interception of the said humor and for this purpose serveth wel the Emplaster of mastick Gum elemy and Taccamabaka throughly warmed and so applyed to the temples IV. By discussion with the playster of Melilote and other the like V. By the Application of such remedies as act and operate by their own specifical property among which the cheif are the tooth of a dead dog burnt in the furnace mingled with posset drink and so imposed the root of the sharp and sowr sorrel taken up in the spring before it blossom and bud forth wel dryed and so applied unto the pained tooth That we term senect a serpentis boyled in wine or vinegar Gum Hedera put into the teeth VI. By extraction and drawing it forth which wil be much facillitated if the tooth be first touched with the distilled water of Sal Armoniack take notice of this let the Cause be what it wil Take the Fern root and Cinquefoyl of each three drams Bistort two drams the leaves of Rew of Sage of Betony the Flowers of Roses of each half a handful boyl al these in a sufficient quantity of red wine that is most astringent and as much common water as you think fit until a third part be wasted for a Collution to wash the mouth withal The differences are taken from the original place and quality of the Humors I. For their rise and original they somtims flow together from the highest part or crown of the head and then the Revulsion ought to be by the Cephalick vein and likewise those things that we hinted before touching repellers are heedfully to be observed Somtimes they arise from the inferior parts and then the revulsion ought to be made by the Basilick vein II. For the place sometimes they stick and abide in the tooth and then the pain is not altogether so deep but is extended according to the latitude of the tooth For the most part it conteyneth within it a worm by the motion whereof the pain is exasperated Somtimes in the little nerve tending toward and into the roots of the tooth and the nervous membrain thereof and then the pain is the more vehement It extendeth it self in breadth al along the Gums and reacheth even unto the Ear the tooth being taken forth it is much eased in regard that by reason the way is opened the pain may the better be dispersed and blown abroad Somtimes it seateth it self in the very Jaw-bones themselves and then it floweth into the upper Jaw-bone along by the greater Angle of the Eye and into the lower by the Temple Veins We cannot attempt the Cure by Repellers without apparent danger in regard that the matter being brought unto the Jaws inevitably suffocateth and choaketh III. For the Qualities some are hot Serous or Wheysish Salt and Sharp which excite a most violent and intolerable pain but hot withal such as soon hath an end by Reason of the sudden changes It is very rare that they have adjoyned to them as a Concomitant the swelling of the Cheek They are removed and taken away by Repellers among which are Roots of the sour Sorrel boyled in hard and austere Wine and together with Wine held in the Mouth as long as need requireth the Roots of the Wild sloes the outward Rind being taken away and this indeed is one of the cheif Remedies al things else corresponding and answerable thereto Others are Cold and Flegmatick from the which that pain that proceedeth is indeed more remiss and gentle than the former but then it is of longer continuance these most commonly produce a swelling of the Cheeks This pain is to be taken away after that Universal and general Remedies have been made use of with Camphire half a scruple Spirit of Wine two ounces or of the Juniper Gum half an ounce boyled together with eight ounces of Rhenish Wine and for a while kept in the Mouth Or lastly of the Distilled Oyl of Cloves two drops thereof with a smal proportion of Camphire put upon the Tooth being first wrapt up in Cotton Article II. Of Stupor Stridor and Nigredo in the Teeth THe Stupor or if we may so term it the astonishment of the Teeth is Caused I. Somtimes from the Sowrness either of meats or of the Humors or else of the fumes and vapors which frequently befalleth those that are Hypochondriacal II. Somtimes from the imagination at the Noise that is made in filing of hard mettals or the Mastication and Chewing of sharp sowr fruits by one standing neer If the sound be very acute piercing and making a loud crashing then the imagination suffereth a kind of violence the Application of the said noise being made within an extream narrow compass and then next of al the Membrane of the sense of hearing being likewise as it were smitten is offended and thereupon is immediately contracted and together with it certain little Nerves also even unto the Root of the Teeth into which place a new Air suddently falling in and getting entrance causeth a certain kind of horrour about the Teeth It is Cured and taken away by Chewing of Wax hot bread Cloth c. The Stridor Grinding or Crashing noise of the Teeth proceedeth I. From the imbecillity of the Jaw-bone Muscles produced and caused by cold II. From Worms the brain being affected by Consent III. From the multitude of Vapors is in the beginnings of Paroxysmes It is wont to threaten the Apoplexy and likewise in Feavers the Deliry or Dotage in such especially as are not accustomed thereunto in case this doting went not before the Feaver III. Nigredo or blackness proceedeth from divers Causes as wel External as Internal And these external are a Carelessness and neglect in Rubbing and Cleansing them the use of sweet and hot things and the anoynting of the upper parts with Quick-Silver or as they commonly cal it Hydrarge These latter to wit the internal are 1. The Exspiration or breathing forth of Crudities by reason of surcharging the Stomach with meats or Drink 2. A fault of the Humors by reason of the impurity of the Bowels and cheifly of the Spleen left remayning behind after a Quartane Feaver It is taken away by the Dentifrice Compounded of Marsh-Mallow Roots and of the Illirian Flower-de-luce Boyled in Water with Salgem and Alum of each alike and as much as wil suffice and after that throughly dryed in a Furnace beaten together into a very smal powder and mingled wel together with some few grains of Musk. There are other dentifrices that are formed and made of the Jaw-bones of the Lucefish or Pike burned White Coral and Date Stones burned the Bones of the Sepia or Cuttle fish and Egg-shels burnt Harts horn burnt c. Title XII Of the Affects of the Gums THe principal Affects of the Gums are an Excrescence and a Purulis I. The Excrescence is somtimes so great by reason of the Spungy rarity and loosness of the Gums and the abundant afflux of Blood that the Teeth and
There is here Good hope of a cure if there appear on the fourth day good and promising Signs if pus to wit snot or filth or water flow forth by the nostrils ears or eyes But is somewhat doubtful if there be present with it an acute feaver and that the ut in be white because then the choler is carried upwards and an inflamation is greatly to be feared if the Patient vomit up that which is Eruginous or in color like unto brass and that the Party be over long kept awake and deprived of his rest especially if a deafness accompany it in regard that by reason of the choler that is gotten together they suddenly fal into a violent and vehement madness if they be surprised with a Congelation or taking as we cal it together with a stoppage of the belly a fierce and wild countinance and that the face be extraordinarily red and fiery because then they are suddenly surprised with a crick in the neck that affect which we usually terme opisthotonos if likewise there happen together with it a sound or ringing in the ears without a Feaver if there accompony it a vertigo or giddiness in the head a hoarsness of the voice and a benummedness in the hands for then they sudenly become either appoplectical or Epileptical and Apoplexy and Epilepsie or falling sickness most commonly following thereupon But there is no hope at al or if any very little if where â—â—it was very vehement it suddenly vannish away and conceal it selfe there following no alleviation by the crisis if the extream parts become exceeding cold because that the native heat being drawn back a Phlegmon may easily be excited if it happen to be with an acute feaver and that on the fourth day there appear some pernitious sign or other if a sound person so soon as he is surprised and taken herewith become instantly speechless and snort and yet is not afflicted with any strong feaver wherby probably he might be freed from the aforesaid distemper The Cure if there by any is performed I. By mettigation of the pain either by anodines of river craw-fish beaten wel together with rose vinegar vervain water and the root thereof wel bruised and imposed on the part affected the Allabastrine unguent before mentioned al which ought to be applied unto the suâ—ures and temples or else by narcotick remedies which may only be applied unto the forehead and layd thereon II. It is to be accomplished by removai of the Causes and strengthening the part touching which see further in the differences The Differnces of the Cephalalgy are many and those very various I. One difference hereof is symptomatical of which we here treat Another is Critical which beginneth not to afflict the patient from the first rise of the dâ—stemper but much about the time of the Crisis and then the breathing suddenly becometh short and very difficult the Hypecondria being drawn back the veins are swoln and the arteries beat in the Temples the cheeks wax red and tears flow forth of their accord the patient not being able to withstand it the sick party streacheth his nostrils with his hands and then most commonly there floweth a streaming forth of the blood II. Another is External which seizeth the pericranium is perceived in the very superficies reacheth unto the roots of the eye-lids is exasperated by the compression of the hairs and hands Another internal which becomes easy and moderate upon the very touch especially if it be without any distention and it extendeth it self even unto the roots of the eyes III. Another is from Causes External to wit 1. Ebriety with beer in which the herb Chamaepence is boiled easily and soon causeth And then the matter fluctuating in the stomach is to be cast forth thence by vomit The leaves either of the Colewort or Cabbage throughly moistened in warme water or else the leaves of Rue wel brused together with rose vinegar are to be applied The head is to be al over wet and besprinkled with the spirit of wine and the feet are chafed and rubbed with salt and vinegar 2. By a Contusion stroke wound in which case the cure is to be sought for above in and from their proper places 3. By the heat of the sun the heat of a Bath and of the soucherly winds And then the head is to be delt withal by cooling fomentations c. 4. By the use of other things offensive such as are dates walours chestnuts Filbirds toad-stools hempseed the seeds of Coriander not prepared Frankinsence styrax and Mirh if moderatly taken c. Another is from Internal causes to wit 1. From a distemper without matter which if it be hot the pain is vehement and the head becommeth hot if it â—e cold the pain lasteth so much the longer and the head is cold In this case the little rols or cakes of diamâ—scum dulce and a little bag of heating Cephalicks are very convenient If it be dry the pain is moderate dul and notacute and there went before causes that were extreamly efficating and drying 2. From a distemper with matter which is either from blood and then the paine is more gentle and moderate which cheifly seizeth the fore part of the head and increaseth before the time of repast The Cure is to be sought in its due and proper places Or else it hath its original from yellow choler and then the pain is extreamly pricking and corroding and for the most part fasteneth upon and seizeth the right side of the fore part of the head In the cure those things that are most fit and likely to effect it are Epithenâ—s of Opiat Laudanum with rose water vesicatories applied unto the neck the smelling of rose water with Camphire washing of the head with a decoction of agarick together with the flowers oscamomil scarification of the lips of the ears c. or else it procedeth from flegm and then a pain afflicteth the patient on the right side or the hinder part of the head rather then else where Medicaments good and sucessful against this malady are oxymel with squils the water of the flowers of the elder tree of penyroyal of rosmaâ—y with cristal of nitre the shels of peaches beaten together with verveyn water the oyl of nutmeg pressed or drawn forth the Balsam against the Apoplexy that of yellow amber and the sacculus or little bag of Hartmannus Or else it ariseth from blak choller or melancholly and then the watchings are very extream greivous together with a pain of the left side of the hinder part of the head Let the cuâ—e be sought for in iâ—s proper place 3. from a wind and then the pain wandereth as it were and flyeth up and downe hiâ—her and thither it puffeth out and extendeth the part where it is often returning and running back again at some certain constant hours of the day It is discussed scattered if so be that the temples and the coronal suture be frequently anoynted and
Breasts or Paps Wax hard and that the swelling so add hereunto the Thorax or Chest that without extream peril it may not be thence removed Another by Resolution in which the thinner part is dryed up by preposterous Medicaments and which Galen Cured by an Evaporation of the sharpest and sourest Vinegar poured forth upon the Pyrites stone we cal it the fire stone Red hot but this was after the use of liquid and moystening Medicaments In the Curing of them al we must be sure that we have a special regard unto the Spleen and the suppressed Courses and that Emollients and Resolvers succeed one the other and be interchangably applied 2. The Scirrhus not Exquisite is known by this that the swelling is bigger than in a Cancer of the color of Ashes with an hardness and the Veins thereof somwhat black and blewish in the outward parts and that it somtimes vexeth the Party especially upon the neer approching of the Menstrua or Courses It ariseth from Black Choler mingled together with Melancholly especially in such as are barren or such which soon ceased their Child-bearing or else lastly those that have altogether a suppression of their Termes or monthly Courses In the Curing hereof among the Repellers without astriction there is commended the Unguent of Frogs of which see further in Castrensis his first Book of the Diseases of Women Chapter 21. See likewise touching the Manual Operation in the Same Author IV. A Windy Tumor which is known by this that the pain is very acute especially in the left breast with an Excruciating and torture of the Arm the whol side the Ribs and the Shoulder blades It ariseth from an Exhalation that is thick and drawn up from the Menstrua or the Seed suppressed or else from some other Excrements and so extending the said Paps In the Cure hereof take notice that a Linnen Cloath soaked in Soapsuds or else wet in Water and then dryed is commended for dissipation and when there is occasion to disperse and Scatter and that the Pain is wel mitigated with bread taken hot out of the Oven and then moystened with the Oyl of Nard the shops cal it Oleum Nardinum and of Rue Article II. Of the Cancer and Greatness of the Paps I. The signs of the Cancer in the Breasts as also the Causes and the Cure may be known and sufficiently understood by what hath been already said in the Second Book touching a Cancer Let it suffice here only to add I. That the Cancer that is not Exulcerated may be rendered and made more milde and gentle if the Courses being recalled return to their pristine state and condition either by the Course and Vigor of Nature or else by the assistance of Art and the help of Medicaments or else if the Body be preserved free from a Cacochymy either by a good order of Diet or else by Medicaments There may likewise be applied unto it that Unguent that it compounded of Lithargyrum two ounces thereof in a Marble Mortar drawn about with a Leaden Pestle and incorporated with Rose-water and the Oyl of Roses of each three ounces II. For the Cure of the Cancer Exulcerated see in Hartman who writeth that the said Cancer may be perfectly Cured with Aqua Fuliginis that hath in it a clensing Faculty and with the Oyl of Arsenick fixed and wel tempered in Plantane Water II. The Magnitude of the Paps unseemly as it is is exposed unto the sight It ariseth from the often handling and stroaking of them and especially from the great abundance of Flatulency and windiness the Retention of the Courses c. The Cure hereof ought therefore to be Endeavored because that by how much the greater and bigger they grow but so much the more easily they may be affected with the Cancer It is performed 1. By Meats that are Astringent but little or not at all flatulent or Windy 2. By Driving back the blood or other the Humors flowing unto them and here the Juyce of Hemlock and the Partridg Eggs anoynted upon the place are much approved of 3. By the Discussion of that that is already gotten unto the part affected for which purpose that Unguent that is compounded of the Dirt or Clay that is to be found in Barbers Mils two ounces thereof the Oyl of Myrtle one ounce and Vinegar half an ounce is much commended 4. By the Compression of them by Artificial ones of Lead anoynted on the inside with the Oyl of the Seed of Henbane c. Chap. 2. Of the Symptomes of the Breasts Article I. Of the want of Milk too great abundance thereof and its Coagulation or Curdling THe Symptomes of the Breasts are the Defect Redundence and Coagulation of the Milk I. The Defect of Milk according to the Nature of the Causes is twofold For one is from a Fauâ—â— in the Blood which faileth by reason of Disâ—â—â— that over dry the body from a distemper in the Liver from much rasting and spareness of Diet and lastly from extraordinary Evacuations of al which there must be care taken in the Cure Now to generate and breed Milk these things following are experimentally found to be good Namely Crystal prepared the leaves Roots and Seed of Fennel while they are fresh and green the ponder of Earth-worms prepared and taken in Wine the Electuary of Zacuthus in the Ninth Book of his Pract. Hist and last Chapter Another is from somthing amiss in the Lactificall or Milk breeding Faculty when it is so weak that it can neither attract the blood nor contract it either by reason of External refrigerating Causes and such as are likewise Astringent or else by reason of other Diseases unto which we ought to have due respect in the Cure II. The Redundance or over great store of Milk proceedeth from the abundance of blood and a strong Lactifical Faculty In the Cure the Luxury and prodigality of Nature in the breeding of Milk is to be restrained and the Milk that exceedeth and is over and above ought to be dissipated and dryed up For this purpose venesection in the first place is approved of and then driving back by Medicaments which ought to be put upon the Paps towards the Arms And also those Medicaments that wast away and lessen the Milk such as that they cal Muria a kind of brinish Liquor or Pickle with the pouder of Cummin and Hemlock Boyled in Chervil Water and Vinegar c. III. The Coagulation or Curdling of the Milk is then Caused when the more thin and subtile parts do by little little exhale the thicker remain behind from whence the Glandules or Kernels wax hard and swellings yea and also impostumes arise In this Case the Infant ought not to be suckled out of the Breasts affected and yet notwithstanding the Milk is to be suckt out lest that which is bred anew should be Curdled by that Milk that is already become as it were Cheese and that part of the Curdled Milk that begins
tast and smel of chalk and sometimes breeds little animals Pit-water which because it mounts not above the Earth it is thick and sticks long in the bowells Observe that sweet water springs out of marley grounds cold water out of stoney and thin muddy water out of gravelly places The best and most hopeful comes from ground that has red stones wel tasted water comes from sandy ground cold water proceeds from the bottom of mountaines and from stony and flinty places That water is best which is hot in the winter cold in the Summer 4. Fountain water which if it come out of a Rock and runs towards the North and is not illustrated by the Sun it is unhealthful if it issue directly against the Summer-Sun-rise t is wholsom if it run in a flat and plain ground because the Sun exhales the most subtil parts and leaves the earthy behind t is not so wholsom if it run through leaden pipes 't is hurtful if through Sand and pibbies and draws no dirt with it 't is commendable 5. River water which for the most part is mixed as rising from many springs meeting together and from snow dissolved in the mountains and rain water to boot It s crudity is corrected by the beames of the Sun which play upon it while it runs such a long tract of ground It varies according to the variety of Rivers which flow into it and the Sundery lands it runs through 6. Lake and Pool water which is the worst of al others for it is thick and crude and many times pestilential It offends the Stomach obstructs the bowells corrupts the Humors and many time is the Cause of putrid Feavers 7. The best Water is that which is transparent void of all strange tast or smel is soon cooled soon heated is light and in which flesh and fruits are soonest boyled II. The Correction of waters is performed by boyling by which not only the Crudity and Coldness is amended but also the earthy and bad parts are separated which when the water cooles settle to the bottom See of this subject Pamphilus Herilacus touching the qualities of water and wine II. There are certain differences of wines I. In respect to the place where they grow there is 1. Vinum Falernum which is of an excellent juice 2. Wine of Crete or Malmsey which eases a cold stomach and cures the Colick 3. French wines 4. Rhenish wines which are thin most fit to strengthen the Heart and restore the forces of the Body 5. Hungarian wine 6. Spanish wine c. II. In respect of its substance wine is 1. Thin which easily penetrates suddenly restores strength opens the passages provokes sweat and urine but nourishes little 2. Thick wine such as is the black red sweet and harsh which nourishes most but it sticks long in the body heates the same and dries it and sometimes breeds obstructions II. In respect of color wine is 1. White which heates less then the yellow and Gold-coloured if besides the color it be withal thin of Substance 2. The Gold-colored which is next to white and if it be thin withal is excellent 3. Red which moderately heates breeds good blood and troubles not the head if it be thick withal it bastens obstructions of the spleen and liver 4. Pallet wine is much of the same nature 5. Black wine which is of a thicker substance for the most part sweet very nourishing and breeds thick blood While it sticks long in the bowells it obstructs them and fills the head III. In respect of Tast 1. There is Sweet wine which nourishes wel is pleasing to the palate bowels lungs and joints not disturbs the Head but because it is thick it breeds obstructions and is easily turned into cholor 2. Harsh wine which has a weaker heat staies longer in the belly and pierces to the passages of urine is good for fluxions but because it hinders spittle it is not good for diseases of the Chest 3. The midling sort which is best of al. IV. In respect of smel it is 1. Fragrant which restores strength by its very smel encreases the spirit strengthens al the faculties 'T is good for old people save that it fills the head and weakens the nerves 2. That which has no smel which is neither so greedily drawn by the stomach or affords matter so fit to engender spirits 3. That which has a strange smel which is hurtful V. In respect of Age it is 1. Must which by its windyness breeds the cholick and hinders the voidancie of Urine 2. New wine which yet retaines the sweetness of must is excrementitious not easily distributed into the body and breeds fluctuations therein 3. Old wine which works upon the nerves and troubles the brain 4. Middle-ag'd which is best for al Intents and purposes In which nevertheless there is great variety Some beare their Age others soon loose their strength III. Beer is in use among the Northern Nations where little or no wine growes 'T is made of wheat barly rie oates either simple or mixed together and is preserved with Hops It has also sundry differences I. From the matter 1. Some is made of wheat which nourishes heats and moistens more than that of Barley but it breeds a more clammy juice causes obstructions provokes urine and moves the belly to stoole 2. Barly-malt beer which heats less by reason of the barly but because it has much hops it becomes not a little heating affords more thin juyce and is more diuretick 3. Oaten-drink which is of the same quality with oats 4. Rie-beer which nourishes very much but breeds obstructions and stops the Urine Hereunto belong the differences of beer from the waters it is made of viz. poole river pit water c. which also varie the faculties and strength of beere II. From the Age it is 1. New which is unwholsome especially if it be troubled for it stops the passages and is bad for such as have the stone 2. Welpurged and ripened which is more wholsome III. In respect of the place where 't is made we have 1. Poland bâ—er which is made for the most part of wheat nourishes wel and Heates moderately 2. Dantzick beer which is like a syrup nourishes such as are used to it very wel in others it causes thirst 3. Hambrough beer which is commonly made of wheat is of good tast makes a man have a fresh colour expels the urine if it be taken too largely it makes a man have a red face 4. Lubicks Beer which is too strong makes the Head heavy and hurts a mans health 5. Goslar beer which at the first tasting seems sweet and soon after imprints a winy tast upon the tongue It is healthful 6. Embden beer which is subtile clear and piercing at first bitterish afterwards sharp it drives forth urine and choler and therefore 't is commended in the Jaundice and in Fevers 7. Brunswick beer called Mum differs not much from the former save that it is thick
and others IV. The Fermentation of Medicaments is nothing else but their union by mutual Alteration by which meanes the old virtues of each of them do no longer remaine entire It is cheifly to be regarded in Treacle and Methridate V. As for the Division compound artificial Medicaments are Internal or External The former are fluid Solid or middle consistence And the latter are divided into as many sorts Chap. 4. Of Compound artificial Medicnies in Special Article I. Of Internal Medicaments Point I. Of internal fluid Medicaments WE cal those internal Medicaments which are received by the mouth into the Body and those we terme fluid which wil run like water and they are 1. Decoctions 2. Infusions 3. Potions 4. Medicinal Wines 5. Medicinal Beer or Ale 6. Oxymel 7. Barley water 8. Medicinal Vinegar 9. Distilled waters 10. Syrup 11. Juleps 12. Emulsions 13. Essences 14. Spirits 15. Tinctures 16 Oiles I. Decoctions are made of vegetables animals sometimes of mineralls if need be cut bruised or shaven boiled in simple or prepared water over a slow or quick fire in a vessel open or shut to the consumption of a third or fourth part of the liquor the Decoction being afterwards strained aromatized and clarified The most noted decoctions are The greater aperitive decoction of the Physitians of Augsburg with their Decoction of Rubarbe Decoction of Maiden haire Fumitory Carminative Gallinae consummatum of a Capon and the Vulnerary Decoction II. Infusions are made of Vegetables or minnerals purgers or vomitories steeped a certaine time in some liquor and afterwards strained forth The proportion of the Ingredients to the liquor is one and an half or double III. Potions are made when purgeing Electuaries Extracts pouders roules c. are mixed with liquors without boileing IV. Medicinal Wines are prepared when new or clarified Wine is impregnated with the Virtues of simples either suddenly by their oyles spirits and tinctures or by long Infusion either with or without sugar The principal are wine of Barberies Quinces Pomgranates red Corants V. Medicinal beers and Physick Ales are made after the same manner VI. Oxymel is made when vinegar is mingled with Honey and plants are sometime steeped therein The most famous are the Simple that of squils the Helleborate Oxymel of Gesnerus VII Barley water is made when barley is sufficiently boiled in water alone or with raisons anis-feed cinnamon strained and made tart with a drop or two of spirit of Vitriol or of Sulphur VIII Medicinal Vinegar is made when simples or compounds are steeped in vinegar or it is made of their juices It is made of Plants 1. Of their Flowers as vinegar of rosemary-flowers of Marrygolds of Gillyflowers of Lavendar of Poppie of Red-poppie of Roses of elder flowers 2. Of their Leaves as of Mints Rue Scordium 3. Of their Fruits as of Citron peeles Strauberries Rasberries 4. Of their Roots as vinegar of Squils There are also compound vinegar Antidotary Preservatory Bezoardick c. IX Distilled waters either by a Cucurbita in Balneo Mariae of plants for the most part of cold Nature whol or beaten and juiced or in Vesica out of hot plants and such whose force is not easily drawn forth and which must first ferment They are made either with wine as Wormwood water Agrymony Betonie Carduus Cinnamon Liverwort Lavendar Lilly-convally Baume Penny-royal Garden sage Veronica or without wine as are those of Sorrel Wood-sorrel c. Or which see the Dispensatory of Augsburge They are also made of Animals as of Capons Singing birds Kidnies Mans blood dung of Beasts c. X. Syrups are made of decoctions Infusions clarrified juices they are preserved with honey or sugar boiled to the consistence of honey almost and are used both to alter and purge seldom alone frequently mingled with a double quantity of distilled waters Those kept in the Shops are Syrup of wormwood of juice of Citrons of Sorrel wood-Sorrel Vinegar simple of vinegar compound of Maiden haire of sowr grapes of Marsh-mallows of Orenges of Mugwort of Betony Simple of Betony compound of borrage Byzantious so cald simple and compound of Maidenhaire simple of Cichory simple of Cinnamon of Corals of Citron peeles of Quinces of Endive simple and compound Of Eupatoruim of Colts foot of Fumitory Simple and compound of Lycorize of Pomgranates of Jujubees of Hyssop of Lemons of Hops of Baum of Mints the Simple and compound of Myrtiles of waterlillies of Poppies of red poppies of Cowslips of Pionie of Mouse-eare of Apples Simple and Compound of Purslain of Horehound of the five opening roots of Roses Simple of dried roses of Rasberries of Scabious of stechados of Comfrey of Violets XI Juleps are made of distilled waters juyces conserves and sugar either without decoction or with decoction XII Emulsions are made of seeds nut kernels perles corals hearts-horne certaine fruites being beaten with some liquor poured on and then strained forth XIII Essences are made of the juice of green herbes pressed out with spirit of wine and digested in Balneo Mariae where they receive their color separated by inclination and with a little sugar reduced into the forme of a Syrupe XIIII Spirits descend in the distillation both of Simple and compound waters together with the waters themselves and are afterwards separated from them by a Cucurbita vial c. But this must be understood of the more volatil sort The fixer sort are drawen out by a Retort and a stronger fire viz. With sand or the bare fire The cheife drawen from Minerals are of Alum of coral Mercury Sal ammoniack Common Salt Nitre Lead Ambar Sulphur Tartar Vitriol of Vegetables are of Wormwood Wine-vinegar Angelica Anisseed Carduus Centorie black-cherries Scurvy-grass Quinces Elder-berries Fenel Strawberries Guaiacum Juniper-berries Lilly-convally Baume Rosemary Roses Sage Danewort Linden-flowers Fluellen wine c. XV. Tinctures are made of dry Plants for the most part hot beaten steeped in some liquor which is called the Menstruum as spirit of Wine May-dew or some other set in an hot place and the vessel shut so longe as that the liquor wil receive no more colour and then they are filtred through a Paper or purified by digestion The most renowned are 1. Of Minerals Of the Sun Moon Mars Saturne Antimony Sulphur Vitriol Smaragd 2. Of Vigitables and cheifly of flowers of Winter-cherries Safron Black-cherries Strawberries St. Johns wort Peony Red poppie Roses Violets Elder-berries Dwarfe elder c. XVI Oyles are drawen out of gummie rosiny substances either descend with waters in distillation or are separated from them either by a separatory or by thick linnen threds or by brown or otherwise sinking paper in some materials they sink to the bottom the more remarkable are oile of wormwood Dil Angelica Of which see beneath in the first point of the third article Point 2. Of internal solid Medicaments INternal solid Medicaments are 1 Pouders 2. Salts 3. Saffrons 4. Flowers 5. Precipitates 6. Vitra Glass 7. Feculae dregs 8.
Confects 9. Roules 10. Lozenges or bits 11. Trochiscks And 12. Pils I. Pouders consist of one or more medicaments beaten together They are either Subtile which if they consist of meer spices and sugar their proper and peculiar name is Tragemata or Tragee dredge pouders to which Sales Sacer dotales or the Parsons Salts are to be referred which are used with meat or grosser and are termed Trageae grossae and species incisae and are made either of simples and they either confected over with sugar or not sugared or of compounds viz. the aromatick roules or Lozenges of the shops We use them both for Evacuation and Alteration Among the Purging sort are Pulvis sena preparatae Tartari Chrystalini solutivis de Tribus Cholagogus simplex Cholagogus insucoatus Earle of Warwicks pouder or Pulvis Cornachinus Of the Electuary of Benedicta Laxativa Elescoph Hiera picra Diaphenicon de Succe Rosarum Diaturbith cum Rhabarbaro Among the Alterers are the species or pouder of Ariomatica Caryophyllata Dianthos Diacalaminthes Diacinnamomum Diagalanga De Gemmis calida and frigida de Hyacintho Dtaireos Latificans Liberans Diamargaritum calidum frigidum Diamoschu dulcis Diatrion pipereon Diarrhodon Abbatis Rosata novella Diatrion Santalon Diatragacanthum frigidum Diaxylo-Aloes c. Hitherto appertain Alexipharmical powders or Antidotes such as Pulvis Saxonicus Caesaris Gasceignes pouder Viper Pouder Countess of Kents Pouder Of these and other like Medicaments see the London Dispensatory in English II. There is in al things very near a twofold salt Volatile by some called Essential which sustains not the force of fire but flies away and is dissipated in calcination and fixed which is prepared of the ashes of plants and woods of which a lie is made and that is boiled til al the water exhale and then the salt remains 'T is purified either by frequent solution and filtration and recoagulation or if it be dssolved per Deliquium in a moist place let it be filtred and again coagulated The Principal are Salt of Wormwood of Mugwort of Crabs of Carduus Centaury Chervil Harts-horn Volatile of Mans scul Volatil Eyebright Bean-shels and Ham of Strawberry Leaves Fumitory Guajacum volatile Ground Ivy Juniper berries Juniper wood Marjeram Feaverfew Bawm Nitre Onone or rest-harrow Arsmart Pimpernel Rue Sage Mans-blood Scordium of amber Volatil of Tamarisk of Tartar of vitriol vomitive of Urine Nettles Zedoary of Jove Saturn Corals Pearls c. III. Saffrons are subtile pouders or tinctures reduced into the form of pouder of a Saffron color the principal are Crocus Metallorum which is nothing else but Antimony calcined with Nitre and reduced into a pouder of a saffron-color of thin to which is the Sulphur Auratum of Antimony and of Mars which is divers waies prepared of which see the Chymists Terra Vitrioli is not unconveniently referred to the Head IV. Flowers are by Chymists so called being for the most part the more subtil particles of a body separated from the grosser substance by Sublimation The most vulgar are flower of Brimstone Antimony Benzoin to which pertain al other sublimates the chief of which are Mercurius sublimatus simplex and Sublimatus dulcis Arcanum Corrallinum c. V. The name of Precipitate is chiefly attributed to Mercury which having been dissolved in Aquafortis is separated from the Solvent water and settles and receives the name of Mercurius Praecipitatus or Turbith Mineral to which in its praecipitation if a little gold be added 't is called Aurum Vitae Hereto pertains Bezoardicum Minerale Mercurius Vitae and some other things VI. Glass is made of the Calces of things if the Ashes or Calx be melted with an exceeding strong fire and Borax be somtimes added to hasten the Melting or other melting pouders the matter being melted is poured upon an hot bason or some plate Thus is the Glass of Antimony or stibium commonly called and the amber of Antimony made of those Cups Rings and purging moneys may be made Touching the Vitrum Auratum Antimonii and the Regulus Antimonii see the Chymists especially Schroderus in his Pharmacopaea VII Fecula is a mealy pouder like starch and is made of the juice of certain roots pressed forth or extracted with liquor which when placed in a cold place the fecula settles of its own accord which the water swimming on the top being poured off is dried in the shadow The most usual are Fecula Bryoniae Ari Paeoniae Iridis Serpentariae white Lillies Squils VIII Confects are things preserved dry invented for to gratifie the tast and they are made both to alter and evacuate The chief are of sweet almonds of Aniseed laxative of Calamus Aromaticus Cardamoms Carway July-flowers Cichory Cinnamon Coriander Musk Plums Cubebs Fennel Lavender Flowers Pimpernel Roots Pine Kernels Zedoary Ginger Hitherto belong Candied things which are crusted with Sugarcandy as Acorus Orenge peels July-Flowers Cinnamon Citron Peels Nutmegs Muscatel-Pears c. IX Rouls so called from their shape for they are either altering or purging and are prepared with Sugar whose vulgar proportion is octuple in alteratives quadruple in Purgatives more in stillatitious oyls The principle are Rotulae de Berberis Manus Christi simple and perled pectoral rouls Of Sulphur c. X. Morsuli morsels are made almost in in the same maner They are either Alteratives as the Bezoardic Cephalic Cephalicostomachic of the juice and peles of Citrons Pectoral Sugars Rosatum Tabulatum c. Or Purging as Diacarthami Diaphenicon of Mechoacan of Jalap of Diaturbith cum rhabarbaro c. or Nutritive which are made of the pulp of Capons Partridges Cock-stones Flesh of Crabs and Tortoises c. To morsels appertain 1. Pamdeleon so called the Matter and end whereof agrees with Electuaries or Lick-pots and the form with Lozenges save that the Pandaleon is shapeless 2. Turiones as if you would say torrones a torrendo from toasting which are made of sweet almonds Nut Kernels Pine Kernels beaten or toasted and made up with honey 3. Confections restorative as Diamygdaltaum Pineatum Testudinatum Diet bread Naples bisket c. XI Trochisci or Parstilli are solid cohering medicaments consisting of convenient ingredients made up with Liquor in the shape of Lupines or little flat bowls invented to this end that medicaments being poudred might be in this form the better preserved against the Injuries of the Air. They are prepared of al kind of medicaments not only pouders and Species but with addition of thickned juices Conservs Extracts or the like Confections the dose to the Pouders in being a proportion somwhat less then quadruple c. They are either alterative Wormwood of Alipta Moschata with Amber of Mosch or without Bechici albi Nigri Rubri de Berberis de Camphera de Capparibus de Carabe de Carallio Cypheos of Democrates de Lacca de Myrrha de Spodio de Terra sigilata de Vipera c. or Purgers of Agaric of Coloquintida c. XII Pils are medicaments reduced into the form of
little bals that they may be swollowed whole and the unsavoriness of the ingredients not discerned by the Tast They are made of pouders extracted out of the mass of usual pils the simples being made up with some liquor They are either Alterers of Bdellium Bechicae or for the Cough of Castoreum of Cynoglossa Narcotick pils of platerus c. or Purgers of Agarick Agregative Alephangine of Aloes rosata of Amoniacum Arthriticae Assajeret Aureae de Colocynthide de Hermodactilis Mastichinae Panchimagogae c. They are also distinguished into Hypoglotudes and Narcoticae Point III. Of internal medicaments of a middle Consistence Internal Medicaments of a middle consistence between fluid and solid contain under them 1. Extracts 2. Rosins 3. Conservs 4. Conserves 5. Quiddennies 6. Electuaries 7. Lick-pots 8. Soâ—pes and 9. Boles An Extract is drawn as a tincture and is reduced to the Consistence of Honey Pils or pouder The most usual are of wormwood of Acorus of Lignum aloes of Angelica roots of round Birthwort of Carduus of Gilloflowers of Castoreum of Centory of Celondine of Safron of Cubebs of Dictamus of Enula of Galingal of Gentian of Guajacum of Masterwort roots of Baume of Mint of Mace Marjoram of Broad dock of Paeonie of Rue of Savine of Satyrium roots of Scabious of Scordium of Comfrey of Tormentil of Valerian of Zedoary II. Rosm is drawn out of Gummy materials with Rosewater and spirit of wine separate from the feces by inclination precipitated and dryed with a gentle heat III. Conserve is made of flowers somtimes of herbes and soft roots bruised and preserved with a double quantity of sugar The most usual are of the tops of Roman-wormwood Carduus Eye-bright Fumitory Marjorom Penyroial Veronica Of the Leaves of Sorrel Wood-sorrel Scurvy-grass Mints Purslane of flowers of Acacia Betonie Borrage Bugloss Marygolds Cichory Broom White-lillies Lavendar Lilly-convally Mallowes Baume Mints Water-lillies red Poppie Peach-flowers Primrose Prunella white and Red-roses Sage Elder Linden Savory Colts-foot IV. Preserves are made of roots barkes Fruits or harder materials steeped in water or boiled or of softer preserved in sugar or honey to last the better and to be more grateful to the Palate The more usual are these following Of the roots of Calamus aromaticus Borrage Cichory Comfry Elecompane Eryngoes Pimpernel Rhubarbe Satyrium Scorzonera Zedoarie Ginger both that of China and the common sort Of the flowers of Orenges Citrons the fruits of Orenges Barberies Cherries Citrons either whole cut in slices or dried or of the pulpe of Quinces bramble berries or Hips Apricocks Medlars Myrabolans bellirican Chebulan Citrine and Emblican of Wallnuts and Indian nuts of Peaches black-peper in the branch Sloes Prunes Damsins c. Of Peeles of Aurenges Citrons And stalkes of Spanish Lettuce V. Rob or Quiddiny is the thickned juice of fruits sometimes of flowers either with expression or without expression boiled and with a like quantity or somewhat more of sugar added The cheife are of Barberies Cherries Hips red-corants Elder berries Hitherto belong thickned juyces of Wormwood Acacia Agrimony Aloes Carduus kermes berries Elder berries centaury Quinces Elecampane Fumitory Lycorize Hedge-Hyssop St. Johns wort Henbane Hypocistis our blew Orice Licorize Mercury Myrtils of germanie Nicotiana or Tobacco Opium Plantane Red-Roses scrophularia and Solatrum Ad hereunto Mel Ebulinum Sambucinum Juniperinum and Passulatum V. An Electuary is made of Conserves Spices Roules Trochischs a proportion of juice or syrup being added The Cheif are Venice Treacle Mithridate Alkermes Confectio Anacardina Aurea Alexandrina Electuary of Bay-berries de Scoria ferri de Ovo Philonium Mesuae Persicum Romanum Dioscoridum Tryphera magna so named because they give a good color to the whole body and make the breath sweet and are made up of curious ingredients VI. Eclegma or Lohoch or Lick-pot of pouders species conserves juices mixed with some liquor or syrupe used against infirmities of the Lungs and Chest The most usual are de Scilla compositum de Caulibus de Farfara de Papavere Passulatum of the Pine kernels of Purslane of Fox-lungs Lohoch-sanum and expertum and succo Scillae c. VII Saponea is a Lick-pot made of almonds blanched and beaten and with sugar dissolved in a convenient water boiled to the consistence of Honey starch and rose-rosewater being added towards the end VIII Bolus a morsel is made of Electuaries pulpes conserves spices pouders with a little syrupe made into the shape of a little bal given to purge vomit alter or some other purpose Article 2. Of external Medicaments Point 1. Of external fluid Medicaments And so much for compound internal Medicaments the external follow which are either fluid or solid or of a middling nature or indifferent The fluid are 1. Clysters 2. Gargles 3. Mouth-washers 4. Oiles 5. Epithemes 6. Pumpings 7. Lotions I. Clisters are medicaments which by a convenient Instrument are cast through the fundament into the Guts They are made of Roots Barkes Leaves Flowers Fruites boyled in water and strained some other things being added which may serve the Intent of the Physitian Their use is to loosen the belly to clense dispel wind to bind to sodder to allay the paines of the Guts and kidneyes II. Diaclysmata or Mouthwashings are medicaments which are kept in the mouth and are by the tongue moved up and down without swallowing They are cheifly provided for paines of the Teeth and Diseases of the Jawes III. Gargarismes are medicaments with which the throat is washed without swallowing down the humor being forced up and down by the breath They are made of distilled waters or convenient decoctions neither unpleasing in tast nor smel nor haveing any venemousness in them in which some syrupe or Quiddinie is dissolved We use them in repelling discussing ripening abstersion consolidation IV. Oiles are made either by distillation as aforesaid or by expression of the oleaginous juice when the fruits and contused seeds grow warme with the vapour of hot water and being put in a bag are squeezed in a Press or by infusion either when the simple medicaments with simple water or distilled water wine or other convenient liquor are boiled in common oile til the Humor be consumed or when the same simples are macerated in a gentle Heat or in the Sunn or when dryed plants are with oile digested in balneo Mariae the oile being afterwards pressed out and clarified The Oiles pressed out are these Oile of bitter Almonds and of sweet of Hazel-nuts of Hemp seed of Cherry kernels of Citron seeds of Rocket of Henbane of Walnuts of Baies of Mace of Nigella of Nutmeg of Ripe and unripe Olives of Eggs de palma of Poppie of Peach kernels of Pine kernels Pistachios Rape Ricinus sesamus Acorns Oiles by infusion in the Sun and simple are these Oile of Wormwood Southernwood Dil Chamemel Cheiri Quinces Elecampane Euphorbium Pismires Ground-ivy Jasemine Orice Priver of Lillies Lilly convally wormes Mastich Mint Melilote Myrtils Nard white lilly Populeum Frogs
Roses Rue Elder Scorpions Storax Mullen Violets Boiled Oiles compound are these following of Capers Castoreum Costus St. Johns wort Lilies Marjorum Mandrake Nard Poppy Pepers Foxes The stillatitious oiles most in use are these Of Wormwood of dil of Angelica of Anis Orenge-peeles May-butter Benzoin Calamus aromaticus Camphire Cardamoms Caraway Cloves Waxe rectified Chamaemel Chervil Cinnamon Bark of Citron Cumin Cubebs Euphorbium Fenel Galbanum Guajacum Hyssop Juniper berries juniper wood of Tiles phâ—losophick of Mace Marjerom Mastich Baum Mints Myrrhe rectified Of Nutmeg of Origanum of Peper of Peny-roial Rosemary of Roses of Sage of Savine Wildbettony Spike White amber yellow Amber Tartar Terpentine Zedoarie V. Epithemata Epithemes are applied to the external parts of the Body and are made of distilled waters juices infusions suitable to the part and disease To them belong Oxyrrhodina Rose-vinegred Epithemes which are peculiaâ—ly applied to the forhead with frequent reiterations to coole and repel They were anciently made of Oile of Roses and vinegar now a daies distilled Oiles and waters as also juices and pouders are sometimes added VI. Pumping or pouring is when common water bathe water decoctions Milke Oile c. are pumped or poured down upon some part or suffered to dril upon the same out of a cock or spout of sisterne or Ewer They are applied cheifly to three places viz. the suture of the Crown of the Head the Beginning of the spinal Marrow and to warme the stomach VII Lotions are either of the whole Bodie and are called Baths or of the parts Head Hands Feet Belly c. They are made of the same things as fomentations are made of Point 2. Of external solid Medicaments External solid Medicaments are 1. Suppositories 2. Pesseries 3. Plaisters 4. Cerates 5. Caustickâ— Suppositories are sollid Medicaments which are put up into the fundament being formed round like a wax candel four or five fingers breadth longe They are made of Honey boiled so thick that it may be wrought and fashioned with a mans fingers into which other requisite materials are sprinkled They are used to loosen the Belly the patient being weak to clense and consolidate an ulcer in the Rectum Intestinum to stop paine draw back humors flowing upwards and kil worms in the Guts II. Pessaries are made of towzed wool or cotton wreathed into the forme of a mans finger impregnated with some juice or Liquor either alone or with pouders commixed or of beaten medicaments made up in a mortar with convenient liquors as Fat Oile waxe Ladanum Galbanum Honey and wrought into the forme of a pessarie or of green herbes a little bruised and bound with a string into the shape of a pessarie Or of pouders received in thin wool or Cotton and bound with a thrid into the forme of a Pessarie Or of pouders received in thin wool or Cotton and put into a round bag made of thin cloath which may be included in a round silver Instrument with holes on the sides made for that purpose III. Plaisters properly so called are Medicaments which being spred upon linnen Cloathes or leather do stick fast to the Skin of the body are the same with cerotes in respect of the matter save that metals and mineralls and litteridge for the most part are added which give it solidity of substance Al which are boiled to a just consistence and being cooled are made up into rowles Sometimes before the Mass is quite cold Cereclothes of old linnen are dipped in and taken forth Emplasters improperly so called which are of a middle consistence between a plaster and a Cataplasme are made without waxe pitch and those glewish materials or fire with honey mucilages and a certaine clammy creame or a little wax dissolved in Oile The cheife Plasters are Album coctum Apostolicum Arthriticum Basilicum and Lapide Calaminari Diachylon simplex Magnum Parbum cum Gummi Citrinum de Crusta panis de Baccis Lauri de Meliloto de Minio Mundificativum Nervinum Oxycroceum Diaphenicum calidum frigidum de ranis Vigonis de Rhabardaro Sparadrap Stichticum Paracelsi Tetrapharmacum Vesicatorium IV. Cerotes which consist much of wax and are not of so hard a consistence as Plasters are made either of wax Oile and Rosin only or of the same pouders being added besides so that the proportion of oiles to pouders is octuple to wax triple or sextuple to rosin twelve times as much Besides al these fats and gums are added juices roots fruits or seeds which must first be boiled and the colature is afterwards to be boiled with oile til the watrish liquor be consumed The Principle are Cerot of Betonie Diacalciteos Diapalma Infrigidans Galeni Oesypi Diapixer pro Hermosis Santalinum Sparadrappum Vigonis Stomachale V. Cauteria Cauteries are medicaments which have a power to burne the Body and to raise a crust and they are either Actual which consist of red hot metals of which in our discourse of Chirurgerie or potential which are made by burning medicaments and composed of Lie which soap is made of boiled into a consistence of Salt or of a stone almost which is vulgarly called Lapis corrosivus An Ulcer made by a Caustick or Cautery is commonly called a fontanel or issue Point 3. Of external medicaments of a middle consistence External medicaments of a middle Consistence are 1. Balsams 2. Liniments 3. Vnguents 4. Cataplasmes I. Balsams are made of oiles incorporated with white wax deparated or oile of Nutmegs by expression or the marrow of a Calfe washed or manna clarified Also the extracts of things whose balsom is desired may be mingled with them The most usual are these of Angelica of Anise An Apoplectick Balsom with musk and civet of Orenges of Cloves of Cinnamon of Citrons Cubebes of Lavendar of Mace of Marjorom of Mints of Nutmegs of Rose-mary of Roses of Rue of Amber Zedoary There are also distilled Balsomes which are nothing else but distilled spirits and a potion of oile proceeding from rosins gums spices and such like drawn out with spirit of wine The most usual are Balsamus vitae Nervinus Antiarthriticus c. II. Liniments are Medicaments of a middle consistency between an oile and an unguent and are made by adding to Oiles Butter Fat Suet Marrow juices pouders rosins teares of trees in this proportion for the most part that to one ounce of oiles two drams or three of fats be added one dram of spices somtimes though seldom a dram of wax is added Al are mixed either with fire or without fire or boiling sometimes they are set over the fire to melt the gums and fats and sometimes they are a little boiled to consume and wast away the juices added III. Ointments differ from Liniments by their thicker consistence and are made either without fire or with fire of fats oiles gums pouders usual ointments of herbes roots seeds macerated in water wine juices oiles and boiled to the Consumption of the liquor The most usual are of Agrippa
Aegyptiacum Alabastrinum Album camphoratum Altheae simplex compositum Apostolicum Arthanitae Aureum Citrinum Comitissae Infrigidans Galeni Martiatum magnum de Nicotiana Tutiae Pectorale Pomatum Populeon Potabile Resumptivum Rosatum Rubeum Camphoratum ad Scabiem Enulatum cum and sine Mercurio Apertivum Of al which see the London Dispensatory in English IV. Cataplasmes or Pultesses are Medicaments made up in the form of watergrewel or hasty-pudding They are made either without fire which they terme crude when green herbes bruised are reduced into a Pultis or dried and poudered They are mixed with a double or triple Quantity of some convenient Oile or Liquor either over the fire or with boiling when either the Plants broken or bruised boiled til they are soft and drawn through a searse to which mucilages meales oiles are added or the Plants are soon after boiled in Oile Hitherto may be refered 1. Dropax or Pitching which is made of pitch melted with oile and other things that it may stick more strongly to the skin 2. Sinapismus or a Cataplasme which is made of Mustard and other things of like biteing nature If it be of the milder sort t is called Phaenigmus because it makes the skin looke red if strong t is termed a Vesicatorie and is made of vesicatories Point 4. Of external Indifferent Medicaments I cal those indifferent medicaments which are sometimes prepared liquid sometimes solid sometimes of a middle cinfistence and they are 1. Apophlegmatismes 2. Dentifrices 3. Nose-remedies 4. Sneezers 5. Perfumes or pomanders 6. Scapes 7. Burning fumers 8. Eye-salves I. Apophlegmatismes are medicaments which being held in the mouth draw flegm out of the Head and neighbouring parts They are prepared many times after the same manner that Gargarismes are sometimes medicaments are beaten and with some convenient liquor brought into the forme of an electuary sometimes whole simples are only held in the mouth and chewed sometimes being beaten they are with honey or wax reduced into trochisks and sometimes they are shaped into a nodule II. Dentifrizes Teeth-scrubbers are prepared to clense whiten and fasten the Teeth to contract the loosened gums either fluid or in forme of a Liniment Pouder Trochischs III. Errhina Nose-Medicines are put into the Nostrils either in a moist forme which are either powred in or anointed on or in a dry form and then either they are figured our of convenient roots or stalks into a pyramidal forme and are steeped in water and so used or the pouder of simples are blown into the nostrils or tents of wool or cloath are wet with some juice or water and being sprinkled with pouders are thrust up into the Nostrils or pouders are with mucilage Gum Terpentine Oile or Wax formed into Pyramidal pencils IV. Ptarmica sneezers differ not much from the former and procure sneezings V. Odours are made of such things as have a sweet smell and are either fluid or are made up in the forme of an Apple Pouder Liniment VI. Soapes are made of Castle-soape shaven and about a sixt or eight part of some convenient pouders mixt therewith and with some liquor made into a mass of which washbass are framed VII Suffitus Perfumes to burn belong to Odors and are prepared in form of Pouder Trochisks and Pyramides VIII Eye-salves are used externally to the Eyes and are prepared either drie being beaten very smal in a mortar or moist which either are distilled into the Eyes in form of a Liquor or anointed upon them in form of a salve or Vaporous which being boiled in water the vapour exhaling from them is received into the Eyes the patients Head being to that end covered with a cloath of Linnen But touching al these consult the Medico-chymical Pharmacopeia of Dr. John Schroder which I commend to students of Physick above al others Chap. 5. Of Medicaments denominated from their Facultis Article I. Of altering Medicaments Point 1. Of bot Medicaments SO much may suffice to have spoken of Medicaments simple and compound Medicamenta denominated from their faculties are either Alterres or Causers of Motion or Producers of somewhat or takers away of somewhat or Resisters of Poison Altering Medicaments are many waies differenced for they are Temperate Hot Cold Moist Dry Digesting Emollient Hardning Relaxing Rarifieing Condensing Shutting Opening mouths of veins Attenuaters Openers Incrassaters Emplasticks Deobstructers Abstersives Pain-asswagers and Narcoticks I. Temperate are such as exceed not in the first Qualities as are Maiden haire Asparagus Lycorise Pine kernels Jujubes figs Sebestens Raisons Dates Gum Elemi Gum dragant Veale-suer Goat-suer Hogs-grease sweet oile II. Things are hot in the first second third or fourth degree I. Things hot in the first degree are such as do scarce sensibly heat the Body as The Roots of Marsh mallowes Beares-Breech Betes Bugloss Lycorize Satyrium The leaves of Wormwood which some count hot in the second degree of Marshmallowes Borrage Bugloss Betes Beares-Breech Colewort Chamomel Dodder Liverwort or Agrimony Fumitory Toad-flax Melilote Malabathrium Spicknard Scolopendrium Comfres Coltsfoot The Flowers of Borrage or Bugloss of Betony of Oxe eye Melilote Chamomel Black poplar Staechados Groundsel Seeds of Coriander Faenigreeke Line Gromwel Sesamus Rice Fruits Sweet almonds Chastnuts Jujubes Cypress nuts Green wallnuts ripe Grapes ripe Mulberries Sweet fragrant Apples Barks of Mace Guajacum Tamarisk Liquors juices and Gums Sugar Bdellium Ladanum Gum Hedera Suet of a Kid a Doe an hart new fresh butter II. Those Medicines are hot in the second Degree which manifestly heat but without Hurt As the Roots of Smallage Cappars Hogs-fennel Pimpernel Nape Zedoary Rhodia Leaves of wormwood Calves snout Green dil Angelica Smallage Mugwort Betonie Calamus odoratus Chamepitys Faenum graecum Hypericum Ivie Hops Baume Hoar-hound Feverfew Basil Chervil Pimpernel Hogs-fenel Polium Rosemary Savory Sage Scabious Scordium Stechados Tansey Flowers of Amomum Safron Gilloflowers Schaenanth Lavendar Hops Baume Rosemary Seeds of Dil Smallage Orobus Rocker Basil Nettle Fruits of Cappars Nutmegs Pistachives drie figs drie nuts Barks of cassia lignea Cinnamon Franckincense of Cappar roots Liquors Gums Rofins Wine which is not old Ladanum Aloe Galbanum Myrrhe Mastich Franckincense Storax Fat Lions-fat Panthers Beares and Foxes grease III. Hot in the third degree are such things as doe vehemently Heat and with trouble but without Corruption as the Roots of Acorus Asarum Squils Dictamus Doronicum Fennel Galangal both the Hellebors Enula Campane Orice persley Radish Leaves Southernwood Asarum Agnus Castus Arum Ammoum Bishops-weed Dry dil Baccharis Dictamus Avens Ground Oak Cnicus Centaury the greater and the less Celondine Calamint Flea-bane Menthastrum Fennel Epithymum Elecampane Juniper Hysop Bayes Marjoram Cockow-Pintle Mint Nigella Aenanthe Bindweed Persley Sneez-wort Peny-Royal Rest-harrow Rue Savine Wild-Time Water-mint Time Trefoil Vervain Nettles Flowers Agnus Caftus Epithymum Leucoium Aenanthe Periclymen Seeds of Byshops-weed Anise Amomum Carway Cardamom Water-Cresses Fennel Carot Cummin Nigella Navew Persley Seseli Staphes-acre Agnus Castus Fruits Juniper Beries Cloves Carpobalsamum Anacardia Pepper
Quick-silver precipitate Sublimate Oyl of vitriol sulphur c. VI. Putrifiers do melt hard flesh Such are Arsenick Orpment Chrysocolla dryopteris Pityocampe aconitum Sandarach VII Hair-grubbers are such medicines as pluck up by the Roots the Haires of the Body so as to make the part where they are applied bald and smooth such as are strong lie quick-lime ants-egs sandarach arsenick orpment c. VIII Milke-wasters do either incrassate and thicken the blood by overcooleing it or they dry up and digest the same or finally they do by their whole substance destroy the Milke Such are Mints Sage Calamint Coriander Henbane Oyl of unripe Olives Vinigar Camphire IX Seed confounders do either coole thicken or discuss the same or consume it by an hidden property Such are Mint Rue Agnus Castus Dil Seeds of Hempe Fleawort Lettuce Purslaine Champhire c. Article V. Of Medicaments which take somewhat away Point 1. Of Purgeing Medicaments Medicaments which take something from the Body are 1. Purgers 2. Vomiters 3. Diureticks 4. Sweaters 5. Transpirers 6. Braine-purgers 7. Expectorators Purgers are such Medicaments as drive out by stool such humors as preternaturally nestle themselves in mans body And they are 1. Choler-purgers 2. Phlegm-purgers 3. Melancholly-purgers 4. Water-purgers 5. Purgers of all humors together 1. Choller-purgers are medicaments which drive out preternatural choler And they are 1. Mild as among simples Cassia fistularis which because it is hurtful to a moist slippery belly and to the stomach and is windy it is corrected with a graine or two of peper aniseed or Cinamon and is given in a bole commonly from sixe drams to two ounces to children two drams may be given Tamarins or Indian dates convenient for hot Constitutions which because of their coldness are corrected with Cinnamon and Mace and by reason of their lazyness they are quickned with whey of Goates-milk They are given in Pulpe from an ounce to two ounces or three and in the Infusion to five ounces Manna Calabrina which is safe in al cases excepting burning fevers t is quickned with syrup of Roses solutive It is taken in Prune-broath or the Broath of a Cock or Hen to the Quantity of three or four ounces Aloe Soccotrina which taken in too greate a Quantity inflames the Liver because it opens the orifices of the Veines t is not safe for women with child Nor is it good for hot and dry natures 'T is nourished or impredgnated with juice of damaske Roses 'T is corrected with mastich because of its Acrimonie It is given from halfe a dram to a dram more see thereof Solenander sect 3. Counsel 29. Rhubarb the soule of the Liver which must not be given alone because it is apt to fume and easily exhales but with endive water or syrup of Roses solutive it must not be given to such as are troubled with the strangury nor those that are subject to the Hemorrhoides 'T is corrected with Cinnamon Spicknard Schenanth 'T is given from one dram to two drams Damaskroses musked fragrant bitter and detergent Their Virtue is encreased if two ounces of whey be mixed with an ounce of their juyce a little spike and Cinnamon being added Violets which are of like vertue with roses exceeding good in diseases of the Brest and Head-ache Terpentine especially pistick which with pouder of Lycoris and Sugar is made into Boles and given to clense the kidnies Lemnius commends it in a potion Among compounds are Syrup of roses solutive hurtful for women with child because it opens the veines of the wombe from two ounces to four Rose-leaves must be gathered while the morning dew is upon them Their strength lasts hardly beyond six monthes Syrup of the flowers of Acacia de Manna Laxativus Horstius his syrupe of tamarinds with senna Pilulae Angelicae Benedicta Bejeri Hiera mellita from a dram to four drams II. The stronger are amonge simples Asarum which being long boiled loses its strength very wel beaten it moves vomit It is given with whey wine and honey sod together Scammonie which must never be given to such as are inclined to vomit feverish weak persons in the summer in broaths alone because its acrimonie disturbes the body inflames the spirits hurts the principal parts 'T is corrected with juice of Quinces mucilage of Gum Tragant spirit of sulphur or vitriol Being corrected t is called Diagrydium 'T is given from five graines to fifteen Of compounds are Pilulae Rhudji to a scruple Aureae which are most in use Extract of Scamonie The Magisterie thereof which see in Mynsichtus and Grulingius II. Phlegme-purging Medicaments are such as draw excrementitious flegm out of the Body And they are 1. More gentle among simples Myrobalans Chebulan and Emblican which are to be avoided in obstructions of the Gutts or Bowels they are steeped in Chick-broath to an ounce or boiled therein with muscadine Cnicus or Carthamus seeds which purge water and crude flegme and raise wind because they provoke vomit they are corrected with Anise Ginger and Mastich Mechoacan which is of subtile parts mingled with Earthy Of exquisite tertian Agues it makes double ones It works most happily in the forme of a pouder or if it be steeped a night in wine or broath and drunke in the Morning Amonge compounds are spices of Hiera picra simple Lozenges of Mechoacan described by Horstius II. Vehement Flegme-purgers are among simples Agarick which by a peculiar Faculty frees the Lungs from clammy thick and putrid humors 'T is â—afer in the Infusion than in the substance Jalop which is most proper where choler is mixt with flegme The Dose is from a scruple to two scruples with cream of Tartar ... It has in it somwhat of Acrimony Turpetum gummie and white which because it hurts the Stomach provokes Vomit is corrected with Ginger Pepper and Cinnamon By its dryness it brings the bodies of those that over use it into a Consumption It works best in a decoction Coliquintida which purges thick and clammy Humors from the remote parts and because it sticks to the fibres of the stomach it provokes vomiting It must not be corrected by astringents for they detain it being a violent medicine too long in the Body Hermodactyls which purge thick humors from the Joynts and are corrected by atenuaters Euphorbium which is hot and dry in the fourth degree because it inflames the Jaws and Throat vexes the Stomach and Liver raises cold sweat 't is corrected with cordials and Stomach strengtheners but best of al with Oyl of Roses It must not be used inwardy before it be a year old Sagapenum which brings out clammy and thick Humors Of compounds are Pils of Sagapena of Horstius and Camillus Syrup of Coloquintida and Lozenges of Jalap c. III. Melancholy purgers are such as drive excrementitious melancholy out of the Body And they are 1. Gentle Among simples Indian Myrobalans which are principally given in quartan Agues and purge adust choler Epithymum which by a
peculiar property above all other medicines purges this Humor howbeit but weakly 'T is more safely used in the Winter than the Summer That of Crete is the best Polypodie of the Oak which because it binds when it is old must be used fresh and new gathered That which grows on over old Oaks by its overmuch Humidity subverts the stomach Sena which is used to draw humors out of the Mesentery in the broth of Prunes Reisons and in Whey c. its cods if gathered when ful of juyce before they are fully ripe wil work as the leaves doe but withering upon the stalk they lose al their virtue Among Comporunds are Syrup of polypody and Epthymum Pils of Fumitory Pouder of Sena of Montagnana c. II. The stronger sort are among simples Lapis Armenius which must be so long washed in cordial waters til no more foulness appear Lapis lazuli which must be used after the same manner Black Hellebore which is least dangerous in the decoction 'T is best corrected with the flegm of Vitriol An excellent way and Elegant to give it is to stick an apple with cloves and black Hellebore Roots and roast it in the Embers Among Compounds are Extract of black Hellebore and Syrup of the same in Heurnius IV. Water-purgers are Medicaments which drive waters out of Mans body 1. The more gentle are among simples Soldanella or Sea-Colewort which extreamly delights in the company of Rhubarb and loses not its Vertue by boyling 2. Germane Orice which provokes the Courses and loses its force by boiling The juyce of the Root is put in an Egshel with the yolk of the Egg and so they are boil'd together or roasted til the Egg be soft boyled so as it may be supt Among Compounds are Conserve of Peach Flowers Pouder of Soldanella of Fowentinus c. II. The more vehement sort are Elaterium which slips even without the Veins and draws water away It may be given to strong persons to the quantity of ten grains if wel corrected understand in German Bodies and tough english plough-men or Sadlors 't is corrected with Cinamon Spike c. Cambogia which because it makes the Stomach a little sick it is corrected with Spirit of Salt and Mace The use thereof is hurtful to cholerick natures See thereof Reudenius and Lotichius Hedge-Hyssop which works upwards downwards It is dried and steeped in milk then dried again so as that it may be reduced to pouder Esula whose Milk Seed Leaves are very strong but the Root more mild It must not be used til a month after it has been gathered That is best which is five or 〈◊〉 months old The Bark of the Root is chiefly in use 'T is corrected by Infusing three dais in Vineger Among Compounds are the Magistery of Cambogia Pilulae Freytagii Oyl of Elder-berry Stones V. Purgers of al Humors together which are called Catholica and Panchymagoga are these which follow of simples Sena Hellebore Antimony c. Of the compounds Panchymagogum Crollii Vegitabtle Paracelsi Extractum Catholicum majus minus Electuarium Diacatholicon c. Point 2. Of Vomitories and Diureticks Vomitories are such Medicaments as cast forth bad humors by the Mouth Which they do either because they naturally tend upwards or because they swim upon the Stomach and burthen the same or because they loosen the upper Orifice of the Stomach Of this sort are I. The more gentle simple water Luke-warm water Barley water fat broaths simple Oyl with water Butter Hydromel Root of Orach Garden Cowcomber Melons Daffodillies Asarum Flowers of Peaches of which conserve is made Seeds of Rocket Orach The middle Rind of a Walnut Tree when it is fullest of juyce especially the Cats-tailes thereof Electuary of Asarum of Fernelius II. The stronger sort are white Hellebore The Vomitory of Cunradinus which is given from three drops to ten drops Gilla of Paracelsus White vitriol vomitory Sala his salt of vitriol Flores Mercurii argentei Mercurius Vitae Mercurius dulcis Manna Mercurii Aquila-Flowers of Antimony Oyl and Electuary of Antimony and Crocus Metallorum Aqua benedicta of Quercetanus Pismire water Platerus his Wine Heurneus his Helleborate wine Aqua Benedicta Rulandi II. Diureticks are medicaments which provoke Vrine and by that means evacuate withal the morbifick matter They are twofold 1. Properly so called which easily penetrate into the Veins and therein melt the Humors with their heat and they are Roots of Parsly Smallage Eringos Ruscus Asparagus Pimpernel Herbs Asarum Liver-wort Chervil Scordium Seeds of Gromwel Chervil Saxifrage Fruits bitter Almonds Peach Kernels c. among chymical preparations is spirit of Salt and whatever things are compounded of Tartar II. Improperly so called and they either hot as Maiden-hair Terpentine Ambona Root of which see Zacutus Or moist and which lenifie the passages as Mallow-seeds Marshmallow Lycorice Or cold as Strawberries Barly the four cool seeds Bath-waters Whey of Milk Juice of Lemons Also Peach-Kernel water with Muscadine is commended The whitest slints heated red hot and quenched in rich Wine Oyl of Wax from five drops to six Salt of Amber an half dram in weight Water of Hips Oyl of Juniper Berries c. Point 3. Of Hydroticks and Diaphoreticks Hydroticks are such medicaments as drive out the morbifick matter by the habit of the body in a sensible manner viz. by sweat They are otherwise termed Sudorificks The act by reason of their heat and thinness or subtilty of parts turning the peccant matter into a vapor and they which are cold do act by a propriety of their Substance Now they are I. Either Simples as Angelica Pimpinella Fumitory Tormentil Zedoary China Sarsaparilla Sassafras Lignum Guajacum Cornu Cervi Bezoar stone oriental and occidental 2. Or Compounds as Orenge-Flower Water and Treacle water Spirit of terra sigilata Tartar Carduus de tribus Treacle Mithridate Salt of Scabious Carduus Wormwood Ash Among chymical preparations there is Aurum Diaphoreticum Flowers of Antimony fixed Turpetum minerale diaphoreticum Sulfur Auratum Bezoardicum joviale c. II. Transpirers properly termed Diaphoreticks are such medicaments as drive the morbifickmater through the pores of the Skin invisibly They are al hot turn the Matter in a vaporous steam and open the bodies pores The chief are Melilote Fenugreek Rue Marjerom Of Kin to these are Wind-discussers such as are the Roots of the smaller Galangal Leavs of Bayes Dictamus Penyroial Origanum Rue Marjerom Seeds of Annis Fenel Carway Cumin Carrot Fruits Bay-berries Juniper berries Barks of Citrons Orenges c. Point 4. Of Medicaments which purge the Brain Brain-purgers are such as void the morbifick matter nestling in the Brain by the Nostrils or Pallate The former are called Errhina and Ptarmica the latter Apophlegmatizantia I. Errhina do by their nitrous quality melt and dissolve the flegm which hangs about the Coats of the Brain and draw it out into the Nostrils without any disturbance to the Brain it self The chief are the Roots
and binders such as are Plantane Roses Sanders Sugar of Lead Bole Armeniack Turpentine oft washt in Plantane Water II. Or cold which is known by the Whitness Leadcolor'dness and softness of the Flesh in the Ulcer it self It arises from cold Air or such like medicaments 'T is cured not so difficultly because the Ulcer and Distemper may be cured at one and the same time by Heaters such as are Oyl of St. Johns wort Nard Oyl Orice Oyl Oyl of Rue to which may be added Fomentations made with Wine III. Or dry which is known by the hardness and dryness of the lips of the Ulcer and the few excrements proceeding therefrom It arises from like causes 'T is cured with difficulty because we are forced to neglect the Ulcer and sometimes apply our selves wholly to remedy the distemper For to moisten withal luke-warm Water is good IV. Or moist which is known by the Excrescence of Flesh and the softness and flaccidity thereof By store of Excrements in the Ulcer It arises from like Causes 'T is cured by strong sarcoticks made of Cyperus Root Smiths dust Hoar-bound first washing the same to cleanse away the filth with a lotion wherein astringents have bin steeped III. Another is with Afflux of humors whether they come from the whol or from the part 'T is known from the swelling which is seen in the lips and bordering parts by pain if nervous parts be affected by plenty of Excrements greater than the Magnitude of the Ulcer seems to require It arises from Humors 'T is cured 1. By Revulsion among the remedies whereof the chief place is ascribed to fontanels if Ulcers are lasting 2. By Interception or defence to which intent the medicaments must be applied above the exulcerated part towards the root of the Vessels 3. By Repulsion whose medicaments thereto subservient must be laid upon the part affected 4. By more vehement Sarcoticks 5. By Epuloticks IV. Another is Sordid which sends forth a thick and snotty Excrement somtime with putrefaction and grievous smel which is somtimes followed by a Sphacelation or a Gangrene Now it is fordid or filthy 1. Either by reason of the Humors and then the lively color of the part is vanished The Cure is performed by Diet by Evacuation By detersion with very abstersive Medicaments among which Spirit of Wine a decoction of Vetches Oyl of Roses a pound and Mercury Precipitate one ounce boiled and mixed with other things are commended 2. Or by reason of Vnctious Medicaments and such as weakly dry then the Ulcer appears white and that whitness goes about the whol Ulcer like a bordering of cloath It must be cured with gentle abstersives 3. Or by reason of strong medicaments then the Ulcer becomes hollow and grows every day more red than other a smal quantity of thin and hot quittor flows forth 'T is cured with cooler and gentler Medicaments as the Oyntment of Diapompholygos V. Another sort is Lead-colored which comes either from the Air or by afflux of Humors 'T is cured by scarification that the blood may be drawn out by application of dry sponges By drying with strong Medicaments viz. the green water of Platerus and Hartman his water in his Chymiatrical Paradise in the Chapter De Ozaena VI. Another is callous which proceeds from the use of over drying Medicaments The Callus is removed by Emollients or with corrosive Medicaments but it must be warily removed in nervous parts or cut off VII Another is with a Tumor which is known by the sight It arises from Humors flowing in It is cured after the manner of Tumors VIII Another with proud Flesh It springs either from abundance of blood and then the Flesh is good conditioned It is taken away by fasting and application of dryers 2. Or by reason of the weakness of Flesh-breeding and drying Medicaments Then the Flesh is loose and spungy 'T is cured by Lignum aloes beaten and dried on a rafter with spirit of Wine rectified twice inflamed and prepared Bartholinus of Causticks IX Another is hollow when the quittor being overlong detained eats it self holes and Convey-burroughs as it were See the Cure in the fifth Book of the Observation of Valleriola X. Another has Worms in it which bred there It is known either by the Eye if the ulcer be wide or by a preception of biting pricking pain and a kind of motion The Cure requires 1. Their drawing-forth if they are at hand 2. Their being killed by medicaments which take away putrifaction and moisture XI Another is with varices or black-sweled veins which is knowen by the signs of varices It cannot be cured unless the varices be first cured and taken away XII Another with corruption of the Bone Which is thereby known in that the flesh above the ulcer is flaggy and soft The ulcer is frequently renewed the sanies flowes out in greater plenty than is agreeable to the largness of the ulcer The Bone is perceived to be uneven if you put in a Probe It arises 1 From external causes cold aire incision contusion Sharp medicaments 2. From internal causes viz. Affluxe of sharp humors to the Bones pravity of the Sanies manifest or occult c. The Cure is difficult especially if the flesh be lead-colored if the rotteness be near nervous parts or in the joints or about the Heads and tendons of the Muscles or about the great Vessels 'T is performed I. By laying open the Bone either by putting in gentian root or with a Caustick or by Incision II. By removal of the Bone either by exceeding drying medicaments among which Euphorbium is the best or by Manual operation if the Rottenness lie deep and sudden cure be required which is performed by shewing or rasping with a scraping-Instrument or an Augur By burning after which the inflamation must be pacified and Pain prohibited XIII Another is with a fistula which is nothing but a narrow and long Hole 'T is knowen by putting in of a probe and the flesh round about is white dry and hard It arises either from plenty of bad humors or the unskilfulness of the Physitian The cure is difficult if many parts be eaten and fretted if the Fistulas be deep winding neare the noble members If they reach to the heads of the Muscles the veins arteries Nerves Bones Joints Chest Belly c. Not to be taken in hand if the Fistulas be far from the noble parts and if superfluous humors be purged out by them Palliative whereby universals being premised the Fistula is dryed with the water of Baths of chalk c. True which is performed I. By premising Vniversals under which Vulnerary potions are comprehended Mercurial purgations are good in this Case II. By removeing the Callus I. By convenient medicaments putting into the Orifice of the Fistula pencils made of sponge the pith of Elder bryony root gentian c. when it is widned things are squirted in with a syrringe and they are liquid or dry Such are
and Malignant IIII. In some the matter flows from the whol Body in others from the Brain Article VI. Of Nail-sores Kibes and Chilblaines Paronychia the Nail-sore is a Tumor arising upon the fingers ends beside the Nails The SIGNES are taken from the Situation and greatness of the Pain because the Nervous parts adjacent are affected and the said pain reaches somtimes al the Arme over The CAUSE is blood adust somtimes Malignant which Nature thrusts out into those parts The CURE is contrived by Evacuation Mitigation of Pain and Suppuration Repellers must not be used least we exasperate the pain and fix the Humor Oyl of Lead is commended by Agricola Page 216. And Eare-Wax applied with a peice of Ele-Skin Page 246. Perniones Kibs and Chilblains are swellings which arise in the winter time upon the Heels Toes and Fingers with other parts of the Hands and Feet The SIGNS are Refrigeration forgoing Pains Itch c. The CAUSE the winters cold weakening those parts and by pain drawing blood unto them They are somtimes long-lasting and though they go away in Summer they return again in winter In the Cure 1. The cold must be expelled by plunging the part into cold Water 2. The Part must be fomented with blood warm Milk wherein Rose-Mary Bay berries c. Have bin boyled or it must be put into hot Water wherein frozen Turneps have been boyled Article VII Of an Ecchymoma Ecchymoma is the effusion of Blood into the neighbouring spaces whereby a Part comes to have a livid black and blew color SIGNS are needless seeing the Disease is apparent to our Eye-sight The CAUSES are various viz. Anastomosis Diapedesis Diaeresis Contusion c. The CURE is performed 1. By Blood-letting if the Disease be great least Inflamation be caused 2. By Repelling Medicaments which must not be moist least blood flow in and they must have discussors mingled with them Honey of Roses laid on with blew Paper is good as is terra Sigillata dissolved with Water of Life By Digestion to which intent the Root of Solomons Seal bruised and steeped in Wine or other Liquor is good 4. By application of Cupping-Glasses if digesters help not 5. By laying on Ripeners that are Of a middle Nature between strong and weak 6. By opening the Tumor least the Quittar corrupt the neighbouring parts or make hollow fistulaes 7. If the part encline to a Gangraen we use to scarrifie the same and to wash it with hot Vinegar wherein the Root of Solomons Seal has been boyled Inwardly such things must be given as dissolve clotted Blood Article VIII Of a Carbuncle A Carbuncle is a Tumor springing from Adust thick and most fervent blood degenerating into black Choller which corrupts the part The SIGNS are these following A crusty Ulcer arises blackish or Ash colored not long after a round Bubo sharp and burning which is worst towards the evening breakes forth and the flesh round about is very hot There concurs a Feaver stomach-sickness womiting panting of the Heart Swownings Ravings c. The CAUSE is such blood as aforesaid which being bread in the Body and having attained a certain degree of Malignity is cast out and continually generated by a new afflux of Matter The CURE in general is in a manner None if having been red they presently vanish away Hard of such as are black and which are seated in the emunctories and near the noble members of the body Easier of such as are red Smal Single The manner of proceeding in the Cure is this 1. Let a Diet be prescribed cold and moist 2. Blood-letting must be practised at the beginning to take away fervent blood provided it be not drawn through some noble Members 3. The Malignant Humor must be prepared and Mitigated to which intent Scabious is most prevalent 4. We must Purge warily because of the acute Feaver 5. The part must be Scarrified where you are to note that the Scarrification is to be iterated if the blood require the same again We must not Draw if the Humor flow violently into the part least the Feaver and pain should be augmented Nay rather moderate Repression is to be caused by applying Medicaments to that end three fingers space round about the Carbuncle To which intent the Pap of Appels is used boyled with Vinegar of Roses into the form of a Pultis A Qiniment of Bole-Armoniack with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Roses c. The Plaister of Agricola T. 1. Page 139. The part being Scarified must be washed with Salt Water hot 6. After it is washed Medicaments must be applied which resist putrefaction especially made of Scabious and Devils-bit 7. If Scarification help not we must use Burning but so that we presently anoynt the Crust with Unguentum Aegyptiacum or apply thereto a Cataplasme of Orobus meal and Oxymel simple to remove the same least if it remain upon the place it prevent the breathing forth of the Malignant Humor 8. The crust being removed the Ulcer must be cleansed c. The Cure thereof see in Agricola T. 1. Page 139. If you please The Difference is two-fold I. One sort is without any Pustle which discovers it self by those signs of which mention is made in general and there is nothing singular in the cure thereof Another is with a Pustle which is known because an Itching is first felt and soon after one smal pustle or more like the graves of Milet shoot forth which being broken a crusty Ulcer shews it self In the Cure there is nothing singular observable II. Another is Pestilential and then the Constitution of the year is such the Symptomes are stronger The Cure is most Difficult if it break out after a pestilential Feaver the heart being possessed by Malignant Humors T is easier if it break out before unless violent Symptomes appear soon after In the progress thereof these things are to be noted 1. That Blood-letting must be avoided because it breaks forth after the Patients strength is dejected 2. That we are cheifly to make use of Antidotes both Internally and Externally 3. Al possible diligence must be used to hinder the putrefaction from spreading To break it the Plaster of Heurnius in his comment upon the 55. Aphorisme of the fourth Book is commended Oyl of Antimonial butter the Magnetick Plaister of Hartman in his Chapter of the Plague Agricola his Oyl of Mercury T. 1. Page 139. Elixi Pestilential of Crollius c. A Cataplasme of radishes beaten with Rose-Vinegar described by Joel T. 6. Another is not Malignant and milder which at first looks red like a Flegmone or Inflamation and afterward waxes Yellow For its Cure see the general Rules Chap. 2. Of Tumors springing from Choller Article 1. Of an Erysipelas or Tumor so called ANd so much may suffice to have spoken concerning Tumors arising from blood From Choller proceeds Erysipelas and Herpes Erysipelas or St. Anthonies fire is a Chollerick Tumor springing from Chollerick blood flowing together into some part under
Decoction of Salsaparilia Guajacum and China Article II. Of the Phlyctaenae Sudamina Sirones and Vari Tumor so called Phlyctenoe or wild fire are little blisters or Bladders raised in the skin by exceeding sharp Humors They are known hereby because they are like such as proceed from scalding and when they are broken a yellowish Humor breaks forth Spring from a Chllerick wheyish Humor which is thrust out into the skin either by Nature or some external cause Are Cured by a Decoction of Duck-weed universal Remedies being premised if need require an Epitheme of strong Lie made of Beech Ashes mixt up with Lin-seed Oyl and walnut Oyl of each a like quantity and frequently applied 2. By Breaking a drying Cataplasme being presently applied II. Sudamina are pushes like milet seed which Vlcerate and ruff the skin They are known most easily They arise from plenty of sweat restrained within the skin especially in an hot and moist stomach after an hot Diet. Are Cured by washing with oaken-Oaken-water to which a grain or two of Camphire may be added III. Sirones or Chriones are Pustles in the Palms of the Hands or soles of the Feet which have little worms in them The worms must be Dug forth then the place must be washed with a Decoction of Oake-leaves with Alum or of Sulphar with Oyl of Tartar IIII. Vari are little hard Tumors on the skin of the Face curdled up of an hard thick Juyce They are known easily They are of the bigness of Hemp-seeds and they infest young people that are inclined to Venery and fruitfull but chast withal and continent They arise from an alimentary Humor for the most part which insinuates it self into the pores of the Skin and somtimes has Cholerick blood mingled therewith and then they shed forth an ichor and turn to ulcers They are Cured with Difficulty if there be a deep redness in the Face with pustles If the same be joyned with a bloat Face and Hoarsnese of thâ—â—â—ice The Cure is wrought by Discussers and Emollients premising such things as purifie the blood Commendations are given to Oyl of Vitriol Sulfur or Tartar smeared on in the evening and washed of again in the morning with warm water wherein bean-flower has been steeped Article III. Of the Epinyctides Alphus and Leuce Epinyctides are smal Vlcers which break out of their own accord especially in the night in the eminent parts of the Body resembling Bladders which being broke in sunder blood-waterish matter runs forrh They are known by their leadenish color or blackish vehement inflamation pain enerasing in 〈◊〉 night by reason of the motion of black-Meâ—â—choly and the nights cold stopping the pores of the skin They arise from a wheyish and Melanchollick Humor like the Cause of a Carbuncle in al things save Malignity and greatness of the Tumor The Cure consists in Evacuation and Topicks that bridle and temper the churlishness of the Humor offending II. Alphus The Morphew are great Blots or spots upon the skin changing the color thereof which are spread up and down here and there with a certain roughness They arise from blood badly nourishing and they trouble Men more than women or Children They are either Black springing from Melancholy blood through default of the Spleen which are Cured after universal Remedies by good Diet bathings anointing with Mustard-seed pouder mingled with water or White but not exactly agreeing with the whitness of the skin which spring from Flegmatick blood cheifly through default of the Liver The skin is by them made white but not the Hairs and if it be pricked blood follows They are Cured more easily than the black one They require not blood-letting by reason of the coldness of the blood II. Leuce is a continued blot changing the color and substance both of skin and flesh T is known both from what is set down in the Description and because it makes the hairs fal of and others grow in their place like down The skin is flatter than in other places If prickt with a pin a watry and white liquor comes forth It springs from Flegmatick blood with which the flesh being nourished first becomes of a middle nature between that of Animals that have blood and that of bloodless Live-wights and afterâ—â—rd when it cannot change it into the form of â—ed-flesh it becomes like the flesh of Oysters and Locusts The Cure is Desperate if after rubbing it look not red If prickt no blood follow if the blot continualy encrease Difficult if it be smal if rub'd it shew some redness or be upon the hand or foot T is Performed 1. By Preparation of Humors by heaters and cutters 2. By Evacuation with Flegmagogues 3. By external Applications the parts being first rubbed with a Course Cloath Article IIII. Of the Impetigo and Gutta Rosacea Impetiâ—â—â— Or Licheu a Tetter or Kingworm are hard pustles upon the Skin which spread themselves into the bordering parts with dryness roughness and great itching T is known by what is in the definition expressed It arises from a thin sharp wheyish Juyce mingled with an earthy Humor which comes from a suitable Diet and somtimes in the Spring and somtimes in the fal it enclines to the outward parts and breakes forth T is Cured 1. By good Diet which must be neither salt nor biting 2. By Alteration and Evacuation of the Humors if they too much offend 3. By Application of Topicks Vnguentum Citrinum with Oyl of Egs live Brimstone Oyl of wax of Cloves and Camphire are commended after a somentation of Mallows Mullein and Fumitory Also Oyl of Tartar per Deliquium with a like quantity of Oyl of Wax mingled T is Divided into a Gentle sort which being anointed with fasting Spittle or with the Roots of the sharp-pointed Dock beaten with Vinegar is somtimes cured and a Feirce or Angry sort in which besides the former Medicaments a water distilled out of Oyl of Tartar with crude Mercury is good the Mercury being in a quadruple proportion to the Oyl of Tartar Joil his Experiment of the rust of Iron Book 10. Of his Practice S. 3. II. Gutta Rosacea is a Pustulous and somtimes Tuberous redness of the Face Representing Rose-colored spots T is known by the sight It s Original is from thick blood and fervent bred through default of the Liver originally or by bad Diet and carryed up into the Face and there sticking by reason of its thickness T is Cured 1. By reducing the heated Liver to its right temper with Syrupe of Cichory Straw-berryes and Coral 2. By opening the stoppages thereof 3. By Topicks as the menstrual blood of a Virgin dissolved in hot water Oyl of Toades c. See Hartman of redness and Pustles in the Face Chap. VI. Of Tumors wherein the Humor is included in a proper Membrane TO such kind of Tumors there are three sorts referred 1. Strumae or Scrofulae which are a Scirrhous Tumors of the Glandules contained in a peculiar Membrane Their Subject
into the whole habit of the Body ' causing many Symptomes I do not mean the Elephantiasis by the Arabian Physitians so called nor the Leprosie of the Jews The SIGNS are either of the Diseases beginning as frequent spots in the Body roughness of the skin with risings like a Goose with the Feathers of with many scales and chinks especially in the Face Hands and Feet falling off of the hairs Or coming to the height as a Tetter upon the tops of the fingers and the Chin and the Eye-brows which are thick and hanging over hoarsness of the voice sweat easily turned into salt which wil not melt in water the blood being washed leaves grains and Sands in the bottom of the water See the Trial of this Disease in Horstius his Medicinal Epistles S. 4. Tim. 1. The CAUSE is a Melancholy Humor and black Choler which arises either from external Canses dry constitution of the Aire and Diet suitable or from internal viz. An hot and dry distmper of the Liver Also it contracts a Venemous and Contagious quality whence the Disease comes to infect others The CURE is None when the Disease is confirmed t is Difficult when it is newly begun T is Performed 1. By Diet where Viper Wine is good and the flesh of Vipers boyled their Head and Taile being cut off Cider Chickens fed with the flesh of Vipers or Snakes 2. By Preparation of Humors by the Herba Kunigundis an Herb so called with Fumitory boy led in whey Straw-berry water Dodder-water Decoction of Tamarisk 3. By Evacuation both by Blood-letting which must be Practised in the spring viz. In both Arms and on the Ankle and by Purgation where extract of Blood-Hellebore and whey with Epithymum boyled therein are good likwise by the Hemorrhoides 4. By use of Bathes of fresh water and of brimstone waters c. 5. By giving appropriate Medicaments viz. Hares-blood hot salts Theriacal Treacle Bezoarticum Ammale or Bezar-stone 6. By Mitigation of the Symptomes of which in their peculiar places 7. By burning of which see Authors As for the Diffierences there are four sorts thereof I. Alopecia in which is an obscure redness swelling of the Face redness of Eyes bleeding at the Nose It springs from blood and is more gentle than the rest II. Tyria so called from the scaly Serpent Tyrus which casts of his Skin in the spring In this there is whitness Seales dandruffe It springs from Flegm III. Leonina so termed from the Ruggedness of the Lyons for-head In which are prickings bitings Tetters It arises from Choller and comes speedily to the Augment IIII. Elephantiasis peculiarly so called being greater than the rest and slower in its Augmentation has its original from Melancholy and is known by a cloudy blackness knots and stupidity of the Patient These sorts are seldom separated and most frequently Joyned together Title II. Of Diseases of the Skin Chap. 1 Of Lentigines Ephelides Naevi-materni Infantum Maculae ANother kind of external Diseases are the disorders of the Skin under which are comprehended Lentigines Ephelides Naevi Materni Maculae Infantum Maculae Hepaticae Pruritus and Malus Odor I. Lentigines Freckles Are smal specks of a yellowish brown color for the most part seated somtimes in the Face somtimes on the breast somtimes on the hands They are known by the description and because they are subject to ruddy people and such as are yellow-hair'd They arise from blood adust either by inward causes or the Suns heat Occupying the Scarf-skin especially of the forhead because being there thicker than ordinary it retaines the Vapours longer They are Cured by the waters of Elder-flowers Bean-flowers and Scrofularia By Goats and Cowes-milk mingled with pouder of Glass With Cherry-tree-Gum dissolved in strong Vinegar with a little Oaten-meal With these they must be washed or anoynted II. Ephelides are brown spots on Women with Child which quarter upon their Foreheads cheifly their temples or Cheekes as large many times as an hand-breadth They are known by the presence of such Symptomes as are wont to afflict Women with child especially loathing of wine and meat frequent spittings and gnawings in the stomach They arise from suppression of courses in Virgins somtimes from eating of Beetes A Pap made of the pouder of Bay-berries and Toad-stool-water is commended being smeared on in a Bath III. Naevi Materni are spots and markâ—s imprinted upon the Child in the womb by the Mothers Imagination They are abliterated either by the After-birth while t is hot or the blood thereof more easily if privately as the common people imagine or the distilled water of Caryophyltata-Montana if the infant be washed therewith or with the meâ—nstrual blood IIII. Maculae Infantium Volaticae which Nurses cal the Red-come are red and purple spots which creep up and down the bodies of young Infants And if they touch any Orifice of the body as the Mouth Nostrils Eyes eares t is counted a deadly sign For Prevention the Orifices must be wet with Rose-water tinctured with a litle Saffron Chap. 2. Of the Maculae Hepaticae Itch and bad smels MAculae Hepaticae or Liver-spots are brown spots somtimes appearing and then vanishing with a slight roughness of the skin and falling of scales They are known by the description Arise from a thick blood which seeing it cannot be assimilated it sends forth what is Excrementitious into the skin if they continue long they are accompanyed with quartan Agues They are Cured with Diet and after universal Medicaments with bathes before which Treacle must be taken and afterward they must be nointed with green Mustard-seed reduced with water into the form of Pap which must presently be washed off so soon as it raises heat Also Mans-blood destilled with Brest-milke is good II. Itch is a pain which stirs up a desire of scraching without any roughness or Exulceration of the SKIN The SUBJECT is somtimes the whol Body but especially the soles of the Feet because they are covered with a great and broad Tendon and with an hard Skin so that the Humors have not egress T is KNOWN by the sense It ariseth either from Choller or thin salt Flegm so as it may insinuate it self between the smallest particles but clammy and roaping that it may stick faster to the parts which is bred of salt Meats and Hot through fault of an hot and Dry Liver The CURE is seldom performed upon decrepit persons None at al in such as have the Consumption if it follow after Costiveness T is performed 1. Ey Attemperation of Humors by Goats-Milk Whey and Syrup of Fumitory 2. By Evacuation of the antecedent Cause by Jalap and Syrup of Peach-flowers By Hemorrhoides and courses provoked if their stoppage have been the Cause 3. By Mitigation with fresh-waler bathes into which Mortar is to be cast and the Oyntment of Hartmannus 4. By Discussion with the said Baths wherein Pelitory of the Wal Mallows sharp-pointed Dock Alum Sulfur Vitriol c. must be put III. Bad smel
Cure is hopeful if there be no pains For so Excrementitious matter is thrust forth into the hairs and the Vertue becomes stronger There is no perfect Cure seeing the Causes are not sufficiently known T is made worse by Purgations and Blood letting Some wash the Head with a Decoction of Bears-breech A certain Countrey man used Baths to Cure this infirmity in which the Patients grew at first hairy and then their hairs being out off they were Cured See Hercules Saxonia Title IIII. Of Vlcers in Particular Chap. I. Of the Gangraena THe fourth kind of external Diseases are Vlcers under which are comprehended Gangaena Sphacelus and Ambustio A Gangrene is a corruption of the soft parts especially tending to mortification proceding from the Corruption Suffocation Dissipation or extinction of the natural Heat in the Part. The SIGNES are the change of the Color in the part to black and blue Imminution or Lessening of the Pulse and Sense Abolition of the Heat Motion remains if the Head of the Muscle be intire nor is there alwaies a tumor but there is alwaies an Ulcer of necessity The Cause is the Corruption Suffocation Dissipation and Extinction of natural Heat in the part The CURE is evermore Difficult especially if it be with afflux of Humors If it be in the moister parts of the Body If it be Joyned with the dropsie It is accomplished 1. By convenient Diet. 2. By due Evacuation with Blood-letting and Purging 3. By Strenkthening the Heart against putrid vapors 4. By Defending the sound part against the speading Corruption by Defensatives and Antidotes The Differences are taken from the Causes which ar either External or Internal I. One kind proceeds from Too much cold oppresing the natural Heat of the part It is known in that sudenly a sharp and prickling pain aflicts the patient The redness of the part is soon changed into a Leaden-color a coldness and nummedness is perceived as it were in a Quartan Ague T is cured 1. By plunging the coold part into cold water or rubbing the same therewith 2. By drinking down hot potions to procure gentle sweates to excite the natural heat 3. After the heat is returned by rubbing the part with warme liquors to which intent a Decoction of Turneps is good 4. If the part be already gangraenated the parts must be scarified and fomented with hot cardiack medicaments II. Another sort springs from bindings which intercept the Blood and spirits In the Cure the ligatures must be losed Medicaments discussive and resisting putrefaction must be applied If the gangrene have made progess we must act acording to the symptomes III. Another springs from defest of Nutriments or Atrophia so called T is known in that excepting leanness neither tumor heat nor paine are perceived when pustles arise paine and fever follows In the Cure prescribe a diet hot and moist smear the Body with moistening oils Draw nourishment to the part by Cupping-glasses without scarrification and anoynting with oyl of Earth-worms c. If the Gangra in proceed scarifie the part and do as shal be here after specified IIII. Another sort springs from External Heat which happens after great burnings If so in the Cure prescribe a cool diet Temper and purge hot humors scarrifie the part and soone after wash it c. Proceed not to an actual Cautery unless necessity compel V. Another springs from the biting of venemous Beasts T is known by relation of the patient In the Cure 1 The venome is to be drawn out by an actual Cautery or scarrification Medicaments resisting putrefaction and such as draw are to be applied 3. Vlcers arising from scarrification or burning must be Cleansed in which case we must not forget to use spirit of wine VI. Another sort springs from the flowing of malignaut Humors into the external parts T is known hereby that in parts especially those which are in the Extremety of the body a blader appears under which there is a black spot there is a continual fever fainting away c. T is Cured 1. By a drying Diet into which coolling cordial Medicaments are to be put 2. By Blood-leting and evacuation if need be 3. By sudorificks which must be lustily plied in this Case Dittamus of creet Vincetoricum and Treacle are good in this Case 4. By Scarifications Cupping-glaces and application of Leeches to the part affected if blood be not otherwise sufficiently drawn forth 5. By washing the same after Incision with salt water or some other fomentation according to the greatness of the Corruption 6. By applying Vnguentum Egyptiacum or som resolving drying and putrefaction hindering Cataplasmes after washing 7. If no ammendment appear Causticks actual or potential such as Butter of Antimony or Mercury Dissolved in Aquafortis and precipitated with oyl of tartar are to be applied 8. By timely Romoving the Crust least new putrefaction arise thereunder Chap. 2. Of the Sphacelus SPhacelus is a perfect Mortification of a Part which seases not only the softer parts of the Body but the hones themselves The SIGNFS are there is no sence in the part whether it be cut or burnt Coldness sharpness and blackness of the Flesh At last it smels like a dead Carcass and the skin is by the fingers separated from the flesh beneath it The CURE consists in cutting off the manner of which see in Practitioners And then 1. Some part of the sound part being very wel bound must be cut off rather than the cutting should be practised upon the in infected part 2 Section must be made in the fingers and Toes 3. In the Feet if the Disease reach above the ankle the thigh must be cut off below the Knee 4. In the Arme very little of the sound part must be cut of c. See Fabricius Hildanus in his Treatise of the Gangraena and Sphacelus Chap. 3. Of Burnings COmbustio Burning is a solution of Continuity in the Scarf-skin and commonly in the skin it self somtimes in the Muscles Veins Arteries or Nerves by the force of fire Touching the Signs t is needless to speak seeing burning is manifest of it self The Cause is either Fire Scalding water Oyl or melted metal or Fat c. The Cure varies according to the differences In the first place the fire must be fetcht out In the next place least pain attract the Humors and blood we must use repellers and defensatives Then we must by Diet purging blood-letting Cupping-Glasses and other means diminish the same A Mucilage of Quince-seeds Extracted with Rose-water and mixed with Line-seed Oyl must be use at the beginning which wil satisfie al Indications The Differences of burnings are Vatious I. One sort is very slight which is known hereby that the burning thing which caused it was light the skin is red the pain most bitter and pricking the place is puffed up pustles arise ful of clear and white water At last the Scarf-skin comes off T is Cured 1. By taking out the fire that no Pustles may
with a shaking and Cold fit Which Heat slow vapours nor very burning when it has dispersed it selfe through the Body The Vrinâ— at first white thin and crude when the matter is digested thick troubled and often red The Pulse is exceeding smal seldom and slow The fit lasts eighteen hours and somtimes twynty four Vomiting and Sweating if they happen at first they proceed from strength of nature and thinness of the humor The CAUSE is Flegm putrifting in the Masaraich veins which is colected by means of the heat of the bowels diminished cold and moist kind of diet superfluous feeding upon such matter It putrifies through the causes afforsaid The CURE is firequently hazardous both because it lasts forty daies yea three months and longer and also because hurting the stomach and liver very much it throwes the patient into a Cachexy 'T is performed 1. By preparation of the petcant matter by convenient medicens moderaly hot which a clyster and gentle vomit may proceid 2. By evacuation of the the said matter being concocted by vomit where extract of Esula and water of radishes and green walnuts distilled with vinegar are good By purgation of flegm and sweat 3. By strengthening the stomach and Liver 4. By Diet. It is differenced according to the causes I. One sort comes from thick flegme Then the urin is white and thin but by little and little it begins afterwards to grow reeddish and the settleing becomes thicker and the patients mouth is continually ful of watterishness It requiers strong medicines to digest it and those frequently repeated to which preparations of tartar ought alwaies to be added Vomiting is profitably procured with mercurial pils 'T is good to purge with an infusion of the species diacarthami senna and ginger in Centory water some drops of spirit of vitriol being added Once in a week one dram of Venice Treakle may be given II. Another is from thin acid flegm and then there is paine in the forhead and left Hypocondrium costivness and acid belchings It must be scilfully cured least it turne to a quartan The liver veine of the left side may be oppened Before the fit some specifick medicament must be given III. Another is from salt thin flegm Then faltness and driness are felt upon the tongue The Urin is red and thick with sense of hear and sharpness in the making The Liver vein on the right side arme may be opened Article III. Of an intermitting Feaver or Quartan Ague An Intermitting Quartan is a feaver arising from melancholy blood in the misaraick veins which takes the patient every fourth day ' Its SIGNES are Reachings and yaunings with a shaking fit after which at first is smal but afterwards like those that in the extremity of winter are pained with the cold for it does not so much prick as beat and bruise as it were The Heat is kindled by degrees because of the thickness of the matter The Paronysmes returne every fourth day The Pulse is rare and slow but in the vigor of the Fit swift and frâ—â—â—ent The Vrines are at first thin and watery afterwards more colored and thick The Sweats are at first very smal afterwards exceeding plentiful The CAUSE is a Melancholly humor collected and putrefting in the Mesaraick veins about the spleen and neighboring Bowels arising from Causes like it selfe among which Vinegar is one The CURE is wholly difficult For 't is a long lasting ague and somtimes reaches out for certain years especially if it begim in the Fal of the leafe But 't is more difficult when it springs from black cholor if it happen to old people whose weake heat cannot overcom the Matter If it be a double ague If it be joyned with some greivious Affection of some of the bowels Easyer if it be a legitimate Quartan and unattended by any disease of any of the Bowels otherwise such as are taken with a quartan Ague are little troubled with Convulsions or if they are the matter turning towards the Hypocondria and remaining no longer mixed with the blood in the veins they are freed of cheir Quartan Ague 'T is performed in general first by gentle then stronger medicines In perticular I. By opening the Basilica or Mediana Veins at the very first the first passages being cleared if plentitude of blood requier so much not so soone if there be no plenitude Blood plentifuly if the blood come thick and black stop it quickly if it rune thin II. By preparation and Coction of the pecant matter reapeated with moisteners and splenicks such as fumitory Maidenhair Ceterach Roots of Eringos Decoction of Turneps syrup of fragrant apples c. III. By evacuation thereof either by vomiting after which a dram of venice Treacle may be given before the following fit mixed in a cup of wine or by stool to which end are good in the first place the Pilulae Tartareae of Quercetanus or Senertus afterwards extract of black Hellebore at last the pilâ— of Saga penum of Camilus de Camilis in Quercetans Pharmachopoeia or by the Haemorrohides leeches being applied Or by Sweats which may be wel procured by Treackle Antimony diaphoretick or six or ten grains of sal Armoniac purified in Cichory water before the fit The patient being strong and Coction appearing a purge is happelly given a little before the fit IV. By strengthening the bowels especially the spleen by their appropriate remedies such as wil not augment the feaver both external internal V. By Mitigation of symptoms of the shaking cold by treacle or Aqua vitae given four hours before the fit Of the Backpaide by application of Hartman his faccolus in his Chapter of the quartan Ague VI. By Diet where observe that we must order absence from al kind of food on the fit day wine that is ripe and thin may be alowed Apropriate medicaments in this feaver are Amoniacum seven times sublimated Pouder of Vipers given the Quantity of one scruple or half a dram before the fit in some convenient Liquor An Hares Heart prepared like Fox-Lungs Oyl of Myrrh from four to eight drops before the fit The Quartan Feaver or Ague is distinguished two manner of waies I. One sort springs from natural Malancholly in which we must go to work with moisteners and moderate heaters Another arises from adust Humors which is known from decay of Appetite vehement thirst Head-ach and redness of Urine It arises from such things as burn the Humors In the Cure we use things moderately cooling to which in the progress of the Disease Cutters and attenuaters ought to succeed A Bath of sweet fair water is commended or rather to wash the Feet therein II. One comes of it self without another Disease foregoing And then a Diet somwhat thin is good at first afterwards somwhat grosser and then agin towards the state somwhat thin Another follows other Diseases Then a thicker kind of Diet must first be used Afterwards the state it must be somwhat diminished In the fit nothing
The Physitians care has two scopes I. Preservation which in persons of years is contrived by blood-letting purgation and taking heed of the Infection and in infants only by the last means of the three II. Curation which is Hopeful if they soon break forth and appear high above the skin great seperate white or red If the Heat abate after they are broken forth if large bleeding at the nose have proceded if no greivious symptoms attend them Doubtful if either they come flowly out or go in againe if they are of violet color green lead-color hard and touching one another If the feaver abate not after their breaking forth If the patient breaths not freely faint away and other symtoms be present 'T is performed I. By mittigation of the Ebullition or fermentation of the Blood least over Ebullition produce more greivious symptoms which is effected by blood-letting and light purgation in persons grown up by Clysters of the decoction of barly with fresh butter comon sugar in Infants or by giving them syrup of Citrons and syrup of violets mixed together or a bit of pomecitron II. By assisting nature in the expulsion where impediments are taken away by the foresaid remedies and the malignity is likewise resisted Expulsion is furthered by Pulvis Joelis in his 4 Tom Book 9. sect 5. of the seeds of Nasturtinm or water cresses and brooklime of each one dram pouder of Unicorns horn one scruple or of harts-horn half a dram Red coral pearls prepeared of each a scrupel Make al into a pouder The dose one dram or an half dram The decoction of figs of Mynsichtus in the 25. section of his Armamentarium Terra Sigillata of Silesia Seed of white turneps A decoction of lentils unhusked with fennel-seed and gum dragant c. III. By defence of the parts To which end the eyes must be rubbed with pure gold or nointed with plantane and eye bright water and a little camphire and saffron If they cannot be opened they must be fomented either with hot milk or a decoction of Barly To the Nostrils a nodule of sanders and camphire dipt in rose water must be applied If thut they must be nointed with oyle of sweet almonds The throat must either be smeared with diamorum or washed with a decoction of plantane and barly with Honey of roses The ripening of the poxs must be furthered with anointing the same with oyl of sweet almonds When they are ripe they must be opened with golden or silver pins that they may leave no warts behind them They must be washed with a water distiled of al manner of flowers and mans fat or with oyntment of Forestus IV. By removing the symptoms which appear with or folow the same now they are Epilepsy and convulsion when the membranes and nerves are beset with poxs and the palsy when they are thereby obstructed Hard swellings which must be dissipated by emollients without suppuration External Vlcers Dysentery where emollients are to be avoided and such things as dry and stop without acrimony are to be used Hearing impared where evacuation being premised either vesicatories or vapours received into the ears are useful Inflamation of the Eyes c. Of which see in their proper places Article II. Of the measels and such like Breakin gs forth The Morbilli or Measels are smal red pushes breaking forth upon the skin with a continual feaver caused by the expulsive faculty and a peculiar working or boiling of the Blood The Signs Causes Differences and Cure vary not much from those of the smal pocks of which we newly discoursed Like Breakin gs forth to the measels are I. Crystalli Cristals pushes about the bigness of Lupines breaking out upon the Body and shining like Christal out of which a watrish humor flows The Germans cal them Schafs-blattern II. Tubercula little risings not thick together with little moisture in them without any feaver and soone cured III. Rubeolae smal red Pimples which come somtimes a lone with heat and Cough sometimes they are sprinkeled among the smal poxe or measels and sometimes they happen to persons in Health IV. Rossalia red fiery spots which breake out at the begining of the disease al over the Body as it were certain smal Erysipela's though the tumor is hardly discernable sometimes they breake not forth til the fourth or fift day in the progrses of the disease they occupy the whole body so that it looks as it were alâ—on a red fire Which color is againe changed into spots as at the begining which vanish at last upon the seventh or eight day The Epidermis or scarf-skin faling off like scales The Cure of these requires nothing singular Article III. Of the spotted Feaver Febris pefechialis or the spotted feaver is a malignant Feaver in which certain spots like flea bitings of sundry colors but cheifly red appear upon the skin These spots are called puncticulae petechiae peticulae Whence the feavers are termed also puncticulares periculares and lenticulares The SIGNES are the same as in malignant feavers The sports are without any itching extuberance and exulceration They appeare in the back Armes Thighes Brest viz. places through which the most notable Arteries and veins doe passe Seldom in the face because the cold air repels the matter from thence There appears no prick in the middle of them and so they are distinguished from flea-bitings The CAUSE is the thinner part of the putrid humor which makes that they soone vanish 'T is driven forth by the expulsive faculty Seldom critically seeing they commonly shew themselves at the beginning without any remarkable evacuation alwaies for the most part Symptomatically and by how much they are more plentiful they do the more signifie the abundance of corrupt matter in the Body The CURE is Hazardous if the spots are many because they shew that there is much matter If they be few and accompained with sings of Natures weakness If they disappear because 't is a sign they strike in again If they come forth slowly because it argues grossness of matter or compactness of the Skin 'T is Performed 1. By withdrawing the matter effected by blood-letting which must be practised before the fourth day Lenitives being premised to loosen the Belly to which a little Camphire may be added if blood be drawn later the Patient wil be over weakened 2. By Expelling the same with Sudorificks resist malignity premisiug if you please such noyntings as may open the pores In this case Bezar stone is good and emulsions of Navew and Citron seeds with Carduus Water and Syrup of Citrons The Bones Blood horns and Skin of the Rhinocerote c. 3. By Roborating the Faculties with Emulsions of Corals and Pearles Confectio Alkermes c. 4. Somtimes also by Revelling the Humor to the external Parts by Vesicatories if the external parts are cold there be Head-ach ravings Convulsions c. If the Patient be loose bellyed we must not stop the loosness unless it be too excessive The
Strike in it must be called forth either by fixing a Cupping Glass or with a 0734 0 pultis of Radish Root and Scrophulary the great with a little of Salt Vinegar When it comes far out it must be drawn to the more ignoble parts from the Neck to the hollow of the hand from the Groins to the soles of the Feet To this purpose there is an useful Cataplasme made of two ounces of the greater Scrophulary Root Radishes one ounce beaten and with one ounce and half of the strongest Leaven and boyled in Wine Vinegar and so made into a pultis and applied to the Palm or hollow of the Hand or the Sole of the Foot or that side on which the bubo is It must be renewed three or four times in a night Being Fixed 1. it must be often drawn with a Cupping-Glass and store of flame without Scarrificatian 2. The Cupping-Glass being removed let it be covered with a ripening Cataplasme and drawing made of the Roots of Scrophularia Salt Black Sope and strong Leaven boyled in Vinegar 3. After six hours let a Cupping-Glass be again set on and let the Skin be cut with a Lancet or smal Knife 4. Let a Cataplasme ripening and drawing made either of a great Onion hollowed filled with Treacle and roasted in the Embers til it be soft or of the middle rind of Elder boyled in Cream and mixed with Leaven be laid on at Night and often renewed 5. Let the Tumor the following day be either cut or brok and the Blood water squeezed forth and let a mundifying or clensing plaster of Turpentine wash't in Scordium water and honey of Roses mixed therewith be applied Touching the Carbuncle and Feaver which is also entertained by certain symptomes see in their proper places See concerning the Plague Peter Salius Diversus Joel Tom. 5. Sect. 3. Septaliws in a peculiar Treatise and Valerius Martini And so much cancerning Feavers THE EIGHTH BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Of the Diseases of the Head Title I. Of the Diseases of the Brain Chap. 1. Of the Distemper of the Brain without Matter HItherto we have treated of Diseases in the general the Particular now follow and these are either such as are not Venemous or such as are Venemous Unto those belong the Diseases of the Head the middle and the lowermost belly commonly called the three Regions The Diseases of the Head are either those of the Brain or of the Eyes or Ears or of the Nostrils or of the Tongue or of the Lips or of the Face or of the Mouth or of the Teeth or of the Gums or of the Cheeks or of the Wesand or Windpipe or lastly of the Jaws and Tonsils Unto the Diseases of the Brain are referred as thereunto belonging a distemper which the Latins cal Intemperies the straightness or stoppage of its passages Commotion Inflamation Hydrocephalius being a cold Disease thereof proceeding from water and Flegm Contusion wounds and Fractures The distemper or Intemperies either is without matter or else with matter The Distemper of the Brain without matter is the declining thereof from its due and right temper through some external causes For the Signs and Causes see of them in the differences The CURE is performed by Alteration and Purgation lest that the Body if it be either Plethorical or Cacochymical should attract more Vapors It is divided into four species or kinds I. the first of them is hot when the Brain declines unto an immoderate or overgreat heat It is dscerned and known by the beating of the Temples the agitation within the Cranium or Skul by the sleep which is either none at al or else very short and by the instability and mutabillity of the Imagination It ariseth from external hot causes to wit Aire meat drink exorbitant affections c. It is to be cured 1. By alteration and that by cooling mediacments as wel internal as external and these not over strong especiallly in children and women having in them a mean and indifferent astrictive quallity left that the humors should be either attracted or dissipated not too frequently applied and made use of lest that they should introduce and cause a kind of sencelessness or stupidity and then lastly they are to be mingled with dissolvers when the distemper is in 't is declination The cheif and principal of them are the leaves of Lettice and Purslan the flowers of Roses Waterlily white and Red Popy and Saunders wood together with those medicaments that are pre-prepared and made out of those such as are fomentations which are to be corrected with such things as penetrate by reason of the thinness of their substance as doth Vinegar c. These remedies are to be applied to the forehead Temples and Sutures So soon as they begin to wax hot they are to be changed neither are they to be tyed on or covered with thick clouts or linnen often doubled For Embrochations and washings of the Feet are most in request the Leaves of Sengreen vine Leaves and the Leaves of the Willow Tree The flowers aforesaide as also of the Elder Tree and the root Rhodia a cataplasm made of willow Leaves and Vine buds 2. By Evacuation for the cause before alledged 3. by a diet inclineing to coolness more than ordinary II. The second is Cold when the Braine declineth unto an excessive or over great coldness And this is known by the swelling of the eyes the palness of the face the heaviness of the head propension to sleep slothfulness and slugiggishness It proceedeth from things external that either are cold in themselves or at leastwise induce and cause cold It is cured 1. By Evacuation if the body be Cacochymical 2. by Alteration which is effected by the use of things External and internal that are hot and these must be taken after meat and never before The cheif of them are the Roots of Piony taken out of the earth at the waning of the Moon the root of round Aristolochia Castorium The flowers of staechas or cotten weed primrose pealings of the bark of the linden or tyle tree of flowers of lillyes of the vally of Rosemary Bettony Marjoram Black chery water the water of swallows Treackle water The Quintesence of Rue of Rosemary of Succinum or yellow amber Of condites the Indian met nutmeg treacle Mithredate the restorative Confection called Anacardina and Alpermes Distilled Oyls as of the Wood Guajacum and of sassafras taken either in waters or else in smal morsels The leaves of Rue Wild bettony and the right Verveyn Balsams of Lavender Rosemary yellow amber Cloves nutmeg c. 3. by a diet somewhat inclining to warmth where likewise suffumigations have their use and place III. The third is Moist when the brain inclineth unto an overgreat humidity or moistness It is known by the humidity that appeareth in the nostrils and the eyes by the Catarrhs that follow upon it and the propension unto sleep It ariseth from some external causes
that are not natural and such as produce humidity such as are showers of rain the moon beams c. It is cured 1. by Alteration we his archived by such things that being in their own nature moderatly drung are mingled with coolers and not strong sented or perfumed but internally by decoctions and especially that of China Guajacum into the which a little veal broth to allay and qualifie its driness is to be put Externally there must be prescribed Embrocations and those little baggs that we commonly cal sacculi made of millet or Hirse salt throughly dried by the fire the roman nigella or nightshade commonly called Gith or pepper wort c. 2. by a diet conformable unto that that is pâ—escribed to such as use the decoction of Guajacum IV. The fourth and last species is dry towit when the Brain recedes unto an excessive and immoderate dryness It is known by the hollowness of the eyes want of sleep deformity of the face the sharpness of the senses and the Causes afore going It arises from External causes but more especially from the over great evacuations of the body excessive and frequent waterings fasting or an over spare diet melancholly or sadness of the mind and overmuch Study It is cured 1. by Internal moisteners as for instance the emulsion of the greater cold seeds and Violet flowers or externals such as is the top or froth of whey 2. By a diet more than ordinarily moist such as is the fat broths made of yong flesh eggs rere boiled and sup't up and a bath of sweet water c. And here Salt must be very sparingly eaten or rather altogehher carefully avoyded V. A Fifth and last Species or kind of the Brains distemper is Compound the Nature and reason whereof may be known from the connexion of the simple or single distempers so that it is no way requisite or necessary that we here speak any thing more concerning it Chap. 2. Of the Distemper of the Brain with Matter THe distemper of the brain with matter is the declination thereof from its due temper caused and brought upon it both by external and internal causes towit the humors and flatulencies or windinesses The SIGNS are the Progress of the internal causes and the alteration and change of the disease at the first apearances of the Moon The CAUSES are internal towit humors and Winds or windiness which proceed either from the weakness of the brain or else from the repletion of the inferior parts The CURE is performed I. By an Evacuation and that as wel General where a regard must be had unto the Pills that are to be taken towit that in respect of their ingredients ought to be made most efficacious and then given in the morning unto the whole Body which ought to be purged unto the absence and presence of a Feaver lest that there be an Evacuation of such things as are not concocted unto the Clysters that are to draw back the peccant matter and these are by no means to be omitted as Special where in the first place are to recounted those Medicaments that are usually thrust or put up into the Nostrils we cal them Errbina and these ought to be such as are most of al drying provided notwithstanding that there be nothing amiss in the Eyes and Nostrils Secondly Those things that provoke unto sneezing we term them sternutatoryes especially if the Head be filled with Vapors and within cherish a gross and thick snotty matter Thirdly Apophlegmatisms if the Lungs be free from an Ulcer and the Humors not over thin Fourthly Those Remedies which we cal Cauteries Setacea Topicks c. II. by Correction of the Distemper It is divided in a Threefold manner I. The first is according to its Essence when the matter is generated in the Brain It is known by this that those Symptomes that follow upon the Affect do presently appear that they continually afflict unless haply the matter be generated in the Head by certain intervalls and degrees and that the Causes affecting the Head went before It ariseth as wel from a fault in the Brain through an ill concoction as from the retention of the excrements thereof by reason of the hurting of the expulsive Faculty or its passages The Cure differs not from that which hath been before spoken of and of which we shal speak further in the following discourse Another division of the Brains distemper is by Consent or sympathy when the matter is transmitted and derived unto the Head from some other place It is known by the general signs of which we have spoken in the first Book and first Title thereof It proceeds likewise from the same causes of which we have there at large treated In the Cure 1. We ought to begin with the part transmitting but if there be any Crisis there is nothing to be applied unless there be a vehement motion of the matter 2. There must be a Revulsion or drawing back by opening of a Vein in the Arms or Thighs by Cupping-Glasses by Clysters by frictions or rubbings and by cauteryes 3. There ought to be used repulsion or Driving back by Medicaments made of Vinegal and Roses we cal these Oxyrrhodina unless there be a discovery made either of a Feaver or a Catarrh or overmuch watchfulness and want of sleep by reason of some wound either in the Cranium or skul or else in the Membranes of the Brain 4. There ought an interception to be made The Differences whereof are various according to the Variety of those parts from which the matter is sent 1. From the whol body as in Feavers and then we must rather study to make use of revulsion and Evacuation than Repulsion or driving back 2. From the Stomach Spleen Liver Rains Womb Diaphragme or Midriff and the External parts And then it is known by the effects of the transmitting parts and accordingly the Cure is to be taken from them II. Another is from a wind or vapor which is known by the sense and feeling of an Extension or stretching out or by an heaviness in the part affected a kind of singing noise in the Ears the extraordinary beating of the Arteries and the Vertigo or lightness and giddiness of the Head It ariseth from the same causes of the which we have already spoken in treating of the causes in general unto the which in special there may be added as thereunto appertayning scents or smels to wit things of an ill Savor Vapors arising from Metals the smoke of coals c. It is Cured diversly according to Nature and diversity of its species or several kinds It is divided in a two fold manner 1. The former division is taken from the external Causes as Metalline Vapors c. And this is expelled by Zedoary by the smoak of coals in which case as the remedies thereof there is required an Air free from al il Savors Treacle Water and Sternutatories or such things as cause Sneezing by the wind either
greatly disturbed as in case of a blow fal or any other accident whereby the Head is hurt c. Of al which see more in their own places Article IV. Of the Apoplexy The Apoplexy is a sudden abolition of al the Animal functions the breathing alone remayning and this likewise now and then exceedingly afflicted arising from the streightness and shutting up of the Passages especially about the basis of the Brain by the which the Animal Spirits are derived unto the Members The part affected is the Brain not only according to the ventricles thereof but likewise according to its pores and especially neer about the inferior and hinder part thereof where the Nerves begin and take their Original The SIGNS are of an Apoplexy imminent and nigh at hand somtimes none at al somtimes a lightness and swimming in the head which we usually cal the Vertigo dimness of the Eyes and welinigh loss of sight the Incubus or Night-hagg a trembling of the whol body the grating of the Teeth in sleep an extream coldness of the External Parts an abundance of Snot and Snivel the heaviness of the Head c. The signs of an Apoplexy Present are the abolition of the sense and motion and this suddenly and with snorting and by this it is distinguished from Curus that it is without a Feaver and excitation and so it is differenced from a Lethargy that it is with a Relaxation and loosness of the Members a ful pulse and the Face reteyning stil its color and thus it is distinguished from a Syncope and the Suffocation of the Womb. The CAUSE is the streightness or narrowness of the turnings and windings and of the pores of the Brain especially of the Basis thereof and of the Rete admirabile therein as it effecteth a shutting up or shutting in of the spirits But from whence this proceedeth we shal show further in the Differences CURE there is None if upon a Difficult drawing of the breath a sweat ensue if immediatly the sick persons strucken suddenly mute and dumb and without snorting aloud be not surprised and set upon by an acute Feaver which haply might attenuate and dissolve the Pituitous flegmy matter and likewise the flatulent Vapor The Apoplexy usually if not alwaies if terminated and endeth in a Passie It Respecteth 1. Preservation which preventeth and taketh away the Antecedent Cause and this varyeth according to the Nature of the Differences 2. Iâ— hath respect unto the Cure spoken of in the several species which is to be begun with a Prognostick when we are to make a discovery whether or no there be any life in the Party either by lighted Candles the windows being shut put as neer as may be unto the Nostrils or else by a looking-glass clean wiped put to the mouth of the party It is to be Performed 1. By a due and fit placing of the sick person that so he may the more easily attract and draw in the Air together with a light and gentle concussion and shaking up of the party lest that by a more violent rowsing of him the matter should be dispersed al the body over as also by a rubbing of the extream parts with Salt and Vinegar 2. By the Revulsion of the matter by Cupping-Glasses imposed on the head which is indeed the only Remedy by strong forcible Clysters and Suppositories by opening of the Cephalick vein or the common Median Vein without the least delay and that likewise by several Repetitions and not al at once and yet al within the space of a very few hours and also lastly by opening of the Jugular veins according to their length 3. The matter is dissipated and scattered by the use of Antepileptical waters by which the Brain is exceedingly recreated The Differences of the Apoplexy are many and Various I. One is Legitimate of which more in the subsequent differences Another is that we cal Bastard or Spurious which ariseth either from the Obstruction of the Arteries Carotides and the Jngulas Veins of which see in Carus or else from Narcotick Vapors that stupisie and make dul the spirits where Revulsion hath its place the Evacuation of the matter somenting and cherishing the Disease and the breaking of the stupefaction by Castoreum with Vinegar II. Another is from the Obstruction of the Basis of the Brain which is caused I. Either from a Flegmatick and thick Matter either dissolved by heat or else driven forth by cold into the Passages of the brain It is known by the tokens of a cold distemper It driseth from the same Causes It is Cured 1. By the Evacuation of the peccant Matter by Venesection after that by a strong and forcible Purgation by Errbines and Sternutatories put up in the form of a powder among which that Nose-purger the Latines and Late Physitians cal it Nasipurgium of Bartoletus is much commended by Frictions of the tongue and Palate with Treacle or Mustard Seed this last Boyled in strong Wine by Cauteries Issues c. Vomitories have here no place 2 By strengthening of the Brain by Cephalick waters the spirits of black Cherries the Essences of Rosemary Sage the Balsames of Marjoram Amber Rue c. II. Or else from gross and thick Vapors with the which we ought to proceed and to deal in the very same manner as aforesaid Another is from Compression which is Caused I. Either from Violent Causes as for instance a Concussion a Blow a Wound of al which see above II. Or from cold and moist humors heaped up in the Brain by their constant and continual watering and moistening of the Brain Rendering the substance thereof that is naturally soft by far more soft and loose touching which see more in the former member of this same Difference III. Or else from that which they cal Flegmonodes diathesis that is to say an abundant store of blood al at once as it were rushing thronging into the sourse and spring head as I may so term it of the Animal spirits It is known by the signs and tokens of a Plethory there is some wonted Evacuation suppressed It ariseth from the same Causes It is Cured like as is that which is caused by a Flegmatick obstruction Yet notwithstanding in this case plenty of blood may be emptyed forth of the veins III. Another is a light and gentle Apoplexy which most commonly endeth in a Passie of the one side or the other and in which the breathing keepeth some kind of order Another is Vehement in the which the Respiration or breathing is violent unequal inordinate and intermitting Another is strong in which the breathing is violent there is also a snotting to be heard and there appeareth likewise a froth which is but very little if it be excited by the very humidity of the Lungs from some most vehement compression of the Heart but very much if it proceed from a pituitous or Flegmatick humor that is ful of Wind. Another is the strongest and most dangerous of al in the
the sound and noise that it maketh wil soon discover Chap. 4. Of the Diseases of the Adnata Tunicle Article I. Of the Ophthalmie THe Parts Constituting the Eye either they are the Tunicles Viz. Adnata Cornea Vvea and Aranea or else they are the Humors thereof The Diseases of the Adnata are the Ophthalmy Pterygium Panniculus and Hyposphasma of the which two latter this is common to the Cornea Tunicle that unto the Eye-Lids The Ophthalmy is an inflamation of the Adnata Tunicle arising from a sharp blood distending the smal Veins thereof The SIGNS are redness of the Eyes a flowing forth of tears a pain c. The CAUSE is Blood which either alone or else castigated by other Humors sliding forth unto the part affected either by an afflux or else by congestion is dispersed thorow the Veins and so distendeth them The CURE is Difficult if it arise in cold Regions and in a cold time because then the Members are more than at other times streightened and confined if it infest and annoy little Children because that it continually followeth from a tender and weak Head if the pain presevere and long abide because it argueth a matter either corroding or vehemently distending or suppurating if it be by consent from the Membranes of the Brain and the parts contained within the Skin if there appear in the Eye smal grains of filth because these signifie a slowness of Maturation It is more easie if it be by Consent from the external parts if the tears be more abundant and more smarting because it cometh the sooner to an end if the belly be quick in regard that the loosness of the belly freeth the party from it It is to be accomplished according to the Method of other Inflamations It is to be noted in this that somtimes by Venesection the greatest Opthalmies are wholly taken away within the space of an hour 2. That Vesicatories applied behind the Ears do very wel draw back For this purpose there is much commended by Hartman the meat of the Herb Rocket in a quilted bag 3. Errhines and those not overstrong and violent are to be administred if the sick person hath bin wont to evacuate the excrements of the head by the Nostrils 4. Topicks are to be applied but yet not until the end of three whole days and these are to be actually some that warme without any the least mordacity or Carroding quality wel cleansed and purified and corrected by such repellers as are in their own propriety helpeful neither must they be too cool nor too astringent neither over dry and those may presently be put unto the forehead and the neck and they are to be followed with Anodynes which if there be any fear of a greater afflux are very fitly applied to the eye from the very beginning 2. the womens milk is every hour to be changed lest that after long continuance it contract a certain kind of acrimony from the heat of the eye 3. Opium and opiate medicaments are by no means to be adminiâ—tred without great and urgent necessity 4. Great caution must be had lest that there should be any suppuration in the inward parts 5. In the diet wine and the use of baths in the declination of the disease may very wel and without danger be allowed and permitted unto the sick person A Cataplasme of the Crumbs of wheat bread and a rosted apple with the brest-milk of a woman together with a little saffron and sugar of saturn is exceedingly commended And so likewise is the water that is made of the juicy substance of Craw-fish distilled two pints thereof of Rose water one pint and Crocus metalorum half an ounce infused altogether as also of the waters of the eyebright and Fennel of each alike five ounces with metalorum one dram unto which there may be added a fit proportion of rose-rosewater Among the discussives Sarcocol wel washed and the true Tutty of the Arabians which drieth without any kind of biting obtain their place and use The Differences of the ophthalmy is threfold I. One is that we cal Taraxis or a perturbation which is known by this that the eyes only appear to be hotter with a certain redness in them and without any great abundance of tears It ariseth from external Causes to wit 1. the heat of the Sun or the fire and then the Cataplasme before mentioned may very siâ—ly be applied 2. from a pain of the head contracted from the suns scorching heat and then likewise the aforesaid Cataplasme hath its place unless happly general and Universal remedies ought altogether to preceed and take the the first place 3. from wind smoake and dust and the eyes are to be washed with milk luke warme and fleep to be taken thereupon 4. from a blow or a fal and then blood ought immediatly to be drawn forth by opening a vein 5. from the stinging of a Bee Wasp or Hornet and then Repellers of the white of an Egge the breast milk of a woman c. are to be imposed Another is the true and genuine ophthalmy which proceedeth either from hot or from cold causes and to this al that hath been before spoken doth properly and cheifly belong Another is that we cal Chemosis whenas the eye lids are as it were inverted and â—urned the inside outward neither can they be closed and then there appeareth a swelling of something that is white above the black of the eye and this needeth and requireth the stronger sort of remedies II. Another is Periodical which kepeth its intervals it is familiar unto hot moist heads at length it casteth the eyes into a consumption Another is that that keepeth not its periods Another is Contagious III. Another is Moist 〈◊〉 â—hich we have now most cheifly treated Another dry in the which there is but a very smal flux of tears and in the night-time the Eye-Lids contract an hardness It hath its original from a humor that is not much in quantity but very salt and nitrous And it is either with an itching attending it which if tears gently flow forth it is then called Psorophthalmia but if there be no tears at al and that the eyes are only red without any swelling it is then called Xerophthalmia or else without an itching and with a certain hardness of the Eye-lid and then it is-termed Sclerophthalmia The Cure hereof followeth the method of that before mentioned Article II. Of the Nail or little wing the web and the Hyposphagm of the Eye I. The Nail or little wing as they terme it of the eye or as some cal it the arrow is a little membrane that is nervous sibrous and somwhat white which proceedeth forth from the corners of the eyes the greater of them especially and cleaveth fast unto the Adnata tunicle and is somtimes drawn forth in length even unto the Cornea tunicle and very often if it so much increase covereth and over spreadeth the Pupilla or Bal of the Eye
calcined and boyled the same way and applied That they grow not again they must be anointed with Vineger and the Ashes of the Twigs of a Vine III. Rhagades or Clests are oblong Ulcers of the Anus without a tumor and those superficial or deep Callous or without a Callus moist and pouring forth filth or dry and Cancrous they arise 1. From the too much hardness of the Excrements which in their passage do break the Skin 2. From a dry distemper having joyned with it sharp Humors and somtimes malignant where moistners take place 3. from flowing of sharp corroding humors that have a certain clamminess by reason of which they stick to the part and then an itching and most sharp pain with burning troubles them The Purgers ought to be gentle and moistning Care is to be taken of the Virulency which discovers it self by the filthy smel and evil matter A Clyster of the Mucilage of Tragacanth the Seeds of Fleawort of each one ounce and an half Fresh Butter three ounces Red Sugar one ounce Oyl of Violets five ounces is commended IV. Fistulaes do follow inflamations Tumors and Ulcers of the Anus ill Cured They are known by their narrow Orifice but a bosome lurking within There is voided thence matter somtimes watry somtimes virulent They are divided into those which do not penetrate either into the right Gut or into the bladder which is discoverd by putting in a Probe which if they bring no great discommodity are only to be Mundefied with the Decoction of Agrimony and a little Alum and the Orifice if it be too narrow must be dilated with Elder Pith that the matter be not retained but if they ought to be Cured universals premised they must be washed dilated and cut And those which do Penetrat either to the Right Gut and then the Excrements of the Belly are voided through them and liquor injected comes out through the Gut or to the Bladder and then the Water is made through them Or to them both and then a Fart is let from the Privities as wel as from the Arse All these are seldome Cured Amongst things consolidating Joel commends the pouder of Mercury Precipitate strowed on laying over it a common Plaister Ursenick prepared or reduced to an Oyl layd on and the same Plaister over it If the Fistula be in the Sphincter muscle the Excrements of the Belly issue forth of their own accord See Hippocrates concerning them V. Hither belongs also an Intertrigo which is an Excoriation of the Parts neer to the Anus arising from vehement motion 'T is Cured with Deers and Goats Suet. Chap. 2. Of the Symptomes of the right Gut THe Symptomes of the right Gut are Itching of the Anus Tenesmus the flux of the Hemorrhoids and the stopping of them Article I. Of Itching and the Tenesmus The I-ching of the Anus is a Certaine painful tickling of the same Tâ—eâ—e is no need of Signs The Differences are taken from the Causes I. One is from sharp Salt and Viscous Humors sticking to the â—phinter which must be emptyed but the Arse must be washed with the Decoction of the Leaves of Mallows Violets Roses with Pâ—anâ—ane water and a little Alum 2. Another is from the Excrements left there which are wel washt off with the Decoction of Mullein 3. Another from Worms of which in theâ—r Chapter 4. Another from an ulcer to the which the Cure must be directed II. A Tenesmus is a continual desire of going to stool with pain in which either noâ—â—â—ng or a few Mucous things are voiâ—â—d I here is no need to add any Signs somtimes the right Gut fals forth and a dropping or difficulty of Urin happens by reason of the â—â—weeâ—ness and consent of their Parts The CAUSE is whatsoever is fixt to the exâ—â—eam part of the right Gut and can stimulaâ—e its Expulsive Faculty but what that is shal be explained in the Differences The CURE must not be neglected because from neglect of it oftentimes a sordid Ulcer remains which somtimes passeth into a Fistuâ—a It respects the Causes and the pain which must be mitigated The Differences are taken from the Causes I. From the too great cooling of the right Gut which is taken away with the Decoction of â—he Flowers of mullein chamomel Melâ—loâ— Dill with the Seeds of Flax Fenugreâ—k Bran. II. From the Stone or worms concerning which see in their places III. From the cause producing a Dysentery and then the manner of Cure is the same almost with that of a Dysentery Let the quantity of the Clyster be but little the Ulcee be washed and healed The Mucilage of th-Seeds of quinces and Fleawort extracted liquid with Water or Plantane Nightshade is good adding Bole armenick or washt aloes and cast in by Clyster IV. From Cholerick humors or Flegmatick and Salt sticking to the same where a Clyster of the broth of weathers Flesh with a few drops of Oyl of Wax being given takes place c. Article II. Of the Flux and stoppage of the Hemorrhoids The Flux of the Hemorrhoids is too great a casting forth of blood by the Hemorrboidal Veins This Disease hath no need of SIGNS First of al there flowes black blood feculent and thick and it comes forth as it were by drops whiles they wipe their brich afterwards good and ruddy at last yellowish and pale From thence the thighs grow weak the Hips feel a heavy pain the color of the Face is depraved Somtimes it observes its Periods somtimes it neglects them The CAUSE is whatsoever doth either Irritate the Expulsive faculty of the Veins and arteries of the Liver or Spleen or hurts their retentive The CURE shews it must be supprest which is performed by Revulsion by opening a Vein and by the external and internal use of astringents Outwardly are good by a propriety a girdle of the Leaves of Black Hellebor bruised fresh and girt about the naked body upon the use of which if pimples be raised the pain must be taken away by its remedies Spunges which grow under the seats of hot Houses in baths if they be burnt to pouder in a new pot and strewed on Colcothar or that thick Feces which is left at the distilling of Oyl of Vitriol if they be toucht with it one only being left Inwardly is commended Essentia Martis of which see Hartman A Confection of the refuse of Iron The Old Conserve of Roses with Bole armenick c. The Differences are taken from the Partâ— and Causes I. One is of the internal which ariseth from a branch of the Spleen extended through the Mesentery about the Colon and right Gut in the Muscles of the Anus and inward part of the Gut having an Artery joyned with it that alone is there terminated It is known by a weight about the Fundament difficulty of going to stool by Clysters Suppositories or an instrument And also if a Cupping-Glass be applied as Zacutus hath done Another is of the External which proceed from
the Epigastrical branch of the Vena Cava and are disseminated to the external parts of the right Gut viz. The Muscles of the Anus but they are two having an Artery joyned with them from the Hypogastrical Artery Yet they seem al to have communion one with another It is known by the sight and because 't is greater 't is also more dangerous In the Cure external things have a convenient Application II. One is by default of the blood which either is too much and then there are signs of fulness we must revel by bleeding in the Arme or if strength wil not bear it by fixing Cupping-Glasses to the Loyns or Hypochondries Or sharp and thin and then it happens most to Southern people especially to men that are Sanguine Serous Humors if strength wil bear it ought to be emptyed if not we must use coolers and things that thicken the blood amongst which Purslane Trochiskes of burnt Ivory and Amber do excel Or it flows from the Liver and then 't is like to Water in which flesh new kill'd is washt The Syrup of corals is good Or from the upper Parts and then the blood is black and burnt Or from the Mesentery and then 't is little somwhat white Serous Or from the Guts and then 't is mixt with the Excrements Another is by default of the Veins which either are opened in which Cause we must use Agglutinatives as the Mushrum which is called the Wolfes Fart c. Burning and cutting the which are dangerous especially in those that are inveterate and of long continuance Or Eaten through and broke and this Evacuation Casts a man into a Dropsie and other Diseases II. The Suppression of the Hemerhoids is an interception of the blood endeavouring to get forth through the Veins of the Anus from whence they are raised up into a Tumor with pain The Signs are a tumor and bunchings out in the heads of the veins of the Anus sometimes hard like unto warts somtimes soft caled like to mulberries somtimes of a purple colour and like to grape stones the pricking paine is somtimes milder somtimes more greivous the Veins being distended whose Mouths hangs as it were out of their heads and the membrane which covers the orifices of the Veins stretcht and prest The CAUSE is Faeculent and thick blood desiring to get forth The CURE must be hastened both because it threatens a dropsie if the blood run back to the liver and because unless it be seasonably remedied by reason of the great attraction and flux of humors it causeth inflamation impostumation or a fistula It is performed 1. By mitigation of the pain which is asswaged by the crum of Barly bread steeped in womans milk adding the yolk of eggs and saffron 'T is taken away with laudanum dissolved in womens milke applied with honey but most of al with Butter Sugar or anima Saturâ—â— with flies of sheeps dung boyled in oyl of flax to the consumption of the creatures with the ashes of corke burnt and boyled with capons grease with the oyntment of road-flax concerning which see Hartman 2. By opening them universals premised by application of leeches or before that be done by an ointment of the Pulp of Coloqintida and oyl of sweet almonds by the juice of onions mixt with aloes applied rubbing first the part with a course cloth Sharp glisters do hurt the guts more then they provoke the hemorrhoids Unless they swel very much and be very painful they ought to be left to nature In the differences of the internal end external veins we must have a care The suppression of those is perceived by the squeezing of the Anus and thrusting up a probe Of these is obvious to the sight Title V. Of the affects of the Mesentery Chap. 1. Of the distemper and obstruction of the Mesentery THe affects of the mesentary are distemper obstruction inflamation impostumation and pain I. The distemper of the Mesentery for the most part is hot and dry which ariseth from the like matter which either is collected there of sent thither from some other part It is collected either in its veins and arteries and then because the breast hath the greatest consent with the hemorrhoidal artery because the trunke from whence the artery ariseth descending from the heart presently at its first rise doth propagate the intercostal branches there are continuall pains felt in the breast or also in its glandules by their laxness easily drinking up the matter The cure must not be neglected because 't is wont to fore-run a dry dropsy But it hath nothing singular except this that by those arteries not onely the first passages but also the whol body might be purged whether you give purging medicines or inject glysters and this perhaps is the cause that purging medicines layd to the navil do move to stool II. The obstruction of the mesentery is twofold one when the milky veins are obstructed which is knowen by this that a chylous and white flux of the belly doth molest and a consumption follows the matter necessary for the nourishment of the body being denyed That ariseth either from a thick crude clammy viscous chyle generated of the like meats or from a tumor of the glandules compressing them Another is when the mesaraick veins are stopt which is known by this that the matter restrained causeth a sence of distension and heaviness beatings of the arteries about the back are troublsome after taking of meat the evil grows more fierce and the stomach is comprest c. That ariseth either from vaporous and thick winds or from sharp humors and then the paine is more vehement sometimes while the evaporation lasteth the evil possesseth the whol cavity of the breast that somwhat is at hand like unto a suffocation somtimes there is a tumor raised about the mouth of the stomach and vaine belchings are produced those things being supprest that should be voided by the lower parts The cure is perfected 1. By openers and those indeedgentle That give strength to the liver and Stomach penetrating incisive drying lesning putrefaction and a little while astringent not by sweet things but bitter reduced into the forme of electuaries or pills but that liquor be drunk after them By tartarous things unless the saltness or sharpness of the humors do hinder by things that savour of Oxymel 2. By purgers unless windiness do hinder and those gentle not constant after the same manner given by little and little liquid 3. By vomiters but not violent Platerus his essence of broom is commended 4. By diuriticks that make thick humors fluid c. the liver is strengthened by Leonius his pills of the refuce of Iron By Mercatus his antidote of steele By Penotus his arcanum of vitriol sulphur and sallows c. Chap. 2. Of the inflammation and impostumations of the mesentery AN inflammation of the mesentery is a tumor of the same arising from humors poured forth with the nourishing blood into its
fits which affects without a noise hissing and cough somtimes it hath joyned with it a darkness cast over the Eyes faintings and the Patients despairing of health It ariseth from Vapors or Humors Sticking in the Cavity of the Caul and compressing the Midriff which being stirred after vehement exercise make the Symptome more greivous 'T is Cured with Thoracical and Antiscorbutical means to which add somwhat of Eichstadius his Confection of Alchermes and Saffron II. An Itching Tumor and Putrefaction of the Gums for whenas their flesh is soft and loose 't is easily corroded by the thinner and sharper part of the Humor ascending thither It cheifly troubles Children and affects with a blackness of the Teeth Putrefaction and loosness their holes being possest with the evil Humor yet it suddainly vanishes by reason of the recourse of the Humor The Cure of it is helped by appropiate Waters if the mouth be washt with them By the Decoction of astringent plants in austere Wine adding Spirits of Vitriol and Alum which are most effectual III. Plenty of spots in the Thighs which for the most part trouble those of ful Age first they are ruddy and like flea-bitings by and by they become purple and somwhat livid at last they decline to a black color When there is many Somtimes they invade the breast the Neck Arms and Face somtimes they vanish suddainly somtimes last many yeares somtimes they turne to scales and by how much the more livid they are by so much the more dangerous They arise from the descending part of the Humor thrust by Nature to the more ignoble Parts They may be Cured by things discussive and mollefying as Baths of Juniper berries cresses Scurvy-grass Chamemel c. if they be ulcerous they are hardly cured whenas the whol thigh is gangrend by them IV. A paine of the thighs which is distensive dul breaking the bones lying deep grows Feircer towards night by reason of the motion of the melancholy humor about that time It ariseth from serous humors somtimes falling down from the head and cleaveing to the membranes sometimes poured out of the veins from the seat of the filth by the crural branches of the vena cava and insinuated into the muscles of the thighs 'T is mitigated with a cataplasme of coagulated milk with flowers of chamemel water cresses and Juniper beries boyled in milk 'T is exasperated by giving of fat things before the spots break out V. A pain of the belly which somtimes doth so goad that the sick fal into a rupture of the peritoneum It troubles by intervalls with a pulse and urine scorbutical Somtimes it lasts to the fortieth day neither is it circumscribed with the course of the collick gut And truly with a depression of the belly that it is pulled inward with the navel and this seems as if it were tyed to the loins with a distension felt according to its longitude a puiling of the right gut upwards that nothing at al is voided It ariseth from an effusion of that matter through the mesaraick veins which do not open into the gutts between the two coats of the guts Hence is a distension convulsion pulling drawing of the neghbouring parts into consent a pregression of Feavers whose Fewel is in the vessels of the bowels It is cured by removing the cause by mitigating it by laxatives and glysters by which excretion ought to be provoked The elixir proprietatis is very profitable VI. A pain of the feet about the ankles and soles which is a fore-runner of the spots and by reason of the thinness of the matter it doth as it were penetrate the parts 'T is cured by a medicine made of the flowers of elder two handfuls boyled in wine adding two drams of soap and applyed on a cloath to the part in pain VII Pains of the Hypochondries unbounded because the wind hath no passage out Nephritical either because the Matter descends by the emulgent vessels to the kidneys or because being heaped up and by the accession of an external cause thrust to the greater vessels it flows down to the kidneys Of the Loyns which sometimes arise from vitious blood conteined there somtimes by way of a catarrh falling from the head by the veins upon the spinal marrow hence the paines begin from the shoulders and by degrees creep to the Loyns VIII Paines of the head which trouble about the evening and are joined with a certain Feaverish heat which vanish away in the morning sweats they afflict those principally who contract this evil from the suppression of the hemrods They arise from vapors ascending thither They require that brooklime be given in a greater dose the quantity of hot things be diminisht the hypochondries be anoynted with things opening IX A Gout concerning which note that it is wandering especially if cold topick medicines be applyed that for the most part 't is joyned with a light palsey with a paine ceasing and returning That it ariseth from serous humors thin and apt for motion That 't is wonderfully to be observed that if a live worme be layed upon the place that is fullest of paine it skipps winds and bowes it selfe about wasts away and dyes Amongst sweaters that is appropriate which is prepared of the roots of Devils bit one ounce round birthwort three drams the herbs of Sage betony each one handful Southernwood Rue Perewinkle Savine each one pugil c. See Horstus concerning the wandring scorbutical gout Tom. 1. of his observations X. A Palsey which somtimes involves the the thighs somtimes al one side It differs from the palsey of the ancients because some motion remains 't is interrupted it assayles by little and little before it fixes it follows no such fixt stupidity paines of the colon and belly tumors breaking forth in any part and easily vanishing again It ariseth from the scorbutical matter carried to the spinal marrow by that branch which is extended from the Aorta not far from the mesenterical branch and creeps to the back bone and its vertebraes 'T is Cured if the tendons be not rigid the body being once or twice purged by the use of brooklime and scurvy-grass if they be hardned and rigid by emollient cataplasmes premising fomentations of water in which the leaves of Sage Betony Rosemary with elder and melilot Flowers have been boyled XI A Convulsion and contraction which somtimes grows so strong that the sick are not able to extend any joint and they are drawn as it were round 'T is joined somtimes with a rigidity of the turning joint of the mouth on which the lower jawe under the place of hearing is reversed so that the mouth shuts close that it cannot rightly be opened It ariseth from the rigidness of the tendons when in that tartarous but serous humor this being discust that is left and dryed 'T is cured by things mollefying and discussive XII A deepe sleep which somtimes afflicts with a slow continual Feaver somtimes with an intermitting it comes
Gut and Womb and purulency of the Kidneys there follows a dropping Upon the falling down of the Womb the Urin comes by drops and is a little biting Another is simple and without pain which is known by a white Watry Urin by the Age Complexion cold course of Diet pregression of a burning Feaver It ariseth either from the refrigeration of the bladder it self and the Muscle shutting its neck and then Diagalanga Mithridate c. are wel taken inwardly Oyl of Rue is wel outwardly applied Or from a Compression of the bladder which is wont to happen in great Bellied Women Article V. Of a Dysury A Dysury is a making of burning Vrin somtimes little somtimes much with pain without interruption arising from Causes both external and internal affecting the Vrinary passage The SIGNS are evident for the pain is easily perceived by the Patient The CAUSES are whatsoever can dissolve the continuity of the Neck of the Bladder or of the urinary Passage or Cause pain in pissing The CURE is Difficult if it fal upon Decreped Old men if a suppression of the Urin happen with it It respects 1. The Cause which must be moved by the aforementioned emptyers which ought to be followed with essence of Turpentine one dram with Parsley water and Syrup of Citrons 2. The Pain which is mitigated with warm Milk cast in by a Catheter by dipping the privities in a Vessel ful of Milk by a Cataplasme of Pellitory of the Wal with Oyl of Scorpions c. The Causes raising the pain do afford us the Differences One is from things external as Cantharides and then milk is good from Poyson and then we must act with things alexipharmacal Another from internal which are 1. The Acrimony of the urin of which formerly The water of bean flowers or its fresh Cods given with Syrup of Liquorish or Poppies six ounces weight before meat is good Also Fallopius his Electuary in Schenkius in Exoter Experim Gent. 4.19 2. An Inflamation whose pain is encreased the bladder being contracted to send forth the Urin and compressed after the emission which oftentimes an exulceration follows 3. A Stone striking against the Neck of the Bladder in pissing 4. The Seed moved in men buâ—sticking in the Passage and by an Acrimony contracted corroding the Passage which is wont to happen in the French Pox. 5. A white and milkie matter which somtimes is sent forth in such abundance that when 't is setteld it fils one half of the Chamber Pot. The which ariseth from a Vitious Conâ—â—ction in which the Salt and Tartarous parts are not separated but are attracted by the Kidneys It is Cured universals premised by the use of Hyppocrist or Mallago Wine Article VI. Of Pissing of blood matter and Hairs Bloody Pissing is a voiding of Blood together with the Vrin arising from the heaping up of the same in the Bldder The SIGNS are that the Urin doth not shine and hath the Color of Water in which the flesh of beasts new killed is washt The CAUSE is explained in the definition and in the Difference more shal be said The CURE must be hastned if the evil be inveterate least it lead to a Consumption or cachexy If it be cast forth in abundance least it stop in the Bladder and putrefie It must be turned against the Cause The Symptoms requires other things being alike things astringent condensing and consolidating amongst which do excel Yarrow with the white flower the Tincture of emralds the Arcanum of agrimony and Cinquefoil Mynsichtus his Decoction c. The Difference is taken from the Parts that pour forth the blood One is from The Kidneys which is known by this that it is plentiful is exquisitely mixt with the whol Urin that being as it were diluted with it 't is thin ruddy liquid and sertles without clotting together It ariseth either from the Anastomosis of some Vessel in them and then 't is made plentiful and high colored or some violence or wound hath went before or there are signs of Fulness or the blood is too thin Or from the corrosion of a Vessel and then the blood is voided in a lesser quantity especially at the beginning Or By a Diapedesis and then the Urin is lightly dyed with a red color The Cure also requires opening a Vein in the Arm which must be followed with the use of astringent means inwardly and outwardly The Trochisks of Gordonius are good Another is from the Liver either weakned or opprest with blood or affected with the same diseases as I said even now and then there are no signs of the Kidneys affected we must consult with the Chapter of the diseases of the Liver Hither belong the suppression of the Hemorrhoids of which in its place a wound of the ureters from stones passing through them from which very little blood flows forth c. Another from the Sphincter muscle of the neck of the bladder and then the Urin is not equally spred over with it the blood setling goes into clots the pain for the most part oppresseth in pissing and burns as it were the Root of the Yard other signs either of an Ulcer or of a Vein broke are present the Cure is the same Another from the inward Passage of the Yard and then it oftentimes comes forth without the Urin that which comes with the Urin clotting together presently sinks II. Purulent Pissing is a voiding of matter with the Vrin heaped up in the Bladder 'T is heaped up 1. By default of the bladder it self either because that is troubled with an Ulcer or because the blood conteined in the bladder is turned into matter and then the matter is voided less mixt with the Urin with branny Scales 2. By Default of the ureters and then a little swims a top like Hairs By default of the Vrinary Passage of the Spermatick Vessels and the parastatae and then in the first place it comes forth sincere 4. By default of the Kidneys Liver breast in as much as those parts do transmit matter through the Veins to the Bladder and then the matter is accurately mixt with the Urin if any thing thicker be a Part it flows forth towards the end III. A Pissing of Hairs or Trichiasis is when with the Vrin a mucous matter is voided somtimes like to Hairs somtimes to thin Leaves Those Hairs somtimes equal the length of one or two hands breadths The Cause of them is a thick and viscous flegm dryed and knit together in the Veins by heat which in its long passage through the narrow Veins of the Kidneys and ureters is extended to so great a length See concerning this Horstius his fifth Section Epistol medica In the Cure Spirits of Turpentine with Syrup of Marsh-mallows is good Read more of this subject in the Guide to Physick and Chyrurgery Riverius Practice of Physick and his Observations and the London Dispensatory Al of the last Editions Englished by me Title X. Of the Affects of the Genital
Parts in Men. Chap. 1. Of their Diseases Article I. Of the Diseases of the Stones THe Diseases of the genital Parts in men have under them the Diseases of the stones Cods and Yard The principal Diseases of the Stones are which follow I. A Distemper and that either hot which is known by a proneness to Venery by too much and hot Seed by heat of the stones by swelling of the Veins about them with blood 'T is Cured by a contrary Diet and cooling Medicines of Littice Water Lillies Purslane but especially by those compounded of Sugar of Saturn and sallow Leaves Or Cold which is known by little and Watry seed by casting it forth with little or no Pleasure little desire to Venery cooling Causes went before or immoderate and unseasonable Venery 'T is Cured by a contrary Diet and taking of medicines inwardly Betony Calamint Marjoram Sage Nettles Nutmegs Diamoschum Outwardly Oyl of Costus Spike of Aunts Or moist which is known by this that the Seed is cast forth too soon Or dry which yeilds little and thick They are Cured by their contraries II. A Tumor which either is an Inflamation in whose Cure for of the rest I have nothing to say observe I. That whiles Medicines are applied to them the ligature ought alwaies to tend towards the upper parts that they may not hang down too much and the defluxion may be less 2. To intercept the flux a defensive must be laid on the side of the Pubes where the Veins and Arteries from the belly tend to the stones and Cod. 3. Other things being a like the Decoction of Agrimony with Wine and Vinegar is commended The Root of wild Cowcumber likewise boyled The Herb Paris green bruised and applied c. A Schirrus or another cold and hard Tumor which oftentimes ariseth from an Inflamation ill Cured 'T is taken away with a Cataplasme of Littice Roots boyled in sweet wine with the flowr of Flax Barley Faenugreek Onyons c. Which must be followed with a Liniment of the Balsom of Sulphur and the Plaister Diasulfuris Or an inflation for the Cure of which serve the Leaves of Henbane and a drauft of Juniper water one ounce weight every day with the Rowls of Diacyminum III. Vlcers which because they are in a moist place are dangerous and somtimes turn to a Cancer or Gangreen They ought to be washt with the decoction of Roses Leaves of Speedwel and Plantan they may be mundefied with the Oyntment of the Apostles IV. A Conâ—usion which is joyned with a great pain it corrupts their Oval Figure and oftentimes takes away the power of generation We must timely oppose the pain least a Defluxion be Caused Article II. Of the Diseases of the Cod. The Diseases of the Cod are Inflamation Excoriation Wounds Vlcers and Rupture Of them there is no need to say any thing An Excoriation is often Caused by the Urin the upper Skin being corroded and 't is Cured by sprinkling of Pompholyx or dryed Myrtle finely poudered searced and mixt with Frankincense or Myrrh A Rupture of the Cod is a Tumor of the same arising either from the cause falling down into it or from wind or water collected there or a masse of Flesh generated there The Species of it are four if you consider the Differences I. One is windy or a Pneumatocele which is known from hence that the Cod somtimes also the stones is very much distended without a weight heaviness the wind is felt if the Cod be prest with the hands and is removed from place to place w th a noise It ariseth from winds which are either collected there or transmitted from the neighbouring Guts and Belly and 't is most familiar with Children 'T is Cured premising universals by things discussing outwardly and inwardly applied A Cataplasm of Bay-berries the flower of Beans and Fenugreek with Bran the pouder of Cummin seed ammoniacum turpentine oxymel and oyl of bays mixt together is good II. Another is watry or a hydrocele which is known because there is perceived a waving the cod appeares as it were shining the tumor alwaies continues at the same bigness neither doth it go up into the belly by pressing it It ariseth from water which for the most part flows thither from the belly for those causes which are mentioned in the dropsy It is cured 1. By prohibition that the watery humor be not generated or flow thither of which see the differences 2. By emptying the water fallen thither either insensibly to which end the former cataplasme wil serve or sensibly by opening of the cod of which see Authors 'T is divided diversly 1. One is from water only distending the cod another also from wind joined with it in whose cure we must have regard to both another from flesh growing together about the stone whose cure must be warily handled that it turne not to a cancer 2. One is with a dropsy and then the cure must be directed against the dropsy Another without a Dropsy in which although there is not such great plenty of water that it can raise up the belly into a tumor that there is somwhat of it collected in the cavity of the belly by reason of the weakness of the parts especially an external cause being added as striking c. The tumor either possesses the whol cod or only one side and then the humor sticks in the erythroidal membrane that conteines the stone The right stone never alwaies the left swels Or the fault is in the left kidny through which when the serum cannot descend it fals through the seminal veine proceeding from the emulgent of the left kidny into the erythroidal coate from the cure of which we must either abstaine or the cod must be opened only in the lower part Or it is not and then the cod must be cut in the upper part neer the groin that both the humor may be emptyed and the afflux of more through the skar of the erythroidal coate be hindred See Frabricius his observations 3. One is when the water is conteined between the erythroidal coat and the darton in which the tumor is rounder like an egge the stone is hidden from the sight and touch the cod it self is more white and is distended little or nothing another is when 't is out of that betwixt it and the adjacent skins in which the stone is to be felt the cod is more distended Another when 't is in its proper skin or coate growing over it in which the tumor is every where globical resembles the draft of another stone III. Another is a fleshy rupture or a Sarcocele in which somthing fleshy is bred It is known by a hard tumor increased by little and little afflicting without a tumor of the groine by which it is distinguished from a rupture of the guts 't is for the most part in the right stone because nature doth most comodiously cast off the blood to the stones by the seminal veine issuing
Rue Galick gentian must be applyed Inwardly we must act with things alexipharmacal By an Hors-leech which if it be ill applyed that the wound go not wel a Cataplasme of Agrimony bruised must be laid upon it If it have got into the Guts t is voided by applying to the Anus Oxe dung dryed moderately hor strewed with the pouder of woodworms or castor first casting in a Clyster only of the juyce of Onions VI. By a Toad which infects somtimes by breathing on somtimes by urin cast upon plants In the Cure let Treacle be given to drink with the Decoction of Rue Let pure wine be drank liberally plenty of sweat be provoked in a bath VII By the fish Araneus which is either taken inwardly into the Body or by a blow sends its poyson to the Body which way soever it be a swelling of the Belly involuntary Tears a desire to Piss a distension of the Yard in young men a relaxation of it in old men does afflict them In the Cure inwardly Treacle is wel given after a Vomit outwardly the place bit must be often washed with Salt water VIII By Fleys Waspes and Spiders whose sting must be taken out and the place afterwards washt with Salt water and the Creatures bruised must be laid on the wound to suck out the Poyson THE TWELFTH BOOK OF THE IDEA OF PRACTICAL PHYSICK Of the diseases of Children Title 1. Of the diseases of the Head WEE might here now stop and conclude our little work but that the diseases of children do hinder us in which we meet with some things singular Concerning them therefore we wil speak very breifly in this last book as an appendix and we shal not unprofitably divide them into the diseases of the head middle and lower belly The diseases of the Head in Children are I. A milky crust achores and favi or ulcerous bunchings out arising cheifly in the head but somtimes in the whol body pouring forth of their holes somtimes mattery They arise from a humor conteining partly thick partly thin serous salt and nitrous parts either collected in the womb or out of it by default of the milk In the cure if no evil be feared things that drive it out must be administred as syrup of fumitory burnt harts-horn the nurse must be purged the matter offending be qualified by giving syrup of burrage fumitory c. if an eminent putrefaction be feared under the crust the head must be washt with an emollient decoction afterwards gentle drying ointments must be applyed if the skul be hurt we must provide for that II. Asiriasis or inflammation of the brain and membranes which a hollowness of the forehead and eyes doth follow 'T is known by this that the bones of the fore part of the head at their upper part where the coronal and sagittal future do meet are as it were membranous the lower parts of them al are hard It may arise also from the milk if the nurses use spirituous and hot drinks As Lucretius is Author that the goats tender young ones are made with milk and wine In the cure wee must endeavor that the brain be not hurt with the too much use of things cooling III. A falling sickness which proceeds 1. From a fright all occasions of which must be avoided 2. From milk corrupted in the stomach and then a vomit is best 3. From Worms moving themselves in the Guts of which Care must be taken 4. From hard breeding of Teeth which must be promoted 5. From the smal Pox Meazles and Feavers which also must be Cured 6. From a primary affect of the Brain the Cure in general respects both the time of the fit and the time after the fit There is comended the Emrald stone The Stone found in the stomach of Horseleeches opened about the opposition of the Sun and Moon Elkes Hoofe put into the left Eare a vomit here A Nodulus of Harts-horn prepared Salt of Corals Crystal prepared the wood of Missleto of the Oake put into the drink and renewed every fifth day a Plaister made of white Amber Frankincense Mastick of each one dram and an half Galbanum Opoponax of each one scruple Misleto of the Oake two drams Amber Greese six grains Musk three grains Male piony Seeds half a dram Labdanum one dram and an half with a litte Oyl of Nutmegs and sprinkled over with the pouder of Cubebs The Forehead and Neck also may be anointed with Oyl of white Amber IV. Feats in sleep which because they arise from impure and filthy Vapors mixt with the Animal Spirits and troubling them raised from the Stomach therefore they happen to Infants that do greedily such In the Cure we must see that the Infants do not too much ingulfe themselvs in Milk or that bad Milk be not generated or that the little ones be not carryed to bed on a ful stomach Let the stomach about its Orifice be anointed with Oyl of Quinces Mastick with Oyl of Nut-megs before they sleep let a rowle of Diamoschum dissolved in Milk be given and unless they be very hot let a little Treacle be given weekly V. A Convulsion of the joints in the Hands and Feer which ariseth from the plentiful heaping in of thick Milk and with which they are for the most part troubled about the time of breeding of teeth In the Cure we must have a care of a cold and hot distemper the Neck and joynts must be conveniently anointed VI. Too much Watchings which for the most part do arise From sharp Vapors raised from the Milk corrupted in the stomach somtimes they rise from Feavers or some painful affect In the Cure 't is better ther the soles of the Feet be anointed with the Marrow of Deers bones than that strong Hypnoticks be given by which they are made more stupid VII A Squinting which is Cured in the new born if the light be placed on the contrary part to which the Eyes decline or a Vizard with holes be put on the Face of which See Hartman VIII A Moisture of the Ears arising from the moisture of the brain heaping up many Excrements in which we must not be over hasty in the Cure The Vrin of Children distilled dropt into the Eare is commended Title II. Of the Diseases of the middle Belly THe Diseases affecting the middle Belly in Children are I. Hard breeding of Teeth which is known by this that 't is the time of Toothing which happens about the beginning of the seaventh Month the Infants often put their fingers in their Mouths the Nurses feel their Nipples to be griped stronger the place where the Teeth endeavor to break forth looks white a great pain afflicts them especially when Dog Teeth are cutting with watchings a loosness Convulsions The Cure is of good Hopes if the Belly be loose if an acute Feaver happen because the matter causing the Convulsion being wasted by the Feaver the convulsion ceaseth If the Teeth break forth in the Winter or spring