Caput primum.
De Corpulentia nimia.

[...], Corpulen­tia nimia. seu Corpulentia ni­mia, is an over-great increase of the Bodies bulk, caused by too much plenty of Flesh and Fat.

The increase of Flesh is caused through plenty of good Blood, Causa. made by a temperate Liver out of meats of [Page 6] good juyce, the hot and moist temper of the musculous parts of the body thereunto assisting. The increase of fat is caused by the oyliness and fatti­ness of the blood, falling out of the veins into the membranous parts, and there congealed (as Jonston saith) by the moderate heat and efficacy of the said parts.

Signes are needless. Signa. The consequen­ces thereof, are, an hindrance of the motions and operations of the body: also shortness of breath, by reason of the passages being stopt.

Qui impinguantur in prima aetate morti repentinae, Pregno­stica. apoplexiae, paralysi, syn­copi, diarrhoeae propter humiditatem ipso­rum, & pulsui cordis, expositi sunt: Nec generantes, nec producentes embryo­nem; sperma enim ipsorum est paucum. Sicut idem ferè mulieribus quae pingues sunt, accidit; etenim cùm concipiunt, abortiunt.

For the Cure; Curatio. first the Liver vein must be opened, from whence let a small quantity of blood be drawn.

Secondly, the Patient must shun all such things as generate blood too [Page 7] plentifully, and use a very spare diet; for as Sennertus saith, Jejunium, & à cibo abstinentia frequentior, & tenuis diaeta plurimùm ad corpulentiam minu­endam facit. Let his Wine be thin, and well diluted, or made small with water.

Thirdly, Purgationes frequentes ex aloë conveniunt, ideóque pilulae de tribus utiles. Ʋt & amara & calida exhibita, absinthium, ruta, oxymel scilliticum, Sy­rupus de duabus & quinque radicibus, & diuretica omnia. Quapropter radices asparagi, foeniculi, petroselini, raphani sylvestris, & similes, in frequenti usu esse debent. The three former roots may be boiled in broth, and the bark of the latter is to be infused in white wine.

In mentem revoco, Obser­vatio. unum ex proximis mihi vicinis corpulentia nimia vexato & affecto, direxisse & docuisse, ut in­fusione raphani sylvestris in vino albo uteretur: cujus usu brevissimo temporis spatio ejus ingens molis corporeae incre­mentum valde extenuatum est, & dimi­nutum; ita ut ambulare & respirare facilè posset.

Gallen tells us in his 14. Book of [Page 8] the method of Curing, and 15. Cha­pter, that he on a time perfectly cu­red a man aged about forty years, who was exceeding fat and gross, even to the admiration of all that beheld him; and this he did, partly by an Antidote compounded and prepared of Sal-theriack, adversus morbos arti­culares; and partly by the admini­string of the right Theriaca or Trea­cle made of Vipers; as also by an ex­tenuating diet after it; and for his ex­ercise, swift running was enjoyned him.

This powder following is much ap­proved of, and commended.

Recipe salis nitri ʒ. i. alumin. ℈. ii. myrrhae, thuris, cortic. lign. guaiaci, radic. sarsaparillae an ʒ. ii. Fiat pulvis. Of the which let half a dram be ad­ministred in the morning for two moneths together.

Caput 2.
De Phlegmone, seu inflammatione.

[...], Phleg­mone. seu inflammatio legiti­ma, is a Tumor begotten of pure blood, mone. and is specially incident to the fleshy parts.

Quò ad Causam & Signa, vide me­um enchiridion Medicum, lib. 3. pa­gin. 277.

The end or termination of this tumor is two-fold, viz. resolution and suppuration.

Si materia non est adeò multa, non crassa, non loco nimis profundo sita, non sub crassa & densa cute conclusa; si corpus non est impurum, & natura fortis est; resolutio, & per insensibilem trans­pirationem evacuatio sperari potest: and it is a plain token that it doth re­solve, if there grow a certain light­ness in the member, the pulsation wa­sting away.

Si verò materia est copiosior, & cras­sior, loco profundiore contenta, & sub cute densiore conclusa, suppuratio est ex­pectanda. [Page 10] Tumors which are near to the in­ner parts, Progno­stica. and noble entrails, are ve­ry dangerous, and oftentimes dead­ly; as also those which seize upon great vessels, as veins, arteries, and nerves, for fear of great effusion of blood, wasting of the spirits, and convulsion.

Eventus malus est, quando inflamma­tio, si est externa, evanescit, & ad par­tes internas retrocedit: which may be known by the sudden diminishing of the tumor, and a speedy following of a Fever, with other evil accidents.

Eventus bonus est, quando natura vin­cit materiam inflammationem pari­entem; quod accidit, quando tumor vel resolvitur, & materia insensibiliter ex­halat, qui optimus solutionis inflam­mationis modus est; vel quando mate­ria in pus mutatur, & suppuratur.

Now if this Tumor Phlegmon be not resolved and evaporated, it must needs come to pass, that the matter do either ret re back, as before I hint­ed, or suppurate, or corrupt and pu­trefie, which you may know by the black or leady colour, and stinking sa­vour; [Page 11] or else grow into a scirrhous hardness; So Sennertus saith, that inflammatio plerumque in scirrhum abit, quando materia est nimis viscosa & dura, & calor naturalis fortis, vel mox in principio nimis fortia discutien­tia adhibentur, quae tenuiores partes dis­cutiunt, & crassas relinquunt. And those Imposthumes which do degene­rate into a Scirrhus, are of long con­tinuance and hard to cure; as also those which are in hydropick, le­prous, scabby and corrupt bodies; for they often turn into malign and ill-conditioned Ulcers.

There be four times observed in this tumor; beginning, augmentation, state, and declination.

Principium est, cùm implentur par­tes sanguine, & tumor, dolor, ac tensio adhuc exigua est. But when the swel­ling, pain, and stretching out are in­creased, then is the augmentation.

Status est, quando tumor, tensio, dolor; ac omnia symptomata sunt vehementis­sima. And lastly, the declination is then said to be, when the matter ge­nerating the Tumor is diminished, [Page 12] the pain, heat, together with the other symptomes, are become more re­miss and gentle; or otherwise mate­ria in pus mutatur.

Now as touching the cure of a Phlegmon; Curatio. first, you must remember, that the very beginning or increase, is the fittest time to open a vein.

Secondly; take with you this gene­ral observation; that you apply not repercussives, if the tumor be in the glandulous parts, or the matter be ve­nomous, or thick and unapt to slide back, or if it be near situate to a prin­cipal member.

Thirdly; A principio morbi observan­dae sunt sex res non naturales, quae sunt istae; aer, cibus & potus; motus & quies; somnus & vigilia; repletio, ina­nitio; & accidentia animi.

Aer in hoc casu sit clarus, & ad fri­gidum declinet. Victus sit tenuis, frigidus & humidus. Abstineat à vino, & loco ejus bibat vinum granatorum cum julepo [...]os. & aqua hordei. Motus non conve­nit, sed omnino quiescat. Somnus diu­turnus est vitandus, & maxime meri­dianus. Repletio est omnino fugienda ut [Page 13] & venus. Alvus sit semper mollis.

Fourthly; the accidents incident to this tumor, as pain, regression of the matter, putrifying of the part, and hardness, are carefully to be removed, when need requireth.

Pain is to be mitigated by asswa­ging medicines called Anodyna; such as oleum amygdal. dulcium, Sambucinum, Anethinum, Chamaemelinum, &c. Like­wise Mucilago altheae, Seminis lini, Fae­nugraeci, Malvae, &c. See my Enchiri­dion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 31. pag. 279.

If there be regression of the matter to the inner parts, it must be revoked by cupping-glasses, or attractive me­dicines; such as these: Adeps ursinus, leoninus, Aristolochia longa, Cantha­rides, Euphorbium, Fermentum, Galba­num, Pyrethrum, Sinapi, Viscum, &c. Or compounds, contrived of these, as need requireth.

If the part putrifie, use many and deep scarifications, and after wash the place cum aqua salsa, and then apply a plaister, ex fabarum aut orobi farina cocta in oxymellite.

As for the hardness that sometime [Page 14] remaineth, it must be mollified with convenient means, such as may be found in this, or the Chapter de bu­bone.

Caput 3.
De Bubone.

[...], seu Bubo, Bubo. is an Inflammation of the kernels which are seated in the Arme-pits, or in the Groins.

It may be divided into two kindes, simple and maligne. The simple Bubo (which I now treat of) is that that fol­loweth humoral Fevers, or pains of any parts: The maligne is to be divi­ded into venereous and pestilent. The venereous Bubo follows in the next place; and as touching the pestilenti­al, I have treated of that sufficiently in the last Chapter of my Enchiridion medicum.

The cause is, blood slipt into the kernels, Causa. together with a vitious hu­mour provoking nature to expulsion.

The signs are, Signa. a stiff swelling that [Page 15] yields not to the touch, with redness, pain, and a light Fever.

Bubo's which be neither malignant nor contagious, Progno­stica. being in the extream parts of the body, and soon suppura­ted, are not dangerous: but when they ripen slowly, the cure is doubtful, be­cause they may turn to dangerous Fi­stula's.

Those Bubo's that are bred or ex­cited under the Arme-holes are soon­er maturated, since that they arise from a hotter kinde of blood, than those that are seated in the groins.

Omnium tardissime matur antur bu­bones post aures, utpote qui oriuntur à materia frigidiore, & sunt in loco fri­gidiore.

The cure is in a manner all one with the cure of other inflammations; Curatio. one­ly stronger medicaments must be used, quia pars affecta frigidior.

If the matter of the Bubo be of a swift motion, and gather readily un­to the place, then discuss the same first with gentler means, and after­ward with stronger. The gentler means:

[Page 16] Recipe olei liliorum ℥ i. olei cha­momil. ℥. ss. misce. Another.

Recipe Emplastri de meliloto, Empla­stri de mucilagine, ana. ℥. ii. olei lilio­rum, q. s. misce, & fiat Emplastrum. A stronger sort.

Recipe diachilonis magni ℥. iiii. olei irini q. s. fiat ceratum. Another.

Recipe ammoniaci, bdellii, opopanacis in aceto dissolut. ana ℥. i. terebinthinae lote ℥. i, ss. Florum chamomill., sam­buci, anap. ss. pul. ireos florent. ℥. ss. olei chamomil. q. s. fiat emplastrum.

But if you finde the matter unapt to be resolved, then it must be brought to suppuration, and cured by all such means as are mentioned in the follow­ing chapter. Commendatur Rulandi Balsam. sulfuris & emplastrum.

Caput 4.
De Bubone venereo.

BƲbo venereus, Bubo ve­nereus. is an inflammation of the glandules in the Flank, gotten by some venereous touch: for [Page 17] the virulency of the Lues venerea is sometimes communicated to the Liver, which if it have a powerful expulsive faculty, it expells it into the groins, as the proper emunctories thereof.

The antecedent cause is a contagious humour, Causa. procured by some touch of venery. The conjoyned (for the most part) is corrupt and infected blood.

The Tumor is hard with pain, Signa. heat, &c.

Venereal Bubo's proceeding from a hot, Progno­stica. acrid and chollerick humour, and associated with great pain and heat, do often degenerate into viru­lent and corroding Ulcers.

Bubones in ingutnibus si sint duri, & non suppurantur facilè, & qui modò erumpunt, modò evanescunt, curatu sunt difficiles; quia materiam pertinacem, & naturae in expellendo imbecillitatem significant.

But if they be easily suppurated, and the strength firm, and especially the Liver strong, they are arguments of a more benign disease; and such Bubo's, if they be kept open a long while, may bring perfect health.

[Page 18] For the Cure, Curatio. you must not use re­percussives, because that the matter is virulent: neither must you use discus­sing medicines, lest resolving the more subtil part, the grosser dregs become impact and concrete there. Onely at­tractive and suppurating medicines are here to be used.

If the matter of the Bubo cometh on but slowly, it must be drawn for­ward by fomenting the place cum oleo & aqua calentibus: or with some Epi­theme, ex decoctione Lilii, Altheae, vio­lariae, malvae, Sem. lini & Faenugraeci. Also the applying of Cupping-glasses is very effectual to draw it forth; And a gentle sweat may be procured with this mixture following.

Recipe decoctionis cardui benedicti & sarsaparillae ℥. vi. Theriacae antiquae, mithridati optimi, ana ℈. i. ss. vel ℈. ii. misce & siat Haustus.

Next apply this or the like plaister, to bring it to suppuration.

Recipe Foliorum malvae, violariae, ana M. ii. Rad. altheae lb. ss. Capitum liliorum alborum ℥. iiii. Coquantur, & contundantur, addendo farinae triticeae, [Page 19] vel hordeaceae, q. s. olei communis, bu­tyri, ana ℥. iii. pinguedinis porcinae ℥. ii. ss. vitellorum ovorum, numero ii. Fiat emplastrum.

When the tumour is fully ripe, if it break not of its own accord, make speedy issue, or vent, by incision or caustick; and then follow the ordina­ry way of mundifying, incarning, and cicatrizing.

Moreover, if need require, the pa­tient shall be let blood, and the hu­mours evacuated by a purging medi­cine, but not before the perfect ma­turity thereof, lest natures motion be hindred, and so the party fall into the venereous disease.

Caput 5.
De Phygethlo.

[...], Phygeth­lon. seu Panus, is an hard swelling, sometimes arising af­ter Fevers or pains in the kernels or Almonds of the ears. This inflam­mation of the glandulous emunctories, [Page 20] is broader, and with less swelling then the others be: which is his difference.

Ut Phyma à sanguine pituitoso, Causa. ita Phygethlon sive Panus à sanguine bilioso ortum habet, ut Galenus docet; and therefore the more Erysipelas like. Also sometime it ariseth from an ulcer or a bruise. Fit autem ferè hic tumor post febres, aut post dolores partis alicujus; maximéque eos, qui ventrem infestarunt.

Phygethli signa sunt tumor, Signa. durities, calor, distensio, & dolor major, quàm pro magnitudine tumoris, interdum & febris accidit. Tardè hoc tumoris genus maturatur, neque rectè in pus converti­tur.

Panus qu [...] fit ex ulcere, Progno­stica. dolore, vel col­lissione, vel ex aliqua caussa externa, periculo vacat. At qui febribus superve­nit, sicut praecipuè tempore pestilenti fieri solet, pessimus & periculosissimus est.

Concerning curation, Curatio, a word or two may suffice; especially for him that is any thing well exercised in the general rumors. After meet evacua­tion, ordain your local medicines both repressing and discutient.

[Page 21] Recipe urinae pueri, lb. i. vini albi for­tiss. lb. ss. alb. ovorum num. ii. contus. aquae rosarum rub. ℥. ii. fiat fotus. and apply it warm with flax.

If the pain be sharp, or the matter unapt to be discussed; then this Ca­taplasme following may be used.

Recipe far. hordei, & faenugraeci, ana ℥. iii. decoquantur in aqua & oleo cha­momelino vel irino, vel anethino, vel ex semine lini, & fiat cataplasma.

If the matter of the tumour be ex­ceeding hard, you may use oleum ligni guajaci, which is much commended. Quod verò ad excellentissimum omnium remediorum;

[...]. Moisten a little hirds therein and apply it. It is admirable to consider the wonderful effects this unguent hath wrought, al­most in all kindes of tumors and pains.

A kinsman of mine in this City was very much troubled with a Phlegmon Scirrhodes on his lower lip, Observa­tio. about the bigness of a small hens egge, exceed­ing [Page 22] painful and hard; insomuch that a Gangrene or mortification was fear­ed. I moistened a pledget of towe or hirds in the oyntments aforesaid, and applied it over night: The next day the Tumor was softned, and the pain not a little asswaged: after the second application it was much softer; but af­ter the third, it brake of its own ac­cord, from whence there did run forth much filthy matter, and so he was cu­red: But I remember about the be­ginning or increase of the Tumor, I gave him this potion, which wrougth very well.

Recipe diacatholiconis ℥. i. Syrupiros. Alex. ex 9. infus. ℥. i. ss. decocti communis q. s. misce & f. potio. And I applied a vesicatory behinde on his neck to draw back the rheum, which flowed abundantly out at his mouth.

I could here insert many observati­ons of mine own, touching the ad­mirable vertue of this unguent; but at present, thus much shall suffice by way of digression. If you would be further satisfied concerning Phygethlon that spurious inflammation; read Forestus [Page 23] lib. 1. De tumoribus praeter naturam, observatio vii. or if you please to look into the Chapter de Parotide in my En­chiridion Medicum, and into that de Bubone, vel de Bubone venereo in this Book, you may finde plenty of re­medies.

Caput 6.
De Phymate.

[...] is a round swelling of the kernels smaller and flatter than the Phygethlon, Phyma. less red and less pain­ful, which soon comes to its height and turns to suppuration. Vel est tu­berculum furunculo simile, sed rotundius & planius, saepe etiam majus.

Caussa seu humor Phyma excitans est sanguis, Causa. non purus, sed pituitosus, ideó­que inflammatio minùs magna est, & tu­mor hic ad Inflammationem [...] pertinet.

The signes are, a round tumor, Signa. and even, exceeding the quantity of half an egge; the pain and inflammation is [Page 24] lesser then in furunculo: see the de­finition. Oritur frequentiùs in pueris, rarò in juvenibus, rarius in adultis.

Tumoris hoc genus periculo vacat, Progno­stica. ci­tò augetur, & plerumque absque medi­camentorum ope suppur atur & sanatur.

Facilius curatur in pueris: difficilius in juvenibus & adultis.

First, Curatio. in the beginning or increase of the tumor, a vein may be opened.

Secondly, if need require, administer a cooling clyster, and prescribe a sit and convenient diet.

Thirdly, the pituitous blood impact in the place, if it be thin, must be dis­cussed; ideóque Galenus abrotanum commendat, parietariam, urticam, ra­dices altheae, & ammoniacum melle emol­litum. But if the matter be too thick to be resolved, then apply this ripen­ing Cataplasme.

Recipe pulv. rad. altheae, farinae tri­tici, lupin. ana ℥. i. caricar. pingu. num. vi. fermenti ℥. ss. Coq. & adde caepam sub cinerib. coct. num. i. ol. lil. alb. q. s. F. Cataplasma. Also Diachylum cum gummis, & emplastrum de mucilaginibus, are very good for the same purpose; [Page 25] sed pulticula ex farina tritici cum bu­tyro & croco parata maxime valet.

When it comes to suppuration, open it, unless it break of its own accord. Afterward proceed by accustomed art, to mundifie it, if it be foul, to fill with flesh that that is hollow, and to seal it up with a cicatrice when it cometh to be even: See the Chapter de furunculo. Pellis leporis recens impo­sita Phyma curat.

Caput 7.
De Furunculo.

[...] seu Furunculus, Dothien. a Fe­lon, is a little swelling sharp­pointed, not exceeding the largeness of a Pigeons egge, remarkable for its redness and pain when it tends to sup­puration.

It springs from thick blood, Causa. and is thereby distinguished ab inflamma­tione; and the said blood is not much adust, and so it is differenced à car­bunculo.

[Page 26] Its signes are known by the defini­tion. Signa. Also this kinde of tumor, for the most part, breaketh of its own ac­cord, and the matter that issueth is thick, and like putrified sinewes.

A Furuncle by nature is not peri­lous, Progno­sticum. as Celsus writes, though no cure be applied thereto; yet pain maketh medicines more welcome, for the sooner dispatch of the matter.

For the Cure, Curatie. first it will be conve­nient to open a vein, if age, strength, and time of the year hinder not.

Secondly, the impulsion, or throng­ing in of the blood, is to be inhibited (if neither the thickness of the mat­ter, nor nearness of the noble parts hinder not) by repellent medicines, all which may be ordered according as is set down in the Chapter de Phle­gmone in my Enchiridion medicum: yea the fittest time for repercussives is, in the beginning, while the matter violently floweth in, but in the state and declination maturatives, as triticum mansum & impositum, vel sicus siccae hy­dromelite incoctae. vel ℞. Picis navalis ℥. i. adipis suilli ℥. v. adipis taurini & [Page 27] oesypi, ana ℥. ii. resinae. pini ℥. v. lique­fiant simul, & addantur cerae ℥. iii. vel si dolor sit vehementior, ℞. Rad. lil. alb. ℥. i. fol. malvae, viol. ana M. i. coq. ad mollitiem, & per setaceum trajiciantur; adde farinae hordei, tritici, sem. lini, ana ℥. ss. vitell. ovor. ii. pingued. galli, bu­tyri rec. ana ℥. i. F. Cataplasma.

Thirdly, when the tumor is open­ed, purge the same with this mundi­ficative.

Recipe terebynthinae clarae ℥. ii. ss. mellis rosati ℥. i. succi apii ʒ. vi. co­quantur usque ad succi consumptionem: deinde addantur farinae hordeaceae, triti­ceae, farinae fabarum, ana ℥. i. croci ℈. ss. vitell. ovi. num. i. Fiat mundificativum, herewith anoint your plageats, to lay on the orifice of the Furuncle. Si vero in cavitate apostematis caro alba, ac putrida apparuerit, quae ut plurimum in tali casu accidere solet, applicabis hoc unguentum usque ad finem, quoniam carnem malam destruit, & bonam ind­cit, ut,

Recipe unguenti ros. ℥. i. praecipita­ti, ʒ. i. misce, & utere super carnem putridam.

[Page 28] Ad idem. ℞. unguenti apostolorum ℥. i. utere. vel unguenti ros. ℥. ss. floris aeris ℈. ss. misc. & utere. Inter haec un­guenta primum est expertum; imo ha­beas pro secreto.

But if the ulcer be hollow, without corrupt flesh, Recipe terebynthinae ℥. i. ss. mellis ros. ℥. i. far. hordei, ireos, thu­ris, myrrhae, aloes, sarcocollae, aristolo­chiae longae, ana. ℈. i. istentur finiss. in­corporentur, & utere; mundificat, & incarnat.

Lastly, you must proceed to the consolidation with this emplaster.

Recipe diachylonis albi ℥. ii. terebyn­thinae clarae, pinguedinis procinae, ana ℥. ii, ss. Lithargyrii auri, & argenti, ana ʒ. v. minii. ʒ. v. cerussae ℥. i. olei rosati ℥. i. ss. ad ignem fiat cerotum, cum ba­culo semper agitando, addendoque, cerae albae q. s. vel applicabis loco emplastri hoc unguentum, quod expertum est.

Recipe diachylonis albi, unguenti albi camphorati recentis, ana ℥. ii. misc. lento igne incorporentur, & utere loco em­plastri, usque ad perfectam consolidatio­nem.

A young man in this City being [Page 29] troubled with a Furuncle upon the joynt of his middle finger, Observa­tio. next the wrist on his right hand, I caused him to bathe the tumor over night with that excellent oyntment which you have in the Chapter de Phygethlo; the next day it brake of its own accord, and so healed without the use of any thing else.

All that my Apothecary useth in the cure of a Felon, is, unguentum album; & emplastrum de mucilaginihus: The method he observeth in the use of them you have in the Chapter de Paronychia.

Caput 8.
De Parotide.

[...] is an Inflammation of the kernels behinde the ears, Parotis. proceeding from blood, either pure or mixed with vitious humours. For these Glandules or Emunctories of the brain, being spongy and loose, are fit to receive the excrements thereof.

[Page 30] Also they are indued with most exqui­site sense, by reason of a nerve of the fifth Conjugation spred over these parts; and therefore no wonder it often falls out, that their pains are vehement and sharp.

Of these some are critical, the mat­ter of the disease somewhat digested being sent thither by the force of na­ture; others symptomatical, the excre­ments of the brain increased in quan­tity, or other quality, rushing thither of their own accord.

Quò ad Causam & Signa, Progno­stica. vide me­um Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 16.

The critical Parotis tendeth natu­rally to suppuration: and it is difficult to be cured, especially when it is cau­sed by a gross, tough, and viscid tumor, sent thither by the Crisis.

The symptomatical endeth best by resolution: but if it be not cunningly resolved, it turneth oft into a Scir­rhous tumour. And if it spring from crude and undigested matter, it is dan­gerous, because the place is so nigh the brain.

This disease doth more grievously [Page 31] afflict young men than old; and it commonly brings a fever and watch­ing.

Parotides quae sine febre oriuntur, mi­nùs malignae sunt, & minus periculi habent, quàm quae sunt cum febre.

Minùs etiam periculosa sunt, quae fe­bres longas sequuntur, qu [...]m quae acutas, & praecipuè in malignis & pestilentibus accidunt.

Salutares quoque sunt & curatu fa­ciliores, aegrósque a periculo liberant, quae criticè erumpunt.

But those which happen in the end of a disease, after other evacuations, without the abatement of the sym­ptomes, periculosae & perniciosae sunt.

In the cure, Curatio. we must not use reper­cussives at the beginning, especially if the abseess be critical; for so we should infringe the endeavours of na­ture forcibly freeing it self from the morbifique matter, But we must much less repel or drive back, if the matter of the tumor be venenate; for so the reflux thereof to the noble parts would prove mortal.

Yet some astringency may be al­lowed, [Page 32] (I mean in the Parotis not cri­tical) lest the defluction should be so violent, and the pain so fierce, that thence there may be fear of watchings, and a Fever. So that Galen thinks it will be expendient, with many resolving medicines to mix some repelling. Wherefore at the beginning let this or the like Pulteis be applied.

Recipe Far. hord. & sem. lini, ana ʒ. ii. Coquantur cum mulso aut decocto cham. addendo but. recen. & olei cham. ana ℥. i. fiat Cataplasma. Or it may be made ex medulla panis, (I mean wheaten bread) urina puerorum infusa; or, ex farina fabarum, aqua & oleo chamomelino decocta, putting last of all, mucilaginem psyllii.

Also it will be profitable to use somewhat more strong discussing and resolving medicines; such as you may finde in the Chapter de Bubone.

If the humor doth there concrete and grow hard, then use that incom­parable oyntment set down in the Chapter de Phygethlo. But if it tend to suppuration, the case in one with the critical Parotis: then shall you fur­ther [Page 33] it with suppurating medicines, such as may be found in the chapter de Furunculo, or de Phymate, or in that de Phygethlo. Lastly, for your further satisfaction, see my Enchiridion medi­cum, lib. 3. cap. 16. pag. 260.

Caput 9.
De Paronychia seu Panaritio.

[...], Parony­chia. is an abscess, or in­flammation, gathering in the roots of the nails,

Quó ad Causam & Signa, vide me­um Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 43.

Pro humoris benignitate malum nunc mitius, Progno­stica. nunc deterius est. Si enim mate­ria sit benignior, symptomata sunt minùs vehementia.

Contrà, si materia sit maligna, ma­lum periculosum est, quod tamen liga­menta, & nervos vicinos corrumpit, it a saepe, ut extremus articulus cum osse ab­scedat, interdum totus digitus corrumpa­tur. Yea sometime the pain in this tumor is so great, that it purchaseth a [Page 34] Fever, alienation of the minde, and swooning: Also a Gangrene or Sphacele, which being neglected brings death.

The Cure is contrived by evacua­tion, Curatio. mitigation of pain, and suppu­ration: concerning which, see my Enchiridion medicum, pag. 300.

If the pain be sharp, you may use opii ℈. i. cum lacte, croco, & vitello ovi.

Although some will not admit of repellers, for fear of exasperating the pain, and fixing the humor: yet if the matter be thin and fit for resoluti­on, it may be discussed and spent out, as Weckerus saith, by using first warm wine, and after oyl of roses.

But if it be thick and rebellious to resolution, maturate the same with this Cataplasme.

Recipe mucilag. sem. psyllii, ℥. i. fa­rinae sem. lini, faenugraeci, ana ʒ. iii. vi­tell. ovi i. croci ℈. i. pingued. gallinae, bu­tyri rec. ana ℥. i. misc. F. Cataplasma: when it is ripe and opened, mundifie it, whilst it is filthy: and when it needeth to be filled with flesh, pro­vide this unguent.

[Page 35] Recipe myrrhae, thuris, sarcocollae, ana ʒ. i. aloës ʒ. iii. terebynthinae ʒ. v. mel­lts ros. col. ʒ. ii. misce.

If there be corruption or perishing of the bone, there must be use of Cau­teries, &c.

I remember, Obser­vatio. a Gentlewoman in this City, being troubled with Paronychia, was freed from her vehement pain, and cured, onely by the use of that ex­cellent oyntment set down in the Cha­pter de Phygethlo.

My Apothecary hath cured very many; and all the method he observeth is this; he spreads a little unguentum Album on a cloth, and applyes it to the imposthume; so he does every night, for three nights together: Then he applyeth once a day a plaister de mu­cilaginibus, untill it be whole. The ointment (as he saith) doth ripen it, and ease pain; and the plaister doth break it and heal it.

Moreover, for the cure of a Paro­nychia, oleum Saturni laudatur ab Agri­cola, & Mucus aurium impositus cum corio anguillae.

Lastly; Ad morbos, et unguium vitia [Page 36] pertinent non solum panaritium, sed & spasmus, leprositas unguium, albedo ma­culosa, faeda citrinitas, scissura, & si­milia. See Forestus, lib. 5. De Tumori­bus praeter naturam, observat. 16. pag. 163.

Caput 10.
De Pernionibus.

[...] seu Perniones, Perniones Kibes and Chilblains, are swellings which arise in the winter time, upon the Heels, Toes, and Fingers, with other parts of the Hands and Feet.

The Cause is, Causa. the winters cold weakNing those parts, and by pain drawing blood unto them.

The Signes are; Signa. Refrigeration foregoing, pains, Itch, pars rubet, & intumescit; & licèt tempore aestivo & autumnali cesset, circa initium tamen [...]yemis revertitur.

Tumor hic equidem periculum nullum adfert: Progno­stica. tamen nisi statim curetur, ma­lum diuturnum efficitur, pàrsque inter­dum exulcerari solet.

[Page 37] In the Cure, Curatio. the part must be fo­mented with blood, warm milk, where­in Rosemary and Bayberries have been boyled: or it must be put into hot water in qua rapa congelata sunt cocta.

Vel ℞ vini albi lb. i. aluminis ℥. i. Bulliant cum vino, & cum eo pars ab­luatur. Observa­tio. But this oyntment following hath helped many:

Recipe fimus ovilis M. i. ss. vel. M. ii. Axungiae porci lb. ss. Boil them toge­ther almost a quarter of an hour, then strain it, and use it. Vel,

Recipe olei ex pedibus vaccinis ℥. ii. galbani ℥. ss. misce & utere. It is a medicine that hath been used, by some, with good success.

Caput 11.
De Ecchymomate, Gangraena, & Sphacelo.

[...] seu [...], Ecchymo­ma seu Ec­chymosis. is the effusion of blood into the neighbouring spaces whereby a part [Page 38] comes to have a livid, black and blew colour. Vel ut Weckerus docet, Ecchy­mosis est sanguinis subter cutem effusio & coitus; soluta continuitatis genus est, quod plurimùm unà cum contusione, ru­ptioneque incidit.

The Causes are various, Causa. viz. Ana­stomosis, Diapedesis, Diaeresis, Contusion, &c.

The place is swelled, Signae. soft, easily pressed, blackish, and without pain, for the most part.

Ecchymoma quod cum magna ac vio­lent a contusione incidit, Progno­stica. periculo non va­cat. Solet enim frequenter non modò af­flictae particulae, sed & corporis totius corruptionem adferre.

If the skin by a bruise be separated from the flesh, so as it remain hanging by, rarò vel nunquam agglutinatur. It is better therefore, in such a case, to cut it away, and so apply drying me­dicines; vel absque deligatura locum sic excoriatum relinquere; that so it may dye, and within two or three dayes, be cut away without pain.

For the Cure; Curatio. if the disease be great, to prevent inflammation, first [Page 39] let the liver vein of the right arme be opened; and then next (if nothing hinder) turn the stream another way, by revulsive blood-letting on the con­trary part; or by ligatures, &c.

If there be concrete or clodded blood within the body,

Recipe rhabarbari torrefacti, terrae sigillatae, boli armeni, mummiae, sem. nasturtii torrefacti, ana ʒ. i. make them in powder, and give thereof ʒ. i. every morning, cum aqua plantaginis, & bur­sae pastor is.

Vel ℞. radicum hirundinariae ʒ. iii. rhabarbari electi ʒ. ii. mummiae ʒ. ss. lac­cae rubrae, spermatis ceti, ana ʒ. i. terrae sigillatae, boli armeni, ana ʒ. ss. fiat pul­vis subtilis; Dos. ʒ. i. in some conveni­ent liquor: It is a most excellent powder, and was much used by Para­celsus, in all cases of concrete blood. In the next place prepare this potion: ℞. Osmundae regalis, caudae equinae ter­restris, ana q. s. Coquantur in melle & vino; Give ℥. v. to drink, and so let the patient sweat thereupon.

Also in his dyet, there ought to be a measured mixture of purging matter, [Page 40] as Ptisan, or Almond milk, made with rhubarb, sene, or roots of swallow­wort, and his meats sod with Mummia and Rhapontick.

Now for the blood clodded under the skin, if it be so all over the body, or in many parts, you may make a Li­niment ex oleo rosaceo, myrrhino, ac lum­bricorum, cum pulvere rosarum aut myr­tillorum.

Vel. ℞. unguenti dialtheae ℥. iii. ol. lumbricorum, chamaem. anethini, ana ℥. i. terebynth. ℥. ii. far. faenugr. pul. ros. rubr. myrtillor. ana ℥. ss. croci ℈. i. F. Linimentum; aut cum s. q. cerae F. un­guentum: wherewith anoint the par­ty, and then let him sweat. These things do discuss, and are meanly astringent. Yea you must alwayes ob­serve this for a rule, that in the begin­ning, you apply astringent medicines, wherewith some discutients are mixed: but after the begining, discutients only.

Si particularis aliqua sit contusio, tale linimentum in principio: illiniri potest: ℞. olei ros. myrt. chamaem. ana. ℥. i. ovor. album. num. i. pulv. myrtil. ros. ana. ʒ. ii. misce. Also mel rosarum pa­pyro [Page 41] liquido impositum is good, as is ter­ra sigillata cum aqua vitae dissoluta: or if the pain be vehement and sharp, it may be asswaged with ol. rosaceo & ovi album. mixed together.

Postea, tertia die pars affecta foveatur decocto chamoemel. absinth. cumini. Al­so an Epitheme may be made, ex flo­ribus chamomillae, meliloti, stoechadis, & cumino in vino decoctis.

If the matter be unapt to be spent by resolution, then bring it to suppu­ration: afterward procure issue, and mundifie the ulcer, like as is set down in the cure of a Phlegmon. See my Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 31. pag. 280. & 281. Or turn to the Chapter de Furunculo in this book.

If the part incline to a Gangrene, scarrifie the same, and wash it with hot vinegar, wherein radix sigilli Salo­monis hath been boyled.

A certain man in this City falling out with another at play, Observa­tio. and strugling together, was so dangerously bruised all over his Abdomen, against the edge of a table, that he could not move, breathe, or cough, without much diffi­culty: [Page 42] Some time after, I being sent for, (through Gods blessing) cured him with this Apozem following: ℞. Rhabarbari electi ʒ. ii. Seminis fae­niculi, ℈. ii. Decoctionis communis ℥. ix. Fiat infusio: In qua dissolve Syrupi ro­sarum sol ℥. i. Syrupi de rhabarbaro ℥. ss. F. Apozema. He took half thereof over night about then of the clock, and the other half in the morning about seven.

Also I have found by experience that Diacatholicon is a very good remedy in inward contusions: and my Apothe­cary telleth me he hath cured many therewith; yea even those that have been desperately bruised: the Dose is ℥. i. in the common decoction; to which may be added a little Syrupus de rhabarbaro.

It happened not long since, that my Brothers little lad fell in the Kitchen with his face against the iron Cradle, which bruised and wounded his forehead: I caused him to be dres­sed once every day with a pledget of lint dipped in ol. hyperici, and so in a short time he was cured, without [Page 43] using any thing else.

A certain young man fell from an high place, and all his members were bruised, so that he seemed to be at deaths door. Pater ipsius accepit favos cum melle, & coxit in vino ad consisten­tiam unguenti, which he spread upon the skin of a wether newly killed, and therein wrapped the Patient: which being repeated for three dayes toge­ther, he was prefectly cured. In par­ticular contusions this oyntment is spread upon a linen cloath, and ap­plyed, and presently works the cure.

I reade of a certain Captain, who by a fall was bruised, and wounded in his right side upon his short ribs; so that much blood came away, and he was perpetually tormented with a most cruel pain in the bruised part, so that he could hardly move, speak, breathe, or cough, but he was forced to cry out with pain. Dr. Simon Jacoz, a most expert Costensian Physitian, being called to him, caused a vein pre­sently to be opened on the Arme of the same side, and a Plaister de cumino to be applied partibus dolentibus; which [Page 44] having been on twelve hours, and once renewed in that time, dolor val­dè imminutus est, lividus partis color disparuit, meliùs spiravit, ac sequenti die è lecto surgere caepit; and so after one day more, the pain went quite away.

Some have found great comfort, by the use of this oyntment following.

Recipe unguenti dialtheae cum gum­mis ℥. ii. olei rosacei, ol. Liliorum, ol. spermatis ceti, ana ℥. i. cerae citrinae q. s. misce, & fiat in forma unguenti.

Lastly; Paracelsus hath an incompa­rable oyl against bruises: and it is this, ℞. florum verbasci, m. i. fl. hype­rici m. iii. rad. asclepiadis, m. ss. mum­miae. ℥. i. ol. olivarum recentis, lb. ii. terebinthinae lb. i. vini rub. optimi lb. iii. coquantur omnia per horas vii. post, vase vitreato probe occluso macerentur ad so­lem, ad tempus, ac exprimantur. It must be used morning and evening.

[...]is a corruption of the soft parts especially tending to morti­fication; Gangrae­na. proceeding from the Cor­ruption, Suffocation, Dissipation, or Extinction of the natural heat in the part.

[Page 45] Curatio semper Difficilis, imprimis, si cum affluxu humorum est; si partibus hu­midioribus insedit; si cum hydrope con­jungitur.

[...] is a perfect mortification of a part which sieseth not only the softer parts of the body, Sphacelus. but the bones them­selves.

This malady is far more dangerous then the former. For the part that is taken with the Sphacele can no way be restored and made sound, but is forth­with to be cut off, to prevent present death; before which there usually precede Dotings, Watchings, syncope, convulsiones, ructus, singultus, and a cold sweat breaking forth over all the body.

Quó ad plenam gangraenae & Spha­celi, Causarum, Signorum & Curationis Cognitionem, vide meum Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 45.

Caput 12.
De Carbunculo.

[...], Carbun­culus. seu Carbunculus, is a Tu­mor springing from adust, thick, and most fervent blood, degenerating into black Choller, which corrupts the part. Vel est pustula parva, venenosa, lo­cum comburens, inprimis vesicam, deinde crustam faciens.

Use hath so prevailed with us, as to understand no otherwise of a Car­buncle, then a pestilent tumor, and symptom; it shall be good therefore, somewhat to change our custome, and with Vigo divide it into two kindes: Pestilent and not Pestilent. Now in this place I shall chiefly treat of the Carbuncle not Pestilent; because the other I handled before; as you may see in the last Chapter of my Enchiri­dion medicum.

The Cause is black, Causa. thick, hot, and faeculent blood, flowing into the place, which is conjectured by the state of the body, abounding with blood: for [Page 47] the other cometh of a venomous con­stitution of the ayre, which once ta­ken in, is afterward expelled by nature to some outward parts, together with the humors, and spirits, that were by it defiled.

The Signs are these following; Signa. A Crusty Ulcer arises, blackish or ash-co­loured; sometimes, not long after, a round Bubo, sharp and burning, breaks forth, qui circa vesperum exasperatur: otherwhiles it is found without any pustule, onely the Ulcer is in all sorts crusty.

Moreover there is itching, and the flesh round about is very red and in­flamed: also great and grievous pain, with a Fever. If any venomous mat­ter be lurking, then there is stomach­sickness, vomiting, loss of appetite, trembling and panting of the heart, swoonings, ravings, &c.

Carbunculus, ut nonnulli aiunt, in tri­plici differentia reperitur. Rubeus sci­licet, citrinus, & niger; rubeus à materia sanguinea adusta exoritur, & non est multae venenositatis. Citrinus à materia cholerica adusta pervenit; niger vero à [Page 48] materia melancholica adusta & veneno­sa; Progno­stica. omnes istae species sunt exitiales, juxta Rhasis sententiam. Verum carbuncili ni­gri sunt pejores omnibus, & pauci ab his evadunt, authore Avicenna.

Those are less dangerous which ap­pear first red, (without any pustule) and afterwards yellowish.

Sunt etiam illi Carbunculi minùs per­niciosi, qui sunt parvi, quàm qui sunt magni; & ex parva pustulae subitò in­gentem magnitudinem acquirunt.

If a Carbuncle come in the clen­sing places, called emunctories, & pro­pe membra principalia, lethalis est; ti­mendum enim est, ne ad partem aliquam principem materia haec venenosa re­currat.

If it break out about the stomach, or jaws, it suddenly choketh, for the most part.

Carbuncles commonly come of cau­ses generally reigning; and for the most part are attendants on the Plague: and then the symptomes are stronger, as I hinted before.

Curatio Carbunculi est difficillima, si post febrem pestilentem erumpit, the heart [Page 49] being possessed by malignant humors. Omnis crisis semper est bona, praeterquam in pestilentiali febre.

The Cure is easier, if it break out before, unless violent symptomes ap­pear soon after.

The manner of proceeding in the Cure is this. Curatio. First, prescribe a fit and convenient diet. In respect of the Fe­ver cooling things must be used; but in respect of contagion, such things as assist the heart. See my Enchiridion medicum, lib. 2. cap. 12. pag. 160.

Secondly, Let a vein be opened at the beginning (if nothing hinder) to take away fervent blood.

Thirdly, Humor malignus praepare­tur & mitigetur, ubi scabiosa praecipuè valet; discutit enim, & insensibiliter dissolvit. It may be eaten or drunk out of wine.

Fourthly, if need require, gentle Glisters may be given, but no other purgers; because of the acute Fever.

Fifthly, outward medicines apply­able to the place, must be discutient, or meetly repressing: if so be the flu­xion be vehement, as is this: [Page 50] Recipe Arnoglossi, lentium, medullae pa­nis, partes aequales. Coq. in aceto, vel po [...]ca, if not very vehement, in aqua vel vino, F. Cataplasma: quod bis vel ter singulis diebus applicandum. Verùm hoc ipsum medicamentum, aut similia, non supra ipsum carbunculum, sed circa ipsum solùm spatio trium digitorum est apponendum. Now if the Carbuncle be pestilent, I counsel no repellent medicine, till the matter be (for the most part) gathered, and then they are to be set as a hedge between the Carbuncle and the heart; as also if the Carbuncle be out of the emunctories, it is (as I may speak) to be paled about with them: for this purpose also, Lini­mentum ex bolo Armeno cum q. s. ol. Rosa­ti commendatur, but it must be applied, as I hinted before, three fingers space round about the Carbuncle.

Sixthly, The part must be scarified, (if nothing withstand) and after that washed with warm salt water, that thereby the clotted blood may be clean purged forth: and after it is washed, medicaments must be used which resist putrefaction, especially [Page 51] made of Scabious and Devils-bit. For as Scabiosa, ita Succisa plurimum com­mendatur, viridis trita & imposita, vel in vino cocta & bibita.

Seventhly, Si scarificatio non prodest, urendum; sed ita, ut crusta statim re­moveatur, lest if it remain upon the place, it prevent the breathing forth of the malignant humor: and there­fore apply thereto a Cataplasme ex fa­rina orobi, & oxymelite.

Si post applicationem ignis, aut causti­corum, apparuerit circulus circa carbun­culum, scias quòd carbunculus est morti­ficatus.

Eighthly, The Crust being remo­ved, the ulcer must be cleansed cum melle rosac. succo apii, & similibus. De­inde carne implendum, glutinandum, & tandem cicatrice claudendum.

Mr. Denis Pomaret, Observa­tio. a skilful Chirur­geon of Montpelier, doth declare, that it was his hap to see three Carbuncles, without any Fever, and without any other grievous symptome, so that the patients continually followed their employments; one was in the cheek, the other in the neck, and the third [Page 52] under the lower eye-lid of the left eye. All which (as he saith) were cu­red with the same medicines, where­with Chirurgeons are wont to cure potential Cauteries, viz. Such as pro­cure the falling of the Eschar.

My Apothecary tells me that since the time he addicted himself to Chi­rurgery, he hath seen at least twenty Carbuncles, not pestilent.

Caput 13.
De Epinyctidibus, Terminthis, & Essere.

EPinyctides, Epinycti­des. are small Ulcers, which break out of their own accord, especially in the night, in the eminent parts of the body, resembling blad­ders, which being broke in sunder, blood-waterish matter runs forth.

[...] it a dicitur, [...], quoniam noctu generatur, ut Galenus, & Celsus docet. Pliny termeth them blewish pushes, disquieting espe­cially in the night time.

They arise from a wheyish and Causa. me­lanchollick [Page 53] humor; like the Cause of a Carbuncle in all things save ma­lignity, and greatness of the tumor.

They are easily known; Signa. for as Celsus saith, they are either of a pale, or of a black colour, or of a white hew, not exceeding the bigness of a bean, arising either in the legs, or in the feet. About them there is alwayes a very vehement inflammation; and when they are opened, there is found a very thick and clammy exulceration within. His colour is like unto his humor: but the pain or grief, which greatly surpasseth the bigness of the sore, en­creaseth in the night; propter atri humoris motum, & frigus nocturnum po­ros cutis adstringens.

Periculosa quidem non sunt ista tuber­cula, Progno­sticum. virtutisque expellentis robur signi­ficant.

For the Cure, Curatïo. let the vitious hu­mors be first purged out; and if blood abound, open a vein. Simul etiam talis victus ratio instituenda, quae adustum humorem non generet.

Quantum ad localia, Epinyctidi meden­tur brassicae, vel solani, vel hyoscyami so­lia [Page 54] cum melle trita & imposita. Ʋlceri­bus ex pustulis natis convenit sequens me­dicamentum.

Recipe Cerussae ℥. ss. lith argyri ℥. i. ss. sem. faenguraeci ℥. ss. rosar. ʒ. ij. succi en­diviae q. s. misceantur, donec mellis vel linimenti crassitiem acquirant. Ab acri­bus verò, accidis, & salsis abstinendum.

Quó ad pleniorem curationis cognitio­nem, vide infra, capite de Scabie.

Petrus Pachequus, Obser­vatio. in one of his ob­servations, tells us, that when he could not by any medicines heal certain Epi­nyctides, or Pushes, by a womans ad­vice they were anointed cum oleo ju­niperino, and the patient thereupon slept quietly, whereas he had lain sleepless before, and was prefectly cu­red.

Moreover, Termin­thus. some there are that re­fer the Tumor Terminthus unto these Epinyctides. But that (if I mistake not) ariseth from black Choller. Now Ter­minthi (according to Galen) are cer­tain black pustules arising especially in the Thighs, resembling in figure, co­lour, and bigness, the fruit of Ter­minthi.

[Page 55] There is also another certain kinde of Tumor, Essere. which they call Essere, Sora, and Sare; to wit, when little Tu­bercles, inclining to a red colour, and somewhat hard, do suddenly and unex­pectedly seiz upon the whole body, to­gether with an extraordinary and trou­blesome itching; just as if the party had been pricked by Bees, or stung with Nettles.

These kinde of Tubercles are re­ferred, by some, unto the aforesaid Epinyctides of the Greeks; but they differ, in regard that Epinyctides pour forth out of them, a certain humor, which Essere doth not, but vanisheth, without any humor issuing therefrom. Moreover the Epinyctides do afflict the Patient in the night; as I hinted be­fore, but the Essere break forth (for the most part, in the day time.

Interdum essere febres biliosas antece­dunt, & propterea ii, qui hisce tuberculis frequentiùs molestantur, curationem neg­ligere non debent.

Caput 14.
De Gutta rosacea & Sahaphati.

GƲtta rosacea, Gutta ro­sacea. is a pustulous and sometimes Tuberous redness of the face, representing Rose-coloured spots.

Nicolaus Florentinus tres hujus mali differentias constituit. Aliquando enim, inquit, rubedo praeter naturam absque pustulis, vesicis, vel ulceribus adest, & voca­tur absolutè rubra facies; quandoque cum pustulis vel vesicis reperitur, & rubedo pustulosa vel vesicosa vocatur; & quum cum ulcere, rubedo ulcerosa nuncu­patur. Et ultima non multum videtur dif­ferre ab affectu, quem noli me tangere vocant.

Its original is from thick and fer­vent blood (sometimes mixed with salt Phlegm; Causa. but for the most part with a Cholerick humor) bred through de­fault of the Liver; or by bad diet, and carryed up into the face, and there sticking, by reason of its thickness. Also the suppression of accustomed [Page 57] evacuations, praesertim mensium & hae­morrhoidum, may be the cause.

'Tis known by the sight. Signa.

Difficulter hoc malum curatur, Progno­stica. & prae­sertim si facies sit pustulosa, & quasi ul­cerata; ac plerumque hominem ad mor­tem usque comitatur.

Si naturalis est, contractus ex paren­tibus, nunquam tollitur.

For the Cure, first, Curatio. labour to re­duce the heated Liver to its right tem­per, with Syrup of Cichory, Straw­berries, and Coral. Secondly, that the obstructions thereof may be opened;

Recipe syrupi de cichorio cum Rhabar­baro ℥. i. ss. syrupi de quinque radicibus ℥. ss. Decoctionis communis q. s. f. Apo­zema. Let the Patient take the one half over night, and the other in the morning warm.

If Choler abound, a potion may be made cum electuario de succo rosarum, quod in hoc casu tenet principatum.

Quantùm ad localia, & alia remedia, ea omnia quae dicta sunt in capite de gut­ta rosacea in meo Enchiridio medico, lib. 3. cap. 49. ut etiam infra, de impetigine, & morphaea, conveniunt.

[Page 58] Moreover, Hartman doth very much commend menstrua virginis dissolved in hot water. Also Aqua spermatiis rana­rum, may be used with happy success, e­specially if it be onely a redness in the face, without pustules or bladders.

Some there are which would have the Patient omnino à coitu abstinere; Observa­tio. Sed durus est hic sermo: quis potest eum audire? Nihilominus tamen qui potest capere, capiat.

A certain maid having her face full of red spots, with red pustules very ill favoured, although otherwise very comely, and of an excellent wit, was thus cured.

First, she was purged with this po­tion.

Recipe electuarii diacathol, ʒ. v. con­fection is Hamech ʒ. ij. aq. fumaria ℥. iij. syrupi Ciehorii cum rhabarbaro ʒ. vi. f. potio; it wrought very well. The following day she took a dose of Pills. After which her face was an­oynted with the following liquor.

Recipe pulv. lithargyrii aurei ℥. i. aluminis ʒ. i. boracis ʒ. iij. cerussae ℥. ss. aceti ℥. ij. aquae rosarum, & plantaginis [Page 59] ana ℥. iij. Boil them to the wast­ing of the third part, after strain them, and adde the juyce of Le­mons ℥. ss. This she used morn­ing and evening, the pustules be­ing first opened, broken and crushed; and so in a few dayes, having been be­fore let blood, she was wholly freed from her Disease, and became well coloured.

Sahaphati is of the kinde of small pustules, Saha­phati. breeding upon the neck, fore­head, and face, especially about the nose, making with a multitude of pu­stules a small and fleshy elevation, with redness and itching.

Haec passio saepissime manifestatur in materia gallica; ideo dicunt Doctores, eam esse principium ad materiam gallicam; similiter manifestatur in lepra.

Caput 15.
De Aneurysmate.

[...], Aneu­rysma. is a Tumor arising from a breach in the inner coat [Page 60] and a widening of the outward coat of an Artery, ita dictum [...], quòd arteriae quaedam sit di­latatio, spirituoso plena sanguine. Paulus definit tumorem mollem & laxum, ex sanguine, & spiritu conflatum, & con­tractum.

Quó ad causam & signa, vide meum Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 39. pag. 295.

It is to be known from varix, by the great lifting, and (oft times) pain­ful pulsation that is in it.

Quo ad prognostica. Progno­stica. Aneurysmata om­ni a sunt difficilis curationis.

Sciendum deplorata esse aneurysmata apud Chirurgos, quae gutturi aut capiti accidunt: simul enim cum aneurysmatis sectione, abundantissima sanguinis eru­ptio continget: cum qua etiam vitalis spiritus simul erumpit, ut homo saepe in medicorum manibus deficiat. Yea Aneu­rysma is a desperate disease, and (for the most part) utterly uncurable: especially if it either grow within the bulk of the body, or in the deep parts of any member.

Also it is in a manner incurable, if [Page 61] it be old and great; but if it be small and new, there is some hopes of cure.

Curatur partim medicamentis repel­lentibus & astringentibus, ut, unguento de bolo, emplastro contra rupturam, de­vit atis cibis acribus, vino, & exercitio; partim Chirurgia, ut plumbi lamina, pulvinulis, succo plant, cum ovi albu­mine, & bolo arm, imbutis, ligaturâ comprimente; denique sectione, de qua vide meum Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. pag. 295. & 296.

Caeterùm ad gutturis aneurysmata em­plastrum è cupresso commode adhibetur: miro enim modo discutit ac sanat: ℞. Cupressi folia virentia in vigore, minu­tossime trita: quibus adde vinum quod à vinaceis post primi vini collectionem ex­primitur, efficitque solidi strigmenti crassitudinem; ac loco affecto impone, neque solvas nisi de tertio in tertium diem.

A child five years old, Observa­tio. being trou­bled with a Fever in the moneth of July, 1644. by occasion of blood-let­ting, he fell into an Aneurysma, by the opening of an Artery; which was perfectly cured by applying astringent [Page 62] Cataplasmes, ex bolo, terra sigillata, aliisque compositis, aceto & albumine ovi subactis, & tertio quoque die immuta­tis, the part being very straightly swa­thed; and in the space of three moneths, the cure was finished.

Caput 16.
De Lentiginibus.

[...], Lenti­gines. seu Lentigines, or Freckles, are small specks of a yellowish brown colour, for the most part, seated sometimes in the face, sometimes on the breast, sometimes on the hands.

They arise from blood adust, Causa. either by inward causes, or the Suns heat, occupying the scarf-skin, especially of the fore-head.

Cognoscuntur ex descriptione; Signa. and because they are subject to ruddy peo­ple, and such as are yellow hair'd.

Lentigines ut nihil periculi habent, Progno­stica. it a plerumque hyberno tempore evanes­cunt. In nonnullis tamen corporibus aestate [Page 63] semper redeunt; in quibusdam etiam perennes sunt.

Si Lentigines & cutis infectiones in febribus veniant ante signa digestionis, & in die non critica, pessimum & lethale signum est: quare in talibus cutis fre­quenter est inspicienda.

They are cured by the waters of El­der-flowers, Curatio. Bean-flowers, and Scro­fularia. By Goats and Cows milk mingled with the powder of glass, with Cherry-tree Gum dissolved in aceto forti, with a little Oaten meal; with these they must be washed or an­oynted.

Some have been cured cum aqua è cochleis: Observa­tio. illa enim mirum in modum lentigines delet. Vel.

Recipe salis ammoniaci siccati in sole ℥. i. ss. olei tartari ℥. iij. misce & per 20. dies soli exponito; hora somni lenti­gines eo tangantur; mane digitis melle fricato: postea linteo madefacto aqua clara faciem abluito. Also oyl of Tar­tar alone hath been oftentimes used with good success.

Caput 17.
De Ephelidibus.

[...], Epheli­des. are brown spots on wo­men with Childe, which quar­ter upon their Foreheads chiefly, their Temples or Cheeks, as large many times as an hand-breadth. Nonnun­quam tamen virginibus, & foeminis non gravidis, maculae tales in facie erum­punt.

Oriuntur à menstruorum suppressione: Causa. in virginibus interdum à betarum usu.

They are known by what is in the difinition expressed, Signa. and by the pre­sence of such symptomes as are wont to afflict women with Childe, especi­ally loathing of wine and meat, fre­quent spittings, and gnawings in the stomach.

Ephelides in foeminis gravidis, Progno­stica. raro curantur; & si tollantur, subinde recur­runt, sed post partum in quibusdam evan­escunt; in quibusdam remanent.

For the Cure, Curatio. a pap made of the powder of Bay-berries and Toad­stool [Page 65] water is commended, being smea­red on in a bath.

Ad maculas in virginibus, eo tempore, cùm menses fluunt.

Recipe succum ex incisa radice buglos­si expressum, & eo maculas illine.

Many things are commended by Authours, for cleansing and beautify­ing the skin; as the roots of white Lillies, the flowers of Elder, bitter Almonds, Bean-Meal, Camphyre, Oyl of Tartar, and salt: All these do scour and cleanse.

Delicate and choice women to beautifie their skin, do use to wash their faces and hands in milk, with the powder of sweet Almonds, which maketh them soft, smooth, and fair. Indeed milk is very highly extolled for smoothing the skin, and especially the milk of Asses and Goats: which Pop­pea the wife of the Emperour Nero being not ignorant of (a woman ex­treamly proud and luxurious) she cau­sed five hundred milch Asses alwayes to attend her whithersoever she went; and in a great Tub made purposely for her to bathe in, she washed her whole [Page 66] body in the said milk, that so it might be all over freed from wrinkles, made tender and delicate, and preserved white; as Pliny relateth the story.

Caput 18.
De Naevis maternis.

NAevi materni, Naevi ma­terni. are spots and marks imprinted upon the childe in the womb by the mothers imagination.

Some there are which believe that such spots are caused in the body by a fortuitous concourse of humors. Causa.

These spots are of several colours, Signa. sometimes red, sometimes yellow, and of divers froms: some like Cherries, or Straw-berries, others like Mul-berries; some like Roses, others like Gillyflowers; yea some like the comb of a Cock, others like a Mouse: It were endless to reckon up the variety of forms these spots do represent.

Difficulter hoc macularum genus cu­ratur; Progno­stica. & quamvis interdum non-nihil obscurari videatur, tamen solet recru­descere.

[Page 67] Si tamen mox faetu edito medicamen­ta adhibeantur, interdum tolluntur.

They are obliterated, Curatio. vel secundina calente, vel sanguine ejus, more easily, if privately, as the common people imagine: vel aqua Caryophylatae mon­tanae distillata, if the infant be wash­ed therewith; vel sanguine menstruo. Or chew in the morning fasting Mustard-seed, Observa­tio. and anoint therewith the spots; do this oftentimes, then will the spots wear away; but look diligently unto it, that you hurt not the childes eyes.

Caput 19.
De Maculis hepaticis.

MAculae Hepaticae, Maculae Hepaticae. or Liver spots, are brown spots, sometimes appearing, and then vanishing, with a sleight roughness of the skin, and falling of scales.

They arife from a thick blood, Causa. which seeing it cannot be assimilated, it sendeth forth what is excrementious into the skin.

[Page 68] Cognoscuntur ex descriptione. Signa. Non in facie & manibus, ut lentigines, sed in locis vestibus tectis etiam oboriuntur.

If they continue long, Progno­stica. they are ac­companied with Tertian and Quartan Agues.

Curantur Diaetâ, Curatio. and after universal medicaments, with bathes, before which a little Treacle must be taken, cum Sy­rupo vel aqua suinariae. And after the Patients have sufficiently sweat, they must be anointed with green mustard-seed, reduced cum aqua calida into the form of a pap, which must presently be washed off, so soon as it raises heat. Also mans blood distilled with Breast-milk, is good.

Caput primum.
De Erysipelate.

[...], Erysipelas. or St. Anthonies fire, is a Chollerick Tumor springing from Chollerick blood, flowing together into some part under the skin, with a spot which is red, broad, and dispersed up and down. Vel, ut Wec­kerus docet, est biliosae fluxionis germen circa cutim utramque maxime consistens.

Quò ad Causam, & Signa, vide me­um Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 32.

Erysipelata, Progne­stica. quae capiti oboriuntur, ut Paulus ait, periculosa esse solent.

Faciem Erysipelas plurimùm prehen­dit, interdum anginam infert, incipit­que maximè in ea nasi parte, quae vulgò [Page 72] Lepus appellatur: deinde mox in faciem totam expanditur, by reason of the lightness of the humor, and the thin­ness of flesh in that part.

In ossis exustione seu denudatione ery­sipelas superveniens malum, [...]. Hip. lib. 7. authore Hip­pocrate. For it sheweth a confluxion thither of hot blood and choller, which corrode, and consume the adja­cent flesh. Aphor. 19.

Si Erysipelas fit in hepate aut utero mulieris praegnantis, lethale est. Erysi­pelas exquisitum rarò suppuratur, sed magna ex parte resolvitur.

That which becometh suppurate, corrupt, and putrified, is evil.

Erysipelas ab exterioribus ad interiora verti, non est bonum. Ab interioribus ve­ro ad exteriora, bonum.

Cura universalis erysipelatis tribus perficitur scopis; Curatio. nempe refrigeratione evacuatione; & localibus.

Primus scopus erit circa sex res non naturales, quae ad humiditatem, & sri­giditatem tendere debent, uti in febri tertiana. See my Enchiridion medicum, lib. 2. cap. 6. pag. 147. Moreover, where he is, let there be often pourings [Page 73] of cold water from one vessel to an­other, and the pavement sprinkled continually with the like: instead of wine let him drink barley water, small beer, or ale, and refrain from hot, sharp, sweet, and fat meats.

Secundum vero curationis scopum eva­cuatione consequemur. Sed est not andum, quòd si Erysipelas fuerit legitimum, ac be­nignum, non requiri phlebotomiam. But if the heat be vehement, or choller be mixed with blood, first inject a lenitive Clyster, and then open a vein: Si Ery­sipelas fuerit in capite, phlebotometur vena cephalica; si vero fuerit sub collo, extrahatur sanguis ex vena hepatis, vel communis ejusdem lateris. Si autem ali­quid venae-sectionem impediat; evacu­etur corpus cum his, quae bilem ducunt; ut sunt rhabarbarum, Cassia, diaprunum len. Diacatholicon, Syr. ros. sol. Ta­marindi, & similia.

Alterantia sint syr. de nymphaea, bug­lossa, endivia, violatus, acetosus simp. & alii hujusmodi, cum suis aquis.

Recipe syrupi violati, Syrupi de succo endiviae, syrupi de buglossa, ana ℥. i. Aquae acetosae, nympheae, ana ℥. iiij. ss. [Page 74] pulv. elect. triasant. ℈. ij. vel. ʒ i. fiat. julep. pro tribus dosibus matutinis; or you may frame this mixture following, to prepare and concoct the matter be­fore purging.

Recipe syrupi rosati, syrupi lupulorum, syrupi capillorum vener. ana. ℥. i. aquae graminis, cichorii, ana ℥. i. ss. misce, & fiat syrupus, pro una dosi.

The humor being sufficiently pre­pared, purge the same, either by Cly­ster, or Potion.

Clysteres siant ex decoctione malva­rum, violarum, violarum, lactucae, sem. communis, cucurbitae, & hordei; cui adde cassiae ex­tractae ℥. i. olei violati ℥. iij. misc. pro clystere; si morbus fuerit in capite, ad­datur ℥. ss. hierae picrae. Vel

Recipe Altheae, malvae, violariae, Atri­plicis, parietariae, branchae ursinae, lactu­cae, ana M. i. Quatuor sem. major. frig, contus. ana. ʒ. iij. Anisi, saeniculi, ana ʒ. i. prunorum par. vi. florum viola­rum, borag, buglossae, nenupharis, ana P. i. Polypodii, Senae, ana ℥. i. Fiat de­coctio, de qua accipe lb. i. cui adde cassia ℥. i. Diacatholiconis ℥. ss. mellis violati ℥. iij. Salis ʒ. i. misce, & fiat clyster. [Page 75] Your potion you may thus prepare.

Recipe Cassiae recentis, vel Diacatho­liconis, Diaprunorum, lenitiv. ana ℥. ss. Mannae ℥. i. Rhabarbari infusi ʒ. i. Sy­rupi ros. lax. ℥. i. cum decoctione florum & fructuum, fiat potio. Or if you please, this Apozem, which I have of­ten given with good success.

Recipe Rhabarbari electi, ʒ. i. foliorum senae ʒ. ij. Seminis faeniculi contusi ℈. ij. Decoctionis communis ℥. ix. Fiat infusio: In qua dissolve syrupi rosarum sol. syr. de rhabarbaro, ana ℥. ss. Fiat Apozema. Let the Patient take half over night, about ten or eleven of the clock, and all the rest in the morning warm: Let him not eat any thing until noon, but sup four or five spoonfuls of thin broth between stools.

Also sweating with Venice Trea­cle in aqua florum sambuci commen­datur.

Tertium autem curationis scopum, lo­calibus consequemur; sed prius est not an­dum, quod in Erysipelate major refrige­ratio requiritur, & minor evacuatio; in phlegmone vero contra; scilicet major evacuatio, & minor refrigeratio.

[Page 76] Localia sint oleum ros. oleum viol. unguentum ros. unguentum populeon.

Apparente Erysipelate, applicabis hoc balneum, quod est in continuo usu. Re­cipe hordei, foliorum malvarum, & la­ctucae, ana M. i. misc. & bulliant in quan­titate sufficienti aquae, coletur pro bal­neo, infundatur petia lini in dicto balneo & tepida applicetur super locum affe­ctum, & saepe madefiat, ne exsiccetur. Ad idem, convenit etiam ante balneum di­ctum haec unctio.

Recipe unguenti rosati ℥. i. ss. olei violati ℥. ss. misce. Vel

Recipe unguenti ros. ung. populeonis ana. ℥. i. misc. & ungatur, ut supra, ante balneum.

Ad idem optimum, si calor non remit­titur. ℞. lactis ℥. vi. succi lactucae, ℥. iij. olei violati ℥. ij. misc. cum petiis lineis utere.

If there be a returning back of the matter, it must be drawn forward again, in like sort, as is set down in the Chapter de Phlegmone.

If hardness remain, ex nimio refri­gerationis usu, ut aliquando contingere solet, it must be mollified and taken [Page 77] away by such convenient means as may be found in the Chapter de Furunculo, or de Phygethlo, or in that de Bubone venereo.

If there be vehement pain, and burning: ℞. Decoctionis malvarum, sem psyllii, papaveris albi, hyoscyami lb. iij. olei violati ℥. iij. misc. & cum petiis utere. See my Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 32.

Si autem Erysipelas fuerit cum ulcere & vesicatione.

Recipe Trochiscorum alborum Rhasis ʒ. i. ss. Plumbi usti loti, ʒ. i. Caphurae ℈. ss. olei rosati ℥. iij. Cerae q. s. misce, & fiat linimentum.

Si Erysipelas ad maturationem devene­rit, recurre ad maturantia descripta in cura phlegmonis, & bubonis à sanguine benigno.

If the part putrefie, it is to be hel­ped by the means aforementioned in Phlegmone.

Caput 2.
De Herpete.

[...], Herpes. Formica; or the Shingles, is a tumor raised by yellow chol­ler pure and unmixt with other hu­mors, upon the surface of some part of the body, and creeping along to the neighbouring parts.

Formica est in triplici differentia. Nam alia est ambulativa, sine corro­sione, quae Herpes simplex nominatur; alia corrosiva, quae Herpes [...], id est, exedens, vocatur; alia mi­liaris est, [...] appellatur.

Causa Herpetis simplicis est bilis talis, Causa. qualis in descriptione expressa est, cras­sior quàm in erysipelate, à suis causis procedens.

The signes are, Signa. a broad. Tumor, ruffing the skin; durities, dolor ac sen­sus ustionis; it makes a circular kinde of progress, the middle parts heal­ing, while the extream parts break out afresh.

[Page 79] Prout bilis, è qua oritur Herpes, be nignior vel pejor est, Progno­sticum. eò etiam herpes magis vel minus periculosus.

For the Cure of this simple Her­pes. Curatio. First, the whole body must be evacuated. Secondly, the part affected must be gently cooled. Thirdly, di­gestion must be used, and discussion, by dryers, if heat permit. See my Enchi­ridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 33. This Cataplasme following is commended by some. ℞. Hordei mundi, lentium, fa­bar. ana M. i. arnogloss. M. ij. balaust. rosar. granor. myrti, sumach, ana ℥. ss. Terantur omnia crasso modo, praeter hor­deum, & coq. in vino, donec hordeum crepet. F. Cataplasma, & utere.

A certain Gentlewoman being trou­bled with Formica ambulativa, Observa­tio. in the year 1646. was helped by the use of this oyntment following. ℞. olei ros. ℥. iiij. ss. succi plantag. & solatri, ana ℥. i. aceti ℥. i. ss. mise. & bulliant len­to igne ad succorum, & aceti consum­ptionem; postea adde unguenti populeonis ℥. i. pulv. aluminis rochae, balaustiarum & seminis rosarum, ana. ʒ. i. pulv. rad. lapathi acuti ʒ. szlig. mise. & agitentur in [Page 80] mortario plumbeo per horam, addendo pulv. lithargirii aurei, & argentei, & cerussae, ana ℥. i. tutiae preparatae ʒ. ij. misc. & utere.

Caput 3.
De Herpete esthiomeno.

[...] [...], Herpes exedens. id est, exedens vel depascens, pustules of Chol­lerick generation, eating, and feeding (as it were) upon the skin.

They proceed of a thick, Causa. and sharp sort of yellow Choller, cui fere aliquid melancholiae permixtum est: ut Paraeus docet.

The signes are, Sigua. ulceration of the skin, even down to the flesh; it has dry, small, eating, and spreading pustules, with inflammation and itching. Fur­ther, this Formica corrosiva is long in coming forth by little and by little, lasts long, and comes unattended by a Fever. Sic ab Erysipelate ulceroso di­stinguitur. Also there appear signa bi­lis flavae & melancholiae in toto corpore redundantis.

[Page 81] Ad judicia & prognostica haec referun­tur: Progno­stica. si enim formica (ut Barbari loqun­tur) id est, herpes, in tantum augeatur, ut circumeat totum corpus, homo mori­tur: quia multitudo (inquit valescus) materiae arguitur in corpore esse tam in­tra, quam extra, & mala intemperies ferè per totum corpus adaequata.

For the Cure, Curatio. first set down the diet that is appointed for Erysipelas; then alter and prepare the humors cum syrupo violato, de fumiterra, syrupo ace­toso, de endivia, & de nenuphare, cum su­is aquis. You may frame this mixture following.

Recipe syrupi endiviae, syr. lupulorum, syr. acetos. simpl. vel fumiterrae, ana ℥. ij. aquae graminis, aquae buglossae, aquae lu­pulorum, ana ℥. iiij. santal. moschat. ʒ. i. ss. Mix them, and make of them a syrup, for three doses; then prepare this or the like purgation.

Recipe Cassiae noviter extractae, diaca­tholiconis, ana ℥. ss. confectionis hamech ʒ. iii. misc. cum aqua fumiterrae, fiat bre­vis potio; in fine adde syrupi violati ℥. i. ss. Or if the Patient be weak, pre­scribe the Apozem set down in [Page 82] the Chapter de Erysipelate.

Quantum ad localia, haec optima & experta sunt.

Recipe corticis pini usti, & loti ʒ. i. ss. cerussae ʒ. iij. thuris ʒ. i. adipis caprini ʒ. vi. ol. myrtin. ℥. ii. cerae q. s. F. un­guentum, & utere.

Unguentum diapompholygos etiam commendatur. Vel,

Recipe lithargirii, cerussae, corticum granatorum, ana ʒ. iij. misc. & fiat pulv. finiss. cui adde olei ros. omphacini ℥. iij. cerae albae ʒ. iij. misc, & fiat unguentum & utere. Vel

Recipe ceruss. litharg. ana. ℥. ij, cort. gran. unc. ss. myrrhae ʒ. i. thuris ʒ. i. ss. flor. aeris, alumin. ana ʒ. i. cum ol. myrtin. & cerae s. q. F. unguentum.

Si haec non conserunt, ad fortiora deve­niendum est, ut, Arsenicum sublimatum, tritum, & mixtum cum unguento albo, and applyed with lints, plageats, or such like.

Ad idem, ℞. unguenti Aegyptiaci ℥. ij. pulv. arsenici, gr. iiij. misc. & utere su­per corruptionem: observing by the way, that alwayes, when you use such vehement workers, you defend the [Page 83] place round about, with unguentum de bolo, or, oxycratum, which is a mixture ex aqua & aceto. Also to remove the Eschar caused by arsenicum, ℞. Axun­giae porcinae, vel butyri recentis q. s. & applicetur cum foliis brassicae, & utere usque ad escharae remotionem, qua remo­ta curetur ulcus cùm unguento de minio, aut de lythargyrio, vel de cerussa. For your further satisfaction, see my Enchi­ridion medicum, lib. 3. pag. 284.

A certain Gentlewoman, Obser­vatio. in this City, being troubled with this kinde of Herpes, was cured by the use of these three things.

Recipe Diacatholiconis ʒ. x. Syrupi ro­sarum sol. de rhabarbaro, ana ℥. ss. spir. sulph. gut. ij. Decoctionis com. q. s. F. potio. She took three spoonfuls over nighr, and all the rest in the morning, which wrought very well.

Recipe Aquae fumariae lb. ss. Syrupi fumariae ℥. ij. Misce. She took three or four spoonfuls there of at a time, last at night, first in the morning, and oftentimes between meals. Lastly, I prescribed this liniment. ℞. Mellis ros ℥. i. cerussae ℈. ij. Misce, pro liniment, & [Page 84] utere; by the use of these things, in a very short time, the Herpes went quite away.

Moreover, Tar is found by expe­rience to be an excellent help.

Caput 4.
De Herpete miliari.

[...] [...], Herpes miliaris. seu Herpes miliaris, are certain small pustules rising upon the outmost skin, like the grains or seeds of millet, and is quartered onely under the Epidermis.

The cause is yellow Choller, Causa. cui aliquid pituitae permixtum est.

The signes are expressed in the de­scription: Signa. Moreover beside the pu­stules there is heat, or a little inflam­mation, with itching, and the colour tending towards Citrine: Also you may perceive Signa bilis & pituitae, in toto corpore redundantium.

For the Cure, Curatio. first prescribe a fit and convenient diet: then prepare and concoct the humors with this syrup.

[Page 85] Recipe syrupi de endivia ℥. i. syrupi de duabus radicibus, oxymellit simplicis, ana ℥. ss. Aquae endiviae, aquae lupulo­rum, aquae capillorum veneris, aquae bor­raginis, ana ℥. i. misce, & fiat syrupus pro una dosi. Then purge with this po­tion. ℞. Diacatholiconis, Cassiae novi­ter extractae, ana ℥. ss. Diaphoeniconis ʒ. ij. Decoctionis communis q. s. fiat po­tio: or else if you please, this Apo­zem, which I have often used with good success.

Recipe Agarici ʒ. ss. Rhabarbari electi ʒ. i. seminis faeniculi ℈. ij. Decoctionis communis ℥. ix. Fiat infusio: In qua dissolve syrupi de rhabarbaro, syr. rosa­rum sol. ana ℥. ss. Fiat Apozema.

As for outward means; if the pu­stules are whole, cold, and dry things must be used; such as may be found in the two foregoing Chapters: Sed si pustulae rumpantur, detergentia adhibe­antur: ut aqua calcis vivae cum saccha­ro Saturni, vel decoctum Persicariae, so­liorum rubi Idaei in aqua & vino.

Si morbus nollet cedere, into perdura­ret in sua malignitate, fiat scarificatio in tota formica; postea ungatur cum [Page 86] aceto scillitico, & desuper applicetur unguentum de lythargyrio.

Si etiam cum his morbus persisteret in sua malignitate, applicentur caustica de­scriptia in cura formicae corrosivae; vel aliquod vesicatorium, cujus descriptio haec est.

Recipe pulpae fermenti ʒ. iij. pulv. can­tharidum sine alis, & capitibus ℈. i. misc. & extendantur ad quantitatem morbi applicetur, & maneat super mor­bum, donec inducat escharam, quae sic an­feratur.

Recipe foliorum malvarum, violarum, ana M. ii. misc. & bulliant in aqua q. s. postea pistentur, quibus adde far. hordei M. ij. & iterum bulliant in eadem deco­ctione, & fiat emplastrum, cui adde bu­tyri recentis, & axungiae porcinae, ana ℥. ii. vitenor. ovor. n. 2. misce, & ute­re usque ad escharae remotionem; quâ remotâ curetur ulcus cum unguentis descriptis in formica corrosiva. Vel

Recipe unguenti albi camphorati re­centis ℥. ij. sief albi cum opio ʒ. ij. tutiae preparatae, plumbi usti, ana ʒ. ij. succi plantag. ℥. ss. misc. & agitentur in mortario plumbeo per horam, & applice­tur [Page 87] super foliis lactucae, aut cum petiis.

Some I have cured of this kinde of Herpes, cum oleo genistae. Others with this liniment following.

Recipe Sacchari Saturni ℈. i. mellis rosati ℥. i. misce.

Caput 5.
De Lichene seu Impetigine.

[...], Lichen. seu impetigo, a Tetter or Ringworm are hard pustules upon the skin, which spread them­selves into the bordering parts, with dryness, roughness, and great itch­ing.

Impetigo dicitur quoque mentagra, & non differt à serpigine, nisi secundum magis, & minus, & in figura. Nam serpigo incipit cum scabie sicca, & lon­giori figura. Aliquando est magis ulce­rosa, & humidior quam impetigo.

Lichen etiam impetigo Dicitur, quia cum impetu laedit; & serpigo à serpendo vocatur, quia videtur serpere hinc inde. Illa ergo quae serpit serpigo dicitur, sed [Page 88] quae stat, impetigo nuncupatur.

Pliny reporteth, that this evil, which he calleth Mentagra, because it began about the chin, crept first into Italy in the reign of Tiberius Caesar, and was of so great filthiness and cor­ruption, that any death was to be pre­ferred or wished before it; and also of so great infection, that by the swift passage thereof, onely by kissing one another it infected the people, but chiefly those that were governours and rulers among them.

It arises from a thin, Causa. sharp Chol­lerick wheyish juyce, mingled with an earthy humor, qui à diaeta simili pro­cedit, & interdum vere, interdum Au­tumno ad exteriora defluit.

'Tis known by what is in the defi­nition expressed. Signa. Moreover Galen seemeth to acknowledge this disease: for in his first Book De Medicam. compos. secundum locos, he remembreth a most vile kinde of Impetigo of the Chin, which (as he rehearseth out of Crito) provoketh itching, it afflicteth also the Patients, and bringeth them into no small danger. For sometimes [Page 89] (saith he) it runneth over the whole face, and goeth up to the very eyes.

Affectus periculosus non est, Progno­stica. & recens ac mitis curatu facilis.

Impetigo verò quae fera est, & ab hu­more pejore oritur, difficiliùs curatur, & in lepram transire potest.

For the Cure, Curatio. first prescribe a fit and convenient diet, which must be neither salt nor biting. Secondly, Si corpus fuerit plethoricum, mittatur san­guis. Thirdly, Alter and evacuate the humors, if they too much offend.

Alterantia sint, serum caprinum co­ctum, in quo infundantur per noctem flo­res borrag. buglossae, & fumiterrae. Aut decoctio lupulorum, borrag, buglossae, fu­miterrae, & endiviae, cum syr. de fumi­terra, & violato.

Evacuantia sint; Diacatholicum cum confectione hamech. syr. rosar. sol. & in­fusio senae orientalis, cum epithymo, pas­sulis, cinnamomi, facta in sero caprino cocto.

Quantum ad localia; Impetigo recens inprimis curatur cum saliva jejuni & alumine, si illinatur, ut saepè probavi, vel fiat tale medic amentum.

[Page 90] Recipe unguenti diapomphalygos ℥. i. albi camphorati ℥. szlig. olei tartari per de­liquium ʒ. ij. mix them, and use it af­ter a fomentation of mallowes, mul­lein, and fumitory. If these prove not sufficient, you must proceed to stron­ger.

Forestus reporteth, Observa­tio. how that after many things used in vain, he cured a young maid with this oyntment. ℞. Litharg. auri & argenti per noctem in aceto acerrimo infusi & macerati, ana ʒ. ss. sulphuris vivi ʒ. i. pul. ellebori ni­gri ℈. i. succi limonum ʒ. i. axungiae porcinae, & but yri loti in aqua ros. ana ℥. ss. cerae modicum, fiat unguentum mol­le, secundum artem.

I remember I cured a Tetter on my wrist cum oleo genistae. Some I have helped cum unguento nicotianae: And other some I have cured with unguen­tum enulatum.

A certain Gentlewoman being ex­treamly vexed with a fierce and filthy Tetter or Ringworm on both her hands, and refusing the use of bleed­ing, purging, and all other Remedies, was (in a few dayes) cured after this [Page 91] manner, as Petrus Pachequus doth de­clare.

Recipe unguenti rosati ℥. iij. praecipi­tati albi ʒ. iij. mix them, and therewith besmear the parts affected. Also an­other Matron of great quality being troubled with the same Disease, was cured therewith.

This Cataplasme following is ex­ceeding good to asswage the pain of Tetters. ℞. Putria poma, num. vi. per set aceum transmitt antur, quibus adde olei rosacei ℥. ij. lactis muliebris parum, fiat cataplasma, & utere. And this is to be noted, that rotten Apples do more asswage pain, than roasted or boiled ones, which alwayes retain somewhat of the fire in them.

Moreover, for a Ringworm or Tetter, Take Tobacco ashes and a littlr allum melted in your mouth with fasting spittle, mix them, and apply it to the place. Also the juyce of Figs, or of the leaves, do take away Tetters, Wheals, Freckles, and Warts.

Caput 6.
De Phlyctaenis.

[...], Phly­ctaenae. (or wild-fire) are little blisters or bladders raised in the skin, by exceeding sharp hu­mors.

Oriuntur à biliosa serosoque humore, Causa. qui ad cutim vel à natura, vel à causa externa protruditur.

They are known hereby, Signa. because they are like such as proceed from scalding; and when they are broken, a yellowish humor breaks forth.

Phlystaenae, ut Aëtius scribit, Progno­stica. biduum aliquando vel triduum durant.

Phlyctaenae nisi rectè curentur, aliquan­do in herpetem degenerant.

Saepe in cruribus oriuntur, infantibus interdum in toto corpore erumpunt, rarò viris.

For the Cure; Curatio. if vitious humors abound, first prescribe a fit and con­venient diet, such as may serve caco­chymiam istam in corpore corrigere. De­inde humores vitiosi convenientibus medi­camentis [Page 93] evacuandi sunti recurre ad cu­rationem erysipelatis, in qua invenies medicamenta optima in hoc casu.

In foeminis menses opportunè ciere oportet.

Quantum ad localia, haec optima & experta sunt.

Recipe unguenti ros. recentis, loti cum aqua ros. ℥. i. ungatur leviter locus, & desuper applicetur petia lini madefacta in hac decoctione, & saepe reiteretur.

Recipe decoctionis malvarum, lactucae, & crispinei q s. utere ut dixi: or in­stead thereof you may use the deco­ction of Duckweed and Myrtils, which is excedingly commended.

Moreover, this oyntment following hath been used by some with good success.

Recipe unguenti populeonis, unguenti ros. ana ℥. semis. unguenti albi campho­rati recentis ℥. i. semis. misc. & agiten­tur in mortario plumbeo per horam, & utere, cum foliis lactucae aut vitis.

Si non sponte sua rumpantur, sed gra­vi dolore excruciant, acuta perforari acu debent; afterwards you must gently press forth the humor, and then pre­sently [Page 94] apply this drying Cataplasme.

Recipe farinae hordei, lentium, faba­rum, pulv. cortic. granator. ana. ℥. i. cum ol. ros. q. s. F. Cataplasma: or you may apply a Cataplasme ex planta­gine cum pane; aut ex flore polentae cum portulaca. But this oyntment follow­ing is held pro secreto.

Recipe succor. plantag. solatri, & la­ctucae, ana ℥. ij. olei ros. ʒ. iiij. ping. por­cinae, & vituli, ana ℥. ij. semis. misc. & lento igne bulliant ad succi consumptio­nem, postea adde lythargyrii aurei, & ar­gentei ana ℥. i. cerussae, inii, ana ℥. se­mis. boli arm. terrae sigillatae ana ℥. se­mis. tutiae praeparatae ʒ. vi. misc. & bul­liant semper agitando, donec acquirat colorem nigrum; postea adde cerae albae q. s. & fiat unguentum in bona forma: est admirabile in phlyctaenis ulceratis.

Caput 7.
De Noli me tangere & Lupo.

NOli me tangere is a Tumor or Ul­cer arising in the face, Noli me tangere. especial­ly [Page 95] above the Chin near about the mouth and nose, being rather irritated by remedies (though never so fit) than any wayes mitigated.

Ortum habet hoc malum ab humore adusto & bilioso, Causa. vel à bile cum pituita salsa, humoreque seroso & acri mixto: qui humor non tam tenuis est, ut ille, qui Herpetem efficit, neque tam crassus, ut ille, qui Cancrum.

The Signes are set down in the de­scription. Signa. Moreover, this Tumor groweth and increaseth very slowly at the beginning; and continueth (as Theodoricus telleth us) for one whole year no bigger then a pustule, being as it were a very small and inconside­rable push; which afterwards and at all times creepeth less then a Cancer; yea, as Rogerius writeth, the Cancer doth corrode more in uno die, quàm Noli me tangere in uno mense. Ita au­tem dicitur, vel quòd non debeat fricari; vel quia contagiosum malum est.

This malady is hard to cure; Progno­sticum. prae­cipuè si cum intemperie hepatis calida & sicca, vel lue venerea conjuncta.

About the Cure of this Tumor or [Page 96] Ulcer, Curatio. it is to be noted, that in it no­thing will any whit profit or avail (as it is also in other Diseases) whilest the Cause still remaineth. Itaque primò ea victus ratio instituendae est, quae tales humores adustos non solùm non generat, sed etiam eorum acrimoniam retundit atque corrigit: postea humores illi pravi è corpore educendi sunt. Vide supra in capite de Herpete esthiomeno, vel infra in capite de Scirrho.

Quantum ad localia, haec optima & experta sunt.

Recipe Aquae rosar. plantag. solani, ana ℥. ij. Mirobal. cit. & balaust. ana ʒ. ij. Aluminis ʒ. semis. Boil them all a little, then strain them and wash the Tumor therewith. Or,

Recipe aquae solatri ℥. vi. tutiae prae­parat. ʒ. i. plumbi usti tantundem, fiat linamentum. Or,

Recipe Butyri bubulini loti, Suc. Sem­pervivi. ana partes aequales. Stir them together in a leaden mortar, to the form of an unguent, which greatly asswageth pain, and delayeth heat.

My Apothecary told me he hath cu­red very many after this manner. Observa­tio. [Page 97] Take a pledget of lint, and dip it in aqua spermatis ranarum, and apply it upon the part affected, then apply up­on that a plaister Diapalmae with the powder argenti vivi; let the plaister be larger in compass than the pledget of lint; that so it may hang on: do thus once every day until you perceive the edges or circle to look white, for then you may conclude it is killed.

If the Disease be terrible, or the humor very rebellious, to one ounce of the powder argenti vivi, you may adde but four ounces of Diapalma; otherwise you may put half a pound of Diapalma to one ounce of the pow­der. You must melt your Plaister, and then mix your powder with it, for your use, as abovesaid; you must con­tinue the use of those two things, till all the filthy matter be eaten away.

Nunc sicuti non nobis solis nati sumus, universo terrarum ambitui permagnum arcanum, quod accidenter didici, sum communicaturus, scilicet, Quomodo ☿ vivus in pulverem reducendus est,

℞. ♄. duri ℥. iiij. ☿. vivi ℥. i. semis. vel ℥. ij. Tune liquefiat ♄, postea adde ☿ [Page 98] vivum, eaque agita usque ad modum glu­tinis operantia perceperis, & ea exsiccari incipiunt, sicutque argentum lique factum apparent. Deinde in mortario ponantur, & ad pulverem, quem te cribrare cribro oportet, conterantur.

Moreover, there is another certain kinde of Cancerous Tumor or Ulcer, much like Noli me tangere, called of some Lupus, Lupus. or the Wolf, especially when it happens in the Shins, Ankle­bones, and Thighs: Of others, Cingu­lus, a Girdle, (when it ariseth and ap­peareth in the midst of the body) as Guido tells us: It vehemently corro­deth, eating through the part on which it seizeth, and consumeth the flesh of Hens and other creatures, if applyed thereunto.

Mauritius cordaeus relateth a notable History, worthy of great observation.

There was (saith he) a certain noble and choice woman, Historia. living nigh unto the Castle of Nenue, that had all the right side of her face possessed and over-spread with a Cancer, and that likewise exulcerated of a long time, insomuch that her face was most grie­vously [Page 99] tortured with pains and griefs of all sorts. She having in vain and to no purpose at all sought for help unto the Physitians, as well French as Ita­lian, as Spanish, and Germans, (to­gether with other forreign Physiti­ans) was at length perfectly cured by this following expedite and speedy Remedy, that she had learned of an ordinary and vulgar Barber-Chirur­gion. Pullos illa gallinaceos in partes te­nues) & latas concidebat, the which she daily applyed unto the part affected, oftentimes changing and renewing them: Ab boe unico tandem remedio sa­nitatem pristinam recuperavit.

I remember about twelve years past, I saw upon the face of a certain man in this City a terrible Cancer, which was usually fed with flesh; It had great lips, and a wide fistulous passage through his left cheek up into his jaw, the which at last killed him.

Caput 8.
De Hydrois seu Sudaminibus.

[...], Hydroa. seu Sudamina, are Pushes like milet seed, which ulcerate and ruff the skin.

Assectus samiliaris est pueris & ju­venibus, praesertim temperamento cali­dioribus, qui astatis tempore nimis mo­ventur & exercentur; unde Hippocrates eum inter morbos aestivos refert.

They arise from plenty of cholle­rick sweat, Causa. restrained within the skin, especially in a hot and moist stomach, after a hot diet.

Signa in definitione exposita sunt. Signa. Emergunt etiam repente sparsim tote corpore, in the neck, shoulders, breast, armes, thighs, and sometimes they happen circa pudenda & anum, sed frequentius in manibus, pedibusque, milii magnitudine, aqua plena, sine rubore, & sine ullo dolore.

Affectus periculosus non est: Progno­stica, sed ple­rumque naturae ope sine medicamentorum auxilio curatur.

[Page 101] They are cured by washing with oaken water, Curatio. to which a grain [...] of Camphire may be added. Vel si opus sit, adhibeatur hoc unguentum.

Recipe olei violarum, rosarum, nym­phaeae, ana lb. ss. succi limon. ℥. iij. li­thargyrii ℥. i. cerussae ℥. ss. camphorae ʒ. i. Agitentur in mortario. Fiat Li­nimentum.

But if Chollerick humours do abound in the body, you must first purge them out.

Caput 9.
De Sironibus.

SIrones vel Chirones, Sirones. are Pustules in the Palms of the Hands, or Soles of the Feet, which have little worms in them.

Oriuntur à nimiis sudoribus biliosis, Causa. ut in Hydrois adnotavimus.

The Signes are set down in the de­finition. Signa. Moreover, the itching is greater then in Sudaminibus, by rea­son of those worms which lye hid in the pustules.

[Page 102] As touching curation, Curatio. vermiculi [...]iendi sunt; either with a needle, or with some other Instrument made of Silver or Gold. And then, lest others should spring up, the place must be washed cum vino, in quo sal, alumen, vel nitrum dissolutum sit, or with deco­ction of Oaken leaves with Alum; or of Sulphur with Oyl of Tartar; or cum lixivio facto ex cineribus ramo­rum genistae. Post ablutionem & exsicca­tionem oblinatur hoc unguento.

Recipe Aloës hepaticae; misc. cum aceto forti, & adde parum sulphris, cum modica axungia veteri, fiat unguentum: & si adderetur parum argenti vivi, esset furtius.

Caput 10.
De Maculis volaticis infantum.

MAculae infantum volaticae, Maculae Infantum volaticae. which Nurses call the Red-comb, are red and purple spots, which creep up and down the bodies of young In­fants.

[Page 103] Oriuntur à bile cum sanguine mixta. Causa.

Cognoscuntur ex iis, Signa. quae in definitione exposita sunt.

If they touch any orifice of the bo­dy, Progno­stica, as the mouth, nostrils, eyes, or ears, 'tis counted a deadly sign.

Ad praecautionem, orificia aqua rosa­rum cum pauxillo croci illinenda sunt.

Inwardly, it will be very fit to give the Childe a grain or two of Bezoar in a spoonful of Oxe-tongue water, or else oftentimes a little of some Cordial Julep: See my Enchiridion medicum, lib. 2. pag. 160. and there you have an excellent one for this purpose.

Caput 11.
De Pruritu.

[...], Pruritus. Pruritus, or the itch, is a pain which stirs up a desire of scratching, without any roughness or exulceration of the skin.

Subjectum est interdum totum corpus; praecipuè Plantae pedum. Avicenna di­stinguit [Page 104] pruritum à scabie; quòd pustulis careat.

It ariseth, Causa. either from. Choller, or thin salt phlegm, so as it may insinu­ate it self between the smallest parti­cles; but clammy and roping; that it may stick faster to the parts: which is bred of salt and hot meats, through fault of an hot and dry Liver.

Signa satis sunt manifesta: Signa. quia non permittunt hominem dormire, nec stu­dere, nec stu­dere, nec alia speculari.

Quicunque diu habent pruritum, Progno­stica. vix evadunt scabiem.

Pruritus in senibus rarò curatur, prae­sertim decrepitis.

In tabescentibus, si alvi suppressioni succedat, lethalis est; ut Hippocrates scribit.

Pruritus, in quo magna in scalpendo est voluptas, malus est, quia à bile acri oritur.

St pruritus à melancholia adusta or­tum habet, diutissimè durat.

Curatio incipienda est, Curatio. à sanguinis missione, si corpus plenitudine laborat.

Secondly, the humours must be fit­ted for evacuation with Goats-milk [Page 105] whey, and syrup of fumitory: And then purged forth with some Apo­zem or Potion; such as may be found in Erysipelatis curatione.

Thirdly, the Hemorrhoides and Courses, are to be provoked, if their stoppage have been the cause.

Quantum ad localia, conferunt in hoc casu omnia balnea & unguenta in capite de Scabie descripta.

Moreover, Observa­tio. many have been cu­red (after bleeding and purging) by the use of unguentum enulatum, rub­bed onely on the joynts. For although some Empericks do (without any di­stinction) anoint with unguents of Mercury all the parts of the body, nisi caput, quod est periculosum; yet Avicen hath strictly commanded the contrary, viz. that we should not use them nigh the stomach, & alia mem­bra nobilia.

Domina Barker sicco pruritu duorum aut trium annorum spacio vexata est: At last imploring my help, I prescri­bed this following mixture.

℞. Mercurii dulcis gr. xx. Scammo­nii praeparati gr. viij. electuarii ca­thol. [Page 106] ʒ. iii. misce. It wrought so effe­ctually that she desired to take such an­other, after which she became per­fectly well, and was never troubled with the itch any more.

Caput 12.
De Combustionibus.

COmbustio. Combu­stio. Burning, is a solution of Continuity of the scarf-skin, and commonly in the skin it self, some­times in the Muscles, Veins, Arte­ries, or Nerves, by the force of fire.

Ipse ordo quodammodo exposcere vi­detur, ut de ambustu post ipsos biliosos tumores dicamus: nam quemadmodum bilis inter elementa qualitate sua igni respondet, ita & ambusta, vel ab igne vel à materia ignita excitantur.

Causa, Causa. est vel ignis, vel aqua fer­vens, vel oleum, vel metallum liquefa­ctum. Moreover, Combustions may be occasioned by mineral waters, by Mercury, by Gun-powder, and also by Lightning.

[Page 107] Touching the Signes, Signa. 'tis neeedless to speak, seeing burning is manifest of it self. If the Combustion be super­ficiary, the pain is most bitter and pricking, the skin rises (unless speedi­ly prevented) into pustules and blist­ers, wherein is contained a thin sub­tile water of a white or yellowish co­lour. If it be low or deep in, it is co­vered with an Eschar or crust, the burnt flesh by the force of the fire turning into that crusty hardness.

Quo ad prognostica, Progno­stica. combustiones ab­dominis difficulter curantur.

Si ambustio ad intestina usque pene­tret, lethalis est.

Periculosa quoque est inguinum ambu­stio, since that those places are moist, and therefore the more fit to receive the afflux of humours.

Si combustio it a profunda sit, ut ad majores venas, arterias, nervos penetret, periculosa est. For when the exsiccated vessels are contracted and shut up, the Blood and the Spirit cannot then flow unto the affected part; from whence there is caused an Atrophy, a Gan­grene, and a deprivation of sense and motion.

[Page 108] Ambustio à fulnrine etiam periculosa est, & plerùmque lethalis.

Quò corpus purius est, eò faciliùs cu­ratur ambustio.

For the Cure, Curatio. we must labour to hinder the rising of blisters, by asswa­ging the pain, and drawing forth the [...] or heat of the fire, which is done by holding the place (especi­ally if the burning be but small) by little and little, near the fire; that so one heat drawing forth another, yon may keep it from blistering. For which purpose also, the juyce of Purslane, of Lettice, of Plantain, or of Housleek, beaten with the white of an egge and oftentimes applyed is very much com­mended. So is unguentum nutritum, and also Populeon newly made. But remember that you apply these Reme­dies warm; lest otherwise used they cause cruel pain and consequently de­fluxion.

Lactuca cum sale illita prodest recens ambustis. Sic malvae folia oleo incocta & trita sacris ignibus & ambust is utiliter imponuntur. In like manner the leaves of Elder or Dane-wort boiled in Oyl [Page 109] of Nuts, and beaten with a little salt, is good.

Exceeding commendation is given to an oyntment made of one part of Oyl-olive, and two parts of whites of Eggs, beaten together, and fre­quently anointed on, with the Feather of an Hen.

Sed mucilago seminis cydoniorum cum aqua rosarum extracta, & oleo lini sub­acta; mox in principio adhibita, omni­bus indicationibsn satis facit.

These two oyntments following I have oftentimes used with most hap­py success. Observa­tio. The first;

℞. musci flavi super lapidem M. i. ss. vel M. ij. Axungiae porcinae lb. i. F. un­guentum s. a.

The second, ℞. Axungiae porcinae vel butyri maialis lb. semis. foliorum hederae M. iiij. Fiat unguentum secundùm artem. Formius did use to boil the leaves of Ivy in water, and so apply them for burns.

Moreover, it is an easie made and ap­proved Remedy, if you presently af­ter the burning apply to the grieved part raw Onions beaten with salt. But [Page 110] you must note, that this medicine ta­keth no place, if once it be gone into an Ulcer: neither is it good for burns in the eyes.

Thus I have given you variety of Remedies, fit to asswage the pain, and take away the fiery heat, whereof some do it by a cooling faculty, by which they extinguish the preterna­rural heat, and repress or keep back the blood and humours, which flow into the parts by reason of heat and pain. Others endued with contrary faculties, are hot and attractive; as which by relaxing the skin, and open­ing the pores, resolve and dissipate the serous humours; which yield both beginning, and matter to the pustules, and so by accident asswage the pain and heat.

But if so be we cannot by these Re­medies hinder the rising of blisters, then we must presently cut them as soon as they arise, for that the humor contained in them, not having passage forth, acquires such acrimony that it eats the flesh which lyeth under it, and so causeth hollow Ulcers.

[Page 111] For excoriations you shall apply such Remedies as are without acri­mony, such as unguentum album cam­phoratum, desiccativum rubrum, un­guentum rosatum, made without vine­gar, or oyl of Eggs tempered in a lead­en mortar.

When the Combustion shall be so great as to cause an Eschar or Crust, the falling away must be procured by the use of Emollients, as

Recipe unguenti basilici ℥. i. olei rosac. amygd. lil. albor. ana 3, iij. vitell. ovor. num. ij. misce. Vel

Recipe Butyri rec. s. sale, aq. ros. loti ℥. iij. olet violat. de vitell. ovor. amygd. d. ana ℥. ss. farinae hordei ℥. i. ss. croci ℈. i. mucilag. sem. cydon. ℥. i. cerae q. s. F. unguentum.

Supra verò locum ambustum tale de­fensivum imponatur.

Recipe Pulv. boli Arm. sang. dracon. balaust. st. ros. rub. ana ℥. ss. olei ros. ℥. iij. cerae ℥. i. ss. aceti parum. F. ungu­entum.

The Eschar being removed, the Ul­cer must be cleansed with new butter washed and mixed cum emplastro [Page 112] Stiptico, to the form of an unguent.

Then, to replenish it with flesh,

Recipe olei rosati ℥. viij. olei ovorum ℥. ij. vitri albiss. tenuissime triti, ℥. i. cortic. med. sambuci, manipulum i. ce­rae albae ℥. i. semis. coquantur simul, & fiat unguentum.

When the flesh is equal, and no­thing but cicatrice wanting, apply this unguent: ℞. Diachilonis communis ℥. ij. unguenti populeonis, ol. rosati, ana ℥. iij. mucilag. sem. cotoneorum in aqua rosacea extractae ℥. iiij. vitellorum ovo­rum, numero ij. fiat unguentum.

The Cicatrice being made, it shall be good to anoint the place every day with ol. de vitellis ovorum. But remem­ber, that in the mean time, while you follow on the Cure, you look to his diet, that it be cooling and moisten­ing.

Let Sorrel, Endive, Lettice, and Borrage be boiled in his broth: contrà, à calidis, acribus, salsis abstineat. Let him refrain from Wine, and drink Barley water, or thin Posset ale. Also if need be, a vein may be opened and some cooling Potion may be given, [Page 113] to evacuate superfluous humours.

If a man be burnt of Mercury, fo­ment the place affected with linen clothes wet in milk, and applyed as hot as may be suffered, twenty times, or more; ever renewing them as they wax cold: after that, with butter oft heated, and poured into cold water, vel in aqua ex semine ranarum, and la­boured to a most white unguent, dress the place, to draw out the fire. Last of all, heal it as other plain wounds. Pain of the teeth, and trembling of the hands, particular accidents of this burning, may thus be remedied. Wash the hands in aqua vitae, and gargle with aqua lavendulae.

Against the scalding of mineral water, or of melted metals (if any such chance) ℞. Olei nucum lb. semis. sevi cervini, lib. i. butyri praeparati, lb. i. semis. fiat unguentum, & utere. Vel

Recipe Adipis suillae, id est, lardi concis­libram unam; let it be dissolved in Rosewater, then strained through a linen cloth, then wash it four times with the water of henbane, or some other of that kinde, then let it be in­corporated [Page 114] with eight yelks of Eggs, and so make an oyntment. It is a medi­cine which the women in the Hospital of Paris do happily use against burns.

If the Combustion be occasioned by lightning, then sweat must be pro­voked by the force of some Antidote. The Arteries, Lips, Tongue, and Nostrils must be anointed with Trea­cle Wine.

If the part be burnt beyond hope of recovery, ℞. Colophoniae, lb. i. picis communis lb. semis. cerae ℥. iij. olei & terebynthinae, quantum sufficiat, ma­laxetur, & fiat emplastrum; which must be applied till the dead be divi­ded from the living flesh. Lastly, finish the healing with your Stipticum Plai­ster.

When the eye-lids, lips, sides of the fingers, neck, the arm-pits, hams, and bending of the elbow are burnt, you must have a great care that you suffer not the parts to touch one the other, without the interposition of some linen rags; otherwise in con­tinuance of time they would grow and stick together.

[Page 115] If the Combustion shall happen in the face, ℞. Albuminum ovorum nu­mero ij. aquae rosarum ℥. i. olei rosarum ℥. ij. misce & utere. And if it be oc­casioned à pulvere tormentario, the grains, if possible, must be taken out cum acu vel alio instrumento.

For burnings of the eyes, warm breast milk dropped in, is very much commended.

Si venae & arteriae, ut & nervi, com­busti sint, ℞. succi lumbricor. ℥. ii. pin­gued. human. gallinae, ursi, ana ℥. i. spir. vini ʒ. ij. misce.

In burnings of the joynts, you must labour to stop the afflux of humors; and lest the nerves be contracted, or the joynt become crooked, topica ano­dyna applicanda; ut ℞. olei lil. albi amigd. d. lumbricor. ana ℥. i. pingued. gallinae, human. ana ℥. semis. unguent. dialtheae ʒ. vi. gummi elemi ʒ. ij. misce. F. unguentum.

Si verò nervi contracti sint, & jun­cturae incurvatae, universalibus praemissis, pars affecta primo fovenda decocto emolliente, parato è rad. althaeae, bryoniae, lil. alb. fol. althaeae, malvae, chamae­pit. [Page 116] ft. chamaemeli, hyperici, semin. l [...]ni, faenugraeci. Afterwards anoint with this unguent:

Recipe unguenti dialtheae, ℥. i. pin­gued. gallinae, human. anseris, ana ℥. semis. succi lumbricor. ℥. i. misce.

Et imponendum empl. diachyl. s. & de meliloto.

Caput primum.
De Oedemate.

[...], Oedema. is a swelling caused by Flegmatick matter, which nature expells into the parts of the Body. Vel ut Wec­kerus docet, est laxus quidam at que in­dolens tumor, ex pituitoso humore in par­ticulam aliquam influente exurgens.

Oedema aliquando est morbus, teste Galeno, locis citatis. Aliquando vero est symptoma, ut evenire solet in cruribus, & pedibus eorum, qui aqua inter cutem laborant, & in tabidis, & aliis, qui malum corporis habitum patiuntur.

Quò ad Causam, Signa & Prognosti­ca, vide meum Enchiridion Medicum, lib. 3. pag. 285.

[Page 120] For the Cure, Curatio. first prescribe a fit and convenient diet; lest the Patient eat such things as may occasion flegm and crudities.

Let his bread be well baked, his meats rather roasted then boiled, and such as may generate good blood. His wine ought to be white, clear, and oderiferous.

Let the Patient use exercise before meat, so by little and little to spend this humor, and restore the native heat.

Let him sleep little, because much sleep breedeth cold humors; let him avoid grief and sadness. And if he be of a weak body, let him abstain from venery, lest he fall into an uncu­rable coldness, from whence a greater measure of crudity will arise.

Secondly, prepare and concoct the humor with this Syrup:

Recipe Syrupi de Hysopo vel de absyn­thio, de staechade, oxymellit. scillitici, ana ℥. ij. semis. Aquae salviae, betonicae, foe­niculi, major anae, ana ℥. iiij. cinnamomi, aromat. rosat. ana ʒ. i. misce & fiat sy­rupus pro v. dosibus. Then purge with [Page 121] these Pills: ℞. Pilularum cochiarum, Pilularum arthriticarum, ana ʒ. semis cum syrupo de stachade fiant pilulae n. ix. Or if you please, this potion, which I have often used with admirable suc­cess. ℞. Diaphoeniconis ʒ. ij. pulveris radicum jalappae, pulv. cathol. benedi­ctae laxativae, ana ʒ. ss. vini albi, vel decocti communis q. s. misce, & fiat po­tio. Sometimes a vomit proveth very effectual, praesertim si tumor est in par­tibus inferioribus, & tunc commendatur ad revulsionem. ℞. Pulveris folior. Asa­ri ℈. ss. vel gr. xv. vel ℈. i. oxymellit. simplicis q. s. misce.

Also a vomit may be made of the juyce of the leaves; you may take seven, nine, or eleven, stamp them, then put thereto a sufficient quantity of oxymel simplex, strain it and give it the Patient.

In the mean time, to defend and strengthen the affected part, an Epi­thema may be made ex duabus aceti par­tibus, & una aquae, wherein a new sponge being dipped, minister it to the place; sed prius ungatur totus tumor cum oleo de Chamomillae calido.

[Page 122] Deinde (si oedema in cruribus, seu pe­dibus, seu brachiis fuerit) cum fascia li­getur membrum: But on such wise make your binding on the spunge, that the beginning of your rowling be beneath, and the finishing above. If the former Epithem be not sufficient;

Recipe flor. ros. rubr. chamaemel. fol. myrti, absynth. ana M. ss. balaust. nuc. cupress. ana M. i. alumin. salis commun. ana ℥. i. ss. Coq. in aceto & aqua vel lixiv. & per spongiam, linteum, aut stup­pam applicetur.

Postea, in statu, ad discutientia & ex­siccantia veniendum. In hunc usum com­mendatur aqua calcis, aut lixivium ex cineribus vitis per spongiam applicatum. Essicax quoque est medicamentum, quod ex ruta, me [...]e & sale conficitur. Vel

Recipe Stercoris columbini ʒ. x. far. sabarum ℥. i. ss. sulphuris ℥. i. mellis ℥. i. ss. fucci brassicae q. s. fiat emplastrum.

Commendatur etiam stercus bubulum. Emollit enim & resolvit: cum sulphure, thure, inelle, aceto, ac decocto brassicae, potest fieri Cataplasma. In qua omnium medicamentorum applicatione observare utile est, ut antequam Emplastra seu [Page 123] guenta & Linimenta applicantur, priùs pars calefiat, frictionibus & fotibus; otherwise medicaments will scarcely do their duty, by reason of the great coldness of the part, being not suffi­cient of it self to assimilate the nou­rishment, or to expel the superfluous and unprofitable humor.

Let a fomentation be made ex deco­cto radicum brioniae, flor. sambucini, Anethi, chamaemel. fol. betonicae, salviae, pulegii. calamenthi, origant, hyssopi, ab­synthii, & similium. The frictions must be made of hot linen cloathes, for so the native heat together with the blood and spirits is recalled to the part, and fuliginous humors contain­ed under the skin are resolved, where­by the strength of the part is very much recovered.

Si in Oedemate fuerit dolor, tunc.

Recipe olei de chamomilla ℥. i. ss. ping. gallinae ℥. ss. vermium terrestrium lotor. cum vino M. semis. misc. & bulliant si­mul unic à ebullitione, & calide ung at ur mane, & serò.

If the matter be found gross and unfit for resolution, then it must be [Page 124] brought to suppuration, cum unguento diachylone, vel

Recipe rad. liliorum, ℥. ij. cepae ℥. ij. ss. altheae, malva, ana M. i. ss. chamo­millae, meliloti, ana P. i. far. sem. lini fanugraeci, ana ℥. i. Coquantur & te­rantur, addendo axungiae suillae, ℥. iiij. misce & fiat emplastrum. When the tumor is ripe, let it be opened with some hot Iron, or Caustick.

Si autem oedema tendat ad duritiem, tunc vide curam scirrhi. Vel

Recipe mucilaginis altheae, sem. lini, mucilaginis faenugraeci, ana ℥. iiij. Fa­rinae hordei ℥. iij. Axungiae gallinae, olei liliorum, ana ℥, ij. Butyri ℥. i. Croci ℈. i. Ammoniaci, bdellii, styracis, ana q. s. vitellorum ovorum num. ij. misce, & calide ungatur, & desuper ponatur hoc emplastrum.

Recipe mucilag. rad. altheae, sem. li­ni, faenugraec. pingued. anserin. medullae crur. vituli, rad. ireos, fl. chamaemel. ana ℥. ii. styrac. liquid. myrrhae, thuris, ol. chamaemel. ana ℥. i. cerae q. s. F. em­plastrum.

In the tlme of the Cure, it will be good to give the Patient some of this [Page 125] mixture, the quantity of a nut, an hour and a half before every meal.

Recipe confervae florum staechados, con­servae rorismarini, ana ℥. i. ss. Speci­erum aromatici rosati ℈. ij. cum syrupo de corticibus citri, fiat electuarium.

Also Lozenges Diarrhodonis Abbatis & aromatici rosati I have often given with good success. Every morning fasting let the Patient eat a Lozenge weighing ʒ. ij. For this vou must re­member, that if the infirmity arise from the stomach, or from any other part, the part from whence it comes must be strengthened; if from the whole habit of the body, let attenua­ting penetrating and opening medi­cines be prescribed.

If it come to an Ulcer, then whilst it is foul, cleanse it cum mundificativo ex apio, or apply unguentum apostolo­lorum: after it is cleansed, fill it up with flesh; and when it is plain, cover it with a cicatrize, as in many other places you are instructed.

Quò ad pleniorem curationis cognitio­nem, vide meum Enchiridion Medicum, lib. 3. pag. 286.

[Page 126] Mr. Denis Pomaret, Observa­tio. a skilful Chi­rurgion of Montpelier, in one of his Observations tells us, that his Daugh­ter had an oedematous or flegmatick tumor, upon the Region of her Loins, as big as the palm of ones hand, crude and not come to suppura­tion, the which (as he saith) was dis­cuss'd within a few dayes, by a Plaister framed of one dram of crude mercury, and one ounce of Diapalma.

This unguent following I have of­tentimes used with admirable good suc­cess; insomuch, that very many have been cured therewith, especially such as were troubled with an Oedema phlegmonodes.

Recipe Sambucini, chamaemeli, Ma­tricariae, Betonicae, Valerianae, Alsine, Senecionis, Mercurialis, Cicutae, Apii, Symphyti majoris, Chelidonii, ana M. i. Concisa & contusa omnia minutin, co­que in lib. iij. butyri maialis, & olei ex pe­dibus bovinis, lib. ss. Exprimatur unguen­tum dum calet, & separat is faecibus. It is an excellent discussive medicine.

Caput 2.
De Emphysemate, seu inflatione.

[...], Emphy­sema. inflatio, or a flatulent tumor, springeth of a gathering of windy spirits, either under the skin, or else under the membranes which co­ver and cloath the bones or muscles.

Causa hujusmodi inflationum est calo­ris nativi imbecillitas, Causa. in materia pitui­tosa a ad flatus excitandos disposita. For truly, heat may take up such a vapour of a moist substance, but it cannot divide nor discuss it. Yea although the native heat he sufficiently power­ful; yet because the humor lyeth deep, or is kept by the thickness of some membrane, tendon, or ligament, the stirred up vapour cannot exhale. And so you see that materia humida, caloris imbecillitas, & meatuum densitas, ad inflationis generationem concurrant.

The Signes of inflammation are these; Signa. a certain renitency or resistance, perceived by pressing the tumor with your finger, and sometimes a noise as [Page 128] if you smote upon a Bottle or Ta­bour, especially if much winde be contained therein. The tumor is ve­ry clear and bright, being neither red nor hot, but rather cold and white, as in an Oedema. It often possesseth the joynts, and especially the knees, and is very difficult to be resolved.

Moreover, there is felt oftentimes windiness throughout the whole body, modo huc, modo illuc discurrens, ac dolo­rem extensivum pariens.

Flatulentus seu vaporosus spiritus, Progno­stica. qui non discutitur, multa parit incommoda. But a breathing and windy vapour, coursing up and down within the bo­dy, with pain and great anguish, is greatly to be feared, because it doth seem to be drawn from some veno­mous matter.

Si flatulentus tumor sit magnus, mag­nam calor is delilitatem arguit, & ma­teriae multitudinem; ideóque periculo­sior & contumacior est.

Si flatulenta materia in musculis deti­neatur, curatu est difficilis, ut Aetius scribit. Curatio.

The Cure of inflations is dis­patched [Page 129] by three intentions. The first consisteth of a just and due observa­tion of diet. The second, of a good concoction; and the third dependeth on the discussing and dispersing of the windy spirit, which is assembled in the member.

As touching the first, you must ab­stain from all gross, viscous, raw, fleg­matick and windy meats: cujusmodi sunt Dulcia, Legumina, Lac, Caseus, Fructus crudi, Rapae, Castaneae, & alia id genus, quae spiritum flatuosum pro­creant.

Let his bread be of Barley, where­in also beside salt there is some cum­min mingled. Let the flesh which he eateth be rather roasted than sodden (ut supra dictum est de Oedemate) and especially the flesh of birds. Let his drink be white odoriferous wine: and let him use the decoction of Cicers cum cepis, petroselino, calamintha, ruta, & cumino.

As touching the second intention; after preparing and purging the hu­mors, you must strengthen and cor­roborate the vertue concoctive, cum [Page 130] speciebus aromaticis, electuariis, & con­fectionibus: ut sunt Diacuminum, dia­calaminte, aromaticum rosatum, & si­milia. Vel fiat Tragea ex his.

Recipe cymini, anisorun, marathri, baccarum lauri, ana ℥. ss. Glycyrrhizae, quam liquiritiam vocant, galangae, gin­giberis albi, ana ʒ. ij. piper is longi, cu­bebarum, garyophyllorum, sem. rut, ana ʒ. i. saeniculi dulcis, coriandrorum, ana ʒ. i. ss. sacchari rub. lb. ij. cinnamomi ʒ. v. misc. ex omnibus pulverizat is fiat tragea, de qua capiat cochlear unum cum modico vini odoriferi, per horam unam, aut duas, ante cibum.

This powder following I have of­ten used, with most admirable good success.

Recipe cinnamomi, nucis moschatae, cardamomi, ana ℥. ss. zingiberis ʒ. vi piper is longi ʒ. i. croci ℈. ss. ex his pul­vis fiat, quo in omnibus cibis uti licebit.

Extra ungatur stomachus cum oleo costino, de ruta, de ment. de absynth. de nuc. moschat. de spica, aut cum unguen­to stomachico Galeni.

Now to prepare the flegmattick matter, out of which windiness is ea­sily [Page 131] gendered; ℞. syrupi de duabus ra­dicibus, mellis ros. ana ʒ. vi. aquae foeni­niculi, aquae capil. ven. aquae scaotosae ana ℥. i. misce, & fiat syr. pro una dosi; and so after accordingly for sive or six doses. Then purge either with Cly­ster or Potion; vide meum Enchiridi­on Medicum, lib. 1. pag. 92. and there you have a Clyster fit for this purpose.

Your Potion you may thus prepare.

Recipe diaphaeniconis ℥. ss. pulveris radicum jalappae ʒ. ss. benedictae laxa­tivae ℈. i. olei è baccis juniperi gut. ij. cum aqua faeniculi fiat potio brevis.

The third intention is accomplish­ed by applying some medicine which can both concoct, digest, and mode­rately binde.

Recipe oleor. anethi & de ruta, ana ℥. i. olei chamomelini, laurini, ana ℥. ss. pulv. cymini ʒ. iij. cerae albae ʒ. iij. misce, len­to igne fiat unctio, & calide ungatur, & desuper ponatur spongia infusa in hac decoctione calida.

Recipe chamomillae, anethi, foeniculi, anisorum, salis com. cymini. ana M. i. misc. & bulliant in quantitate sufficienti vini & lixivii ad consumptionem tertiae [Page 132] partis, & utere pro balneo.

Emplastrum è baccis lauri, & de se­mine sinapi etiam commendatur.

Situmor suerit in juncturis, & maxi­mè in genu;

Recipe sem. anisi subtiliter pulverisati, sem. faeniculi, cumini, carui, ana, quart. semis. farinae fabarum ʒ. i. succi ebuli & sambuci, vini arom. ana q. s. deco­quendo fiat emplastrum seu Cataplasma, & utere. Obser­vatio. I read of one that was cured therewith.

Accidit aliquando, quod ventositas corrumpitur à materia venenosa, & transmittitar de membro ad membrum cum dolore intolerabili. In this case it will be good to use that incomparable oyntment, set down in the Chapter de Phygethlo; for very many intollerable pains have been removed therewith.

Efficax quoque est emplastrum de Vigo cum Mercurio, ut Paraeus docet. Or if you please, see my Enchiridion Me­dicum, lib. 2. pag. 266. and there you have a powerful Liniment, with some of which you may mix a little unguen­tum dialthaea, to mitigate its strength.

But if these prove not sufficient; [Page 133] then binde the part both above and be­neath, and in the midst between open the tumor with your incision knife, or a hot iron, so as that the venomous matter may have easie passage out; this done, dress up the wound with a mix­ture made ex aloë, bolo armeno, ol. ro­saceo, & aceto. After three or four dayes, endeavour to fill it up with flesh, and so to cicatrize it, as art re­quireth.

Caput 3.
De TUmore aquoso.

Tumor aquosus springs from a fleg­matick waterish or wheyish hu­mour. Tumor aquosus.

The cause is the evil disposition of the liver, Causa. alwayes distributing uncon­cocted juyce. So that the vertue or fa­culty of the members is altered through a cold and corrupted intem­perature of the body, and the naugh­tiness of nourishment declining to aquosity, ut Galenus annotavit lib. 6. de symptomatum causis.

[Page 134] Tumores aquosi sunt molles, laxi, Signa. & sine dolore: ut observatum est in oede­mate.

Si verò premuntur, prementis digiti vestigium non remanet, sic ab oedemate distinguuntur, & si ad lucem vel cande­lam eos spectare detur, pellucidi ferè ap­parent.

Distinguitur etiam tumor aquosus à flatulento, laxitate, nisi flatus multos ad­mixtos habeat, gravitate, fluctuatione, quae percipitur quando pars contrectatur: for at the pressing with your fingers, there is heard a noise or murmur as of a bladder half filled with water.

Ipsi tumores aquosi periculosi non sunt, Progno­stica. qui à nullo viscerum vitio foventur.

Waterish tumors do happen oftener in the feet, in the stones and cods, in the head, and in the joynts, than in any other parts of the body. And as a flatuous vapour is seldom found with­out a waterish humor, so a waterish or serous humor is scarce contained at any time in any member without a windy spirit.

Et si tumores aquosi periculosi non sunt; tamen dissiculter curantur, cùm [Page 135] humor coctionem non recipiat, & tar­dius discutiatur.

In vitae regimine, Curatio. ac in alterandis, evacuandisque humoribus, recurre ad adematis vel empbysematis curam.

Quantum ad localia. Conveniunt ea, quae dicta sunt in Apostemate ventoso, in hernia aquosa, ac etiam in oedemate; prae­ter haec, applicabis etiam spongiam in­fusam in lixivio, in quo haec decocta sint.

Recipe salis com. sal. nitri, sulphuris, ana ʒ. iij. & calida lig abis super aposte­ma. Now to arme the parts against the sharpness of the lee, ℞. salis ni­tri ℥. semis [...] sulphuris ʒ. iij. pulveris baccarum lauri ℥. i. ammoniaci ℥. semis. olei rutacei, cerae q. s. F. Linimentum, & utere.

This Plaister following described by Avicen in curatione scrophularum, is of great commendation.

Recipe sem. sinapi, sem. urticae, sul­phuris, spumae maris, aristolochiae ro­tundae, & bdeblii, ana ℥. i. ammoniaci, olei antiqui, cerae, ana ℥. ij. fiat empla­strum.

Si verò materia discuti non possit, tu­mor aperiatur, after the same manner [Page 136] as we mentioned in a Phlegmon. For oftentimes this kinde of remedy must be necessarily used, not onely by rea­son of the contumacy of the humor which gives no place to the resolving medicines, but also because it is shut up in its proper cist or bag, the thick­ness of which frustrates the force of the resolving medicines, neither suf­fers it to penetrate into the humor. As Paraeus found by experience in a maid of seven years old, Observa­tio. troubled with a Hydrocele or waterish rupture, to whom when he had rafhly (as himself confesseth) applyed resolving medi­cines of all sorts, to dissolve it, at length he was forc'd to open it with his knife; not onely to evacuate the contained matter, but also that he might pluck out the bag, which unless it were cut up by the root, would be a means, as he saith, to cause a relapse.

Many waterish tumours have been cured with Rose-vinegar and a little salt added thereto, a spunge being dip­ed therein and applyed, the which as Galen writes, must lye somewhat long upon the part.

Caput 4.
De Jonthis seu varis aut Cossis, & Psydraciis.

[...] vari seu Cossi, Jonthi. are little hard Tumors on the skin of the face, curdled up of an hard thick jnyce.

They arise from an alimentary hu­mor, Causa. for the most part, which insi­nuates it self into the pores of the skin; vel, ut Valescus scribit, Caussae materiales sunt phlegma salsum, aut hu­mores adusti, aut cholera adusta, aut mclancholia adusta, quibus sanguis com­miscetur.

Cognoscuntur facilè, Signa. ut Celsus ait: for they are of the bigness of Hemp­seeds, and they infest young people that are inclined to venery, and fruit­ful; but chaste withal and continent.

Qui vari ex solo crassiore alimento oriuntur, Progno­stica. stabiles sunt. But if cholerick blood be mingled with the Alimenta­ry juyce, as sometimes it happens; then they shed forth an ichor, and turn to Ulcers.

[Page 138] If there be a deep redness in the face, with pustules, malum curatu dif­ficile est, & penè impossibile; and al­though the pustules be removed by strong medicaments, yet the redness continues, & magis intenditur.

Quando rubedo conjuncta est cum in­flatione faciei & raucedine vocis, lepra imminentis signum est.

The Cure is wrought, Curatio. per discutien­tia, & emollientia, premising such things as purifie the blood. Commen­dations are given to oyl of Vitriol, Sulphur, or Tartar smeared on in the evening, and washed off again in the morning with warm water wherein farina fabarum has been steeped. Vel

Recipe sulphuris vivi ℥. ʒ. i. thuris ʒ. ij. camphorae ʒ. i. aquae rosarum lib. i. misc. & lavetur facies.

But this Plaister following is held pro secreto: ℞. pulv. sem. nigellae ʒ. iij. coquatur in aceto q. s. & pro emplastro applicetur.

Moreover Argentum vivum mixed with some convenient unguent hath been oftentimes used with good success.

[Page 139] But first, Si vari, praesertim à san­guine, oriuntur, phlebotometur cephalica. Caveat penitus à caepis, alliis, sinapi, na­sturtio, vino, nisi sit acerbum, cum mul­ta aqua. Capiat lactucas, portulacam cum aceto.

Si autem fuerint à cholera adusta, non indigent phlebotomia, sed mundificetur sanguis cum epithymo & sero caprino & polypodio.

Si fuerint à melancholia adusta, di­geratur materia cum syrupo de fumoter­ra. Concocta materia evacuetur cum in­fusione epithymi & senae in sero caprino vel in aqua fumaria.

Psydracia are hard whitish pustules, Psydra­cia. which yield out matter by pressing, or they are little swellings in the head like pushes, arising from a salt and nitrous flegm, mingled sometimes with blood, and sometimes with a cholerick humor.

They are cured by these following Compositions; as Trallianus and Pau­lus Aegineta do teach us.

Recipe rutae, aluminis, mellis, ana q. s. misce, fiat unguentum. Wherewith anoint the head after it is shaven. Or [Page 140] Recipe spuma argenti, cerussae, ana ℥. ss. alum. fol. rutae virid. ana ʒ. ij. these being well bruised and mingled toge­ther with vinegar and oyl, anoint the part affected therewith. Also unguen­tum Enulatum is very much com­mended.

Caput 5.
De Leuce.

[...], Leuce. is a continued blot, chang­ing the colour and substance, both of skin and flesh. Vel, ut Celsus scribit, Est faedus cutis color, ex malo par­ticulae habitu proveniens, nutrimentum bene assimilare non potentis.

It springs from flegmatick blood, Causa. with which the flesh being nourished, first becomes of a middle nature, be­tween that of Animals that have blood, and that of bloodless Live­wights; and afterward when it cannot change it into the form of red flesh, it becomes like the flesh of Oysters and Locusts.

[Page 141] 'Tis known, Signa. both from what is set down in the description: and because it makes the hairs fall off, and others grow in their place like down. The skin is flatter than in other places, Si acu feriatur, humor aqueus & albus effluit.

Leuce, quae dum fricatur non rubes­cit, Progno­stica. & si pungatur, sanguinem non emit­tit, incurabilis est.

The Cure is desperate, if the blot continually increase.

If it be small, and after rubbing it shew some redness, there is some hopes of Cure.

Leuce quae in manu aut pede est, est difficilis curationis.

[...] difficilior curatu est, quàm [...]: & antiquior etiam alphus fa­ciliùs curatur, quàm recens leuce.

The Cure is performed, first, Curatio. by preparation of humors per calefacien­tia & incidentia. Secondly, by evacu­tion per phlegmagoga. Thirdly, by ex­ternal applications, the parts being first rubbed with a course cloath.

Venae sectionem, propter sanguinis fri­giditatem, non exigit.

[Page 142] Quó ad plenam curationis cognitio­nem, vide infra, capite de Alpho.

Caput 6.
De Strumis, seu Scrofulis.

[...], Chaerades. Strumae, seu Scrofulae, ut Barbari loquuntur, are nothing else but hard kernels, contained with­in the little films, videlicet Glandulae, chiefly appearing in the neck, the arme-holes, and in the parts above the privy members.

The Latines call them Strumae, but the Greeks Chaerades, either truly be­cause of the stones called Chaerades growing in the Sea, or else because of those beasts called Sows, that bring forth a great company of Pigs at once (for these evils do rise up many toge­ther) which beasts are often infected with that disease. For Scrofae, that is to say Sues, have thick and glandulous necks, and commonly they be stru­mous and full of kernels.

Quó ad Causam & Signa, vide meum [Page 143] Enchiridion medicum, lib. 3. cap. 36. pag. 289.

Qui hanc patiuntur aegritudinem, Progno­stica. om­nium authorum consensu, sunt gulosi, aut nutrimento utuntur phlegmatico.

These kinde of Tumors do not lightly come to maturation: but if they do, and after be so healed, yet for the most part, they spring again, near the cicatrize of the old.

Children, by reason of their exces­sive eating and immoderate diet, are very often annoyed with strumae, but old men, ob causas contrarias, are seldom troubled therewith.

In infantibus sanantur, in juvenibus vero difficulter, in senibus autem dis­sicilius.

They which have a narrow and short forehead, straight temples, flat, as it were compressed, and large jaws, are subject to strumae: in talibus enim materia prompte derivatur ad collum, ut ex recentioribus chirurgis annotavit Henricus.

Little stumae, of a gentle conditi­on, and superficious in the skin, are ea­sily cured.

[Page 144] Redness, pain, and increasing of heat, do declare that those abscessions will either come to suppuration, or else degenerate into a Fistula or a Cancer.

Those Tumors which are new and tractable, may easily be discussed; but they which be hard and inveterate, can in no wise be resolved.

These evils called strumae, do great­ly differ among themselves; for some are without inflammation, or pain, ac mediocri duritie.

Aliae vero sunt cum dolore, inflamma­tione, & pulsatione. Istae malignae vo­cantur.

Aliae sunt magnae, antiquatae, ac venis, nervis, & arteriis infiltratae, malumque habent colorem.

Ab harum curatione omnino fugien­dum est, quoniam, ut habet Avicenna, in cancrum saepe degenerant.

Such as be moveable (which is a sign they are covered with a veil or Cystis called Tunica) and hang down­ward, are a great deal sooner healed, then they which are planted or surely fixed in the flesh: which if they be, it [Page 145] is an evident token that they are guarded about with no film or tunicle at all.

Quó ad curam universalem, Curatio. in vitae regimine, ac in alterandis evacuandis­que humoribus, ad oedematis vel emphy­sematis caput recurre.

Phlebotometur, si morbus, vires, & aetas permiserint, vena cephalica ejusdem lateris.

This Confection following is ex­ceedingly commended by some, and hath been oftentimes used with happy success. ℞. mellis ros. syrupi de stoecha­de, ana ℥. iiij. sacchari ℥. iij. agarici tro­chisacati ℥. ss. ℥. ss. salis gemmae, spicae, cin­namomi, galangae, ana ʒ. ij. caryophill­macis, ana ʒ. i. polypodii ʒ. i. ss. electu­arii indi majoris ℥. i. ss. turbith praepa­rati ʒ. ij. piperis longi ℈. ij. misc. & cum succo cidoniorum fiat confectio, de qua capiat unc. ss. pro vice, hora somni. Non solum phlegmaticam corporis com­plexionem rectificat, sed etiam ipsum phlegma educit.

Ad idem potio pluries experta, quae non solum sorophulas delet, sed etiam om­nes gutturis nodositates.

[Page 146] Recipe aquae florum genistae ℥. iij. ca­piat cum saccharo, tepidè, in ortu solis. Also Rosemary sodden in wine and drunk before meat, doth heal the Kings evil or pains in the throat, as Galen and Diascorides sayes.

Quantum ad localia, haec sunt ex­perta.

Recipe Stercoris columbi sicci, stercor. anseris sicci, & caprae, ana q. s. misc. & fiat pulv. & cum pinguedine gallinae fiat emplastrum, & utere.

Ad idem, probatum in strumis, & in omnibus duris apostematibus;

Recipe rad. liliorum alborum cocta­rum sub prunis M. iiij. pistentur cum storace, & medulla cruris vituli, & mel­le fiat emplastrum. Ad idem exper­tum.

Recipe rad. liliorum alb. & rad. de capparib. q. s. pistentur cum melle & fiat emplastrum, & utere: hoc emplastrum in paucis diebus strumas resolvit. Cum his medicaminibus, strumae aut ad suppura­tionem, aut ad resolutionem devenient. If they tend to suppuration, see the Chapter de Bubone, or that, de Paro­tide, for in them many things may [Page 147] be found quae in hoc casu conneniunt.

Quó ad pleniorem curationis cogni­tionem, vide meum Enchiridion Medi­cum, lib. 3. pag. 289. & 290.

Moreover, as touching manual ope­ration, which is to be used, when they will neither give place to emol­lients, nor yet be ordered by matura­tives, see Weckerus de strumis, in lib. 3. de morborum externorum curatione, pag. 677.

Strumae are commonly cured by the hand of the Prince, and otherwise therefore, seldomer striven withal amongst us.

Some waste these tumors with the hearb Scrophularia, Observa­tio. commonly called blinde Nettle, and water Betony. Others consume them cum radice ur­ticae mortuae. But the root of the shrub Ruscus or Butchers broom, is exceedingly commended. The Pa­tient is to take ʒ. i. of the powder thereof in wine, every day for a while.

Formius, a most experienced Chi­rurgion of Montpelier, doth declare, that a girle ten years old, had hard Kings-Evil swellings on three of her [Page 148] fingers, which were cured by the smoak of vinegar poured upon red hot flints continued morning and evening for a moneth together. In­deed this remedy is highly extolled by Galen ad tumores scirrhosos discu­tiendos.

Zacutus exceedingly commends this following unguent, which he takes God to witness never failed him.

Take the great root of Briony well washt, and cut it in small pieces, boil it in lib. iij. of oyl till it be wasted, to the straining adde Turpentine lib. ss. wax ℥. iiij. the vessel being removed from the fire, make an unguent. This he spread upon cloth, and applyed it twice a day; if there be no Ulcer, it either mollifies and resolves them, or brings them to suppuration.

This Emplaster following is held for a secret, and hath been oftentimes used with most happy success. Inso­much that very many have been per­fectly cured therewith.

Recipe Olei veteris clari ℥. v. picis siccae ℥. iij. labdani ℥. i. spumae argenti ℥. vi. Galbani colati ℥. ii. F. emplastrum s. a.

[Page 149] Every third or fourth day (whilst the scrophulous tumors are knotty and hard) let some of the plaister be applyed; if they be not thereby dis­cussed, but tend to suppuration, then every other dayes application will serve: And after they break, apply every day a fresh plaister until they be whole.

Caput 7.
De Nodo.

NOdus is a small, Nodus. round tumor, hard and immoveable, named from a rope tied on a knot.

Oritur ex gypse â pituit â. Causa. Aliquando etiam percussione accidit; aut ex malo vitae regimine generatur.

Cognoscitur ex iis quae in definitione posita sunt. Signa. Cistin etiam habet, & pas­sim extra nervos, & adenes, maximè in articulis, ut in nodosa arthritide, ex­oritur.

Guido Cauliacensis affirms knots com­monly to grow in nervous bodies; but [Page 150] at this time they more usually arise on the bones of such as have the French disease.

Nodi callosi seu ossei, Progno­sticum. si inveterati, rarò aut nunquam curantur.

For the Cure, Curatio. first prescribe the same diet that before is appointed in the Chapter de oedemate. Then pre­pare and concoct the humor cum melle ros. oxymell. simpl. vel oxymell. scillit. & syrupo de staechade, de duabus vel quinque radicibus, cum aquis faeniculi, fumiterrae, & cichoreae. When the humor is suffi­ciently prepared, then purge with this potion.

Recipe Diaphaeniconis ʒ. ij. pulveris cathol. ʒ. i. benedictae lax. ℈. i. vini albi vel decoctionis communis q. s. misc. & fiat potio.

Quantum ad localia. Emollias ac comprimas nodum digitis madefactis cum saliva, & sale, quoniam sic comprimen­do, multoties frangitur cistis, & resol­vitur nodus; hoc expertum est, & ma­ximè in palpebris. Postea desuper ap­plicabis laminam plumbi perforatam, quae cum sascia, & plumaceolo ipsum nodum comprimat. Sic per multos dies [Page 151] procedas, quoniam cum hoc medica­mento ut plurimùm sanantur. Vide in­fra, capite de Ganglio.

Moreover, Sennertus doth commend a Cataplasme paratum ex radicibus man­dragorae, foliis cicutae, hyoscyami, urticae mortuae, coctis in aceto, & cum axungiis emollientibus mistis.

Si autem nodus resolvi non potest, de­veniendum est ad incisionem, quae duob. modis fieri debet. Ʋno modo secundùm nodi longitudinem. Alio modo, secundùm crucis figuram.

In hac cura chirurgus primò dividat cutem, postea omni diligentia excoriet cistim, caveatque ne rumpatur, sed inte­gra extrahatur; (yea the very purse or bladder, wherein the humor is lodged, must be wholly taken out, ne revivis­cat) quo facto, ne exeat sanguis, implea­tur tota cavitas cum lichiniis in albu­mine ovi imbutis. In secunda die medi­caberis cum digestivo, deinde cum ab­stersivo, ut alia ulcera. Ever remem­bring that in such kindes of operati­ons, medicines asswaging pain are to be used: as the white of an Egge, with Rose oyl.

[Page 152] If there hap to remain any part of the bladder, you must waste it away by corrosive medicines: as unguentum Apostolorum, unguentum Aegyptiacum, or the powder of Mercury, cum alumi­ne saccharino admixtis. At si nodus ad cancrum tenderet, vide infra, capite de Cancro.

Caput 8.
De Ganglio seu Lupia.

[...] seu Lupia, Ganglion. is a Tumor scituate upon a bone, by rea­son of a preternatural twisting or wreathing of a nerve, which is grown together into one body; unde Pau­lus nervi concretionem vocat; Avicen­na verò apostema glandulosum; sed re­centiores Chirurgi glandulam distin­guunt à vero ganglio, quòd illa sit mol­lior, mobilis, secreta à partibus vicinis, solis incidens adenibus: & certè nihil est aliud, quàm adenis tumor obduratus, qui solo situ à nodo & ganglio distin­guitur.

[Page 153] Si verò aliter definire velis; Lupia est tumor serè mollis, durus interdùm, ro­tundus, & indolens, loca sicciora, & ner­vosa praecipuè occupans.

The subject are parts which are co­vered not with much flesh, but skin onely.

Quó ad causam, Causa. praeter percussionem & nervorum extensionem, quam in meo Enchiridio annotavi, aliae ex quibus oritur, ex crassa lentaque pituita, vel ex natu­rali melancholia, reperiuntur.

Quò ad Signa verò, sufficienter in meo libro supra citato, dixi & observavi.

Quantum ad praesagia, Progno­stica. dicere possu­mus quod in pudendis difficilis erit sanatio, in reliquis corporis partibus non aequè dif­ficilis.

Morbus hic diuturuus est, & saepe mul­tos annos durat, aegrósque usque ad mor­tom comitatur.

That which is inveterate and of long standing, is hard to cure.

Qui in juncturis sunt articuli, mem­bri totius motum impediunt.

Ganglium etiam circa articulum, nisi medicamentis tolli possit, incurabile est. Sectionem enim non admittit.

[Page 154] 'Tis cured by emollients, Curatio. as Empla­strum de Ammoniaco; and digesters: Quod si ista non satisfaciunt, suppuran­tibus, & sectione; de qua vide Authores.

Calmetius often cured it, Observa­tio. by rubbing it often with spittle onely. Howbeit, in others he hath used this method.

Recipe fol. sambuci, P. i. salis modi­cum, masticentur simul, and chafe the Ganglium therewith, till there be no juyce or moisture left: then anoint with this unguent.

Recipe mucilaginis altheae, lini & faenugraeci, ana ℥. ij. olei chamom. lil­lior. & irini, ana ℥. iij. olei sambuci ℥. ij. coquantur ad consum mucilaginum; postea adde, gummi ammoniaci, bdellii, opoponacis, & sag ap. in aceto dissol. ana ℥. i. ss. axungiae anseris & anatis, ana ℥. i. axungiae suillae veteris salis expert. lib. ss. medullae cruris vituli & cervi, ana ℥. [...] spumae maris ℥. ss. fiat unguentum.

A plaister.

Recipe emplastri oxycrocei ℥. i. mu­cilaginis altheae, lini saenugraeci, ana ʒ. v. euphorbii, sagapeni, ammoniaci, ana ℥. iij. resinae. ʒ. vi. cer. alb. ʒ. iij. dissolvantur gumini in aceto, fiatque emplastrum.

[Page 155] When Ganglium, by these means, is softned, upon the fresh removing of the Plaister, whilst the place is yet warm, rub, or press it so long, with your thumb, until the bladder or bag be broken, and then presently apply or binde hard thereunto plumbi lamina, hydrargyro illita; which must not be removed for nine or ten dayes; that so the remainder of the tumor may be wasted and consumed.

I reade of one that having a Ganglion in carpo manus was cured after this manner. The Tumor was daily bathed and rubbed, for a moneth together, cum oleo amydal. dulcium; and after that there was applyed a Plaister de ammoniaco. quo remedio ganglion tandem disparuit. Also many others have been cured cum iisdem remediis.

Quó verò ad plenam curationis cogni­tionem, vide meum Enchiridion Medi­cum, lib. 3: pag. 287. & 288.

Moreover, Formius in one of his observations tells us, that a certain young woman having a Ganglion in her face, as big as a Cherry, beneath her eye, upon the bone called Zigoma, it [Page 156] was discuss'd within a moneth, by ap­plying thereunto a plate of lead smear­ed with Quick-silver, and stuck upon a Plaister that it might be kept on. The plate with the Plaister were said upon the Tumor, and a bolster thereupon, and then he tied them too with such a swathe-band as Galen calls Semi­phalera.

Mr. Denis Pomaret, a skilful Chi­rurgion of Montpelier, doth declare, that a Capouchine-Friar, twenty five years old, had a Wenn upon his knee, which was grown so soft, that the matter within contained, seemed well digested. The Chirurgion would have it opened, but the Friar refused, saying, he had seen just such Ganglions discussed with the leaves of Sorrel, wrapped in a wet paper and roasted in the Embers, which was afterward incorporated with sifted ashes into the form of a pultis. This medicine he applied divers dayes warm, and the Tumor wholly vanished away.

Caput 9.
De Glandula.

GLandula is a Tumor like to a lit­tle kernel, Glandula. soft, moveable, and separate from the parts round about it; growing commonly in the emun­ctories. Vel, ut Fernelius scribit, est adenis tumor obduratus, à nodo gan­glione solo situ distans. Haec enim è solis adenibus, ille è nervis aut articulis emergit.

The Glandula takes its denomina­tion, as some men say, from an Acorn, called Glans, the which it somewhat resembles in the compass and form of the Tumor; or else because it most commonly breeds in the glandules, or emunctories of mans body.

Hic tumor à malo vitae regimine, Causa. & à materia phlegmatica, crassa, & gluti­nosa, exoritur.

The Signes are set down in the de­finitions. Singa. Moreover, it is commonly contained in its proper Cist or Bag.

Curatur tam in universali, Curatio. quam in [Page 158] particulari, ut nodi, idcirco ad nodi, cu­rationem recurre. Vide etiam supra, ca­pite de ganglio.

Ad glandulam parotis frigida, bubo­que frigidus, pertinent.

Caput 10.
De Atheromate.

[...], Athe­roma. is a Tumor void of pain, or change of colour, containing within the film or sinewy tunicle, a clammy humor, like to a kinde of pulse which is made of boil­ed meal. Atheroma igitur sic dictum est, quòd materiam pulti similem contineat, & à meliceride iu figura, & in humoris substantia differt.

The inward cause is a phlegmatick humor, Causa. which the signes of flegm abounding in the body, will declare. Outward causes be falls, strokes, sur­feiting, drunkenness, &c. ex aegri ser­mone dignoscuntur.

This Tumor appeareth in form and figure very long, Signa. and somewhat eleva­ted [Page 159] in height, which being pressed with the fingers, ob humoris lentorem & crassitudinem tardè retrocedit, & amotis digitis, tardè quoque regreditur. Interdum etiam in atheromatibus simul cum humore pultaceo lapidosa quaedam, duraque corpora, & alia tanquam sul­phuris ramenta inveniuntur. Yea when they are opened, you may see bodies of all sorts, far different from the com­mon matter of other Tumors, as sand, coals, chalk, hairs, straws, hey, horn, snails flesh, both hard and spongeous, gristles, bones, and sometimes whole creatures, as well living as dead. But for the most part, as I hinted before, the matter of these Tumors is like to hasty-pudding or pap, with which they feed little children.

These humors have no danger an­nexed with them; Progno­stica. notwithstanding for the most part they continue long. Saepe sponte tamen in abscessum desinunt. But in case they do not, non tam dif­ficulter, ut scrofulae & scirrhi, curantur.

Such as are found, as it were, hang­ing in the surface of the skin, and easie to be moved this way, and that [Page 160] way, facilè curabiles sunt.

Qui verò profundiùs inserti sunt, & ad motum non expositi, difficilius cur an­tur, & in Chirurgiae aggressione sum­mam diligentiam expetunt, for fear of a great flux of blood and convulsion by cutting a vein.

Quantùm ad curam universalem, re­curre ad curam nodi.

Circa vero localia, Curatio. atheroma discu­tientibus & suppurantibus aut erodenti­bus curatur, ac ferè sectione opus non habet.

Caput 11.
De Steatomate.

[...], Steatoma. is a Tumour in co­lour nothing differing from other parts, without pain, very gentle to be handled; small in the beginning, but much inlarging and increasing in process of time, wherein is contained a humor very like unto Suet or Tal­low, inclosed in its proper membrane.

Paraeus saith, that oftentimes it is [Page 161] found to be stuffed with other divers hard bodies, stony, bony or callous, like unto the claws of an hen. And Philoxenus reports that he sometimes saw flies in a Steatoma at the opening thereof, and such other like things, wholly dissenting from the common matter of Tumors.

Oritur ab humore phlegmatico, &c. Causa. ut supra, in capite de Atheromate, no­tavimus.

Cognoscitur ex iis, Signa. quae in definitione exposita sunt. Hic tumor etiam à meli­ceride & atheromate distinguitur duri­tie. Nam Steatoma plenum ac solidum est; and it doth so resist touching, that it will in no wise yield to the thrusting of the fingers: yea it is harder then the other two; and if it should chance to yield to the pressure of the finger, yet it doth not speedily and easily re­turn to its former figure, because the matter is more gross.

Quo ad prognostica, vide supra, in ca­pite praecedente.

Steatoma nec discuti, Curatio. nec exedi potest, sed sola sectione curatur, ut in nodis, glan­dulis, & aliis hujusmodi dictum fuit. [Page 162] Igitur si opus erit, ad ipsa capita recurre.

Sometimes this tumor hath a very broad top, and a very narrow and slender foundation; in such a case it will be good to cut it up quite even by the root, for so the labour of the Chirurgion shall be quickly ended, the Ulcer made plain and equal with the other parts, and the cure shortly dis­patched.

Caput 12.
De Meliceride.

[...] is a Tumor, Meliceris. void of pain, but round, wherein the humour which is included in some sinewy coat, is found somewhat thin, representing the substance of honey. Itaque meliceris ab atheromate differt figura & humoris substantia. Nam et figura rotundior, et humoris substantia tenuior.

It arises from a phlegmatick humor. Causa.

Signa in definitione exposita sunt. Signa.

Moreover, this tumor takes up a large [Page 163] space, and yields to the touch, as being a loose and soft body; and as it is ea­sily disposed and diffused by the pres­sure of the finger, so it quickly re­turns to its former place.

Quó ad Prognostica, vide supra, in ca­pite de Atheromate.

Meliceris tum medicamentis discutien­tibus, Curatio. tum erodentibus, tum Chirurgia, id est, sectione, curatur. Vide supra, in capite de nodo.

Paulus did usually discuss Melicerides with that medicine which containeth of pressed Grapes (exemptis acinis) viginti, Observa­tio. of the scourings of Brass ℥. ss. which medicine must not be applied before the member be nourished with foments. Another Emplaster ap­pointed for Meliceredes, which Aetius reported unto Leonides, is this.

Recipe Passularum, detractis vinaceis lib. i. cumini minutissime triti ℥. vi. ni­tri ℥. iij. bray all together in a mor­tar, and binde them to the tumor.

The way to cure it per exedentia, is, first to break the skin that incloseth the matter, with such medicines as can procure a crust; et postquam crusta de­ciderit, [Page 164] exedentia adhibeto; among which this remedy following doth no­tably waste without gnawing or bi­ting:

Recipe Squamae aeris ʒ. iiij. sandara­chae (i. e. arsenici rubr.) ʒ. ij. ellebori ni­gri tantundem: apply them with the oyl of Roses.

Caput 13.
De Testudine seu talpa.

TEstudo seu talpa, Testudo. is a soft Tumor, or not greatly hard, yet some­what big, in the which is contained a gross matter lying hid in a certain Tunicle, which doth so cleave unto the whole head of a man, that often­times it corrupteth the same. Vel si aliter-definire velis; Testudo (ut Guido scribit) abscessus est magnus, humoralis, mollis, latiore forma, in modum testudi­nis: unde nomen accipit, quae si in capite (inquit) nascatur, talpharia vel talpa dicitur: in collo bocium: in testiculis hernia.

[Page 165] Testudo (no doubt) is to be account­ed among the number of abscessions, and comprehended under Meliceris: but Talpa, because it containeth a white matter, is rather referred unto Atheroma then unto Meliceris: not­withstanding Guido affirmeth, that it is a kinde of Testudo, yea also that it is Testudo it self.

Causae ejus sunt, malum vitae regimen, Causa. et pituitae redundantia.

The Signes are set down in the de­finitions. Signa.

Si in capite sunt hujusmodi tumores, Progno­stica. periculosi sunt, ob cranii vicinitatem, cùm cranium corrodant et corrumpant, praecipuè circa suturas.

Qui verò absque cranii corruptione sunt, tutiùs curantur.

For the Cure, Curatio. first prescribe a fit and convenient diet; and let the Pa­tient abstain as much as possible from moist things, quoniam exiccatio in hoc casu plurimùm confert.

Alterantia sint, syrupi de staechade, de betonica, et mel. ros. cum aquis de beto­nica, et de cichorea.

[Page 166] Evacuantia sint, pilulae de hiera, et de agarico. Vel

Recipe pilularum cochiarum ʒ. ss. extracti Rudii ℈. i. Misce, et fiant pil. numero quinque, vel vi. Let the Patient swallow one over night, and the rest in the morning.

Quantùm ad localia. Si tumor sit sine ulcere et ossis corruptione, discutientia adhibeantur. Sed rarò discutientibus hi tumores curantur; and therefore if discussives prove not sufficient, suppu­rating medicines are to be used.

If the bone of the head be corrupt, apply this capital powder.

Recipe myrrhae, ireos, aloes, corticum thuris, aristolochiae longae, sarcocollae, ana ʒ. i. misc. et fiat pulv. subtillissimus, de qua ponatur parum super os mane et serò.

But if a great part of the bone be corrupt, as sometime it happens, then the powder may be used cum cerato de betonica. The corruption of the bone being removed, ulcus, ut alia ulcera, curatur.

Caput 14.
De Nata seu Napta, et Fungis.

NAta, seu Napta, Nata. is a great and fleshy tumor, not, in shape, un­like a melon or gourd, or rather the flesh of a mans Buttocks.

Materia quidem in eo interdum vide­tur carnosa (ut diximus) sed non verè caro est, verùm adipi similis, ideoque ad steatomat a referri potest.

This Tumor more usually breeds upon the buttocks, than upon any other part of the body: And it bor­roweth sundry names according to the variety of the fashion and member wherein it is placed.

Causae sunt eadem, Causa. quae in testudinis capite descriptae sunt.

Signa in definitione exposita sunt. Signa. Moreover, this Tumor is soft, and without any pain, except peradven­ture it be so great, that by continual drawing of the parts of that member, it bringeth some grief to the Pa­tient.

[Page 168] Si napta fuerit infiltrata inter vasa, Progno­stica. venas, nervos, et arterias; ac ejus radix lata, tunc est reliquenda cura: nam in­cur abilis est.

Quantùm ad universalia, in victus ratione, ac in alterantibus, et evacuan­tibus, ad curam oedematis, nodi vel te­studinis, recurre.

Si radix fuerit subtilis, Curatio. tunc fiat inci­sio juxt a membrum à quo napta ortum habet; facta incisione, permittatur quod aliquantulum sanguinis exeat, postea cauterizetur.

Si verò radix fuerit lata, in parte tuta, ac in membro ignobili, poteris eam aufer­re, sed prius fiat prognosticum de difficul­tate, ac de periculo ob sanguinis fluxio­nem, quae ut plurimum in hujusmodi casi­bus accidere solet.

There is, moreover, another certain kinde of Tumor much like unto Na­pta, Fungus. called Fungus, being a pale, soft, and spungy flesh, which springs forth from a hurt, wounded, or contused Membrane, with a small root, and broad top, like a Fungus or Mush­rome, increasing and decreasing, ac­cording to the plenty of the flowing [Page 169] matter, and industry of the Chirur­gion, by art, hindring its growth.

These kinde of Fungi are genera­ted from a superfluous humor, or, as Paraeus saith, from a melancholly blood, both in temper and consistence, which sweating forth through the hurt membranes, is changed into this substance by the formative faculty of the part.

Fungus is not covered with a skin as the Tumor Natta is, but hangs forth all naked and bare.

Malum hoc periculosum est, & curatu difficile, ac nisi rectè tractetur, facilè in cancri naturam abit.

Many things are propounded by Authours to dry, waste, and consume this superfluous flesh, as Sugar of Sa­turn, burnt Lead, Tutty prepared, the Ashes of Frogs and Sea-crabs.

Recipe sabinae ʒ. ij. acori veri, rad. aristolochiae rotundae, ana ʒ. ss. pulveri­sentur simul, asperg atur caro excrescens. Or else, ℞. Hermodactylorum combu­storum ℥. ss. make a powder for the same use. But if so be that this fun­gous flesh come to such growth, as to [Page 170] equal the bigness of an egge, it must be tied and straight twitched, close to the root with a silken thred; and when it shall fall away by reason of this binding, the place must be strew­ed with the forementioned powders.

Caput primum.
De Scirrho.

[...], Scirrhus. seu Sephiros ut Barba­ri loquuntur, is an hard Tu­mor without pain, spring­ing from a Melancholick hu­mor, which is thick, clammy, and ro­ping. Vel si aliter definire velis; Scir­rhus est Tumor durus & indolens, non tamen omnino sine sensu, ab humore me­lancholico naturali & minime corrupto procreatus, ut recentiores loquuntur Chirurgi.

Quó ad Causam & Signa, vide meum Enchiridion Medicum, lib. 3. pag. 291.

Scirrhus, Progno­stica. ut Galenus scribit, qui pla­nè omni sensu destituitur, non curatur.

[Page 174] Scirrhus verò, qui omni sensu non de­stituitur, etsi incurabilis non sit omnino, praecipuè si ab initio commoda remedia adhibeantur; tamen ita facilè non cu­ratur, propter materiae contumaciam, & praesertim, si in parte aliqua nobiliore, ut hepate, vel etiam liene, haereat.

Scirrhous tumors, in their begin­ning are wont to appear very small, but in process of time by little and little, they become great and mighty; whereof some do annoy one onely member; but other some of the said tumors do leave that member which they did first infect, and after­wards do pass over into the possession of another.

Hi tumores si ritè tractentur, resolu­tione terminnatur, nonnunquam indura­ti remanent, & non rarò in cancrum (quod pessimum est) degenerant ac trans­mutantur.

For the Cure; Curatio. first, you must ap­point a sober and moderate diet, and such a one as declineth unto heat and moisture, in those things which they call Res non naturales. Give him there­fore meats of good juyce, and which [Page 175] can ingender good blood. Let his bread be of good Wheat, meanly salt­ed and leavened. Let his drink be small Ale or Beer, or Wine both thin and sweet smelling. For his meat, give him rear eggs, the flesh of Chic­kens, Capons, Hens, and the broths of them. Let him also eat the flesh of Partriges, Pheasants, sucking Calves, and of Wethers of a year old. For Pot-herbs, let him use Sphinachia, Borrago, Lactuca, Buglossa, atque id ge­nus alia, quae sanguinem expurgant, & puriorem reddunt. To conclude, let him fly and avoid all those things which naturally do engender melan­cholick blood, ut sunt carnes caprinae, cervinae, bovis, leporum, aprorum, lima­ces, brassica, legumina, panis furfuraceus, vina crassa & nigra, caseus, salita, frixa, acria, vigilia, & exercitiui laboriosum. Quietness and tranquillity of minde, with mirth and gladness, is greatly to be desired. Aer debet esse calidus & humidus.

Secondly, si res postulabit, mittatur sanguis à vena communi, aut basilicae ejusdem lateris, secundùm prudent is me­dici [Page 176] consilium. And to prepare the hu­mor, you may frame this Julep: ℞. Syrupi epithymi, fumar. capill. vener. ana ℥. i. aq. borrag. lupul. & flor. sam­buci, ana ℥. iij. pulv. elect. diarrhod. Abl. ʒ. i. fiat julepus. Vel,

Recipe Syrupi de fumaria, de buglos. sa, vel endivia, surupi de scolopendria, Syrupi de epithymo, ana ℥. i. ss. Aqua­rum lupuli, cichorii, ana ℥. vi. pulv. san­tali mosc. cinnamomi, ana ʒ. i. Fiat Syrupus, clarisicetur, & aromatizerur, pro quatuor dosibus. The humor being thus made ready,

Recipe confectionis hamech ℥. iij. me­dullae cassiae ʒ. v. pulveris sancti ℈. i. aq. fumariae ℥. iij. Decoctionis epithymi, & quat. sem. frig. ℥. iij. misce, & fiat potio. Give it the Patient in a morning warm. Let him not eat any thing un­till noon, but sup four or five spoon­fuls of thin broth between stools. Convenit etiam in hoc casu syrupus ma­gistralis Fallopii. Cujus descriptio haec est. ℞. Myrobalanorum omnium grosso modo contusorum, ana ʒ. ij. insundantur in lib. iij. ss. aquae fumiterrae per xxiiij. ho­ras, postea adde polypodii, epithymi, fo­iiorum [Page 177] senae, ana ℥. ss. liquiritiae rasae, caryoph. sem. citri, ana ℥. i. corticum ellebori nigri ʒ. i. ss. misc. & bulliant ad consumptionem tertiae part is, & colentur, de qua capiat ℥. v. vel ℥. vi. syr. de po­mis ℥. i. misc. pro syrupo calido in au­rora.

Nota, quod medicus non debet esse con­tentus una, nec bina evacuatione, respe­ctu materiae crassae, & durae, nec exqui­site evacuare, sed per intervalla, & mo­derate, ac paulatim procedere, ut natura possit praeparare materiam, & regulare evacuationem, authore Mesue, ex mente Galeni, cap. de Melancholia.

Quò ad localia, authoritate Avicen­nae, & Pauli, medicament a non debent esse omnino resolutiva; neque debent effe secundùm totum mellitiva; sed lau­dantur ea quae mixtam habent faculta­tem, scilicet resolvendi, & mollificandi, ut Galenus docet; for by the use of onely resolving things, there is fear of concretion, the subtiler part be­ing resolved, and the grosser subsid­ing; and onely of emollients, there is danger of putrefaction, a Cancer, and a Fistula. Ad hanc intentionem optimum [Page 178] est ceratum Joan. de Vigo, cujus descri­ptio haec est.

Recipe rad. altheae lib. i. ss. sem. ci­doniorum, sem. lini, faenugraeci, ana M. i. misc. & bulliant in aqna ad perfectam cocturam, postea pistentur omnia finissi­me; quibus adde olei chamomillae, anetini, rosati, ana ℥. ij. medullae vituli ℥. iij. ping. anatis, olei amygd. dul. ana ℥. i. misc. & cerae albae q. s. lento igne fiat ce­ratum molle, quo utere.

Ad idem, ex mente Rhasis, libro septi­mo, ad Almansorem.

Recipe Bdellii, ammoniaci, Galbani, ana ℥. i. misc. cum ol. lil. alborum mol­lificentur, postea adde mucillaginis faenu­graeci, sem. lini, & ficuum, ana ℥. i. misc. in mortario, donec in unum coeant, & fiat emplastrum, & utere.

Moreover, the aggrieved member may be every day anointed with some thin oyl, as oleum Sabinum, quod om­nium est tenuissimum, vel oleum Sambu­cinum, wherein either the root of the wilde Cucumber, or of Altheae, or green and fresh Dill, or some such like thing, hath been boyled and infu­sed. Now when you have sufficiently [Page 179] used emollients, fume the tumor with strong Vinegar and Aqua vitae poured upon a piece of milstone or flint heat­ed very hot; for so the mollified hu­mor will be rarified, attenuated, and resolved; then some while after renew your emollients, and then again ap­ply your resolvers to waste that which remains, which could not be perfor­med together and at once; Observa­tio. for thus Galen healed a Scirrhus in Cercilius his Son.

If it come to suppuration, cleanse away the quittor with the Plaister of Diachylon simplex, omitting heaters, and section or lancing, ne in cancrum facessat.

Quó ad pleniorem curationis cognitio­nem, vide meum Enchiridion Medicum, lib. 3. pag. 291. & 292.

Scirrhosi lienis, atque etiam jecinoris curationem, modicorum prudentiae com­mitto.

A certain maiden of twenty years old, having a Scirrhus on the back of her hand, a leaden plate smear­ed with Quick-silver was applyed thereunto, which in the space of [Page 180] eight dayes wholly discussed the Tumor.

Caput 2.
De Cancro.

[...] seu Cancer, Cancer. is a round Tu­mor, blew or blackish, having veins round about it, full and swelling, resembling the feet of a Crab; and springing from black choller. Vel, ut Weckerus scribit, Cancer est tumor durus, inaequalis, rotundus, venenosus, co­lore nigricans, calidus, subitò accrescens, aegros maximè fatigans, & perpetuò fe­rè dolore affligens, Graecè [...] dicitur.

Cancer nomen trahit à cancro aqua­tico. Nam quemadmodum in isto ani­mali est rotunditas, & habet pedes in utraque parte corporis: ita morbus iste est rotundus, & habet venas in cir­cuetu tumentes, sanguine melancholico plenas, quas Galenus cancri radices appellat.

[Page 181] Quó ad Causam & Signa, vide me­um Enchiridion Medicum, lib. 3. pag. 292. & 293.

Cancer, Progno­stica. or Carcinoma, generally is a grievous and pernicious disease, which can scarcely be healed, by rea­son of the grossness and malignity of the humor; non rarò etiam profundas venas occupavit, ut nec purgatione cor­poris, nec repellentibus, nec discutienti­bus, nec sectione, nec ustione tolli possit; sed remedia mitiora contemnat, fortio­ribus exasperetur.

The thicker and blacker that the humor is, so much the worse is the effect.

Oritur Cancer in omnibus corporis partibus, sed maxime (ut Celsus ait) in partibus superioribus, circa faciem, narem, aures, & labia: enascitur quo­que in mammillis, ac in mulierum pudendis, in quibus menstrua defecerint, & quae rarae ac laxae sunt, ac etiam quae cibis crassis, ac melancholicis nutri­untur.

Cancers, for the most part, light upon those men, which have been ac­customed to hemorrhoidal purging, [Page 182] and have now lost the benefit of the same.

Moreover, when this melancho­lious humor, resembling in proporti­on the dregs of wine, doth descend and flow into any member, and there abideth compact together, it causeth sometimes the disease called Varices, and sometimes it breedeth a Cancer, as when the same is somewhat cool'd. But when it is thrust out to the whole skin, it causeth that evil which they call Elephantiasis.

Those Cancers are onely curable which are small, fresh, and do stick in the outward part of the body: but those that have gotten deeper lodg­ings, admit no cure.

Si Cancer sit inveteratus, atque jam confirmatus, curationem non admitt-it, nisi radicitùs extirpetur, aut per sectionem, aut per ustionem.

If the Cancer be seated in cavitate corporis, in the palate, fundament, or womb, the Cure is not to be under­taken.

Cancer confirmatus & inparte nobi­liore sedens, incurabilis est. Yea no man [Page 183] is thought able, by some, to cure a confirmed and ulcerated Cancer. Et observatum est saepius, quamvis excisi & aliquando curati fuerint cancri in exte­rioribus, eosdem tamen postea rediisse in eadem, vel etiam in aliis partibus, ut cancro in mammis curato, alium in ute­ro subortum suisse. And Celsus saith, that although Carcinomata be cut off, and brought to a scar, yet they will return again, and give occasion of death. It will be sufficient therefore, in great and inveterate Cancers, onely to keep them from spreading further, by gentle medicines, and a palliative cure.

Quo ad curam universalem. Curatio. Apparen­te cancro, observabis sex res non natura­les, ut in scirrhi curatione adnotavimus; statim evacuabis corpus, & à sanguinis missione inchoandum est, ex vena hepatis ejusdem lateris, dummodo vires, ac vir­tus permiserint: injecto tamen prius clysterio lenitivo. Si fuerint mulieres, ducantur menstrua, si nondum quinqua­gessimum annum attigerint, teste Gale­no lib. 2. ad Glauconem. At si in viris fuerit morbus, & hemorrhoides fuerint suppressae, recludantur.

[Page 184] Digeratur humor cum syr. de sumoter­rae, de succo acetosae, violato, de epithy­mo, cum aquis fumiterrae & buglossae.

Purgetur corpus in principio cum sim­plicibus, ut est Epithymum, quod in hoc casu tenet principatum. Ut

Recipe Epithymi ℥. Galenus serum ca­prinum so­lum com­mendat. ss. infundatur in quantitate sufficienti seri caprini cocti de sero, aut mulsae: misc. secundùm artem fiat infusio, quam calidam capiat in au­rora. But this quantity of Epithymum, or somewhat more, must be offered every third day, that the melancholick humor which is gathered together in the veins, may by little and little be emptied and purged out, because it is impossible to evacuate all at one time. Afterward (if the matter so requireth, and the ministring of simples doth lit­tle avail) you may use the help of some compound remedies.

Recipe florum violarum, florum borra­ginis, buglossae, ana P. i. epithymi ʒ. iij. Senae, ℥. ss. macerentur per decem horas in ℥. vi. seri lactis. then strain it, and adde to, syrupi violati ℥. i. ss. Diapru­norum sol. ʒ. ii. Fiat potio. Also see the former Chapter de Schirrho.

[Page 185] Quantum ad localia, haec optima & experta sunt.

Recipe olei ros. omphacini ℥. ij. cum ℥. i. succi solatri, & agitentur omnia in mortario plumbeo per horam, & utere, inungendo locum affectum manè, & serò. Vel

Recipe succi solatri ℥. ij. ss. ol. ros. omphacini ℥. ij. terrae sigillatae, boli ar­meni, ana ℈. i. opii, gr. iij. misc. & de­ducantur in mortario plumbeo, & fiat li­nimentum, & utere ut supra.

Ad idem expertum, cum corpus per­fecte purgatum fuerit.

Recipe boli armeni, terrae sigillatae, ce­russae, ana ℥. ss. tutiae praeparatae ʒ. ij. pulv. ranar. virid. ʒ. iij. lythargyrii ʒ. i. ss. olei ros. omphacini ℥. i. ss. è ranis ℥. i. aceti ʒ. vi. cerae q. s. Diu agiten­tur in mortario plumbeo, & F. lini­mentum.

Ad idem optimum.

Recipe mucillaginis psylii, succi solatri, succi plantaginis, olei ros. omphacini, ana ℥. i. lythargyrii finiss. pulv. tutiae prae­paratae, ana ʒ. ii. plumbi usti loti ʒ. iij. cerussae lotae ʒ. i. semis. opii. gr. iiij. cam­phorae gr. ij. misc. & utere ut supra. Al­so [Page 186] Emplastrum Diacalcitheos dissolved with juyce of night shade, and oyl of Roses, is very fit for not ulcerated Cancers. Haec medicamenta cancri aug­mentum tollunt, & aegris longiorem prae­bent vitam.

Moreover, how great the force of lead is in all such Cancrous dispositi­ons, especially that which is burnt and washed, all men may sufficiently know, which have had some experience thereof, and which have studiously perused those things which Galen, li­bro nono de simplicium medicamentorum facultate, doth write of lead, which he himself calleth in Greek molybdos.

Si cancer fuerit parvus, & in summa corporis parte haereat, radicitus extir­pandus est, ut Avicenna scribit: san­guinisque multum emittendus, ac cras­sior sanguis circumquaque ex vicinis par­tibus exprimendus, ex Tagaultii senten­tia. Deinde ferro ignito cauterizetur locus. Hoc enim reliquias materiae dis­sipat, membrum corroborat, & sangui­nis fluxionem prohibet. Postea remove escharam, ut in carbunculo dictum fuit. Deinde curabis ut alia ulcera. Now we [Page 187] know and understand that all the Can­cer is taken away, and all the maligni­ty thereof extinct, when the Ulcer casts forth laudable matter, when that good flesh begins to grow by little and little, like to the grains of a Pome­granat, the pricking pain, and all the symptomes being asswaged. But truly, although Galen and Avicen did allow that Cancers might sometimes be cu­red by Chirurgery; yet to avoid the danger of immoderate flux of blood, and of ulceration, yea and the life of the sick, omitting those things, we ought rather to follow the pre­script rule of curing, which is onely accomplished by gentle medicines.

If there happen any furious mo­tion, or pain in the place, which breedeth extraordinary disquietness, mitigate the pain with this unguent.

Recipe olei rosati ℥. iiij. Seminis pa­paveris albi ℥. i. Seminis hyosciami, opii, ana ʒ. ss. Gummi Arabici ℥. ss. cerae parum, misc. & fiat unguentum.

At si cancer fit ex acriori, malignio­rique humore, cutem exulcerat, unde cancer exulceratus dicitur. In this case [Page 188] it will be good to use Pompholyx or Tutia, washed in juyce of night-shade, or Plantain. Besides, this following medicine is very commendable. ℞. Lythargyrii, cerussae ana ℥. i. terantur in mortario plumbeo cum oleo rosarum, do­nec reducantur ad consistentiam lini­menti vel unguenti.

Galen beats into powder river Crabs burnt; the which being mixed with oyntment of Roses is most pro­fitably applied upon lint to Cancerous Ulcers.

Arsenici operatio in hoc casu est ex­cellens, ut Valescus de Taranta, cap. de cancro, scriptum reliquit; Dicens vidisse se quendam experimentatorem, cum hoc medicamento, sanare cancros, fistulas, & ulcera maligna in cruribus. For my own part, I never saw any cured there­with, neither do I think it safe for the young artist to use it, seeing it is a hot, acrid, and vehement medicine, able to increase the pain, fever and all the symptomes, to the dejecting of the powers, the wasting and consu­ming of the body, and the hastening of death. Indeed I reade of some that [Page 189] were cured therewith, and have held well a whole year, sed postea in eodem loco tres supervenerunt cancri, & cum his perierunt.

If the Cancer affect the womb, make injections of the juyce of Plan­tain, Knot-grass, Lettice, and Pur­slain mixed together, and agitated or laboured in a leaden mortar with a little Oyl of Roses; for this kinde of medicine is commended by Galen, in every kinde of ulcerated Cancers. Now to strengthen the heart against the filthy vapours which do usually arise from the carrion-like filth, ℞. Fragmentorum lapidum pretiosorum ana ℈. ij. margaritarum praeparatarum ʒ. i. coralli rubri, coralli, albi ana ʒ. ss. sem. endiviae, sem citri, sem. portulacae, ana ℈. iiij. limaturae eboris ℈. ij. santali mosc. ʒ. i. ss. myrobal. emblicorum con­dit. cortic. citri saccharo conditi, ana ʒ. ij. Moschi, Ambrae, ana gr. vi. Sacchari al­bissimi, in succo pomorum dissoluti q. s. fiant tabulae, which the patient shall use every morning daily. For the poorer sort this electuary may serve.

Recipe conservae rosarum, radicum [Page 190] buglossae, ana ℥. i. ss. cons. borraginis, an­thos, ana ℥. i. ossis de corde cervi ʒ. i. ss. coralli rubri ʒ. i. syr. de pomis q. s. fiat electuarium. Also sometimes the Pa­tient may drink a little good Wine, diluted with the water of Bugloss.

Quò ad pleniorem curationis cogni­tionem, vide meum Enchiridion Medi­cum, lib. 3. pag. 293. & 294.

A certain old woman had a Cancer in her left Dug, Observa­tio. which she had born thirteen years together; wherein lit­tle Cancerous Tumors grew out, which pained her more than the great one, upon which they grew, because they were ulcerated. These little Tu­mors were taken away by frequent ap­plication of waters of red Poppy, Plantain, and Roses, mixed with Ho­ney of Roses, at first, but afterwards the waters were used alone. And in another woman that had a Cancerous Ulcer in her breast, the same medi­cines cured the Ulcer quite, and clo­sed it up.

A near Kinswoman of mine being troubled with a small cancerous Tu­mor in her breast, which put her to [Page 191] much pain, she was cured in a very short time, chiefly by the use of that excellent unguent, set down in the Chapter de Phygethlo. Also I remem­ber I gave her this Apozem which wrought very well.

Recipe syrupi rosarum sol. ℥. i. syr. de rhabarbaro ℥. ss. Decoctionis communis q. s. F. Apozema. She took the one half over night about ten of the clock, and the other in the morning about seven.

A certain Gentleman of a Noble Family, being troubled with a Can­cerous Tumor, which covered al­most all his upper lip; after many things used in vain, he was cured chiefly by the use of this Oyntment. Take green Frogs that live among trees, or in pure waters, and put them in an earthen pot full of small holes in the bottom, and fill their mouths with butter, cover the pot close and daub the juncture with clay, and set it over another empty pot which must be set in the ground up to the brim; then make a fire round about it fit for distillation, and gather the oyl that [Page 192] drops into the pot in the ground, and mix it with the powder of Frogs into a Liniment.

Now although this indeed was the principal remedy, yet you must note, that he was twice purged with the ex­tract of black Hellebor, four grains at a time, in three drams of Diapru­num Solutivum: Also Horse-Leeches were applyed to his Hemorrhoid veins, and he drunk whey boiled with Epithymum for a moneth toge­ther.

This water following is highly commended by Paraeus; for an ulcerated Cancer in the womb.

Recipe stercoris bubuli lib. iiij. herbae Roberti, plantag. sempervivi, hyoscyami, portulac. lactuc. endiv. ana M. i. cancros fluviatiles, num. 12. let them be all beaten together and distilled in a leaden Alembick, keep the liquor for use, aud with it make often injection into the part; or if the site of the part will permit, let the cancerous Ul­cers be washed therewith, and pled­gets of lint steeped therein, be ap­plyed and renewed ever and anon; [Page 193] for so the acrimony and force of the inflammation is retunded, and the pain asswaged.

Caput 3.
De Scabie & Volatica.

[...], Psora. seu Scabies, is a Tumor arising from corrupted blood, vexing the Patient with distemper and exulceration of the skin. Vel si aliter definire velis; Scabies est infectio cutis, aliquando squamosa, pruriginosa, ali­quando sicca, aliquando humida, ali­quando saniosa, ut plurimum in extre­mitatibus, aliquando magnam corporis partem occupans.

Causa est sanguis corruptus, Causa. cum atra bile & pituita salsa mistus; which ei­ther comes from suitable Diet, espe­cially when the Liver is distempered with heat; or it is corrupted by con­tagion: and being brought unto the skin, it sticks therein, and causeth ex­ulceration.

The Signes are set down in the de­finitions. Signa. [Page 194] Si Scabies sit à sanguine, co­gnoscitur per ruborem membri & pleni­tudinem totius, per mollitiem, per pru­ritum delectabilem, & per copiosam sa­niem & citam generationem, & cito exit sanguis ex unguium scalpellatione, & sapor in ore sentitur dulcis. Si autem fit à Phlegmate salso, pruritus erit vi­rulentus, intolerabilis, & sine rubedine: delectatio etiam in scalpendo, sed in fine est vehemens dolor.

Si scabies ex adustione cholerae fuerit, pruritus erit acutus, & locus scabiosus ci­trinus, cum siccitate, punctione, & scis­suris. Si vero scabies provenerit à me­lancholia, parvus erit pruritus, & mem­brum scabiosum lividum. Et si humores sint commixti, signa quoque mixta erunt.

Scabies excorticata & impetigines multiplicantur in autumno: Progno­stica. in vere quoque magis suppullulant.

Scabies est aegritudo contagiosa, quia per contactum inficit. Et inter scabiei species curatur difficiliùs sicca, quam humida.

Sanies plurimum accidit inter digitos, eo quod sint partes teneriores, & debilio­res.

[Page 195] Interdum scabies motu critico acci­dit, cum morbificus ad cutem expulsus est humor.

Scabies in decrepitis est difficilis cu­rationis, aut impossibilis, ut addit Gor­donius; quia naturaliter sunt sicci, & nutrimentum eorum est indigestum, & non bene nutribile, & phlegmaticae & serosae superfluitates in senum corporibus quam plures aggregantur.

Scabies foeda, seu ulcer atio foetida, multas partes corporis occupans & corrumpens, habet malam radicem, & approximatur ad malas aegritudines, & est difficilis cu­rationis, ut dicit Gordonius.

At si fuerit parva, modicam partem corporis occupans, non angustiosa, neque somnum auferens, facile curabitur.

Propterea sciendum quod scabies hu­mida fit à phlegmate falso, per admixti­onem cholerae rubeae; scabies autem sicca sit ab humoribus siccis, ut est cholera adu­sta, per se, vel mixta cum melancholia, vel aliqua specie alicujus humoris.

Quò ad curam universalem, Curatio. primo leniatur venter cum cassia, aut clysterio lenitivo. If the liver be very much af­fected, open the Basilica, which hath [Page 196] society with vena cava, and draw out a large quantity of blood, if nothing forbid. Sed si scabies fuerit à melancho­lia, cut the vein in the left arm, or open the Salvatella, between the lit­tle and ring finger. Vel si patiens con­suetus fuerit pati fluxum haemorrhoidum, aperiantur cum sanguisugis.

Facta phlebotomia digeratur materia cum sequenti syrupo:

Recipe syr. de fumoterrae, de lupulis, & de endiv. ana ℥. ss. aquarum fumiter­rae, scabiosae, & cichoreae ana ℥. i. mis. pro syr. Vel,

Recipe Decocti senae ℥. ix. syr. de fu­mar. de epithym. de cichor. cum rhabarb. ana ℥. ij. misc. aromaetisetur cum cin­nam. & spec. diaerrhod. Abb. ʒ. ss. Dosis ℥. iv. vel v.

Digesta materia evacuetur corpus cum diacatholicone, confectione hamec, elect. de succo rosarum, aut cassia, vel syr. ros. sol. After other preparations and pur­gations, it will be profitable to use the infusion of black hellebor pre­pared after this manner.

Recipe rad. cichor. polypod. quercini, ana ʒ. i. ss. fumariae M. ss. flor. borag. [Page 197] bugloss. cichor. ana P. i. Epithymi, pas­sular. ana ʒ. ij. coq. pro unc. v. In co­latura infunde per noctem hellebori nigri veri ʒ. i. ss. cinnamomi ℈. i. sem. dauci, anisi, ana ℈. ss. caryophyl. gr. v. Colatu­rae expressae adde syr. de fumar. de cichor. cum rhabarb. ana ʒ. iij. Aromatisetur cum spec. diarrhod. Abb. ℈. i. Fiat hau­stus, qui toties repetatur, quoties opus fu­erit. But first it is convenient to give the Patient the whey of milk, (prae­sertim caprini) in which Fumitory hath been boiled.

When the body is sufficiently pur­ged it is needful to procure sweat.

Recipe theriacae, mithridat. ana ℈. i. succi fumar. inspissati ℈. ss. syr. de succo acetos. ʒ. ii. Dissolv. in aqua fumar. & manè sumantur, & in lecto sudor pro­vocetur.

Quod si scabies sit contumacior, etiam decocto sarsaeparillae uti possumus, quibus tamen commodè aq. vel syr. fumar. ad­miscetur. Also if a little of the in­ward or green bark of Elder be boil­ed in the decoction, it will be the more effectual.

Quantum ad localia. Cave, ne in­ungas [Page 198] scabiem ante corporis evacuatio­nem, quoniam ab unctione cutis porrosi­tates clauduntur. Prohibit a vero malorum humorum expiratione, magis intus pu­trefiant, unde febres, & apostemata saepissime inducuntur. And therefore after convenient evacuation, si tem­pus fuerit calidum, fiat hoc balneum, quod expertum est.

Recipe rad. & fol. lapathi acuti, M. iij. enulae ℥. iij. bryoniae lib. semis. malvae, scabiosae, fumariae, chelidoniae, sopanar. ana M. ij. hordei integri lupinor. fabar. ana lib. semis. furfur. lib. i. flor. cha­moemel. M. iij. coq. pro balneo. Or if you see it fit, a bath may be made ex ra­dicibus polypodii, ireos, cortic. sambuci ebuli, flor. meliloti, absynthio, parieta­ria, beta, artemisia & similibus. But if the disease, age, and strength of the Patient require a stronger bath. ℞. Alumin. ℥. i. ss. sulphuris ℥. ij. nitr. ℥. i. salis M. i. F. pulv. qui in aquae ca­lentis labrum conjiciatur. Sub ingressum balnei detur conserva fumariae, vel syru­ [...]upus, aut aqua fumariae cum theriaca.

Postea ungatur cum hac unctione.

Recipe unguenti de lithargyrio re­centis [Page 199] ℥. iij. unguenti albi Rhasis ℥. semis. misc. & ungatur facto balneo. Vel,

Recipe succi lapathi acuti ℥. i. sulph. citrini ʒ. iij. nitr. ʒ. ij. styrac. liquid. farinae lupinor. ana ʒ. ij. semis. olei ros. q. s. cerae parum. F. unguentum: Or if you please, this oyntment which is much commended pro consolidatione.

Recipe unguenti de lithargyrio recen­tis ℥. iij. sulphuris pulv. salis com. pul. ana ʒ. i. succi limonum parum, misc. & siat unguentum.

Quòd si scabies maligna sit & invete­rata & sicca, argentum vivum admis­ceri debet, quod extinctum in succo li­monum, mirum in modum probatur ab Avicenna.

Recipe unguenti enulati & diapom­pholigos ana ℥. i. semis. unguenti albi Rhasis ℥. semis. succi plantag. & fumar. ana ℥. i. lythargyrii & cerussae lotae, ana ʒ. ij. olei de tartaro q. s. fiat unguen­tum. Vel,

Recipe terebinthinae ℥. ij. axungiae colatae ℥. iij. sulfuris vivi pulv. ℥. i. salis com. ʒ. ij. butyri recentis loti ℥. i. ar­genti vivi optime extincti ℥. i. vel. ℥. i. semis. misc. & ungatur facto balneo.

[Page 200] Si inflamatio adjungatur, unguento rosato & populeo extinguetur. Pro pu­eris. ℞. terebinthinae saepius lotae ℥. ij. butyri ustulati ʒ. vi. succi limonum ℥. i. salis & aluminis ustorum ana ʒ. i. ss. vitellum unius ovi, cerae albae. q. s. F. un­guentum.

Ad scabiem inveteratam & indura­tam & maxime provenientem ex phle­gmate salso: ℞. succi fumiterrae, s [...]a­biosae, lapathi acuti, enulae campanae, ab­sinthii, ana ℥. i. ss. picis nigr. ℥. ij. olei nucis, saecis olei olivae, ana ℥. i. ss. deco­quantur succi cum istis, deinde colentur, & addatur tartari ℥. i. nitri ʒ. i. fiat unguentum, & liniatur ut supra.

I have cured very many after this manner. Observa­tio. Take unguentum enulatum, and anoint the Patients joynts three nights together, then leave three nights, and then anoint three nights again; so do until you have bathed him nine or twelve times against a good fire: Let him not shift him in three weeks; but remember first to purge and blood him. If he be trou­bled with the French Disease, then let him sweat one hour after every an­ointing [Page 201] with the decoction of Cardu­us benedictus, Sarsaparilla, and liquo­ris. Let him also drink fumitory wa­ter, sweetned with the syrup of fumi­tory; and in time of year clarified Whey boiled with Fumitory.

This oyntment following cureth any Scab that is not of the French Disease.

Recipe succi chelidoniae, fumiterrae, boraginis, scabiosae, lapathi acuti, ana ℥. iij. cum faece aceti, & axungia veteri misceantur.

Some women cure their Children after this manner. Take a clean shift, boil it in water with a penniworth or two of Brimstone, dry it, and let the Patient wear it.

A certain young man was exceed­ingly tormented with a filthy Scab, with Felons frequently breaking forth; of which Diseases he could not be freed by blood-letting, and many purges used at times, in the space of six moneths; Tandem ei exhibetur Mercurii dulcis ℈. i. cum diagrid. ℈. semis. quibus optimè purgatus est, & à faeda illa scabie intra paucos dies libera­tus.

[Page 202] Petrus Pachequus, a famous Physi­tian tells us, that this oyntment fol­lowing is most effectual to cure that great scabbiness which after long sick­nesses, especially the Quartan Ague, breaks out upon the legs, having cruel pains attending the same.

Recipe unguenti basilic. ℥. iv. tere­binth. ℥. ij. olei rosati ℥. iij. semis. vi­tellos ovor. num. iij. cerae tantillum, make of all an oyntment, and anoint the scabby places therewith.

A certain Gentleman aged forty six years, labouring of a grievous scab and itch, was thus helped,

Recipe fumariae, boraginis, buglossae, scabiosae, absynthii, of each a like quantity as much as you please, draw out the juyces, of which take two pound, boiling it in Whey to the con­sumption of the juyces, alwayes scum­ming it: after it is boiled, suffer it to settle, the next day he drank a good draught with Sugar: with this many have been cured.

I have known many Children cured of this Disease, by the use of an Oyntment framed of Cream, juyce [Page 203] of Housleek, and Brimstone.

Volatica est quaedam scabiei species, Volatica. quae totam cutem unicâ ferè nocte occu­pat. In this, universal remedies being premised, 'tis good to wash the Scabs, ex sanguine in partu ex utero elapso, cum tota secundina, vel ejus parte, ut Agri­cola scribit.

Ancilla Domini Dallisoni ulcerosis supra faciem pustulis gravissime labora­bat; for the removing of which, I prescribed this following Bolus:

℞. Calomelanos ℈. i. Diagrydii, gr. viij. Diacatholiconis ʒ. iij. Misce. It gave eight stools, after which the Scabs dryed away very much: It was repeated again with like success. Her face every evening was anointed with this following Liniment:

℞. Sacchari Saturni, Cerussae, ana gr. viij. mellis ros. ʒ. vi. misc. & utere. With these (through Gods blessing) she was perfectly cured in a very few dayes.

Caput 4.
De Malo Mortuo.

MAlum Mortuum, Malum mortuum. is a certain kinde of Scab, springing from a Melancholick and Scorbutick juyce, coming chiefly in the legs with a leaden and black colour, crusty pu­stules, black, dry, without sence or pain.

Fit, Causa. ut nonnulli aiunt, à melancholia naturali adusta cum phlegmate salso: vel à phlegmate salso, cum sanguine cho­lerico.

Causa autem hujus scabiei est multa comestio ciborum melancholicorum, op­pilatio splenis, retentio menstruorum, & similia.

The Signes are set down in the De­finition. Signa.

This evil is hard to cure, Progno­stica. being slowly driven away, quia ab humori­bus crassis fit: morbus est chronicus, nisi cito succurratur.

This infirmity is taken (as some men think) by contagion either à mu­liere [Page 205] leprosa, or à muliere noviter men­struata, ac etiam à morbo gallico, ut saepe vidi.

Quo ad curam, Curatio. in materia melan­cholica cum sanguine crasso & corrupto, ℞. Syrupi de fumoterrae comp. syr. de endiv. ana ʒ. vi. oxymel. simpl. ʒ. iij. aquarum fumiterrae, capil. ven. endiviae, ana ℥. i. misc. capiat. pro syrup calido usque ad numer. vij. Digesta materia:

Recipe Diacatholiconis ℥. i. confectio­nis hamech ʒ. ij. misc. cum decoctione florum, & fructuum cord. fiat brevis po­tio, quam calidam capiat in aurora: and because this disease is of a wicked nature, and for the most part of long continuance, therefore the matter is to be often digested and evacuated. And if need require, a vein may be opened, either the Basilica on the right arm, or the vena lienaris on the left.

In materia melancholica cum phle­gmate salso, digeratur materia cum sy­rupo de sumoter. & oxymelle simp. Vel,

Recipe Radic. foenic. petros. brusci, asparagi, graminis, corticis capparis, fraxini, thamarisci, ana ℥. ij. conquas­sentur [Page 206] & temperentur in aceto albo per diem & noctem: tunc ℞. borag. scaebio­sae, melissae, fumiterrae, lapathi acuti, buglossae, staechados utriusque, ana lb. ss. foliorum senae, epithymi, polypodii, an­thos, florum borag. viol. ana ℥. iij. anisi, ℥. i. mel. ros. panis sacchari, ana lib. i. fiat syrupus.

Concocta materia evacuetur cum pi­lulis de fumoterrae, vel cum infusione senae orientalis.

Convenit etiam in hoc casu syr. ma­gistralis Fallopii cum senae & elleboro, de­scriptus in cura scirrhi.

Quantum ad localia, conferunt in hoc casu omnia balnea & unguenta, in capite de Scabie descripta.

Si morbus fiat ulcerosus, considerabis ulceris qualitatem, & vide librum de Ʋlceribus. Si vero morbus spernit medi­camenta, vide curam morbi gallici.

Si supervenerit ex rheumate, vel scro­phulis, vel glandulis, vel splene, vel men­struis repressis, aut haemorrhoidibus re­tentis, tunc illa prius debent curari, & mundificari, & potissimum splen.

Caput 5.
De Lepra Graecorum.

[...] Graecorum, Leprae or the Leprosie of the Greeks, Graeco­rum. is a Disease of the skin, with roughness, itching, and falling off of scales.

Oritur ab atra bile, Causa cum pituita salsa saepè conjuncta.

It differs onely gradually from other Leprosies. Signa. And 'tis known hereby, because it eats deeper into the skin; and scales as it were of Fishes fall off, whether the Patient scratch, or scratch not, and the scabs stink filthily.

This Disease is a crabbed and stub­born evil. Progno­stica. And if not timely prevent­ed in Lepram, seu Elephantiasin dege­nerat.

For the Cure see the Chapter de Scabie. Curatio. Epar etiam maximè corrigen­dum per Syrupum corallorum Quercetani. Also sweat must be procured cum de­cocto sarsaeparillae, Guajaci, & Chinae.

Caput 6.
De Alpho, seu Morphea.

[...], Alphus. Morphea, or the Mor­phew, are great blots or spots upon the skin, changing the colour thereof, which are spread up and down here and there, with a certain roughness.

Haec passio varia sortitur nomina; ab Avicenna morphea, & albaras, à Celso, & graecis [...], & [...]: à latinis vitiligo. De nominibus autem nulla sit contentio, dummodo res intellig amus.

It is to be understood, that all those things which are the cause of the Le­prosie, Causa. are also the cause of the Mor­phew; so that Morphea convenientiam cum lepra habet, because as in the Le­prosie, so in the Morphew, the assi­milative vertue doth err. But they dif­fer, in that the Leprosie is in the flesh and the Morphew in the skin.

Qui barbaram sequuntur medicinam, tres causas morpheae constituunt: Primi­tivam; quae melancholicorum ciborum, [Page 209] seu pituitosorum, seu rerum sanguinem adurentium est usus. Antecedentem; quae (ut habet Valescus) error digestivae in stomacho & in intestinis virtutis est: at ego potius in hepate vel in venis mesarai­cis esse crediderim. Nam error in prima & secunda digestiva factus, in tertia cor­rigi non potest. Conjunctam; quam Va­lescus immediatum virtutis assimilativae in cute (ut supra adnotavimus) errorem esse vult.

They are either black, Signa. springing from melancholly blood through de­fault of the spleen, or yellow, arising from Choler, or white, but not ex­actly agreeing with the whiteness of the skin, which spring from phlegma­tick blood, chiefly through the default of the Liver. The skin is by them made white, but not the hairs, and if it be pricked, blood follows. Infestant etiam viros magis quàm foeminas & pucros.

Vitiligo equidem periculum vitae nul­lum infert: Progno­stica. turpis tamen est affectio.

If the Morphew be new, it is cu­rable; if old incurable, or removed with great difficulty.

[Page 210] Si ab hepaticis vel lienis vitio fovea­tur, curatu difficilius malum est.

The white Morphew is cured more easily than the black one.

Si modicum occupaeverit spacium, cu­rabilis est: si magnum, difficilis.

Si locus morpheatus pung atur cum acu, in superficie cutis, ita quòd non profun­detur ultra cutem & sanguis exierit, cu­rabilis est: si autem aquositas, incurabi­lis, aut cum magnâ difficult ate curatur.

Quo ad curam universalem. Curatio. In mor­phea alba, vitae regimen, ac etiam dige­rentia, & evacuantia, sint ea, quae dixi­mus in capite de oedemate, & de scirrho. Let them beware of those things which generate flegm, as are raw fruits, Fish, Milk, Cheese, & quaecunque im­pediunt coctionem primam, secundam & tertiam.

They require not blood letting by reason of the coldness of the blood.

Ad absumendos humores frigidos & crudos theriaca adhibe atur.

Quantum ad localia, hoc remedium est singulare.

Recipe succi artemisiae, scillae, ana ʒ. ij. succi lapathi acuti ʒ. iij. misc. & fricato [Page 211] prius loco cum panno aspero, donec locus rubescat; postea epithimetur cum dictis succis.

Ad idem optimum, ungatur locus cum oleo de tartaro hora somni.

Ad idem plurimum valet.

Recipe olei de tartaro ℥. ij. olei amygd. amararum ℥. i. succi lapathi acuti ℥. i. semis cerae q. s. & fiat unguentum quo ungatur ut supra.

In morphea nigra, Authoritate Avi­cennae curatio incipiatur à phlehotomia, si sanguinis redundantia aderit. Alii Au­thores autem in nulla morphea phlehoto­miam admittebant.

Let the Patient beware of all salt and melancholy meats.

The place is to be anointed with mustard-seed mingled with water, very thick, & tamdiu detineatur, do­nec mordicatio quaedam percipiatur.

In primis verò bonâ victus ratione opus est, ut sanguinis vitium emendetur. Ʋtendum ergo cibis boni succi.

Quotidie locus affectus manè fricetur, vel linteo aspero, vel manibus ol. amygd. amar. madidis.

Guilhelmus de Salyceto in morphea [Page 212] nigra fricat locum cum cepa & oxymelle squillitico, Observa­tio. & jubet fieri hoc emplastrum.

Recipe cantharid. ʒ. i. pistetur cum fermenti ℥. i. & cum aceto fortissimo, & apponatur loco morphea affecto, & dimittatur per integram horam, it a ut locus vesicetur. Post lavetur cum unguen­to albo, & ung. de lythargyrio.

This unguent following hath been oftentimes used with good success.

Recipe sulphuris vivi ʒ. vi. cerussae, ʒ. iij. olei tartari, ʒ. iiij. olei rosacei ʒ. vi. Album unius ovi, Aceti fortissimi ʒ. ij. cerae albae q. s. mix them together and anoint the place.

This remedy following hath been often tried. Take Bean-meal, and meal of Lupines, of each two drams, Sulphuris vivi one dram, oaten meal two Scruples: Beat them into a very fine powder and tye it up in a piece of fine cloth, then dip it in the water of white distilled vinegar, and with the same wet the place where you see the Morphew.

A certain Gentlewoman aged forty six years, being troubled with a fil­thy Morphew, was thus helped. Take [Page 213] white Sope ℥. ij. quick Sulphur, ℥. i. verdigreece ʒ. i. Camphire ℈. i. with oyl of Tartar make a Globe, and moisten it in a little vinegar, and an­oint the face with it, and let it dry by it self, the morning after wash it off with milk. With this she was deliver­ed. Habeas pro secreto.

Caput 7.
De Elephantiasi.

[...], Elephan­tiasis. is a Cancerous Tu­mor of the whole body, spring­ing from black choler infected with a venomous quality, and shed into the whole habit of the body, causing ma­ny symptomes.

Hic morbus Leontiasis etiam nuncupa­tur, ab horrore, superciliis protuber an­tibus, & frontis laxitate. Vocatur quo­que Satiriasis, à rubore genarum, menti contorsione, & libidine.

Some from the opinion of the Ara­bians have termed it Lepra, or Lepro­sie (but unproperly, for the Lepra is a [Page 214] kinde of Scab and Disease of the skin) which word for the present we will use, as that which prevails by custom and antiquity.

Quò ad Causam & Signa, vide me­um Enchiridion Medicum, lib. 3. cap. 47.

Quatuor etiam leprae species ab autho­thoribus assignantur.

Prima generatur à sanguine in se adusto aut corrupto, & dicitur Alopecia, à vulpecula depilata. In this there is an obscure redness and swelling of the face, redness of the eyes, bleeding at the nose. The hair of the beard and eye-lids fall off, and at length the whole body doth consume.

Secunda fit à bile, vel sanguine cho­lerico adusto, & dicitur Leonina, so ter­med from the ruggedness of the Lions forehead. In this there are prickings, bitings, and tetters in the face and eye­lids: facies & totum corpus etiam ci­trinum colorem acquirit. The Patient is altogether deprived of sleep, and so hungry and thirsty that he cannot be satisfied.

Tertia oritur à phlegmate adusto, vel sanguine adusto phlegmatico, & dicitur [Page 215] Tyria, from the scaly Serpent Tyrus, which casts off his skin in the Spring. In this there is whiteness, scales, and dandruff.

Quarta vero à melancholia adusta & vocatur Elephantiasis, either à morbi magnitudine, or because the skin of such as are troubled therewith, is rough, scabious, wrinckled and un­equal, like the skin of an Elephant. Hae species rarò sunt separatae, frequen­tissimè complicantur.

Prognosticare pro certo possumus, Progno­stica. quod in sempiternum lepra, postquam venit ad manifestam corruptionem formae & fi­gurae, non posset curari. Quomodo enim (ut Avicenna scribit) curabitur lepra? quae est cancer universalis, cum non potest curari cancer particularis. Indeed Alo­pecia is less dangerous, more gentle and of easier curation, especially at the beginning.

Leonina comes speedily, but Elephan­tiasis somewhat slowly to its augmen­tation.

Such as are troubled with this most fearful and horrid Disease, sunt om­nino vitandi, tum proper contagium, [Page 216] tum etiam propter aerem vitiatum, qui ex inspiratione, & respiratione faetidus redditur ob narium ulcera.

For the Cure, first, Curatio. prescribe a fit and convenient diet. Let his bread be kneaded with water of Purslain, of Lettice, or of Endive, and not eaten before it be two dayes old. All his flesh must be light and easie of dige­gestion, as namely Pullets, Partridges, Phesants, Finches; but especially the flesh of sucking Calves, of Lambs, of young Swine, and of Wethers of a year old. All River Fish which is not slimy is very good, rather sodden then roasted. So are ripe Melons, because they cool and moisten. For Pot-herbs let him use Spinage, Lettice, Beets, Endive and Purslane: And let him wholly refrain from all salt and melan­cholly meats, such as are set down in the Chapter de Scirro. Let his drink be wine diluted with water, aut aqua cum cinnamomo. A vino puro & à vene­re, durante morbo, omnino abstineat. Al­so he must abstain from strong Beer, Spices, hot Waters, and all sharp things; for vinegar and whatsoever [Page 217] else is sour, doth harm very much the melancholick persons.

Secondly, in the spring, let blood be drawn, ex utroque brachio à vena hepatis, aut à communi: Sed si Lepra fuerit confirmata, non multum convenit phlebotomia: Haemorrhoides etiam, & menstrua, si opus fuerit, aperiantur.

Thirdly, after bleeding, concoct and prepare the matter for seven or nine dayes with this Syrup.

Recipe succorum scabiosae, borag. fu­miterrae, lapathi acuti, & buglossae, ana lb. ss. florum violarum, boraginis, buglos. polypodii quercini, epithymi, liquiritiae mundae, ana ℥. i. misc. & bulliant parum, & coletur; cui colaturae adde sacchari albi q. s. & fiat syr. de quo dentur ℥. ij. cum aquis sumiterrae, buglossae, aut aliis hujusmodi. For this purpose also you may use the decoction of tamarisk, or the water of Strawberries or Dodder.

Digesta materia evacuetur cum his quae supra dicta sunt in capite de Cancro & Scirrho. Moreover, let the Patient be oftentimes purged, even twice or thrice in a moneth, sires postulaverit: nulla enim sanatio sperari potest, nisi [Page 218] humores vitiosi è corpore crebrò evacuen­tur. And seeing Bezoar is so highly commended by many, I think it will be convenient to give after every purging, three or four grains in a spoonful of Oxe-tongue water.

Mirabile quoque elephantiae remedium est usus viperarum; the flesh of them boiled, their head and tail being cut off. But the wine of them is exceed­ingly commended by all.

Aliqui imponunt vino viperas excoria­tas, & sine visceribus, ne vinum foeteat.

Moreover, some do highly com­mend Electuarium de viperis, quae sic prae­parantur. Abscindantur capita, & cau­dae viperarum, postea excorientur, & ex­trahantur viscera sine pinguedine: de­inde laventur, bis, aut ter; postea co­quantur in multa aqua, donec fiant molles, & in dicta aqua sint porri, ane­thum, & parum olei. Decoctis viperis separabis carnem à spinis, cui adde car­nem pectoris gallinae, cum zinziberis, sac­chari, & nucis muscatae, quant. suff. vel loco carnis gallinae pone micam panis, & fiat electuarium. The Patient, as [Page 219] some men say, ought to follow this electuary, or the wine above noted; donec corpus inflatur & cutis excoriatur, ac etiam supervenit vertigo; quibus ap­parentibus abstineat à tali usu; and af­terward if need require he may use them again.

Fourthly, let the whole body be rubbed and washed in one of the baths set down in the Chapter de Scabie, and afterward besmear all over with Hares blood hot. Deinde capiat ʒ. i. theriacae cum vino. After that the blood be dried up, wash again with the decoction of Lilly roots and bran. Postea ungatur totum corpus cum unguen­tis dictis in scabie, & morphea, ut res postulabit, aut cum hoc unguento,

Recipe unguenti citrini recentis, un­guenti albi camphorati recentis, ana ℥. vi. unguenti populeonis, unguenti ros. ana ℥. i. ping. viperae ʒ. ii. olei ros. myr­thini, ana ℥. ss. misc. & utere.

Avicen commands that the whole body (the head and berad being first shaven) should be washed with water, in quibus coctae fuerint viperae.

Quò ad pleniorem curationis cogni­tionem, [Page 220] vide meum Enchiridion Medi­cum, lib. 3. pag. 314. & 315.

Caput 8.
De Elephantiasi Arabum.

[...] Arabum, Elephan­tiasis Arabum. or the Le­prosie of the Arabians, is a Tu­mor of the feet, Causa. springing from me­lancholick, flegmatick blood, and the Varices.

In this Disease the Thighs are swel­led, Signa. of a leaden colour, black and full of Ulcers. Pedes aegri pedibus Ele­phantis figura & crassitie similes etiam sunt: unde Elephantiacus morbus nuncu­patur.

Varices & Elephantia, Progno­stica. in corpore consueto, ut diximus, praeservant à mul­tis malis passionibus, scilicet lepra, can­cro, hydrope, splenetica affectione, me­lancholia & similibus.

Item in Varicibus & Elephantia, si menstrua vel haemorrhoides superveniunt, post eorum restrictionem diuturnam, sol­vit aegritudinem.

[Page 221] Elephantia proceeding from a hot cause with stinking pustules is more dangerous then that which arises from a cold; quoniam lepram minatur futuram.

If this evil be confirmed by con­tinuance, there remains scarce any hope of recovery, ut Rhasis scribit.

Si in Elephantia crus inceperit for­micare, malum: quia caloris naturalis oppressionem portendit.

For the Cure, Curatio. first, prescribe a fit and convenient diet, such as may en­gender good blood: Aeger abstineat à cibis crassis, qui humores melancholicos generant. Custodiendus est etiam ab am­bulatione nimia & statione; yea he must neither walk nor stand, nisi prius pes fuerit ligatus.

Secondly, if nothing hinder, let some blood be drawn à vena communi aut basilica ejusdem lateris.

Thirdly, vomits frequently given are very much commended by Rhasis, Gradus, and Gatenaria: Bertrutius would have the Patient to take one every moneth, praecipuè si à caussa fri­gida sit. But first it will be very fit to [Page 222] loosen the belly cum clysteribus appro­priatis, & materiam digerere cum dige­stivis. Moreover, Rhasis prescribes Pills de hermodactylis, quae faciunt sty­pticit atem post solutionem succedere.

Fourthly, let the member be bound with a Ligature, beginning at the heel, and so upward until you come to the knee, or (if need require fur­ther) ad radicem natis. Ante tamen constrictionem, epithemanda est ex aloe, myrrha, acacia, hypocystide, alumine, cum aceto forti dissolutis.

Moreover, this following remedy is held pro secreto. Secretum. Take a marble or flint stone, and heat it very hot in the fire, then sprinkle it with strong vi­negar, and hold the leg or tumefied place over the fume, but cover it with some cloth, that so it may receive the vapour the better. It procureth a sweat, and dissolveth the matter.

Lixivium etiam ex cinere querus, sambuci, ebuli, Absynthii, stirpium cau­lium, vitis, cum exiguo aeeto, commenda­tur. It is a good fomentation to dis­cuss and dry up the matter of the Tumor.

[Page 223] Lastly, if a weakness remain on the member, let it be strengthened cum styptico emplastro, ex medicinis ca­lidis & frigidis commixto.

Caput 9.
De Thymo seu Thymio.

[...] seu Thymium, Thymon. is a little Wart appearing upon the bo­dy, representing the flower of Time, slender beneath, but at top broader, very rough and somewhat hard, yield­ing forth oftentimes blood.

Oritur vel à materia crassâ Causa. melancho­lica & pituitosâ, or from such juyce as is ordained to nourish the skin and scarf-skin called Epidermis.

Cognoscitur ex iis, Signa. quae in definitione exposita sunt. Moreover, this Verruca which in colour represents the flower of Time, is almost as great as an Aegyptian Bean: sometimes there groweth up one alone, and sometimes many together, either in the hands, or in the ankles or soles of the feet. But [Page 224] the worst Thymia of all, are in the unclean or secret parts of the body, where they do commonly bleed. These have many times a certain malignity, and hidden virulency joyned with them, by occasion whereof they are aggravated even by touching onely; because they have their matter of a fierce and raging humor: The La­tines call them onely Ficus, but the French-men Saint Fiacrius Figs.

Thymon saepè per se finitur, Progno­stica. ut Celsus scribit, and the lesser it be, the soon­er it is ended.

If it be cut off, there ariseth up un­derneath a little round root, which descendeth down somewhat deep in­to the flesh, and there abiding, it doth again cause the aforesaid evil to grow.

Quò ad curam universalem, Curatio. Aeger ab­stineat à cibis qui crossos ac frigidos hu­mores procreant. Also the Patient must abstain from much exercise, especially from venery; because venereous acts do exceedingly exasperate these ver­rucae. Purgandum est corpus cum his, quae melancholiam aut pituitam educunt, aut utrosque.

[Page 225] The Warts that grow on uhe hands, may be cured by applying of Purslain beaten or stampt in its own juyce. The leaves and flowers of Ma­rigolds do certainly perform the self­same thing, as Paraeus writes.

Paulus Aegineta in his fourth Book and fifteenth Chapter, rehearseth ve­ry many remedies, which do take away and utterly abolish Veruccae. Of the which kinde are Elaterium (which is the juyce of wilde cucumbers) rubbed on with salt. Cantharides put into un­guents, the juyce of Willow-leaves, and Cichorium varrucarium or Wart cichory, Sheeps dung with vinegar, The water which stands on the stumps of felled Oaks, Cepa cum sale contusa. Also the juyce of Spurge, called Lac tithymali.

But if nothing hinder, binde the Thymon very surely and strongly with a silk thred, and still every day more and more gird it, until it fall off; or else remove it by section; and lest it should again grow up, let one drop of oyl of vitriol be dropped on the place, aut gutta elaterii cum sale, [Page 262] aut cum lacte tithymali. This water following is held most effectual to consume and waste warts.

Recipe aquae plantag, ℥. vi. virid. aeris, ʒ. ij. alum. roch. ʒ. iij. sal. com. ℥. ss. vit. rom. & sublim. ana ʒ. ss. beat them all together, and boil them; let one or two drops of this water be dropped on the place, but take heed the sound flesh be not touched there­with. Some, the better to prevent any danger, that may happen by the use of such kinde of Medicines, do cover the parts round about the verruca with leaves. Others do anoint them cum un­guento ex bolo armeno, terra sigillata, aqua rosacea & aceto.

If there be need of burning with fire, then you must provide an iron plate made fit, with a hole, to couch close about the borders of the Wart, so that none of the sound skin round about it may appear. Adustion being made, you must resolve the crust with butter, or with some other unctuous thing, and afterward cure the place, as other ulcerations.

But if Tbymon groweth in the se­cret [Page 227] parts, and be very painful and hard, then we must onely use a pallia­tive cure. The most excellent Medi­cine that I know of in this case, is the unguent set down in the Chapter de Phygethlo.

A certain man, Observa­tio. studious of Phy­sick, affirmed, that Oxe-dung tem­pered with the leaves or powder of Savine, would waste the Warts of the Womb, if it were applyed there­to warm; which, whether it be true, or not, let experience, the mistriss of things be judge.

Simeon Jacoz, a most expert Phy­sitian, tells us of a man that had ma­ny Warts upon the fingers of his hands, which he cured by anointing them four or five times with the milk of a fig­tree.

Caput 10.
De Myrmecia.

[...] seu Verruca sessilis, Myrmecia [...] is a small, callous, round and thick [Page 228] tubercle, sitting with a broad foun­dation, and yielding a sense like to the biting or stinging of a Pissemire or Ant, when it is handled. And therefore it is called Verruca sormica.

Oritur a frigido, Causa. crasso, melancholico pituitosoque humore, qui non putret, sed indurescit.

Signa in definitione exposita sunt. Signa. Moreover, observe that Myrmecia hath a broader root, and slenderer top than Thymon; it is lower, harder, fuller of pain, and less subject to bleeding. Scarce at any time doth it exceed the bigness of a Lupine, or Hop.

Myrmecia sine curatione vix unquam desinit. Progno­stica.

It sticketh in with broad roots, so that it cannot be cut out, without great ulceration.

Myrmeciae are to be cured by burn­ing, Curatio. eating, or corroding medicines, of which you have plenty in the fore­going Chapter, and therefore thither I refer you.

Galen maketh mention of one in his time at Rome, Obser­vatio, who cured them af­ter [Page 229] this manner. First he brought out the evils by applying his lips, or by sucking them into his mouth for a space, and then setting to his fore­teeth, he utterly destroyed them, by biting them clean out.

Caput 11.
De Acrochordone.

[...] is a kinde of Wart, Acrochor­don. having a thin or slender root, with a callous bunch, like unto the knot of a rope, hanging by a small thred, round and without pain. It is called of the Arabians, Verruca bote­ralis, and of the later writers Verruca pensilis.

Oritur ex materia crassa melancholica & pituitosa, Cause. quam natura discutere non possit.

Signa in definitione exposita sunt. Signa. Moreover, Acrochordon is distinguish­ed from myrmecia, because it is slen­derer in the bottom, broader in the top, alwayes standing out from the [Page 230] skin, seldom growing greater than a Bean, most commonly incident to Children: Sometime turning to mat­ter, otherwhiles suddenly going away: and now and then moving in some measure an inflammation. Also (as Celsus saith) they grow up thick and many in number.

Acrochordon saepe sine ullius medica­menti ope, Progno­stica. ut Celsus habet, per se desinit.

If it be cut off, it leaveth no root behinde, and therefore it groweth not again.

Acrochordones are removed, Curatio. either by Ligature, cutting, burning, or bi­ting: all which I have sufficiently treated of before. Vide supra in capite de Thymo.

Caput 12.
De Clavo.

[...] seu Clavus, Clavus. is a round callous Wart, of colour white, fashion­ed like the head of a nail, growing [Page 231] upon the toes and soles of the feet, and procuring pain in going.

Clavi be often caused of a bruise, Causa. by the pressure and wringing of shoes.

Cognoscuntur ex iis, quae in definitione Signa. exposita sunt.

Clavus doth scarce at any time cease without curing. Progno­stica.

If it be cut you shall see a round root underneath, which causeth the Corn or Agnail to grow again.

If it do bleed in the cutting, it of­tentimes dyeth and ceaseth. Cavendum tamen ne vel inflammatio, vel cancer consequatur, ut Avicenna adnotavit, nam aliquando accidit.

For the Cure, Curatio. it must be anointed cum sanguine anguillae and oyl of Mer­cury; and when it IS softned, with oyl of Snails. When it is cut, smear it with the Urine of a Dog, and lay on a plaister of red wax.

Efficacissimum etiam est ad clavos in pedibus hoc emplastrum.

Recipe picis navalis ℥. i. galban. acet. diss. ℥. ss. sal. ammon. ℈. i. empl. diach. magni ʒ. i. ss. misc. F. Emplastrum.

[Page 232] This Plaister following hath been oftentimes used with happy suc­cess. Observa­tio.

Recipe emplaestri diachylonis magni ℥. ss. resinae sutorum ℥. ss salis ʒ. ij. mix them, and the same being spread on a cloth, apply it to the Corn, changing it every fourth day. La­mina plumbi hydrargyro illita, etiam commendatur.

But the surest way to cure Corns, is, to cut them when the Moon is in the wane, first washing the feet a pret­ty while in hot water, and then to ap­ply lvy-leaves bruised, renewing the same every day morning and evening: for within fifteen dayes the Corns are drawn out; by which also we learn, that there is in lvy a most potent at­tractive faculty.

Quò ad pleniorem curationis cog­nitionom, vide supra in capite do Thymo.

Caput 13.
De Moro.

[...] is a soft Tumor, Mormu. increased from the flesh, in carne rara accidens.

It arises from an alimentary humor which hath melancholick blood ming­led therewith. Causa.

Hoc tumoris genus facilè cognoscitur, Signa. multoties in palpebris enascitur. And one I saw lately upon the belly of an Infant, representing the colour, form, and bigness of a Mulberry.

Morum facilè in cancri naturam ver­titur. Progno­sticum.

It is the office of a prudent Chi­rurgion, Curatio. antequam deveniat ad curam, notare colorem, substantiam, tumoris qualitatem, & locum. Si timetur can­crositas, recurre ad cancrum.

At si fuerit benignum, incidatur aut ligetur, ut dictum fuit in capite de Thy­mo. Postea cauterizetur cum ferro ignito, aut cum aliquo caustico, removeatur es­chara [Page 234] cum emollientibus: Deinde cure­tur ulcus, ut alia ulcera.

Caput 14.
De Callo.

[...] seu Callus, Callus. or Brawniness, is an hardness bred in the sur­face of the skin, in the palms of the hands, and the lowest parts of the soles of the feet.

It is caused by continual labour or much walking. Causa:

It hath no deep root; Signa. it is void of all pain, and so it is distinguished from Clavus.

For the Cure, Curatio. first let the feet be washed cum aqua aut lixivio, in quibus sit malva decocta. Vel.

Recipe fol. betae, malvae, flor. Cha­maemeli, meliloti, ana M. ij. bulliant in aqua aut lixivio q. s. Fiat Balneum, & utere: Postea incidatur callus usque ad partem vivam, & post incisionem conve­niunt localia supra dicta, capite de clavo.

Caput 15.
De Cornibus.

COrnua, Cornua. are long, thick, crooked Warts like unto horns, breed­ing upon the joynts, by reason of ve­hement operation.

Causae sunt eaedem, Causa. quae in myrmeciae vel nodi capite descriptae sunt.

The Signes are set down in the De­finition. Signa.

Cornua difficulter curantur, Progno­stica. & toto vitae tempore saepe durant.

If they be nigh the joynts, and hinder their motion, or by pressing do cause continual pain, they must be cut off, which is done with more safe­ty, cùm in nudis ossibus solâ cute obdu­ctis consistunt.

Cutis primò aperienda, Curatio. & cornu de­nudandum; Postea ferro acuto ab osse ab­scindendum, & vulnus conveniente modo curandum.

I read of one that had seven horns upon his head, Historia. one bigger then an­other, and in several places. Of [Page 236] which horns there was one as big, and sharp, as the horn of a little Goat, or of the length of a mans thumb, & multùm laedebat cutem, so that it was a wonder the skin was not ulcerated.

Avenzoar maketh mention of an­other that had a bone, less hard then a natural one, growing upon his back ad similitudinem unius cornu.

Alexander Benedictus declares, that in Crete, out of a knee wounded by an arrow, he saw a black horn come forth, almost like to the head of a wilde Goat: The matter (as he saith) which should have been converted in­to the nature of a bone was easily turned, afflatu aëris, into the nature of a horn.

Zacutus Lusitanus doth relate, that a poor man whom melancholiness did naturally affect, often complained of a dolorous pain on his right heel, and did feel in it a kinde of hardness, which afterward did turn into a tumor about the bigness of a small chesnut, hard, rough, and of a leaden or livid colour, which did so increase by the space of eight moneths, that it came [Page 237] to be of the length of the palm of a mans hand, and of the very likeness of a horn; which being afterwards cut off, by the counsel of the Physicians, and his body oftentimes purged, he li­ved by the space of two years in very good health. But not long after he did feel in the same place intolerable pains, and in six months the horn grew again, somewhat longer then it was before, hard, and full of several very sharp points; which being again cut off by the root, there did remain a wide and deep hole, from whence a great quantity of a black and putrid humor flowed forth, so sharp and bi­ting that it eat the flesh round about.

A certain old woman had growing upon the bone Zygoma or Cheek-ball under her eye an hard body two fin­gers breadth long, just like an horn both in matter and shape, being broad at the Basis or bottom, and sharp or pointed at the top, which in process of time fell off by its own accord, and a Cancer arose in its place.

Caput 16.
De Varice, Dracunculo, & Malo pilari.

[...] is the dilatation of a vein, Varix. some whiles of one and that a a simple branch, otherwhiles of many, hapning chiefly in the legs, thighs, under the navil, and sometimes in the temples. Also the testicles, womb, and fundament, are subject to the Va­rices. Quae sunt circa testes, hernia va­ricosa, seu varicosus ramex dicitur.

Oritur à crasso melancholico sanguine, Causa. eò vel pondere delapso, vel à causa vio­lenta detruso: as leaping, running, a vehement concussion of the body, the carrying of a heavy burden, a fall, or a painful journey on foot.

This kinde of disease gives manifest signs thereof by the largeness, Signa. thick­ness, swelling, and colour of the veins, which are blacker than other; soft, easily yielding to the finger, and soon returning. Varices often grow in men (vix tamen ante pubertatem) of a me­lancholly temper, and which usually [Page 239] feed on gross meats, or such as breed gross and melancholick humors. Also women with childe are commonly troubled with them, by reason of the heaping together of their suppressed menstrual evacuation.

Varices non debent curari, Progno­stica. si sunt cri­tici, & ab aliis morbis liberant, ut ab insania solent; according to the say­ing of Hippocrates, [...]. if the swelling of veins in the legs, called Varices; or the Haemorrhoides, shall happen to them which are mad, their madness is dissolved. Quoniam totum corpus à feculento sanguine per eas expurgantur.

Interdum varices in elephantiam Arabum transeunt.

It is best not to meddle with such as are inveterate; Hipp. lib. 6. lest being cured, there happen a reflux of the melan­cholly blood to the noble parts, Aphor. 21. whence there may be imminent danger of malign ulcers, a Cancer, madness, or suffocation.

Varix etiam in testibus difficulter Chi­rurgiam admittit.

Quò ad curam universalem, tam in rebus non naturalibus, quam in evacua­tione, [Page 240] observabis ea quae in scirrhi cu­ratione scripsimus. Aeger etiam semel in hebdomada capiat vomitum, & pa­rùm deambulet.

Quantùm ad localia, ea omnia quae supra dicta sunt in capite de aneurismate, conveniunt.

Moreover, Terra Lemnia or Bole armoniack, with the white an egge, and vinegar, have been oftentimes used with happy success. Also a rowl dip­ped in vino austero, vel decocto astrin­gente, and applyed from the ankle to the knee is much commended. And so is this plaister: ℞. olei myrtillo­rum, & rosacei, ana ℥. i. ss. acaciae, hy­cistidis, thuris, mastiches, boli armenae, ana ʒ. ii. gallarum, nucum cupressi, ma­licorii, ana ʒ. i. cerae q. s. Fiat empla­strum & utere.

A Varix is cut or taken away, ei­ther to intercept the passage of the blood and other humors flowing to an Ulcer seated beneath; or else lest that by the too great quantity of blood, the vessel should break, and death be occasioned by a haemorrhagy proceed­ing from thence. Quò ad modum [Page 241] sectionis, vide Paraeum lib. 13. cap. 20. pag. 354.

Dracunculus is the condensation of some certain small nerve, Dracun­culus. which seems both to the Physitians and Patients to have some kinde of motion under the skin; being a Disease very like the Va­rices; causing great pain, when increa­sing by little, and little, it begins to be moved.

Hunc morbum Avicenna Venam Meden vocat, because it is a Disease frequent in the City Medina. Haliabas venam famosam nuncupavit; aliique Doctores venam cruris nominarunt.

The Dracunculi are bred in the dry and Sun burnt Regions of India, Ara­bia, and the higher parts of Aegypt, like worms in the musculous parts of mans body.

They are generated of evil and un­laudable blood, of a venenate kinde, gross, hot and melancholick, or of adust phlegm very much dryed, as Manardus writes.

This kinde of Tumor is round and long, often stretched from the joynt of the shoulder even to the wrist; or [Page 242] from the groin even to one of the ankles, with tention, heat, renitency, pricking pain, and a Fever. Also this tumor is somewhile stretched forth streight, otherwhiles it is crooked and twining like a Serpent.

Dracunculus curatur eodem modo quo Varices. Which thing chiefly seems to have moved Guido to refer this kinde of Disease to the Varices in his Tra­ctate of Imposthumes.

Quò verò ad pleniorent Dracunculi cognitionem, vide Galenum, Avicen­nam, & alios qui hanc materiam tra­ctarunt.

Malum pilare called by the French Cridones à Crinibus, Malum pilare. ariseth from thick, strong, and short hairs, which are scarce of a pins length, chiefly trou­bling children, pricking their backs like thorns, and keeping them from rest.

Curatur aquae plusquam tepidae fomen­tatione, after which to draw forth the hairs, you must presently apply an oynt­ment made of honey, and wheaten flower; and being thus drawn, they must be plucked out with small mullets.