weakness or toughness of the matter Nausea Loathing is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Navis quod navigantibus proecipue contingit All loathing is either natural or adventitious The natural for the most part is common to Women with Child wherein 't is thought by some that the mind of the Child in the Womb is affected as well in this distemper as in the disease called Malacia or longing wherein if the Woman have not presently what the longs for wheresoever she first puts her hand on any part of her body in that part the Child is mark'd as we may see often by experience The adventitious loathing or that which cometh by accident is stir'd up in healthy People by prejudice they esteeming some sorts of food ungratefull or prejudicial to their Health and therefore their Stomachs loath them Sometimes nauseousness and loathing even to vomiting immediately follows Intemperance in eating and drinking which is dangerous That we may the better judge of the causes of this distemper let us first consider what is the natural Cause of Hunger by which we may the easier discover it I judge the chief Cause of natural hunger to be the remainders of food fermented in the Stomach and the longer it stays there it is still more and more fermented by the Spittle which is continually swallowed down and intermix'd with it and at length it raiseth a somewhat sour and gratefull Vapour which pleasingly affects the upper Orifice of the Stomach and so natural hunger seems to be produc'd And if food be with-held somewhat longer than ordinary then this hunger is increas'd even in healthy People which I think is promoted and augmented by the Juice of the Pancreas having a friendly Effervescency with Choler and Phlegm in the small Guts from whence sour and gratefull Vapours are sent to the Stomach which increaseth hunger and if food be seldom taken it may proceed to fainting fits Hence we may gather that if there be a Cause vitious Effervescency of the aforesaid humours in the small Guts then vitious Vapours are thence produc'd which rising up to the Stomach and other parts adjacent not onely diminish hunger but more or less deprave Thirst as also the senses of tasting and smelling hence it is that the sick do loath all sorts of food as soon as they smell taste or see it 1. Want of Appetite or Loathing is a digression Progn from the natural State and is therefore dangerous and is worse in Children than Adults because they require more Nourishment 2. In all diseases this is an evil Symptome and if the sick recover and want Appetite or loath their Food there is danger of a relapse This distemper either in healthy People or those that are sick may be cur'd Cure 1. First by freeing the mind from every prejudice 2. By correcting or purging out the vitious and peccant humours If the Humours incline upward they may be safely carried out by an Antimonial vomit and after the operation at night going to bed let the sick take this Cordial Opiate Take the Waters of Damask-roses Baum Cordial Opiat and Cinamon of each one ounce Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers red Poppies of each half an ounce Confectio Alkermes half a drachm Laudanum opiat four grains Oil of Vitriol six drops mix it But if the humours be very viscous and the Stomach be not nauseous let them be purged out by stool with such Medicines as have power to alter amend and evacuate the vitious humours For example Take of the Decoction of Senna Gereonis Purging Decoction four ounces the best Manna Syrups of Epithymum Roses Solutive with Senna of each half an ounce mix it for two Doses to be taken in the Morning fasting After purging the Stomach must be strengthned which may be done by this excellent Diet-drink Take the Roots of China Sarzeparilla of Diet-drink each eight ounces Guiacum two pound Cinamon Mace Nutmegs of each one ounce Raisins of the Sun stoned one pound Anise-seed Liquorish of each one ounce and half let them be bruised and infused in two Gallons of fountain-Fountain-water very hot for the space of twenty four hours then boil it to the consumption of the third part strain it and add Syrups of Cinamon and of the Juice of Rasberries of each four ounces mix it and let it be put into Bottles The sick may drink four ounces of it three times in a day Also candied Ginger and Nutmegs preserv'd are good to corroborate the Stomach a little of either of them may be eaten before the taking of the Diet-drink You may anoint the Stomach with Oil of Mace by expression after which apply a Plaster Stomachicum magistr to the Region of the Stomach CHAP. IV. Of the Hicket or Hiccough THE Hicket is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin singultus ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum gula quod fere gula fiat vel a sono gulae It is called in English a Sobbing or Yexing being something like the Clocking of Hens with Chickens This disease was thought by the Ancients to be a deprav'd motion of the Stomach onely by which it striveth to expell something which is hurtfull but experience doth manifest that it is a convulsive Motion of the Midriff and not of the Stomach because in this distemper expiration is deprav'd and this is chiefly perfected by the Muscles of the Belly both by drawing down the Breast and compressing all that is contain'd in the Belly and driving them forward towards the Midriff and so compelling it upward its proper motion together concurring by which a greater straitness is made in the Breast which causeth the Lungs also to be straitned and consequently the Air contain'd in them to be suddenly expir'd 'T is true in this distemper the Stomach is primarily affected by sharp Vapours Wind or humours whencesoever proceeding which piercing to the membranous Centre of the Midriff provoke it by pricking or corroding to perform that convulsive motion in which the Diaphragma is contracted with a great force towards the Region of the Stomach which suddenly and violently driveth it forward and outward the convulsive Motion soon ceasing and again often repeating The causes of the Hicket are either external Cause or internal The external are hurtfull sharp and poisonous food or medicines taken into the Stomach by which the Midriff is soon affected and compelled to this violent and presently interrupted convulsive Motion The internal cause riseth up out of the small Gut by the vitious Effervescency of the humours there meeting from whence sharp halituous or windy Vapours are rais'd to the upper Orifice of the Stomach by which it is soon corroded and thence the sharp flatuous Humours or Vapours are presently carried through the Vessels of the Diaphragma and sticking in its substance do corrode its sensible parts and compell it to that Convulsive repeating contraction of it self When the
or three Days then press it out very hard and add the same quantity of Sarsaparilla as before do this for eight or ten times the ostner the better add to the Spirit of the best Gum of Guiacum in fine Pouder half a Pound the Balsam of Peru and Tolu of each two Cunces mix them all together in a Glass Resort lute a Receiver to it and digest it for ten days then draw off all the Spirit with a gentle heat in Balneo Mariae when it is cold break the Retort and take out the Pouder and keep it for use It is an efficacious Medicine against the Rheumatism Gout Venereal Pox and all Chronical Diseases The Dose is half a Dram in a Spoonful of Whey or Milk or any other Vehicle every Morning fasting or mix it with an equal quantity of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder and give it every Morning and Evening for some time Electuarium Antiscorbuticum nostrum Our Electuary against the Scurvy c. Take of the Berries of Bays Ivy and Juniper of each four Ounces the Seeds of Dwarf-Elder Burdock Ash Broom Peony Gromwel the Bark of Elder of each two Ounces Let them be all bruised and boiled in the Juices of Elder-Berries and wild Cucumbers of each one Pound the Juice of Buckthorn-Berries four Pound 'till half of it be boiled away then press it out very hard and boil it to the Consistence of a Pulp to every Pound of it add an equal quantity of white Sugar and boil it again 'till it be almost as thick as an Electuary then dissolve in it whilst it is very hot the same weight of pure Nitre as there is of Sugar To every Pound of the Electuary add four Ounces of Balm of Gilead two Ounces of our Balsamick Pouder before mention'd one Ounce of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder and two Drams of Oyl of Juniper mix all together according to Art It is an excellent Cathartick in all Diseases which requires Purging for it potently evacuates all vitious Humours promiscuously out of the Body it cureth the King's-Evil Rheumatism Gout Dropsie Scurvy dry Belly-ach and all curable Diseases The Dose is from two Drams to an Ounce It may be given in the form of a Bolus or dissolved in Ale Whey or any other liquid Vehicle and taken in the Morning fasting Sal Chalybis noster Our Salt of Steel or Iron Take the finest Filings of Iron or Steel rectified Oyl of Vitriol of each one Pound mix them together in a large Earthen-Pan well glazed let it stand for two or three Hours then pour into it two or three Quarts of fair Water and it will presently effervesce and the Salt will stick about the Pan take it out and keep it for use Tinctura Chalybis The Tincture of Iron or Steel Take the finest Filings of Iron or Steel four Ounces rectified Spirit of Nitre half a Pound mix them together in an Earthen-Pan well glazed when the Effervescency is over let it cool and add to it Spirit of Wine rectified five Pound mix it well together then filter it through brown Paper and keep it for use Both of these Medicines are great Aperitives opens all Obstructions cures the Rickets Green-sickness Stoppage of the Terms Yellow-Jaundice c. they strengthen the Stomach kills Worms and purifies the whole Mass of Blood You may give from half a Scruple to half a Dram of the Salt in any Vehicle every Morning The Tincture may be taken from ten to forty Drops at a time in Beer Ale or Wine Aqua Styptica nostra Our Stiptick Water Take of pure white Vitriol Roch-Alum of each four Ounces let them be poudred and calcined in a Crucible 'till it be red-hot then quench it with Wine-Vinegar and calcine it again Take it out of the Crucible and dissolve it in a Gallon of Spring-water add to it two Ounces of Saccharum Saturni then strain it and keep it for use It cures the Itch and all other Eruptions the grieved Parts being wash'd with it three or four times in a day It likewise cureth hollow Ulcers and Fistula's the Gonorrhaea in Men and the Whites in Women You may inject it with a Syringe warm twice in a day AN INDEX OF THE CHAPTERS Comprehending all the Diseases of this BOOK The Contents of the First Book Chap. Page I. OF the Head-ach 1 II. Of the Palsie and Apoplexy 13 III. Of Convulsions and the Epilepsie 22 IV. Of the Night-mare and Vertigo 35 V. Of the Lethargy Coma Carus and Catalepsie or Catochus 38 VI. Of the Phrensie and Madness 44 VII Of Catarrhs 55 The Contents of the Second Book Chap. Page I. OF Shortness of Breathing 69 II. Of the Pleurisie and other Instammations 72 III. Of the Consumption or Phtisick and Hectick-Fever 83 IV. Of the Palpitation of the Heart 92 V. Of an universal Languishing as also of Swouning and Syncope 96 VI. Of Fevers in General 103 VII Of Intermitting Fevers 116 VIII Of Malignant Fevers and the Calenture 124 IX Of the Plague or Pestilence 129 X. Of the Small-pox and Measles 136 The Contents of the Third Book Chap. Page I. OF the thirsty Disease 141 II. Of Hunger vitiated or of a depraved Appetite 144 III. Of want of Appetite or loathing of Victuals 148 IV. Of the Hiccet or Hiccough 152 V. Of Belching 156 VI. Of Vomiting and of the Cholerick and Iliack Passion 158 VII Of Pain in the Stomach and of various Pains of the Guts as Colick c. 168 VIII Of Worms 179 IX Of Loosenesses or Fluxes of the Belly 185 X. Of the dry Belly-ach 196 XI Of the Yellow-Iaundice 202 XII Of a Cachexy or ill Habit of Body 207 XIII Of Dropsies 211 XIV Of the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Suffocation commonly called Fits of the Mother 222 XV. Of the Green-sickness and Suppression of the Courses 231 XVI Of the immoderate menstrual Flux and the Whites in Women 237 XVII Of the Falling down of the Womb and Fundament 242 XVIII Of Barrenness 245 XIX Of Abortion or Miscarriage 249 XX. Of hard Travel in Child-birth 252 XXI Of Nephritick Pains and of the Stone in the Reins and Bladder 257 XXII Of extraordinary Pissing 269 XXIII Of involuntary Pissing commonly called Pissing in Bed 272 XXIV Of the Stoppage of Urine and the Strangury 274 XXV Of the scalding or sharpness of Urine 277 XXVI Of Venereal Affects 279 XXVII Of the Rachites or Rickets 288 XXVIII Of the Gout and Rheumatism 303 Praxis Medicinae Reformata OR THE Practice of Physick REFORMED BEING AN Epitome of the whole Art Wherein is briefly shewed The true Causes Signs Prognosticks and Cure of most Diseases BOOK I. CHAP. I. Of the Head-ach THE Head-ach may be divided into three Kinds The first is the momentany Head-ach it Cephalalgia is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caput and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dolor The second is an inveterate Head-ach and is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod
Scurvigrass-water two ounces Cinamon-water Syrup of Worm-wood of each one ounce and half Oil of Juniper one drachm mix them together for a Julep of which you may also give two or three spoonfulls every fourth hour I prescribe no Purgers in this Distemper because I am taught by large Experience that the sour Humours in the Body may be stirr'd up indeed but not purg'd unless with very great gripes which will doe more hurt â—â—an good The encreâ—â—e of the acid Juice may be prâ—â—â—nted by abstaining from the use of acâ—â—â— Let the Patient's diet be moist and fatty as fat Broths Jellies aromatiz'd c. When the Head-ach proceedeth from a hot cause if the Patient be costive first give this Clyster Take of Mercury Violets Lettice Mallows Dandelion of each one handfull Damask Clyster Prunes twenty let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two pints of Fountain-water till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Electuary lenitive one ounce and half Oil of Lillies two ounces mix them for a Clyster After its operation you may open a Vein and draw eight or nine ounces of bloud Some Authours will not consent to Phlebotomy in any Head-ach except the Pain be intollerable but I have had sufficient Experience that it may be done safely in any Pain of the Head Elixir proprietatis taken in Wormwood-wine to the quantity of half a drachm at a time a little before meat doth wonderfully conduce to amend the vitious quality of Choler Choler may be evacuated by vomit most commodiously by Antimonial preparations Take of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum one ounce Oximel of Squills half an ounce Give it in the morning Vomit But if the Patient be averse to vomiting the Choler may be evacuated by stool by this or the like Cathartick Take of Baum-water one ounce Cinamon-water two drachms Syrup of Roses solutive Purging Potion the best Manna of each half an ounce Powder of Cream of Tartar twenty grains Diagredium ten grains mix it for a Potion which may be given in the morning fasting Also these most gratefull Tablets of Scammony may be prepared and kept for use Take Cristals of Tartar two ounces Scammony one ounce white Sugar four Troches ounces with Gum Dragon dissolv'd in Rose-water as much as is sufficient let it be made into Troches according to Art Half a drachm of these Troches may be given to a Child with carefull governing a Man or Woman may take two drachms of them They who are fearfull of Scammoniats though safe and potent let them take the following infusion Take of choice Rhubarb two drachms Cream of Tartar one drachm infuse them Purging Infusion in four ounces of Endive-water for a night then strain it and add Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of Cicory with Rhubarb of each half an ounce Cinamon-water two drachms give it in the morning fasting This Electuary is also an excellent Cholagogue Take the Pulp of Damask-prunes ten ounces Powder of Scammony Cream of Tartar Electuary of each two ounces Rhubarb ten drachms Cinamon half an ounce yellow Sanders two drachms the best Manna Syrup of Cicory with Rhubarb of each eight ounces mix all together into an Electuary according to Art The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce taken either in a Bolus or dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Endive-water or any other convenient vehicle These excellent Medicines do not onely purge Choler abounding but purify the Bloud and other Humours and here we may note that if a purging Medicine do not operate according to Expectation it may safely Observation be repeated the same day without any danger If the Head-ach be accompanied with a great Fever and Thirst be augmented the following Medicines will much conduce to asswage it Take of Barley-water two pints Cinamon-water two ounces Syrup of Violets four Iulep ounces salt Prunella half an ounce mix it and give the sick three or four spoonfulls of it often This Tincture is also very effectual Take of Barley-water two pints Red-rose-buds Tincture one ounce spirit of Vitriol twenty drops or as much as is sufficient to make it of a good Tincture let it infuse all Night then strain it and add Syrup of Jujubes four ounces mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every three hours If an Emulsion may please better take this following form Take of sweet Almonds one ounce the Emulsion four greater Cold-seeds of each half an ounce white Poppy-seeds two ounces let the Almonds be blanched and all well beaten in a stone Mortar then with four pints of Barley-water make an Emulsion strain it and add Syrup of the Juice of Limmons Diacodium of each three ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water two ounces of which let the sick drink often four spoonfulls at a time You may also have a little fine Sugar and salt Prunella equally mixt which may be kept in the Mouth to deceive the Thirst. But where rest is hindred by the Choler abounding and cannot be obtain'd by the Emulsion which gently procureth sleep you may dissolve two grains of Laudanum opiat in two or three spoonfulls of it and give it at night or you may order this or the like Julep Take the Waters of Lettice Water-lillies of each two ounces Syrup of red Poppies Iulep one ounce Cinamon-water half an ounce Laudanum opiatum four grains Oil of Vitriol six drops mix it and give four spoonfulls of it to cause sleep This Epitheme may be applied to the Temples and Fore-head with Linnen-rags Take the Oils of Violets and Water-lillies of each half an ounce the waters of red Roses Epitheme Lettice and Houseleek of each two ounces Vineger of Roses half an ounce mix it You may also anoint the Temples and Fore-head with this Ointment Take the Ointment of Alabaster Populion Ointment Oil of Mandrakes of each half an ounce mix it Let the Patient's diet be Mutton or Veal-broth without salt When a salt Catarrh or the like spittle is the cause of Thirst augmented you may administer a Pill of Styrax or Cynoglosson which will temperate the saltness of the humours and if salt serous matter abound in the Bloud you may purge it by Stool and Urine for which there are variety of Medicines prescrib'd in the Chapter of Catarrhs CHAP. II. Of the Palsie and Apoplexy THE Palsie is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a solvendo eo quod nervorum genus resolutum facultate animi Paralysis defluere prohibita sensu motuque destituatur It may be also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. dimidia Apoplexia In Latin it is called nervorum resolutio vel relaxatio It is a Privation of sense and motion of one side of the Body or of some particular part The Apoplexy is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoplexia ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 percutior attonitum reddo In Latin 't
is called stupor corporis it being an Abolition of sense and motion through the whole Body The parts affected are the Brain Spinalis medulla and Nerves the motion of the Animal spirits through them being deprav'd The causes are either external or internal The external is much cold and moisture Cause which doth chill and over moisten the Head and extreme parts and this seems to prove Cause internal that phlegmatick and watry Humours abiding about the Ventricles of the Brain and Nerves may over moisten and perhaps so far loosen the Tunicles or Membranes of them that it may render them unfit to let the Animal spirits pass through them hence it is that sometimes one particular Member hath been Paralytick by too much Cold and Moisture and sometimes more parts have more or less lost sense and motion It is the opinion of most eminent Physicians both ancient and modern that the Animal spirits being severed from the Bloud in the Brain c. are from thence carried through all the Nerves to exercise the external senses and Animal motion which is continual and equal in healthy persons but changeable and unequal according to the divers diseases of the Body or Mind Wherefore when no Animal spirits are carried to the Organs of the external Senses or Animal motion the functions of seeing smelling tasting hearing and touching and the sense of heat as also of motion in the Palsie and Apoplexy cease all that time The Signs of the Palsie are manifest to wit deprivation of sense and motion of the Signs Paralytick parts the Eye and half the Tongue viz. of that side affected is much weakned and deprav'd The signs of the Apoplexy approaching are these a sudden crying out for help with an abolition of sense and motion 1. If the Palsie or Apoplexy do invade the sick in the decrease of the Moon and the Patient Progn be old 't is an ill sign 2. If the sick do snort and is droughty and cast spume or froth out of the Mouth and have great sweat with difficult breathing 't is mortal But if the Person be young and a strong Fever immediately happen 't is a good sign for the Fever consumes the superfluous moisture and makes a Dissipation of the gross and phlegmatick Matter 3. A Palsie coming after the Apoplexy is ill and many times turns to the Apoplexy again When any of the extreme parts be Paralytical Cure or when the Head is ill affected by the external coldness of Air Water or Snow or a stoppage of the Head be also bred thereby or the defect of the Animal spirits chiefly urge then the sick may be cur'd by driving out whatsoever cold has pierc'd into the Head or any other parts of the Body which may be done by spirituous and volatile Sudorificks for they do not onely alter and correct the cause of Cold and other Evils accompanying it but do also amend the harm entring into the Body containing and contained To this end I commend this following Form Take of Treacle-water one ounce Fennel-water Cordial to cause sweat and Epidemical-water of each two ounces Syrup of red Poppies and Syrup of the Juice of Scurvigrass of each half an ounce Bezoar-mineral Antimony Diaphoretick of each ten grains Laudanum opiat three grains Spirit of salt Armoniack twenty drops Oil of Cloves four drops mix it give the sick three or four spoonfulls of it and expect to sweat being meanly covered and a spoonfull every half hour afterward till the sweat break forth then give them some pure Broth with a little Wine in it whereby strength may be recreated and the Patient enabled to bear a Sweat longer for nothing so much helps the sick as a sweat continued mildly a while which experience hath often taught me For by the help of this spirituous and volatile and also Aromatick medicine or one like it the troublesome Cold and dulness of motion are discust They who let bloud in this Distemper caused Observation by external Cold or think they can carry out the Cause of this Evil either by vomit or siege put the sick into danger of death or at least of most grievous Evils But when phlegmatick and watry Humours stick about the Nerves c. And too much moistening and loosening their Membranes and Marrow be the cause of the Palsie and Apoplexy and if the same humours much abound in the Body then Phlegmagogues and Hydragogues may conduce to the Cure after Clysters and internal Aromatick Sudorificks Wherefore to begin the Cure of this you may first give this or the like Clyster which must be made strong Take of sweet Marjoram Betony Sage Penny-royal Clyster Hyssop Rue Mercury Marsh-mallows the lesser Centaury the Flowers of Chamomel and Stoechas of each half a handfull Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed Juniper-berries of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in a quart of Fountain-water till half of it be boiled away then strain it and dissolve in it the Electuary Diaphoenicon benedicta laxativa of each half an ounce pil Cochioe twenty grains common Salt one drachm Oil of Rue two ounces mix it for a Clyster The next day if the sick have a Plethorick body you may draw bloud from either arm to eight or nine ounces If Phlebotomy cannot be done apply Ventoses with Scarification to the shoulders afterward sweat the Patient with the aforesaid Sudorifick Sometimes Suppositories may be used in stead of Clysters This may serve for Example Take the Powders of Coloquintida Salt-niter Suppository Hiera-picra simple of each one drachm Euphorbium half a drachm Honey boiled as much as will make it into a Suppository But if it appear that phlegmatick and viscous Humours do abound in the Body Purgers may be prescrib'd most conveniently in the form of a Pill because the Gums are most apt above all other Medicines to loosen and cut viscous Phlegm neither can they be easily dissolv'd in any liquour Let this or such a like form of Pills serve Take the Gums Amoniacum and Galbanum of each two drachms dissolve them in Vineger Purging Pills of Squills strain it and boil it to a due consistence then add Powders of Troches Alhandal Scammony Mastick of each one drachm Oil of Anise-seed eight drops make it into a Mass of Pills according to Art Let the sick take five or six small Pills of this in the morning fasting and an hour after drink some thin broth If the humours be more serous I commend this Electuary Take Juniper-berries one pound boil them in six pints of fennel-Fennel-water till Purging Electuary half of it be boiled away then add the Fruit of Tamarind eight ounces and pulp them both through a Sieve To which add Powder of Jalap and Scammony prepar'd of each three ounces Cinamon sweet Fennel-seed of each half an ounce white Sugar one pound make it into an Electuary according to Art The dose of this effectual Medicine is to half an
it hath also acquired that Name in which they cannot stir nor call for help though they have a great desire and do strive very much to cry out but are possessed with a panick fear The cause of this distemper is most commonly Cause intemperance in eating and drinking especially in the Night whereby crude halituous Vapours are bred in such plenty that nature cannot disperse nor dissolve them before sleep and therefore they are raised up to the Ventricles of the Brain by which imagination sense and motion are all depraved The giddy motion is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. obscuritas oculorum In Latin 't is called Vertigo ex vertendo quod Caput vertere videtur Vertigo In this disease the Animal spirits are wrong mov'd which makes the sick believe that not onely all things they look on go in a Circuit about but their Head and other parts seem to turn round which many times causeth them to be in danger of falling or tumbling headlong The cause of the giddy motion is either Cause external or internal The external are either an intent looking at any object that turns round or about especially if very remote or a frequent turning about of the Body it self The internal cause is the ascent of flatuous Vapours to the Head together with the spirituous part of the Bloud and carried with the Animal spirits into the passages of the Brain and Cerebellum by which the motion of wheeling about is communicated to the Animal spirits and anon carried to the Cristalline humour of the Eyes by the Optick nerves and so a Giddiness seems to be produc'd For the Cure of these diseases seeing they are the Forerunners of the Apoplexy and Epilepsie I refer you to those excellent Medicines prescrib'd for the Cure of them Let such as are subject to these distempers be very sparing in their diet let them avoid all Herbs Roots and Fruits that are windy and all viscous and gross diet such as is of hard Concoction Let the external Causes be remov'd and the internal causes corrected Sublata causa tollitur effectus CHAP. V. Of the Lethargy Coma Carus and Catalepsie or Catocus THE Lethargy is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est ab oblivione Lethargus inertia Because in this disease the sick is very forgetfull and slothfull In this distemper there is a very great Signs propensity to sleep accompanied with a Symptomatical Fever and sometimes with the Hiccough with difficulty of breathing dulness of the Head and many times a deprivation of the Senses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sopor altus is an insatiable inclination to sleep the sick being called unto Coma. they open their Eyes and answer but presently fall a sleep again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is called in Latin crapularis redundantia because it is sometimes caused Carus by surfeiting end drunkenness It is deep and profound sleep whereby imagination sense and motion are all depraved In these there is no Fever in which they differ from the Lethargy Catalepsis vel Detentio is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a with-holding or restraining because in this distemper the mind with the senses and motion are all suddenly surprized so that the sick remain stiff and immoveable in the very same posture in which they were taken with their Eyes open The causes of these diseases are either Causes external or internal The external causes are gross food idleness spirituous wine or any other inebriating liquour taken in excess and sometimes by the Air inspir'd which is defil'd by the Smoak of Coals or other mineral Fumes by which the Air may be infested The internal cause is a Narcotick force mix'd with the Animal spirits bred by degrees in the Body by the frequent use of opiats not well corrected which not onely dulls the mind but causeth a sluggishness of the whole Body for the Animal motion being deprav'd the external as well as internal senses will be thence soon infected and defil'd These diseases are all very dangerous and except they are speedily cur'd they will soon Progn hurry the sick into the Boats of Acheron or devouring Jaws of Death But if a Phrensie cometh immediately after any of them it cureth the Patient with little help of medicine To cure these diseases let the drowsie Animal Cure spirits be stir'd up and rais'd from sleepiness and stupidness by potent external Objects which may sharply move the external senses let the sick be kept in a light room and be often called upon very strongly and let sharp smells be applied to the Nostrils such as Spirit of Salt Armoniack Harts-horn c. Also sharp spices or salts should be put into the mouth and gentle frications us'd with warm Cloaths to those parts that are affected with Numness The Animal spirits may be freed from the Narcotick force mingled with them and likewise slothfulness and sleepiness may be by little and little diminished by the frequent use of sharp volatile Salts and all Medicines endued with an Aromatick biting such as Pepper Cloves Castor Garlick Horse-radish Mustard Scurvigrass c. Of which you may make diversity of Medicines for example Take the Waters of Hedge-mustard Scurvigrass of each two ounces Syrup of the Iulep Juice of Scurvigrass one ounce Tincture of Castor two drachms Oil of Cloves four drops mix it and give the sick two or three spoonfulls every two hours This decoction is also very effectual Take the Roots of Horse-radish the best Decoction China of each two ounces Roots of Galangal half an ounce Scurvigrass Hedge-mustard of each one handfull Cloves one drachm let them be all cleansed bruised and infused in White-wine and fountain-Fountain-water of each a quart for the space of a Night very hot the next morning boil it gently for half an hour then strain it and add Syrup of Hedge-mustard Scurvigrass of each three ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water two ounces mix it Let the sick lying in bed meanly covered take often in a day five or six spoonfulls of this decoction whereby a light sweat may break forth to ease them By the frequent use of these medicines the Animal spirits will not onely be freed from their drowsiness but even the Narcotick force bred in the Body either in the length of time or received in from without may be corrected and by degrees gently educ'd by insensible transpiration So that at length these dangerous distempers may happily be overcome Let Clysters and Suppositories be often administred as need requires Those prescrib'd in page 17 18. in the Cure of the Palsie and Apoplexy are very effectual here If strength and age permit let a vein be opened in either Arm or Foot as you shall see cause for generally Authours consent to it besides Experientia docet Let Ventoses with or without Scarification be applied to the shoulders and hinder part of the Neck And let Sternutatories be
use of four things a little Harsh mixt with drink or Broth as beforesaid because they much conduce to restore by degrees the former consistency to the Bloud In Calentures Phlebotomy may be safely used CHAP. IX Of the Plague or Pestilence THE Plague or Pestilence is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solvo quod vitam solvat It is called in Latin Pestilentia Pestis ex depascendo quod veluti incendium depascat It is also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 percutio hinc Angl. the Plague Pestis significat omne malum quod tam inanimis quam animatis mortem exitium repentino adfert The Plague is a contagious disease suddenly afflicting the Heart and all the vital animal and natural faculties with many grievous Symptoms The Cause is chiefly the sins of Mankind Cause provoking the great God to send this Pestiferous distemper as a judgment on them for their Impiety The Cause next to God's judgment is a sharp venemous and contagious volatile Salt in the Air very much heightned inspired with the Air into the Lungs or is swallowed down with the food or spittle into the Stomach it may also get in through the pores into the Body by which the acid liquor in all the conglobated glandules is weakned and made sluggish that it doth not circulate with its wonted force whence the natural consistency and rarefaction of the Bloud is diminsht and the separation of the Animal Spirits hindred and the vital strength is much opprest by which the Pulse becomes not onely little but also languishing till at length the Spirits are extinguisht and Death unexpected to many carries them speedily torrenti similis in fiery Chariots God knows where All the signs in Malign Fevers are common and much heightned in the Pest besides Signs many other grievous symptoms as Diarrhaea Hemorrhage at the Nose Ears Eyes Mouth and Secrets sometimes yellowness of the Eyes Buboes in the Groins Armpits and behind the Ears and in some white Bladders and Carbuncles also spots called the Tokens with raving c. 1. The Pest is deceitfull above all other diseases Progn therefore no certain prognostick can be drawn of it for many have died when there hath been great hopes of recovery and on the contrary many have escaped with mortal signs 2. A Bubo is less dangerous than a Carbuncle and it than the spots vulgarly the Tokens which most commonly portend Death wheresoever they are 3. Buboes incompassed with a blue or livid circle are most commonly a mortal sign especially if they suddenly disappear unless the Malign humour be sent to some other part and if with a Bubo behind the Ears there be pain of the Throat without inflammation 't is mortal 4. If a Carbuncle rise after a Bubo and look white with a litle push or tail at the end of it 't is dangerous except the Fever do very much abate and if after cauterizing or cupping the Carbuncle abate not in twenty four hours 't is a sign of Death approaching except matter appear and if Carbuncles seize the Stomach Guts Bladder or other Intrails it portends Death 5. Deliriums Drowsiness Heart-ach Trembling Convulsions great driness of Tongue are all bad signs also a Dysentery is most commonly mortal but a Hemorrhage at the Nose or Menses are not so dangerous To preserve from this Pestiferous distemper although transmigration in the fear of God may be lawfull yet let none think to escape by flying and so neglect their duties to God for 't is impossible to run out of his reach for he filleth Heaven and Earth with his presence wherefore let servent prayers be put up to God whose compassions fail not and then make use of an honest Physician 1. You must endeavour to purifie the infected Air with great fires wash the house daily and after sprinkle it with Vinegar and Fume either with Pitch Frankincense Mirrh Amber Benjamin Wood and Berries of Juniper c. 2. Avoid all passions watchings and immoderate exercise and venery 3. Eat nothing that is hard of concoction and use a moderate diet though easie of digestion and drink good sound Wine c. 4. Go not forth with an empty Stomach but always take some preservative against infection For example Take Spirit of Vinegar Julep of Roses of each one ounce mix it Vinegar Verjuice Oranges Limmons Citrons Pomgranats Barberries Quinces Wood-sorrel c. are all very good used as before directed in Malign Fevers This Poison must not be sent out by vomiting Cure or purging neither is phlebotomy allowed For it is known by manifold experience that the cure of the Pest is most happily instituted by Cordial Sudorificks rightly prepar'd of Antimony because it hath an admirable Sulphur in it whereby not onely sharpness is wonderfully temper'd but the Malign poisonous volatile Salt is thereby most safely driven forward and expelled by sweating out of the Body to which may be added other Cordials as followeth Take the Powders of Crabs-eyes Tartar Cordial Electuary vitriolated Antimony Diaphoretick Bezoar-mineral of each one scruple Bezoar-stone of the East red Coral prepar'd Salts of Rhue Scordium of each half a scruple Venice-treacle two drachms Spirit of Salt ten drops mix it into an Electuary with confectio de Hyacintho Let the sick take half a drachm of this Cordial Electuary every three hours and drink three or four spoonfulls of this Cordial Julep after it Take of epidemical-Epidemical-water the Waters of Cordial Iulep Carduus Borage Scordium compound of each three ounces the Waters of Treacle Cinamon Syrups of the juice of Carduus and Limmons Syrup of Saffron of each one ounce Salt Prunella and Salt of Wormwood of each one drachm Laudanum opiat ten grains mix it for a Cordial Let the sick person take the aforesaid medicines till sweat is plentifully provoked then let the sweat be gently wiped off with warm linen cloaths In the mean while give the sick a little hot Chicken-broth or other Broth of fresh Meat temper'd to a gratefulness with some sour thing as was directed in Malign Fevers as Barberries Wood-sorrel Limmons c. You must persist in this course till the danger be over and some time after though the sick think themselves well lest the disease deceive you by a sudden surprize again There are many Cordial Confections always to be had ready at Apothecaries Shops as Mithridate Diascordium Venice-treacle London-treacle Treacle-water c. any of which may be used by the Rich or Poor for they will not onely cause sweating but also will temper and moderate the hurtfull acrimony of the volatile Salt before mentioned You may dip a hot Toast in aq prophylactica and apply it to the region of the Stomach and also tye some of it in a rag and smell to it If there be great drowsiness avoid Opiates and take the Cordial Julep without the Laudanum but if there be great Watching Vomiting Flux of the Belly or Hicket you may give it with the
may also pierce through the lacteal Vessels and so to the Heart and infect the Bloud too much with its Saltness whence the Spittle and the other Humours also become too salt by which a great Thirst is stirred up and augmented The signs are manifest for the Patient's Signs complaint for want of drink will inform you This distemper may be cured by such acid Cure Liquours and oily Emulsions which will dilute the Lixivial Salt of Choler and potently change its Acrimony and asswage its sharpness and deduce it to the Bladder The following Julep may serve for Example Take Tincture of Red-roses Barley-water Iulep of each twelve ounces Cinamon-water two ounces Syrup of Violets three ounces Salt Prunella two drachms mix it and give the sick three spoonfulls every two hours This Emulsion is also of great Virtue not onely to restrain Thirst but mildly to procure rest also Take of French-barly boiled four ounces Emulsion sweet Almonds blanched white Poppy-seeds of each two ounces let them be well beaten in a stone Mortar then with two Quarts of Barley-water the Waters of Cinamon and Fennel of each two ounces make an Emulsion to which add Julep of Roses four ounces Syrups of Violets and the Juice of Limmons of each two ounces mix it Let the party thirsting drink a moderate draught of this Emulsion often in a day which will be very acceptable You may also make gratefull Troches or Pellets of Sugar and Salt Prunella to be kept in the Mouth to deceive the Thirst. If salt serous matter abound in the Body purge it by Stool or Urine This gratefull Medicine may serve for both intentions Take the Roots of Flower-de-luce Parsley Purging Infusion China of each two ounces Dandelion Agrimony of each one handfull Senna one ounce Rhubarb half an ounce Agarick Turky Turbith Jallap of each three drachms Cinamon Cloves of each two drachms let them be cleansed bruised and infused in two quarts of White-wine for the space of twenty four hours then strain it and add Syrup of the five opening Roots four ounces of which you may give the sick four ounces every third day in the morning fasting If there be a salt Catarrh it may be temper'd with Pills of Styrax you may administer a Pill every Night going to bed Let the Patient's diet be Mutton or Veal-broth without Salt CHAP. II. Of Hunger vitiated HUnger may be called the Appetite of Meats as Thirst is of Drinks It may be many ways deprav'd viz. when it is augmented diminish'd or abolish'd Hunger augmented may be deprav'd two ways either in quantity or quality if it be in quantity there is more Nourishment desired than the Stomach can digest This distemper is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fames quod affatim edatur It is called by the Latines fames canina and in English Dog's appetite because in this distemper the sick do feed insatiably after which some do purge and vomit like Dogs and are presently hungry again and sick if they do not eat If hunger be deprav'd in quality then vitious things which are not Food as Coals Ashes Clay Turfs Leather and I know not what are desired This is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Pica also Pica in Latin ab ave Pica vel quod varia appetant ut Pica varii est Coloris vel ex eo quod Pica terram mandet If this distemper be in Women with Child Malacia it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin also Gravidarum malacia which is an inordinate longing in them of which I shall treat more at large in the Chapter of the Hypochondriack suffocation Hunger diminish'd is caused of too fat and Cause viscous Spittle swallowed down by little and little into the Stomach and being unfit to promote the fermentation of Food it passeth into the small guts and there generates viscous Phlegm like to it self which doth not onely dull the moderate acidity of the Juice of the Pancreas but thereby at length all the acidity in the Body becomes less sharp and dull Choler also being too fat arising from the small Gut to the Stomach doth there corrupt both the remainders of Food and Spittle and prostrates their gratefull acidity by which means the Appetite becomes dull These causes being complicated if they be most grievous will at length quite take away and abolish Hunger The cause of Hunger augmented is sometimes Cause worms in the Stomach which devour the Chylus but most commonly it is caused by the over-sourness of the Juice of the Pancreas abounding in the Body and chiefly in the small Gut whence it sendeth sour Vapours to the Stomach which do potently urge and increase the sense of hunger The cause of hunger deprav'd in quality Cause as Pica c. in Women is the suppression of their monthly Courses which is more or less corrupted about the Womb and having not its natural Evacuation it returneth and in circulation is mixed with the whole Mass of Bloud by which it is all vitiated and deprav'd and so produceth a Cachexy or ill habit of Body which in time corrupteth all the other humours from whence not onely hunger but all the functions are deprav'd Hunger augmented needs no other sign Signs than the devouring of Food The signs of Hunger deprav'd in quality are also manifest as the longing desire for those things which are not food as Coals c. before mention'd If these distempers continue long they Progn are difficult of Curation because the sick will easily fall into a Cachexy Dropsie Consumption Vomiting Fluxes c. Hunger increas'd may be cur'd by giving those things which destroy and do temperate and amend the over acidity of the Juice of the Pancreas and do prevent its increase There are variety of Medicines proper for these intentions prescrib'd in the 6th and 7th pages of the first Book If hunger be diminish'd or abolish'd it may be cur'd by Medicines that correct and educe the viscous Phlegmatick humours of which you may be throughly furnish'd in the 3d. and 4th pages If hunger be suddenly diminish'd by Choler either over fat or abounding in plenty Cure it may commodiously be evacuated by an Antimonial Emetick Many other proper Medicines are set down in the 8th and 9th pages CHAP. III. Of want of Appetite or loathing of Victuals WAnt of Appetite is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appetitus In Latin 't is called inappetentia because in this distemper the sick hath no desire after food but their minds are averse to yea they loath most kind of meat and drink which sometimes riseth to that height that it takes away their strength This differs from vomiting onely in degrees it being a desire to vomit up whatsoever troubles the Stomach but cannot either by reason of
juice of the Pancreas too acid as experience teacheth in outward things for if you pour Spirit of Vitriol to oil of Turpentine it will presently raise an effervescency join'd with a notable heat and burning This burning pain is chiefly felt in the region of the Loins because there is the conflux of Choler and the juice of the Pancreas and from thence ariseth vitious sharp vapours which produce griping pains of the Stomach and pricking pains in the Guts as also other wandring pains therein If the pain be chill and cold it is caus'd from the juice of the Pancreas very acid and sharp which raiseth a vitious effervescency with Choler not oily and phlegm together as we may observe if we mix Spirit of Vitriol with any volatile Salt not oily how it will raise an effervescency coupled with a notable Chilness and Coldness onely sensible hence we may conclude that the operation of the acid Spirit in producing cold is much promoted by phlegm The cause of the Colick is over viscous Cause of the Colick phlegm mixed with Choler peccant both in its Saltish acrimony and volatile oiliness by which the viscous phlegm is rarifi'd into Wind and if the excrements are contain'd beyond their course they harden and adhere to the Gut whereby the natural ferment is vitiated and the windy blasts are more and more rarifi'd and being shut up and remaining in the Cavity of the Gut Colon it causeth a violent distension and contraction of it But if the aforesaid humours be mixt with the juice of the Pancreas over sharp acid and harsh then there is a wonderfull sense of contortion in the part affected urging and writhing from place to place according to the winding or rolling of the Gut If this wind pierceth through the Guts Observation into the Cavity of the Belly it expandeth the Peritonoeum and so inflateth the whole Abdomen and causeth a Tympany Tympany These Distempers are all dangerous and Progn sometimes mortal especially if a violent Fever be complicated with them We must vary the cure according to the diversity of the causes Cure A burning corroding pain may be cur'd by tempering too fat Choler with Acids as Spirit of Niter c. being mixt with Opiates For example Take the Waters of Fennel Fumitory Iulep Sorrel Succory of each three ounces Cinamon-water distill'd Vinegar Syrups of Violets and white Poppies of each two ounces Laudanum opiatum ten grains Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it Let the sick often take a Spoonfull of this Julep till the heat and pain be diminished and sleep be procured The following Emulsion is also profitable and therefore may sometimes be given for a change Take the four greater cold Seeds white Emulsion Poppy-seeds of each one ounce French Barley boiled four ounces with two quarts of Barley water let it be made an Emulsion and add to it Syrups of Violets and white Poppies of each two ounces Salt prunella half an ounce Spirit of Niter thirty drops mix it and give four Spoonfulls every two or three hours If Choler be two plentifull let it be educ'd with this or the like mild Cholagogue Take Damask-rose water two ounces Purging Potion Manna Diaphaenicon Electuary of the juice of Roses of each two drachms Tartar Vitriolated ten grains mix it and take it in the morning The Cholagogue Electuary of Sylvius is also excellent of which you shall have the receipt at the latter end of the Book Chilness and cold pains may be cur'd by tempering the over sharp acidity of the juice of the Pancreas Lixivial Salts both fixt and volatile are excellent in this Case as also any Aromatick Spirit of wine Treacle water c. with which may be mix'd Coral Pearl Crabs-eyes Antimon Diaphoret c. and let the body be compos'd to sweat The following forms may serve for example Take the waters of Treacle Fennel Syrup Cordial Diaphoretick of the juice of Carduus of each half an ounce powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick Salt of Wormwood of each ten grains mix it and give it the sick to cause sweat You may also give some of this Cordial Julep to uphold the Spirits when they sweat Take of Tincture of Cinamon the Carminative Cordial Iulep Spirit of Sylvius of each half an ounce the waters of Mint Baum of each two ounces Syrups of the juice of Oranges Clove-gilliflowers of each one ounce Laudanum opiat four grains Oil of Cloves six drops mix it and give two or three spoonfulls of it often Let Sylvius's Carminative Plaster be spread on Leather and applied to the region of the Stomach and Navel As for the cure of the Cholick let an Emollient Cure of the Cholick Clyster which discusseth wind be given often at least twice in a day Take the roots of Marsh-mallows one Clyster ounce Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Marsh-mallows the Flowers of Melilot Chamomel of each two handfulls the Seeds of Anise sweet Fennel Dill the Berries of Bays and Juniper of each one ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of Whey till half of it be consumed then strain it and add Electuary Diaprunum Cariocostinum Benedicta laxativa of each half an ounce Oils of Dill Chamomel Roses of each six drachms Oil of Harts-horn ten drops mix it for two Clysters The smoak of Tobacco may be blown into the Clyster-bladder and given with it with good success Besides a Clyster may be made of Canary wine or warm Cows Milk and a little Honey or Malossus and given sometimes to soften the hard excrements and to dissolve those that are too viscous whereby they may be the easier evacuated and also Wind invited to an easie outlet To drink the Decoction before prescrib'd will much conduce to ease the sick also of the same ingredients you may make fomentations and Cataplasms But if the Patient do not care for the trouble of such medicines you may anoint the Belly with this ointment Take Ointments of Marsh-mallows Martiatum Ointment Oils of Capers white Lillies of each one ounce Oil of Bricks half an ounce mix it After which apply a large Plaster of Sylvius's Empl. Carminative Empl. to the Belly The following Julep taken often by spoonfulls will much conduce to ease the pain and discuss the wind Take the Waters of Mint Scurvigrass Fennel Carminative Iulep Lovage Penny-royal of each one ounce the carminative Spirit of Sylvius Tinctures of Cinamon and Castor of each half an ounce Syrups of Mint Fennel and Mirtles of each six drachms Oil of Mace distill'd ten drops Spirits of Harts-horn and Niter of each twenty drops Laudanum opiatum ten grains mix it for a Julep The Oil of Harts-horn is a very Potent though ungratefull remedy in this disease Also the Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Anise-seed Amber or Juniper is excellent in vanquishing this rebellious distemper After the violence of pain is abated you may purge the Body
nauseous it may cause Vomiting It is very safe and may be given in all Distempers where Purging is necessary The fresh Herb boiled in Milk 'till it be tender and then strained out and the Herb bruised and boiled in the same Milk with Crumbs of White-Bread or fine Oatmeal into the Consistence of a Poultis and a litle Oyl or Hog's-fat put to it and applied to any Inflamation or Swelling it will soon give Ease and either dissolve the Tumor or bring it to Suppuration Native Cinnaber finely powdred and washed from its volatile malignant Salt often in warm Water and rectified Spirit of Wine burnt over it two or three times doth Wonders in curing most Chronical Diseases The Dose is from ten Grains to twenty in any Vehicle Missleto dried and finely poudred with double its weight of white Sugar and a few Drops of Oyl of Amber mixed with it half a Dram of this Pouder given twice or thrice in a Day cureth Convulsions and the Epilepsie Crude Antimony flux'd at least an Hour with decrepitated Sea Salt in a strong Fire and afterwards washed from the Salt in warm Water is friendly to Nature and cureth Fevers The Dose is from five Grains to ten in any Vehicle The Jesuit's Bark finely poudred and given from half a Dram to two Drams or more at a time infused in Wine and drank at the going off of the Fit and afterwards every four Hours is such a Specifick for the curing of all Intermitting Fevers or Agues that it seldom fails especially if the Patient be well purged before he take it You must continue the use of it for at least ten Days that the Particles of the Pouder may be continually conveyed into the Bloud by which the Febritick Ferment may be destroyed Give the Sick a little Broth of Mutton or Chicken with a few Crumbs of White-Bread or any other Food easie of Digestion within half an Hour after the taking of each Dose which will mix with the Chile and the Bloud will be impregnated with the Vertue of it It also cureth all kinds of Fluxes Three or four Drops of the Juice of Ivy or of Asarabacca clarified and dropt into each Ear warm every other Night and the Ear gently stopt afterwards with Cotton or Wool will soon cure Deafness snuff up the Juices into each Nostril also to purge the Head Two Grains of each of the aforesaid Herbs dried and finely poudred and snuffed up each Nostril at Night going to Bed twice in a Week will purge the Head of Rheum and cure an inveterate Head-ach Tooth-ach and Inflammation of the Eyes c. The Syrup of the Juice of Buckthorn-Berries or of wild Cucumbers taken an Ounce at a time with two Drams of pure Nitre dissolved in Ale or Whey twice or thrice in a Week cureth the Dropsie The Pouder of Olibanum or Mastick or equal parts of both mixed with old Conserves of Roses and taken the quantity of a Nutmeg twice or thrice in a Day cureth a Catarrh especially if you blow some of the Pouder into the Throat every Night going to Bed to strengthen the Salival Glands Lapis Haematites or the Bloud-stone being applied to the bleeding part will stop the Hemorrhage It is likewise an excellent Medicine taken inwardly being repleted with the Primum ens Auri from which being finely poudred may be drawn a Gold-like Tincture with a strong Aqua Regis made of the rectified Spirit of Nitre and Sal Armoniack to which you may add four times the quantity of rectified Spirit of Wine Take twenty Drops of it in a Glass of Ale or Wine two or three times in a Day It cureth most Chronical Diseases The true Lapis Nephriticus cureth the Stone being prepared and taken after the same manner Ens Veneris is good to cure the Rickets three or four Grains of it may be given to a Child twice a Day in any Vehicle Half a Dram of the fine Pouder of Gum of Guiacum mixed with an equal quantity of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder given every other Morning in a Spoonful of Milk or Whey for thirty or forty days cureth the Venereal Pox and most other Chronical Diseases Oyl of Walnuts or Linseed-Oyl by expression either exhibited inwardly or given in Clysters to four Ounces at a time giveth Ease in the Stone and Collick c. A Dram of Oyl of Amber unrectified mixed with an Ounce of Populion cureth the Piles Purified Honey is a universal Balsam It cureth Sore-Eyes being spread on a fine Rag and applied mix it with Gargarisms for sore Mouths and with Injections for hollow Ulcers c. The gross Pouder of Mastick is excellent to smoke in a Pipe for a Defluxion of Rheum on the Lungs c. Saccharum Saturni dissolved in Water mortifies sharp Humors in the Eyes and all other Inflammations it is a great Anodine cures Burnings and Scaldings in a short time stops Bleeding and prevents Accidents in Amputations for it resisteth Putrefaction If you give half a Dram of it twice a day in any Vehicle it will soon quench the Flame of Lust. Half an Ounce of burnt Alum mixed with two Ounces of White-wine-Vinegar cureth an Inflammation in any part being spread on a Rag and applied Sulphur of Copper or Vitriol called Sulphur of Venus is an incomparable Anodine far exceeding any Opiate Roman Vitriol calcin'd to redness stoppeth all Fluxes of Blood in a moment and cures Wounds by the first intention You may dissolve half a Dram of it in three or four Spoonfuls of warm Water and dip a Pledget of Lint in it and apply it to the Wound keeping the Lips of it close But if the Wound be deep it must be injected with a Syringe Any other Vitriol is of the same Virtue but not so potent Half an Ounce of Quicksilver mixed with an Ounce of Pomatum spread on a long Linnen Rag two Inches broad and covered with another Linnen Rag for a Girdle worn for some time cureth the Itch. But you must purge once or twice in a Week to prevent Salivation The small Bone in a black Snail's-head used as an Amulet to hang about the Neck and Rings made of an Elk's-hoof or of the Teeth of a true Sea-Horse and worn continually are all of the same Virtue and cureth the Cramp The Hand of a dead Man or Woman being laid upon a Scrophulous Tumor and there kept 'till the Patient do feel the Coldness of it penetrate to the innermost parts of the Swelling it will dispel and cure it by often doing It likewise cureth a Dropsie of the Belly The Roots of Contra yerva or Counterpaison Virginia Snake-root and Zedoary all or either of them is good against the Plague and all contagious Fevers any way used Here followeth some Receipts of choice Medicines which I use in my own Practice Pulvis Balsamicus noster Our Balsamick Pouder TAke of Sarsaparilla grosly poudred four Ounces let it be infused in two Quarts of rectified Spirit of Wine for two
medicines to cure them for if the matter be thick and viscous it must be attenuated and cut with Aromaticks and afterward evacuated with Phlegmagogues So likewise serous and salt Catarrhs are to be temper'd with Oily things and Opiats and the plenty of humours to be diminisht with Hydragogues by which means the cure will be the sooner performed For viscous Catarrhs accompanied with a Cough I commend these following medicines Take the Waters of Hyssop Mint of each Iulep three ounces Cinamon-water Syrups of Fennel and red Poppies of each one ounce and half Laudanum opiatum six grains Spirit of Salt Armoniack twenty drops mix it of which you may give three or four spoonfulls every three hours By the frequent use of this Aromatick Julep the viscous Phlegm will not onely be attenuated but the over sharp Vapours will be discust and the other humours temper'd After the Phlegmatick humours c. are thus prepared it will be convenient to evacuate them downwards by gentle purgation with powerfull and effectual Phlegmagogues and such are all mercurials Colocynthis Hermodactils c. to be taken chiefly in the form of Pills Take Extract Rudii pil ex duobus of each one drachm Mercury dulcis half a drachm Purging Pills Oil of Cloves four drops mix them for three Doses If the sick be averse to Pills give this Potion Take of Rhubarb Agarick Hermodactils Polypodium of each two drachms Cinamon Purging Potion Cloves of each one drachm Sage Rosemary of each one handfull sweet Fennel-seed Juniper-berries of each three drachms bruise them and insuse them in Hyssop-water very hot for the space of a Night then strain it and dissolve in it Syrup of Roses solutive Electuary Diaphaenicon of each one ounce mix it for a Potion Every night give the Patient a Pill of Styrax or Hounds-tongue to stay the Rheum and to give ease and rest If the Catarrh be serous and hot accompanied with a Fever and the sick have a costive Body this Clyster will be effectual Take the common decoction for Clysters Clyster twelve ounces Diacatholicon Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each six drachms Oil of Chamomel two ounces common Salt one drachm mix it for a Clyster After the operation of it you may open a Vein in either Arm and take away eight or nine ounces of Bloud Then give this purging decoction Take Borage Lettice Purslain Endive Purging Decoction Violets of each one handfull the four greater coldeeds of each one drachm Damask-prunes ten Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed of each two drachms let them be bruised and boiled in eight ounces of the pectoral decoction till half be consum'd then strain it and dissolve in it Syrup of Roses solutive Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each half an ounce Spirit of Niter six drops mix it for a Potion You may give this Potion twice in a week which will both temper and gently evacuate the serous and acid humours and flatuous Vapours will also thereby be discust and gently educ'd To cause rest and thicken the Rheum let one of these Pills be given every Night to bed-ward Take of Laudanum three grains Powder Pills opiat of Olibanum Extract of Saffron of each four grains with a little pectoral Syrup make it into four Pills Or you may give a Pill of Styrax every Night going to bed When the Rheum flows down from the Head into the Trachoea arteria it stirs up a Coughing more or less according to the Tussis sharpness and plenty of the humours which are many ways vitiated wherefore a Cough may be diversly cur'd according to the diversity of its cause If the humours be over sour they may be corrected with Pearl Coral Crabs-eyes c. If the Rheum be too serous and salt the aforesaid pil Estyrace Cynaglos c. is excellent to temper it Becchical Troches both white and black are not onely effectual but gratefull to the sick in this coughing distemper If the humours be thick and viscous they require sourish sweet things and Aromaticks to attenuate and cut them The fore-mention'd Julep may be prescrib'd in this Case When the salt sharp and serous humours abounding are corrected and temper'd they may be diminisht by Hydragogues The Hydragogue Electuary prescrib'd in page 18 is an effectual and gratefull medicine which may be often us'd to the profit of the sick Children may take from one drachm to two and Adults to half an ounce of this excellent medicine once or twice a week As in other distempers always so let me here admonish you in general to be very diligent to attend to the medicines that most conduce to every particular Body whereby they may be prefer'd before the rest and as long as they profit continue in the use thereof that so the health of the sick may be every way promoted When much bloud is voided by coughing Sputum Sanguinis there is great danger wherefore we must hasten the more to its cure left the opportunity here if any where urgent be lost by delay for the singular substance of the Lungs is easily infected and corrupted but difficultly restor'd and repair'd wherefore bloud carried down from the Head into the Lungs and raising a Cough is to be stopt in its efflux To this end let a Vein be opened especially if a Plethora concur or there be a notable heat of Bloud or a suppression of its wonted emptying After bleeding let the over great heat be allay'd with sour and tart medicines for example take the following Decoction Take of Plantane Housleek Wood-sorrel of each two handfulls boil them in Barley-water Decoction one quart till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of Jujubes three ounces Salt prunella one drachm Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls every three hours The flux of bloud may be stopt by conglutinating medicines which have power to close the Vessels either broken by violent coughing or corroded by the sharpness of the descending Rheum Take the Waters of Comfry Plantane of each two ounces Cinamon-water distil'd Astringent Julep Vinegar of each one ounce Syrup of Mirtles Comfry of each six drachms Powder of Dragons-bloud red Coral prepar'd of each one drachm Laudanum opiat six grains Oil of Sulphur per Campanam twenty drops mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every two hours This choice medicine often taken will cure the most ruptions of vessels and will soon stop the flux of bloud beyond expectation but I advise that a sparing use of it should be continued for some time after the disease is cur'd to sense whereby the affected parts may be strengthned against the access of a new evil The bloud distilling into the sharp Artery of the Lungs will soon corrupt and turn into purulent matter if not prevented by convenient medicines which hath power to dissolve the coagulated bloud that it may be the easier expectorated The following form may be
Laudanum prescrib'd for it will much conduce to ease the sick of all these symptoms If there be a Bubo apply a strong Vesiccatory and when the Blister is well raised open it and dress it with Mustard and Basilicon of each equal parts after cure it according to Art If there be a Carbuncle apply Leeches or Ventoses with scarification or the Actual or Potential Cautery after which often apply Mithridate 'till the Eschar be separated then dress it with Unguent Basilicon and Aegyptiacum or else you may use Butter of Antimony 'till the Ulcer be well cleansed and fitted for the last consolidation which may be performed by any desiccative Medicine CHAP. X. Of the Small-pox and Measles THE Small-pox and Measles are called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin Morbilli quasi parvi morbi vel parvorum morbi They are also called Variolae Pustulae ex vario vel varium facio quod cutis fit varia Because the skin is of various forms These distempers are most commonly attended with a Malign Fever which oft proves Epidemical Contagious and Mortal and therefore may justly be termed Pestilential The Small-pox is a cutaneous Eruption or large Pustules something like to Warts on the Skin with Inflammation which in few days comes to suppuration if the sick recover The Measles are little Pustules in the Skin with a deep redness and may be best perceived by feeling they are usually discussed in five or six days without suppuration There is an other sort of Pustules or Tubercles like little Bladders incident to Men Women and Children which are without Inflammation or redness and also without a Fever Some call them Cristals others Blisters but Country people call them Swine-pox Hen or Chicken-pox c. To these also may be referred those red fiery spots which break out about the fourth or fifth day in Malign Fevers all over the Body and if the sick recover they vanish about the eighth day after which the Cuticula cometh away in flakes this is commonly called the Scarlet Fever The signs of the Small-pox approaching Signs are pains of the Head shining before the Eyes with redness and swelling of the Face and sometimes bleeding at the Nose also a grievous pain of the Back which reacheth to the Neck with great heat and pricking all over the Body there is often loathing of the Stomach and vomiting with trembling of the Heart great terrour in sleep difficulty of breathing and sometimes raving and convulsion The cause of the Small-pox and Measles Causes is an ill quality or impurity of the Mothers bloud with which the Child was nourish'd in the Womb which doth communicate pollution and defile the mass of Bloud and after the Child is born when there is an ill disposition of the Air proportionable to the disease there followeth a peculiar effervescency or ebullition of the Bloud and other humours by which nature is inraged and provoked to cast forth the impurity The excrementitious matter is either thin or thick if it be thin the Measles follow if thick the Small-pox are produced And if there be a Malignant constitution of the Air it causeth not onely a purging forth of the corrupt matter of the Bloud c. but corrupteth the whole mass of Bloud and so produceth a dangerous and Epidemical Small-pox If they come out red and soon ripen or Progn turn white being round pointed and outward in the skin if the voice and breathing be free without any grievous symptoms there is no danger but if there be a great Fever which is not abated after their eruption with great thirst and difficulty of breathing also black or bloudy Urine or Stool Hemorrhage at the Nose Mouth c. doth signifie a great acrimony and malignancy of the bloud that nature is compelled to evacuate it by such preposterous ways and are most commonly mortal signs So likewise if it be long e'er they come out and they be green blewish or black and sink in again the sick is in great danger of Death As for the Cure of these distempers if they be Malignant or Epidemical let the same Cure means be used as is prescrib'd in Malignant Fevers but if there be little or no sign of Malignancy you may first administer an Antimonial Emetick and after its operation give this or the like Cordial Take the Waters of Carduus Dragons Cordial Iulep Treacle Scordium compound of each two ounces Venice-treacle two drachms Syrups of the Juice of Limmons Carduus Saffron of each one ounce Confection of Hyacinth one drachm mix it for a Cordial Let the sick take two or three spoonfulls of this every half hour till a sweat be promoted after sweating keep the Patient in a warm Room till the danger be over Before the Eruption if there be eminent signs of a Plethora and the sick be adult Phlebotomy may be used with good success Phlebotomy Bezoar and Gascoign's Powder and Diascordium are commonly used in these Diseases You must endeavour to defend the inward parts with the pectoral decoction to which you may add a little Saffron Also a Saffron Stay in which is put a few Sows called Millepedes bruised is excellent to defend the Throat For the Eyes this water is good Take the Waters of Plantain white Roses Water for the Eyes of each three ounces of Camphire Saffron of each ten grains mix it Or you may use Womens milk and Saffron If the Throat and Mouth are inflamed make a Gargarism with plantain-Plantain-water and Gargaris Syrup of Mulberries To defend the Nose put up this with a rag or feather Take of red Rose-water Vinegar of red Roses of each one ounce Powder of red Nodulas Saunders Camphire of each one drachm mix it When the Small-pox begins to dry anoint them often with Oil of sweet Almonds and Oil of the Yelks of Eggs which will prevent their pitting OF DISEASES OF THE BELLY BOOK III. CHAP. I. Of the Thirsty disease THIS is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sitio to be thirsty In Latin 't is called sitis morbosa Thirst is the first natural Passion of Mankind and also of Beasts as is manifest by their first sucking milk out of the Breast to asswage it The causes of thirst augmented are either Cause external or internal The external are the Air over heated by the Sun over salt Food too much exercise of body vehement passions of the mind as much anger c. prolong'd watches the Body either too costive or too loose much sweating Urine voided too plentifully any notable Evacuation of Bloud Milk or Seed c. The internal Cause is deduced for the most part from too sharp Choler carried down into the small Gut where it raiseth such an Effervescency with the Juice of the Pancreas flowing thither that thence are elevated salt Vapours to the Stomach and Gullet and there produceth a sense of drought It
Rectum or more internal as the Colon Ileon or Jejunum and according to the different seat of such internal offensives of life we must differently level our remedies and manner of Cure If the Stomach be the residence of these notorious offenders they may then be killed and pumped upwards by an Antimonial vomit But large worms which are not natives of the Stomach but as is said before of the Jejunum or other next productive guts may be most properly conveyed downwards by the force of Aloetick and Mercurial Medicaments And for as much as the passage is tedious for such slow marchers as worms are which being but sick it may be with one dose and loath to be dislodged therefore they must be often stimulated to their exit at least five or six days together by protruding Medicaments till they be all destroy'd and evacuated The following Pill is excellent Take Extract Rudii pil Ruffi of each one Scruple Mercur. dulcis sixteen grains Purging Pills Oil of Juniper three drops make them into eight Pills A young Child may take a small Pill of this every day and those that are adult three or four of them for five or six days till all the Vermine are kill'd and ejected And to render the whole Region of the Bowels an uneasie residence to such unwelcome guests an Aloetick Plaster applied to the Navel is never to be omitted and farther to specificate the same and all other Medicines either internally exhibited or externally applied I advise you to mix some of the Powder of the ejected worms of what kind soever with them which you will find most effectual to destroy the living Vermine Also all medicaments which partake of mercurial irradiation are destructive to Worms where-e'er they are Our common Quicksilver if boiled an hour or two in fair Water renders the whole without communication of taste or scent and also without any loss of weight a certain destroyer of Worms in humane Bodies which may be either given at the Mouth or sweetned with Sugar and given as a Clyster after which give two or three doses of the aforesaid Pills to expell the dead Vermine and verminous matter CHAP. IX Of a Looseness or flux of the Belly AS often as the expulsion of what is contain'd in the Guts happens quicker oftener and more plentifully than is natural it may be called a Looseness of which there are divers sorts which may be distinguisht according to the different things voided 1. If Food be evacuated crude and undigested Lienteria it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin also Lienteria i. e. levitas intestinorum 2. If the Food be fermented in the Stomach and the Chyle passeth into the Guts and the nutriment of the Chyle be not there separated from the Excrement but is voided whitish like a Pultess much like the Excrements of those that have the Jaundice it may be called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin Coeliaca i. e. alvinus vel ventralis dispositio Coeliaca of which there is another kind which for distinction sake may be named the Chyle-like Looseness wherein the Food is both fermented and severed into Chyle and Excrements and yet are voided confusedly together 3. If not onely Food but waterish and cholerick humours are often and plentifully voided it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diarrhoea fluo It may be called in English a Cholerick Looseness There are divers other kinds of Looseness which may be called Diarrhoea for if thick and viscous Phlegmatick humours are frequently and plentifully voided it may thence be call'd a Phlegmatick Diarrhoea if the humours be serous it is a serous Diarrhoea if fat and oily Excrements are frequently evacuated it may thence be nam'd an unctuous Diarrhoea c. 4. If the dejection be purulent corrupted excrementitious matter together with pure Bloud it may then be called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dysentery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod hic non tam difficultatem quam detrimentum notat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 intestinum ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 intus It may be called in Latin Tormina quod dolore torquentur intestina In English 't is vulgarly called the Bloudy-flux If there be a perpetual endeavour to go to stool and nothing but a little mucous purulent matter voided with great pain and straining it may be called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tendo Tenasmus In English it may be called a neediness there being a continual need and desire to go to stool This Distemper properly belongeth to a Dysentery because it doth most commonly follow it and sometimes with a procidentia Ani. To a Bloudy-flux may also be referred the Hemorrhoids immoderate flux of the Hemorrhoids which may be known from a Dysentery both from the place affected and the great quantity of the bloudy purging It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sanguis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 profluvium Also the flux of the Liver if there be any such Disease may be referred hither in which the excrementitious liquour ejected is like the washing of bloudy flesh This Distemper is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui ex hepate laborant In Latin 't is called Hepaticus affectus vel fluxus est serosi et sanguinei humoris per alvum excretio propter Hepatis imbecilitatem The causes of all fluxes of the Belly are Causes either external or internal The external are any of the six non-natural things immoderately used which weakens the Stomach also the taking of any venemous thing as Arsnick Mercury sublimate c. which presently destroys the ferment of the Stomach and Guts The internal cause of the Lientery is weakness Causes of Lientery of the Stomach that it cannot retain any food received into it but striveth to expell it The Jaundice-like flux is caused by the sluggishness Cause of the Iaundice-like flux of Choler so that it is not carri'd down to the Guts to promote the separation of the usefull from the unusefull parts of the Chyle The Chyle-like flux is also caused by the Cause of the Chyle-like flux same so that the straining of Chyle through the spongy crust of the Guts into the Lacteal veins is hindred the orifices or pores tending to the Lacteal veins being obstructed by over thick and viscous phlegmatick humours A Cholerick Diarrhoea is caused by over-salt Causes of the divers kinds of Diarrhoea sharp and serous Choler together with phlegm and the juice of the Pancreas too watry and fluid A phlegmatick Diarrhoea is caused by such things as do breed much viscous phlegm A serous Diarrhoea ariseth most frequently from Spittle and the juice of the Pancreas too Serous A fat oily or unctuous looseness doth follow the over much use of too fat food A
Dysentery doth proceed either from the Cause of a Dysentery thickness of the bloud by reason of over viscous phlegm being mixed with Lympha or the juice of the Pancreas too acid accompani'd with sorrow of mind whereby the bloud doth become too gross for its wonted circulation through the Capillary Vessels of the Guts wherefore it causeth a great distension of them till at length they burst and pour out the bloud into the cavity of the Guts Or else it may be caused from Choler too salt sharp and plenteous in the bloud whereby it doth become extravagantly serous and eager through extraordinary fermentation extremely agitating the humours to a Colliquation especially where fierceness of anger or great heat of mind do concur by which the bloud is the more rarifi'd to pierce through the tender restraint of the vessels and doth flow out by indirect ways sometimes by great loss to the endangering of life A Tenasmus is caused by a phlegmatick viscous Cause of Tenasmus humour joyned with a sharp acid humour which doth fret the Gut about the siege stirring up a troublesome Ulcer there The flux of the Hemorrhoids and of the Cause of Hemorrhoids c. Liver is to be deduc'd from much serous matter mixt with the bloud and also relaxing the vessels The Hemorrhoids are either critical which useth to ease the sick or symptomatical and much weakneth them The signs of Fluxes are manifest from Signs what hath been said 1. If any looseness continue long with loathing Progn 't is an ill sign especially if it be with a Fever 2. If the small Guts are affected the pain is sharper than when it is in the thick Guts 3. In the Dysentery if the dejections be very bloudy or black and fetid with great Thirst Hicket c. for the most part they are mortal signs but if the erosion be onely in the internal membrane of the Gut and there be no great pain nor other bad symptome there is great hopes of recovery If the bloud and humours be too thin and Cure serous they must be corrected and evacuated Chalk and Harts-horn or any other burnt bone reduc'd to powder and given often in a small quantity doth imbibe and correct watry moisture and also over much fatness which may be the cause of a looseness After which the peccant humours may be evacuated by stool with Hydragogues and by sweat and urine with Sudorificks and Diureticks Toasted Rhubarb will satisfie to many indications seeing that it doth not onely evacuate water together with Choler abounding but will soon correct the over-loose body by its mild tartness Wherefore when the Bloud doth abound with much serous liquour let the sick take this Powder in a little Broth. Take the Powder of Jallop Cinamon of each fifteen grains Powder of Rhubarb Purging Powder tosted half a drachm mix it After the operation of it you may give the following Cordial by spoonfulls Take the Waters of Plantain Comfry Cordial Iulep of each two ounces Cinamon-water half an ounce Syrup of Mirtles one ounce Confectio de Hyacintho Diascordium of each one drachm Laudanum opiat four grains mix it It will be also convenient sometimes to educe the humours by urine and sweat for which I commend the following Decoction of China c. Take the Roots of Burdock the five opening Decoction Roots Sarzeparilla Contra yerva of each one ounce China four ounces Gromwell-seeds Juniper-berries of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of fountain water 'till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of the five opening Roots six ounces Spirit of Niter one drachm mix it Lâ—t the sick take a quarter of a pint of this warm twice or thrice a day and especially in the morning fasting which will the easier procure a breathing sweat or else urine more plentifull by which the serosity of the bloud will be consum'd by little and little so that the bloud and humours will thereby become more pure If a Dysentery or Bloudy-flux arise from a sharp humour corroding the Vessels it may be cur'd by correcting and tempering the sharp acid humours and consolidating the Vessels fretted The following Powder is excellent to correct and amend the aforesaid acid humours and stop all fluxes of bloud Take the Powders of red Coral Pearles Powder prepared white Chalk Dragons bloud of each half a drachm mix it for six doses which may be taken in three spoonfulls of the following Julep every two or three hours Take the Waters of Plantain Comfry of Astringent Iulep each two ounces Tincture of Cinamon Syrups of Quinces Mirtles of each one ounce Laudanum opiat ten grains Oil of Juniper ten drops mix it If there be an Ulcer in the thick Guts and Clysters can come to the part affected let the following be often injected and instruct the sick to retain them so long as they can Take new Milk wherein Steel hath been Clyster quenched one pint Honey of Roses one ounce Venice Turpentine half an ounce the Yelk of one Egg Balsam of Sulphur four drops mix it The following Bolus may be sometimes given in the Morning fasting Take the Powder of Rhubarb tosted two Purging Bolus Scruples Nutmeg one scruple make it into a Bolus with Conserves of red Roses And this Bolus may be given at Night going to bed Take Diascordium Conserves of red Roses Bolus Opiat of each half a drachm Laudanum opiat three grains mix it By the frequent use of these choice Medicines the Ulcer will be cleans'd the Gripes asswag'd and the Consolidation of the ulcerated Gut both in the Tenasmus and Dysentery c. will be wonderfully promoted But if the Ulcer be in the small Guts the following vulnerary Decoction will more conduce to the Cure Take the Roots of Comfry Plantain Knot-grass Decoction of each two ounces the Tops of Saint John's wort Sanicle Germander red Roses of each one handfull Shavings of Harts-horn Cinamon of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in three quarts of Fountain-water wherein steel hath been quenched till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of dried Roses Tincture of Cinamon distill'd Vinegar Syrup of Marsh-mallows of each two ounces mix it and give the sick four spoonfulls every two or three hours If you add two or three drops of Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Anise-seed to every dose of the Decoction c. it will be the more effectual both to cleanse and consolidate the Ulcer The flux of the Hemorrhoids if it be symptomatical and weaken the sick is then to be hindred which may be effectually done by the afore-mention'd Medicines If much serous Liquour can so dilute the Bloud and relax the Vessels that part of it may be carried out of them into the Guts and produce a Flux like the washing of Flesh commonly called a Flux of
Spirit of Niter twenty drops Laudanum ten grains mix it and give four or five spoonfulls of it often This Powder is also excellent Take Salt of Tartar vitriolated two drachms Powder of Crabs-eyes Salts of Powder Pigeons-dung Broom Beanstalks Wormwood of each half a drachm mix it and give twenty grains of it every morning and evening in the foremention'd Julep If the Patient be plethorick Phlebotomy may be used with good success If a Stone chance to stick in the Ureter which causeth numbness by its pressing upon the Muscle Psoas and the Nerves In this Case apply a Ventose on os Ilium which may bring the Stone by degrees into the Bladder afterward anoint the parts grieved with Rabbets fat If the Stone in the Bladder be very big there is little hopes of dissolving of it wherefore if the Patient being in continual pain be willing to submit to Lithotomy I advise them to make choice of an experienc'd Artist lest by Precipitancy the Operatour neglect to cleanse the Bladder after the Extraction of the Stone by the neglect of which many have generated the Stone again and have been forced to endure that dreadfull operation the second and sometimes the third time under which many have died and others who recovered have never held their Urine In other Nephritick pains if the fleshy parts of the Kidneys be obstructed they may be opened by Diureticks that cut attenuate and make glutinous Phlegm fluid For example Take of Eringo-roots the five opening Roots of each one ounce the Tops of Agrimony Decoction the greater Celandine of each two handfulls the Berries of Juniper and Winter-cherries of each two drachms let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of Fountain-water till half be confumed then strain it and add Syrups of Marsh-mallows and the five opening Roots of each two ounces Tincture of Salt of Tartar two drachms Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls of it every morning and evening They who like Juleps better may use this or the like Take the Waters of Fennel Parsley Pellitory Iulep of the Wall of each two ounces the carminative Spirit of Sylvius Syrups of Marsh-mallows the five opening Roots of each one ounce Oil of Juniper Spirit of Salt Armoniack of each ten drops Spirit of Niter twenty drops Laudanum opiat four grains mix it and give three spoonfulls every three or four hours The Patient may also drink freely of the mineral diuretick-Diuretick-waters of Tunbridge c. which will conduce much to the Cure especially if some old Diuretick-wine and a little oily Volatile Salt made of Diuretick Vegetables be mixed with the water When the glutinous Phlegm is prepar'd and loosned it may be educ'd with some convenient Phlegmagogue either in the form of Pills or Potion of which there are variety mention'd in page 3. and four c. The fixt Sulphurs of Minerals and Metalls exalted to their highest perfection do before all others mildly temper all the humours next to which oily Volatile Salts come and Aromaticks next to these By the force of which prudently us'd not onely an effervescency of somewhat contrary Humours most agreeable to Man's nature is bred in the small Gut and afterward in the Heart but the preternatural growing together and uniting of the more sharp humours being first moderated by them is again dissolv'd in the Bloud I speak these things by experience and because it is of great moment in practice I commend them to the truly Studious of Physick If the Urine be bloudy it testifieth the opening of some Vessel of Bloud in the Kidneys Ureters Bladder or its Neck To heal and consolidate this harm the following is excellent Take the Waters of Parsley Plantain of Cordial Astringent each two ounces Cinamon-water Syrups of Mirtles Comfry Marsh-mallows of each half an ounce Powder of Dragons-bloud red Coral prepar'd of each ten grains Laudanum opiat three grains Spirit of Niter ten drops mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every two hours If there be an Ulcer in any of these parts it may perhaps be more happily cur'd by the daily taking of Balsam of Sulphur made with the Oil of Amber Juniper Anise-seed or Turpentine in any convenient Vehicle than by any other Medicine hitherto known In all suppression of Urine the following is very effectual Take the Waters of Chamomel Golden-rod Iulep Winter-cherries of each four ounces Syrups of Marsh-mallows the five opening Roots of each two ounces Powder of Egg-shells calcin'd one ounce Tincture of Salt of Tartar two drachms Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls every three hours CHAP. XXII Of Extraordinary Pissing c. THIS Distemper is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. pertransire quod urina ureteres urethram subito pertransit It being a quick or plentifull pissing or making of water The cause is either external or internal The external or primary efficient Cause Cause is an immoderate drinking of stale Beer Sider or acid Wines either French or Rhenish by which an incurable Diabetes hath been ofttimes suddenly contracted The internal Cause of this Disease is sharp serous humours abounding in the Bloud by which not onely the whole Mass of it doth in time become too thin but the nervous Juice is also thereby ill affected and consequently the Reins inflam'd by the continual flowing of the over acid serous humours Whence the attractive faculty of the Kidneys is increas'd drawing the serosity of the Bloud more potently from the emulgent Vessels into the Funnels and provoking the expulsive faculty it is soon sent through the Ureters to the Bladder from whence it is often evacuated by pissing The signs are a continual pissing so that much more moisture is voided than is taken Signs into the Body by eating and drinking It is always accompanied with an extraordinary Thirst the sick is also feverish something like a Hectick If it continue long it will decay all the Progn radical moisture of the Body which will render it incurable but if it be taken in the beginning and the Patient be young it may be easily cured All things which have power to incrassate Cure the thinness of the Bloud and temper the over acidity of the humours may be administred in this Distemper In the beginning of the Cure after a stool hath been procured by an emollient Clyster you may open a Vein in the Arm. The next day a gentle Purge of Rhubarb may be administred but if the Stomach be foul and the sick can vomit easily you may give an Antimonial Emetick with good success because it will potently draw the sharp peccant humours from the emulgent Vessels and Reins and evacuate some of them both by Vomit and Stool After the Operation of the Emetick let the sick take two spoonfulls of this Cordial Opiate often which will ease pain and thicken the humours Take the Waters of Barley red Poppies
very hot for the space of a Night then boil it gently till a third part be boiled away strain it and keep it for use Let the sick take four spoonfulls of it with ten grains of Antimonium diaphoret every Morning and Evening for four or five days following and sweat after it in Bed or in a Hot-house or Bagnio so long as can be well endured Then omitting a day or two you may take another Dose of Pills then sweat seven days more after which purge as before this doe for forty days or till the Cure be perfected You may make a second Decoction of the Ingredients for ordinary drink But if the sick have extreme Pains in the Night ten grains of the following Pills may be given to bed-ward instead of the Decoction Take Gum of Guiacum two drachms Antimony Diaphoretick Bezoar-mineral Purging Pills Flower of Brimstone Diagredium Mercur. dulcis humane Bones calcin'd of each one drachm Saffron Laudanum opiatum of each half a drachm with Syrup of Saffron make it into a Mass for Pills If there be a Defluxion of Rheum on the Lungs you may give ten or twelve drops of Balsam of Sulphur in a little of the Decoction every Morning and the like quantity with half a drachm of Venice-treacle every Night after which drink four ounces of the aforesaid Decoction to promote a gentle sweat You may also make Fontinels in the Arm and Leg with good success But if the sick be of a hot Constitution and the Disease be inveterate and stubborn the shortest and best way of Cure will be by salivation I do not approve of unction with mercurial Ointments to raise the Flux nor Turbith-mineral to be given inwardly but the safest way is to administer Mercur. dulcis but let it be well prepared Then you may give twenty grains of it with a little Diascordium or Conserves of Roses give it three or four Mornings successively and drink a draught of the Diet-drink after it Also the second Decoction may be sometimes made use of for ordinary Drink all the time of the Cure and warm Posset-drink at other times when desired When the Salivation is rais'd let the sick have a piece of Gold between the teeth and keep warm and continue spitting till the Spittle become insipid which is commonly in twenty days In the mean time wash the Mouth with Plantain-water and Syrup of Mulberries When you would abate the spitting administer a Carminative Clyster or a Clyster of Milk and Sugar every Night and after its operation give the following Bolus Take of Diascordium half a drachm Gascoigns Bolus powder fifteen grains Oil of Vitriol two drops with Syrup of Poppies make it into a Bolus give it at Night going to bed Pustules Tumours and Ulcers of the Mouth Tongue Gums or any other Place will be all easily cured when the Salivation is over You may dress the sores with the following Ointment which is very effectual to cure all Pocky ulcers Take of Verdigreece and common Salt of each two ounces powder them and Ointment calcine them together then mix it with eight ounces of Unguentum Enulatum When the filthy Enemy or Neapolitan disease is cast out by Salivation you may sweat the Patient with the Decoction of China c. before mention'd for sometime as is there directed Let the Diet be drying rost Meat is better than boil'd Mutton Chickens Partridges Rabbets c. are all good Food When strength doth begin to increase Bread and Raisins may be eaten The greater Symptoms of this Disease are the Running of the Reins Nodes Caruncles c. The Running of the Reins is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 semen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fluo it being a Flux of natural Seed of Man or Woman unwittingly If the Gonorrhoea be virulent it is a praeludium to the Pox and must be cur'd the same way but if it be newly contracted it may wholly and most safely be absolved by purgation The same Apozeme and purging Pills before mention'd are very proper which must be continu'd till the Running of the Reins cease If the Patient be plethorick let a Vein be opened To strengthen the spermatick parts the following Balsamick Pills are effectual Take of Mummy Bole Armenick Gums Balsamick Pills Dragon and Arabick of each one ounce Balsam of Sulphur two drachms with Syrup of dried Roses make it into a Mass for Pills of which you may give half a drachm every Morning and Evening If there be Nodes Caruncles or Ulcers in the urinary Passage The following Medicine may be daily injected Take the Water of the Spawn of Frogs Injection four ounces Honey of red Roses one ounce white Troches of Rhasis one drachm powder the Troches and mix all together for an Injection After injection put in an hollow Instrument made of Silver or Lead being first anointed with some consolidating Ointment as was directed in the Stoppage of Urine I do not approve of Astringents in the Beginning of the Cure of a Gonorrhoea till the Patient be well purged and the running begin to cease because all Astringent means conduce to prolong the Distemper but after the Cause is eradicated by purging then they may be safely administred if the Cure be not effected without it To prevent the Return of the Distemper I advise the Patient to purge and bleed every Spring and Fall Also keep a good Diet be moderate in Exercise and all other of the nonnatural things When thou art recovered give God the Praise and have a care of committing the like sin again lest a worse thing befall thee for it is a fearfull thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Hebr. 10. 31. CHAP. XXVII Of the Rachites or Rickets THIS Disease may be called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It may be called in Latin morbus spinalis it being a Disease of the Spine of the Back This spinal Disease is commonly called in English Rickets It is peculiar to Children because they abound with a crude phlegmatick matter for if they labour under a cold moist Distemper there is presently a Penury and Paucity of the Animal Spirits for the Brain cerebellum and spinalis medulla being more compact than is wont is unfit for percolation so that the most spirituous part of the Bloud cannot pierce or be strein'd through it Hence the separation of the Animal Spirits is diminisht For the aforesaid cold moist phlegmatick Humours compacting the soft substance of the Brain c. it is thereby too much thickned and straitned in its porous passages The coldness of Air Water or Snow vehemently affecting the Head seems to confirm and prove this opinion because when the Glandules of the Brain are affected and thickned by a stuffing of the Head with Coldness then a more sparing production of the Animal Spirits useth to follow The essence of this Disease consists not onely in the Animal and vital but