helps or with a Pole or Ladder or an Instrument to set bones called Ambi. Dislocation of the Channel-bone is taken by many for Luxation of the Shoulder for the Symptoms are the same Also in 3 days the binding must be unloosed and the part must be moved variously but gently lest it should grow crooked The Thigh dislocated forward the Groins swellâ— the Buttocks are wrinkled only the hinder part of the heel toucheth the ground the urine is stopped If backward the Buttocks swell there is a hollowness in the Groin The Leg is shorter then that which is sound the Knee cannot be bent the Heel toucheth not the ground the sick stands by a staff If outwardly after some time the pain abateth the flesh about it groweth hot the head of the Bone in a neer place makes a new cavity so that the sick can go without a staff the Leg is made shorter the knee and Foot look inwards he cannot go on his Heel the Leg can be bent the whole Leg is something lesse If inwardly the lameness is less they cannot bend their Leg the Foot is longer they go with their Leg athwart outwardly leaning on a staffe they rest more on their Heel then their Toes at last a new Cavity being made they go without a staff The night MARE is the hurt of breathing and of animal actions with an Imagination of weight The Cause Senn. will have the cause to be oft times a grosse vapour stopping the hinder part of the Head But Plat. and Fern. say it is fleam and melancholy sticking about the Midriff which swells either by drunkennesse or crudity pressing the diaphragma and the Lungs and the grosse vapour exhaling into the Throat and Brain stops the Voice and troubleth the sences These two causes may be joyned together Prognostick It threatens an Apoplexy or Melancholy It is evil if it oppresseth those that are partly waking and if a cold sweat follow The Cure The sick must be raised from the fit he must be cured by General and Topical Remedies as is the Apoplex a Wolfs skin is commended for a covering of the Head Anniseed strewed in the Bed is thought to help by the smell It is familiar to children by over-eating wherefore they must not sleep presently after eating Honey is good for them to lick One dram of Piony roots must be infused in Beer for to drink MILK The more whey it hath the more it cleanseth the more Cheese namely when the whey is evaporated by long boyling the more it bindeth and gleweth Medicaments made of Milk in Summer every day in Winter must be renewed every other day for it will grow sharp and cause pains Milk hath a hot spirit in it and will make one drunk Scal. ex 87. saith that the Tartars use the thin part of Milk separated by subliming to make themselves drunk for all fat things afford spirits for Chymists and oyls differ from spirits scarce any thing but in the manner of their substance The first note of good Milk is that if you poure one drop on the Nail it will stick and not run off If it run off hardly it is too thick 2. A milky colour 3. Tast 4. Smell MILK wanting If it be for want of blood it is cured by meats of good juyce by Medicaments that breed Milk and open the Passages these are moderatly hot and attenuating The leaves roots seed of Fennel all green and new which must be observed of others also Parsley roots new Dill Basil Anniseed Rocket seed one dram or two of Earth-worms soaked in juyce of Fennel burnt Powder of Cows udder By Internals Topicals MILK too much is taken away by Revulsives Diet moderate Repellers not laid to the Brests but above the Brests by the Arms to those Veins Resolvers laid to the Brests If there be Inflammation feared you may lay Repellers to the Brests also Some happily anoint the Brests with Honey Some put in a linnen cloth wet with Vinegar of the decoction of Saffron green leaves of Nut-trees Others lay on a linnen cloth smeered with Rape-oyl and they put another over this anointed with Honey and they bind the Brests moderately Singular are leaves of Sage Smaliage Rue Chervil cut small incorporated with Oxycratum laid on warm thrice a day Topicals are also made of Mints Calamints Smallage Agnus Castus Coriander Hemlock MILK cloddering it is made by a fermenting humour but whether this be made in the Brests Senn. is doubtful because there is no hollowness there and he thinks that if Milk stay long in the Brests the whey exhaleth and the rest clodders It differs not from curding of Cheese The cure The Diet must be resolving Topicals besides Generals must be Resolvers as in a Scirrhus beginning as oyl of Lillies coming by degrees to stronger Remedies of Fennel Dill Parsly Smallage Balm Mallow-leaves Coleworts c. Inwardly give Fennel-seed Cumin Smallage Agnus Castus Eringo roots Mints Saffron Coriander-seed c. Screvelius also often cured it with green Chervil and Fennel of each a like fryed in a Pan with Butter and applyed MADNES The cause is the heat of the animal and vital spirits whereby they very easily endure cold yet it makes no Feaver though it last many years Platerus will have it to be a hidden quality The antecedent cause is either the Seed corrupted or burnt blood and the sick sing There are signs of Plethory or burnt Choler and the sick are rash bold or black Choler and there are signs of Melancholy or poysons as the blood of a Cat or Love potions Wine thunder-struck congealed Men possessed with devils speak things unknown or Emroids stopt or an Ulcer shut up The Cure must be begun by opening a Vein so Platerus saw many cured who were kept in Bedlam-houses by letting them blood threescore times here and there repeating it Choice of Veins is not necessary you must open the Emroids and Ulcers closed then you must alter Give them Whey to drink purge them the Heart must be cheered as we shall shew in melancholy Sleeping Medicaments Emperical things are the Brain of a Ram that never leaped a sheep the Brain of a Dog of but one colour Box-leaves Roots of yellow water Lillies Amulets are roots of Eringo Briony St. Johns wort Nitre is commended because it fixeth volatil things Spirit of Vitriol Let Topicals be Coolers and rather Moistners as oyl of Roses Camomil c. warm The juyce of live Crabs is held for a Topical that is specifical MARASMUS one is burning or a Hectick Marasmodes another is cold and dry It is called a Hectick of old age or a disease from old-age a third is with swooning which is hot in respect nf the Feaver cold in respect of the swooning MELANCHOLY is the vexation of the Mind fastned upon one thought without a Feaver or Fury proceeding from a Melancholick Phantasme The immediat Subject are the Brain and the Heart as the affects shew For. saw Melancholy with a Feaver
effect is called Die Breun it cometh with shaking As led by the Hand they shew the pain of the stomach and cannot endure to be touched there for it is hard There is an unquenchable thirst and a delirium They almost all fall into deasnesse and swelling behind the Ears The Cure If it come by contagion giving a gentle remedy to bring forth the dung give presently an Antidote but if there be pain of the stomach anguish heat nauseating those humours must first be taken away by purging or vomiting with Agarick Senna leaves Diaphaenicon Rosarum Mesves c. Vomits here are often the most profitable The humours being voided or if there were no such the first or second day open a Vein though the first day the spots should appear so there be strength Almost all who neglected bleeding at the first died If there be Vomiting or Scowring it is more safely let alone Open the Liver or Medias of a Vein in the Foot which is most commodious of all chiefly in women Also it may be done on the third day After the third day Vomits Purges for opening a Vein is mortal Cupping glasses instead of opening a Vein may be set to the lower parts then we must fight with Antidotes yet with such as do not increase the Feaver One dram of Species liberantis Bezar stone Harts horne flowers of Brimstone Amber Zedoans all things of a Pome-citron The roots a part and Bezar a part are all most effectual Afterwards Diureticks may be given The drink must be neither wine nor beer let it be the decoction of Harts-horn with spirit of Vitriol or Barly water with juyce of Lemmons Symptoms of Feavers Pain of the Head is cured by general means by Topicals Many commend a Radish root cut in slices and laid to the feet first washed with Salt and Vinegar Juyce of Housleek and Alces of America For Housleek on houses is full of juyce in the greatest heat but flags in a cloudy aire because it draweth the dryer vapours for its nourishment The root of Rhodia is commended one ounce with Rose water half a pound boyl them apply the decoction with a linnen cloth to the Head The unguent of Alabaster with Populeum must be anoynted on the Coronal suture Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone and moystners that are of the strongest as with the water or juyce of Housleek Sal prunella spirit of Vitriol Barley water Thirst if it be from heat of the Lungs the Mouth is dry they can hardly speak which cannot be quenched with drink but it will presently come again Here it is better to take in the coldest Aire than to drink It is good to hold cold water in the Mouth preserved Cherries Lettice leaves Purslane preserved or sprinkled with cold water Oxycratum pieces of Pome-citrons conserves of Sorrel pieces of Cucumbers Gourds first sprinkled with Sugar Crystal Tamarinds Strawberries garden Currence to hold in the Mouth The decoction of the Roots of Sorrel which will look like red Wine Give drink in the vigour If the cause be in the stomach the humour must be voided namely that is hot and sharp The white Feaver is a disease or a symptome with a pale colour of the Face languishing of the Forces heavinesse of the limbs loathing of meat panting of the heart difficulty of breathing sadnesse a flegmatick swelling of the Face Hands and Feet from depraved nourishment and plenty of crude humours proceeding from an ill disposition of the Bowels Liver Spleen Stomach and so from obstruction of the Vessels about the Womb and the Bowels that are neer and from thence the Courses being stopped The cure is the same as for Leucâ—phlegmatia yet so that the Womb must be regarded as in the stopping of the Courses yet so that the Bowels must be looked too A lenitive opening a Vein unlesse the disease be inveterate the Blood and Forces being corrupted Purgatives Aperients Diaphoreticks Marriage unlesse the Cacochymia be too great are good cheifly Steel after general Remedies The root of Scorsonera taken any way Bezar stone A FICUS cancerated Fab. obs 1. c. 1. A cancerated Ficus in the right Ey A fit Dyet being prescribed a Clyster given water of Borrage Sorrel Betony being drunk with syrup of the juyce of Lemmons and Pomegranates a Vein being opened and Leeches set behind the Ears on the same side and cupping glasses applyed to the Shoulders an infusion of Rheubarb and Senna being given made of waters of Betony Eybright Agrimony with syrup of Roses and the Feet being washed in the decoction of hot things he washed the Ey with distilled water against the Cancer and applyed an Intercipient to the fore-head Yet the Tumor increasing when out of it at once there flew 73. ounces of blood and a half by Chirurgery he took out the Eye The fear of the Patient stopped the Flux of blood and a painful Ligature about his Limbs wherefore a Lenitive drink is ordered and a Cordial or water of Buglors Roses Violets balm of each one ounce syrup of Citron pills and Sorrel of each one dram confectio Alkermes one dram Powder of Diamber half a dram and to the Heart was â—aid an Epitoeme sowed between of flowers leaves seeds cordial powders made up with Cotton on red Sarsnet The stomach was annointed with a stomach ointment The Chirurgical part being done a powder of the Author to stay blood with the white of an Egg was plentifully cast on A defensative was laid to the Fore-head and a Digestive to the wound And lest nature should again send the humours thither he set a Settace between the first and third Spondiâ— A FISSURA on the Nipples or Chaps It proceeds from violent sucking and a cholerick humour It is not credible that it comes from drinesse here as it doth in other parts It is prevented if in the three last Moneths or the last Moneth only two cups of wax like to Acorn cups or Fox gloves be made and filled with Rosin of the Firr tree and laid to the Nipples and held there with linnen cloths when the Rosin is spent we must put in more Topicals must be emolient also the juyce of Crab-fish with Cream If they cause pain when the Child sucketh lay on the Nipples a cup of pewter or silver peirced through and covered with the Dug of a Cow new killed for so the Child will suck and yet not touch the Nipple with his Lips General remedies are Coolers and such as purge choler The same way all other Chaps are cured A FISTULA is a winding Ulcer white straight callous from dried fleam and oft times is without pain Signs Prognosticks Fistulaes with notable rottennesse of the bones as of the Huckle and the Hip-bone which pierce to the Bowels which are in a part that hath principal Nerves the Body being weak are to be left by Prognosticks Signs Diagnostick Prove them by a leaden Probe a wax Candle If there be
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
plentiful and clammy If it be corrupt and that from too weak a Medicament there is a stink and the Ulcer appeareth whitish If it corrode there is pricking pain alwayes increasing It is cured by Generals Topicals detergent as with spirit of Wine Fleshy excrescence in Ulcers cometh either from too much blood or because Sarcoticks are laid-on that dry not sufficiently If the first the flesh is good if the latter loose spongy If the first it is cured by fasting c. The latter with greater Dryers Epuloticks and Corrosives without pain The green water is good which Senn. oftimes commends as Take raw Alum Verdigrease of each two drams boyl them in eighteen ounces of Wine till a fourth part be consumed strain it then add Camphir one dram dissolve it in spirit of Wine one ounce and add it to the former If the Ulcer be with a hard Circumference and the hardners will not yield to Emolients the hard and wan flesh is most fitly cut out to the quick flesh that scarifying may be made and strong Detergents used If the Ulcer be with a Tumor eating not only the Cucula but also the flesh it is called an eating-Ulcer It comes from a sharp humour not so thin as in Wild-fire nor so thick as in a Cancer It is cured as an Ulcer with tumor and distemper That Ulcer is very ill bound up three or four times a day unless it be by reason of extream pain Let there be an Ulcer within the Leg alittle above the Ankle afflicting with great pain that is hollow corrupt joyned with corruption of the Bone circular with brawny swollen Lips compassed with inflammation and swollen melancholly Veins Suppose this be propounded to be cured Generals first premised first of all you shall ease the pain taking away the cause of it by Softners Coolers Narcoticks so the pain with the Inflammation being asswaged wash away the rottenness In the mean time by the way you shall make the Ulcer corner-ways you shall cut off the brawny substance of it you shall correct the putrefaction you shall make the Bones scale the Ulcer being cleansed must be filled with flesh brought to cicatrise Par. Querc commendeth the Sugar of Saturn to be miraculous Vulnerary drinks An ULCER of the Eye is known by sight and if it be in the Cornea there preceedeth a white Push a little Ulcer the Cicatrix is made white if it be in the Adnata it will be red It is cured by Generals Revulsives Intercipients laid to the Temples Anodyns Detergents as with Sugar Honey Myrrh Saffron Frankincense water of Strawberries three parts Sugar one part distilled when they have been eight days in digestion in Balneo Rue Horehound Ey-bright water Infusion of Sarcocolla Aloes c. bound in a linnen clout and pressed forth Take Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Myrrh Aloes Succotrine of each half a dram Tutty prepared one dram Sarcocolla infused half a dram powder them mingle them with the white of an Egg and juyce of Quinces make Troches to be dissolved in Fennel water Give internal means to restore the sight as Take Conserve of Ey-bright one ounce and half Betony Rosemary of each one ounce roots of Elecampane candied two drams Fennel candied half an ounce extract of Rue seed half a scruple the essence extract or spirit of Valerian roots half a scruple Siler mountain one dram Sage Rue Vervain of each half a scruple with syrup of Betony or Staechados make an Electuary let it be taken at Bed-time Strew salt of the powder of Ey-bright on their meats Montan. ep 75. relates that he saw one use it by the Nostrils because the Ulcer was not well cured Vitriol in small quantity dissolved in much Rose water serveth instead of all Detergents For. premising a Lenitive purgeth with Fennel Ey-bright Senna leaves Pillulae Lucis to one dram Opening a Vein Cupping Scarifying fomentation of Mallows two handfuls flowers of red Roses one dram and half Quince seeds one dram and half cleansed Barley one pugil boyl all in ten ounces of fountain water add water of Mallows Roses of each half an ounce soment it twice in a day he dropped in the Collyrium following Take Troches that are white of Rhasis for the Eys without opium two scruples Rose water two ounces mingle them and drop it in lay upon it a double linnen cloth wet in the former fomentation after that in the fomentation was infused Fenugrec seed exactly washed two drams and half of Quinces two drams in a Nodulus after that Ey-bright water half an ounce was added to the Ey water after that in the same Collirium was put a little Sarcacolla soaked in Brest milk then a little Frankincense Saffron with the Mucilage of Fenugree seed At first let the sick sleep on the opposite side until the matter break forth in the side affected Venatius for an Ulcer of the Eye ill cured was commanded to forsake Padua An ULCER of the weeping flesh namely an Aegylops For. because of the danger doth not willingly undertake the cure of it If it were not yet ulcerated after Generals there is need of repelling means after that add Discussives as rank nuts If it be suppurated open it in time cleanse it Verdigrease of it self is a secret If it be with rottennesse of the Bone there is need of a Canstick Fab. cured them with Setons An ULCER of the Ear. Signs are pain burning great pricking in the Ear matter This sometimes is sent forth from the Brain inflamed which is easily known Sometimes as in children from the impurity of the Brain without an Impostume in the Veins of the Brain and Passages of the Ears matter is bred and there is no pain and the matter once spent is heaped up again The cure By Generals Topicals Detergents as juyce of Betes Horehound oyl of bitter Almonds juyce of Onions with Honey of Roses or Mel Rosarum the side is anointed with unguent of Alabaster juyce of wake Robin Briony the matter that comes forth must be put-by with wooll with Honey-water afterwards with Wine then with Oxymel The Probe must be wrapped with Wool The pain is taken away with a piece of Frankincense infused in Milk till it be dissolved and drop'd in by drops If there be Plethory and the matter runneth not yet out of the Ulcer pain urging a Vein is fit to be opened Galen for old Ulcers ufeth scales of Iron powdred beaten with Vinegar and seven times dryed then with Vinegar it is boyled to the thickness of Honey The matter must be drawn forth by a great Syringe unless it come forth it self An ULCER of the Nostrils If it be new and stink not it is easily cured if old and stinking hardly it is called Ozaena which oft times gives suspition of a Cancer It is most difficult to cure it hath crusts The Cure Generals premised also the decoction of Guaicum and a vulnerary drink Let the Topicals be Astringents and Discussives mingled
or black choler Signs Diagnostick It begins from a smal push or from many pricking going before in a short time by way of fluxion it alwaies increaseth with extream heat and pain especially toward the evening then followeth a Feaver and a Troup of most naughty symptoms Prognostick That is most pernicious pestelential black wan which vanisheth away which is fastened near a principal part which had a Feaver going before it That which is red small not pestilent is the safest The Cure The first Indicant is a cooling of the blood by general means as Diet opening of a vein alteratives but not purgatives 2. The heart must be freed from the malignity by internals and topicals chiefly by the urine or water or decoction of Scabious 3. The cause that is joyned with it must be voided with scarification deep enough with cupping glasses Leeches yet if the humour flow thither too much lay plantain boyld with bran upon the Carbuncle to repel especially if it be neer a noble part and then wash the wound with salt water Lay not on the scarified place emollients but dryers and such as resist putrefaction as Egyptiac or meal of Orobus with oxymel or scabious or divels bit green brayed with old hogs grease the yolk of an egg and salt Pareus l. 21. hath proved often this following Take Sâ—ot 4 ounces Common salt 2 ounces 2 yolks of eggs mingle them Radish roots cut in pieces draw the poyson mightily Paracelsus If all be fruitlesse lay on a caustick for the sense is lost The Eschar must not be taken away by emollients or when the Carbuncle it self makes a crust Senn. had rather use roots of Scabious and Comfrey Radish Treacle Soot Mithridate Leaven Figs Rue wallnuts that are old vitriol c. and with these remove the crust if it impostumate round about and there appear a red circle it is a sign of future safety for the crust being taken away the ulcer will be cleansed with honey of Roses and juyce of Smallage c. The Cure of a pestilent Anthrax differs For a vein must not be opened unlesse perhaps under the Carbuncle for evacuation alwaies attractions must be applyed as Pigeons dung Sope Doves-foot Onions roasted under the embers and the uppermost of them Some say if a circle be made about a Carbuncle with a Saphire that will stop it from spreading any farther and quench the poyson Senn. l. 5. p. 1. ch 11. APOPLEXIE is a symptome whereby all the animal actions perish The cause is not obstruction of the ventricles of the brain for they breed no animal spirits experience is against it in those that are opened nor do those fall into this disease that are sick of water in their head in whom only the ventricles of the forepart are obstructed but first fleam or a melancholick humour stopping the beginning of the marrow of the back as it is demonstrated in the Varolian Section 2. Blood either running forth by a stroke or some other way and stopping that part 3. A flegmatick disposition where in the vessels of the brain extended by plethory presse upon that part 4. If a contusion of the skull presse on that part of the brain 5. From a narcotick vapour whence ariseth stupidnesse in those that are cured 6. A wound of the brain from thence an effusion or troubling of the spirits Aph. 58. s 7. Differences The strongest iâ— wherein breathing ceaseth and there is neither froth nor snorting the weaker is where there is froth with snorting The weakest where breathing is violent unequal with intermission Weakest of all when breathing is ordinate Signs Diagnostick It differs from a Lethargie because such as are in a Lethargie may be wakened and fall asleep again there is a Feaver with it Those that have an Apoplexie cannot be awakened but when they are wakened they fall into a Palsie without a Feaver This differs from Carus for in Carus breathing is entire it creepeth on by degrees being pricked they feel but it is otherwise in an Apoplexie It differs from the suffocation of the mother because in this the colour of the face is changed and made more wan but not in an Apoplexy in this the power of feeling often remaineth nor is the breathing hurt and if breathing should be hurt the pulse would be hurt also but not in an Apoplexy It differs from swooning because in swooning the colour of the face is changed the teeth the mouth the hands are fastned but they are loose in an Apoplexy in swooning there is no breathing and no pulse it differs from a strangling distillation because this strangleth a man that is sound in his sense and motion Prognostick An Apoplexy of the first and second degree is mortal Aph. 43. s 2. An Apoplexy is from the first cause which Hippocrates meaneth Aph. 42. s 2. An Apoplexy which comes from the third and fourth cause is easily cured Apoplecticks must not be buried before 72 hours be past because all the humours are moved within that time The Cure The first indicant is freeing from obstruction which is done if they can be awakened The second is the fortifying of the brain head powders described by Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 2. If it come from the first cause means to awaken them being premised if the forces will bear it and there be plenty of blood in summer spring and the party be young a vein must be opened by turns in the arm with a large orifice Or if we may not do this cupping glasses with scarification must be applyed to the Legs Arms Loyns Shoulders but not to the back part of the Thorax After this by general and by topical means the matter must be derived and voided from the head yet vomits must not be given because they would put the party in danger to be choked Strong purgations must be administred as Pills dissolved if he can swallow them 2. The brain must be fortified but if it come from the second cause there is need to open a vein or to apply cupping glasses with scarification and to use diversion evacuation and strengthening Question Whether repulsives may be used Galen useth them Forest us denyeth because this disease hastneth most quickly to its state because there is no defluxion Sen. distinguisheth and saith that it belongs to an Apoplex from the third cause ARTHRITIS is a pain or swelling with a pain of the joynts from a sharp watery humour which partly by extending partly by sharpness doth rend the membranous parts and causeth them to endure pain The Cause is a watery sharp salt lactaceous humour as is collected by the pain the hard swellings and the indisposition of them to come to suppuration heat and driness of the Liver and Spleen the diet an Arthritical disposition for though there be the same temperatenesse in diet yet one man will be Arthritical another not A suppression of urine and of sweat which alwaies almost gooth before the paroxisime Pareus l. 17. saith
It is a malignant matter because the pains are sharper then in an ulcerated Cancer because when remedies are applyed it is often more violent Galen prescribeth Theriac Signs Prognostical Arthritis preserveth from many diseases Aph. 49. s 6. Swelling or melancholy veins appearing are good If it return not again it is mortal They that are costive can never be cured of it It is taken away either being dissolved or else it is changed into bloody watery matter or to hard knots or is carried to the principal parts Laur. saith it is sometimes brought to suppuration if the humour by ligature be pressed forth into the fleshy parts The Cure 1. Revulsions must be applied as if there be plethory feavers and strength a vein must be opened of the same side or if the hand be ill in the opposite hand by cupping glasses with scarification blood-suckers by chasings ligatures 2. Means to evacuate After that give one purgative at the beginning before meat whilst the forces stand of such things that are indifferent strong Whilst the purge worketh the foot or part affected must be laid higher or must be guarded with defensatives Vomits are excellent Then diaphoreticks at first and colder diureticks as Harts-horn and the root of the Clot burr 3. Topicals that are Anodyns Forestus praiseth Duck-weed and flowers of Camomill with Barley meal boyld in milk that they are wonderful good Spiegelius commends the distilled water of the roots and flowers of Meedsweet Fat things are hurtful we must often proceed to Narcoticks See Aph. 25. s 5. First use resolvers and moderately repecussives of Plaintain Frog-spawn water Housleeke Purslane Roses with moderate resolvers in any form but the repellers must be cold and moyst Resolvers are the water of the flowers and leaves of Mullens Earth-worms decoction of Mugwort roots in sea or salt water Spiegetius commends the Urine of men salt of Urine and the spirit of salt tempered with water of Meede-sweet anointed on the part with a feather The liquor of Snails resolved with salt in a copper vessel or boyld in vinegar and oyl of Roses Resolving suffumes are profitable Pigeons dung boyld in vinegar is good and nettles boyld in wine Hard humours are cured with softning cataplasmes of old cheese juyce of Tobacco and by Fumes Rotten cheese with the broth of a gammon of bacon Scal. addeth the powder of a fire-stone burnt See Senn. concerning Arthritis Storks-dung boyled in Hogs-grease Schrekevos The Sciatica requireth only resolvers and attractives If the pain be stretching forth if the part will not retain the print of the finger pressing it wind with fleam doth seem to be a true Arthritis Some unexperienced Chirurgians supposing matter to be under have opened it with great hurt to the patient Fabr Cent. 1. obs 79. Cent. 4. obs 84. saw the Gowt cured by torture The Physitian is oft times deceived thinking the cause to be hor. 1. If he say He is helped with hot means therefore it is cold whereas by opening the pores hot things may be cooled 2. The pain is asswaged by cold things therefore it is hot because cold things take away the sense but not the cause 3. The pain is intense therefore it is hot since cold things by a malignant poyson can do the same 4 The colour is yellow therefore it comes of choler because much fleam is died with a very little choler 5. There is a Fever and fiery coloured Urine therefore but by reason of watchings and pain a Feaver may arise Pareus l. 17. Rulandus cured it by purging sweating with the roots of Afarum 2 ounces Centory the lesse two handfuls a lath of Juniper wood 1 pound Juniper berry half a pound Preservation is made by diet dunghil cocks and capons must be avoided for they are gouty by eating sand Senn. Fat things must be eschewed and things that are fried all must be seasoned with Mugwort as it is wont to be done and Parsley To ride and walk overmuch is very hurtful The feet must be put into new hot liquor of grapes prest out Some every moneth open a vein in the great toes or the feet others every month before the ful moon set cupping glasses to the soles of the feet without scarification one may purge Medicaments against the Gowt are profitable which see in Senn. The joynts must be strengthened many wayes Question What is the cause Fernelius saith that the antecedent cause is without the Scull 1. Because many Veins end there and there is heavinesse of the head 2. Because the excrement gathered in the brain is purged forth by the nostrils the palate Laur. and Senn. argue against this But should it be collected within the scull and should run from thence by the palate alwaies nauseating vomiting a cough should go before Arthritis If it come from the Heart or Liver bubo's in the groins and arm-holes should go before it for there are properly the emunctories Fernelius will have the matter descend not by the vessels but under the skin Laur. denieth it 1. Because Feavers end in Arthritis whose causes are in the veins 2. It is often cured by opening a vein 3. Because before the paroxysme the veins swell and are red 4. It should cause shivering Fernelius will have fleam to be the cause it is not blood for that without the vessels would corrupt and putrefie not melancholly for that would go to a scirrhus nor would it suddenly affect us not choler for that would turn to matter not salt fleam for that would exulcerate 2. Whether every pain of the joynts be Arthritis I deny it for so disjonting and pains of the pox and pains of the hips in maids and women in child-birth also a humour bred by degrees in the joynts should be Arthritis which is false for as oedematous humours is rather caused by it then Arthritis so by the drying up of humours in the joynts there groweth pain in the joynts Aph. 16. s 3. yet not Arthritis 3. Whether may we purge when the pain is Crato denyeth it Ep. 167. also he denyeth that causticks are convenient in the feet because we may not evacuate the part affected whence Erastus saith that the Leprosie is ill cured by diaphoreticks and Crato saith the same of a dysenterie by Clysters but Pareus calls it an opinion full of errour l. 17. Hollerius Arthritis that is vagrant is Scorbutical and a pain of divers parts The Cause It is a thin watery matter of all the humours swelling and malignant The parts affected are the Nerves because it is very luxuriant in the back and the loins by reason of the marrow of the back that lyeth under because the action of the nutritive faculty is hurt because it is cured with remedies good for the Nerves The kinds 1. It hath Tumors about the joynts which if they last long they bring forth spots as in the Scurvey which sometimes coming to suppuration are turned unto a malignant ulcer chiefly about the feet
whence worms like Cantharides are brought forth Sometimes the whole matter lyeth upon one part whence the whole body is freed from pain an Impostume groweth which endeth in a Fistula 2. Without swelling this often causeth learnesse with weaknesse of the joynts Diagnostick signs There are wandring fierce pains all the body over especially in the back and the Loyns First It seaseth on one part only then suddenly it fasteneth on the next the most are bound in their bellies their Urine is like to those that are well but that sometimes little worms like those thar breed in rotten cheese swim in the bottom of the urinal and are mingled with the excrements of the belly Some have a good stomach others not Prognostick The cure often extends to some weeks The Cure Empiricalls are Earth-worms provided divers wayes Some give the ashes of a quick Mole burnt with wine at the decrease of the Moon Dogmaticalls Take Serna powder 2. drams infuse this 12 hours in Betanywater 6 ounces strain it hard adde Diacarthamum half an ounce mingle it Take roots of Devils-bit 1 ounce round Birthwort 3. drams Sage Betany of each one handful Southernwood Rue Perwinkle Savin of each 1 pugil boyl all in fair water with 4 ounces of this decoction for a dose passe through a colender 5 Earth-worms thrice washed in wine powdered then mingle Treacle half a dram cinamon in powder 1 scruple Sugar what may suffice drink it and sweat upon it repeat this for some dayes together The Impostume is broke with Plantane and salt beaten in a mortar and applyed the Impostume being broken some lay on a Cataplasm of Salomons seal with Ale with the roots of the Oke-fern Others do strew on the powder of a Mole H. de Bra. ASTHMA is the hurt of Breathing without a Feaver with a noise and frequency of breathing from the straightness of the wind-pipe if it be taken properly the disease is stubborne and long The Cause use increased by the straightnesse of the wind-pipe obstructions from the plenty of the humours the thicknesse stone hard swelling that matter is seldom sent from the head it is often collected by degrees it is most commonly sent by the vein-artery or the arterious vein for should it flow often from the head there would be a cough because those that are asthmatical are commonly Cachecticall and their feet swell because it often ceaseth without expectorating because by suppression of the Emrods ariseth constipation from some swelling humour compression by sinking down and growing together constriction by grosse vapours rising from the womb Whatsoever is troublesome to the instruments of breathing if it cannot easily be removed it causeth one to Cough if hardly it causeth Asthma for there is not strength enough to cough it out but if more hardly it causeth Orthopnoea and if it cannot be cast out it is a strangling Catarrh Diagnostick signs If it come from a thick cause bred by leisure an Asthma comes by degrees and it is continual If it floweth thither it increaseth at sometimes an in Autumn winter in the night If it come from the Brain there be signs of a Catarrh If it come from the Liver there is a swelling of the Feet and an ill habit If a thick humour stop the Wine-pipe there is a Cough with a noise it is bred by degrees there is Catarrh the Patient is sound If the fleam stick in the stomach there is a Cough with a sound and seldom any thing is expectorated and the disease being obstinate and lasting long killeth a man If it proceed from the drinesse of the Lungs so Heurnius saw a mans Lungs so dry that they were like a dry Apple there is no spittle the whole body is lean Prognostick It strangleth children old folk cannot be cured Aph. 40. s 2. young people hardly It is dangerous in a sharp Feaver It is sometimes changed into Peripneumonia a Dropfy and an ill habit of the body The cure In the Paroxism the cause must be pulled back by chafings Ligatures Cupping-glasses Clysters and opening a vein if the forces will admit if the humour be thin they must purge Topicals must be emollient and resolving When the Paroxysm is extended beyond the fourth day Vesicatories must be laid ro the Back against the region of the Lungs Out of the Paroxysm the matter prepared must be evacuated then expectoratir â—eans must be given The Breast muâ—â— be annointed If it come from a Catarrh the Brain must be purged The Catarrh must be hindered Use of old Treacle is excellent as of Diacalaminth as of Aqua vitae with Elecampane then dry the matter with a decoction of Guaiacum let the diet be attenuating the drink thin wine water and honey motion before meat must not be sudden or vehement for so many have been choked APHTHAE The cause is sometime a fault in the Mouth when humours are collected in it or of the whole Body as in malignant acute Feavers or of some part as of the Head Lungs Liver Spleen Belly Matrix in children sharp milk corroding the Tongue also milk corrupting which sendeth forth sharp vapours The difference Some are new some old some malignant some not some are on the Tongue some come on the Palate some from Blood some from choler Signs diagnostick Little swellings are seen sometimes red sometimes black sometimes white sometimes black and stinking Prognosticks Stinking black ulcerated crusty inveterated in children are mortal because you cannot apply means to them by reason the parts are soft moyst whence they easily corrupt corruption of the bone in those that are of years is dangerous If they happen in acute pestilent Feavers they are deadly The cure For children take away the sharpnesse of Milk from the Nurse by general and Topical means Give the child a draught of Honey of Roses Diamoron with Oxymel First give astringent Syrups then add discussers if the Milk concoct ill suckle it not so often If that be in vain bring them to suppuration laying Figs on them or boyl Bran in water til it grow clammy strain it and add Honey to the liquor or with Milk or Mucilage or syrup of Juleps or Gargarisms or Pills to hold under the Tongue and Lohocks for Infants Where the Patient is of years the humours must first be temperd 2. The conineut cause first requires astringents and then Resolvers If they be malignant Actius prescribes the Green water or Aegyptiac or to dip the Probe in scalding Oyl or in Aqua fort is which is not strong enough to work on mettals this following repelleth Take water of Honey suckle Plantaine Nuts of each 3 ounces Flowers of dry red Roses 1. pugil strain it and dissolve in it syrup of Pomegranats and Diamâ—ron of each 1. ounce mingle them The Spirit of Vitriol 2 drops and of Honey 1 ounce is good Crato Ep. 183. For inveterate Aphthae the ashes of Fennel-root burnt either alone or mixed with Honey are most profitable Least they should proceed
the corrption is poured into the Chest The worst of all is ulceration Rupture is a lesse evil an opening is easily cured An ulcer of the Brest is curable but not of the Lungs The Cure If it come by rupture or opening the only Indication is to stop the blood and to heal it Therefore if a Vein be broken by coughing let the Catarrhs be stopt by all means See for the Catarrhs After that the blood must be stopt by all kinds of revulsion the quality of the blood that exceeds must be tempered the Choler must be purged by mild remedies Aloes and Scammony must be for born let Honey be mixed with all medicaments because it openeth the Passages Then we must consolidate with Syrup of Comfrey Fennel which see in Senn. Take for six days every morning 4 ounces of juyce of Nettles 1 dram of blood-stone with the water or juyce of Knotgrasse Trallianus giveth 4 Scruples It is given in Roles Electuaries infusion until the liquor be red See bleeding at the nose If all be in vain you must give Laudanum opiatum or some other Narcotick The continual use of Germander is most profitable Crato ep 184. Rul Nettle-seed Manard commendeth the Roots of the sharp Dock If matter run out by corroding of a Vein in the Brest or else spittle with blood it is cured as a Consumption which commeth from the Lungs being corroded BLEEDING at the Nose The cause is either the mouths of the Veins opened or plenty of blood and there are signs of plethory of some urging of the expulsive faculty by some sharp humour and then there are signs of Cacochimia or the weaknesse of the Retentive faculty and then often at times and for very small causes the Nose bleeds or from outward causes as provocation tickling anointing with hot things or from diairesis or diapedesis if the blood be watery if flegmatick Cacochymia do trouble the Patient Differences It either comes from the Veins of the Nose or of the thick membranes of the third sinus and then for revulsion Banhinus admonisheth that Topicals must be applyed to the hinder part of the Head oft times it cometh forth of the Artery If it be critical it must not be stopped Prognostical Melancholick and flegmatick People endure it the worst The Cure If it come by the mouth of the Veins opened by Plethory that must be taken away and the blood must be pulled back from the Nostrils by opening a Vein on the same side and make a narrow Orifice draw away at times one ounce or two or sometimes four by cuppings ventoses must be applyed to the Liver They stop it better if they be applyed to the Foot on the same side and to both Feet if blood run out at both Nostrils Yet this caution must be used that they must not stay long on the same place but before they cause fainting they must be taken off Forest will have them with scarification to the Legs and Shoulders painful Ligatures must be made to the Limbs Use chafings with Salt and Vineger You must not stop the blood by internals and topicals until revulsion be made Internals are good in any form For. gave Hogs dung mixt with Bole Armenick that it might not be discerned for this oft times stops an uncurable bleeding at the Nose Take seeds of Purflane Plantain Sorril Endive white Poppey of each one dram Roots of great comfrey ounce boyl these in sufficient water to nine ounces to the strained liquor add the syrup of Myâ—â—ils Pomegranates Poppey water Lillies of each half an ounce mingle them the juyce of Nettles and the seed blood stone The last help Narcoticks These that follow Heurnius holds for secrets Take white Poppey seed half a dram of white Henbane one scruple blood Stone one scruple red Coral one dram mingle them make a powder and with Conserve of Roses six drams for one Dose Also water of Nettles one ounce powder of Mans Skull one scruple mingle them the juyce of Nettles Purslane Plantain Yarrow By Topicals Hogs dung applyed to the Nose cold water poured upon the Wrists if there be a Feaver Let the Mouth be kept full of cold water if any thing be drawn up into the Nose this serveth at all times Juyce of Nettles and Plantain must be put into the Nose Also glutinous medicaments and Epithems and Fomentations the ashes of white paper burnt must be put into the Nose A piece of chalk held in the ring finger on the same side The Testicles must be fomented with cold water a spunge wet in Oxicratum must be put under the Arm-pits a Prony root must be held under the Tongue the Stone of a Carp held in the Mouth the root of Nigella chewed held to the Nose a Bank doller must be bound close between the Eye-brows with bands the flowers of the lesser Dasie must be held in the Hand The same taken inwardly do suddenly dissolve clotted blood Moss water of Frogs spawn If it come from Acrimony of the matter the Choler must be purged out and temperd If it proceed from diapedesis the watery humours must be purged use the decoction of Guaiacum the meats must be thickning c. Heurnius useth first Cupping glasses and Ventoses to the Feet and Liver afterwards to the second spondil of the Neck then he useth chafings Ligatures after that blood-letting then Internals and Topicals that Moss which is called Crepituslupi BLEEDING of Wounds This proceeds from solution of continuity of the Veins and Arteries It is more hardly cured if the Artery be cut long or overthwart-waies then if it be cut crosse in two for oft times Physicians perswade that if the blood cannot be stopt the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder The cure Those things being used we said before first the Orifice of the Wound or rather of the Vessel must be stopt either by pressing of the Fingers till it clots or when this in Arteries hath no place in which the blood congealeth not and but seldome in Veins the Vessel must be stopt with the Fingers or with medicaments The most convenient is that Toad-stool which is called a Fuss or that Matter beaten Intercipients must be laid upon the part affected If in vain Par. bids to take and bind the mouth of the Vessel toward the root with a needle or a thread with as much of the flesh as the part will suffer for which end we are sometimes constrained to divide the skin that covereth that part and to be long before we unbind it But if the condition of the part will not admit of this we must apply Causticks that may make a crust which Sen. alloweth not cooÌ„mends rather in the place of them Vitriol which is not escharotick but when it is burnt but when it is Crude it binds vehemently and burns but little Some strew on it powder of Crude Vitriol Others conveniently dissolve it in liquor and apply it unlesse Nerves be undet Sometimes we are forced to cut
the Vessel in sunder being brought to light that the heat of the parts may compress the end of it Some when the Spring comes that Frogs first cast forth their spawn take a coorse linnen cloth so much as may serve and wash it often in this spawn and lay it in the Sun to dry and this they repeat three or four times and so the cloth being dryed at the time they need it they cut a piece off twice greater then the wound and lay it on the wound BARRENNES For. prescribed this that followeth Take Saffron long Pepper Cardamnum Pellatoty of Spain of each half a dram tails of Scincus with the Reins 2 scruples Galanga 4 Scruples Rape seed Parsnip seed Rocket seed Nettle seed ash-keys of each one dram Leeks white Ginger choise Cinamon of each 2 drams Electuary diasatyrion of Mesues description 6 drams with syrup of preserved Ginger make an Electuary keep it in a Vessel of glasse Take one hour before supper the quantity of a Nut and drink a cup of wine upon it Let the Patient take about bed time one dram of this following powder with wine Take white Ginger 1 dram Gallinga 2 drams Bulls pisle 3 drams make a powder Root of Egyptian Bean raw or boyled eaten Oyl of Marjoram with Hares runnet and a little Musch The secret of Lobelius Schrekevos commends this following as revealed by God Take yolks of Eggs fresh butter Bulls pisle Chiches Galanga Satyrian Zedoary Ginger preserved Mints Cocks and Wolfs testicles of each 1 dram Rocket seed Cloves Ginger Pepper long white and black Anniseed Ash keys Cinamon of each half a dram brains of Pigeons and Sparrows well boyled and roasted of each half a pound the heart of the Indian Nut Pine kernels cleansed Fistich nuts sweet Almonds cleansed Mallow seed Mercury Hasle-nuts shaled Dates of each 2 drams boyl all in sheeps milk and water bruise them strongly and add Tailes of Scinci half a dram make a Confection with Honey of Roses or Sugar what may suffice boyl all at a soft fire for an Electuary Helidaus holds this for a secret Take Pennyroyal Origanum of each two handfuls boyl them in Malligo wine adding musk three grains let both be perfumed Also the fume of Sage boyled received The same Author giveth one or at most three grains of Amber in a rear Egg in the morning shavings of Ivory and powder of Sage of each alike the decoction of Eringo roots in wine CACHEXIA is a cold and moist distemper of the body with a symptome of the colour changed and a disease of magnitude by the swelling of the Feet The Cause is a watery Flegmatick raw blood the fault is of the Liver the Spleen of the stomach of the Brain an nicer of the Reins because the wheyish humour running back hath infected the blood stopping of the Courses too much glutting and craming themselves Signs Diagnostick A pale leady colour a soft tumour about the Eyes Cheeks Feet Hands Prognostick It often afflicts children by too much greediness old men and women It may be cured unlesse it come from an incurable disease The Cure The vicious matter must be evacuated The cause must be removed The distemper must be taken away by general remedies and topicals The Powder called Cachectical is profitable as some other powder of filings of Steel steeled wine Senn. l. 3. p. 6. s 2. c. 2. Fer. l. 9. A CANCER is a hard Tumor sharp unequal round unmoveable wan sticking deep in the Veins that swell with a black humour and are spread in the body like to a Crab. The Cause is black choler Heurnius in Aph. 38. s 6. saith there is a double poyson one putrifying which is enraged by suppurating remedies another corroding that is enraged by Cleansers Signs Diagnostick The Tumor is hot and painful and is ulcerated The Ulcer is foul and stinking the lips of it are swolne thick wan Prognostick Aph. 38. s 6. by hidden Cancers are understood such as are not ulcerated Senn. Fabr. cent 3. obs 87. No Cancers though they be of the Breasts are cured by cutting off but they will grow again Cancers of the Lips How they must be extirpated Pareus teacheth l. 6. c. 29. The Cure It is performed by exact cutting away The increasing of an ulcerated Cancer must be hindered and of one that is not ulcerated that it come not to ulceration Palliative is made 1. By Diet. 2. By evacuatives and alteratives 3. By revulsion and derivation by Issues 4. By Topicals The juyce and decoction of Nightshade Endive the flesh of Snails boyld River Crabs green Frogs Oyl of Frogs See Senn. l. p. 1. c. 20. ashes of Crabs Senn. Scabious heath Robert Chervil Dill Honey-suckles Mans dung in powder For. l. 17. ashes of Mullens of the lesser Celandine of Robert Oyl of Eggs and wan mixed in a leaden Mortar with water of Night-shade with a leaden pestle Asses milk is good and Treacle Wild Cresses bruised or in fomentation also blood-suckers laying on of Cats and young Whelps divided Powder of Galls of burnt Crabs mingled with Oyl of Roses and laid on with Lint Pareus his Plate of Lead anointed with Quick-silver is excellent and an Antidote for all malignant Ulcers but because it keepeth in vapours Forestus liketh it not Par. l. 8 bids that it be made full of holes Crato Ep. 59. Crabs eys ground small on a Marble taken in broth or wine can do much in the greatest pains of a Cancer Aegyptiac is mortal for cancerous Ulcers Fabr. l. 3. obs 86. An old woman cured a Cancer laying on Sage chewed with her Teeth For. l. c. The Cure of that is ulcerated is done by Minerals with Unguent of Tutty Diapampholigos or juyce of Nightshade clarified and stirred in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle 8 ounces of common Tutty ten times washed in Night-shade water 2 drams of burnt lead washed likewise 1 dram Oyl of Roses half an ounce juyce of Nightshade what may suffice make a Liniment in a leaden Mortar with a leaden Pestle Some lay on daily a Hen which the Cancer eats For. l. c. Emplaister of Ceruss it is truly cured either by Section or burning or burning means If there be good blood and matter that runs from it the cure is perfect See Senn. l. c. No Atractives or Digestives profit nor Oyls or fat things except Juyces white wax and Goats suet For. l. 28. A small Cancerous push growing slowly about the Chin Mouth Nose is called Nolime tangere A Cancer in the Legs and Shanks is called a a Wolf Senn. l. c. Blood is sometimes commodiously drawn by distance of time The hearb Carduns benedictus and also the Eys of Crabs Magistral is given succesfully in water Arsemart Senn. l. 4. p. 3. s 1. c. 7. See there the manner of Section See what must be looked to concerning the Muscle of the Brest in the Anatomists A Hen cut through the middle is excellent to lay on being every day renewed Famous
is the Receipt of Antonius Fuchsius an Italian which see in Senn. l. c. the excellent water of Fab. and many more see Senn. l. c. CARUS is a deep sleep with losse of sence and motion the spirits being hindered yet the breathings remain free The Cause is the compression of the Scull and the Brain So Fern. saw a man for three moneths in a Carus not remembring that the Scull must be opened Forestus cured one that lay in a Carus fourteen days Obstruction of the Brain overcooling concussion motion troubling the animal spirits by a stroke or fall hurting the temporal muscle and the Carotick Arteries Narcotick force worms the Matrix the fume of coles the Moon beams Signs Diagnostick Deep sleep if pricked they feel draw themselves in If there be a Feaver it followeth the fits It differs from an Apoplex and Swooning as before from a Catoche because in Carus the Eyes are shut nor doth a man abide in the same stare he was taken From a Lethargy because a Lethargy is alwaies with a Feaver In a Carus ask questions and the sick will not answer Prognostick Carus coming upon a Feaver is mortal The Cure If it come from the first cause it is cured as a depression of the scull If from the second as an Apoplex and flegmatick Head-ach If from the third as a commotion of the Brain If from the fourth it is cured according as the hurt is If from the fifth it is cured by Antidotes as poysons are but they must be raysed the common way A vein must not be opened There is no better remedy then the eating of Cresses in saller either boyled or leasoned Forest CATALEPSIS The sick remain stiff in the same fashion they were taken yet sometimes they hear a little see remember and tell it afterwards if any thing be put into their Mouths they swallow it and go if they be driven by force The Souldiers in the siege at Mets held their Spears in their Hands the Horsmen followed the Troop both of them no lesse then almost quite frosen The Cause is a freezing vapour fixing rising from Minerals in the ground or from a melancholick humour fixing the spirits not those which already are flowen to the part but such as are subservient to the imagination in the Brain but the cold Aire brings not a Catoche but a Sphacelus and stupidity The Cure First they must be raysed 2. It is cured as head melancholy Vinegar must not be mingled in Topicals for that fixeth them also A vein may be opened if there be Indications Senn. Forest A CATARRH is a Symptome in things put forth whether it be taken generally for any kind of defluxion or specially for a defluxion upon the Lung The The Cause of the defluxion is known yet the pain draweth not but by the weaknesse of the part it cannot discusse it Lau. de Catarr The humours are things natural not natural and preternatural a hot Liver a cold Brain which is often the cause of a hot defluxion when salt steam is gathered in it and so contrarily The chief difference is from the place whence so it may arise from the Spleen or otherwise by consent and then many medicaments are in vain laid to the Head It is with or without a Feaver Signs Diagnostick or the causes are proper and collected by concourse as colour tast motion heat pain sostness of the part affected or that sends the matter If it come from the Brain it afflicteth easily long and continually If there be Intermission and if there be signs of some other part affected as the belly or Courses stopped they are caused from some other part The Cure If it come by consent that part must first be respected Revulsives draw not from the Head but pull from the part first affected yet the Brain must be strengthned If it proceed from a proper passion of the Brain and fall with force upon the Brest things that derive and stay are useful If not the 1. cause must be evacuated by generals then by topicals Also in a cold Catarrh a Vein may be opened if the Liver be hot 2. The humour prepared being evacuated the Head must be dryed by Internals and Topicals Also in a cold Catarrh conserve of Roses is commodiously mingled with hot Cephalicks Revulsion must be made by setaces chafings cupping glasses Gallen layeth on a plaster of new Pigeons dung for three hours left it should burn too much upon the place shaved for it heats and dryes wonderfully One grain of the whitest Frankincense taken at bed time is a secret The decoction of Guaiacum wood drying Cephalick powders Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 11. Med. Pract. If the Catarrh be hot give a purge a Vein must be opened Purgatives after preparatiues must be administred and Topicals that dry and corroborate must be applyed If there be danger of choaking we must draw it back by all our might with Pigeons dung Causticks Clysters Lotions Ligatures Chafings Cuppings Vesicatories Errhins Topicals and Generals We must stop it by internals also by Laudanum opiatum and Narcoticks Let the diet be drying the supper little sleep sparingly change his manner of lying if we will hold the Catarrh in the Head let the Head lye backward if it do more harme in the Head then in the Breast let the Head be lifted higher Laur. de Cat. For. Senn. CHOLERICK Passion moist is a continual and immoderate casting forth of a naughty humour both upward and downward The Cause is a sharp humour corrupted strugling about the stomach and Spleen and mesentery and Veins or poyson taken Signs diagnostick There is no Feaver but pain Inflation vomiting purging Prognostick It kills in three or four days if it end in 18. hours it hath been often healthful The Cure 1. If the vomiting be little it must be furthered by drinking much warm water for a little will turn to choler Decoction of hulled barley with Sugar or syrup of Roses Goats whey or of Cows with syrup of Roses 2. If vomiting be immoderate the belly must be moved therefore give whey or broth with Manna or syrup of Roses solutive Cast in a Clyster emollient and cooling with Diacatholicon Cassia If the belly purge too much cause vomiting 3. If they void too much Revulsives are profitable as Ligatures of the upper parts if they vomit of the lower parts if they purge too much Also the matter must be temperd by internal and topical means A most present remedy is half a dram of Crystal alone or mixt with other things laudanum opiatum must be given often if we fear swooning 4 The Forces must be strenthened by Internalls and Topicals CHOLERICK dry Passion is the casting forth of a windy vapour above and beneath with Inflation of the Belly and noise with the pain of the sides and loyns The Cause is the weaknesse of the stomach which breedeth winds or a clammy tenacious humour with a strong heat of the stomach and Intestins which
about the third day but if the burning be in the third difference all the bladders must be cut and the Eschar must be taken away by the emollients or if it be great by scarification deeply even to the quick that passage may be made for emollients the dark fumes may breath forth or take it off with a pen knife Lay a defensive on the part If a Gangreen be feared we must prevent it Par. l. 11. Unguent of Alabaster is excellent to bring it to Cicaâ—rise Combustion by Gunpowder leaves a filthy colour with grains of powder which oft times can be put out neither by scarification nor cuppings nor vesicatories Combustion by thunder is most cured by internal Cordials and Topicals of Rue leaves Onions Theriac c. All Topicals must be made of Antidotes If the bone be broken withal common glutinatives restrain the venome c. Lay on medicaments of Angelica Roots Swallow-wort Rue leaves and also a defensative Burning of the Eyes drop in warm milk Forestus cured his son by an Emulsion of Quince seeds made in Rose water the other emollients are useful Combustion of the joynts will admit of no sharp remedies but softnesse first premising generals CONCUSSION of the Brain is made from an external cause So Hippocrates tels us of a woman killed with a box on the Ear. The signs are vomiting as in the fracture of the Scul Prognostick If the Blood be poured forth between the pia and dura mater it is past hopes The cure is made by Revulsives and Repulsives as by opening a Vein in the Arm give a Clyster A repelling Cataplasm laid on of Scordium Beans of each six ounces Oyl of Roles three ounces Vinegar what may serve the use of this is until the fourth day Cupping glasses fastned to the shoulders the next day open the Vena puppis which is above the Lambdoides The next day a Vein in the Fore-head under the tongue from the fourth day we must use Resolvers as the Cerate of Vigo or unguent of Alabaster a plaister of Ivy gumm The last remedy is to open the Scull after the second moneth Fabcent 4. obs 2. Par. l. 9. Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 20. CONTUSION with running forth of blood is when the blood is pressed forth of the Vessels by extension or breaking The cure The blood gone out of the Vessels must be evacuated either sensibly as by opening a Vein by cupping scarifying Leeches so the sick have not a continual and vehement Feaver or by internal Resolvers and sweating Baths thin Diet So Galen opened a Vein commonly though there were no fulne's then he exhibited 4 ounces of Oxycratum Topicals must be first Repulsives then dissolvers as Unguent of Alabaster which is alwayes good but at the beginning of a Feaver If a Gangreen be neer which is known by the hardnesse of the Tumor and wannesse for if it be soft it is a small contusion it must be strongly resolved with a little bag torrified c. or scarify it or open it with a knife cure it as a Gangreen Effectual is the root of Solomans seal prest bruised and laid on or steeped in wine If it be with a wound first lay on an astringent after a digestive to the parts about causing suppuration Par. l. 11. otherwise a suppurative hath no place on the part affected If it chance to infants Caesar Arantius was wont to use Section whereby by their crying and pain he brought them into very great danger Afterwards growing better skilled the first day of all he layed on a linnen cloth wet in whites of Eggs and Rose vinegar which must be often made wet after that until the ninth day he laid on a Cataplasm of flowers of Red roses leaves and berries of Myrtils of each two ounces meal of Beans and Barley of each one ounce Wormwood Betony of each half an ounce Cummin seed with black wine make a Cataplasm add oyl of Roses and Camomil of each one ounce lay it so great that it may lye on the neighbouring parts also After the tenth day he laid on the plaister Diapalma or Diacalcithcos Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 21. and concerning swellings Contusion with a fracture or wound of the Scull If much blood be run out between the Scull and the films which is known by the blood running forth at the Nostrils Ears by the heavinesse of the Head stupidnesse sleep If the Bone be pressed down and presse on the Brain which is proved by the Fingers If pieces of the Scull prick the Films which is known if while the sick bloweth his Nose he feeleth them prick or or there be a delirium the Scull must be opened or lifted up But if there be none of these first opening a Vein and giving purges of choler it is cured by a plaister of Ivy Gum So Forestus cured one by only oyl of Hyperici Vidus Vidius Lanfrancus say That it is oftner cured by Medicaments and safer then by the drepane Contusion with flux of blood by and upon the upper parts In this case 4 things are feared First Least the blood should run out too much 2. Lest it should strangle the sick 3. Lest it should congeal 4. Lest it should putrefie and seeing that congelation requires Dissolvers Ruptures means that consolidate we must apply to that which urgeth most Wherefore after opening of a Vein when blood is more seldome cast forth and seems not so fluent exhibit a resolvent as Posca allayed with water or Medicaments of the Hares runnet or Kids Avens Mugwort Red coleâ— Betony Rhabarb Rhapontick Terra sigillata Sperma ceti Crabs eys Harts horn Coral prepared Bole armenick Chervil water Decoction of our Lady leaves of the lesser Dasie Hyericon Fumitery Scabious Angelica roots Swallow-wort Seeds of Carduns Benedictus Madder Mumie is not useful for it causeth vomit c. Par. l. 11. Afterwards we must joyn together with all we can do as in spitting of blood Amber If there be paine of the Belly from congealed blood purge it forth with Rheubarb c. If there be a Cough stop the Rheum CONVULION is a depraved motion of the Muscles The cause is not Emptinesse because Hellebour will do it because it seldom happeneth in hectick and burning Feavers nor is it Repletion because in Plethory it comes not nor doth Hellebour fill The subject is the Muscles especially the nervous and fibrous parts of it when their expulsive faculty is urged whereby the animal faculty is drawn into consent as in vomiting and coughing c. If it stick fast to the part it causeth Convulsion but if the vapour or matter be moveable it causeth a convulsive motion If the muscle that is one or of one kind be affected as the bending Muscles there is a Convulsion but if two that are contrary there is made a convulsive motion In a convulsive motion the Brain is affected also but in a Convulsion but seldom If convulsion come from a wound it comes from
the infusion whereof we give to purge the substance to bind Mechoacan Senna leaves Diacatholicon Diapheaenicon Clysters in great quantity if you would scowre the guts but small to glutinate Antidotes against poyson as Bole armenick c. 2. If the pain be vehement sometimes we must cast in such things as ease pain Give broth of oyl of sweet Almonds apply internals topicals narcoticks 3. We must bind yet not before seven dayes unlesse it be with gentle means A powder of Elder berries of Turtles and Hares burnt is commended Also the juyce of ground Ivy taken The use of Wax in a roasted Apple The Apple is made hollow and filled with white and yellow Wax it is roasted it must be eat before meat by external topicals also whatsoever many would have by revulsives 4. The Ulcer must be cleansed and filled with flesh The Diet. Much drink is naught for a Dysentery and if they grow well too much exercise That snotty white matter is not the fat of the guts nor fleam nor crust but the humours coming out of the Veins changed by the part hurt as in the whites of women Question Whether Purgatives may be given Valesius denieth it com 4. in 4. Epid. Fuchsius Massarias because Galen useth them not because they bring the humour to the part affected Senn. affirmeth it Galen knew not Rheubarb Mirobalans yet he used Honey Milk and Crato for the second reason denieth that Cauteries can be good in the Gout Ep. 167. Whether milk be good It is not good if there be a Feaver and where the Body is impure It must be given warily if whey be much it clenseth if whey evaporate with long boyling it bindeth Whether drinking water milk steeled wine be good Crato denieth it Ep. 261. Doringus obs 42. cent 3. saith That water of fresh steel that was never yet quenched will trouble the Belly but if it be drank from steel often quenched it binds the Belly Wherefore if you will bind cast away the first water Senn. will not allow this because it is of an Homogeneal nature but thinks that steeled water must be drank sparingly for the more iron is communicated to the water the more it troubles the Belly and moveth vomit neither let it stay long but quench it suddenly for if it stay long in the liquor it is turned as it were into rust and troubles more Wherefore the first water must not be poured forth Crocus Martis made by reverberation alone is good but not by dissolving by water DYSURIA is diminishing of Urine it differs from Ischuria in degree only sometimes it is with but often without pain it comes not forth by drops but sometimes in due quantity by heaps The Cause is the sensitive faculty or expulsive of the Bladder hurt or some other diseases of the Bladder Signs Diagnostick If it proceed from fault of the Ureters or Reins there is no pain no heavinesse about the share It is called hot piss which is not a diminishing of urine but when the urine comes forth as it should only with heat See the Strangury The Cure When the cause is taken away For. applyed to the Secrets of a woman in a Feaver great with child Take green Pelletary 2 handfuls Chetvil one handful and half Oyl of Scorpions one ounce and half Butter two ounces it seldom faileth You may first give a Suppository or Clyster He cured another with oyl of Camomil and of Scorpions first anointing with oyl a decoction of Rue and Dill. Fernelius saith That one Ureter being stopped the Urine cometh forth by the other For. observeth the contrary DRUNKENNES Preservatives Bitter Almonds are commended five six or ten before meat as also Peach kernels which seem to help by their diuretick force Arculamus writes That if any man eat tops of Wormwood or Rue in the morning fasting he shall be defended from drunkennesse Coleseed eaten before meat is good Platerus avoids drunkenness by drinking very sparingly at first Mnesitheus Athen. saith three things must be observed 1. To drink wine mingled 2. Not to fill your self with Junkets at the second Course 3. Sleep not before you vomit The cure Vingegar drank recovers drunken men and other sowre things For. gave small beer to drunkards and bad them sleep if they sleep not they recover not but by abstinence the next day and by taking syrup of the decoction of garden Currance Leaves of Coleworts wet in Rose water cure a drunken man if after drink you lay them to his Head Those that are dumb after drunkenness will dye saith Hippocrates unlesse a Feaver come upon it DANDRAFF It proceeds from a salt watery blood and also cholerick Some hold it for a sign of a sound brain It portends no danger It is cured by Generals Topicals softesse afterward with Detergents as with urine pickle with the decoction of Lupius with Soot with the juyce of Squills Scarification and Leeches are good The DROPSIE called Ascites Is a tumor of the Abdomen Scrotum Thighs Feet from a watery humour which sometimes presseth the Diaphragma oft times it sweateth through into the Chest whence groweth a little Cough and in time it corrupteth whence cometh a Feaver and thirst from salt vapours The water is ingendred by the parts between the stomach and the Reins the Liver in Anasarca but not in Ascites for the whole body should be hurt unlesse we shall say that it is affected in the end The water is collected in the cavity of the Abdomen not by fault of the Liver nor by reason of the straight passages to the Reins but because of little urine They make water sparingly because the water stayeth in those places It holdeth up by reason of the attraction of the Spleen hurt and obstruction of the Vessels of it or Scirrhus For the smallest part of the wheyish humour is carried by the Veins to the Reins The greatest part is drawn by the Spleen from the stomach by the short Vessel and from thence by the Arteries it is derived to the Reins It cannot be made from the faculty of making blood only hurt for though the Chylus may changed into raw blood as in Anasarca yet it cannot all be changed into water and if it were changed yet the Reins can vent it forth It floweth down into the cavity of the Abdomen and the caule by the veins by way of anastomosis and diapedesis and dissolved unity the water is often times yellow Signs There is alwaies swelling of the Feet especially toward the evening and after exercise The feet often swell when men recover from sharp diseases and long from plenty of meat or some outward cause This tumor is not dangerous if you timely help it Prognosticks Anasarca is the safest because the natural faculty is lesse hurt and the blood comes nearer to natural blood then water Ascites if it proceed from a Scirrrhus is more dangerous then a Tympanum for the rest Tympanum is worse then Ascites If it proceed from a
faulty Liver a Cough is easily moved and the Belly is hard If the Belly be loose and moist without ease the parts as the veins about the small guts are affected with a hectick heat and are the cause of ît In which case purgatives are often mortal If it follow melancholick diseases it cometh from fault of the Spleen They that are in an agony hope well which is wonderful it is sooner cured in servants then Masters young men then old men Those that have their bowels sound they in the beginning are freed of the disease by vomit scowring sweat urine The Cure 1. The remedies must be varied 2. They must abstain for some daies between from Physick 3. We must not proceed to stronger remedies unless the milder be in vain 4. Let the form be rather dry The continent cause is evacuated by purging feldom by vomit If it wander in the Abdomen and the Mesentery by sweat and urine if it be on this side the Liver Purgatives are besides the common the juyce of the root or middle shell of the dwarf Elder pressed forth not boyled with Barley water or Raysins for should it be boyled it vanisheth The Dose is one ounce Oyl is pressed forth of the berries of Elders as out of Linseed it is given to one dram The extract of the berries of dwarf Elder The grain or seed of Ricinus one or two hulled they are called grana Tilli gutta gummi which some think to be the juyce of Ricinus The juyce of our Orris with Honey Raysins Gum traganth for given by itself it burneth the Throat The juyce of wild Cucumber is not so vehement as they commonly report Mucilages are added to it The golden Spirit of life of Rul which many say is nothing else then the essence of Trochis Alhandal For. commendeth or prescribeth these that follow Take the species of the lesser Indi one dram and half root of Mechoacan four scruples roots of Elecampane Burnet of each half a scruple make a powder give a third part with wine Or Take roots of Orris dwarf Elder Parsley Smallage Kneeholme Elecampane fern of each one darm Hysop Centory Wormwood leaves of Elder which are the best Savory Finger-ferne dodder of each one handful the middle barks of Elder Gratiola Betony of each half a handful Madder roots sweet Cane sliced of each two drams Anniseed and wild Carrot seed of each one dram and half seeds of wild Saffron bruised half an ounce leaves of Senna one ounce and half Polypod of the oak half an ounce Broom flowers half a handful Juniper berries one dram Sea cole half a handful Raysins one ounce Liccoris scraped half an ounce Cinger Cinamon of each one dram boil all in sufficient water to one pound and half to the straind liquor add syrup Bizantine or Eupatory and Calamine of each one ounce make a decoction Or Take Senna leaves half an ounce Anniseed one dram leaves of Mountain Pepper half a dram Roots of green Orris a little bruised three drams and half Sea cole half a dram infuse them in nine ounces of whey boyl them and presse them out add honey of Roses two ounces for to take at twice being first strained If there be a Feaver For. puts for Mountain Pepper 4 drams and half of Rheubarb Spicknard one scruple Or Take juyce of Orris half an ounce whey two ounces and half raw Honey one ounce and half boyl them and strain them add Spicknard half a scruple Cinamon one scruple Diagridium three grains Apply purgative Topicals Liverwort and juyce of Scurvey-grasse taken daily to one ounce strengthen well Crato Ep. 123. gives with great successe the extract of the root of Orris He puts Henbane under the feet in the same Epistle For. with the only use of Garlick cured many Topicalls are Take unguent of Agrippa two ounces juyce of dwarf Elder or Elder 1 ounce boyl them to consumption of the juyce make an ointment for the Belly and the Feet If there be a Scirrhus apply emollients A certain old woman cast Frogs called land-roads alive into a pot and boyled them with oyl of Olives she annointed the Belly Feet with that miraculously This following is a secret of For. Take of the roots of dwarf Elder green six handfuls roots of Briany one pound outward bark of Elder four handfuls leaves of wild Cucumbers two handfuls Red cole six handfuls Mallow leaves two handfuls Marsh mallow leaves three handfuls grosse Bran five handfuls Camomil flowers three handfuls Mellilot flowers two handfuls dry Wormwood three handfuls boyl them sufficiently in sufficient quantity of water beat together add unguent Agri three ounces Barly meal half a pound make a Cataplasm for the Legs unto the Knees Or take juyce of Orris juyce of the roots of dwarf Elder and of Elder juyce of Briony of each one ounce unguent of Agrippa three ounces boyl them for a soft ointment A woman died by a Vesicatory applyed to her Feet Fab. obs 49. c. r. Gradus saith that it wonderfully draweth watery humours to it if living Frogs be put into an artificial Bath Paracentesis hath only place when the forces are strong and the Bowells safe otherwise the Belly quickly swelleth and other remedies are but vain when the Navel is lifted up into a large and light bladder Sanctorius saith That the Vessels of the Navel may be so dilated with an Instrument that they may void out the water If it swell not below the Navel on the right side if the Liver be ill on the left if the Spleen let it be cut three or four fingers from the White line and put in a Pipe closed with linnen that nothing may come forth but by little and little when the Physitian pleases as in Empyema The Scrotum is conveniently 〈◊〉 as is taught of Feb. cent 1. obs 48. In an that are Hydropical Rondelet saw the Pancreas hardened Sweat unlesse Nature brings it to that of its own accord will hardly profit Internals are and insensibly take away water Theriacal salts for to sweat Let Steel topical Resolvers and Fomentations alone A spunge steeped in Wine wherein Salt Bran and Mugwort are boyled Thirst is not taken away by water but by Oxycratum If there be a Feaver mingle cold things with hot burnt braffe made up in Pills from one dram to one dram and half Above the Ankle four days skin is profitably opened with a penknife a little deeper then when a Vein is opened and it must be rubbed with salt least the blood grow together and so the water is happily let forth Put Henbane leaves under the Feet A Dropsy from melting comes in a hot burning Feaver from burning heat it is cured by things that cool heat and by such as void water The Dropsy Tympanites it scarce differs from Ascites for you shall seldom find wind without water so contrarily It is also called a dry Dropsy The Cause is wind shut up in the Abdomen and also in the Intestins
by Platerus observation and Smetius Winds are made of grosse matter especially of black choler and heat strong enough of it self but weaker in respect of the matter In Tympanites the heat is almost burning but the matter is melancholick Signs Diagnostick The Belly gives a sound like a Drum The cure The matter must be cause of the wind must be taken away the wind must be discussed Alwaies let Carminatives exceed Purgatives Arculanus thinks it were a singular Remedy if in a Clyster you dissolve three drams of the Electuary oâ— Bay berries you must discusse by Internals Topicals by the Plaister of Bay berries If heaters help not we must pass to Coolers the beer of the decoction of Camomil flowers is miraculous In Leucophlegmatia or Anasarca it is good to open a Vein if it come from stopping it is cured as Cachexia A DROPSY of the Womb is either in the cavity of the Matrix or in the Coats of the Marix or in the Vessels of the Matrix or it is shut in a Vessel or not It is either with Child or without Oft times it killeth the Child most frequently it makes belief of being with Child The cause is either sent from some other place or is bred in the Womb stopping of Courses Signs It is distinguished from Conception because a Dropsy of the womb is equally extended according to the largness of the womb If it last above ten months it continually waxeth greater in the following moneths In great with child it is contrary the Symproms that afflict in the first moneths grow milder in the latter The Brests that are hard are made soft In a Dropsy of the womb some blood runneth forth It is distinguished from Mola by the weight from Inflation of the womb by weight and sound from a Dropsy of the Belly because that riseth from the superiour parts and goeth down to the lower parts In a Dropsy of the Matrix it is contrary When it remaineth in the cavity the Mouth of the Matrix is shut when in a Bladder it seems to be shut If the whole Body be well and child-bearing were very tedious it cometh from the fault of womb Prognosticks If the water be not corrupted nor sharp which is collected from the Symptoms it is cured by length of time The cure If it proceed from stopping the Courses they must be voided also by opening a Vein but in other cases it is not profitable The water must be voided by injections Diureticks Purging Pessaries Externals Vomit Sneezing Clysters Fontanels are not good A DROPSY of the Brest is seldom knownz and yet it is frequent It is not likely that so much water should fall from the Head but it is either bred in the Brest or sent thither Signs A pain of the Brest that is weighty and a sound when the Body is moved A dry Cough There is danger of being choaked chiefly about the first sleep thirst lost appetite pale visage the Feet often swell Prognosticks It is seldom cured Once cured it easily returns into a Dropsy The Cure The water must at several times be evacuated by Purgatives Hippocrates orders the Incision of the Brest if the Bowels be sound By Diureticks wherewith Maximilian the 11. Emperor cured himself for twenty years and when that motion was hindered he was strangled Crato Ep. 137. Senn. commendeth Incision at the beginning DROPSY of the Head Is either within or without the Scull It runneth out by Anastomosis and diapedisis of the Veins It happeneth to children from the violence of Mid-wives in delivery Signs If it be without the Scull it is proved by the touch If within the Eys weep and are hardly shut and it is mortal The Cure Generals premised that evacuate if the age will suffer it the part must first be softned then wee must use Resolvers Spirit of Wine with a fourth part of Scabious water Also Aquapendens commends for children water of quick Lime the Lime being thrown away If these fail lay a Caustick to the hinder part of the Head The manner of cutting see in Senn. Lastly lay on remedies that dry the Brain Fab. obs 10. c. 1. found in the fore Ventricles of the Brain 18. pound of clear water DISTEMPER of the Spleen hot hath with it thirst a dry Tongue yellow colour red Face dejected Appetite a cold distemper contrarily They that have a weak Spleen are properly called spleenetick The Cure The Spleen cannot endure Attenuatives nor Relaxatives but things that bind moderately as Wormwood yet moderately lest they make a Scirrhus sweet things taken any way are hurtful and so is Vinegar Wherefore the rinds of the five opening roots must be steeped not in Vinegar but in Wine It can endure stronger Remedies then the Liver Stoppers must be chiefly avoided It is evacuated by the Piles Vomit Purging Urine bitter medicaments are the most profitable The milt of an Ox burnt in an earthen Vessel the milt of a Kid to one dram All outward remedies must be made with Posca that they may penetrate DISTEMPER of the Stomach If it be cold it is cured by Generals Topicals Topicals must be laid to the pointed grissle toward the Navel and to the back to the twelvth and thirteenth Spondils Corals are most profitable Myrobolans Chebulae and the extract of Galanga Other cold distempers of the Shoulders Matrix Intestins are cured by Generals Topicals as in the Dropsy Anasarca chiefly with the decoction of Guaiacum China c. DEAD BODY If it ly in the house or field and it be a question how it died either by Thunder or some other mischief If it be from thunder the Body smelleth of Brimstone so as Dogs c. will not touch it Under the part whole or wounded the bones are broken the wound is black If he fall on the side that was stricken Beasts fall on the contrary side If he were smitten waking his Eys are shut if sleeping contrarily The Body is not corrupted If the Question be Whether he that was wounded received the wounds dead or alive If alive the Lips of the wound are red bloody swoln wan round about He that was drowned if he were thrown in living the whole Belly swelleth with water snotty matter comes forth of his Nostrils frothy matter from his Mouth the ends of his Fingers are supposed to be excoriated DEAFNES The Cause is either the fault of the Spirits and Brain and so the other sences suffer also or the outward ears are wanting or the passage of hearing is stopped or the Tinpanum or Nerve is hurt Platerus saw an Abbot who by the Pox was blind deaf dumb Signs If it follow other diseases and the other senses be well the Nerve is affected If the Tympanum the Cause was either internal or external It is ill in Feavers unlesse it shew a Crisis The Cure The cause being removed it ceaseth If it be from fleam that must be dried and removed The water of Origanum is commended distilled with wine
from the dry hearb Gall of Patridge with equal part of oyl of Amber Water of an Ash with its salt is specifical Querc Crato Ep. 59. Carduus benedictus four handfuls infuse them twice in two pound of Carduus water distil it after 24 hours infusion he puts a clout into the Ear dipped in that water Water of bread It is seldom cured after six Moneths An old woman put one or two grains of musk into the Ear succesfully with cotten Another used the oyl of young mice steeped newly littred miraculously Juyce of Iâ—y clarified dropt in with wine Juyce of Onions with some convenient liquor Oyls of bitter Almonds Marjoram of yolks of Eggs of Hempseed of Turpentine Wax Juniper Mustard-seed Guaicum juyce of Tobacco Let all be warm put in no new till the former be well purged to which end serveth coughing sneezing three or four drops of the medicament is enough to drop in at once let the sick ly on the sound Ear. Stop the Ears with cotton Avoid unctuous things as much as is possible ECSTASIS is either true as when the mind is drawn away to contemplate heavenly things or Demoniacal as the dancing of witches to which belongeth the Ecstasis of Cardan and those of Lapland Or Natural whereby men think their dreams were so indeed and that they saw quires of Angels ELIPHANTIASIS of the Greeks or a Leprosy of the Arabians is a Cancer of the whole Body or a disease in augmented magnitude from a hot dry distemper and solution of continuity The cause is black malignant Choler the remote is Conception whilst the Terms flow a hot and dry distemper of the Liver and the Spleen Signs Diagnostick A Nose wan red Cheeks cleaving of the Nails a shrill voice stupidnesse in the Legs and the whole Body that they can scarse feel the prick of a needle If some grains of salt be cast on the blood of a Leprous person the salt dissolveth if the blood swim on clear water he is infected If the Ashes of burnt Lead swim on his water he is Leprous Lemn Prognostick It is not cured but at first The Cure Diet is prescribed opening of a Vein purging Cordials Baths after bathing give the Ashes of a Kites Head Feet and Bowels burnt in a pot but the flesh must be eaten for three days together which some hold for a secret That the use of Vipers will not suffice Palmarius observed Fernelius Erastus That it is sufficient and whereby Gisb. Horst said He cured himself and many others See Vidius Schenkius Palmarius his greatest hopes lieth in Quicksilver ELEPHANTIASIS of the Arabians is a swelling of the Foot wan and looks like an Elephants Foot It is cured at the beginning but old cannot be cured Senn. often observed that the Hands also will swell so that pressed by ones Fingers they leave pits like Oedema It is cured as before EMPYEMA is a collection of Matter in the hollow of the Brest The Cause It followeth chiefly the inflammation of the Tonsils or the Pleura of the Lungs c. Signs diagnostick If such an Inflammation went before which could not be cured there is a weight about the Diaphragma fluctuation when men change the side they lye on At last a Feaver cometh softly which is partly putrid partly hectick about the evening and morning it is fiercest A continual Cough bloody spittle if they lie hid in the right side there is felt heat and weight Hippocrates bids to lay a wet cloth to both sides where it is soonest dried there lyeth the matter Prognostick Thirst lost-Appetite loose Belly stinking spittle are deadly Oft times it degenerates to a Consumption then the Temples are mightily extenuated the Feet swell the Nails are crooked If the matter lye on the left side it is the more danger Aph. 44. s 7. 27. s 6. The Cure The matter must be let forth where Nature carryeth it For. gave a Clyster of a decoction of Barley and honey of Roses anointed the Brest with oyls of Camomil Lillies Cats grease Whelps grease using an emollient fomentation then he gave Cassia and when the urine grew thick Diureticals then a Purgative with these the Patient was cured If there be a Cough expectorating things must do it as juyce of Ivy four ounces thrice or four times in a day If all be in vain Incision must be made whilst the Forces last If the Lungs be not ulcerated cut between the four and five or five and six Rib of that side where the greatest pain is EPILEPSIE either is essential to the Brain or by Sympathy from the Stomach Marrix Worms outward parts in children and those that are of age Differences There are three degrees 1. The fall is felt before hand they fome not it lasteth not long and the sick after the paroxysm remembers all in a great Epilepsie it is worse in a mean it is betwixt both The Cure Let the sick be freed from the paroxysm which is done if so soon as the fit cometh you give one Pill of laudanum opiatum with a fourth part of oyl of Camphir or the Antepileptick Pill of the roots of Piony mans scull or oyl of Amber The Head must be laid higher a wedge must be put into the Mouth the sick must not be moved violently but not at all for the fit is prolonged by it Let him be raysed After the fit he is cured as Head-ach from fleam or melancholy by preparatives evacuatives for some time even continued for a whole moneth by Sweatings and other general means by Topicals that are proper A Partridge Liver powdered at the fire in a por and distilled with water of Yarrow in a glasse vessel Crato Ep. 104. Syrup of juyce of Carduus with the extract of sweet Cane Ep. 140. Mans blood is allowed by Zac. l. 1. hist. 23. because milk is good alwaies hang on an Amulet as Take Piony root half an ounce seeds of Male-piony one dram and half also roots of Briony Diet. Goats blood Heart of a Goat of a she Goat of an Eel are the worst eating of Turrles the best Quails are naught the Feet must be kept hot drunken people beget such as are troubled with Epilepsies If the disease be proper to the Brain the fit is more violent it comes about the new and full Moon there are signs of the Brain affected the other are well Setaces are principle good applyed to the Neck If an infant be affected it may be prevented if as soon almost as it is born you give it the Epileptick powder with milk if after milk you procure vomit which is done by pressing down the childs Tongue and put a feather anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds or some other in the Throat The Nurse must be cured as though she were sick of the Falling sickness The infant must be purged with honey or Raysins Holl. In the paroxysm they must be cured as elder people If it be from worms they must be killed and driven forth
decoction of Mallows Fennel Rue Ey-bright Fumitory Rheubarb Senna made like Claret After softning detergents as juyce of Mallows Fennel Rue clarified with the Gall of an Eel and Sugar-candy afterwards also a little white Vitriol was added After that juyce of Rue and Celandine double of Fennel lesse of Vitriol one dram and half Verdigrease five grains and the party was cured A certain Matron cured the poor with this following water Take the Entrals of a Pike and together with the Gall Liver Bowels cut them small in pieces add one handfull of Fennel and distill them The juyce crushed forth of Pismires The green of brasse corrodeth lesse when it is burned then unburned That which Covers the whole Pupil the Chirurgion must not meddle with Par. A Cloud wherein the sick seem to look through smoak is from a humor compacted in the Cornea A white spot is made either from a scar and it is incurable or from fleam collected between the Cornea They are cured by Generalls Topicals emollient and detergent with the juyce of Pimpernel with a blew flower and first with Rosemary flower water water of Honey if it cannot be cured the white colour is taken away with the juyce of sweet Pomegranates If a yellow colour in the Jaundies seize on the Cornea receive the vapour of Vinegar cast on a burning tile by the Eys the decoction of Rheubarb if Choler of Agarick if fleam drop into the Eye snuff up into your Nostrils Blood-shot is an effusion of blood in the Adnata and Cornea from a stroke a fall It is cured if it be greater with topicals revulsives repelling then with discutients alone With the decoction of Fenygrec exactly cleansed or in the form of a fomentation Pigeons blood Colewort leaves boyld and applyed new Cheese If it be old it requireth stronger means tops of Hysop beaten tied in a sinnen cloth let down into boyling water laid warm to the Eye takes out the blood that it will stick to the cloth Root of Devils-bit Root of Solomons seal Vine water Hypopion is when Matter is gathered under the Cornea there went Blood-shot before running of the Eyes inflammation Fern. cureth that as the Haw Galen Paraeus by opening the Cornea to the Iris Or they affect Vvea as The falling down of the Vvea by reason of the unity of the Cornea disolved If a small part of the Vvea fall down it is called Myocephalus if a greater part Staphyloma the greatest is called Clavus when it is grown a Callous No man hath cured Staphyloma but a little pipe artificially drawn may derive them by Channels If it be from an Ulcer of the Cornea it is curable if it come from a Rupture or wound it is also cured Dilatation of the Pupil called Mydriasis when the Apple is greater then it should be It is either natural or cometh from extension from dryness or flowing thither of humours from a stroke a fall too much holding their breath in women with child All things seem lesse to these men but the humour doth not affect the whole Vvea otherwise the Apple would be made lesse for the weight of the Vvea would contract it but the Pupil The same is to be said of drinesse If it come from drinesse it must be softned if from a humour it must be evacuated revulsed resolved by Topicals it must be restrained Fern. useth this following Take dry Roses dry Mints Spicknard of each two drams Bark of Frankincense Mirrh of each half a dram Saffron one scruple Pompholyx Acacia Spodius all of them washed one dram washed Aloes half a dram powder them sift them make Trochis with Gum Traganth dissolve one of them in Rose water A Cataract Suffusion is the obstruction of the Pupil by a humour Paraeus saith by a skin It groweth between that space that is between the Cornea and the Crystaline humour It is counted counterfeit by the Ancients The black is incurable Copulation makes for this about the break of day they see clearest because a few spirits are dispersed by a great light by a lesse they are collected It is made also from the subtilty of the spirits from the finenesse of the Body from Dilatation of the Pupil Generals premised Revulsives Topicals resolving the hot breath of one that eateth Fennel must be often received the Eys being gently rubbed with the Fingers If it be old see first if it be ripe the sign where of is if he can see nothing but light can distinguish nothing Those are incurable that are not dilated by rubbing the Ey-lids so That which is with a consumption of the Eys that which followeth great diseases those that are green black yellow wan plaister-colour Contrarily those that are chest-nut colour sky colour sea green are curable 2. Let the Moon decrease let it be two or three days after the full let her not be in Aries let there be no pain of the Head nauseating Cough Let the Needle be of iron let the sick look with his Eys toward his Nostrils then the needle must be thrust in the middle space between the lesser Cornea and the Iris avoiding the Veins and the Cataract must be thrust down from above downwards laying on the white of an Egg with Rose water Let the Eys stay bound up to the eighth day Or they affect the weeping piece of flesh as Excathis which is a Tumour of that flesh from blood It is cured by Topicals corroding by Generals with the Iron Rhyas is a diminishing of it which followeth other diseases It is cured by Sarcotick remedies Squinting comes from a Convulsion of the Muscles It is either natural or from a faulty situation of the Crystalline Or without any manifest cause they hurt the sight as Amblyopia which is called Gutta serena wherein the Eye and the Apple remaining clear the sight is depraved Myopia is when they see only what is before their Eys Nyctalopia is when men see nothing in the night sometimes well These are cured by Generals rather then Topicals If the cause be in the Brain the other senses suffer with it If it began suddenly it is obstruction If by degrees it is either distemper or restraint It begets too great light in the Eye by the heat reflected and so hurts A white colour is by dilating of the Pupil Topicals are the secret of Maximilian the Emperor namely distilled water of fresh Goose dung a Goats Liver eaten roasted the vapour of it boyled the liquor droping from it in roasting it must be anointed Rondelet found this to be more effectual if the leaves of Fennel Celandine Rue be stuck into it The powder is strued into the Eye The meats must be seasoned with salt of Eybright Saphyr water called so from the colour See Sennertus the species of Occonis c. also the Collirium or Sieff that follows is useful Take water of Fennel and Ey-bright of each four ounces Tutty prepared one ounce and half the best Aloes one scruple infuse them
all night wash your Eys with the water Water of bread kneaded with powder of Rue Fennel Ey-bright Use of Spectacles weakneth the sight unlesse you wear them for need Dud. Ep. 27. Fab. cent 1. obs 27. by often washing the Eys with cold water the sight is darkened from too much sneezing voluntarily groweth blindness Oft times things actually cold may be applyed to the Eys but not to the Ears Zach. l. 1. hist 56. For. prescribeth three medicaments for the Eys The first is of Crystal which he would use to read with The second of green glasse which he would use sometimes The third like a Pyramid not bored through of thick green glasse whose Basis should be broad enough to cover both the Eys For. used this following secret in many There is a muddy Fish greater then an Eel it is called Aelpuick the Liver whereof bound to a tyle must be set against the Sun and the liquor dropping from it must be received by a Vessel underneath With this anoint not your eys but your Ey-brows and upper Ey-lids Concave glasses profit by the circumference for those thick glasses represent all objects greater as Convex glasses make them lesse and plain glasses equal They that have Owl eys desire but little light They that have plenty of humours in their Eys have black Eys because the plenty of the humours cannot be transparent enough Cat-eyed that have but little humours cannot bear much light See the Vlcer of the Eye Epihora it is a thin watery humour like to tears in the Eys It is cured by Generals Driers Revulsives astringent Topicals c. EY-LIDS Roughnesse It is the ruggednesse of the inside of the Ey-lids with itching and rednesse and oft times with pushes like Millet seed from a sharp humour A callous roughnesse Besides Generals Revulsives Intercipients Topicals must be emollients afterwards Coolers as Rose-water or water of Dandelion lastly detergents Par. saith this that followeth is best of all If you dissolve a little Vitriol in much water of Roses Aloes Myrrh Saffron The Ey-lid inverted may be rubbed with Fig-leaves Hordeolum is a little swelling on the top of the Ey-lids neer the Brows which suppurating is like a Barly corn It is contained in a Vessel Foment it with white wax or hens grese or fasting spittle or rub it with the body of a Fly the head being cast away For. premising Generals foments it with white wax or Hens grease washed with Rose-water hot then with the decoction of Barley and Camomil Then with the blood of a Tuttle Pigeon Patridge He used on himself rose-Rose-water two ounces Vitriol one dram he dropped one or two drops in a day into his Eye Or Rose-water two ounces Aloes half a dram If this help not it must be cut If the matter be stony as hail it is called Chalazion Ectropium is when the inward part of the lower Ey-lid appeareth inverted from a Palsey or Convulsion or wound ill cured For. cureth this with Astringents as Rose-water where in burning iron hath been quenched that which followeth he oft times proved Take new butter nine times washed in water sufficient then wash it nine times in juyce of Plantain then three in Rose-water two ounces and half Tutty prepared once washed in Rose-water and Aloes washed in Plantain water white Sieff with Opium of each one dram and half Camphir washed one scruple make an unguent anoint with it in the Evening and wash with hot water Hares Eys is when the upper Ey-lid is shorter then it should be it is either natural or from a scar or Convulsion or when Infants in their Cradles look alwaies backward or upward It is cured by Emollients If it be from a scar Incision is made above it in form of a hooked Moon An unguent must be put into the wound Aquap contrarily with rains fastned with glew to the Ey-lids joyns both Ey-lids together Hydatis is a fat substance as a piece of fat lying under the skin of the upper Ey-lid whence the whole Ey-lid in Infants becometh Oedematous The cure is made by cutting that part The whole Eye must be covered with the white of an Egg and Rose-water Lay on salt chewed with Cummin seed and Sage to dry it unlesse pain hinder Hydatica are bladders full of water in the Lungs and the Liver c. Essere are little swellings something hard with exceeding itching they suddenly seize on the whole Body like stingings of Bees they vanish of themselves They are made from watery humours They foreshew a Tertian and must be cured as a Tertian FASCINATION Is a bewitching whereby by the sight praysing or touching Men Beasts Corne do dye Fascinations of the first and second kind prevail not by force of words but by the Devil Signs If the learnedst Physitians doubt of the cause of the disease if it be forthwith in the state if preternatural things as stones are voided It is cured by prayers by purging the melancholick humours by vomit A FEVER of one day is a Feaver risen from the heat of the vital spirits to this belongeth Synoche of many days rising from the overheating of the Spirits and the thinner part of the Blood Signs Diagnostick 1. It beginneth from a precedent cause is a sign inseperable 2. The Urine is like to those that are sound 3. The pulse is next to natural 4. The heat is mild easy 5. It seizeth us without cold or shaking The causes of the heat are 1. Motion 2. Corruption 3. Nearnesse to heat 4. Constipation of the Body 5. mingling of hot things The Cure is made by Bathings frictions unguents A Putrid FEAVER Cause of putrefaction is concoction hurt by natural things and things not natural and preternatural 2. Stopping of the Pores either by Astringents or drinesse or heat of the Sun or stopping of the Vessels by plenty of clamminess or the humours 3. The calling forth of natural heat by a one dayes Feaver anger c. 4. Nearnesse to a putrid thing Signs diagnostick 1. The heat is sharp biting 2. They begin without a procatarctick cause which is a proper sign 3. The Urine Pulse differ much from natural 4. They begin with cold a proper sign 5. It returneth by fits a proper sign Question May we purge in putrid Feavers I deny Because Purgatives are hot and inflame the Feaver 2. Because before and in the dog-days Purgations are difficult by reason of the hot ambient ayre how much more by reason of a Feaverish 3. Because Purgatives are contrary to nature 4. Because neither in the beginning nor in the augmentation for all things are crude nor in the state for nature is troubled from digestion and rest is better Aph. 29. s 2. nor in the declination for in that no man dieth c. It remains that it is best to purge in the end Zach. l. 1. hist 6. 3. Whether a Feaver may rise from putrefaction It is denyed 1. Because putrefaction is no heat 2. Because all putrid things are cooled at
rubbing them with the green leaves of Cherry-tree or with Rose-water wherein Camphir hath been dissolved Others use Cherrytree-gum dissolved in Vinegar with a little Oate-meal Or from an inward cause as in women with Child in Maids from their Courses stopt eating of roots of red Beets c. The spots are swart sometimes as broad as ones Hand they are cured by an emulsion of Hemp-seed and the juyce of Bugloss root pressed out A FELLON Is a swelling at the ends of the Fingers with inflammation pain a Feaver tossing from a venomous humour it is held incurable Pareus often made Incision in the inward part of the Finger even to the Bone according to the length of the first Joynt it is effectual so it be done before it be ripe Let much blood run forth Then the Finger must presently be thrust into strong and hot Vinegar wherein Treacle is dissolved to call out the venome to asswage the pain Fab. obs 97. c. 1. In the beginning very often cut by degrees the only Superficies of the Skin when spots appeared which being cut the watery blood ran forth he laid on Aqua vitae with Treacle and he cured all GANGLIUM is a Tumor about the Bones of the Joynts which are covered only with skin The Cause is the weaknesse of a Nerve or a Tendon from a stroke or labour so that it cannot concoct its nourishment It belongs to Scirrhus Tumors not to Oedema as Scrofulous Tumors do It differs from Atheroma by the inequality and resisting of the Tumor It is cured by Generals The Topicals must be emollient then apply heat to it to discusse the Ganglium or break the Bladder with your hands lay on a Plate of Lead cut or burn it if you may on the Joynts you may not Bring it to suppuration if the rest be in vain A GANGRENE The hot fire as a Sphaecelus is a cold fire It is first made by too much cold 2. From a venemous quality 3. Transpiration being hindered or from superfluity of humors as in Inflamation 4. From too much outward heat 5. For want of nourishment and influence of heat which causes exstinguish al natural heat Signs If it come from the 1. cause there proceedeth a pricking pain rednesse then coldnesse numnesse If from the 2. there is swooning a continual Feaver a delirium If from the 3. the pain and pulsation is diminished without any resolution or suppuration of the Matter the colour is wan and it stinketh The part if it be black is colder then a Marble-stone and most soft If it neither move nor feel at all if it stink much and green corruption floweth it is a Sphacelus yet oft times some motion is perceived even in a Sphacelus namely when the head of the Muscle is not hurt it moveth the benummed Tendon wee must beware we be not deceived by it The Cure Evacuate the humour if there be any prescribe a Diet. The Heart must alwaies be corroborated by inward and outward means If it be from cold and the Gangrene be not yet either rub the frozen part with Snow Senn. of a Gangrene afterwards give Theriac with wine to make him sweat when the cold is something abated gentle Chafings with oyl of bitter Almonds and with Milk of the decoction of Rosemary are profitable But if a Gangrene be you must rather scarify as in that which followeth c. If it come from the second cause besides Generals opening a Vein Purgatives not violent sweating means and Cordials take place And 1. Incisions must be made if it pierce to the bone eschewing Vessels or scarification will suffice or we must burn it 2. The Incisions must be washed with a sharp decoction that is detergent of Scordium which is principally good here roots of Angelica 3. Put in Aegyptiac with Tents into the cuts so often untill the dead flesh be consumed to be cut off with a rasor which the smell colour sense of the part will shew 4. Apply over the whole part a Cataplasm that is drying and resolving 5. Upon the part affected an Astringent If it be from the 5. cause repelling means have no place unlesse there be a manifest Gangrene If there be a Sphacelus some make incision in the sound part some in the dead because in this there is no fear of symptoms or bleeding Senn. distinguisheth If the putrefaction spread no farther but ceaseth which when it falleth out there appeareth a Circle exactly red and very tender about the part affected let the incision be made in the dead part otherwise not Senn. likes Pareus his way how he stoppeth the blood See Senn. Oft times the sick many days after complain of the pain of their Foot that was cut off Also there is a Gangreen Scorbutical which beginneth commonly from an internal cause without any manifest cause about the end of the Foot with black and blew spots with a crusty dry Ulcer that yields no matter It lasteth sometimes above six Months It seizeth on the Tendons which do not so soon corrupt as the flesh it is with most bitter pains GONORRHEA comes either from the retentive Faculty hurt from a cold and moyst distemper or from watery sharp Seed provoking the expulsive Faculty It is insensible If it be from distemper it is corrected by contraries chiefly with the water and juyce of Mints Astringent Baths Driers by Generals and Topicals yet we must distinguish well whether it be Seed or a flegmatick humour that runs forth It maketh a consumption of the Back which alwayes accompanyeth Gonorrhea GONORRHEA Venereous is an inflammation of the Parastatis from unclean copulation with sharp matter pain heat of the urine extension of the Yard which may last at the least ten years The Cure At first you must cool and moisten by Clysters Lenitives opening of a Vein Generals Topicals In the declination use Resolvents as Turpentine If in making water the heat be intollerable let the Patient make water with his Yard put into a Pot full of warm Milk or water If there be an Ulcer cast in detergent means as Barly water syrup of Roses Plantain water Honey of Roses Pareus oft times addeth a little Aegyptiac Make it cicatrise with a drying and an Astringent injection If in vain then make recourse to Guaiacum GUTTA Rosacea Sometimes it is a preternatural rednesse without Pustules Bladders or Ulcers Sometimes with Pustuls and Bladders Sometimes with an Ulcer which lastly also is called Noli me tangere It infects the Nose chiefly The Cause is hot thick Blood bred from the fault of the Liver which by its thicknesse can neither go back nor be discussed It is hard to be cured The Cure The blood must be cooled by Diet opening of a Vein Cupping glasses with scarification and general means as purging the cholerick humour the Topicals are the water of all flowers which is distilled from Ox dung first let the Face be softned with the vapour of warm water Lac Virginis water of
be offended with light he must be laid in a dark place and so on the contrary INFLAMMATION of the Wind-Pipe Gorgareon is a pendulous kernel which if it be swollen below and small above it is called the Uvula If it swel long-waies above and beneath it is called Columella Prognosticks The Chirurgion must not meddle with it if it be blackish If you cut it there is notable danger of bleeding If you cut it our there is fear of a Consumption The Cure Generals being premised the first Topicals must be repellers yet Honey may alwaies be added in the declination add Resolvers and softners Outward means before the Flux must be Astringents laid to the sides of the sharp Artery When the Flux is made you must soften outwardly yet the Gargarisms at first must be Repellers c. If it suppurate it must be helped forward by a Gargarism If it open not of it self it must be opened with an Instrument And if a Gangrene be neer Aegyptiac is good If it be in vain the Uvula that swelleth no longer must be cut out by the Hand which is the last remedy Before and after the Gargarisms must be Astringents When it waxeth red it threatneth choaking by bleeding or let it be tied every day straight with an Instrument and a thread The bleeding is hindered by a Cautery Rul makes a fume of one dram of white Amber to take at the Mouth and layeth on the Head one ounce of old leaven by day and another at night Cherries eaten cause this Inflammation INFLAMMATION of the Jaws is the first kind of Quinsey when the inward compasse of the Jaws is inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly and outwardly 2. When the outward muscles of the Jaws of the Neck of the forked bone of the Wesand are inflamed the Tumor spreading it self to the Brest 3. When the inward muscles of the Larynx are affected so that the Tumor appeareth neither without not within It causeth shortness of breath and the sick loll forth their Tongues like Dogs whence it is called Cynanche The second is called Paracynanche or the Mumps neither of these is the Quinsey with Dod The first is called Cynanche That which is made by the luxation of the Vertebras of the Neck is a bastard Quinsey Prognostick The mumps is the least then the Quinsey then Paracynanche which is the fourth kind when the outward muscles of the Throat are inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly the worst in Cynanche An obscure voice froth about the Mouth a black Tongâ—e raw spittle are mortal The Cure Revulsives being premised and derivers as opening a Vein in the Arm and under the Tongue If a Feaver went before or invaded at once because the matter is wandring and swelleth experience teacheth us to purge If Inflammation went before and a Feaver follow it is not so convenient but this must be quickly done as in the morning open a Vein and purge at night for the fourth day it either suppurates or Resolves or kills but you must be very careful that the medicament move not vomit for there is fear of strangling wherefore Clysters are safer to be given Gargarisms must be Repellers at first as Take water of Honey-suckles Plantain Nuts of each three ounces flowers of dry Roses one pugil boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats and of Mulberies of each one ounce mingle them Forâ— for Children licking medicaments are good Fumes are not good The juyce of green Wal-nut shels clarified with Honey is commended by Galen We must begin from lighter Remedies The decoction of Oats leaves of Cherry-tree Physitians warn at the beginning to add at first some discutients least the humour should be thickned too much In the declination also Astringents must be added lest the part that is soft of it self should grow too soft For. in the declination prescribeth for a Gargarism one Swallows nest cut with the feathers Others hold for a secret ashes of Crab-fish or a Dogs dung or Hens dung anointed with Honey Alwaies mingle detergents In all Inflammations which are covered with a thin skin there sweats something through to be washed away with detergents Rondelet when the humour floweth thither cured himself and many more from the Quinsey and scrofulous swellings with Astringents which though it may be done where the body is clean and the Flux but small so in a great Flux it is mortal Topicals must be emollients after that discutients Apply Cupping glasses to the Chin or to the second and fourth Vertebra if the Jaws or their muscles be affected If it suppurate lay on ripeners afterward open the Impostume by crying aloud and the Head down-wards lest the corruption run upon the Lungs Some when the disease is desperate make deep scarification under the Chops or above the Neck by which the sick have been eased by blood or matter running forth Ivy wood is held to be specifical if you use a spoon or dish made of it The last remedy is cutting off the Larynx about the third or fourth ring Liquid nourishment is cast in by a Pipe put in the Throat and a Hogs bladder Erysipelas coming upon the Face is a good sign INFLAMMATION of the Lungs The Cause of this disease is also cholerick blood for though it be said by others to penetrate the Lungs by its thinness yet when Inflammation of the Lungs comes from a Pleuresy which often proceeds from cholerick blood it doth no hurt to it for as water sticketh in a spunge so doth this here but the cause of the Flux are as in other internal Inflammations il humours which when Nature sends away she drives forth blood also with them Signs Difficulty of breath is greater then in a Pluresy which Hippocrates calleth sublime The pain is burdning unlesse perhaps the Pleura be affected also which is often found The tongue is yellow covered with much clamminesse the Cheeks are red Thirst is great a Palsey is often made the matter flowing back into the Arteries between the sides that presse the Nerves The spittle is first coloured with matter and shortly after with blood with a kind of snoring Prognostick It is more dangerous then a Pleurisy There is no spittle or but little if it ease not the pain it is naught Aph. 16. s 6. Sneezings are ill The Cure Revulsives being premised if it proceed from the Quinsey a Vein must be opened diverse times then spitting must be procured by all means Oxymel mingled with the rest is the most convenient Topicals and other Remedies must be as for the Pluresy INFLAMMATION of the Pleura not alwaies but only when the upper part is affected hath Inflammation of the Lungs joyned with it Every pain of the side is not the Pleuresy as that which Heurnius puts us in mind of Quere c. 8. it grew from Worms in the Small-pox in the Scurvey from wind Now the Plurisy is an Inflammation of the side and Mediastinum from over hot blood with a pricking pain
pains it is best to commit them to Nature rather then to open them Great effusions of blood are from the outward Vein The Cure The blind Piles if they swell we must take care to void out the blood Chafing with sharp things with leaves of Mercury Pellitary Borrage cold with juyce of Beets Sowbread Centory the lesse yet lest the pain should increase we must add Anodyns Oyl of Elder and the liquor that is made of the flowers of Mullens in a glasse set in the Sun is great help if you anoint them with it Pilewort the lesser Celandine inwardly outwardly worketh marvelously But if the pain be great and there be fear of Inflammation open a vein in the Arm after that in the Ankle if the pain cease not After the opening of a Vein set on Leeches when they are fallen off let the blood run till it stop of it self or let the sick sit over a Bath of hot water by the vapour whereof the blood is moved let a vessel swim in the water to receive the blood or let it be drawn with a Cornicula The pain is appeased with cooling Axodyns both injected applyed Also with Moistners chiefly oyl of Violets injected to one ounce A certain woman applyed the ashes of burnt Cork with the yolk of an Egg oyl of Roses mingled and it was miraculous Section is not safe because it will easily ulcerate Purging by Hiera will provoke heat and Tumors in the Fundament and the Piles Solen Also Chafing of the neather part Fume of Mother-wort boyld in Wine the same But if they were never wont to run nor there be hoeps that they will run we must use means premising Generals Purgatives of the second sort For. that they may dry up by digestives and driers as with Bole-armenick Mulleus Pilewort Plantain Yarrow Hypericon Scabious Dogs-tongue root of the lesser Celandine in Fomentations Insessions Vapours the smoke of Brimstone Onions boyled with Butter Amatus when all other remedies failed took an Orange made hollow filled with oyl of Roses and Lavender-seed upon hot embers and laid it on hot and oft times renewed it If they run but little the ways must be softned and Aloes must be given If they run too much the cure must be with Revulsives Alteratives Astringents Prevention is by Purgatives c. Rulandus stopt them on himself with little red bags applyed by turns filled with Acorns beaten or Oke leaves boyld a long time in Wine Senn. observed so did Plat. and Fern. that oft times without blood or pain snotty and whitish filth which some falsly take for putrefaction was sent forth for a long time after long melancholick diseases riding The matter is made of corrupt blood as the Whites in women are like to whites of Eggs. See Topicalls PILES of the Matrix As in the Fundament so in the neck of the Womb Piles are found if the Veins in those parts are extended they are found out by Speculum The Cure Generals premised the pain must be abated every way by Insession c. If the pain be not or abated if they bleed not but swell the Ancients did only Scarify them but rather let them be dryed by Generals and by Driers If they swell much we must use means to evacuate them by Softners in form of vapour and by Chafing setting on of Leeches The last means is Incision which yet is dangerous They are painful and by their pain alone are they known from the Courses FRENCH-POX is an occult disease of the Liver and the other parts whether it be cold or hot with plenty of naughty humours it is bred from unclean copulation Fiorav saith it was bred from eating mans flesh Leoninus from the Stars and moisture in the year 1493. Others say from a Leprous man lying with a whore Hurtenus l. 6. de Guai thinks it was brought from Spaniola It is cured 1. By Guaicum China roots which want smell and cast and are not hot Sarsoparilla leaves of Saponariad as Take bark of the wood one ounce pour on water six pound Zwinger op 234. or Take shavings of the wood one pound the bark one ounce infuse them in ten pound of pure water boyl them till three parts be wasted Laur. With the froth kept anoint the Fore-head the Temples c. Drink every morning eight ounces To the reliques add of the wood two ounces water twelve pound boyl all to five pound for drink Boyl the dregs again to wash the Hands c Fore-head 2. By Quick-silver which Senn. thinks to be hot See Fern Laur. Par. who acknowledgeth two parts to be in Quicksilver which thing Senn. rejecteth It is poyson though quick it doth lesse harm because it soon runs through It is pressed through a Rams skin then it is given to a Dog who shits it forth it is cooked in Vinegar with hearbs for the Nerves Senn. thinks this profits little with Hogs grease c. Let them stay on the skin and not peirce so deep to the bottom Take Hogs grease six ounces fresh Butter three ounces oyl of Worms and of a Fox of each one ounce and half boyl in these Sage Rosemary c. Quicksilver prepared six ounces Wax what may suffice anoint the insides of the Feet Hands and the Joynts and back lest spitting should cause Ulcers in the Mouth For. prevents that with a Gargarism of oyl of sweet Almonds When you are anointed hold a gold Ring in your Mouth give Pills of gold dust so the reliques of the Quick-silver will stick to the gold Mercury doth not cure the disease but taketh away the cause by a Purgative quality 3. By Plaisters 4. By Fumes which way is the most dangerous as Take Vermilion one ounce Mastick Mace Tutty of each two drams Benioni Myrrh Storax Frankinsence of each half an ounce make them up with Turpentine and take a fume of it If an Infant be affected the Nurse for five days must preserve her self with Treacle water let her alwaies wash her Nipple The pushes of the child must be anointed with Unguent of Elecampane and a little Mercury Paercus for the Plague and spotted Feavers used an ointment with Mercury If they refuse the decoction of the wood Take Sarsaparilla three ounces Bark of Guaicum one ounce Cinamon one dram and half Senna leaves half an ounce Sugar six ounces make a powder the Dose is half a dram The quantity of Senna is variable Let him sweat in the morning upon it own hour and beware the North wind Monav. cp 242. and Zac. l. 1. bist 72. holds the Spanish disease to be well known and to proceed from too much Venery Unguent of Mercury must be new made for by fermenting it looseth its Porces Par. l. 20. c. 5. holds that the Pox is poyson by it moisture only Let not the diet be thin to lessen the Forces because the disease is chronical only in acute diseases which are short a thin diet is profitable Small Wine is allowed
Belly is lifted up These pains oft times last beyond fourty days they make hollow the Belly they pull the right Intestine upwards so that Clysters cannot be injected but byforce the matter oft times sticks between the two Coats of the Intestins pain of the Loyns pain of the Kidnies the Joynt Gout with a Small Palsey and a wandring pain A Palsey growing suddenly quickly moveable wandring sudden Tumors trembling Convulsion sudden blindness suffocation at the first morsel of meat from a styptick vapour affecting the sharp Artery and Weason Vomiting spitting heat sudden redness of the Face and suddenly down All scorbutical people have a stinking breath wandring Feavers wherein the cold fit oft times dureth six ot seven hours The Pulse besides the reason of Feavers is slow the urines various Tertians are frequent oft times without cold Erysipelas Ulcers almost incurable Prognosticks A most slow Pulse must not affright us for it is not mortal by it self in the Scurvey At first it cured by only changing the Aire It bath been often mistaken for the Pox. Want of speech oft comes with a kind of Epileptical Convulsion from the Muscles of the Larynx contracted In the beginning of Feavers oft times Carus groweth that ceaseth of it self Swelling of the Knees are hardly cured It is an ill sign for the spots to vanish without being better The Cure â— Premising a Clyster if there be Plethora and nothing hinder also in progress of the disease a Vein must be opened directly in the Arm with a broad Lancet For. openeth the salvatella of the left hand we must oft times open in divers parts sparingly The spots indicate contrarily the matter must be altered and after that at several times we must Purge gently It is exasperated with stronger means Many have been cured without Purging If with a good urine the disease increase it is a sign that the Remedies are weaker then they should be We must open by turns adding Specificals For. Syrup against the Scurvey is made of the juyce of Scurvey grass and Brooklime with Sugar Senn. Powder of Sennâ— is this Take choice Senna leaves one ounce and half Cremor Tartar six drams Cinamon three drams Cloves Galinga of each half a dram Dâ—agridium one dram infuse for one night two or three drams of this powder in Whey strain it drink the infusion Sweet Milk the decoction of Brook-lime Cresces Mustard seed evacuations and alteratives repeated we must give Specificals as Scurvey grasse all kinds of Cresses Brook-lime which is less hot is moist is good in Feavers Mingle Scurvey grass with Brooklime it is excellent Horse Radish lesser Celandine The third kind of Howsleek which is not safe some only commend Mustard Cuckoe pint Succory Endive Sorrel juyce of Citrons Lemmons spirit of Salt Vitriol Brimstone are given most fitly in Whey by reason of their heat The decoction of Wormwood Birkmans powder with salt of Scurvey-grass Cresses Rocket seed or spirit of Scurvey grasse c. which will take flame as well as spirit of wine sowre waters then Diureticals and Diaphoreticks as Rob of Elder to three drams then Coroboratives Symptomatical diseases as the Jaundies Dropsy Feavers are never rightly cured and are often cured to no purpose by Physicians unless the Scurvey be cured the fault of the Gums is cured by abstergents as Columbines spirit of Vitriol and specificals in Gargarisms also by Scurvey grasse water Brook-lime Tobacco Masticatories powder of burnt Salt ashes of the tendrils of Veins Sage leaves Allom. The Spots are taken away with resolving Topicals eating Oranges with their Rinds is very good Milk SPHACELUS of the bones is made either from the contagion of the Aire or matter or moist medicaments It is known by sight when they grow wan partly by the Prbe when no slippery thing but many sharp things meet with it and when it easily entreth their spongie substance yet often times rotten bones are most hard If flesh brought over the bone be too soft and fluid having almost no sense if out of a wound the matter run more then it is wont or should run if the brims of the Ulcer be turned inward we must first strew in the powder of Orris root Gentian Birthwort Centory Pine bark burnt Wax Myrrh Ceruss If it be very great scrape it off with Raspers yet Fab. cent 8. counteth this dangerous not to be used but in great rottenness of the bones He rather obs 92. cent 2. strewed even in children also with great success the powder of Gum Thistle very safely upon Ulcers with rottenness of the bones the lips of the Ulcers not having any defensative Whence he collects that Diosc was deceived or else we know not the Gum Thistle of the Ancients Or if scraping Instruments be in vain the scales must be removed or taken away by a Trepane except in the Hip bones Thigh Head Spondils c. If it be to no purpose give a vulnerary Potion to expect the scaling of the corrupt Bone and not to force it off or the scales being ready to fall hasten motion but not the falling SNEESING overmuch is taken away by Lenitives Preparatives Evacuating c. by smell of cold things as Violets Roses snuff up the decoction of Poppies Roses water of Violets avoid all spices The Nostrils must be stopped the breath held smell of Bread smell of opium of Mandragora root also sneezing coming upon a mortal disease presageth safety put your Hands into cold water snuff up Milk See Aph. 13. s 6. STRANGURY is wherein the water is made by drops with pain Dysuria is otherwise taken for only diminishing of urine either with or without pain as before otherwise when the urine is not made by drops and in a due quantity without interruption but it is with pain The Cause A sharp humor sticking fast to the Sphincter of the Bladder as in Tenasmus also a stone inflammation an Ulcer sharp urine either of it self namely when by reason of crudity contracted in the Liver either the coldness of the Bladder is corrupted and becomes sharp or by the mixture of sharp humours if it be from thinness of drink exercise the raw drink is drawn to the Reins and driven forth Aph. 44. s 6. The Cure varieth as the cause is If the urine be sharp we must soften cool by Internals Topicals Emulsions For. cured himself and others when all failed with a decoction of Mallows and syrup of Violets Whey of Goats-Milk injections candle tallow anointed Nutmegs The cause of Dysuria is the fault of the urinary passages not of the Sphincter also of the Bladder STRANGLING of the Womb. The cause is a malignant vapour sent from the Seed menstrual blood and other humours sticking in the Testicles and the Pipe Fallop his Pipe and the Testicles when these hang down that being light and stretched by wind they often ascend upwards and are taken for the rising of the Mother which is alwaies fast bound This is proved by the observation of
Riol Also oft times the Body ascending is known by the touch and is mistaken for the Womb. Three Symptoms urge swooning suffocation and Convulsion and sometimes this sometimes that sometimes lightly sometimes grievously torment them Signs Weariness precedeth a sad look they are easily taken with horror It is cured by putting stinking things to the Nostrils and sweet things to the secrets It differs from swooning because swooning is more sudden the Pulse is small in strangling as in swooning there is a cold sweat they are often joyned Swooning lasteth not long suffocation sometimes for three days They must not be buried before seventy two hours past for in that time all the humours absolve their motions put a feather to their Mouth a dish of water to their Heart or a glasse to their Mouth Sneezing Remedies are more certain Prognosticks It afflicts most in Winter sneezing is good cut them not up before seventy two hours Vesalius learned this by his own example witness Par. l. 23. 46. yet in his Ep. 30 and 31. he saith Vesalius dyed not of grief but when he had ended a sacred Voiage he died in the way of a burning Feaver The Cure Loosing all Ligatures raise the sick put stinking things to the Nostrils as fumes of feathers of Partridge Hairs Lether Horns Castoreum underneath sweet things chiefly a smoke of Horses warts dried Clysters for the Womb Pessaries outwardly oyl of Rue Treacle c. an unguent for the Nostrils and Ears oyl of Amber Sage c. pour in Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar and spread upon a round piece of leather apply to the Navel Make a nodulus of Asa foetida two scruples Castoreum one scruple Some are cured by only chewing Lovage seed and swallowing it down See Child-birth wine is hurtful Powder for the Muther is this Take Dittany root seeds of Carrots one dram choise Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Saffron oriental half a scruple fat Castoreum one scruple Dosis half or one dram with Beer or water of Camomil Treacle with Mugwort water root of Angelica juyce of Garlick rub upon the Navel with Aloes it is a secret put the leaves of Bur-dock under the Feet Fecula of Briony made in Pills to ten or twelve grains with a little Castoreum extract of Elder-berries dried made with Aqua vitae and spirit of Vitriol by distillation to one scruple Preservation is wrought by Generals and Specials of Balm Penny-royal Angelica roots c. SUPPURATION is not to be opened before it be ripe for it will turn to a Fistula in a part that wants blood as the Pleura and if the matter be malignant and sharp If it be from a cold matter it must not be opened before the concoction of the whole matter The Signs are if the pain heat tumour a Feaver be increased when the heat pain Feaver are remitted and the tumor is lifted up into a point the matter is concocted Suppurative medicaments are necessary when the humour is so impacted that it cannot be repelled either by reason of the nearnesse of some principal part or so thick that it cannot be resolved It must be opened on that part it riseth to a point according to the straightness of the Fibraes â—hat the matter may not run forth by heaps Suppuratives shut the Pores that the heat cannot breath forth and so they differ from Emollients It must be opened either with an Instrument oâ— a Medicament either with a hot iron seldom or cutting iron as in a Ring Medicaments are either potential Cauteries or more gentle as leaven Onions roasted in the Embers Garlick Pigeons dung black Sope Mustard-seed Salt Figs Diaquilon Dogs dung Nitre coughing crying sneezing vomiting Scabious Horehound Carduus benedictus Add some of these to ripening plaisters Give syrup of Hore-hound with water of Scabious STITCHING 1. A little Pipe with a little hole is put to receive the point of the Needle to hold the lips of the wound immoveable then make a knot yet the lips must not be wholly drawâ— together that the matter may come forth First give a stitch through the middle of the wound In great wounds take in much flesh 2. A dry stitch with a sticking plaister 3. That which belongeth to Hare-lips 4. Stitching of the Peltmongers which belongeth to the Intestins 5. Stitching of the Belly for wounds of the Peritonaeum SWOONING Is a sudden failing of the Forces by reason of the vitall spirits affluence denied or because they are not bred for want of matter or great heat or are consumed by heat malignity vacuatives grief or strangling by some crude humor as in a Feaver with Swooning or by frights c. Diagnosticks There preceeds a languishing Pulse and small the Face is pale the outward parts are cold they sweat in fainting there is no sweat and the Pulse remains It is distinguished by the Pulse from strangling of the Womb. Prognosticks Aph. 4â— s 2. The Cure The spirits must be preserved sprinkle the Face with Cinamon water Rose water Wine Vinegar For women alwaies use stinking things Apply Epithems to the Liver Heart little Bags Ointments Balm sprinkled with Wine that is pleasant heated on a hot tile give bread dipt in Wine chiefly chafings of the ends of the Fingers is most profitable and other Revulsives lying down Tormentil and other Cordials Take two Pome-Citrons pouring on Rose water and Sugar sprinkled on them boyl them to an Electuary If it be from wasting of the spirits Chafings c. are not fit but Rest So Take the best powdered Sugar what you please moisten it with the best Cinamon water that it may be a little fluid to which add some drops of spirit of Vitriol oyl of Cinamon four drops of Cloves two drops Mace Nutmegs Anniseeed of each three drops Give it in a spoon at pleasure TEETH rotten and black are made so by over-hot cold sweet sowre things or paintings of Mercury Preservation If after meat the Mouth be washed with wine and Cyprus or Mastick be put into the Teeth The cure If one every Morning hold a grain of Salt under his Tongue and when it is melted rub his Teeth with it The spirit and oyl of Vitriol mixt with water makes the Teeth very white A Pumex stone fired and quenched twice in white wine and the third time fired and so left until it be cold then powdered and washed makes the Teeth exceeding white also not fired For. l. 14. Some use only tosted bread Paraeus L. 16. Cuttle-bone Harts-horn Cinamon Coral Crabs-eys Egg-shells Snails shells the Jaw-bone of a Pike Mastick roots of Birthwort Orris Rosemary flowers Lavender Roses white sand most fine Some use only oyl of Vitriol with Honey of Roses The ashes of Rosemary branches Tobacco ashes TEETH are pulled out with Iron either by reason of extream pain or because they are rotten and make the breath to stink or if a tooth stand out of order great dexterity of the Hand must be used lest the Cheek-bone
The Head must be dryed by all means First of all let the Crust be removed by a vapour of warm water with Fat Butrer washed in Rose water the Crusts must be cast out by sneezing Afterwards Verjuyce with Honey is good juyce of Hore-hound Calamint juyce of Pomegranates boiled in a brasse vessel Mirrh Allum Rondel cured Ozaenas which neither French men nor Italians could cure by the fume of Candles made of red Wax lighted received at the Nostrils through a straight Tunnel Celsus commendeth juyce of Cresses with Allum The juyce of Calamints or Galens powder Some commend this that followeth Take red Roses Myrtils sweet Calamus Angelica Gentian Mace Cloves of each half a dram Camphir Ambergrease of each four grains Musk six grains make a powder If that fail Salt Armoniac with Vinegar An ULCER of the Stomach is cured by Generals as opening a Vein Lenitives Vomit is mortal With easy meats Raw Honey is detergent when you must glew together add Gum Traganth with an Astringent decoction without Acrimony Let the meat be moyst a decoction of Figs Dates Prunes Raysins milk yolks of Eggs drink Hydromel and a vulnerary Potion An ULCER of the Bladder comes also by Cantharides Yet Senn. though he had applyed them to all parts of the Body a hundred times never observed it Signs are pain in the Privities so oft as the sick maketh water matter blood a Tenesmus difficulty of urine Priapismus The matter is more tenacious and clammy then matter of the Reins It is cured by tempering the humors by Coolers and Moisiners then we must scowre by Internals and injections Principally the Troches of Gordonius are profitable See them Conserve of Roses Bole armenick Milk oglutinate Vulnerary drink ULCER of the Reins The urine is made without impediment matter is mixed with the urine it stinketh lesse See Aph. 76 77. 81. s 4. It is cured as an Ulcer of the Bladder Whey Make an Emulsion of the four cold seeds with Milk If the matter come forth sparingly glutinate use vulnerary drink WEARINESS One kind is not natural or drying which followeth labour another natural this is either ulcerating which makes a sense of pricking in the circumference of the Body from a sharp vapour or humour as from cholerick or black Choler or extensive from Plethory or any humour that is not sharp or from hot blood which they that feel complain that their parts are as it were bruised or broken and it ariseth from Plethory and Cacochymia together or of leannesse when motion is difficult by reason that the flesh and fat of the Muscles is consumed after long diseases The Cure When Wearinesse riseth from the humours about the Muscles and in the circumference of the Body they must be taken away If from Cacochymia that must removed by rest sleep spare diet and that breeds good juyce and by moderate drinking of Wine In ulcerating weariness Purging in extensive opening a Vein in Phlegmonodes both these are good if it be from labour it is not onely cured by rest but by labour but not-so-much WHEALES angry or Pimples of sweat rising in the Neck Brest Arms c. they proceed from cholerick sweat exasperating the skin of which see Aph. 21. s 3. WHEALS rising in the night that vex us in the night and are of divers colours It is never greater then a Bean it exulcerateth it is cured as the cause is WORMS A Lotion of bitter things kills Lice a shirt stayned with Saffron and worn a while wonderfully a washing with Lavender water Barly bread and Paper burnt of each a like quantity made up with Bores grease takes away Cyrones WORMS are either round or the Bots or broad these either Gourdfashion or lesse like to a Gourd Signs of round worms are pain and great prickings of broad worms an obscure pain other signs are common They are cured by things that kill worms as by Corallina to one dram in powder Tanfey seed roots of Primrose Wormwood Hore-hound Citron seeds Angelica bitter Almonds Powder of worms is suspected by Tabexnae Montanus Water of the decoction of Graffe Harts-horn shavings of Ivory juyce of Lemmons Plantain Purssain Endive Sorrel To children give grasse water one ounce with syrup of juyce of Lemmons or some grains of Salt are put into the Mouth Spirit of Vitriol Elixar proprietatis broad worms require stronger Medicaments as many Walnuts chiefly roots of Fern of which powder half a dram may be given to an Infant to those that are grown one dram or two drams Treacle dissolved in juyce of Lemmons Hiera Yet sweet things must be mingled here and Clysters that are sweet must be given to allure them downwards being killed cast them forth with Diaturpeth with Rheubarb in rouls Sebestens with a decoction of syrup of Peach flowers Aloes Agarick The Bots are cured by suppositories For anointed the Belly with this following Take oyl of Egs Lillies Oxgall juyce of Onions fried with new Butter of each two drams mingle them He gave this following Take Aloes half a dram red Coral or Diatraganth frigid ten grains with Scabious water make three Pills lest the Aloes should cause heat let him sup upon it one spoonful of juyce of Citrons He gave a child of three years old more then one scruple of burnt Harts-horn Those things that are applyed outwardly as Gall c. must not be laid to the stomach Heurn used this following for children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb two drams to half an ounce Grasse water one ounce for one Dose every other day For. cured a Boy that for one year was miserably afflicted with the decoction of Wormwood and little Centory to another he gave juyce of Pomegranates one spoonful oyl of Olives half a spoonful mingle them It is a secret of the French Queens The same gave what followeth for one Dose to a great bellyed woman in a Feaver Take Harts-horn burnt seeds of Zedoary Purssain of each half a scruple mingle them For children let Harts-horn burnt be put into Raysins without stones For the Bots the experiment of Aetius is good namely a Suppository made of old salt Bief the fat being taken off WARTS A Nail a swelling of the Fundament namely when a wrinkle of the skin groweth hard Thymus namely a Wart with a narrow bottom and a large supersicies of a colour reddish like Thyme flowers A Fig wart is a great Thymus a Crest from preposterous Venery These are oft times malignant The cause is thought to be a flegmatick melancholick humour Platerus takes it to be the moist nourishment of the skin and the Cuticula Warts are oft times contagious The Cure By Medicaments as Fallop commendeth the leaves and juyce of Willows Purstain stampt being wet with its juyce also leaves and flowers of Marigolds Figwort roots of Cuckoe pint Sow-bread fresh Celandine Nigella with urine The liquor that runs from the flowers of Mullens set in the Sun in a glasse of its own accord Gum Succory the juyce running from
dissolved in oyl and Vinegar of Roses with an expulsive swath-band Take oyl of Turpentine one ounce Aquae vitae one dram a little Euphorbium may be added or Take Venice Turpentine one ounce oyl that is old one ounce Aqua vitae a little After that they cured the Tumor the pain with a Cataplasm Take Barley-meal and of Orobus of each two ounces flowers of Camomil and Melilot of each two pugils new Butter without salt one ounce and half Barbers Ly what may suffice If the pain ceased not with these either he cut off the whole Nerve or poured on it scalding oyl and dipping a linnen cloth in it bound to the end of a Spatula he would touch the bottom three or four times A WOUND of the Ligaments the Joynts The Cure is the same as for the Nerves only the Joynts require more drying and the Ligaments more then they Par. Balsom is profitable if the Dose of the powder be augmented we must diligently take heed of the cold the Ayre lay on things actually hot If the wound be on the forepart of the shoulder we must put a thick or double linnen clorh under the Arm-pit and the Arm must be carried in a scarff If the Wrist or the hollow of the Finger be half bent it must be sustained with props diligently brought about it for so they may always be drawn in If it be the Hip or Thigh-bone we must not let it stir a Nails breadth from the hollow of the Thigh which is performed by Swathes and lying down on the Back-bone when the Scar is made move it for fear of being crooked In a wound of the Joyne the Leg must be placed out right Signs of a Bone parting are 1. When more matter commeth forth 2. When the Bone is exposed to the Aire for that parteth 3. If it will not unite again and soster flesh is bred A WOUND made by bullets is not venemous nor alwaies bruised It is ill scorched with oyl of Elders It is hardly cured by reason of the contusion and circular Figure A sign is a small eruption of blood from the wound for the Lips swell presently First if it be necessary and possible the wound must be enlarged The ball must suddenly be taken out of the wound with an Instrument Fab. cent 1. obs 88. then we must suppurate besides Generals as with oyl of Whelps but if the part be dry we must take more Turpentine and lesse oyl If there be putrefaction add Mercury praecipitat or Aegyptiac oyl of Linseed Hemp-seed of Hypericon of Eggs. Those Setons whereby the wound is cleansed by drawing them here and there are not profitable since the same thing may be done by Pensils At the beginning let it be bound but once a day when the matter beginneth to run twice a day also thrice a day and afterwards but twice then again but once The matter in these wounds come forth slowly Vulnerary drinks To take forth the Splinters this that follows hath been long approved Take roots of Orris of Florence opopanac Cappars of each two drams round Birthwort Manna Frankinsence of each one dram with Honey of Roses and Turpentine of each two ounces make it up A certain Man cured these desperate wounds with a suppurative made of melted Lard the yolk of an Egg Turpentine and a little Saffron After suppuration use detergents A WOUND of the Eye First lay on a Repulsive all things warm to the Temples Narcoticks are Lungs of a Weather and the Caule boyld in Milk and laid on hot Womans Milk the suckling being a daughter Turtles blood or of Pigeons or Hens a Vein being opened under their wings If these profit not we must come to stronger Remedies Detergents for the Eys are Galls of a Thorn-back Hare Partridge in waters of Ey-bright Fennel Sugar-Candy Saffron This that follows is sarcotical Take the Mucilage of the Gums of Olibanum Arabicum Tragacanthum and Sarcocolla drawn with Barly water of each two drams Aloes thrice washed in Rose water one dram Ceruss burnt washt Tutty prepar'd of each half a dram make a Collirium A scar is made with Ey-bright water Sugar and Tutty prepared If the Flux cannot be stopped use the Seton To open a Vein is most profitable at the beginning A WOUND of the Tongue endureth no stitching but make Lohocks and give syrup of dry Roses Honey of Roses strained c. or a Gargarism For. Take a raw yolk of an Egg boyle it a little that it may harden a little add one ounce of syrup of dry Roses make an ointment afterwards Take waters of Plantain Honey-Suckles of each four ounces syrup of dry Roses infusion of Roses of each one ounce and half make a Lotion for the Mouth let him hold in his mouth sugar of Roses syrup of Quinces Paraeus addeth a Suture whilst the Assistant holdeth the Tongue in a soft cloth of linnen A WOUND of the Ear will not endure heavy oyly Cataplasms but dry glutinatives If suture must be made let not the Needle touch the grisle for it will Gangrene A WOUND of the Thorax If it hath penetrated into the Cavity the breath will come forth at the wound if you stop the Mouth and Nostrils the sick can scarce take his breath it is tried by a Probe Let the sick be set in the same posture he was when he received the wound That blood is fallen into the Cavity of the Thorax it is known if there be a Feaver if the weight of the Diaphragma difficulty of breathing be troublesome If blood be sent forth If nothing have run into the hollow of the Chest we must make all haste to consolidate for fear of a Fistula If blood stick in the Thorax keep the wound long open by Tents Therefore when you undertake to cure such a wound you shall not shut it up the first dressing but must hold it open two or three dayes when then you observe that the sick hath no pain weight Feaver nor to spit blood take out the Tent and heal it up so fast as you can If there be a Feaver weight c. besides Generals stop the blood by inward and outward means also by opening a Vein The Tents and all Topicalls must not be too long lest they offend the Lungs Also let them be fastned to the double cloths with a Thread lest they fall into the Chest Let them have a pretty thick head let the sickly on the part affected Blood is cleansed out of the Chest by an Jnjection of Paraus made of the decocoction of Barley six ounces Honey of Roses two ounces which the sick his body reclining his wind comming forth at the wound will return back in greater quantity then it was injected let this be done so long till the clots of blood be voided Cast in nothing that is bitter Senn. draweth it out by a great Syringe If a wound being received the blood stay in the Chest and commeth not forth of the wound let the sick hold I grain of Musk under his Tongue for so it will run forth A pipe of Gold Silver or Lead may be put into it that hath many holes through it fenced with covering or bound back with thongs fitted with a great Spunge wet in Wine and Aquavitae wrung out set to the Orifice that the filth may run first through that To dissolve the clotted blood A mixture of Honey may be injected which shall consist of one part Honey two parts water boiled to thirds dissolved in Egrimony water c. Let internall expectorating means be given warme A WOUND of the Lungs Signs besides those before is a casting forth of frothy blood at the mouth with a Cough red frothing blood runing forth of the brest without pain The Veins of the neck swell but when the flesh of the Lungs is wounded there is no Cough for the blood falls on the Diaphragma and presseth it but sometimes there is cold somtimes heat and frequent change of the countenance A vein must be opened for fear of inflammation unlesse blood hath run out very much If the wound be narrow it must be enlarged that the matter may come forth Apply a repelling Astringent some things may be injected that are liquid Senn. strews in a Powder the Lungs being puffed up by drawing in of breaths Vulnerary drinks Let the sick use Emplastick meats Let him avoid all Motion It may be cured if the wound be not too great if there be no Inflammation nor Cough It is scoured by Lohocks of Milk with a little Honey cheifly with Sugar of Roses c. L. D. 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