I. The diseases of the head.

1. The distēper of the head with­out matter, it is caused, by external causes, hot, cold, moist, or dry, causing it to decline from its natural temper; and it's cured, if hot, by alteratives, emulsions, juleps, epithems, irrigations, embrocati­ons, oxyrrhodines, oiles, liniments, unguents, cataplasmes, cerots, [Page 329] plaisters, saceuls, powders, odorats, gargarismes, and cooling diet, barley water &c. with evacuation: If cold, by evacuation and alte­ration by hot cephalicks, clarets, mulse, decoctions, hydromel, di­stilled waters and spirits, oiles, tinctures, syrups, conserves, con­dites, confections, powders, boles, electuaries, rotules, morsules, and troches; and outwardly by epithems, fomentations, embroca­tions and lotions, oiles, balsames, unguents, liniments, emplasters, cerots, facculs, pouders, cucupha's, sinegmes, troches, fumale cand­les, noduls, masticatories, phoenigms, and diet seasoned with sage, rosemary, marjerom, hysop, spices, &c. so if humid, by alteration and drying diet, and a little drink, using the decoction of guaja­cum, and drying simples, and the contrary remedies as before: So if dry, by humectation and a humid diet, sc. fatt broth, forbile eggs, chickens, veale, boiled flesh rather than rosted, barly water with liquorice, and syrup of violets, much sleepe, living neere rivers, and shunning venery, labours, and using other contraries as in the rest: If complicate it's to be cured accordingly: They are known by the pulse, sleepe, leanenesse, and ingenuity, &c.

2. The di­stemper of the head with matter, which is caused, by things internal and external, sc. humours and vapours, causing it to decline from its due temper; it is cured, as the former, by evacuation, by er­rhines, sternutatories, apophlegmatismes, cauteries, setons, to­picks, &c. and correction of the distemper, and pills: If by consent, from the stomach, intestines, spleen, reines, lungs, womb, ex­ternal parts, or heart, it's cured accordingly, by revulsives, interci­pients, repellents, as oxyrrhodines, &c. the place is known by the site of the parts and paine: If flatulent by discussers, averters, revul­sion, expulsion and evacuation, avoiding flatulent diet: If from bloud, by phlebotomy, repellents, intercipients, diet cold and dry, hordeats, saxatile fishes, prunes, quinces, &c. if from choller, by venesection, preparants, purgation, evacuation, clysters, vomito­ries, diureticks, and cooling and moistening diet, using barly wa­ter or small beere, cold water and long sleepe: If from phlegme, by preparers, appropriate purgers, evacuants, sc. errhines, gargarismes, masticatories, topicks, cauteries, corroborants, hot and dry diet, little, of easy concoction, rosted, with aromaticks, exercise, mode­rate sleepe, aire hot and dry, wine, and frictions, &c. if from a serouse humour, by evacuation, by purgation, phlebotomy, sudori­ficks, diureticks, and correctives, by masticatories, apophlegma­tismes, and vesicatories, with a drying aire and diet, henns, par­tridges, &c. if from melancholy, by preparers, purgers, corrobo­rants, [Page 330] a letificant, and hot and moist diet, sc. new eggs, the flesh of young creatures, especially cockrels, kids flesh, ptisan, borrage, sweet apples, long sleepe, &c. if from atra bilis, by preparants, purgers, topick alterants, venefection, leeches, cold and moist diet, saxatile fishes, barly water, whey with epithyme, and sleepe long, avoiding things of grosse juyce.

3. The vices of the animal spirits, which are caused, by heate, coldness, thickness, impurity, darkness, paucity, agitation & motion; & are cured, according to the cause, & by unguēts, & corroborants, sc. the confectiō of alchermes, the water of Matthiolus & carfuncle, & a fit diet, &c.

4. The diseases of com­position, and first of figure, which are caused in the womb, by reason of ill matter or errour of the formative faculty; after birth, by the nurse, by ligature or compression, &c. & are cured, by compression & ligature.

5. The straightnesse of the passages of the brain, which is caused, by obstruction or compression; & it's cured, if from vapours, by intercipients, repellents, revellents, & discutients: If from fumes suffocating; by discutients, as aqua vitae with triacle, vomiting with oxymel, sternutatories, the balsam of rue, revulsions & frictions: If from phlegme; by evacuants, revulsives, discussers & heaters: If from compression; by elevation: if of the sutures; by discussers.

6. The di­seases in number, and they are wormes, which are caused, by the corruption of malignant humours; and are cured, by errhines, sternutatories, with scolecobroticks, the juyce and fume of tobaco taken, and plaisters.

7. The commotion of the braine, which is cau­sed, by external & violent causes, which moove it out of its natu­ral place; it's cured, by revulsion of the bloud, repulsion, evacuati­on, and discussion by pigeons &c. & the depression of the cranium is cured by the cephalick cerat, &c.

8. The contusion of the head, which is caused by percussion, or falls &c. it's cured, by repellents and astringents, using oile of roses, and the white of an egge, with rose water, vineger & tow, afterwards by austere wine with cha­momill flowers, the alabaster ointment, a thin diet, and Vigoes cerot de minio, diapalma, Gal. and the barbarum plaister. &c.

9. The wounds of the head without hurt of the cranium membrans and brain, which if caused, without contusion of the outward parts; it's cured, by the white of an egg, the ointment of cerusse, alabaster, rosate, and Galens refrigerant: If with contusion of the outward parts; by defensives, oile of roses, turpentine, honey of roses, diapalma, and the bettony plaister, &c.

10. The solute unity of the cranium without wound of the meninges and brain, which is caused by fissure, contusion, depression, session, and contra fissure [Page 331] frō evident & violent causes; which are known by symptomes, con­dition of the blow, subject, sight, specillum, or inke mixed with a plaister, which applied will remaine black there, &c. it's cured, by phlebotomy, purgation, section, with defensives, detersives, sarco­ticks, & epuloticks, as diapalma, &c.

11. The fracture of the craniū, with hurt of the meninges & brain, which is caused by outward vio­lence; & is cured, by ischaimes, anodynes, sc. oile of roses, univer­sals, the betony plaister, cathereticks &c. vulnerary potions, & thin diet, ptisans, quinces, and things like in substance, &c.

12. The fungus of the brain, which is caused by vitious humours slowing to the part; it's cured, by evacuation, revulsion, dryers, cathere­ticks, excision, and ligature by silk.

13. The rottennesse of the skull, which is caused by the erosion of sharp humours; and is cured, by seperating the corrupted bone from that which is sound, by medi­caments or the hand, or use the betony plaister; &c.

14. The inflam­mation of the brain, which is a tumour of the same, caused by bloud effused out of the vessels, into the spaces of the part, and putrifying there, by reason of things too much heating; it's cured, by venesection, purgation, cupping glasses, discutients, revulsives, de­rivation, interception, and thin and cooling diet, as ptisans, emulsi­ons, juleps, and sleep.

15. The hydrocephal, which is a tumour of the head, caused, by a collection of a serous humour, in some part of the members constituting the head; it's cured, by evacuants, heaters, and dryers, with correctors, &c.

II. The diseases of the eyes,

III. The diseases and symptomes of the eares.

1. The di­stemper of the eares, cold, hot, and often cold and moist, caused by humours, &c. it's cured, if from cold, by heaters, liquours, va­pours, & hot oiles; if from heate, by tepid refrigerants, oiles, pur­gers, topicks, & discutients; if frō humours, by purging after prepa­rants, apophlegmatismes, gargarismes, errhines, and lixives.

2. The inflammation of the eares, which is caused, by thin and bilious bloud, issuing out of the small veines of the brain, into the mem­brans of the eares; it's cured by revulsion, by venesection of the cephalick veine, cupping-glasses, frictions, purgation, repellers, anodynes, refrigerants, discutients, suppurants, abstersives, and dryers, &c.

3. The ulcers of the eares, which are caused, by things causing purulency, or corroding by acrimony; they are cured, by detersives, restauration, and consolidation: If old, by aegyptia­acum, [Page 346] the excrescencies with alum, &c. if fistulous, by white hel­lebore with honey; if stinking, by aegyptiacum, and honey, &c. if sordid, with burnt alum, &c. if from the head, V.P. by evacuation, diverters, gargarismes, apophlegmatismes, errhins, sternutatories, and roborants.

4. Wormes in the eares, &c. which are caused, by corruption; and are cured, or killed, by brimstone, wormewood, white hellebore, castoreum, and mercurius dulcis put in: water &c. is drawn out, by putting in oile of bitter almonds, and a syring.

5. Wounds of the eares, which are caused, by things external, and are cured, by future, dryers and binders, &c.

IV. The diseases and symptomes of the nostrils,

1. The ulcers of the nostrils, which are caused by contusions, falls, wounds, and acrimony of salt phlegme, &c. they are cured, by [Page 347] venesection, purgation, cupping-glasses, averters, dryers, robo­rants, detersives, consolidants; if they are old and putrid, stinking and filthy, they are called ozoenae, arising from sharp malignant hu­mours, and are cured, by mixt remedies, dryers, repellers, astrin­gents, and discutients, detersives, consolidants, after universals, gar­garismes, masticatories, and sternutatories; if corrosive, by the aegyp­tiack & cerusse unguent, the decoction of guajacum, & diet without sharp and bilious juyce, avoiding calefacient causes.

2. The cancer of the nostrils, which is caused, by the ulcers thereof; and cured, V. P. by mitigants, and liquour of arsnick, &c.

3. The polypus, which is a carnose excrescency in the nostrils, hanging by certaine little roots, and sometimes out of the nostrils, or descending by the pallat, caused, by thick and viscid humours, chiefely phlegme mixed with bloud; it's cured, after universal evacuation of the body as in all affections of the head, by roborants, dryers, astringent frontals, cucupha's, section, defensives, cauteries, discutients, esca­roticks, &c. as in the ozaena, attenuant discutient and drying to­picks, corrosives, aegyptiack with a turund of gentian root, and palliatives, &c. if it be hard and painful without a certain figure, it's called sarcoma, and is neere the nostrils or pallat.

4. The nar­rownesse of the nostrils, which is caused, by compression, constipa­tion, or obstruction; it's cured, if from catarrhes, by evacuation, at­tenuants, aperients, castor with vineger, errhines, & odorats, &c.

5. The wounds of the nostrils, which are caused, as others, and so cured, with fistules, &c.

V. The diseases & symptomes of the tongue.

1. The a­sperity and roughnesse of the tongue, which is caused, by hot sharp and putrid vapours, drying and burning the tongue; it's cured, by remotion of the causes, by cooling waters, diamoron, hordeats, and things acid, &c.

2. The tumour of the tongue, which is caused, by things external, or internal, sc. the afflux of hot matter, cold, poysonsome, or putrid and cancrous; it's cured, by averters, eva­cuants, repellers, discutients, & suppurants; if pituitous, by oxymel, spitting often; if with inflammation, as aforesaid; if venenous with the decoction of plantaine & hony of roses; if stony, by emollition & section; if ulcerous, as other ulcers.

3. The wounds of the tongue, which are caused by violence, and cured, by lohochs, liniments of the syrup of dryed roses, and colate rasate honey, and gargarismes, &c.

4. The ranula under the tongue, which is a tumour in forme like a frog, and is caused by a soft flesh under it, upon which the tongue lyeth and to which it is tyed, as it were by a band, and ariseth from a viscid and pituitouse bloud flowing thither; it's cured, by universals, phlebotomy, diversion, purgation, lotions made of inci­ders & resolvers, salt, organy, &c. apertion, & mulse gargled, &c.

5. The ancylosis, or tongue-tiednesse, caused, by the vinculum; it's cured, by cutting the same with a paire of cisers or sharp knife, wa­shing the mouth after with posca, after which sprinkle on manna thuris, or use rosate honey, &c.

6. The taste hurt, the imminution of which is caused, by the refrigeration of its nerves from the third [Page 349] conjugation of the brain, and emollition of the same, obstruction, or ill conformation; it's depraved by external causes, or internal, sc. humours and vapours; it's cured, if from hot humours, by eva­cuation, vineger gargled, and juyce of limons; if from cold, by pre­paration, evacuation, gargarismes of hysop, liquorice, honey, and robs; if from pustules, ulcers, or consent, according to the cause.

7. The motion of the tongue hurt, which is caused, by the affection of the nerves of the seventh paire of the brain, by the vinculum, tumours, ebriety, concussion, & wormes; it's taken away by con­formation, & obstruction &c. it's depraved by humidity, and fic­city, &c. it's cured, if from the palsey, by universals, cupping-glasses, scarrification, diversions by clysters, frictions, and ligatures; if from a cold pituitous matter, by preparation, purgation, and other diversions, lotions, gargarismes, apophlegmatismes, castor with oxy­mel of squils, &c. inunctiōs with nard oile, phoenigmes, & cauteries; if from convulsion, by antispasmaticks in the neck; if by the vincu­lum, by section; if by tumours, as before; if stammering or aphony, as aforesaid.

VI. The diseases and symptomes of the lipps.

1. Their tumours, which are caused, by inflammation, &c. and are cured, if from stingings, &c. by the decoction of marshmallows with vine­ger, or milk, & triacle; if from inflammation, as others; if hard, by-section; if from cancers, as the rest; and the rest according to their causes.

2. Fissures, or chaps, which are solutions of the continui­ty of the lipps, caused, by too much drynesse and tension; and are cured, if from outward cold, by pomatum, oile of wax and fatts, &c. if from heate and drynesse, by the juyce of sempervive, and goose grease, rosewater, mucilages, and humectation with mastick, &c.

3. Ʋlcers of the lipps, which are caused, by sharp, bilious, and serous humours; they are cured, V. P. by the rosate unguent, and liniment of litharg, and the fume of the seeds of hen­bane, shunning sharp and salt meates, spices, and much talke; if cancers, they are cured as others.

4. Their wounds, which are caused, by violence, &c. and are cured, by future, glutinants, and honey of roses, and syrup of dryed roses inwardly; if flesh be wan­ting, by digerents, incarnants, and consolidants, &c. if hare lipps, by excoriation, conjunction, & future, with unguents & plaisters, &c. if curt, it's to be cured by insertion.

5. Their trembling, which may be caused, by cold, anger, debility of the nerves, vellicant hu­mours, and wormes, &c. as also perversion of the lipps, caused by the affection of the nerves of the third conjugation, & feavers: And bleeding thereof, caused by sharp, serous and salt humours: and [Page 350] blewnesse, caused by cold, &c. all which are cured according to their causes.

VII. The diseases and symptomes of the face, &c.

1. The apertion of the mouth, hurt, which is caused, by wounds of the nerves in the neck, and tumours about the juncture, &c. it's cured by remotion of the causes.

2. Oscitation, which is a vehe­ment distention of the mouth, caused, by vapours, collected in the spaces of the muscles of the lower jaw, and cheekes, inclining them to excretion, it's cured, by exclusion, discussion of vapours, and revulsion by wine drunk with water, eating of acorus, and long spiration.

3. The distortion of the mouth, which is a distention of the same, caused, by the affection of the muscles of the face, or nerves of the third and fifth conjugation, or those which descend from the first vertebra's of the neck, from convulsion or resolution, and it's called spasmus cynicus, if both sides are affected; it's cured, by phlebotomy, cupping-glasses, ligature, frictions, sinapismes, phoenigms, dropaces, errhines, apophlegmatismes, gargarismes, masticatories, resolvers, roborants, castor, the martiat un­guent, oile of castor, vapours, exsiccant lotions, the flesh of wild beasts, as hares, foxes, staggs, goats, &c. boiled and applied to the parts affected and the head, and inward remedies as in the palsey and convulsion, and diet as in them, looking on the deformity and altering it by care, as also playing upon a pipe, &c. the exercise reducing the parts.

4. The ptyalisme, or often spitting, involun­tary, caused, by too great a quantity of spittle, from humours di­stilling, a humid ventricle, intestines, breast, and lungs, and mer­curials, &c. it's cured, by exsiccants; if from a catarrhe, as catarrhes; if from the ventricle by phlegmagogons, exficcants, aloeticks, dia­galanga, diatrion piperion, vomitories and fasting; if from the spleen or lungs, it's cured accordingly, and by drying and strength­ning the tonsils, and astringents: If there bee a salivous defect, which is caused by the drynesse of the brain, ventricle, tongue, and tonsils, &c. it's cured, by humecters; &c. according to the cause.

VIII. The diseases and symptomes of the teeth,

1. The corrosion and rottennesse thereof; which is a diminution of their mag­nitude, caused; by things corroding; so that they breake, and fall out by peeces, and sometimes causing fistula's; it's cured, by exsic­cants, as bay berries, &c. things hindering putrefaction, as brim­stone, camphire, liniments, mastick, frankincense, wiping, alum, & cauteries, use myrrhe if they stinck, and aloes if worm eaten, and if need evulsion, &c.

2. Mobility and loosenesse, which is caused, by blows, falls, ill juyce, humidity, and defect of aliment; it's cured, if [Page 351]from violence by astringents, so if from defect of aliment; and by dryers if from humidity, as alum and austere wine, waters, and powders; if from erosion of the gumms, by such things as restore them, strengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their sordes are remooved, by washing and clean­sing them; and their blacknesse, by dentifrices.

IX. The affections of the gumms,

1. Their excrescencie, which is caused, by serous vitious and corrupted bloud flowing copiously thither, and laxity; it's cured, by repressers, and astringents, alum water, burnt salt, myrrhe, &c.

2. Their bleeding, which is caused, by sharpnesse of the bloud; and is cured, as laxity.

3. The con­sumption [Page 352] of the gumms, which is caused, by an ill and sharp hu­mour flowing to them, and corroding the same; it's cured by sar­coticks, powders, and liniments, &c.

4. The parulis, which is an inflammation thereof, so prominent at the roots of the teeth, both inwards and outwards, that the next parts are distended, hot, and red, caused, by thin bloud, or other humours; it's cured, as other inflammations, by phlebotomy, gargarismes of plantain water, diamoron, rob of barbarries, discutients, resolvents, and apertion if need, lotions, and dryers, &c. if ulcerose, by exsiccants, astrin­gents, gargarismes, and those that are stronger if fistulous, by the green water, so in the epulis, or caruncle, and section.

X. The affections of the jaws,

1. Their luxation, which is a depulsion of the same, either in one part or both to the fore part, but seldome cau­sed, it's cured, by reposition, emollients and laxants if long, after by astringents with the white of an egge, and swathing.

2. Their immobility, which is caused, by luxation, fracture, and distillation, &c. it's cured, according to its cause.

XI. The vices of the mouth.

1. The inflammation thereof, which is caused, by bloud, and hot and bilious humours, &c. it's cured, as other inflammations, by phlebotomy, purgation, refrigerants, repellers, astringents, discu­tients, whey, the decoction of plantain, diamoron, maturation if need, figgs, and honey, &c.

2. The aphthae, which are certaine fiery exulcerations, in the upper superficies of the mouth, caused, by sharp meates, bad humours and vapours; they are cured, by a­stringents, repellers, discutients, maturants if need; by extersives if sordid, stronger astringents, and escharoticks, stronger or weaker according to the patient: For if in infants, from sharp or salt milk, by cydoniats, purselane, diamoron, & astringent syrups; if pituitous, by astringent discutients, frankincense, mastick, &c. & rosat honey if livid; if adult, they are to be stronger, with phlebotomy, evacua­tion, stomaticks astringent and drying, diamoron, alum, spirit of vitriol, mucilages, and saccharate water; if putrid as ulcers, by the green water, alum, aegyptiacum with rosate honey, and plantain water, quinces, lettuce, and cold dier, avoiding things sharp, salt, or acid.

3. The corruption of the bone of the pallat, which is caused by wounds or corrosive humours; it's to be cured by abste [...]sives and dryers, and helped by a golden plate, if need.

4. The stink of the mouth, which is a stinking of the breath, caused, by a foetid va­pour, passing out thereof by reason of meate, excrements of the intestines, faetid humours, and wormes; it's cured, by odorats, nut­meg, myrrhe, muske, pills, troches, and rosate honey; if from the stomach, [Page 353] by evacuants, corrigents, roborants, aloephangin pills, aroma­ticks, diacydoniats & dianisum; if frō wormes &c. according, to the cause.

XII. The affections of the uvula.

1. The laxation thereof, which is when it swelleth preternaturally without inflammation, & is extended, which is caused, by a humour, chiefely phlegmatick, sent to it from the brain; it's cured, as its inflammation, by vene­section, cupping-glasses after purgation, diversions, evacuations, by errhines, consumers of phlegme, and correctors of cold and moist distempers, astringent and repelling topicks in the begin­ning, afterwards, by dissolvers and dryers, plantain and rose-water, oxycrat and viniger, diamoron, gargarismes, the conserve of roses vitriolated, powders, long pepper with alum, bole and myrrhe, coronal plaisters, a hard hot egge with frankincense and ginger so used, &c. and if need, by extersives & consolidants.

2. The in­flammation of the same, and exulceration, that is a swelling thereof, caused, by bilious bloud flowing in, with rednesse, heate, paine, danger of suffocation, and sometimes with a feaver; it's cured, as other inflammations, by venesection, cupping-glasses, scarrification, diversions by clysters, frictions, ligatures, evacuation, repelling to­picks, gargarismes, powders, diamoron, plantain water, rob de ribes &c. discutients, anodynes, milk, ptisans, emollients if need, & ma­turation, section, extersives, and exsiccants, mulse water, & rosate honey, the green water if exulcerated, aegyptiack, section if need, and diet as in other inflammations, with the juyce of quinces, &c. abstaining from talking &c.

XIII. The affection of the tonsils. sc.

Their inflammation, which is a swelling of the same, caused, by the afflux of humours; it's cured, as other inflammations, by astringent gargarismes in the beginning; phlebotomy, cupping-glasses, friction, clysters, lenients, repelling topicks, astringents, oile of sweet al­monds, melilot plaisters, suppurants if need, emollients and resol­vers if hard, album graecum if ulcerose, milk, & exsiccants, &c. ab­staining from things that may cause a flux of humours, &c.

I. The disease of the gullet, sc.

the quinsey, which is a stopping of the upper parts of the throat, through which the meate, drink, and breath passeth, causing a diffi­culty of breathing and swallowing, caused, by inflammation, luxa­tion, or defluxion; it's cured, by phlebotomy, scarrification, cup­ping-glasses, purgation, sharp clysters, repellers, gargarismes of diamoron, dianucum, the myrtine syrup, and plantaine water, &c. by derivation, digesters, discutients, mucilages, exsiccants, resol­vers, plaisters of swallows nests and melilot, &c. suppurants if [Page 354] need, album graecum, apertion, detersives, consolidants of bole and myrrhe, &c. specificks, laryngotomy, and thin diet, sc. ptisan, broth, sorbile eggs, prunes, lettuce, the foure greater cold seeds, barley water with surup of violets, small drink and temperance.

II. The diseases of the throat.

1. Strumes, or scrofuls, which are tumours in the glandules, caused, by tough phlegme, shut up in its proper membran; they are cured, by evacuation, discussion, maturation, secti­on, purgation, dryers, scrophularia, powders, emollient resolving topicks, suppurants, apertion, mundificants, the apostles ointment, or de apio and cicatrizants, section, and septicks.

2. The bron­chocele, which is a tumour in the throat, extuberant in the large space, caused, by flatulency, and joyned with tension, from vio­lent motion, &c. it's cured, by astringents, and the plaister against ruptures, inward astringents and dryers, as the powder of burnt alum, &c. discutients, &c. as in strumes: If hydropical it is to be cured by incision.

III. The diseases of the rough artery.

And, 1. The diseases of distemper, which are caused, by the aire, meat and drink, & humours, &c. these are cured, by the contrary, sc. by eva­cuating matter that is troublesome; if hot by syrup of violets, &c. if cold by syrup of hysop, &c. if humid by diacalaminth, &c. if dry, by syrup of licorice, and emulsions, &c. if it be with matter, it's to be cured as catarrhes.

2. Asperity, which is a defect of natural smoothnesse, caused, by things immoderately corrosive, salt, sharp, acid, humours, vapours, much talking, &c. it's cured, by lenients, and levigants, and things emplastick, syrup of liquorice, jujubs, diacodium, &c. arteriacks, lenients, abstersives, dryers, discussers & sublingual troches, &c.

3. Straightnesse of the rough artery; cau­sed, by compression, inflammations, tumours, and obstructions; it's cured, by remotion of causes, inciders, attenuants, extersives, and knocking on the back if by externals.

4. Wounds and ulcers thereof, those are caused by violence, these by sharp, salt, and poyson some humours; the first are cured by conjunction, and con­glutination, by diacodium, and diatragacanth, and lohochs, &c. The ulcers, are cured by detersives and dryers, and cicatrizants, &c.

IV. The diseases of the lungs.

1. The distemper of the same, which is a deflexion thereof from the natural temper to that which is preternatural, caused, by things external and internal, sc. po­tions, and humours, &c. it's cured, if from heat, by refrigerants, as syrup of violets, &c. epithems, barly water, refrigerating herbes, and temperance; if cold, by corrigents, syrup of hysop, hot oiles, mulse, and well seasoned flesh; if humidity by corrigents, dryers, [Page 355] decoction of guajacum, salt and sulphureous baths, aromaticks, suf­fumigations, aromatick wine, dry diet, mountain birds, exer­cise, and talking: &c. If drynesse, by violets, melons, tepid water, barly water, emulsions, sorbile eggs, veale, saxatile fishes, chic­kens, shelfish, milk, sleepe, and quiet.

2. The peripneumony, or inflammation of the lungs, caused by the effusion of bloud, into the substance thereof, with a narrownesse of the breast, difficulty of breathing, acute feaver, and coughing; it's cured, as other in­flammations, by averters, evacuation, maturants, resolvers, discus­sers, phlebotomy, cupping-glasses, scarrification, ligature, clysters, lenients, pectoral decoctions, expectorants, inciders, topicks as in the pleurisy, plaisters, fomentations, inunctions, extenuating diet, ptisan with honey, after defluxion ceasing, fat broths, hydromel, oxymel, or hydrosaccharate, &c.

3. The straightnesse thereof, which is an interception of the vessels, caused by obstruction, com­pression, or exsiccation, occasioning a cough oppression and diffi­culty of respiration; it's cured, if from a cold and thick humour, by preparers, inciders, detersives, evacuants, violet troches, medicate wines, revulsives, derivation, vomit, clysters, diureticks, hume­cters, oxymel, liquorice, turpentine, lohochs, inunctions, lini­ments, exsiccants, absorbents, syrup of tobaco, pectoral waters, ro­tuls, fumes, diet with hysop, melicrat, and mulse with thoracicks; if from flatulency, by discutients with pectorals; if from tubercles, by attenuants and dryers, mithridat, and chymical salts; if from the stone, by wood lice and honey; if from bloud, by stoppers and oxymel; if from drynesse, by almond milk, and syrup of violets, &c.

4. The apertion thereof, when the vessels that ought to be shut are opened, caused, by anastomosis, diapedesis, rexis, and diabrosis; it's cured, by phlebotomy, purgation, scarrification, re­vulsion, leeches, frictions, ligatures, corrigents, dissolvers, oxy­crat, oxymel, mumy, sperma ceti, consolidants, astringents, empla­sticks, glutinants, lambatives, sealed troches, powders, myrtine oile, frankincense, & mastick; if from catarrhs, by diaspermaton, cerot of thapsia, the hematire with bole and syrup of purselain, diet thin astringent and emplastick, ptisan, conserve of roses, hogs flesh, milk, soft cheese, lettuce, purselain, hordeate water with sugar to cleanse, and chalybeat to glew, almond milk, and rest.

5. Stones. &c. which are caused by thick humours, dryed & hardened there; they are cured as the asthma; if caruncles by lohoch sanum and flowers of brimstone, &c.

6. The tubercles of the lungs, which are caused by the afflux or congestion of matter; they are cured, [Page 356] by evacuation and agglutination as in their ulcers: The cure of its [...]r [...]ps [...], see in that of the breast afterwards.

7. The coalescency thereof to the side, by viscid phlegme chiefely, or external causes; it's cured, by preparers, evacuants, concocters, lenients, dryers, baths, laxants, concussion, ptisan, and surgery.

8. The wounds of the lungs, which are caused by violence, and cured, by sistents, evacuants, glutinants, phlebotomy, astringents & emplasticks, coolers topicks, bole, mastick, powders, vulnerary potions, diaspermaton, lohochs, section if need, thin diet, astringent, & emplastick, ptisan, quinces, and rest. &c.

9. The phthisick, or ulcer of the lungs, which is an exulceration of the same, by which the whole body is extenua­ted, and wasteth away, caused, by a sharp corroding matter, with a gentle feaver, cough, and bloudy and purulent spitting; it's cured by evacuation, by gentle purgers, clysters, averters, detersives, saccharate water, turpentine, glutinants, the conserve of roses, myrtine syrup, lohochs, syrups, sulphur, fumes of frankincense, o­dorats, topicks, colleticks, epuloticks, analepticks, refrigerants, h [...]mecters, amygdalats, antifebriticks, milk, Haly's powder, baths, diet of good juyce, of easy concoction & much nourishment, abster­sive, glutinative, and consolidating, broths, hordears, snailes, mulse water with honey for abstersion, and barley water with sugar of roses as glutinative.

V. The diseases of the breast.

1. The inflam­mation of the mediastin, which for the most part is caused, by bili­ous bloud, and as the peripneumony, and is almost so cured, by evacuants, revulsives, repellers, phlebotomy, topick repriments, sc oile of violets tepid, and cold if erysipelatode, with milk, mu­cilages, alterants, expectorants, the decoction of barley, liquorice and jujubes, discutients, oile of chamomile, section if need, and diet as in the peripneumony and pleurisy.

2. The tumour of the dia­phragme, which if hot, is caused by hot and bilious bloud; it's cured, as inflammations, by emollient and cooling clysters, phlebotomy, topicks, oile of roses, epithems, revulsives, repellers, & hypnoticks, &c. If cold, from a thin and crude matter, by prepares, evacuants, corrigents, V. P. discutients, emollients, fatts, oiles, melilot plai­sters, sacculs, inward digerents and discutients, of hyssop, sarsapa­rilla and pectorals, attenuating diet, of good juyce, easy conco­ction, and lenient.

3. The wounds of the diaphragme, which are ca [...]s [...], by violence; they are cured, as those of the lungs and me­d [...]astin

4. The pleurisy, which is an inflammation of the pleura, and adjacent muscles, caused, by the influx of a hot humour, with a pricking paine in the side, cough, difficult respiration, acute con­tinual feaver, and a hard, unequal, and frequent pulse; it's cured, [Page 357] by venefection, fomentation, cupping glasses, purgation, alterants, specificks, expectorants, incrassants, inciders if need, lohochs, anodynes, resolvers, sudorificks, chamomel water, &c. topicks, oile of violets, dialthaea, mucilages, hypnoticks, syrup of poppies, matu­rants, rupture, by sternutatories, vomits, bechicks, detersives, as the pectoral decoction, consolidants, sc. the conserve of roses, chalybeat milk, section, diureticks, clysters, thin diet, melicrat, ptisan, & emulsions; after use eggs & fishes, drinking barley water, oxymel, and the pectoral decoction, &c. avoiding things cold, acid, salt, exasperating & astringent, &c.

5. The wounds of the breast, which are caused, by violence, & if not penetrating, they are cured, as other wounds, by ischaimon's, ligature, digestives, turpentine, & oile of chamomil & roses about it, after use the barbarum plaister, basilicon, or diapalma: If penetrating, by things stopping bleeding, prohibents, evacuants, phlebotomy, purgation, consolidants, tents with digestives, attenuants and inciders if need, melicrat, and hot topicks, &c. diet thin, hordeats, almonds, and rest.

6. The fistu­la's of the breast, which are caused as the rest, and cured, by tents, externals of hydromel, or mulse, &c. injections, exsiccant ungu­ents, glutinants, and vulnerary potions, &c.

7. The empyema, which is a constipation of the cavity of the breast, caused by a co­pious purulent matter, occasioning a difficulty of respiration, with a cough, and virulent spitting; it's cured, by maturation, if it may not be hindered, by noise, & sternutation to cause rupture, by eva­cuants, abstersives, & consolidants, ptyalismes, expectorants, inci­ders, attenuants, humecters, diureticks, clysters, section & ustion if need, evacuants, discutients, fomentations, diet dry, attenuant, and abstersive, ptisan with honey, broths, and hydromel, &c.

8. The dropsy of the breast, which is caused, by the descent of a serous matter, or collection there, the nutritive viscera being scirrhous, &c. it's cured, by evacuation, prevention, purgers, of gialap, &c. diureticks, apertion, cauteries, fontanels, and diet, as in the drop­sy.

9. The luxation of the vertebra's of the back, and gibbosity, caused by causes external and internal; it's cured, by restitution, plaisters, inunctions of roborants and consolidants, and surgery, putting the hands behind the back, &c.

10. The fracture of the spine and wounds of the spinal marrow, which are caused, by causes external, and cured, by cataplasmes, &c. as in the wounds of the brain.

11. The dorsale tabes, which is caused, by too much venery, too much bloud oppressing the insite heate of the spinal marrow, exsiccation of the passages, and distillations; it's cured, by fluid decoctions, purgers, fomentations, frictions, inunctions, baths, inciding and [Page 358] attenuating diet, and moderation &c. asses milk, and soft meate.

12. The wormes of the back, which are caused, by a viscous matter, in the capillary veines, shut under the skin, and turned into wormes by reason of transpiration hindered; they are cured, or re­moved by sudatory baths, and frictions with bread and honey, using a razer after it when they have put forth their heads, &c.

13. The luxation of the ribbs, which is caused, by violence, above, below, or inwards; it's cured, by restitution, if upwards by suspen­sion and compression; if downwards, by prone incurvation, and compression; if inwards by attrahent plaisters, and if with inflam­mation, by the ireat diachylon.

14. The fracture of the ribbs, which is caused, by violence; and cured, by conjunction, colleticks, aver­ters, and attrahent plaisters, ligature, diet thin, and rest, &c.

15. The falling of the mucronate cartilage, which is caused, by external violence, distillations, and humours, &c. it's cured, by elevation, evacuation, inferiour ligature, compression, and turning the head downwards with concussion, cupping-glasses, humectants, exsic­cating strengtheners, roborants, astringents, and cerots, &c.

VI. The symptomes of the lungs and breast.

1. The vices of respiration, which are caused, by distempers of the lungs, straightness of the breast, defect of animal spirit, hurt of the thoracick muscles and diaphragme, pain, wounds of the lungs, inflammation, moving muscles, luxation and fracture of the ribbs and vertebra's, muscles of the abdomen hurt, narrownesse of the nostrils or mouth, ob­struction of the larynx and rough artery, use changed, and vice of the aire, &c. they are cured, according to the cause.

2. The asthma and orthopnoea, that is a frequent, thick and anhelose respi­ration, caused, by a great obstruction of the lungs, by viscid and se­rous humours, and tubercles, &c. it's cured, in the paroxysme, by frictions, ligatures, suppositories, clysters, venesection, if need, purgers, discutient topicks, and laxants, internal lenients, atte­nuants, detergents, and expectorants, mithridate, oxymel, mille­pedes, thin diet, and ptisan with saffron; out of the paroxisme, by phlebotomy, preparers, evacuants, inciders, abstersives, humecters, cock broth, syrup of tobacco, helleborate oxymel, attenuants, in­ciding and detersive lohochs, with repetition and mutation, syrup of elecampane with oile of sulphur, diabutyrum, rotuls, external emollients and discussers, attenuants, actual cauteries, dryers, powders, & the decoction of guajacum; if from a serous humour, by evacuants, and sudorificks; if from tubercles stones or drynesse, as [Page 359] in the diseases of the breast; hot and attenuating diet in the first, fumes, hysop, saffron, almonds and other pectorals, mellicrat, de­coction of gua [...]acum, moderate sleepe with the head elevated, wal­king before meate, f [...]ictions, much exercise, and motion, &c

3. Suffocation or strangulation, which is caused, when the aire neces­sary for the ventilation of the heate of the heart, is not attracted, and the fumes are not sent forth, by reason of obstructions, or tu­mours, &c. it's cured, as aforesaid, and if from hanging, by vineger with pepper, aromaticks with wine, wrapping wool wet in hot irine oile about the neck, epileptick waters, aqua vitae, &c. if re­coverable; if from vapours, or fumes, by the same, as also things to be used in the straightnesse of the brain &c. if by water, by han­ging up by the heeles, causing vomit by putting the finger into the mouth, the decoction of barley, or chamomil, mulse, aqua vitae, and fumes, &c. if from poysonsome toadstooles, by vomitories, with the salt of vitriol and oxymel, &c.

4. The vice of the voice and speech, which is caused, the beginning of the nerves being affected, & vocal instruments, or matter deficient, humectation, resolution, contusion, incision; hoarsenesse from asperity, obtusenesse from viscid matter, trembling from imbecility, so abruptnesse, slow­nesse from humours passing into the spinal marrow, and thoracick nerves, if clangose from siccity; so speech also, & stutting and stam­mering from humidity; they are cured, according to the cause, and hoarsnesse, if from a catarrhe, by remotion, lenients, intercipients, & arteriacks; if cold by calefacients, dryers, and lenients; if thick, by inciders, abstersives, lenients, levigants, lohoch sanum, & de pino, syrup de erysimo, & oxymel of squils; if hot & thin, by incrassants, lenients, lohochs of poppy, syrup of violets, and diacodium, &c. if from external heating & drying causes, by lenients & refrigerants, and lohoch of poppies &c. if from great intension of the voice by arteriacks, syrup of licorice, dryers, & discutients, if from cold by calefacients & extersives if need.

5. The cough, which is a vehemēt, frequent, & sounding efflation of much breath, first attracted by the lungs, caused, by a contraction of the lungs, and breast, that what is troublesome to the respiratory organs, may be expelled, sc. cold aire, humours, vapours, or matter, &c. it's cured, if from asperity, by lenients and levigants, syrup of jujubs, poppies, and the laudan opiat, &c. if from distemper, if hot, by syrup of licorice, and coo­lers; if cold, by that of hyssop, and inunctions; if from catarrhs, by evacuants, averters, derivation, and intercipients, arteriacks, bechicks, pectoral syrups, and decoctions, &c. if from a hot thin, [Page 360] and sharp matter, V.P. by evacuants, revellers, intercipients, stop­pers, refrigerants, incrassants, lenients, concocters, digesters, pre­parants, diacodiated conserve of roses, &c. white bechick troches, syrups, lohochs, opiats, and liniments, &c. if from phleg­me, V. P. by hot attenuants, inciders, abstersives, hot pectorals, syrup of hysop, oxymel of squils, lohoch sanum, &c. in children by dryers, detersives, diasulphur, pectoral powders, & roborants; if from matter contained in the breast, &c. according to the causes as aforesaid, using hot diet if cold, with aromaticks, and hot pecto­rals, & mulse; butter, oile of sweet almonds &c. if dry; things sweet, lenient and dilatant if a catarrhe; ptisan, emulsions and milk if hot, without a feaver; hydromel, and bread with the seed of fennel and aniseed.

6. The paine of the breast, which is caused by humours and flatulency, sent by the veines and arteries, &c. it's cured, by remotion of the cause, by anodynes, fomentations, decoctions, after venesection and purgation, &c. discussion, suppuration if need, & scarrification with universals.

7. The haemoptysis, which is a re­jection of bloud, with a cough, out of the parts belonging to respi­ration, without an inflammation of the same, caused, by solution of continuity by anastomosis, diaeresis, or diapedesis; it's cured, by re­vulsion, by phlebotomy, frictions, ligature, and cupping-glasses, corrigents, temperants, purgers, coolers, dissolvers, averters, a­stringents, agglutinants, opiats, syrup of comfrey, powders, cly­sters, frictions, ptisan, and diaspermaton, with rest and quiet &c.

VII. The diseases and symptomes of the heart.

1. The diseases of the pericard, which are wormes, caused, by putrefaction, and are cured, or killed by garlick, radish, cresses, tansey, gentian and myrrhe, being humected in water, & used to the mouth of the in­fant.

2. The distempers of the heart, which, if they are caused, by heate, they are cured, by refrigerants, cordial waters and syrups, &c. topicks, diet, and purgers if need; if from cold, by calefacients, internal & external; if moist, by diet, & dryers; if dry, by humecters; if of the whole substance, by alexipharmicks; if tabid, use the juyce of radish.

3. The palpitation of the heart, which is a composit mo­tion thereof, expelling what is troublesome, attracting what is profitable, and restoring what is deficient, inordinate, from dilata­tion and subsidence, caused, by vapours, humours, tumours, worms, defect of spirit, and hot distempers; it's cured if from flatulency and vapours, by phlebotomy, apertion of the haemorrhoids, evacuation by epicrasis, discutients, corroborants, oile of citrons, electuaries, syrups, epithems, unguents, odorats, & clysters, &c. if from humours, [Page 361] by phlebotomy, purgers, discutients, internal and external, dryers, vesicatories, cauteries; and corroborants; if from wormes, by evacuants, and bozoardicks; if from defect of spirits, by re­ficients and corroborants; if from heate, by antifebriticks, &c. with suteable diet.

4. The imbecility of strength, which is caused, by the defect of spirits, & innate heate & humidity primogenit; & is cured, by temperants, cordials, odorats, and vineger, odoriferous and re­stauratory waters, juleps, electuaries, & analeptick & polytrophick diet, &c.

5. The lypothymy and syncope, or fainting, which is a quick and suddain defect of all the forces, chiefely, the vital, with a pulse almost abolished, and cold sweat, caused, by great debility of the heart, vice and defect of the vital spirits, the rest of which flow from the body, to the center: It's called also eclysis, leipop­fychy, and asphyxie, &c. it's cured, in the paroxysme, by conser­vation and cherishing of the spirits, applying rosewater, vineger, and cordials, irrorating the face and temples, epithems, fomenta­tions, sacculs, inunctions, wine, aqua vitae if cold, frictions, con­cussion of the body, noise, & friction of the tongue, if from dissipa­tion by rest, if from defect of spirits by wine having bread dipt in it; if from corruption of the spirits, by friction, cupping-glasses, vo­mitories, purgers, cordials, & alexipharmicks; If from evacuation, by friction, ligature, cupping-glasses, & stoppers; if from sweating, by astringents, & irroration with rosewater, using the oile of roses and quinces to the breast armepits and groin, &c. smelling on coo­ling things, & taking syrup of limmons & wood sorrel; if from suf­focation, by frictions, ligatures, & cupping-glasses; if plenitude, by phlebotomy; if from the quantity of crude juyce, by friction, using oile of chamomile after it, oxymel, & fasting; in feare, by evacuation; out of the paroxysme, by analepticks, and corroborants; if from paine, by lenients, stupefacients, and cordials with things respecting the cause; if from a thin matter troubling the stomach, by aloephan­gin pils, tamarinds & laxative syrup of roses, contrary diet, gellies, and broths, with the juyce of citrons, &c. according to the cause.

I. The diseases of the oesophagus.

1. The distemper thereof, which is a recesse thereof from the natural temper, to that, which is preternatural, caused by heat, cold, moisture, or drynesse; it's cured, by contra­ries, as that of the ventricle, if hot, by refrigerants, as by the syrup of violets, water of purslane, &c. buttermilk, & refrigerating drinks; if cold, by heaters; if dry, by ptysans, broths, butter, and oile of sweet almonds; if moist, by heaters and dryers, fumes, and topicks.

2. The swelling thereof, which is an excesse in magnitude, and [Page 362] caused, as other tumours, and is so cured, by things pleasant, repel­ling topicks, avoiding vomitories, except to break abscesses, using phlebotomy if hot, clysters, lenients, diet of refrigerants, with coo­lers, resolving topicks in the increase and discutients in the state, using inwardly the lohoch of pine, and syrup of jujubes, &c. things fat and emplastick if suppurating, and abstersives, so if cold, with resolvers, and maturants, &c.

3. Straightnesse, there being an imminution of its meatus, caused, by things external, tumours, wormes, vapours, and luxation it's cured, if from tumours, as others; if from externals, by vomit, or detrusives, concussion of the back; coughing, oxymel, oile o [...] sweete almonds, fat broths, buttered ale, emollient and humecting cataplasmes, probes, sponges oleated, and instruments; if inflammation, by suppurants; if from wormes by scolecobroticks; if from phlegme, by evacuants, scillitick oxymel, and vomit; if from depression of a vertebra, by restitution.

4. Relaxation, which is caused, by a moist distemper, catarrhs, and vomiting; and cured, by astringents taken and applied, quin­ces, peptick powders, sacculs, liniments and plaisters.

5. Wounds thereof, caused, by things dilacerating, and are cured, as those of other parts, using syrup of dry roses, and the myrtine with bole, and digestives, &c.

6. Ʋlcers, which are caused, by sharp hu­mours, and vapours, &c. and are cured, by abstersives, melicrat, hordeat water with red sugar, mucilages, goats milk chalybeated, and consolidants, as syrup of dryed roses, &c. if by aqua fortis, by syrup of violets &c. if from poyson, by vomitories, mucilages, fat broths, and lenients.

7. Deglutition hurt, which is caused, by reso­lution thereof, the faculty being hurt, by the resolution of the nerves of the sixth and seventh conjugation, also by defluxion, di­sease, convulsion, or from parts affected; it's cured if from resolu­tion by paralyticks used to the neck and spine, mustard with vine­ger taken, and gargarismes; if from other causes it's cured as afore­said.

8. Things by chance swallowed down, are to be removed by le­nients, the decoction of mallows, oile, fat broths, purges, using things viscid if the thing be sharp; &c.

II. The diseases of the ven­tricle.

1. The distempers thereof, which are a preternatural con­stitution of its similar parts, in the first qualities, caused, by inward or outward alterants; they are cured, by venesection, contrary al­terants, grateful in smell and taste, and solid used some time before drinking, and then not drinking what is tepid, too much relaxing or attenuating, and with astringents, avoiding things acrimonious, too salt or corrosive, & strong purgers, using coral, the inward tu­nicles [Page 363] of the ventricles of henns, and other birds, myrobolans con­dite, avoiding great quantities of meat or drink, things ungrateful, lubricants, and relaxers, and frequent vomiting, &c. if without matter and cold; it's cured by heaters with broth and humecters, internal and external, flesh of good nutriment with aromaticks, wormwood wine, oenomel; mulse, shunning cucumers, barley, cold meats, long sleepe and idlenesse, &c. if hot, it's helped by in­ward and outward refrigerants, and cooling meate and drink, of easy concoction, ptisan, hordeats, things acid without aromaticks, not salt, or sweet, and cucumers &c. being easily corrupted, but sharp things, using the hordeat decoction, vitriolated juleps, emul­sions, & buttermilk, &c. if humid, by dryers; without much heate and coldnesse, external and internal, mountain birds, rosted flesh, with vineger and salt, red wine absinthiated, and exercise. If dry, by humecters, of easy concoction and distribution, internal and ex­ternal, aliment of easy concoction, much and good juyce, not ex­crementitious and humid, ptysan, fresh eggs, fishes, chickens, veale, lamb, and other soft flesh, almonds, sweet apples, milk, shunning things austere and astringent, moderate meate and drink, eating thrice in a day, at first; if complicat, it's cured accordingly; if with matter, it's cured by evacuation, alterants, preparants, eme­ticks, mild catharticks, as aloes, agarick, mechoacan, rubarb, and sena; if with choller, by coolers, humecters, and cholagogon's, if thin by emeticks, manna, tamarinds and solutive syrups and aloes and thubarb if thick, &c. hiera, topicks, ptysan, things acid, chic­ken broth with lettuce, barley water, and smal beere; if cold and moist with phlegme, by heaters, calefacients, and dryers, vomito­ries, lenients, oxymel if grosse, preparers, alterers, diatrion pipe­rion, diacalaminth, stomach pills, roborants, aromatick diacydo­niats, pepticks, topicks, sack, and mulse, &c.

2. Inflation, which is caused, by flatulent matter, and debility of heate, &c. it's cured, by discussers of flatulency used inwardly and outwardly, vomito­ries, purg [...]s, preparers if grosse, cupping-glasses, castor with oxy­crat, topicks, attenuating and discutient diet, meate of good juyce, easily concocted, and little in quantity, long sleep, drink little, and hypocratick wines, &c.

3. Inflammation, which is caused, by bloud, preternaturally shed out of the veines; it's cured, by vene­section, revulsion by cupping-glasses, frictions, clysters, pulp of ta­marinds, whey, repellers internal and external, resolvers, ano­dynes, emollients, maturants, rumpents, sternutation, vomit, con­cussion, abstersives, hydromel, the hordeat decoction, consoli­dants, [Page 364] conglutinants, thin diet, ptisan, chicken broth with lettuce, juyce of quinces, things astringent & cooling at first, & barley water with cinamon.

4. The oedema, which is caused, by a cold, thick, & pi­tuitous matter, & is cured, by oile of roses with that of wormewood used, taking syrup of wormwood & colat rosate honey, inward & outward resolvers, maturants, rupture, abstersives, & cōsolidants.

5 If deglutition of things offensive, they are to be expelled thence, by lu­bricants, the decoction of mallows, common oile, fat broths, buttered ale, purgers, lying on the right side, and walking; if living creatures, by the fume of tepid milk, or fume of shooe soles, carduus benedi­ctus water, & vomiting with milk; if generated there of the sperme taken with water, use dittany with gentian water, and zedoary and citron seed, centory, triacle with spirit of wine, and alo [...]ecticks, &c.

6. The wounds of the ventricle, which are caused, by violence, they are cured, by phlebotomy, clysters, and future if penetrating, with tents, unguents, and liniments, taking the myrtine syrup, and that of dryed roses, troches of sealed earth, applying the barbarum plaister, eating a thin, and sparing diet, of much nourishment, easy concoction, and good juyce, abstaining from things acrimonious, and biting.

7. The ulcers thereof, caused by things external, acri­monious, apostumes, and ruptures of veines, &c. and are cu­red, by phlebotomy, & lenients, sc. the syrup of roses solutive, & hiera picra, detersives, dryers, barley, honey, and saccharate water, mulse, glutinants, and cicatrizants, applying the plaister de crusta­panis, &c. & abstersives with the meat & drink, after use consoli­dants and astringents, the juyce of quinces, meat of easy concocti­on, good juyce, and drying, shunning things bitter, acrimonious, salt, acid, and too sweet and fat, using ptisan, amygdalats, & yolks of eggs, &c.

III. The symptomes of the ventricle.

1. The anorexy, or decay of appetite, which is caused, by the defect of the sense of sucking, in the superiour orifice of the ventricle; it's cured, according to the cause; if their be no sucking, by removing the cause; if from humours, by fasting, exercise, friction, v [...]mit, pur­gation & aloetieks; if from rest, by exercise; if from cold & moisture, by heaters and dryers; if by constipation of the pores, by laxants, baths, & frictions; in obstruction by aperients; if from the vice of the sentient faculty, according to the cause; if from the hurt of the nerve of the sixth conjugation, by strengthners of the brain, using things salt, acid, and sharp, vineger, and things pleasant; if from heat and corrupted humours, by correctors, and evacuants, shun­ning things laxant, fat, oleous, & unpleasant, using capers, worm­wood [Page 365] wine if cold; water if hot, & meat & drink heating, drying, and attenuating if cold and moist, sleepe not long, and eating with appetite.

2. The loathing of certain meats, which is caused, by idiosyncrasy, custome, and imagination, &c. it's helped or cured, by customary use by degrees, and compulsion &c. if from imagi­nation.

3. The boulimos, and dog like appetite, which is a continual and unsatiable desire of eating, caused, by a vehement sense of sucti­on in the mouth of the ventricle, joyned sometimes with vomi­ting, sometimes with a diarrhoea, arising from indigence of aliment, and cold, acid, and austere humours; it's cured, if from a vellicant humour, by vomit, purgation, using ano­recticks, fat, grosse, & oleous, fat broths, narcoticks if need, spirit of wine, triacle, mithridate, abstaining from things acid and astringent, alterants, preparants, salviate wine, evacuants, hiera, roborants, bacon, topick densants, and much sleepe. The boulimos, is a great periodick appetite, often ending in nauscousnesse, with li­pothymy and weakenesse, caused by cold, &c. it's cured, in the paroxysme by frictions, the smell of bread wet in wine, and vine­ger, and taking thereof, and after, with sorbile eggs, and broths, &c. as in the cold distemper of the ventricle, & by heating topicks.

4. The pica, or depraved appetite, which is an absurd desire, of some substance liquid or solid, as aliment, besides nature and reason, caused, by a sad sense of suction, and corruption of the judgement, discerning things fit and unfit to be eaten, from a bilious excre­ment, imbibed by the tunicles, troubling the mouth of the ven­tricle, by a peculiar propriety of its substance, it's cured, by eva­cuation, vomits, preparants, & purgers; if not great, by venesection below, roborants, and consumers of humours, diamoschum, diam­bra, triacle, mithridate, rue, quinces applied with oile of roses, pleasant meats, capers, bitter-almonds, broths, things acid, strong subastringent wine, in some measure gratifying those that are great.

5. The appetite of drink lost, which is caused, by a cold and moist temper of the ventricle, or a sweet cold humour sticking in the orifice of the ventricle, &c. hindering the sucking thereof, it's cured, if from moisture and coldnesse, as appetite so lost; if with madnesse, obstruction, or distribution hindered, it's to be obser­ved, and more is to be drunk; as for hydrophoby, it may be seen above.

6. Polydipsy, or excessive thirst, which is a greater and more frequent desire of accostomed drinking, by reason of a sad sense of sucking in the mouth of the ventricle, caused, by the de­fect of humidity, and alteration of proper humidity, it's cured, if [Page 366] from a defect of rotid substance, by humecters and coolers, muci­lages, emulsions, prunes, quinces, crystal, coral, rob of ribes, cold water if need, vineger if from heate, and oxyerat if with drynesse, spirit of vitriol & nitre, if without it, by acid syrups, lotions, & epi­thems; if without a feaver, by purgation with hiera, and mastick pills and correctors; if with a feaver, by hypoglottides, collutions, and potions in the declination; if from heate of the lungs, by aire altered with cooling flowers, and violets, &c. smelled to; if from the dropsy, nitrose and corrupted humours, by mucilages and fat things, diet cooling and moistening, ptisan if bilious, shunning things sharp, salt, and bitter; if in the night, by sleepe.

7. Symp­tomes in the retention of meat and drink, which are palpitation, cau­sed, as the inflation of the ventricle, and cured, so. The convulsion thereof, which is caused and cured, as the singult, and dry distem­per thereof: Its trembling, caused from quantity of meat, or cold distemper, as aforesaid; and the convulsion, caused and cured as the bilious distemper, and they are all cured according to their causes.

8. Chylosis hurt, or the imbecility of the stomach, which is a vice of the concocting faculty, by reason of which, it conco­cteth not at all, slowly, or depravedly, and it's called apepsy, bra­dypepsy, or dyspepsy and diaphthora, the two first are caused, by cold chiefely, and the third by heat when the corruption is nido­rous, and cold when acid; it's cured, by remotion of the cause; if from cold, by heaters & alterers, cinamon water, & spirit of mastick; if nidorose, by vomit and purgation, with things acid, and a fit diet, moderate drinking, sleeping first on the right side, &c.

9. The singult, or hicket, which is a convulsive motion of the sto­mach, consisting of the tension and dilatation of the fibres of the superiour part, by which the expulsive faculty being irritated, it tryeth to expel things hurtful to the tunicles of the stomach, chiefely of the mouth and oesophagus, and that with a noise, and vehement contorsion, caused, by an adverse or vellicant matter; it's cured, by milk, purselane, syrup of violets, and laudan opiats if vehement; if from cold, by retention of the breath, &c. as in the cold distemper of the ventricle, cinamon water, and castor, applying oile of pepper, and using aromaticks; if from flatulency, by heaters, bayberries, dianisum, and mithridate &c. if from too much evacuation, by humecters, coolers, hordeats, emulsions, pti­sans, and broths, &c. if from sharp things, by oile of sweet al­monds, and ptysans; if from corrupt meate and repletion, by vomit or purgation with aloes, and rubarb, with detersives and resol­vers; [Page 367] if from hot and sharp humours, by vomit or purging, with lenients, ptisan, goats milk, syrup of roses, purslane, emulsions, al­mond milk, manna, and cerot of saunders; if from a cold humour, by extenuants, inciders, melicrat, oxymel, syrups of roots, dia­trion piperion, mastick pills, plaisters, cupping-glasses, sternutato­ries, vociferation, and motion; if from malignant matter, by triacle water, & sealed earth, &c. if from wormes with scolecobroticks, &c. if with a feaver by removing the cause, by vomits, lenients, stupe­facients, alexipharmicks, clysters, ptisans, & emulsions, &c. if from inflammations, as aforesaid, and diet according to the cause, as in distempers of the stomach.

10. Ructation or belching, which is a depraved motion of the ventricle, caused from the expulsive fa­culty excited, by which vapours and fumes from meat not rightly concocted, are expelled by the mouth; it's cured, by remooving the cause, as in distempers of the ventricle, altering hot or cold distem­pers, evacuating remedies, discussing flatulency, evacuating cor­rupted humours and helping mittent parts: Hereto belongeth rugitus.

11. Nauseousnesse and vomiting, that is a vaine desire to vo­mit, with molestation, violence, and anxiety, by which the ven­tricle, contracting the inferiour parts and dilating the superiour, endeavoreth to expel things troublesome unto it, but by reason of imbecility, paucity, or contumacy of the matter, it expelleth no­thing out of the mouth, except a thin and waterish humour; thus also is vomit caused, when matter is expelled; it's cured, by revul­sives, and roborants, by clysters, suppositories, purgers, phoenig­mes, synapismes, hot lotions of the extremes, using the rob of ribes, barberies, myrtine syrup, & that of dryed roses, diacydoniats; fomentations, plaisters of the crust of bread, & stomachick cerots; if the matter be crasse and viscid, by attenuants with abstersives, mi­thridate, the conserve of roses vitriolated, cinamon water, &c. as in the cold distēper of the ventricle, using the aforesaid plaister, cup­ping glasses used to the bottome of the stomach, & opiats if need; if from debility by roborants and astringents; if from the inflamma­tion of the inferiour orifice, as the rest; if from narrownesse, by eating and drinking little; if from quantity of meat and drink, by fasting and sleepe, with a vomitory if need; if from humours, by preparers, and evacuants, using salt broth if sharp; pils if melan­cholick; antidots if venenate, &c. according to the cause; if of bloud, by phlebotomy, mulse, oxymel, ribes, syrup of dryed ro­ses, and troches of sealed earth, &c. with fit diet, abstergent and roborant; if there be superfluous vomiting, quinces, rost meat, and [Page 368] astringent wine &c. using various meates, fat and sweet, if vomi­ting be to be caused.

12. The cholerick passion, which if humid, and true, is a continual and immoderate rejection of an ill humour, both upwards and downwards, with a vehement perturbation and violence; caused, by the expulsive faculty, greatly irritated, by a sharp and corrupted matter; it's cured, if from meat corrupted or ill choller, by promovents, temperants, and abstersives; if not ex­cessive, it's to be committed to nature, else it's to be helped by te­pid hordeat water; if excessive, it's helped by purgation, stoppers, sudorificks, ligature, frictions, & alterants; if the matter be hot, by diacydoniats, rob of barberies, and ribes, &c. if not so hot, by the rotate aromatick, using outwardly refrigerants & astringents, juyce of purslane, plantain, plaister of the crust of bread, &c. anodynes, and narcoticks if need, using sweet smells, meat of good juyce and easy concoction, with coral, crystal, and mace, ribes, wormwood, and things actually hot; if dry, and notha, or spurious, it's an ex­cretion of a flatuous spirit upwards and downwards, with an in­flation of the belly, noise, and paine of the loines and sides, caused by fiery heat, sharp and flatuous aliment, and black choller; it's cu­red, by eduction, ablation, discutients, alterants, clysters, lenients, ptysans, and fit diet.

13. The paine and anxiety of the ventricle, with a painful sensation thereof, caused, by things distending or bi­ting, and so dissolving the continuity thereof; sc. flatulency, hu­mours, and external causes; it's cured, by narcoticks and anodynes if need, mucilages, things fat and emplastick, emulsions, and robo­rants; if from externals, by vomiting and purging, roborants, cy­doni [...]ts, robs, conserves, fomentations, and good diet; if from phlegme, by vomitories, purgers, and heaters; if from flatulency, as the inflation of the ventricle, by discutient clysters, cupping-glas­ses, triacle, alexipharmicks if malignant, averters if sympathetick; if syncoptick sweates, by inunctions of myrtine oile, and coral; and if from the xyphoid cartilage, as before, meat of good juyce, astrin­gents, austere wine, heaters and dryers if cold, & rue &c.

14. The heat of the stomach, which is an ebullition of humours therein, cau­sed, by preternatural heat, so that the heat thereof reacheth to the throat, from sharp and bilious vapours and humours, it's cured by alterants, acid fruits, chalk, and bole, &c.

15. The preternatural excrets thereof, and it's qualities changed, which are helped accor­ding to the cause.

IV. The diseases of the intestines,

1. The distem­per thereof, which is caused, by coldnesse, heat, moisture, and dry­nesse; it's cured, by things moderately astringent, potions, & clysters; [Page 369] if cold, by heaters, wormwood, diatrion pipe [...]ion, electuary of bay-berries, sacculs, hot oiles, plaisters of bay-berries, heating clysters, and contrary diet; if hot, by coolers, purslane, barley, and clysters, &c. if humid, by dryers, coral, sumach, chalybeats, the myrtine syrup, oile of myrtles, diaphoenicon plaisters, and fit diet; if dry, by humecters, clysters, milk, and butter, &c. if with matter, by corrigents, lenients, appropriate for each humour, taken by the mouth or in clysters, before meat, with a sparing and contrary diet, roborants, averters, frictions, cupping-glasses, repellers, derivation, sensible and insensible evacuation, &c.

2. The inflammation of the intestines, which is a tumour of the same, caused, by extravasate bloud, flowing thither, and putrifying there; it's cured, by cly­sters, phlebotomy, anodynes, refrigerants, inunctions of oile of roses, austere wine and vineger, cooling clysters, revulsives, liga­tures, cupping-glasses, lotions, discutients, lenients, plaisters of mucilages, anodynes, & laudan opiat if need; if from the enterocele, by emollient clysters, cataplasmes, and reposition, so if from an exomphalos, using fat broth, so also if from contusion, with a thin refrigerating diet, & ptisan, abstaining from hot things.

3. The nar­rownesse of the intestines, which is caused, by external binders and dryers, faeces hardned, and inflammation, &c. it's cured, if from things binding and drying, by humectants and emollients, taken and injected, veale and kidds flesh boiled, fat broths, oile, milk, and emollient clysters; if from fasting, by the aforesaid meates, ea­ting a little and often; if from the faeces hardned, by lenients, and clysters, fat broths, prunes, oile of sweet almonds, beetes, manna, cassia, cataplasmes, and ointment of marsh mallowes, &c. if from thick phlegme, by sharp clysters, inciders, abstersives and evacu­ants; if from shutting of the anus, by section, avoiding the sphinc­ter.

4. The wormes therein, which are little animals, preternatural, caused, or begotten of or by a thick, tough, and viscid humour, having in it a vital principle in its kind, from a vivid heat, suscitated by putrefaction, hurting the intestine functions; they are cured, or killed by things bitter, sharp, salt, and acid, coralline, wormeseed, scordium, vineger, & spirit of vitriol; if sharp, by wormewood, and fearn root, &c. if broad, by walnuts, and triacle, fearn, aloes, aga­rick, rhubarb, colocynthis, and all by diaturbith, diasebesten, rhubarb, harts horn, liniments, clysters, hiera, and mer [...]. d. &c. if ascarides, by suppositories, clysters, with scolecobroticks, &c. and diet of good juyce, and easy distribution, and sorrel water if feaverish, bread with lupines and brownish, vineger, and purse­lane, [Page 370] &c.

5. The intestinal hernia, or rupture, which is a falling of the intestines out of their place, caused, by rupture or laxation; it's cured, by reposition after resupination, with discutients if flatulent, cly­sters, inunctions, & anodynes; if the faeces be hardned, by emollients, and section if need, retention, bands, glurinant topicks, astringents, dryers, specificks, bole, the arietine plaister, fomentations, vul­nerary potions, rupturewort, traumaticks, & magneticks, so also are other ruptures cured.

6. The falling down of the fundament, which is a prominency of the exteriour part of the straight intestine, cau­sed, by straining, irritation, or resolution; it's cured, by reposition, emollients if need, astringents, red wine, mastick, galls, and su­mach, &c. if from straining, by laxants; if from acrimony, by al­terants as in the tenesmus; if from solution, by consolidants; if from imbecility, by fumes of frankincense, fomentations, oiles, & standing on the head, &c.

7. The wounds of the intestines, which are caused by violence; they are cured, by future, reposition, astringent wine, aloes, frankincense, mastick, consolidants, conserve of red roses with bole, diacydoniats, clysters, astringent powders, and mastick drink, &c.

8. The ulcers and sphacelus thereof, of which see more in the dysentery.

9. The diseases of the straight intestine. sc. the inflammation of the anus, caused, by the effusion of bloud; it's cu­red, by phlebotomy, repellers, anodynes, discutients, and matu­rants if need, &c. the condylomata, thymi, ficus, and cristae, are cured by surgery, squams of brasse, and juyce of mullen, and alum, &c. the fisures, or rhagades, are helped if dry, by humecters; if from vi­tious humours, by alterants, and lenient evacuants; if the faeces are hard they are to be mollified with clysters, and topicks, V.P. if humid and virulent, by plantain, barley, alum, and unguents; if ulcers, by dryers and binders, abstersives, and cleansers, with milke, mulse, aloes, and the ointment diapompholigos, &c. if fistula's, by washing, with the decoction of agrimony and alum, V.P. aegyptiacum, siefs, tents, section, astringents, and ca­thereticks, &c. as in other ulcers; If galling, by tallow, goose grease, oile of roses, yolks of eggs, and ointments of litharge or ce­russe, &c.

V. The symptomes of the intestines,

1. The iliack passion, which is a great paine, in the smaller intestines, caused, by a vio­lent solution of continuity, with a swelling of the belly, and twi­sting of the same, with such an obstruction thereof, that no­thing can descend, but the humours and excrements, are some­times violently expelled by vomit, by reason of the inverse motion of the intestines, from inflammation, retention of excrements, or [Page 371] exulceration, or flatulency; it's cured, by suppositories, emollients, humecters, clysters, inunctions, oiles, cataplasmes, and fat broths, &c. if from inflammation, it's cured as other inward inflammations; if from tumours and exulceration, it's almost so cured; if from faeces hardened, by emollition, and evacuation, &c. as in the collick thence, inunctions, fomentations, cataplasmes, clysters, baths, fat broths, oile of sweet almonds, & fresh butter, &c. & Hippocrates his bellows.

2. The collick, which is a paine of the colon, caused, by things dissolving continuity, sc. wormes, inflammation, stones, thick and viscid humours, hard faeces, and flatulency, &c. it's cured, by anodynes and narcoticks if need, clysters, fomentations, specificks, and fit diet; if from flatulency and excrements retained, by clysters emollient inciding, abstersive, discutient, anodyne, oile of sweet almonds taken, and parmacity, the decoction of chamo­mil, castor, diacyminum, dianisum, oile of rue, plaisters of bay­berries, fat broths, sharp clysters, and, hydrargyrats if need, and Hippocrates his bellows; if from the stone, by lubricants and ex­pulsives; if from worms, by scolecobroticks; if from transposition of the intestines, and falling, by reposition, & diet thin and little; if the humour be cold and thick, with attenuants and discutients, as garlick, thin wine, and things that are not hard or astringent; if from wormes, by anodyne discutient clysters, and fomentations, taking rhubarb, benedicta laxativa, and clysters of new milk after it; if from thick and viscid humours sticking in the tunicles, by at­tenuant discutient clysters, lenients, attenuants, purgers, mode­rate heaters, oiles, fomentations, Agrippa's ointment, and that of sowbread, sparing and extenuating diet, of good juyce and easy concoction; if from a sharp and scorbutick humour, by drinking cold water, injecting oile of roses, and chamomile, &c. tamarinds, manna, melicrat, whey, oile of sweet almonds taken, narcoticks if need, & thin and refrigerating diet; if from inflammation, as afore­said.

3. The retention of the belly, which is when there is no de­jection of faeces, or very little, in respect of what was taken in­wards, caused, by a small quantity taken, want of acrimony, and hurt of the faculty; it's cured, by things lubrifying, sc. butter, and things sharp and nitrous, clysters, whey, drinking last, aloes, walking barefoot, & coloquintida, &c.

4. The lientery, and coeliack affection, which is too quick an excretion, of aliments by the belly, in that forme, in which they were taken, caused by the vice of the retentive and expulsive faculty of the ventricle and intestines; it's cured, by roborants and astringents, diacydoniats, [Page 372] robs, troches of sealed earth, inunctions, unguents, plaisters of the crust of bread, and fomentations; if caused by the retentive faculty weake, by preparants, syrup of wormwood, vomitories, mastick, astringents, galingal, theriack salts, oile of wormwood outwardly, sinapismes, dropaces, meate of easy concoction, good juyce, and dry, and red wine, &c. if from the expulsive faculty irritated, by the syrup of roses solutive with the decoction of tamarinds, abster­sives, dryers, and astringents, vomitories if need, rhubarb, hor­deats, cydoniats, fomentations, unguents, plaisters, refrigerants, little drink, and long sleepe, &c. so also is the coeliack affection helped, differing only in degree from the other, and is a quick pas­sage, of things eaten and drunk, out of the stomach to the inte­stines, by reason of which they passe out like chyle or cremor.

5. The diarrhaea, which is an immoderate, frequent, and long de­jection of the belly, by which the excrementitious and purer hu­mours, stimulating the expulsive faculty of the stomach and inte­stines by quantity or quality, doe flow out, without phlegmon, lientery, exulceration, tenesmus, or much sense of paine, caused, by things irritating or debilitating; it's cured, by evacuants, revul­sives, and stoppers, phlebotomy, purgers, rhubarb, myrobolans, tamarinds, vomitories, friction, ligature, diureticks, sudorificks, roborants, astringents, and narcoticks if need; if there be a chy­lous flux, by aperients, rotules of diarrhodon abbatis, and diachy­lon applied, &c. according to the part affecting; if a toto and with a feaver, by alterants and roborants; if excessive by abster­sives, temperants & abstersives, evacuants, & revulsives, outwardly, by oile of quinces, and stomachick cerots, friction, and venesection if symptomatick; if colliquative, by refrigerants and humecters, with astringents, ptisans, cold water, syrup of ribes, purslane and quinces, buttermilk, clysters, cooling epithems, refrigerating hu­mecting and astringent meats, hordeats, amygdalats, and coral; if from the whole without a feaver, by lenients, roborants, tama­rinds, thubarb, syrup of roses solutive, coral, oxysaccharats, vomi­tories, diureticks, & abstersives; if serous, by wormwood wine, and chalybeat water, applying the plaister of the crust of bread; if from the ventricle & corrupted meats, by evacuants, roborants, vomito­ries, clysters, adstringents, & stomach pills; if from worms, by scole­cobroticks; if from the liver, and a bilious humour, by evacuation with rhubarb, abstersive clysters, syrup of succory, alterants and astringents, troches of sealed earth and spodium, astringent epi­thems, cerot of saunders, and hydroticks, &c. if from the spleen [Page 373] and melancholy, by venesection, polypody, diacatholicon, tempe­rants, the byzantine syrup, clysters, astringents, fit diet, aperients, and scorbuticks if need; if from the womb, by aperients, evacuants, astringents, and roborants; if from the brain, by preparants, eva­cuants, diversion by frictions, ligatures, cupping glasses, errhines, sacculs, not sleeping soon after meat, roborants, vesicatories, about the first and second vertebra of the neck, setons, issues in the armes, triacle, decoction of guajacum, and sudorificks; if in in­fants breeding teeth, if from phlegme, by purgers and stomachick cerots; if from corrupted milk, by syrups, anointing the gumms with butter; if from hypercatharsis and poyson taken, by abster­sives, chalybeat milk, ligatures, frictions, fomentations, cupping-glasses, below the stomach, astringents taken, rob of ribes, opiats if need, clysters, bezoarticks, and cardiacks &c.

6. The dysentery, which is a frequent bloody and purulent dejection, with paine of the belly, and exulceration of the intestines, caused, by sharp cor­roding matter, peculiarly troubling the intestines; it's cured, by venesection, purgation by tamarinds, tosted rhubarb, diacarholi­con, potions, boles, syrups, clysters, vomitories, diureticks, sudo­rificks, alexipharmicks, mitigants, roborants, anodynes, abstersive clysters, narcoticks, opiats if need, astringents, emplasticks, con­serves of red roses, rob of barberries, emulsions, electuaries, mi­cleta, rotules, troches of sealed earth, topicks, saccules, insessions, mundificants, sarcoticks, and cicatrizants; if from purgers, by ab­stersives, theriacks, & stomachick cerots; vomits if from poyson, fat broth, ptysans, antidots, and cristal, &c. fit diet, meat of easy con­coction, milk, barly water, hydromel, sealed earth, partridges, hens, hares, conserve of roses, diacydoniats, drinking little, red wine, sleep, and rest.

7. The bloody flux and hepatick, that is cau­sed, by fulnesse or acrimony and heate; and is cured, by slender diet, frictions, cupping-glasses, and venesection, temperants, juyce of plantain & troches of sealed earth, &c. if hepatick, it's caused by the imbecility of the liver, and defect of innate heate; if legitimate, it's cured by roborants, the liver of geese, ducks, hepatick herbs with astringents, rubarb, conserve of roses, topicks, heating diet, of good juyce and easy concoction, and raisins, &c.

VI. The symptomes of the anus,

which are.

1. The paralysis, which is caused by the af­fection of the nerve of the sixth paire, from which the intestines, receive nerves; the same is cured, as that of other parts: The itching of the anus, is caused by a salt viscid and biting humour, wormes, and ulcers; if with a tenesmus, it's so cured; if from a salt [Page 374] humour, by evacuants, washing with plantain water a little alum, or juyce of dane-wort; if from faeces, they are to be washed away with the decoction of mullen; if from wormes, by clysters, & terebinthine suppositories; if from ulcers, by mundificants; The paine of the anus, is helped by washing with milk, anodynes, and narcoticks if need.

2. The tenesmus, which is a continual cupidity of evacua­tion by the belly, with paine, in which nothing or very little is evacuated, caused, by too much refrigeration, the stone or wormes, and bilious pituitous and salt humours; it's cured, by uni­versal evacuation, abstersion, roborants, lenients, fomentations, com­mon oile, syrup of poppies, and the laudan opiat if neede, suppo­sitories of fat, and powder of frankincense, abstersives, the deco­ction of barley, if bilious; if from hardned faeces, by emollient cly­sters; if from wormes, by clysters of hiera and wormewood; if from refrigeration, by sacculs of mints, &c. if by consent, it's so cured.

3. The hemorrhoids, being a flux, and excessive dejection of bloud, through the hemorrhoidal veines, caused, by things irritating the expulsive faculty, and hurting the retention; they are cured, if swelling, by friction and anodynes, re­vulsives, laxants, the rosate and poplar unguent, as also scro­phulary, mullein, sealed earth, laudan opiats if need, derivation, manna, frankincense, the rupture plaister, the white of an egge, thin and humid diet, cassia, barley water, and bole, &c. the sup­pression thereof is helped by mitigation of pain, and apertion, after universals, and friction, &c.

VII. The diseases of the mesentery.

1. The distemper of the same, which for the most part is hot and dry, cau­sed, by a like matter, and is cured, by purgers and clysters.

2. The obstruction thereof, which is caused by gross and viscid chyle, fla­tulency and humours; it's cured, by moderate aperients, prepa­ranes, purgers, tartar vitriolat, vomitories, diureticks, and chaly­biats.

3. The inflammation, which is a tumour of the same, cau­sed, by humours carried out with the nutrient bloud, into the spaces thereof, or such as is impacted in the glandules, and putre­fying by external heate; it's cured by phlebotomy if need, mode­rate refrigerants, lenients, rhubarb, with whey, diureticks, ab­stersives, anodynes, thin diet, cooling, abstersive, aperient, ptisans, emulsions, barley water, and sleepe, &c.

4. The tumours, &c. thereof, which are caused, by crude, thick and tartareous hu­mours; they are cured if turned into abscesses, by cyprus turpen­tine with rhubarb exsiccants and consolidants, meat of good juyce [Page 375] and easy concoction, temperate, abstersive, smal beere, the de­coction of china with licorice, and asses milk, &c.

5. The paine of the mesentery, which is a troublesome sense thereof, caused, by a hot and sharp matter, driven into its membrans, with a continual paine of the belly and loins, by intervals, afflicting chiefely in the autumn, and sometimes it's distributed into the head and whole body; it's cured, by clysters, vomitories, drinking oile of sweet al­monds with manna, applying oile of violets and white lillies, &c. and anodynes and narcoticks if need. As for the diseases of the pan­creas, sc. the obstruction & scirrhus thereof, they are cured, as those of the spleen: And the tumours, situation changed, putrefaction, and wounds of the omentum, they are cured accordingly.

VIII. The affections of the spleen.

1. The distemper thereof, caused, by things too much heating, cooling, moistning, or drying; it's cured, by contraries, and helped by things bitter, nitrous, and having a cer­tain astriction, the hemorrhoids opened, preparants, pills of tartar, troches of capers, the oile thereof, melilot plaisters, shunning vis­cid meats, and using thin wine, &c.

2. The obstruction of the same, which is a stoppage thereof, caused by thick humours; and it's cured, by aperients, attenuants, inciders, evacuants, tartar vi­triolat, caper troches, pills of tartar, vomitories, chalybeats, robo­rants, topicks, oile of capers, and diet not obstructing or viscid, capers, aniseed, mustard, and drinking out of tamarisk vessels.

3. The inflation of the spleen, which is an elevation of the same into a tumour, caused by flatulency, from viscid humours, &c. it's cured, by evacuation if need, inward and outward discutients, as diacyminum, diacalaminth, oile of capers and bayes, and cupping-glasses.

4. The inflammation of the same, which is a swelling of it, caused by bloud, flowing into the substance thereof; it's cured, by phlebotomy, repellers with inciders, preparants, evacuants, re­solvents, suppurants if need, diachylon, detersives and consoli­dants, and fit diet as in other inflammations.

5. The scirrhus thereof, which is a hard tumour of the same, caused, by a thick glu­tinous, and hard humour, it's cured, V. P. by emollients, attenu­ants, and aperients, things bitter, purgation with sena and mercu­rius dulcis, &c. as in its obstruction, troches of capers, chalybeat electuaries, outwardly by emollients, digerents, the plaister of am­moniacum, and meate of good juyce, attenuating, hysop, capers, & tamarisk wine, &c.

6. The ulcers of the spleen, which are caused, after wounds, not well cured, they are cured, by expurgation, ab­stersion, and consolidants, using hydromel if evacuated by vomit [Page 376] or the belly, with emulsions if by urin, & frankincense & mastick &c. to consolidate.

7. The wounds thereof, caused, by violence, they are cured, by vulnerary potions, clysters, and diureticks, if need.

8. The proper actions of the spleen hurt, which are caused by ex­ternal errour, or diseases, and are so cured.

9. The paine of the spleen, which is caused by the solution of continuity, and tension of the membran; it's cured, according to the cause, by anodynes and nar­coticks if need.

10. The black jaundise, which is a mutation of the skinn of the whole body into black, and is caused as the yel­low, and it's cured, if from yellow choller corrupted, as the yel­low, with things purging melancholy; if from the vice of the spleen, by correctors, aperients, evacuants, chalybeats, discutients with diaphoreticks, laconick baths, and tenches applied to the ab­domen, and soles of the feet.

11. The hypochondriack melancholy, or affection, which is a collection of vitious humours, in the rami of the vena portae, coeliack artery and mesenterick, caused, by rea­son of coction hurt, without putrefaction, and causing many symp­tomes, by the emission of vapours, with crudity of the ventricle, paine, stypticity of the belly, flatulency, anxiety, palpitation of the heart, pulsation in the left hypochondrium, drynesse of the tongue, difficulty of respiration, and perturbation of the brain, &c. it's cured, by phlebotomy, opening of the haemorrhoids, lenients, vo­mitories, preparants, purgers, sena, and diacatholicon, &c. mallow seed taken, tartar vitriolat, refrigerants, attenuants, aperients, diu­reticks, the extract of black hellebore, chalybeats, wormwood, baths, cephalick averters, dissipants, frictions, lotions, scarrifica­tions, issues, the confection of alchermes and of hyacinth, meat of good juyce, easy concoction, temperate, and not viscid, lamb, veale, soft eggs, saxatile fishes, capers, barly, succory, white wine, wormwood wine, and mean sleepe, avoiding passions.

12. The scurvy, which is a cachexy, caused, by a melancholick humour, corrupted in a peculiar manner, with a debility of the leggs, spots, swelling of the gums, and bloudinesse, loosenesse of the teeth, and other symptomes; it's cured, by the hemorrhoids opened, phlebo­tomy after a clyster, preparants, tartar vitriolate, purgers, confe­ctio hamech, antiscorbutick pills, powders, boles, specisicks, sc. scurvy-grasse, cresses, brooke lime, decoctions, potions, waters, electuaries, chalybeats, diureticks, sudorificks, baths, things robo­rating the ventricle, liver, spleen, heart, and lungs: as for its symp­tomes, they are cured accordingly; sc. difficulty of respiration and narrownesse of the breast, by thoracick antiscorbuticks, fumitory, [Page 377] scurvy grasse, pleres archonticon, and the confection alchermes; if laxity putrefaction and stinke of the gumms, by abstersives, things hindering putrefaction, astringent, drying, diamoron, oxymel scil­liticum, spirit of vitriol, collutions, waters of the aforesaid herbs, liniments, powders, and dentifrices; if exulcerations of the jaws, by washing with scurvy-grasse water, and roborants; if spotts, by re­solvers, discutients, and emollients; if paines, by anodynes with antiscorbuticks, resolvers, and discutients, emollient and humecting clysters; if an arthritis, with appropriats; if stupidity, trembling, the palsey and convulsion, by emollients, resolvers, and discussers; if contraction and rigidity, by emollients, and discutients; if excesse of sleepe, by water cresses; if lipothymy, by antisyncopticks with anti­scorbuticks; if stink of breath, by things hindering putrefaction, and antiscorbutick discutients; if vomiting, by milk; if too much spitting, by avoiding things sharp and hot; if flux of the belly, by wormwood, diversion by sudorificks, wormwood wine, syrup of roses solutive and rhubarb, &c. if heate in the night, by butter milk, with unctions; if feavers, by scorbutick universals, inciders, and digerents, &c. if hard tumours, by fomentations, emollients, & discutients; if an erysipelas, by the water of elder flowers &c. in the dropsy, by inciders, and attenuants, &c. if ulcers, by evacuants, temperants, scorbuticks, and the tutty ointment, &c. if an atrophy, by the resumptive ointment, goats milk, red french wine, &c. with antiscorbuticks, avoiding a melancholick thick and tartareous diet, of hard concoction, and old, using ptisans, broths, goats milk with scorbuticks, the rosat aromatick, things acetose in feavers, & rheinish wine, with moderate exercise, sleepe, & watching; its prevented, by observing the same diet, and shunning society with the affected, and the causes, &c.

IX. The diseases of the liver.

1. The distemper thereof, which is a deflexion of the same, from the natural tem­per, caused by things external and internal; and is cured, by the livers of living creatures, and moderate astringents; if hot, by re­frigerants, phlebotomy, cooling hepaticks, ptisan, limmons, small beere, barly water, and whey; if cold, by heaters, specificks, meat of good juyce, and hypocratick wine; if moist, by dryers, astrin­gents, diatrion santalon, &c. if dry, by humectants, emulsions, and marsh mallow ointment, &c. if compound, by composit reme­dies; if with matter, by revulsives, repellers, and roborants, eva­cuants, alterants, diureticks, epithems, derivation and discutients.

2. The obstruction of the same, which is a straightnesse of its vessels, caused, by matter filling their cavity, and hindering the distribu­tion [Page 378] of aliment; it's cured, by phlebotomy, lenients, preparants, aperients, syrups, and unguents, &c. according to the cause, and attenuating diet with capers, &c. if the vessels are opened, they are shut by astringents, ribes, quinces, troches of sealed earth, and mastick plaisters, &c.

3. Inflation, which is caused, by vicine parts, or flatulent meats; it's cured, by discutients and repellers, diacyminum, discutient fomentations and oiles, and attenuating diet.

4. Inflammation, which is a hot tumour thereof, caused, by impacted bloud, putrifying in the substance thereof, with a conti­nual feaver, gravative pain, and sense of pain in the right hypo­chondrium; it's cured, by clysters, phlebotomy, repellents, discu­tients, cupping-glasses, lenients, preparants, evacuants, topicks, astringents, roborants, resolvents, diaphoreticks, maturants if need, rosat honey, hydromel, vomitories if need, and ustion and incision, thin diet, ptisans, chicken broth, with the foure greater cold seedes, and barly water, &c.

5. The scirrhus of the liver, which is a hard swelling thereof, without paine, caused by a thick humour impacted in the substance thereof; it's cured, by preparers and purgers, emollients, inciders, attenuants, and moderate discu­tients; if in the flat part, use pills of ammoniacum and rue, with syrup of eupatorium, chalybeat wine, attenuating diet, shunning things thick and viscid, using thin drink and capers, &c. hereto be­longeth the tumour of the liver, caused by a viscid humour, and cru­dity, &c. it's cured by aperients, inciders, purgers, discutients, and almost as aforesaid.

6. The stone of the liver, which is caused and generated, as that in other parts, and cured, as that of the reines, and scirrhus of the liver. And the hydatides thereof, caused, by an aquose and serous humour, generated by the sanguification of the liver hurt, are cured, as the dropsy.

7. The wounds of the liver, which are caused by violence, and cured, by venesection if need, clysters, rhubarb, astringent and glutinative potions, tro­ches of spodium, roses, and rhubarb, myrtine syrup with bole, &c. using outwardly, astringent and glutinative plaisters, ointments of bole, mumy and turpentine, and cataplasmes; so in the contusion of the liver, using dissolvers, rhubarb, parmacity, mumy, bole, sealed earth with vineger, with myrrh and other roborants, thin diet, & glutinative, rice, jujube water, and sugar of roses, &c.

8. The ul­cers of the liver, which are erosions thereof, caused by purulency, or humours, and are cured, by phlebotomy, catharticks, mundifi­cation by a hordeat ptysan, the decoction of china or sarsaparilla, exsiccants, sc. scabious, sage, the cyphoid troches, and consoli­dants.

X. The symptomes of the liver,

which are. 1. The imbecility thereof, which is a hurt of the faculties of the same, caused, by di­stempers, sanguification hurt, attraction, or retention, it's cured, by roborants, livers of living creatures, snailes, raisins, and contrary hepaticks; if hot, by roses and saunders; if cold, by agrimony, and wormwood, & rhubarb to strengthen, with diarrhodon abbatis, & juyce of quinces, &c.

2. The cachexy, which is a diffusion of the whole body into an aquose and tumid softnesse by reason of the vice of nutrition, caused, by pituitous, crude and serous bloud, from impure aliment, and vessels; it's cured, by phlebotomy if need, purgation, vomitories, roborants, and laxants, troches of worm­wood, rhubarb, and lacca, dialacca, and diacurcuma, &c. cachec­tick powders, chalybeats, cauteries, cachectick pills, hot and dry aire, diet thin, drying, of good juyce, and easy concoction, attenu­ants, and abstinence, avoiding things cold, thick, and aquose, and long sleepe, keeping the belly open.

3. The dropsy, which is a tumour of the body, or part thereof, preternatural, caused by a collection of an aquose and serous humour, or flatulency, from a cold distemper of the liver, extinction, dissolution, or dissipation; it's cured, by lenients, & remedies continued and varied, sometimes abstaining from them.

4. The ascites, which is a distension of the abdomen, caused, by an aquose, serous and salt humour, shed into the capacity of the abdomen, by reason of the vice of the liver, spleen, and reines, with a swelling of the feet, thighs, and some­times of the scrotum; it's cured, by preparants, purgers, tartar vi­triolate, jalap, pills of rhubarb, diacarthamum, diaphoenicon, juyce of elder, diagridium, elaterium, crocus metallorum, diaturbith, pills of mechoacan and mezereon, medicate wines, the spiritus au­reus of Ruland, and his hydragogick extract, antihydropick cly­sters, external purgers, Agrippa his ointment and that of sowbread, diureticks, sassafras, diacurcuma, dialacca, troches of capers, can­tharides, sudorificks, loconick baths, paracentesis, cupping-glasses used to the navil, apertion of the scrotum, scarrification of the leggs, cauteries, veficatories, theriack salts, triacle, mithridate, oile of elder, the martiat ointment, fumes, washing the leggs with salt water, friction with oxyrrhodine, alterants, aperients, troches of rubarb, wormwood, with syrup of eupatorium, & chalybeats; if from colliquation, it's cured by alterants, refrigerants, and evacu­ants, cataplasmes, epithems, inunctions, diureticks, discutients, dry diet and aire, moderate sleepe, bread well fermented, branny, with aniseseed, fennel seed, and cumin, mountain birds, roste [Page 380] meat, the livers of living creatures, and aromaticks, hopps, cresses, mustard, raisins, bitter almonds, capers, olives, white diuretick wine, & wormwood, in thirst, washing the mouth with vineger & chalybeat water.

5. The tympanites, which is a distension of the abdomen, caused, by much flatulency, excited by weake or torre­facient heate, shut up in the capacity thereof; it's cured, by eva­cuating the matter, and remooving the cause, by discutients, & dissi­pants, pills of hiera with agarick, stomachick, aggregative, and of rhubarb, dianisum, diacalaminth, electuary of bay-berries, discu­tient clysters, cupping-glasses, plaisters of bay-berries, friction with the juyce of garlick, oile of rue and bayes, sacculs of anise and cu­min-seed, plaisters, diet not flatulent, and sassafras wine.

6. The anasarca, or leucophlegmatia, which is an equal increase of the quantity of the whole body, preternatural, caused, by the vice of the aliment, by reason of immoderat refrigeration of the liver and veines▪ with a concrete water; it's cured, by venesection if need, evacuation, by vomit and purgation, also by urin, syrup of two and five roots, hysop, and water of carduus benedi­ctus, danewort, agarick, diacarthamum, diaturbith with rhubarb, benedicta laxativa, pills of hermodactils, frictions, baths of salt water, and laconick, cataplasmes of dry cow dung with oxymel and sulphur, leven with salt, scarrification of the leggs, the dryed flesh of land urchins, and triacle salts, roborants, diureticks, dialacca, diacurcuma and troches of rhubarb and wormwood, diet drying heating and attenuating, rosted, drinking the decoction of guaja­cum or fassafras, drinking little.

7. The pain of the liver, which is caused by inflammation and flatulency; it's cured, by phlebotomy, cupping-glasses, preparers, purgers, and topick discutients, anoin­ting with oile of wormwood, bitter almonds, rue, and spike, using diagalanga, & diacinnamomum, avoiding things flatulent.

8. The jaundise, which is an effusion of a yellow or greenish humour, into the habit of the body, caused, by much choller, hot and dry di­stemper of the liver, inflammation, compression, and obstruction; if from obstruction, it's cured, by aperients, syrups of rootes, tar­tar vitriolat, purgers of manna, rhubarb, diacatholicon, aggrega­tive pills, vomitories, thin diet, and bitter almonds, &c. if from the heate of the liver with a feaver, by venefection if need, al­terants, and roborants; if critical in acute feavers, by friction, sudo­rificks, and looking upon things citrine; if symptomatick in fea­vers, by removing the feaver, using purgers and diureticks; if from inflammation of the liver, by remooving the inflammation; if from [Page 381] the biting of poyson some creatures and poysons, by alexiphar­micks, vomitories, triacle, mithridat, bezoar, extrahents, & troches of camphire, & the black as above said.

XI. The diseases of the veines;

1. The distemper thereof, if caused, by heat and drynesse, it's cured by refrigerants and humecters, conserves, syrups, waters, and e­mulsions, epithems, oiles, the rose ointment, cerot of saun­ders, a leadden plate there worne, diet of ptisan, the foure greater cold seeds, ribes, and barly water; if cold, by calefacients, oiles, and the martiat ointment, aromatick diet, agarick, cassia with turpentine, and benedicta laxativa.

2. The straightnesse of the vessels in the reines, which is caused, by compression or obstru­ction, it's cured, if from crude and grosse phlegme, by vomitories, inciders, detersives, diureticks, the syrup of rootes, and spirit of salt and vitriol; if from grumous bloud, by oxymel scilliticum with the decoction of mugwort, mumie, myrrhe, and the curd of a hare, &c. if from the stone, as that.

3. Apertion of the vessels, which is caused, by a hot and moist distemper, it's cured, by things adstrin­gent and consolidating, as plantaine, bole, sealed earth, coral, mu­my, and the haematite.

4. The stone of the reines, which is a solid substance, mucilaginous, limose, tartareous, having a li­thopoietick faculty, arising in the reines, by the help of heat, caused, by a lapidescent juyce, from the feculency of aliments; it's cured, by avoiding grosse meates, using that which doth at­tenuate and incide, flesh of weathers, calves, yolks of eggs, bread not without bran, saxatile fishes, bitter almonds, mallows, sperage, evacuation, by often vomiting, lenients, syrup of ro­ses solutive, cassia, manna, rhubarb, turpentine, lithontrip­ticks, nephritick wood, ivy, spirit of salt, and temperants; if coagulated, by evacuants, clysters, venesection if neede, ungu­ents, plaisters, oile of sweet almonds, and ointment of marsh mal­lows, inwardly use cassia, licorice, and marsh mallows, diureticks, lithontripticks, and the nephritick stone, &c. anodynes, diachy­lon simple with the oile of scorpions, and ointment of marsh­mallows, &c.

5. The wormes thereof, which are killed, by scole­cobroticks: The haires thereof, generated of a thick humour dryed there, are cured by attenuants, inciders, and a moistning diet.

6. The inflammation of the reines, or nephritis, is a swel­ling of the same, caused, by bloud, shed into their substance, and putrifying there, joyned with a vehement paine, and fibrous and sandy excretions; it's cured, by venesection, cupping-glasses, friction, ligature, evacuation by cassia, tamarinds, rhubarb, [Page 382] the lenitive electuary, diacatholicon, clysters, emulsions, conserve of violets, oile of violets, epithems, diureticks in the declination, suppurants if need, using the decoction of barley, and applying mallows; rumpents, using the decoction of liquorice, abstersives, consolidants, thin cooling and moistening diet, ptisans, juleps of roses or violets, or small drink, rest, and emollients.

7. The scir­rhus thereof, caused by thick humours, it's cured by emollients and digerents, fat broths, & the decoction of mallows, using oile of sweet almonds outwardly, and of white lillies, &c. the tabes, which is caused by things hot and dry; is cured by humectants of good juyce, milk, baths of sweet water, &c. as in the hectick.

8. The wounds of the reines, which are caused by violence, they are cured V.P. by glutinants; if deepe, cast in austere wine, using a cata­plasme of dates, troches of carabe, with horse taile water, sealed earth, & turpentine, applying oile of scorpions, & bitter almonds, use diet of good juyce, emulsions of the foure greater cold seeds, ptisans, forbile eggs, barley water with liquorice, drinking little, and rest.

9. The ulcers of the reines, which are caused, by an abscesse of a phlegmon, or the stone; and are cured, by fit diet, venesection if need, mitigants, temperants, and evacuants, mallows, hordeats, syrup of violets solutive, the lenitive electuary, turpentine, deter­sives, mulse, ptisan with honey, asses milk, consolidants, bole, co­ral, troches of spodium and sealed earth, decoction of guaiacum, diet of good juyce, easy concoction, and not easily corrupted, pti­sans, rice, flesh of hens, mountaine birds, lambs, sweet almonds, milk, and little drink &c.

10: The diseases of the ureters, which are caused, chiefely by the reines, if obstructed, they are cured, as the reines, by fomentations with mallows, oile of sweet almonds, scorpions, the ointment of marshmallows, and cupping-glasses; their wounds & ulcers are helped as the former.

XII. The symptomes of the veines.

1. The imbecility thereof, and the secretion of the serum hurt, caused by cold or straightnesse, inflammation, the stone, grosse phlegme, clotted bloud, or matter, it's cured according to the cause; if from cold, by warming clysters, aromatick consecti­ons, using unguents, and plaisters, diureticks if from imbecility, and radish wine; if from narrownesse, as in that of the reines.

2. The diabetes, which is a most speedy and copious evacuation of drink not altered, caused, by the intense attraction of the reines, and afflicting with great and perpetual thirst; it's cured, by tempe­rants, venesection if need, astringents and roborants, red roses, plantain, coral, and spodium, opiats if need, epithems, liniments, [Page 383] the cerot of saunders, and Gallen's refrigerant, &c.

3. The ne­phritick paine, which is caused, by the stone or gravel, and sharp sanies; it's cured, by phlebotomy if need, emulsions, anodynes, emollient clysters, decoctions of mallows, fomentations therewith, ointment of marsh mallows, and cupping-glasses, &c.

XIII. The di­seases of the bladder.

1. The distemper thereof, caused, by heat or cold, if so, it's cured by calefacients, nutmeg, licorice, and juniper berries, applying oile of nard and dill.

2. The stone of the blad­der, which is begotten, and caused, as that of the reines, and it's so cured, sc. by prohibents, fit diet, necessary evacuations, ab­stersives, lithontripticks, and expulsives, millepedes, diuretick de­coctions, injections, and section, &c. as in the stone of the reines.

3. Wormes of the bladder, which are caused, by a pituitous humour, and are cured, or killed by abstersive diureticks, with scolecobro­ticks.

4. The distension of the bladder, which is caused by obstru­ction, or too long retention of urin; it's cured, by emollients, and laxants, & use of the catheter; its inflammation is cured by phlebo­tomy, refrigerants, repellents, after using anodynes & laxants, cly­sters, syrup of violets, poppies, & conserve of violets, applying oile of roses & chamomil, maturants if need, emollients if scirrhous, sc. cassia, &c. & the cath [...]ter if need.

5. Wounds thereof, caused by vio­lence; they are cured, by glutinants, anointing with oile of white lil­lies & mastick, &c.

6. Scabbednesse of the bladder, caused by sharp and salt humours; it's cured, by evacuation with the syrup of roses solutive, manna, cassia, temperants, & the four greater cold seeds, ap­plying things cooling & consolidating: The ulcers thereof, are hel­ped, by temperants, syrup of violets, diverters, cassia & turpentine, abstersives, barley water and honey, injections, consolidants of bole, sealed earth, mastick, troches of winter cherries, juyce of horse-taile, Gordonius his troches, milk and emulsions if from can­tharides, amygdalats, mucilages, diet of good juyce, easy conco­ction, and glutinative, milk, barley, and rice, &c. its fistula's, are helped by cassia, diachylon with gumms, cyprus turpentine, ab­stersives, and epuloticks, &c.

7. The refrigeration of the sphincter, which is caused, by external refrigerating causes, it's cured, as the resolution of other parts.

8. The narrownesse of the urinary passage, which is an interception of the same, caused by obstruction, consti­pation, and compression, occasioning a suppression of urin; it's cured, according to the cause; if from the stone, by concussion & the catheter, compression downwards, a cochleary probe, and section; if from clotted bloud, by oxymel, mulse, & syrup of maiden haire; if [Page 384] from thick phlegme, by attenuants and inciders, insessions, oile of rue, scorpions, and the catheter; if from compression, according to the cause; if from a caruncle or callus, it's to he remooved.

9. The caruncle, callus, and excrescencies therein, caused, by viscid humours, and are cured, by consumers of flesh, and consolidants, V. P. the decoction of china and sarsaparilla, drying it with a dry wax candle, and injections, &c.

XIV. The symptomes of the bladder.

1. The stupidity of the sphincter, which is caused by the affection of the nerves of the sixth conjugation, refrigerated, obstructed, or compressed; it's cured, by fomentations, oiles, unguents, and plai­sters, &c.

2. The ischury, which is a suppression of urine, caused by the frustration of the expulsive faculty, so that none thereof can passe out, from diseases of the bladder, sc. stupidity, distemper, narrownesse, too much extension, and vices of the reines and ure­ters; it's cured, according to the cause; if from stupidity, the heat is to be excited, and suppositories are to be used, and the cathe­ther, or a cerare candle with honey of roses, injections, mulse wa­ter, fomenting with the decoction of chamomil, anointing after with the oile of scorpions, nard, and rue, drinking little, and using liniments, &c.

3. The diminute excretion of the urin, when in a lesse quantity, caused by crisis, & laxity of the belly, it's cured, by foments, cataplasmes, loosening unguents, violets, & feed of fenigreek, &c. if slow, by diureticks, stimulants, & quickners.

4. The strangury, which is an excretion of urin made by drops, with, or without a feaver, with a continual stimulation to evacuate, caused, by a continual stimulation, of the expulsive faculty, by reason of the affection of the sphincter, or debility of the retentive faculty; it's cured, if frō biting humours, by universal gentle purgations, syrup of roses solutive, manna, diaprune, diacatholicon, cassia, turpentine, temperants, syrup of roses, violets, poppies, licorice, baths, insessions, emul­sions, & whey if from salt phlegme, with sugar of roses if putulent; if from new drink, by oxymel; if from refrigeration, by diagalanga, triacle, and mithridat, applying oile of rue, and mastick plaisters; if from consent, by fomentations & other topicks, ptisans, milk, fresh eggs, flesh of good juyce and easy concoction, white wine, the de­coction of barley and licorice, shunning what may cause acrimony.

5. The dysury, which is an excretion of burning urine, sometimes of little, sometimes of much, with torment, without interruption, caused, by things external and internal, affecting the urinary pas­sage; it's cured, by remotion of the cause, lenients, syrup of violets, decoction of mallows, jujubs, & liquorice; using outwardly, the oile [Page 385] of sweet almonds, poppies, clysters, injecting new milk, and e­mulsions, and using narcoticks if need; if from poyson, by cassia, mallow water and alexipharmicks; if from cantharides, by milk, mucilages, emulsions, syrup of violets, and poppies, &c.

6. The involuntary excretion, and incontinency thereof, caused by the rela­xation, and imbecility of the sphincter, it's cured, if from reso­lution, by contrary corrigents, diacyminum, frankincense drunk in wine, calamint, mints, & sulphurious and aluminous baths, anoin­ting with oile of wormwood; in incontinency, drinking little at night, abstaining from diuretick wine, and whatsoever may moove the urin to the bladder.

7. The rednesse of the urine, which is caused, by a thick and crude humour; if without heat, it's cured by heaters and wine; if bloody, caused, by anastomosis, erosion, or dia­pedesis, it's cured by remooving the cause, by astringents if from laxity; if erosion, by occludents; if rupture, by consolidants; if from the quantity of blood, by phlebotomy using astringents, conden­sants, obturants, and consolidants, medicines of red roses, plantain, acacia, bole, sealed earth, coral, troches of spodium, sealed earth, and those of Gordonius, applying the cold diaphoenicon plaister, & that against rupture, &c. if from the bladder, by injections; if bloud be coagulated, by oxymel and mummy, meat of good juyce mixt with astringents, & red austere wine, mixed with chalybeat water, abstaining from things sharp, &c. if black, it's helped by fumitory & diureticks; if pilare, it's helped by clysters, & potions.

8. The excretion of urine, by other passages, which when acciden­tally caused, may be cured, by diureticks, turpentine, oxyrrho­dines, and lotions, &c.

XV. The diseases of the genitals in men.

1. The distemper of the testicles, which if caused by heate, it's cured, by internal and external refrigerants, lettuce, violets, en­dive, purslain, poppies, emulsions, fomentations, fit diet, ptisan, and juyce of citron and limons; if cold, it's helped by internal and external heaters, betony, calamint, marjerom, cinamon, pepper, cubebs, the rosat aromatick, diasatyrion, diambra, and the sweet diamoschum, anointing with oile of spike, nutmeg, mace, and pep­per, &c. meat of good juyce, much nourishment, moderately hot and moist, sorbile eggs, parsly, and onions, &c. if moist or dry, by humectants, and dryers.

2. Inflammation thereof, caused, by bloud preternaturally flowing thether, and is cured, as other inflamma­tions, by venesection, cupping-glasses, evacuants, repellers, cata­plasmes of barley and bean meale, epithems of rose water, plantain, and quinces, with ligature upwards, intercipients, defensives, of [Page 386] bole & the white of an egge, & plaister against ruptures, digerents with repellers afterwards, oile of roses, chamomil, and the poplar ointment, diachylon with oile of roses, refrigerants and laxants if painful, cataplasmes of the leaves of henbane, if need, aperiēts if sup­purating, cleansers, & consolidants; if inflation, by discutients, barly meale with axunge and pigeons dung, with the leaves of henbane, if need, &c. if hard swellings, and scirrhous, they are helped, V.P. by emollients and discutients, oile of bitter almonds, ointment of marshmallows, martiat, and diachylon simple and compound, and section if need, or amputation.

3. mutation of situation, which if caused by laxation, & cold, it's cured, by purgers, & hot exsiccants, applying cataplasmes of sage, &c. if retracted, they are helped, by emollients, and laxants.

4. The wounds thereof, are caused and are to be cured, as those of other parts, by venesection if need, clysters, inunction with oile of roses, [...]igerent and roborant cataplasmes, and diapalma; if ulcerous, they are helped by purgation, mundification with the ointment of the apostles, and the aegyptiack, washing with the decoction of roses, with frankincense, plantain water, and red wine, & ointment of miniū, &c.

5. The diseases of the scrotū, which, if it be an inflammation, it's caused and to be cured, as that of the te­sticles, so the wounds: the excoriation thereof is helped, by pom­pholix, myrrhe, and frankincense, &c. the ulcers thereof are helped as those of the testicles; the gangreen is helped as the rest.

6. The rupture, which is a swelling of the same, caused, by the omentum fallē into it, or flatulency & water gathered there, or flesh there be­gotten; it's cured, if ventose, called pneumatocele, V.P. by discutients, as in the flatulent collick, rue, aniseseed, bayberries, sacculs, fomenta­tions, anointing with oile of rue, chamomil & bayes, discutient ca­taplasmes, plaisters of bayberries, or melilore, abstaining from fla­tulent meat; if aquose, called hydrocele, it's cured by prohibents and evacuants, apertion, defensives, digestives, mundificatives, discu­tients, fomentations, cataplasmes, inunctious, oile of chamomil, rue, the plaister of Agrippa, and arregon, cauteries if need, and ampu­tation; if carnose, called sarcocele, it's cured, V. P. by repriments and exsiccants, section if need, and ustion, and cataplasmes; if va­ricose, called cirsocele, caused by melancholy, it's cured, V. P. by melanagogons, exsiccants, washing often with the water of cy­presse nuts, with suspension, some use emollients, and discutients, baths, oile of sweet almonds with bdellium, and cataplasmes: stones therein are to be removed by section.

7. The diseases of the penis, sc. the distortion thereof, caused, by venery, and is cured, by ab­staining [Page 387] from it, putting in a leaden or silver pipe, with ligature, and astringents, &c. as in the hernia: the inflation, is helped by dryers and discutients as in the pneumatocele; its inflammation, is helped as others, by phlebotomy, and purgation if need, using re­pellers in the beginning, & resolvers in the augmentatiō, which are to be increased in the state, and after to be applied alone; if tuber­cles, by ligature with silk, after applying alum rose-water & tutty, section, stoppers of bloud, digestives, and defensives; if imperforat, by apertion, and a pipe with oile of roses; if wounds, as the rest, using litharge, cerusse washed, myrrh, sarcocol, tutty prepared, and tragacanth, used as a powder, or unguent, with oile of roses; if ulcers, by abstersives and dryers, aloes, pompholix, water of ro­ses, plantain, hydromel, alum water, the white ointment campho­rat, & diapompholigos, if in the glans; if old & putrid, by hydro­mel with alum, the Apostles ointment, and aegyptiack; if virulent, by precipitate, &c. if betwixt the glans and prepuce, by the green water, or wine with honey of roses; if the ulcer be creeping, by incision; if neere a gangreen, by defensives, aegyptiack and the Apostles ointment, and amputation if need; if an ulcer in the pas­sage, it's helped by ptysans, amygdalats, shunning things sharp, acetose, salt, and diuretick, temperants, evacuants, injections of ab­stersives and glutinants, plantain and horse-taile water, and tro­ches of winter cherries with cicatrizants.

8. The diseases of the prepuce, sc. the phimosis, or too much covering of the glans, caused by conformation, or ulcers &c. it's cured, by section, dry lini­ments, & the white of an egge with rose-water; if callous, it's to be mollified with the oile of sweet almonds, putting in a pipe, and making it larger by degrees; if with a defluxion, by emollients and discutients, and tepid milk; if a paraphimosis, or retraction of the prepuce, use a thin and cooling diet, purge with cholagogons if need, use phlebotomy, and refrigerating ointments, and the laudan opiat, if need; if from an impure congresse, by cold thin diet, eva­cuants, and cataplasmes; if there be a coalitus of the frenum, it's helped, by section, applying the white of an egge, digestives, and drying plaisters; if there be a fissure of the prepuce, use oile of ro­ses, amylum, and frankincense.

XVI. The symptomes in the genitals of men.

1. The generation of sperme hurt, which is when it is not generated, or such, as is not prolifick, caused by vice of the matter, or faculty hurt, &c. it's cured, according to its causes; if by the vice of the whole body or any principal part, it's helped accordingly; if distemper, by correctors, and specificks, &c. the greater roots [Page 388] of satyrion, artichoacks, sperage, rapes, garlick, onions, dates, sweet almonds, cubebs, oisters, diasatyrion, diambra, and sweet diamosch, syrups, eryngo roots, applying oile of mastick, bread of wheat, rice, almonds; sorbile eggs, veale, kids flesh, weathers, hens, partridges, pheasants, young pigeons, sparrows, shelfishes, figgs, pease, beanes, garlick, carrots, & mirth, shunning ebriety, & refrigerating meats.

2. Erection, and ejaculation of sperm hurt, when the genital cannot be erected or extended, caused by the defect of vital spirit, or resolution; it's cured, if by defect of sperm, or di­stemper, by heaters, inunctions with oiles and unguents, oile of costus and musk, &c. if from distorsion, according to the cause, as aforesaid; if a node, by astringents, and fomentations; if a double foramen, by scarrification of one, and occludents; if laxity of the passage, by dryers, and sulphureous baths; if the sperm be aquose, by incrassation.

3. Salacity, priapisme, and satyriasis, the first is too great a propension to venery, caused, by the vice of the sperm, and sometimes so great, that it's turned into fury. The second is an ere­ction of the pudend, about the desire of venery, caused by a fla­tuous spirit; filling the fistulous nerve of the genital. The third is a palpitation of the pudend, following an inflammatory affection of the spermatick vessels, with tension; the first is cured, by phle­botomy, temperants, and evacuation of sharp humours, spermos­besticks, and refrigerants, agnus castus, lettuce, purselain, hemp­seed, coral, chrystal, camphire, chast water, epithems, fomenting the loines, Galen's refrigerant, cerot of saunders, fasting, & abstaining from aromaticks; so also the satyriasis and priapisme is cured, sc. by venesection, purgation, spermosbesticks, refrigerating topicks, re­pressers of flatulency, the rose cerot, and avoiding venerious ima­ginations.

4. The running of the reines or gonorrhoea, which is an excessive and involuntary profusion of sperm, caused, by its proper vice, and that of the spermatick parts; it's cured, V. P. if from imbecility of the retentive faculty, by dryers and astringents, su­mach, & sealed earth &c. if cold, by mastick and frankincense, & astringent baths; if the sperm be hot & sharp, by phlebotomy, rhu­barb, myrobalans, succory, the foure greater cold seeds, anointing the spine and loines, with refrigerating unguents, the cerot of saunders, and comitissae; if the sperm be thin, and aquose, by dryers, and roborants, the rosate aromatick & syrup of mints, eating rice, incrassants, & evacuants if cacochymick; if passing out too soone in the venereal act, it's to be helped as imbecility, and too much aquosenesse; if corrupt and virulent, by dryers, triacle, and mithri­date, [Page 389] after purgation, and astringent powders.

5. Nocturnal polu­tion, which is caused, by the irritation of the expulsive faculty, by copious sperm, &c. it's cured, by abstaining from spermatogenetick meat, using that which is refrigerant and astringent, and phlebo­tomy if the body be plethorick, hindering the motion of the sperm, shunning imaginations & sleeping on the back, using lettuce, blites, pompions, cucumers, rue, troches, and liniments; there are diverse other accidents which are helped, according to the cause.

6. The emission of bloud, which is caused, by the apertion of the mouths of the spermatick veines; it's cured, by abstaining from venery, & use of the aforesaid astringents.

7. The paine of the testicles, which is caused, by inflammation, frigidity, ulcers, and external causes; it's cured, according to the causes; if from percussion, by phlebotomy, things hindering the flux of humours, sc. violets and roses, using discutients, lenients, sc. dill, chamomil, leaves of henbane, bean meale, and milk: The paine of the genital, ariseth from the same causes, and is cured, as its inflation, inflammation, wounds, and ul­cers, by anodynes, fomentation with the decoction of mallows, ca­momil, melilot, plaisters thereof, white bread boiled in milk, yolks of eggs, oile of roses, saffron, and opium, or henbane leaves rosted.

8. The itching of the scrotum and prepuce, which is caused, by sharp humours, it's cured, V. P. by what helps it in other places, abster­sives, anodynes, washing with the decoction of sage, ammoniack salt with vineger; and that of the prepuce, by the decoction of len­tils, with the barks of pomegranats.

XVII. The diseases of the navil.

1. The apertion thereof, caused by much blood, and acrimo­nious, &c. it's cured by the juyce and leaves of plantain, purging with rhubarb, agarick and sena, &c.

2. The umbilical hernia, or exomphalos, which is caused by an emollient laxant humour, &c. sc. falling down of the intestines and omentum into the navil; it's cured, after purgation, by adstringent and consolidating remedies, as in the rupture of the intestines, reposition and convenient to­picks, plaisters, abstaining from flatulent meat, and excessive mo­tion, using a girdle with a globule over the navil, applying a cerot of bole, mastick and the white of an egge, &c. if aquose, it's cured by prevention and remotion, exsiccants and discutient topicks, lu­nate section if need, cicatrizants, & roborants; if flatulent, by discu­tients, decoctions, fomentations, & sacculs; if carnose, by causticks, and traumaticks, ligature with a mercuriate thred, using burnt alum, &c.

3. The inflammation of the navil, which may be caused, by percussion, falls, or section; it's cured, by lenients, prohibents, dis­cutients, and digerents, &c. as in the inflammation of the testicles [Page 390] and duggs; if abscesses, they are to be opened, and cured as other ulcers.

4. Wormes there, caused, as the rest, and are cured, or kil­led, by applying venice glasse with honey and savin, giving harts horn with tansey water.

XVIII. The diseases of the abdomen.

1. The inflammation of the muscles thereof, caused, as the rest; it's cured, as the rest, by venesection, clysters, cholagogons, and phlegmagogons, sudorificks, & plaisters of cows & goats dung in vineger.

2. The spasme, which is caused, by flatulency, is cured, by melanagogons, phlegmagons, discutients, and anodyne oiles.

3. The tumours of the abdomen, are caused, by flatulency or humours, and are cured, as those of the mesentery, and omentum.

4. The wounds of the abdomen, which are caused, by violence, and are cured, as others, with ligature in the forme of a crosse, if not penetrating; if penetrating, with future also, after reposition, turning the oppo­site way, &c.

5. The fistula's thereof, caused, by wounds, or ulcers, they are cured, by natural baths, or artificial, of sulphur, alum, and salt; if outwardly by incision, &c.

XIX. The diseases of the pu­dend, and neck of the womb.

1. The narrownesse thereof, which is a shutting of the same, or of its orifice, caused, by compression or coalition, and amplitude, is caused by frequent coiture and parturi­tion; it's cured by astringents, purgation, fomentations, baths, a­stringent pessaries, alum water, & astringent decoctions; if there be a rupture of the perinaeum, by emollients, reposition, future, tarre, and consolidating powders.

2. The feminine mentula, which is caused, by too much afflux of nutriment to the part, it's cured by evacuation, section, dryers, discutients, and astringents, causticks, burnt alum, aegyptiack, ligature with silk, and restrictive powders: The caudate affection, or carnose excrescence, is so helped also.

3. The shutting of the womb, which is caused, by conformation, wounds, and ulcers, it's cured, by section, V. P. by retraction and opening of the leggs; if from flesh, by dryers and discutients if need, cathereticks, burnt alum, & aegyptiack; if from a hard tumour, by emollients and resolvents; if from astringents, by emollients, as butter, and oile of sweet almonds.

4. The pustules & roughnesse of the pudend, which are caused, by an adust, malignant, and sharp humour; and are cured, by preparers, borrage, fumitory, and en­dive, &c. evacuants, sena, syrup of apples R.S. of violets and roses solutive, diacatholicon, confectio hamech, pills of fumitory and tartar, phlebotomy if need, decoction of guaiacum, and sarsa­parilla, using oile of roses and yolks of eggs, antipsoricks, and meat of good juyce, shunning things sharp, salt, and acid.

5. The con­dylomatae [Page 391] of the neck of the womb, which are swellings of the wrin­kles, with heat and paine, caused, by a sharp and malignant hu­mour; they are cured, V. P. by remedies against the french disease, topicks, anodynes if with inflammation, repellers & dryers, & dis­cutients; emollients if hard, digerents, ficcants, scrophularia, pow­der of eggeshels, burnt misy with turpentine, and balsam of mer­cury.

6. The warts of the pudend and neck of the womb, which are caused by thick feculent and malignant humours; they are cured V. P. by medicaments, section, and ustion, exsiccants, discutients, erodents, and adurents, with defensives of bole, sealed earth, rose water & vineger, using corrosives in shells, and ligature with horse haire, &c.

7. The hemorrhoids of the womb, which are tubercles, like those of the anus, in the neck of the womb, caused, by the af­flux of feculent bloud, they are cured, V.P. by purgation, revulsion, derivation, anodynes if need, fomentations, unguents, butter, oile of roses, poplar ointment, yolks of eggs, saffron, and opium if need; if they bleed not, they are helped by scarrification, sprinkling on a sharp and drying powder, bole and alum, &c. if bloody, by emol­lients, aperients, and discutients, leeches, section, and extirpants; if the flux be great, by revulsion, cupping-glasses, frictions, ligatures, and stoppers of bloud with the white of an egg.

8. The ulcers of the neck of the womb, which are caused, by sharp humours, and things corrosive, they are cured, by evacuants, anodynes, emul­sions, astringents, and dryers if pure; if deepe, by injecting the de­coction of red roses, detersives if sordid, whey, barly water with honey, wormwood, myrrhe, turpentine, & alum; if sordid, by aegyp­tiack or ointment of the Apostles; if creeping, by abstergents, dryers, and astringents, alum water, sarcoticks and cicatrizants, fumes, drying sulphureous and aluminous baths, traumaticks, turpentine with sugar, pills of bdellium, and milk and the conserve of roses if tabid.

9. The rhagades of the neck of the womb, or fissures, which are caused by laborious birth, afflux of sharp humours, and viscid; they are cured, if from violent coiture, by the decoction of roses, plantain, bole, and frankincense with the white of an egg; if from the flux of sharp humours, V. P. by topicks; if from inflammation, accordingly, by topicks, &c. according to the cause, and the fissures are to be cured, by things binding without biting, oile of lineseed, and roses, with the yolk of an egge, & ointment of mucilages with pompholix and burnt lead; if callous, by oile of lillies, turpentine, and wax; if malignant, by things helping fistula's; if itching and painful, by ointment of mucilages, white camphorat, pomatum, or [Page 392] diapompholygos, moistening diet of good juyce, chickens, veale, broths, sorbile eggs, mallows, borage, ptisan, and sweet almonds, abstaining from things sharp & salt.

10. The fistula of the neck of the womb, which is caused, when the matter of abscesses is not eva­cuated, and corrodeth; it's cured, by universal evacuations, palli­atives, sudorificks, detersive and roborant injections, diapalma, drying potions of centory, agrimony, and betony, &c. topicks, gentian roots and bryony, used as tents, things taking away cal­lus, section, ustion, remedies, aegyptiack, sublimat, causticks, deter­sives, incarnants, & cicatrizants.

11. The cancer of the womb, which is caused, by menstruous adust bloud, and torrified humours flow­ing thether; it's cured, by a fit diet, universal purgations, and me­lanagogons, taking the powder of bozoar, sapphir and emerald, cooling & astringent topicks, & fomentations of plantain and night shade water, diapompholigos, herb Robert, & fomentations of mal­lows, &c. if painful, by corrosives of antimony and arsnick if need, and chickens dissected, & applied.

12. The gangreen & sphacelus of the womb, which is caused, by inflammation, cancers, and ulcers, it's cured, by things hindering putrefaction, scarrification, washing with the decoction of wormwood, lupines and myrrhe, using ae­gyptiack, the powder of aloes and myrrhe, amputation, ustion, liga­ture, cordials external and internal, injections of night shade and plantain, taking the decoction of sorrel, scabious, and damask prunes, little refrigerating acid diet, and cathereticks, &c.

XX. The diseases of the womb it selfe.

1. The distemper of the womb, which is a deflexion of the same, from its natural temper, so that which is preternatural, caused by things external and internal; it's cured, if hot, by refrigerants, cold hystericks, endive, violets, lettuce, dia­trion santalon, the rose ointment, Galens refrigerant, the cerot of saunders, cataplasmes of barley meale, baths, fomentations, abstain­ing from hot meats, and aromaticks, using barley water, &c. if cold, by heaters, mugwort, savin, rue, spices, diamoschum, triacle, mithridate, oile of bayes, rue, nutmeg, and diet of easy concoction and good nourishment, with aniseseed, fennel, and aromaticks; if moist, by dryers, sulphureous baths, and drying diet; if dry, by hume­cters, borrage, mallows, satyrion & eryngo roots, conserves, emul­sions, baths, fomentations, oile of sweet almonds, and the resump­tive ointment, moistening and humecting diet, of good juyce, easy concoction, much aliment, & not excrementitious, fat broth, veale, hens, weathers flesh, sorbile eggs, milk, fresh cheese, almonds, dates, sweet wine, & rest; if with matter, sc. if cold & moist, by fit remedies, preparants, purgers, syrup of mugwort, betony, & hissop, agarick, [Page 393] turbith, sena, aloephangin & mastick pils, & cochie, diaphoenicon & dacarthamum, purging pessaries, dryers, heaters, consumers, & dis­cutients, sudorificks, the decoction of guajacum, china, and sarsapa­rilla, thin diet, rosted birds, veale, and sweet almonds, chalybeats, insessions, baths, plaisters of caranna, sulphureous & drying baths, bread seasoned with anise & cumin seed, meat rosted, with aroma­ticks, & strong wine; if hot & dry with choller, by preparants, alte­rants, & evacuants, syrup of citrons, violets, & roses solutive, manna, tamarinds, rhubarb, and sena, &c. as for the temper of the womb, it's known, by the gynaecomystax on the lip & genitals, menstruals, ve­nery, & conception, they all being soonest in those that are hot & prolifick.

2. The narrownesse of the womb and its vessels, which is an interception thereof, caused, by viscid humours, inflammation, astrin­gents, compression, and cicatrices, &c. it's cured, according to the cause; if by obstructon, by evacuants, aperients, attenuants, abster­sives, things mooving the courses, chalybeats, fomentations, baths, oile of rue and dill, fumes, and pessaries; if from diseases, according to the cause.

3. The opening of the vessels of the womb, preternaturally, which is caused, by anastomasis, diaeresis, and diapedesis, it's cured according to the cause, by astringents, agglutinants, sarcoticks, con­densants, & incrassants, not viscid if an anastomosis, as roses, saun­ders, & coral, & viscid if a diaeresis, sc. comfrey, plantain, the whites of eggs, troches of carabe, bole, & macilages, &c.

4. Things troublesome in the womb, sc. wormes, generated & caused, as the rest, & are cured, or removed, by the powder of illyrick flowerdeluce, with the juyce of pomegranats, made into a pessary, fomenting with the juyce of ivy, & metrenchyts of the decoction of wormwood & hiera picra: Stones in the womb, are removed by clysters, the decoction of fene­greek, mallows, and oile of roses, resupination, depression, and ex­traction by the two longest fingers.

5. The inflation of the womb, which is a distension of the same, caused by flatulency, from a cold, pituitous, & flatulent matter, begotten by the vice of deficient heate; it's cured, by discutients, evacuants, temperants, hiera, diaphoenicon with castor, hystericks, diagalanga, oile of aniseseed, cataplasmes of rue & chamomil, plaisters of bay-berries, or caranna, carminative metrenchyts, pessaries, fumes of aloes, myrrhe & nutmeg, cupping-glasses, sulphureous, bituminous, and salth baths; if from cold after childbirth, by heating discutients, inciding and attenuating diet.

6. The dropsy thereof, which is an impotency of the same, caused by water collected there, by its own vice, or that of other parts; it's cured, if from suppression of the courses, by the aper­tion of a crural vein, preparants, purgers, heaters & dryers, dialacca, [Page 394] diacurcuma, tobacco water, dianisum, diagalanga, pessaries, fomen­tations, oile of elder and aniseeds, plaisters of bay-berries, or goats dung, hysterick roborants, anodynes, decoction of chamomil flowers, hydropick clysters, issues, and drying diet.

7. The tumour of the womb, caused, by bloud, contained in the veines thereof, it's cured, by things provoking the suppression of the menses.

8. The inflammation of the womb, which is a tumour of the same, caused, by the putrefaction of blood, shed into the substance thereof, trou­bling with diverse symptomes, and sometimes turning into a scir­rhus, sometimes into an abscessus; it's cured, by phlebotomy if there be no prohibents, cupping-glasses, evacuants, syrups of roses and violets solutive, manna, rhubarb, the lenitive electuary, & diacatho­licon, vomitories, alterants, refrigerants, emulsions, hypnoticks, V.P. repellers, rosate ointment, Galens refrigerant, the cerot of saun­ders, oile of quinces, cataplasmes of purselane, endive, and night shade, pessaries of their juyces with oile of roses, new milk with rose water injected, refrigerating clysters, anodynes, the yolk of an egg with fatts, saffron, poppies, womans milk, and mucilages, cataplasmes of white bread and milk, discutients, oile of chamomil, butter and fats, suppurants if need, apertion by motion, sternuta­tion, cupping-glasses, detersive and attenuating injections, evacua­tion of purulency, detersives, consolidants, section if need, washing with mulse water, or that of barley or plantain with sugar; if to­wards the bladder, by emulsions, and whey with syrup of violets, thin diet, ptisan, broths, lettuce, and decoction of barley somewhat tepid.

9. The scirrhus thereof, which is a hard swelling of the same, and troublesome without paine, caused, by a thick, terre­strial, and faculent humour; it's cured, by evacuants, preparation by moisteners and heaters, borage, buglosse, fumitory, polypody, sena, black hellebore, emollients and discutients, insessions, dia­chylon ireat, & metrenchyts; if not legitimate, by heaters & dige­sters; if from things too much heating and discutient, by hume­ctants, emollients, and moderate heaters, mallows and oile of sweet almonds, increasing discutients in the declination, bryony roots, chalybeats, abstaining from cold drying and viscid meats, beefe, bacon, geese, and ducks, &c. using diet of good juyce, moist, and moderately hot.

10. The rising of the womb, which is caused by corruption of the sperme, and ill vapours; it's cured, by evacuants and dissipants, &c. as in the suffocation of the same.

11. The falling down of the womb, which is a propension of the same, out of the abdomen, caused, by the solution of the unity of [Page 395] its ligament; it's cured, by reposition, clysters, resupination, and elevation of the inferiour parts, fomentations of mallows and line­seed if swelled, holding a red hot iron neere, and sprinkling astrin­gents and glutinants thereon, a fumigation of salted and dryed eele skin, cupping-glasses applied to the navil, piriforme pessaries of astringents, ointment comitissae, the same used to the back, as also that against ruptures, or diaphoenicon, fomentations of astringents, sulphureous baths, roborant decoctions of oake mosse, lying with the leggs extended, wearing a pessary of cork, and the Hypocratick zone if need, and excision, rest, dry astringent and glutinative diet, rice, quinces, pares, fresh cheese and red wine; if the womb move to either side, it's helped, V. P. by cupping-glasses, decu­biture on the other side, rectification by the finger humected with oile of sweet almonds, and fumes of fetid things, using sweet to the nostrils.

12. The wounds & rupture of the womb, which are caused, by violence, and are cured, by consolidants, anodynes, pes­saries, injections, wax candles or plaisters with vulnerary ungu­ents, hydromel, agrimony, and plantain, &c. decocted.

13. The ulcers and corruption of the womb, which are caused, as those of the neck of the womb, and so cured, and as fistula's, taking cumfrey roots, rhapontick, plantain, and sealed earth, &c. injecting hy­dromel frankincense & myrrhe, the lesser centory, and alum, using aegyptiack, consolidant decoctions, syrup of dryed roses, powders of myrrhe aloes & bole, and unguents of turpentine, honey, & spirit of wine.

XXI. The symptomes in the womb.

1. The imbecility thereof, which is a slowness & defect thereof, in its action, caused, by distemper & vice of the native heate, &c. it's cured, by things re­storing heat & spirits, things aromatick, & which hinder the efflu­vium of heat & spirits, & strengthen the substance of the womb, sc. aromaticks, diacalaminth, the rosate aromatick, diamosch, mithridat, and oile of lavender, and the like heaters, and dryers, meat of good juyce & much nourishment, chickens, capons, partridges, pigeons, veale, new eggs, almonds, dates, sack, and strong beere.

2. Itching of the womb, which is caused, by a salt, serous, and adust humour; it's cured, by evacuants, phlebotomy, temperants with fumitory, borrage, polypodie and sena, abstergents with plantain, &c. Ga­lens refrigerant, or ointment of roses, and aegyptiack, or the enu­late ointment with mercury, if need, and meats of good juyce, moistening and refrigerant.

3. Paine of the womb, which is a pain­ful sense thereof, caused, by solution of continuity, from erosion, or distension; it's cured by anodynes, & narcoticks if need; if from fla­tulency, [Page 396] as from inflation; if from grumose bloud, by calefacients and attenuants, evaporations, baths, and inunctions, triacle, rue with honey, clysters of rue and seed of fenegreek, and triacle wa­ter; if from narrownesse of the vessels, by phlebotomy, purgation, laxants, dilatants, insessions, inunctions and discutiens if from fla­tulency and phlegme, injections, hysterick plaisters, cupping-glas­ses, suffumigations of laudanum, storax and musk, & pessaries; if from malignant matter, by bezoar stone, angelica, triacle, and mi­thridate; if from corruption of sperm, as suffocations, &c. accor­ding to the cause.

XXII. The symptomes about the menses and other fluxes of the womb.

1. The defect and suppression of the menses, which is a retention of the menstrual bloud, caused, by the narrownesse of the passages, or vice of the bloud it selfe; it's cured, by phlebo­tomy in the ankle, if need, scarrification, cupping-glasses, liga­ture, friction, apertion of the hemorrhoids, lenients, hiera picra, preparants, calefacients, inciders, and attenuants, calamint, mug­wort, and borage if melancholick, the decoction of guajacum, if pituitous, evacuants, agarick, turbith, foetid pills, vomitories if need, moovers of the menses, castor, myrrh, galbanum, bryony root, me­dicat wines, decoctions of red cicers, syrup of mugwort and cala­mint, troches of myrrh, leven, baths of emollients and laxants, oiles, cataplasmes, fumes of aromaticks and savin, evaporations, inje­ctions, clysters, pessaries of honey, wax and emmenonagogick powders; if from obstruction in the bowels, coldnesse of the aire, hardnesse of the womb, distortion, tumour, or disease, the cure is to be accordingly, with a fit diet, heating and attenuating fer­mented bread with seed of fennel anise and cumin, meat of good juyce, rosemary and cinamon, little sleep, and much exercise.

2. The paucity of the menses, which is caused, by the bloud, expul­sive faculty, or passages, it's cured, if from defect of bloud, by ana­lepticks; if from thicknesse thereof, by attenuants and inciders and purgation, &c.

3. dropping of the menses, which is an eruption of menstrual blood, by drops, for more dayes, or continually, caused from externals, feculent bloud, or imbecility of the retentive facul­ty; it's cured, by good diet, evacuation if need, and purgation; if from imbecility, by roborants, dryers and binders, &c.

4. The excessive flowing of the menses, which is caused by anastomosis, dia­pedesis, diaeresis, or erosion, tenuity of the bloud, and laxity; it's cured, if from the quantity of bloud, by phlebotomy, cupping-glas­ses, ligatures, frictions of the arms, temperants, evacuants, water of plantain & purslaine, surup of dryed roses, conserve of red roses, bole and sealed earth, norcoticks if need, syrup of poppies, triacle, [Page 397] and the laudan opiat; if by a serous humour, by evacuants, mechoa­can, rhubarb, and china, revulsives, astringents, and emplasticks if need, stoppers of bloud, syrup of purselane, coral, troches of sealed earth, pessaries of astringent herbs, the ointment comitissae, injecti­ons of plantain and bole, fumes of mastick and frankincense, astrin­gent cerots, baths, and fomentations, astringent and roborant, and myrtine syrup; if a rupture, by bole, & dragons bloud in pessaries; if frō erosiō, by cholagogons, aversions, revulsions, glutinants, plantain, sealed earth, cold diaphoenicon, and fit diet, cooling and astringent, hordeats, purselane, rost flesh, feet of living creatures, rice, fresh cheese, quinces, & barley or chalybeated water.

5. The difficulty of the menses, which is a flux of the same, with paine & griefe, and great symptomes, caused by the vice of the veines or bloud; it's cured, V. P. if from the thicknesse of the bloud, by fomentations, inuncti­ons, and attenuants, syrup of five roots, diet thin, anodynes, and laxants.

6. The discolouring of the menses, which is a declination of the same, when they ought to be red, to paleness, whiteness, green­ness, yellowness, or blewness, caused, by the vice of the blood, diet, distemper of the parts, or mixture of vitious humours; it's cu­red, by evacuants, preparants, fit diet, gentle attenuants if gross, sudorificks, pessaries, fumes, triacle, mithridate, and the decoction of angelica roots, if the humours be cold.

7. The anticipation of the menses, which is caused, by things external and internal; it's cured, if from irritation of the faculty, and plenty of blood, by im­minution, thin diet, exercise, & phlebotomy; if from acrimony, by temperants, fit diet, evacuants, & baths; if from the retentive faculty weake, and laxity of the vessels, by corrigents and astringents; if from evident causes; it's to be cured, accordingly.

8. The stopping of the menses too long, which is caused, by the paucity or thicknesse of the blood, narrownesse of the passages, imbecility of the expul­sive faculty, and torpidity of sense; it's cured, if from paucity of blood, by full diet and rest; if thick and feculent, by attenu­ants and inciders, & preparants, evacuants, scarrification, friction, cupping glasses, & pessaries; if from stupidity of sense, by things helping it, and paralyticks, &c. according to the cause.

9. The excretion of the menses by other parts, which is caused, by sup­pression thereof, strength of the womb, and vitious conforma­tion; it's cured, by venesection in the ankle, cupping-glasses, scarrification, friction, baths, inunctions, injections, and pes­saries, &c.

10. The whites, or womans flux, which is an excretion of an excrementitious humour, inordinate, out of the womb, much differing from bloud, caused, and collected by the [Page 398] vice of the whole, or some particular part; it's cured, by evacuants, averters, good diet, preparants if pituitous, the decoction of gua­jacum and china, drying and attenuating diet, and diureticks; if bilious, by temperants, subastringents, succory and endive, evacua­tion by rhubarb, aggregative pills, and those of rhubarb; if melan­cholick, by preparants and evacuants; if serose, by dryers, heaters, and hydragogons; if from crudity of the stomach, by heaters, dry­ers, and roborants after emeticks; if from choller, by refrigerants; if from the vice of the womb and distemper, by correctors, and baths, dryers and astringents, bole, spodium, coral, after purgation, tria­cle and mithridate with conserve of roses, extersive liquours, the decoction of barley with rosate honey, decoction of wormwood, mints, red roses, and alum &c. fumes of frankincense, mastick, and red roses, meat of easy concoction and good juyce, and drying, abstaining from suppers, drinking red wine, frictions, and moderate exercise.

11. The gonorrhoea, which is caused, by the imbecility of the retentive faculty, and laxity of the containing vessels, &c. as in that of men, and it's so cured, and as the nocturnal polution; if from the quantity of sperm, it's helped, by the seed and leaves of willows; if from debility of the retentive faculty, by castoreum, re­nal and lateral topicks, baths, & sacculs of astringents, using myrtine oile and mastick.

XXIII. The symptomes of virgins and women after twelve years of age, from the womb.

1. The green sicknesse, virgins disease, white feaver,, pallid, and amatory, is a mutation of the na­tural colour in the face, into that which is greenish and pale, cau­sed, by the quantity of crude humours, from suppression of the menses, narrownesse of the vessels, or obstruction; it's cured, by preparants, evacuants, clysters, venesection in the ankle, calefa­cients, attenuants, inciders, vomitories, specificks according to the part affected, emmenonagogicks, conserve of marigold flowers, chalybeats, more grosse if in the ventrickle, and more fine if the liver be obstructed, with spleneticks if the spleen be stopped, the syrup, powder, and wine thereof, roots of vipers grasse, bezoar, roborants, sudorificks, hot baths, corrigents, meat of good juyce, easy concoction, heating, with hyssope, sage, rosemary, and cinamon, bread with fennel and caraway seed, strong beere, exer­cise, friction, and moderate sleepe.

2. The symptomes of the womb, and other parts by consent, with the brain, heart, liver, stomach, spleen, duggs, hence is caused, the syncope, suffocation, aphony, convulsion, trembling, cachexies, hypochondriack melancholy, noise and paine of the belly, and hysterick passion, which are [Page 399] cured, according to the cause.

3. The suffocation of the wombe, which is a congeries of symptomes, sometimes hurting the actions natural, sometimes vital, by periods, joyned with a refrigeration of the whole body, caused, by a malignant vapour, elevated from the womb, it's also called the strangulation of the womb, and hyste­rick passion; it's cured, in the paroxysme, by supine decubiture, so­lution of garments, noise, pulling of the haires of the pudend, pin­ching the eares, ligature, and dolorifick friction, revulsion by cup­ping glasses also, using stinking things to the nostrils, burnt feathers, haire, castor, asa foetida, galbanum, the fume of horses lichens, using odorats to the womb, discutient clysters, pessaries, nascals, discu­tients, rue, castor, and sternutatories, dropping oile of sage into the eares, discutient liniments and unguents, dilatants, oile of nuts, rue, castor, plaisters umbilical of galbanum asa foetida and castor; triacle, mithridate, troches of myrrhe, yet with caution in those that are great: out of the paroxysme; if from corrupted sperm, by universal purgation, injections, pessaries, and discutient roborant plaisters & unguents, & thin diet, shunning venerious thoughts; if from retention of the menses and vitious humours, it's cured ac­cordingly, by discutients, roborants, bryony root, hysterick waters, castor, diagalanga, diacalaminth, and diamosch, fetid pomanders, of asa foetida, galbanum, and sagapenum, and outward hystericks with the plaister of bay-berries.

4. The uterine fury, which is an immoderate appetite of venery, making women almost mad, cau­sed, by the copiousnesse of sperm, acrimony, and a peculiar quali­ty; it's cured, by venesection, temperants, evacuants, refrigerants, lettuce, violets, willow, rue, hemp-seed, coral, emerald, hemlock, chast water, inunctions with oile of water-lillies, ointment of roses, camphorat, cataplasmes of lentils, pessaries of plantain and purselain, thin sparing and sober diet, beefe with vineger, pom­pions; lettuce, purselain, and prunes, shunning things venerious.

5. The melancholy of virgins and widdows, which is a delirium with sadnesse, anxiety, weeping, or laughing by intervals, troubling without a feaver, caused, by a melancholick vapour, troubling the animal spirits; it's cured, by phlebotomy, hilarity, thin and moiste­ning diet, preparants, purgers, confection of jacinth, the letificant species, and confection of alchermes, &c.

6. The epilepsy from the womb, which is caused, by a malignant vapour and spirit, as in the suffocation, and is so cured, by rue, and castor &c. in the paro­xysme; out of it, by cephalick antepilepticks, and hystericks, piony roots, galingal, zedoary, bezoar, diamosch, and syrup of mugwort, [Page 400] &c.

7. The headach from the womb, which is caused, by matter shed out of the womb, by the veines and arteries, into the mem­branous parts of the head, vellicating and distending the same; it's cured, by revulsives, repellers, evacuants, anodynes, and corri­gents.

8. The palpitation of the heart from the womb, which is cau­sed, by ill vapours, elevated from menstruous blood retained, and evil humours cumulated in the womb, and stimulating the expul­sive faculty; it's cured, as the suppression, green sicknesse, and suf­focation, by discutients, and cardiack roborants, cinamon & bawm water, cordial powders, and epithems, &c. as in the palpitation of the heart. The pulsation of the arteries in the back and hypochon­dria, caused by inflammation, is cured as melancholy, suppression of the menses, and the hypochondriack affection thence.

9. The hypochondriack affection from the womb, which is caused, by vitious humours, chiefely by the suppression of the courses; it's cured by phlebotomy, opening of the hemorrhoids, evacuants, pills of tar­tar, ammoniack, and birthwort, & chalybeats, &c. as in the hypo­chondriack melancholy, and suppression of the menses.

10. The hairinesse and beard by consent of the womb, which is caused, by the retention of menses, and is to be cured, by provokers of the menses; the same affecteth the liver also.

11. The preternatural affections of the ventricle from the womb, sc. imminution, abolition and de­pravation of appetite, hicket, vomiting, belching and paine, which are caused, by ill vapours from the sperm, blood, and other bad and corrupted humours; they are cured, by evacuants, vomitories, cor­rigent and roborant hystericks and stomachicks, angelica roots, triacle, mithridate, the rosat aromatick, and oile of cinamon, and pills of aloes and mastick.

XXIV. The symptomes about conception.

1. The appetite of venery hurt, which is caused, by the defect of sperm, heat or spirits; it's cured, by spermatogeneticks, liniments, unguents, anointing the genital with civet; if there be too much salacity, it's helped by spermosbesticks, and things mitigating acri­mony, as in the uterine fury.

2. Sterility and defect of conception, which is an impotency, caused, by the vice of the genitals, sperm, womb, or menstrual blood; it's cured, if from narrownesse of the neck of the womb, by helping it; if from distemper, V. P. by roots of satyrion, diamoschum, diambra, triphera magna without opium, baths, suffumigations, fumes, sulphureous, bituminous, aluminous, and nitrous baths, fumes of ladanum and benjamin, uterine lini­ments, sacculs of bawm, calamint and feaverfew; if laxity, by ab­stersive clysters, astringent and roborant topicks, decoctions of [Page 401] myrtles, wormwood, and red roses, fumes of mastick, frankin­cense, alum, and aloes; if fat, by attenuating diet, exercise, purgation, and sudorificks, &c. according to the cause, and fit diet, meat of good and much juyce, yolks of eggs, sugar, cinamon, and saffron, and hilarity.

3. Sterility for a time, and infrequent con­ception, which is caused, by a morbose constitution, &c. it's cured; if from want of age, by coiture not often, good diet, and of much nourishment; if from drynesse of the womb, by baths, pessaries, and emollient fomentations, with emmenonagogicks; if from debility of nature, by solid diet, and roborants; if from difficulty of parturi­tion or abortion, by temperants and corrigents; if from a dead birth, by abstersives, mithridat injected, or used in a pessary, and liniments of styrax, benjamin, and oile of lavender.

4. Superfe­tation, which is caused, after conception, by coiture, and attraction of the sperme; it's cured, or the foetus is preserved by accurate regimen, fit for those that are impregnate; and if the venter be weighty, it's to be anointed, with laxants and emollients, using swathes and bands, shunning coiture after conception.

5. The mola, mhich is a masse, without bones and bowels, caused, by an imperfect conception, by the vice of the sperm of both sexes, in steed of a foetus, the formative faculty being weake and the blood copious or impure; it's cured, by venesection, purgation, emolli­ents, laxants, clysters, fomentations, liniments, unguents, of oile of white lillies, sweet almonds, butter, and fatts, emmenonagogicks, dittany of creet, round birthwort, and bryony, &c. injections of hystericks, pessaries of the troches of myrrhe, galbanum, white hellebore and rue, surgery if need, separation by the fingers, and extraction with an embryulk by the uterine diopter, stopping the blood by friction and ligature, astringent cataplasmes, pessaries, and powders, anodynes, diet of easy concoction, good juyce and much nutriment, sc. eggs, broth and flesh of chickens, hens, capons, partridges, wine, conserves of roses, violets, borage, the species of the electuary of gemmes & confection of jacinth; it's prevented by refraining from coiture, about the time of the courses, or flux thereof, and the body being impure, also by coiture not too often, which also preventeth the generation of monsters.

6. False con­ception, and gravidation, which is caused, by flatulency, water, pu­rulency, thick and viscid phlegme, and morbose sperm; it's cured, according to the cause, as in the distemper of the womb with mat­ter, the dropsy and inflation thereof.

XXV. The regimen of those that are great, and their preternatural affections.

1. Their diet, [Page 402] which should be of good juyce and easy concoction, temperate, or such as may correct distempers, often eating quinces, sweet almonds with honey, raisins, peares, sweet apples, rosted figgs be­fore parturition, abstaining from things sharp, bitter and salt, sc. garlick, onions, olives, mustard, parsly, fennel, pepper, and too much use of aromaticks, using cinamon and saffron moderately, in the last month, shunning horary fruits, and pulses, but using co­pious diet, and good beere, avoiding violent motion, and venery to the first months, as also baths, passions, vain imaginations, too much watching, foetid smells, and strong, as that of rue, pennyro­yal, mints, castor and sulphur, the sight of unpleasant things, and great noises, using lenients, prunes, broths with manna, things strengthning the womb and foetus, diamargariton and diambra without musk, rotuls, and clarets, applying outwardly to the na­vil, sacculs, or plaisters, of nutmeg, cloves, mace, coral, and ma­stick, bread with honey, or a crust with malago: As for concep­tion it's known, by retention of the sperm, drynesse of the pudend, rigor, titillation of the womb, retention of the menses, loathing of meat, the pica and vomiting, elevation of the belly towards the ventricle, motion of the infant about the fourth month, swelling of the duggs, milk therein, blewnesse of the nipples, want of appe­tite to venery, and shining of the eyes lost, and litle worms in the urin, after three dayes standing, which may be seen by colature; and there is a male if the woman hath a good colour, if the right dugg is biggest and fullest of milk, and the nipple is blackish, and if the veines and arteries of that side are more full, with agility and fewer symptomes.

2. The symptomes which happen in the first months, in those that are great, which are caused, by the retention of the menses, sc. the loathing of meat, which is cured, by gentle vomitories if need, aloephangine and stomach pills, rhubarb, quin­ces, rotules of the rosate aromaticks, and diarrhodon abbatis, anoin­ting the ventricle with oile of mastick, mints, quinces, worm­wood, and myrtles, using the stomach cerot, plaister of the crust of bread, things astringent and austere, & meat that is rosted, avoi­ding fat things. The pica is helped by the miva of quinces. Vomi­ting, is stopped by a gentle vomit, and roborants, rhubarb, aloes, sena, and peptick powders. Paines of the belly, are helped by dis­curients, sacculs, inunction with oile of rue and bayes, plaisters, taking cinamon and aniseseeds, cinamon water, or aromatick wine. The flux of the belly, is stopped, by gentle abstergent and roborant remedies; syrup of roses solutive, myrobolans, rhubarb, roborants, [Page 403] quinces, rice, almonds, conserve of roses, umbilical cataplasmes of quinces with mastick, nutmeg, mace, and cloves. The toothach, is helped, by astringents, plaisters of mastick and tacamahaca, hol­ding in the mouth the decoction of ferne roots, red roses, sage, five leaved grass, and bistort. The paines of the head, are eased, by repellers and anodynes. The vertigo, is helped by temporal re­pellers, discutients, roborants, peptick powders, if from the sto­mach, and quinces.

3. The symptomes which happen in the middle months of women, which are caused, as those aforesaid, sc. The cough, which is cured, by evacuants, rhubarb, or agarick, roborants, errhines, thoracicks, rotuls, and troches. The palpitation of the heart, is helped, by cardiacks, bezoar, the electuary of gemms, confection of alkermes, applying roborants, discutients, oile of bawm, and cordial spirits, and phlebotomy if need. Watching, is prevented, by averters, frictions, lotions for the feet, syrup of poppies or dryed roses, and emulsions of sweet almonds & poppy-seeds. Paines of the loines and hips, are helped, by phlebotomy if need, swathes if from burden, rest, sleepe, and anodyne oiles. Hemorrhages, are stopped, if from quantity of blood, by phleboto­my, and astringents, umbilical roborants, frictions, ligatures, and cupping-glasses used to the arms; if there be a cacochymy, by tem­perants and evacuants; if a flux of the haemorrhoids, by anodynes, drinking red wine with nutmeg.

4. Symptomes happening in the last months, which are caused, as the rest, and so cured, sc. The sup­pression of urin, which is helped, by fomentation, cataplasmes, baths, pellitory, stone parsley, lineseed, &c. and the catheter if need. Stopping of the belly, is cured by temperants, liquid and moistening meats, purgers, butter, mallows, borrage, sweet prunes, rosat ho­ney, humecting and emollient clysters. Distension of the veines of the hipps and leggs, is cured by abstaining from much walking, lay­ing the leggs higher than ordinary. Inflation and swelling of the leggs, is helped by digerents, discutients, fomenting with lixives, the decoction of organy, chamomil, pennyroyal, and calamint, sac­culs of salt and ashes, and salt water, and hepatick roborants if the liver be weak. Fissures of the belly, are removed, by laxant ungu­ents and liniments, calves marrow, oile of sweet almonds, hens fat, pomatum, and dogg skinn applied with oile of sweet almonds. The effusion of water out of the womb, is helped by good diet, and roborants.

5. Debility of the foetus, which is caused, by debility of the sperm, and defect of aliment; it's known by falling of the duggs, flux of the menses, sicknesse, fluxes, and cessation of the [Page 404] motion of the foetus; it's cured, by roborants, good diet, of good juyce and easy concoction, chickens flesh, eggs, sweet almonds, raisins, quinces, pearls, coral, mace, cinamon, zedoary, aloes, and hot roborant hystericks, diamargariton, balsam of infants, and the embryon water, fennel and cumin seed in the water of honey, sweet bread used to the navil, the ointment Comitissae, and astrin­gent sacculs.

XXVI. Symptomes about parturition.

1. Abortion, when the infant is borne before the fit time, caused, by too much cold, suddain terrour, lipothymy, anger, and fluxes, want of ali­ment, and diseases of the womb, &c. it's cured, by laxants, & irrita­tion of the expulsive faculty: preservation is by removing diseases, cocochymy and plethora; if from too much blood, by phlebotomy; if from cocochymy and cold humours, by evacuation, purging pes­saries, heaters, dryers, and roborants, decoction of china and sarsa­parilla, avoiding internal and external causes, ill smells, heat and cold, using temperate meats, of good juyce and easy concoction, not using much motion of the body or mind, venery, alterants, roborants, astringents, coral, conserve of roses, myrobalans, dates, syrup of quinces, magistery of coral taken in a sorbile egg, using the ointment Comitissae, to the loines, reines pecten and perinaeum, and astringent plaisters, wearing a load-stone at the navil.

2. The regimen of those that bring forth, who when neere the time of par­turition, should shun stinking smells, and strong, astringent va­pours, sweet smells, using meat of easy concoction and good juyce, abstaining from astringents and densants, sc. rice, hard eggs, birds and hard flesh, using broths with cinamon and saffron, lenients, repid baths of sweet water, with mallows, seed of faenigreek, line­seed, and camonil flowers, afterwards anointing the belly, loines and uterine parts, with a liniment of the mucilage of the seed of marsh mallows, lineseed, oile of white lillies, sweet almonds, vio­lets, fresh butter, and henns fat; the signes of parturition neer are, paine from the navil to the groin, falling of the upper parts, and extension of the lower, and it is natural, when the head is down­wards, and the membrans are to be broken, by the midwife put­ting her finger into the mouth of the womb; the patient being pla­ced in a semilunate chaire, leaning backwards, and opening the leggs wide, is to retain the breath, when the womb openeth it selfe, and is to strive to expel the foetus; then is the midwife to comfort hir, and anoin the womb with oile of white lillies, in those that are fat, that have narrow pudends, dry, and at the first time of parturition, sitting on a low chair, and so receiving the in­fant, [Page 405] in a fine linnin cloth, pressing the bloud in the um­bilical vessels towards the navil, and cutting it foure fingers off the belly, tying it gently an inch off applying a dubled cloth wet in oile of roses: also the secundine is first to be drawn out, putting in the hand anointed with hot oile, if need; those that stand by are to encourage, & presse down the belly, pre­venting fainting by giving wine, distilled waters, and odorats, and they are to be such as are old, and have had experience of the pains of childbirth.

3. The difficult natural birth, which is caused, by the debility of the expulsive faculty and infant, or bignesse thereof, or the membrans of the womb if thick, and the womb and fis­sure are narrow, and not slippery; it's cured, by things facilitating, almost like emmenonagogicks, sc. round birthwort, dittany of creet, seed of lavender, thyme, saffron, cinamon, cassia lignea, myrrh, oile of amber, mineral borax, cinamon water, and oile thereof, vervain water, powder of the secundine, sweet fumes, pessaries, unguents of savin, myrrh and galbanum, sternutatories, eagle stone, and coral, strengthning the patient with wine and nutmeg, confection of alchermes, diamoschum and hot diamargari­ton; if there are twins, the midwife is to order them by her hand; if large, the ways are to be laxed and lubrified, by oiles and emol­lient decoctions, oile of sweet almonds, fatts, and mucilages; so if there be tumours; if fatt, the site is to be directed; if the membrans are strong, they are to be broken by the fingers anointed with sweet oile; and if the foetus be weake, they are to te breathed into, after chewing aromaticks, anointing the mouth with honey, drop­ping aquavitae on the tongue, using the same to the pulses and no­strils, washing the foetus in wine or milk, putting a sacculus upon the head, made of nutmeg, mace, cloves, cinamon, wet with malme­sey, & fomenting the navil with the same: the diet about the time of parturition, ought to be of easy concoction and good juyce, little in quantity & taken often, chicken broth, dates, & raisins, using laxant baths, anointing with oile of white lillies and sweet almonds, using in travel, sorbile eggs, and citron pills, &c.

4. The vitious birth, or difficult preternatural, which is caused, by the amplitude of the womb, and inordinate motion of the patient, and thicknesse of the involving membrans; it's cured, or helped, by the hand of the mid­wife, anointed with oile, by putting the foetus back into the womb if with the feet foremost, or else taking by the hands, lubrifying the passages, and giving a sternutatory to the patient; if the armes and leggs are distorted, the patient is to be moved about, and the [Page 406] womb to be pressed, till there be a more fit site; if the armes are stretched upwards, the patient is to be supinated, and the lower parts elevated, removing the pillow, pressing up the belly, and putting back the foetus till the head be turned; so also if onely one foot appeares, and the hands are joyned to the thighs, or else they are to be pressed together by the midwife, so if the knees are foremost, using volutation; if the hands are foremost, they are to be reduced to the sides, as before, and the parts are to be relaxed; if only one hand be foremost, the foetus is to be put back, till the site be natural; if the feet and hands be joyned, the feet are to be put upwards, and the armes to be reduced; so if the posteriours move to the mouth of the womb; or the site be transverse; or lateral; if the belly be forewards, the armes are to be taken hold of by the hands, and so the head is to be turned, or else the patient is to be had to bed as in the rest, that the position may be natural, by con­cussion and motion; if there bee twins rightly mooving, that next the mouth of the womb, is first to be taken, yet the other is not to be let goe, lest the site becom worse; if the feet be forewards, one is to be taken by the arm, and the body is to be inverted, and so the other afterwards; if only one moove regularly, that is to be ta­ken, and the other is to be reduced by volutation, &c. as afore­said, till there be a precipitant and fit site.

5. Defect of parturition, and the dead foetus, which is caused, by weakness of the mother, foetus, or narrownesse of the passages, and death by defect or plenty of aliment, percussion, coughing, sternutation and diseases, &c. it's cured, by surgery, or section; and if dead, it's to be expelled by savin, dittany of creete, round birthwort, gentian, myrrh, ca­stor, borax, powder of horses testicles, after emollient baths, ster­nutatories, anointing the pudend with oile of sweet almonds, chamomile, and goose grease, purgers, external ocytocions, oint­ment of sowbread, pessaries, suffumigations of asses hoofes, galba­num, and castor, extraction after supination, as aforesaid, using fat injections, insessions, irrigations, and cataplasmes, dissection of the dead foetus, and eduction thereby, with analepticks, anodynes, prevention of symptomes, keeping the bed, using hen broth, eggs, cold diamargariton, diambra, electuary of gemms, with wine & bo­rage water, roborants, fomenting with the decoction of mugwort, mallows, rosemary, wormwood, and hypericon, using the oint­ment Comitissae.

6. The caesarean birth, which is to be preserved by keeping the mothers mouth open, and the womb warm, then is section to be made as in lithotomy, beginning at the top of the [Page 407] womb and avoiding the spermatick vessels, and testicles, so taking out the foetus and secundine, wiping away the blood, and fomen­ting with an astringent decoction, then using gastroraphia speedily, and so curing it as green wounds, preventing cold by unguents, cataplasmes, plaisters, and fomentation, &c. using pessaries, and in­jections, those may be made of wax candles, or linnen covered with butter, hens fat, oile of roses, and the yolk of an egg; these may be abstersive, roborant and consolidating, of the decoction of mugwort, plantain, wormwood, marsh-mallowes, red roses, roots of birthwort, and salsa-parilla sod in chalybeat water, with hydromel and austere wine, with meat of good juyce, corrobora­ting, clysters of red sugar, simple diaprune, fresh butter, rosate oile, and hens broth, &c.

XXVII. The regimen of breeding women and their affections after child-birth.

1. Their rule after child-birth, at which time the secundine also is to be drawn forth, and the aire is to be temperate, avoiding odorats, and anointing the belly and sides with the oile of sweet almonds, and white lillies, with a little warm wine, using meat of good juyce & easy concoction, sc. broth of hens, and their flesh with white bread, panadoes, sorbile eggs, chickens, capons, kids, veale, drinking water boiled with ci­namon, or coriander seed, eating sparingly, avoiding noises, and passion: And if they will not be nurses, the blood is to be diverted from the duggs by repellers under the armpits, the rosate oint­ment, cerot of saunders, cataplasmes of bean meal, oxymel, mints and parsly, baths of mugwort, agrimony, borrage, rosemary, line­seed, faenigreek, and hempseed, &c. before going abroad, using suf­fumigations of frankincense, saunders, kermes, nutmeg, cinamon, & cloves, to dispose to conception.

2. The secundine retained after the birth, and mola, which may be caused, by their thicknesse, rup­ture of the navil, smells, cold, and feare &c. it's cured, or remoo­ved by attraction, sternutatories, fumes of burnt feathers, and asses hoofes used to the nostrils, specificks, some what like those that expel the dead foetus, sc. dittany of creet, the secundine prepared, troches of myrrh borax and castor, powder of horses testicles, onions, and warm wine, pessaries of mugwort, sage, savin, colo­quintida, hellebore, honey and bulls gall, fumes of cassia, nard, sa­vin, mugwort, penny-royal, and dittany, injections of the same, suppurants if need, detersives, & expulsives; the mola is remooved as aforesaid.

3. The purgation after child-birth retained or lessened, which is caused, by narrownesse of the vessels, or the blood is di­verted, by reason of thicknesse thereof, or perturbations, &c. it's [Page 408] cured, by frictions, ligatures, cupping-glasses, and scarrifications, phlebotomy in the foot, and other revulsives, laxants and reserants inward and outward, anointing the region of the womb, with oile of white lillies, sweet almonds, oily pulse, ointment of marsh mal­lows, hens fat, saffron, oile of angelica, spike, cinamon, fomenting with the decoction of plants, as in the suppression of the menses, emollient and laxant clysters, purging with rhubarb, agarick, or sena, emmenonagogick pessaries, things attenuating and diffusing the blood, juyce of borrage, and stone parsly with wine, &c. as in the narrownesse of the womb.

4. The excessive flux of blood after child-birth, which is caused, by the quantity of bloud, thin and acrimonious, opennesse of the vessels, and violent extraction of the secundine, it's cured by revulsories, roborants, rosted hens, al­monds, rice, quinces, conserve of red roses, red wine, mastick water, friction of the extreams, anointing the belly with oile of roses and myrtles, cupping-glasses used under the duggs, and to the hypochondria, cataplasmes of red roses, bole and rose water, used to the region of the liver; if violent, by astringents, and stop­pers, sc. syrup of dryed roses, myrtles, purselain, coral, comfrey, conserve of red roses, bole, troches of carabe, purselain and plan­tain water, ointment Comitissae, using astringent oiles and ungu­ents, astringent fomentations, fumes of frankincense, mastick, red roses, tragacanth, & horse hoofes, & phlebotomy in the arm if need; if there be grumous bloud in the womb, the patient is to walk, and the decoction of barley, oxymel, or honey of roses is to be in­jected, &c. as in the flux of the menses.

5. The pains after child-birth, and tormina, which are caused, by external aire, grumous bloud retained, and sharpnesse thereof; they are cured, by exte­nuation and evacuation of what doth irritate, diacyminum, and diagalanga, & cardiacks, if need; if the humour be thin & sharp, it's cured almost as the collick from choller, using external extenu­ants, laxants and anodynes, fomenting with betony, mugwort, bawm, penny-royal, bayes, calamint, seed of cumin, caraways, wild carrot, or cataplasmes of white lilly roots, onions, cumin seed, and oile of white lillies, and fumes.

6. The rupture of the womb to the anus, which is caused by narrownesse thereof, and is cured by fomentation with hot wine and butter, reposition of the matrix, future, tarre, and consolidants, it's prevented by putting a role into the anus; if there be a falling of the womb, it's helped by rest, using foetid things to the pudend and sweet to the nostrils, and astringents after the menses; if there be inflammation, it's helped as [Page 409] aforesaid, carefully using coolers, least the courses should be stop­ped; if there are ulcers, they are to be helped after the courses are past; if there be suffocation, the belly is to be swathed, or girt with a girdle made of mans or staggs skin, with friction and ligature of the leggs, cupping glasses, castor and rue applyed to the nostrils, and sweet things to the pudend, &c. as aforesaid.

7. Watching, delirium's and the epilepsy of childing women, are caused, by va­pours, &c. and are cured, by revulsion, and evacuation of the courses, &c.

8. The swelling of the belly, which is caused, by cold, it's cured by hysterick fomentations, a warm sheeps skin, and wine; the swellings of the leggs, arising from flatulency, are cured by hy­sterick fomentations; and if from viscous humours, by good diet and little drink, evacuation after the courses, and discutient fomen­tations, of wormwood, southernwood, mugwort, flowers of cha­momil and betony, &c. as in the inflation and dropsy of the womb.

9. Their vomiting, which is caused, by retention of the menses, &c. and is to be cured, by stoppers; if the meat also be evacuated, a good diet is to be used, of easy concoction, and in a little quantity, with roborants; if vitious humours, they are to be remooved by abstersives; if bloud, it's to be revelled, by friction, cupping-glasses, phlebotomy in the ankle, topicks mooving the courses, anodynes, asses milk if there be an opening in the liver, and the oily pulse. If there be a flux, caused by meat not well con­cocted, there must be a good diet, external roborants, abstersives after the courses, decoction of barley, syrup and honey of roses, temperant and abstersive clysters, gentle astringent purges, syrup of roses solutive, pulp of tamarinds, and rhubarb, astringents of roses, plantain, tormentil, quinces, and coral, &c. topicks, eating quinces, peares, almonds and rice, using emmenonagogicks if the courses be retained, pessaries, evaporations, and unguents; if the belly be bound, it's helped by suppositories of figgs, and white sope, &c. clysters of pellitory, mallows, line-seed, with common oile, and that of sweet almonds, cassia, and manna taken; if there be in­continency of urin, it's helped by baths of betony, sage, laurel, rose­mary, penny-royal, and organy, and the citrine and rose ointment.

10. The wrinkles of the belly after child-birth, which are caused by the extension of the skin, and are cured, by the juyce of the roots of white lillies, honey and wax; and when great, it's to be laxed if need, with oile of sweet almonds, oily pulse or white lillies; after delivery, oile of mastick and roses also may be added to the former, and baths detersive may be used; if the pudend be dilated it's to be [Page 410] helped as aforesaid.

11. The lecteal feaver, which is caused by the suppression of the menses, or vitious humours; it's cured, if from the generation of milk, by good diet, and sudorificks; if from the suppression or imminution of the courses, by emmenonagogicks, venesection, and purgation; if from vitious humours, by venese­ction, purgation, and hystericks; if their feavers are putrid, they are cured, by phlebotomy in the foot if need, purgation with care, and in the beginning, with cassia, manna, syrup of roses solutive, rhubarb, and sena, alterants, of endive, borrage, barly water, and juyce of sweet pomegranats, with moderate attenuants, avoiding things very cold, or acid, and using thin diet at first, of ptisan, and chicken broth, &c. if there be a pleuresy, caused by the retention of the menses, or vitious humours; it's to be cured by phlebotomy in the ancle, revulsive clysters, gentle purgers in the remission, &c. as in other pleuresies, so in the quinsey; if inflammation of the liver, by phlebotomy in the arm &c. as aforesaid, using attenuants, that the courses may not be stopped. Hereto may be reduced the affections of the duggs, being chiefely in those that are newly deli­vered.

XXVIII. The diseases of the duggs.

1. Their vitious mag­nitude, which is caused by a great quantity of aliment, and attrahent heat, rest, retention of the menses, and handling, &c. it's cured, or prevented in virgins, by fit diet, repelling, cooling, and astrin­gent topicks, linnen cloths applied, humected with water of plan­tain, roses, mints, and hemlock, or the leaves thereof applied with vineger, as a cataplasme, powder of whetstones applied with oile of roses, and the same used under the armpits; in those that are de­livered, it's helped, by exsiccants and discutients; the smalnesse thereof is caused by things hindering diverting and intercepting the afflux of blood; it's helped by good and copious diet, white wine, removing the intercipient, repellent and averting causes, using fomentations of warm water with emollient herbs, anointing with oile of sweet almonds, or the Indian nut, frictions, and gentle dropaces; if there be softnesse and flaccidity thereof; it's helped by copious aliment, afterwards using astringents, &c.

2. The swelling of the duggs by milk, which is caused, by reason of too great quan­tity of blood, and retention of milk, the infant not drawing it out, or after weaning; it's cured, by sucking, or the suctory instrument, hindering the afflux, by epithems of rose-water, rose-vineger and alum, resolvers and consumers, mints, parsly, corriander, red cab­bage, and bryony, or cataplasmes, of barly meale, beans, lentils, lupines, chamomil-flowers, wormwood and mints.

3. The inflam­mation [Page 411] and erysipelas of the duggs, which are caused, by blood, and quantity of milk, &c. it's cured by venesection in the ankle, if the courses are stopped, gentle purgers, alterants, refrigerants, lettuce, endive, plantain, and water lillies, gentle repellers, posca, and oile of roses with a cloth, lettuce, oile of roses and vineger, afterwards adding discutients, and using only discutients, at last; if hard, it's helped by emollients and attenuants, album graecum with turpentine, and oile of earth-worms, and suppurants if need, diachylon simple, or white bread boiled in milk, with saffron, aper­tion in the lower part, mundificants, with turpentine and honey of roses, oile of roses and myrrh. The erysipelas, is helped by sudo­rificks, harts horn, sealed earth, carduus benedictus and water of elder, resolvent topicks, applying scarlet or barly flower wet in elder water, avoiding external coolers and binders, and after cu­ring it as the inflammation.

4. The [...]demd of the duggs, which is caused, by a pituitous humour, and suppression of the menses; it's cured, by a heating and drying diet, purgation, resolving discutient and roborant topicks, not too hot, or strong, fomentations, of sul­phur, hysop, sage, organy, and chamomil flowers, anointing after with oile of chamomil, white lilles, and bayes, cataplasmes of bean meale, chamomil flowers, and cumin-seed, the melilot plaister, great diachylon, and that of bay-berries, and suppurants if need, roots of white lillies, bryony, and the ireat diachylon.

5. The scir­rhus thereof, which is caused, by pituitous and melancholick hu­mours, incrassated; it's cured, V. P. by remotion of the cause, e­mollients, attenuants, and discutients, avoiding what may too much heat & attenuat, humect or mollify, using the decoction of mallows, faenigreek, and chamomil flowers, anointing with the oile of sweet almonds, chamomil, fats, calves marrow, and ointment of marsh­mallows, the great diachylon, Vigo's plaister of frogs, or that of ammoniack; if it be illegitimate and degenerat into a cancer; it's cured, by universal evacuation, by venesection or purgation, emol­lients with exsiccants, oile of roses, juyce of plantain, the plaister of frogs, adding juyce of night-shade if there be pain, causticks and section if need, aegyptiack, and stoppers of blood, &c. as in wounds.

6. The swellings of the glandules of the duggs, scrofula's and strumes, which are caused, by a thick humour, and retention of the menses, &c. they are cured, after universal purgation, by emollients and discutients that are more strong, suppurants if need, section, and causticks, &c.

7. The cancer of the dugs, which is cau­sed, by vitious humours regurgitant, and adust; it's cured, by phle­botomy, [Page 412] purgation, anodyne specifick topicks, the juyce & water of night-shade, boiled snailes, oile of green frogs, remedies of lead, agri­mony, & blessed thistle, taking the powder of burnt crabs, & herb robert, by extirpation, defensives, of oile of roses, wax & bole, bal­sams, basilicon, and plaisters of gum elemi; if exulcerated, it's to be extirpated as before, with ustion, if great, things remooving the malignant matter, and stoppers of blood, often purging, open­ing the hemorrhoids, and provoking the courses, taking triacle, & mithridate with borrage & sorrel water, chickens dissected and applied, Fuchsius his powder, precipitate, ointment of turpen­tine and the yolk of an egg, the ammoniack plaister when young; and palliatives when old, and plates of lead, &c.

8. The ulcers and fistula's thereof, which are caused, by abscesses, they are cured, by universal evacuations, dryers of the milk, bands, and rest from mo­tion of the next arm, abstersives, & cleansers, the roots of rhapon­tick, zedoary, and leaves of agrimony boiled in white wine, with a leadden pipe in the bottom of the ulcer, consolidants, injecting astringent wine boiled with cypresse nuts, sumach, and agrimony; if fistulous, the orifice is to be inlarged, & the callus to be remooved, and then it's to be cured as other ulcers.

9. The narrownesse of the vessels in the duggs, which is caused, by thick humours, tumours, ulcers, and conformation; it's cured, by attenuants, fennel, dill, stone-parsly, anise-seed, earthworms, cataplasmes and fomentations thereof, and friction.

10. Haires therein, which are caused, by pu­trifying blood, and are cured, by applying the flesh of sea crabs, or those of the river, &c.

11. The diseases of the nipples, sc. the short­nesse thereof, which are helped, by the suctory instrument, and sucking by whelps, applying walnut shells halfe full of the rosin of the larch-tree; if the perforation be small, it's helped by of­ten sucking; if fissures therein, they are prevented by wearing coverings of wax, with rosin of the firre-tree, and cured by oile of wax, ointment of lead, or tutty, populeon, and poma­tum, and the paine in sucking may be prevented by an artificial nipple, covered with that of a young heifer, &c.

XXIX. The symptomes of the duggs.

1. The defect of milk, which is caused, by the defect of blood, or debility of the galoctopoietick faculty; it's cured, by remotion of the cause, by aliments of good and much juyce, and easy concoction, galactogeneticks, the udders of beasts, sorbile eggs, milk, pulps, thin puddings, almonds, sug­ar, rice, butter, fresh cheese, raisins of the sun, analeptick broths, ptisan with fennel and anise-seed, new bread with fen­nel-seed, [Page 413] strong drink, avoiding passions and great evacuations, using powder of earth-worms, chrystal prepared, lac lunae, fo­mentations of the decoction of fennel, parsly, cataplasmes of bar­ley meale and leaven, dropaces, and sinapismes.

2. The redun­dancy of milk, which is caused, by the quantity of blood, and a good constitution; it's cured, by thin diet, that is of little nourish­ment, barley, smal drink, exercise, watching, phlebotomy, cup­ping-glasses, repellers, astringents, resolvents, mints, calamint, coriander, and hemlock applied, anointing the armpits with myrtine and rose oile, vineger, bole, plantain, oxycrat, ex­siccants and discutients, repellers if hot, lettuce, water lillies, poppies, and house-leek.

3. The vices, and coagulation of the milk, which is caused, by the exhalation of the thinner parts; it's cured, as the scirrhus in the beginning, by prohibents, oile of mints, chamomil, dill, and rue, resolvents, seed of fennel, cu­min, parsly, sage, mints, saffron, myrrh, fomenting with the de­coction of fennel, dill, southernwood, chamomil flowers, meli­lot, & lineseed, applying parsly and butter, &c.

4. The evacuation of the menses by the duggs, &c. which is removed by phlebotomy in the ankle.

5. The pain of the duggs, which is caused by solu­tion of continuity, distension, inflammation, erosion, and velli­cation by sharp humours, &c. it's cured, according to the cause; if from milk and inflammation, by anodynes, lettuce, chamomil, crumbs of bread with oile of roses, & water of night-shade in the cancer, applying green pimpernel.

These are the internal diseases, &c. that belong to the body of man:

The external maladies are.

1. Tu­mours, which are recesses of the parts of mans body, from the na­tural state, the magnitude being increased, caused, by humours, flatulency and solid substance; they are cured, by imminution, sub­traction of aliment, digestion, and discussion, &c. if from hu­mours, and by congestion, it's helped, by alteration, and evacua­tion, sensible and insensible; if by affluxion, and flowing, by eva­cuation, revulsion, derivation, repulsion, and incerception, after flowing, by emollients and maturants if impacted; if from humours included in a peculiar membran and malignant, it's helped accor­dingly; if from flatulency, by evacuation, discussion and roborants; if in solid parts it's cured accordingly, and they terminate by dis­cussion, suppuration, induration, or corruption.

2. Ʋlcers, which are solutions of continuity, with imminute magnitude, caused, in a soft part, by an eroding matter, external or internal; they are cured, by evacuation and venesection if need, suppuration, turpen­tine, oile of mastick, &c. abstersion, sarcoticks, and cicatrizants; if from hot distempers, by coolers, anodynes, astringents, plantain, roses, saunders, bole, turpentine, & plantain water; if cold, by hea­ters, oile of S. Johns wort, nard, flowerdeluce, and rue; if dry, by tepid water; if moist, by squams of iron, and horehound; if from afflux of humours, by revulsion, interception, repulsion, sarco­ticks, & epuloticks; if sordid, from humours, by evacuation & de­tersion; if from unctuous medicines, by gentle abstersives; if from strong medicines, by gentle coolers, & diapompholigos, &c. if livid, by scarrification and exsiccation, and the green water; if callous, by emollients, corrosives, & section; if with tumours, it's so cured; if with hypersarcosis from blood, by dryers; if from debility of sar­coticks, by wood of aloes; if sinuose, it's so cured; if verminose, by extraction, and enecation; if varicose, by sublation; if with rot­tennesse of the bone, by denudation with the root of gentian, cau­sticks, or section, ablation by euphorbium or surgery, ustion, and anodynes; if with a fistula, V. P. by remooving the callus, aegyp­tiack and the Apostles ointment, apertion by cauteries, and conso­lidants, &c.

3. Wounds, which are solutions, in soft parts, caused by things sharp, cutting or pricking; they are cured, by remotion of things therein, conjunction of the lipps, digestion, turpentine, gum elemi and hoggs fat, conglutination, traumaticks, balsam of [Page 431] sulphur, and aversion of fluxion, by phlebotomy and purgation; if of the vessels, by conjunction of the lipps, obstruction of the ori­fice by vitriol, myrrh, camphire, revulsion, interception, and dis­solution of the blood; if of tendons, as those of the nerves; if of the nerves, by venesection, evacuation, apertives, temperate exsic­cants, and fomentations; if from puncture, by purgation, anodynes, attrahents, and moderate heaters, dryers, and diet; if by incision in longitude, by bands, traumaticks, and diapalma; if transverse, by fu­ture; if in the joynts without luxation, by conjunction, preven­tion of afflux by evacuation, interception, and right situation; if with luxation, as the rest, preventing fluxion by purgation, and sudorificks; if with contusion, by preventing afflux, by revulsions, defensives and repellers, and suppuration of the contusion, and the wounds by digestives, of rosin, turpentine, and yolks of egges, ab­stersives and consolidants, and scarrification if tending to a gan­green; if of the nerves and tendons, by discutient oiles, lenients of the white of an egge and oile of roses, & emollients and digerents if hard; if of the ligaments, by heaters and dryers; if by gun-shot, by extraction, suppuration, abstersion, and sarcoticks; if venenate, by preclusion, extraction by cupping-glasses, deligation, excision, washing with wine and triacle, causticks, alexipharmicks and traumaticks, &c.

4. Fractures, which are divisions of bones, cau­sed, by externals violently forced on them, they are cured, by re­pellents hindering inflammation, and the fracture by extension, right conformation, deligation, applying defensives, of the white of an egge with bole, &c. elevated collocation, venesection and pur­gation if need, colleticks, ostiocolla and comfrey water, remoo­ving symptomes, sc. inflammation and gangreens by appropriats; itching, by the white comphorate and rose ointment; pain, if from too much adstriction of the bands, by laxing them; if from pungent bones, by reposition, remotion, or precision; if from afflux of homours, accordingly; if from ill situation, by mutation; if gracility of the part, by attrahents, &c.

5. Luxa­tions, which are falling of the joynts, out of their proper place into an other, with hinderance of arbitrary motion, caused, by tension, violent impulsion, laxity, and contraction of the ligaments, &c. it's cured, by sufficient extension, reposition, apposition of astringent remedies, to hinder inflammation, diligent deligation, and soft col­location; if with inflammation and pain, by anodynes, prevention of inflammation, and reposition; if with a wound, by reposition, and prevention of inflammation; if with fracture, by reposition if it [Page 432] may be, after, curing the fracture.

6. Paines, which are sad and troublesome dispositions, caused, by a suddain and vehement alte­ration, in the sense of feeling; it's cured, by anodynes and narco­ticks, oile of white lillies, worms, chamomil, laudan opiat, and re­motion of causes, sc. heat and drynesse, and cold and drynesse, hu­mours, flatulency, and external causes, &c. Note, paine if pun­ctory, is in the membrans; if pulsatorie in the arteries; if torpid, in the carnose membran; if gravative, in the reines liver and spleen; if tensive according to longitude, in the nerves; if according to la­titude, in the membrans covering the muscles; if wandering in the greater cavities, from wind; if terebrant, in the intestines, from cold humours, impacted in the tunicles; if persultant, in the me­ninges of the braine; if ulcerative, in the sobcutaneous parts, and intestines; if deep, it's in the periostium. These are the general ex­ternal diseases belonging to the body of man, of which [...], more particularly hereafter, (occasions now preventing,) more may be said.

Furthermore, besides what hath been already said, concerning the nature of diseases and remedies, &c. there is also required, before the use thereof, a due consideration of the speculative parts of Physick, as touching Physiologie, and Pathologie, as also the Se­meiotick, Therapeutick & Hygiastick part thereof: more particularly.