CHAP. I. LIB. I.

APOPLEXIA is a disease that, [...]. in the strength of it, is mortal, and admits no cure but by Di­vines: but in a small Apoplexie there may be some small hope, and the cure is not altoge­ther impossible.

The cause is a dull, slow, grosse, flegme, Causa. filling the ventricles of the brain, and the Ar­teries of the Rete mirabile, that the spirits cannot passe from the heart, into the ventricles of the brain, which is called by Hippocr: Hippocrates [...]. The Metropolis or chief seat of cold and glutinous moystures.

The signe is, Signa. when there is a sharp pain in the head: brightnesse before the eyes: the veins in the neck swell: and a gnawing of the teeth while they sleep: their urine is little in quan­tity, [Page 2]black like rust, and canker in mettal, and a residence like Meale, they lack sense altoge­ther, they lye as they were asleep with their eyes shut, and do snort. A strong Apoplexie is, when the breathing is so diminished, that it can hardly be perceived; and that is almost evill, when the breath is stopped for a while, and then fetched out with great violence.

Hippocrates saith, Hippocrates it is impossible to cure a ve­hement Apoplexie, and not easie to cure a weak one, for it threatneth speedy death; be­sides, if it chance by medicines to be taken away, for the most part it leaves a palsie behind it, either in the whole body, or in some part thereof: but if it be a weak one, it may perhaps be cured, as experience hath proved in some.

If you perceive plenitude, Curatio. Venae-sectio open a veine, but not without the counsel of other Physitians, for it either kills or delivers, if they do joyn in it, open the Cephalica vein, and then this clyster following. ‘℞. Clyster. Betonicae, Salviae, hyssopi, centaurii, Aristo­lochiae, florum stoecados, arab-Mercurialis. ana. M.j. florum camomelae. Anisi, ana. M. ss. Agarici, pulpae colocynthidis, in petia ligat. ana. ʒ. ij. Bulliant in sufficienti quantitate a­quae, usque ad consumptionem medietatis, & de colatura ℞. ℥10. hierae logodii, hierae com­positae, ana. ℥.ss. Mellis rosati ℥.ij. olei Rutae ℥.iij. Sachrari Rubei ℥.i.ss. Salis communis ʒ.iij. vitellum ovi N^oj. fiat Enema.’ Then without any further expectation, to di­gest the matter (for if it be not looked unto the same day, the patient dieth) we give these [Page 3]pills following: or if the patient be so stupid, that he cannot swallow them, they may be dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Sage-water, and so give it him in the form of a potion. ‘℞. Pilularum Cochiarum, Pilul. foetidarum, Pilulae. ana ʒ.ss. Pil. aurearum, ℈.j. misce cum syrupo de Stoecade. f. pil. No. 5.’ Then it is good to apply cupping glasses on the calfes of the legges, Cucurbitu­lae. and afterwards below the buttocks, and ascending upwards till we come to the shoulders, let his drink be oximel compos. If he cannot swallow syrups, put into his mouth a dram or two of the best Methri­date, for it is very profitable in this disease: Methrida­tum. both before and after evacuations, keep his body loose, and he may drink of the palsie drink, which you shall find in the following Chapter; Lastly ‘℞. Succini albi ℥.ss. pulp. elect. diarrhod. Pulvis. abba­tis ʒ.ij. radic. poeniae ʒ.i.ss. fiat pulvis, de quo capiat ʒ.j. in aqua convenien [...]e ante no­vi-lunium. River. Riverius.’

CHAP. II.

PARALYSIS, is a deprivation of sense, [...]. and motion, but not of the whole body, as hapneth in the Apoplexie, but one side; or all the parts of the body, are infected; besides the head: as the jaw, the tongue, the eye, the foot, the hand, the arm, and sometimes the lip:

The cause are gross, and clammy humours, Causa. stopping the sinews, & hindring the animal fa­culty, [Page 4]that it cannot come, from the fountain to the members.

For the cure; Curatio. if you see cause, open a veine of the sound side, and draw blood by degrees, because that nature may thereby send the mat­ter from the part that is hurt, Venae sectio to the part that is sound: after bleeding, or if perhaps the pati­ent have not bled, yet neverthelesse frictions and rubbings must be used on the sound part, whereby the matter is diverted, and also light rubbings and frictions to the part affected, whereby natural heat may be stirred up, then purge with such things that purge the flegm, as these Pils following. ‘℞. Pilulae. Pilularum de hiera Simpl. ℈.ij. Agarici troch. ʒ.ss. misce. cum syrupo de stoecade, & fiant pil. 5.’ which must be given to the patient at mid­night, or if you see cause, you may make a po­tion that purgeth flegm. The next is to drink often of the syrup of oximel, and take a tent and dip it in mustard, and put it into the nostril, is very good: and to drink of this decoction fol­lowing is excellent. ‘℞. Decoctio. Glyzyrhyzae. ℥.ij. Rorismarini, Salviae, Hys­sopi, Betonicae, Stoecados. an. M.j. Bulliant in sufficienti quantitate aquae, & fiat decoctio.’ Also Methridate, Methrida­tum. Sternuta­mentum. Gargaris­mus. drunk in this decoction, a dragm at a time, is said to be very good; Lastly, provoke sternutation, and ‘℞. Rad. Angelicae, Pyrethri, Acori veri ana ℥.ss. herb. Salviae, Maioranae, Thymi, Hysso­pi, Platerus. Origani ana. M.j. Seminis sinapi ℥.ij. Staphisagr. piperis longi ana ℥.j. nucis mosc. ℥.ss. fiat decoctio in aquâ: adde mellis scyl­litici [Page 5]vel anthosati ℥.i.ss. misce. Colluat vel gargariset os. Plater us lib. 2. de funct. laesio.’

CHAP. III.

VERTIGO, is a disease, [...]. wherein the pati­ent doth imagine, that his head and all other things, doth turn round, and the brain is so affected, that the eyes grow dark and dim, that if the patient be not stayed up, he falleth to the ground.

The cause, is, either of the brain, Causae. being distem­pered, and evill-affected, or of the mouth of the stomack offending the brain. The brain it self is evill-affected, when as a grosse and tough humour is contained in it, from whence a vapo­rous and windy spirit, being resolved by weak heat, is moved inordinately about the brain. The mouth of the stomack doth affect the brain, when through corrupt homours, being gathered abundantly in it, vaporous and win­dy exhalations are carried up to the brain, and so turn about the animal spirits contained in it.

For the cure, the first intention is, Curatio. to open a vein, drawing away a little blood at a time, Venae sectio if nothing forbid it: then to purge with a dosse of head-pills, as. Pilularum cochiarum, ʒ.j. f. pill. 7. Pilulae. when the body is well purged, take this ster­nutament following, as much as will lye upon a half-peny piece at a time, in a morning fa­sting; snuffe it up into your nostrils, many have been perfectly cured with this Receipt onely. [Page 6] ‘℞. Sternuta­mentum. Pulvis. Sem. Maioranae, Betonicae, ana ℥.ss. Pyrethri. ʒ.ss. Hellebori. alb. ℥,ss. Piperis nigri. Eu­phorbii. an. ℈.j. fiat pul.’ Also, foeniculi dulcis, beaten to fine powder, and taken in the pap of an apple in a morning fasting, and to drink oximel, is good. If there be inflammation, the opening decoction is very profitable, Vomitus. but if the cause come from the sto­mack, then it must be cured by vomiting, and stomack pills; Lastly, this electuary following is very good to strengthen the head and sto­mach. ‘℞. Electuari­um. Hollerius. Specierum aromatici rosati, triasantali an. ʒ.ss. sacchari rosati q. s. cum syr. rosato. fiat elect.’

CHAP. IV.

PHRENITIS, [...]. is a disease wherein the mind is hurt onely, and differs from mad­ness, which is called in Greek or Latin, Melan­cholia aut Mania, for that a fever is joyned with the phrensie, and therefore the phrensie may be called a continual madnesse and fury, joyned with a sharp fever.

The cause, Cause. Galenus. as Galen saith, is an inflamma­tion of the braine, or filmes thereof; some Phy­sicians are of opinion, that this disease pro­ceedes from a hot impostume of the braine, and that it is in vain to undertake the cure; and the reason is, because it is confirmed in a principal member; wherefore the intention of the Physician must be, to hinder that it may [Page 7]not happen, for having once taken a man, it is in vain to enterprise any cure: yet I will shew you a way, under God, to prevent it: but first I will let you to know, when the patient is incli­ned to a phrensie.

The signes of a phrensie to come, Signa. are the signes of a present Paraphrenisis, as continual head-ache, rednesse of the face, over-much heat, rednesse of the eyes, with too much ap­pearance of their veines, staring, thirst, dri­nesse of the tongue, unquietnesse, different from wonted actions, and some Alienation of mind, whether these things happen, by the force of some acute fever, or some other cause; by these you shall judge Paraphrenisis, and a fear of a phrensie to come.

For the cure, Curatio. first consider whether there be fulnesse of the body or no; if there be, we may open the vein which is common, or the vena nigra, of the right arme, Venae. secti [...] and draw out five ounces of bloud, let this be done in the morn­ing, and in the afternoon, administer this cly­ster following. ‘℞. Malvae, violarum, Mercurialis, an. M. j. Clyster. Bulliant in sufficienti quantitate aquae, usque ad consumptionem medietatis. strain it, and adde olei violati ℥.iij. Cassiae Nov. ext. ℥.ss. Sacchar. Rub. ℥.ij.’ As much salt as will lye on a six-pence: and this is to be considered, that the oyle of Violets is most requisite in the phrensie, because the pa­tient is subject to watchfulness, and Violets do procure sleepe, but in sleepy diseases it must be avoyded, as in Subeth, Lethurgies, Subeth. and [Page 8]such like: the next day following, we may open the Cephalica veine in the right arm, and draw forth the quantity of four ounces of blood; which done, about four of the clock in the after­noon, let him take the foresaid clyster, make him barly water, Victus ra­tio. nip the juice of Lemonds into his beer: ale of chirmd-milk is good, but no strong beer: the next day, which is the third day, if the disease groweth worse, the hemero­dial vein must be opened, out of which must be drawne three ounces of blood; and if the di­sease do still remain, then we are to doubt of an Impostume ingendred, wherefore we must be bold to open the vena Recta of the fore-head, and to draw the quantity of three ounces of blood, for by this blood-letting, all evill affects of the head, for the most part are removed; then to procure sleep, take this Julep that fol­loweth. ‘℞. Julepus. Syrupi de papavere, err. & aquae lactucae, ana. ℥.ij.’ If all this will not serve, commend the sick to God, and so much of the phrensie.

[...].

Peripneumonia si supervenerit phrenitis, malum. Hippocrat. lib. 7. Aphor. 12.

CHAP. V.

EPILEPSIA, [...]. or the Falling-sicknesse, doth shew it self as a convulsion of all the parts of the body, but not perpetually: and it doth bring with it hurt of mind, and sense. [Page 9]There are three differences in this disease, for ei­ther it happeneth when the brain is affected by it self, which is, when the original spring­eth from thence, or else it springeth through the consent of the stomack, being evil-affected, from whence vapours arise to the brain: or else through the consent of some other subject part, from whence venemous vapours do arise, and do creep into the brain by hidden passages: for some say that they do feel the cause of the evil, from that part of the body, from whence it springeth, as it was a vapour, or cold ayr, carried into the brain, by the continuity of the parts.

The cause for the most part, Causa. happeneth from the abundance of a melancholy and fleg­matick humour, from whence venemous, cor­rupt, and virulent vapours do arise, from which happen obstructions in the Meatus, and pas­sage of the brain.

As soon as this evill taketh them, Signa. the sick falleth down, and they are plucked up toge­ther, they snort, and sometime they cry out, many do tremble, and turn round about, but the peculiar sign is foming at the mouth.

For an infant take green pionie roots, Curatio. slice them length-ways, and cut them so as they may be made fit to hang about the childs neck, like a bracelet, then make this Ecligma following: ‘℞. Cranii humani, pulveris paeoniae, mellis opt. misce. omnes, quant. suf. fiat Ecligma. Ecligma.’ Oximel is also very profitable, anointing the neck behind with oyle of dil, and exetor, Oleism. onely advise a diet for the nurse, of meats of good juice, Victus ra­tio. (if the child be not weaned) her diet must be hot [Page 10]and drie, that thereby her milk may be the hot­ter, and thinner. For those that are elder in years, if you perceive they be of a plethorick body, Venae-sectio a vein may be opened: and withall, once a week the humours offending, may be avoy­ded by purgations, and first this clyster. ‘℞. Clyster. Rad. paeoniae, ℥.j. Centaurii, absynthii. salviae, betonicae. ana. M. ss. Sem. anisi, pulp. Cola­cyn. ℥.j. coquantur in aqu.q.s. ad lib. j.ss. co­laturae ad. olei camomeli, ℥.iij. diacathol. ℥.j. meslis. ℥.ij. Salis communis. ʒij. fiat Enema:’ Let this clyster be given about ten in the fore­noon, at night let him drink a little oximel, and anoint behind his head with oyl of dil, Pilulae. and exe­tor, then take Pilulae Epilepsiae, two or three at a time, if the fit come in the night, take them in the night; if in the day, take them in the morn­ing: also this bolus following, a dram at a time, in the morning about seven of the clock, is good. ‘℞. Bolus. Cranii humani, ʒ.i.ss. pulver is paeoniae, ʒ.ss. Methridati opt. ʒ.ij. fiat bolus.’ Afterwards if you see cause, you may purge with this potion. ‘℞. Potio pur­gans. Diaphenicon. ʒ.ij. pul. benedictus & sanctus. an. ʒ.ss. oximel. q. s. f. potio.’ Lastly take, ‘℞. Ʋnguen­tum. Bayrus. Cerae ʒvij. thapsiae ʒ.ij. Castorei ʒ.iij. Eu­phorbii ʒj. ol. q. s. fiat ung. Bayrus, cap. 17.’

CHAP. VI.

LETHARGƲS is a disease, [...]. which doth provoke the patient to sleep without resi­stance, and it bringeth with it, forgetfulness, and for the most part deprivation of all the senses, the reason is, because not only the hinder part of the head is affected, and therefore principally the memory is hurt, but also the forepart of the head, by which the patient doth not perfectly feel this disease, that hath a great affinity with Caros and Subeth, Caros. Subeth. but onely differs in that Caros is void of a fever; but indeed a more profound necessity of sleeping, possesse him; for being pricked, he is scarce stirred, Caros or dead sleep is scarce discerned from the Apoplexie, yet ne­verthelesse in this it doth differ, that he that is affected with Caros, doth breathe freely and ea­sily, but the contrary doth happen in the Apo­plexie, yet the cure is all one, to the lethargie, and performed alike, they that have the lethar­gy, will answer to a question, if much compelled.

It is caused of abundance of flegme, Causa. which cooleth and moisteneth the brain, and thereby provoketh sleep, the flegme putrifieth the brain, and thereby causeth a fever, which is al­wayes annexed with this disease.

Their pulse is watery, great, Signa. and striketh seldom, they are continually sluggish, and slee­py, they will sometime open their eyes, if you cry aloud to them, and shut them forthwith; they gape and gaspe often, sometime they keep [Page 12]their mouth open still, as though they had for­got to shut it. Curatio. For the cure, first administer this clyster following. ‘℞. Clyster. Radicis lilii alb. ℥.j. Rutae, salviae, maioranae, Malvae, ana, M. j. florum Roris-Cam. Meli­loti. Centaurei. Minor. Betonicae, an. M. ss. Sem. lini, anisi. ana. ℥.ss. polypodii-quer, ℥.j. colocin. ʒ.i.ss. coquantur in aquâ q. s. ad lib. i.ss. colatura adde hierae logod. ℥.ss. Mellis Ros. ℥.i.ss. olei Rutecei ℥.iij. castorei ʒ.j. salis. com. ʒ.ij. f. Enema.’

Afterwards if blood do abound, Venae-sectio you may open the Cephalica vein, then after that it will be very necessary to purge, with these pills fol­lowing. ‘℞. Pil [...]ae. Pil. hierae. pierae galeni. ℈.ij. pilul. stomac. ca­storii. cochiarum. an. ℈.ss. cum syr. de stoecade. q. s. f. pil. 8.’ If the patient cannot swallow them, then dis­solve them in ℥.iij. of aq. betoniae, mellis Rosati, ℥.j. and give the patient to drink: for the faculty sensitive is so stupified, that the patient doth scarce taste the bitternesse: then it would be ve­ry profitable, Cucurbit [...] ­lae. to apply cupping glasses to the shoulders, and keep accustomed evacuations if they be retained, such as are the hemroydes, menstrues, &c. and a tent of strong mustard put up into the nostrils, Sternuta­mentum. and to provoke sternu­tation is good: and lastly, take mustard-seed bruised, Mixtura. and mixe it with honey, vinegar, and methridate, rubbe and anoynt the tongue, and pallate of the mouth; Gargaris­mus. Marquar­dus. or ‘℞. Aquar. salviae, rutae, hyssopi ana unc. i.ss. oxy­mel. compositi unc. ℥.ij. misce fiat gargarismus Marquard. l. 1. c. 4.’

CHAP. VII.

SPASMOS in Greek, Convulsio in Latin, [...]. is a disease, in which the sinews are drawn, and plucked up against our will. There be of it three kindes of differences. The first is called in Latin distensio; it is, Distensio. when the neck remaineth altogether immoveable, and cannot be turned away, but must be holden right forth. The se­cond is called Tensio ad anteriora, Tensio ad anteriora. in this disease the head, and neck, be drawne down to the brest. The third is called Tensio ad posteriora, Tensio ad posteriora. in this disease the head is drawn down back­ward to the shoulders, which is most dangerous.

The cause of this disease, Hippocrates, Causa. Hippocrates appoin­teth but onely two, that is, fulnesse and empti­nesse of the sinewes in the body, sometimes it cometh with the biting, or stinging of some venemous beasts. If the cramp take one that is whole, or by and by, as soon as the disease com­eth, or not long after, then this disease is caused of fulnes; but when the convulsion cometh after, in any sweats, vomits, watchings, or drinesse, or purging, then it cometh of emptinesse. The diet of them that have this disease, coming of ful­nesse, must be hot and drie: but where it is cau­sed of emptinesse, their diet must be moyst soopings, and fat broaths: If this disease be of fulnesse, first administer this clyster following. Curatio. ‘℞. Radicum Liliorum alborum. ℥.j. fol. salviae, Clyster. Betonicae, ana. ʒiij. florum cardui benedicti. Camomeli, Mercurialis, Centauri-minor. [Page 14]an. M.j. agarici albi & levis ℥.ss. coquantur. in aqua. q. s. ad lib. i.ss. colaturae adantur specim. hierae picrae. sympl. ʒ.i.ss. benedictae Car. ʒ.j. mellis Ros. ℥.j. olei lilio. alb. ℥iij. salis. q. s. f. Enema.’ Then if you perceive he hath a very foul body, and full of blood, Venae-sectio it were very fit to open a vein, and also if flegme bear a share, and windinesse in this disease, of fulnesse, then purge with this following potion, but first prepare the humour with oximel, over night. ‘℞. Potio pur­gans. Diaphaenicon ʒ.ij. pul. Sanct. benedict. ana ʒ.ss. oximel. q. s. fiat potio.’ Then it were fitting the convulsed parts were rubbed, and chafed with warm linnen cloathes, and then anointed with oyle of Rew, and castoreum, O'cum ca­storei. or oyle of dil, and exetor, and hypericon, which you will; and after they be well anointed, bind them up with Wolves or Foxes skins, if you can get them: let them be bound up warm, Sternuta­mentum. and straight; also use the ster­nutation, and with the oyls aforesaid, anoint the hole of the neck. There is one thing more that is excellent in this cause, Infusio me. thridatum. and that is the infusi­on of castoreum, and a dram of methridate, ad­ministred in oximel fasting in a morning: if you see cause, you may give it at twice. If this di­sease happeneth by the biting or stinging of a venemous beast; Medica­mentum. then bruise scabious, to which mixe a little treakle, with the yelk of an egge, and so apply it upon the affected part; if this di­sease chanceth through emptinesse, it is such an evil, Victus ratio. as that it is almost incurable: their cure is moyst soopings, and fat broaths of mutton, gel­lies [Page 15]made of chickins, also soft frictions with oyles, and their whole cure must alwayes be like the cure of hecticks; now after he hath soopings, and after he hath had frictions as aforesaid, then take this Electuary fol­lowing: ‘℞. Conservae Buglossae, violarum, an. ℥.j. Electuari­um. Ma­nus Christi. ℥.ss. nucleorum. pini ℥.ss. Dia­margrit ʒ. 5. Syr. de stoecad. q. s. f. E.’ Then it will be very good to administer this clyster.

Take of the decoction of a capon one quart, Clyster. boyle in it Mallowes, violet leaves, of each alike, barley, ℥.ij. a lambs-head, or a sheeps­head, boyle them to a pinte, and adde oyle of violets ℥. iij. but the best way will be to boyle them in a larger quantity, untill the flesh come from the bones, and to adde your oyle of vio­lets to one pinte: if there be more, it will serve for another clyster, because you cannot well boyl a sheeps-head in a quart, much lesse two heads, if occasion should serve. ‘℞. Mythridatii ℥.ss. Castorei ℥.ij. Linimen­tum. unguenti mar­tiati ℥ij. olei mentae q.s. fiat linimentum. Fontanus lib. 1. cap. 25. Fontanus.’ With this liniment, let the spine of the back be anoynted morning and evening, Quod illi a cerebro communicetur affectus. Lastly, ‘℞. Salviae, pulegii. betonicae, majoranae, Hyssopi, Decoctio. an. M.ss. Rad. foeniculi, paeoniae an. ℥.ss. Sem. faeniculi, anisi an. ʒ.j. Florum betonicae, Weckerus. bor­rag. an. M.j. fiat decoctio, deinde coletur, dulcísque redatur potio, cui denique ad­dantur Syrupi de betonica de hyssopo ana [Page 16]℥.ij. Weckerus lib. 2. pag. 407. De cu­ratione convulsionis.’

CHAP. VIII.

CEPHALALGIA. [...]. Galenus. Galen saith, there are three paines in the head, and they are sundry. The first is Cephalalgia as aforesaid, that is, when the paine is new and tolerable. The second is Cephalaea, which is an old inveterate head-ache, stubborn, and confirmed. The third is, Hemicrania, and doth occupy the half part of the head.

The cause of Cephalaea, Causa. [...] is abundance of blood and other humours, or by the sharpnesse of hu­mours and vapours, contained within or with­out the scull, and inflaming the head.

The signe is, Signa. exceeding pain, continuing long, and hard to cease, upon which light oc­casion, have very sharp and great fits followed, so that the patient can neither abide noyse, loud speech, nor clear light, drinking of wine, nor sa­vors, that fill the brain, but desireth for the greatnesse of the pain, to sit or lie quiet in the dark, supposing that his head were strucken with a hammer.

The cause of Hemicrania, Causa. [...]. is by the ascending, or flowing of many vapours, either hot or cold, either by the veines, or arteries, or by both.

It is a painful evill, Signa. remaining in the one halfe of the head, either in the right half, or in the left of the head; to be short, the cures of the paines in the head, are according to the diver­sity [Page 17]of causes. But first I will shew you from whence it proceedeth, whether from heat, cold, moysture, or drinesse, &c.

The signe of head-ache, Signa. caused of heat of the, Sun, is when a body tarry long in it, ha­ving vehement pain, you shall feel their head hot, as soon as you touch it, and their skin is drier than it was wont to be; their eyes do look red, and are delighted with the sprinkling, and anointing of cold things.

The signe of head-ache caused of cold, Signa. out­ward, as when the ayre is very cold, especially when one tarry in it a long time bare headed, or by applying suddenly any cold thing to the head: the pain is vehement, yet the head when it is felt on, is not hot, and the face and eyes do not look red, nor their face is not drie, and shrunk, as that which is caused of outward heat, but contrariwise, full, and pale, their eyes are swollen, and swarth, and they feel ease by hot things.

The signes of head-ache caused of drinesse, Signa. are: there come few excrements, or none at all out of the nose; If the eyes be hollow, and the patient, that is pained, hath watched much be­fore, and the skin of the head is drier, then it is a certain sign, that it comes of driness.

The signe of head-ache caused of moysture, Signa. is meant either by moystening medicines, or by the moyst ayre, by bathes, or the like: There is much filth coming out of the nose, the eyes puf­fed up, and swelled, and the patient sleepeth much, while you judge of it, be sure you mark, whether it be hot and moyst, or cold [Page 18]and moyst, do cause the paine.

The signe of head-ache caused of blood, Signa. is: when the veines swell, the face and eyes be red: the veines commonly, when blood do much abound, may be seen even to the smallest; the the pulse is great and vehement, the urine red­dish, and thick: the veines of the temples do beat; and the pain is heavinesse.

The signs of head-ache caused of choller, Signa. are: the pain is like the head-ache caused through heat of the Sun, but their pain is more sharp, and pricking, their head is moderately hot, their face is pale and wan, but the peculiar signe is bitterness of the mouth, and driness of the nose, eyes, and tongue.

The signes of head-ache caused of flegme, Signa. are: there be fulness and heaviness of the head, and whiteness and moystness of the face; more­over, the sick will easily fall asleep, he is slow, his sences are dull, and he aboundeth with moysture or excrements in his head, this head­ache is apt to breed some ill infirmity, if not looked to in time.

The signs of head-ache caused of windiness, Signa. are: there be felt distension, and streaching in the head, without heaviness and beating, and if there be sound and noyse in the eares, then it betokeneth windiness.

The signe of head-ache caused through the default of the stomack: Signa. it may be knowne through the biting and gnawing pain they feel; moreover in this kind of head-ache, if the sick, fast and suffer hunger long, the pain is the more vehement, for through long abstenence, [Page 19]the Mallice of the humour increaseth.

The signe of head-ache caused by fevers, Signa. is evident enough, and the signe is all one to that of blood, and choller. Now I will go for­ward to the cures of these head-aches, one by one.

The cure of Cephalaea, Curatio. Venae sectio is first to open the Ce­phalica vein, on the same side, if strength will suffer it, and anoint the head with oyle, or ointment, of a cooling quality; and this cool­ing clyster following, is very proper in this head-ache. ‘℞. Malvae, violarum, Mercurialis, an. M.j. Clyster. Bulliant in sufficienti quantitate aquae, usque ad consumptionem medietatis: colatura, adde butyri quantit. ovi, sactharum Rub. ℥. j. sa­lis communis ʒ.ij. fiat Enema.’ Administer it about four of the clock in the af­ternoon, and give cooling things.

The cure of Hemicrania. Curatio. if it proceed of a hot cause, cure it as you do Cephalaea, and abundance of humours, onely purge twice in two dayes, with the aforesaid clyster. If it come of a cold cause, purge strongly with this Recipe fol­lowing. ‘℞. Pilularum foetidarum pil. cochiarum. an. ʒ. ss. Pilulae. fiat pil. 5.’ Anointing the head with oyles, that have pow­er to heat, and dissolve, for although here be many things which be excellent, for head­aches, yet nevertheless, we have seen pain of the head and teeth proceeding of a cold cause, with one only purgation, hath been removed, and so a hot cause with one only blood-letting.

The cure of head-ache, Curatio. Oleum. caused through heat of the Sun. Take oyle of Roses, and a little vi­negar being added to it, it will pierce the faster, and deeper, and also besprinkle Rose-water on the forepart of the head, where the seam goeth overwhart; for it is the thinnest part of the scull, stupefactive things are to be avoyded, such as juyce of Poppies, Night-shade, or of Mandrake.

The cure of head-ache, Curatio. caused by outward cold, is to anoint the forepart of the head with with oyle of Rue, or the like, and if plethorick, and somewhat costive, Ol [...]umrutae Clyster. Curatio. Oleum. you may give a sharp clyster, that you think proper.

The cure for the head-ache caused of drines: you may anoint the forepart of the head with oyle of sweet almonds, or with oyle of violets, and cammomel, mixed together; it is also good to drop some of these oyles into the nostrils.

The cure for the head-ache caused of moy­sture, Curatio. Oleum. is to anoint the head with oyle of Rue, Cammomel, or Euforbium, or oyle of Ireos; this must be done: if the cause be cold with moy­sture, (as you may in part judge by the water) then use such things as are hot and drie, if the cause be cold and moyst: and use such things as are cold and drie, if the cause be hot and moyst. In this Chapter are remedies enough of all sorts.

The cure for the head-ache caused of blood, is first to open the Cephalica veine, Curatio. Venae-sectio on that side the grief is on; eschew strong beer, wine, hot­waters, and spices; but take all cooling things; if much blood doth still abound, you may open the vein in the forehead, and it were fitting a [Page 21]cooling clyster were administred, Clyster. such a one as you shall think fit.

The cure for head-ache caused of choller, Curatio. Purgatio. must be begun with purging of the chollerick humour straightway, because choller is thin, and moveable, and will easily be purged out: for digestion is nothing else, but an alteration of the humour causing the disease, therefore such me­dicines must be used each morning fasting, be­fore you do purge, untill good concoction ap­pear in the urine; for by this means choller being concoct, & as it were tamed, & made mild, be­comes so obedient unto nature, that it will soon, without any grief be drawn out by purging, therefore for a preparative, use this or the like medicine, syrup of violets, or syrup of popies, which of them you will ℥. j. Iulepus. Syrup of water-lillies, ℥.ss. distilled waters of Indive, Succory, and Roses, of either ℥.j: mixe them, and let them drink of it in the morning fasting, or you may give the decoction of saene,, and then you may purge with pil. aurae, make six or seven: Pilulae. also anoint the forepart of the head with oyle of lillies, and popies. If choller in the stomach do disturb the head, vomit with Stibium, Oleum, Vomitus. the infu­sion thereof, 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14. according as you shall see cause, sometimes nine dragmes is sufficient.

The cure of head-ache caused of flegme, Curatio. is first to extenuate, and make it thin, fit for pur­ging, with oximel, and Syr. de stoecade, when that is done, take this ℞. following.

But remember that you provoke vomit with Asaron, Asaron. if their body be loose: and if choller be the cause, as aforesaid, vomit not with Sti­bium, untill the body be loose; either naturally or artificially. If the head-ache be inveterate, and abundance of flegme, purge twice in four dayes with the aforesaid pills, Sternuta­mentum. sternutation is al­so good.

The cure for head-ache caused of windiness, Curatio. Oleum. is to anoint the head with oyle of Cammo­mel, but the best, is oyle of Nutmegs, Mace, Rue, and such things as have power to discuss windinesse: neesing is also very good, and a cly­ster made with Aniseeds, Clyster. Fennel-seeds, Carra­way-seeds, and Commin-seeds, boyle these (of each alike, with one large handful of Bettonie) in a quart of water to a pinte, straine it, and ad. Benedict. lax. ℥. ss. diaphenicon. ʒ. ij. this is for a lusty body.

The cure for head-ache caused through de­fault of the stomach, Curatio. Vomitus. is to vomit, and if any hu­mour fire the tunicles of the stomach, purge with Hierapicra, Hierapic. which is a soveraign thing.

The cure for head-ache caused by fevers, Curatio. Venae-sectio is forthwith to bleed, if nothing prohibit it: eschew all hot things, and take all cooling things, a­nointing the head with oyle of Roses, and juice of popies. Lastly, a cooling clyster will be wondrous proper, such a one as you shall think fit: and to procure rest, bathe the temples of the head with a little of this liniment, fol­lowing. Linimen­tum.

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CHAP. IX.

MEMORIA DEPERDITA. The losse of memory, chanceth sometime alone, and sometime reason is hurt with it.

The cause is sometimes of coldnes, Causa. Signa. with moy­sture, & sometimes by a cold & drie distempera­ture; If coldnes with moisture be the cause, then the party is very drowsie and sleepy, and much moisture is avoided at the nose. If it be caused of a cold & dry distemperature, the patient is watch­full, and yeeldeth forth little or no moysture. Curatio. Oleum. Gordonius.

For the cure, if it be caused of a cold and moyst distemperature. Gordonius, adviseth to use oyle of Castoreum, and of Euphorbium; also to give for certain dayes together, Confectio ex ana cardis ʒ. ij. with the decoction of smallege, and fennel rootes, and it is sufficient to mixe one dragm: with a little quantity of Methridate, Methrida­tum. or Treakle, and to take every morning a spoon­full of syr. of stoecados, doth profit much; oyle of cinamon is good to anoynt the head, Ol. Cinamo­mi. and if the cause be cold and drie, cure it with things that be hot and moyst.

CHAP. X.

MELANCHOLIA, is a delirium, or doltishnesse, [...]. which springeth from a me­lancholick humour, without a fever, which doth so perturbe the seate of the minde, that the speech and actions are altogether void of Reason.

The cause sometime is of the common vice of melancholy blood, Causae. 1 being in all the veines of the whole body, 2 which also hurteth the braine: but sometimes only the blood which is in the brain is altered, and the blood in all the rest of the body is unhurt, and that chanceth two wayes, for either it is derived from other pla­ces, 3 and ascendeth up thither, or else it is ingen­dred in the brain it self: and sometime it is in­gendred through inflammation, and evill affect about the stomack and sides, & therefore there be three diversities of Melancholy, according to the three kindes of causes.

The signes are, Signa. fearfulnesse, sadnesse, hatred, and also they which be Melancholius, 1 have strange imaginations: for some think them­selves bruit beasts, and do counterfeit their voice, and noise. Some think themselves ves­sels of earth, or earthen pots, and therefore they withdraw themselves from them, that they meet, lest they should knock together, moreover they desire death, and do very often determine to kill themselves, and some fear that they should be killed, many of them [Page 25]do alwayes laugh, and weep; some think them­selves inspired with the holy Ghost, and do pro­phesie upon things to come: but these be the peculiar signes of them that have melancholi­ousnes, 2 caused through the consent of the whole body; for in them the state of the body is slen­der, black, rough, and altogether Melancholius, caused naturally, or through certain thoughts, watchings, or eating of wicked meats, through hemroyds, or suppression of Menstruis: but they which have Melancholia, 3 caused through evill affect of the stomach, and sides, they have raw­nesse, and much windinesse, sharp belkings, burnings, and grieviousnesse of the sides: also the sides are plucked upwards, and many times are troubled with inflammation, especially about the beginning of the disease, also there is costivenesse of the womb, little sleep, troubled with naughty dreams, swimming of the head, and sound in the ears.

For the cure, if it be caused of adusted blood, Curatio. first administer a clyster, 1 afterwards open a vein, with this caution, Venae-sectio that if good blood shews forth, close up the vein, but if the blood shall appear grosse, black, and turbulent; then we draw away according as we shall see cause, a sufficient quantity, but first administer this cly­ster following. ‘℞. Epithymi, thimi, florum. Stoecados, violariae, Clyster. Mercurialis, fol. Malvae, an. M.j. bulliant in sufficienti quantitate aquae, ad lib. j. cola­turae, adde cassiae novit. extract. ℥.i. ss. olei violati ℥.iij. saccar. Rub. ℥.i.ss. salis com. ʒ.i. vitelli ovi. N. j. fiat Enema:’ [Page 26]Or else administer such a potion, as you shall think proper: then to digest the matter, we give this syrup following. ‘℞. Syr. de pomis. simpl. ℥.i. Syr. violati ℥.ss. aqua. Mixtura. bugloss. violarum, boraginis, ana ℥.j. misce.’ Let his meats, Vietus ra­tio. be meats of good juice, which are hot and moyst, but more moystning than heating, and musick, with what delights you can, but let his diet be slender.

If it be caused of adusted melancholy; 2 Purgatio. first purge with pills, or potion, which purge melan­choly, afterwards, if you see that blood abound, open a vein with the former caution, but howe­ver open the hemroyd veines with leeches, and use a concoctive syrrup, and anoint the temples of the head, and pulse of the hands, and soles of the feet, with this oyntment, made as fol­loweth.

Or else you may take ung. populeneum ℥.iv. dis­solve opium ℥.ss. if you see cause, drop in Ol. nu­cis muscat. gr. iij. into a little of the oyntment aforesaid, also Landanum paracel. 3 or 4 grains, or more according as you shall see cause. And syrrup of poppies ℥.ij. mixt with ℥.iv. of the wa­ter thereof, Iulepus. is good: let him ride or walk by pla­ces pleasant, sayling on waters, and such things to delight in. 3

If the disease proceedeth from the stomach and sides, Vomitus. either vomit or purge, which you shall judge to be most proper and fitting: remember to keep accustomed evacuation, [Page 27]which you do with this decoction.

CHAP. XI.

MANIA AƲT INSANIA FƲ ­ROR, that is, madnesse, [...]. they that have this disease be woode and unruly like beasts, it differeth from this frensie, that because this di­sease comes without a fever.

The cause is much blood, Causa. flowing up to the brain, & yet the blood is temperate, sometime it happeneth through a sharp chollerick humour, and sometime melancholy and choller do so prevail, that they are forced to be bound in their beds some are of opinion, that sometimes a spirit troubleth this kind of evil, which say they, is known by discoursing with him, after the fit.

For the cure: if it be caused of blood, Curatio. Venae-sectio you must begin with blood-letting, and in women cut the inward vein in the anckle, anointing the head with unguents or oyles that be cold and moyst, to procure sleep. And purge if you see cause [Page 28]with a cooling clyster. Vomitus. If it be caused of choller, purge or vomit with such things as purge chol­ler, if the fits be violent and strong, take this powder following. Pulvit. ℞. Take Brimstone, Gun­powder, Hypericon, Mugwort, Vervine, pow­der of peony roots; of each a like quantity in powder; mixe them altogether, cast a little on coles, and hold his head over it.

CHAP. XII.

CATALEPSIS, [...]. or conglation, is a certain sudden detension; both of the mind, and of the body, with the which whoso­ever is taken, doth retain the same figure of the parts of the body, which he had when he was taken, whether he were sitting or lying; from whence it is called of some, Stupor vigilans,, be­cause the sick is become sencelesse, and altoge­ther without motion. This disease doth agree with the Apoplexy, in this, that, as in the Apo­plexy; so in this disease, the patient doth lose both sence and motion; but herein it differeth, because here the spirits themselves are affected, and congealed, and do remain as it were still, and quiet, and in whatsoever part of the body they are taken, the parts do remain cold, stiffe, and hard, but contrary in the Apoplexy. The eyes of those that are Apoplectick, are closed up.

The cause of this disease, Causa. is an exceeding cold, and drie distemper of the brain, by which it happeneth; as well the brain, as the animal spi­rits, [Page 29]to be both congealed and dried: this disease if it be not speedily cured, it killeth the pa­tient.

For the cure of this most grievous evil, Curatio. we must administer those things that do mode­rately heat, and moysten, and first a clyster, which you shall find to be excellent; it is made as followeth. ‘℞. Floru. camomeli, meliloti, ana. M.ij. Clyster. Mercu­rialis, M.i.ss. salviae, Thimi, pulegii, Epithy­mi, ana. M.j. polypodii quer. senae alex. an. ʒ. 5. Ellebori. nigri. ʒ.j. coquantur in aqua. q. s. ad lib. j. colaturae addantur. confect. ha­mech. ʒ.iij. hieralogodii ʒ.6.ss. mellis Ros. ol. com. ana. ʒ.ij. salis. com. ʒ. i. ss. misce. f. Enema.’ Afterwards we use great clamors and noyse, with painful bindings and rubbings of the ex­tream parts, the better to excite and stirre up the sick: Sternuta­mentum. Venae sectio for that purpose we administer also sneesings. If this disease proceed from abun­dance of blood, open a vein, then afterwards use such oyntments and oyles, as resolve; such as be. Ol. Anethi, ol. camomeli, & ol. liliorum; ana ℥.i.ss. coquantur in iis, cum hyssopi, thimi, Ʋnguen­tum.postea ad­datur, colatura, castorei. ℈i.ss. fiat ung. s. A. with which anoynt the cataleptick parts, as the hinder part of the head or the like; those oyles you use to bathe withall, let them be oyle of Castoreum, or Euphorbium, Ol. Castor. Euphorb. and the like; be sure to keep the body solluble in the cure, then afterwards, we give such things as are com­fortable, and have a property to comfort the brain, and heart, as followeth. [Page 30] ‘℞. Electuari­jum. Theriacae ʒ.j. Diamusci. dul. laetificiantis Gal. ana. ʒ. ij. ss. Conservae Buglos. anthos, an. ℥.ss. Syrupi buglossati. q. s. ad Electuarii mollis, Consistentiam.’ Which must be given every morning, the quantity of a Walnut curnell fasting: also Di­anthon, Dianthon. in the composition aforesaid, will be very proper, and thus thus briefly (at this time) I end this most dangerous disease called Ca­talepsis.

Concerning which, if any one desire to be further satisfied, Zacutus. Lusitanus. Theophra-Perdulcis. let him read Zacutus Lusitanus Tom. 2. lib. 1. de curatione morb. pag. 175. & Tom. 1. lib. 1. pag. 81. & Theophrastus. lib. 1. pag. 25. & Perdulcis lib. 13. cap. 12,

CHAP. XIII.

ANGINA: [...] is an Inflamation of the la­rinx, or weasand, and of the rest of the parts of the throat, which doth hinder both breathing, and swallowing: this disease is very dangerous, if not looked to in time, because he can hardly draw breath, nor receive nou­rishment.

The cause for the most part is of blood, Causa. flow­ing from the jugular veines, in which there is great store, or else from a bilous, or cholerick blood; Angina notha. or else from some defluxion of a cold humour, and then it is called Angina notha, or bastard squinsie.

For the signes, Signa. if it proceed of blood, there is a full pulse, and great difficulty of swallowing, [Page 31]and breathing, rednesse in the tongue, and face, with a troublesome fever: if it proceed of a chol­lerick blood, then there is a very sharp and acute fever, with intolerable burnings, and with bitternesse of the mouth, if it proceed from a cold humour, then there is much moysture, little or no fever, the pain is lesse, and the tumor more lax:

We must at the first open a vein under the tongue, because there is need of present help, 1 Curati [...]. Venae-sectio but if it hath gone past three dayes, do not open a vein without the concurrance of some other learned man, give all cooling things, and make a Gargarisme with strawbury leaves, Gargaris­mas. wood­bind, and fivefinger, of each alike, boyle them in fair water, and in the latter end of the boy­ling put in a little Allum, and honey, gargarise the throat often.

To cure the squinsie caused of a cold hu­mour, as flegme, take Sturcus canis album, 2 bea­ten to fine powder, and drink it in this garga­risme, Calamenthae fiat decoctio, dissolve allom with oximel, or let the foresaid powder be blown into the throat through a quill. Also to gargarise with thin mustard, is good: and administer a clyster. But above all, if the body be bound, give such a quantity of jallap, Jalapium. in oxi­mel, as you shall think proper, which I have found by experience to be excellent good, and some have been perfectly cured therewith. Also this Ecligma following is good. ‘℞. Piperis ʒ.ss. croci myrrhae ana scrup. j. mell. Ecligma. despumati lb. ss. misce ad modum lohoc. Rondeleti­us. cui adde stercoris canic ossa rodentis. ʒ.ij. Ronde­letius [Page 32] lib. Lambitium. Marquar­dus. secund. method. curand. morb. cap. 5.’ Vel ‘℞. Lohoch sani & experti de pino, mithridat. an. ℥.j. Syr. de hyssopo ℥.ss. misce.’

CHAP. XIV.

PLƲRITIS, [...]. the plurisie, is an inward inflammation, or apostumation of the up­per skin, girding the ribs, or sides within.

The cause is an abundance of hot blood, Causa. flowing unnaturally to that part, and this is pluritis vera, it taketh its name from the part af­fected, called plura.

The signe, Signa. is difficulty of breathing, a cough, a continual fever, vehement and pricking pain, with a high and hard pulse.

For the cure, Curatio. Vanae-sectio first the liver vein must be opened, on the same side that the patient is grieved, for thereby shall the matter be pre­sently drawn forth, Clyster. and then administer a cool­ling clyster; Take all cooling things, because of the fever annexed with it, Apozema. and refraine all hot things. And take an Apozem with loosening syrups; Sacculus. and apply this bagg. following. ‘℞. Camomeli. M.j.’ Boyle it in a pinte of the oldest strong beer you can get, when it is well boyled, then put in as much course wheat bran, as will thicken it like a poultis, put it into a bladder, and apply it as hot as may be indured: then ‘℞. Haustus. Marquar­dus. Syr. de hyssop. ℥.j. oxymel ℥.ss. aq. unguil. ca­ballin. q.s. Misce, fiat Haustus. Mar. l. 2. c. 11.’

CHAP. XV.

PERIP NEƲMONIA is a hot im­postume, or Inflammation of the lungs, [...]. Causa. with a sharp fever: for the most part it is caused of strong and hot Rheumes, and distillations, falling upon the lungs.

The sign is great difficulty of breathing, Signa. ful­nes, and streaching out of the brest, without pain, but if the skins, which be joyned all the length of the brest be inflamate, then they feel pain of the brest, all the face, and the agrieved place, look red, the nose is crooked in the top, the veines of the temples do beat, the tongue is drie, the appetite is lost, the breath is hot, they covet cold water, they have a drie cough, and is frothy, or chollerick, and bloudy, or red, which be the worst tokens: if the sick shall die, Prognostica he shall watch much, and shall have fearful short sleeps; If he recover, there will follow bleeding in aboundance.

For the cure, Curatio. if this disease come after other diseases going before, you must eschue blood-letting: Venae-sectio but if it begin without any disease going before, then bleed, if strength will suffer it, on both armes a little at a time: Lohoch è scylla. Ecligma. é pulmone vulpis, and syrup of Hyssop is good, the cure is much like the cure of Pluritis.

CHAP. XVI.

SPƲTƲM SANGƲINIS pro­ceedeth of divers causes, Causa. as fulnesse, and abundance of naughty blood, which by its sharpnesse doth gnaw and erode asunder the veines, and so doth break open the heads of them, sometimes through sharp humours, which do distill from the head to the lungs, or else are ingendred in the lungs themselves, or through some fall, or through great cry­ing, Hippocra­tes. or immoderate cold, as Hippocrates wit­nesseth, breaketh the veines.

For the signe, Signa. if the spitting of blood, be of blood in abundance, then it cometh out gush­ing all at once, and after it is out, the sick is bet­ter; but if it be caused through bursting of a vein, then hot perturbations have gone be­fore it, and cometh out on heapes, by little and little, with the cough, and they are alwayes worse, also if it be froathy & palish, and cometh forth now and then with the cough, then it is a certain sign, it proceedeth from the lungs, so it be without pain. If phlegmatick blood be spitted out with easie coughings & streachings, then the blood cometh from the Trachaea Ar­teria. If blood be spitted forth, being black and clodded together, having also the cough and pain in the agrieved place, then it is a token it cometh from the brest, many times it cometh out of the nose from the head.

For the cure; Curatio. Venae-sectio If it be caused of abundance of blood, then open a vein, and use the juyce of [Page 35]nettles, to snuffe up into the nostrils, or to drink, and minister such things as be altogether of a cooling quality; if it proceed from the lungs, charge them that they do not breathe much, nor make a noyse, Aq. sperm. ranar. but speak as little as may be, use Aqua spermatis Ranarum, which seldome or never fayles, and indeed it is good for either of them. If there be a great faintnesse and danger of Syncope, Vinum. give a little Claret wine burnt often: also if you see cause, you may give the patient bolus-armeniae, Pulvis. with lofe-sugar in Claret wine: or ‘℞. Boli armen. sangu. dracon. balaust. ros. rubr. Aliud. mastic. lapid. haemat. sumach. myrtillor. Maquard. ana ʒ.ij. misce fiat pulvis, Marq. liq, 2. cap. 12.’ Let the patient take one dragm with Rob. deri­berius, or with Syrrupo myrthino, or conserve of Roses.

CHAP. XVII.

TREMOR in Latin, [...]. trembling or sha­king in English. It is a disease which is ac­companied with two sundry movings; one is, while the member is constreyned through hea­vinesse and griefe to creep downward, the other is, while the member is carried upward from his natural course and faculty.

The cause is altogether through weak­ness of the sinews, Causa. and doth plainly declare old age, but privately it cometh of other causes, that is, of very cold temperature of nature, cold drink taken out of time, or season; especially [Page 36]in fevers, moreover, the abundance of a cold, grosse, and clammy humour, and much using of wine that is unmixt and clear, old age, and fear, are causes thereof; as for signes you need none, because it is known by the sight, and words of the patient.

For the cure it is in a manner all one to the cure of the palsie, Curatio. and cramp (letting of blood only excepted) the decoction of Egrimony, Decoctio. Casto­reum, and the braines of a hare are said to be good, but if it comes by drinking of wine, let him drink the decoction of sage, Decoctio. and betony, with Hydromel, untill he be cured.

CHAP. XVIII.

PTHISIS AƲT TABES, [...]. Signa. is an exul­ceration of the lungs, which doth follow for the most part, spitting of bloody matter, or the cough proceeding off or from some sharp defluxion; sometimes also the lungs are ex­ulcerated by reason of Apostumes of the brest, and when the matter of one being broken forth into the spaces of the brest, and cannot in time be purged and avoyded, but there doth lye and putrifie.

The signe is, Signa. there doth follow this disease, weaknesse, and a pining away of the whole bo­dy, the nayles grow curned and crooked, the eyes are sunk into the head, the face is deadly and wan, the haires fall away, and there fol­loweth a fluxe of the womb, and finally death.

This disease hath alwayes been accoun­ted incurable, Curatio. and especially by the ancient Physicians: for although we may cure the ulcers of the lungs, yet because there is left be­hind it certain callos and fistulous reliques, they do very easily, and in short time, break out again: but as concerning the cure, the me­dicines following are approved to be very good, for cleansing the ulcer. Hydromel alone, and Mulsa; remembring alwayes when we will deterge, and cleanse the Ulcer, we must give the honey cruide; but to glutinate and joyn up, the honey must be boyled, but if you will have a medicine, that shall both deterge, and conso­lidate, take this ℞. following. ‘℞. Lohoch de pul. vulpis, lohoch sanum, ana ℥.j. Lohoch. Syr. ros. siccarum. & de glyzyrhyzoe, de hys­sopo, capil. vene, tussila. & consarvae Rosa­rum ana ℥.ss. misceantur.’ And let the patient take thereof often, with a stick of Liqueress, also a fume of colts foot is ve­ry profitable, and for the same purpose, this Ecligma following, is good. ♃. Consar. Ecligma. con­solida major. Capil. vene. ana ℥. ss. cons. Rosarum ℥.j. lohoch. è pul. vulpis. .j. lohoch. e. pino. ʒ.ij. pul. diatragaganth. frig. ʒ.iij. bolus arm. ʒ.j.ss. syr. papa. q.s.f. misceo. And in like manner, this powder following is found by experience, to be excee­ding good in the Ptisick. ‘℞. Sem. papaveris alb. ʒ.i.ss. gummi Arabici. Pulvis. amyli, gum. tragaganthae, ana ʒ. i. ss. Sem. Acetosae, endiviae, ana. ʒ. i. ss, Sem. Citonio­rum, mundat. ʒ.ij. sem. Melonum. Cucurbitae. Citruli. Cucumuris, ana ℥.i.ss. Succi glyzyr­rhizae. [Page 38] ʒ.ij. pulmonis vulpis. ʒ.i.ss. penidia­rum, ad pondus omnium, misce. torrefiant levi torrefactione omnia, deinde sub. pulverizētur.’ Then take of the same powder two dragmes, Mixtura. with syrrup of poppies, and Injubes, of either ℥. j. colts-foot water ℥.iij. mixe it, and give it to the patient lukewarm in the evening at his en­trance into bed. Asses milk is very profitable, As, Haustus. lactis asinini recenter mulcti. ℥. 6. sacchar. alb. ℥.ss. misce.

CHAP. XIX.

PALPITATIO CORDIS is an im­moderate elevation and depression of the heart against nature: the new sorts of Phy­sicians do wrongfully call it Cardiaca passio, Cardiaca passio. for that is an effect of the mouth of the stomack it self, and not of the heart.

The cause is either a distemper, Causa. or the multi­tude of an humour, contained in the outward skin that goeth about the heart; or else swelling contrary to nature, and such like.

The signe is knowne by the pulse, Signa. for in a hot distemper there cometh a fever, and the pulse is swift and great, and their urine very high coloured; In a cold distemper, the contrary. If plenty of an humour contained in the upper skinne of the heart do cause beating thereof, then the pulse is soft and feeble. Indeed it is easily known by the words of the patient, who doth feel the beating and panting.

The cure is performed according to the di­versity Curatio. [Page 39]of causes. If it be caused of a cold cause, or the multitude of a cold humour, Purgatio. then purge with such a purgation as you shall think pro­per by the water, Decoctio. and to administer the drink set down in the Chapter of the palsie. And amongst simple medicines, these be profitable. Amber, musk, saffron, wood of aloes, styrax, cloves, and mace: among compounds these are good, Elect. diamber, dianthos. Species Aroma­ticum Rosarum, diamargariton callidum; Electuari­um. of these you may make Electuaries and lozinges, and of the simple medicines use the oyles there­of, as, anoynt outwardly the region of the heart with oyle of saffron, cloves, mace, O [...]um. am­ber, and the like. Those that be vexed with beating of the heart, caused off a hot distemper, they must have remedy by cold medicines, which can correct the hot distemper, and adde strength to the heart, as those be among sim­ples, as Roses, Violets, Borage, flowers of wa­ter-lillies, Saunders, Corall, Camphere, and such like amongst compounds be these, Dia­margariton frigidum, diarrhod Abbat, Conserve of Roses, Violets, Buglosse; of all which may be made Potions, Juleps, or Electuaries Lastly, this Epithema following is good to strengthen and comfort the heart.

CHAP. XX.

CONCRETIO LACTIS is caused through abundance of milk, Causa. which is not drawne forth: it is caused also of some hot di­stemper, when through overmuch heat, the thinner part of the milk is digested, and dissol­ved, and the rest groweth together, and turn­eth into curds: it may also be caused of cold, which may cause the milk to congeale, and turn to curds.

For the sign, Signa. there needs no tokens to know this evill, for it is known by and by, both by touch, and the patients words.

For the cure, Curatio. Victus ra­tio. the diet is divers, according to the diversity of causes, for in a hot distemper of the paps, their diet must be of a cooling quali­ty, in a cold distemper, contrary. If it chance through grossenesse of the milk, then there must be an extenuating diet. If there be abundance of milk, not being as yet curded, it must by little and little be sucked out. If heat cause the curding of the milk, then anoynt them with juice of Nightshade, also apply oyle of Roses and vinegar, also a Lilly root rosted and stamped with oyle of Roses, Cataplas. ma. Oleum. and applyed, is good. If it be a cold distemper, anoynt the paps with oyle of cammomel, dill, and lillies, beware you touch not the nipple; also this Emplaster following is held to be excellent good. Empla­strum. Take honey half an ounce, styrax cal­lamite three dragms, of oxes gall two dragms, [Page 41]oyle of Cammomell, ℥.ij. Myrrh, and Frankin­sence, of either two ounces, make an Empla­ster according to Art. In a cold cause oyle of wormwood is good, also women use lin­seed oyle, and searge cloath thereof, Oleum. with good successe. Also you may use this Li­niment. ‘℞. Pulv. fol. menthae, sem. coriandri ana ʒ.ij. Linimen­tum. Sennertus. ol. anethini unc. j. cerae. q. s. fi. Linimentnm.’ Vel

CHAP. XXI.

INFLAMMATIO MAMMA­RƲM, Causa. is caused of abundance of hot blood, flowing to the paps, sometimes through milk curded, and turned to suppuration, and matter; the aforesaid causes are easie to discern asunder: for the first cause of Inflammation chanceth to them that be not with childe, nor brought to bed, the other chanceth on­ly to such.

For the cure, Curatio. Venae-sectio it is good first to open a vein in the arme, [...], the inner or in­ternal vein, unlesse the Menstruis be stopped, for then it is better to cut the vein on the ham or ankle, afterward if the body be costive, losen it with a cooling clyster, and if you see cause, you may give this gentle Apozem, that cools and quencheth the Inflammation, and openeth obstructions in the brest, as followeth. ‘℞. Apozema. Syrrup. Rosarum. pal. ℥. j. Syrrupus de Rhabarbaro, ℥. ss. Decoctio senae. quantum sufficit fiat Apozema.’ Let it be given the one half over night warm, and all the rest in the morning warm; eat no­thing untill noon, but take three or four spoon­fulls of broath between stooles: also apply out­wardly this Emplaster following, Emplaster. Barley-meal, lin-seed, bolus armeniae, saunders, Oleum Nim­pheae, oleum Rosarum, oleum Camomeli, misce. fiat Emplasterum: But first anoynt it with oyle of Roses, Ol. Rosar. vinegar, and juyce of nightshade, al­so crummes of bread and faire water appli­ed like a poultis with vinegar is good, let them beware that they drink no strong beer, wine, hot waters, nor spices, but altoge­ther soopings of a cooling quality, no fish, nor flesh, that is hard of digestion; if the milk be curded, turn back unto the foregoing Chapter, and that will direct you what to do. If there be much pain, ‘℞. Epithema. Weckerus. Florum camomilae, mellioti, althoae, saeni­graeci, seminis lini & anethi, ana M.j. co­quantur in aqua, cui adde olei rosacei & ane­thini, ana ℥. ij. aceti ℥. j. Spongia in eo ma­defacta [Page 43]mammis apponatur. Weckerus de curatione inflammationis mammislarum, lib. 2. pag. 465.’ Lastly, if the inflammation be great, you may foment with Aquaspermatis ranarum, and oyle of Roses.

CHAP. XXII.

IMBECILITAS STOMACHI is caused through distemper of the working qua­lities, without any flowing of humours, Causa. some­times it is caused of an humour contained in the bosome, and large space of the stomach, which hath power, either to heat, cool, mov­sten, or drie, or two of these qualities, mixed together; and sometimes it is caused of an hu­mour, stuffed and drowned in the filmes, or coats of the stomack.

For the signe, Signa. in a cold cause there is dull and difficult concoction, the taste of the nourish­ment is felt long after, there is sharp belchings, and little or no thirst, but contrary in a hot cause, there is exceeding thirstinesse, abhorring of meat, and bitter belchings, and this is certain, that if the cause be heat, the patient is cased by administring of cold things, if it be a cold cause, then he is eased by hot things, if that choller cause it, there is such bitter belchings, that there is cast forth bitter choller, with bitternesse of the mouth.

For the cure, if it come of a cold caule, Curatio. Pilulae. as of phlegme, purge gently with stomachal pills, [Page 44]if they have gone a day, and have not had a stool, then take one pill an hour before supper. Then take this cordiall Electuary following, which is said to be good. ‘℞. Electuari­um. Conserv. Caryophilorum. ℥. i. ss. pul. Aro­matici. Ros. ʒ. i. ss. pul. Cinnamomi. Nucis Muscatae, ana ʒ. ss. Syr. absynthii, & de Hy­sopo, q. s. f. Elect. Molle:’ If necessity do require, Methridi­tum. adde two dragms of Me­thridate, and take of it every morning the quantity of a Walnut curnel, then eat a piece of Lozing. aromat. Rosat. and drink after it a draught of Wormwood wine, for that will prepare the stomack to the next concoction, and also bathe outwardly with oyle of worm­wood, Oleum. nutmegs, cinnamon, or mastick; or the best is to spread honey on bread tosted, and cast thereon the powder of nutmegs, cloves, and cinnamon, and for the richer sort, take this ♃ made as followeth. ‘℞. Pulvis. Rosarum Rubrum Absinthii, menthae, maio­ran. siccae, an. ʒ. ij. ligni aloes, spicae, nardi, ca­lami aromatici, ana ℈. ij. fiat. pul. qui accip ia­tur cotone, involvatur duplici linteo.’ And this must also be remembred, that oynt­ments, emplasters, and cataplasms, must not on­ly be applied before, but behind also, about the thirteenth Vertebra.

In a hot cause purge with Cassia, Apozema. and Rhu­barb, or else an Apozem; and open a vein if you see cause, Venae sectio and then this Electuary is said to be very good. ‘℞. Electuari­um. Cons. Rosarum ℥. j. Diarrhodon. alb. ʒ. i. ss. Syr. assato. lymonum. q. s. f. Elect.’ [Page 45]Also direct Lozenges of Diarrhodon alb. Triasan­dali, and make him broath with cooling herbs, currents, and damask pruins; also bread dipped in Posca is wondrous proper to be eaten; Posca. as for outward applications, use oyle of Roses, Oleum. Quin­ses, or the like; but take heed of things that cool too much, yet give him no strong beer, no wine, hot waters, spices, nor milk, &c. If chol­lar do abound with costivenesse of body, purge with an Apozem made with Cassia, Rhubarb, Apozema. Vomitus. or the like. If temperate, provoke vomits with Stybium, the infusion thereof.

CHAP. XXIII.

CANINA APPETENTIA, [...] is an im­moderate or dog-like appetite, or desire of meat, and when they cannot refrain their ap­petite, they devoure in meat without measure, then being heavy with the multitude of meats, and the stomack being not able to bear the same, they turn to vomiting, then afterwards they fill themselves, and turn again to vomi­ting like dogs, the part affected is the mouth of the stomack.

The cause is a perpetual gnawing or biting of the mouth of the stomack, Causa. like unto a suck­ing, sometimes it happeneth through a cold distemper of the mouth of the stomack: some­times through cold, sharp, and vitious humours: sometimes it proceedeth through certain kinds of worms, which do devour the meat that is ta­ken into the stomack, as fast as it is received: [Page 46]sometimes through dissipation of whole body.

For the sign, Signa. if it be a cold distemper, it is known by windinesse, and rumbling: sharp hu­mours are known by four belchings, dissipation is known by the excrements, for they be scor­ched, and lesse in quantity than before.

For the cure, Curatio. Pilulae. in a cold cause it is good first to take stomacal pills; also Hierapicra Galeni ʒ. 6. with wine infused with water, or given in oxi­mel fasting, is good, and to drink muscadell is good, he must abstain from all soure and re­strictive meats; but let his meat [...] be meats of good juyce: if a child laboureth in this disease, the body being bound, Syr. de Rhubarb. and a doubt of worms, give it one ounce of Syrrup of Rhubarb, or more, according to the age and strength of the childe, the one half over night, and the other half in the morning warm, either in muscadel, oximel, or the juyce of pruins; also let it have muscadel oftentimes instead of beer: Vinum. If the child be very young, give it no beer untill it be well. Also oximel is good, give it honey with any thing you give it if the disease be cau­sed of dissipation, Mel. or extream heat, give it all cooling things, and if you fear worrnes, let Wormseed and Rue be boyled in vinegar with honey, Syrrupus. and give thereof often. You may boyl the Wormseed in muscadel, if nothing forbid it; Fernelius. Avicenna. if you want more, look in Fernelius, and there you may find plenty of remedies: Also Avicen bids that wine should be given before meat, and Galen commendeth a vomit. Vomitus.

CHAP. XXIV.

CATARRƲS is a distillation of some Rhu­matick matter into the lower parts: [...]. as when it falleth to the mouth or jawes, it is cal­led Gravedo, when it falleth into the nose, Gravedo. and causeth the pose, some call it Raucedo, Raucedo. others when it doth descend to the nostrils, and cause opilation, they do call it Coryza, Coriza. and when it doth desce [...] to the parts in the throat, Branchus. it is cal­led Branchus, and when it doth descend to the brest and lungs, then it is called a Catarrhum, from whence this verse doth arise; ‘Si fluit ad pectus Rheuma, tunc dico Catarrhum, Ad fauces Branchon, ad nares, dico Coryzam.’ The cause is either of some outward cold, Causa. or heat, sometimes evaporation of meats, some­times the smell of hot or cold things, the immo­derate use of Venery, over much sleep, violent exercise, or too much rest, or repletion.

For the sign, Signa. if the flux of humours come off heat, the head is hot, and a sharp and thin hu­mour distilleth as well by the nose as by the mouth; also the face and nose is red, and for the most part there followeth a fever: contrariwise they that have the flux caused of a cold hu­mour, their head & forehead is stretched forth every where, also a phlegmatick and thick hu­mour, distilleth out of the nose. For the cure, Curatio. if a hot humour distill from the head, together with a fever, the first thing is to purge (if co­stive) with this cooling Apozem. [Page 48] ‘℞. Apozema, Decoctio sennae ℥.6. Syr. Rosarum. ℥j. Syr. de Rhabarbaro. ℥.ss,’ Mix them, and make an Apozem, and give it half overnight and the rest in the morning warm: or if you think proper, you may wash the belly with a clyster, Venae-sectio and be sure you open the Cephalica veins if nothing forbid it; also powr rose vinegar upon hot tile-stones, or iron, and so receive the fume, but the best is this Gar­garisme following. ‘℞. Gargaris­mus. Aqua plantag. ℥.iv. Aq. Rosarum. Rub. ℥.ij. Decoctio Hordei. ℥.vj. Syr. violarum. de Rosis siccis, de papaver is er. q. s. fiat Gargarismus.’ Also this bolus following is very good to hold in the mouth. ‘℞. Bolus. Bolus armeniae ʒ.j. Mastichis ℈.j. pul. sem. papa. albi ʒ. ss. cons. oxiacanthae q. s. f. bo­lus s. Artem.’ In a cold cause the first intention is to purge with head-pills; Pilulae. (if it be salt rheume, and falleth to the eyes, Empla­strum. apply an attractive plaster to the hole of the neck, and every night when they go to bed, Ʋuguen­tum. gr. ij. of ung. Tutiae, will be good to put into the corners of the eyes, then shut them, and anoint the eye-lids all over) in a cold cause, af­ter you have purged as aforesaid, either with pills or potion, use this hot Gargarisme fol­lowing. ‘℞. Gargaris­mus. Cyperi, calami, aromat, ana ʒ. ij. fol. Myr­tinum. M.ss. corticis Thuris, ℥.ss. fiat De­coct. colatura dissol. Mel. Ros. ℥.ij. fiat Gar­garis.’ Afterwards it is proper to use fumes of Styrax­cal, Fumigatio. cinnamon, frankincense, cloves, mastick; [Page 49]these you may make into powder to strew upon coles: also of these may be made booles, adding thereto Syrrup of Myrtles, with a little cinnamon water. Lastly, draw the rhume back with a plaister of Cantharides, and take Pillulae de cynoglossa, made as followeth. ‘℞. Myrrhae ʒ.vj. Thuris ʒ. v. opii, Pilulae. Hyoscy­ami ana ℥. ss. croci ʒ. i. ss. Rad. linguae canis ℥. ss. ʒ. ss. Fiat massa. Datur. à ʒ. ss. ad ʒ.j, Mesue. de pilu [...]s. fol. 144.’ Mesue.

CHAP. XXV.

ASTHMA is a certain difficult, thick, [...] and hard respiration without a fever: Causa. and is, when as grosse and clammy humours, in abundance, be gotten into the grissles and lap­pets of the lungs, or when there is some swel­ling like unto a botch, sometimes a pestilent ayre, and the fume of quick-silver may be the cause; also intemperate diet, and idlenesse, and grossenesse of body, but chiefly it happen­eth from a grosse clammy and viscus flegme, which doth stick in the passages of the sharp Artery.

For the signe, Signa. it is easie to be known asunder (for distillation doth often chance in hayl folks, by and by through a manifest cause, in a man­ner altogether without a fever, having the to­kens of distillation following it, if there be swel­ling of the lungs like a botch, then there must needs follow a fever, and so within few dayes after it, the inflamed botch being rotted, the [Page 50]matter is cast out with the cough, if there be a cruid & raw Tubercle, and both ingendred, such do not feel any great grief, neither are they troubled with much difficulty of breathing, but they are much troubled when they eat or drink, because they cannot swallow but with great grief.) Now they which be properly Asthma­tick, or orthopnicks, have no fever at all, & there chanceth to them heavinesse of sence, and they do not spit out matter with their spittle. There is also a difficulty of breathing, Morbus virgineus. Glissonius. not unlike this, which happeneth unto young women, com­monly called the Green sicknesse, or white fever.

For the signe of this sicknesse, Signa. you shall know it thus, their water is pale, and inclining to greenish, their Menstruis be retained, and great difficulty of breathing when they stirre, their complexion is like the wall, and they do desire those things generally, that put out na­turall heat, as milk, apples, nuts, peares, fish, roots, turnips, wheat, oatmeal, and such like; now I shall first give you a way how to cure Asthma, and then the green sicknesse, which is a disease very common.

For the cure of Asthma, Curatio. Victus ra. tio. is first to erect a fit and convenient diet: that I leave for brevi­ties sake, to the discretion of the learned Physi­tian. The next intention must be to purge with this or the like purgation. ‘℞. Potio pur. gans Diaphenicon. ʒ.ij. pul. Sanctus, Jallap. & be­nedict. lax. an. ʒ. ss. vini albi. q s.f. potio.’ Or if there be abundance of blood, Venae sectio. a vein may be opened, alwayes providing that you keep ac­customed [Page 51]evacuations. And to use moderate exercise, after the taking of this loch, in morn­ings, or before meales; is good, ‘℞. Conserv. Rosa. Rub. ℥.j. pul. Ireos. Lohoch. & sul­phur. liquiritiae, ana ʒ. j. Anisi. ʒ. j. Tussi­lag. q s. fi. lohoch.’ Which must be taken the quantity of a Wal­nut curnel last at night, and first in the morn­ing, and in the day time between meales. Wormwood here is also very profitable, and to eat three figs every morning, Matthiolus Ficuum. Emplastrū. madufied in Aqua vitae, Matthiolus doth much commend it; lastly, to apply to the brest a plaster of figs, barly meal, having rosin, honey, and wax commix­ed with it, and to anoint the brest with oyles of Ireos, Dill, and Rew. Oleum. For the cure of that which is like a botch, hath need of medicines, to atenuate and drie; It must be cured with aromatick things: Theriaca, Methridatum, Theriaca, &c. Di­amber, Aromaticum Rosarum, Diamargariton cal­lidum, and many such other like, remembring you keep accustomed evacuations, and mode­rate exercise.

For the cure of the green sicknesse, Curatio. Victus ra­tio. Febris vir­ginea. the first intention is to prescribe a fit and convenient di­et, such as is Rabbets, Chickens, Veale, rost, reare-egges, or the like; and if you will take a right course, some kind of women must be stented of their meat and drink, or else they cannot be cured; that beer they do drink should be of the best beer, and they must be­ware of meats that are scorched, and must leave at meales with an appetite, they must eat no trash, as milk, roots, fish, green fruit, and no [Page 52]salt things, and drinking after supper to bed­ward, or fasting a mornings, is not good: the second intention is to take a vomit with Alsa­ron, Vomitus. Venae-sectio the third to bleed of the foot, and to take of this drink following, a quarter of a pint at a time, Exercitiū. every morning fasting; and to use exer­cise after it, either to work or play is very pro­fitable; Take new beere three pintes, when it is in the fat wrought ready to tunne, boyle in it herb-grace, Decoctio. and unset hysop, of either a hand­full, red Currants a quarter of a pound, untill half be wasted, then strain it, and adde a little saffron. The fourth intention is to take this Ele­ctuary following. ‘℞. Elect [...]ariū. Cons. Rosarum Rub. ℥. i. ss. confect. Gario­phil. ʒ.ij. Ireos-Chalybs, ana. ʒ.iij. spec. Arom. Rosat. pul. cinemomi ana ʒ.ss. syr. de Hyssopo. q.s.f. Elect. Molle.’ Take of this every morning fasting, Lozenge. Vinum ab­synthium. the quan­tity of a Walnut curnel, and eat a piece of Lo­zenge after it, and drink three or four spoon­fulls of Worm-wood wine, and exercise by de­grees. Some have been helped by this, ♃. Take two penniworth of nutmegs, Pulvis. as much mace, and as much saffron, powder them fine, and adde a quarter of a pound of sugar, and three penniworth of prepared steel, mix them; probatum est.

CHAP. XXVI.

SYNCOPE, [...]. is a sudden, and swift fayling of the strength, and it is a terrible symptom, because it is the image of death, for both na­tural, [Page 53]animal, and vital, chiefly do fail, from hence it happeneth, that there is no pulse, nor respiration, sence, and motion is abolished. The face is wan and pale, the extream parts are chill, and moyst, with a faint sweat.

For the cause, Causa. it may come by immoderate watchings, anger, sorrow, great cares, suddain fears, intollerable pain, acute fevers, immode­rate emptinesse, famine, sweats, labours, vomi­tings, exceeding fluxes, losse of blood, a sod­dain emptying of water, as in the dropsie; of­tentimes it proceedeth from abundance of grosse, cruid, rotten sharp, and biting humours, which do daily check, and as it were fill the mouth of the stomack in such sort, that the pas­sages of the spirits are obstructed, that their motion is intercepted, even as it is when respira­tion is let and hindred, as it is when abundance of humours are concluded in the passages of the lungs, that the sick cannot draw in ayre, to serve for the cooling of the heart.

For the cure, Curatio. Vinum. Galenus. it is according to the diversity of causes, Galen in every swounding doth com­mend wine, which otherwise in burning fevers is dangerous, nevertheless it may be used sparing­ly, in time of intermissions, so it be diluted with Buglosse, Borage, and such like. Odors, and sweet smells, do comfort very much, except choaking of the mother be the cause, then sweet odors must be received underneath, and to the nostrils apply things that be foetid and stinking, as Castoreum, Assafoetida, and burnt haire; besides, we cause sternutation, Sternuta­mentum. which if the patient cannot do, it is a most manifest sign [Page 54]of death: If it proceeds from poyson, if we know the venim, we administer the proper an­tidote, if not, we give treakle, or methridate.

If Cardialgia, Cardial. & stomachica. Medica­mentum. and Stomachica, do follow the syncope, then we take a toste of bread, moyste­ned in wine, and scatter on it the powder of Nutmegs, and Cloves, and so apply it to the stomach, but not upon the heart, and this is to be observed, that nothing repaires the spirits so soon as wine, because it is vaporous, and hath a great affinity with the the spirits: but some will say, why do they sprinkle cold water on the face. I answer, because that the heat and the spi­rits flying outwards, may be driven and turned back, from their circumference unto their Cen­ter, yet cold water must not be used in the syn­cope of a flux; Theria [...]a. Galenus. for thereby the flux will be in­creased, but rather use new Treakle; for Galen affirmeth it stayeth all super-purgations and fluxes: if it hapneth through immoderate sweats, then we sprinkle the face with Rose-wa­ter campherated, Ol [...]r [...]s [...]um. and rub the body with cold linnen, and anoint it with oyle of Roses.

If it cometh through inanition, or emptiness, as immoderate watching, much venery, famin, and two much exercise or violent motion: then sprinkle the face with wine, and let them smell to mint-water, and administer some cordial Electuary, Electuari­um cord. as you shall think proper, re­membring you put in new Treakle or Me­thridate.

If it be caused through vomiting, use fri­ctions below, if through a flux use frictions above: and wine is most proper in the syncope, [Page 55]coming of emptinesse; Ranzovius Ranzovius doth much commend this water following, affirming that by the continual use of it, one lived to the age of 129. yeares. ‘℞. Cinnamomi electi, cubebarum, galangae, Aqua vitae. cary­ophyllorum, nucis moschatae, zingiberis ana ℥.iij. Salviae lb.j.℥.ij Haec omnia macera in duabus lb. & ℥.4. aquae vitae cpt. & circu­latae, & distilla.’ I have oftentimes given a quarter of a spoon­full of this cordial following, (to such as have been taken with great swounings) with won­derful successe. ‘℞. Aquae mariae, syrrupus è succo lujulae, ana ℥.j. misce.’

CHAP. XXVII.

SINGƲLTƲS is a motion, [...]. Causa. as it were a a cramp, raised through the expulsive facul­ty of the stomach, which goeth about to ex­pell hurtful and evil matter.

For the most part it is caused of fulness or emptinesse, as Hippocrates doth affirm, Hippocra­tes. also somtimes it is caused of (or through) the biring of sharp humours in the stomach, or coldnesse; and sometimes hot fevers may be the cause, when either the stomack, or some other bowel is inflamed.

Fulnesse is knowne by heavinesse, Signa. and empti­nesse of those things that went before: you may know if the meat be corrupt, by the burnt sa­vour of it, but you shall know sharpnesse [Page 56]by gnawing, pricking, and pulling.

1. Prognosticks are, if neesing follow upon the Hicket, the patient is delivered, so that it proceedeth of fulnesse.

2. The Hicket coming in an Iliac passion is evill, or coming with swouning, or with di­stention of nerves, or with dilerium, is a deadly signe.

3. Also coming upon the inflammation of the liver, of the wombe, of the brain, or upon some notable wound, is very dangerous, and oftentimes deadly.

4. In acute diseases, and burning fevers, and the pestilence, it is for the most part deadly.

5. Also if it happeneth through two much emptinesse, it is alwayes evill.

6. It is also evil if it cometh with vomiting, for it threatneth danger of inflammation of stomach, Cu [...]atio. and braine: As concerning the cure, we must consider the cause. If it proceed of em­ptinesse it is the more dangerous, and therefore must be helped, by giving fit and conveni­ent nourishment, that thereby that which is de­fective, may be supplied. If a flux of blood, or an exceeding flux of the wombe do cause this in­firmity, we may give oyle of sweet Almonds, either by it self, or in warm water, he is to be nourished with cordial broath, there are some that cure this Hicket with drinking of milk that do refresh, Amilum. Victus ra­tio. but the best is Amilum given with milk: and the broth of an hen, and the flesh thereof, capons, chickens, and Rear-egges, with the powder of Eringium, is wondrous [Page 57]proper; his drink must be white-wine diluted with water, Oleum. the back and stomach must be anointed with oyle of violets, and sweet al­monds.

If sharp humours have stirred up the hicket, we must give such things as are sweet and fat, as the fat of broath, of henne, or cock, or two spoonfulls, of clarified honey, or penidice, Mel. or pinecarnels, with sugar; or it may be purged, Purgatio. so that it be prepared before with drinking of Aqua mulfa: if it proceed through heat, Vomitus. and biting sharpnesse, then to provoke vomit is wondrous proper, and to give all cooling things, as julleps, Apozems, or juices, Julepus. Theriac. or waters of succo­ry, and such like, you may compose your juleps, with syrrups of violets, Nymphea, of poppie, or the like; when the hicket is most strong, we give new treakle.

If it proceed from a cold cause, and the mat­ter grosse, and viscus, prepare the humour with oximel, and then a vomit, or purge, as you shall see cause, and compose this Electuary following, for them that are able.

Also Lozenges are very proper, Lozeng. made of Aromaticum Ros. Candid Ginger is very good, Castoreum. also ℈, ij. of Castoreum, in white wine: but many times one purge or vomit is sufficient; Dioscorides. Di­oscorides commends Aristoloch. radix cum aqua, & Asplenum herba cum posca, & castorum cum aceto. Also he commendeth Ineezing, if Singultus cometh of fulnesse. Dioseor. lib. 2. cap. 4.

CHAP. XXVIII.

DOLOR STOMACHI, or pain of the stomach is caused divers and sundry ways, Causa. as when naughty, venemous, and gnawing hu­mours be kept in the stomach, whereby it chan­ceth, that through intollerable gnawing, they cause swouning, Stomachae cardialgiae. which they call Stoma­chia, or cardialgia; sometime pain of the sto­mach is caused through some stroak or fall; and an inflammation may be the cause thereof.

In a hot cause, Signa. there is felt a sharp pricking pain, gnawing in the mouth of the stomach, bitternesse in the mouth, vomiting of chollar, and there followeth a great weaknesse and fee­blenesse of the whole body: in a cold cause the pain is lesse, Curatio. and more dull, and slow; in a hot cause, give this Apozem following, the one half over night, and the other half in the morn­ing warm. ‘℞. Apozema. Syr. de Rhubarb. ℥. j. Rosarum sol. ℥. ss. De­coctio. Sennae q. s.f. Apozema.’ Or if you see cause, Vomitus. you may vomit with the in­fusion of Stybium, and afterward you may take the seeds of paeony in water of succory. If it proceedeth through some stroak, or fall, then this ♃ following is good. ‘℞. Mixtura. Mumiae gran. j. boli arm. gran. xvj. croci gran. vij.’ Let it be given the patient, you may adde Sper­ma ceti: and if the pain be intollerable, then suc­cour him with this ♃ following. [Page 59] ‘℞. Syrrupi Rosati & Absynth. an. ℥.i. ss. Mixturae. opii gran. j.’ Boyle it very lightly, with one boyling, then let it be mixt with ℥.iij. of the broath of a chic­ken, give it the patient to drink.

In a cold cause, purge with such a purgation, Purgatio. as you shall think proper by the water, or cly­sters, according as you shall see cause, such a one as may purge wind and flegme, or per­haps melancholy with Cassia, and after may be given the seeds of Nasturtium, in Goats milk, administring Syr. de absynth. menthae, mel. rosati, in aqua feniculi, & absynthii; Julepus. likewise Electuaries and oyles outwards, are good: Also ‘℞. Spec. Aromat. ros. ʒ.ij. Spec. Diarrhod. Abb. Tabulae. Rondele­tius. ʒ.j. Sacchari albi dissoluti in aqua menthae ℥.iij. fiant Tabulae secundum artem ponderis ʒ.ij. Rondeletius.’ Vel ‘℞ Spec. Imperialium ℥. ss. pinearum electarum, Tabula. Crato. & subtiliter incisarum ʒ. ij. Spec. aromat. ros. ʒ.i.ss. Sacchari in aqua rosarum dissoluti ℥. xiij. olei cinnamomi gr. iij. moschi gr. ij. fiat confectio in morsulis secundum artem.’

CHAP. XXIX.

TƲSSIS, Galen in lib. 1. cap. 2. [...]. Galenus. Causa. de Symto­matum causis, doth affirm that a cold di­stemper of the instrument of breathing, to be the cause of the cough, also a humour distil­ling from the head, to the Trachaea arterea, go­ing about within, doth provoke the cough, [Page 60]sometimes it is caused through cold, or flegme, descending upon the lungs, sometimes it hap­peneth through heat, dissolving the superflu­ous matter of the brain, and so through a cat­tarrhal distillation the cough is excited.

The outward signes, 1 are smoak and dust. If it be caused through a cold distemper, Signa. they spit out nothing while they cough, neither is it so violent, but may be eased by holding the breath, because through holding the breath, the instruments of breathing, that were vexed with cold, do waxe hot, and contrary they are provoked with breathing, oftentimes to cough, their face is pale, and they are not thirsty.

If a hot distemper be the cause, 2 there is felt thirst, and often breathing, do relieve and suc­cour them; it is also sharp, and more tedious, and they spit but little, this is a thin hot Rhoume distilling from the head to the Tra­chaea arteria, and sometimes happeneth in the plurisie.

For the cure in a cold cause, Curatio. which for the most part happeneth in winter, may be helped with hot things, his neck and feet are to be kept warm, Oleum. and oyles of mace, dill, and lillies, be good to anoint the brest; and if he have a ple­thorick body, give a purgation made by the judgement of the water: If a thin cold Rheume, give penedice, in every sooping they take, and syrrup of oximel is wondrous proper. Oximel. If from thin and sharp humours, then ingross it with syrrups of violets, foals-foot, and maidens-hair, and stay the distilling humour with such things, [Page 61]as you shall find proper in Catarrhus.

In a hot cause first an Apozem as you shall see proper, after take mallowes, M.6. currents, Apozema. M.3. stamp them together, Decoctio. then take Liquo­ress ℥-j. boyle them in four pints of water till halfe be wasted, strain it, and adde stone-sugar ℥.ij. Syrrup of violets ℥. j. give the patient five or sixe spoonefulls at a time last at night, first in the morning, about ten in the forenoon, Syr. de pa­pavere er­ratico. and four in the afternon; also syrrup of poppies in poppy water, or given alone is good.

CHAP. XXX.

PICa, is a languishing of the stomach, [...]. with a provoking and desire of vomit, or casting of meat received, and sometimes vomiting of chollar and flegme, or it is a certain desire of vitious and unwholesome meats, for they desire strange things, as raw-flesh, shells, coals, chaulk, lime, salt, vinegar, old rags, rotten leather, tar, candles, & one I knew would eat tobacco-pipes.

The cause according to Piso is a hurtful acti­on of the animal faculty, which doth erre, Pisco. and not desire good nourishment, the part affected is the mouth of the stomach, as may be percei­ved by the appetite, this disease hapneth for the most part to young women, being repleat and full of naughty humours, but chiefly when they are with child, sometimes to maides, and girles, and such as are troubled with Cachexia, which is an evill state of the whole body with a wate­rish disposition, whereby it waxeth loose and [Page 62]soft, the cause, signe, and cure you shall have in its proper Chapter.

For the signe of pica or malacia, Signa. Malacia. is, that if there be shed, burnt, and black chollar in the stomach, they desire such things as are acrid and sharp, as coales, ashes, tobacco-pipes, and all such things as are drie. If salt humours, they desire those things that are salt, some have refer­red the cause of this disease to be crudity & cor­ruption of the whole body, which being commu­nicated to the mouth of the stomach, they will have it to be affected by consent; in like manner there do appear daily spittings, gnawing of the mouth of the stomach. If there be flegmatick humours, (heavinesse) and according to the variety of vitious humours, and patient doth de­sire the foresaid divers, and strange meats: This disease for the most part as I said before, happeneth to young women with child, about the fourtieth day from conception, and do continue often untill the fourth month, and then it ceaseth, partly because vitious humours are avoyded by vomit, and partly because they are concocted, by reason that about those times, the woman receiveth but little nourish­ment, through a loathsomenesse, partly be­cause the multitude is diminished by evacuati­on, that in the first two months, the child draw­eth but little to it self, because it is but small of growth, but in the increase it doth require more nourishment, (so much) as it draweth something that is vitious, as well as good, and so it happeneth that the whole body be­cometh more empty from that vitious quality, [Page 63]and is lesse offended with naughty humours. As for women with child, Curatio. Vi [...]ctus Ratio. they seldom make use of a physician, but if any do prescribe a spa­ring diet, as chickens, rabbets, or the like, with parseley; but nothing that is fat: a mornings to eat almonds, and reysons of the Sun, and ox­imel, and to drink muscadel in the day time is good, but suffer not much drink to be drunk, because the meat will swimme, and if a pletho­rick body, give clysters, Vomitus. or provoke gentle vo­mits, but not in the first month, for danger of Abortive, or if a child laboureth of this disease, use the means prescribed in the Chapter of Ca­nina appetentia: if it take hold on men, which is but seldom known, Vomitus. first prepare the humour with oximel, and then administer such a vomit as you shall know to be proper. If chollar be adust and scorcheth, prepare the humour with this Apozem following. ‘℞. Syr. de Rhabar. ℥. j. syr. Rosarum sol. ℥. ss. Apozema. Decoction Sennae. q.s.f. Apozema.’ Let it be taken the one half over night, and the other half in the morning; after this, give such a purgation as you shall know to be proper by the water, or if need be, give stomachal pills, Pilulae. which are wondrous proper, to take one pill at a time, one hour before supper, when they have gone a day and have not had a stoole; or they may purge good roundly with 7 or 9 at a time, Syr­rup of Rhubarb is good for children, Syrrup. de rhabarba­ro. and so is honey and muscadel, but indeed they must be diligently admonished, and must be constrained from the use of such unwholesom feeding; those of reason must hearken to perswasion, and chil­dren [Page 64]must be made to forbear with the Rod; After purging or vomiting ‘℞. Julepus. Platerus. Aquae mens. ij. succi granat. vel agrestae ℥. ij. Sacchari ℥. ss. coquatur parùm.’ Vel

In a cold cause, you may use outwardly Oleum nucis moschatae, Oleum. caryophyllorum, absynthii, menthae, &c.

In a hot cause, Oleum Rosaceum, myrrhinum, cotoneorum, Weckerus.cum aceto adhibitum Weckerus lib. 2. pag. 471.

CHAP. XXXI.

ANOREXIA, [...]. Causa. or losse of appetite, is for the most part caused through aboundance of cruid and raw humours, lurking in the sto­mach, or oppressed through nourishment cor­rupted: sometimes it is caused by consent, as from a defluxion of the brain, from whence a thin wheyish matter is sent unto the stomach, or else from the liver being strongly affected; for it happeneth oftentimes upon the recovery of some sharp and acute disease, that there is left behind a weaknesse of the stomach: Also a chollerick humour, pressing the mouth of the [Page 65]stomach, may cause this evil; and also it hap­peneth in fevers, and especially in Synochus, not putrified, because through the aboundance of blood, there is no attraction.

For the sign, Signa. in a hot cause there is felt gnawing in the stomach, a desire to vomit, and thirst, sometimes a fever with rotten humours; but contrary in a cold cause, the part affected is the mouth of the stomach.

In a hot cause or chollerick humor, Curatio. Victus Ratio. a cold di­et must be prescribed, moderate sleep, & quiet­nes, must be used or provoked, his body must be kept soluble; if you see cause give a vomit, Vomitus. if otherwise, purge with this Apozem following. ‘℞. Syr. de Rhabarb. ℥ j. Rosarum. ℥.ss. Decoct. Apozema. sennae. q.s.f. Apozema.’ In time of year, sallets are good, with lettice, suc­cory, vinegar, and sugar, and such like; in a cold cause first vomit, or else purge, which you shall find to be most proper by the water: with his meat let there be given mustard, or else cloves, cinnamon, pepper, and vinegar with sugar; or tarragant is good (with mutton) or capers: and to drink on mornings wormwood-wine is wondrous proper; also Electuaries, Lozenges, Vinum ab­synth. and the like: but for the poorer sort, first vo­mit, or purge, and drink wormwood beer; Lastly refrain all kind of trash, and take of this Electuary following. ‘℞. Rosarum. Ligni Aloës ana ʒ.vj. macis, Electuari­um latifi­cans. Rhasis.nu­cis moschatae, galliae moschatae, cardamomi utriusque,, cinnamomi, croci, ana ʒ. ij. cyperi ʒ.v. caryophyllorum, mastiches, spicae, nardi, Asari, ana ʒ. iij. melle emblicarum excipe, [Page 66]moschi gr. xv. aromatiza. Datur à. ʒ. ad ʒ.iij. Rhasis.’ If you see cause, Ceratum. you may apply outwardly Ceratum stomachale, and use some of the oyles prescribed in the former Chapter.

CHAP. XXXII.

SITIS, [...]. hath a twofold cause: natural, and animal. The natural is by natural in­clination, to require a cold and moist sub­stance, for to supply the place of the sub­stance, that was dissipated, wasted, and spent: but the animal appetite is, when the stomach, feeling it self to be empty of moysture, doth de­sire drink, as happeneth in burning fevers.

Sometimes falt humours are the cause, Causa. and drinking of old wine, the part affected is the mouth of the stomach, either by it self, or by consent with the heart, or liver, and chiefly by the inferiour parts thereof, or with the lungs, or by the veines of the Mesenterium, or the Je­junum inflamed; for those parts are accompa­nied with a hot and drie distemperature, and indeed hapueth for the most part in hot and pu­trified fevers, in hydropsies, and such like.

As for the sign it is needlesse, Signa. for it may be known by the patients words: if the stomach be heavie and dull, it signifies repletion: if falt humours, that's known by the patients eating of salt things: if the cause be windinesse, there is felt extension: if chollar, bitter belchings, and extream thirst: if sharp humours, biting, gnaw­ing, and such like.

If the cause be an hot inflammation, Curatio. he must abstain from hot things, salt things, and immo­derate exercise, and if a plethorick body, Venae sectio open a vein, and administer an Apozem, made as you shall see fit, and a Julep made as followeth: Julepus. Take (French barley ℥. i. ss.) French pruins ℥.iv. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, untill half be wasted, strain it, and adde plan­tin wator ℥.ij. conserve of barberries ℥. j. mixe them, and drink thereof often; and hold the conserve of aforesaid in your mouth, letting it dissolve by degrees, adde to the julep, loafe-su­gar, and if it proceed of drunkenness, drink Aqua hordei; if it cometh of salt humours, Julepus. as in the scurvie, then drink Aqua fumariae, & syr­rupus fumariae, make a julep, and drink thereof: Also purging is good, and refrain salt things. But when it chance to those that have burning fevers, then give them Posca, that is, Posca. vinegar and water sodden together; if you will, Aqua sper­matis ra­narum. you may adde conserve of barberries: and Aqua sper­matis Ranarum is very effectual, mixed either with some cooling syrrup or conserve, or given by it self, a spoonfull at a time, Sperma ant semen ranarum colligitur mense Martio. Destillatur au­tem per alembicum vitreum. Quercetanus.

CHAP. XXXIII.

NAƲSEA, [...]. is a naughty and wicked motion of the expulsive faculty of the stomach.

It is caused of a vitious humour contained in Causa. [Page 68]the stomach, being either hot or cold, which humour either swimmeth in the concavity or hollownesse of the stomach, or it is stuffed in the filmes thereof, cleaving like bird-lime, sometimes great exercise after meales, sayling on the seas, and over fat meats, or stopping of the Menstruis, may be the cause.

In a hot cause, Signa. you shall find the sign in the Chapter of weakness of the stomach: if vitious humours do swim in the stomach, then for the most part vomiting, followeth; If a tough hu­mour like bird-lime be drowned in the cotes of the stomach, it causeth a disposition to vomit, but bringeth forth nothing; also a dulnesse throughout the whole body.

As touching the cure of vomiting, Curatio. you must note in the beginning, it ought not to be stop­ped, if the sick be the better for it, especially if such things be purged, as ought to be; it is also good, and may be suffered, if not, it is evill: for the cure, Clyster. the readiest way is sleep, if it may be procured, as in a hot cause: if the body be co­stive, administer a cooling clyster, adding there­to oyle of violets ℥.iij. or give gr. iij. of lauda­num Paracel. which is good: providing the body be first made soluble: also infuse a piece of bread in white-wine vinegar, or rose-vinegar, and bruise it in a morter, Ceratum. and adde thereunto powder of cinnamon, cloves, red-roses, or the like; this may be applyed to their stomachs warm; if children be troubled with vomiting, give syrrup of Rhubarb, Cataplas­ma. such a quantity as fit­teth the age and strength of the child; and you may take cammomel, wormwood, mint, and [Page 69]porret, of either half a handfull, boyle them in halfe a pinte of wine-vinegar, and thicken it with crums of white bread, like a poultis, spread it on a double cloth, and apply it warm. If the body be temperate, and a doubt of worms, in­stead of the syrrup aforesaid, use worm-seed, ac­cording to the directions, in the Chapter of Canina appetentia; if blood cause vomiting, you shall have directions in the Chapter of sputum sanguinis: Vomitus. In a cold cause procure vomiting with Asaron, if nothing prohibit; Pilulae. and after use stomachal pills, mint-water, and the syrrups of wormwood, if you want more, look in Sitis, and Imbecillitas stomachi; I have often­times stopped vomiting with Aquamenthae & syrrup. cidoniorum, Mixtura. of either one ounce mixed together.

CHAP. XXXIV.

CHOLERICA PASSIO, is an immo­derate perturbation of the stomach, cau­sed by vomits upwards and downwards, the Latins call it Cholerici.

It is caused through much crudity and raw­nesse of the stomach, choller, Causa. and sharp hu­mours, with an ill and corrupt digestion.

For the signe, Signa. there is pricking and biting about the stomach, and withall vomiting, and a flux of the belly; it is called the chollerick passion in English: there do oftentimes accom­company this disease, cold sweats, a swift pulse, frequent, little, and short, with Syncope.

If children be taken with this disease, Curatio. sleep profiteth much, in old men for the most part deadly; the juyce and syrrup of Quinces, with syrrup of Roses and Myrtills, is excellent in a hot cause, as this Recipe following.

℞. Mixtura. Miva Citoniorum ℥. 4. syr. Citoniorum, & Mirtilorum, ana ℥.j.cons. Oxiacanthae ℥. ss. Give of it to the patient often in the best red Rose-water, Vomitus. providing that if you see a pletho­rick body, and abounding with choller, give a vomit with stybium, if nothing prohibit; or else this Apozem following. ‘℞. Apozema. Syr. de Rhabarb. & Rosarum. sol. ana ℥.j.’ The decoction of Seene, as much as sufficeth to make an Apozem, give the one half over night, and the other half in the morning warm, they must abstain from all hot things, as strong beer, wine, hot waters, spices, &c. and take soopings of a cooling quality, as broath made with cooling herbs, Victus ra­tio. as sorrel borage, and burnit, Endive, succory, sorrel possets, and lem­mond possets, barley water, and cooling juleps are very good, Julepus. made with the waters of En­dive, purslaine, sorrel, and syrrups of the same.

In a cold cause, Vinum. the best wine, thin and odo­rifferous, is sometimes sufficient: in a full body, purge with this or the like purgation. ‘℞. Potio pur­gans. Diaphenicon. ʒ.ij. Benedict. lax. & pul. San­ctus, an. ʒ.ss.’ White wine, Pilulae. as much as sufficieth to make a potion, or you may give stomachal pills; if their body be not able to bear a strong purge: but these vomitings many times in a hot cause, [Page 71]syrrups or juyces of quinces, and syrrup of Myr­tils: in a cold cause the syrrup of mints, and cordial mint water, is sometimes sufficient; Lastly, this emplaster following is excellent, to be applyed either to the stomach or belly. ‘℞. Olei cotoneorum, myrthini, ana ℥.ij. Emplastrct. Weckerus. Hypo­cistidis, acaciae, Rhu. ana. ʒ.ij. Corall. rub. ʒ.j. cum cera & resina fiat Emplastrum.’

CHAP. XXXV.

IMBECILLITAS JECINORIS is caused of a distemper, either hot, cold, moyst, Causa. or dry.

1. Signa. A hot distemper doth burn up as well the humours which were before in the liver, as also those humours which are carried to the liver, by the veines Mesenterii, and there is stink­ing grosse choller, avoyded by the belly, and is abundantly coloured; also a fever vexeth him, he abhorreth meat, and many times cast­eth up choller, with a sore thirstinesse, the vrine high, and a swift pulse.

2. In a cold distemper, it doth make the flegmatick and raw humour, which is already contained in the liver, tough and hard to be moved, and the humours that be carried to the liver, it leaves them half digested; this indureth long, and the belly floweth certain dayes abun­dantly, but lesse stinking, and not so much in quantity; and is like putrefact blood curded, but indeed for the most part you shall find it, as it were a certain slime, and dregs of grossblood, [Page 72]coming nigh to melancholy: many times there appeareth a faint fever, the face doth not fall, and there is a greater appetite of meats.

3. A dry distemper, doth make the hu­mours drier and thicker, and less in quantity than the former, but thirsty.

4. A moyst distemper make the humours more thin and watery, and they are less trou­bled with thirst, therefore they which have a weak faculty of the liver, are called Hepatici.

1. Curatio. Venae-sectio In a hot cause, if there be not great aridity, and driness, with exceeding heat, open the li­ver vein of the right arm, otherwise not; for blood is a bridle, Ceratum. Victus ra­tio. and temperator of choller: in all heat of the liver, Ceratum santalinum, is good, Use broath wherein is boyled Lettice, Endive, and Succory; no flesh except it be chickens, par­tridg, birds of mountaines, or a little veal; no wine, except the stomach be weak, then let it be very thin, and anoynt the stomach, but especially the region of the heart, Oleum. with Oleum Rosarum aut violarum. If he be in a pining con­dition, make him gellies, and put in red saun­ders, and let him take of this julep following. ‘℞. Julepus. Syrrupus Endiviae. Acetosae, Portulacae, Rosarum Rub. & violarum ana ℥.j.’ Barley water as much as sufficeth to make a ju­lep, if the stomack be weak, adde a little syr­rup of wormwood; also this Electuary follow­ing is wondrous proper. ‘℞. Electuariū. Cons. Rosat. Rub. ℥.j. Spec. Diarrho. Abb. ʒ.j. Spec. Aromat. ros. ℈.j. Syr. lujulae. q. s. f. Elect. Mosle.’ Or as you shall see cause, you may adde Rosa­rum. [Page 73]Rub. Trochis. Diarhod. Coral. Rub. & Dia­trion santalon. For the poorer sort, direct chirn­milk boyled with sorrel, and so let them drink the Ale thereof.

2. In a cold cause or distemper, take savory Hysop, sage, and parsley in his broth, let his meat be dressed with aromatick things, as Ci­namon, Cloves, &c. Also wine is good, Vinum. Decoctio. espe­cially clarret, providing they avoyd idleness, also the decoction that is set down in Paralysis is good, adding, wormwood, calamint, anise, fennel, and let the one half be wine; sometimes drink it with syrrup of wormwod, and agrimo­ny, use hot oyles, as nard, wormwood, cam­momel, cinamon, cloves, and spicknard, Oleum. also for the poorer sort, use wormwood beer, and wormwood wine.

3. In a moyst distemper, use a drying diet, Diacurcue ma. and provoke sweat; Diacurcuma is good, so is syr­rup of wormwood.

4. In a drie distemper, use a moystning diet, also mixe strengthening things with your moist things, one dragme of wolves liver in powder, and ministred in sweet wine, allayed with water, is very excellent, ‘℞. Anisi, sem. Apii, Asari, Amygdalarum, Trochisci hepatici. Galenus. Ab­synthii and ℥, ss. Aquae pluviae q.s. Formen­tur trochisci.’ Galen doth much commend them, for saith he, Hepaticos juvant, habent enim vim hepar expurgan­di per urinas: dantur cum vino, febrientibus cum aqua. They are proper in a cold and moyst di­stemper of the liver, because they are hot and purge by urine: but in heat,

CHAP. XXXVI.

EPHIALTES, [...] is a disease whereas one thinketh himself (in the night) to be op­pressed with a great weight, believing that something cometh upon him, and thinketh that he is strangled.

It is often times caused of excesse of drink­ing, Causa. and sometimes continual rawness of the stomack, from whence doth ascend vapours, gross and cold, filling the ventricles of the brain, and letting the faculties of the brain to be dispersed by the sinewes.

They that have this disease can scarce move, Signa. being astonied, and as it were held by some­thing that doth violently invade them; the voyce is suppressed, some do believe (though vainly) that they hear the thing that doth op­press them; now at the last with much trouble, the vapours being attenuate, and driven away, and the passage of the spirits being opened, the sick is by and by raysed to his perfect sences.

If this disease continue, Signa. Prognosti­ca. Curatio. it induceth a worse to follow, as Apoplexia, Epilepsia, or the like: Therefore cure it at first if possible, use a thinne diet, and nothing that ingenders windiness, no wine, Venae sectio except diluted with water, fleep not in the day: if a full body, cut the Cephalica vein, and purge: 15. black Piony seeds is said to [Page 75]help, being brayed in water: Oleum. Dianthon. nourish the head with oyle of dill, and strengthen the head with Aromat. Rosat. Diamber, Dianthon, and such like.

CHAP. XXXVII.

EMPYEMA, [...]. Causa. which signifieth a matte­ry spitting, it is caused when an impo­stume, or botch being in the upper skin, gird­ing the ribs, or else in some other skin of the brest is broken all at once, and shed into the empty place of the brest, which is between the lungs and the upper skin, it is fometimes cau­sed through bursting out of blood, sometimes through a fluxe of the head, and other upper parts falling thither, which is wont often to change into the squinsie.

There is felt heavinesse in the bottom of the brest, a strong and dry cough, Signa. without pain in the beginning, there chance to them fevers, faint, inordinate, and hard to be judged, when the impostume draweth now to a rupture, then the fever is more vehement with quaking, and they are troubled in their speech; the matter that cometh out is sometime clear, sometimes thick, and dreggy, and sometimes flows upward into the voyd place of the brest; and these be most perilous, sometimes they flow down­wards to the paunch, bowels, and bladder, such alwayes labour of the fever Hectick. Curatio. Victus ra­tio.

Let them use meats of good juyce, broth of cocks, and flesh of hens, chickens, and birds of [Page 76]mountains, let his drink be Aqua mulsa, and thin white wine, it must be speedily looked to, or else the matter gathered together will cause the Ptisick, or an ulceration of the lungs, there­fore a drink made with liquoress, figs, and ani­seeds, is good to rot and voyd the matter; if it creep into the belly, minister mollifications, if to the bladder, such things as provoke urine; if it cometh out by a cough, then give ptisan mixed with good honey; you shall have plen­tiful remedies in the Chapter of the Ptisick, and in Astma, and Pluritis, yet this Electuary fol­lowing is very good. ‘℞. Electuari­um. Platerus. Conserv. radicum symphiti Mai. ℥.i.ss. cons. Rosarum rubr. ℥.j. infus. gummi Tragac. factae in aqua plantaginis ʒ.j. coralli, Boli vel terrae lemniae ana ʒ.j. Hypocistid. ʒ.ss. croci ℈.ss. syrrupi Myrtini vel Myrtillorum q. s. fiat electuarium. Plater. Tract. ult. lib. 1. pag. 540.’ This will be very proper when the impostume is broken, and the matter thereof purged out. To ripen the impostume a Cataplasme may be applyed outwardly, Cataplas­ma. made of Rad. altheae, fi­cuum pinguium, passul. mundat. florum Chamem. & melilot. and after the boyling, to adde sari­nae sem, lini, faenugr. ol. lilior. amygdal, bu­tyri recent. terebinth. &c. Riverius. lib. 2. cap. 4.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

BƲLIMOS, [...]. is nothing else but great and vehement famine, or hunger.

It is caused through coldnesse of the sto­mach, want, and weaknesse of strength, Causa. long journies (especially when there is snow) cause this disease.

In the beginning there is felt much hunger, Signa. yet doth not long endure, for afterward the patients heart failes him, with coldnesse of the extream parts, and want of spirit and breath. Curatio.

If this trouble happen in a journey without a fever, Vinum. comfort them with bread infused in odo­riferous wine burnt with cinamon, if he be ve­ry faint, it is the best thing to let them smell to penny-royall; new bread holden to the nose helpeth much, so doth the savour of rosted meat, well seasoned with salt; but above all, sweet odours, and compell them to eat. Spec. Arom. rosat. &c. If need be also Arom. Rosat. Diamber, &c. made into Lo­zenges or Electuaries, or you may strew them on his meats; if a fever happen, which is seldom, comfort him with vinegar, and dip a morsel in pure white wine, and red-rose water, and give it him to eat, also give him every hour a little meat, for delayes are dangerous in this disease. Lastly, Ʋnguen­tum. Marquar­dus. ‘℞. Pulv. caryophyll. ℈.iv. ol. mastich. ℥.j. misce f. ung. stomachale.’

CHAP. XXXIX.

DIARRHAEA; [...]. is a great and copious flux of the wombe, without exulceration and inflammation.

It is caused through weakness of the instru­ments that do serve to digestion; Causa. also through aboundance of corrupted meat, and nourish­ment that is moyst and viscous, moreover gnawing and biting of those things that are contained in the belly: also flowing of some humours from above the belly, and weakness of the retentive vertue may be the cause.

1. Signa. Diarrhaea be caused through weakness of the Instruments that serve for digestion, as the stomach, bowels, liver, and spleen, seek the signes out of their own proper Chapters, as in Imbecillitas stomachi, & Iecivoris.

2. If through weaknesse of the vertue re­tentive, seek the signes in the Chapters a­bove.

3. If through much devouring of evil meats, and drinks, it's known by the Patients words.

4. If it be caused through Cholerick humors, the excrements are yellow colour, there is felt gnawing and heat whil'st they are casting out; there is also felt bitternesse of the mouth, thirst, a thin state of the body, and other to­kens signifying choller.

5. If flegmatick humours be the cause, all those forementioned signes are contrary.

6. If humours flow from the head to the [Page 79]belly, the egestious will appear frothy, and the temperature of the brain will be very moyst.

7. If through fullness of the body, it is easily known.

1. Curatio. If it be caused through weakness of the instruments, you shall find remedy in the Chapter of Imbecill stomach.

2. If through the fulness, or other causes, and nature labour to help it self, you must suf­fer it a while; for being stopped, the vitious hu­mours are carried upwards, and do cause pain in the head, a frensie, lethargy, or impostuma­tion behind the eares: but if it shall continue long, casting forth, not only superfluities, but melting as it were the state of the body, and consuming the strength, then labour to stop it.

3. If through chollerick humours, Apozema. an Apo­zem of the infusion of Rhubarb is much pray­sed, at the first taking of this disease, Cassia and Manna is good, then this julep following. ‘℞. Aqua plantag. Portulacae, ana ℥. iv. Syr. Julepus. Mirti. & cons. oxiacanthae ana ℥.j.’ Make a julep, and take steel gadds red hot, Chalybs. quench them in milk, scum it, and drink, it is much commended, if there be no fever; if there be, powre a fourth part of water to the milk, and boyle it untill halfe be consumed.

4. If chollar be in the bowels, Clyster. Electuari­um. give a clyster of the decoction of French barley, with oyle of Roses or the like, then make an Electuary with conserve of Roses, Diatrion Santalon. & Syrrup. Mirt. For the poorer sort take bolearmenia, [Page 80](instead of the Diatrion sant.) Aliud. with the conserve of Roses, and Syr. Lujulae, or Myrtills.

5. If it be caused of flegmatick humours, that be gross and tough, minister the infusion of Agarick, with Mirabol. Emblici, or use clysters made with the decoction of Centory, and oyle of Rue; Cataplas­ma. after that, apply the poultis (outward­ly upon the stomach) which you shall find in the Chapter of Nausea, page the 67. onely in­stead of vinegar use clarret, or red-wine, and a little cinamon; and if he be over-greedy of meat, let him use a spare diet.

6. If it be caused through weaknesse of the vertue retentive, bathe the body with oyle of of Myrtills, soure mulberries dried in the Sun, and beaten to powder, Pulvis. and drunk in some bind­ing syrrup, do marvellously stop: This Lohoch following is good. ‘℞. Cons. Ros. Rub. ℥. ss. Diarrhod. Abb. Dia­moron, Lohoch. Cons. Ros. Rub. ℥. ss. Diarrhod. Abb. Dia­moron, Diatri. sant. Coral. Rub. ana ℈. ij. Balaustiae, Rosarum. Rub. ana ʒ ss. Mastic. ℈. ss. Bolus arme. ʒ.i.ss.’ Syrrup of Myrtills, as much as will make an Ecligma, or Loch. with fine white sugar, and plantin water, (leaving out the conserve, and syrrup) you may make Lozenges, Rice-broath is good.

7. If Diarrhaea cometh through Rheuma­tick matter, see the Chapter of Catarrhus.

CHAP. XL.

LIENTERIA, is a certain lightnesse, [...]. or smoothnesse of the bowels, even like as there chanceth a scarre on the outside of the body: in this disease the bowels do not hold the meat, but let it slide away before it be chan­ged, or perfectly digested, in the same likeness that it was eaten.

It is caused oftentimes through a grievous flux, Dysenteria (by name) going before, Causa. which causeth deep exulceration of the bowels, and consequently scarres; now the mouthes of the veines which draw nourishment from the bow­els being obstructed, and the bowels being be­come smooth, will not suffer meats to be distri­buted, but let them slide out before they be al­tered, this disease is many times caused through debility of the vertue retentive in the stomach: also sometimes when dropsie water is avoyded by the belly, this flux Lienteria followeth.

Whatsoever causeth this flux, Signa. the sick do taste or feel no meat, there is an evill plight of the body, their excrements are pale, cruid, raw, whitish, unequal, and very watery, not mixt with blood, or choller, he feeles a burning all over the sides, loathing of meat; if soure bel­chings do happen, it is a good sign the meats abide some while in the stomach.

For the cure let him be sparing of drink, Curatio. for much is forbidden in all fluxes.

1. If it be ingendred through weaknesse of [Page 82]the virtue of the stomach, search the cure in its proper Chapter, as in Imbecill. Stomachi Di­arrhaea, and the following Chapter; But to be short, minister those things that re­strain and strengthen the stomach and bow­els; as syrrup of wormwood, mints, and worm­wood wine, Oleum. is good; use outwardly oyle of ma­stick, wormwood, mints, and myrtills, make the poultis that is set down in the former Chapter, and strew on the powder of Cinamon, Cloves, Galingale, Baulaustia, or red Roses.

2. Those that have a scarre, the eating of sharp things are profitable, for that it causeth a Refrication, and rubbing upon the scarre, it re­nueth natural heat, therefore use scouring things with restrictive medicines, with the meat use vergis, the juyce of soure pomegra­nates, lemonds, or the syrrup of the same, or of unripe grapes; also a clyster of the decoction of Balaustia, Clyster. sloes, French pruines, unripe grapes, and such like: some Authours do much commend vinegar, to receive the fume upon hot tile stones, others the fume of Fran­kincense, Laud pa­racel. and Amber, to be an excellent thing, but in all fluxes, Laudanum paracel. judicially administred two or three graines, is said to be a most sure help: Actuarius. Diacodion Weckerus. Also for the same purpose, Actuarius his Diacodion is wondrous proper, the making of which you shall find in Weckerus his antidotary, lib. 2. p. 786. After purging with Aloes or Rhubarb, or Clysters, you must streng­then the ventricle with this Opiat following. ‘℞. Opiat. Riverius. Conservae ros. antiquae ℥ vj. theriacae opt. ʒ. vj. mivae cydonior. quantum satis. Fiat [Page 83]opiata, de qua capiat ℥.ss. manè nihil su­perbibendo. River. lib. 5. cap. 4.’ Lastly, make this oyntment following. ‘℞. Ol. amyg. amar arum ℥.iij. ol. nard. & cham. Ʋnguentū. Rondele­tius. an. ℥.j. vini albi ℥. i. ss. decoquantur leviter, quibus adde cerae q. s. terebin. abietinae ℥.ss. spicae celticae, schenant. Cyperi, galangae an. ʒ.j seminis apii, petro. an. ʒ. ss. fiat unguen­tum ungatur regio ventris circa umbilicum. Nam in illis partibus obstructiones aperiendae sunt: Rondel. lib. 3. cap. 19.’

CHAP. XLI.

DYSENTERIA, [...]. is an exulceration of the bowels, being tormented, and fretted very much with pain, some reckon four kindes of Dysenteria.

1. The first is when blood is sent forth by circuit, through some part of the body being cut off: or through some exercise of the former life, let passe for a time.

2. The second is when watery blood, like the water wherein new killed flesh have been washed, or soaked, (which chanceth through weakness of the liver) is sent forth.

3. The third is, when there is sent forth an humour, more shining and blacker, than that which is natural, being commixt of blood, and Melancholy.

4. The fourth kind in which by little and little, and between whiles is cast out pure blood, yet sometimes clodded, and shavings of the [Page 84]bowels cometh out with pure blood, and many times thick dung, sprinkled with drops of blood; of this fourth kind I shall treat at this time, and let passe the other three.

The cause of this last kind is through exulcera­tion of the bowels, Causa. caused many times through outward cold, heat, and moystnesse, sometimes through pernicious medicines, as scammomy, eating of fruit, or sharp, and soure meates, cru­dity, and rawness, or through sharp and gnaw­ing humours, flowing from the whole body to the belly, or ingendred in the belly it selfe; and this doth sometimes begin after Tenasmus; the excrements are cholerick, diverse, and fatty, because the fat, that cleaveth within the bowels, is melted, so that when the Superficies of the bowels are bare, and the exulceration abiding about it, then the excrements be dreg­gy, and bloody, but when the ulcer is pierced deeper, then there is sent forth filthinesse, ha­ving as it were little pieces of parchment com­mixed with it, so that if it be not stopped, it eateth the places nigh unto it, and sendeth forth such excrements, as are wont to runne from dead bodies.

1. Signa. When the small guts are exulcerate, there is pain about the Navill, the excrements are chollerick, the patient feeleth grief, and fret­tings, and gnawings, so that the patient is not farre from fainting; they are not thirsty, and fe­verous, the excrements are cruid and raw, and the bowel Jejunium is exulcerate sometimes, though seldom; and sometimes they vomit, and abhorre meats.

[Page 85] 2. But if the exulceration be ingendred in the great bowels, there the ordour is pure, and much heaped together, coming out with win­dinesse, and frothinesse; mixed with fatnesse, blood swimming aloft, the knowledge of this greatly helpeth to the cure.

1. Curatio. If the exulceration be in the upper or small bowels, you must cure it by medicines gi­ven at the mouth. If in the great or lower bowels, it must be done by clysters, be the cause what it will, endeavour to procure rest, and give them little meat; milk is good, and Rice with milk, if there be no fever, marmalad of Quinces, Plantin boyled in the juyce of French pruins, with balaustia, no flesh, except Birds, or Rabbits, &c. Chalybs. steel quenched in run­ning-water is good. If the stomach be weak give restringent wine not very old, amongst syrrups take plantin, knotgrasse, purslain, sharp mulberries, Balaustia, Frankincense, Terra lem­nia, and grape curnels, all these restrain: the tallow of goats, swine, geese, and hens, these asswage the acrimony, which should be first looked to, that thereby the patient may be eased: Hares creem, Harts-horn burnt, the shells of Crabs, running water, and sage, these drie up. This clyster following is good for Dysenteria, though the cause resteth in the great bowels, as well as in the small, and better. ‘℞, Fol. Ros. Rub. Plantag. Centinodium, Clyster. Consol. Maior. prim. veris, ana M. ss. Ba­laustia ʒj. Rad. Consol. Maior. ℥. ss.’ Rice burnt one ounce, seethe them all in run­ning water, wherein hath been quenched steel, [Page 86]strain it, and adde the juice of plantin ʒ.ij. Bolus arm. ʒj. goats tallow ℥.j. oyles of Roses, Myr­tills, Quinces, of either ℥.j. make a Clyster, now though this Clyster be set down at large, yet you may direct one for a poor body, not so costly, with some of the Engredients: This cly­ster is most proper for the Dysenteria, in the great bowels.

2. If the exulceration be in the small bow­els, then give unto them such things as you shall find proper in Diarrhaea, use syrrup of dried Roses, Myrtils, and Quinces, apply this Ce­rate outwardly. ‘℞. Ceratum. Ol. Mastic. Rosarum, Myrti, Cidoniorum, an. ℥.j. fol. Ros. Rub. Plantag. ana ʒ.j. Ba­laustia ʒ.j. Bolus arm. ʒ.j. Mastic. ʒ. ij.’ Barley meal ʒ.ij. wax and Rosin, as much as suffi [...]eth to make a Cerate, some medicines you may find in the Chap. of Colerica passio. The infu­sion of Rhubarb is of some praised, Infusio. Oleum vitrtoli. and of others suspected, but oyle of vitrial is much commen­ded in plantin water, the distilled water of the spawn of frogs is an excellent Remedy, Aqsperm. ranarum. if it be well made; if the patient be weak, make him broath with chickins, with a little cinamon.

1. Clyster. If there be deep excoriation, make a clyster with the decoction of brann, and ℥. ij. of deer suet, clysters of milk is good, for either of them.

2. Purgatio. If it happens through contagion of Ayre, at the first give a strong potion of Rhubarb, infused in plant in water, with a little cinamon, and then a little treakle or methridate, in cina­mon or treakle water, is excellent. But after purging, endeavour next to procure rest, either [Page 87]with Laudanum, or something else, and then give a scruple of treakle, or methridate, in &c. Theriaca mithridat. as aforesaid, forbare bleeding, or purging, ex­cept with Rhubarb, many have been cured with Harts-horn burnt, others take hard bones of Beef, or Pork, calcined, or burned untill they be white, made into powder, and so drunk in ordinary drinks continually, with some few drops of cinamon water, and cinamon and nutmegs in powder, are good. This unguent following is wondrous proper to procure rest. ‘℞. Olei nymphaeae, Ʋnguentū. violarum unguenti populeo­nis an. ℥.ss. Opii gr. iij. Croci gr. iv. fiat un­guentum, quo nares & tempora inungantur. Rauzonius. Rauzonius.’ Lastly, let this chyster be administred, for it is effectual in Dysenteria. ‘℞. Succi plantaginis, arnoglossae, portulacae, an. Clyster. Gorraeus. ℥. iij. boli armeni, sanguinis draconis, amili an. ʒ. i. ss. seni hircini vel caprini ʒ.j. vel ʒ. i. ss. vel ℥. ij. fiat Clyster. Gorraeus, pag. 153.’

CHAP. XLII.

TENASMƲS, is a continual desire to go to stoole, [...] with extension and straining out of the right gut, called Inte­stivum rectum, being stopped, avoyding nothing except it be a little blood, or filthy matter, like snivel, or snot.

[Page 88] 1. Causa. The cause is sometimes through outward cold.

2. Sometimes through sharp chollerick humours.

3. Sometimes through salt flegme.

4. Sometime through impostumation.

5. Sometimes through inflammation in­gendred in the streight gut.

6. Sometimes the blind gut is stopped with hard dung.

1. Signa. The sign is as various: if it be caused of cold, it is known by the tale of the sick, whe­ther he hath set on any cold stone, &c.

2. If chollerick, it is known by the colour of the humours, or excrements that com­eth out.

3. If an impostumation, botch, or bile, there is mattery corruption flowing forth, and he feel­eth a pricking in the fundament.

4. Inflammation causeth swelling in the right bowell, with grievous pain, together with a fever.

5. If a flegmatick humour, it is also known by the colour of the humours, or excrements.

6. If abundance of dung, it causeth distension, and streching out about the bottom of the belly.

1. Curatio. The cure is diverse, according to the di­versity of causes: if it be caused of cold, use hot oyles, Clyster. as of Lillies, and Rew, administer clysters made with mints, origan, calamints, cammo­mel, sothernwood, aniseed, and sennel-seed, ad­ding oyles of dill, cammomel, or lillies.

2. If through chollerick humours remain­ing [Page 89]in the bowells, and fundament, you must cast in this clensing clyster. ‘℞. Decoct. Hord. lb. ij. Mel. Rosarum ℥.j. ol. Clyster.Rosarum ℥.iij.’ Sugar Roset. ℥.i.ss. two yelkes of egges, make a clyster, eschew all sharp things and let things be used that be cold and moyst, which do stop and temperate, the sharpnesse of choller.

3. If it be caused of flegmatick humors, it shall be cured like as that which is caused of cold: only commix with the the clyster aforesaid in a cold cause, such medicines as purge flegme, Benedict. laxativa. as Diaphaenicon, aut Benedict. laxativa.

4. If of inflammation, Clyster. then I would have you to take this clyster of the liquor of the de­coction of plantin, ℥.5. oyle of Roses ℥.ij. the white of one egge, make a clyster; outwardly use oyle of Myrtills, and when there is need of suppuration, use fenegreek, and roots of Althaea, boyled and injected, or fomented.

5. If through an ulcer, impostume or botch, look into Dysaenteria, for many times Tenasmus follows that grievous flux; Fumigatio. use a fume of fran­kincense, and pitch, which is said to help sud­denly, also use cooling oyles, or clysters afore­said. If the pain be intollerable, procure rest with ungentum populi cum opio. Ʋnguentū. Adding two or three drops of oyle of nutmegs, or else minister Laudanum.

6. If through abundance of dung, use gen­tle clysters, as little in quantity as may be. Take Mallows, Althaea, Mercury, Beets, Violet leaves, Clyster. of either M.j. fenegreek, & Linseed, ana ℥. ss. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, strain it, [Page 90]and adde Cassia ℥. i. ss. common oyle ℥.iij. salt finely powdered, ʒ.j. make a clyster, but be­ware of purging by potions. Sometimes Tenas­mus is caused of wind, and then

℞. Suppositor. Sem. carui, cymini, sesel. ameos, rutae aqui casti an. ʒ.j. mell. q.s. misce fiant suppositoria. Mar­quardus.

CHAP. XLIII.

COLLICA PASSIO, [...]. hath his name of a gut called Colon, it is a disease accompanied with grievous pain, it happeneth very often, when excrements are retained beyond custom.

It is caused many wayes, Causa. as through chole­rick humours, sometimes through humours in the stomach, gathering wind from the liver, and milt, or from the reines of such as have the stone, or from an impostume in the wombe, sometimes from all the parts in mans body, as in fevers, where the humours are expelled from the veines to the guts, so that either it may pro­ceed from hot and drie, or cold, and drie di­stemperatures, but never of moyst: there are many causes, but I shall treat but of these four especially that follow.

1. Sometimes it is ingendred through gross and flegmatick humours, fallen down within the skin of the gut Colon.

2. Sometimes through windinesse, which have no room to get out.

3. Also it is caused through inflammation of the grosse and thick gut, nexing, and stretch­ing out.

[Page 91] 4. Lastly, through sharp and gnawing hu­mours, which afflict the aforesaid bowell, vehe­mently.

1. They that have it ingendred of a grosse, Signa. and flegmatick humour, they be nexed aloft, all over their Abdomen, that is, the place which is under the mouth of the stomach, especially they are grieved, where the gut Colon lyeth, for the pain is as though it is brayed, or bored with a bodkin, having a disposition to vomit, with belchings and costivenesse.

2. If it be caused of windinesse, they feel ex­tension, and stretching forth.

3. If through inflammation, there is felt in­ward burning, and heat, with no small fever, and costivenesse, with retention of urine, trou­bled with thirst, vomiting of choller, without ceasing; and this is most grievous, and threat­neth Iliaca passio.

4. If of sharp humours there is thirst, and watching, small fevers, the urine sharp, and cho­lerick humours are sometimes thrown out; go­ing to stool, easeth the torment, hot drinks do the same, but beware of cold drink.

1. Curatio. When gross and clammy humors do cause the chollick, there diet must be extenuate, flesh of birds, hens, Partridg, Turtles, black-birds, and doves, the flesh of calves, beware of pulse, Victus ra­tio. for pot-herbs use fennel, Apium, Asperage, let his food be easie of digestion, ingendring good juyce, and eschew fulnesse, Vinum. he may drink wine, (a little) thin, shining, of mean age, tem­perately allayed, yet beware of medicines, heating vehemently, Clyster. Clysters made with [Page 92]Rew, Cammomel, Dill, Althaea, mellilot, with the oyles thereof, also cummin, and fenegreek, Mercury, Mallowes, and if need be hierapicra, benedicta lax, Mell Rosarum; If the patient can vomit before supper it helpeth much, some do commend a vomit after a clyster to be exceed­ing good, Vomitus. and to sit in the decoction of Althaea, peniroyal, Decoctio. laurel leaves, fenegreek, cammomel, Motherwort, dill, &c: wine wherein worm­wood is infused, is much commended, also Ca­storeum one dram at a time, Castoreum. continually drunk in Aqua mulsa, destroyeth the disease utterly.

2. Clyster. If it be caused through windinesse, then this clyster, take Sothernwood, origan, peni­royal, calamint, cammomel, ana M. j. Rew, wild mints, ana M. ss. seeds of Annise, fennel, carawayes, commin, dill, ana ʒ. ij. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, strain it, and adde Hierapicra, benedict, lax, ana ℥. ss. castore­um ʒ. j. powder of Diacuminum ʒ. ij. oyles of rew, and dill, ana ℥. i. ss. common salt ʒ. i. ss. make a clyster, there may be added thereto the confection of bay-berries, which is effectual to drive away windinesse, Cataplaf. also a poultis out­wardly of wormwood, mint, bay-berries, cina­mon, pepper, and such like; beware of any thing that ingenders windinesse.

3. Venae sectio If it be caused through inflammation of the bowels, open a vein in the arme, if there be suppression of urine, cut the vein in the Ankle, you may use some of the aforesaid, and follow­ing remedies, except hot and sharp things, and vehement purges, rather use clysters easing pain.

4. If it be caused of sharp and gnawing hu­mours, [Page 93]give such things as wash, without cau­sing mordacity, and gnawing, as broath of ptisan, or the decoction of fenegreek, linseed, cammomel, Althaa, fresh Goose-grease, Clyster. Hens­grease, and oyle of Roses, compound a clyster, or take violet leaves, Endive, Althaea, cammo­mel, ana M.i.ss. seeds of fenegreek, and flax, of either ʒ.ss. make a decoction, adde Cassia ℥.j. hierapicra ʒ. 6. Oyle of Roses ℥. ij. of dill. ℥. j. Goose-grease, and Hens-grease, ana ʒ. iij. two yelks of egges, make a clyster, Clyster. let his diet be cold and moyst; If the pain be inveterate, use Laudanum, &c. Laudan. Paracel.

CHAP. XLIV.

ILIACA PASSIO, [...] is a most painfull di­sease, proceeding from obstructions of the small guts, which suffereth nothing to passe downwards, but their excrements many times issue out at their mouths; it differeth from the chollick in the scituation, in that it hath its place and being in the small guts, and the chollick in the great guts; this disease taketh its name from a gut called Ilion.

It is caused sometimes of crudity of meates, Causae. especially fat, which commonly ingenders ob­structions in the small guts or Ilion; sometimes of stripes in places where the small guts lye, or through vehement cold, restraining the excre­ments, or through abundant eating, but espe­cially drinking of cold things in a sweat, some­times the bowels with the dung fall into the [Page 94]cods, and being violently thrust back, is infla­med, or through drinking of deadly medi­cines, or through hard dung, impact about the thin bowell, yet for the most part Ilia­ca passio is ingendred, either of inflammation, or obstruction, this disease is common to chil­dren, but through the help of natural humi­dity, they easily escape, but in ancient people it is dangerous.

They that have Iliaca passio, Signa. have vehement pain, the thin and small guts are swelled, and stretched out with over-much moystness of the stomach, empty belchings, rumbling, and noyse of the bowels; and both wind and dung [...]ants evacuation. If the disease waxe greater, [...] avoydeth all upward, voyding sometimes [...]gme, and choller, and a coldness of the whole body, to some difficulty and hardnesse of breathing. To them that shall die, there chan­ceth cold sweats, difficulty of making urin, and the fundament is so close, that it will suffer no small instrument to enter, and sometime dung is cast up by vomit, also there happeneth the hicket, Delirum, and convulsions: their wind and excrements are much stinking; these be dead­ly signes.

For the cure it must be performed in chil­dren, Curatio. with foments, and clysters, as in the chol­lick, but in the aged otherwise.

1. Vomitus. If it be caused of crudity and fulnesse, provoke vomit; If the stomach be free from crudity, Clyster. administer clysters as this that follow­eth. Take Mercury, Rew, leaves of Althaeae, Centory, ana M.j. Hysope, calamint, worm­wood, [Page 95]ana M.i.ss. Root of Althaeae, ℥.j. Root of wild cowcumber, ʒ.i.ss. seeds of flax, and fenegreek, ana ʒ.iij. seeds of cummin ʒ.ij. make a decoction, strain it, and adde Benedict. lax, ℥.j. fresh butter, and honey, of Roses ana ℥.ss. oyles of Rew and Difl, ana ℥. i. ss. common salt ʒ. j. make a clyster, you may foment with oyles of Rew, and Dill: after a clyster, if need be purge, Oleum. a vomit is much commended.

2. If it happen through some venemous or poysonous medicine, give them warm water to drink, after that hot oyle to drink, or fat broath, that they may vomit; after that, Theriaca. give him The­riaca, dissolved in wine; if it be a corroding me­dicine, milk is commended.

3. If through inflammation, begin with phlebotomy, cast in cooling clysters, made with mallows, linseed, fenegreek, with oyle, and butter.

4. If through falling of the bowels into the cods, labour presently, (the patient lying up­right) to thrust back the bowels, and keep them up without violence, and make a trusse. Note that Stircus Lupinum, is a remedy in Iliaca passio, Stircus Lupinum; as Album Graecum is in Augna. Lastly, if the pain be violent, use fomentations; and labour to procure rest.

CHAP. XLV.

VERMES, There be three kindes of them; The first round and long, 1 named Teretes. The second be broad, Teretes. called therefore [Page 96] Lati: Lati. Ascarides. the third is called Ascarides: The first kind be round, and a hand breadth in length, and sometimes longer, they be comoner than the other, and they are often in the slender and small guts, and they go into the stomach, and therefore often voyded by the mouth, and often some out at their nostrils, and this kind is peculiar to infants, children, boyes, and girles.

2. Plinius. The second be broad long, and of incre­dible bignesse, as Pliny witnesseth, lib. 2. cap. 33. sometimes they are seen three hundred foot long, Paulus. Aetius. Paulus, and Aetius, witnesseth they are nothing else but a permutation of the thin films going about the small guts within; into a cer­tain living body that will move and stirre.

3. The third kind be thin, short and small, and found most commonly in the right gut, and in the end of the fundament.

All these be ingendred of cruid, Causae. raw, gross, and flegmatick matter, and through a kind of rottennesse in children, especially in great eaters.

1. Signa. They that have Teretes, do feel incredible gnawing of the bowels and stomach: with thin and small coughs, provoking to vomit (often times) with driness, in some yelking, with mo­vings of the stomach, and do arise up unreaso­nably: many do walk and leap up with noyse, and crying out, and fall asleep again, some put forth their tongue, and shut their mouth, and be quiet, & keep a silence, but do fret & fume with them that raise them; because they cannot watch, they are so weak: some have their eyes sprinkled with blood, and their pulse unequall, [Page 97]obscure; fayling, and running back; to many there chanceth losse of appetite, children, while they sleep chew their tongue, and also do fast joyn their mouth, as though they sucked meat: to some gnashing of teeth, others refuse meat, for if compelled to eat, they can scarce swallow it, or else vomit it up again. In many the belly throweth out corrupt meats, being puffed up as it were a tympany: The rest of the body con­sume without fasting, or purging, going be­fore: sometimes the face is red about the Halles of the cheeks: but it turneth again into a swarthy colour: some speak foolish things in their sleep, like frantick persons; some change the place they lye down on, tumbling from one place to another. And a fever is increased with­out order, with vehement coldnesse of the ex­tream parts, having fits the third or fourth day without order: but all these signes must not be looked for in every body, but the chiefest of them.

2. Broad wormes bring continual gnawing of the stomach, and an impotent and incorrigi­ble appetite to meat; for being in the guts, they devoure the meat, so that they have need of more straightway, or else the bowels are gnawne: there followes slendernesse and weak­nesse of body, with inequality. The infallible signe is, if certain things like coucumber-seeds, be avoyded out with the excrements.

3. Ascarides do raise vehement itch in the fundament, and provoke the patient to go to school continually, and they that be troubled with this disease, for the most part are better [Page 98]after egestion, and easing themselves.

For the cure, Curatio. eschew all things that ingender flegmatick humours, but they must be fed, and not hunger: Victus ra­tio. no hot things if there be a fever, but be diligent to get the worms out of the bo­dy, or else they will gnaw untill they die; there­fore first kill them, and then drive them out; these symples following are good (if there be no fever, if there be, use them outwardly or in­wardly with some thing that is of a cooling quality) wormwood, Seryphium, a kind of wormwood growing in the Sea, Sothern­wood, Callamint, Horehound, Dittanie, Hy­sope, Rew, leaves of Persica, Coriander seeds, Hartshorn, Lupines, Mints, Peniroyal, Ori­gan, Centory, Fern, Gentian, Aristolochia ro­tunda, Garlick, seed of Coleworts, and roots of Ennula campana; but Aloes is most commended, so is wormseed; of all these you may make ei­ther powders, decoctions, or poultices, also Pul­vis contra lumbricos is good, Palvis. but remember to give your powders with milk, honey, or Syrrup of liquoris, because it allureth the wormes: out­wardly you may use Bulls gall, or the oyles of some of the fore-mentioned symples; Emplastrū, and a plaister of honey and Aloes is good, also Rew and wormseed boyled in white-wine vi­negar, Decoctio. and after it be strained, adde honey; if no fever, Pulvis. boyle it in Muscadel, or take worm­seed ʒ. ij. centory, wormwood, harts-horne burnt, ana ʒ.j. calamint, peniroyal, origan, ana ℥.ss. Sothernwood, mints, lupines, leaves of Aristolochia rotunda, ana ℈.j. Aloes ℈.ij. make a powder the doss is one dram in some sweet Syr­rup: [Page 99]If it be an infant, and that the body be bound, apply a poultis made of cammomel, Cataplas­ma. wormwood, mint, and porret, &c. and rost an onyon soft, stamp it with neats gall, and apply it a little above the Navill: sometimes syrrup of Rhubarb is sufficient. Hierapicra, Pilulae. and pilulae pestilentiales, or Rufie, have a marveylous effi­cacie in killing and bringing out wormes: If there be a flux joyned, search the Chapters of fluxes, but remember to adde, with restrictive things, those things that do kill wormes, but labour to strengthen the stomach.

The worm called Ascarides, in children that be infants; they must be brought out with Suppos: made with honey and salt, or such like: Supposito­ria. Clyster. in them that be elder give clysters with some of the symples abovesaid, adding oyls of the same; but first take a piece of old powdred flesh, fa­shion it like a suppository, fit for the fundament, Suppositor. and thrust it into the Tuel, applying a ligament or band; let it alone awhile, and then draw it out with the worms that stick on it: after this the clyster, and then anoynt the streight gut or fundament with Acatia, Hypocischidos, Acatia. juyce of Sumach, for the flesh being constrained by restri­ctive things, looseth its ability that ingendreth wormes, and excludeth and shutteth out the Ascarides. Arnoldus. Vermibus eductis valent pilulae Ar­noldi; quia tunc materiae reliquae sunt maxime educendi.

CHAP. XLVI.

HEMORRHOIDES, [...] is an unfolding or spreading abroad of the veines in the Tu­el; some be blind which do swell, some be open at certain times sending forth blood.

Through melancholy blood in abundance sent by the liver to those veines, Causa. is the cause of the Hemorroids.

For the signe the patient cannot be ignorant of the disease, Signa. for it is easily known.

If they be blind raising tormenting pain, Curatio. Venae sectio and a full body; cut the vein in the ankle, and keep the body soluble, and sit in a bath made of the decoction of mallows, Balneum. violet-leaves, melilot, fe­negreek, cammomel, leaves of Althaea, and Lin­seed, some get out blood by putting wooll, anoynting it with juyce of onyons, or with oxe gall; Decoctio. the best is Eldern leaves M.j. boyle them in water untill they be very tender, dip a piece of scarlet in it, apply it as warm as may be suffe­red five or six times one after another; then lay the herbs upon the scarlet hot; Sanguisu­gae. apply it: some use horse-leeches (with good successe) in a reed: If they bleed moderately, do not stop them, but if immoderately, weakening the patient, then stop them, Victus ra­tio. lest a dropsie follow: therefore Rice is good with Bolearmenie: for pot-herbs, En­dive, succory, purslaine, and marmalad of quin­ces, and restrictive wine: open a vein in the right arme, Mixtura. Galenus. also look into dysenteria, and other fluxes: Galens medicine was frankinsence one [Page 101]part, Aloes one part and a half, commix them with the white of an egge, untill it cometh to the thicknesse of honey, lay it on the soft haires of an Hare, and apply it to the bleeding place, bound outwardly with bands; If they bleed not, Pulvis. the best thing is rosemary, mother-time, sweet Marjoram, of either a like quantity in powder, and a little frankinsence, mixe them for a fume, Ʋnguentū. or take May butter, or Pork suet, of the best, halfe a pound, Ivie leaves four handfuls, stamp them, and then boyle them together, straine them for an oyntment; also the fume of the parings of a stone-horse hoof, I have used with good successe, Lastly, ‘℞. Mucilag. psyllii, sem. cydon an. ℥.j. ol. Linimen­tum. Hercules Saxonia. de chry­somel. vel ros. completi ℥.ij. pinqued gal. ℥.ss. vitell. over. N^o. ij. imponatur in mortarium Plumbeum, agitentur cum pastillo plumbeo per tres horas sub sole, & f. linimentum. Ha­bet vim emolliendi sedandi dolorem, & ex parte haemorrhoides exsicoandi. Hercul. Sax. lib. 3. cap. 35. pag. 318.’

CHAP. XLVII.

HEPATIS OBSTRƲCTIO, or obstru­ction of the liver. Causa.

It is caused of vapours grosse, and windiness, hard to digest; sometimes of viscous humours in the ends of the veines, springing from the flat part of the liver.

1. Signa. If grosse and vaporous windinesse want­ing free passage, doth ingender obstruction, [Page 102]there ariseth heavinesse and griefe about the right side, and a feeling of distention, and stretching out.

2. If through viscous humours, there is hea­vinesse, pain, easie, and sometimes vehement with a fever, and sometime without, especially when the patient useth vehement moving after meat, when the body is stopped, there is prick­ing and extension.

Give hot meates, Curatio. Victus Ratio. having virtue to take away obstruction, as be leeks with oximel, sperage, fennel, parsley, capers, these in pottage, wine thin and old, Catalogus symplicium. is good; also these symples, wolves liver, fumitory, Agrimony, cammomel, galin­gall, Dragons root, Asaron, Anise, Apium, wormwood, Cassia, Ireos, liqueris, Raphonti­cum, Rhub. arb. Lupines, Pistatium, bitter Al­monds, Spicknard, Stoecades, Gentian, root of Plantin, the seed and leaves dried, juyce of Anagallis, the female succorie; Alkekendgi, En­dive, and Bruscus, especially the decoction of these: Curcum. also Curcuma is good. If the disease be inveterate, use purging with Rhubarb: pills and bleeding, Venae sectio is good; when the hollow part of the liver is vexed, purge by the belly: If the em­bossed part of the liver be vexed, purge by urine; but this Electuary following is good.

℞. Electuari [...] ­ [...]on. Rad. Ireos, Camoepiteos, sem. anisi, Apium, ana ʒ.ij. Asaron ʒ.ij.ss. Cinnamomi, zingi­beris, cammomeli. Carawayseeds, of either one dram; Stoecades, gentian, and horehound, of either two drams; with oximel, Scilliticium, make an Electuary, it purgeth vehemently by urine, or [Page 103] ‘℞. Conservae fol. absinthii, capill. ven. & flor. Opiata. Riverius. tamarisci, an. ℥. j, conser. rad. enulae camp. & cortic. citri conditi, an. ℥.ss. myrabolan. condit. n. j. nucis moschat. condit. ʒ.iij. con­fect. alkerm. ʒ.ij. pulver. elect. diarrhod. ab­batis ʒ.j. salis absinthii. Et tamarisci ana ℈.ij. croci ℈.j. ambrae griseae ℈.ss. cum syr­rupo conditurae citri, fiat opiata. River. lib. 6. cap. 3. Lastly, steel is an excellent opener.’

CHAP. XLVIII.

HEPATIS INFLAMMATIO there is, Causa. as well as in other members, and through the same causes that they be ingengred of.

If the liver be vexed with inflammation, S [...]gna. there is felt pain and heavinesse all over the right side, with swelling in the place; he hath a sharp fever, a small and drie cough, insatiable thirst, abhorring of meats, difficulty of breath­ing, the tongue is first red, and after that black, vomiting pure choller; the body is costive, the colour of the body is changed like Icterus: they have the hicket. In their fit they rave, voyding forth sharp urine: The inflammation that chan­ceth through causes in the crooked and hollow parts of the liver, have the foregoing symptoms, but if ingendred in the outward and round part of the liver, it causeth greater pain in draw­ing breath, and a greater cough than the other: And sometime the Muscles leaning upon the liver be inflamed, causing the skin round about [Page 104]to be stretched with swelling, sometimes a swel­ling fashioned like the liver, which is a true signe

In the beginning open the liver vein, Curatio. Venae sectio which hath society with vena causa, draw out a large quantity, Clyster. if nothing forbid: the next intention must be to administer a cooling clyster: foment with oyle of Quinces, and Roses, putting to it odoriferous wine: Ceratum. Ceratum Santalinum, is good: remember that restrictive things do exceed those that mollifle and loosen when the heat is vehement: on the contrary, when it decreases, let those that mollify exceed the other: beware you do not apply things cold, but warm them a little: Fomenta­tio. foment with the decoction of worm­wood, mellilot, red roses, cammomel, dill, plantin, endive, and in vehement pain, juyce of liqueris in hot water, or juyce of endive with honey: Vietus ra­tio for their diet Ptisan, and chicken broath; in the first boyle Apium, in the second parsley, also barley broath is good.

If the inflammation change to suppuration, the aforesaid signes will increase, as paines, fe­ver, Decoctio. Cataplas­ma. ravings, &c. for this boyle figges in water, and give him of it to drink: Also take the root of Althaea ʒ. i. ss. fenegreek, and linseed, ana ʒ.ij. leaves of Althaea and mallows, ana M. ij. dry figges N^o. vj. boyle them in water untill they wax soft, bruise them, and make a cata­plasme: you may adde root of white lillies, flow­ers of cammomel, and mellilot, to help break it: so we use doves dung and mustard seed, &c. that draw to the superficies: some with the deco­ction of polya, sumitory, roots of Camedrios, &c. [Page 105]when its broken, minister water of honey, or decoction of Cicers: If the matter avoyd by the veines, provoke urine: If by the belly, purge gently with Goats whey, and Cassia fistularis, and clysters: after that, glutinate and joyn up. Outwardly, apply this Cataplasme.

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CHAP. XLIX.

LIENIS INFLAMMATIO, Causa. the spleen is nexed with inflammation, as oft as hot blood flowes thither unnaturally.

It is known by heavinesse, Signa. and swelling of the left side, which will not give place to the feel­ing; also it's known by pain, stretching out of the place, by burning heat, and fevers: and if abundance of humours rush in thither, it is known by the greatnesse, and swiftnesse of the ingendring the inflammation.

For the diet look, Curatio. into the foregoing Chap­ter. [Page 106]First open the Salvatella vein, Venae-sectio between the little and ring-singer, wash the belly often with Clysters; if he may not bleed, this fomenta­tion is good. Fomentatio ℞. ol. rosarum, Cydoniorum, an. ℥. ij. ol. cammomeli ℥.j. Aceti op. ℥.ss. misce: beware of applying any thing that is not first warmed, the liver and spleen require one kind of medicine; but the spleen the strongest: Alwayes commix vinegar with something that is acceptable to the spleen: If the spleen tendeth to suppuration, and rotting, you shall find plenty of remedies in the foregoing Chapter. Lastly, ‘℞. Linimen­tum. Platerus. Ol. Rosacei ℥.ij. ol. de absynthio vel nardini ℥.j. ol. Chamom. vel de meliloto ℥.ss. Satal. omnium ʒ.j. Spicae ℥.ss. cerae q. s. fiat lini­mentum.’

CHAP. L.

LIENIS SCIRRHƲS, Inflammation of the spleen not rightly cured, draweth to­gether a hard swelling of the spleen: Causa. The cause is a certain humour cleaving stubbornly to the spleen; but it is when hardnesse ingendreth without inflammation, in over-much swel­ling.

It is easily known by touching, Signa. of what cause soever it be.

His diet must be easie of digestion, Curatio. Victus ra­tio. Exercitium he may drink pure wine, being without all restriction: exercise before meat is excellent, strong potions are good, root of capers are good: Harts-tongue, the root and herb of Tamariscus sodden [Page 107]in vinegar or oximel; juyce of centory drunk the decoction of bitter lupines, rew and pepper. Iron often quenched in wine is a conveni­ent remedy, if a fever quench it in Posca: steele is commended; also wormwood, Cassia, Chalybs. Ani­seeds, &c. you may make a fomentation with the symples above mentioned: oyle of capers, lillies, and ireos, are good: Ʋng. Dialthaeae, fe­negreek, linseed, Goose-grease, Hens, and Badgers grease: Gum Ammoviacum, Bdellium, and Galbanum, being first dissolved in vinegar are good; Opoponax, myrrhe, and frankincense, of these may be made Cerates: Cucurbia culae. Some commend cupping-glasses. Si non adest febris, dentur spe­cies diacurcumae, trochisci de capparibus, de absyn­thio, rhabarbara, &c.

CHAP. LI.

OBSTRƲCTIO LIENIS: Causa. It chanceth not only through weaknesse of the attractive vertue in the spleen, but also through stopping of the passage from the liver unto the spleen; after that naughty blood is distributed over the whole body, it being corrupt, and inclineth to blackness, and sometimes hath uncurable ul­cers: the causes are the same with that of Ob­structio hepatis.

It is known by heaviness on the left side, Signa. by the colour of the face, difficulty of breath­ing, and troublesome dreams.

The diet, with plenty of remedies, Curatio. you shall find in the Chapter of obstruction of the liver; [Page 108]but remember the spleen requires strong medi­cines, and hath need of preparatives before purging: the purging medicines you shall find in the former Chapter. Lastly,

℞. Electuari­um. Sennertus. Conserv. borrag. cichor. flor. genist. an. unc. j. rad. condit. helenii. cort. citri condit, an. unc. ss. pulv. cortic. tamarisci, cinamomi an. ʒ.j. spicae ʒ. ss. cum syrrupo borag. f. Ele­ctuarium. Si libet, potest chalybis praeparati. ℥. ss. addi.

℞. Ʋnguen­tum. Flor. genist. unc. iij. butyri sine sale, axung. porcian. lb. ss. cerae parum. f. s. a. unguen­tum. Sennert. Tom. 2. lib. 3. part. 4. cap. 3.

CHAP. LII.

ICTERITIA, [...]. is nothing but a shedding of yellow choller, or of melancholy over all the body: sometimes over the skin, the liver being safe. Causa. It is caused sometimes through corrupti­on of blood without a fever, or through biting of venemous beasts, and so the blood is made chollerick: sometimes through diseases of the spleen, and also weakness of the bladder may be the cause, or through obstruction and debil­lity of the vessels, whose mouthes are derived from the gall, to the liver.

When choller burst out to the skin, Signa. by rea­son of a good Crisis in fevers, the excrements and urine be of natural colour.

1. If there be heaviness under the right side, it signifies inflammation of the liver, by whose violence the blood is changed, and sent over all [Page 109]the body: If no fever, and yet heaviness under the right side, white excrements are avoyded in them, judge obstruction in the passages of the bladder; If such egestions come forth without heaviness, the attractive vertue from the liver, or the expulsive vertue which driveth out to the bomels is weak, and sometimes chollerick hu­mours be sent out abundantly with the urine, making the froath as yellow as saffron.

2. If melancholy be sent to the skin, toge­ther with the blood, they be vexed with sad­ness, gnawing in the belly, difficulty of breath­ing, abhorring of meat, voyding black urine, and dung being costive; but contrary, if yellow choller causeth the Jaundies, indeed the whites of the eyes and face do betoken the cause: how­ever there is a sluggishness in either, and their veines under the tongue are swelled.

1. If caused of a good Crisis, Curatio. Oleum. when the fever is ended, use a moyst and extenuating diet; use frictions with oyles of Cammomel, Dill, &c.

2. If through biting of a venemous beast, you must search the cure in some other Chap­ter following; the cure is much like that of the biting of a mad dog.

3. If through distemper or inflammation of the liver, look into the proper Chapters.

4. If through obstruction of the bladder, Venae-sectio use blood-letting, and purging; If the liver be af­fected, open the Basiltea: If the spleen, cut the vein in the left arm; Clyster. make clysters with En­dive, Hore-hound, Agrimony, Maiden-haire, Wormwood, seeds of Anise, fennel, parsley, sperage the roots of liqueris, Apium, and fennel, [Page 110]oyles of Dill, Cassia, hiera picra, Electuarium è succo rosarum: Purgatio. purgations are best, providing you use clysters first, and broath, with some of the symples above said, Vinum. also wine that is thin, and not very old: The infusion of Rhubarb with Cassia, and syrrup of roses is excellent: al­so this drink following take liqueris, Decoctio. and rai­sons, ana ℥. ij. pruins a quarter of a pound: French barley ℥. i. ss. cellindine, langdebene, sorrel, endive, succory, and Dandelyon, ana M. j. boyle them in a sufficient quan­tity of water, at the latter end of the boy­ling adde Curcuma ʒ. Curcuma. ij. or ʒ. iij. bruised: drink a quarter of a pint last at night, and first in the morning, if they have need of a strong purgation, Take Diaprunum ℥. ss. or ʒ. vi. in possit ale, or ‘℞. Potio pur­gans. Diaprunum, elect. è succo rosar. an. ʒ. ij. Syrrup. rosar. rhubarb. ana ℥.ss. decoct. com. q. suff. f. potio.’

5. If through disease of the spleen, turn to the Chapter of Melancholia, & obstructio hepa­tis, & lienis. The juyce of horse-radish with white-wine is good: you may pick many re­medies out of the foregoing words in this Chapter: rosemary boyled in the former oyls to bathe with, is good. Also Chalybs prepared ℥.j. Infusio. dissolved in white-wine, pinte. j. and drunk a little at a time, is excellent.

CHAP. LIII.

CACHEXIA, [...]. is an evill disposition of body, being spread abroad with weariness, and all over, the flesh is loose, and wax­eth soft.

For the most part it is caused of a long sick­ness, Causa. also it followeth when some intraile is hardened; especially, the hardness of the liver, and spleen; also in a continual Dysenteria, and the disease called Caliacus morbus; or through letting of some accustomed excretion.

The whole body is made whitish and weak, Signa. his legs being scarce able to bear him; in the be­ginning appetite remaineth, but afterward fol­lowes abhorring of meat: their breathing sel­dom and weak, the belly sending out unequal excrements; old men and children are chiefly taken with this disease, which soon perish through weakness of the vital faculty: If it continue long, it turneth into the dropsie.

A thin and dry diet is best, wine that is white, Curatio. Victus ra. tio. thin and odoriferous is best: If nothing forbid, draw away a little blood at several times, 1 if it happen through retention of Hemroyds or Menstruis: 1 But in them that abound with vi­tious humours, bleeding is hurtfull, and purg­ing is better; after purging use exercise, deam­bulations, frictions with linnen, and oyles: Exercitiū. some commend waters springing from Allum, Salt-peter, and sulpher, a potion of wormwood is commended; also this powder following: [Page 112]Take nutmegs, mace, saffron, of either two pe­niworth, Pulvis. powder them fine, and adde a quar­ter of a pound of sugar, and three peniworth of prepared steel: if it turn into the dropsie, turn to the next Chapter. Fernelius. This Electuary fol­lowing is commended by Fernelius. ‘℞. Electuari­um. Rasurae eboris & cornu cervi an. ℈. ij. cina­momi electi, margaritarum electarum, Pul­veris electuarii Aromatici rosati majoris, & electuarii triasantali, an. ℈.j. cum unciis. iv. sacchari albi, fiat electuarium.’ Vel ‘℞. Linimentū. Mucilaginis seminis faenugraeci, extractae in aqua endiviae ℥. j. olei absynthii, rosarum, menthae & de capparibus an. ℥.ss. macis, ca­ryophyllorum, Rosarum rubearum, pulveri­zatorum an. ℈.j. cerae parum, fiat litus. Fer­nelius consil. 37. de cachexiae curatione.’ Vel ‘℞. Ʋnguentū. Rondele­tius. Ol. de absynth. nard. an. ℥.ij. ol. cyton. ℥. j spicae utriusque an. ʒ.j. cyperi, sandali rub. & albi an. ʒ.ss. coralli rub. usti ʒ.i.ss. cerae q. s. fiat unguentum, ungantur hypochon­dria. Rond. lib. 3. cap. 38.’

CHAP. LIV.

ANASARCA, [...]. is a dropsie causing all the body and flesh to be loose, and wet like a spunge, spitting when it is pressed: It is called also Lupophlegmatia. [...], &c.

This kind of dropsie is caused through great coldness of the liver, Causa. or other parts that be [Page 113]cooled, which bringeth the liver into the same affect; as the coldness of the spleen, stomach, Bowels, Lungs, Reines, and Midriffe: some­times through unmeasurable voyding of Hem­royds, or Menstruis, or through their retenti­on: for in all these the liver hath no unnatu­ral swelling, and yet the dropsie followes onely through refrigeration of the liver: sometimes it waxeth hard, as is seen in those that drink cold water, and so cool the liver on heaps, and so the dropsie follows before it be lifted up into a knotty swelling: sometimes it followeth the Gout; loathing of meat; evil state of body; Jaun­dies, Caeliacus morbus, and dysenteria.

The whole body swelleth, Signa. and is like a dead body: and there is difficulty of breathing, hea­vinesse, naughty colour, and thirst: women are lesse troubled with the dropsie then men; but children for the most part are taken with Ana­sarca; this is least dangerous.

First, if age and strength will suffer, Curatio. and that there be retention of Hemroyds, or Menstruis, draw blood; Secondly, purge with Jalap, Jalapum. Cambogiae. Vinum absinth. or Rhubarb, or Gambogiae, gr. 12. with syrrup of wormwood; also wormwood-wine and beer is good: purge often, and not too much at once. Elder roots sodden in wine are good; you shall find remedies enough in obstruction of the liver, you must provoke urine with broom-flowers, Vinum genistae. M. ij. in white-wine quar. 1. also eringa roots boyled in broath, are good. Take wormwood, flowers of broom, hysop, tops of red nettles, ana M.j. chop them small, seeds of annise, fennel, carraway, ana ℥.j. bruise them, mixe them, [Page 114]and knead them into a loaf of wheat bread, lb. iv. bake it drie, then break it into small pie­ces, and put it into a ferkin of strong drink, when it is well wrought, let it stand a week, and then let the patient drink of it often: or take a dry broom faggot, half a peck of bean hulls, three handfulls of dry wormwood, Lixivium diuret. and with dry ash burn them to ashes, make lye of it: you may make a small quantity, for it will not keep: for the liver, Pulvis. take powder of Diacurcuma ℈.j. powder of Diatrion santalon, Diarrhodon Abbatis ana ʒ.ss. nutmegs, spicknard, an. ℈.j.ss. Aromat. ro­sat. ℈.j. Rhubarb. ʒ.ss. seeds of Endive, fennel ana ℈.ij. wormwood ℈.j. sugar ℥.j. commix them, you may adde carraway-seed, cummin, aniseed, parseley, lovage, liqueris, &c. biscake-bread with good stood store of aniseeds: Also a poultis with beane-meale, Cataplas­ma. fenegreek, lau­rel-berries, wormwood, and origan; sodden in wine; lay it all over the body: If it swell, you may adde melilote, sage, mints, savory, rew, cammomel flowers, myrrh, castoreum, peni­royal, cardamume, sothernwood; bathe the swelled legs with bot oyles; or if there be the gout with the dropsie, this poultis following is good: Cataplas­ma. Take leven lb. ss. Turpintine ℥.iv. make them like a poultis or pulpe with white-wine vinegar, spread it on a thick cloth, strew one ounce of Cantherides in powder, apply it one night to the swelled legges; smalledge broath is good, Victus ra­tio. Exercitium with parsely, rosemary, &c. A drie diet must be, and exercise is excellent: this drink is much commended. Take a pint of the ashes of bean hulls, put it into a quart of water, and a [Page 115]quart of white-wine, set it on the fire, Potius di­uretica. and stirre it all the while untill it begin to boyle, then set it by one hour or two, then powre it from the ashes through a cloth, and adde twelve ounces of syrrup of Dialthaea, brue it together, and drink a quarter of a pint at a time, last at night, and first in the morning, mid forenoon, and mid afternoon. If bound, administer a cly­ster twice or thrice a week: candid Eringa roots are very good to eat at meals. Hercul. Saxon. Elaterium. Hercules Saxonia in lib. 3. cap. 32. saith, Fortissimum medi­camentum est succus cucumaris agrestis, qui dici­tur Elaterium, si dentur ejus gr. iij. extracti per punctionem; si enim per expressionem extrahatur, dantur ejus grana octo, vel decem. And he did usually make pills therewith, after this manner. ‘℞. Pilularnm alephang. ℈.j. elaterii. grana iij. Pilulae cum elaterio. Hercul. Saxon. vel iv. misce f. pilulae.’ In this disease the liver must be strengthened, for which purpose ‘℞. Radic. Apii. ℥.i.ss. radic. Asari ℥.ss. Epithema. Platerus. ab­sinthii M.j. florum Bugloss. Borrag. Sambu­ci ana. p. j. seminum cuscute ʒ. ij. endiviae, ascetosae ana ʒ. j. santal. omnium ana ʒ.i.ss. Spicaenar. vel casiae lign. sqaenanthi ana ʒ.ss. decoquantur in vino & aqua: pro fotu regio­nis hepatis. Plater. Tract. 3. cap. 3. pag. 293. Rhasis in 7. contin. Rhafis. notat in cura hyposarcae singulariter rhabarbarum: nam est medicina solennis, curans eam à quacunque causa pro­venientem.’

CHAP. LV.

ASCITES: [...]. this kind of dropsie swells the whole body, except the upper parts there­of, which are not puffed; and if you strike it, there is heard a sound like as a bottle, that is not full of water, being shugged: The upper parts drie away.

It is caused through much waterish humours, Causa. heaped up between the skin or filme, called Se­ritoneum, and the bowels: also weaknesse of the liver, &c.

For the sign, Signa. the body doth not pit when pres­sed: the pulse is feeble, swift and small; short­nesse of breath, heavinesse, thirst, &c. as in the former Chapter their legs swell.

Let his diet be easie of digestion, Curatio. Victus Ratio. Soldanella. as birds of mountains, chickens, partridge, black-birds, &c. first purge: also coleworts of the sea called sol­dana, and soldanella, taken in drink excelleth all the rest: you may give it in wine, or whey stamped, it bringeth forth hydropick water: this clyster following is good, Clyster. flowers of laurel ʒ.ij. root of polypody, Agarick, ana ʒ.i.ss. Dodder, or cucutha, ʒ.iij. seethe them in wine or water, untill the third part be consumed, strain it lb. j. and adde Benedict. lax ℥.ss. Elect. nidum ʒ.ij. ss. mel rosarum. ℥.j. oyles of Rew, cammomel, and Ireos, ana ℥. j. salt gemme ʒ.i.ss. fiat clyster: you may adde Aniseed, cara­way-seeds, and rew: For poultises, provokers of urine, and the like, I have spoken of in the [Page 117]former Chapter: This kind of dropsie is more dangerous than the former; moderate sweat­ing is good in all dropsies; Haustus. Take the green rind of helder, Carduus benedictus, and Rosemary, boyle them in possit ale, strain it: and adde treakle or methridate, ʒ.j. or ʒ. i. ss. ℞. corticis rad. cucumeris agrestis ℈.j. infriatum insperge mul­sae, sine molestia pituitam ducit, Aetius. Actuarius. nec stomachum lae­dit. Ex Aëtio & Actuario. Also this water fol­lowing is good for a strong body, if he abound with flegme. ‘℞. Florum Persicorum, scammonii, Rubeus. Aqua pur­gans. Turpeti ana part. aequales. Distillentur in balneo Mariae, & servetur in vase vitreo ad usum. Mod [...]ce admodum solvit. Dentur species diacurcu­mae, vel dialaccae, si non adest febris.’

CHAP. LVI.

TYMPANITES, [...]. Causa. is also properly called Hydrops, as well as Anasarca: It is caused of wind and water, swelling the belly, so that it is stretched out.

The signe is, Signa. the belly is puffed up higher than that of Ascites, the navil is thrust forth, if one clap upon it, it gives a noyse or sound, and all the other parts of the body wax leane: this kind is most dangerous.

There diet is like the other, Curatio. Exercitiū. but more espe­cially windy things are to be avoyded: exer­cise is good, and thirst doth succour the pati­ent. First purge as aforesaid: also clysters, Clyster. as in Ascites, onely you may adde in the boyling, [Page 118]roots of Apium, fennel, parsely, rew, melilote, in the streining Hierapicra, Electuarium è baccis lauri, and oyle of Dill: you must provoke urine, and dissolve windines, of this look into the Chap­ter of the chollick, it will help much: for poul­tises look into Anasarca, Emplastrū. Emplastrum è baccis lauri, is good; also these lozenges, powder of Dianisum, Lozeng. and Diacuminum, ana ℈.j. powder of the Antidote of laurel berries ʒ.j. powder of Diagalanga, ʒ. ss. seeds of Anise, carrawayes, Dancus, and fennel, ana ℈.ss. rew, seeds of Api­um, and lovage, ana ℈.j. sugar ℥.vj. with the distilled waters of fennel and Apium, make lo­zenges. If they complain of pain in their body, apply this emplaster. ‘℞. Emplastrū. Mesue. Thuris masticis, myrrhae ana ℥.j. Baccarum lauri ℥.ij. Cyperi, costiana ℥.ss. mellis de­spumati quantum sufficit. Fiat emplastrum. Mesue. de ung. & emp. pag. 153.’ These pills following are very good.

CHAP. LVII.

MIGTƲS SANGƲINIS, is a disease of the reines, through the which thin whey­ish blood is pissed.

It is caused through weaknesse of the reines, Causa. being not able to divide the urine, or through amplitude of the reines, breaking of a vein in the reines, caused through lifting or leaping: sometimes sharp humours gnaw the reines, flowing from above; also stones in the reines may be the cause.

If this disease be caused through weaknesse, Signa. the blood is wheyish; If through amplitude and largenesse of the veines, they feel no pain: If through breaking of a vein, then the blood cometh forth abundantly: If through gnawing humours, the blood is sent forth by little and little, with pain vexing the reines: If through a stone, look into its proper Chapter.

If through weaknesse of the reines, Curatio. rest pro­fiteth, black wine, and restrictive meats, Se spu­tum sanguinis; abstain from carnal copulation, Venus. and diuritick things, harts-horn with wine, or juice of Marygolds is good: Decoctio. and Lapis Hemati­tis: also the decoction of knot-grasse, Syr. de ro­sis succis, myrtils, sheeps milk, ℥.iv. mixed with a dram of Bolearmoniack, is onely praised; Bolusarus. and loafe-sugar with it is not amisse: look into the Chapter of Dysenteria: also myrtill berries, pomegranet rinds, and Balaustia, give meats of good juyce; sometimes blood is curded in the bladder, then cleanse, but first dissolve, and [Page 120]then use astringent things, Venae sectio as aforesaid: If through breaking of a vein, or gnawing of sharp humours, open a vein in the same side: draw blood by little & little: If there be inflam­mation, give cooling things inwardly and out­wardly, and avoyd sharp and salt things; If an exulceration be left, look into the same Chap­ter. If it be caused by certain circuits, the cure is the same. Aq. sperm. ranarum. Aq. sperm. ranarum is most excel­lent, especially if there be inflammation, or ex­ulceration.

CHAP. LVIII.

INFLAMMATIO RENƲM, is an in­flammation of the reines, Causa. caused through corrupt humours and medicines, which ingen­dreth inflammation of the reines, and espe­cially continual and vehement ridings; also stripes may be the cause.

There is a beating pain behind about the joynt of the back, Signa. a little above the bastard ribs: the pain stretching inwards towards the liver; the right side reine most commonly is vexed, and also the bladder; privie members, loynes, hips, share, and thighs: weaknesse of limbs: their extream parts are cold, as the calves of the legs, and feet: there is difficulty of making urine: in the beginning it's thin and watery, but after­wards more rubicund, gross, and filthy; a ve­hement fever, a disposition to vomit, gnawing of the stomack, and vomiting of choller; this is when it comes to a Nephritick passion: some [Page 121]are vexed with sweats and faintings, costive­nesse of body, puffings up with wind, and ab­horring of meat.

First, his diet must be of a cooling quality, Curatio. Victus ra­tio. Phleboto­mia. and thin; Secondly, bleed the Basilica vein on the same side, and after the Saphena: beware of hot diureticks, and acrid medicines; as scam­mony: use outwardly oyle of roses, and quinces: cooling clysters with Cassia is very good, Olcum. or Cassia inwardly with syrrup of violets: also to drink Aq. sperm. ranarum, is excellent; Aq. sperm. ranarum. fasting is hurtful; use diureticks (when the Absessus is bro­ken) as parsley, and fennel: in clysters, put in oyls of roses, violets, and cammomel: If you want more, look into the Chapters of other inflammations; and the Chapter of ulcers in the reines; for the which honey and milk is good. This clyster following is proper in the inflam­mation of the kidneys.

CHAP. LIX.

CALCƲLƲs RENƲM, [...]. Causa. happeneth oft­ner to men then to children.

The cause is continual crudity and rawnesse of the stomach, whereby much grosse and earthly humours are heaped up together, [Page 122]which being parched with a burning fiery heat about the reines, hardneth into a stone: The stones do sometimes differ in greatnes, and figure; colour and sharpness; they are black, whitish, and pale.

They feel grievous pain in the reines, Signa. even as it were a bodkin thrust through, and yet no swelling without; he have much adoe to turn his back bone: the leg against the diseased rein is astonied, with abhorring of meat and vo­miting: the urine is sometime pissed forth little in quantity and watery: afterward followeth perfect suppression of urine: the womb avoyd­deth nothing, yet maketh many proffers to go to the stool; sometimes blood is avoyded through the violence of the stones, especially if they be sharp: the urine hath gravelly residence, when the stone is removed: If the stones be light and round, they are easily sent forth, but very hard if they be long and sharp.

For the cure, Curatio. if thou wouldst first prevent it in any person, prohibit fulnesse of diet, and all such things as ingender gross and obstructive juyce, unleasened and light bread, gross and new ale, and beer, with new and unsetled wines, and their exercises must be mean; also let them avoyd cheese and milk, and plenty of flesh: all things that do heat and inflame the liver and kidneys are to be avoyded; let him not stand with his back against the fire, sallets are good, Victus ra­tio. and let his meat be such as yeeld nourish­ment; as veal, pullets, chickens, partridges, doves, larks, and hedge-sparrowes, which is said to be best: Cassia. Cassia is much commended to [Page 123]be given in a good quantity with syrrup of vio­lets. Althaeae, maiden-haire, or lymonds; the broath of Althaeae is very good, with the roots of parsely, fennel, cicers, and the root and seed of saxifrage, with a little new butter: ℞. Bolus. Tere­binth. venet ℥.j. aut ℥.i.ss. let it be washed in saxifrage water, take it in wafers, also some of the aforesaid syrrups taken in Aq. sperm. rana­rum, cannot but be excellent, wine of Alkekengie, Vinum. and also the milk of an asse is much commen­ded by Aetius: also syrrup of marrich mallows, Aetius. Potius diuret. taken in parietary, saxifrage, or onion water is good.

Secondly, if the stone be ingendred, 2 if there be a plethorick body, and strong, some will ad­vise the vein in the ham of that leg that is asto­nied to be cut, and also purging, Phleboto­mia. if nothing for­bid it, otherwise take this clyster following. ‘℞. Malvae, Althaeae, merculialis, capil. ven. Clyster. parietariae, ana M.j. nastur. M.i. ss. Sem. Apii, feniculi, ana ʒ.iij.’ Boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water, strein it, and adde ℥.i. of Cassia: Hierapicra, ℥.ss. oyls of dill, and cammomel, ana ℥.j. Salicom. ʒ.ij. f. Enema: anoynt the region of the reines, and loynes, with oyles of dill, sweet Almonds, cam­momel, and Althea: Cataplas. A cataplasme made with wheat meale, linseed, fenegreek, lupines, cam­momel, fennel roots, beaten well, and leaves of Althea: If the stone stick fast, or rest quietly in the kidneys, beware of diureticks: you must first loosen the reines with foments, and cata­plasmes, as aforesaid, and if the stone shall hap­pen to fall into the bladder, or yard, and so stop [Page 124]the urine; then make use of a silver Cathetur, and diureticks; the blood of the goat in saxi­frage water is good: Elect. Dulcis. the ancients use Justinum, or Elect. Dulcis: In the fit you may use clysters, bathes, unction, Cassia, turpentine, to disturb the stone, use the clyster abovesaid, to which may be added in the boyling cammomel; roots of parietary, and aniseed, in the streining hony of of violets ℥.j. venus turpentine ℥. ss. oyles of scorpions, ʒ. ij. aut ℥. ss. give syrrup Dial­thaea, Syr. alth. to make the passages slippery in some diuretick water: but this is to be noted, that if the stone be old or hard, it is in vain to use diu­reticks, but if it be sand, and small stones, then use those things aforesaid: If you want more, look into the Chapter of obstructions, and the three kinds of dropsies; and also into the Chap­ter of inflammation of the reines. Hercul. saxonia lib. 3. cap. 41. p. 346. Hercules Sa­xonia did frequently use Turpentine, and indeed it is of great force, not only to cleanse the reins and bladder from slime and gravel, but also to break the stone. ‘℞. Bolus. Riverius. Terebinthinae in aqua saxifragiae, vel parie­tariae decies lotae ℥.ss. cum saceharo fiat bolus.’ Vel. ‘℞. Aliud. Riverius. Cassiae recentur extractae ʒ. vj. terebinthinae ℥.ss. pulv. liquirit. ʒ.ij. misce fiat bolus.’ Vel ‘℞: Aliud. Terebinthinae ℥.ss. Pulv. lithontryptici ʒ. ij. Misce. fiat bolus. Riverius. lib. 8. cap. 1. pag. 235.’ If the inflammation and pain be great, apply this cataplasme.

℞. Cataplas. Fontan. Mucilaginis seminis lini, faenugraeci an. ℥.vj. [Page 125] pinguedinis gallinae ℥.iv. farinae hordei q.s.fiat cataplasma. Fontan. lib. 3. cap. 31. pga. 413. Vel ‘℞. Ʋnguenti populeon. ℥. j. dialth. ℥.ss. misce. Ʋnguentū. Mar quardus.’ Or if that will not be sufficient, you may adde one dragme and a halfe of Opium.

CHAP. LX.

DIABETES, is a disease about the reines, [...] causing much thirst, and what is drunk, is pissed out again, even as it is taken.

It is ingendred of weaknesse of the retentive vertue of the reins, Causa. but the attractive vertue is so strong, that it sucketh the whole body through immoderate heat, causing a stubborn thirst.

For the sign, they drink continually, Signa. because the drink they take passeth swiftly out again: their bowels seem to burn, the loynes swell up, and the stones and haunches; also gnawing in the bowels, a wrinkled stomach, the body is lean with consuming.

If there be fulness of blood, bleed in the arm, Curatio. Venae-sectio Victus ra­tio. if nothing forbid it. Let his pot-herbs be en­dive, lettice, and purslain, pomegranets, also are good: wine that is red and thick, being well al­layed with water is good: Rob. de ribis, or bar­berries, and juyce of knot-grass, syrrup of Myr­tils, and juyce of pomegranets, are good: and sweating is very excellent: This opiate fol­lowing is very good. Opiata. ‘℞. Conservae ros. Antiquae ℥. iv. Boli armeni, co­ralli [Page 126]praepar. & cornu cervi usti ana ℈.j. cum miva cydonior. fiat opiat.’ Look into the chapter of the flux Dysenteria, and there you shall be furnished with simples, and compounds of the same temperature and ver­tue, as are those aforesaid. This electuary fol­lowing is very much commended. ‘℞. Electuariū. Weckerus. Carnis citoniorum, conservae consol. majoris ana ℥.j. mucilaginis gummi tragacanthi & sem. citoniorum, extractae cum aqua rosan. ℥. ss. Amyli ʒ.iij. Boli armeni, sanguinis draconis, an. ʒ.j. misce, & cum syrrupo de papavere & myrthino fiat electuarium: de quo capiat bis in die, & semul noctu.’ Vel ‘℞. Emplastrū. Weckerus. succi plantaginis, succi virgae pastoris an. ℥.ij. Pulveris myrthi ʒ. iij. Pastillorum de spodio ʒ.ij. misce. Wecker. lib. 2. part. 2. pag. 563. Ex diabete forti & vehementi sequitur hectica, ergo cito est curanda.’

CHAP. LXI.

VLCERIS RENƲM, To an inflamma­tion suppurated, there doth succeed a great and hollow ulcer, which is seldom or ne­ver cured; for the continual passage of urine hinders the consolidation of the ulcer, the cure consists in exsiccation and drying.

It is caused through breaking of the veine in the reines, Causa. through sharp and gnawing humours carried into the reines.

There is pain in the loynes, Signa. with heavinesse; [Page 127]and matter is commixed with the urine, with lttle pieces of flesh, or haires, swimming in it; Hippocrates saith, lib. 4. Aphor. 75. Hippocra­tes. Si sanguis & pus cum urina reddatur, exulceratae vesicae aut re­num significationem praebet: also ubi dolor, ibi morbus,

For the cure, barley water is good, Curatio. Phleboto­mia. clysters with Cassia; open a vein if nothing forbid it. Asses milk is good to scoure the ulcer, goates milk to replenish; and incarnate the ulcer: also an emulction made with sweet Almonds, Emulsic. and the four greater cold seeds with barley water; this emplaster following is good. ‘℞. Pul. rosar. rub. boli. armen. Emplastrū. sanguinis draco­nis. an. ʒ.ij. mastichis, & carnis cidoniori an. ℥.j.’ With oyle of myrtils make an emplaster; Ewes milk is good to consolidate the ulcer, let him eschew crudities, much thirst, abstinence, hun­ger, labour, wrath, solitarinesse, exercise, Vicius ra­tio. watching, and immoderate riding: let his diet be tender and easie of digestion: for pot-herbs, mallowes, endive, sorrel, purselain, and lettice; almond milk is good with honey; also goates whey, and pul. contra gonorr. is good: If you want more, look into the former Chapter: and also into the Chapter of ulcers of the bladder. Ex sententia Rhasis nihil melius est in ulceribus re­num & vesicae & aliorum locorum urinallium, Rhasis. quam aqua lactis, quia mundificat, lavat, & abstergit, choleram ad intestina derivando.

CHAP. LXII.

CALCƲLƲS VESICAE, stones in the blad­der, ingender oftner in children, than in elder folk.

It is caused through grosse and thick urine, Causa. that is carried into the bladder, and setleth there, and through the heat that is in children, breedeth into a stone.

The sign is, Signa. often itching with handling their members, which are swollen; and making wa­ter continually, being vexed with a strangury, their urine is cruid and waterish, with white sand: to be certain, the chirurgian may use the Catheter, yet many have been deceived, be­cause the stone is sometimes wrapped in a coat of clammy flegme, so that it yeilds no sound.

The cure is much alike to the stone in the reines, Curatio. only if possible use stronger diureticks: excellent authours affirm, Sectio. the safest way is to cure it by section, and not to strive so long with saxifrage, because it wasteth the spirits; so in the end they are not able to indure to cure: To inject oyle of scorpions is much commended, Ol. Scorpi­enum. and to anoynt the perinaeum with it: also the powder of the stone that is found in the gall of an oxe, the stones of spunges in powder, and goats blood being warm, Pulv. sem. gemistae. and injected with a syringe; also broom-seed in powder, and drunk in white-wine: also this ℞. following is much commended, Infusio. Take parietary of the wall, and parsley, of either a handfull; a good great [Page 129]red onion; bruise them grosly, then put them into a quart or three pintes of white-wine, let them stand all night, in the morning straine them, and adde ℥. 4. of syrrup of marsh mal­lowes: you may infuse Juniper berries with it: Bacc. Ju­niperi. in this drink will be fit to take any diuretick powder: Raphanus Rusticanus. also horse-radish roots are much com­mended. Lapis vesicae si confirmatus jam sit, & ad aliquam magnitudinem jam pervenit, vix alia ratione curari potest, quàm sectione. Hartmannus de vesic. affec. pag. 263. Hartman­nus. Lapis in vesic a indiget for­tiori medicamento, quàm renalis, quia longior via.

CHAP. LXIII.

IN FLAMMA VESICAE, Hippocrates according to Hippocrates, it is for the most part deadly: he saith, Si vesica sit dura, & dolore vexetur, Fu­nestum eoque magis si accedat Febris continua.

They are vexed with a sharp fever, Signa. they watch, rave, and speak they wot not what; they vomit pure choller, and they cannot make wa­ter, the share is hard with vehement pain, and have a desire to the stoole: as in Tenasmus the order is thin, and sometimes the wombe is costive.

For the cure, bleeding first in the arm, Curatio. Phlebotomiae Clyster. and afterward in the foot is much commended; but first a cooling clyster to ease pain: nourish the bladder with oyle, wherein is sodden dill, linseed, rew, or fenegreek, or Althaea; and re­member the bladder is full of sinewes, and therefore cold things are hurtfull: I conceive [Page 130]that Aq. Mixtura. sperm. ran. with syrrup dialtheae given warm, must needs be proper: If there be neces­sity, use a syringe to draw out the urine, but be­ware of strong diureticks, wine, sharp things, and spices: Victus ra­tio. and let their diet be thin, and of a cooling quality. In inflammatione vesicae valent cadem, quae in inflammatione renum. Hartmannus.

CHAP. LXIV.

VLCERIS VESICAE, Causa. It is caused either through some byle or botch, or swelling, which hath been before, or through some rup­ture, or gnawing of a flux.

There followeth sharp pain of the bladder, Signa. casting out matter: when the ulcer is foul and filthy, the matter is more slimy and dreggy: sometimes thin skins like leaves and wooll are sent out. If the ulcer spread abroad and feed deep, the urine is bloody, mattery, and stink­ing; also there is difficulty of making water, and rising up of the yard: if there be pain about the pubes, it sheweth the ulcer to be in the blad­der. If pain be in the perinaeum, then the ulcer is in the neck of the bladder; If in the yard, in the uriter: note that ulcers of the bladder be incurable, or at least very hard to cure, as well because the bladder is sine wey; as also because the urine which is of nature sharp, doth con­tinually touch the ulcers, and so gnaweth them, that it will not suffer them to con­glutinate.

For the cure, Curatio. if he have a fever, which for the [Page 131]most part is annexed with it; labour to quench it: milk is much commended, Lac. Clyster. either drunk or injected: make a clyster with mallowes, fene­greek, linseed, cucumber-seed, &c. when you administer it, let the Patient lye groveling upon his knees: Pilulae. give milk and honey to scoure and cleanse the ulcers: pills of Alkakengie with opium, are commended to ease pain: If you would stop the ulcer from spreading, use loti­ons made with bolearmenie, and barley water: Mel. rosa. Mel rosarum injected with milk is a good clean­ser: also Syrrup. rosarum ciccarum in barley wa­ter, to inject is good: what is wanting else, you shall find remedies enow in the Chapter of Ulceris renum. Yet you may (according to Fontanus directions) use this injection follow­ing, every fourth day.

CHAP. LXV.

ISCHƲRIA in Greek, [...]. Suppressio urinae in Latin; it is a disease in which the urine of the Patient is stopped.

It is caused sometimes through weaknesse of the bladder, Causa. not being able to thrust out [Page 132]that which is contained in it; it is also caused of grosse humours, or of a stone congealed: some­times of inflammation, or of hardness: some­times by a piece of flesh, or hard knob ingen­dred in the passage of urine: also of clodded blood: also it is caused of matter sent down to the reines or liver, or from some other part: also through over-long holding of the urine: also through the obtuse sence of the bladder.

If stopping of the urine be caused through weaknesse of the bladder, Signa. it may be known by their diet, and course of life: If of the stone, you may know that by the signes in the Chap­ter of the stone. If through inflammation or swelling, it is known by pain, fever, and sight; if through a piece of flesh or knob, is may be known by putting in an instrument; and also if the knob or boyle be broken, there com­eth out blood, or fragments of flesh: if clotted blood be the cause, there went before pissing of blood.

1. Curatio. For the cure, if it be caused through im­becillity of the bladder, use heating things; as pasneps, Apium. fennel, Apium, sperage, smalledge, &c. after diureticks, the palsie drink were good.

2. If through gross humours, then use those things that cut and divide, Decoctio. as oximel, decoction of hysope, peniroyal, origan, thime, and inject oyle of lillies, &c.

3. If through clodded blood, horse-radish roots infused in white-wine is good: Raphanus Rustica. in drink motherwort, stichas, wormwood, sothern­wood, &c.

[Page 133] 4. If through inflammation, look into its proper Chapter.

5. If through a piece of flesh, give such things as spread abroad the pipe and conduit of urine, Syphon. as in the Chapter of the stone in the reines: also the using of a syringe is good.

6. If through a dull sence of the bladder, it must be cured, even as the weaknesse thereof is cured, onely beware of strong diureticks.

7. If through holding their urine too long, stand so as the neck of the bladder may leane downward, and lay both your hands about the share, & press it, thrusting out the urine by little & little; and thus he may do, in the dull sence of the bladder, which some I think do but suppose may be the cause of Ischuria; some commend clysters of parietary, cammomel, Nasturtium, Clyster. majoram, peniroyal, Origanum: plenty of reme­dies you may find in the Chapter of the dropsie and stone. Crato. Crato commendeth these pills fol­lowing. ‘℞. Terebinthinae coctae ℥. j. Pilulae ex Terebinth. Rhabarbari electis­simi ʒ. iij. Succini albi, succi Glycyrrhizae ana ʒ.ss. Cinnamomi electi ʒ.j. misce, & fiat massa, de qua formentur pilulae mediocres.’ Vel ‘R. Olei Terebinthinae arte chimica extracti ʒ.j. Julepus. Fontan. syrrupi violati ℥.j. aquae raphani aut ononidis q. s. fiat julep, capiatur. Petrus Salius capite 14. scribit in extrema necessitate dentur gr. 11. cantharidarum integrarum cum semen. ameos ℈.j. quod est cantharidarum anti­dotum, ut probari, verùm ut dulcis fiat remedium adde zacchari candi pul­verizati [Page 134] ʒ. ss. Fontanus lib. 3. cap. 36. pag. 437.’

CHAP. LXVI.

DYSƲRIA: [...]. Causa. urinae difficultas, is a disease wherein the urine is hardly pissed: It is caused through weaknesse, and coldness of the bladder, sometimes through gross humours.

Weakness and coldness is known by the pa­tients words; Signa. and the thinnesse and whitenesse of the urine.

For the cure, Curatio. Diacur. cuma. Oleum. Hercul. Saxon. Diacurcuma is commended: and to noursh the share with oyles of Rew, Dill, Lillies, and Castoreum: there is plenty of remedies in the other foregoing Chapter, and thither I referre you. Hercules Saxonia saith, that Curatio dy suriae, quando provenit ex humoribus permistis cum urina, habet omnes has intentiones, ut evacuentur, revellantur, deriventur, contemperen­tur, & partes à quibus gener antur, corrigantur.

Si à frigore infirmitas, Hollerius.calorificis utendum est, unctione perinaei & pectivis, fomentis, balneis, cly ste­ribus, potionibus, aliisque remediis. Ʋbi verò urina acrior est,Phleboto­mia. Potiopur­gans.siquidem corpus bene carnosum est, si in­flammationis suspitio, vena basilica secanda est. Pur­gandum cum ʒ.x. Cassiae dissolutae in sero caprino, vel liquore convenienti. Hollerius lib. 1. cap. 47.

CHAP. LXVII.

STRANGƲRIA: Stillicidium urinae; [...]. is a di­sease, whereas the urine distilleth down by drops, or by little and little, and causeth a con­tinual provoking to piss.

It is caused through the sharpnesse of urine, Causa. or by exulceration of the bladder, inflamma­tion, or an impostume of the liver or reines; which being broken, and sending the filth to the bladder, through the shar pness it causeth continual desire to pisse: In old men some­times sharp humours is the cause.

Sharpness is known when the urine is chol­lerick, and gnawing about the bladder: Signa. An exulceration of the bladder, an impostumation of the liver, and reines, are known by the signes mentioned in their proper Chapters.

For the cure, Curatio. in aged persons some com­mend exceeding much, (as Galen. lib. 5.) Galenus. Terebinthi­na. Cassin. Phleboto­mia. Clyster. Turpintine washed in plantine water: If there be sharp humours, with inflammation, and a young body, bleed and purge with Cas­sia in whey: but beware of hot things; and ma­ny diureticks: Clisters are good of Mallowes, purslain, violets, cucumber seed, beware of salt things, and sharp things: Lac. also hot milk in­deed is the best thing to asswage pain: to the former clyster adde Althea, water-lillies, in the boyling: and Cassia fistula, sugar, oyle of violets and roses in the streining. Lastly, Aq. sperm. ranarum. Aqua spermat. ranarum, is most excellent. Yet these [Page 136]emulsions following are much commended by Gorraeus in his Treatise de formul. Gorraeus. remed. pag. 158. ‘℞. Emulsio. Quatuor seminum frigidorum majorum re­centium & mundatorum ana ʒ.iij. vel ℥. ss. amygdalarum dulcium excorticatarum in aqua frigida ℥.j. terantur omnia in mortario lapideo, cum aqua fontis prius cocta, & fiat colatura ad lb.j. quae in vase vitreo ser­vetur.’ Vel ‘℞. Emulsio. Gorraeus. Seminis papaveris albi, quatuor seminum fri­gidorum majorum, aut amygdalarum dul­cium ana ℥. ss. terantur in mortario cum aqua decoctionis liquiritiae quantum sufficit: in colatura dissolve syrrupi violati, capilli ve­ner is, myrtillorum ana ℥.j. fiat mulsio pro du­abus vicibus, & capiat manè horis quatuor ante prandiolum.’

CHAP. LXVIII.

VRINAE INCONTINENTIA, is an in­voluntary pissing, by reason of the palsie of the bladder.

1. Causae. The muscle Sphincter being resolved through coldness and moysture, or the nerves that spring from os sacrum, being ill affected; the urine goeth away against the will of the pati­ent. Galenus. Galen defineth [...] to be [...], The way of the humours in the veines.

2. Besides imagination, which doth chiefly [Page 137]work in us when we are asleep; there happen­eth also a laxness of the round muscle, caused by the abundance of urine; and the sharpness thereof do provoke urine, as that some persons pisse their bed.

For the first, Curatio. a purgation of the infusion of seane and Agarick.

1. A bag of primula veris, Ina arthretica, Sacculus. Sal­via, majorana ex floribus Anthos, Stacados, and cammomel; which may be applyed to the pubes, perinaeum, and also to the loines: also anoynt those places with oyles de castoreo, costi, Oleum. cinnamomi, vulpis; remember to make that strengthening decoction set down in paralysis, Decoctio. but make it with wine: you may inject the oyls and waters of sage, primroses, rew, Injectio. and Steca­dos; promise no short cure, for it ever proves long and difficult.

2. For the latter, some use Pil. de quinque gener. Pilulae. myrobolanorum: or you may infuse two dragmes of rhubarb in the decoction aforesaid: or a cly­ster, wherein dissolve Oleum nervale; Pulvis. some commend Vesica capre, suis, Tauri, being dried in an oven, and powdered; and ʒ. j. or two given in wine, or the decoction aforesaid: Aetius. Aetius commends the lungs of a goat to be rosted, and eaten fasting a mornings: the testicle of a hare boyled in wine, the wine to be drunk, and the stones eaten: It is a common thing, and confir­med by Galen, to give Farcimen ex muribus. Galenus.

CHAP. I. LIB. II.

EPHEMERA in Greek, [...]. Di­aria febris in Latin, in English one day fever; The Patient having but one fit, and so for the most part finished in one day of his own nature: It is the spirit or breath that is inflamed. Galenus. Galen cal­leth it, A simple fever.

A fever properly is an unnaturall heat, Definitio febris. which taking his beginning at the heart, is spread by the arteries and veines into the whole body, and doth let and hurt the operation of it.

Now of simple fevers some reckon three kinds; an unnatural heat ingendred in the spi­rits of breath causeth Ephemera, or Diaria (as aforesaid) whereof be two kinds, that is, Ephe­mera, Simpliciter or Diaria: Secondly, Diaria plu­rium dierum, otherwise called Synochus non pu­trida, enduring three or four dayes: unnatural heat ingendred in the humours, causeth Putri­da febris, a rotten fever; they do not in two pla­ces, within the vessels, and that two wayes; for either all the humours do putrifie and rot equally, and cause a fever called Synochus putri­da: or one only humour putrifieth, and so cau­seth a continual fever.

If there be putrifaction of choller, it causeth a [Page 139]continual Tertian, or a burning fever: If of flegme, it causeth a continual Quotidian. If of melancholy, it causeth a continual Quartan.

If they rot without the vessels, then they cause an intermitting fever: for if there be putre­faction of choller, it causeth an intermitting Tertian; If of flegme that is sweet, an intermit­ting quotidian, exquisite and pure. If of flegm that is glasen, it causeth Epialos: Epialos. If of melan­choly, an intermitting fever Quartan.

The cause of Ephemera is, Causa. when as the breath is inflamed, and heat above nature without any putrefaction or rottennesse: also through watchings, crudities, lack of digestion, sad­nesse, fear, vehement care of mind, kernels in the throat, and such like; which heat and in­flame the spirits, and the whole body.

1. The signes are six: first, Signa. the pulse are greater, swifter, and oftner.

2. Secondly, their urine is like a haile bo­dies urine.

3. Thirdly, their heat is gentle and easie.

4. Fourthly, the fever endeth on a sudden.

5. Fifthly, there wants evill symptomes, as pain of the head, stomach, &c.

6. Sixthly, they are alwayes ingendred of an outward cause.

1. If watching be the cause, there is heavi­ness of the eyes, swartness of the face.

2. If of anger, there is rednesse of the face and eyes, with a swift pulse.

3. If care and sorrow be the cause, there is a noughty colour, heaviness of the body, hol­lowness of the eyes, swartness of the face.

[Page 140] 4. If of Sun-burning, the head is hot, and their veines sometimes puffed up.

5. If through cold, there followes distilla­tions and Rhumes.

6. If of wearinesse, the skin is dryer.

7. If through drunkennesse and hunger, it is known by the telling of the sick.

8. If through swelling about the throat, their pulse is great, swift, and often with a red and swelled face.

If there be inflammation, Curatio. Victus ra­tio. Vinum. and want of rest, let his diet be cold and moyst: white-wine that is thin is much commended in all diary fevers, except there be headache: Galenus. It helps digestion, provokes urine, and procureth sweat; Galen commendeth baths and gentle sweatings: oyles of Ireos, Oleum. and Nardinum to anoynt outwardly is good: juyce of ptisan and lettice in broath: If there be crudity in the stomach, wash the belly with clysters, bathing it with oyle of wormwood, Oleum ab­synthii. and procure rest, which digest­eth crudity marvellously. And if nothing for­bid, administer this clyster. ‘℞. Clyster. Carolus Amatus. Decoctirutae, sem. lini, radicum althaeae, fl. Chamo. lb. ij. ss. olei rutacei ℥.ij. olei viol. ℥.j. Agarici ʒ.ij. misce pro enemate.’ This is good for a strong body, and one that abounds with flegm and wind; If the inflammation be great, make your clyster of a more cooling quality, with Ol. Violar.

CHAP. II.

DIARIA PLƲRIƲM dierum (called Syno­chus non putrida) because it continueth un­till the third day.

It is caused of thicking of the pores of the skin through cold or restrictive medicines, &c. Causa.

The skin is harder. Signa. The longer you touch them, the hotter they are, or seem: their body falls not. The pulse is equall, great, swift, fre­quent, and vehement.

Phlebotomy is much commended, Curatio. Venae sectio ptisan is good, but especially oximel; also pure mulsa scoureth much, which is when a little water is mixed with honey: this clyster following is good. ‘℞. Malvae, violarum, ana M.j.fol. lactucae M. Clyster. ss. pruna numero 10. coquantur in. s.q. aquae ad tertias cujus colaturae accipiatur lib. 1. in qua dissolve cassiae re extractae, sacchar. rub. ana ℥.j. olei viol. ʒ.iij. salis. ʒ.j. omnibus com­mistis fiat enema.’ Also bathing is good: Apozema. and an Apozeme made with the cooling decoction and syrrup of Ro­ses. Lastly, this julep following is to be given him to cool, quench, and comfort; three or four spoonfulls at a time often. ‘℞. Aqua cichorii; flor. sambuci, Julepu [...]. fumariae ana ℥.ij. syrrup. acetos. citri unc. ij.ss. misce.’ Or if you please you may put in three ounces of the syrrup, [Page 142]Vel ‘℞. Conservae rosar, acetosae, violarum ana unc. j. lactucae Ital. Electuari­um. condit. unc. ss. spec. diamarg. frig. drach. ss. cum syr. acetosit. cit. Fiat Ele­ctuarium. Senn [...]rtus.’ Vel ‘℞. 4. Sem. frigid. majorum recent. & mundat. ana ʒ.ij. Chalme­teus. Emulsio. seminis lactucae & papaveris albi an. ʒ.j. amygd. dulc. expurgatorum, & macerat. in aq. ros. ℥.ij. tunduntur omnia pastillo lig­neo in mortario marmoreo, affusas sensim lb.j. aquae decocti hordei fiat emulsio, quae dulco­rabitur syr. violati ℥. 4. Chalmet. de feb. cu­rand. p. 399.’

CHAP. III.

SYNOCHƲS PƲTRIDA, [...]. Causa. aut continens fe­bris, a constant fever: It proceedeth chief­ly from blood; yet all the humours do putrefie and rot equally together within all the vessels, by reason of a feverons heat kept within the body.

The signes are an unseparable redness in the face: Signa. an inflation of the veines, arteries, and temples: with lassitude and wearisomeness of the body with a sleepy disposition: The urine is red and gross; difficulty of breathing: a full, high, and swift pulse.

First administer a cooling clyster. Curatio: Venae-sectio Secondly, draw blood out of the Basilica, Galen counselleth even to the fainting of the patient: Sanguisu­gae. If it cannot be done, apply Sanguisugae, to the thighes, legges, [Page 143]and shoulders: or provoke the Hemorrhoyds, Menstruis, or bleeding at the nose: sometimes purge the body with strong Apozems, Apozema. of the infusion of Rhubarb, with the syrrups of fumi­tory, and cichory: To resist putrefaction, give Syrrupus de limonibus; Aqua graminis ℥.iv. Julepus. of the syrrup two ounces make a julip. Also the syr­rups of Bugloss, fumitory, and cichory, given in the waters of Roses, and sorrel, with a few drops of oyle of vitriol do well: Clyster. let clysters be often repeated, made with lettice, endive, pur­slaine, in the streining put Diapru. sol. and oyle of violets: Also let him drink Aqua hordei; Aq. Hord. If there be Asthma put in liqueris, he must abstain from hot things, flesh, or anything that nourish eth: If you would comfort the heart, 1 use Bugloss and Borrage.

If you would coole the liver, 2 use cichory and lettice.

3 If you would cool the reins, use the cold seeds.

4 For constivenesse, use violets, roses, pruines, Mallowes, Tamarinds, &c. Lastly, to give him of Aqua spermat. ranarum, Aq sperm. ranarum. a spoonfull or two at a time is most excellent. Yet this Apozem fol­lowing is very good to cool and open.

CHAP. IV.

FEBRIS CONTINƲA, [...]. Causa. Signa. a continual fever: It is caused when one only humour doth rot within the vessels: There is not a more certain sign of a continual fever (either Tertian, Quo­tidian, or Quartan) than that none of them do come to intermission, or slaking altogether be­tween the fits, until the fever be quite quenched: Also it begins not with vehement cold, & stiffe­nesse: nor ends in quiet and rest, as an exquisite intermitting Tertian doth: likewise a conti­nual Quotidian hath not any absolute inter­mission; an exquisite Quotidian hath: In like manner a continual Quartan cometh not to quiet and rest between fits: the exquisite quar­tan doth: and this is all that puts a difference in the signes between them: Curatio. Observe this com­pendium in curing rotten fevers, First quench; Secondly, let, or stop the portion of the fever (which is not yet kindled) from being infla­med: Thirdly, heal the rottenness, and let, and stop that which is already to ingender putrifa­ction: Venae-sectio But first open a vein, secondly open ob­structions by the wombe, or guts; by the urine, and by sweats, as you shall see cause: and Lastly, ‘℞. Cons. flor. cichor. & rad. buglossi an. ℥.ss. pulv. Opiaea. elect. triasand. ʒ.ij. dramarg. frig. ʒ.ss. fol. auri minutim concisa n. 2. cum syr. de end. fiat opiata. Varandaeus.’

CHAP. V.

CAƲSOS: Ardens febris: continua Tertiana, [...]. a continual Tertian or burning fever.

It is caused when choller rotteth and putrifi­eth within the veines; Causa. it agreeth with an exqui­site intermitting Tertian, because it is ingendred of the same humour that the other is: But yet differs, in that in an intermitting Tertian the choller is carried all over the body (but in this causos, it is contained in the vessels with the blood) so that when the choller is stirred vehe­mently, and driven about by nature, there is wont to follow vehement cold, and rigour: Hippocrat. Hippocrates saith 4. Aphoris. 58. That if it hap­peneth in a burning fever, the Patient is delive­red from the disease.

It is known by these signes: Signa. their tongue is drie, grosse, rough, and black: also gnawing of the stomach, thirst, watchings, and many times ravings: their egestions of the wombe be liquid, and pale.

For his cure, use lettice, and sorrel, Curatio. Victus ra­tio. in his broath; strew his room with the leaves of the vine, flowers of roses, violets, and water-lillies: also sprinkle cold water in the roome.

But the first intention is to open a vein, Venae-sectio from whence a large quantity of blood must be drawn. This Epithema is good. ‘℞. Aqua rosarum rub. lactucae, ana ℥.iij.ss. Epithema. aqua endiviae, cichorii, an. ℥.i.ss. aceti ℥.j. triasan­tali, ana ℥.ss. Sem. portulacae gr. iv. fiat Epith.’ [Page 146]moysten rotten wool in it, and apply it to the liver: If you will make one for the heart, take the waters of Bugloss, Burrage, Pul. elect. dia­marg. frigid. corall, saffron, &c. Lastly, cause the chollerick humour to be voyded, either by sweats, vomits, or egestions downwards; and labour to quench the heat with Aq. sperm. ranarum, or the like; or if you please, you may make a julep of barley water, Julepus. wherein is boyled the strings of the vine a handful bruised; with a few pruines; to the streining adde sugar, syrrup of violets, poppies, or any other syrrup that is of a cooling quality. The manner of preparing barley water, Guibertus. Aq. hord. according to Guibertus is thus. Accipe hordei communis manipulum unum. Bulliat in libris duabus aquae ad quadrantis consumptio­nem. Extracta ab igne, refrigerata, coletur per lin­teum mundum ad usum.

CHAP. VI.

EXQƲISITA TERTIANA: [...]. Cassa. [...] febris intermit­tens: It is caused of choller, carried by the sencible parts of the body, yet it remaineth pure, sincere, and unmixed: and therefore it is called exquisite.

In every fit they feel a vehement cold, Signa. ri­gour, and stiffenesse, and as it were pricked: In the increasing of the fits, the pulse are vehe­ment, great, and frequent, with thirst; he breathes out as it were a flame of fire, coveting cold water: sometimes they vomit choller, the belly being loose: Their urine is chollerick, the [Page 147]fit lasts commonly 12. houres, sometimes lesse, according to the quantity of choller, or the qua­lity of it: or the strength of the patient. Duplex tertiana. If it in­vade the Patient daily with the signes aforesaid, it is called Duplex tertiana, a double tertian.

Galen in the most hottest fevers giveth coun­sell to draw blood, even ad lypothimiam: Galenus. Curatio. Vena sectio after the third fit it is most proper to be done. At the first opening of the vein, we may draw blood more in quantity then at the second; because the first is for evacuation; the second but for re­frigeration: let this be done the day before the fit. The next day at the houre of the coming of the fit, give a vomit of the infusion of Stibium, Vomitus. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15. drams, according to the strength of the Patient. The next fit pro­cure a sweat with Diascordium mithridate, Mithrida­tum. Victus ra­tio. gun­powder, or the like. Let him use that which cools and moystens, as the flowers of violets, bur­rage, roses, water-lillies, endive, succory, let­tice, damascene pruins, purslaine, sorrel, roots of grasse, of these may be made decoctions.

Amongst compounds, there is Elect de prunis damascenis, without diagridium: Diarrhodon Ab­batis, Diatria santalon in powder, Emplastrū. and the con­serves of the former simples: Also tosted bread infused in rose-vinegar, beaten in a morter, and adding coral ʒ.i. red roses, and cinnamon, of either half a dram, and applied like a plaister is good: also Ceratum santalinum, Ceratum. and clysters doe well: and if the Patient be not able to take a vomit, give him strong Apozems.

For the extremity of heat, Aq. sperm. ranarum. remember Aqua sperm, ranarum. If rest be wanting, [Page 148] ‘℞. Haustus. Syrrupi papaveris, et nenufaris, ana ℥.j. aq. lactucae ℥.ij. misce & bibat.’ Or if you please, Ʋnguentū. you may use unguentum popule­um mixed with a little opium, and then to drop in 3 or 4 drops of oyle of nutmegs, and bathe the temples of their head with it, is good; the manner of making, with the quantities, are set down in the Chapter of Melancholia, Cataplas [...] ­ma. towards the latter end: Also take briony root, slice it: the inward bark of Helder, rew, fether-few, wal­nut-tree bark, or leaves, and cellindine, of ether a like quantity, stamp them with a little salt, spread them on a cloath, grate a little nutmeg on it; and apply it to the wrists: If you want more, look back into the Chapter of Causos. If you think good, you may minister this potion. ‘℞. Potio pur­gans. Elect. de succo ros. & diaprun. sol. ana ʒ. v. syr. ros. alex. ex 9. infus. ℥. ij. decocti com­munis q.s. misce & fiaetpotio. Carolus Amatus.’ This is for a strong body. But for a weak body, this that followeth may serve. ‘℞. Potio. Syrrup. de cichor. compos. cum rhab. ℥.i.ss. Elect. de succo ros. ʒ.iij. decocti gram. acetos. & end. q.s.fiat potio. Varandaeus pag. 7.’ Vel ‘℞. Massae pilul. aggr. & de Rhab. an. ℈.ij. diagr. gr.iv. cum aqua foeniculi, fiant pilulae nume­ro xi, & deaurentur. Carolus Amatus.’

CHAP. VII.

TERTIANA NOTHA, [...]. Causa. or bastardly Ter­tian: it is caused when choller is mixed for the most part with flegme.

In this fever, Signa. the time of the fits exceed twelve hours; and there is not such great heat in the state and rigour of this fever, as in the exquisite Tertian; besides, it doth not end in abundance of sweat, as the exquisite Tertian doth.

Give them ptisan, and mulsa, Curatio: Victus ra­tio. Venae sectio wherein hath been sodden Hyssop, and Origan, fasting: If the Patient be strong, bleeding helpeth much: then take this clyster following. ‘℞. Malvae, mercurialis, violarum, origani, Clyster. Hys­sopi, ana M.j.sem. nasturtii ʒ.iij. coquantur in.s.q. aquae, usque ad consumptionem medieta­tis; cujus colaturae, accipiatur lib. 1. adde Be­nedict. laxat. Hierapicra ana ʒ.iij. mel. rosa­rum ʒ.iv. oleum violarum, cammomeli, ana ℥.i.ss. Salis communis ʒ.ij. fiat enema.’ Boyle parslay, fennel, origan, hyssope. and let­tice in his broath: Also Oximel simplex, and scil­liticum is good: Vomitus. And I am perswaded that to give a vomit, made with Asaron, and the infu­sion of stibium mixed together, would prove a sure help; if strength permits it to be admini­stred: Lastly, this purge following is good for a strong body. ‘℞. Diaphaenicon. ʒ.ij. elect. è succo rosar. ʒ.ij. Purgatio. benedict. lax. ʒ. ss. Syr. rosarum de rhabar­bare, ana ℥.ss. Decoct. q.s. fiat potio.’

If he cannot sit up, make an Apoz. Apozema. of the infu­sion [Page 150]of Rhubarb, and Agarick, adding there­to the aforesaid syrrups, of each half an ounce. Ronde letius hanc ptisanam commendat. Rondele­tius Ptisana. ‘℞. Hordei mundati quar. 1. jujub. passular. mun­dat. cicerum rub. ana ℥.j. glycyrrhizae mund. ℥.ss. fiat decoctio in aqua ad lib. 2. Colatura transfundatur per manicam Hippoc. cum ℥.iv. sacchari, & ʒ.ij. Cinamomi. Chalmet. Enchirid. pag. 357.’ Lastly, ‘℞. Haustus. Hydromelitis ℥.ij. decocti hyssopi ℥.ij. ss. de­tur tepidum à coena. Hollerius. lib. 2. fol. 8.’

CHAP. VIII.

QƲARTANA FEBRIS, [...] Causa. intermittens: It is a fever proceeding from melancholy, pu­trifying and rotting without the vessels; and moveth every fourth day, as choller in a tertian every third, and flegme in a quotidian daily: Valescus reporteth, Valescus. that he saw a man that had a fever every thirtieth day, for the space of thirty years: that quartan is safest which pro­ceedeth not from other diseases, for there be some fevers that degenerate into a quartan.

The signe is knowne by things antecedent, Signa. as if the sick were melancholy, &c. It beginnes with trembling and shaking, but not vehement at first; but afterward with rigour, and extreme cold: His bones seem to be bruised, and feeleth pain in his lower parts, because the humour is cold, drie, and grosse. A small and low pulse, little hear, except there be burnt choller: they [Page 151]have little sweat, the urinc thin, and waterish, and the stooles drie.

If blood seem to abound, Curatio. Venae sectio open the vena lic­naris, or spleen vein, being the innermost of the left arm; with this caution; that if the blood be black, gross, and corrupted, draw boldly; if thin, yellow, or the like, close up the vein: In wo­men move the Menstruis, in men the Hemor­rhoyds; Vena sal­vatella. also it is not amisse to open the Salva­tella: his diet must be easie of digestion: wine is good that is thin and pure: also exercises mo­derate do well; keep accustomed evacuations with this clyster. ‘℞. Fol. malvae M.j. polypod.quer. ℥.i.ss. epith. Clyster. ℥. ss. cammomeli, mercurialis ana M.j. sco­lopendr. M.ss. sen. alex. ℥.j. sem.anisi, feni­culi ana p.ss. Bulliant in s.q. aquae, cujus colaturae accipiatur lib. 1. adde cassiae re. ex­tractae ℥.j. Diasena laxativa ℥. ss. mel. ro­sarum ℥.j. olei violarum ℥.ij. sa [...]gem. ʒ.j. fiat enema.’ Also pul. sanctus is a good purger of melancho­ly: Pulvis. Emplastrū. Gleum. A plaister of mellilot for the spleen would do well, and oyle of rew and capers to bathe the bowels and sides, is commended: Also to provoke urine, and open obstructions, search the diseases of the spseen. If it be possible, Vomitus. procure vomiting with Hellebor; or take the juyce of Radich ℥.iij. mixed with two oun­ces of oximel: If he be a weak body, then give him this Apozem following. ‘℞. Radic. capparis, Tamaricis, ana ʒ.iij. Apozema. po­lypodii, melissae, Buglossae, borraginis, scolo­pend. an. M.j. sem. anisi, foeniculi ana ʒ.ii. [Page 152] flor. genist. p. 1. Epith. ℥.j. Sennae ℥.ss. fiat decoct.’ Put not in the epithimum, and Sene, untill the latter end of the boyling: then adde to the straining, syrrup of fumitory, and epithimum, as much as sufficeth to make an Apozem: for poor and strong bodies may be given confectio Hamech in some decoction. Confectio hamech.

Be sure you look to the spleen, for it will grow hard, and the Hypocondre on the right side will be stretched out.

Some highly commend oyle of juniper, and castorum to anoynt the spine of the back a little before the fit: Oleum. because from thence beginneth this fit: Rondele­tius. Vinus salv­Trallianus. Valescus. Rondeletius commends sage-wine: Tral­lianus affirmes, that a live Bittle hung about the neck, tincted with saffron, to be a sure help: Valesc. commendeth the heart of a Hare prepared, as the lungs of a Fox, & given in wine 4, or 5, times.

Of a simple Quartan may soon be made a dou­ble, or triple one; if hot things be given before it cometh to its state: Lastly, this infusion follow­ing is excellent for most diseases of the spleene: and once I gave of it to one that had a Quartan a year together, Historia. and God cured him. ‘℞. If sio. Chalybs praep. ℥.j. vinum album p. 1.’ Put them into a glasse, and shugge them up to­gether, Then let it be stopt with a cork, and bladder; let it stand in a kettle of water (up to the neck) scalding hot, but not boyle, for 48 or 80 houres, untill the steel be dissolved, and the wine look as black as ink; give the Pa­tient a spoonful, or 2, or 3, at a time, evening and morning, untill he be recovered; For his sawce, let him use olives, and capers, for they be [Page 153]very good. For strong bodies, some commend Pilulae de elaterio, which according to Nicolaus Myrepsus, are thus made. ‘℞. Aloes ℥. ij. masticis ℥. j. elaterii ℥. iij. Pilulae. cum succo cucumeris asinini conficitur. Da iij. vel v. Nicolaus Myrepsus. Dispensat.’

CHAP. IX.

QƲOTIDIANA FEBRIS, intermittens: [...]. Causa. It is ingendred of putrified and rottenflegm, it is called of the Greeks Amphimerina; because it causeth a fit every day: yet the learned may be (sometimes) deceived; for Duplex tertiana, Triplex quartana. and Triplex quartana, doth return daily: 1 But the Tertian with rigour and exceeding cold.

2 The Quartan with shaking and shivering.

The Quotidian with cold of the extream parts: 3 more properly an exteam chilling: The two lat­ter doe not end in sweat as the Tertian doth.

It is known by the slownesse of the pulse, Signa. be­ing little and weak, they feel no thirst, the urine is white and thin; or thick and troubled; no sweat in the first dayes: They oftentimes vo­mit flegme: flegmatick persons are alwayes vexed with it, but never cholerick: 1 If the flegm be sharp, it causeth hunger.

If salt, thirst.

2 If it be sweet, then it causeth drowsinesse.

3 But if some flegme that is glasen (which is the coldest) do putrifie by it selfe, [...]. then it ingen­dreth a fever called Epialos febris, in which the Patient is feaverous, and vehemently cold both together: feeling both immoderate heat and [Page 154]cold in all the parts of his body at the same time: Forpart of the humour which is not as yet pu­trefied, 1 being spread by the veines, engendreth the rigour or cold.

But the other rotten part of the humour en­gendreth the fever: 2 so that they are hot out­ward, and cold inward.

Lipyria is a fever much like Epialos, [...]. you may have both their cures (out of the Chapter of Quo­tidiana febris) which is as followeth.

First administer this clyster. Curatio. Clyster.

Secondly, Vomitus. a vomit made with the juyce of Asaon, and oximel, and given before the fit, is a sure help. To drink oximel simplex with oxi­mel scilliticum, or if rest be wanting, with syrrup of poppies, Haustus. is good: If you see cause, procure a sweat, with possetale, wherein is boyled Car­duus benedict, centory, and liqueris: when the hu­mours are extenuated, provoke urine with broath, wherein is boyled smalledge, parsley, and fennel roots: The juyce of Horse-radich in whey is excellent for the same purpose: sto­mach pills are good: also anoynt his back with oyle of flower-delice or dill: Ceratum. and use ceratum [Page 155]stomachale, with oyle of nutmegs: and give him syrrup of wormwood sometimes: And it is held for certain, that a dragme of old Treakle, Diaphore­ticus. or mithridate, (the body being purged) given in pure white-wine, before the fit, doth cure the same: Lastly, if you see cause, give him this potion. ‘℞. Diaphaenicon ʒ. ij. jalap. benedict. lax. Potio pur­gans. ana ʒ.ss. Syrrup. de rhab. ℥.ss. decoctio. q.s.f. potio.’

CHAP. X.

HECTICA FEBRIS: [...]. is anunnatural heat kindled, not onely in the spirits and hu­mours, but also in the sound and fleshly parts: The Patient is not sensible of the fever, nor of any pain.

It is caused for the most part of burning fe­vers continuing long: Causa. also great evacuations may be the cause: A feverous heat invades the dewy or alimentary humour, called Cambium; and at length consumes the humidity that is contained in the body of the heart: melting fevers the Greeks call Marasmos.

There may be felt heat if you lay your hand on them: Their urine is thin, cruide, white, Signas and pale, at last oylie: a drie cough, a slack and hard pulse: It is called Hectick by reason of the drie Artery, their hands and feet are hotter af­ter meales then before; their stomach sticketh almost to the ribs: the face is leady: at last he is like a ghost: his eyes hollow, his nose sharp, his haires fall, his legges swell; and lastly, a flux of the belly; then judge that death is nigh.

It is called a fever Hectic, so long as natural humidity is reserved; when that is consumed, then is called Marasmos.

The whole cure consists in cooling and moystning: Curatio. [...]tisanae. Victus Ratio. let him eat ptisan, also flesh of kids, feasants, birds of mountains, cocks stones, ca­pons flesh, reer-egges, lettice, endive, cichory, gourds, spinach, mallowes, cherries, strawber­ries, pruines, pomegranets, melons; milk is ex­treamely commended, if it be not compounded with another fever; Aq. sperm. ranar. is excel­lent: Clyster. beware of purging: if need be, give cool­ing and moystning clysters, adding the mar­row of cassia fistula. The syrrups of violets, pur­slain, water-lillies, and poppies, are good: so are gellies; also lambs heads, and calves feet boyled in the decoction for clysters.

Let four young men take a sheet and dip it in cold water (in aqua sperm. ranarum, so I con­ceive to be farre better) and lay the Patient in it, and immediately tumble him into another; into a third; and so into a fourth: also to dippe or plunge him into cold water is commended; and then to wipe him softly, with soft linnen cloathes: and to anoynt his body with oyle of roses, Galen much extolleth it. ‘℞. Epithema pro corde. Aqua violarum nenupharis, lactucae, ana ℥ iij. aceti ℥. ss. rosar. rub. triasant. ana ʒ.j. pul. di­amargaris, ʒ. ss. sem. portulacae gr. iij. croci ℈.ss. fiat epithema pro corde.’ Apply it to the Region of the heart. ‘℞. Epithema. Aqua lactucae ℥.ij. aceti ℥.j. Diarrhodon Ab­batis ʒ.i.ss. eboris ℥.ss. portulacae ℈. ss. fiat Epithema.’ [Page 157]Apply it to the liver. Historia. Pollio Romulus being above a hundred yeares old, Divus Augustus asked him, by what means he kept his strength of body and mind, he answered, Intus mulso, foris oleo, that is, I keep me moyst with mulso with­in, and oyle I anoynt upon my skin: Asses milk is good: some commend bleeding, but not above two or three ounces at a time.

Lastly, Marasmos is not to be cured: [...]. for even as to poure oyle into a lamp where is no week nor match, is nothing else but oleum & operam perdere; so in vain we strive to restore to nature that solid substance, being by heat consumed and taken away. If you want more, look into the Chapter of Ptisis. Lastly, ‘℞. Cons. ros. antiquae ℥.j. trochisc. de carabe, Mixtura. Forrestus. de terra sigil. ana ʒ. i. ss. cum syr de portulaca q.s. fiat mixtura. Forrestus. lib. 4. Tom. 1. observa, 9.’

CHAP. XI.

SEMITERTIANA Febris, [...]. Haemitritaeon in Greek, in English Half a tertian: Its framed of a continual quotidian; and of an intermit­ting tertian: Causa. It is caused through putrified flegme, that is mixed with rotten choller.

They altogether tremble, and shake daily; Signa. being often troubled with unquietnesse, bitter­nes, (watchings, thirst,) of the mouth; with lassi­tude. From flegm proceeds the cold, from chol­ler, a light succession; But from both, trembling: [Page 158]He is farre more grievous than a terrian; Hippocra­tes. Hippo­crates saith, its deadly, because it leaveth no time to nature to nourish the body, concoct hurtful humours, and repaire strength: so that they have often syncops: when the tertian ex­ceeds the quotidian, there is vehement cold in the augmenting of the fit; Also more burn­ing: yellow choller is sent forth by vomit, or stoole: If the quotidian exceeds the tertian, there is cold in the extreame parts: but little shaking; and lesse heat: If of like force, it comes with horror and shaking, then it is an exquisite Hemitrice fever.

The remedies must be mixed against chol­ler, Curatio. and flegme: The stomach strengthened, and the liver cooled: search the Chapters of Tertiana, Quotid. and Tertiana notha febris.

CHAP. XII.

FEBRIS PESTILENTIA; [...]. Causa. is a disease which hapneth unto many: Having his beginning from an un-usuall putrefaction; also having its beginning likewise sometimes in our selves; the humours do degenerate so much from their na­tural temperament, that they take unto them­selves a pernicious and venemous quality: some­times it is caused by outward means, as putre­fied exhalations communicated to the ayr from dead carcases not buried: Fennes, Pools, stand­ing waters, stinking channels, venemous dens, and mettalin spirits arising out of the earth: Al­so from the variable commistion of the pla­nets: [Page 159]and then it is the scourge of the most high God for our sinnes: Also a corrupt ayre may be the cause: I mean diet: It rageth com­monly at the latter end of Summer, and the beginning of Harvest or Autumne.

The outward members are cold, Signa. the inward hot: There is heavinesse, wearisomenesse, sloth, difficulty of breathing, pain in the head, careful­nesse of minde, sadnesse, marvellous sleepy, and sometimes raging vexeth him; with losse of appetite, thirst, often vomiting, bitternesse, and drynesse of the mouth: a frequent, small, and deep pulse: the urine thick and stinking: yet sometimes it is like a hail bodies urine. Last­ly, the sure token is botches behind the eares, or under the arme-holes, or about the share: also small spots all over the body, with great faintnesse.

First, burn juniper, oken wood, laurel, Curatio. Fumigatio. or Ta­mariscus in the house: or strew juniper berries, mirrhe, frankincense, rew, Angelica (in pow­der) upon coales: Also sprinkle vinegar upon the pavement.

Secondly, If a plethorick body, open a vein, Venae-sectio Vomitus. on that side the botch is on: and on that vein that comes from thence: some commend a sti­bium vomit, especially if choller abound: also Electuarium de ovo, Elect. de ovo. which maximilianus the Emperour once used with marvellous successe, ʒ. j. at a time in scabious water: Also ‘℞. Theriaca Andromachi ℈. ij. Haustus. Mithridatum ℈.j. Bolus arm. prae. ℈.ss. Aqua rosarum, Buglossae ana ℥.j. misce, fiat potio:’ Let him sweat upon it: Diascordium, treakle, or [Page 160]mithridate (applied in the forme of a linament upon the region of the heart, Linimentū. mixed with the juyce of lymonds) is good: make him broath, in which boyle Buglosse, Borrage, Marygolds, and Harts-horn; Also ‘℞. Haustus. Diascordii ʒ. j. Syrrupus lymonibus ℥. ss. Aquae cardui benedict. ℥. ij. Spirit. vitriol, Gut. 4. misce & fiat Haustus.’ Let him take 2, or 3, of the same draughts: mi­thridate drawes poyson to it; Gentilis. though Gentilis, and Valescus affirme, that it drives it from it: If there be a botch; Cataplas. rot it with a poultis made of fenegreek, linseed, roots of Althaea, white lillies, and figs; or goose-dung dissolved in oyle of Cammomel: for his sawce vinegar is good, and lymonds: he may drink wine that is thin and watery: And let him often smell on Rew: He must eschew Venus that fears this fever; and bleed after the body be well purged, Pil. pesti­lentialis. with pil. pestilentialis: and remove into a clear ayre.

In this fever, Clyster. a clyster is to be administred, if the body be much costive: also make this electuary. ‘℞. Electuari­um. Cons. rosarum rubr. Buglos. Borrag. an. ℥.ss. confect. caryophil. ℥. j. Theriaca Androm. ℥. ss. Diamargariti frigidi ʒ. ij. Syr. Lu [...]ulae. q, s. fiat Elect. molle.’ For dainty stomachs, you may leave out the treakle, and put in two drams of Aqua Mariae. Aq. Mariae.

Lastly, this julep following is most excellent. ‘℞. Julepus. Aqua endiviae scabios, ana ℥. ij. aqua dracon. milis. ana ℥.iiij. aqua Theriacal. ℥.ij. Syr. ex infusione rosarum viridum ℥.ij. Syr. Luiulae, endiviae, an. ℥.j. aqua menthae cord. ℥.j. misce.’ [Page 161]Let him drink of it often, 3, or 4, spoonfuls at a time thus much shall suffice for this kind of evil; only this powder following is much cōmended. ‘℞. Radicis heptaphylli & pentaphylli an. ʒ.j. Altomarus. Pulvis. Ze­doariae, dictamni cretensis, seminis mali me­dici, & cornu cervi ustising. ℈.ij. Cyperi, bac­carum juniperi cujuslibet ℈. j. Ossis de corde cervi ℈. ss. croci gr. iij. misceantur & fiat pulvis tenuissimus.’ Vel, ‘℞. Theriacae ʒ.iv. terrae lemniae & santal. rub. Ʋnguen­tum. an. ʒ.j. aquae rosaceae, & aceti parum, f. ad modum unguenti. Altomarus. de feb. pest. cap. 9. pag. 980.’

CHAP. XIII.

LƲES VENEREA, is a contagious evill, gotten for the most part by the use of vene­ry, and of unclean bodies: The part affected is the liver.

The cause is an impure touch in copulation, Causa. the man or woman having their privities troub­led with virulent ulcers, or molested with a viru­lent strangury; the contagion whereof is eom­municated from one infected body to another.

The woman takes it by receiving the virulent seed of an unclean person; The signes thereof remaining in the wrinkles of the womb, may be drawn in by the pores of the open and stan­ding yard, and so infect the man; whence suc­ceed ulcers, and a virulent strangury in the pri­vities of both persons.

It may be taken by breathing onely, or by eating, drinking, and lying with the infected, or after them in their sheets: I read of a nurse that infected a Gentlewomans child, the childe, the mother, the mother, her husband, and the husband infected two of his other children.

There appear Bubos in the groine, Signa. pustuls in the yard, the urinary passages are ulcerated: The prepuce is sometimes so scorched with heat, that it will not slip over the Glans: the urine burnes with pain, and a virulent Gonor­rhea: Sometimes red, sometimes yellow, and filthy spots like warts, are over the body, which in time prove ulcers and pustuls: There is pain of the nerves, shoulders, head, and neck: In many there is pustuls in the pallat of their mouth, jawes, nose, and tongue, which in time ulcerate: oftentimes the haire of the head, and Beard fall away: They cannot sleep, for they have exceeding pain in the night, more then in the day.

Because the venereous virulency lying asleep, is enraged by the warme bed: also the Patients thoughts are fixed upon the object of pain most in the night.

On their joynts and shin-bones, they have certain tophies and tumours very hard to be dissolved: and especially in their foreheads, and shoulders; Prognostica The effects of Lu. ve. are sad. For some lose one, or both their eyes, or eye-lids; looking very gastly; some lose their hearing, and their noses do sometimes fall flat, with the losse of the bone called Ethmoides; so that they faulter and fumble in their speech: some have [Page 163]their yards cut off, by reason of a Gangreen, and women a great part of their privities are tainted with corruption: men sometimes have their urethra obstructed by budding caruncles, or inflamed pustules, and often stand at need of the Cathaetur: some their mouthes are drawne awry, others grow lame of armes, or legges: some are troubled with Asthma, others have the leprosie: some with Hectica febris, others their throats eaten with putrefied and cancrous ulcers: some are troubled with a filthy flux of blood, and the falling sicknesse.

Sometimes there followeth a disease called Plica: being most loathsome, and horrible: Plica. Glissonins. and bred by modern luxury and excesse, sei­zing specially on women.

It is a viscous venemous humour, that glues together (as it were) the haire of the head, with a prodigious entanglement: sometimes taking the form of a great snake, or else of little ser­pents, full of nastinesse, vermine, and noysome smell: so that being pricked with a needle, they yeeld bloody drops. It began in Germany, I mean, at the first, in Poland: Those that cut off their hair, either lost their eyes, or the humour falling down, tortured them very much in their lower parts: The cure of this most grievous disease, you may pick out of this Chapter; yet if you would see farther concerning it, Hercul­saxonia look in­to Hercul. Saxonia his tenth book De Plica: and in it you shall find 67 Chapters of this disease; which with the rest aforementioned, are often­times the offspring of the Lues venerea: whose proper Antidote is Argentum vivum. Also [Page 164]many become impotent to Venery: venereous ulcers on the yard are hard to cure.

But if being healed they remain hard, and callous: they are signes of the disease lying hid in the body. Mentagra. [...]. A disease called Mentagra, that vexed the Romans in the time of Claudius, was very like this, which oftentimes is transferred from the parents to the children: Lastly, ma­ny perish with a fever (that have Lues venerea) having continual sorrow and grief.

This disease being newly taken, Curatio. Venae sectio admits of an easie cure:

1. The first intention must be to open a vein.

2. The second is, the grosse humours must be attenuated: for which purpose, The de­coction of Radicum foeniculi, eringii, enulae campanae, Oximel. lentium, uvarum passarum, ficum, &c. also oximel scillitici, is good for the same purpose.