Letter or Syllable in pronouncing Stutting is when a man cannot joyn one Syllable with another of the body hath his diseases of which some are curable some incurable Those which are almost incurable are the Traplotis the Psellotis the stammering and the stutting but these are rather hurts than diseases In that part of the mouth which is soft and loose and â—nder the tongue and is as it were bound unto it with a bond there is collected the Rana which The Rana is a Blister or little piece of flesh under the root of the tongue caused preternaturally of crass and clammy humours sometimes is like to the phlegmon oftentimes to the oedema forth of which being opened runs a filth like to the white of an egg Children are wont to be troubled with this Ulcer for they get it from sucking It is like as also the Columella unto taurus Aetius in his 8. book Chap. 39. saith that the tumour is in those parts which are under the tongue but especially of the veins Aegineta writes lib. 3. that the Batrachus or Rana is a tumour like unto an inflammation bursting forth under the tongue Concerning these read Alexander Benedictus lib. 5. cap. 8 9 10 11 c. read also Theophrastus de ulceribus cap. 25. Oftentimes the Jaws swell being filled with a cold distillation The tumour of the jaws is when the substance of them is swollen by reason of some internal humour or vapour distending them and then under the jaw bone there is a tumour seen and felt within And this or some piece sticking in the jaws presses and hinders that the meat drink or spittle cannot be easily swallowed and that without thirst or burning But sometimes an inflammation troubles and pains the jaws which hath the name The inflammation of the jaws is a preternatural tumour of the kernel which hangeth forth at the end of the palate with the falling of it unto the tongue it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is Uva of a part This is like unto a tumour and brings pain redness burning and thirst by reason the matter is so boiled and the little skin is easily disrupted the imposthume being caused filth flows forth into the mouth and jaws from hence rises a filthy Ulcer by which the breath is made stinking Such an Ulcer rises often without a phlegmon from Salt or sharp humour which eats the soft humours and hot jaws altogether Sometime from the spots of contagion it is The chance of an Uvula very frequent with lues Venerea Also the Columella hangs forth of the palate and is molestuous it is more looâ—e and long and comes to the jaws and head of the stomach it hath a troublesome tickling so that whosoever is troubled with it contends in vain to swallow for he fears lest that he should be strangled with the violence of it This hurt is generated when as it is profused and moistened with much or too much humour Also the The inflammation of the Throat-pipe Throat-pipe sometime is enflamed and swells with a redness and heat or burning and it falling into the jaws loosened with greater difficulty provokes the fear of suffocation when by inflammation the lowest part of it appeâ—rs crass but above thin and black then it is wont saith Hippocrates to be called Uva for it is like in figure colour and magnitude unto a Grapes-stone The Angina or Squinancy is an affection Squinancy Angina is an Aposthume begot in the jaws hindering breathing and swallowing of meat The symptoms of it stopping the highest parts of the throat and weazand through which the entrance is of meat and drink and breath In this breathing is very difficult as also swallowing and the drink runs back into the nostâ—ils and a bitter pain possesses the jaws for the Angina is so called ab argendo because it vexes and torments the throat and stops the passage of breath of the Greeks it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is an inflammation in the throat or jaws 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is from suffocating or strangling when blackness and adustion occupies and possesseth the tongue Fuschius saith that it is a kind of a most cruel pernicious disease whereby the jaws are troubled and strangled Read the institution lib. 3. cap. 1. The prunella of Paracels Paracelsus calls the Angina prunella in his 2. book de tartaro tract 2. cap. 5. and thus he defines the prunella The prunella is a principal passion existing with a proper The signs paroxism in the heat having his original from Vitriol salt oppugning his proper place and Nature it is one of the kinds of the Pleurisie and Plague with the Vitriol heat In the explication of this Chap. fol. 311. the signs are First there comes redness in the jaws and tongue after comes a black colour Thirdly as it were falling coals put upon the tongue and little wheals or blisters burst forth in the tongue two or three colours are the true signs of the prunella The rest of the signs are as in the Pleurisie and Plague Paracelsus de tartaro tractat 2. cap. 4. The prunella of the Plague rises from the salt of Arsenick but tartareous spirits predominate in the prunella and constitute and cause the prunella of the Brain Breast Ventricle Liver Weazand and all the parts The Galenists make the cause of the angina or prunella to be a cholerick or sanguine flux flowing forth of the throat veins into these members and it produces the Erysipelas or Phlegmon The Fever is an individual Companion or adjunct of the angina or Squincy and the prunella is a symptom of the aiery Plague The cure of the Rana or Batrachus is that iij. drops of The cure of the Rana the spirit or oil of Vitriol be infused into the 16. part of Fountain water and that they be well tempered dip a feather into this water and wash the Ulcer that is the Rana or let a gargarism be made Another take of the herb Penniroyal Otis anum Wildmint which is a kind of mint ana i part of the root of Pepperwort and Nettle ana Ê’ij of Flower de Luce FlorentineÊ’i of Raspatum and Lignum GuaicumÊ’ss let them be cut and confused together let them be boiled in water and let a Gargarism be made and anoint it thrice a day with diameron and robuncum and Honey Roses add a little Pepper or Salt and anoint it oftener Pains and dolours effect and cause the tumour being fallen into the jaws of the The cure of the tumour of the jaws weazand therefore the cause being taken away the effect is taken away but the cause is removed especially by the spirit and oil of Sulphur which exsiccates the distillations The cure of the Laxation of the Columell wonderfully The smoke of Amber cures the Laxation of the columel Penotus in his Treatise de salibus
fol. 233. saith that he which hath the Uva or inflammation of the jaws let him take Salentine and burn it in a pot and use it with honey and water Mathiolus against Dioscorides Alexander Benedictus lib 7. cap. 5. 6. and Gualterus Ruffius in Germanica gorargia last Chap. and last part cap. 29. The Syrup of Jujuba and Violets ana mixt together cures the hurt jaws also take the diamorum of prune water and the juice of roses and mix them the mixture being hot let there be made a Gargarism or diamorum â„¥ with the water of Sage and Prunes ana â„¥ ij and the spirit of wine mixt with Camphora â„¥ ss let them be mixt for a Gargarism A notable The Ulcers of the jaws water for all the Ulcers of the jaws Take the half quart of the spirit of wine of Camphora put it in the spirit of wine let them stand covered over-night the next day take one quart of Rhenish wine and put unto them the powderings of Alume Ê’â—iij of Frankinsence Mastick and Myrth ana â„¥ ss and make them boil tâ—ke them from the â—ire and pour in the spirit of wine with Camphora and boil it untill the third part be consumed strain it and keept in a glass Paracelsus de tartaro lib. 2. cap. 5. There is the same cure of the pruâ—ella and the Plague He that will cure the prunella totally it is necessary The cure of the prunella that first he cure the Fever for the prunella or Squincy rises from the Fever in regard of the tongue or jaws The Fever rises from the opilation of the Liver the opilation from the poison of Arsenick Our general Diaphoreticks expel this Arsenicks poison altogether so also our Alexipharmacum or preservative against poison removes these obstructions and comforts nature and so the Fever ceases The chief medicine is the Laudanum perlatum of Paracelsus given in the water of prunes for it extinguishes the heat of the spirits but it doth not remove the cause it self afterwards there must a regard be had of the tongue and jaws The best medicine for the Squincy is common salt prepared and dissolved Cure of the Squincy in the water of prunes and let there be made a Gargarism thrice in the day in the morning noon and night shave the tongue and wash it with Fountain water let the knife be made of Willow wherewith thou shavest the tongue this is more often proved in Ungaria Saluiter is thus prepared Take Salt Peter melt it in a mortar which Goldsmiths use and put into it being melted a little Sulâ—hur of the magnitude of two pease by this means it is purged from impurities and becomes crystaline Those which have the Squincy let them eschew baths Read Phrisius in spâ—culo lib. 2. part 3. cap. 1. Gualâ—erus Riffius in Chirurgia Germ. and last part Chap. 30. Bartholomeus Anglus lib. 7. cap. 27. Alexander Benedictus lib. 7. cap. 15. unto the 27. Read Cataphrastus de ulceribus cap. 41. So also take two or three of the fishes Cancer put them in a mortar bruise them affuse with he distilled Vinegar of wine and Rosewater mix them and strain them through a cloth and make a Garâ—arism Theophrastus tractat 2. de tartaro cap. 1. saith that the prunella is an inclusion of the air in the â—iver therefore when this air hath an egress it is pestilent Take of prune water of purged Laudanum mix them c. The cure of it is the same with the cure of the Plague CHAP. XVI Of the hurts of the Lungs their Symptoms causes and Signs BY the name of Lungs we understand all the vessels which are in them and the rough artery The affections which happen unto the Lungs are the peripneumonia obstruction the imposthume and such like The obstruction is frequent in the Lungs as in other more principal Members or Bowels The causes of The causes of the obstruction of the Lungs the obstructions in the lungs are diverse The aboundance and clamminess and thickness of humours the Grando the Stone or liquid and coagulated tartar The tartar is the cause of many obstructions all obstructions are cured by tartar The affections which rise from the obstructions of the Lungs are the Cough the Asthma the strangling Rheum and oftentimes the Phthisis The aboundance of humours flowing into that only membrane which compasseth the throat with pain and also stopping it obscures the voice and brings hoarsness The too much roughness of the throat or artery whether it be caused from smoke or crying or cold causes this hoarsness But if the distillation fall into the hollow pipe of the throat it causes a little cough with a certain straitning of the provoking acrimony But if it fall into the breast and Lungs it causes a great Cough bursting out from the bottom of the breast This comes to pass when Nature endeavours to cast forth any thing which is molestuous by his acrimony or obstruction The Cough is a preternstural sounding motion of the Lungs accompanied with the violent blowing with a violent blowing and sending forth of breath even as when any thing falls into the throat while we eat or drink But certainly if that which distils into the Lungs be very small then it is hardly cast forth by coughing but much more hard it is and difficult to cough forth that which is crass and clammy in the Lungs neither can it easily be wiped away or removed or blown forth by breathing When the distillation is little and light then the symptoms which accompany it are light but when much and grievous distillation comes suddenly upon one then a certain strangling difficulty of breathing vexes him and he breaths often swiftly and very vehemently Furthermore the crass and clammy humour which possesses the Lungs and his artery troubles one The dry Cough with a dry cough vehemently by which any thing is scarcely extended it causes the breathing to be difficult and while one breaths it causes a ratling or noise in the The cause of the noise in the throat while one breaths The cause of the Cough from Paracelsus throat because it â—ops the passages by which breath should go forth That which Paracelsus doth write doth not repugn these that we have said he saith that a cough is generated from tartar by tartar he doth not only understand the sand hail like matter and stones but every crass slimy and excrementitious and clammy matter which at length comes to be tartar This crass and clammy humour with the time thickneth and dryeth more and more notwithstanding by the force of heat it comes to be a vitreous or slimy flegm or tartar of things An aboundance of it being collected in the pipes of the Lungs produces the Asthma The Asthma is a great difficulty of breathing accompanyed with a sound perceived either inwardly or outwardly in the breast The Dysponia is a difficulty of breathing to which those are obnoxious which are
suffocation of the Matrix or Strangling of the womb Take the Fig of the flesh put Theophrast tract 2. cap. 4. it upon the coals and make that a smoak ascend through womens privity unto the Matrix Paracels lib. de Ictero cap. 3. fol. 356. saith that the liquor of the herb Dogs tongue and the secret of the water of Balmmint are very available Thomas Muffetus in his Epistle 279. perchance fol. 179. saith thou hast a singular remedy Take the mossiness of the Wallnut and dry them bruise them into powder and let there be given of it with two drops of the oyl of Amber I never found any medicine more excellent then this for this affect For the falling down of the Matrix take such a ball as children use to play with in Medows or gardens and rowl it or cover it with new melted wax which hath a string fastened to it somewhat strongly with which ball rowlâ—d in wax after the Matrix is inclosed and thrust in you must stop the fundament lest it fall down again in the next place take Balmmint Cumin Mint Crispa the red Mugwort Wormwood and red roses put them together in a bag and let them be boiled in distilled Vinegar of wine and put them hot in the fundament administer also the oyl of Mirâ—h and the spirit of Turpentine drops 4. in the water Nicotiana or Tabacus CHAP. XXXII Of the Arthritis Chiragra Gonagra and Podagra PAracelsus takes Podagra generally for every pain existing in the joynts of the bones or glew of the The Podagra is a disease which affects the less foot body The Podagra is a disease or being of tartar or a disease of Mineral salt or sour liquor Under tartar all the spirits of salt are comprehended And as the nature shall be of common salt sal gemmae and sal maris or sal alcali and of the salts of Vinegar Barbery and Acacia So the pains of the Podagra shall be and their signs shall vary The tinctures of salts are sour bitter salt and sharp and of the nature of Sulphur Pearl Niter Alume Medlar Nettle and Arsemart but amongst these the tincture of Niter and common salt produce most grievous and sharp pains The pains of salts of Pearls and Sulphur are more vehement than those of the spirits of the Alumish nature and sal gemmae Sour Alumish Styptical and Barberizated tinctures are the authors of coldness and frigidity The Sulphur and tinctures of the nature of Cuccopintle mixt with the spirits of Arsenick do cause redness heat inflammations and pulses This is it which Paracels sayeth namely that the Podagra is a Sulphur ascended and kindled in the glew also he saith that it is a coldness kindled in the glew of the body for Narcotical and cold tinctures being kindled with digestion and circulation present an adulterated Image of heat But how do these tinctures of salts come into the Anatomy of the body two ways or by two means 1. Either by a hereditary means or from meat and drink Seeing that the first matter of tartar is contained in the parent which as yet is not coagulated but spiritual and astral and as yet it exists strong and infects the balm and root of mans nature by vital and forcible impression and it comes to pass by hereditary transplantation that when the first rudiments or principles of the roots are implanted from the original that such Podagraes should arise because they are fostered in the most vehement and forcible element The Podagra is generated from the weak ventricle which separateth not rightly and hotter Liver if the matter of the urine be not â—ightly separated The Podagra is generated from meat and drink for the mechanical spirits of the ventricle cannot separate all the seeds of diseases from the aliments therefore there remains impurities which are conveyed to the glew of the body after a spiritual and vaporous manner together with the aliments And not only impurities tending unto resolution but also tartareous excrements destined unto coagulation the separation being frustrate produce corporeal stony cloddy or massie diseases diseases of the nature of Tophus Pitch neither is it difficult for the seeds of those diseases seeing they be resolved spiritual vaporous and permixt with the vapours of the aliments to peirce every way Seeing therefore such like seeds are contained in the Anatomy of the bloud and are resolved and flow with the seeds and persist or stay in the glew or balm of the hands and feet they make some manifest Sev. p. 271. marks in their passage before they come unto the matrices according unto the analogy or similitude of the spirits and purity of the glew or balm in the members by which they pass for if the vehemencie of the spirits be very great and tinctures very sharp terminating in an excrementitious coagulation and if the balsame or glew of the thighs and arms be infected or corrupted with consentany impurities or impurities of the same kind which are agglutinated about the membranes of the bones then are felt doloriferous fluxes in those places importing a calamity hanging over the suspected or infected parts The generation of the contracture is almost alike which appears in the veterated Podagras The resolution of the tartareous spirits sometime vexes the patients in the Arthritis which are driven and agitated through all the members upward and downward The cure consists in the cure of the Arthritis Concerning the cause of the Arthritis read Paracels tract 2. de malis ex tartaro cap. 2. The particular cure of it is made with the essence of Walwort the oyl of Juniper and the oyl of Hartstongue f. 271. In the cure of the Podagra there must be made a destruction The Cure abolishing consumption and resolution of the tartareous matter and that by resolving medicaments These three viz. dissolving mitigating and corroborating medicaments admit mixtion and may be absolved and comprised in one and the same medicament Paracels lib. 2. de vita long a cap. 1. saith that in the beginning all the matter of the Podagra is to be purged with a perfect and sufficient purgation and this may be made by the secret of Corals whereby the Flux of the Podagra is expell'd so that there is no place left for this assailing evil There is such vertue and force in this secret of Coral which is from the essence of Gold that it is impossible to be deprehended of a Physician but by purgation This purgation may be made six or seven ways according to the veteratness hardness or nature of the Podagra This Secret of Coral is nothing else but fixt Diaphoretical Mercury which emulates the virtues of Gold In the pains of the Podagra anoint the affected place with the oyl of Juniper and the pain will instantly be removed Against the Podagra in the beginning of the disease use the spirit of Vitriol For I have seen one troubled with this disease for
the space of three years and he was cured with this medicament For it was such a salt as did especially consist of the salt of Vitriol and not of all the kinds of Vitriol The Diaphoretick of Tartar much availeth in the Podagra in a convenient liquor The Podagra is cured by the liquor of the Cedar Theophrast in lib. de temperte tract 3. A most excellent remedy against the Podagra is Armoniacum sublimated seven times and made spiritual let it also be dissolved in wine and dip a linnen cloth in it and put it upon the affected place let it also be given inwardly with wine or ale and let the patient sweat Antimony or the mineral Unicorns horn being of a solid substance and of the nature of a confection easeth much and mitigates the pain of the Podagra by reducing and consuming the peccant matter which we have seen in those which have lacked the use of their hands by their taking this Medicine had use of their hands again In the pains of the Arthritis anoint the affected place with the oyl of Juniper and the patient will forthwith be eased The said Armoniacum how to sublime it seven times for the Gout â„ž the Scoria made with Antimony Tartar and Saltpeter when you make Regulus of Antimony per se make a lixivium of it which filter and boyl to the consistency of hony then by degrees of heat bring it to a fixt powder Take that powder and grind it well with pure salarmoniack which hath first been dissolved in distilled water filtred and coagulated and being well ground together put them to sublime first will come over a little spirit then will the Salarmoniac sublime in flowers and this you must do seven times every time with fresh fixt powder of the Scoria so have you the right Armoniack for the Gout and likewise the spirit some of which ascendeth in every sublimation which also is very effectual in the same disease CHAP. XXXIII Of the Plague and the Causes thereof THe Plague is a singular scourge affliction and contagion for the sins of man it is of an invisible spiritual and astral nature proceeding from no The Plague is a burning contagious feaver continually afflicting the patient and brâ—nging death unless it be restrained by nature and art internal humour or liquor of man but immediately from God It is either spiritual as that which comes immediately from God or natural when as God punishing men works by second causes and uses them as his instrument and rod For God when he punisheth men exercises uses anothers works and means The Supernatural plague is from God or else from Satan permissively The supernatural plague is a punishment and scourge sent of God Exod. 9. Levit. 26. Deut. 28. 1 Chronic. 22. The supernatural plague permissively from Satan is when God permits Sathan to punish men for sin This most tyrannous enemy both of God and man is sorry that he cannot overthrow God and man as Job witnesseth in his history Again the plague rises from conjurers Exod. 7 8. of which Christ speaks Acts. 8. Matth. 7. The natural plague is twofold one is generation from the impression of the Stars the other is from the imagination of the Microcosm The plague of impression proceeds from the firmament of Heaven God punishing men by second causes uses the conjunction of Mars and Saturn or the Ecclipses of malevolous Stars as the father which punisheth the son useth the rod. The beams of these stars being of the nature of Arsenick of Sulphur Mars Woolfs milk Woolf bane and Hemlock infect the spiritual and corporal nutriment This is the generation of the plague from the astral influence But men infected with the Haemorrhoids and Plague infect the sound onely with their look But much more many are infected from the look of women which are affected with the menstruum and Plague Again the Plague may come by breath heat sweat smells dwelling in some place and by the clothes of the infected The Plague may rise from Imagination Paracels de occulta Philosophia sets down preservatives in the time of the Plague It is not disconvenient to change the air This changing or mutation must be instituted according to the Astronomical Science otherwise any man endeavours to fly in vain For the preservation in the lague let him take pestilential drink of Paracels prepared truely Spagitically in his bed in the morning and let him sweat This medicine preserves six days from the Plague The second preservative is calcinated Sulphur taken with Mirth and Aloepaticum and Sugar preserves that day from all astrall impression The third preservative the Zenecthon of Paracels hang'd about the neck hinders the attractive virtue of the Microcosm The fourth the herb Celandine gathered in the full moon and carried about is a preservative against the poysonful look of women and men The fift preservative those which are busied about the infected let them hold Francincense in their mouths and let the infected hold the roots of Juniper The sixt the essence of the bloud of the Hart and stork are most excellent preservatives Seventh the most excellent of all is the Alexipharmacum spagiricum taken in the morning about the quantity of the lesser bean with sugar or any other convenient liquor A perfume for to fresh and better the air Take of Sulphur lbs of francincense â„¥ 2. of mirth â„¥ 1 s of laser medicum â„¥ s bruise them and mix them Add unto this powder twice as much of the barks of berries of Laurel half the part of Amber put upon the coals twice or thrice every day Ê’2 of this powder at every time this is the best means to refresh the air the same may be done by the wood and berries of the Juniper The Universal cure of the Plague is made by the spirit of Gold with Diaphoretical ☉ of life the essence of Gemms Hyacinth Smaragdus Saphires Tinctures Corals and of Antimony with Solificatum and Perlatum Laudanum These mysteries of nature if they be given in a convenient dosis they will expell the Plague alltogether The particular Cure As soon as the infected feels the poyson of the Plague let those which are come to years take a spoonful of the abovenamed pestiential potion of Paracels let the younger sort take two spoonful or more or less according unto the conditions of the patient and let him sweat well four or five hours when six hours are past let him take the third dosis especially if the pricking hath left him for by the third dosis God assisting all the poyson is expell'd by sweat let the patient take three days following every morning one dosis of the forenamed drink whereby he may be corroborated and comforted The same is effected by the Spagirical Alexipharmacum of which let those which are come to years take and that thrice in 24. hours let the younger sort take three days following let him every morning take a dosis in wine and
Plantation are not subjected to the wills of men neither do they conserve perpetuity as the Vegetables by propagation of Individuals The seeds of Vegetables are twofold The Astral seeds which are only subject to Nature Secondly Mineral seeds which are subject to the sense and will of man as of Barley Wheat Oats and other pulse which spring not but by Industry and good Husbandry In Plants there be divers manners of propagation but in Minerals at least there is but one manner and it is spontaney or of free accord caused by no labour of man Some Vegetables are propagated by mans Industry and Husbandry by material seeds or grains either round or three cornered or long c. Some Vegetables are propagated by Graffs as Vines some by Branches or Boughs as Willows very many from Roots pulled up There are divers times of the springing and rising of these seeds whether astral or material Some spring in Summer some in the Spring some in Autumn some in the beginnning middle or end of the Spring or Summer or Autumn some spring in Cancer or in Libra or in Virgo or in Leo and then come forthâ—nto the sight or aspect of men He will admire the confluence of Nature which marketh the springing and budding of Plants at the rising and setting of certain Stars There are also certain fit places required in the Generation of Vegetables as the Poplar tree and the Willow and Arsmart love the Waters the Trifoil Ragwort the Coslip and Melilot the Origan and the herb Groundpinn love the mountains of which Virgil in his 1 book of his Georgicks writes thus here will good Corn rise there will Grapes spring plenteously and in another place good Apples will grow and flourishing Grasse And again in the second of his Georgicks he saith every ground cannot bring forth all fruits The Willows spring at the waters side the Alder-trees in the foggy Fens the barren wild Ash-trees grow on stony mountains the Sea shores are most pleasant with Mirtles our Ladygloves affect hillocks the Yew-tree loves the Northwind and cold of the Air and he addeth the cause in the second of his Georgicks for surely it is only Nature This is by reason of the temperament and friendly conspiration of superiour and inferiour things for the seeds having an in-bred knowledge do all Fructifie as Seasons and in their places for the constitution of the air is otherwise about the waters or flouds than in the valleys in which the Sun-beams by their great power cannot peirce and temperate the turbulent and crasse air The constitution of the air about little mountains is divers from that about great mountains for the conspiration of the superiour and inferiour things is chiefly to be considered in the Generations of the inferiour Globe if that the prevarications of the confluences and the dearth of Corn bring great defect There are three especial differences of Generations in this inferiour Globe of Minerals Vegetables and Animals In the Element of Water four kinds of fruits appear Salts Minerals Gemms and Stones by one name called Minerals There are only two kinds of fruits from the Element of Earth Plants and Trees called Vegetables which being explained we will descend to the Generation of Animals The vital principle of the Nature of Animals is grounded in a certain Radical matter namely in animal Balsam in Suphur and vital Liquor which two namely the vital Principle or native Heat and radical moisture or first-begot moisture have made a constant and firm Wedlock or Union as we have demonstrated in our Philosophy de calore native This first matter of Animals though in spiritual subtileness it excel the Balsam of Vegetables and Minerals neither is it grounded in a matter subject to the wills and judgment of man nevertheless it hath most effective tinctures in it in which as though in mechanical spirits the knowledge of the anatomy of all the parts of the animal are secretly contained for the least dram of the seed contains the anatomy of the whole kind because the mechanical spirits and Principles of the bodies are taken from the Dimensions and Straitness of bodies that is the First matter or stars of animals is not subjected to Geometrical Demonstrations Here the Aristotelians contend that this seminal matter is only contained in the anatomy of the Testicles Hippocrates saith that seed is derived from the most strong and forcible Root of the whole animal he testifieth it by this note because so little matter being evacuated there are made very great mutations and great losse of the strength in the body There is nothing in the body more strong than the animal Balsam or vital Sulphur Hereupon Paracelsus in his book de sagaci Philosophia calls this Radical matter the quintessence of Lmibicagaster From hence the Philosophers called the seed of Animals the viridity of Nature and the flowr of strength though we deny not but that the crude and imperfect matter which is in place for a covering wherewith the mechanical spirits and principles of Generation are invested is perfected and digested and brought unto maturity by the perfecting of the members of Generation otherwise Generation were frustrate and in vain not by the inconstancy of the mechanical spirits and vital principle but by the imperfection and debility of the bodies This is the true original of seed and the Nature in Animals From these it appeareth that the seed the Animal Balsam is not only contained in the Testicles or Brain or Sperm of the marrow but that it is diffused through the whole body that is through the whole anatomy of the Animal and it is the vital Liquor the Radical matter the First matter for these vertues and faculties which have flown forth of the whole body especially out of the principal parts together with the spirits do inhere and remain in that matter of the seed being prepared and perfected in the Testicles and are as it were the mistresses or workers of procreation Aristotle contends by many reasons that he might shew that women neither have seed nor do emit or send forth any in the Venereal act But the contrary may be taught especially by this reason because women have Testicles and Vessels for seed all which if Nature did not make them in vain as it makes nothing in vain have likewise a faculty of generating seed attributed them which is the cause thereof The truth of this matter is proved by the testimony of sense for it is seen in women which have longer refrained from coiture that their seed would flow about the Vessels being cut as well as in men but in the Testicles there is a more crass and perfect seed because women will confess that by dreams their seed is sent forth with no less pleasure than in coiture In widdows and those which have longer abstained from Venery by dreams and by tickling of the privities abundant and crass seed will burst forth This is not only confirmed by the whole
when these hurts are present the courage and strength fails and there is a crudity of the Ventricle and a slow dejection of the belly and much wind do make a noise The coarctation and straitness of the Intestines is somewhat like the obstruction and it is caused by the vertue of those which are ingested or carryed in whether they be meats or astringent glisters But this is frequent from the tumour of the mesenterium or bowels pressing the Intestines The inflammation also doth happen unto the Intestines when the seeds of Arsenick Sulphur and Auripigmentam are resolved in them Then a pain at first sharp and lancing is begot fixt in the same place The burning Fever and frustrate desire of sitting concomitates and accompanies this inflammation The imposthume being burst there comes forth at first a filthy and excrementitious filth afterward a white and concocted out of the fundament and it is either dreggish or somewhat before the dregs in which it is wont to be clensed and expelled and then the pain fever and other symptoms are mitigated and the belly the obstacle being removed doth freely avoid yet there is an Ulcer remaining from the Imposthume and Tenasm This pain is fixt of whose sense the Intestines are debilitated oftentimes they depose their load and belch forth sometime a bloudy sometime a purulent filthiness and that if it be hollow because it consists in the humid part and that which is easily passed through it remains long filthy and scarcely at last is obducted and covered with a scar unless heed be taken diligently it almost ends in a Fistula or Cancer He that will resolve the tartar and open the obstruction The cure Observation in the obstruction of the Intestines must not apply any glister unto the patient as they most use to do But apply unto him a hot cloth with the fat of Yew and put it upon the place of the belly afterwards give him inwardly the spirit of Turpentine which resolves the tartar that the excrements may descend unto the belly and that they be evacuated by the accustomed way The Ulcer which is wont to concur in the Intestines is cured by vulnerary simples in a vulnerary potion These are the simples hyrundinaria centaurea and pyrola boil them together with wine in a vessel well stopt untill the Consumption afterward in a vessel full of water CHAP. XXV Of the Symptoms of the Intestines and their Causes and Signs THe Cholick passion is as grievous as if The Cholick passion is a grievous and intollerable pain caused in the inferiour and crass Intestines with the constipation of the belly one have a stone imprest in the one Ureter or be boared through with a wimble in the affected place as Galen speaks of himself lib. 2. cap. 5. de locis affectis Concerning from whence the kinds of the Cholick read Sev. fol. 240. According to Theophrast lib. 1. de tribus principiis cap. 5. The Cholick is caused from Salt predominating in the Intestines and it produces divers kinds of the Cholick One kind when the Salt is resolved another when it is too much hardned So also â—ractat 4. de origine morbor ex tartaro he saith that the Cholick is begot from the effusion of choler which is thus to be understood when the tartar of the gall sends forth his flowrs it with the choler produces the Cholick so also de tartaro cap. 11. The Cholick and Iliacapassio is a grievous and intollerable pain caused in the superiour and small guts with the constipation of the belly the Iliack are begot from tartar and not from humours In the Cholick there are three potent properties of the principles the acute suddenly penetrates by his vaporous sowrness infecting the continuated parts They do not emit and send forth spirital resolutions indued with the same faculties at the first from which the contracture at length ariseth Concerning the cause of the contracture which ariseth from the Cholick read the book de membror contract tract 1. cap. 3. Oftentimes there happen contagious impressions of them which have the Cholick unto the Anatomy of the Ventricle which cause loathing vomiting and other symptoms of the Ventricle You may read a more full and perspicuous explication of the Generation of the Cholick in Davus fol. 238 239 240. Concerning the Iliack Lientery The Lientery is a flux of the belly wherewith the meat is forthwith avoided especially by stool either crude or somewhat digested or Caeliacal passion read the Galenists The cause of the cholick passion is not crudeness nor the weak concoction of the belly but the bad distribution of the chyle which is caused for the obstruction of the mensenterium Milt or Liver or the imbecillity of the attracting faculty or for the immoderate aboundance of aliments especially of unsetled and fugitive fruits and of drink All the superfluous humour being evacuated the flux ceaseth voluntarily sometime the same day it began sometime on the second or third day Hippocrates lib. de affectibus saith that in the Lientery the meats succeed not putrifacted and liquid there is no pain and the body is attenuated Concerning this disease read more at large in Galen in Aphoris Hippocrates Cem. 6. Sect. 1. Comment 4. Sectione 17. Barthol Anglus lib. 7. cap. 50. Phrisius in speculo part 4. Alexander Benedictus lib. 20. cap. 7. 8. Theophrast lib. 1. parag de morbo dissoluto Theophrastus makes the cause to be corrupted and resolved Salt he saith that every loose disease is ruled by Salt as the Dysentery The Diarrhea is a flux of the belly whereby humours especially excrementitious are avoided immoderately by the stool without exulceration of the guts The Dysentery is a flux of the belly whereby bloudy humour is avoided by the stool Diarrhaea and Lientery therefore the cure must be made by Salts and Sulphurs in lib. de tribus principiis cap. 5. Concerning the Diarrhaea read the Galenists The Colliquation or melting away of the Intestines may be referred to the Diarrhaea in which that which proceeds from within seems as it were perfused with fat or oil hence it comes to pass that the substance of fat or flesh or of solid parts being newly congealed may melt and flow away into the bâ—unch by the protracting disease This kind of flux is very usual unto those which have the pestilence fever and melting causes the Hectick and Phthisis sometime to those that have the atrophia and inflammations of the bowels The Dysentery is a difficulty of the belly Hippocrates seems to take it not for the Ulceration of the Intestines as most Physicians do but for the bloody flux of the Intestines Celsus makes the Dysentery simply to be wringings Hippocrates de affect saith this disease is begot when Choler and Flegm burthen the veins and belly The bloud corrupts and the corrupted departs The Intestine is diseased gnawed and exulcerated This disease becomes long laborious and mortal if the patient
pease is effective because the decoction of red pease is very diuretick and wholsome to those which are troubled with the stone The black pease cures poisons and bruises the stone The seed of the herb Saxifrage and White-plant especially cures the stone of the reyns There are some gums which expel the stone as the gum of Cherry trees drunk with wine There are some stones as Lyncurias which heals the stillicidium or dropping of urine and being drunk expels the stone So also there are some herbs and roots as Sorrel Seaholm Betony Vervin Scordion Mugwort the root of Dogs tooth Sperage Penniroyal Five finger grass the rozen of the Fir tree water Nosemart the root of the lesser Pimpernel and the root of the Nettle got in a dry place so the bloud of the Goat breaks the Adamant as also the Stone so also the powder of a Hare a Hedge-sparrow burnt glass the Lark the stone in the bladder of a Bore the little bone taken forth of the hinder joynt of the Hare the bones of the Medlar Stonecrop the gum of plums Corals and little stones of the Lobster-fish and those stones which are found in the heads of some fishes the shells of eggs forth of which young ones are excluded CHAP. XXVIII Of the diseases of the Bladder Causes and Signs THe bladder is more often affected The strong passion of the bladder is nothing but a straightnesse caused in the neck of the bladder from an obstructing stone with the Stone but very seldom with the Inflammation and Impostume sometime with the Exulceration The stone of the bladder is twofold 1. is in uncoth parts that is that which depends of the excrement of meat and drink which is conveyed from the ventricle to the reyns and from thence to the bladder The 2. is a tartar which proceeds from the salt of urine of bloud and it proceeds from the excrement of tartar or flesh The stone of the bladder is generated from the salt of urine by the Element of fire of the Microcosm The Galenists affirm the cause of this to be crass and crude juice which flows through the veyns with the urine into the cavity of the bladder where it sticks as dregs and being dryed by the heat of the place it becomes a stone Fernelius leaving their opinion saith that he found that Lib. 6. de part morb Sympt Cap. 13. every stone contained in the bladder attracts some beginning from the reyns from which it falls with a Nephritical pain if it be greater it sticks a while in the bladder and for the most part it persists and stays there and is augmented there by the aboundance of excrements which stick there untill it become a perfect and confirmed stone Read the signs of the inflammation stone and exulceration in the Galenists Diabetes Diabetes is an immoderate avoiding of urine accompanied with great thirst that is a passing is a flux of urine it is so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is passing or flowing The Diabetes is caused from the tartar of the reyns when the reyns are alltogether obstructed with tartar that tartar or coagulated matter desires moisture which when it hath attracted it the mechanical spirits of things are inquinated and corrupted with tartareous and styptical tinctures so that they cannot separate pure things from impure things but they transmit crude matter unto the bladder and expel urine as an excrement The Ischuria is contrary to this because Ischuria is a preternatural and involuntary retention of urine with an impotency to piss the urine is alltogether supprest neither is any urine avoided One cause of this suppression is astriction or obstruction and Stranguria is a frequent and painful provocation to piss with the avoiding of urine by drops this proceeds from tartar The Stranguria is a droping of urine when as urine is made by drops it is sometime with much endeavour but with no pain sometime with a vehement pain but in vain That which is made by drops is called the Ischuria that which burns and pricks is called Dysuria The Dysuria is a difficulty of urine when Dysuria is a difficult avoiding of urine forth of the bladder as urine is avoided hardly and not without pain Theophrastus lib. 1. paragr writes that the Dysuria proceeds from the most sharp tartar of the stomack The Styptical and most sharp flowers of tartar being resolved in the stomack are permixt with the aliments and conveyed with them unto the bladder Michelus in his Chymical Apology fol. 209. saith you Galenists call the tartareous resolution of the blood sometime the Exulceration of the reyns sometime the Putrefaction of the bladder sometime the Apostem of the reyns sometime the Stone of the bladder because you see slimy things bloudy crass and stinking evacuated with the urine with great pain Theoph. in tract de tartare de morbis tartareis Cap. 21. saith that there is not a more excellent medicine for the consummated stone then crystal and these words he had added he is happy which can prepare it this is the preparation Take of Crystal of sal Armoniacum pulverize them and elevate them after the manner of the Spagirians and that seaven times extract Ascali from this elevated and sublimated crystal let the dosis with distilled water be in the water of Petrosiline c. The salt of tartar and the oyl of tartar which is of a golden colour will effect the same so also take a little March Hare and dip it in Rhenish wine untill she be suffocated and dye then burn the whole substance of it in a Pipkin give of this powder with a modicum of theriaca unto the patient before he go into the bath after he comes out of the bath let him make water before he eat or drink and then the patient shall find the stone resolved wonderfully he may also take this powder with the water of Parsley The Crabfish expels the sand and stone of the bladder and reyns very effectively he that useth it often need not fear the stone Theophrastus lib. de renib Cap. 15. burn the bloud A most certain experiment and the skin of a Hare in an incocted pipkin that they may be bruised to powder give a spoonful to the patient in hot water in the morning with a fasting stomack the stone being liquified and resolved is avoided with the urine We have seen this and therefore not to be doubted of he that doubteth let him make an experiment and let him put a most hard stone in hot water and a spoonful of his powder and the stone will presently resolve with an admirable virtue which is beheld in the powder So also take the stone cut out of mans bladder Theophrast tract 2. de morbis ex tartaro saith bruise it in a mortar extract the oyl by the Alembicum as the oyl of philosophers of which give in white wine for the space of 14. days every morning and evening