What Blood-letting or Phlebotomy is?

IT is an Universal evacuation of fulness of humors or Plethory. And Plethory is the increase of humors above equality in the Veins.

The knowledg of Complexions is re­quisite to Phlebotomy.

The signs of a sanguine complexion are containd in these Verses.

Signs of Plethory and Blood abounding.

Signs of the cholerick Complexion and of Choler abounding.

Signs phlegmatick Complexion, and of Flegm abounding.

Signs of Melancholick Complexion and of Melancholy abounding.

What Age is fit for Phlebotomy.

An Addition.

At this time in great necessity, especi­ally in a Pleurisie and other strong dis­eases, we bleed with good success; in the [Page 5] fourth or fifth year three or four ounces. The middle age is from thirty to forty five or fifty.

What things hinder Phlebotomy.

Addition.

To these add. Bleed not in the begin­ning of a Disease, for the Crisis is the day of the motion of sickness, or in the fit, nor before the Guts are clensed from excre­ments, nor in the time of the Natural courses of women nor in the flux of the Haemorrhoids; nor after a cholerick dis­ease, and the like, of which we shal speak in the Aphorisms for bleeding.

At what time Bleeding is good.

What is to be done in Bleeding.

When you let Blood make a large ori­fice to let out the Wind and the Blood more freely, after Bleeding let him not sleep for six hours: make not too deep an orifice, least thou prick a Nerve, and let him not eat presently after bleeding. It is good to bath two or three daies a­fore bleeding and three or four daies af­ter, give Wine afore and in time of blee­ding, if you fear swounding, move before and after by gentle walking.

What is to be avoided after Bleeding.

Abstain from milk, meats and drink, and cold things, and keep from foul wea­ther: cleer Air is good and rest; for mo­tion often hurteth

Of the Effects and profit of Phlebotomy.

It cheereth the sad, appeaseth the an­gry; and keeps Lovers from madness: it cleereth the sight, and makes the Brain [Page 7] warm, and the marrow. It purgeth the bowels, stomach and belly, purifieth the senses, causeth sleep. It mends the hear­ing, and voyce and increaseth strength.

What Vein is to be opened safely, and pro­fit bleeding bringeth.

Hippocrates his Aphorismes concerning Phlebotomy.

IF the Vessels be emptied as they should be, it doth good; and the Patient likes it wel, if otherwise not. Therefore con­sider the Climate, Time and Age, and Diseases, whether you ought to bleed or no.

All diseases by repletion, are cured by Evacuation or Blood-letting, if large and [Page 44] violent, or much at the nose.

If any be dumb on the sudden, open the vein in the right arm. A Woman with child will miscarry upon bleeding, and the sooner as her child is older.

In acute diseases open a vein, when the disease is vehement, and the patient in his youth, and strong.

The veins behind the Ears being ope­ned, cause barrenness.

If you will let blood, by reason there is blood gathered together, to turn it from the place, do it at a great distance from the part afflicted. The opening of the veins beneath in the Groyns, Thighs, Legs and Ankles, maketh men unfruitful. It is good for a man to bleed somtimes: the time of bleeding begins at February, and again at September.

The Aphorismes of Galen, concerning Bleeding.

THere are three Considerations in Blood-letting, the vehemency of the disease, the youth of the Patient, and the strength of the Faculty.

Nor too yong, nor too old are to be let blood.

They need no blood-letting that have any natural evacuation.

Many need bleeding after long Diseases by the three considerations mentioned.

We bleed when there is no fulness, when there is great pain, or in a Fracture or dislocation, or any contraction in a Joynt.

Bleeding requires strength agreeable to the evacuation.

It is not good to bleed often in one year.

When you let blood, keep off far from the Artery.

Bleeding and Water-drinking are chief remedies of conteining Feavers.

When you wil cure obstructions first open a Vein though there be no fulness.

Necessity allows and commands blood-letting at any time or hour.

It is a good Remedy in continual Fea­vers to let blood til they faint, if the Pa­tient be strong.

Two hours after bleeding the Patient may eat.

In bleeding in continual Feavers con­sider not the number of the daies, but on­ly the strength.

If at the time of bleeding the Terms chance to flow, or the Haemorrhoids, ob­serve it, and if the quantity voided be sufficient, leave the whole business to Na­ture and that flux, but otherwise bleed a little.

These are the inconveiencies that fol­low, loss of too much blood, Faintness, worse habit of body, a colder temper, discoloring of the whole body, and fal­ling into long deadly Diseases.

In all Feavers bleed at the first if the Patient be strong.

It is lawful by bleeding to evacuate su­perfluities in a Feaver.

In a Phlegmon of the Liver, the blood that flows thicker must be let out by o­pening the internal vein in the right Arm.

In a Phrenzy and Lethargy, bleed at first coming of it.

In a Carbuncle bleed til they faint.

In great Diseases, alwaies bleed, but with respect to the age and the strength.

You must bleed plentifully in a Lassi­tude with a Phlegmon, somtimes til they faint.

After bleeding you must not present­ly refresh the Patient.

Abstain from bleeding when the blood is good and little, and other humors are abundant; but when it is contrary let blood.

If you forbear bleeding by reason of the age or for fear, let the Patient purge the more.

To open the Haemorrhoids, or pro­voke Terms, or open the Ankle-vein, and then purge is good with bleeding in the Arm.

When blood abounds, it must not pre­sently be let out: for fasting, slender di­et, loosness of belly, or purging, or bath­ing often, or exercise alone, or much rub­bing wil abate it.

After the opportunity of bleeding is passed, other evacuations are dangerous▪ when there are excrements either in the Brain or the Instruments of the Spirits.

Bleeding must be at the beginning of Diseases, and somtimes purging.

Bleeding is a common way to cure dis­eases by repletion.

Bleeding whatsoever, or wheresove [...] or howsoever done, equally evacuateth the whole body.

The Aphorisms of Cornelius Celsus out of his Book 2. Chap. 9.

THere is scarce a Disease in which bleeding is not allowed.

It is an old custom to let blood yong men and women not with Child.

But not Children and old folks, and Women with Child, for the Ancients thought the first and last age could not endure this kind of help, and were per­swaded that if a Woman with Child [...]ould be let blood, she would abort: but after this, Custom hath shewed that it is otherwise; for it is not matterial what age the party is of, or what is in the body, but what strength the Patient is of.

[...]herefore if a Youth be weak, or if the woman be not with Child, and be al­so weak; it is not good to let blood, for so the strength that remains wil be taken away: but a strong Boy or old [Page 49] Man, and a hearty strong Woman with Child may be cured by bleeding accord­ing to Celsus.

But the Physitian may be deceived if unskilful, because in those ages there is less strength.

A Woman with Child hath need of strength after her cure, not only for her self but to sustain the Child.

The chief art is to consider the strength of a Child, old Man, or Woman with Child.

There is difference to be observed be­tween a fat and a lean body, a strong and a weak.

The thin bodies have more blood, the full bodies have more flesh.

They endure the loss of blood bet­ter, and a fat man is sooner disturbed with it if it be too much.

Therefore the strength of the body is better to be found by the Veins than the Form.

Nor are these only to be considered; but the Disease, what kind it is, whether abundance or want of matter hurteth, whether the body be corrupt or sound.

For if the matter be wanting, or be sound, that is another thing: but if it [Page 50] offend in plenty or be corrupt, it can no way be better helped than by bleeding.

Therefore in a vehement Feaver when the body is red, and the veins are swol­len bleeding is required.

But if the Feaver be vehement, and you let blood in the height of it, you kill the Patient.

Therefore expect a remission: if it de­creaseth not, but hath ceased to decrease and you hope for no remission, then though it be worse bleeding then before, avoid not the opportunity.

Somtimes make two daies work of it, if there be necessity, for it is better first to refresh the Patient, and then to do it throughly, then to spend all the strength at once.

If you bleed for the whole body, open the arm, if for a part, bleed in that part, or near it. But this cannot be done eve­ry where, but in the Temples, Arms, or about the Ankles.

Some say that blood must be drawn far off from the part affected. For that will divert the course of the matter, and take away that which offendeth.

But that is false. For it emptieth the nearest part first, and blood flows thither [Page 51] from the remote while it bleeds: when it is stopt it will not be drawn. And ex­perience shews, that if the Head be bro­ken, that it is best to bleed in the Arm.

If there be a fault in the shoulder, the contrary Arm is to be blooded, because if there be any evil, the part that is affe­cted will sooner receive it. Somtimes blood is diverted when it breaks out in one part, and you let blood in an other. And it ceaseth to flow by applying things that stop to the part, first bleeding, and giving it another vent.

Though bleeding be easie to an Artist, yet is it hard to an ignorant person. For the vein is joyned to the Arteries and the Nerves to them. Therefore if the Lan­cet touch the Nerve, there is stretching of the Nerve, which his grievous.

But an Artery cut, neither grows toge­ther, nor wil be healed, but somtimes causeth a violent flux, but if a Vein be cut, the heads or orifices being pressed down the blood stoppeth.

If the Lancet be fearfully applied, it only cuts the Skin and not the Vein.

The Vein must be cut in the middle out of which when blood flows you must ob­serve the color and habit of body; for if [Page 52] blood be thick and black, it is bad and fit to be lost.

If it be red and shining, it is sound, and the loss of it (instead of profit) hurteth, therefore it must be stopt.

But these things cannot happen to a Physitian that knows what Body ought to loose Blood.

If it be all black, let it often out, and bleed not again, if you have enough be­fore fainting.

Tie up the Arm with a Pledget dipt in cold water, and open the vein with your nail the next day, for the new Escar will easily come off, and it will bleed again.

But whether it be in the first or second day, that blood which first was thick and black, begins to wax red and clear, there is enough taken; therefore let the Vein be presently bound up, and kept so till there be a strong Eschar which will quickly be in a Vein. This Celsus.

THE APORISMES OF Arnoldus de Villa nova out of his Book of the Regiment of Health.

AFter Bathing, or Venery, or great [Page 53] Exercise, bleed not by any means.

And also after a long sickness.

They which serve in hot houses, and take great pains in their calling to re­solve the Body, must not be let blood.

Bl [...]ed not in very hot nor very cold Weather.

The Spring and Autumn are best times to let blood in.

Bleed not in a pestilent Air, cloudy, or stormy Weather, or when the South-wind blows.

In Summer bleed at eight in the mor­ning, in Winter at noon.

Let young men bleed in the first quar­ter of the Moon, and old in the last.

Sanguine men must bleed in the first quarter, Cholerick in the second, Phleg­matick in the third, and Melancholick in the fourth.

If the Moon be in a sign with a evil as­pect, or to any member, bleed not in that member

In Aries, bleed the Head, in Gemini, the Arms, in Cancer, the Median, in Sagit­tarius, the Thigh, in Aquarius, the Legs and Thighs, and in Pisces, the Feet. The other parts are safe at any time.

If the Moon be in Taurus, Virgo, Capri­corn, [Page 54] it is bad to let blood, if in Cancer, Scorpio, Piscis, indifferent, if in Aries, Libra, Sagittarius or Aquarius it is good.

Let Drunkards and Gluttons, and those that are filled to loathing, abstain from Bleeding.

If any want Blood-letting, and neg­lect it there wil be Imposthumes inward and outward, the great and small Scab, the Ring-worm, Synochus, Meazles, A­poplexy and Palsie, small Pox and spit­ting of Blood, Quinzy, Plague, sudden Death and Leprosie, and generally all sickness of much Blood or corruption of Blood: and they that are inclinable to such Diseases, let them not neglect phle­botomy.

There are many evils by bleeding un­reasonably. From often bleeding come Obstructions, Dropsies, Age hastneth on, the Appetite decaies and Stomach, weak­ness of Heart and Liver, Trembling and Palsie, and weakness of all virtues both Natural and Animal.

He that is very musculous and fleshy, by accident, and he that is extenuated, and they which use to diet that breeds much blood, and live in idleness and pleasure, and dwell in Countries where [Page 55] there is little resolution; and that eat much flesh roasted, and drink sweet Wines, and use Baths, and no copulati­on, and exercise little, are more to bleed than others, and they who fast and eat melancholick meats are to bleed less.

When Phlebotomy is used to evacuate and in a place near the Disease or the part where it is, then the first blood ought to be worse than the second, and the second then the third, and if the con­trary happen, there is stil need of bleed­ing and Physick. But in some bodies that need little bleeding, it often hap­pens that the first is better than the se­cond, and then you may bleed again presently.

Before bleeding it is good to exercise, move and watch to make it move better. The Member to bleed is to be rub'd and heated, and washed with warm Water, to make the Vein plainer and the blood freer.

The Chirurgeon must be yong, expert, and of quick sight, not trembling or drunk.

If a weak-hearted Patient, or one ve­ry faint is to bleed, let him first eat Bread and drink astringent Wine.

They whose Blood is thick, immova­ble, and the Veins hidden, must be bath­ed some daies before, except the body be very plethorick.

Before bleeding let the Belly and Blad­der be free.

In those that have an Imposthume bleed while the colour of it changeth: but when there is a simple plenitude without an Imposthume, expect not the change of blood, for the blood may be all a like, or good.

If the Blood be whitish and thin, lose but little.

In Summer and Spring bleed in the right side in Autumn and Winter in the left.

In a venemous matter, bleed on the same side.

When there is great necessity open the same Vein twice in a day, or when you have not taken enough.

If after the Vein is opened the blood wil not flow, then it is good to cough and hawk, and clap the Patient upon the Shoulders.

Touch the Blood as it comes forth, if it be cold, stop it presently, and also if it be very hot and thin, for in both cases, you may fear swounding.

Take a drop of blood upon the Nail, if it flow off, and stand not firm, it is waterish, and must be presently stop­ped

Or drop it into water, if it sink, it is too thick, and if it disperse and swim, it is too watery, if it be in a mean, it is good.

After bleeding, Exercise not that day, but rejoyce at home, nor Bath that day, & use no Venery till the fourth day, nor sleep in the day.

Consider also the substance of the Blood, it is either melancholick, phlegma­tick, sanguine, pure, cholerick, or wa­tery.

Melancholy is the dregs of blood, it is black, and in the bottom of the Poringer, and when there is too much of this, it is no good sign, then we may judge that the Patient is sad, envious, and curi­ous, covetous, fearful and poor-spirited, such must use things to clense and in­crease blood.

Flegm is white, slimy, unsavory, like whites of Egs, and it is in the blood next above the Melancholy, this must not be too much, and if there be much of it, we judge him to be flegmatick, naturally, [Page 58] sleepy, rude, and dull to action, and to spit much, but there ought to be more of this than of Melancholy.

Then follows pure blood, it ought to be of a purple colour, reddish or ruddy, of this there ought to be more, if there be much of it the Patient is sanguine, and and free, amiable and cheerful, laughing and of a red colour, bold and bounti­ful.

Then follows Choler which is the froath of Blood, of a Saffron-colour, with glittering red, there ought to be less of this than of blood or flegm, and more than of melancholy.

If therefore there be a great quantity of this, we may judg the party cholerick, and by consequence crafty, deceitful, wrathful, bold and prodigal, apt for a­ction, watchful and subtile.

Moreover you must consider the wate­ry substance that swims at top when the blood is congealed, as whey when milk is curdled, and it is like Urine, if it be put into a Glass, and when this water is like the Urine of a sound man whose blood it is, it is good, otherwise not.

And when this water is separated more perfectly from the blood, the better it is, [Page 59] and the better is the digestion and de­coction in the Liver. And the contrary.

This water must be in the blood to make it thin, that it may pass more free through the great Veins and small, and so come to the members.

Therefore it is not good that blood should be without this water.

For it wanted shew, driness and thick­ness of blood, this is in such us fast much, and watch, and eat dry and hot meats, and that study and exercise much, and in some that are wel.

Moreover it is not good that too much water be in the blood, for it would shew defect of digestion, either in respect of meat or drink, or in respect of the parts that cannot convert the meat into blood, and it shews also too much coldness and moistness of blood, and weakness of body.

Hence it is that they who have cold Stomachs, and Livers, and Veins, and eat cold and moist Meats, and much, and es­pecially drink much, and exercise little, and fast not, nor watch, have such blood.

Also in Blood there is a fleshy Sub­stance declining to white, for the Blood beginning to whiten in the Veins, because [Page 60] the farther digestion to convert it into Members proceeds in whitning. This dige­stion begins in the great veins, and end in the small with the Members of the third digestion, namely at the outward solid Members of the whole Body.

This Substance is flesh-like, and ap­pears manifestly in Blood after it is wa­shed, and the fatter, moister, or more wa­tery the Blood is, the less there is in it of this substance, and the thicker (except it exceed the temper) and less far, and with­out water, the more of this fleshy sub­stance is to be seen.

Therefore from a great quantity of this white substance, is signified the good di­gestion in the Veins, and the pliableness of the Blood to turn into Members, espe­cially when you feel it with your hands. And when there are no great things con­tained in it, that are not hard, but will crumble with the fingers. For by such there is signified an inclination to a Le­prosie.

Moreover if thou wouldst know the substance of the whole blood, cut it when it is congealed with a knife or thin stick, and if it resist not but cut easily, it signi­fies the subtility of the blood; but if it [Page 61] divide with difficulty, then it signifies sliminess and grossness of Blood.

And if Blood wil not be cut, though it be easily divided as it is in Oyl, and wa­ter and other moist things which are easi­ly divided, though not cut, that blood is too thin, and that thinness argues want of digestion.

And when blood is easily pricked but not cut then it is slimie, and that blood is commonly flegmatick.

And when it is cut but with resistance, then the blood is gross, but not viscous or clammy.

You must consider also of the colour of blood for if in one part of the Porin­ger it appear of one colour, and in ano­ther of another colour, as in a Pigeons neck, it signifies diversities of evil hu­mors.

Therefore we must consider the true fixed colour of the blood; it is red and purple, not dark red, and that argues good blood.

If it be a glittering red, it argues pre­dominant choler, and also if it be like Saffron. If it be froathy, it shews wind. If it be white or livid, or blew, it signifies cold and predominant flegm, and especi­ally [Page 62] if the blood be slimie, and there are other signs of flegm.

These colours may come from burn­ing, as appears in consumptive and le­prous persons.

Green signifies burning, and specially of choler.

Black and Blew, signifies natural me­lancholy, or that which is burnt.

You must also consider the tast, for it ought to be sweet, if it be unsavory, it signifies flegm predominant, if bitter, choler, if sower or brackish, melancholy and sour flegm, if it be salt, it signifies salt flegm and adustion of humors.

The scent is also to be considered, if it be sweet and pleasant, it is good if it stink, it shews great putrefaction in the humors.

Moreover if blood drawn do quickly coagulate or congeal, it is too gross, if it be long and slow to congeal, it is too thin and undigested.

If it be in a mean, the blood is indiffe­rent.

APHORISMS of Avicen, Rhasis, Aetius, Montagnanus, Savanarola, and Damascen, and others.

THey that use much Blood-letting in Youth, are cured after sixty sooner than others, and their natural heat is choaked, especially if they are of a cold complexion.

They who dwel in the fourth or sixt cli­mate, may lose more blood than they that live in the seventh, first, second or third.

They who have weak Stomachs, and cold weak Hearts and Livers, and Cold, and have cold Diseases, must not be let blood, nor melancholick persons, except their veins be swollen. Nor pale, lean, starved, or such as eat melancholick food, nor such as use too much Venery, nor such as have a Dysentery or Iliack, or are much bound in Belly, nor such as have not bodies prepared, nor such as are seventy, except they be strong, and have broadful veins, and used it, and when there is necessity.

At sixty open not the Cephalick.

At fifty open not the Median.

At seventy take heed of opening the black vein.

It is good for phlegmatick persons to open a Vein when the Moon is in Aries or Sagittarius

For Melancholick, when she is in Libra or Aquarius.

For Cholerick, when she is in Cancer or Pisces.

In the New and Full, abstain from Phlebotomy.

Let Youths from fourteen to twenty five bleed in the first quarter.

From twenty five to thirty five, in the second.

From thirty five to sixty five, in the third quarter of the Moon.

Bleed in the morning when the Sun is risen after an hour, two or more of sleep.

After noon, open the Head, Hand, and Feet veins, and the Arms in the morning.

Let old and sick people eat Broath and drink Wine an hour or two before.

They who sweat easily and often want Blood-letting.

Usual accustomed Bleeding is not to be omitted without danger.

After Bleeding, drink thin and good Wine: avoid Mead, Ale, Fish, and what breeds bad blood.

Bleeding when there is no necessity doth more hurt than good.

After Bleeding, avoid bad Air, eat white Bread, wel baked Veal, Hens, Chickens, Lamb, rear Eggs, and that which breeds good humors and blood, drink pure Wine cleer and thin, abstain from Cheese, Milk, Herbs, Fish, Ale, and Meath, Anaer, Sadness and Copulation.

The Time and Age of Cupping and Scarifying.

SCarifie not before four years old, nor after sixty.

Cup not nor scarifie in the full or new Moon.

It is good when the Moon is in Cancer, Libra, Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces: but not in other signs. It is good in the se­cond or third hour of the day, and after an hour they may eat and drink.

Let the Body or part to be scarified, be [Page 68] washed an hour, or half an hour with hot water before and rubbed.

It is good to use Cupping-glasses after Evacuation of the Body. For it is not good in Plethory, or to any part that hath a flegmon.

The Use and Profit of Cupping in General.
Cupping without Scarification.

Is good to turn an Imposthume from a a noble part to an ignoble or inferior part. To draw heat to a Member weak­ned by cold. Against the Cholick, if ap­plied below or above the Navel. To take away pain. Against Dislocations. To draw out that which lieth deep to the skin outward. To evacuate wind and hu­mors. To stop the flux and Haemor­rhoids. To heat a Member, and to draw blood and heat it. To reduce a Member into its place. Against pain of the Ma­trix, if they be fastned under the Navel, and the woman sit warm with them up­on her. Against extraordinary flux o [...] the Terms, if applied under both Breast an hour or more. Against Bleeding at the [Page 69] Nose, applied to the Liver, if the right Nostril bleed, and upon the Spleen, if the left. Against a pestilent Botch to draw venom from within. Against a Rupture in the Groyn. To divert blood that flow­eth immoderately from any part or place. To stop the fluxes of the stomach. To stop blood, applied to the opposite parts. To attract blood, extract poy­son. Against a cold Stomach, if applied to it. To remove Wind.

The Use of Cupping-glasses with or without Scarification, accor­ding to Places and Parts.

Cupping-glasses upon the Head; are good.

Against Madness, Diziness, Baldness, Scabs in the Eyes, Bothor, sticking out of the nap of the Neck, and other Diseases.

They hurt

The Understanding, Memory. Cause astonishment, and hasten madness, in dry Brains.

Cupping-glasses to the Forehead, are good.

Against pain in the hinder-part of the Nose, [Page 70] Head, heaviness of Head and swelling, disease of the Brain, madness and doting.

They are good to the Fore­head, for the face

In old diseases of it. Impetigo, Ulcers, Leprosie, Scabs, Morphew.

And also diseases of the Eyes and Me­grim. But

They hurt

The Reason and Understanding.

Ʋnder the Chin, they are good.

Against Pustles and Tumors in the Mouth, Tooth-diseases and Gums. Spots in the Face, and the like. Against the In­firmities in the skin. Of the Head, Throat, Jaws, Cheeks.

Applied to the Back-bone between the Neck and Shoulders.

Against diseases in the Head, Face, Neck, Teeth, Nostrils, Eyes and Mouth, Heaviness, Impetigo, Quinsie, and are in­stead of opening the Cephalick or Medi­an. But

They hurt

The Memory, and make the Head shake.

Applied between the Shoulders, right against the Heart and Stomach, they are good.

Against diseases of the Breast, Neck, [Page 71] Shoulders. Against Asthma, Cramp, Trembling of Heart from blood, and dis­eases in the Throat, and are instead of o­pening the Basilick. But

They hurt

The Stomach and Heart, and make a trembling without blood.

Ʋnder the Breast, they are good

Against diseases thereof, and Asthma.

Ʋpon the Liver,

If it be dry or inflamed.

Ʋpon the Back.

Against Diseases there.

Ʋpon the Stomach, they are good

Against Tumor in it, cold and foul hu­mors.

Ʋpon the Hands,

Against all diseases of the Head, Eyes and Ears.

Ʋpon the Kidneys and Reins,

Against Inposthumes of the Hips and Scabs, and Haemorrhoids, Gout, Lepro­sie, Itch and Scabs of the back, Wind in the Mother, and other cold Wind in the bladder, diseases of the Thighs, and all parts beneath.

Ʋnder the Navel,

Against diseases of the Matrix, Cholick and Gripings.

To the Hypocondria.

To stop bleeding at the Nose, and Womb.

To the Loyns.

They provoke the Hoemorrhoid, take pain from the Back, Mother and Loyns, Scabs from the Thighs, Imposthumes and Tumors, and allay Venery or Lust.

Ʋpon the Buttocks.

They clense the Blood of the whole body, and are good for the sides, Loyns, and Breast, and abate Lust.

Before in the Hips.

They are good against Imposthumes in the Stones, and starting forth of the Ribs and Hips.

To the hinder part of the Head.

They are good against Imposthumes Strains in the Buttocks.

Ʋnder the Ham.

Against beating in the Ham from hot humors, against Strains and Ulcers in the Legs and Feet.

To the Thighs.

They are good for the whole body, against swollen and impostumed But­tocks, pains in the Kidnies, and Bladder, Fluxes in the Eyes, Diseases in the head. Against hot burning Imposthumes in the [Page 73] Knees, Evils in the Breast and Back. Im­posthumes in the Cods, applied inward to the Groyn. Against wounds in the Hip, and Thighs. Against old pain in the Mother, and to purge it from Super­fluities. Against Imposthumes in the Hands and Strains, applied behind. To provoke Haemorrhoids and the Terms, they clense the Blood and take away Plethory, and are as good as any Blood-letting.

To the Soals of the Feet.

They provoke the Terms, are good a­gainst the Sciatica, Gout, Megrim, and in­stead of Phlebotomy in the Feet-veins.

A CATALOGUE of the Dis­eases to be cured by Scarification and Cupping

• AGainst Anctae apply them between both.
• Angina or Quinzy, apply them often to the Shoulders with Scarification, and cup the Thighs.
• Anus or Arse-hole hot Imposthume, [Page 74] Cup the Loyns and the upper part of the Buttocks.
• Anus or Fundament out: Cup the Mus­cles of the Back.
• Apoplexy: Cup and Scarifie Neck and Shoulders, and the Thighs.
• Apostems and Strains in the Buttocks: Cup the Hips behind.
• Asthma: Scarifie between the Shoul­ders where the Neck and the Back joyn together.
• Aurium or the Ears diseases: Cup in the Wrists and under the hinder part of the Head on both sides the Neck.
• For Ears bleeding: Cup upon the Shoulders.

• Basilick vein is as good as opened when the Cupping-glasses are applied between the Shoulders under the Neck, where it is joyned to the Back.
• Bothor: Cupping behind in the Head or Pole, or before in the Head about the Crown, or above the Forehead is good against it.

• Canicies or Baldness: Cup behind in the Head, and in the Crown before, or above the Forehead.
• [Page 75]Cephalick vein is as good as opened, if you apply Cupping-glasses upon the top of the Head behind, neer the Veins on the sides of the Neck that ascend to the Head.
• Capitis or Head-diseases, are cured by Cupping the Neck and Shoulders with Scarification, and by Cupping upon the top of the hinder part of the Head neer the two Veins in the side of the Neck that ascend to the Head, or by Cupping with Scarification in the Wrists.
• The Head is clensed by Cupping un­der the Chin.
• And upon the Fundament, Cupping draws from the Head.
• Trembling of the Head: by Cupping upon the top of the hinder part of the Head, neer the two Veins in the side of the Neck that ascend to the Head.
• For pain in the Head behind, Scarifie the Forehead
• Colick, against its pain, Cup upon the Navel.
• Cordis or Heart-trembling, Scarifie between the Shoulders.
• Corpus or body is refreshed, by Cup­ping the Fundament.
• Coxae or Hips, are cured of Impost­humes, [Page 76] Scabs and Strains, by Cupping within side, or on the Loyns, or that part that contains five Spondils.
• For the two internal parts of the Hips, Cup between the two Anchae.
• Crurum or Thighs, are cured of Scabs, Ulcers and Strains by Cupping before in the Hips, and Scarifying under both Knees.

• Delirium to cure, Scarifie the Neck and Shoulders.
• Dentium doloribus, or Tooth-ach, Cup under the Chin, and upon the top of the hinder part of the Head near the two Veins on the sides of the Neck that as­cend to the Head.
• Diarrhoea: to cure, Cup upon the Re­gion of the Spleen.
• Dyspnoea or difficult Breathing, Cup the Shoulders.
• Dolor to allay, Cup upon the part.
• Dorsi dolores or Back-pains, upon the Loyns and Back.
• Dolor of the Shoulders: Cup upon the part between the Shoulder-blades under the Neck, where the Neck is joyn­ed to the Back.
• Dolor of the Throat: Cup in the same place upon the Throat.
• [Page 77] Dolor of the Colick; Cup upon the Navel.

• Against Elephantiasis: Cup the Loyns or in the part that contains five Spon­dils. Also Scarifie the Thighs and Feet.
• Epilepsie: first Cup the Thighs, and then the part where the Neck is joyned to the Cranium, or Cup the Shoulder-blades.

• Against Face-evils: Cup under the Chin, and upon the top of the hinder part of the Head near the two Veins in the side of the Neck that ascend to the Head.
• Fevers are certainly cured by Scarifi­cation upon the Back bone with ten or twelve Cupping-glasses.
• Flux and Blood that corrodes be­neath: Cup with Scarification upon the Buttocks at the bottom of the Loyns: or use Cupping without Scarification up­on the same parts, and about the Navel, and about the right and left Hypochon­dria.

• Gums-evils, Scarifie under the Chin.
• Gibbosity, Cup the Buttocks or the [Page 76] [...] [Page 77] [...] [Page 78] Brawn of the Thighs.
• Gullet evil or pain: Cup between the Shoulder-blades under the Neck where it is joyned to the Back.
• Guttur or Throat: Cup under the Chin.

• Haemorrhoids to move: Cup the Loyns.
• Haemorrhoids to stop: Cup between the Shoulders without Scarification or with, or about the Loyns and Reins which is better.
• Humerorum dolores or the Shoulder-pain: Cup between the Shoulder-blades under the Neck where it is joyned to the Back.

• Jaundies yellow, Cup upon the Liver, under the right Shoulder, or under the Ribs.
• Jecoris or Liver-diseases, Scarifie in the Region of the Liver.
• Liver Inflamed and the like, Scarifie the right Hypochondrium.
• Iliack Passion: Cup the upper part of the Belly.
• Insanium or Madness: Scarifie Neck and Shoulders, and before in the Head [Page 79] about the Crown, and above the Fore­head.
• Incontinency: Scarifie Buttocks and Loyns.
• Intestines evil: Cup the Fundament.
• Ossis exitum or Bone out of joynt: Cup upon the Ancha.

• Against Lactis abundantia, too much Milk, Scarifie the Thighs.
• Lust, Scarifie the Loyns and Buttocks.
• Linguae Magnitudinem or Tongue too big: Cup and Scarifie upon the Shoul­ders in the Neck.
• Tongue Impostume: Scarifie behind the Ears, or Cup under the Chin and Neck.
• Lippitudo or Blear-eyedness: Scarifie Neck and Shoulders.
• Loyns diseases: Scarifie the upper part of the Buttocks and the bottom of the Loyns.

• Mandibles to mundifie, Cup under the Chin.
• Against Madness: Scarifie Neck and Shoulders, or Cup above the Forehead.
• Mother-diseases: Scarifie the Thighs below, and cup the Navel and against the Knees.
• [Page 80]Mother windy: Cup the Loyns or that part that contains five Spondils im­mediately among the twelve.
• Mother fallen and Suffocated: Cup the Groyns, Hips and Pecten.
• Menstrua or Terms to provoke, Cup the Thighs and upon the Heels, and the muscles of the Legs, properly for fat Women, also in the bending of the Ham, or between the Thighs to the Privities.
• Menstrua to stop, Cup under the Breasts with and without Scarification, let the Glasses be great, and they be ap­plied upon both Anchae.
• Against Menstrua alba or Whites, Sca­rifie the Buttocks, it is good also against corruption of the Menstrua.
• Mictum sanguinis or pissing of Blood: Cup upon the Reins, Bowels, Pecten, and Anchae, especially about the Bladder.

• Against Nose and Nostrils evils, Cup upon the top of the hinder part of the Head near the two veins in the side of the Neck ascending to the Head.
• Nose-ulcer: Cup in the nape of the Neck with Scarification.
• Nose-bleeding: Cup the Shoulders [Page 81] and Buttocks with light Scarification also upon the Liver, without Scarifica­tion, if the right Nostril bleed, and upon the Spleen if the left, and upon both, if from both: or upon the Sumen which is best. Also upon the Thighs within: Al­so upon the Neck and Shoulders with light Scarification.
• If the Flux be Arterial: Cup upon the Region of the Heart and the Neck.
• Natibus or Buttocks, if in them there be an Imposthume or Pussi, Cup behind in the Coxae.

• Against Oculorum, of Eyes all Diseases, Scarifie the top of the Forehead, the Crown and Neck, and in both Wrists.
• Against Scabs about the Eyes, Dul­ness, Inflammation, Tears and the like evils: Scarifie Neck and Shoulders, or between the Shoulder-blades.
• Against Omnia Vitia Corporis or all e­vils in the body: Cup and Scarifie the Buttocks and upon the Fundament.
• Ophthalmy, Cup the Shoulders.
• Against Oris Apostomata or Impost­humes in the mouth, Ulcers, Pustles, Tu­mors, Scarifie the extremities of the Ears, and cup under the Chin and Neck.
• Against Stink of Mouth, Cup between [Page 82] the Shoulder-blades.

• Against Palphebrarum or Eye-brows, Heaviness, Thickness, or Scabs: Cup be­tween the Shoulders, & upon the Thighs, and in the Spatula's & nape of the Neck.
• Pannus: Scarifie the Neck.
• Against Pectoris vitia or Diseases of the Breast, Imposthumes, and Bloody Evils: Scarifie under the Breast or be­tween the two Shoulder-blades where the Neck is Joyned to the Back.
• Against Pedum Scabia or Scabs in the Feet and Tumors: Cup and Scarifie un­der both Hams.
• Against Feet inwardly pained: Scari­fie the Loyns.
• To bleed the Feet, Scarifie under both Ankles.
• Peripneumony: Cup and Scarifie the Buttocks.
• Against Phrenzies: Scarifie the Neck and Shoulders, and Cup the Shoulders and Buttocks.
• Pleurisie: Cup between the Shoulders and the Buttocks and Thighs, and under the part pained with and without Scari­fication.
• Poplitis or Ham-beating from hot hu­mors, Cup in the Ham.
• [Page 83] Podagram or Gout: Cup between the two Anchae or under both Hams, or in the Loyns, or in the part that contains the five immediate Spondils, or upon both the Alchab.
• Pupilla dilated: Cup the Neck and Shoulders, or Scarifie the Ear.
• Purge the whole body, and refresh by Scarification in the Buttocks and Funda­ment.

• Against Reason confused: Cup the hin­derpart of the head, which lieth upon the ground, when a man lieth with his Face upwards, or Cup the fore part of the head, about the Crown, or above the Fore­head.
• Reins Scaby and Imposthumed: Cup the Reins and Buttocks, and the Shoul­der-bones.
• Rupture in the Groyn, Cup between the two Anchae.

• Sanguinem mundificare, to clense the Blood: Cup the Thighs.
• Saphena, its opening to supply: Cup in the Thighs neer the Privities.
• Against Scabs: Scarifie Loyns and Buttocks.
• Scabs of the Feet and Legs: Scarifie under both Hams.
• [Page 84]Sciatica, Cup upon both Alchabs and Anchaes.
• Spasm from Blood: Cup between both Shoulder-Bones, where the Neck and Back joyn together.
• Spleen-diseases: Scarifie the left Hy­pochondrion or place of the Spleen.
• Against Spirandi difficultatem or diffi­culty of breathing: Cup and Scarifie be­tween the Shoulder-bones.
• Spitting of Blood and Matter: Cup upon the Buttocks, and about the Reins, or between the Shoulder-bones under the Neck, where it is joyned to the Back.
• Stomach-diseases and weakness: Cup the Shoulders, if the pain be great, if the matter be thick, Scarifie the Buttocks. Also apply a great Cupping-glass to the mouth of the Stomach, or between the Shoulder-blades.
• Against Stomachs evil complexion with matter, Cup the Thighs, Buttocks, with Scarification.
• Stomachs Imosthume, apply to it Cup­ping-glasses with Scarification to draw the Flux of the matter to the contrary part.
• Supercilliorum or Eye-brows heaviness: Cup upon the Nocra or between the Shoulder-bones.

• [Page 85]Against Testicles imposthumated: Cup before in the Hips.
• To draw from the whole body, Cup the Fundament.
• Against Trembling of the Head or sha­king: Cup the top of the hinder part of the Head neer the two Veins in the side of the Neck ascending to the Head.
• Trembling of the Heart, apply Cup­ping-glasses to the left Shoulder.
• Tumor of the Gums and Mouth, Cup upon the Chin.
• Against Tussim or Cough, Cup between the two Shoulder bones where the Neck is joyned to the Back.

• Varices, Cup the buttocks.
• Vein Median, opening supplied, if you Cup between the Shoulder-blades.
• Vein Cephalick supplied, Cup upon the top of the hinder part of the Head, neer the two veins in the side of the Neck ascending to the Head.
• Vein basilick supplied, by Cupping be­tween the two Shoulder-blades under the Neck where it is joyned to the Back.
• Against Venery, Scarifie the Loyns and Buttocks
• [Page 86]Ventosity of Belly: Cup the Navel.
• Ventricle-diseases, Scarifie between the Shoulders.
• Vertigo, Cup upon the Shoulders, or the hinder part of the Head, or upon the Crown before on the top of the Fore­head.
• Vesicae or Bladder-Imposthumes, Sca­rifie the Fundament.
• Vesicae or Bladder-wind, Cup the Reins or that the part that contains the five im­mediate Spondils and under both Hams.
• Against Visus or sight weak, Scarifie the Neck.
• Ulcers: the Loyns and Reins.
• Ulcers of Legs and Feet; the Hams.
• Vomiting: Cup the Shoulders with Scarification.