dayes shaking them every day then strain them add to the colature of wax 4 drachms Mix them upon the fire till they melt stirring them with a stick when it is warm add of Litharge of Gold 6 drachms Ceruss 2 drachms prepared tutty 2 drachms Camphire 1 drachm and an half Mix them in a Mortar for 2 hours Eust Rhudius 6. The root of Dragons is excellent for Cacoethick Ulcers 7. The juice of Pimpernel with the purple flower Poterius with the Herb bruised and applied to malignant Ulcers perfectly cures them Rhumelius 8. Mercury precipitate corrected is a singular Remedy against all Ulcers 9. Many in a deplorable condition have been happily freed from their Ulcers by a decoction of Mint wherewith the Ulcers are washed Morning and Evening and afterward some powder of Rue strewed on Mart. Rulandus ¶ Oyl of Sulphur and Emplastram Diasulphuris anoynted and applied does the same 10. Some cure the most desperate Ulcers with this mixture They take of Mercury sublimate 1 drachm they powder it very fine they pour to it the best rectified Spirit of Wine 1 pound They set it in a Glass Body in Sand till the Sand grow hot and the Spirit of Wine burn They boyl also a drachm of Lignum Guaiacum in 3 pints of water half away when the water is cooled and filtred they add the said Spirit of Wine Sacâ—â— which mixture is applied with lint and tents to the Ulcers 11. Take of Salt of Litharge it is prepared as Sal Saturni with destilled Vinegar 1 drachm Spirit of Turpentine 2 drachms macerate them in hot Ashes till the Liquor grow red It is of admirable vertue in inveterate Ulcers Tumours Schroderat and Wounds 12. I have often experienced the following Plaster to be good Take of Vnguentum diapomph diapalma griseum each 1 drachm gum Elemi 2 drachms Saccharum Saturni 1 scruple a little Wax Mix them and make a Plaster ¶ Spirit of Wine especially is excellent in deterging and cleaning putrid Ulcers Sennertus and therefore should be mixt with other Medicines 13. The following unguent is effectual in absterging Ichors and foulness of Ulcers Take of juice of Parsly half a pound Myrrh 2 drachms Turpentine 1 drachm and an half Boyl them all together make an unguent wherewith rags and tents may be smeared and put into the hollow of the Ulcers Valleriola this cleanses well without any harm Vomitus or Vomiting The Contents Bleeding is good for some I. The efficacy of a Cupping-Glass II. It must sometimes be cured by Vomiting III. The efficacy of Clysters in stopping one IV. When nourishing ones must be given V. Cured by Elixir Proprietatis VI. Stopped with Medical Waters VII With a draught of cold Water VIII The way to stop it when caused by corrosive Poysons IX How when caused by a Malignant quality X. In Scorbutick Persons it is better stopt with Milk than with astringents XI How it may be stopt when the meat is cast up because of the depression of the Cartilago Xiphoides XII The stopping of it when a Vomit works too violently XIII A periodical vomiting of black Choler stopt by the use of Lenitives XIV One caused by a great laxity of the Stomach cured by eating of biscoct bread XV. The cure of one caused by the obstruction of the Arteries of the Spleen XVI A pertinacious Vomiting of Meat from the palsie of the Mouth of the Stomach XVII Some is stopt by a Narcotick mixt with a Purge XVIII Cautions about anoynting the Stomach XIX Plasters are better than Oyntments XX. When the Stomach refuses necessary Medicines how they may be kept XXI The cure of one coming from a Malignant Fever XXII When Meat may be given XXIII Some Vomiting is Idiopathick some Sympathick XXIV The cure of it when something is bred in the Stomach XXV When it comes from a sharp and hot matter XXVI From the fault of the Stomach that corrupts what it takes XXVII From the resolution of the Stomach and the nerves being affected XXVIII How Laudanum must be given XXIX Medicines Barbette I. BLeeding must of necessity be celebrated in an Inflammation of the parts otherwise it does harm ¶ A young Man of a good habit upon the breaking in of a hot matter out of the right Hypochondrium fell suddenly into vomiting and could be cured by no means but by Bleeding though the Physicians were very doubtful about it for after it the intemperature of the Liver ceased A Seaman who had a vomiting and an appetite could not stop it by setting a Cupping-glass to the bottom of his Stomach but only by taking away some Blood for when the hot evaporation of the Liver was abated Rhodius which did pierce the upper orifice of the Stomach the Patient recovered II. A Countryman 34 years old fell into frequent vomiting after his Meat which lasted for some dayes so that he
rouses them into a new fermentation it drives Putrefaction from the Concrete although already begun and procures a firm concretion to it again That such alterations and freeings from corruption can be performed on Liquors made by Art every one knows and indeed in the Plague and malignant Diseases Alexipharmacks seem to perform the same Effect for these being taken often inasmuch as they exagitate the Blood continually and drive it into an higher ferment notwithstanding the influence of the hurtful miasmata or impurities they conserve its mixture intire yea after the malignity has made impression and the Crasis of the Blood begins to be loosened and dissolved in the manner aforesaid such Remedies being still exhibited for promoting Sweat or Perspiration inasmuch as they decoct the impurities of the received taint and induce a new fermentation opposite to the other corruptive one they often deface the Impetus or impressions of the pestiferous Malady As to the Cordials by which the too strait Compages of the effervescing Blood is loosened and opened for the setting at liberty the febrile Matter and other Recrements those are of affinity with some Diureticks and Diaphoreticks yea sometimes they are of common or reciprocal use inasmuch as the vitiated Crasis of the Blood sometimes cannot be relieved unless its Compages being first unlocked there lie open an exit for discharging the Serum by the Reins or the Pores of the Skin Saline Medicines do chiefly execute all these intentions of Cure for as we have otherwhere noted the opening of any Body whether liquid or solid is hardly performed but by a Saline key For commonly all concretion or compaction is from a Salt of one sort and the dissolution from some of another sort that snatches into its embraces the first Salt and then Precipitation is caused by some Salt of a different condition that destroys the Combinations of the former Therefore we reckon Salines among Cordials no less than among Diureticks and Diaphoreticks because there is the same reason in all In the first rank Cordials endued with a volatile Salt offer themselves and are justly preferable to all other as the Spirit of Hartshorn of Blood of Sal armoniacum compound viz. distilled with Amber Treacle and other Alexeteries the Spirit of Skulls digged out of Graves Hither may be referred also the Salt of Vipers the Powder of Toads closely calcin'd which I have known famous and very profitable in an Epidemick Pestilential Fever Such Remedies as these have recalled many from the very jaws of Death and indeed afford help often in a various and manifold respect namely first inasmuch as encountring either a fixt or an acid Salt and snatching them into their embraces they open the mass of Blood too much thickned and straitned by the febrile effervescence and so promote the Separation and Secretion of the Morbifick Matter And secondly in that they relieve the animal Spirits and rouse them up from their sluggishness to execute their Office to which may be added that in Malignant Fevers these Medicines subdue and often extinguish the poisonous Particles of the Morbifick Matter The Second place among Saline Cordials is of right owing to Remedies endued with an alkalisate or petrifying Salt for these are commonly reputed very notable Cordials Of this sort namely are the Bezoar Stone Perles Corals the Bone of a Stag's heart and the Horn of the same the Powder of Ivory the Eyes and Claws of Crabs and other Powders of Stones and Shells which common Experience witnesses to be often given with benefit And the reason of their helping seems to consist in this That the Particles of the Alkaline Salt in the Medicine encounter the Particles of the acid Salt within our Bodies and by and by do intimately cohere therewith and therefore destroy the ragings or whatsoever other undue combinations thereof To this Classis of Cordials are Bole-Armene terra Lemnia Sigillata and other chalky Medicines deservedly reckoned but not upon the account that they succour the labouring Heart as is vulgarly thought but because they destroy the Predominances of an acid or fixed Salt either in the Bowels or in the mass of Blood and by and by allay and correct the Enormities produced thereby Thirdly If I should exclude Acetous Medicines or such as are endued with a fluid Salt from this list of Cordials every one almost would tax me for these are esteemed by most to be notable Alexeteries against the Pestilence Wherefore in the cure of Malignant Fevers Treacle and Bezoartick Vinegars are highly cryed up yea Vinegar or Acetous things are usual Ingredients in Waters distill'd for that use for the same reason Spirit of Vitriol the juice of Citron Sorrel Pomegranats c. are reckoned for Cordials and Alexeteries and that indeed justly because these do excellently dissolve the Combinations of fixed Salt with adust Sulphur and master their outrages and therefore by such Remedies as these the Coagulations and Extravasations of the Blood that use to happen in Malignant Fevers are often prevented or cured Fourthly for the same Reasons for which the aforesaid Saline Medicines are reckoned for Cordials others also whose basis is a fixt Salt are reputed such or are put into their Compositions For seeing Salts of divers sorts are bred in our Body and they commonly pass from one state to another hence not one kind of Salt but Salts of different kinds ought to be given according as the intention is On what account Medicines endued with a fixt or lixivial Salt do take away or correct the Enormities of an acid Salt predominating within the Bowels or Blood was shewn above Fifthly A Nitrous Salt is justly numbred among Cordials as without whose Particles to be inspired with the Air in taking our breath the life of Animals cannot subsist but this being taken in at the Mouth as a Medicine is accounted a famous Antipyreutick in that it takes away Thirst and bridles the febrile Heat which yet it does not only by helping the mixture of the Blood but also its accension for we think that Nitrous Particles together with Sulphureous are requisite to constitute a flame and the more of the Nitrous there are the clearer and brighter the flame is Wherefore seeing a Matter which for the greatest part consists of Sulphur with Salt and Earth mixed being kindled sends forth but an obscure flame and such as is vitiated with Smoke and Sootâ— but if Nitre be added burns clear and calm with brightness We think 't is just thus in Fevers when the Blood being filled with adust Feculencies smokes with a suffocating heat rather than burns out Nitrous Particles being taken in at the Mouth and transmitted to the Blood make it by and by to burn brighter and clearer so that the Compages of the Liquor being unlocked both its serous and fuliginous recrements part the freelier from it But moreover some Medicines have the name of Cordials because they exert their vertue on the animal Spirits first and more immediately than
the Conserve of Rosemary Flowers Balm and the like to drive away troublesome watchings from them Now the reason of this is the same with what Hosman gave of flower-de-luce namely because Mosch and Ambre are fumous or vaporous ¶ Opium appeases watchings and procures sweet sleep if so be the watchings proceed not from over great driness in which case they do no good given alone but they do very well with moisteners so that by this means the Brain is both demulced and made drousie especially in old men and otherwise where the watchings arise from over great driness defect Acrimony or other indisposition of the Lympha Whence washings of the Head and Feet c. belong hither as also other vehicles of Opiats and promoters of their vertue Wedel de s m. fac p. 205. ¶ We may safely use the somniferous sponge of Heurnius 2 met c. 7. seeing those that are made to sleep by it presently awake upon its being taken off or if they continue to sleep too long they may be easily awaked with another sponge steept in the decoction of wild thyme boiled in Vinegar together with Majoran Smallage and sweet Fennel Seed applied to the Nostrils Sim. Pauli quadrip Botan cl 2. tit Iris. XXII As cold soporificks hurt in Diseases of the Breast by thickning the Humours and making them unfit for expectoration so Flower-de-luce does excellent well in these Diseases XXIII Seeing 't is easie to offend in using too great a quantity of Opium it will be the part of a prudent Physician to behave himself warily in the giving of Opium and Opiats and rather to give them at several times a little at a time than to give much at one and the same time with danger to the Patients Sylv. de le Boë Prax. l. 2. c. 22. §. 113. especially seeing the same yea better effect may be obtained from the same Opiat given at several times than all at once XXIV Although the Narcotick stupefying vertue of Opium differ widely from the pacative vertue of the Anodyne prepared of Vitriol which induces only a natural sleep and no stupefaction which I would have well noted of all that desire at any time to practise Physick with commendation yet I will explain the nature of each The Narcotick vertue of Opium seems indeed to be extended to the Animal Spirits but the pacative vertue of Vitriol to the effervescent bile which I think Helmont then calls the fury of the Archeus Let all therefore seek that Anodyne of Vitriol and esteem it for a great secret when they find it for it performs wonderful things in curing divers most difficult Distempers Idem §. 31. XXV As to the Heads and Seeds of white Poppy of which Diacodium as also decoctions Emulsions and other Hypnotick preparations are made it is very plain that these are far less endued with a Narcotick Sulphur than the concrete juice of Opium and what thereof is in these is far more pure and harmless wherefore we do oftner and more securely give Remedies made up of these For it is not good to ascend to Laudanum unless when through the vehemence of Symptoms Diacodiats will not do Moreover seeing these contain less of virulence in them they need not much preparation but may be used in Medicine being only boil'd or infus'd or sqeezed But Opium is very rarely prescribed simply and by it self Willis phar Rat. p. m. 317. but is wont to be divers ways corrected and compounded that it may become an Anodyne safe enough XXVI When other things have been used in vain to procure sleep then comes Opium The vulgar are afraid of it as present poison whereas being rightly prepared and given in a convenient dose it is an innocent and wholsom Medicine The Ancients indeed have writ that it is a poison but that is only when it is taken in too great a quantity but thus there is nothing so wholsom which by abuse may not become hurtful Now there are divers sorts of poisons some are such in their whole substance which kill however or in what dose soever they are taken others only in quantity otherwise they may profit as Purgers and such things are given in that quantity as to overcome Nature thus milk curdled in the Stomach or juice of Lettuce are said to be poisons But among those things which are called Somniferous Opium is the most innocent 1. Because our Opium is generally the Meconium of Dioscorides which is made of the juice of the leaves and heads of Poppy but Opium is a tear Now Meconium is far less effectual than Opium whence it must be given in a larger dose than Opium to hurt 2. We must note from Galen 5. simpl 18. that of Narcoticks some moisten as Hemlock Mandrake and these are hurtful others dry and these are taken inwardly without harm And 1. de Symptom caus he writes Those things which cool and moisten cause not sleep but a Coma stupefaction and Carus but those which dry as Opium are less hurtful Therefore according to the opinion of Dioscorides and Galen we need not to be so afraid of Opium taken moderately Primiros de vulg error 4. c. 44. XXVII The Ancients who thought that Opium hurt by its excessive coldness used altogether hot Medicines to correct it such as Pepper Pyrethrum or bastard Pellitory Saffron Castor Euphorbium and the like but they were induced to correct Opium in that manner by a false Hypothesis and they made no good preparation of their Medicines To speak only of Philonium Romanum heretofore a sufficiently frequent Medicine experience hath taught that through the admixture of so many hot Medicines it can hardly be swallow'd but it will burn the Throat and cause an heat therein and being mixt in Clysters but even to half a drachm it has in some caused a great heat in the lower Belly and streight Gut To day it is very usual to make an extract of Opium with Spirit of Wine impregnated with spec diambr. aromat ros or the like or let such Spirit of Wine be added to the extract of Opium as also distilled Oyls and Cordial waters as we may see in the various preparations of Laudanum * See Schrod pharm l. 4. cl 2. c. 394. Some find fault with this preparation of Opium because it does equally deposit into the Spirit of Wine the stinking and poysonous Sulphur which remains in Opium even after its having past the fire yea being more attenuated by the Spirit it sooner exerts its Malignity and insinuates more intimately into the Parts Whereto they add this also that there is a certain Narcotick vertue in Wine These therefore find out another way to prepare and correct Opium They cut Opium into small pieces and dry it so long in dishes set over hot ashes or other gentle heat as till the stinking Sulphur exhale and the Opium breath out a sweet and grateful smell and may be powdered betwixt ones Fingers which
Heer 's obs 1. de May. â—â—e Tr. de Aâ—thr with the addition of a spoonful of white Tartar cleansed by washing only and dried XXVIII The Salt of Tartar has a great opening vertue and may profitably be put in opening Apozems Opiats and Pills but its principal use is in a loosening Ptisan which is made of two drachms of Senna infused in eight ounces of cold water with a scruple or half a drachm of Salt of Tartar whereby the Tincture of the Senna is powerfully extracted so that this ptisan purgeth far more strongly than the common and being continued for many days looses all obstructions from which effect I have known stubborn Quartans often thoroughly cured by the use of this ptisan continued for fifteen days If you fear the Acrimony of the Salt of Tartar it may be corrected with the Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur as for half a drachm of the Salt let there be fifteen drops of the Spirit River Pract. XXIX Of the Spirit of Vitriol with the Salt or Spirit of Tartar is made Tartar Vitriolate which incides and attenuates cold and viscous Humours concocts crudities opens obstructions and cleanseth away the sticking matter and does all these things very effectually For if the Tartar of Wine have of it self no small vertue to open and absterge if Vitriol alone do this as natural acid and vitriolate Waters demonstrate which are very profitable in all Diseases that spring from obstructions much more is this to be granted to Tartar vitriolate where prepared and very well purified oyl of Tartar by pouring oyl of Vitriol drop by drop upon it is fixt not without excandescence But it is to be observed that if it be exactly prepared according to Crollius it will creatâ— a nausea G. Horst Dec. 9. probl 5. where is another preparation and in the more delicate often cause a vomiting through the over great quantity of the oyl of Tartar in respect to the Spirit of vitriol Therefore it will have the better operation when equâ—l parts are taken XXX The cream and crystalls of Tartar and Tartar vitriolate are so common at this day that many hardly prescribe any Medicines without putting some of these in them Yea Crollius calls Tartar Vitriolat an universal Digestive And I confess indeed that Medicines made of Tartar have a very great vertue in inciding and attenuating Melancholick and thick Humours and therefore in opening obstructions But whereas it often happens that in Hypochondriack Melancholy there are often found black choler and Salt and sowr Humours and such as are altogether Acrimonious and have the Seeds of fire as it were in them surely Tartar Vitriolate and such Acrimonious Medicines are not proper for such Humours seeing they do not blunt their Acrimony but those are rather to be used which temper the bad qualities of such Humours Sennert pract l. 3. p. 3. c. 3. and contrary qualities are to be opposed to contrary ¶ When sometimes there arise dreadful Symptoms from the use of Tartar vitriolate as Vomiting a pain at the Stomach Frid. Hofm clavis Schrod p. 610. c. it is not to be imputed to the Salt of Tartar but often to the impure Spirit of Vitriol XXXI Seeing volatil Salts may be drawn from all the parts of man with small trouble whereof therefore I conclude they consist none ought to wonder that amongst Alteratives and correctors of the depraved Humours of Men I often praise and commend Volatil Salts but such as are mild whereunto here also I deservedly give the preference in correcting and amending the hurts accrewing from the air any way infected Fr. Sylv. de le Boe p. m. 407. or from bad aliments that stay in the Body c. XXXII Viscid Phlegm is incided both by all Aromaticks and things that abound with a volatil Salt and also by Acids and most effectually by Aromatick Gumms Idem append Tr. 5. §. 571. as Galbanum Sagapenum Ammoniacum Bdellium Opopanax Mastich and the like ¶ Volatil Salts being taken for continuance even together with meat are good to prepare tough Phlem as not only inciding and correcting of it but driving part thereof to the ways of the urine and expelling of it in the form of sediment which yet fails by degrees in the urine and on that account yields an undoubted sign that the phlegm is corrected and overcome for the greatest part Idem pract l. 1. c. 30. ¶ Nothing does so incide and correct a too glutinous tough and clammy Blood as any volatil Salt used for a continuance at any time at dinner and supper with Wine c. Seeing every Chronical and tedious distemper draws its original from a phlegmatick Humour at least has the same joined with its cause which yields to no Remedy more easily or sooner than to volatil Salt used according to art Idem c. 43. §. 17 2◠¶ Phlegm as it is a concrete Serum so it requires attenuaters heaters resolvers or things that make it fluid with moisteners But note that we must not dry too much for so it becomes more concrete whence besides Aromaticks and bitterish Acids as Spirit of Vitriol Wedel â—â—id Phlegmaticks are very good yet not omitting heaters and moisteners XXXIII I have learned by some years experience that the consistence and from hence the glutinousness of the Choler as also of other Humours in the Body are increased by the frequent use of austere or sowr things and on the contrary that the same are lessened by a continued use of volatil Salts Acrimonious Aromaticks Idem c. 44. XXXIV The Salt or Vitriol of Steel gains the preference of all other Remedies because it opens obstructions strengthens the Viscera and corrects an hot intemperies the dose is from twelve grains to twenty with a Syrup or conserve c. The ungratefulness of its taste is amended by making it up into pills with the mucilage of Gum tragacanâ—h Let it be of constant use and therefore prepare a great quantiâ—y We give you here an easie preparaâ—ion that cannot be compared by Beguin and others take of oyl of vitriol or Sulphur half a pound of the Spirit of Wine a pound pour them into a new and clean frying pan or Iron dish and cover it wiâ—h a Board within fifteen days there will be a saline concretion which set in the sun that it may be throughly dryed moving it now and â—hen with an Iron spatula in the winter it may be dryed over a very weak fire or in a stove when the Salt is very well dryed put it up in a glass phial well stopt for if it be expos'd to the air it is apt to grow moist The pills made of it with the mucilage of Gum tragacanth will be made harder by adding a little of the Powder of the Gum it self and when they are made up keep them in a glass that they wax not moist River pr. l. 12. c. 5. This Remedy may be continued for
Symptoms XLI Very many commend Mercurius Vitae wonderfully for evacuating all vitious humours in the Stomach and all parts of the Body upwards and downwards and therefore they use it not only for the French Pox but also for the Gout Dropsie Agues Melancholy Madness and very many other Diseases Yet it is to be used warily as are also other Mercurial Medicins and not save when the Body abounds with many thick humours But let it not be given in lean cholerick and weak Bodies Sennert Cent. 1. Ep. 33. The Dose is from One Grain to Four or Five ¶ That this Pouder contains no Mercury in it is clear from hence because this being deprived of its Congelative Salts resumes the former species of Quick-silver and is all of it collected in the Retort Willis's Phar. p. m. 66. This Pouder being too fiercely Vomitive if it be ground with Sea-salt calcin'd and sweetned with often washing becomes far milder and safe enough XLII Mountebanks give Mercury Precipitate without choice for the long continued pains of the Pox the Dropsie Quartan Hypochondriack Melancholy and for cold Diseases of that kind and that to four or six Grains in the Yelk of an Egg or Mithridate and Treacle And as soon as any one has taken it all sorts of humours from the whole circuit of the Body burst forth upwards and downwards often with so great violence especially if the Body be weak that the Patients Spirits being exhausted and his faculties enfeebled he either dies suddenly or on the Day he takes it being without strength without Pulse without Voice he lies like one dead His Mouth is sometimes inflam'd by the contagion and his Gums contract putrid and very stinking Ulcers and in the most the throat becomes so swell'd that for many days they can swallow nothing at all Yea and in some the Mind is so alienated that a Fever arising Palmar de morb contag they die at length frantick Therefore let it be rejected out of the List of Catharticks as a most ready Poison and be banished by publick Laws XLIII Myrobalans should never be mixed with any strong Medicin because those violent things staying longer in the Body through the binding Vertue of the Myrobalans do sometimes bring great harm upon the Body Rondelet Cap. 36. l. 1. Wherefore those Medicins ought rather to be mixed with others that purge hastily XLIV Some that think themselves very wise order Myrobalans to be rubbed with Oil of sweet Almonds whether they be to be reduced to Pouder or broken grosly for Decoctions But indeed they do ill that chafe those Myrobalans with Oil that are designed for decoction for the Oil hinders at least the Water that is poured upon the Myrobalans from insinuating it self into them Zwelfer Pharm Class 2. and passing through their substance XLV Pills of Aloes whether those of Frankfort or others that they may operate rightly ought to be taken in three Doses at three times namely the first a little before or a little after a slight supper the second the next Morning the third the same day in the evening Thus as I my self have experienced and * Tom. 2. Obs 12. l. 2. Horstius witnesseth they must needs evacuate plentifully and pleasantly seeing one Dose drives forward another as it were Hoefer Herc. Med. l. 1. c. 5. XLVI Gummi Gotte is a powerful Hydragogue less violent than the root of Esula or Spurge Mesereum and Elaterium it vomits also The Dose is from two Grains to four or six though some imprudently give it to half a scruple The best preparation of it is to dissolve it in rectified Spirit of Wine and then by pouring common or Rose Water upon it it will be precipitated to the bottom Sylv. de le Boe m. m. l. 2. c. 9. The Pouder being of a very fine Yellow is called its Magistery and it becomes a far more excellent Medicin than when taken crude XLVII The chief use of the Salt of Tartar is in a loosning Ptisan which is made of two Drachms of Senna infused in eight Ounces of cold Water with a Scruple or half a Scruple of the Salt of Tartar by which the Tincture of the Senna is powerfully extracted River pract l. 11. c. 4. so that this Ptisan purges far more powerfully than the common XLVIII A. Spigelius relates that the use of the Pouder which Marcus Cornacchinus has recommended in a particular Book was prohibited at Rome under pain of being condemned to the Gallies because a certain Physician had formerly kill'd several with it But because by his own experiments especially in Tertian Agues he had found it not only an innocent but also a very wholsom Medicin he thought that hardly any other cause could be imagin'd than that that Person had not prepared his stibium according to Art Namely whilst he would make it a Diaphoretick by the Addition of Nitre without doubt he unskilfully reduced it into a glass whence proceeded those gripings and subversions of the Stomach with swoonings springing from Convulsion and other lethiferous accidents But the unhappiness of the Mistakers ought to have derogated nothing from the excellency of the Medicin Velschius Obs 98. ¶ Many preparations have been invented even in Purgers particularly in Scammony and Jalap the best amongst which is the Magistery made with six eight or ten pounds of the Spirit of Wine poured upon one Pound of Scammony or Jalap without the Addition of the Spirit of Vitriol or Salt of Tartar which rather hinder than further the extraction of the Rosm Indeed these very Magisteries are almost the same with Extracts save that seeing they are more globous and plentiful besides the extraction which is of the same Nature with Solution by pouring even simple Water upon them they are precipitated to the bottom if so be the Spirit of Wine be very well rectified for when the same is sufficiently drawn off they subside even of themselves So that they are the more depurate part of the Purgative or Alterative it self and so choicer and purer than the rest Hence we may learn what to think of sulphurated Scammony for though 't is to be confest that the Medicin for whose sake it was formerly so prepared viz. the three-headed Cerberus of Scammony Sulphurated Antimonium Diaphoreticum and Cream of Tartar mixed in a different quantity at pleasure is excellent in Fevers and other Diseases and that we have always experienced the use hereof to be safe yet the sulphurated Scammony is it self far better omitted and very profitably exchanged for its Rosin Whereof these are the reasons 1. Because that which is sought for is maimed 2. That which is not desired is retained The purgative Vertue is maimed which consists in a Sulphureous Salt Whence Helmont says truly That as much of acidity as the Scammony receives so much does it lose of its Vertue for every acid is in it self contrary to purging though by accident some especially the very
answer 1. The impairing of the Faculties is not so slight in those who are unaccustomed to bleeding and in the infirm 2. The more sparing use of Broths Julaps a mouthful of Bread dipt in Wine c. causes no danger of crudity Rolfinc ibid. c. 6. Avicen speaks of an immoderate draught of water LXXXIII It is discussed by some later Physicians how long we must abstain from Meat after bleeding Galen after having bled a Young man sick of a Synochus without Putrefaction gave him some food two hours after Others have said that we may allow Victuals one hour or two after bleeding though not much But this is a thing for the Physician to guess at according to the quantity of the Blood that is let and the strength of the Patient's Faculties For Galen staid two hours because he let Blood very plentifully whereby his strength and spirits were weakened so that he fainâ—ed away wherefore the Stomach was not to be burthened with Meat at that time But we that bleed far more sparingly and do not so diminish the heat spirits and strength have no reason to tarry so long wherefore one hour will be enough when less than a pound of Blood has been taken half an hour when less than half a pound for the Parts are but little drained and but a few Spirits are exhausted and there is made but a small agitation of the Humours The habit of the Body ought also to come into consideration as it more or less abounds with Blood Rubeus and is more or less dense LXXXIV Some avoid giving their Patient any thing to drink after bleeding but Amatus Lusitanus proves that it is not hurtful but wholsom ordering him to drink presently some cold water For by reason of the Veins being emptied it is presently distributed into the Body and cools it more easily quickly and safely LXXXV Some Physicians forbid sleeping after Venesection because they believe that the Blood retires to the Heart which yet is not always true unless perhaps the bleeding have been immoderate or the Patient be in danger of swooning through fearfulness Besides no reason perswades that such retiring of the Blood is pernicious for the Blood uses in sleep to retire to about the Praecordia to the great recruiting of Nature And how great benefit Sleep when it comes does to those Sick Persons that have had restless Nights every one knows for it recruits the faculties and concocts the morbifick Humours whence we are oft put upon using Remedies to procure it If therefore it come a little after bleeding it will be good both as a Sign because it shews that Nature which was oppressed is now relieved and performs the natural Functions and as a Cause because when Sleep succeeds Nature concocts the remainder of the morbifick Humour Indeed Sleep hurts in the Inflammations of the internal viscera in the beginning of Ague-Fits in Pestilential Diseases but why we may not sleep in other Diseases I see no reason Galen writes that Sleep coming on does indicate the firmness of the Crisis for it happens sometimes that the Patient sleeps a whole day after the Crisis if he were long without Sleep before to the great comfort of Nature yea it happens that the Patient sleeps sometimes even in the very Crisis If Sleep therefore help when it comes after other evacuations why should it not do so also after bleeding Yea if a man may safely be let Blood when he is actually asleep Gal. Meth 9. c. 14. what hurt can Sleep do presently after bleeding Galen esteems it as a good sign when the Patient falls fast asleep after bleeding If any say that Sleep is therefore forbid lest the bandage should come loose that is nothing Primiros de vulg error l. 4. c. 26. for by the diligent care of those who wait on the Patient and right tying of the Fillet that may be prevented LXXXVI I my self have seen a simple Decoction of crisped Mint stop the circular motion of the Blood so that not a drop of it would issue out of the Foot though the Surgeon thrust his Lancet deep enough three or four times into the most apparent branches of the Saphana in the Foot for bringing down the Terms in a certain Woman for whom her Maid had prepared a Decoction of Mint instead of common water to hold her feet in Whereupon she was bid to provide simple water into which her Mistress put her feet to above the ankles S. Paul Quadr Botan p. 396. and then the Vein being cut again by the ankle the blood issued forth LXXXVII In the Diseases of Children and Women with Child the Physician consults well for himself and his Patients if himself be present when they are to be bled for those who are intrusted with that operation being too bold do suffer the blood to issue out too largely and if any unfortunate thing happen Phryg comment in aegr 8. Epid. Hippoc pag. 147. 't is presently ascribed to the Physician though it be very evident to sense that the Artist mistook LXXXVIII When a Nerve or Tendon is pricked by the Unskilfulness of the Blood-letter see the Cure thereof under the title of Convulsion lib. 3. LXXXIX A Nobleman having a troublesome Tetter and fixing Leeches in the Morning upon the Part affected when the Blood bursting forth to almost three Pound could be stanched by nothing could be done Prevotius having washed the little holes the Leeches had made with an astringent white Wine Rhodius Cent. 3. Obs 71. caused to be laid upon them with good success Galen's restringent Ointment of bole Armene and Hares wool XC Not only the simple opening of a Vein is profitable but also the cutting of them quite asunder avails to intercept many kinds of Defluxions The cutting asunder of the Vein of the Forehead is the only Remedy to take away malignant Defluxions upon the Nostrils as some have experimented So that I do not wonder that the ancient Physicians in Inflammations of the Eyes bleereyedness c. ordered the cutting asunder of the Forehead and Temple-veins Aëtius cut asunder the Forehead-veins for a continual watriness of the Eyes and pains of the Megrim Haly Abbas cuts those behind the Ears asunder for curing a Vertigo Yea the Excisions of the Veins of other Parts also are profitable for curing at once old and difficult Ulcers of the Legs and Arms c. Now the administration is thus to be order'd first the Vein must be made to appear as in ordinary Venesection then a crooked Steel or Silver Needle being thrust under it the Vein is raised up and then cut in sunder by a Sickle-like or crooked Launcet thrust in as deep as the Needle the Vein being suffer'd to bleed as in common Phlebotomy but for the most part in a slender and thin Skin the Vessel stands so out that it is not necessary to thrust a Needle in but the Administration may be performed by a Launcet alone that is