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A90749	Platerus golden practice of physick fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures, in respect to the kinds, and several causes, from whence they come. After a new, easie, and plain method; of knowing, foretelling, preventing, and curing, all diseases incident to the body of man. Full of proper observations and remedies: both of ancient and modern physitians. In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick. By Felix Plater, chief physitian and professor in ordinary at Basil. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts. Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick, and astrology.	Platter, Felix, 1536-1614.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670. aut; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. aut	1664 (1664)	Wing P2395A; ESTC R230756	1,412,918	573

5 The Saints Duty to keep their Hearts c. 6 The Mystery of Spiritual Life Twenty one several Books of Mr. William Bridge collected into two Volumes Viz. 1 Scripture Light the most sure Light 2 Christ in Travel 3 A lifting up for the cast down 4 Of the Sin against the Holy Ghost 5 Of Sins of Infirmity 6 The false Apostle tried and discovered 7 The good and means of Establishment THE CONTENTS Of all the Five Books in the Three Tomes The CONTENTS of the First Book of the first Tome Page 1. CHap. 1. Of a Weakness of the Mind Page 1 Chap. 2. Of a Consternation of the mind Page 4 Chap. 3. Of an Alienation of the Mind Page 26 Chap. 4. Of a Defatigation of the Mind Page 47 Chap. 5. Of the the hurt of Feeling Page 50 Chap. 6. Of the hurt of Tasting Page 52 Chap. 7 Of the hurt of Seeing Page 56 Chap. 8 Of the hurts of Hearing Page 80 Chap. 9 Of the hurt of smelling Page 87 The CONTENTS of the Second Book of the First Tome Page 92 CHap. 1 Of the Weakness of Motion Page 92 Chap. 2 Of Impotency of Motion Page 93 Chap. 3. Concerning Depraved Motion Page 115 Chap. 4 Of the Defect of Breathing Page 119 Chap. 5 Of Breathing Depraved Page 131 Chap. 6 Of the Defect of Swallowing or passage by the Throat Page 138 Chap. 7 Of the Defect of Dejection or going to Stool Page 140 Chap. 8 Of the Defect of Pissing Page 141 Chap. 9 Of the Defect of Bringing forth Children or other things Page 144 Chap. 10 Of the Defect of Vital Motion Page 148 Chap. 11 Of the Depravation of Vital Motion Page 152 Chap. 12 Of want of Appetite Page 155 Chap. 13 Of Depraved Appetite Page 158 Chap. 14. Of Defect of Bleeding Page 160 Chap. 15 Of Want of Sweating Page 166 Chap. 16 Of want of Milk Page 167 Chap. 17 Of the Defect and Want of Copulation Page 168 Chap. 18 Of Lust or Lechery Page 172 Chap. 19 Of want of Conception Page 173 The CONTENTS of the Second Tome in one Book being the third of the whole Work CHap 1 Of the Greifs of the Sight Hearing Smelling and Tasting Page 187 Chap. 2 Of Feavers Page 187 Chap. 3 Of Head-Ach Page 235 Chap. 4 Of Pain in the Eyes Page 241 Chap. 5 Of the pain of the Ears Page 251 Chap. 6 Of the Diseases or Greifs of the Nostrils Page 253 Chap. 7 Of Greifs or pain of the Mouth Page 255 Chap. 8 Of Tooth-Ach Page 258 Chap. 9 Of Pain in the Jaws Page 263 Chap. 10 Of the Griefs or Pain of the Breast Page 269 Chap. 11 Of Pain of the Heart Page 277 Chap. 12 Of the pain of Hypochondria or Sides under the Ribs Page 294 Chap. 13 Of pain of the Belly Page 305 Chap. 14 Of pain of the Privities Page 391 Chap. 15 Of Diseases in the Fundament Page 393 Chap. 16 Of pain in the Habit of the Body Page 396 Chap. 17 Of pains in the Superficies of the Body Page 408 The CONTENTS of the third Tome in two Books Being the fourth and fifth of the whole Work The FIRST BOOK CHap. 1 Of Deformity Page 501 Chap. 2 Of Discoloration Page 513 Chap. 3 Of Extuberances or Swellings Page 540 Chap. 4 Of Defoedation or Defilement Page 580 Chap. 5 Of Consumption of the Body Page 598 The Second Book of the third Tome CHap. 1 Of the Voiding or Excretion of parts Page 607 Chap. 2 Of the Falling and Sticking forth of parts Page 610 Chap 3 Of Efflation or Sending forth of Wind Page 620 Chap 4 Of the Voiding of Seed Page 623 Chap 5 Of Voiding of Blood Page 626 Chap. 6 Of Excretion or Voiding of Matter Page 635 Chap. 7 Of Excretion or Voiding of Water Page 637 Chap 8 Of Spetting Page 643 Chap 9 Of Vomiting Page 647 Chap 10 Of Pissing Page 652 Chap 11 Of Dejection or going to Stool Page 660 Chap 12 Of filthy Excretions Page 674 Chap 13 Of the Voiding of Living Creatures Page 676 Chap 14 Of the Voiding of Living Creatures or Animata Page 681 Chap 15 Of the Voiding of earthy Bodies Page 683 Chap 16 The Voiding of things that get into the Body Page 686 THE FIRST BOOK OF THE Hurts of the Functions Containing the Hurt of the SENSES THe Senses are Internal or External we shall speak first of the Internal for they being hurt the External Senses and motions are somtimes offended the Internal Senses are three Imagination Reason and Memory which we call all together by the name of the Mind when these are hurt they either suffer all together or particularly The Functions of the mind are defective when they are Diminished or Abolished For by accident when the vital motion is hurt these Functions may cease as well as the rest in the whole Body but then they are refer'd to the hurts of vital motion and there explained The Functions of the Mind are diminished when they do not sufficiently act in their divers kinds as when there is dulness of Mind slow Wit Imprudence forgetfulness of which we shall speak in Imbecility of Mind the first Chapter Page 1. The Functions are abolished when they are not as in divers kinds of Sleep and Astonishments as when there is immoderate Sleep or profound Sleep Carus Lethargy Typhomania Devilish Sleep Sleep with astonishment Ecplixis Apoplexy Epilepsie Convulsion Catalepsis or Congelation Extasie Of which we shall speak under the title Consternation of Mind Chapter the second Page 4. The actions of the Mind are depraved when they are but not decently as they should be or more then they ought to be The internal Senses are preposterous in divers kinds as when there is Foolishness Drunkenness commotion of Mind Love Melancholy Hypochondriack Melancholly Madness devilish Possession fear of water Phrensie Paraphrenitis Saltus vitae of which under Alienation of Mind Chapter the third Page 26. The Functions are more then ordinary in Watchings and Dreams of which we shall speak in Defatigation of Mind Chapter the fourth Page 47. The external Senses are five Touching Tasting Sight Hearing Smelling these are either Defective or Depraved when out of order The kinds of Defect and Depravation of Touching are Numness or Stupor Formication false Sense of heat or cold H●modia of which in Hurt of Touching Chapter the fifth Page 50. The Tast is abolished Diminished and Depraved in the defect of Tasting and in a Depraved or half Tast of which in Hurt of Tast Chapter the sixth Page 52. The sight suffers many inconveniences when either it is not or is diminished or is Evil as in divers kinds especially in Blindness Anaurosis Scoloma or Mist Amblyopia Catigo Evil sight in young or old Myopia Nyctalopia Vespertina Acies or Owle sight Hallucination Imagination Nubecula or Cloud Colours false Splendors Megrim Scotodinos of these in Hurt of Sight Chapter the seventh Page 56. The hearing also suffers in Surdity or Deafness thick Hearing Obaudition tinckling and

meat with Spices drink pure and sweet Wine Avicen commands to drink Irond or steeled water also Milk Curds which moves to stool and tames poyson In the first place drinking of water which they so much fear doth cure the Hydrcphobous wherefore they must be deceived by al means that they may drink it through a long pipe or by some other sleight and not behold it for which cause they advised to boyl back Vetches in it which also resist poyson that so the water being made more darkish to him to behold it it may represent no Image which may strike fear into them and also that they may be made very thirsty a young Dogs runnet is given to drink with Vinegar for then Aetius writes that they are taken with a desire of water and he highly commends it Avicen teacheth that the provocation of urin so far and with such strong medicines that they piss blood too doth very much help who as it hath been said thought that puppy Dogs or somwhat like them hath been voided by urine And for this cause commends the use of Cantharides which may more rightly be given thus Take of Cantharides breaking off their tender wings one dram Lentiles clensed half a dram Spike Cloves Saffron of each half a dram give halfia scruple with Wine to them fasting for three or fou●daies til they void blood Sharp Dock if it be given to drink causeth a plentifull and turbulent pissing with which plant alone given if also the wound be fomented with the Decoction of it and be anointed with the juyce of it a certain man did perfectly cure those bitten with a mad Dog as Avicen teaches Dioscorides teacheth that the provoking of sweat before and after meat doth good The same writes that Evacuations by the Belly do also bring great help if it be caused by Hiera of Coloquintida or by Hellebore whose quality he thinks is so great that it will cure almost the desperate the which also may be done by other purgers chiefly destined to melancholick Humors Dioscorides also useth Dropacismes Sinapismes over the whole Body as some also do allow of Cauteries applied to the hinder part of the Head and behind the Ears Amongst Amulets a Tooth drawn from the Dog that bit and tied to the Arm also Hares pul'd from the same Dog and laid on the wound are thought to do much They write that in some places the Priests do cure this evil with exorcismes which seeing they are things preternatural we leave them A perturbation or commotion of the Mind conceived from a vehement or long continued affect of the Mind somtimes ceason of its own accord somtimes hardly gives way oftentimes can never be corrected for profuse joy easily vanisheth The Cure of commotion of Mind from agitation of the Spirits anger also is a short Madness especially in those who presently grow hot and look red but suddainly again abate who then are wont almost to be sorry that they were angry Sadness from grief of Mind ceaseth with time seeing there is no grief as Cicero saith which the length of time doth not either change or diminish envy conceived is hardly blotted out ambition in some and coveteousness especially in the aged once imprinted in their Minds can scarce be rooted out all which notwithstanding do not so much make men mad as Love doth in which although there seem to be onely a light Alienation of the mind at first yet if it take deeper Root it doth so disturb it that somtimes it drives men to true madness and dispair a true and persevering melancholy arising from fright is more pertinacious then al the rest and hard to be cured oftimes tormenting and consuming a man for many years and at length making them desperate and also we cannot correct that Folly contracted by custom Yet the Cure must not be neglected if the evil persevere and there be hurt or Danger which may be done First of all by taking away the Cause and the occasions from which these proceed if they being still present do foment or increase the affect as in anger by turning away that which offends in sadness that which troubles and so of the rest but chiefly the principal Remedy of Love is to remove the object and sting of it speedily a far off and a long time which the vulgar intimate by this Proverb out of sight out of mind and what is wont to be said is good in the Plague quickly a far off slowly here also is the principal Rule of Cure Oftentimes the affections of the mind are mitigated or driven away by Counsel Admonition Perswasion by propounding according as the mind is affected that it is nothing or of no moment then by explaining the Discomodities that follow from thence somtimes the offence to God and comforting them with the hopes of changing the present life for a future that is better and not far off the which if they avail not by severely threatning also Gods displeasure and the punishment of Hell by reproving them and chastising them also with stripes if they obey not til those things which they love be loathsome to them as Gordonius writes But principally in some passions of the mind it brings a great deal of help to move the affections of the Mind which are contrary to this affect that troubles and so to bring them into a contrary passion seeing they do bring them to a mean as contraries are wont to be cured by contraries and so those things are taken away which otherwise would not give place thus those lifted up with too much joy if they hear ill News do presently abate and those that are sad are refreshed with unexpected and vehement gladness so the angry are mitigated if they be frighted if those frighted be stirred up to anger they are freed those that hate vehemently are reconciled being moved with mercy and those that are opprest with grievous Love if they can be driven to hate the person which they Love they are most certainly freed whether they may somtimes be brought if they hear dishonest and filthy things of her which are either invented or true but blind Lovers see them not but especially in generous minds if they think themselves despised by their Love and suffer a repulse for nothing fosters love equally as reciprocal love and nothing is more deer than to be beloved again presently indignation follows which persevering unless it be extinguisht by some false and extorted tear breeds hatred hither also is referd the vehement intention of the mind upon some other things which is wont to put out that conceived before or at least waies to diminsh it whence the Poet saith Shun Idleness and Cupids darts are lost and if the apprehension be divided into two or three affects though the same it comes to pass that being divided or dispersed 't is less strong than if it were united for the sense intent on many things is less able for each particular whence

speck appearing more or less in the Eye if springing from the fall of the Glassy Humor or Crystalline in to the hole of the apple The Cure of the defect of Seeing caused by the obscurity of the horny coate by white specks and by the obstruction of the Grapy coate by white specks it doth put out the sight which we have said was somtimes wont to happen from a contusion of that Eye the hole of the apple being cleft or the Coats containing these Humors in their place being broken or by too deep forcing the needle in curing a suffusion then all hopes of recovering the sight being taken away we will only fit the Cure to the external hurt if there be any But if this white speck presenting it self about the Region of the apple be a suffusion from the watry Humor by degrees and in a long time converted into a snivel and at length into the said Skin bringing first of all an error of the sight but afterwards when it is hardned a perfect blindness or if from too much driness of the Horny coat and induration of it an Albugo doth proceed or from a Wound or Puncture closed up there be a Skar left which two last as they are broad or narrow they do more or less hurt the sight then what must be foretold and done in them all three because they do not much differ amongst themselves we will explain altogether But seeing a Suffusion Albugo and Skar are difficultly cured we must not rashly promise any thing seeing if the Skar be superficial only possessing the thin lap of the horny coat it may perhaps be taken off in the younger sort and yet scarcely then but if it be a little deeper it cannot be taken away unless that being shaven we would make a new solution of continuity which were to make a Wound afresh The same also we may affirm of an Albugo if it hath taken deep root especially if the horny coat being wholly hardened hath bred the said darkness in old folks or being dryed in some bright part of it only it doth cause an Albugo the which how difficult it is to correct we may see in the thin lap of some horn Pecten or Nail affected in like manner how it can hardly be wiped off Yet if some portion of the groser nourishment being left under the Horny coat do cause this because that doth somtimes change its place and is carried from the region of the apple into the white of the Eye then it no longer hurts the sight which for the most part happens rather of its own accord then by the use of Medicines A Suffusion also is a Pertinatious disease which when it is confirmed and harden'd makes blind and can be taken away by no further Remedies unless by a needle the which notwithstanding when it is done doth not help or succeed in all but only in certain suffusions as shall be said by and by and is often attempted with ill success that beginning which doth only cast clouds before the sight can scarely be prevented but that it wil increase in time Nevertheless in these cases Remedies must not be neglected and in a Skar Albugo and Suffusion the Cure must be order'd thus to wit that we dispose the Body in general that we may rightly make the better Cure and that we apply Topick means to the Eye which may waist the Suffusion by discussing it the which also are convenient in an Albugo the which notwithstanding that we may be able to wipe away also from the thin lap of the horny coate we must try to take away with stronger Detersiues and the more still if there be a Skar in which the Detersives wont to be applied in a confirmed Suffusion must be used mixt with discuffives so that the same Remedies almost are convenient for them all yet so distributed that we use the thinner Remedies in a Suffusion beginning the thicker and stronger in an Albugo Skar and confirmed suffusion as you shall hear by and by the external Pannicle doth require stronger yet the which notwithstanding must be so temper'd that the Eye be not wholly dried up or inflamed by the use of them if all these things help not we must come to cutting That the Body be clean and free from Excrements we must procure by ordering a good course of Diet and Emptiers according to the Nature of a Plenitude or Cacochymy if there be any for so the whol cure proceeds the righter and though here many Practitioners do wonderfully macerate the Body with many Evacuations in a Suffusion especially which they thought was a descent of water into the Eyes and therefore was to be called by the name of a Catharrhact by making Purgations was well by the Stool as by sweats and by the Mouth and Nostrils also making Revulsions and Derivations by Scarifications Application of Cupping-glasses and by Frictions and then by Cauteries Setons as we have taught in a Flegmatick Vertigo how these things onght to be done yet we who have demonstrated that the cause of these doth consist in the Eye and that a Defluxion of water can no waies be carried into the Capacity of the Eye have many times seen and found by experience that these are administred to Bodies without any benefit unless in as much as they may keep the Body pure as we have said let therefore this preparation of the Body by a fit Diet and decent Evacuations suffice being made of the same Remedies which have been explained in a Flegmatick Vertigo choosing the gentler or stronger as there is need and fitting them to the constitution of the Body But neither can the Oxydorcial Remedies which are so much commended in this case being taken by the Mouth or hung about the Neck or otherwise applied do any thing singular here unless they have that vertue of clensing away and discussing the speck as many of them are endued with it because the sight is here no other waies hurt then that the Eye by reason of an Impediment spred over it is deprived of the external light that if we would mend the sight with sharpning Remedies they ought to bring to the Eyes the brightness rushing from without which certainly no man is able to do or to take away the vail drawn over the Eyes We will propound therefore the more choice Topick Remedies that are convenient in these cases in this order that the gentlest be first described then stronger at last the strongest of all which also are convenient in a Pannicle the which are either put into the Eyes if they can endure them or are applied to the Eylids where they retain them longer with less hindrance and hurt especially in the night whiles they keep them shut and though their vertue doth not so quickly exert it self as when they are put into the Eye yet by continual use because their faculty doth easily penetrate through the thin Eylid they do work at length being

may be from the Excrements when they are few wherefore in want of appetite where little is eaten little is voided or from great purgings til more excrements are made which requireth some daies Also if acrimony be wanting in the excrements which naturally provoketh the Guts to stool which is caused of Choller mixed with the excrements for that purpose there is also costiveness as in obstructions when choler is not carried to the Guts but to other parts in the Jaundies and the like as appears by the excrements which are not tinctur'd but white or ash-colored The Cure Every constipation of the belly needs not cure as when some go seldom to stool from nature and custom or moderate diet which causethfew excrements and declares that the body is wel nourished as it doth after sickness or Famine except the Guts be dried and shrunk which being dangerous requireth cure which is difficult But if costiveness come from dry meats that bind and are hot it is cured by abstaining from them and using the contrary And so you must when the body is bound by natural heat through long sitting and also when it comes from a hot temper or constitution But in Diseases when constipation is a symptom as from heat in Feavers or stoppage or convolution of the Guts in the Convolvulus and Rupture in which if the excrements are vomited death is at hand or from the loss of provocation in Stupefaction Jaundies or the like Diseases we shal in treating of them shew you what you must do in respect of the cause But the Medicines that are used chiefly for constipation Medicines that loosen the belly are to be taken in or injected or otherwise and here we shal mention some of them the rest are mentioned in the Diseases that cause costiveness The gentlest that moisten and soften the hard excrements and by their slipperiness loosen the passages and provoke nature by pricking are of things nourishing Young flesh boyled especially Veal also that which is fat and mucilaginous or slimy Butter and Oyl Temperate Herbs boyled or raw as Spinach Beets Arrage Bugloss Coleworts and stronger as Mallows Violets and tops of Hops and Asparagus All moist Fruits open the belly that are temperate and sweet but sharp do it rather by troubling than loosning Drinking of Water or Milk Of Physical things Cassia and Manna in broath Juyce or Syrup of Roses dissolved in spring water Stronger are such as puge as the Infusion of Senna with Wormwood and seeds the rest are mentioned in Purges for divers Diseases For the Fundament there are divers Suppositories And Clysters which prick and dissolve the hard Excrements by washing mollifying and opening the passages These are best in costiveness and there are divers of them mentioned in the Colick Some things to loosen and soften are applied outwardly to the belly as Oyls and the remainder of the Glysters Also Baths of Sweet waters and Decoctions Also exercise makes the Ezcrements fall down and medicines that loosen do it sooner thereby And in regard none can go to stool without straining which is done by the will with holding the breath and contracting the Muscles nor with the Will only with the expulsive faculty moving thereunto we must endeavor so to accustom nature that it may consent to the will in the same And this is done by endeavoring morning and evening before and after sleep to void the excrements Because nature observeth order not only monthly and dayly but hourly in eating and expulsion of excrements And if we observe this order at a set time and solicite nature to dejection and continue it it wil be very helpful to evacuation by stool CHAP. VIII Of the Defect of Pissing The Kinds THere is a defect also in Pissing which is a natural excretion at certain times Somtimes it is wholly stopped called Ischuria Ischuria or not pissing the Bladder being ful or empty with a great distention in the Pecten and a Tumor by reason of the fulness of the Bladder somtimes without and there is an empty bladder and this is called also Ischuria but improperly Sometimes there is not a sufficient Evacuation by Urin being seldom Little and seldom Pissing or in smal quantity in respect of the drink which is particular to the Ischuria or Dropsie Ascites Dysuria or pissing by Fits Somtimes it is with difficulty by Fits before the bladder be emptied called Dysuria with pain or by Drops called Strangury Strangury or by drops Both which are referred to pains when the pain is more than the difficulty These come alone somtimes in them that were formerly sound somtimes they are joyned with other Diseases as the Colick Stone Dropsie Feavers c. The Causes The cause of defect of Pissing is either the matter or Serum when it is not plentifully bred or when it is carried another way or the passage hindered Or from the instruments of Pissing the Reyns or Kidnies in which the Urin is seperated from the blood or ureters by which it goeth into the Bladder or Bladder which receiveth it or the Neck thereof which voideth it If the Serum be produced in smal quantity Little Serum is the cause of little and seldom Pissing it is necessary that little and seldom Pissing do follow in people that drink little and are of a dry constitution and use a drying Diet. Or when it is carried otherwaies it is the cause of little and seldom Pissing But if part of the Serum which should be attracted by the Kidneys be carried to the habit of the Body And there consumed with heat or sent out by sweat it comes to pass that they which sweat much Piss little And this is also from a Diarrhaea when the Whey or Serum is voided by stool in abundance or from purging And as this is Natural and hurts not so it is preternatural and a Disease when it is from obstruction of the Bowels especially the Liver which stops the Passage of the Serum which being turned another way causeth the Dropsie ascites The passage of the Serum stopped and the thickness of the serum causeth little and seldom Pissing in which there is little pissing And if the Serum be not thin enough but is hardly strained from the blood by the Kidneys it causeth the same This comes from things taken which thicken the blood and the Serum also as red wine and the like by use whereof we observe the Urin is lessened and by the use of contraries as hot Diuretikes it is enlarged Pissing is seldom stopped from the cause in the Kidneys and Vreters for the Kidneys being two the one being hurt the other will supply But it is selsom seen that both Kidneys are afflicted with the Ureters which are remote from them so that the Function perisheth And it cannot be but from a great cause As the Consumption of the substance of both as I saw once in an Anatomy Or an obstruction in the beginning of the ureters by matter

or a stone in both together Consumption obstruction drying of both Kidneys or ureters or the absence of one ureter is the cause of suppression of Urin. which is seldom Or when in burning feavers both the ureters are dryed up or when one ureter is wanting or twisted and the other stopped as I saw in an Anatomy And if these be the Causes and the Bladder empty there is no pain from distention nor desire to Piss There is seldom defect in pissing from the largness of the Bladder except it be wounded A wound in the Bladder causeth Suppression of urin when it is empty as in a Fisher that pissed from a hole in his Groyn and not from the Yard Pissing is chiefly hindered from the Neck of the Bladder when it is obstructed and this being a narrow passage is easily stopped or straitned by cold and then there is pain or by outward compression with long sitting or the like in regard of the stoppage of that part between the Fundament and the Yard through which the Urin passeth in men Or by inward compression by the streight Gut filled with Excrements or Wind. The same may come from Inflamation of the parts adjacent or a great Tumor The Urin is most stopped when after long retention the Bladder is stretched much and the Neck thereof so contracted that it cannot be opened This is incident to them that sit long at banquets and are ashamed to rise and make water or otherwise for want of a convenient place stay so long that they cannot Piss Doting people that are very contemplative forget Pissing and other Functions which depend upon the will in part Doting or Delirium is the cause of Ischuria Moreover in the Convulsion or twisting of the Neck of the Bladder Also the twisting of the Bladder by a Rupture is the cause of Ischuria as we shewed in the convolvulus of the Guts Urin may be wholly suppressed as we shewed in the Fisherman whose bladder from a Rupture in the Groyn fel into the Cods and lay stretched out and voided no Urin but by a Catheter while an ignorant Chyrurgion let it out by cutting thereof which gave ease to the patient with great danger from which being freed he pisseth yet through a Fistula that remains by drawing forth a tent wherewith it is stopped If it come from obstructions of the Neck of the Bladder A Stone in the Bladder flopping it causeth Ischuria and Strangury it is a stone usually that stops it if it be a great one or a little one that passeth into the Yard in men As we shall shew in the pains of the Reines A Caruncle or Callus from an Inflamation not well cured An excrescence in the Neck of the bladder or humor is the cause of Ischury or Strangury being in the same passage causeth stoppage of Urin as also Warts and clotted blood and matter though not of so long continuance other humors cannot cause it because that they come not to the Bladder and if they do Stupefaction of the bladder is the cause of little and seldom Pissing they are so mixed with the Urin that they can get easily forth therewith When the Nerves of the Bladder are afflicted and the sting is lost the expulsive faculty acteth not as it is the cause as of not going to stool so of not pissing Also when there is no pricking of Urin and the Bladder is not ful yet we may make water by pressing the bladder with the Muscles of the Belly which cannot be in going to the stool except the expulsive faculty help by our own will because there is need of more force to send forth thick humors then Urin. Therefore though the bladder and its Neck and Sphincter be stupefied yet Urin may be voided as in the Palsie and when the Sphincter is loosned there is involuntary pissing because it is the office of that Muscle to retain not expel the Urin. But it is true that if the Bladder be Stupified we piss more seldom as when it is of exquisite sense more often Because the expulsive faculty forceth out will to make water as we shall shew in often Pissing The Cure If Pissing be seldom What we must foretel and do in defect of pissing from what cause soever from drinking little or dry Diet much sweat or purging or in less quantity it needs no Cure because it doth no hurt But if it come from stoppage of the bowels in dropsies the Serum being so retained that they piss less then they drink which causeth a Tumor of the Belly we shall shew the Cure therefore in the Dropsie If it come from thickness of the Serum through things taken in there must be a contrary Diet and thinner drink If from the Kidneys and Vreter on both sides which is seldom seen if there be no Urin in the Bladder it is mortal and incurable If from a wound of the Bladder so that the Urin fals into the Belly or comes forth at the Wound either they die or as we shewed there is a Fistula through which they piss but it is rare as is also the bladder falling into the Cods which had been deadly without the chance mentioned If it come from cold because it causeth pain it shall be mentioned there If from compression of the Neck of the bladder it ceaseth when the Excrements and Wind are voided If Urin long held stretch the Bladder and there be Inflamation or Tumor the Cure is to be applied to them If it come from a Stone Caruncle or other Tumors or Humor which stoppeth the passage when these impediments are removed the Urin is voided If from the Stupefaction of the bladder the pissing be slower you must not meddle therewith for when it is ful it will come forth or by straining at stool We shall now shew what Medicines are to be used internal and external to provoke Urin in divers causes Remedies to provoke Urin and help Pissing especially when the Serum is thick and the passages about the Bowels Reigns Bladder and Vreters are stopped These are called Diureticks that cause it to be more or quicker either by increasing of the Serum or making it thin and fluid and seperated from the blood that it may pass easily from the Kidneys to the bladder or by making the Serum and Urin hotter and sharper to stir up the expulsive faculty as we shall shew One dram of the Powders following are to be given in a good quantity of Wine Ale or Milk or other convenient Liquor and if you will keep them long make them into Troches The first Take Water-cress seeds one dram and an half Pouder them The second Take Acrons and Hazel nuts dryed in an Oven of each one dram and an half give it with Goats Milk morning and evening The third Pouder Take Madder roots Asarum Fennel Parsley Lovage Water cress Nigella winter cherry seeds of each one dram Valerian half a dram make

each half an ounce make a potion In hot and cholerick persons Thus Take syrup of Roses solutive and Violets each one ounce Cassia new drawn one ounce give it These may be repeated if the Belly be bound at any time Or this which I use Take Syrup of Roses solutive and of Violets each three ounces give it in boyled water like a Julep for constant drink abstaine from it if by rumbling of the Belly or the like signs you fear a Flux If crude Humors are in the Stomack use the same gentle Medicines especially because then there is inclination to Vomit and if Choller great thirst and bitterness of tast and nature must be helped to cast out her enemy by tickling the Throat or with gentle Vomits which loosen and cleanse and cool As this Take a draught of warm Water and a little Vinegar Or Take warm Water or fat broath with syrup of Vinegar or Oxymel one ounce and an half common Oylom ounce Although bleeding takes away the filth which is the conjunct cause of a Feaver the best yet because that Evacuation may be made from the Veins thereby we may provoke stools Urin and sweat also We use purges to cleanse the Guts and Stomack and also the first Veins which causeth corruption in the other for nature by them provoked draws preternatural Excrements from the secretest places to the sink Therefore after Laxatives and the next after bleeding when the disease is urgent and the matter turgent and needs no more preparation we give purges Somtimes after the Feaver hath been some time after a preparative But we aovid strong purges that are hot or we qualifie them that they stir not the Body too violently nor enflame And though practitioners use not divers purging Medicines in intermitting and continual Feavers yet because in the well daies when the feaver is absent we may use stronger then in a continual Feaver And we must alter the purges according to the nature of the Feaver and moderate them in continual Feavers In a Causon called a burning Feaver they must not be hot but qualified As Take damask Prunes ten Raisons stoned one ounce Sebestens twelve Tamarinds one ounce Dates four Cordial flowers each a pugil the great Cold seeds each an ounce of the lesser Cold seeds each half a dram boyl them add if you please Endive and Lettice water to abate heat and dissolve Manna which they say being thus mixed turns not so soon into Choller Cassia each half an ounce this somewhat sharp like Tamarinds and therefore excellent syrup of Violets one ounce or of Roses and Violets each half an ounce make a Potion Or thus stronger Take Cassia newly drawn and Tamarinds pulped each half an ounce Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams make a Bolus or dissolve it in broath or Barley water Or Take Diaprunis and Electuary of the juyce of Roses each one dram and an half syrup of Violets one ounce with Barley or Endive make a Potion After these Scammoniate Medicines give an ounce and an half of syrup of Violets with Endive water to qualifie them or after the purging to hinder the increase of heat Some deny Rhubarb because of its binding but that is not to be feared if it be infused Take Syrup of Violets one ounce and an half of Roses solutive one ounce Rhubarb infused in Endive water and strained half a dram make a Potion Or thus Take Rhubarb four scruples Spicknard one scruple infuse them in Endive water and Whey dissolve therein Manna one ounce Cassia six drams syrup of Violets one ounce make a Potion In a putrid Synoch and a sanguine Constitution use the same Or this Take Rhubarb infused in Endive or Sorrel water four scruples Citrine Myrohalans infused in Whey three drams strain and add syrup of Roses Solutive two ounces for a draught In Tertians and Cholerick bodies take of hot and strong purges for fear of a Diarrhaea therefore beware of Scammonials and use the aforesaid mentioned in a Causon which provoke Choler As take the Decoction of loosning flowers and fruits as much as is fit thus made Take Prunes ten Tamarinds one ounce Sebestens and Jujubes each ten Raisons one ounce Dates five flowers of Violets Bugloss and Borage each one pugil Gourd seeds half an ounce infuse in this Decoction Rheubarb four scruples Citrin Myrobalans two drams Spike one scruple strain it and add Cassia half an ounce Manna six drams make a Potion Or thus Take syrup of Roses solutive with the infusion of Rheubarb one ounce and an half dissolve it with Bugloss or Endive water Or Take syrup Diasereos which hath many cooling and opening things one ounce and an half dissolve it as afore Or thus to provoke Urin also Take Succory Grass and Asparagus roots each two drams infuse them in sharp Wine Endive Burrage and Sorrel each one handful Tamarinds one ounce the three Cordial flowers each one pugil Senna three drams make a Decoction dissolve in the straining syrup of Violets and Roses solutive of each one ounce Or thus Take Diaprunis Lenitive and Cassia each half an ounce Electuaries of the juyce of Roses two drams with Sorrel Bugloss and Violet water make a Potion To Cure quotidians we give things that purge flegm but in regard these Feavers do weaken much you must purge warily with the things abovesaid rather then stronger Yet in flegmatick Constitutions Take Agarick one dram Carthamus seeds skin'd three drams steep them in Oxymel Endive Violet and Maidenhatre water add Catholicon one ounce make a Potion Or thus Take Aggregative Pills two scruples with Endive water make Pills In continual quartans add things against Melancholly As Take Rhubarb four seruples Indy Myrobalans two drams infuse them in Whey and dissolve that straining with a Decoction of Mercury one handful Epithymum two drams Senna three drams add syrup of sweet Apples one ounce Before the state of the disease or when after an imperfect crisis the Feaver is not gone you must again purge diligently observing first whether nature endeavor to evacuate by any other way as Bleeding Urin or Sweat if she doth not before the seventh day or shew some signs thereof purge again and open obstructions Thus Take Rhuharb four scruples Myrobalans chebs and Indies each one dram and an half infuse them in Endive Wormwood water and a little white Wine then strain and add syrup Bizantinus syrup of Roses solutive of each one ounce or with the infusion of Senna half an ounce make a Potion Or thus Take Diaprunis lenitive six drams Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams syrup of Roses solutive one ounce with the Waters abovesaid or the common Decoction Or thus in stronger persons Take Aggregative and Pills of Rhubarb each one scruple Pill Aureae half a scruple with Violet water make Pills In the Declination of the disease purge often with the same In the begnning of the Disease prepare the Humors after a Lenitive or in the progress if the Feaver

an ounce pouder them and with Oyntment of yolks of Eggs mentioned two ounces or with that of Mucilages for chapt Lips make an Oyntment Sulphur and oyl mixed cure the Chaps of the Hands or if you tie Sulphur in a Clout or the flour of it and boyl it in common oyl or oyl of St. Johns wort or Moulin Or Litharge with the white of an Egg or Mucilage or oyl or Grease stirred long in a Leaden Mortar cures the Excoriations by Piss and other chaps Or mixed with the oyntments made of Juyce of Plantane also Ceruss Tutty Starch and oyl of Yolks of Eggs. Or thus Take Litharge Myrrh Frankincense each ● dram Galls or round Birthwort half a dram Camphire a scruple Oyntment of Suet two ounces Or use the usual oyntment of Litharge Ceruss Pompholyx with Allum or Unguentum Citrinum When the chaps are stubborn use stronger Driers Take Litharge Ceruss each a dram Allum red Lead each half a dram Sublimate four grains with white of an Egg make a Liniment A Water for the same Take Tartar three drams Allum half a dram Sublimate four grains ●eruss Litharge each a dram Frankincense Mastich each half a dram Pomegranate flowers two scruples boyl them mix them in twelve ounces of Rose Plantane Limon or Mouse-ear water till a third part be consumed wash therewith Or wash before anoynting with Decoction of Lillies Mallows Henbane Poppy Violets Purslane Groundsil Housleek Chamaemel Melilot flowers meal of Foenugreek and Line seed with Sheeps suet let it be of Milk or Water It is good to wash chapt hands in their own Urin. For Kibes and Chilblains foment with a Decoction in Wine and Water of sharp Herbs as Dragons Sowbread Crowfoot or Clensers as Turneps Beets Orrobus seed or Astringents as Myrtle Verbascum the less Arction and Pomegranate peels Also Allum water is good against Kibes and Chilblains Or Take Melilot a handful red Roses a pugil pulp of Quinces two ounces boyl and stamp them add meal of Lentils an ounce Pomegranates peels half an ounce with Oyl of Roses Frankincense and Ashes make a Cataplasm I have seen the thick lips in a kib'd Heel stitched togeher that it may heal the better You may cure chaps in the Hands and Feet with ordinary Glew spread upon a Clout You may use against Burning things against Blisters and Excoriations from them being broken Burning whether it be from any thing red hot or from flame or from Gun-powder for a Bullet cannot so quickly grow hot as to burn as some suppose or from scalding water and the like or from potential Causticks or Nettles the narrower and shallower it is the sooner and easier it is cured if otherwise it is difficult and leaves an ugly scar and I have seen Gun-powder stick in the skin after the Cure That Burning that is in or about noble parts or the Face or which is very large from falling into the Fire is dangerous and often deadly If the skin be burnt by a Cautery we labor to keep it open by cutting the Blyster and taking off the Eschar and use nothing but things mentioned in Flegmon against pain and Inflammation and they may be used against other Burnings with Blood letting As for the place burned that is hurt and pained first we take out the Fire which is thought to be done by hot things and therefore the Vulgar hold the part to the Fire but they are most agreeable which have moderate heat and are therefore called Anodynes and dry without Biting and digest without great heat and which hinder the Blisters from breaking this done at the first we must use stronger Driers and such as heal Excoriation and Ulceration such as are against the skin flead off and mentioned in the Itch. But if it turn to a deep Ulcer by suppuration it must be cured as an Ulcer and if the Weapon or Instrument made a Wound also you must first use things against Burning and then cure the Ulcer against Burning use these Plants bruised or boyled in Water Wine-vinegar or Oyl or Hogs Grease are good as Leeks Onions Daffadil Hemerocallis Lillies Danewort roots Hemp Alkanet Thorn roots or leaves of St. Johns wort Androsaemus Pellitory Althaea Mallows Ivy wild Verbascum Mulberry Myrtles Poppies Hounds-tongue wild Rue Sesamus flowers of Spear-grass Ivy Cistus Typha or apply Beets roots and all Or anoynt with the Juyces especially of leaves and Berries of Ivy Onyons Turneps Nightshade wild Lettice which hath a milky juyce according to Dioscorides with Allum or yolks of Eggs Mucilage or Gum Traganth or Cream Or Take the juyces mentioned three ounces Oyl of Roses fresh Butter Hogs grease each an ounce slaked Lime half an ounce mucilage of Quinces an ounce with Turpentine make an Oyntment or boyl away the Juyces and put Wax to it The Vulgar apply Elder leaves but the middle rind is better Or Take the middle rind of Elder an ounce and an half the juyce of Elder buds an ounce Lineseed Oyl two ounces Oyl of Roses and Hogs grease each an ounce Wax an ounce and an half Frankincense an ounce boyl them in Water a little and when it is cold take of the Oyl at the top Mathiolus useth liquid Varnish but we Line seed Oyl Or apply the root of Fennel stampt with Cream but first take off the black skin or coat Or the middle bark of the Tile tree which in Rose water makes a Mucilage which is excellent in Burnings Or use Oyls by Infusion of the fruits of Momordica or Nightshade Apples or of red Poppy leaves or by Decoction the Oyl in the hollow roots of Daffodil or Ivy boyled in Oyl and Wine til the Wine be consumed also Oyl of Elder Quinces or by expression as Oyl of Gourd seeds of Nuts or yolks of Egs. Or Oyl of Whelps and Worms which is approved against Gun-shot fire Or Hogs Grease wel clensed and dropt into Water with the application of a hot Iron others stick Straws into Bacon and set them on fire to make it drop but it is better to wrap them in a double paper that is larger and set on fire and so let it drop into water thus they season roast meat instead of Larding it Bacon alone so prepared cureth Burnings and easeth pain with Cream or Yolks of Eggs. Against Gun-powder fire use Butter or Hogs Grease dropt into Frog-spawn water or of Cray-fish or Earth-worms boyled When there is an Ulcer use pouders or otherwise anointing first the part that they may stick with Oyl Mucilage or Milk as Ashes of Gourds Coleworts Barley Shoe soals shels of Frogs or as Dioscorides pouder of Cinabar and Cimolian Earth The Vulgar wet the part and apply meal to take out the fire To abate pain use whites of Eggs and Oyl of Roses with Lint or with white Wax make an Oyntment adding mucilage of Quinces and Hogs Grease or Barley meal and in an Ulcer Bole and Frankincense Or Take Leeks or Onions roasted stamp them with yolks of Eggs or Elder Deers or

Saffron which altogether or alone are given with good success or make this Take of Succory Smallage Orris each one ounce of Wormwood two drams of Groundpine Germander Maudlin Marjoram each one dram of Fennel seed one dram and an half of Parsley seed one dram to these being dryed and cut add five pints of Wine And if you will have it for the spleen Take the barks of Capar Roots the Middle Rinde of Tamarisk Ash and Elder each six drams of Ceterach Broom flowers and Elder flowers and Agnus Castus seeds each one dram they may be steept in Vinegar before they are put to the rest or you may add Vinegar to the Wine in the Decoction It will be better though very bitter if you add of the tops of the lesser Centaury one dram or of Gentian or Birthworth Roots two drams of Asarum Roots one dram or as much of Squills prepared You may also add other things mentioned in the Decoctions as Roots of Rhapontick Fern Valerian the bark of an Ash Madder Calamus and the like which being dry keep their Vertue or you may make Wine of these only Wine of Raysons is said by a Propriety to help the Liver and strengthen it being weak and this doth resemble in part the Colour and Tast of sweet Wine Take of the smaler Raysons five pound of Cinnamon bruised two ounces put them into a Vessel and pour upon them ten measures of boyling hot Water stop it up till it work to this you may add the opening Roots that are not unpleasant in tast Like to this is made an excellent Drink to open Obstructions of Juniper-berries and Juniper Chipps to which if Currance be added it will be better Wine of Steel in which steel was quenched is of the like Vertue and is chiefly for the spleen or which is best Take half an ounce of Steel prepared with Vinegar infuse it in three or four pints of Wine or if the Pouder of steel be added to the aforesaid Physick Wines It is thought that if you drink Wine that hath been infused sometimes in a cup made of Tamarisk or of Ash it will open Obstructions especially of the spleen Distilled waters of Smallage Wormwood Centaury the less Gentian Roots and of other the like are good either of themselves or to drink after an Electuary The Chymists say that a water distilled from Vitriol and Tartar and a double quantity of Flints calcined to Pouder and burried in a cave till they are dissolved if it be thrice cast upon the Ingredients and distilled a spoonful will open Obstructions in the Dropsie to admiration Spirit of Tartar and of Salt is highly commended for old Obstructions Oyl of sweet Almonds if drunk doth mollifie the Hardness of the Bowels and of bitter Almonds which also opens Obstructions also Oyl of Olives Lineseed Sesamine bastard Saffron Other Liquors drunk which are made by infusion as Lyes or Lixivia such as are mentioned in the Dropsie Ascites by piercing and clensing take away Obstructions The Urine of a Man drunk by clensing and piercing opens Obstructions as we said Lyes do Also water wherein steel or Iron is quenched as we said of steel wine Sharpe Vitriol waters which are Natural if drunk cure old cachexyes and this is usual and is the reason why people flocks so much unto them drinking them fasting Morning and Evening to twenty or thirty daies rising every day a pint till they have drunk a Gallon at once if possible by the use of which either they purge much black Matter or if they exercise presently after they sweat much which sweats not only that water drunk causeth cure it frees from Obstructions being piercing by its sharpness and gets into the Meseraiks and the Vessels of the Bowels and carryes the Filth thereof by stool the thinner part by Urin and sweat Of Meats and Sauces that bread is best which is made with Parsley seeds and Eggs or Rosemary or Fennel seed herbs made into Sallets of the same being boyled with Butter and Vinegar among the which Beets with Mustard and Vinegar is chiefly commended Water Parsley and Fennel Roots the Spriggs of Asparagus and the smalest Crops of the black Vine boiled and eaten are the like Pickled Cappars are used most for the Spleen And bitter Almonds often eaten boiled Orobut and Lupines with Rue and Pepper as Dioscorides The often use of Raysons are so proper for the Liver that they are said to make people fat by increasing of Blood albeit other sweet things are hurtful to the Liver and make it swell The Liver of a Wolf Hare Goose and Snails are also commended These Conserves are commended of Succory of Flowers and Roots of Smallage of Flower-de-luce Roots the Roots and Flowers of Capilar Herbs of Wormwood Iringus Roots of Valerian Sea Wormwood Leaves the Roots of Elicampane Broom Elder Dwarf-elder and Flowers of Tamarisk The Juyce of Elder Dwarf-elder and of Juniper Berries in the form of a thick Juyce are given either alone or with Electuaries they are made by Decoction of the Juyce from divers Plants as of Wormwood Juyce of Flower-de-luce and the like of Rhapontick and juyce of Sowbread these are good when the Bowels are hard There are divers Pouders some whereof which are strongest are taken alone with Wine or other Liquor are put into other Compositions and are sometimes made into Troches of the simple Plants as of Fern Roots Cappar Roots Rhapontick Birthwort Ceterach Dodder Topps of Centaury Wormwood Some sorts of Plants are good as of Wormwood Tamarisk Broom Agrimony and the like Pouders made of the parts of Beasts are thought to be good to strengthen the Liver and Spleen as the Entralls of Cocks and Wolves first washed in wine and dryed in an Oven till fit to be poudered or burnt to pouder and made into an Antispodium and given in wine or water or any convenient Liquor or with Cinnamon or other Spices or with Diamber Diamoscu and Sugar of Roses or let them be given with Conserves The inward skin of Hens Gizards so poudered is excellent mixed with the ashes of Crabs The Liver of a Wolf poudered is accounted a proper Medicine for the Liver and of a Hare The Milt of a Horse and of a Wolf is the same The ashes of Cockles are good for the Spleen with the Pouder of Linseed and Nettle seed Goose Dung Peacocks Dung dryed to which they put other things that they may not be known The Pouder of Steel infused in Vinegar or Wine and Vinegar with Sugar and Cinnamon is excellent in Obstructions especially of the Spleen with Sugar Cinnamon and Gooss dung also the Pouder of steel from a Grindstone is excellent because it is finer or if it be washed with Aqua fortis and brought into very fine yellow Pouder called Crocus Martis but it must be often washed to take away the force of the Aqua fortis If the Steel pouder be steeped in strong Vinegar or Juyce of Lemmons till it be turned to

this may be and that the water may flow from the Veins mentioned by the blind Pores and Mouths without solution of continuity and that without mixture of Blood or Tincture thereof appear thus because as into other parts it breaks forth suddenly and in great plenty both internally by divers Defluctions as also externally by Sweats Tears Snot and by the Womb fluxes so also in the Meseraiks there may not only be some Natural breathing of Moisture into the Belly as we may perceive a constant Moisture but it may preternaturally fill the Belly and the easier because in those Veins the Whey which is made of Meat and drink and continually brought with the Chylus doth more abound then in other parts And as in ordinary Fluxes called Diaerrhaea or in such as are caused by purging This water or whey returns back without Blood by the Mouths of those Veins by which it entered even so by the internal Mouths by which the branches are closed about the ends being laid open it may flow into the Belly without any Tincture of Blood By the same reason doth the Serum or Whey seperated by the Kidneys from the Blood flow into the Bladder from all which we gather that the Dropsie Ascites may come though others think it impossible Also in opening of men that died of Dropsies when we have seen no manifest solution of Continuity but abundance of water in the belly and Veins conjecturing that it came that way into the Belly we were bolder to affirme it because in a Hydrocelae or watery Rupture the water may from the same Cause flow into the belly and thence into the Cod as we shewed The Cause of this Anastomosis and Diapedesis or opening of the Vessels in the Meseraick Veins is too much Serum or Whey therein which opens them by stretching or tenuity or thin waterishness which easily pierceth For then it being in the Meseraick Vessels except it go back by the same waies by which it entred into the Guts and so be purged forth by stool it breakes through these Vessels and falls into the Abdomen or Belly This abundance of water is the cause when its passage from the Meseraicks by the Liver into the hollow Vein is hindered This happens especially when the attractive Faculty of the Liver is weakned so that it cannot attract the Serum and send it to the hollow Vein which is mixed with the Chylus and is also a Portion of the blood and somtimes separated from it for Reasons mentioned in the Cachexy which comes from the weaknes of the Liver They have also conceived that the passage may also be hindered by the Obstruction of the Liver with a Humor or Hardness or Scirrhus which if so great as that it stop the Serum from coming to it the blood shall be hindered also and then there would be an Atrophy sooner then a Dropfie but without that the same may happen if the Serum which is in the hollow Vein and cannot get its Natural Passage by Urine is so much in quantity that it being not able to subsist there it is sent by Nature by its branches into the Liver and the branches of the Gate-vein Or flie otherwise back and so be gathered together The cause of this may be the weakness of the attractive Faculty of the Kidneys Or an Obstruction so great especially in both Ureters that the Serum cannot get into the Bladder The cause of which we have declared in other Symptomes of Pissing It hath been thought that the same may come from stoppage of wonted Sweat but this cannot alone be the cause or without another because at that time the serum may be evacuated by Urine Also the superfluous Generation of Serum the cause whereof we shall shew in the Causes of Leucophlegmacy if it be joyned with the rest will sooner produce a Dropsie and being then a greater quantity of water it will sooner pass the waies shewed into the Abdomen And as this comes from Moisture taken in so the Dropsie Ascites comes by continual Drinking not onely through the hurt of the Bowels caused by much Drink but because there is plenty of water thereby in those usually who piss not according to the proportion of the Drink received but the Serum abounds in the Veins by which they are heavy and they complain of Heavyness and Extension of the belly before they have a Dropsie It may be declared by probable Arguments and certain Demonstrations that the water falling into the Belly may Cause a Dropsie by the dividing of the Meseraick Veins which contain the Omentum and Mesentery For somtimes by an external chance when any Vein is by violence broken many have had a Dropsie For first Blood and Water have flowed from thence into the Belly and when the Wound hath been turned into an Ulcer or to corruption of the Bowels which have been found after Death a Dropsie hath followed by the continual Distillation of water from thence and commonly bloody stools and vomits have gone before afterwards mattery and filthy Which Ulceration or Corruption by which the Serum falls down may come by a Corrosion in the Omentum or Mesentery where the Veins are when sharpe and malignant Humors retained in these Veins which use to be full of Excrements eates them through and so may cause a Dropsie As also if this corruption in the Membranes and Vessels come from the long retension of stinking water as we shewed we perceive in all Dissections of Dropsies that the Omentum and Mesentery are by this means infected which being so though it be not the chief cause of the gathering of the water seeing it came from other parts yet because it then distilleth from thence it causeth the water to increase and the more when other Bowels are so infected with this water that they are also broken It is credible that water may fall into the Belly and cause a Dropsie from other veins that press inward as the Vena cava or hollow Vein and its branches dispersed to the Reins the Womb and other parts as Muscles and Membranes by Anastomosis or Diapedesis which are when they are opened and especially in a Cachexy or the like wherein there is much water and more especially in women who used to have Evacuation of this water by their courses or after them by the whites which being stopped causeth the water to find out another way out of the veins In these Veins it cannot so easily come by solution of continuity because if it be in the greater Veins there will be a bloody Flux which will prevent a Dropsie by Death and the lesser veins lying deep are not so subject to Jnjuries as those called Meseraicks which are in the Omentum We have found in the Anatomy of Hydropical Persons much water in the Navel-vein where it is joyned to the liver and Peritonaeum being dilated which in People of age resembles rather a Ligament then an hollow Vessel Somtimes we have found it not only there

seeds wood Aloes Lack burnt Brass and Juyce of Fennel Clysters do also purge water by the Meseraicks is brought again into the Belly which they do by cleansing and stirring up Nature and by opening the Mouths of the Veins thus made and they also take down the Belly by expelling wind A gentle Clyster is thus made Take of Beets Mercury Pellitory Cranes bill or Dove foot and Rue each three or four handfuls Flowers of Elder Broom St. Johns-wort Chamomil Dill white Lillies each three pugils or four Caraway seeds half an ounce Smallage seed or the great or less hot seeds half an ounce Senna one ounce and an half of Carthamus seeds one ounce boil them in Water and dissolve Hiera benedicta or Leaven half an ounce Honey one ounce Oyl of Bayse one ounce and an half with a little salt make a Clyster It will be stronger with more Purgers as Agarick or Turbith half an ounce Asarum three drams or with only a dram of Coloquintida leaving out the purging Electuaries It will purge water strongly by adding a handful of Soldanella or spurge to the Decoction or one ounce and an half of the Roots of wild Cowcumbers and as much of Sowbread and Smallage roots Another Take the Vrine of a sound cholerick Man or Lixivium which is not too strong and dissolve in it one ounce of stale Leaven and one ounce and an half of Oyl of Rue and it will be stronger if you add half an ounce of the Juyce of Flower-de-luce root which may be added also to the former For other Evacuations especially Sweats which bring the Water into the Feet and other parts they are good but not to be forced too much for so they are hurtful because the sick being in Bed and taking hot things is inward and outward in danger of Suffocation for want of Breath therfore except they come freely and in the declining of the Disease for taking Swelling from the Feet you must not sweat But if the Party by inclined thereto and can sweat standing use such as we shewed in Leucophlegmacy which if they move not Sweat yet will purge by Urin. Evacuation by Vomit because it shakes the Belly too much and increaseth the shortness of breathing it is hurtfull to some yet in some if there be a Revulsion made by Vomits from the Meseraick Veins to the Stomach and Guts or to take away something that causeth the water if they be easie to vomit it may do well as also if then thirsty they drink much water to vomit it up again Rhasis adviseth to provoke Sneezing to send the water to the Kidneys We can do little good by Blood-letting in a Dropsie because except there be another Disease joyned as an Inflammation it cannot help the Bowels and it brings none of the water from the Belly or Habit of the Body nor out of the Meseraicks nor much of that which is in the branches of the hollow Vein for we find that in Dropsies they bleed clear thick and black Blood by Experience Yet if the Haemorrhoid Veins use to bleed or do open themselves the water in the Meseraicks may be sent forth in great quantity thereby Water is often taken from the belly by cutting burning or pricking it as also from the Codds and Feet And that which is done by tapping or pricking of the belly called Paracentesis is the best for by it all the water may be taken out of the belly sooner then by any other way Therefore it is most usual and ought to be betimes before the water by long continuance defile the bowels and the strength decrease because this wound being made only slightly through the Skin Muscles and Peritonaeum brings no danger as the People suppose nor can the Guts be thereby so made any wayes hurt because the Superficies of the Belly being stretched with water is at such a distance from them and they lie as is proved by discection far separated from the parts divided Besides it is impossible that the Patient should escape in regard the water can get out no other way by stool or urine it is therefore better in a desperate Condition to try this Remedy as the last then to leave the Patient because except the Greatness of the Cause do hinder they may thus sometimes be cured or if they die in regard they could not otherwise be cured the Physitian by foretelling this may keep his credit and his Conscience clear And the Patient shall get this benefit at least that when the water is let forth he shal be freed from his great shortness of Breathing and other internal Griefs and so die in a more easie posture But for the doing this handsomly you must choose a place three fingers below the Navel on the side and there where the Muscles of the lower Belly are oblique and transverse and lie upon the flesh because you may better make a wound there then in the middle under the Navel where the nervous parts are of the Muscles which make the white line which is Nervous Therefore with an Incision knife or some other fit Instrument make a wound through the Skin Muscles and Peritonaeum gently least you hurt the Guts and receive the water in a Bason which usually gusheth forth violently And you must presently shut the Orifice again least it flow all forth at a time and so take away the strength so that the water may be taken out by Degrees dayly twice or thrice a little at a time by closing the Orifice without loss of strength which must in the same time be restored with proper Remedies In which we must have a special Care that we commit not an Error and that we may stop the water when we please which is done by putting in a hollow top which may shut the Orifice so that we may open it and shut it as we please or if before we make the Orifice we draw down the skin and cut it transverse as far as the Muscles and after cut within with an Incision knife For then the lower Orifice of the wound made first in the skin rising when the skin is loose the inward Orifice will be hid and stopped and when the skin is drawn down again it will be opened and so we may keep and let out the water as we please and prevent its flowing out at other times Moreover we must consider when the water flow's forth whether it be clear and without evil Sent for then it is a good sign because we suppose from thence that the bowels are not yet putrified but if it stink or be bloody it is to be supposed evil A Puncture made in the Codd as we shall shew in Hydrocele doth not onely give vent and let out the water there but if it be long kept open it will take it from the Belly by degrees and by the same way that it first sell into the Cod for which Cause if the Puncture be not made in the belly it may

The Cure of clotted blood voided by stool be voided from the opening of the vessels by reason of strong purging or the like or by vomiting it is dangerous And we have known some die suddenly thereby For the Cure thereof you must use such things inward and outward As we mentioned in Vomiting of Blood A Tensmus is less dangerous then a Dysentery The Cure of Tenesmus because the Cause is in the end of the Guts which may be easily reached with Medicines only the difficulty is caused and the cure prolonged by the pricking and provoking to stool which will not let a Medicine be retained though it be gentle and by the foulness of the Ulcer The end of curing is according to the diversity of the cause For if it be the first kind of a tenesmus with ulceration and voiding of slimy matter with blood or if it come of it self or follow a dysentery in regard the ulcer is in the strait Gut it must be cured as a dysentery with the like medicines But if only Irritation produce the other kind of tenesmus in which the Excrements are cholerick and sharp the remedies must be such as abate the sharpness and heat and then such as cleanse and heal In the third kind of tenesmus where there is needing without Excretion you must remove it with respect to the cause as if it come from hard Excrements they must be mollified if from cold the part must be warmed If it come from a Stone in the Bladder that passeth the Gut or from worms or from the passage of the Bladder the cure was shewed in those diseases In other causes you must use these remedies following Purges are seldom given because the Humor that causeth it is in the extremities of the Guts except they be to take away the antecedent cause which may increase the disease And then use such as are prescribed for a dysentery if there be an ulcer such as purge and bind If the cause be otherwise use other Evacuations such as are gentle least the belly be provoked too much Things given at the mouth can have but little operation open the Guts which are so remote yet if they be given in great quantities to lenifie and heal the Ulcer or often their vertue will reach to the part As Milk or Barley water drunk much and often The Decoction of Bettony and Sage mentioned against the tenesmus Clysters are chiefly given in this case because they come near to the part affected and wash it and that they may be long kept they must be little in quantity and be given often with care that the pipe offend not Lenifying Clysters are good in all sorts of tenesmus whether the part be corroded ulcerated or provoked by straining and pain to mitigate the pain and allay the sharpness These were prescribed in Dysentery of Milk Decoctions and Oyls as you will have them cleanse or heal If there be a stinking Ulcer in tenesmus or pricking from slime you must use cleansing Clysters As in a disentery of Whey Water and Honey Barley-water and the like Healing Clysters are only used in tenesmus from ulceration made of things mentioned in a Dysentery Turpentine unwashed or washed in Plantane water or Nightshade water put into these Clysters makes them cleanse and heal better Mollifying Clysters are used in a tenesmus when the Excrements are hard To which you may add Laxatives if there be a needing and no voiding of stool If the Humor be cold or caused by cold or wind use things to heat and discuss wind and things gently warm do also asswage pain When we will mollifie and loosen we take the decoction of the five mollifying Herbs Line-seeds Foenugreek with Oyl and other Fat 's that loosen If we will heat and expel wind we use hot Herbs as Organ Calamints both Penny-royals Baulm Hysop Sage Marjoram Bay leaves Rue Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Dill Rosemary Stoechas or French Lavender Caraway and Fennel seeds Such Clysters are mentioned in the Colick from Excrements Wind and Cold. In every tenesmus you may use Suppositories to abate pain and then such as cure Corrosions and Ulcers if they cause it these must do good to the part which they touch if they can be retained for the part is so sensible that it is provoked by the touch of any hard thing therefore the Suppositories must be gently made of these following Goats suet made like a Suppository takes away pain and Excoriation And it is better if you first melt down the Suet with Poppy and Henbane seeds and then cast it into a mould like a Suppository to take away pain And also if you put some drops of Oyl of those Seeds or half a scruple of Opium dissolved in Oyl of sweet Almonds And it will heal better if you add Starch or Gum traganth poudered or infused in plantane-water Or thus infuse a little Gum traganth in plantane water let it not be too thin and mix it with Mucilage of Fleabane or Quinces and the yolk of a roasted Egg and while they are hot with a little white Wax make a suppository if it be too soft dip Cotton or Silk therein and apply it To these you may add the Narcoticks mentioned To these pouders may be added to cure great Corrosion but they must be very sine least they offend As of Ceruss Tutty prepared Bole Pomegranate flowers and other dryers that are not sharp If you will astringe more add the Juyce of Sloes Dragons blood with the Infusion of Gum Traganth Rhasis makes a healing and anodine Suppository of Lycium which is the Juyce of Brambles When the Excrements are hard use mollifying Suppositories and Laxatives with hot things to expel wind As we shewed in Clysters for the Colick Some are made of Labdanum and Storax with hot Oyls The Fumes and Vapors mentioned for a dysentery are good here Besides which make Fumes of strong dryers that smoak much as of Pitch Bitumen Amber Colophony Turpentine Rosin Sarcocol Some add a little Brimstone and steep them first in Vinegar If you must heat more use the Vapour of the Clyster there mentioned or the Fume of Savine boyled in Wine and Vinegar You may make a Fomentation to heal the Ulcer in Tenesmus of Plants mentioned in the Dysentery or a Bath A Fomentation of the Decoction of Myrrh cureth a tenesmus that follows a dysentery If much Blood be voided Take Mullein with the Roots two handfuls red Roses one pugil Pomegranate peels and Galls each half an ounce boyl them in two parts of Iron-water and one of Wine You may add half an ounce of Prmegranate flowers or of Pine barks It is stronger with half an ounce of Allum To heat you may make Fomentations of Plants in the Clysters mentioned for the Fundament and lower parts of the Belly And they may sit in the same To which if there be Corrosion we add Plantane and Mullein or Mullein only boyled in Wine if the Haemorrhoids be open Or foment