THE Epislepsie it is a convultion of the whole bo­dy by fits, with a depravation of both mind & sences. The Cause Cause. is either contained in the ventricls of the braine, or sent up from the stomacke, and spleene unto the head, and the brains l [...]bouring to expell that which is offen­sive unto it, shakes it selfe, and by consequence all the Nerves adjacent to it.

I shall not instance many signes for Diseases, in this small vol­lume, neither are they indeed proper, because they doe not al­wayes fall out alike, for they are very various; only I shall men­tion this. [...]igne. The sences inwardly and outwardly are hindered, and the body diversly moved, he stares and thrusteth forth his eyes, and gnasheth his teeth, breatheth difficultly, his seed, dung, and urine, breaketh forth involuntarily, and neer unto the fits end he fometh at the mouth and nose, and the fit being ended he forgets all his actions.

ure.For the Cure, generally the matter that offends in this distem­per is for the most par [...] flegm, wherefore you must administer those things that purgeth flegm: First, if his body be bound give him this glyster. Take of Fountain water lb 1. and dissolve in it ℥ss of Castel Soape, and of Electuarium de succo rosarum, and Diaphanicon, ana ℥ss and make a glyster, afterwards give him this potion; Take of Senna ℥ss. Anniseeds and Cloves ana ʒss. leaves of Mints and Bittony, ana M. ss. of the tops of Time, P. ss. boyle them to a quarter of a pint in Spring-water, and straine it, and infuse in it of Troches of Agarick ʒ 2. Cinmamom ℈ss. Dia­phaenicon, ʒ 3. Syrup of Roses ℥ 1. make a potion and let it be gi­ven with safe governement. If there be signes of repletion, and the party be sanguine, let him blood in the Cephalick veine in the right arme, otherwise not.

In this disease weake medicines availe little, therefore Chymi­call medicines are most effectuall, let this be it. Let the Patient take [...] 2. of the infu [...]ion of Crocus-Mettallorum for a vomit, it is one of the most prevailing medicines in this distemper, it ma [...] be taken 3 or 4 times, once every fourth or fift day. Oyle of white Amber rightly made, given in water of Swallows, is very com­mendable, the dos is from ℈ss to ℈ 1. or you may give it very well in Treacle water.

This disease is common among Children, and very dangerous, and differs very much from that of elder people, therefore it is necessary to speak of their Cure Cure. by it selfe, as followeth.

First, Make the body solluble by a Glyster or Suppostor, after or about the same time, give ʒ 2. of the Electary of Diacartha­mum, if this purge have not profited, let the Child have a vomit of white Vitriol prepared, or salt of Vitriol, which may be given three or foure times, at two or three dayes distance one after another. And if the disease abates not, but rather increase, let there be given often in Milk or Broth this following powder, it is called De Gutteta; you may give it from ℈ ss. ℈ 1. The powder is thus made.

Take of Peony roots and seeds, white Dictamnus, M [...]sleto of the Oak ana ℥ ss the Seed of A [...]riplex or orage [...] 2. the po [...]der of M [...]ns skull [...] 3. Red Currell prepared, Hyacinths prep [...]red, ana ʒ ss Elks hoofe prepared ℥ ss. M [...]sk ℈ 1. Le [...]te-Gold ʒ 1. mix them into powder, take the dosse in a smal spoonfull of Milk or Broth, or Water, or instead thereof Cinamon-Water. Whilest that these things are doing, you must give once in a day a Glyster. Take of the Lixivium of Castel-So [...]p ℥ 1. Hiera Picra ʒ 3. Honey of Rosemary ℥ss. Oyle of Rue and Lillyes ana ʒ 2.

If that the Child sucke, let the Nurses milk be good, let her drink no wine only water, or water and honey, and a small drink of Sarsaparilla, some Children are so subject to this D [...]sease, that it returnes againe after that it is cured; let them be purged twice a month with M [...]nna, or Syrope of Cichory with Rhubarb, and every New-Moone, give it a dosse of Epileptick powder, Degu [...] ­teta, give it thrice in two dayes.

But an approved medicine (after generall evacuation) in Chil­drens [Page 3] Epilepsis, as I have often found by experience, is to give fine musk the quantity of 5 or 6 graines in thin small wine, twice or thrice in a day. It cureth perfectly.

The Vertigo, it is a false imagination in which all ob [...]ects and the head it selfe, seemes to turne round, so that the Patient often f [...]lls.

The Cause Cause. is the circumvolution of the spirits, coming of a va­potion matter or wind, and coming to the Ventricls of the brain disturbs the spirits, and m [...]kes them run round, whence the species of the object, brought by those spirits are moved in like manner, a [...]d so the objects themselves seeme to be moved the same way, and these vapours are sent up from evill humors, and the humors are such as produce vapors, namely, blood, flegm, choller, and melancholly, and watery humor, for a cold as well as a hot vapor causeth a Vertigo.

The Cure Cure. of this disease is much like that of the Epilepsie, co [...]ing almost of the same causes. If blood abound you must o­pen a veine, and let blood by degrees, open the Cephalick veine in the right arme, but give a Glyster first, the same that is menti­o [...]ed in the Cure of the Epilepsie, after that make evacuation by the purging potion there mentioned, then give this Sternutatorie or sne [...]zing powder; Take leaves of M [...]rjorum, Sage, and Rose­m [...]ry, all dryed, ana ʒ ss. P [...]llitory of Spaine, and white Helibor, ana ℈ 1. Musk gr. 3. make a subtil powder, and with a quill blow some i [...]to the nostrils. The Patient must drink often of the De­coction of Gu [...]jacum, and sometimes four or five drops of oyl of whi [...]e Amber in it, and sweat on it, and not neglecting Glysters, at such times when you do not sweat, to keep the body solluble, the Glyst [...]r that is used is in the Cure of the Epilepsie.

M [...]lancholia, It is a kind of doting accompanied with fear and sadn [...]sse. Great variety of doting ariseth from the various dispo­sition of the humour, whereby some thinks themselves Kings and great men, others that they are beasts, and that they are glasse and feare to be touched lest that they should be broken, others that they have Frogs or Mice and other creatures in their bellyes.

The Cause of this disease is a dark spirit or vapour very bla [...], [...]. for when the Animal spirits ought in their own nature t [...] b [...] p [...]re, and thin, and transparent, for the chearfull performing of the actions of the brain and to cause cheerfulness, if that they change their constitution & become dark they produce sorrow and fear. The Cause of this evill qu [...]lity of the Spirits is a M [...]l [...]ncholly hu­mour, which being thick, da k, and black, doth inf [...]ct the Spiri [...]s, and make them cloudy, and dark, and this humour is cold and dry a [...]d fit for fixing and condensing the spirits, which fixing a [...]d co [...]densing, and thickning of the spirits, causeth sorrow and heavinesse.

The [...]ignes are propounded, namely sorrow and feare without a cause, for the Cure, Cure. let the distemper take its original from what part soever, two things are to be observed, that the wh [...]le body be freed from the humor by generall evacuation, as also from the fi [...]th of other humors, for it seldome happens that one pa [...]ty is alone affected. Secondly, That your chiefe remedie [...] b [...] directed to the Hypochond [...]a, because in the Spleen and Liver, is the first generation of Melancholly, and the gathering of it is in the parts adj [...]cent.

First, Give a Glystér, then this following potion, take of Se­ [...]a ℥ss. Anniseeds, and Cream of Tartar ana ʒ 1. Bou [...]age flowers, [...]amiterie and Sorrell, ana M. ss. Liquorice ʒ 3. boyl them to 3. dissolve in the straining, of Rhubarb infused in Lavender-water [...]ss. double Catholicon ʒ 3. compound Syrup of Succory [...] 1. [...]ake a potion to which you must adde if the disease be strong [...] 1. [...] Confectio Alkermes; The day following let blood in the left [...]rme, chiefly or as the Liver & Spleen are most affected, after the [...]ody is well purged give asses milk with Sugar of Roses, and a [...] of Species arromaticum rosatum mixed with it. It is necessary [...]t r that you have received your Cure, that for the prevention [...] a relapse, or falling into any other dist [...]mper, that you purge [...]ce a week, for a month, in s [...]ring and fall with these following [...]s, for they open b [...] degrees incomparab [...]y all manner of ob­ [...]uctions, and purge Mellancholly, and gently allayeth it. Take [...]der of Senna and Creame of Tartar, an [...] ʒ 1 powder of Ci­ [...]mon ss. with Syrup of Lemons m [...]ke a mass of which take [...] ss [...]e [...]oure before Supper, for salt of Tartar hath a great vertue [...]llay black Melancholly humors, for it d [...]aweth to it self by a [...]taine property it hath sower thing.

A Catarrh is the falling down of an excrimentitious humor from the head into the inferiour parts.

This is caused Cause. by an il con [...]ction or want of a good digestion, by r [...]ason of which, bad humors are generated, and the brai [...] being as a Cupping glass applyed to the body never ceases to [...] tract humors and vapors from the inferior parts, hence the ex [...]ments are increased, which by their quantity and quality provo­king the expulsive and overcoming the retentive facculty, run im­m [...]d [...]ra [...]y b [...] unusuall and improper wayes which they find ou [...] to the g [...]at disturbance of the bo [...]y. A violent Catarrh proc [...]; from a sh [...]rp salt humour rising from a hot Liver, and being sent up unto t [...]e braine, is by the frigidity or coldnesse of it, conden­ced a [...]d [...]o falls down into the Lungs, or other inferiour parts.

The Cure Cure. consists in the evacuating the humor offending, and in the stopp [...]ng of its motion, the matter offending is to be dimi­n shed b [...] these pills. Take pills of Cochie the lesser ℈ 2. with water of Bittony, make them into five or six pills, and gild them, let them be taken in the morning early, having eat a light [...]up­per over night, if that the cause be very strong, then give ℈ 2. of pill, Tartary Quercitany, and adde to it five graines of pulp of C [...]l q [...]intida, for it very excellently purgeth the brain, and open obstructions, after that the body and head is sufficiently cleansed of the humor offending, to stop the course of the Catarrh use Luc Sulphuris, or this infallible remedy. Take of Conserve of ed Rose [...] ℥ 2. Fl [...]s, or flower of Brimstone ℥ ss. Spirit or oyle of Sul­pher, four drops, and incorporate them well together, and every morning and evening fi [...]st and last, take the quantity of halfe a Wal-nut, and let it dissolve by degrees in the mou [...]h, and conti­nue thi [...] medicine till the rhume ceaseth. An issue in the arme is a great help to stop or divert the course of the rhume, if it proves a stubborn Catarrh, but that is the last thing to be done.

Cephalalgia, or the pain in the H [...]ad; It is of severall kinds, and proceeds of severall causes, a pricking paine comes from a sharp collerick humor or vapor, which toucheth the membraines of the brain. A heavie pain comes from the multitude of thick and cold [Page 6] matter, namely flegm and melancholly compressing the sensible parts, and extending paine comes of winde or milder humors, which worke themselves into the membranes and distend them, a beating or pulsative paine comes from thin chollerick blood or spirits abounding, by which the Arteries being swoln or stretched doe beat more vehemently, and shake the membranes, and so striking the adjacent parts, cause in them a sence of pulsation; the paine coming of either a hot or cold cause, the Cure must be directed to the taking away of both.

The Cure Cure: of an Head-ach proceeding from a cold cause, the flegmy matter is first to be evacuated by these following pills, Take Coloquintida ʒ 1. Trochis of Agarick, Scammony prepared, Black Hellibore & Turbith, ana ℥ ss. Alloes ℥ 1 Diarrhodon Abatis ℥ ss. let the purging things beaten together, and put into a glasse with spirit of wine, as much as is sufficient, and let them macerate eight dayes in a warme place, and then adde the powder of Diar­rhodon, and infuse them four dayes longer, then strain them, and presse them, and let the liquor so pressed be stilled in Balneo, so long till the extract in the bottom of the Still or Alimbeck, be­comes so thick that it may make pills, the dosse is ℈ 1. or you may take this which I have often experienced. Take Alloes ℥ ss. the powder of the Electuary of Pearls, the three sanders and red roses ana gr. 3. with Syrup of wormwood and violets, make a masse, give ʒ 1. thereof twice in a week, one hour before Supper. Whilest these medicines are using, you must use all along this specificall medicine. Take the powder of Zedoary ʒ 1. Bittony-water, and of Vervine and Elder, ana ℥ 1. mix them and apply them hot to the part grieved. The hot cause of this Head ach proceeds from blood or choller, and the like remedies are proper for both, only they must be made stronger or weaker according to the strength of the disease. First, after a Glyster let blood, draw more if the griefe proceeds of blood, then if it comes of choller, then give a medicine that purge choller, not only when choller is the princi­pall cause, but when blood aboundeth, whose thinner part is easily turned into choller, if that the offending humor be not sufficiently taken away by one purge, you must purge againe at due distance, and after apply repelling medicines to the head; namely, vinegar of roses, or which is better this Epitheme. Take of musk gr. 12. Camphir ℈ 1. red rose water in which sanders have been infused [Page 7] ℥ 20. mix them, shave the head, and wet double cloaths therein, and apply them warm to all the Sutures of the head, when they are d y wet them againe, and continue the application four and twenty houres, and in so doing you provoke sleep, strengthen the br [...]ine, and wonderfully recover the Patient.

This Pin and Web comes of flegm or a thick humor remaining after an Opthalmy, and is easily cured if it be not inveterate, and sometimes it comes by a wound or ulcer, and is a scar, but that is hardly cured, because it is in a party that hath exquisite sence, and sharp medicines, such as are proper to weare away. A Cicatrize or skar, cannot be indured, therefore I shall instance only the cure of the forme, and it is as followeth. You must first make generall evacuation by this following medicine; Take of Sema ℥ss. Fennel-seeds ʒ 1. the leaves of Bittony, and Eye-bright, and Vervaine, ana M ss L [...]quorice ʒ 3. boyl them to three ounces, and dissolve in the straining of D [...]ap [...]aenicon ʒ 3. Syrup of Rose ℥ 1. make a potion and give it in the morning, afterwards foment the eyes with the decoction of Fanugreek, Mellilote, and Celondine, and Fennel, with a spunge to soften the hard matter, afterwards take the di­stilled water of honey used alone in the eye, for it is incomparable in taking away all blemishes in the eye, by continuing the use of it sometime, Sugar candy is good, being dissolved in Eye-bright water, or Fennel water.

Sugillatio, or Blood-shot, or that red colour of the eye that cometh of blood sent thither, Cure. if young is easily cured, onely by dropping of Pidegons blood into the eye, or in want thereof, you may use womens milk with a little Frankinsence and Saffron, or apply the yolk of an egge with wine. If the disease be old and stubborne and that the rednesse turneth black, take dried Hyssop, tied in a rag and put into hot water, and applied to the eye, it is excellent, for experience teacheth that this medicine is of such force that the blood is drawn away by its sticking to the clout.

Coriza, is a Catarrh falling from the braine into the Nose, [Page 8] which defluxion is of a cold humor contained in the fore ventri [...]ls and comes for the most part of an externall cause, which cools the braine, for then it is squeesed like a spunge, and so it sends downe the humor into the inferior parts, as also by over cooling the braine, there is an increase of flegm, for through want o [...] heat the excrements are not concocted, therefore are they sent [...]orth through the open passages by the expulsive facculty.

The cure Cure. of this disease is by curing the Catarrh, for it requires the same evacuation, only you must not use sneezing p [...]wders lest they should draw the humors more to the part af [...]cted. The vapour of b [...]yled M [...]rjoram, or of Marjoram water, taken into the nose doth good, the fume of red rose vinegar sprinckled upon a red hot iron, is good, If the defluxion be very cold, dry fumiga­tions of Frankinsence is good, only strewed upon embers, by these the cold distemper of the braine is amended and the supe [...]fluous moisture consumed.

Thicke, and Dull-hearing here is meant that which is caused by an externall cause, which is discerned (whether it be a tumor or thick matter or any other heterogoneall substance of any other nature which filleth the Cavety) [...]f you look upon them in the sun, if any thing has fallen into the eares, the Patient will informe you.

The infallible cure Cure. for this, is that the Patient take his mor­ning urine and let it stand in a glasse to putrefaction, or till it stin­keth, and then morning and evening to inject his eares three or foure times with it, being warmed and after the injection let him put in three or foure drops of this oyle into his ears. Take candy oyle ℥ 2. put into it sixty Hog-lice, by some they are called Sows, let them be boyled and strained and then dissolve in it gr. 10. of Musk, and keep it for use, let the body be purged three times in twelve dayes with this pu [...]ge. Take All [...]es ℥ 3. Rhubarb ʒ Sema ʒ ss pulp of Coloquintida ℈ 1. with Syrup of violets make a masse and take of them ʒ 1. or lesse according to the age and str [...]ngth of the patient, let it be taken very early in the morning, by the use of method I never failed the cure of this d [...]stemper if it came of an outward cause.

This comes from a preternaturall motion of the air, which is naturally contained in the eares, the causes of this preternaturall motion are many, but chiefly a vapor or winde sent from other parts into the eares, or bred there, either coming from the whole body or from some particular part, namely, the stomack, liver, spleen, midriff, womb, whence it comes to passe that in great vomitings in Hypocondriak mellancholly, Cause. and fit of the mother, there is a noise in the eares, in feavours it comes from the whole body; and Hypocrates saith that a noise in the eares coming in an accute disease is deadly, for it cometh of wind sent by the Arteries from the whole body into the ears, wind is bred in the eare by flegm contained therein, whence it comes to passe that thick hea­ring is alwayes accompanied with an noise in the head, for by the humor there is a stoppage, from whence cometh deafnesse, and from the wind that proceeds from that humor comes the noise, many other causes there may be laid downe, but there is no cer­tain knowledge of them, but this we may conjecture, that the noise comes from wind, because sometimes it ceaseth and cometh againe, and if the fault be in the eares onely, there is a continuall noise without intermission.

The cure Cure. of the noise of the head coming from consent with other parts, depends upon the cure of the diseases of those parts, but that which comes principally from the eare distempered by a cold distemper and thick vapor, is cured in the same manner as in the Chapter of thick and dull hearing, for they are alike, and one is changed sometimes into the other, and sometimes they are joyned together, for a noise in the eares, is the fore-runner of thick hearing and deafnesse.

It is caused by matter, wounds, ulcers, or things fallen or put into the ears, which by dissolving the continuity of those sensible parts, which compasse the cavety of the eare, causeth paine, a cold distemper sometimes causeth pain in the eares, and it comes from cold winds, baths, and other cold causes. To the Cure

Cure.Let the body first be purged with this following purge. Take Sema, Rhubarb, ana ʒ 1. Alloes ℥ ss. vitriolated Tartar ℈ 1. let [Page 10] them be made into pills with ℈ ss of Diarrhodon Abbatis, and Sy­rup of Wormwood and Violets, and let him take ʒ1. in the mor­ning, let him drink often of clarified Whey, or Pippin possets which are thus made. Take Pippins cut them and coar them, and put them in milk, and let them boyl till the milk turne, then take away the curd and reserve the posset for use.

Apply this Cataplasme to the eare. Take one Onion, Impostume in the Eare. fresh Butter ℥2. Oyle of Cammomell and Roses ana ℥1. Saffron ℈1. make a Poultice and apply it warme, The superation being made, the Impostume breaketh, and the matter comes forth, either by the membraine of the ear made thin, or else coroded, and then the Patient must lie upon the eare that is pained that the quitter may come forth & you must drop things into the ears that may cleans, take the decoction of Barly ℥4. honey of Roses ℥1. drop this warm into the are at several times. If the pain in the eare come frō any thing fallen into it as a Cherry-stone and the like, which will be very grievous & cause pain, Convulsions, and inflamations, and sometimes death, you must draw out those things thus. Take an Eare-picker and dip it in Rosin, Turpintine, Gum, or the like, turning of it till you get it out by degrees. If thus you cannot, put hot oyl of Almonds continually into the ears to relaxe the party, and make the thing contained in the eare slippery, so it will easier come forth, use sneezing with the mouth and nostrills shut, and so it will be forced out of the eares, these are to be continued till the party be free; for if the thing continue long in the eare, it will be inflamed and become more difficult & dangerous to be drawn forth. If Flees get into the ears, for the taking out of them make a ball of dogs haire and put into the ears and the Flees will come to it, or make a tent and put it often into the ears with a little Turpintine.

The Relaxation of the Vuula, Cause. comes from a rhume falling from the braine upon the Vuula or Collumella, and doth so moisten and soften and relax it, that it will be extended to the upper part of the Aesophagus or Weraud, and cause a nauseousnesse, so that the Patient will seeme to have something in his throat which he can­not swallow down, by which you may know it without looking into the mouth.

The Cure Cure. is performed by purging away the humors flowing, frō which is the Anticedent cause, & that is done by Pil Iperialis, take ℈ 2. every night for a week, all along make use of these pow­ders, to consume the humor. First, apply Pomegrannet p [...]lls pow­dered, and after mixed with a little Pepper, or take red Roses, Pomegrannet flowers, & Pils ana ʒ ss. the roots of Snake [...]eed and To mentill, Galls, and Flower-deluce roots ana ʒ [...]. burnt Allum ℈ 2. make a powder. Ordinary Chirurgions apply the powder of long Pepper but that is dangerous and is a means to draw more the humors to the place. The manner of applying this pow­der is to depresse the tongue with a speculum oris, and then blow up some of the powder with your Vuula spoon, do this often till the humor be spent.

It comes from inflamation caused by pure blood or mixed with choller, Cause. flegm, or melancholly, and falleth out of the branches of the jugular veins into the muscles of the jaws & throat & swelleth them and by that means stop and contract the ways of breathing and swallowing.

This Angina is an accute disease and sometimes kills a man in one day, what remedy is to be used must be done with great dili­gence, Cure. and what hour the Physitian comes, let him let blood out of the same side the head is affected, out of the head veine in the arme, and if that appeare not, out of the vein called Mediana, and take away a pound or two, not all at once but by degrees, a little every three or foure houres, for this kind of blood letting is very necessary, then open a veine under the tongue, then apply under the throate and so under each eare this following Cataplasme, Take Althea roots and the roots of Briony, and the wild Cucu­mer, ana ℥ 1. Mallows, Pellitory, Origon, and the lesser Centaury, ana M. 1. Fat number six or seaven Lint-seed & Fenugreek-seed, ana ℥ 1. boyl them then straine them and adde of the powder of Swallows-nest, and of Album Greecum, ana ʒ 3. Brimstone [...] 1. fresh Butter, and Ducks-grease ana ℥ 1. Oyl of Dill ℥ 2. and make a Cataplasme and apply it warme, and gargarise the mouth with this, Take Plantain, Sorrell, and the tops of Brambles, ana M. 1. the graines of Sumach, ℥ss. one Pomegrannet beaten with grains and pills and red Roses P. 1. make a decoction to a pint, and dis­solve in the strainings Syrup of Mulberries ℥ 3. Sal Prunella ʒ 2. [Page 12] and make a gargell; The next day purge with this, take of Rhu­barb ℈2. Ro [...]n of Scammony, gr. 6. dissolve them in broth and drink it, it is not amisse to give a Glyster before and after pur­ging, and with the continuance the gargel, let him swallow some­times of this Julep, Take of Rose water Plan [...]aine water ana ℥6. Syrup of Lemons ℥1. Syrup of Maiden-hair and Violets, ana ℥1ss. spirit of Sulphur ten drops, mingle them for a Julep, and by this method under God he need not feare but be cured.

These are bred of sharp humors or vapors coming from divers parts into the jawes, as in malignant feavours it often happens, Cause. or to those that have hot Livers and foule bodyes. To the Cure

First, A Glyster, Take of the common decoction for Gly­sters lb 1 and dissolve in it of Cassia new drawne, Cure. and Diaphaeni­con ana ℥ss Oyl of Violets ℥ 2. oyle of Rue, ℥1. and administer it; then open a veine in the arme, the Liver veine, then purge with a dosse of Pillulae Ruffi, the next day give the Glyster againe, and gargell the mouth with the gargell mentioned in the Quinzie, and if the inflamation be great adde some juice of Nightshade, Henbeene, and Plantain to it with as much Sal prunella, as will not make it too sharp, and let him drink of this Julep, Take red Rose leaves ʒ2. Fountain water lb1. and when they are warm on the fire, put into them of spirit of Vitriell, gut. 10. and let them remaine pretty warm for halfe an houre, then straine them and then dulcifie it with as much Syrup of Violets and Mulberries as is sufficient, and take now and then 3 or 4 spoonfulls, by this means I have cured many.

It comes from a flux of humors either cold and flegmy and is cured only by powdering a little Ginny Pepper, Cause. and tie it up in [...] little peece of Sarcenet, and let it steep a little in Clove-water, [...]nd then take it out and apply it to your teeth pained, and r itte­ [...]ate it three or foure times, and it will draw away the cold fl [...]gm, [...]nd the paine ceaseth; Or this paine comes of a hot and [...]tery [...]nd salt sharp humor, and then is cured by putting of a T [...]och of Alhandall, (which is made of Coloquintida seed) unto the teeth [...]ained, and it does the like effects to the former; But your [...]leum [Page 13] Heracli, which is oleum Buxi, or oyle of Box, put into the teeth is above all other medicines, and never failes, yet I have seldome failed by the former. If the paine is caused by cold aire got into the hollow of a tooth, stop it with this pill; Take of Opium and Bees-wax, ana gr. 2. and make a pill of it, and put it into the hol­low of the Tooth, and it will give ease presently and keep the air out.

The teeth contracts to themselves a black, livid, or yellow co­lour from the evill humors cleaving unto them, which by long continuance doe also corrode them and make them rotten.

Many and infinite are the medicines that Authors have inven­ted for making teeth white, Cure. but I have contented my selfe only with this one, which presently makes them white, cleanseth them and keep them from rotting. Namely spirit of Vitriel or Sulpher, in which you must dip a little stick & rub the teeth with the end thereof, and then wipe them with a rag; in great foulnesse use the oyles themselves, otherwise you must mix them with honey of Roses and faire water, lest by the often use of them the gums should be corroded. Afterwards the teeth being made white, to prevent their blacknesse againe, and preserve them white. First, cleanse them with a stick of Rosemary beaten at one end as a stick of Liquorice, and brush of the filth that hang on the teeth, then wash the mouth with wine, and rub them with this powder, Take roots of Snakeweed, Allum, and white Currel, ana ℥ 1. make of them a powder to rub the teeth.

Such as is occasioned by a Catarrh, or defluxion of rhume from the head, Cause. you must first purge with Pillula Imperialis for fourteen dayes together, you must take ʒss. at a time, every night a little before you goe to bed, Cure. after the humor is well purged, use every morning this pectorall Bole, which indeed has not its pa­ralell. Take Lac Sulphuris ʒ 2. if that you cannot get that, take of Flos, or flower of Brimstone ℥ss. of white Amber and Mastick ana ʒ2. Specierum Diatragacanth frigid. ʒ 2. oyle of Sulphur ℈ss Conserve of red Roses ℥3. mix them well, and take the quantity of a small wal-nut morning and evening, but let it dissolve by de­grees [Page 14] in his mouth, let him drinke at times the decoction of Li­quorice and Maiden haire, made in Barly water, and sometimes possets made of Pippins, many [...]as found miraculous effects by this meanes, and I have had great credit by it.

The Haemorrhagia, or bleeding at the nose, the cause [...] are too many to be inserted here, therefore I shall only set down the speediest and most universall way of stopping of it, Cause & Cure. and it is done by revultion of blood from the nose, and by repelling it to the parts adjacent, by stopping the veines that are open, by staying the disorderly motion of the blood, and by evacuating the sharp and thin humors mixed with the blood, which are the chief cause of an Haemorrhagia, by correcting them and hindering their in­crease, and by strengthning the retentive faculty of the Liver and veines, all which are done as followeth.

First, Let blood on the same side the nostril bleeds on the Cephallick, or you may in the Liver veine, doe it speedy before the party be too weak, and that in a large quantity if the Patient be strong, and out of a large orifice, for to make the blood move a contrary way, there must be a stronger motion to hinder a wea­ker, therefore by how much the larger the Orifice and more vio­lent the motion is of the blood from the vein opened, by so much the sooner is the blood of the nose stopped, if once letting blood and applying other remedies doe not stop it, you must repeat let­ting of blood according to the strength of the Patient, you may open a veine in the foot, that a revultion may be made at a grea­ter distance which is very prevalent. After blood-letting, apply to the poule of the necke some rags that are wet in the spaun of frogs, and because it is not to be had at all times in the year, you may have the water of it that is distilled, in the Apothicaryes shops. Apply to the temples this Cataplasme. Take Bole-Ar­meniske, Terra Sigillaeta, Sanguis Dragonis, Frankinsence, Ma­stick and Alloes, ana ʒ 1. one white of an Egge, the Juice of Plain­taine, Houselick, and Nightshade, of each as much as is sufficient to make it into a Cataplasme, but put some of the hair of an hare to it, let it be applyed to the forehead and temples. The Cotten of an Inck-borne squeezed a little, and made into a tent and put into the nostril that bleeds, doth powerfully stop, as also laid and [Page 15] bound to the forehead, you may adde to it a very little white Vi­tri [...]l, for it stays bleeding extraordinarily by astringing the orifice of the Veines, being put into the nose tent wayes. You must re­straine also the motion of the blood by cooling, thickning, and coagulating Juleps. Take Sal prunella ʒ 1. Troches of Amber ʒss Bloodstone and red Correll prepared, ana ℈1. Syrup of dri­ed Roses ℥ 1. Plantain water ℥ 3. make a Julep to be taken three or four times a day. — Drink sometimes Oxicrate, that is, Vinegar and water, apply Vinegar and water to the privities, Their own blood dried in a pan & poudered and mixed in the a­bove mentioned Julep is a very rare medicine, and also blown in­to the nostril. Choose a cool aire, and let the Patients diet be of little nourishment, as Calves and Sheeps feet, or of Goats, hard eggs, rice, and new fat Cheese, and the like. Eate fruits that are sharp, binding, and bitter, abstaine from wine, use little motion, and speak little, let him sleep or be caused to sleep, for that con­temperates the humors, and stayes the motion thereof, avoid pas­sion (for it causeth the blood to ascend) as Anger, Laughter, and Joy.

It is the inflamation of the membraine that goeth about the ribs, Cause. of the Internall intercostall muscles. These knowledge of this disease signes,

• Signes.
  1. A pricking paine in the side.
• 2. A continuall sharp Feavour.
• 3. Difficulty of breathing.
• 4. A hard pulse like a Saw.
• 5. A troublesome Cough.

1. The pricking paine is chiefly in the Membraines, and comes from matter, and this paine possesseth the side, and stretcheth it selfe into the adjacent parts.

2. A continuall sharp Feavour hath its originall, from a fleg­mon, or Sanguinious tumor in some part neere the breast.

3. D [...]fficulty of breathing follows in this disease, because the parts inflamed cannot sufficiently distend themselves to draw in a great quantity of aire, which is requisite for the cooling of the in­flamed heart.

[Page 16]4. The pulse is hard, because the memb [...]ai e is affected and stretched forth, which also distendeth the Arteries, and they therefore make the difference of pulse called Sarratilis, like a Saw.

5. The Cough follows because nature striveth to expell that which is troublesome from the p [...]rty affected, also some of the matter swetteth from thence into the Lungs, and moveth the ex­pulsive faculty, whence the Cough comes.

There is a spitting of blood as another signe, but it is not in all Pleurisi [...]s, and therefore is not a proper signe.

To the Cure, Cure. First of all give a glyster, and if the disease be not violent, open the vena Basilica on the same side, but if it be vio­lent let blood first and give the glyster afterwards; Blood-letting in the beginning of this disease it must not be omitted, neither in old nor young, nor in women with Childe, or in Childe-bed, you must let blood oftentimes every day till the paine or Feavour grows lesse, and from the beginning of the disease twice or thrice in a day give this Julep. Take Poppy water ℥ 4. Syrup of Violets ℥ 1. Sal Prunella ʒ 1. make a Julep. After the first phlebotomy let the side be anointed with this unguent, mix the unguent of Al­thaea with oyle of sweet-Almonds, and after he hath anointed sprinckle on the powder of Cummin-seeds, and lay on a Colwort leafe, and this is of high commendation; after he has taken of the former Julep two or three dayes, let him use this pectorall Jelep. Take Barly P. 1. Liquorice and Raisins stoned ana ℥ 1. Jujubes number 20 the foure great Cole-seeds ana ʒ 3. Bugless and Vio­let flowers, ana P. 1. boyle them to a pixt and a quarter, and dis­solve in the straining Syrup of Violets, and Jujubes, ana ℥ 2 make a Julep for foure dosses to be taken morning and evening. The whole time of the disease let him drinke Barly water for his ordi­nary drinke, made with Liquorice, Poppies, and Ma [...]den-haire; Wine in this disease is poyson, and all sharp things that prov [...]ke Coughing, and by their astringency hinders spitting; Purging is improper in this disease, unlesse it be in the declination and then use this. Take Senna ℥ ss. Aniseeds ʒ 1. Buglesse and Maiden-haire, ana M. ss. Liquorice and Raisins stoned, ana ʒ3. flowers of Buglesse and Violets, ana P. 1. boyle them to ℥2. and in t [...]e straining dissolve of Rhubarb, infused in Scabious water, with a little yellow sanders ℈ 2 ss Manna and Syrup of Roses, ana ℥ 1. [Page 17] m [...]ke a po [...]ion. — Many other medicines I could mention, but they who follow these shall not loose their expectations.

This is taken for that spitting of blood that comes from the vi­tall parts, as breast, lungs, and rough Artery, and this is occasioned by the t [...]o great quantity of blood, which either breaketh the v [...]ines, Cause. or open their orifices, and so maketh either a Rexis or Anastom [...]sis; the same blood offending in quallity, as when it is too hot or too thin, because heat doth open the orifices, and thinnesse makes it flow easily through; Many causes may be rec­koned up, but it will be too tedious for the Reader to have them inserted he [...]e, for this book is intended only for a vade mecum, To the Cure.

Cure.First, Let blood in the arme, on the same side you find heavi­nesse or pricking, in a small quantity, but often; at distance for the better [...]evultion afterwards open a veine in the foot, and it is most profitable, If the distemper comes from the obstruction of the tearms, and the party subject to the Hemorrhoids, open them with Horse-leeches, let them take this Julep three times in a day. Take P [...]antaine and Poppy-water ana ℥2. Syrup of dried Roses ℥ 1. Lapis prunellae ʒ 1. mix them for a Julep. — Let him purge the serous and chollerick humors that make the blood more thin and fluid, with medicines of an astringent vertue; As, take Rhu­barb 1. yellow Mirabolaus ʒss. Tammarinds ℥ss. infuse them in Plantain-water, straine it, and dissolve in it powder of Rhubarb ʒss. Syrup of dried Roses ℥ 1. make a potion; then give medi­cines t [...]at closes the orifices of the vessels, by an astringent qual­lity, such as will not retaine the blood in the breast by too much astriction, therefore mix such things with them as doe dissolve a [...]d [...]xpectorate the congealed blood which is out of the vessels, for the which this is the best. Take Bole-Arminick, Terra sigillata both sorts of Correl, Blood stone, ana ʒss. Sugar of Roses ℥ss. [...]ith one white of an Egge well beaten with Rose-water, make a Lohoch, to licked up, sometimes make a Syrup of Purslaine, and use that, it is excellent in spitting of blood.

There are many Causes Cause. for this disease, but generally it pro­ceeds [Page 18] from a cold distemper, when flegmy melancholly humors are gathered into the stomack, and hinders its office; or being drawne from all other parts of the body, as is in them who use to vomit, draw the impurity of other parts to the stomack, from the brain, spleene, and mother, and other parts.

To the Cure; Cure. You must first make evacuation of the humor offending by a vomit, and then apply medicines to the stomack that may strengthen the parts thereof. For the vomit let it be ℥1ss. of the infu [...]on of Crocus mettallorum and after it has wrought sufficiently, give him of this Julep to drink at times, 2 or 3 spoonfulls. ℞ Agna rosarum aq. Boraginis, ana ℥ 3. spirit of Vitrioll, so much as will give a gust, then put to it of Syrup of Quinces and Violets, ana ℥ 1. Spec. aromaticum rosatum ʒ 1. make a Julep; Let him foment the stomack often times in a day with this fomentation, Take garden Mints, wormwood, ana M 3. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of wine and vinegar to the consump­tion of a third part, and with woolen stups foment the stomack with it, and once every morning take 4 graines of this powder to strengthen the stomack ℞ Sal Niter, flower of Brimstone ana ʒss. Sal Gemnae, Gallengall, Mastick, Cubebs, ana ℈ [...]s. Mace ℈ss make of them a subtill powder, and give it of 4 graines in sweet wine. By this powder such as go to Sea, that are apt to vomit there, if they take of it when that they find their nauseousnesse to come upon them, it shall prevent it by correcting the coldnesse of the humor that lyes over the stomack. I never failed the Cure of this disease, when I followed this method or course.

There are many causes of them, but the material cause, is com­monly sweet flegm that groweth putrid, by which it gets a dispo­sition to be turned into worms; food also, if it wants a good di­gestion turnes into putrifaction, and begets wormes in it selfe, as we see in Cheese, and in fruits which brings forth wormes by be­ing putrified, so it is in our bodyes, especially in children which are given to gluttony, and eate the aforesaid things, and take new commonly before the old is concocted, hence it is that they putri­fie and breed wormes, and it is daily to be observed that sucking Children that eate meate are most troubled with worms, because [Page 19] their stomacks are not able to digest it, mo [...]eover milk is quickly digested in the stomack, and presently sent to the guts, and if it have meat mixed with it which could not so suddenly be digested, it will be sent into the intestinesse with the milke, and therefore corrupt and breed wormes, for wormes never breed of milke alone.

The Cure of the wormes is by driving them out because they are wholly against nature, and this is done by purging medicines which kill wormes, and evacuate the matter that breedeth them, first, give a dosse of this powder, ℞ Wormseed ℥ [...]s. Senna ʒ 1 ss. Coriander-seeds prepared, Harts-horne, ana ℈ ss. Rhubarb ʒ2. dried Rue ʒ ss. beate them into a fine powder, it is to be given from ℈1. to ʒ1. according to the age of the party, mix it with such things as please the pallate, two hours after give this glyster. ℞ barly bran and red Roses, ana P: 1. Liquorice and Raisins scra­ped and stoned, ana ℥ s. boyl them to halfe a pint, dissolve in it strained, red Sugar ℥ 1. and one yolk of an Egge make a glyster, you may adde Cassia or Diacatholicon to make it stronger, give these medicines 3 or 4 times in good order. Oyle of Juniper given one drop at a time in broth is excellent for Children that have wormes.

A Cataplasme to kill wormes. Take meale of Lupines ℥2. Mirrh and Alloes, ana ʒ2. oxe gall as much as is fitting, oyle of Wormewood ℥ 2. make a Cataplasme for the belly, let the belly be covered, but make a hole in the middle that the navel may not be covered but ly open, by this I have found merveilous effects; for flat wormes or asse wormes, glysters made of bitter things never failes, as milk ℥6. pulp of Col [...]quintida ℈ 1. oyle of Rue ℥ 2. give as a glyster and this is the best it is somewhat sharp but sure, you may put some Cassia to it, or Catholicen to make it more pur­gative, to carry away the filth that breeds them.

Many are the Causes, but the immediate paine, is solution of continuity by things sharp and distending, and they are chiefly humors or wind, or sometimes wormes knawing the tunicles. The humors are green choller, or black, salt flegm, corrupt matter sent into the stomack from an Impostume broke in the Liver or breast, [Page 20] these cause paine, also sharp vapors coming from those humors, also wind contained in the Cavety of the stomack doth cause swelling and painefull distension, especially if it be restrained within its Tunicles.

The Cure of this disease is according to the diversity of the cause, that which comes from wind, is cured by medicines that discusse and evacuate the flaltulent matter, as also flegme from whence it comes. First, give this gentle emollient glyster, ℞ Al­thea roots ℥ 2. Mallows and Violets ana M. 1. Guord-seeds ℥ss. Lint and Fleebene-seeds ana ʒ 2. water Lillyes and Roses ana P. 1. Cammomel-flowers P. ss. boyle them in fountain water to [...] 1. and adde to the strainings oyle of Roses ℥2. Cassia ℥1. Make a glyster, when that is come away give another carminative glyster, that is, expelling wind and discussing, made of the decoction of Origon, Callamnius, Peny-royall, Rue, the lesser Centaury, An­niseeds Fennel seeds, Carrots-seeds, and Cummin-seeds, and the like, and dissolve in them Benedicta Laxativa, and oyle of Rue. Dill and honey of Rosemary and the like. If the paine continue make a Glyster with white Wine, and with oyl of Juniper, or with 8 drops of Chymicall oyle of Cinamon or Cloves, which doth wonders, then foment the stomack with this, which seldome fails. ℞ Althea roots ℥ss red roses, Cammomel flowers, tops of worm­wood, ana M. 1. boyl them in common water, and Cammomel-water to one pint and a half, adding in the end a little Rennish-wine, Rose-water, and Vinegar, make a fomentation, aster fomen­tation anoint with oyle of Rue and Dill mixed with Aqua vi [...]ae and a little oyl of Sage or Cloves, after anointing apply a Cata­plasm of Honey and Cummin-seeds. He must also drink of this following Julep, which is admirable to asswage paine, discusse wind, and strengthen the stomack. ℞ Wormewood, the lesser Centaury, and Agrimony ana M. ss. boyl them to ℥5. and adde to them being strained ℥ 1. of Sugar, let him take it two mornings together. Whilest these things are doing, if there be a loathing or inclination to vomit, move vomit by warm water and Sallet-oyl▪ to carry off the flegme. If the paine comes of choller, it is cured by the evacuation thereof, by a vomit of ℥1ss. of infusion of Crocus Mettallorum, and the next day give the emollient glyster mentioned in this Chapter; afterwards quallifie the sharpnesse of the humors with Almonds, Milk, or with oyle of sweet Almonds [Page 21] new drawne, and with yolks of new laid eggs. If the pain comes from Impostume, or U cer you must begin with letting of blood in both armes by degrees, so long as the Patient is able, give no purges for they are improper in this cause, give Turpentin washed in Wormwood-water for that doth mightily maturate the Impo­stume of the stomack, and afterwards this emollient & cooling & senitive glyster, ℞ Chicken broth or the decoction of Mallows, & Violets, of altogether a pint, oyl of Roses and violets ana ℥ 2. Cas­sia ℥ 1. Sugar ℥ [...] ss with two yolks of Eggs make a glyster. Give this glyster 3 or 4 dayes. Let his drink be Barly-water and Syrup of Violets taken cold, and give him of the former Julep, adding to it some Syrup of Poppies.

The Cause of the Chollick is an excrementitious matter, which by distending pricking or corroding make a solution of Continu­ity and these are either wind or humors.

Winds are bred of condities or a cold distemper of the stomack, or intestinesse and if they be not sent forth by reason of the hard excrements and other things that of obstructs the intestinesse, they are in great plenty shut up, especially in the Colon, and make very great paine, all grosse cold and flegmatick humors, being f [...]stned upon the tunicles of the guts cause the same paine, by knawing, if they are sharp and flat, as also by cooling the part which by con­sequence must suffer constriction, and divulsion, Chollerick, and sharp humors, and melancholly and soure humors, by twitching and pricking the guts cause these pains.

To the Cure of this disease you must give the emollient and carminative glysters mentioned in the Chapter of the paine of the stomack, which must be repeated 3 or 4 times in a day, and if he goes not to stoole in one or two glysters as sometimes happen­neth, you must give a Suppositer made of Honey and Salt with ʒ 1. of Coloquintida in it, to cause motion; If you mix with the second glyster four ounces of infusion of Crocus mettallorum, you shall find it doe wonders, and after the excrements are come away, give him oyle of sweet Almonds mixed with Manna and fat broth, for it easeth paine and throweth out the matter offen­ding, and afterwards give him ʒ 1. of Anniseeds in powder in wine, [Page 22] for it also asswageth paine, and the second time it is given quite takes away the paine, applying at the same time a Cataplasme of Turpentine, ℥ 3. laid on with Staphes sprinkled with Pepper, and Sanguis Dragonis finely powdered of each ʒ 1.

This Iliak Passion is a preposterous motion of the Intestinesse, in which the belly is alwayes bound, for after that expulsive fa­culty of the guts has long laboured to through out some fluities the ordinary way, and is frustrated of her intention; desiring to simpafie the necessity of exclusion, she takes no other course, and by a preposterous motion drives them upwards and vomiteth them out.

The Causes obstructing are hard dung long retained, grosse vapors gathered in abundance into the guts and violently disten­ding them, Inflamations and other great tumors which wholly shut up the internall caveties of the gut, and the circumvolution of it, so that it is as it were roled together, and knit in a knot. The chiefe businesse in this cure is abstinency; and give twice this gly­ster to mollifie the exceedments. Take the broath of a sheep paunch, in which let be boyled Mellelote flowers, and Cammo­mel flowers and Elder flowers, and take of this ℥ 22. put to it but­ter ℥ 3. Honey ℥ 1 ss. Sal Gemma ʒ 1 ss. after you have given it twice, give a dry glyster, of the fume of Tobacco, and if he be not inclined to vomit, you must move him to vomit with warm water and oyl of Violets that the upper parts may be cleansed, then give him this glyster. ℞ Fountain water ℥ 12. Castel Soape ℥ss. make a Lixivium of it, and put to it ℥4. of infusion of Cr [...]cus Mettal­lorum, and ℥ 3. of oyle of Almonds and give it. It is an infa [...]lible medicine. Let his drink be Barly water, sometimes give oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawne, in white wine, sometimes adding of Syrup of Poppies to it. This disease is to be attended with dilligence for it is for the most part deadly.

Is understood here a dull and slow dejection, by which the feces and reliques of meate are seldome, and not according to the [Page 23] quantity of food, thrown forth, therefore they are necessarily in­durated, because of their long continuance, being dried with heat, and the moisture is alwayes drawn from them by the Misseraick which reach not only to the thin but thick guts; It is a symptome of the expulsive faculty diminished or the retentive increased, and it is the cause of many diseases, as Head-ach, and Catarrh, and other distempers in the brain.

The Cure of this disease is generally performed by emollient and laxative glysters made thus. ℞ Marsh mallows and Lilly roots ana ℥ 2. M [...]llows, Marsh mallows, herb Mercury, Violets ana M. 1. Lint and Faenugreek seed, ana ℥ ss. Anniseeds ʒ 1 ss sweet P [...]unes, N. 6. Cammomel and Mellilot flowers, ana P. 1. boyle them to a pint and a half, dissolve in the straining oyle of Lillyes and Lintseed ana ℥ 2. fresh Butter, ℥ 1 ss. Diacatholicon and Dia­prunis simple, ana ʒ 6. make a glyster to be given as often as need requireth. Sometimes use this.

℞ the decoction of sheeps entrells one pint, fresh Butter ℥ 2. Cassi, Diacatholicon, and Diaprunis simple, ana ℥ss. red Sugar ℥ 1. make a glyster.

Also twice in a moneth you may give one pint of Sallet oyle onely for a glyster, and because that nature will grow dull by too much use of glysters, and at length will never afficiate that way, but when she is provoked by one, therefore you must indeavour to mollifie the belly with this meanes, be eating sweet Prunes and rosted Apples with Sugar, before dinner an houre, and that the Prunes may work better, drinke halfe a glasse of your Venum Lynphaticum, or wine and water before and after he take them. Once a week use this medicine. Take Cassia newly drawn ℥ 1. Cream of Tarter ʒ 1 make a bole, by the observing these rules you shall seldome misse of your expectations.

A Dysenteria is a bloody loosenesse of the belly, with pain and torment depending upon the ulceration of the intestinesse. The causes of Dysenteria, are sharp and ulcerating humors as yellow choller, green like Leeks or Verdigrease, and blacke as also salt flegm bred in the head from great heat, or in the belly by putri­faction, and so brought to the intestines, where cleaving a long time it doth ulcerate.

The Cure of this disease is done by medicines that asswage, cleanse, and evacuate sharp humors, that consollidate and dry ulcers and stop the flux. And first you must evacuate the humor offending with this medicine. ℞ Tammarinds ℥ ss. Citron Mira­bolans ʒ 2 boyl them in Barly and Plantain-water, then in [...]use in the straining of Rhubarb ʒ 1 ss. yellow Sanders ℈ ss to ℥ 4. of the straining adde ℥ 1. of Syrup of Roses solutive, make a po­tion, you must purge with this often and if you think it not safe to purge every day or every other day, do it every third or fourth day.

After the body is wel purged of the humors give some glysters, give this often, ℞ Marsh mallow roots ℥ 1. Rice one Pugil, Lint-seed, and Quince-seed, ana ℥ 1. Henbeene-seed ʒ 2. Cammomel-flowers P. 1. boyle them in milk or broth of a fowle, or sheeps head, and take of it ℥ 12. and adde to it two yolks of eggs, Mutton-suit ℥ 2. oyle of sweet Almonds ℥ 1 ss and make a glyster. If the paine be great mix with it 6 graine of Laudanum Paracelsi, for it is merveilous good to asswage.

Let the party eat hot or new bread tempered with sallet Oyle Nutmeg and Sugar, and sometimes let him drink of this Julep. Take Plantaine-water, Rose-water, ana ℥ 4. Spirit of Vitriel ℈ ss. Syrup of Quinces ℥ 3. Trochis of Spodium ʒ 2. make a Julep.

Lastly, To compleat the Cure, give this astringent Julep. Take all these things in the Julep forementioned, and adde to them conserve of Sloes ℥ 2. Syrup of Mirtles ℥ 2. Juice of Purslaine ℥ 1. the powder of Elderberyes ʒ 2. Currell prepared ʒ 1. Crecus Martis ℈ 2. and Rose and Plantain-water, of each ℥ 2. more, and make a Cordial and astringent Julep, of the which take two or three spoonfull thrice in a day. Having followed this Method I have cured many.

It is a flux without blood, and without the ulceration of the intestinesse, it comes generally of corrupt humors, chollerick, flegmetick, melanchollick, or serous, and especially from cholle­rick, which provoke the expulsive faculty of the intestiness by their sharpnesse.

To the Cure, Begin with a vomit, ℥ 1 ss. of infusion of Crocus M [...]ttallorum, for it revelleth and evacuateth the matter of the disease excellently, afterwards follow the whole method of the cure of the Dy [...]teria a [...]d you shall find merveilous successe, only this is to be done [...]at is seldome done in that disease, that if there be signe of blood abounding and strength you must let blood, and if there be a feavour you must not omit letting of blood, though there appear no plethorie, before and after pur­ges give glysters, and after the body is sufficiently cleansed, give astringents and strengthners, as is mentioned in the foregoing Chapter.

M [...]ny persons have a hot distemper of the Liver from their birth, but I shal not speak of that, that which is meant here, is that preternaturall disease which manifestly hinders the actions of the Liver. It is for the most part a compound distemper joyned with matter, because a hot distemper of the Liver useth to pro­duce hot and chollerick humors, there are infinite causes of it.

The Cure consists in the correcting of the distemper by cool­ing medicines, and by the evacuation of the chollerick humors which comes from the Liver, encreasing the distemper, and that distempers it, and is the cause of other diseases.

First, Give a laxative glyster. ℞ Chicken Broth lb 1. Cassia new drawne ℥ 1. oyle of Roses and Violets, ana ʒ 2. Sugar ℥ 1 ss. with two yelks of Egges make a glyster. After the glyster open a veine, for that doe much coole the Liver, and takes away some of the chollerick humo [...]s, and opens obstructions that comes f [...]om choller, therefore you must open the Liver veine in the right arme, and take such a quantity of blood as is agreeable to the strength of the Patient, either at once or at diverse times. After you must give medicines that doe gently purge choller and rep [...]a [...] it often at distance. And the best purge is the Syrup of Succo [...] ℥ 3. it must be compounded with a foure fold proportion of Rhub [...]rb.

The [...]e things following are excellent to cool the Liver, drink often of the decoction of Barly with Liquorice. The tincture of [Page 26] Roses is admirable, and is as followeth. ℞ red Roses dryed ℥ 1. warme water 3 pints, spirit of Vitriel ℥ 1 ss. infuse them 3 or 4 houres, adde to it being strained lb 1. of white Sugar, keep it for use.

The Alexandrian Julep is very good also. ℞ Spring-water lb 1. Rose-water, Juice of Lemons and white Sugar, ana ℥ 4. boyl them on a gentle fire till they are skimmed. These two last remedies are used two wayes, either for an ordinary drinke, or as a Julep twice or thrice in a day. Pippin possets are also very cooling and restorative, they are only sliced into milk and boyled till the curd rise and take it off and cleare it for to drink cold.

The Hemorrhoid veines that are in the end of the Rectum In­testinum or streight guts sometimes do swell and cause very great paine. The Cause is namely of blood offending in quantity or quality, which if it find not a way and cannot open the end of the veines, there it setleth, and by filling of the veins causeth a tumor, with inflamation and pian, the principall cause why blood cannot get out of the veines is the thicknesse of it, because it is melan­choly, for the internall Hemorrhoid veines are said to re­ceive melancholly from the spleen and sometimes to purge it forth.

For the Cure hereof first let blood in the arme, and make re­vultion from the part affected, which being sufficiently done open the veine in the ancle, strong purges are not good in this disease, because they draw the humors to the part and increase the tumor, but you must constantly keep the body open, because hard excriments and voided with straining increase paine. An infusion of Cassia given morning and evening is the best for this, and it is thus made.

Take of Lettice, Buglesse tops, Mallows ana M 1. Liquorice scraped, Raisins stoned, ana ℥ ss Buglesse, Burrage and Violet flowers ana P. 1. boyl them to ℥ 8. in the strainings infuse Cassia new drawn ℥ 1. straine it, and clarifie it, and then put to it ℥ 1. of Syrup of Violets, give it twice a day as aforesaid. Topicall ap­plications must be used to appease paine, and the best is this, oyl of Box tree because stupifying, and as it cures all Tooth-ach [Page 27] miraculously, so doth it mittigate all other paine, by only laying a drop with a little Lint upon the Hemorrhoid, or use it thus, mix ℈ 1. of oyle of Box with ℥ ss of Lintseed oyle, and apply that with Lint it works merveilous effects Fresh Butter put in a leaden morter, and set in the Sun till it doe look black, is an excellent medicine. The fume of your Horse mints received is a rare medicine, and gives present ease, it is to be dryed and laid upon a red hot pan, and so receive the fume from under a close store.

It is a yellow colour of the whole body, coming of choller, spred on the skin. The cause is the obstruction of the bag or cistis which contains the gall, hinders the passage of it into the guts, whereby it remains in the Liver and goes from thence with the blood into the whole body, and it is occasioned from grosse flegm ot choller abounding, and sometimes from little stones, which are often bred in the bag of gall, which maketh nar­row the passage by the compression of the party nigh unto it.

The signe of this distemper is a yellow colour throughout the whole body, especially in the white of the eyes, with an itching and lazienesse, bitternesse of the tongue, and sometimes chollerick vomitings. These things shew the obstruction of the bag of the gall, white excriments, and a belly bound for what of choller which useth to make the excriments yellow, or red, and to stir up the expulsive faculty of the guts like a glyster, the vomit is yel­low, inclining to red, and what linnen is put into it is dyed yellow.

The Cure it depends upon the Cure of the disease on which it depends. That obstruction that is caused by a stone, is incureable, because the stone cannot be dissolved which comes from the ob­struction of the Cistis or bag of the gall, as thus you must make an universal evacuation throughout the whole body with this Bolus.

Take of the electuary of the Juice of Roses and Diaprunis solu­tive ana ʒ 3. The powder of Rhub [...]b ʒ 1. Saffron ℈ss. vitriolated Tarter ℈ss. and with Sugar make a Bolus, which may be given once or twice if the body be of a very ill habit. And if you per­ceive [Page 28] aboundance of blood, you will finde necessary to abate it, after the body is sufficiently unladen of the humors, this following infusion used 8 or 9 dayes, plucks up the disease by the roots. ℞ Madder roots ℥ss. the greater Celandine M. 1. the tops of Sea Wormwood, and of the lesser Centaury ana P. 1. Cinamon ʒss. Saffron ℈ss infuse them a whole night in ℥8. of white-wine, and adde to the straining ℥ 1 ss. white Sugar and let him take it in the morning three houres before dinner, sometimes ad to it ℥ 1. of the Syrup of the Juice of Horehound. After the obstruction is taken a­way the yellow color wil in a short time vanish by the strength of natural heat, which wil discusse the humor from the skin, but that it may sooner be done, make a Bath of warm-water and rub the body therein with a bag of Barly and Bean-meale.

The obstruction of the Liver is preternaturall closing or straightnesse of the branches of the Vena Porta and Cava, a [...]d sometimes of the substance of the Liver hindering the passage of naturall humors, and the distribution of nourishment, for these wayes or passages are not only the veines which are dispersed through the whole substance of the Liver, but also the pores and insensible passages, with which the whole substance of the Liver, and also of the other parts, is very full, which being shut up by a preternaturall humor; neither can the heat of the Liver be coo­led, nor can the thin vaporous excriments be evacuated.

The cause of these obstructions, is a grosse excrement viscuous and clammy, which being not able to passe freely, sticks in the passage and is more and more thickned by the heate of the party, so that the longer obstructions continue the worse they are.

The Cure is begun with a generall evacuation throughout the whole body, and by a potion correspondent to the nature of the distemper, and afterwards if there be signs of plethory or fulness, if the body be thin you must draw blood out of the liver veine in the right arme.

The Potion. ℞ Smallage, Parsly and Fennel-roots infused a whole night in white-Wine an [...] ℥ 1. the roots of the greater Cilandine ℥ 2. Fearn-roots, Elicompane Barbs, the roots of Ca­pers, the inward bark of an Ash, and Tamarisk ana ℥ss. Worm­wood, [Page 29] Agrimony, Maiden-haire, Garmender, the tops of St. Johns-wort, and the lesser Centaury, ana M. 1. Smalledg, Parsly, Annis. and Fennel-seeds ana ℥ss. Senna, Polypody of the Oak, and the kernels of Catharmus-seeds, ana ℥ 2. Epythimum or dod­der of Thinne ℥ 1. Ginger and Cloves ana ʒ 1. Tamarisk flowers, Merrigolds and red Fitches ana P. 1. make a decoction to a pint and a quarter, dissolve in the straining of the Syrup of the fine opening roots, and of Roses solutive, ana ℥ 2. and make a potion, clarified and aromatized with ʒ 2. of Cinnamon, and devide it into 4 parts for 4 mornings draught, adding to every mornings draughts of vitriolated Tarter, and of salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk, ana ℈ss.

In the last dosse (if the first have not sufficiently purged) dis­solve of the electuary of Citrons solutive, and Diacarthamum ana ʒ 1 ss. Or doe this. Take vitriolated Tarter which hath great power to open obstructions, and use it thus. ℞ Barly Water ℥4. Senna, Senna ʒ 2 ss Rhubarb ʒ 1. vitriolated Tarter ℈ 1. let them infuse, a little then strain them for to drink. This one that I have found great credit by, for by the often use of it, it takes away all obstructions. I have cured Agues Quotidian and Tertian by using this for 12 dayes together. Let his drinke be Barly-water and Juice of Oringes, and you may dulcifie it with Syrup of Violets, or he may drink of the Tincture of Roses mentioned in the hot distemper of the Liver 31. Chapter. Either of them both are very excellent. I could instance many other medicines but I have found in my practice none so previlent as these.

According to Gallens description, there are 3 sorts of Dropsies namely Ascites, Tympanites, and Anasarca.

Ascites is a swetting of the belly, causes of a serous humor, and not only of the belly but also of the feet leggs thighs and cods, sometimes it begin with a swelling of the feet which ascends afterwards to the leggs and to the thighs and cods. This humor as it is of the nature of water it is cold, but as it is salt, it hath in it heate, and is increased by the neernesse of the bowels, and more by the putrifaction which it gathereth by its long continuance, from whence comes a feavour and thirst, from the stinking salt [Page 30] vapors which doe rise and infect the mouth of the stomack.

The Dropsie called Timpanites, has his name from Timpanum a Drumb, because the abdomen is stretched out like a Drumb, and if you strike it, it sounds like it, and this stretching comes from wind shut up in the cavety of the abdomen, and sometimes in the cavety of the guts. And we must observe that the wind that cau­seth this Timpany, is not contained in the b [...]lly alone, but mixed with water, as in the Ascites. The difference of these two is the thing that predominats, if more wind then water, it is a Timpany but if more water then wind an Uscites.

The Dropsie called Anasarca comes of a flegmatick humor, spread through the whole body, and therefore the body is swoln and white, this flegm comes from a cold Liver, which instead of good blood, produceth cold and fl [...]gmatick, which when it can­not be turned into the substance of the parts, leaveth the curdy part that is unfit for nourishment upon them, and makes them swell, hence comes an Anasarca.

The Cure of the Dropsie consists in the evacuating the mat­ter, whether it be in the whole body, or in the abdomen or belly, in taking away the cause that produce that matter, & in strength­ning the bowels, especially the Liver, and for general evacuation this powder is the best. Take of Jallap and the best Rhuba [...]b ana ʒss vitriolated Tarter ℈ss Ginger gr. 6. give it in white-Wine, it is necessary that this be taken every third or fourth day, and sometimes sweet with Antimonium Diaphoreticum, for it cures without manifest evacuation, observe that day you take the swet you must omit purging. The Cure also lyeth much in their drink, they must be very sparing of drinking, and indure thirst as much as they can. For drink let them take the decoction of Juniper or of Guajacum, or of Sasaphras or Madder which provokes urine very much, let eate with their meats (which must be dry rosted) a little salt of Wormwood. Amongst internal, let not be forgot­ten externall Medicines for they are of great force to discurse the humors of the belly, as fomentations as followeth Take the urine of a sound boy 4 pints, Lapis prunellae ℥ 3. boyl them to the con­sumption of a third part for a fomentation, or take Lime-water, in which dip a new spunge which will compasse the whole abdo­men, straine it and bind it on, by this the waters that cause the Dropsie are consumed, the cold and moist distemper of the bow­els [Page 31] are taken away, and the hardnesse of the spleen dissolved, after the fomentation anoint with a little oyle of Scorpions mixed with the oyle of Rosemary, and little powder of Gallengall and Bay­berries, these be also good to foment the leggs and thighs with all and must not be omited, and by this method I have cured many.

It is caused from wind, which doth not only stretch the sub­stance of the Spleen, which is almost insensible, but the membrains that covereth it, it is hardly distinguished from the chollick, be­cause the Colon is just under and over the Spleen, but the pain of the Spleen is weighty, and in one place, but the pain of the Colon is stretching, sharp, and moveable, and runs about the whole belly.

The Cure of this disease is with Carminative glysters, that ex­pell wind with convenient purging, and with emollient fomenta­tions with Vinegar. A glyster. ℞ of the decoction of French-Barly ℥ 2. put into it 2 yolks of Eggs, oyle of sweet Almonds ℥ 3 pulp of Coloquintida ʒss. make a glyster, this glyster must be given as often as need requires, foment the side with the decoction of Mellilote flower and Elder-flowers made in hard wine, and after apply this Emplaster. ℞ Gum Ammoniak ℥ 4. dissolve it in strong Vinegar, then straine them and boyle them till the Vinegar is consumed, then with a little wax make an Emplaster and apply it. Let the party drink 2 or 3 times in a day a small glasse of water distilled from Elder-buds, it may be sweetned with Sugar if they please. By using this course I have had great successe in this Cure, I have sometimes caused the opening of a veine in the left arme, when I saw there was an inflamation.

It is a continuall desire to goe to stoole, and voiding nothing but slime and bloody matter, the cause of it is an ulcer in the streight gut called Intestinum rectum, from which quitter or fil­thy matter floweth and stirreth the expulsive faculty, by which means there is a continuall desire to goe to stoole, for the causes [Page 32] they need not to be repeated for they are the same with a Dysen­teria, and differ only in respect of the part affected, and in the knowledge of this you may observe there is a continuall needing. And in a Dysenteria, it is by fits, besides in that after great strai­ning, there is voided only slime, bloody or mattery, in a Dysente­ria, both excrements and humors are voided. A Tenasmus is easily cured, it seldome kills any, but is very grievous in respect of its troublesomnesse and long continuance. The Cure little dif­fers from the Cure of a Dysenteria. And first the sharp humors that come from the Liver and other parts are to be purged with medicines that leave an astringent quallity behind, as Rhubarb, which must be so often given till the humor seem to be spent, and give it thus. Take torrified Rhubarb ʒ 1. Plantain water ℥ 2. Syrup of Violets ℥ 1. mix them to drink, use it often as is said. If there be inflamation (as is known by a feavour) open a vein, and if after bleeding it continue, and cause a Strangury or difficulty of urine (as often it doth) then open the Hemorrhoids with Horse-leech­es, you must use asswaging glysters if much paine, and astringent, [...]s the disease requires, the composition you will find in the Cure of the Dysenteria. But in the use of glysters, observe; First, that you give them often, and that they exceed not the quantity of halfe a pint, because they will not be kept any time because of their continual needing, and the pipe must be warily put in, lest the pain be increased.

And Lastly, You must diligently apply this fomentation, from the beginning, a peece of Scarlet-cloath boyled in Vinegar and applyed pretty hot, as they may indure. And sometimes fill 2 bag with Barly bran, and boyl them in Vinegar, and let the par­ty sit one while upon one and other while upon another as hot as he can, and sometimes use dry fumigations to dry the ulcer; as thus. Amber Mastick Frankinsence and Mircles ana ʒ 1. make [...] powder for a fumigation, and sit over it on a close stoole. By this means being daily observed, I cured 7 people.

This disease is called by some people the Stone-Chollick. The cause of this paine, the stone or thick flegm, a stone continuing in [Page 33] the Reines, causeth either little or no pain, because the substance of the reines have little sence, but if it fall upon the head of the U [...]iters, or get into the passage and distend it and cannot be brought to the bladder by reason of its greatnesse, then it causeth grievous paines, but grosse flegm fastned upon the uriters and distending them, causeth the Nephritick pain, ordinary causes are thick blood in the uriters, or thick matter coming from the Kid­neys, or wind got into the cavery and causeth great paine. There are many controversies (about the stone which is the chiefe cause of the pain in the Reins) by severall Authors, but I shall omit the tediousnesse of them, and fall only to the Cure, as I have found by my practice.

The Cure consists in the inlarging of the passages, and relaxing them by throwing forth the stone and any other thing that hurts them, and by taking away the Anticedent cause, which is thus done. First, give this glyster. ℞ Marsh mallow and Lilly roots an. ℥ 1. Mallows, Violets, and Pellitory, Bearefoot, ana M. 1. Lint seed and Fenugreek seed ana ℥ss fat Figgs 6 Cammomel and Mellilot flowers ana P. 1. boyl them to a pint, dissolve in the straining Cassia and Diacatholicon ana ʒ 6. pulp of Coloquintida gr. 6 oyl of Lillyes and Violets ana ℥ 1 ss. fresh Oyle ℥2. make a glyster to be given presently, afterwards open the Liver veine in the right arme, and take ℥8 of blood according to the strength of the Patient, to prevent i [...]flamation. After blood-letting g [...]ve this glyster. ℞ Flowers of Cammomel and Mellilot, the tops of Dil, Pellitory of the wall and Rue, ana M 1. Annis: Fennel and Cummin seeds ana ℥ss. make a decoction to one pint in which dissolve Diaphaenicon ℥ [...] Turpentine dissolved with the yolk of an Egge, ℥ 1 oyl of Dill and Scorpions ana ℥ 3. mix them for a glyster, to mollifie more and to asswage paine after your laxative make a glyster of oyle thus, ℞ oyl of Dill and of Cammomel ana lb ss oyle of sweet Almonds ℥ 2. oyle of Rue ℥ 1. mix them for a glyster, at the same time make a fomentation to the part pained, of the decoction of the first glyster, with Anniseed and Fennel seeds, and oyl and water, and use it with a spunge and because that in this disease there is abundance of curdy humors that can­not be carryed away by glyster, you must give a vomit, namely ℥2. of the infusion of Crocus mettallorum, or lesse according to the age of the party, for by this the plenty of humors may be [Page 34] abated, and a revultion is made from the part affected, and often nature it selfe indeavour the same when the paine is great, you must observe before and after purging and glyster, you must give somewhat at the mouth which opens the passages and abate pain, which is this. ℞ Marsh mallows ℥ 3. boyl them to a pint dissolve in the straning lbss Sugar. Let his ordinary drink be the decoction of Marshmallow roots with two Pugils of French Barly, and Li­quorice ʒ6. in 5 pints of water boyled to a pint. Oyle of sweet Almonds new drawne doth mollifie and relax and asswage paine ℥ 3. or 4 given by its self or with white-Wine. Sometimes I have given when the paine has been great 5 or 6 graines of Laudanum in a glyster, or three graines at the mouth, by these rules I have merveilous successe in bringing away the stone, and other causes of the paine, in the reines and never failed, and I have cured many in England and beyond the Seas.

The Cause of this painfull pissing, is a solution of continuity in the Sphincter Muscle or the passage of the bladder, and therefore whatsoever can cause a wound in those parts, may cause heat of urine. The most chief cause is sharpnesse of urine sometimes with­out mixture of other humors, which is caused by a hot distemper of the bowels, or of the whole body, or by eating hot and sharp meats, but it often come by mixture of hot and sharp humors as choller and sharp flegm, sometimes matter coming from the reins and bladder being ulcerated may cause a sharpnesse of urine, sometimes a white humor like milk comes plentifully forth with the urine and causeth scalding, which by some is thought to be matter from the veines, other causes there are, as a stone in the bladder if it strike against the neck of it in time of pissing causeth paine, but I never had a Patient in that kind. But to the Cure of them who have it by the sharpnesse of hot flegmatick and chol­lerick humors, and it is thus. First, Let blood according to the plethory and inflamation, first from the right arme in the Liver veine to evacuate and revel the matter, and after in the lower veine in the anckle, to drive it from the part affected, then give this mild gentle and cool purge. Pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds ana ℥ 1 ss. Turpintine ʒ 3. make a Bole. A vomit is better as ex­perience [Page 35] witnesse it, for it revelleth from the part affected and hinders those inconveniences that use to come by purging, there­fore g [...]ve once or twice in a week to them that can vomit easily ℥ 1 of Crocus mettallorum, afterwards give sharp glysters, for they bring the sha [...]p humors to the guts and send them out by degrees give this. ℞ Marshmallow roots ℥ 1. Mallows, Violets, and Let­tice ana M. 1. water Lillyes and Barly ana P. 1. boyle them to a pint, and dissolve in the straining Cassia new drawn ℥ 1. one Eg, and ℥ 2. of oyle of Violets, make a glyster, sometimes make the decoction in milk every other glyster, for it doe powerfully allay heat and paine. At the time let this Julep be drank of 5 or 6 spoonfulls at a time and often. ℞ water of Pursl [...]in, Lettice, and Roses, and water Lillyes ana ℥ 1. Syrup of Violets and water Lil­lyes ana ʒ 6 Sal Prunellae ʒ 1. mix it for a Julep, repeat it often, and instead of this you may drinke the simple decoction of mal­lows with Syrup of Violets. When the paine is very great, put the Yard when you pisse in warme Milk, or decoction of Marsh­mallows, and white Poppy-seeds, or warme water. The small de­coction of Marsh mallows and Syrup of violets, and conserve of Roses, let that be his ordinary drink, and sometimes Almond milke. This I have found a safe an infallible way of cure of this disease, which of it selfe is not dangerous, though very painful.

It comes from the obstruction of the Liver, occasioned by a grosse diet, and an intemperate course of life, by great drinking, and eating of unripe fruits and things of hard digestion. The cause why it is catching is too la ge to insist upon here, but I shal set down very briefly the [...]x [...]ct and speedy cure, and I never fai­led the cure of any I undertooke, and it is as followeth.

For men and women let them take for three times this purge, in the space of twelve dayes. Take of Rhubarb and Zallap an [...] ʒ ss, vitriolated Tarter gr 8 Ginger gr. 7. make a powder and drinke it with warme posset.

Let children take this purge foure times in twelve dayes. Take Syrup of Rhubarb, and Chicory ℥ 8 and adde to it the powder of Rhubarb ℥ 1, and let it serve for foure dosses, and all the time let his body be ungued and bathed with this following unguent.

Take Sage M. 2. stamp them and then boyle them in halfe a pound of fresh Butter, then straine it and adde to it ℥ 2. of the powder of Brimstone. I have experienced this way often and have cured many hundreds, both beyond Seas and in England, and by no other meanes.

It is an evil habit of body proceeding from the obstruction of the veines of the Liver, Spleen, and Mesentery, especially of those veins which are about the womb, and the cause of the obstructi­ons of the veines of the womb and other parts, are thick slimy & curdy humors coming from evil diet, by drinking Vinegar, eating Hearbs and unripe fruite, Chalk, Oatmeale, Nutmeg, &c. for hence it is that naturall heat is impaired and cruid humors increa­sed.

The Cure is, by opening the obstructions, by evacuating of the filthy humors from out the whole body, and correcting the distemper of the bowels and strengthning them. The obstructions are taken away by these pills. Take of Steel prepared with brim­stone ℥ ss. Alloes, Senna, Agarick ana ʒ 2. Diarrhodon Abbatis ʒ ss. Saffron ℈ ss. with Syrup of Roses solutive make a masse of pills, of ʒ 1. thereof make six guilded pills which give in the mor­ning for fifteen dayes together, three houres before meat. The body being cleansed open a vein in the arm, if her terms are stopt for if you draw blood from the foot, the obstructions of the veins in the womb will be greater, by their fulnesse if the Liver be most stopped draw blood from the right arme, if the Spleen from the left. After bleeding take one purge more, after that make this Bath following to open and loosen the vessels and to dissolve and digest the matter causing obstructions. Take Marsh mallow-roots, Lilly-roots, Elicompane, Bryony, wild Cucumer, ana lb 2. Mallows, Violets, Mercury, Penny-royall, Feaverfew, Balm, ana M. 4. Lint-seed and Faenewgreek-seed beaten ana ℥ 2. boyl them in spring water for a Bath, Let her goe into it warme twice in a day, doe this two dayes, renewing each day the decoction, The day after if the tearms be stopped open the veine in the Anckle called Saphaena, and take away three ounces of blood, and it may be done twice or thrice in a time (that is to say) at the same time [Page 37] the tearmes use to flow. After the obstructions are opened, you must discusse the flegm like serous humors that remaine in the veines by swets, use the decoction of Guajacum in cold constitu­tions, and in hot, the decoction of Chyna and Sarsa for 15 or 20 dayes, with this caution that every fourth or fifth day you give a purge to cleanse the bowels of humors that cannot be sen [...] forth by swet.

Lastly, Copulation if it may be done lawfully, is very good after the use of opening medicines, for by it the naturall heat is stirred up, and the vessels of the womb much inlarged.

This is a sure way of Cure and often experienced.

There are many causes of this disease, but chiefly it proceeds from cold and thick humors.

Cause.Sometimes the blood offending in quantity quality or motion may be a cause. In quantity when it is too much or too little, too much when it stretcheth out the veines so that they cannot contract themselves to expell it. Too little when the body hath not blood enough to nourish it. Blood offends in quallity when it is thick and slimy, by reason of the cold distemper of the Liver and other parts. It offends in motion when it passeth other wayes, as by the Nose, Vomiting, Spitting, Urine, Hemorr­hoids and the like.

To the Cure, Cure. if it proceeds from too much blood, let blood in the armes, and abate the quantity of it, for if you should first open the vena Saphena or lower veine, the blood would be drawn more to the womb and cause a greater obstruction and distention of the vessels, and break them, or cause inflamation of the womb After aboundance of blood is taken away, you must draw the blood down by opening the lower veines, about the time the wo­man use before to have her Tearmes.

After these things use Baths, you need to follow no other rules then those in the Cure of the Green-sicknesse, in order for gener­ally when the obstructions of the bowels are opened, the courses flow of their own accord.

The Cause Cause. of the immoderate coming downe of the Courses are, viz. an opening of the ends of the veins, a soaking of the blood through the coats of the veines, a forcible rending of the veines, and there being eaten through by sharp humors. All which are caused by the too great abundance of blood, its heat, thinnesse and sharpnesse.

To the Cure, Cure. to draw blood from the part affected the Patient must bleed in the arm, as much as her strength can beare, but not all at once but by degrees, now and then stopping the orifice with the finger, some use to fasten a large Cupping-glasse unto the dugs, to stop the courses, and if she grow short breathed, they take it presently off, I never used it, but after bleeding gave these pills. Take pills of Bdellium ʒ 1. the Troches of Amber and terra sigillata ana ℈ 1. with the Mucilage of Quince seeds extra­cted with Rose water, make a Masse of pills which I give twice in a day the quantity of ℈ 1. before Dinner and Supper, it is good that you ad ℈ 1. of Blood stone to it, indeavouring to vomit be­fore Dinner by the help of your fingers, but not so as to vomit, doth powerfully draw the blood upwards. Drink now and then the Juice of Plantain newly drawne, the quantity of three or four ounces, I have found it to be the best medicine in the world. I have cured many by these rules and medicines.

A woman is said to have the Whites when excrementitious hu­mors do slow from the womb, without any certaine order, and the excrementitious humors are sometimes white and flegmatick, sometimes they are pale or yellow, or green by the mixture of choller, sometimes watery by the admixture of serous humors, sometimes blackish by the mixture of melancholly, sometimes sharp and corosive, so as to eate into, and exvulcerate some parts of the womb, sometimes they are of an ill sent, sometimes not so offensive, and these proceed from a bad diet or from a vitious habitual distemper of the whole body, and they take their course unto the womb as unto a Sink, or Common shore, whereinto the [Page 39] rest of the parts of the body disburden themselves.

The Cure Cure. of this disease is by a convenient purging of the Pec­cant humor, and because flegmatick and wheyish humors do most commonly abound, purge four times with this medicine. Take Plantaine water ℥ 6. Rhubarb, Senna, ana ʒ 3. Zallapium ʒ 1. let them infuse for one houre then straine them, and adde to it the powder of Rhubarb ʒ 1 ss. pulp of Tamarinds ℥ 2. Syrup of Violets ʒ 1 ss. let it serve for foure dosses, afterwards purge every other day for 8 dayes, with halfe an ounce of the pulp of Tamarinds, and three dragmes of Venice Turpentine. There is no necessity of bleeding in this disease, after sufficient purgations, procure swet to expell the remnants of the excrementious humor, and also to cause a further revultion of the humors falling into the womb, and for this purpose a decoction of Lignum Guajacum, and Sas­saphras is excellent in cold bodyes, and in chollerick and melan­chollick bodyes the decoction of China and Sarsaparilla, with cooling hearbs lest the humor should be more exasperated. Sul­phurons Baths doe powerfully help to consume the reliques of this disease, and have experienced it often by those who I have after universall purging recommended to the Bath. A small de­coction of Guajacum, China may be their diet drink. When oc­casion is of injection, let it be with Barly water, or water sweet­ned with Sugar, afterwards to dry and strengthen the womb, use these fumes (of Franckinscence Laudanum, Mastick▪ Sanders, Nutmeg, and red Rose leaves) over a Close-stoole. With these rules you will not find any difficulty of the Cure if it be not old and stubborn, as I can and have made it appear by practice.

Cause.When the seed and menstruous blood are retained in women besides the intent of Nature, they putrifie and are corrupted, and attaine a malignant and venimous qua [...]ity, from whence venimous vapors are elivated and carried to divers parts of the body, from whence ariseth an infinite number of sorrows and diseases.

To this disease I cannot say it ever made a perfect cure Cure. of any, yet have made much experience beyond Sea, in severall Nunner-yes, besides other people, but have given ease for a good time by this following means.

First, I give this laxative and wind expelling glyster, to discusse such filthy vapors as cause the filth. Take Mercury leaves, Pel­litory of the wall, Mugwort, Penny royall, Rue, Calaminth, ana M. 1. Carraway-seeds, Cummin-seeds and Barberryes ana ʒ 2. boyle all to a pint and a half, in the straining dissolve, Hierapicra, and Benedicta Laxativa, ana ʒ 6. oyle of Rue ℥ 3. Camphir half a Scrupel, mix it for a glyster, give this glyster twice, then this Historical glyster. Take oyle of Rue ℥ 4. Aqua vitae ℥ 1. Canary Sack ℥ 9. Galbanum ℥ 2. mix all and make a glyster, and give it after the other is out, I given only a glyster of Vinegar tempered with water, and it presently asswage the Mother fit, by compres­sing and coagulating the vapors which cause the same. I have found also great effects and very sudden in this medicine, only 10 grains of Camphir burned in warme water, and when it is out, let her drink it, it is the quantity of halfe a pint, it presently allayes the fit. These medicines I have made large experience of, and have found them effectuall in what I have said in this Cure, that is to the giving ease to the Patient.

Laus Deo.