THE EIGHT SECTIONS OF HIPPOCRATES APHORISMS Review'd and Rendered into English: According to the Translation of Anutius Foesius. Digested into an exact and methodical form. AND Divided into several convenient Distinctions, and every Distinction into several Chapters, wherein every Aphorism is Reduced to its proper Subject. Whereby the Reader may easily find out any desired Aphorism without the tedious Revolution of the whole Work. Wherein also many Aphorisms are significantly interpreted which were neglected in the former Translation. The next Page will show the contents of every Distinction. — Fancies non omnibus una Nec diversa tamen. Ovid. Metam. Licenced July 14. 1664. Roger L'Estrange. London, Printed by W. G. for Rob. Crofts, at the Crown in Chancery-Lane. 1665. DISTINCTION I. THE first Distinction contains all such Aphorisms which are either Diagnostic or Prognostic, whereby the Practitioner may find out the Disease and judge thereof. DIST. II. The second Distinction contains those Aphorisms which treat of the Regiment of Diet convenient either for healthful or sick persons. DIST. III. In this Distinction are handled such Aphorisms which set down the general way of Curing Diseases. DIST. IU. In this Distinction are set down such Aphorisms which concern the preternatural Affects distributed to Man's body in every Age, by the Winds and Seasons of the year. DIST. V. This Distinction contains such Aphorisms which concern Fevers and their Accidents. DIST. VI This Distinction contains such Aphorisms which make mention of all the particular and Internal Diseases of the body from the Head to the Foot. DIST. VII. In this Distinction are contained such Aphorisms which mention all the External Diseases of Man's Body. The Eight several Sections of Hypocrates Aphorisms. Distinction the first, containing all the Aphorisms Diagnostic and Prognostic. THis small Book of Aphorisms of Hypocrates, doth fundamentally instruct those who shall throughly learn and observe them, with all the grounds belonging unto Physic; and whereas the Invention and scope of a Physician may be redived (which otherwise would be infinite) unto two heads, that is, Preservative and Curative; to preserve the body of man in its integrity of healths: and secondly, being swerved from that to remove all cause; which shall or may cause any preternatural affects or distemper. Therefore for the more ease and and perspecuity to the Reader, the Aphorisms which respect both those intentions are distinctly and severally proposed under their proper heads; and being it is necessary that the Physician should rightly understand and judge by the particular Signs before he undertake or administer any Physic for the Cure, whether the affects do refuse or perform their natural Actions, therefore in the first place such informing Aphorisms are set down, and they are these which follow. CHAP. I. The Proem. LIfe is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgement difficult. Neither is it sufficient that the Physician be ready to act what is necessary to be done by him, but the Sick, and the Attendants and all outward necessaries must be lightly prepared and sitted for the business. Sect. 2. Aph. 4. Neither fullness nor emptiness, nor any other thing, if it exceed a mean in nature, is good. Sect. 2. Aph. 5. Wearyishness, or a lazy indisposition arising of its own accord, is the forerunner of a Disease. Sect. 2. Aph. 6. They who are grieved in any part of their body, and are scarce sensible of their grief, have their animal faculty distempered. Sect. 2. Aph. 26. It is better that a Fever succeed a Convulsion, than a Convulsion a Fever. Sect. 2. Aph. 27. Sudden intermissions or alleviations in Diseases are not much to be trusted unto, which happen without some reasons, neither ought we much to fear such evils which happen without a sensible cause. For many of those things are uncertain, neither are they wont to continue long. Sect. 2. Aph. 28. It is an ill Sign when Feaver-sick persons either retain their fullness of body, or else are overmuch wasted, and emaciated by the Disease. For the one signifies a prolixity of the Disease; the other, weakness of the Patient. Sect. 2. Aph. 30. The Symptoms of every Disease are most easy and light about the beginning and ending thereof, but in the state and vigour, most vehement. Sect. 2. Aph. 31. If any man being recovered of a Disease is not profited by his meat taken orderly, it is an ill Sign. Sect. 2. Aph. 33. It is a hopeful sign when the Sick continues undisturbed in mind and body after such things as have been administered unto him. But the contrary if contrary things happen. Sect. 2. Aph 39 Old men usually are less sick than young men, but such daily Diseases as do happen unto them, do commonly accompany them to their death. Sect. 2. Aph. 40. Hoarseness and Rheums in very old men will not be concocted. Sect. 2. Aph. 42. A strong Apoplexy is incurable, but a slight one is not easily cured. Sect. 2. Aph. 44. Very gross and Corpulent bodies by nature die sooner than such which are spare and lean. Sect. 3. Aph. 45. Young men are chiefly freed from the Falling Sickness by change of Age, Air, and Diet. Sect. 3. Aph. 50. Such things unto which we are accustomed unto by long intervals of time, although worse, are less irksome: and troublesome unto us, than such which are not familiar unto us; wherefore we ought to make a change to those things which are not usual unto us. Sect. 2. Aph. 53. They who have their bodies soluble are in a better condition of health, especially while they are young than those whose bodies are hard and costive, but in their old age they live worse, because than their excrements are usually dried. Sect. 2. Aph. 54. A tall Stature of body in Youth is comely and not unseemly, but in Old men it is unserviceable, and worse than a short Stature. Sect. 2. Aph. 30. Such intermittent Fevers are hardly to be judged, which return again at the same hour the next day, wherein the intermission was the day before, be it at what hour soever. Sect. 4. Aph. 43. If any part of the body were afflicted or troubled before the Disease, the Disease doth confirm and determine itself in that part. Sect. 4. Aph. 36. Such Sweats which express themselves in Fevers, the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, one and twentieth, seven and twentieth, thirtieth, or the four and thirtieth day, are beneficial, because they are Critical; But such as do not begin upon some of those days signify danger, prolixity of the Disease, and its reversion. Sect. 4. Aph. 38. Sweats do declare a Disease in the body. Sect. 4. Aph. 41. Much sweat in the time of sleep without some manifest cause arising, doth argue that such bodies do use a more liberal diet; but if they happen to him which eateth but sparingly, they tell that there is a necessity of Evacuation. Sect. 4. Aph. 42. If plenty of Sweat, whether hot or cold always flow, the cold doth signify a bigger, the hot a less Disease. Sect. 4. Aph. 45. They who have swellings, or pains about the Junctures after long Fevers, do feed plentifully. Sect. 4. Aph. 51. If intermittent Fevers are not dissolved by their first brises at the beginning, they then usually continue long. Sect. 4. Aph. 52. Voluntary tears flowing in Fevers or other Diseases produce no inconvenience, but involuntary are more inconvenient. Sect. 4. Aph. 53. Those Fevers are most vehement wherein an Edaminis humour caused by the Fevers, grows to the Teeth. Sect. 4. Aph. 54. He that hath a dry cough lightly moving and persevering in a burning Fever, is not much troubled with thirst. Sect. 4. Aph. 56. If Sweat happen to one Sick of a Fever, and the Fever cease not, it is ill: For the Fever is prolonged, and much moisture is thereby signified. Sect. 4. Aph. 57 A Fever succeeding, frees from a Convulsion, or the distension of the Nerves. Sect. 4. Aph. 58. A vehement cold or shaking, frees him who is Sick of a burning Fever. Sect. 4. Aph. 59 An exquisite Tertian is judged in seven circuits at the utmost. Sect. 4. Aph. 60. Deafness occasioned by a Fever, is taken away by an issue of Blood out of the Nostrils, or a Flux of the Belly. Sect. 4. Aph. 62. The Yellow Jaundice coming upon a Fever, if it appear before the seventh day, is bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 63. Such Fevers as have rigours every day, are daily dissolved. Sect. 4. Aph. 64. If the Yellow Jaundice come upon a Fever, the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or fourteenth day, it portends good, unless the right Hypochondrium be hard, than it is not good. Sect. 4. Aph. 68 Interception of Spirits in a Fever is bad, for a Convulsion is thereby declared. Sect. 4. Aph. 80. If Blood and clots be voided with the Urine, if the party have a Strangury, and the pain fall down into the lower part of the belly and the Perinaeum the parts which appertain to the Bladder are disaffected. Sect. 4. Aph. 81. They which void Blood, suppurated matter, and small crusts or scales with their Urine, and if an ill smell of the Urine be concomitant, it signifies exulceration of the bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 82. If a tumour rising upon the Yard turn to suppuration, and break, a dissolution succeeds. Sect. 4. Aph. 83. Much Urine voided in the night season signifies but little dejection by Stool. Sect. 7. Aph. 30. Ejections and excrements which are frothy voided by Stool descend from the brain. Sect. 7. Aph. 32. Urines then at the top with bilious Sediments, signify an acute Disease. Sect. 7. Aph. 33. Variety of Colours in the Urine signify a vehement perturbation in the whole body. Sect. 7. Aph 36. When the aforenamed Signs do happen to those whose Reins are disaffected, and if grief or pain be about the Muscles of the back bone, because the pains are carried to the external parts, expect the abscess or imposthumation to be outward. But if the pains tend rather to the inward parts, we must expect the imposthumation to be more inward. Sect. 7. Aph. 37. Vomiting of Blood without a Fever is healthful, but with a Fever it is evil, and then it is to be cured with such Medicines as have a cooling and a restringent quality. Sect. 7. Aph. 38. Distillations falling upon the upper belly within twenty days, turn to suppuration. Sect. 7. Aph. 40. If the tongue on a sudden be incontinent, or any part of the Body struck, it signifies Melancholy. Sect. 7. Aph. 41. If the Hicket happen to elderly men by immoderate purging, it is no good Sign. Sect. 7. Aph. 49. If a tumour or redness do happen in the breast of him that is Sick of a Squinancy it is a good Sign, for then the Morbific matter is sent to the external parts. Sect. 7. Aph. 52. A Fever succeeding doth take away a vehement pain of the Liver. Sect. 7. Aph. 54. When Phlegm is imparted between the Midriff, and the Stomach, causing pain, and hath no passage either upward or downward, if that petuitous humour be carried by the veins to the Bladder, the grief thereby is taken away. Sect. 7. Aph. 56. Wine allayed with an equal proportion of water doth take away sorrow, yawning, or extreme quaking. Sect. 7. Aph. 57 [You have this Aphorism before in the fourth Section, Aphorism 82.] Sect. 7. Aph. 61. Much Sweat either hot or cold always flowing, signifies plenty of humours in the body, which in a strong body must be drawn away upward, but in a weak one, downward. Sect. 7. Aph. 63. Small tumours turning to suppuration or pains in the joints, do arise in such bodies who have had long Fevers. Sect. 7. Aph. 64. They who are troubled with the aforenamed imposthumations or pains of the joints by Fevers, do use more than ordinary Diet. Sect 7. Aph. 65. Meat exhibited to one sick of a Fever doth nourish the Disease, but to a healthful body it gives strength. Sect. 7. Aph. 66. Respect must be had to those things which are voided by Urine, whether the Sediments resemble those of Sound bodies or not; for by how much the more they draw from them, by so much the more they are more significative of Diseases; but the nearer they appear like the Urines of sound bodies, the less Diseased they argue the party by whom they are made. Sect. 7. Aph. 71. Either sleep or watching exceeding a mean, is a Disease. CHAP. II. Of Prognostics. Prognostics. THe Diseases, seasons of the year, and the vicissitudes of the circuits being compared together among themselves, whether they are made every other day or by great intervals of time, do show the accessions and qualities of Diseases. Moreover, the Symptoms also which presently appear show the same things, of which condition is spittle in Pluretick bodies; if it appear in the beginning of the Disease, it signifies its brevity; but if it appear later, it argues that the Disease will be long. The Urines also, the Excrements and Sweats, when they appear do give notice whether the Disease will have a hard or easy Crisis, and whether it will be short or long. Sect. 2. Aph. 5. [See this Aphorism in the second Aphorism in the Diagnosticks.] Sect 2. Aph. 13. When a Crisis is intended by nature, the night before the access is tedious and vehement, but the following night usually is more tolerable. Sect. 2. Aph. 23. Acute Diseases are terminated by a Crisis within fourteen days. Sect. 2. Aph. 24. The fourth day is the Index of the seventh, the eighth of another seventh. The eleventh also must be had in consideration, because it is the fourth of another seventh. Again, the Seventeenth must be looked upon, because it is the fourth from the fourteenth, and the seventh from the eleventh. Sect. 2. Aph. 27. [You have have this Aphorism verbatim in the fifth Aphorism of the Diagnosticks, to which I refer you.] Sect. 2. Aph. 28. [See this in the Diagnosticks, Aphorism the sixth.] Sect. 2. Aph. 33. [This Aphorism is the same with the ninth Aphorism of the Diagnosticks.] Sect. 2. Aph. 44. [This also you have word for word in the tenth Aphorism of the Diagnosticks, unto which place I refer the Reader.] Sect. 4. Aph. 11. When the bowels are wrung, great torments about the Navel, and a Concomitant pain of the Loins is present, if the morbific matter be neither taken away by a purging Medicine, nor any other means, it is confirmed into a dry Dropsy or Timpany. Sect. 4. Aph. 21. Black dejections like Melancholy blood, coming of their own accord, whether proceeding with a Fever or without a Fever, are the worst of all, and so much the worse by how much their colours are many and bad; but if they are caused by a Medicine, it is better; and the more commendable, if their colours are many and not bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 22. If black blood issue forth either upward or downward at the beginning of any Disease whatsoever, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 23. If they who have been emaciated by acute or continual Diseases, by wounds or any other means whatsoever, do void black choler, or something like black blood, they die the next day following. Sect. 4. Aph. 24. If an Excoriation of the bowels or a Dysentery take its original or cause from black Choler, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 25. It is not good to void any blood upward of what kind soever it be, but if black blood be sent forth downwards, it is good. Sect. 4. Aph. 26. If small pieces of flesh be ejected with the excrements by him that hath a Dysentry or Bloody Flux, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 27. They from whom by reason of a Fever much blood doth flow, be the Flux from what part soever, when they are refreshed have moist bellies. Sect. 4. Aph. 28. Succeeding Deafness stays and takes away bilious dejections, and Deafness if bilious dejections arise is finished. Sect. 4. Aph. 29. Those Fevers have a very difficult Crisis wherein Rigours or extreme cold fits appear the sixth day. Sect. 4. Aph. 30. [See this Aphorism in the same Section and Aphorism in the Diagnosticks.] Sect. 4. Aph. 35. It is a mortal Sign when in a Fever the Neck is so wrested on a sudden no tumour pre-existent that the Sick can hardly swallow. Sect. 4. Aph. 37. Cold sweats arising in an acute Disease signify death, but in a more mild and benign Disease the prolixity thereof. Sect. 4. Aph. 4. When mutations chance in the whole body, as if the body be now cold, and then hot again, or if one heat arise from another, the continuance of the Disease is hereby signified. Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Those Fevers which afflict most vehemently every third day, and have no intermission, are more dangerous, but if any intermission be, be it after what manner soever, it signifies the Patient to be out of danger. Sect. 4. Aph. 44. They who are Sick of long Fevers, have either tumours or pains about the junctures succeeding. Sect. 4. Aph. 46. It is a mortal Sign if frequent rigours come upon a Feverish person he being weak, and the Fever not intermitting. Sect. 4. Aph. 47. All excreations by spitting, whether they be of a wan colour, bloody, ill savoured, and bilious, are bad in Fevers not intermittent; but it is a good Sign if good excrements are sent forth either by Stool or Urine. But if any matter be sent forth by those places and profit not, it is a bad Sign. Sect. 4. Aph. 48. If in a continual Fever the extreme parts are cold, and the inward bourn, and the Sick be very thirsty, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 49. In a not intermittent Fever, if either the Lip, the Eyebrow, Eye or Nose be turned away; if the Sick see not, or hear not, if any of these Symptoms appear, death is at hand. Sect. 4. Aph. 50. Difficulty of breathing, and dote in continual Fevers are mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 55. All Fevers caused by an inflammation of the Kernels, are bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 61. All intermittent Fevers usually return if they do not intermit upon unequal days. Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat in Fevers about the Stomach, and a gnawing of the Mouth of the Stomach, is naught. Sect. 4. Aph. 66. Convulsions, and vehement pains about the Bowels in acute Fevers, is naught. Sect. 4. Aph. 67. Tremble, or Convulsions coming by Sleep in Fevers are bad. Sect. 5. Aph. 1. A Convulsion caused by taking of Hellebore, is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 2. A Convulsion happening upon a wound is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 3. A Convulsion or Hicket succeeding a great fllux of Blood presageth ill. Sect. 5. Aph. 5. If loss of Speech happen suddenly to a Drunken man, he dyeth Convulsive, unless a Fever seize him, or his speech return to him at the same hour wherein nature doth usually digest the Distemper. Sect. 5. Aph. 6. They who are taken with a Convulsion, die within four days; but if they escape that time, they grow well again. Sect. 5. Aph. 7. They who are troubled with the Falling Sickness before they attain the age of Fourteen, may be freed from it; but they who are taken with it at the Age of five and twenty, are usually accompanied therewith to their death. Sect. 5. Aph. 8. Unless they who are Sick of a Pleurisy be cleansed in fourteen days, the matter is altered into Suppuration. Sect. 5. Aph. 9 A Consumption most commonly begins when we are of the age of Eighteen, to Thirty five years. Sect. 5. Aph. 10. If matter falling to the Throat, and turn out to a Squinacye, it settles upon the Lungs, and the Sick dye within seven days; the which if they escape, the matter turns to Imposthumation. Sect. 5. Aph. 11. If the spittle of Consumptive persons (being cast into the Fire) send forth an ill savour, and their hairs fall off, it argues death. Sect. 5. Aph. 12. The falling of the hair, and an extreme looseness succeeding in a Consumption, is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 13. Frothy Blood cast forth by spittle cometh from the Lungs. Sect. 5. Aph. 14. A Diarrhaea or Extreme Looseness in Consumptive persons is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 15. Pluretick persons suppurated, if they are cleansed within forty days after the Rupture is made, are freed, otherwise they grow into a Consumption. Sect. 5. Aph. 71. They which have their Skin stretched forth, dry and hard, die without sweeting; but they which have a loose and thin Skin, end their life with sweeting. Sect. 7. Aph. 1. Coldness of the extreme parts in acute Diseases is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 2. Wan and ill coloured flesh occasioned by the Distemper of a bone foretells ill. Sect. 7. Aph. 3. The Hicket and Redness of the eyes caused by Vomit, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 4. Shivering after sweeting is naught. Sect. 7. Aph 5. A Dysentery, a Dropsy or a vehement disturbance of the mind, (called Exstasis) succeeding raging or madness, is good. Sect. 7. Aph. 6. Abhorring of meat and sincere dejections by Stool with continual Disease portends ill. Sect. 7. Aph. 7. Extreme chillness, and raging by much drink is bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 8. Faintness, Vomiting, or Swooning are occasioned by an Imposthume broken inwardly. Sect. 7. Aph. 9 Madness or a Convulsion caused by too much Flux of blood, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 10. Either Vomiting, the Hicket, Convulsion, or raving caused by a Disease of the thin gut (called Ileum) is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 11. If an inflammation of the Lungs is caused by a Pleurisy, it is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 12. A Frenzy coming by an inflammation of the Lungs is a bad messenger. Sect. 7. Aph. 13. A Convulsion or the Cramp, taking their original from extreme burnings, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 14. Stupidity or dote, occasioned by a blow upon the head, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 15. If imposthumated matter be voided by spitting, after spitting of blood, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 16. A Consumption and flux succeed spitting of imposthumated matter, but when the spitting stops, the Sick dies. Sect. 7. Aph. 17. The Hicket coming by the inflammation of the Liver, is evil. Sect. 7. Aph. 18. A Convulsion or raving occasioned by too much watching, is bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 19 An Erysipclas is caused by the laying open of a bone. Sect. 7. Aph. 20. Putrefaction or Imposthumation caused by the tumour called Erysipclas, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 21. A Flux of Blood proceeding by a vehement and conspicuous wound in the Ulcers of the Arteries, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 22. A continual pain in the parts which belong to the belly causeth suppuration. Sect. 7. Aph. 23. An Excoriation of the Bowels is caused by sincere ejections. Sect. 7. Aph. 24. If a bone be pierced or cut to the cavity thereof, it causeth a Delirium. Sect. 7. Aph. 25. A Convulsion caused by a purging potion, is mortal. Sect. 7. Aph. 26. An extreme coldness or chillness of the outward parts, occasioned by a vehement pain of those parts which belong to the belly, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph 27. An often and vain desire of going to stool, without any performance happening to women with Child, doth cause abortion or miscarriage. Sect. 7. Aph. 28. If any bone whatsoever, a Griselda or a Nerve be cut in sunder in the body, it will neither be nourished, nor grow together again. Sect. 7. Aph. 29. A violent flux of the belly happening to him that is troubled with the Dropsy, called Lencophlegmatia, doth take away the Disease. Sect. 7. Aph. 41. It is a bad Sign when the Hicket happens to elderly men by overmuch purging. Sect. 7. Aph. 42. Plenty of warm Water cast upon the head, removeth a Fever, if it did not proceed of Choler. Sect. 7. Aph. 44. Suppurated persons being burnt or cut, if pure or white matter issue forth, they escape, but if the matter be something bloody, filthy, and ill savoured, they perish. Sect. 7. Aph. 45. They who are cauterised for an impost humamation of the Liver, if pure matter and white issue forth they survive, because the suppurated matter is included in the coats or tumiles. But if the matter flowing forth resemble the Lees of Oil, they perish. Sect. 7. Aph. 50. They whose brain is suddenly taken or benumbed, die within three days, the which if they escape they recover. Sect. 7. Aph. 55. If the Liver being full of water empty itself into the omentum or kell, than the belly is filled with water, and the party dies. Sect. 7. Aph. 60. When there are mutations in the whole body, and the body be universally cold, and again hot, and doth not alter that heat, the prolixity or continuance of the Disease is hereby signified. Sect. 7. Aph. 74. A water between the skin succeeds the Dropsy, called Lencophlegmacye. Sect. 7. Aph. 75. A Dysentery or bloody flux succeeds a Diarrhaea, or flux of the belly. CHAP. III. Of Signs by the spital. Sect. 1. Aph. 12. THe Diseases, seasons of the year, and the change of the circuits, being compared together, whether they are every day, or every other day; or by greater intervals of time, will declare the Accessions and Qualities of Diseases: Moreover, the same things are judged by such Symptoms as presently appear, of which nature is the spittle in pluretick persons; if it appear presently and at the beginning of the Disease, it foretells its brevity, but if later, the prolixity thereof. The Urine also, excrements of the belly, and sweats when they appear, do give us notice how to judge whether the Diseases will be easy or hard, short or long. Sect. 5. Aph. 11. If the spittle which is cast forth by coughing in Consumptive persons (being cast upon the Coals) send forth an ill savour, and a falling off of the Hairs be concomitant, these are deadly Signs. CHAP. IU. Of Sweats. Sect. 4. Aph. 36. THose Sweats in Fevers are good which be in the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, or eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, one and twentieth, the seven and twentieth, thirtieth, or four and thirtieth day, for such Sweats are Critical and Judicatory; but those Sweats which do not so express themselves, signify labour, continuance of the Disease, and its return. Sect. 4. Aph. 37. Cold Sweats appearing in a very acute Disease, signify death; but in a more mild and gentle Disease, the continuance thereof. Sect. 4. Aph. 41. Much Sweeting in sleep without a manifest cause, shows that the body doth use a more than ordinary diet. But if they happen to one that doth not eat, they give notice that the body hath need of evacuation. Sect. 4. Aph. 42. If much Sweat flow continually, whether hot or cold, the cold signifies a greater, the hot a less Disease. Sect. 4. Aph. 56. If Sweat happen in a Fever without intermission of the Fever, the Fever is prolonged, and it is an argument of much moisture in the body. Sect. 5. Aph. 71. When the skin is stretched forth, is dry and hard, they die without Sweeting; but when it is loose and rare, they end their lives with Sweeting. Sect. 8. Aph. 4. Vehement and swift Sweats. which arise upon the Critical days, and dangerous; and such also which are expelled upon the forehead standing like drops of water or flowing, those also which are very cold and much, for of necessity such Sweats must issue forth with violence, excess of trouble, and continual expression. CHAP. V. Of Urines. Sect. 4. Aph. 69. URines made in a Fever, which are thick, curdled, and few, if they alter to many and thin, are beneficial, especially if they are such wherein either at the beginning or not, much after a Sediment appears. Sect. 4. Aph. 70. Urines in Fevers which are troubled like those of kine, signify a pain of the head either present or to come. Sect. 4. Aph. 71. If a Crisis happen upon the seventh day, the the Urine hath a small red cloud in it upon the fourth day, and other things responsible. Sect. 4. Aph. 72. All Urines which are very clear and white, are bad, but such appear chiefly in phrenetick persons. Sect. 4. Aph. 73. They whose Diaphragma being lifted up, makes a murmuring pain of the Loins succeeding, have moist and soluble bellies, unless much wind break backward, or plenty of Urine be voided; These Symptoms are contingent in Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 74. When there is a probability of an Imposthumation about the joints, plenty of Urine, thick and white being made, freeth from the abscess: such kinds of abscesses do begin to be carried every fourth day in Fevers accompanied with a weariness, or lazy indisposition. And if an Haemorrhagile, or bleeding at the Nose happen at the same time, the Disease will very shortly be dissolved. Sect. 4. Aph. 75. Blood or suppurated matter, being made with the Urinal, signifies either Ulceration of the Reins or Bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 76. Small pieces of flesh, or something like hairs voided forth with the Urine, are sent from the Reins. Sect. 4. Aph. 77. When something like bran is sent forth with a thick Urine, the Bladder is troubled with a Scab. Sect. 4. Aph. 78. They which Piss Blood freely mixed with their Urine, have a Vein broke in their Reins. Sect 4. Aph. 79. A sandy sediment appearing in the Urine signifies the Stone in the Bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 80. He that pisseth blood, and curdled matter with his Urine, if he have the Strangury, and the pain fall down into the lower belly and the Perinaeum, is diseased in those parts which belong to the Bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 81. Blood, suppurated matter, and small scales voided with the Urine, if an ill sent accompany, signify an exulceration of the Bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 83. Plenty of Urine made in the night, signifies but small ejections by stool. Sect. 7. Aph. 31. When the Hypostasis or Sediment of the Urine of men sick of a Fever, happens to appear like gross pieces or gobbets of parched barley not exactly ground, it signifies that the Disease will be long. Sect. 7. Aph. 32. Bilious Sediments, but thin above, signify an acute Disease. Sect. 7. Aph. 33. When the Urines are sundry and divided, there is a vehement perturbation in the whole body. Sect. 7. Aph. 34. Bubbles standing upon the upper part of the Urine, signify a Disease of the Reins, and that it will be long. Sect 7. Aph. 35. Fat upon the top of the Urine heaped together, signifies a Disease of the Reins, and that it is acute also. CHAP. VI Of Signs by the Flux of the Belly. Sect. 2. Aph. 14. IN Fluxes of the Belly, alteration of the excrements, unless they are changed to bad, are beneficial. Sect. 2. Aph. 15. When the jaws are afflicted, or if tumors appear in the body, the excretions or excrements are to be taken into consideration; For if they are bilious, the body also is sick, but if they are like those voided by sound bodies, you may securely nourish the body. Sect. 2. Aph. 20. They whose bellies are moist while they are young, when they grow old are costive; but such as are costive in their youth, have soluble bodies when they grow old. Sect. 4. Aph. 21. Black excrements like black blood proceeding of their own accord, either with a Fever, or without a Fever, are worst of all, and so much the worse by how much their colours are more and worse. But they are better if they are caused by a Purging Medicine, and so much the better, if their colours are many and not bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 23. If they who have been emaciated by acute or long Diseases, by wounds, or any other means, do void melancholy or black blood downwards, they die the next day after. Sect. 4. Aph. 24. If a dysentery took its original from black choler, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 25. It is not good to void any blood whatsoever upward, but if black blood be voided downward, it is good. Sect. 4. Aph. 26. If little pieces of flesh be voided by him that hath an excoriation of the bowels, it is mortal. CHAP. VII. Of the time of the Crisis appearing. Sect. 1. Aph. 12. TO avoid a tedious and needless repetition of the same Aphorisms, I must refer the Reader for his satisfaction of this Aphorism, unto the former Chapter of the Signs by the spittle, where he may satisfy himself. Distinction the second, containing the Aphorisms treating of Diet. THe former rehearsed Aphorisms have discovered the essence and quality of the Disease, the which being known, the next intention of the Physician respects the cure of Diseases, and the preservation of that which remains in the sick person, according to nature. The latter whereof is performed by a convenient course and rule of diet, which our Author hath delivered unto us in the following Aphorisms. CHAP. I. Of a convenient diet in Diseases. Sect. 1. Aph. 4. ASlender and exact course of diet, always either in long Diseases, or in acute, where it is not admitted, is little safe. And again, a diet which cometh to an extreme slenderness is grievous; so also is fullness, if admitted to extremity. Sect. 1. Aph. 5. Diseased persons offend in a spare and thin course of diet, by which they are more hurt. For every error useth to be more grievous in a thin, than in a more full course of diet; and therefore also a thin and slender diet by a certain prescription is less safe to healthful bodies, because they bear those errors more grievously: For the same reason therefore a thin and accurate diet is for the most part more dangerous, than something a more plentiful and liberal. Sect. 1. Aph. 7. When the Disease is very acute, it forthwith comes to its state and danger, and then it is necessary to use a most thin and slender course of diet; But when the Disease is not very sharp and quick, but there is liberty given to exhibit something a fuller diet, we may afford so much the more plentiful diet, by how much the Disease is abated of its extremity. Sect. 1. Aph. 8. When the Disease is in its state and greatest vehemency, than it is necessary to use a most sparing diet. Sect. 1. Aph. 9 But a conjecture is to be had from the sick, whether such a quantity of diet be sufficient for him to subsist to the vigour of the Disease, or whether he will fail and not be able to endure the assault, or whether the Disease do first remit, or be lessened. Sect. 1. Aph. 10. Therefore when the vigour of the Disease is sudden, forthwith we must use a slender diet; but if the Disease arrive to its vigour and state later, than at the time of the vigour and a little before, we ought to take away all meat; but before the fit we may allow the Sick such a diet which may enable him to endure the assault. Sect. 1. Aph. 11. In the Fit of an Ague the Patient must shun and avoid eating; For it is hurtful to give meat to the Sick then; and we ought to suspect and fear those things in the Fits, which grow worse and worse by the circuits. Sect. 1. Aph. 16. Moist food is convenient for all Feverish persons, also for Children especially, and others who have been accustomed to a diet of the same nature. Sect. 1. Aph. 17. We must observe to whom we may allow food to once or twice, to whom much or little, or to whom meat is to be allowed by parts; yet we may indulge something to the time, the Region, the age and custom of the patient. Sect. 1. Aph. 18. We are more averse to meat in the Summer time, and in the Autumn, but in the Winter we can endure them best of all; the Spring is the best season next the Winter. Sect. 1. Aph. 19 To such whose Fits return by circuits, neither give any thing, nor think of any thing; but subtract all food from them until the Crisis be over. CHAP. II. Of Diet convenient according to the Ages. Sect. 1. Aph. 13. OLd men can most easily endure fasting, next to them such who are arrived at their full Age; Young men worst of all; but among all, Boys chiefly, and among them such as are active and more prone to action. Sect. 1. Aph. 14. They which grow most abound with natural heat, and therefore want most nourishment; for otherwise their bodies would waste. And seeing that in old men there remains but little heat, therefore they need but few nutriments, for by many that heat is extinguished. And by the same reason also, because their bodies are cold, acute Fevers do not frequently happen to old men. CHAP. III. Of Diet for the seasons of the year. Sect. 1. Aph. 15. IN the Winter season our Stomaches are hottest, and sleeps longest, during those seasons therefore we may use most plentiful diet; because then there being more natural heat we need the more nutriment. Sect. 1. Aph. 18. [You have this Aphorism in the preceding Chapter of Diet convenient in Diseases, Sect. 1. Aph. 18. unto which I refer the Reader.] CHAP. IU. Of the quality, manner, quantity, and other conditions, required in Diet. Sect. 2. Aph. 8. THe body which after recovery from a Disease doth not regain strength by his Diet, doth overcharge nature with food; but if it happen to one which eateth not much, it signifies that evacuation is necessary. Sect. 2. Aph. 10. The more you nourish foul and impure bodies, the more you offend them. Sect. 2. Aph. 11. Our bodies are more apt to be refreshed with drink, then with meat. Sect. 2. Aph. 16. It is inconvenient to labour when hunger oppresseth. Sect. 2. Aph. 18. Such meats as nourish universally and quickly, soon digest and turn to excrements. Sect. 2. Aph. 22. Evacuation cures those Diseases which are caused by Repletion, and Repletion takes away such distempers as are caused by emptiness; so in other things contrary, is a Remedy. Sect. 2. Aph. 31. It is an ill Sign if the body be not strengthened by food taken orderly, after the recovery from a Disease. Sect. 2. Aph. 32. Usually all sick persons which have a good appetite to their meat at the beginning of their Sickness, and are not benefited thereby, afterwards nauseate and loath their meat; but they which at the beginning of their Sickness, do very much loath their meat, and afterwards recover their Stomaches, do live in a more healthful condition. Sect. 2. Aph. 38. Meat and drink something worse, but if it be better relished, is to be preferred before that which is better and less pleasing. CHAP. V. Of Milk. Sect. 5. Aph. 64. IT is hurtful to give milk to such which are troubled with the Headache; It is bad also for Feverish persons, and such who have a murmuring in the Hypochondries; For those also who are always dry and thirsty. It is hurtful also for such whose excrements are Choleric, or are troubled with an acute Fever, and for those who have voided much blood by stool. But it is convenient for such as be in a wasting condition, if they are not much Feverish; and it may be allowed in long Fevers, and to faint persons, so that none of the aforementioned Symptoms are present. It may be given also to such as are extremely wasted. CHAP. VI Of Wine. Sect. 2. Aph. 21. DRinking of Wine takes away hunger. Sect. 7. Aph. 56. Wine mixed with an equal proportion of Water, and drunk, takes away sadness, yawning, and horror. CHAP. VII. Of Water. Sect. 5. Aph. 26. Water which is soon hot, and soon cold is most light. CHAP. VIII Of Thirst. Sect. 4. Aph. 19 THey who having taken a purging Potion, and do not thirst while they Purge, will not cease Purging until they do thirst. Sect. 5. Aph. 27. It is a good Sign when they which have a desire to drink in the night time, fall to sleep while they are thirsty. Distinction the third, containing the Aphorisms respecting the general way of Curing Diseases. IT is as requisite for a Physician to Cure the Diseases of the body, as to keep the same in strength and ability. To the performance whereof he ought to be armed with a judgement Curative and Preservative, the latter whereof he is enabled to perform by those Aphorisms, which inform him, whom, what, which, how much, where, how, and when he ought to Purge; or Revel offensive humours. CHAP. I. Of Indications in general. Sect. 1. Aph. 3. THe healthful state of strong bodies arrived at its perfection, when it hath attained its extremity of fullness, in regard it cannot abide nor rest in that same state and condition, is unstable. Now seeing it cannot rest, nor make a progress to a better condition, it remains that it must lapse to a worse. For these very causes therefore it is expedient to release that more full habit of body without delay, whereby the body may assume a beginning of another kind of nourishing. Neither must we proceed so far that the vessels may fail (for that is dangerous) but we must regulate our course according to the nature and ability of him upon whom this change is to be wrought. By the same reason extreme evacuations, and too hasty refections or nourishing are equally dangerous. Sect. 1. Aph. 19 [You may be satisfied of this Aphorism in the Chapter of Diet in Diseases the (last Aphorism) whether for brevity sake I refer you.] Sect. 2. Aph. 20. [You have this Aphorism in the Chapter of the Signs by the Flux of the belly, the third Aphorism.] Sect. 2. Aph. 37. Physic is tedious and irksome to those who are of a good habit of body. Sect. 2. Aph. 7. Those bodies which are attenuated by long intervals, must be refreshed slowly; but such as were suddenly wasted, we may nourish speedily Sect. 2. Aph. 9 The body ought to be prepared and made soluble, before it be purged. Sect. 2. Aph. 22. As Evacuation doth Cure Diseases caused by Repletion, so Repletion takes away such distempers which come by emptiness; so in the rest contrarily. Sect. 2. Aph. 50. Those courses which we are accustomed unto by long use and continuance, although worse, are less troublesome unto us, than those unto which we are not used. Wherefore we ought also to make a change also to such things unto which we are not used. Sect. 2. Aph. 51. It is dangerous to empty or fill, to heat or to cool the body too much on a sudden, or to alter the body violently by any other motion; For every excess is an enemy to nature. But those alterations which are effected by little and little, are secure, and then most especially when we make our progress from one degree to another. Sect. 2. Aph. 52. If all things are performed according to reason, although the success answer not thereunto, we may not alter our intention, if there be the same condition which seemed at the first. Sect. 4. Aph. 3. If such things are purged, which ought to be purged, it is conducible, and the patient bears it easily; but otherwise they bear it grievously. Sect. 4. Aph. 2. In using purging Medicines, we may with security and benefit to the patient, purge such things out which being voided of their own accord are profitable, but restrain such things which come forth after a contrary manner. Sect. 5. Aph. 18. Cold is an Enemy to the bones, teeth, nerves, brain, and the marrow of the backbone, but heat is profitable. Sect. 5. Aph. 19 We must heat all cold parts, unless such which do send forth blood, or will shortly send forth blood. Sect. 5. Aph. 22. Heat causing suppuration doth not exhibit unto us the greatest Sign of security, in every Ulcer it softens the Skin, extenuates, takes away pains, rigours, mitigates distension of the nerves, takes away heaviness of the head, but is very much available for broken bones, and especially those which are bare, and most of all to those who have Ulcers in their head. It is profitable for such who are child with cold, or exulcerated parts, and corroding humours, either in the Fundament, Privities, womb or bladder. To all these, heat is acceptable, and causeth a Crisis, but cold is unfriendly and destructive. Sect. 5. Aph. 23. But we must use cold things, where there is, or is like to be a Flux of blood, not upon the parts themselves, but they must be applied about those parts. And if there be inflammations, or fiery redness tending to a bloodish colour, caused by the fresh Flux of blood, apply them thereunto; For it induceth a blackness to inveterate sores. It helps an Erysipelas which is not ulcerated, and hurts it when it is ulcerated. Sect. 5. Aph. 24. Cold things, as Ice and Snow, are enemies to the breast, they cause coughs, eruptions of blood, and distillations. Sect 8. Aph. 6. Those distempers which Medicines cannot Cure, are remedied by Incision; what the knife cannot cure, actual Cauteries will perform. But those which are not Cured by Fire, we must judge incurable. CHAP. II. Of Purging in general. Sect. 1. Aph. 2. IN the purgations of the belly and vomitings, which are not forced, if such excrements are purged as aught to be, it is conducible, and the Patient doth bear them easily; but if not, it succeeds otherwise. The like also is in the emptying of the vessels; if such evacuation be made as aught to be, it is convenient, and it is easily born; but if not, it is otherwise. Therefore we must consider the place, time of the year, age, and the Diseases in which these evacuations ought to be procured or not. Sect. 2. Aph. 36. They which are of an unblamable constitution of body, when they are purged by Medicines, do soon faint, so do they also which use an ill diet. Sect. 2. Aph. 37. Medicines are troublesome to those who are of a good habit of body or constitution. Sect. 6. Aph. 47. They who have need of Phlebotomy or Purging, aught to open a vein, or take a purging Medicine in the Spring season. Sect. 2. Aph. 29. If any evacuation be requisite, do it at the beginning of the sickness, for in the state thereof it is better to rest. CHAP. III. Of what quality, and what things ought to be Purged. Sect. 1. Aph. 20. NEither stir those humours which are under their Crisis, or which have perfectly past it, either by Medicines or any other provocations, but let them rest. Sect. 1. Aph. 22. Thrust forth concocted humours by a purging Medicine not undigested, neither at the beginning of the Disease, unless the humours tend of themselves to excretion, which hardly happens. Sect. 1. Aph. 25. If such things are purged as aught to be purged, it is profitable to the Patient, and he doth bear it easily; but contrarily, if the contrary happen. Sect. 2. Aph. 9 Before the taking of purging Medicines, the body ought to be prepared and to be made soluble. When purging Medicines are made use of, if such things as are voided without provocation, are profitable, we must assist nature, and draw forth such by purging, but we must prohibit and hinder those things which proceed after a contrary manner. CHAP. IU. Of the Quantity of Purging. Sect. 1. Aph. 23. WE are not to judge of the matter purged by the quantity altogether, but whether those which are purged are expedient, and whether they are for the ease of the Patient; and sometimes, when occasion requires, we may empty the body to a Syncope or sounding, and must do it, if the Patient can suffer it. CHAP. V. Of the Place by which we ought to Purge. Sect. 1. Aph. 21. WHen you intent to Purge, observe whether the humour tend of itself, and there draw it forth by the convenient places. Sect. 4. Aph. 6. Spare bodies and such which vomit with facility and ease, must be Purged upward with a Purging Medicine, but be fearful of the winter. Sect. 4. Aph. 7. But gross Bodies, and such as vomit with pain and difficulty, must be purged downwards, and be fearful of the Summer. Sect. 4. Aph. 8. Consumptive persons are very seldom, and with great circumspection to be Purged by vomit. Sect. 4. Aph. 9 Bodies abounding with Melancholy may be Purged more plentifully downward, by the same reason we must observe the contrary way of Purging other bodies. Sect. 4. Aph. 12. It is inconvenient Purging those by vomit in the winter season which are troubled with a Lientery or smoothness of the bowels. Sect. 4. Aph. 13. Prepare such bodies with a plentiful and moist diet, and with rest before the exhibition and taking of their potion, which having taken black Hellebore are not Purged easily by the upper parts. Sect. 4. Aph. 14. After the taking of Purging Medicines, rather move and stir the body, then admit sleep and rest. For even Navigation upon the Sea, doth demonstrate unto us, that that our bodies are provoked by motion. Sect. 4. Aph. 15. If you would have a Purge to work force motion to the body, but if you desire it should cease working, let the body sleep, and move it not. Sect. 4. Aph. 16. Hellebore given to sound and healthful bodies is danger for it induceth a Convulsion. Sect. 4. Aph. 17. When you observe an abhorring of meat in one that hath no Fever, if there be a gnawing of the mouth of the Stomach, a dizziness with a dimness of sight, and a bitterness in the mouth, we must then conclude that to such bodies Purging upward by vomit is necessary. Sect. 4. Aph. 18. Griefs happening above the midriff, which need Purging, instruct us that in such distempers Medicines which Purge upwards are necessary. Sect. 4. Aph. 19 They which do not thirst (having taken a Purging Medicine) while the Physic doth work, will not cease Purging, until they do thirst. Sect. 4. Aph. 20. If a tormenting pain of the Bowels, a heaviness of the knees, and grief about the Loins be present without a Fever, these Signs do show unto us, that there is a necessity of Purging the body downward, CHAP. VI Of the time of Purging. Sect. 1. Aph. 24. IN acute Diseases we must very seldom, or at the beginning, use Purging Medicines; and if it be convenient to use them, we must be wary and circumspect in using of them. Sect. 2. Aph. 29. If moving of the body be convenient, do it at the beginning, but in the state of the Disease it is better to let it rest. Sect. 4. Aph. 4. In the Summer time cleanse the upper Belly with Medicines, but in the winter rather Purge the lower. Sect. 4. Aph. 5. Medicines are troublesome to the patient, either in the dog days, or a little before them. Sect. 4. Aph. 10. In extreme acute Diseases, if the humour of its own propensity intend to excretion we may and aught to purge the same day; For in such cases delays are dangerons. CHAP. VII. Of Purging of Women with Child. Sect. 4. Aph. 1. WOmen with Child may be purged, if the violence of the humour tend to expulsion, in the fourth month unto the seventh, but in the latter less. But in riper and younger issues, we must be very fearful and cautious. Sect. 5. Aph. 29. [This Aphorism is the same with the former, therefore to avoid a tedious repetition, I have forbore the inserting of it.] Sect. 5. Aph. 34. If a Diarrhaea or strong flux of the belly, seize a woman with Child, she is in danger of abortion. CHAP. VIII. Of judgement by Purging. Sect. 4. Aph. 19 IF they who having taken a purging potion, do not thirst while they are purged, they will not make an end of Purging, until they do thirst. A Convulsion occasioned by a purging potion is mortal. CHAP. IX. Of Phlebotomy or Letting Blood. Sect. 5. Aph. 30. PHlebotomy or opening of a Vein doth cause Women with Child to abort, and then chiefly if the Child be of any maturity or bigness. Sect. 5. Aph. 68 The opening of the strait Vein in the Forehead, profiteth him which is troubled with a pain in the hinder part of his head. Sect. 6. Aph. 47. If bleeding or purging be requisite and needful the Spring is the most convenient time to use either means. Sect. 7. Aph. 46. The means to Cure the pains of the Eyes, after the exhibiting of a potion of Wine, and the using of a bath of warm water, is by Phlebotomy. Sect. 7. Aph. 48. The dropping of Urine (which is called the Strangury) and the difficulty of making of water, is Cured by a potion of wine, and the opening of a vein. But the inward veins are to be breathed. CHAP. X. Of the application of Cupping-glasses. Sect. 5. Aph. 50. THe most compendious and ready way to stop the flowing of the terms in Women, is by applying Cupping-glasses to their breasts. Distinction the fourth, containing such Aphorisms as unfold and and declare the preternatural affects incident to the body of man, and distributed to it according to the Ages, winds and seasons of the year. HItherto we have taken a view of such Aphorisms which have treated of the General Cure of Diseases, in this Distinction we shall expose to the Reader those Aphorisms which speak of or mention all the preternatural affects, as they have respect unto particular parts, the times of the year and ages, etc. And begin first with the Diseases of the Ages, and seasons of the year. CHAP. I. Of the Diseases of several Ages. Sect. 2. Aph. 39 OLd men generally are less Sick than young men, but if they are taken with any continual Disease, they usually accompany them to their graves. Sect. 2. Aph. 54. A long and tall stature of body in young men is decent, and not unseemly, but in old men it is unprofitable, and worse than a lower stature. Sect. 3. Aph. 18. Concerning the seasons of the year, Children and such as are next to them in years, live best, and are most healthful, in the Spring and the fore part of the Summer; but in the Summer and so to the Autumn, old men. But for the remainder of the Autumn, and part of winter, such as are of a middle age between the two former live best, and are most healthful. Sect. 5. Aph 9 Consumptions usually happen to man from the Age of Eighteen years, unto the Age of Five and Thirty. CHAP. II. Of the Diseases of Children. Sect. 3. Aph. 24. Disease's of this nature happen to Children and new born Babes, creeping Ulcers of the mouth (called Aphthae) Vomitings, Coughs, Watchings, Tremble, Inflammations about the Navel, and moistness of the Ears. Sect. 3. Aph. 25. When they come to breeding of Teeth, Itchings and prickings of the Gums, Fevers, Convulsions, scour, and then especially when they begin their sharp Teeth called Dogs Teeth; and these Evils happen to those Children especially who are of a Corpulent body, and are usually costive. Sect. 3. Aph. 26. But when they are somewhat elder, Inflammations of the Tousills called the Almonds of the Ears, beat upon the inward part of the Vertebra which is in the hinder part of the head, difficulty of breathing, the Stone, Round-wormes and others, thin and small, called Ascarides, in the straight bowel. Warts, continual standing of the Yard, swellings about the neck, called Kernels, with other small pustles or pimples, but especially such before mentioned. CHAP. III. Of the Diseases of Young men. Sect. 3. Aph. 27. MAny of the afore-named Diseases are also incident to those who have attained to riper years, and the age of Fourteen years; but now more especially continual Fevers, Fluxes of blood out of the Nostrils, are common to this Age. Sect. 3. Aph. 29. Diseases usual to young men are spittings of Blood, Consumptions, acute Fevers, the falling Sickness, and other Diseases, but these especially. CHAP. IU. Of the Diseases of Men. Sect. 3. Aph. 30. BUt to those who have past their youth, frequent Asthmaes, Pleurisies, inflammations of the Lungs, Lethargies, Frenzies, burning Fevers, continual Fluxes of the Belly, Choler, Dysenteries, and Lienteries, and the Flux of the Hemorrhoide veins are usual. CHAP. V. Of the Diseases incident to Old Age. Sect. 3. Aph. 31. BUt to Old men difficulty of breathing, Catarrhs causing Coughs, the Strangury and difficulty of making water, pains in the joints and Reins, Vertigoes, Apoplexies, and ill habit of the body, it ching over all the body, watchings, moistness of the Belly, Eyes and Ears, redness of the Eyes, and difficulty of hearing. We should here set down such Aphorisms which touch the Diseases of Women, but we shall refer the Reader to the Chapter which speaks of the affects of the Womb hereafter. CHAP. VI Of the Diseases of the times of the year. Sect. 3. Aph. 1. THe changes of the seasons of the years, breed Diseases chiefly. And in them there are great mutations of heat and cold, and other things are contingent according to their alteration and change. Sect. 3. Aph. 4. Throughout the seasons of the year, when in the same day there is sometimes heat, sometimes cold, we must expect Autumnal Diseases. Sect. 3. Aph. 8. When the air is in a good order and settled, and the seasons are well constituted, such Diseases are caused which easily come to their state, and are easily dissolved. But in a bad constitution of the air and seasons, such Diseases which hardly come to their state, and are not easily dissolved. Sect. 3. Aph. 19 Diseases of all kinds do afflict man's body at any time of the year, but some special Diseases are both caused, and expressed at particular times and seasons of the year. CHAP. VII. Of Diseases happening in the Spring. Sect. 3. Aph. 9 IN the Autumn most acute and deadly Diseases do arise, but the Spring season is most wholesome and less destructive. Sect. 3. Aph. 18. Children and boys live best, and are most healthful in the Spring, and the first part of Summer, but in the Summer until the Autumn Old men; and in the remainder of the Autumn and Winter, such as be of a middle age. Sect. 3. Aph. 30. In the Spring season, madness, melancholy, the falling evil, fluxes of blood, squinancies, rheums, hoarseness, coughs, leprosies, dry Itches, the Disease called Elephantiasis, many ulcerated pustles, small swellings, and pains about the joints, do appear. CHAP. VIII. Of the Diseases happening in the Summer. Sect. 3. Aph. 6. IF the Summer season be constituted as the Spring was, than we must expect Fevers accompanied with much Sweats. Sect. 3. Aph. 13. But if the Summer be extraordinary dry, and the North winds blow cold, and if the Autumn be extreme wet with South winds, expect that about the winter men should complain of headaches, coughs, hoarseness, heaviness of the head occasioned by Rheums, and some of Consumptions. Sect. 3. Aph. 21. Some vernal Diseases may appear in the Summer, and Quotidian Fevers, burning Fevers, and very many Tertian, and Quartans, Vomitings, Diarrhaeaes', Sore Eyes, Pains of the Ears, exulcerations of the mouth, putrid ulcers of the Privities, and red angry pimples caused by bilious Sweats. CHAP. IX. Of the Diseases happening in the Autumn. Sect. 3. Aph. 9 THe Autumn doth produce most acute Diseases, and mortal, but the Spring is most wholesome and less pernicious. Sect. 3. Aph. 10. The Autumn season is naught for Consumptive persons. Sect. 3. Aph. 14. If in the Autumn the wind be North and the air very cold, and without rain, the season is convenient for moist constitutions, and women; but to other constitutions it occasions bleer eyes, acute Fevers, Quotidians, and to some Melancholy. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. Many Aestival Diseases do arise in the Autumn, and Quartane Fevers, and Erratic Fevers, tumors of the Spleen, Dropsies, Consumptions, Stranguries, Lyenteries, and Dysenteries, Sciaticas, Squinancies, frequent Asthmaes, Iliack passions, the Falling evil, Madnesses and Melancholy. CHAP. X. Of the Diseases happening in the Winter. Sect. 3. Aph. 11. If the Winter be extreme dry and cold, and the wind North, but the Spring very wet, with South winds, of necessity we must expect acute Fevers, soreness of the eyes, excoriations of the bowels the next Summer, but especially to the Female Sex, and to men of a moist constitution. But if the winter be very rainy, and mild and calm with South winds, but the Spring extraordinary dry with North winds, women with Child which expect deliverance in the Spring, will abort upon every slight occasion. And if they are delivered, they will produce weak and sickly Children, such as will suddenly die, or if they live will be always sickly and small. But to other people excoriations of the bowels, and bleer eyes will arise; but to elderly persons, Fluxes killing in a small space. Sect. 3. Aph. 13. A very dry and cold summer with North winds, and a moist Autumn with South winds succeeding, doth produce head Aches, in the winter coughs, hoarseness, heaviness in the head, and to some Consumptions. Sect. 4. Aph. 23. In the winter Pleurisies, inflammations of the Lungs, Lethargies, Rheums in the head, hoarseness, Coughs, pains in the Breast, Sides and Loins, headaches, Megrimes, and to some Ptisicks are occasioned. CHAP. XI. Of Diseases caused by the Winds. Sect. 3. Aph. 5. SOuth winds produce dulness of hearing and sight, with a heaviness of the head, they make the body dull and faint, when such winds are prevalent, we must expect such accidents in Diseases. But North winds cause coughs, exasperates the jaws, hardens the belly, suppresseth the Urine, stirs up cold horrors and pains of the sides and breast. When such winds are prevalent, sick bodies suffer such things. Sect. 3. Aph. 7. Fogs and foulness of air, produce acute Fevers, and if the year shall be so disposed for the most part, we must expect Diseases answerable to the condition and season so constituted. Sect. 3. Aph. 8. A good and seasonable constitution of the air, produceth such Diseases which are easily consistent, and easily cured. But ill constituted seasons, such as are not easily consistent nor easily cured. Sect. 3. Aph. 14. North and dry wind in the Autumn are commodious for moist constitutions, and women; but to others they beget soreness of the eyes, acute Fevers, Quotidians, and to some also Consumptions. Sect. 3. Aph. 15. Amongst all the seasons of the year, great droughts are more wholesome and less destructive, then continual rains, and frequent showering weather. Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases for the most part are caused by continual Showers, as long Fevers, Diarrhaeaes', putrid Fevers, the falling evil, apoplexies, and squinancies. But by great droughts are occasioned Consumptions, Bleer eyes, Sciaticks, drooping of Urine, and Dysenteries. Sect. 3. Aph. 17. Continual North winds do condense the pores of the body, renders men stronger, nimbler, better coloured, and better liking, dries the belly, causeth prickings of the eyes, and if the breast be possessed by any preceding grief, they stir it and provoke it: But South winds dissolve the body and moisten it, they cause dulness of hearing, heaviness of the head, and vertigoes, they produce difficult motion to the eyes and body, and moisten the belly. Distinction the fifth, containing the Aphorisms pertaining to Fevers. THat a Physician may satisfy and perform all his intentions required, find out all requisite Medicines, and apply them seasonably, it is not sufficient only to preserve the strength of the Patient, and remove morbific causes, but it is also necessary that he know the nature of the Disease, and the part affected very exactly, which will the better be performed, if he be throughly acquainted with those Aphorisms which declare the Diseases of the whole body in general, and those also which respect the praeter natural affects of the particular parts of the whole body. The first where of the Aphorisms of the Discovery of Fevers with their Accidents, will manifest; the second will be discovered by the following Aphorisms. CHAP. I. Of Continual Fevers. Sect. 3. Aph. 21. IN the Summer continual Fevers, and burning, very many Tertians and Quartans do arise, etc. [See the third Aphorism in the Chapter of Summer Diseases.] Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Continual Tertian Fevers which have their Paroxysms every third day, and no intermission are more dangerous; But if they remit by any means howsoever, they signify no danger to the Patient. Sect. 4. Aph. 46. If frequent rigours happen in Fevers, the sick being weak without intermission of the Fever, it is a mortal sign. Sect. 4. Aph. 47. Excreations or spittings either wa●… of colour, bloody, stinking or bilious, are all bad in a continual Fever; but if such are voided which are of a good condition, it is good, whether they are voided by stool, or Urine; but if any of these things are voided and ease not the Sick, they are bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 48. In continual Fevers if the external parts are cold, and the internal are inflamed, and the Sick be extreme thirsty, it is deadly. Sect 4. Aph. 49. In continual Fevers, if the lip, eyebrow, eye or nose be perverted, or convulsive, if the sick hear not, or see not; which soever of these do happen, do signify death approaching Sect. 4. Aph. 50. Difficulty of breathing, or a delirium happening in a continual Fever, is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 56. Sweats happening in a not-intermitting Fever, if the Fever do not intermit, are bad, for the Disease is prorogued, and much moisture is thereby signified to be in the body. Sect. 7. Aph. 72. [This Aphorism is the same with the fifth Aphorism of this Chap. Sect. 4. Aph. 48.] Sect. 7. Aph. 73. [This Aphorism nothing differs from the 49. Aphorism in the fourth Section mentioned before in this Chapter.] CHAP. II. Of Acute Fevers. Sect. 2. Aph. 19 PRedictions of life or death in acute Diseases, are not altogether certain. Sect. 2. Aph. 23. Acute Diseases are judged by their Crisis within fourteen days. Sect. 3. Aph 7. Fogs and stinking mists generate acute Diseases, and if the year continue in the same constitution, we must expect Diseases of the same nature. Sect. 3. Aph. 9 Most acute Diseases and destructive are most usual in the Autumn, the Spring is more wholesome and less pernitions. Sect. 3. Aph. 11. If the winter be extraordinary dry with North winds, and the Spring very rainy with South winds, acute Fevers, sore Eyes, and Dysenteries, must of necessity arise the following Summer, especially in women and in men which are of a constitution more than ordinary moist. Sect. 4. Aph. 37. Cold Sweats in a very acute Fever, signify death, but in a more mild Disease, the prolixity thereof. Sect. 4. Aph. 66. Convulsions, and vehement pains about the bowels, in acute Diseases, are bad. Sect. 5. Aph. 64. [See this Aphorism in the Chapter of Milk.] Sect. 6. Aph. 54. Breathe with groans in acute Diseases with a Fever are ill. Sect. 7. Aph. 1. Cold or chillness of the extreme parts, in acute Fevers, is bad. CHAP. III. Of Burning Fevers. Sect. 3. Aph. 23. TUrn to this Aphorism in the Chapter of Diseases of the Summer season.] Sect. 4. Aph. 54. They who have dry coughs, lightly provoking in burning Fevers, are not usually very thirsty. Sect. 4. Aph. 58. If a rigour or very cold fit happen to him which hath a burning Fever, the Fever is thereby dissolved. Sect. 6. Aph. 26. Trembling happening in burning Fevers, are taken away by a Delirium or Raving. CHAP. IU. Of Intermittent Fevers. Sect. 1. Aph. 11. ALL meat is to be avoided in the fits and Paroxisms of Fevers, for it is hurtful to give meats then, and we ought to fear such accident in the accesses which grow more painful or worse and worse in the circuits or intermissions. Sect. 1. Aph. 12. The Diseases, seasons of the year, and the changing of the circuits, being compared together, whether they are every other day or by longer intervals of time, will declare the accessions and conditions of Diseases. Moreover the same judgement may be given by such Symptoms as presently appear, of that nature is spittle in Pluretick persons, the which, if it appears at the beginning of the Disease, praedicts its brevity; but if later, the prolixity thereof. The Urine also, the excrements of the belly, and the sweats when they appear, do signify unto us by Judicature, whether the Disease will be easy or hard, short or long. Sect. 4. Aph. 30. Those intermittent Fevers are hard to be judged of wherein the Fever returns the next day, at the same hour wherein it left the Patient the day before, at what hour soever it were that the dismission happened. Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Fevers which afflict the Patient more violently every third day, and have no intermission, are more dangerous. For intermissions after what manner soever contingent, do signify the Sick to be without danger. CHAP. V. Of Tertian Fevers. Sect. 3. Aph. 2. SEE this Aphorism before in the Chapter of Diseases incident in the Summer, Sect. 3. Aph. 2.] Sect. 4. Aph. 43. [See this Aphorism before in the Chapter of Intermittent Fevers, Sect. 4. Aph. 43.] Sect. 4. Aph. 59 An exquisite Tertian is judged in seven fits at the longest. CHAP. VI Of a Quartane Fever. Sect. 2. Aph. 25. QUartan Fevers which begin in the Summer are usually short, but such as begin in the Autumn are long, especially if they continue unto the winter. Sect. 3. Aph. 21. [See this Aphorism in the Chapter of Intermittent Fevers, the same Section and Aphorism.] Sect. 3. Aph. 22. [See this Aphorism in the Chapter of Autumnal Diseases, the same Section and Aphorism.] Sect. 5. Aph. 70. Men sick of quartan Fevers are seldom taken with Convulsions, but if they were convulsive before, they are freed by a succeeding quartan fever. CHAP. VII. Of Quotidian Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 63. QUotidian Fevers are dissolved by daily, rigours. CHAP. VIII. Of Long Fevers. Sect. 2. Aph. 25. QUartan Agues beginning in the Summer, are usually short, but Autumnal are long, especially if they continue until winter. Sect. 2. Aph. 28. It is an ill sign when bodies exercised with strong Fevers do stand at a stay, and are nothing diminished, or wasted, or else are extremely and beyond reason wasted by the Disease; for the one signifies a long continuance of the Disease, the other the weakness of the Patient. Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Daily showers, do cause Diseases for the most part, as of long Fevers, fluxed, putrid Fevers, the falling sickness, apoplexies and squinancies. But great droughts do cause Consumptions, sore eyes, pains of the Joints, droppings of the Urine, and excoriation of the bowels. Sect. 3. Aph. 27. Moreover to those of riper years, about the fourteenth year of their age, many of the former Diseases and continual Fevers and Hoemorrhagies, or issuing of blood out of their nose, are incident. Sect. 4. Aph. 36. Sweats in Fevers are beneficial if they begin upon the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, one and twentieth, seven and twentieth, thirtieth, or four and thirtieth days, for such sweats are critical and judicatory. But sweats which do not express themselves upon some of the aforenamed days, signify the long continuance of the Fever, and the reversion thereof. Sect. 4. Aph. 44. Small tumours or pains of the joints grow upon such bodies, which have had long Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 51. Such Fevers which do intermit, if they are not dissolved within few Crises at the beginning, signify a prolonging of the Disease. Sect. 4. Aph. 53. Those Fevers are most vehement, wherein clammy or gluttonous humours by reason of the Fever, groweth to the Teeth of the Sick. CHAP. IX. Of Sweats in Fevers. Sect. 1. Aph. 12. THe Urine, excrements of the belly, and Sweats, when they appear, do demonstrate unto us whether the Diseases will have an easy or hard Crisis, or whether they will be long or short. Sect. 4. Aph. 36. [You may Read this Aphorism in the same number of Section and Aphorism in the preceding Chapter of long Fevers.] Sect. 4. Aph. 37. Cold Sweats in a very acute Fever, signify death, but in more mild and benign Fever, the prolixity or long continuance thereof. It is an ill sign when sweats are contingent to a Feaver-sick person without intermission of the Fever, for the Disease is prolonged, and such sweat argues much humidity in the body. CHAP. X. Of Rigours in Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 29. SUch Fevers have a difficult Crisis wherein Rigours are contingent the sixth day. Sect. 4. Aph. 46. Often Rigours incident in continual Fevers, the body being weak, are mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 58. A Burning Fever is discharged by the contingency of a Rigour, or exceeding cold supervening. Sect. 4. Aph. 63. Fevers which have daily rigours, are every day dissolved. Sect. 5. Aph. 17. The frequent use of cold things, causeth convulsions, distensions of the nerves, blackness, and feverish rigours. Sect. 5. Aph. 20. Cold things cause a gnawing in ulcers, hardens the skin, hinders from suppuration, causeth blackness, Feverish rigours, convulsions and distensions of the nerves. CHAP. XI. Of Convulsions in Fevers. Sect. 2. Aph. 26. IT is better that a Fever should come upon a Convulsion, than a Convulsion upon a Fever. Sect. 4. Aph. 57 A Succeeding Fever frees him that is taken with a Convulsion, or the cramp. Sect. 4. Aph. 66. Convulsions and vehement pains happening about the bowels in acute Fevers presage ill. Sect. 4. Aph. 67. Tremble and Convulsions happening to Feverish persons in their sleeps, are bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 68 Interception of spirits in Fevers is naught, for it is an argument of a Convulsion. Sect. 5. Aph. 5. If a drunken person be suddenly Speechless, he dies convulsive, unless a Fever succeed, or he recovering his Speech the same hour that the humour is usually digested. Sect. 5. Aph. 70. Those who have Quartane Fevers, are seldom taken with Convulsions, but if they are first taken a succeeding Fevers frees them. CHAP. XII. Of the rest of the Symptoms happening in Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 27. THey which have lost much blood by Fevers, from what part soever the slux was, have soluble bodies when they are refreshed, or have recovered their strength. Sect. 4. Aph. 31. They which have a sense of Laziness or indisposition caused by Fevers, have tumours about their joints, and chiefly about their mandibles or jawbones. Sect. 4. Aph. 34. A sudden strangulation happening in a Fever without any preceding tumour in the jaws, is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 35. If the neck be perverted on a sudden, so that the Sick can hardly swallow, and if no tumour do appear, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 44. tumors or pains about the joints, do accompany those who have had long Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 44. Extremity of cold in the external parts, and burning heats in the internal, with a vehement thirst, is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 49. In continual Fevers, if the Lip, Eyelid, Eye, or Nose, be turned aside, if the Sick see not, neither hear, and be very weak; which soever of these Signs happen, argue death approaching. Sect. 4. Aph. 50. Difficulty of breathing, and raving happening in a Fever which hath no intermission, is deadly. Sect. 4. Aph. 51. If Intermittent Fevers are not dissolved by few Crises at the beginning, they argue the length and continuance of the Disease. Sect. 4. Aph. 52. Voluntary tears argue no inconvenience to the Sick either in Fevers, or other Diseases; but tears falling unwillingly, are more inconvenient. Sect. 4. Aph. 53. Those Fevers are most vehement by which a clammy or gluttonous humour doth grow to the Teeth. Sect. 4. Aph. 54. They which have dry Coughs, lightly provoking, if they continue long in burning Fevers, are not much troubled with thirst. Sect. 4. Aph. 55. All Fevers proceeding from the Inflammation of the Glandules or Kernels are bad but Diaries. Sect. 4. Aph. 60. An Hemorrhagia or bleeding at the Nose, or a Diarrhaea or Flux of the belly, doth take away deafness caused by Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 62. It is not good if the Yellow Jaundice appear, in Feaver-sick persons, before the seventh day. Sect. 4. Aph. 63. Daily Fevers are dissolved daily by Rigours. Sect. 4. Aph. 64. The Jaundice coming upon a Fever is good if they appear upon the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or fourteenth day; unless the right Hypocondrium be hard, than it is not good. Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat about the Stomach, and a gnawing in the mouth of the Stomach in Fevers is not good. Sect. 4. Aph. 69. Those Urines in Fevers are advantageous, which being thick, curdled, and few, do turn to thin and many, especially if they be such as have a Sediment at the first, or not much after. Sect. 4. Aph. 70. Urines very much troubled, like those of kine, do signify a pain of the head either present, or suddenly to succeed. Sect. 4. Aph. 73. They which have a murmuring about the midriff, with a succeeding pain in the Reins, have soluble and moist bellies, unless plenty of wind be voided downward, or much Urine be made, and these Symptoms are contingent in Fevers. Sect. 5. Aph 55. All women with Child, if they are taken with a Fever and are very much extenuated, without a manifest cause, have hard and dangerous Travail, or fall into hazard of abortment. Sect. 6. Aph. 26. A raving frees from tremble in a burning Fever. Sect. 6. Aph. 44. The Iliack passion succeeding a Strangury kills within seven days, unless plenty of Urine be made, and a Fever succeed. Sect. 6. Aph. 50. A Fever and bilious vomitings must of necessity succeed, when the brain is hurt or perished. Sect. 6. Aph. 54. Painful breathe with groans are bad in acute Fevers. Sect. 7. Aph. 52. A succeeding Fever doth take away the vehement pain of the Liver. Sect. 7. Aph. 65. Meat exhibited to one sick of a Fever, doth nourish the Disease, but it gives strength to a healthful and sound body. Distinction the sixth, containing the Aphorisms which respect the particular Diseases of the whole body, from the head to the foot. AS the parts of the body, so are the Diseases thereof divided into external and internal, those which speak of the internal Diseases are interpreted in this Distinction, those which touch the external in the following Distinction. CHAP. I. Of the Diseases of the head. Sect. 3. Aph. 13. A Summer more than ordinarily dry and cold, and a very wet and warm Autumn, do cause headaches, Coughs, Hoarseness, Rheums in the Winter, and to some Ptisicks. Sect. 4. Aph. 70. Troubled water in Fevers, like those made by Kine argue a headache present, or shortly to come. Sect. 5. Aph. 28. Suffumigations of sweet odours bring down the monthly evacuations of Women, and were often profitable for other purposes, if they did not cause a heaviness of the head. Sect. 5. Aph. 64. It is hurtful to give milk to those who are troubled with pains in their head, etc. Sect. 5. Aph. 68 The breathing of the straight vein in the forehead, takes away the Headache of the hinder part of the head. Sect. 6. Aph. 10. Matter, water, or blood, flowing out of the Nose, the Mouth or Ears, doth take away the Headache, and the vehement pains thereof. Sect. 6. Aph. 51. If sudden pains of the head happen to healthful bodies, with loss of speech, and snorting in sleep accompany, they die within seven days, unless a Fever lay hold on them. CHAP. II. Of the Lethargy, Dead sleep, and Congelation. Sect. 2. Aph. 3. EIther sleeping or waking if they exceed a mean, are ill. Sect. 3. Aph. 23. In the winter, Pleurisies, Inflammations of the Lungs, and Lethargies, etc. CHAP. III. Of the Apoplexy. Sect. 2. Aph. 42. A Confirmed or strong Apoplexy is incurable, a light one is easily cured. Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases for the most part are caused by continual rains, as long Fevers, Diarrhaeaes', Rottenness of humours, the Falling Sickness, and Apoplexies. Sect. 3. Aph. 23. The Diseases of the winter season, are Pleurisies, Inflammations of the Lungs, Lethargies, Rheums, Hoarseness, Coughs, pains of the Breast, Sides, and Loins; headaches, Migraines, and Apolexies. Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Diseases incident to old men, are difficulty of breathing, distillations causing coughs, Stranguries, difficulty of urine, pains of the joints and reins, Migraines, and Apoplexies. Sect. 6. Aph. 51. [See this Aphorism in the last Aphorism in the Chapter of the Diseases of the Head.] Sect. 6. Aph. 57 Apoplexies do most usually take men from the age of Forty to Threescore. CHAP. IU. Of Melancholy, and Madness. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. IN the Spring time melancholy, madness, the falling sickness, profusions of blood, squinancies and rheums, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. Many of the Aestival Diseases do also happen in Autumn. Quartane Fevers, and Erratic, Diseases of the Spleen, Dropsies, Consumptions, Dropping of Urine, Lienteries, and Dysenteries, Sciaticks, Squinancies, frequent Asthmaes, Iliack passions, the Falling Evil, Madness, and Melancholy. Sect. 4. Aph. 9 Melancholy persons are to be purged liberally downward, observing the contrary way in contrary affects. Sect. 6. Aph. 11. The Haemorrhodes (that is a Flux of blood by the veins in the Fundament, by which blood is commonly voided) are conducible and profitable for Melancholy affects, and the Diseases of the Reins. Sect. 6. Aph. 21. If Melancholy blood be disposed to its proper veins, or if the Haemorrhodes appear, Madness is thereby taken away. Sect. 6. Aph. 23. Continual fears and sadness, are signs of Melancholy. Sect. 6. Aph. 56. The insults and prevailings of Melancholy Diseases, are dangerous, for they foretell a deprivation of some part of the body, a Convulsion, Madness, or Blindness. Sect. 7. Aph. 5. Excoriation of the Bowels, a Dropsy, or a vehement commotion of the mind, coming of Madness, a good sign. Sect. 7. Aph. 40. It is a sign of Melancholy if the Tongue suddenly be loose and useless, or if any part of the body be deprived of sense and motion. CHAP. V. Of a Frenzy. Sect. 3. Aph. 30. BUt to such as have passed that Age (that is their youth) these Diseases are incident Pursinesse, Diseases of their Sides, Inflammations of the Lungs, Lethargies and Frenzies. Sect. 4. Aph. 72. Very clear and white Urines are bad: but it especially appears in Phrenetick persons. Sect. 7. Aph. 12. A Frenzy proceeding from an inflammation of the Lungs, is a bad Messenger. Sect. 8. Aph. 1. They do seldom perfectly recover which are Phrenetical after the age of forty years: For they are less endangered to whose nature and age the Disease is familiar. CHAP. VI Of Delirium or Raving. Sect. 2. Aph. 2. IT is a good sign when raving is appeased by sleep. Sect. 6. Aph. 53. Those alienations of mind which come with laughter, are more safe; but those which come by seriousness or study, are more dangerous. Sect. 7. Aph. 7. A rigour and raving caused by drink, are bad. Vomiting, the Hicket, or a Convulsion or Raving occasioned by the Disease of the thin gut, called Ileum, is bad. CHAP. VII. Of Dotage. Sect. 7. Aph. 9 EIther a Convulsion or Dotage caused by a Flux of blood, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 14. Stupidity or Dotage occasioned by a blow received upon the head, is ill. Sect. 7. Aph. 18. A Convulsion or Dotage caused by watching, is naught. CHAP. VIII. Of the Falling Sickness. YOung men are freed from the Falling sickness chiefly by the mutations of their age, the change of air and diet. Sect. 5. Aph. 7. They who are troubled with the Falling Sickness before the age of Fourteen years, are recoverable; but if the Disease take any at the age of Five and Twenty years, it commonly doth accompany them to their death. CHAP. IX. Of Convulsions, and other affects of the Nerves. Sect. 2. Aph. 26. IT is better that a Fever come upon a Convulsion, than a Convulsion upon a Fever. Sect. 3. Aph. 25. But when they are come to breeding of Teeth pricking pains of the Gums, Fevers and Convulsions, it is bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 16. It is dangerous giving black Hellebore to sound bodies, for it causeth Convulsions. Sect. 4. Aph. 57 A Disension of the Nerves or Cramp, or a Convulsion, is cured by a succeeding Fever. Sect. 4. Aph. 66. Convulsions and violent pains about the bowels, are bad signs in acute Fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 67. Tremble and Convulsions happening to Feverish persons, are naught. Sect. 4. Aph. 68 Interception of Spirits happening in Fevers, is bad, for it shows a Convulsion. Sect. 5. Aph. 1. A Convulsion caused by black Hellebore, is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 2. A Convulsion happening upon a wound received, is deadly. Sect. 5. Aph. 3. A Convulsion or Hicket coming by a copious Flux of blood, presageth ill. Sect. 5. Aph. 4. A Convulsion or Hicket succeeding profuse Purging, are bad. Sect. 5. Aph. 5. If a Druken man be taken with loss of speech on a sudden, he dies convulsive, unless a Fever seize him, or return to his speech at the hour when the distemper useth to be digested. Sect. 5. Aph. 6. They which are taken with a disension of the Sinews, die within four days, the which if they escape, they recover. Sect. 5. Aph. 25. Abundance of cold water cast upon them which have tumors in their joints, griefs not ulcerated, gouts and convulsions, for the most part, diminisheth the pain, and takes away the grief; for a moderate stupefaction hath a power to take away pain. Sect. 5. Aph. 56. A Convulsion or Syncope happening to women, in the time of their Purgations, is bad. Sect. 5. Aph. 65. They which have tumors with Ulcers, are seldom taken with Convulsions, or droop into Madness. But if they vanish backward, the parties are Convulsive, and have distensions of the Nerves. But if they vanish forward, either Madness, Pleurisies, Apostemes, or Dysenteries succeed, if the tumors were red. Sect. 5. Aph. 70. They which have Quartan Agues are seldom taken with Convulsions. But if they were Convulsive before, they are freed by a succeeding Quartan. Sect. 6. Aph. 39 A Convulsion ariseth either from emptiness or fullness, so doth the Hicket. Sect. 6. Aph. 56. The assaults of Melancholy Diseases are dangerous; for they foretell either sideration of some part of the body, Convulsions, Madness, or Blindness. Sect. 7. Aph. 9 Doting or a Convulsion by a Flux of blood, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 10. Vomiting, Hicket, Convulsion or Delirium, caused by the Iliack passion, is bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 13. A Convulsion or Cramp caused by vehement Inflammations, are bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 18. A Convulsion or raving caused by watching, are bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 25. A Convulsion caused by a Purging potion, is mortal. CHAP. X. Of Stupor or Numbness of Senses. Sect. 7. Aph. 14. A Numbness of the Senses, or dotage caused by a hurt on the head, is dangerous. CHAP. XI. Of the affects of the Eyes. Sect. 3. Aph. 14. IF North winds blow much in Autumn, and the season be without rain, such a season is most commodious for bodies of moist constitution, and to women; but to other constitutions it will produce Sore eyes with bloodshed in them, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 17. North winds condense the body, makes them stronger, nimbler, of a more lively colour, and in a better plight, dries the belly, and grieves the Eyes, etc. Sect. 6. Aph. 31. A potion of wine, a bath, somentation, breathing of a vein, or a Purging Medicine, do take away the pains of the Eyes. Sect. 6. Aph. 52. Regard must be had to such things which apappear out of the Eyes in sleep. For if any thing appear from the White, the Eyelids being not shut, and it doth not happen by a Flux of the belly or a purging potion, it is a bad sign, and very mortal. Sect. 7. Aph. 3. The Hicket and redness of the Eyes caused by vomiting, is bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 46. The Diseases of the Eyes must be cured by Phlebotomy, draught of Wine being first exhibited, and a plenteous bath of warm water. Sect. 8. Aph. 2. Voluntary tears in Diseases, are good signs, but involuntary, are not good. Sect. 8. Aph. 15. He that hath a Vertigoe with a dark glimmering of his Eyes, and is taken with a Coma or much sleep, and extreme heat, is in a desperate Condition. CHAP. XII. Of the affects of the Ears. Sect. 3. Aph. 5. SOuthern winds do produce dulness of hearing, dimness of sight, and heaviness of the head, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 17. Southern winds do dissolve our bodies, moisten them, and induce difficulty of hearing, heaviness of the head, and Vertigoes, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 21. In the Summer season are continual Fevers, burning Fevers, very many Tertians and Quartans, Vomitings, Diarrhaeaes', sore Eyes, and pains of the Ears. Sect. 4. Aph. 49. In continual Fevers, if the lips, eyelid, eye or nose be perverted, or turned away, if the sick neither see nor hear, and if he be weak in body, death is at hand. Sect. 4. Aph. 60. Deafness caused by Fevers, is taken away by a succeeding Flux of blood out of the Nostrils, or motions of the belly. Sect. 6. Aph. 10. Matter, Water, or Blood issuing forth by the Nostrils, by the Mouth, or by the Ears, doth take away headache, and the vehement pains thereof. Sect. 8. Aph. 14. Cold Ears, shining, and contracted, are signs of death. CHAP. XIII. Of the Affects of the Nostril. Sect. 2. Aph. 40. Hoarseness, and the Flux of humours to the Nostrils, called in very old men are not concocted. Sect. 3. Aph. 13. If the Summer be more than ordinary dry, and the wind Northward, but the Autumn exceeding rainy and wet, headaches arise about the winter, coughs, hoarseness, stuff of the head, and to some also consumptions. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. In the Spring season, madness, melancholy, the falling Evil, Fluxes of blood, Squinancies, Stuff of the Head by Rheums, and Coughs are incident. Sect. 3. Aph. 27. When they have accomplished riper years, and have attained to the Age of fourteen years, many of the former, but rather continual Fevers, and bleeding at the Nose will follow them. Sect. 4. Aph. 74. When there is an Expectation that tumors should arise about the joints, plenty of Urine thick and white frees from the Abscess. Tumours of this kind do begin in some every fourth day in Fevers with a laziness. But if blood issue forth of the nostrils also, than the solution will be in a very short space. Sect. 5. Aph. 33. Bleeding at the nose happening to Women in the Deficiency of their monthly purgations, is good. Sect. 6. Aph. 2. They are of a more sickly Constitution which have their Nostrils, and parts of Generation extraordinary moist: but they which are of a contrary constitution are more healthful. CHAP. XIV. Of Sneezing. Sect. 5. Aph. 35. SNeezing is good for Women that are troubled with a suffocation of the Matrix, or who have very hard labour and travail. Sect. 6. Aph. 13. Sneezing, happening to one that is troubled with the Hicket, takes away the Hicket. Sect. 7. Aph. 45. Sneezing is either caused, the brain being over heated, or the empty part of the head being over moistened: For the air there included, is dispersed abroad; but the noise made by sneezing is occasioned, because the included hath its passage by straight and narrow instruments. CHAP. XV. Of Rheums. Sect. 2. Aph. 40. Hoarseness and Rheums in very old men, are not concocted. CHAP. XVI. Of the Affects of the Mouth and Tongue. Sect. 3. Aph. 21. IN the Summer season, Diaries, Burning Fevers, and very many Tertian and Quartans, Vomitings, Diarrhaeaes', Bleer eyes, pains of the Ears; Exulcerations of the mouth, putrid Ulcers about the Privities, and Pimples caused by Choleric Sweats. Sect. 3. Aph. 24. Spreading Ulcers of the mouth called Apthae, are a Disease common to young Infants and Children. Sect. 6. Aph. 32. Stammerers are most of all taken with a long Flux of the Belly. Sect. 7. Aph. 40. It is a sign of black Choler when the tongue is loose and useless on a sudden, or when any part of the body becometh benumbed or dead. Sect. 8. Aph. 9 If the Tongue be neither black, nor bloody, if either of these Signs be absent, it is no very bad Sign. For hereby is signified a lesser Disease. CHAP. XVII. Of the Affects of the Teeth. Sect. 3. Aph. 25. BUt when they are come to breeding of their Teeth, Pricking, Itchings of the Gums, Fevers, Convulsions, Fluxes of the belly, and then chiefly when they begin to breed their Dog Teeth, and to those who are of a gross constitution, and who are costive. Sect. 4. Aph. 53. Those Fevers are most vehement, whereby a clammy gluttonous humour doth grow to the Teeth. Sect. 5. Aph. 18. Cold things are offensive to the bones, teeth, nerves, brain, and marrow of the backbone, but hot things are profitable. CHAP. VIII. Of the Affects of the Lips and Gums. Sect. 4. Aph. 49. IN continual Fevers, if the Lip, Eyelid, Eye or Nose be perverted and turned, if the sick neither see nor hear, and his Body be weak, than death is nigh at hand. Sect. 8. Aph. 13. Wan lips or pale, or resolved, turned in and out, and cold, are mortal. CHAP. XIX. Of the Affects of the Throat, Squinancy, and Asthma. Sect 2. Aph. 43. AMongst those who are strangled, and dissolved, and are not quite dead, they seldom or very rarely return to life, which have froth gathered together about their mouth. Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases are usually caused by continual showers, as long Fevers, Fluxes of the belly, putrid Fevers, the falling sickness, Apoplexies and Squinancies, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. In the spring season, Melancholy, Madness, the Falling-Evil, profusions of blood, and Squinancies, etc. Sect. 4. Aph. 34. A Strangulation happening to him that is Sick of a Fever, no tumour appearing in the Jaws, is deadly. Sect. 4. Aph. 35. In Fevers a sudden perverting of the neck happening, so that the Sick can hardly swallow, no tumour appearing, is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 10. Humours falling down to the Throat, if they turn not to the Squinancy they settle upon the Lungs, and the Sick dies within seven days; but if he escape that time, the matter turns to Impostumation. Sect. 6. Aph. 37. It is a good Sign if in a Squinancy, a Tumour do appear in the neck, for then the morbific matter is sent forth. Sect. 6. Aph. 46. They which are made Crook-backed by an Asthma, die before they come to the Age of Fourteen years, or soon after. Sect. 7. Aph. 49. An impostumation or redness happening in the breast of him that hath a Squinancy, is a good sign. Because the matter is excluded to the external parts. CHAP. XX. Of the affects of the Breast and Lungs, and first of the Difficulty of Breathing. Sect. 3. Aph. 43. IN the Winter season, pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, lethargies, rheums, hoarseness, coughs, pains of the breasts, sides, and loins, headaches, migraines, and apoplexies, are common. Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Difficulty of breathing, catarrhs causing coughs, the strangury and difficulty of Urine, are Diseases familiar to old Age. Sect. 4. Aph. 50. If difficulty of breathing, and dote happen in continual Fevers, it is mortal. CHAP. XXI. Of Hoarseness and the Cough. Sect. 2. Aph. 40. Hoarseness and rheums in very Old men, are not concocted. Sect. 3. Aph 5. But if the season be dry and cold, it causeth coughs, exasperates the jaws, hardeneth the belly and suppresseth Urine. Sect. 3. Aph. 13. But if the Summer be more then usually dry and cold with North-winds, and the Autumn rainy with South-winds, expect headaches, in the winter, coughs, hoarseness, rheums, and to some consumptions. Sect 3. Aph. 20. But in the Spring, madness, melancholy, the falling sickness, profusions of blood, squinancies rheums, hoarseness and coughs will follow. Sect. 3. Aph. 24. These Diseases happen to infants and children newly born, spreading Ulcers of the mouth, called Aphthae, vomitings and coughs. Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Difficulty of breathing, and distillations inferring coughs do happen to old men. Sect. 4. Aph. 54. If dry coughs lightly provoking happen in burning Fevers, and persevere long, the sick is not then much troubled with thirst. Sect. 5. Aph. 24. Cold things, as ice and snow, are offensive and enemies to the breast, they cause coughs, eruptions of blood, and catarrhs. Sect. 6. Aph. 35. A Cough happening in a Dropsy is a bad sign. Sect 6. Aph. 46. If crookedness were occasioned by an Asthma, the party thus affected dies before he attain the age of Fourteen years, or presently after. Sect. 7. Aph. 47. If a cough do hold him that hath a Dropsy, he is in a desperate condition. CHAP. XXII. Of hurt of Speech. Sect. 5. Aph. 5. IF loss of Speech happen on a sudden to a Drunken man, he dies convulsive, unless a Fever lay hold on him, and his Speech return to him at the hour when nature useth to digest the Surfeit. Sect. 6. Aph. 52. They which are taken with sudden pains of the head, and were not sick before, and if their Speech fail or leave them, and a snorting cometh withal, die within seven days, unless a Fever lay hold on them. Sect. 7. Aph. 58. Loss of Speech must necessary ensue presently if the brain have been hurt by any occasion. CHAP. XXIII. Of Inflammation of the Lungs. Sect. 3. Aph. 23. BUt in the winter pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, and lethargies. Sect. 3. Aph. 30. But to those who are in their youth, thickness of breathing, Diseases of the Sides, and inflammations of the Lungs are incident. Sect. 6. Aph. 16. A Diarrhaea or Flux of the belly, succeeding the pleurisy or inflammation of the lungs, is bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 11. Inflammation of the lungs succeeding a Pleurisy, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 12. A frenzy occasioned by an inflammation of the lungs, signifies ill. CHAP. XXIV. Of Empyema, or Suppuration of the Lungs. Sect. 5. Aph. 8. IF pluretick persons are not cleansed within Fourteen days, the matter turns to impostumation. Sect. 5. Aph. 10. Humours falling to the Throat, if they turn not to a squinancy, settle upon the Lungs, and the sick dye within seven days, but if they escape that time, the matter turns to suppuration. Sect. 5. Aph. 15. If pluretick persons being suppurated are purged and cleansed within forty days, they are freed, otherwise do grow consumptive. Sect. 5. Aph. 65. They, in whose bodies ulcerated tumors do arise, are neither taken with convulsions, nor driven into madness; but these tumors suddenly vanishing, they to whom it happens in the back parts have convulsions and distensions of the Sinews; but if it happen in the fore part, ragings and acute Diseases of the sides, impostumations, and dysenteries do follow. Sect. 6. Aph. 27. They certainly die, who are either burnt or cut for an impostumation of the breast, or for a Dropsy, if matter or water slow forth upon heaps. Sect. 6. Aph. 41. When an impostumation is in the body, and it gives no signification of itself, the want of that discovery is either caused by the thickness of the matter, or place wherein it is contained. Sect. 7. Aph. 15. Spitting of suppurated matter from spitting of blood is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 38. Distillations upon the upper ventricle are turned into suppuration within the twentieth day. Sect. 7. Aph. 44. When suppurated persons are cauterised or lanced, if pure and white matter issue forth they escape, but if it be somewhat bloody, filthy and ill favoured they perish. CHAP. XXV. Of the Ptysick or Consumption. Sect. 4. Aph. 48. A Dry and cold Summer with North winds, and a wet Autumn with South winds, cause headaches in the winter, coughs, hoarseness and rheums, and to some consumptions. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. Many Diseases which are usually in the Summer, appear in the Autumn, as quartane and erratic Fevers, diseases of the spleen, dropfies, consumptions, lienteries, and dysenteries, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 29. Young▪ men are afflicted with spittings of blood, consumptions, acute fevers, the falling evil, and many other Diseases, but especially those mentioned. Sect. 4. Aph. 8. In purging consumptive persons, we must be very wary, and fearful in exhibiting vomitive medicines. Sect. 5. Aph. 9 Consumptions happen especially from the eighteenth year of our age, until the five and thirtieth year. Sect. 5. Aph. 11. It is a mortal sign when the spittle of such as are in a consumption being cast upon the coals sends forth a grievous smell, if the hair of the head fall off likewise. Sect. 5. Aph. 12. It is an argument of death when the hair of the head of consumptive persons falls off, if a looseness of the belly succeed. Sect. 5. Aph 13. Frothy blood cast forth by spittle, is voided from the Lungs. Sect. 4. Aph. 14. A Flux of the belly is mortal to consumptive persons. Sect. 6. Aph. 12. In the curing of the Hemorrhoids or piles, unless one vein be left open, there is danger that a dropsy or consumption will succeed. Sect. 7. Aph. 16. A consumption, and flux are caused by spitting out suppurated matter. But when the spitting ceaseth, the sick dye. Sect. 8. Aph. 7. [You have this Aphorism before in the same Chapter. Aph. 5. whether I refer you.] Sect. 8. Aph. 8. All things which incline or tend to consumptions, are vehement, but some are mortal; but it would be advantageous if the Disease should seize the body at such a time when the season did afford some help for the Disease, as the Summer for a burning Fever, the Winter for the Dropsy; for that which is according to nature doth obtain the victory, but in the Diseases of the Spleen, it is rather cause of fear. CHAP. XXVI. Of the Pleurisy. Sect. 3. Aph. 23. BUt in the Winter season, pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, and apoplexies. Sect. 5. Aph. 8. If Pluretick persons are not cleansed within fourteen days, the matter turns to impostumation. Sect. 5. Aph. 15. Pluretick persons being suppurated, if they are cleansed within forty days after the imposthume is broke, are freed, otherwise they grow into a consumption. Sect. 6. Aph. 5. We must learn whether the pains in the sides, in the breast, and in other parts do differ much. Sect. 6. Aph. 6. A Flux of the belly succeeding a pleurisy, or the inflammation of the lungs, is a bad sign. Sect. 6. Aph. 33. They which have sour belchings, are not much troubled with pleurisies. Sect. 7. Aph. 11. An inflammation of the lungs coming upon a pleurisy, is bad. CHAP. XXVII. Of spitting of Blood. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. YOung men are troubled with spittings of blood, consumptions, acute fevers, the falling sickness, and many other Diseases, but especially these. Sect. 4. Aph. 25. Any blood whatsoever voided upward, is bad, but if black blood be voided downward, it is good. Sect. 5. Aph. 13. Frothy blood cast forth by spittle, is brought from the lungs. Sect. 6. Aph. 10. Matter, water, or blood, voided by the nostrils, the mouth, or the ears, take away the headache, and the vehement pains thereof. Sect. 7. Aph. 37. Vomiting of blood happening without a fever is good, but bad with a fever, and the distemper must be cured with such Medicines which have a cooling and restringent quality in them. CHAP. XXVIII. Of the affects of the Heart. Sect. 2. Aph. 36. MEn of unblameable and perfect health, do quickly faint when they are purged, and such also who use ill diet. Sect. 2. Aph. 41. Such as are often and violently taken with a Sincope or Swooning without some manifest cause, die suddenly. Sect. 4. Aph. 17. Abhorring of meat, gnawing of the mouth of the stomach, a vertigoe withdrowsiness, and a bitterness in the mouth, without a fever, do instruct us that purging by vomit is necessary. Sect. 5. Aph. 56. A Convulsion, or Sincope happening to women in the time of their purgations, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 8. Faintings, vomitings, and swoundings, are caused by the rupture of a tumour inwardly. CHAP. XXIX. Of the affects of the Breasts. Sect. 5. Aph. 37. IF the Breasts of a woman with Child, grow slender on a sudden▪ she is in danger of aborting, or miscarrying. Sect. 5. Aph. 38. If one of the Breasts of a woman with Child with Twins, grow slender, she will abort with one of her Children; and if the right Breast grow slender, she will miscarry a Male, if the left, a Female. Sect. 5. Aph. 39 If a woman which neither is with Child, nor never had Child, have milk in her Breasts, her monthly purgations have failed. Sect. 5. Aph. 40. When blood is gathered together into a tumour of swelling about the Breasts, raging or madness, is thereby signified to those women. Sect. 5. Aph. 50. If you would stop the flowing of women's courses, apply very large Cupping-glasses to their breasts. Sect. 5. Aph. 52. Plenty of milk running forth of the Breasts of women with Child, argue a weak Child; but if the breasts are solid, they argue a more strong Child, Sect. 5. Aph. 53. They which are like to miscarry, will have slender breasts, but if their breasts grow hard, they will have a pain in the breasts, or in the hips, in their eyes, or in their knees, and will not miscarry. CHAP. XXX. Of the affects of the Stomach. Sect. 1. Aph. 15. IN the winter and spring our stomaches are most hot, and our sleeps most long, therefore in those seasons our meals ought to be more plentiful, because when there is most natural heat our bodies need more plentiful nutriment, which Ages, and Wrestlers signify unto us. Sect. 2. Aph. 21. A draught of Wine takes away hunger. Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat of the Stomach, and a gnawing of the mouth of the stomach in Fevers, is naught. Sect. 6. Aph. 7. Pains of the Stomach, which are in the upper part thereof, are more light, and not so vehement as those which are in the lower part thereof. Sect. 6. Aph. 18. It is mortal, if the bladder, brain, heart, midriff, any thin intestine or bowel, the stomach or liver be pierced or divided. Sect. 7. Aph. 54. When Phlegm is included between the midriff and the stomach, if it cause pain, and have no passage either way, if it be turned into the bladder by the veins, the Diseases are dissolved. Sect. 7. Aph. 6. Abhorring of meat and sincere dejections in a continual Fever, foretell ill. Sect. 8. Aph. 18. When the vital spirits above the navel ascend above the Diaphragma, all the humour is burnt up then death is come. But when the lungs and heart, having lost their radical moisture, the heat being gathered together into mortiferous places, breath forth the spirits of heat altogether. Moreover partly by the flesh, partly by the pores of the head, by which we say we live, the Soul leave the Cottage of the body, yields up this cold and mortal Effigies, together with the choler, blood, phlegm and flesh. CHAP. XXXI. Of Thirst. Sect. 4. Aph. 19 THey which having taken a purging potion, and are not thirsty while they purge, will not leave purging, until they do thirst. Sect. 4. Aph. 48. To have the outward parts cold, and the inward bourn with a vehement thirst, is mortal in continual fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 54. If one sick of a burning fever, have a long dry cough lightly provoking, he is not much vexed with thirst. Sect. 5. Aph. 27. It is a good sign, if such as have a desire to drink in the night, do fall asleep while they are thirsty. CHAP. XXXII. Of Vomiting. Sect. 1. Aph. 2. IN vomitings and going to stool, which come of their own accord, if such things are voided which ought to be purged, it is conducible, and it is born with ease; but if not, it succeeds otherwise, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 24. Diseases common to Infants and young Children are spreading Ulcers of the mouth, vomitings, coughs, watchings, tremble, inflammations about the navel, and moistness of the Ears. Sect. 4. Aph. 4. It is most convenient to purge by Vomit in the Summer, in the winter, by stool. Sect. 4. Aph. 6. Thin bodies and such as vomit with ease, are to be purged by vomitive Medicines, being very watery and fearful of the winter season. Sect. 4. Aph 7. But such as vomit with difficulty, and are moderately gross, aught to be purged downward, but we must be very cautious in the ●…mmer. Sect. 4. Aph. 8. We must be very wary and fearful in purging consumptive persons by vomit. Sect. 4. Aph. 12. It is very inconvenient to purge such as have a Lientery by vomit in the winter time. Sect. 3. Aph. 13. Bodies which do not vomit easily after they have taken black Hellebore must be moistened with plenty of meat and rest before they take their Physic, Sect. 4. Aph. 17. Abhorring of meat, gnawings of the mouth of the stomach, a dizziness in the head, with a dimness of the eyes without a Fever, if the mouth be bitter, show unto us that a vomit is necessary. Sect. 4. Aph. 18. Pains above the midriff, if they ought to be purged, tell us that they ought to be purged by a Medicine that will purge upward. But if they are beneath the midriff, than they must be purged downward. Sect. 4. Aph. 22. It is a deadly sign if melancholsy blood be voided either upward or downward at the beginning of any Disease whatsoever. Sect. 4. Aph. 25. Any blood cast forth upward is bad, bu● if black blood be voided downwards, it is good. Sect. 5. Aph. 32. Vomiting of blood is stayed and taken away by the eruption of the monthly purgations. Sect. 7. Aph. 3. The Hicket and redness of the eyes occasioned by vomiting, is a bad sign. Sect. 7. Aph. 8. Faintings, vomiting, and swoundings, are caused by the rupture of a tumour inwardly. Sect. 7. Aph. 10. Vomiting, Hicket, or Delirium, caused by the Iliacke passion, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 37. Vomiting of blood, if it happen without a fever, is wholesome, but bad with a fever, and it must be cured with cooling and restringent Medicines. Sect. 7. Aph. 70. When we intent to purge the body, it ought to be made soluble; if you would have them fluxible upwards, you must stay the belly, but if downward, it is to be moistened. CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Hicket. Sect. 5. Aph. 3. A Convulsion or Hicket coming by a large effusion of blood, doth foretell ill. Sect. 5. Aph. 4. The Hicket succeeding over much purging, is naught. Sect. 5. Aph. 58. The Strangury succeeds an inflammation of the womb, and of the straight gut, and suppurated Reins. But the Hicket succeeds, if the liver be grieved with an inflammation. Sect. 6. Aph. 13. If sneezings happen to him that hath the Hicket, they take away the Hicket. Sect. 6. Aph. 39 A convulsion ariseth of too much fullness or emptiness, so also doth the Hicket. Sect. 7. Aph. 3. The Hicket or redness of the eyes, caused by vomiting, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 10. Vomiting, hicket, convulsion or dotage caused by the Iliack passion, portends ill. Sect. 7. Aph. 17. The Hicket coming by the inflammation of the liver, is very bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 41. It is no good sign if the hicket happen to elderly persons, being over much purged. CHAP. XXXIV. Of the affects of the Midriff. Sect. 4. Aph. 64. IF the yellow Jaundice come to a Feverish person, the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or fourteenth day, it is good, unless the right Hypochondrium be hard, otherwise it is less good. Sect. 4. Aph. 73. They whose midriff is elevated and rumbles, with a succeeding pain of the Loins, have moist bellies, unless wind break forth backward, or plenty of urine be voided, these accidents are contingent in Fevers. Sect. 5. Aph. 64. Milk is inconvenient for those who have the head-ache, neither is it to be allowed in Fevers or to such whose Diaphragma being elevated have rumbling noises, etc. Sect. 6. Aph. 40. When there are griess about the Midriff without an inflammation, a succeeding fever doth take away the grief. CHAP. XXXV. Of the affects of the Liver. Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A Strangury succeeds an inflammation of the straight intestine, and of the womb and suppurated Reins, but the hicket succeeds when the Liver is inflamed. Sect. 6. Aph. 18. If either the bladder, brains, heart, midriff or any thin bowel, stomach, or liver be pierced or cut, death ensues. Sect. 9 Aph. 42. A Stirrus of the liver succeeding to them which have the yellow Jaundice, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 17. The Hicket coming by the inflammation of the liver, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 45. If any man be cut or burnt for the suppuration of the liver, if pure matter and white follow, they survive, but if matter like the Lees of Oil proceed, they perish. Sect. 7. Aph. 55. If the liver full of water empty itself upon the kell, the belly is filled with water, and the sick dyes. CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Dropsy. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. IN the Autumn many Estival Diseases happen, and Quartan and Erratic Fevers, Diseases of the Spleen, Dropsies, Consumptions, etc. Sect. 4. Aph. 11. When the bowels are wound and wrested about, great pains about the navel, and grief of the Loins are concomitant, the which if it be not cured by a purging Medicine, nor any other means, is confirmed into a dry Dropsy. Sect. 6. Aph. 8. Ulcers arising in the bodies of Hydropical persons, are not easily cured. Sect. 6. Aph. 11. In the Dropsy if the water flow forth of the veins into the belly, the Disease is dissolved. Sect. 6. Aph. 27. Empiecal, or Hydropical persons being burnt or cut, if either water or suppurated matter abundantly flow forth, the sick certainly die. Sect. 6. Aph. 35. A cough happening to him that is sick of the Dropsy, is naught. Sect. 7. Aph. 5. A dysentery, Dropsy, or a vehement commotion of the mind, succeeding raging or madness, is good. Sect. 7. Aph. 55. If an Hydropical liver issue violently forth upon the kell, the belly is filled with water, and the sick dyes. CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Jaundice. Sect. 4. Aph. 62. IT is no good sign if the Yellow Jaundice do succeed a Fever before the seventh day. Sect. 4. Aph. 64. If the Jaundice coming upon a Fever do appear the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or fourteenth day, the Crisis is good, unless the right Hypochondrium be hard, otherwise it is not good. Sect. 5. Aph. 72. Icterical persons are not much subject to wind. Sect. 6. Aph. 42. It is an ill sign, if he that hath the Jaundice have a Scirrhus of the Liver. CHAP. XXXVIII. Of the affects of the Spleen. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. MAny Diseases frequent in the Summer happen also in the Autumn, and Quartan and Erratic fevers, and Diseases of the Spleen, etc. Sect. 6. Aph. 43. When suppurated matter is in the body, and doth not exhibit any signification of itself, the cause either is from the grossness of the matter, or of the place where it resideth. Sect. 6. Aph. 48. A Dysentery coming in spleenetick persons, is good. CHAP. XXXIX. Of the Flux of the Belly or Diarrhaea. Sect. 2. Aph. 14. CHanges of the excrements in the flux of the belly are good, unless they change to bad. Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Diseases are usually caused by continual showers, or rain; as long Fevers, Diarrhaeaes', putrid fevers, the falling sickness and apoplexies. Sect. 3. Aph. 25. When Children are breeding their teeth, itching and prickings of the gums, fevers, convulsions, fluxes of the belly do afflict them, and then more especially when they have begun to put forth their dog teeth, and to those most chiefly, who are of a more gross constitution, and have their bellies hard. Sect. 3. Aph. 30. But to those who are now past their youth, frequent Asthmaes, pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, lethargies, frenzies, burning Fevers, continual Diarrhaeaes', choler, dysenteries, lienteries, and flux of blood by the Haemorrhoidical veins in the Fundament. Sect. 4. Aph. 21. Black excrements like dreggish or black blood proceeding without provocation either with a Fever, or without a fever, are very bad, and so much the worse by how much the more their colour are many and bad. But if they are caused by a medicine, they are so much the better, by how much their colours are many, and not bad. Sect. 4. Aph. 22. An issue of black blood, either upward or downward at the beginning of any Disease whatsoever, is deadly. Sect. 4. Aph. 23. If voiding of black choler, like dreggish or black blood, shall follow to such whose bodies are attenuated, either by acute fevers, or continual Fevers, by wounds or any other means, the patient dies the day following. Sect. 4. Aph. 24. A dysentery caused by melancholy blood, is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 26. If little pieces of flesh are voided by stool, by him that hath an exulceration of the bowels, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 28. Bilious dejections cease if deafness ensue, and deafness is taken away by bilious dejections succeeding. Sect. 5. Aph. 12. When the hairs of consumptive persons fall off, a flux of the belly succeeds, and they die. Sect. 5. Aph. 14. A Diarrhaea coming upon a consumptive person, is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 34. If a woman with Child be taken with an extreme looseness, she is in danger of aborting. Sect. 5. Aph. 65. They to whom tumors with ulcers do appear are neither taken by convulsion, nor driven into rage or madness. But they presently vanishing, to such to whom this happeus backwards, convulsions, and distensions of the nerves are caused; but if it happen forwards, ragings, acute diseases of the sides, suppuration of humours, or a dysentery doth happen, if the tumours were red. Sect. 6. Aph. 3. Abhorring of meat in long dysenteries is not good, but worse if it come with a fever. Sect. 6. Aph. 15. A Diarrhaea which▪ hath continued long, is taken away by a voluntary vomiting; succeeding. Sect. 6. Aph. 16. A flux of the belly coming upon a pleurisy or or an inflammation of the lungs, is naught. Sect. 6. Aph. 17. It is beneficial for those which are troubled with sore eyes, to be taken with a looseness of the belly. Sect. 6. Aph. 52. We must observe what things appear from the eyes by sleep, for if from the white, the eyelids being open any thing appear, and not caused by a flux of the belly, or a purging▪ Medicine, it is a bad sign, and very mortal. Sect. 6. Aph. 43. Splenetic persons which are afflicted with a dysentery, after a long succeeding dysentery, a dropsy or lientery happens, and they die. Sect. 6. Aph. 48. A dysentery coming upon the Spleen, is good. Sect 7. Aph. 5. A dysentery, dropsy, or an Exstasis coming upon raging or madness, is good. Sect. 7. Aph. 23. A dysentery succeeds sincere dejections. Sect. 7. Aph. 29. A vehement flux of the belly cures that kind of dropsy which comes of white pituite, and is called Lecophlegmatia. Sect. 5. Aph. 30. Frothy excrements voided by stool come from the brain. Sect. 7. Aph. 75. A dysentery succeeds a Diarrhaea. Sect. 7. Aph. 76. A lientery succeeds a dysentery. Sect. 8. Aph. 5. A flux of the belly succeeding a long Disease, is bad. CHAP. XL. Of a Dysentery or Excoriation of the Bowels. Sect. 4. Aph. 24. THat dysentery is mortal which was caused by black choler. Sect. 4. Aph. 26. In a dysentery, if small pieces of flesh are ejected by stool, the Disease is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 43. Splenetic persons afflicted with a dysentery, after a long excoriation of the bowels, a dropsy or lientery succeed, and they die. CHAP. XLI. Of a Lientery or levity of the Bowels. Sect. 4. Aph. 12. IT is dangerous purging lienterical persons by vomiting Medicines in the winter season. Sect. 6. Aph. 1. If sour belchings, which were not before, succeed a long lientery or levity of the bowels, it is a good sign. Sect. 6. Aph. 15. A voluntary vomiting happening to him which hath had a long flux, doth take away the flux. CHAP. XLII. Of the Iliack Passion. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. MAny Aestival Diseases happen in the Autumn, and Quartan and Erratic Fevers, Diseases of the Spleen, Dropsies, Consumptions, dropping of the Urine, Lienteries, Dysenteries, pains of the Hips, Squinances, frequent Asthmaes, Iliack passions, the Falling Evil, Madness, and Melancholy Diseases. Sect. 6. Aph. 44. If the Iliack passion succeed a Strangury, the Sick dies within seven days, unless plenty of urine be voided, and a fever succeed. Sect. 6. Aph. 10. Vomiting, Hicket, a Convulsion or Dotage occasioned by the Disease of the thin bowel called Ileum, is bad. CHAP. XLIII. Of the pain of the Belly. Sect. 4. Aph. 11. When the Bowels are wrung or wrested, pains are felt about the navel, and grief of the loins, is present; if the distemper be cured neither by a purging Medicine, nor any other means, it is confirmed into a dry dropsy. Sect. 4. Aph. 65. A vehement heat about the belly, and a gnawing of the mouth of the Stomach, is a bad sign in Fevers. Sect. 6. Aph. 5. We must observe and learn whether the pains of the breast, sides, and of other places are much different, or not. Sect. 6. Aph. 7. Pains which are caused about the belly, if they are high and sublime, are more light and easy, but if they are not sublime, they are more vehement. Sect. 6. Aph. 40. A succeeding Fever dissolves such pains which arise about the Diaphragme, without an inflammation. Sect. 7. Aph. 22. Suppuration or impostumation is caused by a continual grief of those parts which appertain to the belly. A coldness or chillness of the extreme parts, caused by a vehement grief of the parts which belong to the belly, is bad. Sect. 7. Aph. 29. He that pisseth blood, and stuff like curdled milk, and hath the Strangury; if the grief extend itself to the Rorinaeum; lower belly, and parts about the privities, hath a defection in those parts which appertain to the bladder. CHAP. XLIV. Of Tenesmus or often desire to go to stool. Sect. 7. Aph. 27. IF a Tenosmus or an often and vain desire of going to stool, without voiding any thing, happen unto women with Child, it will cause abortion or miscarriage. CHAP. XLV. Of the affect of the Fundament and Hamorrhoides. Sect. 3. Aph. 30. THey which are beyond their youth, frequent Asthmaes, pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, lethargies, frenzies, burning and continual fevers, Diarrhaeaes', cholers, excoriations of the bowels, lienteries, and profusion of blood by the veins in the fundament, called the Haemorrhoides. Sect. 4. Aph. 25. Evacuations of blood upward, be the blood of what condition soever, is bad; but if black blood, be cast down beneath, it is good. Sect. 6. Aph. 11. The Haemorrhoides, or a flux of blood by the mouth of the veins in the fundament, whereby nature doth usually ease itself, are convenient and beneficial in melancholy affects and Diseases of the Reins. Sect. 6. Aph. 12. In the cure of the Haemorrhoides, or continual flux of blood, by the veins in the Fundament, unless one vein be preserved and kept, there is danger that a dropsy or consumption may succeed. Sect. 6. Aph. 21. If the veins do swell with melancholy blood, or if the Haemorrhoidical veins flow and empty the body of blood, madness is thereby dissolved. CHAP. XLVI. Of the affects of the Reins. Sect. 3. Aph. 3. Disease's accompanying old age, are difficulty of breathing, Catarrhs causing coughs, stranguries, difficulty of pissing, pains of the joints and the reins, etc. Sect. 4. Aph. 75. An exulceration of the reins or bladder, is signified by blood or suppurated matter, sent forth with the Urine. Sect. 4. Aph. 76. Small pieces of flesh or something like hairs carried out with the Urine, are sent from the reins. Sect. 4. Aph. 78. Blood issuing forth freely with the Urine, doth signify the rupture of a vein in the reins. Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A Strangury succeeds an inflammation of the straight intestine, an inflammation of the womb, and a suppuration of the reins. Sect. 6. Aph. 6. The vices of the reins and bladder in old men are hardly cured. Sect. 6. Aph. 11. The Hemorrhoides or blood sent forth by the veins in the fundament, is beneficial in melancholy affects and Diseases of the reins. Sect. 7. Aph. 34. Bubbles standing on the top of the Urine, do signify a Disease of the reins, and the length thereof. Sect. 7. Aph. 35. When the upper part or superficies of the Urine is fat and greasy, thick and gathered together, then is signified a Disease of the reins, and that a sharp one too. Sect. 7. Aph. 36. But when the aforesaid signs do happen in those whose reins are Diseased, and pains are felt about the Muscles of the back bone, if they are carried to the external parts, expect that the abscess will be external; but if they tend more to the inward parts, it is to be feared that the abscess will be inward. CHAP. XLVII. Of the Affects of the Privities. Sect. 3. Aph. 21. IN the Summer time some of these Diseases, and continual and burning fevers, very many tertians and quartans, vomitings; fluxes of the belly, sore eyes, pains of the ears, exulcerations of the mouth, corruptions of the privities, and small pustles caused by choleric Sweats. Sect. 4. Aph. 42. A small Ulcer growing in the Yard, if there happen a suppuration, and break, a solution succeeds. Sect. 5. Aph. 22. Heat causing suppuration doth not exhibit unto us the certainest signs of security in every ulcer, it softens the skin, extenuates it, taketh away pain, assuage rigours, convulsions, and cramps, dissolves heaviness of the head, is very much available for broken bones, and for such especially which are bare of flesh, and for those chiefly who have ulcers in their head, for such also who are stupefied with cold, or are ulcerated for creeping, and eating sores in the fundament, yard, womb, and bladder; to all these things heat is acceptable, and doth cause a crisis, but cold is an enemy, and destructive. Sect. 5. Aph. 62. Women which have cold and condensed wombs, do not conceive, nor they whose wombs are overmolst, for in such the seed is extinguished, neither such who have extraordinary dry wombs and very hot, for in those the seed is corrupted for want of nutriment. But such who have naturally a moderate temperature, between those two extremes, do prove fruitful. Sect. 5. Aph. 63. There is the same reason also in men, for either by reason of the rarity of the body, the spirit is diffused abroad, so that it cannot send forth the seed, or by reason of its constipation or thickness the humour cannot be sent forth, or by reason of its coldness, the seed is not heated, so that it may be gathered to its proper place, or the same may happen by heat. Sect. 6. Aph. 19 If a bone, a griselda, a nerve, or any small particle of the jaw bone, or the foreskin of the yard, be divided or cut a sunder, it is neither nourished, neither doth it grow together again. CHAP. XLVIII. Of the affects of the Bladder. Sect. 3. Aph. 5. IF the season of the year be cold with North-winds, it causeth coughs, exasperates the jaws, hardeneth the belly, suppresseth urine, causeth horrors, and pains of the sides and breast; when it so prevaileth such accidents are to beexpected in Diseases. Sect. 3. Aph. 16. Great Droughts cause consumptions, sore eyes, pains of the joints and stranguries, with Diseases of the bowels. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. In the Autumn many Summer Diseases do happen, and quartan and erratic fevers, Diseases of the spleen, dropsies, consumptions, the strangury, lienteries and dyfenteries. Sect. 3. Aph. 31. These Diseases are contingent to old men, Asthmaes, catarrhs, the strangury, stopping of urine, and pains of the joints and reins. Sect. 4. Aph. 69. Urines in Fevers, if they change from thick, and such as have curdled stuff in them, and few, too many and thin do ease the patient, especially if such are made wherein there appears a sediment at the beginning, or not long after. Sect. 4. Aph. 70. Troublesome Urines, like those of kine in Fevers, argue either the head-ache to be present, or to ensue. Sect. 4. Aph. 71. When a Crisis doth happen the seventh day, the urine hath a red cloud the fourth day, and other things answerable thereunto. Sect. 4. Aph. 74. When an abscess is expected to the joints plenty of urine thick and white, frees from the abscess, etc. Sect. 5. Aph. 72. Clear and white urines are all bad, but that appears chiefly in Phrenetick persons. Sect. 4. Aph. 73. [See this Aphorism in the Chapter of the affects of the Hypocondries.] Sect. 4. Aph. 75. If blood or corrupt matter be sent forth with the urine, an exulceration of the reins is thereby signified. Sect. 4. Aph. 76. When small pieces of flesh, or things like hairs are carried forth with the urine, they are brought from the reins. Sect. 4. Aph. 77. When things like bran are voided with the urine, the bladder hath a scab. Sect. 4. Aph. 79. Blood issuing forth wilfully with the urine, shows a vein to be broke in the bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 79. Sandy sediments seething in the urine, argues the stone in the bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 80. He that pisseth blood and matter like curdled milk with his urine, and if he hath a strangury and the pain fall to the Perinaeum, and the lower belly, hath a Disease in those parts which belong to the bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 81. He that pisseth blood and corrupt matter, and small scales with an ill odor in the urine, hath an ulcer in the bladder. Sect. 4. Aph. 82. If a tumour grow in the conduit of the urine, if that suppurate, and break, a solution happens. Sect. 4. Aph. 83. Very much urine made in the night, argues but few excrements by stool. Sects. 5. Aph. 22. [See this Aphorism in the Chapter of the affects of the Privities.] Sect. 5. Aph. 58. The strangury succeeds the inflammation of the the straight intestine and the womb, and suppurated reins, but the Hicket the inflammation of the liver. Sect. 6. Aph. 6. The affects of the reins and the bladder, are not easily cured in old men. Sect. 6. Aph. 18. If the bladder, brain, midriff, or any thin bowel, stomach, or liver be cut into or divided, it is deadly. Sect. 6. Aph. 44. The Iliack passion succeeding a Strangury, kills within seven days, unless plenty of urine be made with a succeeding Fever. Sect. 7. Aph. 32. Urines with bilious sediments but thin at the top, do signify an acute Disease. Sect. 7. Aph. 34. Urines with bubbles at the top, argue a Disease of the reins, and a long one too. Sect. 7. Aph. 35. But when a fatness is gathered together upon the top of the urine, it signifies an acute Disease of the reins. Sect. 7. Aph. 39 [This Aphorism is the same with Sect. 4. Aph. 18. in this Chapter.] Sect. 7. Aph. 48. Drinking of wine and breathing a vein, doth take away the strangury or difficulty of making water, but the inward veins must be opened. CHAP. XLIX. Of the Testicles. Sect. 8. Aph. 11. IF the right Testicle be cold and convulsive, it is mortal. CHAP. L. Of the affects of the Womb. Sect. 3. Aph. 12. IF the wind be Southward in the winter, and the season very wet, and the spring extraordinary dry, with North winds, women with Child which expect to be delivered in the spring, do abort upon any occasion; and they which are delivered produce but weak and sickly Infants, so that either they die presently, or if they live, are small and sickly, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 14. A dry and cold Autumn with North winds, is commodious for those who are of a moist constitution, and for women, etc. Sect. 3. Aph. 28. The Diseases of Children, are usually dissolved by their Crisis, some within forty days, some within seven months, and others within seven years, or about the time of fourteen years. But those Diseases which continue to children, and do not leave them at the age of fourteen, to Males, and to Females all the time of the eruption of their monthly purgations, usually are of a long continuance. Sect. 4. Aph. 1. Women with Child may be purged, if the humour incline of itself to evacuation, in the fourth month unto the seventh, but in these less. But when the issue is newly conceived, or very big, we must be very wary and circumspect. Sect. 5. Aph. 28. Suffumigations of sweet Odours, doth bring down the courses in women, and were also profitable for other things, if they did not cause a heaviness in the head. Sect. 5. Aph. 30. Phlebotomy or opening a vein, doth cause women with Child to abort, and then most certainly if the issue be very big. Sect. 5. Aph. 31. If a woman with Child be taken with an acute Disease, it is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 34. A Diarrhaea or flux of the belly, doth endanger abortion to great bellied women. Sect. 5. Aph. 45. If women of a rare texture or thin habit of body, do miscarry or abort in the second or third month, without a manifest occasion, the vessels of the womb, called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉▪ are full of corrupt matter, so that by reason of their fullness and burden, they cannot sustain the Infant, but are burst in sunder. Sect. 5. Aph. 47. If the womb be suppurated in that part which extends itself to, and resteth upon the hipbone, the cure must be wrought by Linements dipped in convenient Medicines. Sect. 5. Aph. 49. Medicines causing sneezing do expel the afterbirth, but after the taking of them, the Nostrils and the mouth of the Patient must be close stopped. Sect. 5. Aph. 51. When women have conceived and are with Child, the Orifice of their womb is contracted and shut close. Sect. 5. Aph. 54. If the Orifice of the womb be hard and solid, it must of necessity be close shut. Sect. 5. Aph. 55. If women with chiid fall into a fever, and are emaciated or made lean without some manifest cause, they have difficult and dangerous travail, or else are in danger of abortion. Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A Strangury succeeds an inflammation of the straight intestine of the womb, or suppurated reins; but the Hicket an inflammation of the liver. Sect. 5. Aph. 62. They which have cold and thick wombs, or else if their matrix be overmoist, do not conceive, for the genitive matter is extinguished in them; neither they which have over dry and hot wombs, because the seed is corrupted for want of nutriment. But they are most fruitful, which are of a middle and moderate constitution and temperature. CHAP. LI. Of the Menstruum, or women's Purgations. Sect. 5. Aph. 32. VOmiting of blood is stayed by the breaking forth of the monthly purgations in women. Sect. 5. Aph. 33. An Haemorrhagia or bleeding at the nose, is beneficial to women in the deficiency of their monthly courses. Sect. 5. Aph. 36. Ill coloured purgations of women, and not proceeding always at their appointed seasons, signify a necessity of purging. Sect. 5. Aph. 39 It is an absolute sign of the deficiency or failing of her monthly purgations, if a woman who neither is with child, nor never brought forth child hath milk in her breasts. Sect. 5. Aph. 50. If you would stop the menstruous flux in women, you must apply great Cupping-glasses to their breasts. Sect. 5. Aph. 56. A Convulsion happening to women in the time of her menstruous purgations, is naught. Sect. 5. Aph. 57 Both the overflowing of the monthly Terms, and the suppression thereof, do cause Diseases. Sect. 5. Aph. 60. If a Woman with child have her courses, it is impossible that her child should be healthful. Sect. 5. Aph. 60. If a woman have not her monthly purgations, and neither horror nor fever succeed, but a nausea or abhorring of meat happeneth unto her, believe her to have conceived with Child. Sect. 6. Aph. 29. A woman is not troubled with the gout, until her monthly purgations have left her. CHAP. LII. Of Conception. Sect. 5. Aph. 41. IF you would know whether a woman have conceived with child or not, give her water and honey mingled together when she goeth to sleep, and if she have wring and gripe of the belly, she hath conceived, otherwise she hath not. Sect. 5. Aph. 42. If a woman be with child with a male, she is better coloured than if she were with child with a female. Sect. 5. Aph. 43. An Erisipilas in the womb of a pregnant woman, is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 46. They which do not conceive by reason of a preternatural grosseness, have the Orifice of their womb pressed by the Kell, neither will they be pregnant or conceive until they are extenuated or grown thinner. Sect. 5. Aph. 59 If a woman do not conceive, and you desire to know whether she be fruitful or will conceive, apply suffumigations to her beneath, she being very well wrapped close with Clothes; and if the sent or smell be perceived to pass to her nostrils and mouth, you may conclude her not to be unfruitful of herself. Sect. 5. Aph. 61. [See this Aphorism the last but one in the sore-going Chapter of women's monthly purgations.] CHAP. LIII. Of Abortion or Miscarriage. Sect. 5. Aph. 30. BReathing of a vein doth cause Abortion, but more especially if the birth be somewhat big. Sect. 5. Aph. 37. If the breasts of a pregnant woman grow thin and slender on a sudden, there is danger of abortion. Sect. 5. Aph. 38. If either of the breasts of a pregnant woman with child with Twins, grow thin and slender, she miscarries with one of her burdens; if her right breast grow thin, she aborts a male, if the left, a female child. Sect. 5. Aph. 44. Women which are made lean by some preternatural cause, do abort until they grow more full bodied. Sect. 5. Aph. 45. They which abort the second or third month, without some especial occasion, have the vessels of their womb filled with filthy matter, so that by reason of that burden they do break, and cannot contain the issue. Sect. 5. Aph. 55. If pregnant women fall into a fever, and are very much wasted without some sensible cause, either have difficult and dangerous labour, or else fall into a hazard of abortion. Sect. 7. Aph. 7. A Tenasmus, or a frequent and vain desire of going to stool without any performance, coming upon a pregnant women, doth make her abort. CHAP. LIII. Of the Issue and the Birth. Sect. 5. Aph. 35. SNeezing happening to one troubled with the suffocation of the Matrix, or else to one in hard travail, is commodious. Sect. 5. Aph. 48. Male Children are born in the right, and females in the left side of the womb. Sect. 5. Aph. 52. Store of milk flowing forth of the breasts of a woman with child, signifies a weak child, but solid and firm breasts argue a stronger and more healthful child. Sect. 5. Aph. 53. When the child is like to die in the womb, the breasts of the mother grow slender, but if they become hard, she will have grief either in her breasts, her hips, in her eyes or knees, and she will not corrupt her issue. Sect. 5. Aph. 55. Fevers and extreme wastings happening to women with child, argue either a difficult and dangerous travail to them, or a hazard of abortion. Sect. 5. Aph. 6. It is impossible that that child should be healthful which is bread by one who hath her monthly courses in the time of her Childbearing. CHAP. LIV. Of the affects of the Joints. Sect. 2. Aph. 46. WHen two pains are felt at one and the same time in different places of the body, the one doth very much obscure the other. Sect. 1. Aph. 16. Great droughts cause consumptions, sore eyes, pains of the joints, difficulty of Urine, and excoriations of the bowels. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. In the spring season, madness, melancholy, the falling evil, fluxes of blood, squinances, rheums, hoarseness, coughs, leprosies, tetters, dry itches, ulcerous pimples, small swellings, and pains of the joints do afflict men's bodies. Sect. 3. Aph. 31. Difficulty of breathing, catarrhs, stranguries, difficulty of making water, pains of the joints and reins, vertigoes, and apoplexies are incident to old men. Sect. 4. Aph. 20. Extreme gripe and twist of the bowels, heaviness of the knees, and a pain of the loins without a fever, tell us that purging downward is necessary. Sect. 4. Aph. 31. When a sense of wearyishness occasioned by Fevers, is present, than tumors do arise about the joints, but especially about the mandibles. Sect. 4. Aph. 32. But if any part be full of pain after the recovering from a Disease, the abscesses are made to that part. Sect. 4. Aph. 44. Small tumors and pains of the joints do appear to such who have had long fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 45. They who have tumors, and pains about their joints after long Fevers, do feed more plentifully. Sect. 4. Aph. 74. When there is a probability that some matter will be sent to the joints, plenty of urine and white being made, doth deliver from the abscess. Such as usually begin to be conveyed every 4th, day in fevers with a wearyish indisposition; and if a flux of blood break forth by the Nostrils also, than the solution of the Disease will be very shortly. Sect. 5. Aph. 25. Plenty of cold water cast upon the tumors of the joints, griefs without ulcers, the places affected with the gout and convulsive members, for the most part easeth them, diminisheth and takes away the grief; for a moderate numbness hath a property to take away pain. Sect. 6. Aph. 28. eunuchs are not afflicted with the gout, neither do they grow bald. Sect. 6. Aph. 29. A woman is not troubled with the gout, before her monthly purgations cease. Sect. 6. Aph. 30. A boy is not troubled with the gout before he use the act of Venery. Sect. 6. Aph. 49. The gout Diseases do stop within forty days, the inflammation being taken away. Sect. 6. Aph. 55. The affects of the gout usually express themselves in the Spring and Autumn. Sect. 6. Aph. 59 In Sciatick pains when the hip bone falls out of his place, and is received again, filthy matter is engendered therein. Sect. 6. Aph. 60. They which are troubled with a continual Sciatica, if the head of the hip bone fall out of its place, have their thigh wasted, and they halt unless they are cured by cauterizing. CHAP. LV. Of the affects of the Fingers and Nails. Sect. 8. Aph. 12. IF the nails grow black, and the fingers and toes either contracted or remiss, argue death approaching. Distinction the seventh, containing such Aphorisms which respect external Diseases of the body. THe Physician which desires to be complete and absolute in his practice, must not only have the knowledge of those Aphorisms which respect the internal Diseases of the body, but must also have those Aphorisms in his memory which do treat of external Diseases, and they are these which follow. CHAP. I. Of the Affects of the Hair. Sect. 5. Aph. 11. IF the spital of consumptive persons being cast upon the coals send forth an ill smell, and if the hairs of the head fall away, it is mortal. Sect. 6. Aph. 28. Eunuch's neither have the gout nor grow bald. Sect. 6. Aph. 34. They which are bald have not their veins swelled with melancholy blood, but they to whom such swellings so happen being bald, have the hair of their head grow again. CHAP. II. Of Pimples. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. IN the spring season, madness, melancholy, the falling evil, fluxes of blood, squinancies, rheums, hoarseness, coughs, leprosies, tetters, the dry itch, very many ulcerated pimples, small tumors, and pains of the joints, do arise. Sect. 6. Aph. 9 Broad wheals do seldom itch. CHAP. III. Of Preternatural tumors. Sect. 4. Aph. 34. IF a sudden strangulation seize him which hath a Fever without a preaexistent fever in the jaws, it is mortal. Sect. 4. Aph. 35. If the neck of one that hath a fever be on the sudden perverted and turned, so that he can scarce or hardly swallow, without a conspicuous humour, it is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 25. Abundance of cold water cast thereon, easeth, diminisheth, and takes away the pains of tumified and painful places without ulcers, the affects of the gout, and of convulsed Members; for a moderate stupefaction hath a power to take away grief. Sect. 5. Aph. 65. They which have ulcerous tumors conspicuous, are neither convulsive, nor mad; but they presently vanishing; if the abscess be backward, they are taken with convulsions and cramps; but if the abscess happen to the foreparts, they are troubled with ragings, acute Diseases of the sides and suppuration of humours, if the tumors be red. Sect. 5. Aph. 66. It is a very great mischief when no tumour is seen acompanying great and shrewd wounds. Sect. 5. Aph. 67. Soft tumors are good, crude naught. Sect. 6. Aph. 37. A tumour arising in the neck of him which hath a squinancy, is a good sign, for then the Disease is thrust outward. Sect. 6. Aph. 49. A swelling or tumour appearing in the breast of him which is sick of a squinancy, is a good sign, for then the morbific matter is secured to the external parts. CHAP. IU. Of Inflammation. Sect. 5. Aph. 23. THese Diseases are common to Infants, creeping ulcers of the mouth called Apthae, vomitings, coughs, watchings, tremble, inflammations about the navel, and moistness of the ears. Sect. 5. Aph. 23. We must make use of cold things in these cases, when either there is a present flux of blood, or when one will presently ensue, but they must not be applied upon but about the place from whence the flux is, and if an inflammation or fieriness incline to a somewhat bloody or red colour, caused by a flux of fresh blood, appear, apply them thereunto, for they cause blackness to inveterate sores. They help an Erisipilas not ulcerated, but offend an ulcerated. Sect. 5. Aph. 58. A strangury succeeds an inflammation of the straight bowel of the womb and suppurated reins; but the Hicket succeeds an inflammation of the liver. Sect. 6. Aph. 40. A succeeding fever takes away such pains which arise about the midriff, which are not accompanied with an inflammation. CHAP. V. Of an Erisipilas. Sect. 5. Aph. 23. SEE this Aphorism in the preceding Chapter of Inflammation. Sect. 5. Aph. 43. An Erisipilas happening in the womb of a pregnant woman, is mortal. Sect. 6. Aph. 25. It is a bad Symptom if an Erisipilas being once thrust forth turn back to the inward parts, but if it come to the external from the internal parts, it is good. Sect. 7. Aph. 19 An Erisipilas is caused by the laying bare of a bone. Rottenness, or impostumation caused by an Erisipilas, is bad. CHAP. VI Of Mortification and a Gangrena. Sect. 7. Aph. 2. Wan and pale flesh occasioned by a pained bone, doth signify ill. Sect. 7. Aph. 50. If the brain be suddenly strucken or mortified the sick dies within three days, the which if he survive, he becomes sound again. A bone decays by mortification or a gangrene. CHAP. VII. Of a Cancer. Sect. 6. Aph. 38. IT is more safe not to cure then to cure hidden and secret Cancers, for if they are cured, the sick dies quickly, but if left uncured he continue● longer. CHAP. VIII. Of spreading Ulcers. Sect. 5. Aph. 22. SEE this Aphorism in Sect. 5. Aph. 22. in the Chapter of Convulsions. CHAP. IX. Of the tumour called Struma. Sect. 3. Aph. 26. BUt when they are a little more in years, inflammations of the Almonds of the ears, impulsions toward the inward part of the vertebra in the hinder part of the head, frequent Asthmaes, the stone, maw-worms, round-worms, and others thin and small, breeding in the straight gut, swellings in the neck, and other small tumors, but especially these. CHAP. X. Of Impostumes about the Privy parts. Sect. 4. Aph. 55. ALL Fevers coming of an inflammation of the glandulous parts are bad, but Ephemeraes. CHAP. XI. Of small tumors. Sect. 2. Aph. 15. WHen pains in the jaws, or small tumors arise in the body, the excrements must be observed, for if they are choleric, the body is also sick, but if such are voided as come from healthful bodies, you may nourish the body without danger. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. [See this Aphorism in the Chapter of the Affects of the joints. Sect. 3. Aph. 26. [See this Aphorism in the third Chapter of the fourth Distinction, in the Chapter of Diseases incident to Children. Sect. 4. Aph. 44. Small tumors and pains in the joints, do succeed long fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 45. They feed liberally who have small swellings or pains in their joints arising after long fevers. Sect. 4. Aph. 82. If a small swelling arise in the conduit of the urine, when that is suppurated and broke, a solution happens. Sect. 7. Aph. 8. Faintings, vomitings and swoundings are contingent, by the breach of an impostumation inwardly. Sect. 7. Aph. 57 [You have this Aphorism verbatim in this Chapter, Aph. 82. CHAP. XII. Of the swelling of the veins by melancholy blood called verrucae. Sect. 3. Aph. 26. I Refer the reader for this Aphorism, to the Chapter of the Diseases of Children, where he may be satisfied. CHAP. XIII. Of Wounds. Sect. 5. Aph. 2. A Convulsion chancing suddenly upon a wound, is mortal. Sect. 6. Aph. 18. If the Bladder be cut or wounded, the brain, heart, midriff, or any thin bowel, either stomach or liver, it is mortal. Sect. 5. Aph. 66. If no tumour appear in great and naughty wounds, it is a very great mischief. Sect. 6. Aph. 19 A bone wounded or cut, a griselda, nerve, or any small particle of the mandible, the foreskin of the yard called the praeputium, doth neither increase nor grow together again. CHAP. XIV. Of Abscesses or Impostumations. Sect. 4. Aph. 31. WHen there is a wearishness or indisposition of the body occasioned by long fevers, an abscess or impostumation will arise about the joints, but especially about the mandibles. Sect. 7. Aph. 36. When in the pains of the reins besides other symptoms there are pains felt about the muscles of the back bone, because the matter is carried outward, we must expect the impostumation outward. But if the pains tend more to the internal parts, it is to be feared that the impostumation will be rather inward. CHAP. XV. Of Ulcers. Sect. 3. Aph. 20. SEE this Aphorism in the Chapter of Hoarseness and coughs in the fifth Distinction. Sect. 3. Aph. 22. [See this Aphorism in the Chapter of Autumnal Diseases in the fourth Distinction. Sect. 3. Aph. 24. Moreover these Diseases happen to Children, creeping ulcers of the mouth, vomitings, coughs watchings, tremble, inflammations about the navel, and moisture of their ears. Sect. 4. Aph. 75. Blood or suppurated matter voided with the urine, doth signify an exulceration of the reins and bladder. Sect. 5. Aph. 20. Cold corodes ulcers, obdures the skin, hinders suppuration, causeth blackness, rigours in fevers, convulsions, and cramps. Sect. 5. Aph. 21. 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