A SHORT-METHOD OF PHYSIC: SHOWING The Cure of Fourty-five several Diseases, which are the general, and most incident to Men and women's Bodies. Collected out of several Authors, and Experienced beyond the Seas, and also in England. By the Practice of C. B. G●nt● To the which is Annexed the Portraiture of a Man, and in it there is plainly demonstrated those veins, that upon any necessary occasion are to be opened. Together with a Register of the Diseases, with a line drawn from every one of ●hem, to that part of the body where they make seizure. Very necessary for young Practitioners, or Chirurgeons that go to Sea; or for House keepers in the Country who are remote from a Physician. LONDON: Printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner, at the South-entrance of the Royal EXCHANGE. 1659. Head Ache 6. all over Virtigo giddiness in the head 3 Arising from an inordinate and circular motion of the Anymal spirits in the fore part of the Brain. Meloncholi or dotage 4 In the fore part of the Braine or fantasy. Pin and web in the Eye 7 It is a little membrane, Nervous fibrous and somewhat white, which cleaveth fast unto the Adnata tu nicle in the Eye Bloodshot in the Eye 8 This is common and needs no description. Coriza or pose 9 This is common and no demonstrate but that in its Chapter is needful Bleeding at nose 19 The imoderate Excresion of the blood by the veins of the nose, the veins being divided rarefied or opened. Ulcers in the mouth and jaws 15 It is evident in what places they are Tooth Ache 16 The Chapter tells you the cure if you can choose which is the cause Blacknes and rottenness of teeth 17 Look in the Chapter and you will found cure for the Corosion of them Hoemop tisis or spitting of blood 21 It comes from the Brest and Lungs and great Artery being vital parts Loss of Appetite vomiting 22 It is a defect of the sense of Sucking in the upper Pain in the stomach 24 Orifice of the Stomach Colic 25 In the Colic gut and the pain is about the Loins. iliack passion 26 In the gut Ileon and other small guts Worms 23 Some are in the Stomach some in the inferior parts called Ascarides causing a continual pain and a most trouble some Itching about the fundament Binding of the Belly 27 The increase of the ●e●●●tiue faculty and meakness of the Expulsive faculty of the guts pain of the Spleen 35 Dropsy Ascites 34 A distension of the Belly by a watery and salted humour, with a Tumour of ye●ods Thyghs and also of the Feet Timpanites dropsy 34 A distension of the belly from much wind. Anasarca dropsy 34 This is in the whole body Equaly as well as in the Legs and feet. Bloody flux 28 pain in the Hemorrhoids 31 This line runneth to the fundament and so to the Hemorrhoid veins Tenarsinus or falling out of the fundament 36 Hanging forth of the outer part of the right gut White flux 29 defect of the retentive faculty and expulsive faculty of the guts. Ich or watery pin●pells in the hands 40 Dysuria or Scalding of urine 39 Caused sometimes in the Rains and sometimes by disseases at the neck of the bladder Stone in the kidneys 38 The kidneys lies by the Raines pain in the Rain 37 This line is directed to the small of the back Obstruction of the Liver 33 By a matter filling up there caveties and hindereth the distribution of Nourishment jaundice 32 It proceeds from the gall that join to the Liver Hit distemper of the Liver 30 pleurisy 20 It affecteth some time the left side sometime towards the throat Cough of the Lungs 18 The Lungs being near the Back parts Quinzte 14 It is a shutting up of the Jaws or the Supreme parts of the gullet and the throat. A falling down of the pall at 13 This is known to every Houskeeper the cause and the cure you have in the Chapter pain in the Ears 12 The cause of it being sometimes inward as well as outward look in the Chapter Noise in the Ears 11 Being it is in the Ears look in the Chapter for the cause and cure Thick or dull Hearing 10 This line directs the place but the Chapter tells in what manner it is Apostume in the Ears 12 This is commonly known where it lies Catarrh or defluxion 5 Ecrementitious humours proceeding from the distemper in the bruine or from over abundant repletion irritating and stirring up the expulsive faculty of it falling Sickness in children 2 falling Sickness 1 In the Brain at the back part of the Head occasioned by a sharp matter offensive to the brain ●ringing the Nerves where they begin and as it were binding them fast together A: Vena frontis, or vain in the forehead, b: Vena Temporum, or Temple vain. A: Vena Cephalica or the great vain in the Arm proceeding from the head, c: d. Vena Basilica-Ioyning to the Cephalick Vain and is commonly called the Liver vain. * Vena Mediana, the middle hart Vain. e: Saluatella manus Senistrie, a certain vain running between the little finger or Spleen vain. f: Cephalica ejusdem manus, or the head vain in the same hand g: Tibice interior, the vain in the inside of the Shank or shine bone h: Ischiadica, a vain upon the foot proceeding from the hip or hucklebone i: Saphoena the vain in the Ankle. k: Vena pollicis in pede, the vain of the great Too of the Foote l: Vena Minimi Digiti pede, The vain of the little Too of the foot diagram of male anatomy The Weights and Measures their Marks. A Grain gr. 1. A grain and a half gr. 1. ss A Scrupell ℈ 1. Half a scrupell ℈ ss. A dram ʒ 1. Half a dram ʒ ss. An Ounce ℥ 1. Half an ounce ℥ ss. A Pound lb 1. Half a pound lb ss. XX. Grains is a Scrupell. Three Scrupells iis a dram. Eight Dragmes iis an Ounce. Twelve Ounces iis a Pound. To take or receive ℞ A drop gut 1. A handful M. 1. Half a handful M. ss. A Pugill is as much as is taken up with all the fingers P. 1. Half a pugil P. ss. Of each ana These marks signify what the quantities are of every ingredient, specified in this Book. I. CHAPTER, Epilepsy, or Falling-sickness. THE Epislepsie it is a convultion of the whole body by fits, with a depravation of both mind & senses. The Cause Cause. is either contained in the ventricls of the brain, or sent up from the stomach, and spleen unto the head, and the brains labouring to expel that which is offensive unto it, shakes itself, and by consequence all the Nerves adjacent to it. I shall not instance many signs for Diseases, in this small volume, neither are they indeed proper, because they do not always fall out alike, for they are very various; only I shall mention this. ●igne. The senses inwardly and outwardly are hindered, and the body diversely moved, he stairs and thrusteth forth his eyes, and gnasheth his teeth, breatheth difficultly, his seed, dung, and urine, breaketh forth involuntarily, and near unto the fits end he foameth at the mouth and nose, and the fit being ended he forgets all his actions. ure. For the Cure, generally the matter that offends in this distemper is for the most par● phlegm, wherefore you must administer those things that purgeth phlegm: First, if his body be bound give him this clyster. Take of Fountain water lb 1. and dissolve in it ℥ ss of castle Soap, and of Electuarium de succo rosarum, and Diaphanicon, ana ℥ ss and make a clyster, afterwards give him this potion; Take of Senna ℥ ss. Anniseeds and Cloves anaʒss. leaves of Mints and Bittony, ana M. ss. of the tops of Time, P. ss. boil them to a quarter of a pint in Spring-water, and strain it, and infuse in it of Troches of Agarickʒ 2. Cinmamom ℈ ss. Diaphaenicon, ʒ 3. Syrup of Roses ℥ 1. make a potion and let it be given with safe government. If there be signs of repletion, and the party be sanguine, let him blood in the Cephalick vein in the right arm, otherwise not. In this disease weak medicines avail little, therefore Chemical medicines are most effectual, let this be it. Let the Patient take ● 2. of the infusion of Crocus-Mettallorum for a vomit, it is one of the most prevailing medicines in this distemper, it ma● be taken 3 or 4 times, once every fourth or fift day. Oil of white Amber rightly made, given in water of Swallows, is very commendable, the does is from ℈ ss to ℈ 1. or you may give it very well in Treacle water. II. Falling-sickness in Children. This disease is common among Children, and very dangerous, and differs very much from that of elder people, therefore it is necessary to speak of their Cure Cure. by itself, as followeth. First, Make the body solluble by a clyster or Suppostor, after or about the same time, give ʒ 2. of the Electary of Diacarthamum, if this purge have not profited, let the Child have a vomit of white Vitriol prepared, or salt of Vitriol, which may be given three or four times, at two or three day's distance one after another. And if the disease abates not, but rather increase, let there be given often in Milk or Broth this following powder, it is called De Gutteta; you may give it from ℈ ss. ℈ 1. The powder is thus made. Take of Peony roots and seeds, white Dictamnus, M●sleto of the Oak ana ℥ ss the Seed of A●riplex or orage ● 2. the po●der of M●ns skull ● 3. Read Currell prepared, Hyacinths prepared, anaʒ ss Elks hoof prepared ℥ ss. M●sk ℈ 1. Le●te-Gold ʒ 1. mix them into powder, take the doss in a small spoonful of Milk or Broth, or Water, or instead thereof Cinamon-Water. Whilst that these things are doing, you must give once in a day a clyster. Take of the Lixivium of Castel-So●p ℥ 1. Hiera Picra ʒ 3. Honey of Rosemary ℥ ss. Oil of Rue and Lillyes anaʒ 2. If that the Child suck, let the Nurse's milk be good, let her drink no wine only water, or water and honey, and a small drink of Sarsaparilla, some Children are so subject to this D●sease, that it returns again after that it is cured; let them be purged twice a month with M●nna, or Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb, and every New-moon, give it a doss of Epileptic powder, Degu●teta, give it thrice in two days. But an approved medicine (after general evacuation) in Childrens Epilepsis, as I have often found by experience, is to give fine musk the quantity of 5 or 6 grains in thin small wine, twice or thrice in a day. It cureth perfectly. III. Vertigo, or Giddiness. The Vertigo, it is a false imagination in which all objects and the head itself, seems to turn round, so that the Patient often f●lls. The Cause Cause. is the circumvolution of the spirits, coming of a vapotion matter or wind, and coming to the Ventricls of the brain disturbs the spirits, and m●kes them run round, whence the species of the object, brought by those spirits are moved in like manner, a●d so the objects themselves seem to be moved the same way, and these vapours are sent up from evil humours, and the humours are such as produce vapours, namely, blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy, and watery humour, for a cold as well as a hot vapour causeth a Vertigo. The Cure Cure. of this disease is much like that of the Epilepsy, co●ing almost of the same causes. If blood abound you must open a vein, and let blood by degrees, open the Cephalick vein in the right arm, but give a clyster first, the same that is mentioned in the Cure of the Epilepsy, after that make evacuation by the purging potion there mentioned, than give this Sternutatorie or sneezing powder; Take leaves of M●rjorum, Sage, and Rosemary, all dried, anaʒ ss. Pellitory of Spain, and white Helibor, ana ℈ 1. Musk gr. 3. make a subtle powder, and with a quill blow some into the nostrils. The Patient must drink often of the Decoction of Gu●jacum, and sometimes four or five drops of oil of whi●e Amber in it, and sweated on it, and not neglecting Glisters, at such times when you do not sweated, to keep the body solluble, the Glyster that is used is in the Cure of the Epilepsy. IU. Melancholy. M●lancholia, It is a kind of doting accompanied with fear and sadness. Great variety of doting ariseth from the various disposition of the humour, whereby some thinks themselves Kings and great men, others that they are beasts, and that they are glass and fear to be touched jest that they should be broken, others that they have Frogs or Mice and other creatures in their bellies. The Cause of this disease is a dark spirit or vapour very bla●●, 〈…〉. for when the Animal spirits aught in their own nature t● b● p●re, and thin, and transparent, for the cheerful performing of the actions of the brain and to 'cause cheerfulness, if that they change their constitution & become dark they produce sorrow and fear. The Cause of this evil quality of the Spirits is a M●l●ncholly humour, which being thick, damn k, and black, doth infect the Spiri●s, and make them cloudy, and dark, and this humour is cold and dry a●d fit for fixing and condensing the spirits, which fixing a●d condensing, and thickening of the spirits, causeth sorrow and heaviness. The ●ignes are propounded, namely sorrow and fear without a cause, for the Cure, Cure. let the distemper take its original from what part soever, two things are to be observed, that the wh●le body be freed from the humour by general evacuation, as also from the fi●th of other humours, for it seldom happens that one pa●ty is alone affected. Secondly, That your chief remedie● b● directed to the Hypochond●a, because in the Spleen and Liver, is the first generation of Melancholy, and the gathering of it is in the parts adjacent. First, Give a Glystér, than this following potion, take of Se●a ℥ ss. Anniseeds, and Cream of Tartar anaʒ 1. Bourage flowers, ●amiterie and Sorrel, ana M. ss. Liquorice ʒ 3. boil them to 3. dissolve in the straining, of Rhubarb infused in Lavender-water ●ss. double Catholicon ʒ 3. compound Syrup of Succory ● 1. ●ake a potion to which you must add if the disease be strong ● 1. 〈◊〉 Confectio Alkermes; The day following let blood in the left ●rme, chief or as the Liver & Spleen are most affected, after the ●ody is well purged give asses milk with Sugar of Roses, and a 〈◊〉 of Species arromaticum rosatum mixed with it. It is necessary ●●t r that you have received your Cure, that for the prevention 〈◊〉 a relapse, or falling into any other distemper, that you purge ●●ce a week, for a month, in s●ring and fall with these following ●●s, for they open b● degrees incomparably all manner of ob●●uctions, and purge Melancholy, and gently allayeth it. Take ●●der of Senna and Cream of Tartar, an●ʒ 1 powder of Ci●mon ss. with Syrup of Lemons m●ke a mass of which take ● ss ●e ●oure before Supper, for salt of Tartar hath a great virtue ●●llay black Melancholy humours, for it draws to itself by a stain property it hath sour thing. V A Catarrh or Defluxion. A Catarrh is the falling down of an excrimentitious humour from the head into the inferior parts. This is caused Cause. by an i'll con●●ction or want of a good digestion, by reason of which, bad humours are generated, and the brai●● being as a Cupping glass applied to the body never ceases to 〈◊〉 tract humours and vapours from the inferior parts, hence the ex●ments are increased, which by their quantity and quality provoking the expulsive and overcoming the retentive facculty, run immoderancy b● unusual and improper ways which they found ou● to the g●●at disturbance of the bo●y. A violent Catarrh proc●●●; from a sh●rp salt humour rising from a hot Liver, and being sent up unto t●e brain, is by the frigidity or coldness of it, condenced a●d ●o falls down into the Lungs, or other inferior parts. The Cure Cure. consists in the evacuating the humour offending, and in the stopping of its motion, the matter offending is to be dimin shed b● these pills. Take pills of Cochie the lesser ℈ 2. with water of Bittony, make them into five or six pills, and gilled them, let them be taken in the morning early, having eat a light ●upper over night, if that the cause be very strong, than give ℈ 2. of pill, Tartary Quercitany, and add to it five grains of pulp of C●l q●intida, for it very excellently purgeth the brain, and open obstructions, after that the body and head is sufficiently cleansed of the humour offending, to stop the course of the Catarrh use Luc Sulphuris, or this infallible remedy. Take of Conserve of ed Rose● ℥ 2. Fl●s, or flower of Brimstone ℥ ss. Spirit or oil of Sulphur, four drops, and incorporate them well together, and every morning and evening fi●st and last, take the quantity of half a Wal-nut, and let it dissolve by degrees in the mou●h, and continued thi● medicine till the rheum ceaseth. An issue in the arm is a great help to stop or divert the course of the rheum, if it proves a stubborn Catarrh, but that is the last thing to be done. VI Head Ach. Cephalalgia, or the pain in the H●ad; It is of several kinds, and proceeds of several causes, a pricking pain comes from a sharp choleric humour or vapour, which toucheth the membraines of the brain. A heavy pain comes from the multitude of thick and cold matter, namely phlegm and melancholy compressing the sensible parts, and extending pain comes of wind or milder humours, which work themselves into the membranes and distend them, a beating or pulsative pain comes from thin choleric blood or spirits abounding, by which the Arteries being swollen or stretched do beaten more vehemently, and shake the membranes, and so striking the adjacent parts, cause in them a sense of pulsation; the pain coming of either a hot or cold cause, the Cure must be directed to the taking away of both. The Cure Cure: of an Headache proceeding from a cold cause, the flegmy matter is first to be evacuated by these following pills, Take Coloquintidaʒ 1. Trochis of Agarick, Scammony prepared, Black Hellibore & Turbith, ana ℥ ss. Aloes ℥ 1 Diarrhodon Abatis ℥ ss. let the purging things beaten together, and put into a glass with spirit of wine, as much as is sufficient, and let them macerate eight days in a warm place, and than add the powder of Diarrhodon, and infuse them four days longer, than strain them, and press them, and let the liquor so pressed be stilled in Balneo, so long till the extract in the bottom of the Still or Alimbeck, becomes so thick that it may make pills, the doss is ℈ 1. or you may take this which I have often experienced. Take Aloes ℥ ss. the powder of the Electuary of Pearls, the three and read roses ana gr. 3. with Syrup of wormwood and violets, make a mass, give ʒ 1. thereof twice in a week, one hour before Supper. Whilst these medicines are using, you must use all along this specifical medicine. Take the powder of Zedoary ʒ 1. Bittony-water, and of Vervine and Elder, ana ℥ 1. mix them and apply them hot to the part grieved. The hot cause of this Head ache proceeds from blood or choler, and the like remedies are proper for both, only they must be made stronger or weaker according to the strength of the disease. First, after a clyster let blood, draw more if the grief proceeds of blood, than if it comes of choler, than give a medicine that purge choler, not only when choler is the principal cause, but when blood aboundeth, whose thinner part is easily turned into choler, if that the offending humour be not sufficiently taken away by one purge, you must purge again at due distance, and after apply repelling medicines to the head; namely, vinegar of roses, or which is better this Epitheme. Take of musk gr. 12. Camphir ℈ 1. read rose water in which have been infused ℥ 20. mix them, shave the head, and wet double therein, and apply them warm to all the Sutures of the head, when they are d y wet them again, and continued the application four and twenty hours, and in so doing you provoke sleep, strengthen the br●ine, and wonderfully recover the Patient. VII. Albugo, or white spot called Pin and Web in the Eye. This Pin and Web comes of phlegm or a thick humour remaining after an Opthalmy, and is easily cured if it be not inveterate, and sometimes it comes by a wound or ulcer, and is a scar, but that is hardly cured, because it is in a party that hath exquisite sense, and sharp medicines, such as are proper to wear away. A Cicatrize or scar, cannot be endured, therefore I shall instance only the cure of the form, and it is as followeth. You must first make general evacuation by this following medicine; Take of Sema ℥ ss. Fennelseeds ʒ 1. the leaves of Bittony, and Eye-bright, and vervain, ana M ss Liquorice ʒ 3. boil them to three ounces, and dissolve in the straining of D●ap●aeniconʒ 3. Syrup of Rose ℥ 1. make a potion and give it in the morning, afterwards foment the eyes with the decoction of Fanugreek, Mellilote, and Celondine, and Fennel, with a sponge to soften the hard matter, afterwards take the distilled water of honey used alone in the eye, for it is incomparable in taking away all blemishes in the eye, by continuing the use of it sometime, Sugar candy is good, being dissolved in Eye-bright water, or Fennel water. VIII. Sugillatio, or Bloodshot in the Eye. Sugillatio, or Bloodshot, or that read colour of the eye that cometh of blood sent thither, Cure. if young is easily cured, only by dropping of Pidegons' blood into the eye, or in want thereof, you may use women's milk with a little Frankincense and Saffron, or apply the yolk of an egg with wine. If the disease be old and stubborn and that the redness turneth black, take dried Hyssop, tied in a rag and put into hot water, and applied to the eye, it is excellent, for experience teacheth that this medicine is of such force that the blood is drawn away by its sticking to the clout. IX. Coriza, or Pose. Coriza, is a Catarrh falling from the brain into the Nose, which defluxion is of a cold humour contained in the fore ventri●ls and comes for the most part of an external cause, which cools the brain, for than it is squeezed like a sponge, and so it sends down the humour into the inferior parts, as also by over cooling the brain, there is an increase of phlegm, for through want o● heat the excrements are not concocted, therefore are they sent ●orth through the open passages by the expulsive facculty. The cure Cure. of this disease is by curing the Catarrh, for it requires the same evacuation, only you must not use sneezing powders jest they should draw the humours more to the part affected. The vapour of b●yled Marjoram, or of Margerum water, taken into the nose doth good, the fume of read rose vinegar sprinkled upon a read hot iron, is good, If the defluxion be very cold, dry fumigations of Frankincense is good, only strewed upon embers, by these the cold distemper of the brain is amended and the superfluous moisture consumed. X. Baruecoia, Thick or Dull-hearing. Thick, and Dull-hearing here is meant that which is caused by an external cause, which is discerned (whether it be a tumour or thick matter or any other heterogoneall substance of any other nature which filleth the Cavety) ●f you look upon them in the sun, if any thing has fallen into the ears, the Patient will inform you. The infallible cure Cure. for this, is that the Patient take his morning urine and let it stand in a glass to putrefaction, or till it stinketh, and than morning and evening to inject his ears three or four times with it, being warmed and after the injection let him put in three or four drops of this oil into his ears. Take candy oil ℥ 2. put into it sixty Hog-lice, by some they are called Sows, let them be boiled and strained and than dissolve in it gr. 10. of Musk, and keep it for use, let the body be purged three times in twelve days with this pu●ge. Take Allies ℥ 3. Rhubarb ʒ Sema ʒ ss pulp of Coloquintida ℈ 1. with Syrup of violets make a mass and take of them ʒ 1. or less according to the age and strength of the patiented, let it be taken very early in the morning, by the use of method I never failed the cure of this d●stemper if it came of an outward cause. XI. Paracousis, or noise in the ears. This comes from a preternatural motion of the air, which is naturally contained in the ears, the causes of this preternatural motion are many, but chief a vapour or wind sent from other parts into the ears, or bred there, either coming from the whole body or from some particular part, namely, the stomach, liver, spleen, midriff, womb, whence it comes to pass that in great vomitings in Hypocondriak melancholy, Cause. and fit of the mother, there is a noise in the ears, in fevers it comes from the whole body; and Hypocrates saith that a noise in the ears coming in an acute disease is deadly, for it cometh of wind sent by the Arteries from the whole body into the ears, wind is bred in the ear by phlegm contained therein, whence it comes to pass that thick hearing is always accompanied with an noise in the head, for by the humour there is a stoppage, from whence cometh deafness, and from the wind that proceeds from that humour comes the noise, many other causes there may be laid down, but there is no certain knowledge of them, but this we may conjecture, that the noise comes from wind, because sometimes it ceaseth and cometh again, and if the fault be in the ears only, there is a continual noise without intermission. The cure Cure. of the noise of the head coming from consent with other parts, depends upon the cure of the diseases of those parts, but that which comes principally from the ear distempered by a cold distemper and thick vapour, is cured in the same manner as in the Chapter of thick and dull hearing, for they are alike, and one is changed sometimes into the other, and sometimes they are joined together, for a noise in the ears, is the forerunner of thick hearing and deafness. XII. Pain in the Ears. It is caused by matter, wounds, ulcers, or things fallen or put into the ears, which by dissolving the continuity of those sensible parts, which compass the cavety of the ear, causeth pain, a cold distemper sometimes causeth pain in the ears, and it comes from cold winds, baths, and other cold causes. To the Cure Cure. Let the body first be purged with this following purge. Take Sema, Rhubarb, anaʒ 1. Aloes ℥ ss. vitriolated Tartar ℈ 1. let them be made into pills with ℈ ss of Diarrhodon Abbatis, and Syrup of Wormwood and Violets, and let him take ʒ1. in the morning, let him drink often of clarified Whey, or Pippin possets which are thus made. Take Pippins cut them and coat them, and put them in milk, and let them boil till the milk turn, than take away the curd and reserve the posset for use. Apply this Cataplasm to the ear. Take one Onion, Impostume in the Eare. fresh Butter ℥ 2. Oil of Cammomell and Roses ana ℥ 1. Saffron ℈ 1. make a Poultice and apply it warm, The superation being made, the Impostume breaketh, and the matter comes forth, either by the membraine of the ear made thin, or else corroded, and than the Patient must lie upon the ear that is pained that the quitter may come forth & you must drop things into the ears that may cleans, take the decoction of Barley ℥ 4. honey of Roses ℥ 1. drop this warm into the are at several times. If the pain in the ear come from any thing fallen into it as a Cherry-stone and the like, which will be very grievous & cause pain, Convulsions, and inflammations, and sometimes death, you must draw out those things thus. Take an Earpicker and dip it in Rosin, Turpentine, Gum, or the like, turning of it till you get it out by degrees. If thus you cannot, put hot oil of Almonds continually into the ears to relax the party, and make the thing contained in the ear slippery, so it will easier come forth, use sneezing with the mouth and nostrils shut, and so it will be forced out of the ears, these are to be continued till the party be free; for if the thing continued long in the ear, it will be inflamed and become more difficult & dangerous to be drawn forth. If Flees get into the ears, for the taking out of them make a ball of dog's hair and put into the ears and the Flees will come to it, or make a tent and put it often into the ears with a little Turpentine. XIII. The Relaxation of the Vuula. The Relaxation of the Vuula, Cause. comes from a rheum falling from the brain upon the Vuula or Collumella, and doth so moisten and soften and relax it, that it will be extended to the upper part of the Aesophagus or Weraud, and 'cause a nauseousness, so that the Patient will seem to have something in his throat which he cannot swallow down, by which you may know it without looking into the mouth. The Cure Cure. is performed by purging away the humours flowing, from which is the Anticedent cause, & that is done by Pill Iperialis, take ℈ 2. every night for a week, all along make use of these powders, to consume the humour. First, apply Pomegrannet p●lls powdered, and after mixed with a little Pepper, or take read Roses, Pomegrannet flowers, & Pills anaʒ ss. the roots of Snake ●eed and To mentill, Galls, and Flower-deluce roots anaʒ●. Alum ℈ 2. make a powder. Ordinary Surgeons apply the powder of long Pepper but that is dangerous and is a means to draw more the humours to the place. The manner of applying this powder is to depress the tongue with a speculum oris, and than blow up some of the powder with your Vuula spoon, do this often till the humour be spent. XIIII. Angina, or Quinsy. It comes from inflammation caused by pure blood or mixed with choler, Cause. phlegm, or melancholy, and falleth out of the branches of the jugular veins into the muscles of the jaws & throat & swelleth them and by that means stop and contract the ways of breathing and swallowing. This Angina is an acute disease and sometimes kills a man in one day, what remedy is to be used must be done with great diligence, Cure. and what hour the Physician comes, let him let blood out of the same side the head is affected, out of the head vein in the arm, and if that appear not, out of the vein called Mediana, and take away a pound or two, not all at once but by degrees, a little every three or four hours, for this kind of blood letting is very necessary, than open a vein under the tongue, than apply under the throat and so under each ear this following Cataplasm, Take Althaea roots and the roots of Briony, and the wild cucumber, ana ℥ 1. Mallows, Pellitory, Origon, and the lesser Centaury, ana M. 1. Fat number six or seven Lint-seed & Fenugreek-seed, ana ℥ 1. boil them than strain them and add of the powder of Swallows-nest, and of Album Greecum, anaʒ 3. Brimstone ● 1. fresh Butter, and Ducks-grease ana ℥ 1. Oil of Dill ℥ 2. and make a Cataplasm and apply it warm, and gargarise the mouth with this, Take Plantain, Sorrell, and the tops of Brambles, ana M. 1. the grains of Sumach, ℥ ss. one Pomegrannet beaten with grains and pills and read Roses P. 1. make a decoction to a pint, and dissolve in the strainings Syrup of Mulberries ℥ 3. Sal Prunellaʒ 2. and make a gargoyle; The next day purge with this, take of Rhubarb ℈ 2. Ro●●n of Scammony, gr. 6. dissolve them in broth and drink it, it is not amiss to give a clyster before and after purging, and with the continuance the gargel, let him swallow sometimes of this Julep, Take of Rose water Plantain water ana ℥ 6. Syrup of Lemons ℥ 1. Syrup of Maidenhair and Violets, ana ℥ 1ss. spirit of Sulphur ten drops, mingle them for a Julep, and by this method under God he need not fear but be cured. XV. Ulcer in the mouth and jaws. These are bred of sharp humours or vapours coming from divers parts into the jaws, as in malignant fevers it often happens, Cause. or to those that have hot Livers and foul bodies. To the Cure First, A clyster, Take of the common decoction for Glisters lb 1 and dissolve in it of Cassia new drawn, Cure. and Diaphaenicon ana ℥ ss Oil of Violets ℥ 2. oil of Rue, ℥ 1. and administer it; than open a vein in the arm, the Liver vein, than purge with a doss of Pillulae Ruffi, the next day give the clyster again, and gargoyle the mouth with the gargoyle mentioned in the Quinsy, and if the inflammation be great add some juice of Nightshade, Henbeene, and Plantain to it with as much Sal prunella, as will not make it too sharp, and let him drink of this Julep, Take read Rose leaves ʒ2. Fountain water lb 1. and when they are warm on the fire, put into them of spirit of Vitriell, gut. 10. and let them remain pretty warm for half an hour, than strain them and than dulcify it with as much Syrup of Violets and Mulberries as is sufficient, and take now and than 3 or 4 spoonfuls, by this means I have cured many. XVI. Toothache. It comes from a flux of humours either cold and flegmy and is cured only by powdering a little Ginny Pepper, Cause. and tie it up in 〈◊〉 little piece of Sarsenet, and let it steep a little in Clove-water, ●nd than take it out and apply it to your teeth pained, and r itte●ate it three or four times, and it will draw away the cold phlegm, ●nd the pain ceaseth; Or this pain comes of a hot and ●tery ●nd salt sharp humour, and than is cured by putting of a Troch of Alhandall, (which is made of Coloquintida seed) unto the teeth ●ained, and it does the like effects to the former; But your ●leum Heracli, which is oleum Buxi, or oil of Box, put into the teeth is above all other medicines, and never fails, yet I have seldom failed by the former. If the pain is caused by cold air got into the hollow of a tooth, stop it with this pill; Take of Opium and Bees-wax, ana gr. 2. and make a pill of it, and put it into the hollow of the Tooth, and it will give ease presently and keep the air out. XVII. Blackness and rottenness of Teeth. The teeth contracts to themselves a black, livid, or yellow colour from the evil humours cleaving unto them, which by long continuance do also corrode them and make them rotten. Many and infinite are the medicines that Authors have invented for making teeth white, Cure. but I have contented myself only with this one, which presently makes them white, cleanseth them and keep them from rotting. Namely spirit of Vitriel or Sulphur, in which you must dip a little stick & rub the teeth with the end thereof, and than wipe them with a rag; in great foulness use the oils themselves, otherwise you must mix them with honey of Roses and fair water, jest by the often use of them the gums should be corroded. Afterwards the teeth being made white, to prevent their blackness again, and preserve them white. First, cleanse them with a stick of Rosemary beaten at one end as a stick of Liquorice, and brush of the filth that hung on the teeth, than wash the mouth with wine, and rub them with this powder, Take roots of Snakeweed, Alum, and white Currel, ana ℥ 1. make of them a powder to rub the teeth. XVIII. Cough of the Lungs. Such as is occasioned by a Catarrh, or defluxion of rheum from the head, Cause. you must first purge with Pillula Imperialis for fourteen days together, you must take ʒss. at a time, every night a little before you go to bed, Cure. after the humour is well purged, use every morning this pectoral Bowl, which indeed has not its parallel. Take Lac Sulphurisʒ 2. if that you cannot get that, take of Flos, or flower of Brimstone ℥ ss. of white Amber and Mastic anaʒ2. Specierum Diatragacanth frigid. ʒ 2. oil of Sulphur ℈ ss Conserve of read Roses ℥ 3. mix them well, and take the quantity of a small wal-nut morning and evening, but let it dissolve by degrees in his mouth, let him drink at times the decoction of Liquorice and Maiden hair, made in Barley water, and sometimes possets made of Pippins, many ●as found miraculous effects by this means, and I have had great credit by it. XIX. Haemorrhagia. The Haemorrhagia, or bleeding at the nose, the cause● are too many to be inserted here, therefore I shall only set down the speediest and most universal way of stopping of it, Cause & Cure. and it is done by revultion of blood from the nose, and by repelling it to the parts adjacent, by stopping the veins that are open, by staying the disorderly motion of the blood, and by evacuating the sharp and thin humours mixed with the blood, which are the chief cause of an Haemorrhagia, by correcting them and hindering their increase, and by strengthening the retentive faculty of the Liver and veins, all which are done as followeth. First, Let blood on the same side the nostril bleeds on the Cephallick, or you may in the Liver vein, do it speedy before the party be too weak, and that in a large quantity if the Patient be strong, and out of a large orifice, for to make the blood move a contrary way, there must be a stronger motion to hinder a weaker, therefore by how much the larger the Orifice and more violent the motion is of the blood from the vein opened, by so much the sooner is the blood of the nose stopped, if once letting blood and applying other remedies do not stop it, you must repeat letting of blood according to the strength of the Patient, you may open a vein in the foot, that a revultion may be made at a greater distance which is very prevalent. After blood-letting, apply to the paul of the neck some rags that are wet in the spaun of frogs, and because it is not to be had at all times in the year, you may have the water of it that is distilled, in the Apothicaryes shops. Apply to the temples this Cataplasm. Take Bole-Armeniske, Terra Sigillaeta, Sanguis Dragonis, Frankincense, Mastic and Aloes, anaʒ 1. one white of an Egg, the Juice of Plaintaine, Houselick, and Nightshade, of each as much as is sufficient to make it into a Cataplasm, but put some of the hair of an hare to it, let it be applied to the forehead and temples. The Cotten of an Inck-borne squeezed a little, and made into a tent and put into the nostril that bleeds, doth powerfully stop, as also laid and bound to the forehead, you may add to it a very little white Vitri●l, for it stays bleeding extraordinarily by astringing the orifice of the Veins, being put into the nose tent ways. You must restrain also the motion of the blood by cooling, thickening, and coagulating Juleps. Take Sal prunellaʒ 1. Troches of Amber ʒss Bloodstone and read Correll prepared, ana ℈ 1. Syrup of dried Roses ℥ 1. Plantain water ℥ 3. make a Julep to be taken three or four times a day.— Drink sometimes Oxicrate, that is, Vinegar and water, apply Vinegar and water to the privities, Their own blood dried in a pan & powdered and mixed in the above mentioned Julep is a very rare medicine, and also blown into the nostril. Choose a cool air, and let the Patient's diet be of little nourishment, as Calves and Sheep's feet, or of Goats, hard eggs, rice, and new fat Cheese, and the like. Eat fruits that are sharp, binding, and bitter, abstain from wine, use little motion, and speak little, let him sleep or be caused to sleep, for that contemperates the humours, and stays the motion thereof, avoid passion (for it causeth the blood to ascend) as Anger, Laughter, and Joy. XX. Pleuritis, or Pleurisy. It is the inflammation of the membraine that goeth about the ribs, Cause. of the Internal intercostal muscles. These knowledge of this disease signs, Signs. 1. A pricking pain in the side. 2. A continual sharp . 3. Difficulty of breathing. 4. A hard pulse like a Saw. 5. A troublesome Cough. 1. The pricking pain is chief in the Membraines, and comes from matter, and this pain possesseth the side, and stretcheth itself into the adjacent parts. 2. A continual sharp hath its original, from a flegmon, or Sanguinious tumour in some part near the breast. 3. Difficulty of breathing follows in this disease, because the parts inflamed cannot sufficiently distend themselves to draw in a great quantity of air, which is requisite for the cooling of the inflamed heart. 4. The pulse is hard, because the memb●ai e is affected and stretched forth, which also distendeth the Arteries, and they therefore make the difference of pulse called Sarratilis, like a Saw. 5. The Cough follows because nature striveth to expel that which is troublesome from the p●rty affected, also some of the matter swetteth from thence into the Lungs, and moveth the expulsive faculty, whence the Cough comes. There is a spitting of blood as another sign, but it is not in all Pleurisies, and therefore is not a proper sign. To the Cure, Cure. First of all give a clyster, and if the disease be not violent, open the vena Basilica on the same side, but if it be violent let blood first and give the clyster afterwards; Blood-letting in the beginning of this disease it must not be omitted, neither in old nor young, nor in women with Child, or in Childbed, you must let blood oftentimes every day till the pain or grows less, and from the beginning of the disease twice or thrice in a day give this Julep. Take Poppy water ℥ 4. Syrup of Violets ℥ 1. Sal Prunellaʒ 1. make a Julep. After the first phlebotomy let the side be anointed with this unguent, mix the unguent of Althaea with oil of sweet-Almonds, and after he hath anointed sprinkle on the powder of Cumin-seeds, and lay on a Colwort leaf, and this is of high commendation; after he has taken of the former Julep two or three days, let him use this pectoral Jelep. Take Barley P. 1. Liquorice and Raisins stoned ana ℥ 1. Jujubes' number 20 the four great Cole-seeds anaʒ 3. Bugless and Violet flowers, ana P. 1. boil them to a pixt and a quarter, and dissolve in the straining Syrup of Violets, and Jujubes, ana ℥ 2 make a Julep for four dosses to be taken morning and evening. The whole time of the disease let him drink Barley water for his ordinary drink, made with Liquorice, Poppies, and Maidenhair; Wine in this disease is poison, and all sharp things that provoke Coughing, and by their astringency hinders spitting; Purging is improper in this disease, unless it be in the declination and than use this. Take Senna ℥ ss. Aniseeds ʒ 1. Buglesse and Maidenhair, ana M. ss. Liquorice and Raisins stoned, anaʒ3. flowers of Buglesse and Violets, ana P. 1. boil them to ℥ 2. and in t●e straining dissolve of Rhubarb, infused in Scabious water, with a little yellow ℈ 2 ss Manna and Syrup of Roses, ana ℥ 1. m●ke a po●ion.— Many other medicines I could mention, but they who follow these shall not lose their expectations. XXI. Haemoptisis or Spitting of Blood. This is taken for that spitting of blood that comes from the vital parts, as breast, lungs, and rough Artery, and this is occasioned by the t●o great quantity of blood, which either breaketh the urines, Cause. or open their orifices, and so maketh either a Rexis or Anastom●sis; the same blood offending in quality, as when it is too hot or too thin, because heat doth open the orifices, and thinness makes it flow easily through; Many causes may be reckoned up, but it will be too tedious for the Reader to have them inserted he●e, for this book is intended only for a vade mecum, To the Cure. Cure. First, Let blood in the arm, on the same side you found heaviness or pricking, in a small quantity, but often; at distance for the better ●evultion afterwards open a vein in the foot, and it is most profitable, If the distemper comes from the obstruction of the terms, and the party subject to the Hemorrhoids, open them with Horseleeches, let them take this Julep three times in a day. Take Plantain and Poppy-water ana ℥ 2. Syrup of dried Roses ℥ 1. Lapis prunellaeʒ 1. mix them for a Julep.— Let him purge the serous and choleric humours that make the blood more thin and fluid, with medicines of an astringent virtue; As, take Rhubarb 1. yellow Mirabolaus ʒss. Tammarinds ℥ ss. infuse them in Plantain-water, strain it, and dissolve in it powder of Rhubarb ʒss. Syrup of dried Roses ℥ 1. make a potion; than give medicines t●at closes the orifices of the vessels, by an astringent quality, such as will not retain the blood in the breast by too much astriction, therefore mix such things with them as do dissolve a●d expectorate the congealed blood which is out of the vessels, for the which this is the best. Take Bole-Arminick, Terra sigillata both sorts of Correl, Blood stone, anaʒss. Sugar of Roses ℥ ss. ●ith one white of an Egg well beaten with Rose-water, make a Lohoch, to licked up, sometimes make a Syrup of Purslane, and use that, it is excellent in spitting of blood. XXII. Want of Appetite, or Loathing of meat. There are many Causes Cause. for this disease, but generally it proceeds from a cold distemper, when flegmy melancholy humours are gathered into the stomach, and hinders its office; or being drawn from all other parts of the body, as is in them who use to vomit, draw the impurity of other parts to the stomach, from the brain, spleen, and mother, and other parts. To the Cure; Cure. You must first make evacuation of the humour offending by a vomit, and than apply medicines to the stomach that may strengthen the parts thereof. For the vomit let it be ℥ 1ss. of the infusion of Crocus mettallorum and after it has wrought sufficiently, give him of this Julep to drink at times, 2 or 3 spoonfuls. ℞ Agna rosarum aq. Boraginis, ana ℥ 3. spirit of Vitriol, so much as will give a gust, than put to it of Syrup of Quinces and Violets, ana ℥ 1. Spec. aromaticum rosatumʒ 1. make a Julep; Let him foment the stomach often times in a day with this fomentation, Take garden Mints, wormwood, ana M 3. boil them in a sufficient quantity of wine and vinegar to the consumption of a third part, and with woollen stups' foment the stomach with it, and once every morning take 4 grains of this powder to strengthen the stomach ℞ Sal Niter, flower of Brimstone anaʒss. Sal Gemnae, Gallengall, Mastic, Cubebs, ana ℈ ●s. Mace ℈ ss make of them a subtle powder, and give it of 4 grains in sweet wine. By this powder such as go to Sea, that are apt to vomit there, if they take of it when that they found their nauseousness to come upon them, it shall prevent it by correcting the coldness of the humour that lies over the stomach. I never failed the Cure of this disease, when I followed this method or course. XXIII. Worms. There are many causes of them, but the material cause, is commonly sweet phlegm that groweth putrid, by which it gets a disposition to be turned into worms; food also, if it wants a good digestion turns into putrefaction, and begets worms in itself, as we see in Cheese, and in fruits which brings forth worms by being putrified, so it is in our bodies, especially in children which are given to gluttony, and eat the aforesaid things, and take new commonly before the old is concocted, hence it is that they putrify and breed worms, and it is daily to be observed that sucking Children that eat meat are most troubled with worms, because their stomaches are not able to digest it, moreover milk is quickly digested in the stomach, and presently sent to the guts, and if it have meat mixed with it which could not so suddenly be digested, it will be sent into the intestinesse with the milk, and therefore corrupt and breed worms, for worms never breed of milk alone. The Cure of the worms is by driving them out because they are wholly against nature, and this is done by purging medicines which kill worms, and evacuate the matter that breedeth them, first, give a doss of this powder, ℞ Wormseed ℥ ●s. Senna ʒ 1 ss. Corianderseeds prepared, Hartshorn, ana ℈ ss. Rhubarb ʒ2. dried Rue ʒ ss. beat them into a fine powder, it is to be given from ℈ 1. to ʒ1. according to the age of the party, mix it with such things as please the palate, two hours after give this clyster. ℞ barley bran and read Roses, ana P: 1. Liquorice and Raisins scraped and stoned, ana ℥ s. boil them to half a pint, dissolve in it strained, read Sugar ℥ 1. and one yolk of an Egg make a clyster, you may add Cassia or Diacatholicon to make it stronger, give these medicines 3 or 4 times in good order. Oil of Juniper given one drop at a time in broth is excellent for Children that have worms. A Cataplasm to kill worms. Take meal of Lupins ℥ 2. Myrrh and Aloes, anaʒ2. ox gall as much as is fitting, oil of Wormwood ℥ 2. make a Cataplasm for the belly, let the belly be covered, but make a hole in the middle that the navel may not be covered but lie open, by this I have found merveilous effects; for flat worms or ass worms, glisters made of bitter things never fails, as milk ℥ 6. pulp of Col●quintida ℈ 1. oil of Rue ℥ 2. give as a clyster and this is the best it is somewhat sharp but sure, you may put some Cassia to it, or Catholicen to make it more purgative, to carry away the filth that breeds them. XXIV. Pain in the Stomach. Many are the Causes, but the immediate pain, is solution of continuity by things sharp and distending, and they are chief humours or wind, or sometimes worms knawing the tunicles. The humours are green choler, or black, salt phlegm, corrupt matter sent into the stomach from an Impostume broke in the Liver or breast, these cause pain, also sharp vapours coming from those humours, also wind contained in the Cavety of the stomach doth cause swelling and painful distension, especially if it be restrained within its Tunicles. The Cure of this disease is according to the diversity of the cause, that which comes from wind, is cured by medicines that discuss and evacuate the flaltulent matter, as also phlegm from whence it comes. First, give this gentle emollient clyster, ℞ Althaea roots ℥ 2. Mallows and Violets ana M. 1. Guord-seeds ℥ ss. Lint and Fleebene-seeds anaʒ 2. water Lillyes and Roses ana P. 1. Cammomel-flowers P. ss. boil them in fountain water to ● 1. and add to the strainings oil of Roses ℥ 2. Cassia ℥ 1. Make a clyster, when that is come away give another carminative clyster, that is, expelling wind and discussing, made of the decoction of Origon, Callamnius, Pennyroyal, Rue, the lesser Centaury, Anniseeds Fennel seeds, Carrots-seeds, and Cumin-seeds, and the like, and dissolve in them Benedicta Laxativa, and oil of Rue. Dill and honey of Rosemary and the like. If the pain continued make a clyster with white Wine, and with oil of Juniper, or with 8 drops of Chemical oil of Cinnamon or Cloves, which doth wonders, than foment the stomach with this, which seldom fails. ℞ Althaea roots ℥ ss red roses, Cammomel flowers, tops of wormwood, ana M. 1. boil them in common water, and Cammomel-water to one pint and a half, adding in the end a little Rennish-wine, Rose-water, and Vinegar, make a fomentation, aster fomentation anoint with oil of Rue and Dill mixed with Aqua vi●ae and a little oil of Sage or Cloves, after anointing apply a Cataplasm of Honey and Cumin-seeds. He must also drink of this following Julep, which is admirable to assuage pain, discuss wind, and strengthen the stomach. ℞ Wormwood, the lesser Centaury, and Agrimony ana M. ss. boil them to ℥ 5. and add to them being strained ℥ 1. of Sugar, let him take it two mornings together. Whilst these things are doing, if there be a loathing or inclination to vomit, move vomit by warm water and Salad-oil▪ to carry of the phlegm. If the pain comes of choler, it is cured by the evacuation thereof, by a vomit of ℥ 1ss. of infusion of Crocus Mettallorum, and the next day give the emollient clyster mentioned in this Chapter; afterwards qualify the sharpness of the humours with Almonds, Milk, or with oil of sweet Almonds new drawn, and with yolks of new laid eggs. If the pain comes from Impostume, or U cer you must begin with letting of blood in both arms by degrees, so long as the Patient is able, give no purges for they are improper in this cause, give Turpentin washed in Wormwood-water for that doth mightily maturate the Impostume of the stomach, and afterwards this emollient & cooling & senitive clyster, ℞ Chicken broth or the decoction of Mallows, & Violets, of altogether a pint, oil of Roses and violets ana ℥ 2. Cassia ℥ 1. Sugar ℥ ● ss with two yolks of Eggs make a clyster. Give this clyster 3 or 4 days. Let his drink be Barleywater and Syrup of Violets taken cold, and give him of the former Julep, adding to it some Syrup of Poppies. XXV. Colic. The Cause of the Colic is an excrementitious matter, which by distending pricking or corroding make a solution of Continuity and these are either wind or humours. Winds are bred of condities or a cold distemper of the stomach, or intestinesse and if they be not sent forth by reason of the hard excrements and other things that of obstructs the intestinesse, they are in great plenty shut up, especially in the Colon, and make very great pain, all gross cold and phlegmatic humours, being fastened upon the tunicles of the guts 'cause the same pain, by knawing, if they are sharp and flat, as also by cooling the part which by consequence must suffer constriction, and divulsion, Choleric, and sharp humours, and melancholy and sour humours, by twitching and pricking the guts 'cause these pains. To the Cure of this disease you must give the emollient and carminative glisters mentioned in the Chapter of the pain of the stomach, which must be repeated 3 or 4 times in a day, and if he goes not to stool in one or two glisters as sometimes happenneth, you must give a Suppositer made of Honey and Salt with ʒ 1. of Coloquintida in it, to 'cause motion; If you mix with the second clyster four ounces of infusion of Crocus mettallorum, you shall found it do wonders, and after the excrements are come away, give him oil of sweet Almonds mixed with Manna and fat broth, for it easeth pain and throweth out the matter offending, and afterwards give him ʒ 1. of Anniseeds in powder in wine, for it also assuageth pain, and the second time it is given quite takes away the pain, applying at the same time a Cataplasm of Turpentine, ℥ 3. laid on with Staphes sprinkled with Pepper, and Sanguis Dragonis finely powdered of each ʒ 1. XXVI. Iliak Passion. This Iliak Passion is a preposterous motion of the Intestinesse, in which the belly is always bound, for after that expulsive faculty of the guts has long laboured to through out some fluities the ordinary way, and is frustrated of her intention; desiring to simpafie the necessity of exclusion, she takes no other course, and by a preposterous motion drives them upwards and vomiteth them out. The Causes obstructing are hard dung long retained, gross vapours gathered in abundance into the guts and violently distending them, Inflammations and other great tumours which wholly shut up the internal caveties of the gut, and the circumvolution of it, so that it is as it were roled together, and knit in a knot. The chief business in this cure is abstinency; and give twice this clyster to mollify the exceedments. Take the broth of a sheep paunch, in which let be boiled Mellelote flowers, and Cammomel flowers and Elder flowers, and take of this ℥ 22. put to it butter ℥ 3. Honey ℥ 1 ss. Sal Gemma ʒ 1 ss. after you have given it twice, give a dry clyster, of the fume of Tobacco, and if he be not inclined to vomit, you must move him to vomit with warm water and oil of Violets that the upper parts may be cleansed, than give him this clyster. ℞ Fountain water ℥ 12. castle Soap ℥ ss. make a Lixivium of it, and put to it ℥ 4. of infusion of Cr●cus Mettallorum, and ℥ 3. of oil of Almonds and give it. It is an infallible medicine. Let his drink be Barley water, sometimes give oil of sweet Almonds newly drawn, in white wine, sometimes adding of Syrup of Poppies to it. This disease is to be attended with diligence for it is for the most part deadly. XXVII. Astriction, or binding of the Belly. Is understood here a dull and slow dejection, by which the feces and relics of meat are seldom, and not according to the quantity of food, thrown forth, therefore they are necessarily indurated, because of their long continuance, being dried with heat, and the moisture is always drawn from them by the Misseraick which reach not only to the thin but thick guts; It is a symptom of the expulsive faculty diminished or the retentive increased, and it is the cause of many diseases, as Headache, and Catarrh, and other distempers in the brain. The Cure of this disease is generally performed by emollient and laxative glisters made thus. ℞ Marsh mallows and Lily roots ana ℥ 2. Mallows, Marsh mallows, herb Mercury, Violets ana M. 1. Lint and Faenugreek seed, ana ℥ ss. Anniseeds ʒ 1 ss sweet Prunes, N. 6. Cammomel and melilot flowers, ana P. 1. boil them to a pint and a half, dissolve in the straining oil of Lillyes and Lintseed ana ℥ 2. fresh Butter, ℥ 1 ss. Diacatholicon and Diaprunis simple, anaʒ 6. make a clyster to be given as often as need requireth. Sometimes use this. ℞ the decoction of sheep's entrells one pint, fresh Butter ℥ 2. Cassi, Diacatholicon, and Diaprunis simple, ana ℥ ss. read Sugar ℥ 1. make a clyster. Also twice in a month you may give one pint of Salad oil only for a clyster, and because that nature will grow dull by too much use of glisters, and at length will never afficiate that way, but when she is provoked by one, therefore you must endeavour to mollify the belly with this means, be eating sweet Prunes and roasted Apples with Sugar, before dinner an hour, and that the Prunes may work better, drink half a glass of your Venum Lynphaticum, or wine and water before and after he take them. Once a week use this medicine. Take Cassia newly drawn ℥ 1. Cream of Tarter ʒ 1 make a bowl, by the observing these rules you shall seldom miss of your expectations. XXVIII. Dysenteria, or Blood-Flux. A Dysenteria is a bloody looseness of the belly, with pain and torment depending upon the ulceration of the intestinesse. The causes of Dysenteria, are sharp and ulcerating humours as yellow choler, green like Leeks or Verdigrease, and black as also salt phlegm bred in the head from great heat, or in the belly by putrefaction, and so brought to the intestines, where cleaving a long time it doth ulcerate. The Cure of this disease is done by medicines that assuage, cleanse, and evacuate sharp humours, that consollidate and dry ulcers and stop the flux. And first you must evacuate the humour offending with this medicine. ℞ Tammarinds ℥ ss. Citron Mirabolans' ʒ 2 boil them in Barley and Plantain-water, than in●use in the straining of Rhubarb ʒ 1 ss. yellow Sanders ℈ ss to ℥ 4. of the straining add ℥ 1. of Syrup of Roses solutive, make a potion, you must purge with this often and if you think it not safe to purge every day or every other day, do it every third or fourth day. After the body is well purged of the humours give some glisters, give this often, ℞ Marsh mallow roots ℥ 1. Rice one Pugil, Lint-seed, and Quince-seed, ana ℥ 1. Henbeene-seed ʒ 2. Cammomel-flowers P. 1. boil them in milk or broth of a fowl, or sheep's head, and take of it ℥ 12. and add to it two yolks of eggs, Mutton-suit ℥ 2. oil of sweet Almonds ℥ 1 ss and make a clyster. If the pain be great mix with it 6 grain of Laudanum Paracelsi, for it is merveilous good to assuage. Let the party eat hot or new bread tempered with salad Oil Nutmeg and Sugar, and sometimes let him drink of this Julep. Take Plantaine-water, Rose-water, ana ℥ 4. Spirit of Vitriel ℈ ss. Syrup of Quinces ℥ 3. Trochis of Spodium ʒ 2. make a Julep. Lastly, To complete the Cure, give this astringent Julep. Take all these things in the Julep forementioned, and add to them conserve of Sloes ℥ 2. Syrup of Myrtles ℥ 2. Juice of Purslane ℥ 1. the powder of Elderberyes ʒ 2. Currell prepared ʒ 1. Crecus Martis ℈ 2. and Rose and Plantain-water, of each ℥ 2. more, and make a Cordial and astringent Julep, of the which take two or three spoonful thrice in a day. Having followed this Method I have cured many. XXIX. Diarrhaea a white flux so called. It is a flux without blood, and without the ulceration of the intestinesse, it comes generally of corrupt humours, choleric, flegmetick, melanchollick, or serous, and especially from choleric, which provoke the expulsive faculty of the intestiness by their sharpness. To the Cure, Begin with a vomit, ℥ 1 ss. of infusion of Crocus M●ttallorum, for it revelleth and evacuateth the matter of the disease excellently, afterwards follow the whole method of the cure of the Dy●●●teria a●d you shall found merveilous success, only this is to be done ●●at is seldom done in that disease, that if there be sign of blood abounding and strength you must let blood, and if there be a you must not omit letting of blood, though there appear no plethorie, before and after purges give glisters, and after the body is sufficiently cleansed, give astringents and strengtheners, as is mentioned in the foregoing Chapter. XXX. Hot distemper of the Liver. M●ny persons have a hot distemper of the Liver from their birth, but I shall not speak of that, that which is meant here, is that preternatural disease which manifestly hinders the actions of the Liver. It is for the most part a compound distemper joined with matter, because a hot distemper of the Liver useth to produce hot and choleric humours, there are infinite causes of it. The Cure consists in the correcting of the distemper by cooling medicines, and by the evacuation of the choleric humours which comes from the Liver, increasing the distemper, and that distempers it, and is the cause of other diseases. First, Give a laxative clyster. ℞ Chicken Broth lb 1. Cassia new drawn ℥ 1. oil of Roses and Violets, anaʒ 2. Sugar ℥ 1 ss. with two yolks of Eggs make a clyster. After the clyster open a vein, for that do much cool the Liver, and takes away some of the choleric humous, and opens obstructions that comes f●om choler, therefore you must open the Liver vein in the right arm, and take such a quantity of blood as is agreeable to the strength of the Patient, either at once or at divers times. After you must give medicines that do gently purge choler and rep●a● it often at distance. And the best purge is the Syrup of Succo●● ℥ 3. it must be compounded with a four fold proportion of Rhubarb. The●e things following are excellent to cool the Liver, drink often of the decoction of Barley with Liquorice. The tincture of Roses is admirable, and is as followeth. ℞ read Roses dried ℥ 1. warm water 3 pints, spirit of Vitriel ℥ 1 ss. infuse them 3 or 4 hours, add to it being strained lb 1. of white Sugar, keep it for use. The Alexandrian Julep is very good also. ℞ Spring-water lb 1. Rose-water, Juice of Lemons and white Sugar, ana ℥ 4. boil them on a gentle fire till they are skimmed. These two last remedies are used two ways, either for an ordinary drink, or as a Julep twice or thrice in a day. Pippin possets are also very cooling and restorative, they are only sliced into milk and boiled till the curd rise and take it of and clear it for to drink cold. XXXI. Pain of the Hemorrhoids. The Hemorrhoid veins that are in the end of the Rectum Intestinum or straight guts sometimes do swell and cause very great pain. The Cause is namely of blood offending in quantity or quality, which if it found not a way and cannot open the end of the veins, there it settleth, and by filling of the veins causeth a tumour, with inflammation and pian, the principal cause why blood cannot get out of the veins is the thickness of it, because it is melancholy, for the internal Hemorrhoid veins are said to receive melancholy from the spleen and sometimes to purge it forth. For the Cure hereof first let blood in the arm, and make revultion from the part affected, which being sufficiently done open the vein in the ankle, strong purges are not good in this disease, because they draw the humours to the part and increase the tumour, but you must constantly keep the body open, because hard excriments and voided with straining increase pain. An infusion of Cassia given morning and evening is the best for this, and it is thus made. Take of Lettuce, Buglesse tops, Mallows ana M 1. Liquorice scraped, Raisins stoned, ana ℥ ss Buglesse, Borage and Violet flowers ana P. 1. boil them to ℥ 8. in the strainings infuse Cassia new drawn ℥ 1. strain it, and clarify it, and than put to it ℥ 1. of Syrup of Violets, give it twice a day as aforesaid. Topical applications must be used to appease pain, and the best is this, oil of Box tree because stupifying, and as it cures all Toothache miraculously, so doth it mitigate all other pain, by only laying a drop with a little Lint upon the Hemorrhoid, or use it thus, mix ℈ 1. of oil of Box with ℥ ss of Lintseed oil, and apply that with Lint it works merveilous effects Fresh Butter put in a leaden mortar, and set in the Sun till it do look black, is an excellent medicine. The fume of your Horse mints received is a rare medicine, and gives present ease, it is to be dried and laid upon a read hot pan, and so receive the fume from under a close store. XXXII. Jaundice. It is a yellow colour of the whole body, coming of choler, spread on the skin. The cause is the obstruction of the bag or cistis which contains the gall, hinders the passage of it into the guts, whereby it remains in the Liver and goes from thence with the blood into the whole body, and it is occasioned from gross phlegm ot choler abounding, and sometimes from little stones, which are often bred in the bag of gall, which maketh narrow the passage by the compression of the party nigh unto it. The sign of this distemper is a yellow colour throughout the whole body, especially in the white of the eyes, with an itching and lazienesse, bitterness of the tongue, and sometimes choleric vomitings. These things show the obstruction of the bag of the gall, white excriments, and a belly bound for what of choler which useth to make the excriments yellow, or read, and to stir up the expulsive faculty of the guts like a clyster, the vomit is yellow, inclining to read, and what linen is put into it is died yellow. The Cure it depends upon the Cure of the disease on which it depends. That obstruction that is caused by a stone, is incurable, because the stone cannot be dissolved which comes from the obstruction of the Cistis or bag of the gall, as thus you must make an universal evacuation throughout the whole body with this Bolus. Take of the electuary of the Juice of Roses and Diaprunis solutive anaʒ 3. The powder of Rhubarb ʒ 1. Saffron ℈ ss. vitriolated Tarter ℈ ss. and with Sugar make a Bolus, which may be given once or twice if the body be of a very ill habit. And if you perceive abundance of blood, you will find necessary to abate it, after the body is sufficiently unladen of the humours, this following infusion used 8 or 9 days, plucks up the disease by the roots. ℞ Madder roots ℥ ss. the greater Celandine M. 1. the tops of Sea Wormwood, and of the lesser Centaury ana P. 1. Cinnamon ʒss. Saffron ℈ ss infuse them a whole night in ℥ 8. of white-wine, and add to the straining ℥ 1 ss. white Sugar and let him take it in the morning three hours before dinner, sometimes add to it ℥ 1. of the Syrup of the Juice of Horehound. After the obstruction is taken away the yellow colour will in a short time vanish by the strength of natural heat, which will discuss the humour from the skin, but that it may sooner be done, make a Bath of warm-water and rub the body therein with a bag of Barley and Bean-meale. XXXIII. Stoppage or obstruction of the Liver. The obstruction of the Liver is preternatural closing or straightness of the branches of the Vena Porta and Cava, a●d sometimes of the substance of the Liver hindering the passage of natural humours, and the distribution of nourishment, for these ways or passages are not only the veins which are dispersed through the whole substance of the Liver, but also the pores and insensible passages, with which the whole substance of the Liver, and also of the other parts, is very full, which being shut up by a preternatural humour; neither can the heat of the Liver be cooled, nor can the thin vaporous excriments be evacuated. The cause of these obstructions, is a gross excrement viscuous and clammy, which being not able to pass freely, sticks in the passage and is more and more thickened by the heat of the party, so that the longer obstructions continued the worse they are. The Cure is begun with a general evacuation throughout the whole body, and by a potion correspondent to the nature of the distemper, and afterwards if there be signs of plethory or fullness, if the body be thin you must draw blood out of the liver vein in the right arm. The Potion. ℞ Smallage, Parsley and Fennel-roots infused a whole night in white-Wine an● ℥ 1. the roots of the greater Cilandine ℥ 2. Fearn-roots, Elicompane Barbs, the roots of Capers, the inward bark of an Ash, and Tamarisk ana ℥ ss. Wormwood, Agrimony, Maidenhair, Garmender, the tops of St. Johns-wort, and the lesser Centaury, ana M. 1. Smalledg, Parsley, Annis. and Fennelseeds ana ℥ ss. Senna, Polypody of the Oak, and the kernels of Catharmus-seeds, ana ℥ 2. Epythimum or dodder of Thin ℥ 1. Ginger and Cloves anaʒ 1. Tamarisk flowers, Merrigolds and read Fitches ana P. 1. make a decoction to a pint and a quarter, dissolve in the straining of the Syrup of the fine opening roots, and of Roses solutive, ana ℥ 2. and make a potion, clarified and aromatized with ʒ 2. of Cinnamon, and divide it into 4 parts for 4 morning's draught, adding to every morning's draughts of vitriolated Tarter, and of salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk, ana ℈ ss. In the last doss (if the first have not sufficiently purged) dissolve of the electuary of Citrons solutive, and Diacarthamum anaʒ 1 ss. Or do this. Take vitriolated Tarter which hath great power to open obstructions, and use it thus. ℞ Barley Water ℥ 4. Senna, Senna ʒ 2 ss Rhubarb ʒ 1. vitriolated Tarter ℈ 1. let them infuse, a little than strain them for to drink. This one that I have found great credit by, for by the often use of it, it takes away all obstructions. I have cured Agues Quotidian and Tertian by using this for 12 days together. Let his drink be Barleywater and Juice of Oranges, and you may dulcify it with Syrup of Violets, or he may drink of the Tincture of Roses mentioned in the hot distemper of the Liver 31. Chapter. Either of them both are very excellent. I could instance many other medicines but I have found in my practice none so previlent as these. XXXIV. Dropsy. According to Gallen description, there are 3 sorts of Dropsies namely Ascites, Tympanites, and Anasarca. Ascites is a swetting of the belly, causes of a serous humour, and not only of the belly but also of the feet legs thighs and cod, sometimes it begin with a swelling of the feet which ascends afterwards to the legs and to the thighs and cod. This humour as it is of the nature of water it is cold, but as it is salt, it hath in it heat, and is increased by the nearness of the bowels, and more by the putrefaction which it gathereth by its long continuance, from whence comes a and thirst, from the stinking salt vapours which do rise and infect the mouth of the stomach. The Dropsy called Timpanites, has his name from Timpanum a Drumb, because the abdomen is stretched out like a Drumb, and if you strike it, it sounds like it, and this stretching comes from wind shut up in the cavety of the abdomen, and sometimes in the cavety of the guts. And we must observe that the wind that causeth this Timpany, is not contained in the b●lly alone, but mixed with water, as in the Ascites. The difference of these two is the thing that predominats, if more wind than water, it is a Timpany but if more water than wind an Uscites. The Dropsy called Anasarca comes of a phlegmatic humour, spread through the whole body, and therefore the body is swollen and white, this phlegm comes from a cold Liver, which instead of good blood, produceth cold and phlegmatic, which when it cannot be turned into the substance of the parts, leaveth the curdy part that is unfit for nourishment upon them, and makes them swell, hence comes an Anasarca. The Cure of the Dropsy consists in the evacuating the matter, whether it be in the whole body, or in the abdomen or belly, in taking away the cause that produce that matter, & in strengthening the bowels, especially the Liver, and for general evacuation this powder is the best. Take of jalap and the best Rhubarb anaʒss vitriolated Tarter ℈ ss Ginger gr. 6. give it in white-Wine, it is necessary that this be taken every third or fourth day, and sometimes sweet with Antimonium Diaphoreticum, for it cures without manifest evacuation, observe that day you take the sweat you must omit purging. The Cure also lieth much in their drink, they must be very sparing of drinking, and endure thirst as much as they can. For drink let them take the decoction of Juniper or of Guajacum, or of Sasaphras or Madder which provokes urine very much, let eat with their meats (which must be dry roasted) a little salt of Wormwood. Amongst internal, let not be forgotten external Medicines for they are of great force to discurse the humours of the belly, as fomentations as followeth Take the urine of a sound boy 4 pints, Lapis prunellae ℥ 3. boil them to the consumption of a third part for a fomentation, or take Limewater, in which dip a new sponge which will compass the whole abdomen, strain it and bind it on, by this the waters that 'cause the Dropsy are consumed, the cold and moist distemper of the bowels are taken away, and the hardness of the spleen dissolved, after the fomentation anoint with a little oil of Scorpions mixed with the oil of Rosemary, and little powder of Gallengall and Bay-berries, these be also good to foment the legs and thighs with all and must not be omited, and by this method I have cured many. XXXV. Pain of the Spleen. It is caused from wind, which doth not only stretch the substance of the Spleen, which is almost insensible, but the membrains that covereth it, it is hardly distinguished from the colic, because the Colon is just under and over the Spleen, but the pain of the Spleen is weighty, and in one place, but the pain of the Colon is stretching, sharp, and movable, and runs about the whole belly. The Cure of this disease is with Carminative glisters, that expel wind with convenient purging, and with emollient fomentations with Vinegar. A clyster. ℞ of the decoction of French-Barly ℥ 2. put into it 2 yolks of Eggs, oil of sweet Almonds ℥ 3 pulp of Coloquintida ʒss. make a clyster, this clyster must be given as often as need requires, foment the side with the decoction of Mellilote flower and Elder-flowers made in hard wine, and after apply this Emplaster. ℞ Gum Ammoniak ℥ 4. dissolve it in strong Vinegar, than strain them and boil them till the Vinegar is consumed, than with a little wax make an Emplaster and apply it. Let the party drink 2 or 3 times in a day a small glass of water distilled from Elderbuds, it may be sweetened with Sugar if they please. By using this course I have had great success in this Cure, I have sometimes caused the opening of a vein in the left arm, when I saw there was an inflammation. XXXVI. Tenesmus. It is a continual desire to go to stool, and voiding nothing but slime and bloody matter, the cause of it is an ulcer in the straight gut called Intestinum rectum, from which quitter or filthy matter floweth and stirreth the expulsive faculty, by which means there is a continual desire to go to stool, for the causes they need not to be repeated for they are the same with a Dysenteria, and differ only in respect of the part affected, and in the knowledge of this you may observe there is a continual needing. And in a Dysenteria, it is by fits, besides in that after great straining, there is voided only slime, bloody or mattery, in a Dysenteria, both excrements and humours are voided. A Tenasmus is easily cured, it seldom kills any, but is very grievous in respect of its troublesomeness and long continuance. The Cure little differs from the Cure of a Dysenteria. And first the sharp humours that come from the Liver and other parts are to be purged with medicines that leave an astringent quality behind, as Rhubarb, which must be so often given till the humour seem to be spent, and give it thus. Take torrified Rhubarb ʒ 1. Plantain water ℥ 2. Syrup of Violets ℥ 1. mix them to drink, use it often as is said. If there be inflammation (as is known by a ) open a vein, and if after bleeding it continued, and 'cause a Strangury or difficulty of urine (as often it doth) than open the Hemorrhoids with Horseleeches, you must use assuaging glisters if much pain, and astringent, ●s the disease requires, the composition you will found in the Cure of the Dysenteria. But in the use of glisters, observe; First, that you give them often, and that they exceed not the quantity of half a pint, because they will not be kept any time because of their continual needing, and the pipe must be warily put in, jest the pain be increased. And Lastly, You must diligently apply this fomentation, from the beginning, a piece of Scarlet-cloath boiled in Vinegar and applied pretty hot, as they may endure. And sometimes fill 2 bag with Barley bran, and boil them in Vinegar, and let the party sit one while upon one and other while upon another as hot as he can, and sometimes use dry fumigations to dry the ulcer; as thus. Amber Mastic Frankincense and Mircles anaʒ 1. make 〈◊〉 powder for a fumigation, and sit over it on a close stool. By this means being daily observed, I cured 7 people. XXXVII. The Stone in the Kidneys, and pain in the Reins, called Doler Nephriticus. This disease is called by some people the Stone-Chollick. The cause of this pain, the stone or thick phlegm, a stone continuing in the Reins, causeth either little or no pain, because the substance of the reins have little sense, but if it fall upon the head of the Ureters, or get into the passage and distend it and cannot be brought to the bladder by reason of its greatness, than it causeth grievous pains, but gross phlegm fastened upon the ureters and distending them, causeth the Nephritick pain, ordinary causes are thick blood in the ureters, or thick matter coming from the Kidneys, or wind got into the cavery and causeth great pain. There are many controversies (about the stone which is the chief cause of the pain in the Reinss) by several Authors, but I shall omit the tediousness of them, and fall only to the Cure, as I have found by my practice. The Cure consists in the enlarging of the passages, and relaxing them by throwing forth the stone and any other thing that hurts them, and by taking away the Anticedent cause, which is thus done. First, give this clyster. ℞ Marsh mallow and Lily roots an. ℥ 1. Mallows, Violets, and Pellitory, Bearefoot, ana M. 1. Lint seed and Fenugreek seed ana ℥ ss fat Figgs 6 Cammomel and melilot flowers ana P. 1. boil them to a pint, dissolve in the straining Cassia and Diacatholicon anaʒ 6. pulp of Coloquintida gr. 6 oil of Lillyes and Violets ana ℥ 1 ss. fresh Oil ℥ 2. make a clyster to be given presently, afterwards open the Liver vein in the right arm, and take ℥ 8 of blood according to the strength of the Patient, to prevent inflammation. After blood-letting g●ve this clyster. ℞ Flowers of Cammomel and melilot, the tops of Dil, Pellitory of the wall and Rue, ana M 1. Annis: Fennel and Cummin seeds ana ℥ ss. make a decoction to one pint in which dissolve Diaphaenicon ℥ ● Turpentine dissolved with the yolk of an Egg, ℥ 1 oil of Dill and Scorpions ana ℥ 3. mix them for a clyster, to mollify more and to assuage pain after your laxative make a clyster of oil thus, ℞ oil of Dill and of Cammomel ana lb ss oil of sweet Almonds ℥ 2. oil of Rue ℥ 1. mix them for a clyster, at the same time make a fomentation to the part pained, of the decoction of the first clyster, with Aniseed and Fennel seeds, and oil and water, and use it with a sponge and because that in this disease there is abundance of curdy humours that cannot be carried away by clyster, you must give a vomit, namely ℥ 2. of the infusion of Crocus mettallorum, or less according to the age of the party, for by this the plenty of humours may be abated, and a revultion is made from the part affected, and often nature itself endeavour the same when the pain is great, you must observe before and after purging and clyster, you must give somewhat at the mouth which opens the passages and abate pain, which is this. ℞ Marsh mallows ℥ 3. boil them to a pint dissolve in the straning lb ss Sugar. Let his ordinary drink be the decoction of Marshmallow roots with two Pugils of French Barley, and Liquorice ʒ6. in 5 pints of water boiled to a pint. Oil of sweet Almonds new drawn doth mollify and relax and assuage pain ℥ 3. or 4 given by its self or with white-Wine. Sometimes I have given when the pain has been great 5 or 6 grains of Laudanum in a clyster, or three grains at the mouth, by these rules I have merveilous success in bringing away the stone, and other causes of the pain, in the reins and never failed, and I have cured many in England and beyond the Seas. XXXIX. Dysuria, or Scalding of the Urine. The Cause of this painful pissing, is a solution of continuity in the Sphincter Muscle or the passage of the bladder, and therefore whatsoever can 'cause a wound in those parts, may 'cause heat of urine. The most chief cause is sharpness of urine sometimes without mixture of other humours, which is caused by a hot distemper of the bowels, or of the whole body, or by eating hot and sharp meats, but it often come by mixture of hot and sharp humours as choler and sharp phlegm, sometimes matter coming from the reinss and bladder being ulcerated may 'cause a sharpness of urine, sometimes a white humour like milk comes plentifully forth with the urine and causeth scalding, which by some is thought to be matter from the veins, other causes there are, as a stone in the bladder if it strike against the neck of it in time of pissing causeth pain, but I never had a Patient in that kind. But to the Cure of them who have it by the sharpness of hot phlegmatic and choleric humours, and it is thus. First, Let blood according to the plethory and inflammation, first from the right arm in the Liver vein to evacuate and revel the matter, and after in the lower vein in the ankle, to drive it from the part affected, than give this mild gentle and cool purge. Pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds ana ℥ 1 ss. Turpentine ʒ 3. make a Bole. A vomit is better as experience witness it, for it revelleth from the part affected and hinders those inconveniences that use to come by purging, therefore g●ve once or twice in a week to them that can vomit easily ℥ 1 of Crocus mettallorum, afterwards give sharp glisters, for they bring the sha●p humours to the guts and sand them out by degrees give this. ℞ Marshmallow roots ℥ 1. Mallows, Violets, and Lettuce ana M. 1. water Lillyes and Barley ana P. 1. boil them to a pint, and dissolve in the straining Cassia new drawn ℥ 1. one Eglantine, and ℥ 2. of oil of Violets, make a clyster, sometimes make the decoction in milk every other clyster, for it do powerfully alloy heat and pain. At the time let this Julep be drank of 5 or 6 spoonfuls at a time and often. ℞ water of Purslain, Lettuce, and Roses, and water Lillyes ana ℥ 1. Syrup of Violets and water Lillyes anaʒ 6 Sal Prunellaeʒ 1. mix it for a Julep, repeat it often, and instead of this you may drink the simple decoction of mallows with Syrup of Violets. When the pain is very great, put the Yard when you piss in warm Milk, or decoction of Marsh-mallows, and white Poppy-seeds, or warm water. The small decoction of Marsh mallows and Syrup of violets, and conserve of Roses, let that be his ordinary drink, and sometimes Almond milk. This I have found a safe an infallible way of cure of this disease, which of itself is not dangerous, though very painful. XL. The Itch. It comes from the obstruction of the Liver, occasioned by a gross diet, and an intemperate course of life, by great drinking, and eating of unripe fruits and things of hard digestion. The cause why it is catching is too la ge to insist upon here, but I shall set down very briefly the ●x●ct and speedy cure, and I never failed the cure of any I undertook, and it is as followeth. For men and women let them take for three times this purge, in the space of twelve days. Take of Rhubarb and Zallap an●ʒ ss, vitriolated Tarter gr 8 Ginger gr. 7. make a powder and drink it with warm posset. Let children take this purge four times in twelve days. Take Syrup of Rhubarb, and Chicory ℥ 8 and add to it the powder of Rhubarb ℥ 1, and let it serve for four dosses, and all the time let his body be ungued and bathed with this following unguent. Take Sage M. 2. stamp them and than boil them in half a pound of fresh Butter, than strain it and add to it ℥ 2. of the powder of Brimstone. I have experienced this way often and have cured many hundreds, both beyond Seas and in England, and by no other means. XLI. Chlorosis, or Green-sickness. It is an evil habit of body proceeding from the obstruction of the veins of the Liver, Spleen, and Mesentery, especially of those veins which are about the womb, and the cause of the obstructions of the veins of the womb and other parts, are thick slimy & curdy humours coming from evil diet, by drinking Vinegar, eating Herbs and unripe fruit, Chalk, Oatmeal, Nutmeg, etc. for hence it is that natural heat is impaired and cruid humours increased. The Cure is, by opening the obstructions, by evacuating of the filthy humours from out the whole body, and correcting the distemper of the bowels and strengthening them. The obstructions are taken away by these pills. Take of Steel prepared with brimstone ℥ ss. Aloes, Senna, Agarick anaʒ 2. Diarrhodon Abbatis ʒ ss. Saffron ℈ ss. with Syrup of Roses solutive make a mass of pills, of ʒ 1. thereof make six guilded pills which give in the morning for fifteen days together, three hours before meat. The body being cleansed open a vein in the arm, if her terms are stopped for if you draw blood from the foot, the obstructions of the veins in the womb will be greater, by their fullness if the Liver be most stopped draw blood from the right arm, if the Spleen from the left. After bleeding take one purge more, after that make this Bath following to open and loosen the vessels and to dissolve and digest the matter causing obstructions. Take Marsh mallow-roots, Lilly-roots, Elicompane, Bryony, wild cucumber, ana lb 2. Mallows, Violets, Mercury, Pennyroyal, Feaverfew, Balm, ana M. 4. Lint-seed and Faenewgreek-seed beaten ana ℥ 2. boil them in spring water for a Bath, Let her go into it warm twice in a day, do this two days, renewing each day the decoction, The day after if the terms be stopped open the vein in the Ankle called Saphaena, and take away three ounces of blood, and it may be done twice or thrice in a time (that is to say) at the same time the terms use to flow. After the obstructions are opened, you must discuss the phlegm like serous humours that remain in the veins by sweats, use the decoction of Guajacum in cold constitutions, and in hot, the decoction of China and Sarsa for 15 or 20 days, with this caution that every fourth or fifth day you give a purge to cleanse the bowels of humours that cannot be sen● forth by sweat. Lastly, Copulation if it may be done lawfully, is very good after the use of opening medicines, for by it the natural heat is stirred up, and the vessels of the womb much enlarged. This is a sure way of Cure and often experienced. XLII. Stoppage of the Terms. There are many causes of this disease, but chief it proceeds from cold and thick humours. Cause. Sometimes the blood offending in quantity quality or motion may be a cause. In quantity when it is too much or too little, too much when it stretcheth out the veins so that they cannot contract themselves to expel it. Too little when the body hath not blood enough to nourish it. Blood offends in quality when it is thick and slimy, by reason of the cold distemper of the Liver and other parts. It offends in motion when it passeth other ways, as by the Nose, Vomiting, Spitting, Urine, Hemorrhoids and the like. To the Cure, Cure. if it proceeds from too much blood, let blood in the arms, and abate the quantity of it, for if you should first open the vena Saphena or lower vein, the blood would be drawn more to the womb and cause a greater obstruction and distension of the vessels, and break them, or cause inflammation of the womb After abundance of blood is taken away, you must draw the blood down by opening the lower veins, about the time the woman use before to have her Terms. After these things use Baths, you need to follow no other rules than those in the Cure of the Greensickness, in order for generally when the obstructions of the bowels are opened, the courses flow of their own accord. XLIII. Immoderate Flux of the Courses. The Cause Cause. of the immoderate coming down of the Courses are, viz. an opening of the ends of the veins, a soaking of the blood through the coats of the veins, a forcible rending of the veins, and there being eaten through by sharp humours. All which are caused by the too great abundance of blood, its heat, thinness and sharpness. To the Cure, Cure. to draw blood from the part affected the Patient must bleed in the arm, as much as her strength can bear, but not all at once but by degrees, now and than stopping the orifice with the finger, some use to fasten a large Cupping-glass unto the dugs, to stop the courses, and if she grow short breathed, they take it presently of, I never used it, but after bleeding gave these pills. Take pills of Bdelliumʒ 1. the Troches of Amber and terra sigillata ana ℈ 1. with the Mucilage of Quince seeds extracted with Rose water, make a Mass of pills which I give twice in a day the quantity of ℈ 1. before Dinner and Supper, it is good that you add ℈ 1. of Blood stone to it, endeavouring to vomit before Dinner by the help of your fingers, but not so as to vomit, doth powerfully draw the blood upwards. Drink now and than the Juice of Plantain newly drawn, the quantity of three or four ounces, I have found it to be the best medicine in the world. I have cured many by these rules and medicines. XLIV. The Whites. A woman is said to have the Whites when excrementitious humours do slow from the womb, without any certain order, and the excrementitious humours are sometimes white and phlegmatic, sometimes they are pale or yellow, or green by the mixture of choler, sometimes watery by the admixture of serous humours, sometimes blackish by the mixture of melancholy, sometimes sharp and corosive, so as to eat into, and exvulcerate some parts of the womb, sometimes they are of an ill sent, sometimes not so offensive, and these proceed from a bad diet or from a vicious habitual distemper of the whole body, and they take their course unto the womb as unto a Sink, or Common shore, whereinto the rest of the parts of the body disburden themselves. The Cure Cure. of this disease is by a convenient purging of the Peccant humour, and because phlegmatic and wheyish humours do most commonly abound, purge four times with this medicine. Take Plantain water ℥ 6. Rhubarb, Senna, anaʒ 3. Zallapium ʒ 1. let them infuse for one hour than strain them, and add to it the powder of Rhubarb ʒ 1 ss. pulp of Tamarinds ℥ 2. Syrup of Violet's ʒ 1 ss. let it serve for four dosses, afterwards purge every other day for 8 days, with half an ounce of the pulp of Tamarinds, and three drams of Venice Turpentine. There is no necessity of bleeding in this disease, after sufficient purgations, procure sweat to expel the remnants of the excrementious humour, and also to 'cause a further revultion of the humours falling into the womb, and for this purpose a decoction of Lignum Guajacum, and Sassaphras is excellent in cold bodies, and in choleric and melanchollick bodies the decoction of China and Sarsaparilla, with cooling herbs jest the humour should be more exasperated. Sulphurons' Baths do powerfully help to consume the relics of this disease, and have experienced it often by those who I have after universal purging recommended to the Bath. A small decoction of Guajacum, China may be their diet drink. When occasion is of injection, let it be with Barley water, or water sweetened with Sugar, afterwards to dry and strengthen the womb, use these fumes (of Franckinscence Laudanum, Mastic▪ Sanders, Nutmeg, and read Rose leaves) over a Close-stool. With these rules you will not found any difficulty of the Cure if it be not old and stubborn, as I can and have made it appear by practice. XLV. Fits of the Mother. Cause. When the seed and menstruous blood are retained in women besides the intent of Nature, they putrify and are corrupted, and attain a malignant and venomous quality, from whence venomous vapours are elevated and carried to divers parts of the body, from whence ariseth an infinite number of sorrows and diseases. To this disease I cannot say it ever made a perfect cure Cure. of any, yet have made much experience beyond Sea, in several Nunneries, besides other people, but have given ease for a good time by this following means. First, I give this laxative and wind expelling clyster, to discuss such filthy vapours as 'cause the filth. Take Mercury leaves, Pellitory of the wall, Mugwort, Penny royal, Rue, Calaminth, ana M. 1. Carraway-seeds, Cumin-seeds and Barberryes' anaʒ 2. boil all to a pint and a half, in the straining dissolve, Hierapicra, and Benedicta Laxativa, anaʒ 6. oil of Rue ℥ 3. Camphir half a Scrupel, mix it for a clyster, give this clyster twice, than this Historical clyster. Take oil of Rue ℥ 4. Aqua vitae ℥ 1. Canary Sack ℥ 9 Galbanum ℥ 2. mix all and make a clyster, and give it after the other is out, I given only a clyster of Vinegar tempered with water, and it presently assuage the Mother fit, by compressing and coagulating the vapours which cause the same. I have found also great effects and very sudden in this medicine, only 10 grains of Camphir burned in warm water, and when it is out, let her drink it, it is the quantity of half a pint, it presently allays the fit. These medicines I have made large experience of, and have found them effectual in what I have said in this Cure, that is to the giving ease to the Patient. Laus Deo. FINIS.