hangs forth like a Taile The SIGNS and CAUSES are the same as in a Tentigo only that Women fear Copulation The CURE is also the same if it must be cut off it must be done either with a Horse Hair or a silken thred dipt in sublimate water or by Iron Article II. Of the straitness of the Neck of the womb The straitness of the Neck of the womb is either a stopping of the same or of the Orifice of the womb either by compression or a growing together The SIGNS are the Flux of the Courses denied in them in whom they were wont to flow through the Neck a sense of pain with a weight The CAUSE is either natural when it affects from the birth or accidental of which in the Differences The CURE varies according to the Nature of the Differences The Differences are taken from the Part and the Causes I. One is of the outward Orifice which is called of the Pudendum in which the Courses which flow both by the neck and by the womb are disappointed there can be neither Copulation nor Conception because neither the seed nor the man is received Another of the inward which is called the Orifice of the Womb in which the seed received presently flows forth again conception can in on wise be II. One is by way of Compression which is Caused 1. By a Fat Caule lying on the mouth of the womb 2. By a stradling of the Thighs 3. By a stone in the bladder 4. By a Tumor in the right Gut of which in their place Another is by way of growing which is caused 1. Either from the birth and then either flesh stops it which is red to sight soft to touch or a Membrane which is white to sight hard to the touch In the Cure 1. The Part being moistned with warm Fomentations it must be cut streight up taking Care that the Neck of the Bladder be not hurt 2. The humor must be drawn forth and a tenâ—must be applyed dipt in a suppurating Medicine 3. And astringent pouder must be had in readiness for fear of a Flux of blood 4. The following daies the place must be washt with honey water and we must act with things that Cicatrize 2. Or after the birth cheifly from an Vlcer and then either the sides of the Neck are grown together in which case we must use incision but very warily or there is a Callous substance which first must be cut off with a Pen Knife or a Spongy and Luxuriant flesh in which first of al we must use dryers and discussives as brithwort Frankincense Myrrh Mastick afterwards we must apply corrosives without pain at last we must cut it Article III. Of the pustles Condylomata and Hemorrhoids of the womb Pustles of the womb are little bunchings arising in the neck of the womb which by their Acrimony do Cause itching and pain The SIGNS are Itching Pain a folling down of Scales like flower to which we must add a Speculum Matricis that the affect may be the better discovered The Cause is cholerick sharp adust and thick humors which emptied into moist and loose places do insinuate and immerse themselves in them The CURE respects the causes universals being premised where amongst preparatives prevaile syrup of Fumitory of succory with the decoction of hops topicks discussing and mitigating the humor especially baths and halfe baths which must be followed with washing the part with wine and niter But these must be often repeated They are divided into benigne and malligne or venereal which are stuborn and contagious they ought to be washt with the water made of aloes the quantity of one vetch flower of brass the quantity of half a vetch flower of brass the quantity of half a vetch pouder'd and mixt with white wine one ounce plantane water and of rose heads each one ounce and kept in a wide mouthed glass II. Condylomata are swellings of wrinkles in the necke of the womb with heate and paine There is no need of Signes because they appeare to the eyes oftentimes if there be many they resemble a smal bunch of grapes The wrinkles hang forth like knobbs which appear in the fist clutched But they swel more when the courses flow The CAUSE is Thick and Adust humors The Cure in general respects the taking away of the causes and repercussion and drying As concerning the Differences Some are with an inflamation in which the pain and heat is greater the condylona is hard In the Cure we must act with anodyne half baths and perfusions Others without an inflamation which if they be new we must repel and dry if cold and inveterate we must first mollefie then disgest and dry Here take place the pouder of egg-shels burnt the oyntment of trochisks of steele one dram redeuced into pouder and mixt with oyl of roses and wax adding halfe an ounce of the juice of mulein The oyntment of the mad apple concerning which see a Castro l. 2. c. 25. de Morb. Mulier If the condiloma yeild not to these medecines it must be cut off by an instrument and astringent pouder strewed on III. The hemrods of the wombe are smal swellings like unto the hemrods of the anus raised in the necke of the wombe by an afflux of Feculent Blood The Subject is the neck of the womb for there they are where the veins doe end as in the hemrods of the anus and these are lift up by an afflux The Signs are manifest for they are discovered by the sight if a speculum matricis be applied the women looke pale and are troubled with a weariness The Cause is Feculent blood which when sometimes it flows to these veins not at its due time there stopping it becomes thicker that it cannot penetrate the orifices The Cure is order'd 1. By revulsion by opening a vein in the arme 2. By derivation by opening another in the ankle They are divided twofould I. Some are painful which by the paine it selfe are distinguisht from the courses and are cured by things that mitigate the same especially half baths and the Cataplasme of a Castro l. 2. c. 26. de Morb. Mulier And also with opium which notwithstanding is safer in the hemrods of the anus Other without pains to which what is and shal be said ought to be applied II. Some are open which flow either moderately and then the business ought to be comitted to nature Or too much so that the strength is dejected and there is feare least an evil habit of body be induced and then for revulsion blood must be taken from a vein of the arme at several times For purging myrobalanes tamarinds and rhubarb serve At last we must act with things that stop blood Others are blind from which no blood at al flowes forth The Cure is perfected by emptying of blood by emollition and fomentation of the part with mollefiers and things opening the mouthes of the veins and discussing the matter By artificially opening
be cured from the simples Chap. 2. Of the diseases of Distemper with Matter A Material distemper is the irregularity of the natural temper of Mans Body by the presence of some morbifick matter The Signs wil be known from the following differences The Cause is a preternatural Humor and that is 1. Either collected by little and little either through weakness of the part or fault of the Nutriment 2. Or affluent either by attraction or by reason of transmission either from the whol body or from some certaine parts The Cure is perfected 1. By alteration with Contraries if we consider the disease 2. By evacuation if need be and that by blood-letting if a Plethory be offensive by Purgation if Cacochymia or badness of humors off end by sweat if the matter tend to the skin by vomit if to the upper parts by diureticks if to the Urinary passages III. By opposite diet 'T is divided into so many distempers as the material I. One sort springs from blood or a plethorick Constitution of Body when such humors as are fit to nourish the Body abound c. 'T is knowen by weatiness c. It arises from good Nutriment c. 'T is cured I. By Blood-letting II. By alteration with coolers and moistners especially such as are appropriate to the Liver 'T is divided two manner of waies 1. One sort is from an exquisite plethora to which al the precedent notes agree 2. Another is from a bastard plethora wherein the cure requires purging likewise 3. Another springs from a plethora ad vasa Another from a plethora ad vires of which we spake before II. Another kind springs from excrementitious choler which is hot and dry 'T is hardly cured if it proceed from the yellow choler Never almost if it proceed from leek colored eg-yolk-colored or verdigreise-colored choler c. The Cure is performed 1. By alteration with cooling and moistning medicaments and if it be very thin with thickness if thick by cutters Among the former the cheif are Stalks of Italian Lettices flowers of water lillie Porslain Plantain Tamarinds Jujubees red poppy among the latter the cheif are roots of Cichory Dandilion Sorrel such things as are made of these Spirit of vitriol Salt 2. By evacuation either by bloodletting when cholor is mingled with the blood or by purgation by stool with cholagogues The cheif cholagogues or choler purgers are Rhubarb which is neither to be given alone because it is subject to fume nor to such as are troubled with the strangury tamarinds aloes rosata which is taken only in pils Syrup of the flowers of Acacea of Roses solutive which must not be given to women with child Pils of Ruffi c. By a cooling and moistening diet III. Another is from preternatural flegm which is cold and moist 'T is cured I. By alteration with medicaments hot and dry attenuateing and cutting Where note that we must at first abstain from very hot things lest the matter being dissolved should swel with greater motion and that the thinner parts being consumed the thicker should remain We must avoid strong openers in a woman wth child The strongest of al are Lignum guaiacum China root Sassafras Salsaparilla and Oxymel Scylliticum Hot stomach medicaments are to be interposed because the stomach languishes through overmuch heat II. By evacuation with Phelgm purgers the chief among those indifferently strong are Mechoacanna of which Lozenges are made it works most effectually given in pouder Carthamus seeds and Agarick trochisked Among the stronger are jalap roote given with Cream of Tartar Syrup of Coloquintida and the Pils of Sagapenum of Horstius The Golden spirit of Rulandus III. By blood-letting provided the Heat be not dissipated being expressed with flegm and that there be a plethora IV. By an heating and drying diet let the Aire be hot and dry the meats seasoned with spices let strong wine be used the body being first purged Frequent use of Cappars with wine and raisins IV. Another sort comes from preternatural Melancholly whether thick or dilute or degenerating into black choler 'T is cured I By alteration with heaters and dryers provided it be not black choler The roots of Eryngos Lycorize the Herbes of Ceterach Baume Dodder Flowers of borrage tamarisk Cappars the cordial flowers Syrup of sweet smelling Apples c. Avoid Vinegar and if it must be used give oxymel and a decoction of Citron peels II. By evacuation with Melanagogues or melancholly purgers The cheif are Polipody sena Extract of black hellebore The diet must be heating moistning The Aire must be tempered with a decoction of Mallows and violets let the patients meates be boyled rather than rost Egs soft-boiled flesh of henns calves partriches corants a temperate bath of fresh water c. V. Another Sort comes from Serum or the wheyish humor which is a thin and Salt liquor by its aboundance and quality altering the body of man 'T is cured by evacuation with hydragogues sudorificks Diuriticks c. The cheif Hydragogues are among the indifferently strong the tope of elder when they first shoot forth dried with a gentle heat an emulsion of the stones of elder-berries Orice root Among the strongare Gambogia Jalap Extract of Elatery conserve of Esulâ— pils of Sagapenum The cheif sudorificks are Spirit of dwarfe elder and of elder Salt of Cenâ—ory of worm wood of Ash of Scabious Harts born prepared Antimony diaphoretick bezoardicum jovial Among diucitick are the diuretical liquor and syrup of Rivius in Renodeus his dispensatory Salt of Vrine Amber beanes Spirit of Salt liquor of tarrar Vitriolated half a scruple compounded with half an ounce of Cinnamon water and two ounces of julep of roses VI. Another is compound springing from some of these humors mingled together In the Cure we must so work that we resist cheifly those humors which most of al exercise their efficacy upon the body not neglecting the rest either within or without This wil be done when the veins are free from the obstruction al the passages of the body open the humors not being much distempered and the noble bowels of the Body not diseased Here panchymagoga or al-humor-purgers are to be used and the Imperial pils of Fernelius which may be seen in the London Dispensatory Chap. 3. Of Diseases springing from Hidden qualities DIseases from hidden Qualities are diseases springing from Causes which work by a malignant and venemous force which cannot be judged to spring from the manifest qualities of natural bodies The Signs are when a disease has rare symptoms great ones and such as are not to be seen in other sicknesses no not of the same kind When there has preceeded some suspition either of some great degree of putrifaction arisen in the body or of infected aâ—re or of contagion or of poison either taken in or communicated from without The Cause is various as shal be explained in the differences The Event of the cure is judged of from the
1. By Diet which must yeild very good nourishment 2. By the frequent Evacuation of the prepared Humors 3. By Removing the Contment Cause by Emollients and Discussers either mixed together or used alone one after another interchangably The milder sort in persons tender and soft fleshed and when the Tumor is new The stronger in harder bodies and where the Scirrhus is old Fabricius Hildanus his Plaister of Hemlock mentioned in the 25. Observation of his 3. Century A Cataplasme of Briony Roots Goats-dung and Vrin are very good 4. If it come to suppuration by cleansing away the quittor with the Plaister of Diachylon simplex omitting heaters and section or lancing least it turn to a Cancer It is divided into a true or Legitimate which is void of sense and in which hairs grow upon the part for which there is no Cure and a bastard which is contrarily disposed to the former Article II. Of a Cancer A Cancer is a round Tumor blue or blackish having Veins round about it ful and swelling resembling the feet of a Crab and springing from black Choller The SUBJECT are parts of the Body as wel external as internal especially the moister and upper parts as the Dugs of Women The SIGNS are drawn from the manner of its Rise At first it s hardly so big as a bean in the progress it exceeds a Wal-Nut and an Eg it is hard of a Leaden or livid color or Else blackish with heat pain and pulsation the veins round about swel with black blood and resemble the feet of a Crab. The CAUSE is adust and black Choler hanging in the veins and by its thickness unable to pass along which springs partly from Nutriment affording such an Humor which has not been drawn by the Spleen partly from an hot burning distemper The CURE is difficult in al both because it comes from a stubborne and Malignant Cause and because it lurks in the deep veins It is not to be undertaken if the Cancer be hidden If it be seated in a Cavity of the body in the palate Fundament or womb There is no Cure if it be confirmed and seated in some noble part of the body It is of some Hope if it be smal fresh and stick in the surface of the body How it is to be performed see in the differences As for what concernes the differences 1. One sort is Exulcerated which is easily known and is caused by a matter sharper than ordinary It has the appearance of corrupted flesh with stench filthy matter coming forth an horrid aspect Lips very hard and turned in There is a slow Feaver conjoyned Swowning black or yellow sains or Blood-water running out of blood c. It s Cure is either Palliative by gentle-dryers and coolers or true 1. By Incision to the quick after which the corrupt blood must be pressed forth the Ulcer concocted mundified see Hartmans ponder in his Chapter of a Cancer in the brest or Dug filled with flesh c. 2. By burning either actual or potential if the profounder and greater vessels be thereby occupied Another sort is not Vlcerated which arises from a milder matter Is Cured 1. By Diet Moystening and cooling 2. By Blood-letting 3. By repeated Purgations of the Humor with extract of Hellebore pills of Lapis Lazuli after it has been prepared with Fumitory Hops Juyce of Fragrant Apples c. 4. By Application of External Medicaments in which case gentle Repellers are useful as the compound of Frogs-spawn Discussers which have no biting quality as Pulvis Benedictus of Hartman the Magistery of Crabsshels c. See Agricola also T. 1. Page 145. II. Another springs from Suppression of the Courses Another of the Haemarrhoides The Cure must be applied to those Diseases Chap. 5. Of Tumors springing from Wheyish Salt and Cholerick Humors mingled together Article I. Of Scabbyness TUmors springing fom mixt Humors do arise either from salt Wheyish and Cholerick Humors or from Flegm Melancholy and Choler so that the conjunct cause is no longer an Humor but some other matter bred of Humors Hereunto belong Scabbyness the Grecian Leprosie Phlyctinae Sudamina Sirones Vari Epinyctides Alphus Leuce Impetigo and Gutta rosacea The Scab Is a Tumor arising from corrupted blood vexing the Patient with distemper and Exulceration of the skin The SIGNS are set down in the definition The CAUSE is corrupt blood mixt with black choler and salt Flegm which either comes from suitable Diet especially when the Liver is distempered with Heat or it is corrupted by contagion and being brought unto the skin it sticks therein and causes Exulceration The CURE is accomplished 1. With Diet which requires boyled meates 2. By Contemperation and Evacuation of the Humors and reducing the Liver to its due temper by the Syrup of Coral of Quercetanus It is divided three manner of waies I. One is Symptomatical to which what has been said ought to be applied Another is Critical which breaks forth after acute or long Diseases II. One sort is moist out of which much sains or blood-water Issues It is caused by Salt Flegm T is Cured more easily than the dry Scab and that 1. By Evacuation to which end whey of Goates-Milk and Fumitory are much commeded 2. By provoking Sweat either by half an ounce of Spirit of Dwarf-Elder and two ounces and an half of Fumitory Water or by Spirit of Guaiacum or Antimonium Diaphoreticum if it be more hard to be removed than ordinary 3. By Application of External Medicaments And here bathes of fresh water and brimstone stone bathes are useful Also to apply the Yellow middle bark of Frangula with Vinegar And Sinnertus his Oyntment Book 5. Page 1. Chap. 27. Another Dry in which nothing is voided or a little quantity of thick matter and the Ulcers are Lead colored T is Caused by an adust Humor Cured with difficulty after the same manner as the former having respect to the Causes Another sort is termed Volatica the Running Scab which infects al the skin in one night for the most part In this universal Remedies being premised t is good to wash the Scabs with the blood that comes from a Woman with the after-birth See Agricola T. Pape 280. III. There is another sort termed Malum mortuum which vexes the Patient with a Leaden and black color crusty pustles black Dry without sence or pain cheifly in the Legs It Springs from a Melancholick and Scorbutick Juyce T is Cured after the same manner having respect to the Difference Another sort is the Leprosie of the Greeks which differs only gradually from other Leprosies T is Known hereby because it Eates deeper into the Skin and scales as it were of Fishes fal of whether the Patient scratch or scratch not and the Scabs stink filthily T is Caused by black-Choler oftimes mingled with Salt Flegm Cured by the same kind of things as the Scab but stronger The distmper of the Liver must cheifly be redressed Sweat must be procured with a
of the incision knife For the Differences see further in Aeginâ—la II. The Dilatation of the Pupilla called Mydriasis and Platucoria is when the Pupilla is inlarged above and besides the ordinary course of nature toward the it is or particoloured circie of the eye It is known by this that the sick persons either by reason of too much of the External light breaking in upon the eyes or else in regard that because of the falling of the Sun beames in an oblique manner upon them these oblique wayes being weaker than those that are perpendicular they are not able to see and discerne so clearly and acutly when they would look upon any object they then a little close their eyes and the one of them being shut the pupilla of the other cannot be dilated It ariseth from the Extension and stretching out of the Vvea of which this said Pupilla is the hole or inlet either by reason of external or else internal causes For the Cure hereof it must be sought for in the differences It is divided in a threefould manner I. One is native and such as is contracted from the very birth Another Adventitious and happening accidentally II. Another is from external Causes as a blow or a fal from on high c. whichâ—â—â— it be altogether without any inflamation is easily and soon cured but not so if it be accompanied with a rupture of the Vvea Another from Causes internal which are particularly expressed in the following difference III. Another is from siccity or drynes extending the Vvea like as we see in skins or hides that are perforated and this is not to be cured without some difficulty The best remedy in this case is Goats milk if the eye be wel washed therewith and as it were drenched therein Another from humidity the cure whereof is so much the more easie if it chance not after an extream and Vehement pain of the Head It is performed universal and general Remedies being first premized by the drawing forth of blood out of the Temple Veins and the Veins in the corners of the Eyes and by the applying of Cupping-Glasses in the hinder part of the Head and Leeches behind the Eares and likewise by the Use of Resolving Medicaments among which salted Water is much commended that have in them but little of astriction Another from blasts blowings which happeneth unto Trumpeters these flaculencies or windinesses are to be discussed scattered as aforesaid in affects of the like Nature III. The straightness or narrowness of the Pupilla which they term Myosis is when it is rendered and made narrower than naturally it ought to be It is known by this that al objects whatsoever that the sick persons look upon seem bigger than indeed they are that the visible species being conveied in through a straight and narrow inlet may be and are dilated in that broader space neer unto the Crystaline humor It ariseth from the contraction of the Vvea It is Cured according to the Nature and quality of the differences It is Divided according to the diversity of the Causes One is from overmuch humidity contracting the Vvea from the Circumference towards the Center For the which those Medicaments that are exsiccating and drying such are Rew and Selandine are a very fit and propper Remedy Another is from a defect of the watery humor and then the Patient wil see and discerne better in the room that is obscure and dark because that the visible species are more aptly and speedily Conveyed unto the Crystaline humor In this case an aliment and supply is to be attracted and drawn unto the part by applying of milk and sweet water unto the head Another is from a more scant and spare afflux of the visive spirits unto the said Pupilla Article II. Of a Suffusion A Suffusion otherwise termed Hypochyma is an obstruction of the Pupilla bindering the sight and caused by a humor consisting in the eye and residing in that part thereof The SIGNS are divers according to the quality and Condition of the rise and original of the augmentation and of the perfection or Period thereof and they shal severally and apart be explained in the differences The CAUSE is a humor either sincere and single or else mingled whether it be there collected or transmitted thiâ—her by the veines of the tunicles the Vvea tunicle or the Nerves It is collected most especially in those eyes that are great and sticking out we term them Goggle eyes in regard that the visive virtue when it is diffused in a wide space is the more infirm and weak and the laxity of the waies or passages affordeth a very facile and easie entrance The CURE is difficult if it chiefly happen from a feave or some extraordinary vehement pain of the head if it chance unto yong childeren or old aged people and none at al if the suffusion be black if the sick person discern not the light It is wrought if at al I. By the drawing forth of the obstructing matter by purging Phlegmagogues and especially hiera and the electuary that they cal diacarthamus but before these we may premise and administer preparatives II. By revulsion of the same matter by Cupping-Glasses Vesicatories c. III By a discussion of the said matter by Topicks mingled with Emollints or mollifiers and the clearing and cleansing of the eyes And here for this purpose there is commended the water called aqua Joelis the remmedy of Bovius formed of the gal of a Cock half an ounce the blood of a mouce three drams and a half and so made up like unto a Colliry with the breast-milke of a woman or else water of mans dung known by the name of aqua stercoris humani Elambicata with the gal of a Weasel and likewise of a hare saccharo caudi rosato and margarites prepared IV. By Chirurgical operation of which we are for further satisfaction in this point to consult those Authors that have treated at large uppon this subject The Differences of a Suffusion are Various I. In regard of its Situation 1. One is in the Center of the Pupilla which Representeth the Objects as though they came and passed through the Windows and this ought not by any means to be attempted by the needles point lest that the whol Pupilla be filled with the peccant Humor flowing thereunto 2. Another resideth between the Vvea and the Cornea Tunicle and then the Pupilla is evidently seen to be extreamly obscured and darkned and the Pupilla is of necessity dilated by Reason of the Humor that distendeth it 3. Another resideth betwixt the Vvea and the Crystalline humor and then the opposite unto the former do manifestly appear 4 Another is seated in a deeper place and then the Pupilla is very narrow and much streightned Another is situate in a place less profound and deep and then the said Pupilla is larger and wider II. They differ in regard of the degrees for One
either a too plentiful or more continued purgation of them than is convenient arising either from the fault of the blood or of the womb or of the veins There is not much need of signs especially if there follow a want of appitite crudety an evil color of the face a swelling of the feet and the rest of the body an atrophy cachexy c. The cause we have layd on the blood the womb or the veins but whence these are in fault shal be explained in the differences The cure is difficult if it be of long continuance None at al if it happen to a woman growing old It reqiures 1. A restraint of them by revulsion interception thickning of the blood stopping up the vessels by astringent means and other things Yet it must be stopt by degrees if there be a great plenty of blood and it happen by way of crisis the which falls out seldom Here take place Heurnius his pouder of the seed of white henbane white poppy each one dram of the bloodstone red coral each half a dram camphure half a scruple given half a dram weight The pouder of amber sanguis draconis the bloodstone red corral purslane seeds each one dram pomegranate flowers two scruples easterne bole armenick two drams given from one dram in three ounces of plantane water Asses milk with steel Ferdinandus his aqua mirabilis histor 33. The trochisks de carabe the benes of a man strongly calcined Zacutus his pills l. 9. prax histor p. 185. His plaister there The plaister of saxonia made of the sut of a chimney volatil floure c. a pessary made of heggs and asses dung with the juice of plantane and the mucilage of quinse seeds Specificks are inwardly Forestus his pouder of a turtil l. 28. obs 10. The salt of the ashes of the same the thin skin of geese feet dryed and given from one dram to two scrupels Outwardly a girdle of the leaves of bastard black hellebore bruised Of which Renealmus obser 21. The differences are divers which do cheifly respect the causes 1. One is from blood which 1. either is derived from the bottom of the womb in which the blood is blacker and for the most part clotted Or from the neck which is more ruddy and fluid 2. 'T is either plentiful or sharp or serous Of which in the following difference Another from the moistness of the womb of which see formerly Another from the fault of the Veins concerning which consult with the third difference One is from plenty of blood which is known by this that either the vessels are opened or broke in women especially whose courses have stopt a long while and afterwards do breake forth more plentifully There are signs of a plentitude the blood which comes forth doth easily concrete into clots In the Cure we must respect 1. Bleeding which if it be ordered for evacuation it concernes a vein in the arme the liver veine cheifly If the strength be feeble 't is ordered in the salvatella of each hand if it be for revulsion it must be done at several times because being repeated it revells more powerfully 2. Cupping-glasses which for evacuation may be applied to any part if you except the lower as to the back shoulders and that with scarification for revulsion they ought to be set to the breasts without scarification and upon a difficulty of breathing ensuing they must be removed 3. Ligatures frictions of the armes c. Another from sharp blood which is known by this that there is a corrosion of the vessels joyned with it there are signs of choler The blood is detained and corrupted in the womb it slides forth in greater quantity In the Cure let purging be administred by syrup of roses solutive and leaves of senny See things that thicken it above mentioned Another from serous and watery blood which is known by this that either the liver is faulty by its weakness or the kidnies by reason of their weakness do not attract the serum The blood flowes forth in lesse quantity and is not easily clotted that which is flowed forth if it be received on a linnin cloath and dryed in the shade discovers it self by the colour The Cure attends the diseases themselves III. One is from an Anastomosis in the cure of which observe that hot things ought to be mixt with cold least the veins be obstructed the ventilation of heat be prohibited and a feaver induced that pessaries may be applied if the opening be in the vessels of the neck where oake leaves and unguentum Commitissae are good that baths must not be used unless they be somwhat cold or whose astringent power overcomes their heat Another is from a Diapedisâ—s which happens very rare it presently requires astringent topicks Another from a Breaking which happens either from a plenitude or from causes that stir the blood especially from hard labor and premising the opening of a vein if ther be need 't is cured by conglutinating medicines Another from a corrosion which is known from hence that little blood flowes somtimes purulent somtimes serous It ariseth from a sharp and corrupt blood somtimes also from sharp medicines amongst Astringents is commended the root of dropwort or ' its decoction Article VIII Of the Womans flux and gonorrhaea The womans flux which otherwise is exprest by the name of the whites is an inordinate voiding from the womb of an excrementitious humor by its whole nature differing from blood collected by the fault either of the whole or of some part 'T is called the womans because it affects women and truly virgins also when as the causes take place in them and there are examples of it Yet more commonly those of riper age especially if they be indewed with a moist and cold constitution do lead a delicate and idle life and feed upon cold and moist nourishments old women also and that unto death by reason of the plenty of flegm and the weakness of the concocting faculty There is no need to enquire the Signs the affect is made known by the relation of the patient her self It differs from a gonorrhaea because in that the matter of the seed flows forth whiter thicker and at longer intervals and 't is voided in less quantity From a nocturnal polution because this is joyned with a phansie of a venereal business and happens only in the sleep From the discolored courses because they observe their periods though not alwaies exactly they do not happen to women with child and those troubled with the suppression of the courses they shew a red colour From matter out of the ulcers of the womb because then the signs of an ulcer stand forth the matter it self is thicker and whiter It it be sanious 't is besmeared with blood and voided with pain We have laid the Cause upon an Excrementitious Humor which Somtimes is raised by purging Medicines Nature being stirred up by their use to attempt excretions somtimes by Baths Nature casting off
succeed the washing of the Head with Fallopious his lie IV. Pains of the Head in whose cure inwardly takes place Hartmans Diaphoretick Oyl of Mercury outwardly Vigoes Magistral Plaister de ranis and that of Platerus Observat l. 3. V. Pains of the Joynts and especially of the lower parts between the Joynts which at night grow more feirce because then the pores are stopt and they are taken away by fomentations VI. Pustles Efflorescencies Scabs clefts in the palms of the Hands and soles of the Feet the Cure of which see in Hartman VII A running of the Reins in which the same Hartman commends green Mercury precipitate or the Gum of Pockwood which being given Turpentine washt in violet water and dissolved with the yelk of an Egg ought to be administered with the Decoction of Sarsaparilla 'T is distinguished from another by this that it causeth little or no itching nor doth not so soon cast the Patient into a Consumption VIII A tingling of the Ears which is very difficultly cured yet somtimes it vanisheth by the use of the decoction of Pockwood Septalius commends an Asses water distilled in which Pockwood some castor and a bundle of Horse mint have steeped al night and dropt into the Ears or the fume of it received IX Hardnesses or Knobs and Gummosities for the Cure of which Platerus hath afforded excellent Plaisters in the third book of his Observation Hither belong Hartmans Oyntment made of Vnguentum Aureum of the shops and Mercury sublimate X. A Consumption in the Cure of which Septalius tels me l. 7. Of his Animadversions p. 322. That the Decoction of Sarsaparilla made with leane Veal is admirable 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 II. Of Poysons Chap. I. Of Poysons digged out of the Earth POysons considered in special are either digged out of the Earth or Vegetables or Living Creatures The cheife and most common of those digged out of the Earth are the following I. Aqua Fortis whose strength is broke by the Mucilage of Quince Seeds Flea-wort Gum Tragacanth c. II. Antimony whose Antidote is bole-Armenick given with Oyl of Cloves and a little Wine That it hurt not with its Vapors whiles it is wrought in the fire we must Eat butter with Rue or drink Zedoary water III. Lapis Lazuli which if it be taken either ill prepared or in a greater quantity it ought to be cast up by vomit and be tempered with a drauft of warm Milk especially asses Milk IV. Arsnick Auripigmentum Sandarach which somtimes infect by their smel their specificks are Crystal digged out of the Earth poudered and drank one dram weight with new Oyl of sweet Almonds and Oyl of Pine Nuts given three drams weight V. Burnt brass Scales of Brass the flour of Brass the rust of Brass which are weakned by sheeps Fat taken in broth are killed by Bole-Armenick given with Honey and water VI. Refuse of Iron and the rust of Iron whose antidote is thought to be one dram of a Load-stone made into Pils with the juyce of Mercury VII Lead to which are opposed the Kernels of quinces husked bruised and given two drams weight with sweet wine VIII Quick-silver against whose fume received we proceed with a drauft of wine in which some Cephalick things have been boyled Sublimate is resisted by Oyl of Tartar or Salt of Wormwood Chap. 2. Of Vegetable Poysons VEgetable Poysons or those of plants are as follow I. Aconitum or Monkes hood whose antidote is Andromachus Treacle or Terra Lemnia in wine outwardly the swelled body must be anointed with Oyl of St. Johns wort and Scorpions II. Spurge against which a vomit being premised Andromachus Treacle is good with Carduus water III. Mezereon which is resisted with water Germander red Coral Treacle and Terra Lemnia IV. Black Hellebore whose antidote is the pouder of the flowers or Roots of white water Lillie or of Parsnip seed with wine V. Coloquintida whose force Treacle doth infringe VI. Euphorbium whose force is broke with Citron Seed in wine in which Elecampane Roots have boyled VII Green Coriander which causeth a furious raving and hath the Root of swallow wort in wine for its antidote VIII Mandrakes which causeth a heavy sleep its Symptomes are resisted by garden radish taken somtimes with Salt IX Henbane which they that have taken of it do somtimes rangle and dote like drunken men somtimes think that they are beaten with rods by reason of an Itching caused in the whol body its antidotes are Pistachoes castor Rue Nettle Seed X. The Walnut Tree whose shade if any one lie under it it doth hurt and causeth pains of the Head they are taken away with a lie of betony Marjoram Lavender c. XI Nux Vomica whose antidote is Zedoary two drams weight Citron Pill or the Juyce of it Juyce of the Myrtle or quinces XII Opium upon the too much use of which a Heavy sleep seazeth with a Vertigo and itching of the whol body whose antidote is assa Faetida and castor to which add Rue and Origanum XIII Mushrums which if they be taken either in too great quantity or be not wel concocted do cause Suffocation raise the hickops stop the Urin and exulcerate the Guts In the Crue are commended the ashes of prunings of vines with honeyed water Treacle and other things Chap. 3. Of Poysons from live Creatures THe cheife Poysons which are inferred by living creatures are those which are Caused I. By an aspe whose wound is so smal that it can scarce be seen upon its biting there come a heaviness of the Head sleepiness paleness of the Face often gapings c. In the Cure we must provide by ligatures and Scarifications that the Poyson peirce not into the body Treacle with bruised Rue must be laid on the wound Things alexipharmacal must be given inwardly amongst which are commended the leaves of Mullein Avens boyled in Vineger II. By a Viper at whose stroke first the blood comes forth pure which is followed by a bloody and fro thy filth like to the rust of brass with a notable tumor of the part and whol body pustles adust and blackish in the part affected It s antidote is costus given from half a dram to one dram with wormwood wine or the Decoction of wormwood an Hares Runnet Leeks c. III. By a Scorpion at whose stroke do follow pain inflamation a Tumor pustles about the wound like warts 'T is resisted by sage water germander wormwood gentian birth wort up-right vervain wild time c. One hath been freed by frankincense bruised in whom the scorpion had left its print IV. By a Lizard which leaves in the wound for the most part its subtile smal black teeth the teeth must be drawn out with Cupping-Glasses a Cataplasme of the crum of wheaten bread made with the Decoction of
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
hair of the Juice of Ivy of Fleuellen of Scabious of Tobacco Oxymel simple of Squils Lohoch of Colts-foot of Fox-lungs Lohoch sanum and Expertum de Passulis de althea Conserves of Bortys Veronica Pulmonaria maculosa Hedera terrestris Electuaries Treacle Mithridate Speices diaireos simple Diatragacanthum frigidum Diapenidium Diathamarum Fecular Aronis Flowers of Brimstone of Benzoin Trochiscks Bechicâ—albi and nigri Diaireos II. External Heaters are I Of the simples al those in a manner which we formerly mustered II. Of compounds Oiles of Orice Rue Costus Cheiri Sweet almonds and bitter Lillies Line Fatts Goose-fat which most penetrates Deer-suer Hens-grease Mucilages of Lin-seed Fenigreek marshmallowes with Safron Ointments of Marsh-mallowes Pectoral ointment and Unguentum Resumptivum Point 2. Of cooling Chest-medicaments Cooling Chest medicatâ—â—â—s are internal or external I. The internal are I. Of simples Roots of Garden Endive Lamb-tongueplantane Polypody Leaves of porslane Water-lillys Colewort Flowers of Violets mallowes Water lillys Bugloss Cichory red poppy roses Seeds the four great and smal cool-seeds seeds of poppy mallowes quinces barly Fruits Hungarian spanish prunes mulberries Jujubes sebestens of water thistle of sweet briar dried Woods red sanders yellow sanders white Sanders Gum tragant Arabick Animals River crabs whey Goates-milk II. Of compounds Waters of a capon simple and compound of veale mallowes Violets water-lillies red popie Distilled oiles of purple violets sweet almonds Emulsions of white poppie porslane cold seeds Decoctions Decoctum pectorale in the London Dispensatory of a Capon Syrups of violets Jujubees Water-lillies Gourds red poppie porslane Dialthâ—ae Fernelij Lohoch de Psyllio of reisins of Cole stalkes of poâ—slane of marsh-mallowes Electuaries Diacodium of the Physitians of Augsburge new Treacle Conserves of roses violets with boile-Armeniack Spanish Lettuce Species Diatragacanthi frigidi Diapenidij Roules of diatragacanthum frigidum Diamargaritum frigidum diapenidium sugar of roses in Lozenges II. External are I. Of simples the Leaves before aleadged Animals fresh may butter not salted barrowes grease Mucilages of Fleawort seeds of Quince seeds of Fenigreek of marsh-mallowes Oiles of violets white lillies Article 4. Of Cardiac or Heart-Medicines Point 1. Of Heating Heart-Medicines Cardiack-medicaments are such as are good for the Heart whether given in or outwardly applied and they are also hot or cold Internal are I. Of simples Roots of Scordium Doronicum Angelica Devils-bit Master-wort Vince-toxicum Scorzonera Dictamnus Contrajerva Tormentil Leaves of Baum scordium sage Tormentil carduus Scabious Fluellen Cardiaca Goates Rue Garden and wild Cresses Flowers of the Gilloflower rosemary scabious Centaury Baum Tormentil Borrage Bugloss Seeds of Citrons Aurenges Carduus Rue Lovage Navew Spices Nutmeg Cassia lignea Safron Cloves Woods Lignum Aloes Gums myrrh Camphire Benzoin Mastich Sea-commodities Amber Ambar-greise Earths and stones Bole-Armeniack Terra sigillata Turcica and stringensis Perles Corals fragments of the five precious stones Animals Bezoar stone Harts-horne Rhinocerots Horn Bone out of the Heart of a Stag. II. Of compounds spirits of Elder and juniper berries baume Elixir of Citrons with spirit of muscadine Distilled waters Of Carduus baum Citron-flowers scabious marigolds scordium Carbuncles Cinnamon with Cordial flowers Bezoardica senerty Distilled oyls of Cinnamon Citron baum Ambar Cloves Nutmegs Tinctures of ambar Elixir proprietatis Extracts of Angelica Carduus Citron peeles Lignum aloes Vince toxicum Zedoary Safron Essences the magistery of Cinnamon Essence of Ambar of Citrons of Perles of Vervaine Juyces of Citrons with their barks of Pomgranates Gelly of Harts horne made with Vinegar of Harts horne and scordium Syrups of Citron peeles with and without musk and Ambar Scordium Carduus Orenges baum Gilloflowers Pomgranates veronica Borrage Bugloss Gallangal Conserves of Baum Citron-flowers Orenges Gillowflowers Marygolds Borrage Bugloss Preserves of Citron peeles Orenge peeles Indian Nut Scorzonera roots elecampane roots Electuaries Treacle Mithridate Confectio Alkermes Diascordium Fracastorij Species and pouders of Diamargartium calidum Diamoschi Diambrae Bezoardicus II. External are I. Of simples those which have been reckoned up before 1. The compounds likewise are the same viz. waters juices distilled oiles Of these Epithemes bags Fomentations and Linements are made Point 2. Of cooleing Heart-medicaments Cooleing Hart-medicaments are either Internal or External I. The Internal are I. Of simples Roots of Dandelyon Sorrel Leaves of Sorrel wood-sorrel Water-lillyes Flowers of violets Cichory Water-lillies Seeds the four cold seeds Fruits of Rasberry red Corants Barberries Citrons Aurenges Pomegranats Sweet briar berries dried Woods the three Sanders Earths and medicines from Animals are those before mentioned II. Of compounds Waters of Sorrel Straw-berries black Cherries Quinces Hart-Stones Juyces of Citrons Pomegranates Rasberries Vinegar of Roses Gelly of Harts-horn made with Elder-flower Vinegar Syrups of juyce of Citrons of Pomegranates of Wood sorrel of juyce of Red Corrants Strawberries Lorrals Violets Conservs of Citron flowers of Aurenges of the pulp of Citrons of Roses of Acacia Preservs of Red and White Corants Barberies Citron Meates Eglancine berries Species and Powders of Diamargaritum frigidum Diatrion santalon Magistery of Perles of Corals Article 5. Of Stomach Medicaments Point 1. Of hot Stomach Medicaments Stomach medicaments are such as heat the stomach or cool it and that either taken inwardly or outwardly applied Internal stomach-heaters are 1. Of simples Roots of Pimpinel Rhaponticum Galangal Zedoary Calamus Aromaticus Caryophyllata Leaves of Roman and common Wormwood red and garden Mint Cardiaca Cichory Agrimony Marjerom Seeds the four greater and lesser cool seeds Coriander prepared Fruits Juniper berries bay-berries Aurenges Indian Nut. Spices Nutmeg Ginger Mace Cloves Cinnamon Galangal Cubebs al sorts of Pepper Cassia Lignea Woods Lignum Aloes Guajacum Citron Peels Orenge Peels Gums of Mastich Sea-medicines Ambar Ambar-greise Of Compounds Spirits of Muscadine of Rhenish Wine of vitriol of Mastich of Wormwood of Rosemary of Cinnamon of bread Distilled Waters of Mints of Betony Sage of Cinnamon with and without Wine Elixir vitae of Baum with Wine of Zedoary with Wine Distilled Oyls of Peper Calamus Aromaticus Cloves Mace Cinnamon Caraway Fennel Wormwood Orenge Peels Tinctures Elixir Proprietatis of Amber of Corals of Sassafras Wood. Extracts of Lignum aloes Wormwood calamus aromaticus Essences of Rosemary Citrons Wormwood Aurenges whereunto belong Salt of Wormwood Juniper Syrups of Cinnamon Mints Wormwood Betony Mastich Oximel sciliticum Syrup of St. Johns-wort flowers Conservs of Wormwood Mints Betony Red Roses vitriolated Preservs of China Ginger true Acorus Galangal Citron Peels Orenge peels Nutmegs Indian Nut Myrobalans Species and Pouders Aromaticum Rosatum Diatrion pipereon Diaxyloaloes Imperial species Stomach-pouder of Brickmannus II. External are 1. Of simples such as have been already reckoned up and of Gums Ladanum Tacamahaca Styrax calamites 2. Of Compounds there are besides the aforesaid the Balsams of Peru Camemel Romane Oyntments Stomach Oyntment Martiatum magnum Emplasters and Cataplasmes Emplastrum Stomachle de Crusta panis de Baccis Lauri de mastiche Point 2. Of Stomach Cooling Midicaments Cooling
Stomach medicines are also internal and external I. Internal I. Of Simples Roots of Cichory Sorrel Asparagus Water-lillies Leavs Endive Sorrel porslane mirtle Flowers of Roses Violets balaustians Seeds the four cool seeds barley Sorrel seeds Rose seeds Fruits Citrons Quinces Orenges Pomegranates myrtle berries medlars Tamarinds Corants melons and cowcombers Woods Sanders Stones Red corals II. Of Compounds waters of Roses Acacia Strawberries plantane porslane Quinces Juyces such as are mentioned among cooling Heart-medicines Syrups of corals Juyce of citrons Juyce of sowr Grapes of Quinces of Acacia of pomegranates Julep of Roses and of Violets Conservs of Roses vitriolated of Acacia Flowers Oak-tops citron-flowers Confects of Cichory Roots Quinces Spanish Lettuce Diacidonium simplex Species and Pouders Diatrion santalon Diarhodon Abbatis Diamargariti frigidi II. Externals are I. Of simples those we mentioned for inward medicaments II. Of compounds Oyl of Roses Violers Quinces Water-lillies unripe Olives Article 6. Of Epatick Medicaments Point 1. Of hot Liver Medicaments Liver medicaments are hot or cold and they are internal or external I. The Internal are 1. Of simples Roots the five opening greater and lesser of Pimpinel wild Radish Squills rhaponticum verum Rhubarb Leaves of Agrimony Eupatorium of Mesuae Kunigund is her herb Mountain Chamaedrys Centaury water-cresses Betony Liver-wort Ground-pine Flowers of Centauty Spike Squinanes Elder Liverwort Hops Seeds of Orenges Citrons Brooklime Seseli Fiuits Aurenges reisons Juniper berries Spices Cinnamon Saffron Acorus Zedoary Indian Spiknard Cassia lignea Woods Legnum aloes Guajacum Santalum citrinum II. Of Compounds Spirits of Elder Guajacum Wormwood Centory Waters of the Herbs aforesaid Oyls of Sage Orenges Wormwood Juniper berries Mace Nutmeges Tinctures Elixir proprietais of Lignum Sassafras Extract of Gentian Carduus Lignum aloes Wormwood Guaiacum Veronica Calamus aromaticus Syrups of Ground-Oak Byzantinus Syrupus so called of Hops of Wormwood Conservs of Chamaedrys Sage Wormwood Fumitory Rosemary Flowers Preservs of Acorus Citron peeâ—s Citrons Pimpinel roots Species and Pouders Diacurcumae Dialaccae Diaxyloasoes Diamargariti calidi II. The external are I. Of Simples those formerly alleadged II. Of Compounds Oyl of Roses Quinces Water lillies unripe Olives Ointments Unguentum Santalinum Refringerans Galeni Rosatum Mesues Plaisters Cerotum Santalinum Diaphaenicon frigidum Emplastrum de succo Ciculae Article 7 Of Splenetick Medicaments Point 1. Of hot Splenetick Medicaments Splenetick Medicaments are hot or cold and both are internal and external I. Internal hot Medicaments are 1. Of Simples the Roots of Fern which is counted an appropriate medicament of Scorzonera of Orice of Florence of Polipody of the Oak of Caryophy llata of wild Radish Leavs of Scolopendrium Harts-tongue Scurvy-grass Tamarisk Dodder Hops Fumitory Brook-â—ime Chervil Galiopfis Ground Oak Flowers of Hops Broom Elder Chamaemel Fumitory Liver-wort Seeds of Ash Ammios Water-cresses Chervil Mustard Nettle wild Parsenip Scurvy-grass Spices Saffron Epithymum Woods of Sassafras Lignum aloes Barks of Cappar Roots middle rind of the Ash Tree of the Elder and Tamarisk Tree Gums of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of Squils II. Of Compounds Spirits of Wine tartarized of Centory of vitriol of Mars of Tartar simple and compound of Brook-Lime of Scurvy-grass of Guajacum of Juniper berries Waters of Dodder Melissa compound Hops Water-cresses Scurvy-grass Fumitory Tincture of Mars Extracts of the Spleen of Jove Scolopendrium Harts-Tongue Scordium Fumitory polypody Essences of Scurvy-grass of Epythymum of Chamaedrys Fumitory Dodder Cappars Syrups of Scolopendrium Fernelii of Broom Flowers of Epithimum of Scurvy-grass of Apples Forestus his Syrup against the scurvy Conservs of scurvy-grass scolopendria broom-flowers Fumitory Veronica Ground-Oak Pimpinel Species of Dialacca Diacurcuma Dicapparum of Hollerius Tartarus Vitriolatus II. External medicaments are I. Of simples those already reckoned and of Gums Ladanum Tacamahaca styrax II. Of compounds besides the forementioned there are Balsams of Peru of Romane Chamaemel of Mastich Vnguents Unguentum stomachale Martiatum magnum Plaisters and Cataplasmes Emplastrum stomachale de Crusta panis de Baccis Lauri de Mastichae Point 2. Of cooling Stomach-medicaments Also cooling stomach medicaments are either internal or external I. The Internal are I. Of Simples the Roots of Cychory sorrel Asparagus water-lillies Leavs al sorts of Endive sorrel porslane myrtle Flowers of Roses Violets Balaustians Seeds the four greater cool seeds barley sorrel and Rose seeds Fruits Citrons Quinces Orenges Pomegranates myrtils medlars Tamarinds red and white corants melons cucumbers Woods sanders Stones red-coral II. Of compounds waters of Roses Acacia strawberries Plantane porslane Quinces Juyces those which have been mentioned among the cooling Heart Medicaments Syrups of corals Juyce of citrons sour Grapes Quinces Acacia Pomegranates Julep of Roses and Violets Conservs of Roses Vitriolated Flowers of Acacia Tops of Oak citron flowers Preservs of Cichory roots of Quinces of Spanish Lettuce Diacydonium simplex Species and pouders Diatrion santalon Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargaritum frigidum II. External are I. Of simples those already reckoned among the internal medicaments II. Of compounds oyl of Roses violets Quinces of unripe Olives Article 6. Of Liver-medicaments Point I. Of Heating Liver medicaments Liver medicaments are heating or cooling And the former are internal or external I. The Internal are 1. Of simples Roots The five opening roots greater lesses roots of pimpinel wild-redish squil Rhapontick Rhubarb Leaves of Agrimony of Eupatorium of Mesue of true mountaine groud oake Centory the less Water-Cresses Betony Liver wort ground pine Flowers of Centory the less spicknard Squinanth Elder Liver-wort Hops Seeds of orenges Citrons Brooklime Seâ—eli Fruits Orenges Raysons Juniper berries Spices Cinnamon Safron Acorus Zedoary Indian spike Cassialignia Woods Lignum Aloes Guajacum Santalum citrinum 2. Of compounds the Spirit of Elder berries Guajacum wormwood Centory the less Waters distilled of the foresaid Herbes Oyles of sage Orenge-peels wormwood Juniper Mace Nutmegs Tinctures Elixir proprietatis of Lignum Sassafras Extracts of Gentian Carduus Lignumaloes Wormwood Guajacum Veronica Calamus aromaticus Syrups of Ground oake Byzantinus Hops wormwood Conserves of Ground-oake Sage Wormwood Fumitory Rosemary Flowers Preserves of Acorus Orenge-peeles Citron peeles Citron pap pimpinel rootes Species and poâ—â—ders Diacurcuma Dialacca Diaxuloaloes Diamargaritum calidum II. The Eternal are I. Of simples those before specified of which decoctions Bags and fomentations may be made Ointments are Unguentum Nardinum Martiatum Plasters Diaphaenicon calidum de Baccis Lauri Oxycroceum Point 2. Of Liver-coolers Liver coolers are either internal or external I. The internal are I. Of Simples Roots of Aspragus Grass Water lilies Strawberry Sorrel Cichory Leaves of Sorrel Strawberry Asparagus Sowthistle Garden Endive porslane Lettice Water lillie Flowers of Roses Cichory Bugloss Balaustians Water Lillies Acacia red-poppy Seeds the four great and smal coole seeds barley white popy violets Fruites Pomegranates c. which we have reckoned among stomach-coolers See Gums and precious stones in the same place From Animals shavings of Harts hoâ—ne and Ivory whey of Goates-milk II. Of compounds Spirit of
Another by Induration and then the matter is clammy and hard natural heat strong the tumor it self diminished and the Hardness is encreased Another by Corruption and then the part appeares lead-colored and black and the heat and paine are diminished Point 1. Of an Imposthume Two things follow a tumor which proceeds from Humors viz. an Imposthume which is sometimies attended with a Cavity An imposthume is a collection of purulent matter or quittor in the Cavity of of some part proceeding from the Humor which causes the swelling The Subject is the parts and their Cavities The Signs may be fetcht from the third difference of tumors ariseing from humors where the business of suppuration is handled The Cause is the Humor it self which natural heat ripens and turns into quittor Hence it is various according to the variety of the Matter The Cure has respect to two certain times or seasons I. When quittor is in making and then we must act 1. By anodines and paine-asswagers Oyl of worms is exceedingly commended 2. By Ripeners and that temperatly hot and clammy in hot tumors and soft and moist bodies such as sweet oyl wheat flower milk crummy part of wheaten bread with such as are yet hotter in cold tumors and cold Natures and parts such as terpentine fire-rosin larch-rosin pine-rosin sigs raisons diachylon simple II. When quittor is made where we must go to work with 1. Evacuation either Insensible which is dangerous not only where there is great quantity of matter for feare of hardning the same but in al cases by reason of accrimony which may be increased by delay Or sensible and in this case the Imposthume must be opened either by more benigne medicaments amongst which are Diachylon simple with mustard-seed figs and salt or by stronger that is to say potential and actual Causticks 2. By Clensing with detergents viz. Juice of smalladg of Centory round birth-wort wormwood Betony Agrimony c. 3. By breeding of flesh with Sarcotick medicaments 4. By covering all with a scar by Epulotict medicaments among which is Emplastrum Diapalma In respect of the Differences they are manyfold I. Either it is from Blood and then it is easily ripened and being ripened it affords laudible quittor Or from other humors which arises with difficulty has somwhat in it like quittor green and yellow II. Or it is pure and simple quittor like either to pap hony suit oyle lees and wine dregs and sometimes mixed with many other things III. The Impostume is either in fleshy parts and then it is easily changed into quittor or near the joints in nervous and weak parts which have little Heat in them and then it is ripened with difficulty IV. Either the quittor flowes up and down in the Cavity and is gathered into the receptacle thereof or it is shut up into a peculiar membrane and bag Point 2. Of the Hole in an Imposthume The Sinus or holly hole in an Impostume is when the quittor diffusing it self in the depth thereof the neighboring skin does not cleave to the flesh beneath it The Sign is the going before of an impostume and tents by which it is best of al searched The Cause is the quittor it self which being kept in far below does make by its acrimony coney holes as it were and draws together the excrements of the whol Body The Cure is imposible if it have collected a Callus and hardness Doubtful if much and unconcocted matter is voided forth pain felt in the Hole Hopeful if little quittor good and white come forth and there be no pain 'T is performed I. By Evacuation of the quittor which is done either by bare clensing if the Hole tend downwards with barly water melicratum or mead and wine sod with hony or by Opening so that either the whol cavity be cut asunder if it be smal or only the lower Orifice if it be great and the part cannot be cut without danger II. By production of flesh with Sarcotick Medicaments where note That an excrement must be removed as wel if it be thin as thick least it stick in the Ulcer Most with the dryer sort as Orobusmeal Orice root Birthwort Myrrb Tutty pompholyx in such as are dry with the less dry as Franckincense Barly meal and Bean meal in such as are dry If the hole be not wide open liquid medicaments are to be cast in by a syringe and to be let alone a good while By want of pain and voidence of little quittor and wel digested we may guess of the soodering and growing together again of the skin and flesh and by contrary signs of the Contrary As for what concerns the defferences either they are shallow and little or deep and broad Either strait or oblique They tend either upwards or downwards and that way the worst quittor is evacuated Article 2 Of diseases consisting in Magnitude diminished A disease of Magnitude diminished is the diminuition of the parts of mans body in their natural magnitude There needs no signs seeing the disease it self is evident The Causes are want of aliment either because it is drawn away or because the channelar e obstructed Straitness of the place in which a part ought to be augmented section putrefaction refrigeration ustion of which in their places The Cure is undertaken I. By repairing the part with plenty of good nourishment in which case drinking of wines meats of thick juice little exerciâ—e indifferent rubbings are useful A Dropax or pitchy medicament of which see the Pharmacopeia II. By regeneration if a member be pluckt away which is the work of nature alone only let the Physitian remove the impedicaments c. Chap. 6. Diseases in Situation A Disease of situation or connexion is the sejunction of such parts of the Body as ought to be conjoined and a conjunction of such as ought to be separated 'T is needless I should speak of Signs because the disease is of it selfe apparent The Causes consist in those things by means of which the parts are fastened together and touching luxation we shal speak in the following Article Now the connexion of such things as ought to be separate comes to pass when the intermediate parts are loosned or the ligaments broken or wounded The Cure requires the Conjunction of parts disjoined and separation of parts conjoined And because luxations are most frequent of al the diseases of situation I think it meet in this place to treat of Luxation in Generall Article 1. Of Luxation Luxation in General is the slipping of a joint out of its natural seat into another wherby voluntary motion is hindered The Signs are the unlikeness of the Member to it self as it was before in shape and length Motion hurt pain by reason of Compression of the Nerves Muscles and tendons the sweling of that part in to which the joint is slipt the hollowness of that place from whence 't is fallen The CAUSES are al such things which are apt to stretch or violently
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-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
are the Glandules or kernels in the Neck Dugs Arm-pits and groins They are known by the sight especially among the inhabitants of the Alpes They Arise from a Flegmatick Melancholick mixt Humor which proceeds from the crudity of Diet or from a gross Juyce nourishing those parts mixed therewith which is shut up in a peculiar Membrane made by the formative faculty See the Cure in Book 5. in a peculiar Chapter T is divided into simple of which now and Cancerated which are mixed with a Cancer by reason of Black-choler 2. Into Free which are Joyned to no Vessel and Intangeld or Intaild which are Joyned with some remarkable Artery Vein or Nerve II. Ganglion Which is a Tumor scituate upon a Bone by reason of a Preternatural twisting or wreathing of a Nerve which is grown together into one body The Subject are parts which are covered not with much flesh but skin only It is known both by its situation and that it is void of pain and of the bigness of an Eg may be stretched to the sides and being pressed it makes the body feel the pressure It arises by occasion of a blow reaching or labour which stretches and as it were breakes a Nerve or tendon Whereupon the excrement of the Nervous part sweats out and sticks about the Fibres and Nervous parts and by their formative faculty is changed into this substance T is Cured by Emollients as Emplastrum de Ammoniaca and digesters and if they suffice not with suppuraters and by Section concerning which see the Authors III. Those kind of Tumors which spring indeed from the same cause viz. A Flegmatick Humor or Alimentary Juyce only they are distinguished by the matter contained in the bladder and from thence take their respective Names For it is named Meliceris if the matter included be like Honey the Tumor rounder than ordinary and giving way when it is touched Atheroma when it is like Water-gruel or Hasty-pudding and hard to the Touch. Steatoma when it is like to suet Chap. VII Of Tumors arising from a solid Substance TO such kind of Tumors these three sorts following are to be referred I. Verrucae Warts being Tumors standing upon the skin like Hittocks They are known very easily They arise from either a thick Melancholick and Flegmatick matter or from such Juyce as is ordained to â—ourish the Skin and Scarf-skin They are Cured either by Application of appropriate Medicaments such as are the Juyce of Willow-leaves and Cichorium Verrucarium or Wart-cichory water which Stands on the stumps of felled Oaks Spurge Milk an Onion bruised with salt They are divided into Hanging warts which the Greeks term Acrochordones being broad on the top and smal at the bottom where they are fastened to the skin as it were by a stalk Thymia which are colored like time are likwise smal at the skin broad hard and rough on the top being smaller than the hanging-warts and Sessiles which the Greeks term Myrmecioe lower than the Thymia scarse bigger than Lupines hard broad-bottom'd deep rooted and causing pain II. Clavi cornes which are wont to breed on the Toes and Soles of the Feet by the pressure and wringing of shoes which somtimes of their own accord prove very painful and are alwaies troublesome to the goer They must be Noynted with the blood of an Ele and Oyl of Mercury and when they are softened with Oyl of Snailes When they are cut smeare them with the Urin of a dog and lay on a Plaster of red Wax III. Callus Brawnyness is an hardness bread in the surface of the skin in the palms of the Hands and the lowest parts of the soles of the Feet It has no deep Root and is void of al pain It may be pared of after frequent washimgs and soaking in water Chap. VIII Of Tumors caused by solid parts falling from their due Situation Article I. Of Aneurisma Varix and Elephantiasis by the Arabians so called TUmors proceeding from solid parts falling down into or lying upon any part are many we shal here speak only of the Aneurisma Varix and Elephantiasis of the Arabick Physitians so called the rest we shal treat of in their proper places I. Aneurisma is a Tumor arising from a breach in the inner coat and a widening of the outer coat of an Artery T is known because it is a soft Tumor beating with the pulse and for the most part yeilding to the finger and if it yeild not to the finger nor pulse which may fal out in a great one yet a noise as it were of boyling water is perceived because of the passage of spirits through narrow waies and so it is distinguished from an Ecchymoma It arises through default of the Artery which in respect of its inner coat which is hard and thick is opened in respect of its external coat which is thin soft and rare it is widened It is wont to happen either by the Violent Motion of the flood or by some external force most frequenly when either an Artery is opened instead of a Vein or an Artery together with a Vein is hurt For then the external coate as being soft and of kin to the coats of the Veins growing together and the inner remaining open the blood and spirit Issues through the hole and distends the external coat T is Cured with Difficulty if smal if new Is in a manner incurable if old and great and if Section be made danger of death is incurred The Cure is undertaken 1. By Application of Repellers and astringents where Emplastrum Contrarupturam is useful c. 2. By Section or cutting touching which see Authors II. Varix is the Dilatation of a Vein It happens Cheifly in the Thighes under the Navil and somtimes in the temples It befals men principally yet hardly before they come to Age. T is known by the swelling of the Veins and the part being Lead-colored or black It arises from thick Melancholick blood which fals into the place either through its own weight or being thrust thither by some violent Cause Varices ought not to be Cured if they be critical and free the patients from other Diseases as they are wont to do from madness If they are to be Cured they are hardly Curable by Section but best of al by extraction of which see Aquaependens III. Elephantiasis of the Arabians is a Tumor of the Feet springing from Melancholick Flegmatick blood and the Varices Herein the Thighes are swelled of a Leaden-color black and ful of Ulcers It can hardly be Cured without a continual and long Course of Phyfick Chap. IX Of Malignant Tumors A single Article Of the Elephantiasis MAlignant Tumors are sundry Viz. Buboes Carbuncles Smal Pocks Meazels Elephantiasis Of the rest I have spoke or shal speak elsewhere I shal here treat only of the Elephantiasis T is called also Leontiasis Satyriasis and Lepra Being a Cancerous Tumor of the whole Body springing from black choler infected with a Venemous quality and shed
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
impostums of the Brain abundance of Yellow Choler c. Or else they exalt the same such as are hot and dry temperaments that cause an inordinate motion of the Animal spiritts Or else lastly They impede and hinder the motion of the Animal spirits and such are a less than is requisite conformity of the head and brain the over great thickness of the same c. The CURE respects the several Causes and may be taken and understood by what hath been already above spoken Those medicaments that are appropriated either for the conservation or restoration of the memory are reputed and accounted to be that they term Tinctura lunae taken in the water of lilies of the vally The pouder of Trithemius of which there is sufficiently spoken in the miracles of Mullerus the Anacardine Confection in weight half a dram thereof exhibited and taken with al possible cautions unless haply an hot and dry temperament hinder it Those things that resist and therfore are good against a cold and moist distemper are that water that Practitioners cal Aqua Magnanimitatis Cunradi The lily of the vallys balm frankinsence in weight half a scruple taken with wine Nutmeg c. Toughing which consult the practitioners in Physick Article II. Delirium or dotage A deliry or dotage is a depravation of the Phantasie and the ratiocination Faculty arising from the bringing and presenting of an absurd and inconvenient Phantasme The SIGNES of a delirium beginning are garrulity or talkativeness in a person of few words and so on the contrary fierceness in a quiet and mild person ribaldry and scurilous speech the quick motion of the eyes in regard that they are associated with the brain Arteries veins and nerves a pulse with perturbation in the Hypocondria But the signs of that that is present are speeches and actions that the patient hath been altogether unaccustomed unto and which in themselves are indeed very absurd and incongruous The CAUSE hereof is an absurd Phantasme having its rise and original from a default in the Animal spirits as wel those that are fixed as those that are movable which ought to be pure clear and transparent temperate and regularly and ordinatly movable For if they swerve from those aforesaid requisites there is then an error and mistake communicable unto the Phantasmes about and upon which the Reason is employed and busied and then those Phantasms are represented unto the intellect or understanding otherwise than they ought to be The CURE is different according to the variety of the differences It is divided into a dotage that we cal primary and that which we cal sympathetical I. The Primary is that when the brain is in its one proper substance and essence that is in it selfe affected and this is either with a feaver of which more in the Chapter following or else without a feaver containing under it as wel that wherein Paraphora and Leron that is to say an error of the mind or a dotage and busying of it about toies and trifles proceeding from the imbycillity of the principal faculty by reason of an immoderate flux of blood or else by reason of long continued watchings as that we term downright folly in the which the principal faculties are not only impared and diminished but likewise extreamly depraved and corrupted II. That which is sympathetical when the Cause is communicated from other parts It is disposed and divided into that which is without a feaver which comprehendeth under it temulency or a kind of drunkeness and distemper brought upon the spirits either by wine or beer or else from hemp darnel henbain the dry sticks of that they cal Levanthe the rinds of mandragoras opium and the like Those things that preserve are the smal strings of wormwood and Rew eaten upon an empty stomach the cabbage or colewort and a morsel of bread eaten after a draught as aforesaid those things that accomplish the cure are vomits and the use of things Acid and sharp c. and into that that is with a feaver which often hapeneth in acute feavers and not otherwise And then the feaver is at hand and presently appeareth if it shew it selfe in the very begining without any apparent signs of concoction it introduceth a Phrensie which is quallified in great part removed by sleep but if it happen to be with concoction and other hopeful signs and tokens then it is Critical and decretory It is cured 1. By revulsion by the opening of a vein in the feet and other such like remedies 2. by tempering and allaying the extraordinary heat of the blood in the head by topical or local medicaments 3. By the application of hypnoticks or medicaments caussing sleep 4. both by the evacuation of the matter which hath already seized the head and this is to be done by openining either the forehead or the tongue vein and likwise by the discussion of the said matter by applying unto the head pidgons dissected and cut in midst and withal the decoction of Camomile c. Or else it happeneth in an inflamation of the parts and especially the diaphragme And then the breathing is unequal the Hypocondria are violently drawn back more inwardly there is likewise Joyned therewith a deliry or dotage together with a Cough and a pain of the side The Cure ought to proceed according to the Nature and condition of the part affected Article III. Of a Phrensie A Phrensie is a perpetual and Continual deliry or dotage arising from the Inflamation of the Membranes of the brain and afflicting the Patient with a continued Feaver The SIGNS are a perpetual doting a continual Feaver incessant watchings and short and frequent drawing of the breathe The CAUSE is an inflamation of the Membranes of the Brain of the which we have already above treated in this very Book The CURE ought to be ordained according to the Disease the Nature of the watchings and the suppression of the Urine In this distemper Venesection or blood-letting is one especial if not the only Remedy But then a plentiful measure or as we say good store of blood is somtimes to be drawn forth at the Nostrils by putting up a Feather made into the fashion of a Star even unto the very Root of them and forcibly turned about therein But touching what we are now upon more may be seen in what hath been already delivered concerning the Inflamation of the brain Neither must we forget by reason of those aforesaid watchings together with repellers to mingle Hypnoticks that cause rest or else they ought to be administred severally and by themselves alone as we see good Three grains of Opiat Laudanum cautelously administred in a convenient liquor least the Phrensie should by any means degenerate into that Disease we cal Veternus that is the Lethargy or drousie distemper are very much commended This said mutation or change is wont to happen either of its own accord or else because the sick persons neglect cannot endure to reply unto
compounded and made of Crocus Martis beaten into a most smal pouder and Crâ—cus Veneris of each two ounces these wel mingled together with the oyl commonly known by the name of Oleum Vici Pomarum Symplicium the water of the sperm of Frogs with a little Champhyre and sugar of Saturn put round about the neck Argilla furnaceâ— that is to say Clay baked in an Oven and wel mingled together with strong vinegar like unto a pultise and applied after the same manner Asses dung or swines dung dissolved in Rose vinegar and then put up into the nostrils the shavings or Fragments of Fungus Betulinus the mushrom or toad stool of the Beech tree the Root of white Succory dig'd up about St. James tide at noon day when the sun is at ful south and chawed betwixt the teeth As for the Magnetical Curing hereof by Vitriol see further in Beccerus in his Medicus Mycrocosmus in the Chap. of the blood c. The Hemorrhage is divided in a threefold manner from the Causes from the blood and from the places from whence the said proceedeth I. One is from that we cal Anastomosis or an opening of the orifices of the veins which either is caused by the abundance of blood and then the face is red the veins strut and are distended and a ful feeding went before and here venesection hath its place the head is by no means to be washed or so much as wet with cold water lest that the blood being there deteined something that is worse follow upon it neither is there any linen cloth to be wet in cold water and at the first begining of it to be cast about the neck lest that the ways and pasges between the brain and the heart should by this means be shut up or else it is caused by the acrimony of the blood and the thinness thereof and then there ready at hand signs of a Cacochymy and in this case we are to do the work with those things that incrassate and thicken as Bole armonick Dragons blood in the shops termed Sanguis draconis and such like Orelse it is caused by the irritation of the facculty and then the very same things as before are present and ready at hand or else by the weakness of the said faculty and then there is blood issuing forth by intervals but it is not much and some disease weakening the liver went before and therfore the Cure ought likwise to be prosecuted with special regard had unto the same Another is from a diairesis as we term it or a division of the veins by some sharp corroding humor and like by other means and then the blood issueth forth in a far greater abundance or there went before some violent Cause or else lastly there are present certain signs of a Cholerick Cacochymy Another is from that we cal diapedesis or as we may to term it a passing through by leaping and then the blood that issueth forth is but very little c. See more hereof in the first Book II. One is of the Arterial blood which is hot somwhat red subtile leaping forth with a froth and with violence Another is of the vein blood and this is Thicker and Blacker III. One is of blood issuing and passing forth out of the veins of the Brain and then there went before a pain of the head and the flux is not easily stanched Another is of the same blood leaping or starting out of the nostril veins and then the contrary of what was said touching the former happeneth and appeareth Chap. 3. Of the Hindering and Hurting of the Smel Gravedo or Stuffing and Sternutition Or Sneezing THe principal burt of the sence of smelling is the abolition or the diminution thereof which differ only in degrees and in the greatness of their Causes And this is caused 1. Either from a distemper of the brain which either possesseth the fore part thereof and then the Tast likewise by reason of the branches of the third pair of nerves of the brain Forming the tongue is abolished the voice is loud and shril and no way to be found fault with the Cure here is to have an especial regard unto the distemper or else it possesseth and resideth in the process of those nerves that constitute and frame the organ of the smelling and then there is no hurt at al to be perceived in the brain or in the other senses Or else it is caused by the narrowness and streightness and that too either of the Brain and then there is present and sensibly to be felt a heaviness in the head and here we may operate by errhines and yet not toomany of them neither and here likewise sternutatories are exceeding useful and profitable or otherwise of the Processes of the brain or of the nose within and the Ethmoid Bone and then the voice and respiration are vitiated and the wonted excrements restrained and kept in The smelling is somtimes totally abolished if the Phlegm by heat be baked and hardened at the holes and enterances of the aforesaid bone which chanceth unto such as being troubled with the pose or distillation called coriza heedlesly and without any consideration go into baths In these cases that that cheifly deserveth commendation is the Root of Gentian fitly put up into the â—osâ—ils Castoreum wel soaked in vinegar and afterwards sweetned the Oyl of Nightshade the Errhin of Zacutus in his seventh Book 15. Chap. P. 517. c. touching which we have before spoken in the Chapter of Cactarrhs II. Gravedo or Coryza is a defluxion of the Excrements of the Brain being crude and thin like water unto the nostrils which is accompanied and attended with a frequent sternutation or sneezing This Malady is wel enough known and by it self discovered It ariseth from the distemper of the brain either hot or cold concerning which enough above III. Sternutation is a violent and involuntary expulsion by the nostrills of the flatulent windy spirits and sharp vapours offending the Brain It is done with a Loude voice as wel because the Windy spirit breaketh forth altogether at once as by reason that it forceth its passage through the streight narrow holes of the nostrils It ariseth either from external causes and then the nostrils are to be supled and gently stroked with the oyl of roses or milk or else from internal humors and vapours brought thither touching which see further in their proper Chapters but is wont for the most part and too commonly to be neglected by the Physitians unless in Plethorical bodies it happen to be accompanied with a distillation in the very first beginning of the disease The little veins in the greater angle of the eyes and that is nighest unto the nostrils being forcibly pressed together do forthwith stay and stop the frequency thereof Title VII Of the diseases of the Tongue and the Symptoms thereof THe Affects of the Tongue are a Tumor or swelling Ranula a blackness a Palsy a stammering an Aphony
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
greater hopes of safety in regard that the Inflamation advancing into the outward parts may possibly be drawn forth and digested Another is that we cal Paracynanche the which seizeth upon the Neck alone and the Muscles thereof that appertain unto the Tongue and the Hyoid bone This of al the rest is least to be feared as having least danger in it because of its distance from the Throat as also by Reason of the constitution of the parts affected which being Kernelly soft and loose may the better without any difficulty receive the Humor that floweth unto it in regard that the Muscles of the Larynx are not inflamed neither the way and passage of breathing intercepted and stopt V. One is that which is dissolved and removed by a Diaphoresis or Sweat the Cause thereof being thereby diverted drawn back Evacuated or at least dispersed and scattered Another that is Cured by Maturation and the Evacuation of the Pus or corrupt Matter out of it being first opened Another which is terminated and ended by the Translation of the Peccant matter unto some other Part which is known by the sudden and unexpected cessation of the swelling and the pain and likewise by the alteration and change of the Pulse The matter is Transferred 1. Vnto the Brain and then there followeth a grievous pain of the Head a Phrensie and a Dotage 2. Vnto the Muscles of the Neck and then there is usually produced and excited an extream pain a swelling and somtimes a Convulsion 3. Vnto the Lungs and the Pleura Membrane and then there ariseth a pain of the Breast Cough and difficulty of breathing 4. Vnto the Heart whereupon a Trembling swooning and an obscure and weak pulse affect the Diseased Party Title II. Of the Diseases of the Throat A Single Chapter Of those Kernels we cal Strumae and of Bronchocele a swelling in the Throat THe Diseases of the throat are Strumae and Bronchocele I. Strumae commonly called Scrofulae or the Kings Evil in the Throat are swellings in the Glandules or Kernels generated of thick and Clammy Flegm and included in their own proper Membrane There is no need here of many SIGNS the swellings are round Pendulous and hanging easily moved if touched and such as are separable from the Skin The CAUSE is flegm which is somtime alone but other while conjoyned with Melancholly it ariseth from Meats that afford a Crude raw and thick Juyce and thereupon it is most Familiar unto Infants and such as are yet in the state of Childhood It may especially likewise be thrust and made to appear by those Waters that contein in them Mercury or Quick Silver such as are those in Carinthia Styria and about the Alpes It is somtimes together with a nourishing Juyce if the said Juyce offending in quantity be not wholly consumed and wasted by Nature sent unto the Glandules as unto the more ignoble parts The Membrane in which they are included is never by the Formative Faculty produced in Vain or to the end it should be idle and of no use For when as the Memberane is distended by the Superfluous Humor in great abundance thereunto flowing and haply likewise thereby broken Nature then attempteth as it were the contexture and forming of a new kind of Membrane The CURE dependeth cheifly upon the Particulars following I. The matter that is the Cause thereof ought to be Evacuated II. The same matter is to be wholly wasted and consumed with the Herb Scrophularia commonly called blinde Nettle and Water Betony the Root of the dead Nettle the Roots of Herbs Filipendula and Gladiotus but especially the Root of the shrub Ruscus or Butchers broom of which there is to be taken after it hath been reduced into a smal pouder every day for a while one dram thereof in wine III. The said matter is to be cut and dissipated by Emollient Topicks And for this purpose there are commended the Leaves of the Cypress Tree the pouder whereof being sprinkled with Wine let it be so made up into one Mass or Lump and then let the aforesaid Strumae or kernels be anoynted therwith for two or three daies IV. It is to be suppurated and when it is brought unto Pus or Matter then the swelling is to be opened the Pus or filth to be emptyed forth the hollow or Cavity thereof to be throughly cleansed and purged and lastly to be filled up again with Flesh II. Branchocele is a swelling in the throat sticking and strutting forth so that it taketh up much room arising from a windiness and conjoyned with an extension The aforesaid windiness breaketh in under the Skin and the general Membrane that is situate under and knit unto the Skin in the more inward parts of the Neck It is Caused by the Air which when the Skin whose Membrance in that place is more thick and somwhat more red than else where is violently pulled away from those seats and places that are subjected unto the Aspera Arteria or rough Artery and the Anterior Muscles of the Neck by some extraordinary vehement streining of the Body and this often cometh to pass whilest the breath is long held in that so the Excrements or the infant in Child-bearing may the better and more speedily be thrust forth or when Trumpets are strongly blown and thereby the Cheeks extreamly swollen and puffed out and being rent and divided as aforesaid it causeth and produceth there a void and empty space to prevent a vacuity breaketh in and so elevateth and lifteth up the Skin and Membrane into a Tumor or Swelling Title III. Of the Diseases of the Aspera Arteria or the great rough Artery THe Diseases of the Aspera Arteria are Asperity or roughness Narrowness or streightness Wounds and Vlcers I. Asperity or roughness which is a want or defect of the Natural Smoothness is known by the hoarsness of the Voice Either from Externals as from Oyl if by Reason of its Age or frying therewithal it become Rank from Nuts from dust from Smoak c. Or else from Internals either Humors fallen down from the Head or else A Vapor striking upon the foldings thereof It is to be Cured by those Medicaments that moisten Mollifie and make smooth and these Medicaments termed Arteriacal either they are wholly void of al kind of Mordicacity and biting quality to wit Butter Milk Sweet Must the Decoction of Raisons Liquorice Jujubes Tragacanth or withal abstersive as Sugar the Honey or Juyce of dryed Figgs the Sugar of Penidies the Syrup of Violets and of Jujubes or else with a kind of Acrimony and Tartness as Hyssop the Flower-de-Luce Roots Nettle Seed spike Frankincense and Mirrb But that which is here most profitable and expedient is that sort of Pills that we term Bechichae likewise the Troquisches Bechici and the Oyl of Sweet Almonds with Sugar Candy II. The streightness or narrowness of the Rough Artery is known from the difficulty of breathing and the fear of a neer approaching suffocation
one scruple and an half the Juice of Flowerdeluce clarified which may be given to three drams with syrup of endive six drams Parsly water half an ounce and the pouder of diarrhodon Abbatis one scruple With peach flowers dryed and boyled in wine The stronger as gambugia which is given from six grains to fifteen see Reudenius concerning it Rulandus his extract of esula trochiskes of Alhandal or the same authors Spiritus vite aureus The extract of elaterium most commended by Massaria from one grain to three grains The magistral or Crystal Lunae of Tentzelius given chiefly at the Wain of the Moon from four grains to five Mercurius vitae fixt by longe digestion Crocus Metallorum Absinthiacus of Mynsichtus the same authors Tartarus Emeticus c. All which must be given on even dayes not too often nor the bowels too much corrupted after the use of them we must see whether they bear it wel and the bowels must alwaies be strengthened Concerning a Paracenthesis or tapping see Authors 2. By diureticks which ought to follow purgers of water amongst which beare the palme the pouder of earth worms given one dram weightwth the decoction of asparagus or fennel The salt of ash salinated as Billichius delivers Wine twice or thrice strained through the ashes of bean straw burnt six handfuls the tops of broome Juniper each two handfulls and a halfe woodbine one handful and a half and given six ounces weight 3. By swaeters and dryers as are the Root of swallow wort steept and boyled in Wine Antimony Diaphoretick the decoction of Sassafras wood Treacle in wine the quantity of a smal Walnut with a few drops of Oyl of Sulphur Lapis Serpentis concerning which see Joel Outwardly Mynsichtus his Plaister de Cineribus 2. By strengthning of the parts that the Water be not collected again here are good the Trochiskes of Wormwood Paracelsus his Diacubebae c. 3. by diet which see in Anthors The Differences are taken from the parts by whose default the serum is collected One is by default of the Kidneys that do not attract the serum either because they are Exulcerated and then some matter appears in the urin the piss is much less than in other Causes or because the Vreters are broken and then it ariseth suddainly That comes to pass for the most part in expelling the stone Another is by default of the Spleen which when as it is as it were spungy it ought to draw the water from the stomach by the vas breve that office being delegated to it by Nature which may be carried from hence by the splenick Artery into the Coeliacal by and by from the trunk of the Aorta by the emulgent Arteries to the veins It doth that either too greedily by reason of an inflamation risen in the Veins which is known by a pertinatious flux of the belly which doth neither take away the swelling of the belly nor the pain by reason of a Hectical distemper and either from the weakness of the veins not attracting the nourishment or from the corruption of the same and continual voiding of Cholerick Excrements it afflicts with a heat in the jejunum gut and mesentery Or it neglects it altogether either by reason of the obstruction of the passages tending to it caused by thick humors Or by reason of the dissipation of heat from a schirrous too much emptying the use of hot things the distemper of the neighbouring parts acute Diseases Or by reason of the suffocation of heat by the too much use of cold things from the suppression of the Courses from superfluous Evacuations c. Another is by default of the Liver either for the same causes not attracting the serum or retaining it or by reason of the same inflamation too much attracting and then there is a desire of coughing the Excrements are few and dry by reason the serous Humor is sent into the belly and the rest is burnt up by the heat of the Liver Article V. Of a Tympany and Anasarca A Tympany is a distension of the belly from much wind raised up either by a weak or burning heat contained within its Capacity It is called also a dry dropsie although for the most part 't is joyned with Water The SIGNS are these the Skin appears retcht like the skin of a drum and struck upon gives the sound of a Drum the Navel hangs forth much The puffing up of the belly is greater but the heaviness less Compressing of it doth not leave behinde it so conspicuous a mark but the hollow print is presently filled up belching and Farts often break out noise and rumblings Obmurmurate It must be distinguished from the distension of the breast after wounds which doth possess the breast back Loins Cod Arms Neck nay somtimes the whol habit It proceeds from hence that the Air which ought to pass streit through the mouth to the Lungs and from the Lungs again to be breathed forth through the mouth a way being open between two Muscles or the Muscles and the skin 't is blown from the wound as from a pair of bellows into the space between the skin muscles and hence furthermore it penetrates into the neighbouring parts The CAUSE is wind which if you consider its rise springeth either from a weak heat or from too much and torrefying which resolves into Vapors that which is subtile being violently stirred as is seen in black choler lying under the stomach If the place 't is neither in the stomach because it would be cast forth by belching nor in the Guts because it would be voided by stool but for the most part 't is generated between the coates of the mesentery and Guts For in the dry Dropsie the torments afflict about the Navel greifes and pains of the Loyns but the mesentery forward is united to the smal Guts backward to the vertebres of the Loins from which it springs from whence is this distention yet it is found also in the Cavity of the Guts and it insinuates it self thither through the Orifices of the Mesaraick Veins The CURE requires I. The bringing forth of the matter producing the Wind where takes place Fardinandus his Antipneumatical wine concerning which in the History 38. The Coagulated Spirit of Salt with Wormwood water and spirit of Elder 2. The Discussion of the wind outwardly by a great Cupping-Glass applied to the Belly by frictions with Garlick bruised and boyled in generous wine by a fomentation of a Boyes Vrin and Lapis Prunellae concerning which see Hartman Inwardly by the Decoction of Ebony wood the spirit of Guajcum the Arcanum of Cummin and Carrawais the liquor of the flowers of Mullein c. 3. The correcting of the hot distemper of the Bowels if there be any the strengthning if it be weak II. An Anasarca or Hyposarkidion and Leucophlegmaty is an equal increase of the bulk of the Body preternaturally throughout â—â—e whol body arising from default of the nourishment The SIGNS
of Saturn excel But a Vein must be opened also and the Patient Purged 2. In its Acrimony contracted from hot meats Medicines and sharp things which must be opposed 3. In its Commotion whiles seeking a Passage it causeth an itching II. A Priapisme is an erection of the Yard without any desire of Venery arising from a windy Spirit filling up the hollow Nerve of the part That Vaporous spirits ariseth either in the Nerve it self from a cold distemper or in the Yard and Vessels from a thick and crude Humor by an unproportionate heat and here the distilled Oyl of Rue takes place For the most part 't is by Reason of the mouths of the Arteries are too open and dilated pouring forth plenty of Spirits because perhaps the Loyns and Kidneys being heated they grow hot and are filled with much spirits which happens to those that abound with much blood In the Cure universals premised Water Lillies the Seed of the Chaiste Tree and other coolers ought to be applied A Satyriasis is a Palpitation of the Yard following an inflamatory disposition of the spermatick Vessels with a distension It happens rather to young men than to other Ages the Cure must be hastened least they fal into a resoultion or Convulsion of the Seminary Vessels We must have a Care of Purges in it unless Perhaps we can make an aversion by Vomits and from things that move Urin. Article III. Of a running of the Reins A Gonorrhea is a too great and involuntary shedding of the Seed arising from its own fault and the fault of the Spermatick parts The SIGNS are evident the seed is shed a gainst their wils without lust and dreams of lust without any stifness of the Yard with no sense of delight or very little from whence is caused a slenderness of the whol Body about the Loyns especially with a paleness and hollowness of the Eyes The CAUSE and CURE shal be explained in the Differences The Flux is stopt by the magistral of the bone of the fish Sepia given from six grains to half a scruple with old conserve of Roses By fixt Antimony with Plantan Water The Difference is taken from the Causes One is by default of the Spermatick Parts 1. Of a cold and moist distemper which either ariseth from external Causes endewed with such a vertue and weakens their retentive faculty as too much Venery or from an afflux of Humors in which Case emptying and binding with heaters mixt takes place It is the easier Cured so it be new the pouder of Turpentine given with milk for fifteen daies does good 2. by default of their Laxness when their Bladders conteining the seed and the Vessels that carry it are too much enlarged and Relaxt Another is by the fault of the Seed it self which is 1. Plentiful by forbearing from Venery and by using meats that nourish wel and then bleeding Fasting exercises do good 2. Sharp and hot stimulating the expulsive faculty which proceeds from the like blood by reason of the heat of the liver and Kidneys and then a priapism for the most part is joyned with it external Causes went before The Cure must be ordered by emptying of Choler by anointing the back bone and Loyns with cooling Oyntments 3. Crude watrish and thin and that either by reason of the coldness of the stones or of things taken or the like distemper of the Liver and then the Seed comes froth even at the touch of a Woman there are present the signs of crudity In the Cure we must act with driers and strengthners The essence of Turpentine is commended given one dram weight in Syrup of Agrimony Or by reason of the abundance of Vitious Humors in the body which are sent to the spermatick Vessels and then we must act with emptiers and good Diet. 4. Virulent and Malignant as is concracted in the French Pox which is known from hence that at first a white Poyson or somwhat Yellowish fals from the spermatick Vessels insensibly as wel when they wake as sleep which in time putrefies and gets an Acrimony eats and exulcerates the Passage of the Yard from whence ariseth a pain which also when 't is stiff does stretch a string as it were under the Yard and in pissing does goad sharper as it were in a dysury that is somtimes hollowed so deep that it breaks outwardly at the upper Skin of the Yard It ariseth from a weakness of the Spermatick Vessels and stones contracted by that poysonous Evil which causeth that whatsoever is collected in these Vessels turns to a filthy Poyson which by contagion Pollutes any other body As concerning the Cure 't is difficult in old Men in al if it be stopt without reason For there is collected for the most part an impostumation within somtimes about the stones in the Epididymis somtimes in the Perinaeum which the Skin breaking pours forth the matter We must abstain from things astringent least it being retained doth corrode the Parts Dryers and things that resist Putrefaction as are Sorrel Treacle Mithridate and those things which are dedicated to the French Pox do good Titile XI Of the Diseases of the genital parts in Women Chap. 1. Of the Diseases of the Neck of the womb Article 1. Of a Tentigo and Cauda THe Diseases of the Womb are either of the Privities or Neck of the Womb or of the womb it self To those belong Tentigo Cauda Straitness pustles condylomato Hemorrboids and Vlcers I. A Tentigo or great bit and the womans Prick is the growing of the Clitoris into too great a bulk The Subject is the Clitoris or that Nervous flesh hard which in the Neck of the Womb the Joynt wings of the Privities do embrace and at the Top of which that is the which swels in desires of Venery This manifest affect needs no SIGNS somtimes the bulk is so great that it hangs forth through the cleft of the Privity as thick as a goose Neck and resembles a mans Yard they have too great desire of Copulation The CAUSE is too great an Afflux either of an Humor or nourishment by reason of its Laxness which is induced by often touching and 't is wont to cause lust at the least rubbing of the Cloathes The CURE respects 1. The abatement of blood and the bringing forth of other Humors for which ends serve a most slender and cooling Diet and discussives especially the leaves of the lentisk and Olive 2. The taking away of the same Excrescency where first must be applyed the gentler causticks As Alum Vnguentum Aegyptiacum the lie of which Soap is wont to be made boyled with Roman Vitriol adding towards the end a little Opium and make Trochiskes of them with which pouder the flesh must be strowed over at last the flesh must be cut off either by Ligature or Section having a care of an Inflamation II. A Cauda is a certain fleshy substance arising from the Mouth of the Womb which fils up the womens Privity and somtimes
at ful of the moon it groweth exceedingly and about the change or new moon it becomes altogether as flaggy and smal in appearance c. It hath its Rise from viscous and Clamy humors and cheifly from flegm mingled with the blood which falling down from out of the brain unto the exulcerated nostrils sticks fast in the Ulcers The Cure is by al means to be hastened lest that it turn into the Cancer It is accomplished either by Chirurgery or by cutting it off of which see further in the Practical Authors Or else by Pharmacheutickâ— or medicinal remedies and among them universal and general medicaments being first premised about the new of the moon therâ— are to be administred either the oyl of vitriol uncorrected dropt into wooll and after the flesh shal have been scarrified so applied unto the part affected or else tents of the Gentian Root by the prescript of Hartman or Joel his liniments It is divided after a twofold manner I. One is soft and white which being void of al pain is the more easily and the sooner cured Another inclining somwhat unto a Reddish color which is more difficult in the curing Another Livid or black and blewish which refuseth by any means to be cured and soon degenerateth into a cancer In this affect there are commended the yolks of new laid eggs beaten together in a leaden morteâ— even unto a blackness and then made up into the form of an unguent with one scruple of Camphire Another hard in which Emollients in the form of a fomentation ought to be premized II. Another is profound and deep which in regard that it is neerer unto the brain is therefore withal the more dangerous Another such as is to be discerned by the eyes and hath its existence and being somewhat more outwardly Chap. 2. Of the Hemorrhage or Bleeding of the Nostrils THe Hemorrhage is an immoderate excresion and in the whole kind thereof besides and above the course of nature of the blood by the veins of the nose the said veins being divided rarefied or opened The thing we are now treating of is to be understood of that homorrhage that is Symptomatical and not of that which is meerly Critical which is caused in Feavers by the strength and vigor of nature with signs foregoing of concoction and a Crisis on that day the Judgment is to be made and which dischargeth and terminateth the disease The SIGNES of this Affect are of themselves sufficiently manifest It is foreknown by that Anarropia as they term it or tending upwards of the humors unto the superior parts the which is signified by the pain of the head and neck the heaviness of the temples the dimness of the Eyes the extension or stretching forth of the Hypochondrium involuntary tears difficulty of breathing c. The CAUSES are whatsoever it be that can open divide or rarefie the veins of the nose of al which we shal make mention in the differences The CURE is difficult if it be so immoderate and immeasurable that in cholerick bodies the Choller inflaming and burning the blood the face becometh of a Citron or oringe color in Flegmatik bodies the flegm being multiplied of a leaden color and in melancholly bodyes of a black and duskish color and if it flow forth to the quantity of four pints therof if it befal such as are Phlegmatick and melancholly in regard that they are more cold thereby than are the sanguine or Chollerick if it affect those that are of an high and red color with a certain kind of pain in the head if it doth not terminate and put an end to that disease wherein it happeneth and that a chilness and stifness follow thereupon because that the body being exhausted of spirits is extreamly cooled and chilled and by this means breedeth diseases that last and continue a long while It is not at al to be attempted in those persons that in a burning Feaver are afflicted with pains in the head together with aches in the neck and the whole body and where there is present a weakness with a kind of trembling in regard that this putteth an end unto the disease in those whose monthly Courses fail them in those that are afflicted either with deafness or the distorsion of the back bone and a difficulty of breathing or else with a strong pain in the inferior parts al other things being thereunto answerable and correspondent It is very doubtful if in the affects of the Liver it flow from out of the left nostril and in the affects of the spleen out of the right nostril and especially if it be accompanied with a sweating of the Breast or head if it happen to those that are Feaverish and that thereupon when they begin to Recover the belly is humectated and becommeth overmuch moystned in regard that the nattural innate heat being debilitated a dropsie is very likely to follow thereupon if it happen to be attended with weake faint and as we cal them cold sweaâ—s and therewithal a kind of chilness because that hereby is signified and shown an extream and overgreat dissollution and subversion of the Spirits if in an accute disease it hath together with it joyned a quick and suden motion of the eyes a turbulent and troubelsom sleep frequent watchings or want of duesleep it in acute and burning Feavers on the fourth day there issue forth drop by drop a thick gross and black blood together with other Sympcoms because this argueth evidenceth the imbicility or weakness of nature and lastly if such a bleeding chance to be in diseases of long continuance It is wrought and accomplished I. By Revulsion by opening of the median vein provided that the said venesection be moderate and as often as there shal be cause Repeated on that side the nostril is of out of which the said blood floweth as also by cupping-gasses applied unto the hypochondria if the blood be not naught by Frictions c. II. By those Medicaments that stanch and stop the Hemorrhage or bleeding flux and those either such as are Cooling or astringent and binding or of an agglutinating Nature or else lastly such as act and operate by a secret and occult quallity and theâ—e aforesaid medicaments either to be outwardly applied or else drunk in and taken down inwardly In the number of those Remedies that are internal and to be taken into the body the cheif that we know of are beleeved to be these Sperniolae compositum or the composition of frogs mentioned and prescribed by Crollius three or foure grains hereof to be administred in the water of the herb shepards pouch Crocus Martis with the Juyce of Quinces and some few grains of Opiate Laudanum the Syrup of Coralls of Quercetan in a Chalybeat water the Extract of Crocus Martis three grains therof with plantane water the sperm or seed of frogs collected in the spring time dryed and then drunk with wine Among the External Remedies the unguent of Quercetane