TAke half an ounce of Tamarinds, two drams of Sena Leaves, one dram and a half of Rhubarb; boil them in a sufficient quan­tity of Spring-water to three ounces: Then strain them, and dissolve in the liquor, Manna and solutive Syrup of Roses, of each one ounce Mix them for a Potion.

Take of the Water of Carduus Benedictus two ounces, the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum one ounce, Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers half an ounce; mix them for a Vomit, which is to be taken about four a Clock in the Afternoon, drinking a large draught of Posset after every vomiting.

Take Black-cherry water, Milk-water, of each three ounces; Barley, Cinnamon-water, [...]e ounce, Prepar'd Pearl a dram and an half, [...]ugar-candy as much as is sufficient; add Da­ [...]ask-rose-water half a dram. Mix them for a [Page 2] Julep. Dose four or five spoonfuls in sickness, for fainting fits.

Take Milk water, Black-cherry water, of each three ounces; Plague water, Syrup of Clove Gilliflowers, Syrup of the Juice of Ci­trons, of each half an ounce. Mix them, and make a Julep, which is to be taken frequently.

Take Roots of Sarsaparilla, six ounces; Sassafras and China, of each two ounces; Liquor ish, one ounce; boil them in two Gallons of Spring water for the space of half an hour after which let them stand in a close Vessel of hot ashes twelve hours; then boil them again to the consumption of a third part of the water; and assoon as you take the liquor from the fire, infuse into it half an ounce of Anise seeds: after it hath stood two hours more stra [...] it, and let it stand till it grow clear, then po [...] off the liquor into Glass-bottles well stopp [...] and reserve it for use. This is to be used f [...] ordinary drink and continued thirty days.

Take the Roots of Grass, Cichory, Fen [...] and Asparagus, of each one ounce; Currans a [...] Raisins ston'd, of each two ounces; Leaves [...] Liverwort, Harts tongue and Maiden-hair, [...] each one handful; Leaves of Brook-lime ( [...] ded [Page 3] towards the end) two handfuls; boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring water to two pounds (or a quart) to which toward the end add half a pint of Rhenish Wine. Then strain them, and while the liquor is yet hot, infuse in it for two hours in a close Vessel one handful of the Leaves of Garden Scurvygrass. After which strain again, and add Syrup of the five Roots, Syrup of Orange juice, of each two ounces; Barley, Cinnamon water, one ounce. Mix them and make an Apozem, the Dose of which is half a pint, every morning and at 5 in the afternoon for fourteen days together.

Take Oil of Sweet Almonds, one ounce; Syrups of Red Poppy, of Purslain and of Ju­ [...]ubes, and (the licking Medicine call'd) Lohor [...]anum, of each half an ounce; Sugar-candy a sufficient quantity. Mix them in a Marble Mortar for the space of an hour, and make a perfectly mix'd Licking Medicine, which is to be kept in a Galley-pot for use. It is to be taken frequently, licking it off of a Liquorish stick.

Take Conserve of Red Roses, Syrup of Vio­lets and of Meconium, of each one ounce; White Poppy Seeds, three drams. Beat them together, and strain them through a Hair Sieve, then add express'd Oil of Nutmeg, six grains. Make an Eclegma.

Take Conserve of Red Roses, two ounces; Syrup of Meconium and of Jujubes, of each one ounce; Olibanum, Mastick and Amber, of each one dram; express'd Oil of Nutmegs, six grains. Mix them and make a Lohoch, which is to be lick'd often. You may take twice every day a spoonful of this Eclegma, pouring into it Bal­sam of Sulphurs anisated from eight to twelve drops.

Take Polypody of the Oak, one pound; Roots of Monks Rheubarb, Sena Leaves, and ston'd Raisins, of each half a pound; Rheu­barb slic'd and Horse Radish Roots, of each three ounces; Leaves of Garden Scurvy-grass and Sage, of each four handfuls; four Orenges slic'd. Infuse them in five or six gallons of Ale not hopped, while it is fermenting; and when it is ripen'd, use it instead of your ordinary drink for fourteen or one and twenty days, espe­cially drink a draught of it every morning.

Take Galbanum dissolv'd in Tincture of Castoreum and strain'd, three drams; Taramahac, two drams. Make a Plaister for the Navel.

Take one small spoonful of Syrup of Cicho­ry with Rheubarb.

Take of the bitter Decoction prepar'd with a double quantity of Sena, four ounces; Syrup of Buckthorn, one ounce; Electuary of the juice of Roses, two drams. Mix them for a Potion.

When by any grievous accident the Soul is troubled, the animal Spirits run into disorderly motions; the Urine appears sometimes limpid, and in great quantity; the sick persons cast off all hope of recovery; and portend the most dismal things to themselves. Whatsoever part of the body the Disease doth affect (and it af­fecteth many) immediately the symptoms that are proper to that part appear; in the Head, the Apoplexy, which ends in a Palsy of one half of the body, comes presently after Child-bearing; sometimes they are seized with Convulsions, that very much resemble the Epilepsy, and are com­monly called the Suffocation of the womb, in which the Belly and Entrails rise upwards to­wards the Throat: At other times they are mi­serably tormented with the Hysterical Clavus, in which there is a most vehement pain in the head, [Page 6] which you may cover with your thumb, the sick person in the mean time vomiting up green Matter like to that sort of Choler that has its name from Leeks. The Paroxysm doth also counterfeit the Palpitation of the Heart, the Cough, the Colic and Iliac Passions, the Stone and Suppression of Urine: it is attended with prodigious vomitings, and sometimes with a Diarrhaea; outwardly in the musculous Flesh it causes sometimes Pains, and sometimes swel­lings. In the Legs it is like a Dropsie, nor (which is wonderful) doth it leave the Teeth untouch'd. The Back is often cruelly pain'd; and almost always the external parts are so cold that a dead body is not more. The sick persons break out ridiculously into excessive Laughter and Tears without any cause; and are some times troubled with spitting to such a degree, as were enough to make one believe that they had been anointed with Mercury. Hysterical Pains whatsoever part they affect, leave a Tenderness behind them that cannot endure to be touch'd, as if the Flesh had been beaten.

Let Blood be taken away to the quantity of eight ounces.

Apply the Plaister of Galbanum to the Navel: And next morning let the sick person be­gin to use the following Pills.

Take of the Pills call'd Cochiae the greate [...] two drams; Castoreum powder'd, two grains Balsam of Peru, three drops: Make twelve Pills; of which take four every morning, of every second day, according to your strength, about four or five of the clock, sleeping after them.

Take Rue water four ounces, compound Briony water two ounces, Castoreum tyed in a knot, and hung in the Glass, half a dram; Su­gar-candy a sufficient quantity. Of this take four or five spoonfuls in every Fit. After the Pills take what follows.

Take Filings of Steel eight grains, and with a sufficient quantity of Extract of Wormwood, make three Pills; which must be taken early in the morning, and repeated at five in the after­noon, for thirty days, drinking after them a draught of Wormwood Wine.

If the form of a Bolus be more grateful,

Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood, and Conserve of the yellow part of Orenges, of each one ounce; preserv'd Angelica, Nutmeg preserv'd, Treacle of Andromochas, of each half an ounce; compound Powder of Aron three drams, preserv'd Ginger two drams, with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the juice of Citrons, or (in want of that) Syrup of Orenges, make an Electuary.

Take of this Electuary two drams, Filings of Steel eight grains, and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Orenges make a Bolus, which is to be taken morning and evening, drinking after it a draught of Wormwood Wine, or six spoonfuls of the following Infusion.

Take Roots of Angelica, Elicampane, and Masterwort, of each one ounce; Leaves of com­mon Wormwood, lesser Centory, white Hore­hound and Germainder, of each one handful: the Barks of two Orenges slic'd; pour upon them so much Spanish Wine as will rise two inches above them, and strain it at the time of using it. Or,

To delicate persons the Steel may be given in the form of a Powder, as follows.

Take Filings of Steel finely powder'd one ounce, compound Powder of Aron six drams, Coriander seed prepar'd, seeds of Anise and sweet Fennel, of each half an ounce; the best Cinnamon, red Coral prepar'd, of each three drams; Nutmeg two drams: Beat them all in­to a very fine Powder, to which add of the best white Sugar to the weight of all the rest. Take half a dram of this Powder in a Spoon, twice a day, four days together, and afterwards a whole dram twice every day for forty days, drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep, or of Wormwood and Wine.

Take Milk water twelve ounces, compound Gentian water four ounces, Wormwood water of the greater composition two ounces; White Sugar a sufficient quantity: Make a Julep. Or,

Take half a pint of Rhenish Wine prepar'd with Wormwood, compound Gentian water two ounces, Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers one ounce: Make a Julep.

Take choice Myrrh, Galbanum, and Assa foe­tida, of each one dram; Castoreum half a dram, with a sufficient quantity of the Balsam of Peru, make them up into Pills, twelve out of each dram; of which take three every night, drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of compound Bryony water, during the whole process of the Cure.

If these Pils move the Belly, use these that follow.

Take Castoreum, one dram; volatil salt of Amber, half a dram; with a sufficient quantity of extract of Rue, make four and twenty Pills; [Page 9] of which take three every night, drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep.

Spirit of Harts-horn exhibited frequently to sixteen or eighteen drops, is of excellent use.

But if the Disease doth not yield to these re­medies, then take the following Pills.

Take Troches of Myrrh powder'd, one scru­ple, Balsom of Sulphur terebinthinated four drops; with a sufficient quantity of Gum Am­moniac disolv'd make four Pills; which must be taken morning and evening, drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Ju­lep, with twelve drops of Spirit of Harts-horn.

The Antiscorbutic Electuary, with the Wa­ter there described, is good also in this Disease, and likewise the corroborating Electuary, with the addition of Conserve of Garden Scurvy-Grass, one ounce; compound powder of Aron, six drams, drinking after it the forementioned Water.

But if all these Remedies prove ineffectual, you must have recourse to the waters that par­take of Iron; and if these also do no good, to those that are sulphureous, such as are the Bath waters.

Concerning the use of the Mineral waters these things are to be observed. If any bad symptom appear, which may be ascribed to the drinking of the water, in such a case you must abstain from them, till the symptom disappear. Continue the use of them for six weeks at least, rather two months. Eat now and then pre­serv'd Ginger, or Caraway seeds confected to warm the stomach. You may also take three of [Page 10] the Hysterical Pills the first ten nights, drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysteri­cal Julep.

As for the Bath waters, you must dsink them two days, and bath in them the third, proceed­ing thus alternately six weeks or two months.

If the Steel heat the body too much, then du­ring the use of it drink every fourth morning four pints of Mineral purging waters: Which though they move the belly, yet cause no agi­tation, as the purging medicines of the shop [...] usually do.

If the sick person be young he must be le [...] blood in the arm, and the same day some hours after, or the next day, two hours after a light dinner let him take a Vomit of the infusion o [...] Crocus Metallorum, and after that has done working, drink a Pacific Draught, such as that which follows.

Take Black-Cherry water one ounce and half, Plague water half an ounce, liquid Laudanum sixteen drops: Mix them for a Draught

From this to the eleventh or twelfth day, the following Clyster is to be injected every morning

Take of the common Decoction for a Clyste [...] one pound (or the like quantity of Cows milk Brown Sugar and Syrup of Violets, of each two ounces. Make a Clyster.

After that day suffer his Belly to be constipted, that so the Febrile Matter may the soon be concocted, to which purpose also modera [...] [Page 11] Cordials exhibited during these last days, are very useful; as,

Take Powder of Crabs claws compound four­teen grains, Electuary de Ovo half a scruple, with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Clove-gilliflow­ers make a Bolus, which may be taken every eight hours, drinking after it five or six spoon­fuls of the following Julep.

Take Milk water, Black-Cherry water, of each three ounces; Plague water and Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers, of each one ounce: mix them and make a Julep, or such like.

If you diligently observe this method, you will usually about the fifteenth day perceive (both by the laudable breaking of the Urine, and the manifest remission of all the Symptoms) that it is time to exhibit the common purging Potion.

After the sick person hath been let blood in his Bed, let him be cover'd all over with Cloths, and his Forehead bound about with a piece of Woollen Cloth: and then if he doth not vomit, let some Medicine to procure Sweat be exhi­bited to him; as

Take Treacle of Andromachus half a dram, Electuary de Ovo one scruple, Powder of Crabs-claws compound twelve grains, Cochinel eight grains, Saffron four grains, with a sufficient quantity of the juice of Kermes make a Bolus, which must be repeated every sixth hour, drink­ing after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep.

Take Carduus Benedictus water, and com­pound [Page 10] [...] [Page 11] [...] [Page 12] Scordium water, of each four ounces; d [...] still'd Treacle water, two ounces; Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers, one ounce: mix them for a Julep.

But if he be troubled with a vomiting, the Sudorific ought not to be given till the weight of the Cloths alone make the Sweat begin to appear, his Face being in the mean while cover'd with part of the Sheets:

The Sweat thus begun must be promoted with repeated draughts of Sage Posset, or Bee [...] boil'd with a little Mace, and continued in this manner the space of a natural day, or 24 hours during which time he may be allow'd some dcomfortable Broths for his refreshment.

After the breaking forth of a Swelling, [...] durst not open a Vein. Let the sick person keep his Bed four and twenty hours after the Sweat­ing is over, and diligently avoid all manner of Cold, suffering his Shirt to dry of it self upon his body. Let him drink nothing but what is hot, and still persist in the use of Sage Posset Next morning let him take the common purging Potion.

The Years 1667, 1668, produc'd the Small Pox, and a Fever partaking of their nature.

In the Years 1669, 70, 71, 72. A Dysenterical Fever reign'd.

And the Years 1673, 74, 75, were infeste with a Comaton or Sleepy Fever.

I do not insist upon the cure of these Fevers because I am of opinion that they might have been cur'd by the method describ'd in the account of the Fever of the Years, 1685, &c.

They begin with Cold and Shivering, which is immediately followed with Heat, and that with Sweating, after which the Fever disappears, though during the first days of the Disease, es­pecially in Autumn, there sometimes happens a Remission, rather than a proper Intermission of the Fever. Both the cold and hot fit are for the most part attended with an inclination to vomit, vehement sickness, thirst and driness of the Tongue. The swelling of the Abdomen in Chil­dren, and of the Feet in Men, signify the solu­tion of the Fever: The Pain in the Jaws, Hoarseness, Hollow Eyes, and a ghastly Coun­tenance portend Death.

Take of the Peruvian Bark finely powder'd, one ounce, and with a sufficient quantity of Sy­rup of Clove-gilliflowers, or of dry'd Roses, make an Electuary, to be divided into twelve Doses, of which one is to be taken every four hours, drinking after it a draught of any sort of Wine, beginning immediately after the Fit.

But if these Bolus's move the Belly, pour ten drops of liquid Laudanum into the draught of Wine after every second Dose, as you see oc­casion.

To prevent Relapses (especially of Quartans) the foregoing process must be thrice repeated in the three following weeks.

If the form of Pills be more grateful,

Take the Peruvian Bark powder'd, one ounce; and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers make Pills of a moderate big­ness; [Page 14] of which take six every fourth hour.

Take of the Peruvian Bark powder'd, two ounces, Rhenish wine two pounds (or a quart) Let them stand together in a cold Infusion, and strain them through a Woollen Cloath. Dose three ounces every fourth hour.

Take Virginian Snakeweed finely powder'd fifteen grains, White-wine three ounces: Give it to the sick person two hours before the Fit and covering him with cloaths let him sweat three or four hours: Repeat the same Doses the two following Fit-days in the same manner.

Take Black-Cherry water, and Rhenish wine of each two ounces; the Peruvian Bark in fine powder, three drams; Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers one ounce: Mix them, and make a Julep Dose, a spoonful or two, according to the Child Age, every fourth hour, till the Fits return no more; pouring into every second Dose, if there be a Diarrhaea, one or two drops of liquid La [...] danum.

The signs are Heat and Cold coming by turn [...] Pain in the Head and Limbs, the Pulse in the mean time almost well, sometimes a Cough, a Pain about the Neck and Jaws, the exacerbation of the Fever towards night, unquietness, thirst, the [Page 15] Tongue either moist and cover'd all over with a white and rough film, or dry and of a dark co­lour in the middle, which is compast about with a whitish border. They that constantly keep their Beds are thereby expos'd to Coma's and Phrensies; and Spots, Purple Specks, Miliar Eruptions (as they are call'd) which are redder than Measles, irregularity of the Pulse, starting of the Tendons, and at last Death are the effects of a hot Regimen. In the beginning Symptoma­tical Sweats appear, which if provok'd by art, break forth clammy in the Head, and translate the morbific matter to the Head or Limbs.

Let the sick person be let blood in the Arm, and ten ounces of Blood taken from him; which must be repeated, if difficulty of Breathing, a rending Pain in the Head, with a Cough, and other signs of a bastard Peripneumonia appear. For in this case both the letting of Blood and Purg­ing must be constantly repeated till the sick per­son recover.

At night let a Blistering Plaister be apply'd, and the next morning a Lenitive Potion pre­scrib'd, which must be thrice repeated every se­cond day; and always after Purging a composing Draught is to be taken at night.

Take Cowslip water three ounces, Syrup of Meconium one ounce, juice of Limons newly prest out, two spoonfuls: Mix them for a Draught.

Blisters in the Mouth and Throat, as also the Hickup do sometimes come of themselves after the Fever is cur'd, and usually go away of themselves quickly after. But if they stay long, they may be easily driven away by one ounce of [Page 16] the Peruvian Bark, reduc'd into an Electuary or Pills with the Syrup of Red Poppies, drinking after every dose a draught of Whey. This Re­medy will most certainly prove effectual, if its vertue be not eluded by constant lying in a Bed.

In those days that are free from Purgation the following things are to be prescrib'd.

Take Conserve of Wood-Sorrel, of Sweet-briar, of each one ounce; Conserve of Barbe­ries half an ounce, Cream of Tartar one dram; with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Limons make an Electuary; of which take about the bigness of a Nutmeg thrice in the day, drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep.

Take Water of Purslain, of Lettuce and of Cows [...]ips, of each three ounces; Syrup of Li­mons one ounce and a half, Syrup of Violets one ounce: Mix them and make a Julep.

If the Stomach be so disorder'd by the Fever, that it cannot retain a Potion, prescribe the Pills Cochiae the greater, two scruples for a dose, and also a Medicine to procure Sleep; for example, one grain and a half of London Laudanum, with the like quantity of Mastick, or eighteen drops of liquid Laudanum in one ounce of Barley Cin­namon water.

Let the sick person drink the white Decocti­on, and Small Beer also at his pleasure.

Let two Leeches be applied, one behind each Ear, and a Blistering Plaister to the hinder part of the Neck.

Let them be purg'd with the Infusion of Rheu­barb in Beer.

If after Purgation the Fever seem to intermit, give them the Julep with the Peruvian Bark, de­scrib'd in the Chapter of Intermitting Fevers in Children.

Children are chiefly infested with it about the latter end of Summer. At the first they are seiz'd with a coldness and shivering, yet are not they very sick. The whole Skin is spotted with little red specks, that are thicker, broader, and of a redder colour than in the Measles. They conti­nue two or three days, and then disappear, and the upmost Skin falling off, that which is under it appears stain'd with Measly Scales.

Take burnt Harts-horn and compound Pow­der of Crabs claws, of each half a dram; Cochi­nel two grains, Sugar-candy one dram: mix them, and beat them to a very fine Powder, to be divided into twelve Papers, of which one is to be taken every sixth hour, drinking after them two or three spoonfuls of the following Julep.

Take Black Cherry water, Milk-water, of each three ounces; Syrup of the juice of Citrons one ounce: Mix them and make a Julep.

Let a blistering Plaster be also apply'd to the hinder part of the Neck, and every night exhi­bit a composing Draught of Syrup of Meconi­um; and, the Symptoms ceasing, prescribe a Purging Medicine.

It reigns between the Spring and Summer. It begins with Coldness and Shivering, which are quickly accompanied with Heat, Thirst, Un­quietness and the other symptoms of a Fever. After a few hours a pricking pain is felt in one of the Sides, about the Ribs, which sometimes stretches it self towards the Shoulder-blades, sometimes to the Back, and sometimes towards the Breast. The matter that is ejected with the Spittle in the beginning of the Disease appears thin and in little quantity, and is often mixt with particles of blood; but afterwards it is rais'd more copiously, is better concocted, and still appears mixt with blood. The Fever holds pace with the Cough, spitting of blood and pain, and, according as the expectoration is more or less free, abates by degrees. The Belly is some­times constipated, and sometimes too loose. The Blood of Pleuritie Persons resembles melted Tallow, when it is cooled.

Let a Vein be opened in the Arm of the affect­ed Side, and ten ounces of Blood extracted.

Take Red Poppy water four ounces, Sal Pru­nellae one dram, Syrup of Violets one ounce: Mix them for a Draught to be taken immedi­ately after the first Blood-letting.

Take five Almonds peel'd, Seeds of Melons and Pompions, of each half an ounce; White Poppy Seeds three drams, Barley water one pound [pint] and an half; Rose water two drams, with a sufficient quantity of Sugar-candy make an Emulsion according to art. Dose four ounces every four hours.

Take of the Pectoral Decoction two pounds, Syrup of Violets, and of Maiden-hair, of each one ounce and a half; mix them and make an Apozem: Dose half a pound thrice in the day.

Take Oil of Sweet Almonds two ounces, Syrup of Violets and of Maiden-hair, of each one ounce; Sugar-candy as much as is sufficient: Mix them, and make an Eclegma or licking Medicine to be frequently used.

Oil of Sweet Almonds by it self, or Linseed Oil may also be exhibited.

Take Oil of Sweet Almonds, of Lillies, and the Ointment Dialtheae, of each one ounce; mix and make a Linement, wherewith the affected Side may be anointed morning and evening, lay­ing over it a Cabbage Leaf.

The Letting of Blood must be repeated yet three times more, extracting still the same quan­tity of Blood for four days together; if the pain and difficulty of breathing seem to require it.

It begins to appear upon the approach of Winter, and oftentimes towards the end thereof. At the first the sick person is hot and cold by turns, he cannot stir without being troubled with dizziness or swimming of the head; his Cheeks or Eyes are red and inflam'd; he coughs, and in coughing is tormented with a rending pain in the Head; he vomits up liquid things; his U­rine is thick, and very red, his Blood resembles that of a Pleuritic Person; he breathes thick and short, with a pain in his Breast. This Disease is plainly distinguished from a dry Aschma, [Page 20] in which no signs of a Fever appear, but in this are manifestly discover'd, though they are much more obscure and less violent than in a true Pe­ripneumonia.

Let the sick person be let blood in the right Arm to the quantity of ten ounces, and the next day take this Potion.

Take extracted Cassia one ounce, Liquorish two drams, four fat Figs, Leaves of Sena two drams and a half, Troches of Agaric one dram: Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to four ounces; then strain, and dissolve in the li­quor Manna one ounce, solutive Syrup of Roses half an ounce.

But if he cannot take a Potion, let him take two scruples of the Pills Cochiae the greater, at four in the morning.

The day following let a Vein be open'd again, and the same quantity of Blood extracted as for­merly, and the day after let the purging Medi­cine be again exhibited, and afterwards repeat­ed once in three days. if the consideration of his strength do not require longer Intervals to be al­low'd him. Moreover, if the Symptoms still continue, he must be again let blood once, twice; or oftner, interposing always some days, as you see occasion; but for the most part the second Letting of Blood will be sufficient. In the mean time, while this method is prosecuted, let him use the Pectoral Decoction, Eclegma and Oil of Sweet Almonds, prescrib'd in the foregoing Chapter, especially in the days that are free from Purgation.

In this Disease they are first taken with cold­ness and shivering, and the other symptoms of a Fever; and after a day or two (sometimes sooner) they are seiz'd with a most sharp pain, sometimes in one part and sometimes in another, but especially in the Wrists, Shoulders and Knees, which it leaves and assaults by turns, the part last affected remaining for some time after red and swoln. The Fever wears off by degrees, the pain still continuing, yea and sometimes rag­ing more cruelly than before. In Rheumatic Aches of the Loins, there is a most violent pain that remains fix'd about the region of the Loins, and counterfeits the Stone; only the sick person is not troubled with a desire to vomit. He can­not lie in his Bed, but either leaps out of it, or sits upright in it, perpetually tossing his body backwards and forwards. The Blood is like that in a Pleurisie.

Let ten ounces of Blood be taken from the Arm, of the side affected.

Take Water of Lettuce, Purslain and Water-Lillies, of each four ounces; Syrup of Limons one ounce and a half, Syrup of Violets one ounce: Mix and make a Julep to be drunk at pleasure.

Prescribe an Emulsion of the four greater cold seeds; and a Cataplasm of the Crums of white Bread and Milk, ting'd with Saffron, to be apply'd to the part affected.

The day after let the same quantity of Blood be taken away as before, which must be repeat­ed [Page 22] after a day or two, and the same operation must be reiterated four times, or oftner, if need require: Observing that after the second time there must still be greater intervals interpos'd.

In the days that are free from Phlebotomy, let a Clyster of Sugared Milk be now and then injected, or that which follows.

Take of the common Decoction for a Clyster one pound, Syrup of Violets, and Brown Sugar, of each two ounces; Mix them for a Clyster.

If the Patients Weakness will not permit the repeated taking away of his blood, then after the second or third time, the Cure is to be thus attempted.

Let him take the common Purging Potion every second day, while his illness continues, and the same nights a composing Draught of the Syrup of Meconium.

But if these Remedies prove ineffectual, and the Feebleness of the Patient be such, that he can­not bear any Evacuations, let him use the Anti­scorbutic Electuary and Water describ'd in the Chapter of the Scurvy, which are also useful in the Scorbutic Rheumatism.

In young persons, and such who are not much addicted to Wine, the Rheumatism may be as happily cured by a very cooling and indifferently nourishing Diet, as by repeated letting of blood, which they cannot so well bear. For example,

Let the Patient live only upon Whey four days together; and afterwards besides his Whey, he may, once in the day, instead of a Dinner, eat a little Bread made of fine Flower, till he perfectly recover: Only during the last days of his Illness, he may be allowed to eat another [Page 23] piece of Bread for his Supper. After the ceasing of the Symptoms, he may eat boil'd Chickens, and other Meats of easy digestion, observing every third day to feed only upon Whey, till he be perfectly restor'd to his former Health.

All the parts of the Body, especially the Face, are swoln, red and full of pain. The Face and Head are overspread with little, thick Pimples, which sometimes rise into Blisters, the Eyes are hid under the Swelling; Coldness, Shivering and other signs of a Fever do also ap­pear. There is another species of this Disease, caus'd by the drinking of attenuating Liquors, in which there is a slight Fever, accompanied with Wheals, like the pushes that are caused by the pricking of Nettles, which sometimes rise up into Blisters, then immediately vanish, and lurking under the skin, where they occasion a very troublesome itching, after scratching they appear again. There is also another kind of Eruption, which usually breaks out in the Breast; and is a broad spot that hardly rises above the skin, being scurfy and full of yellow Scales. The Person affected with it is well so long as it continues, but after its disappearing there follows a slight sickness, and the Urine looks troubled and yellow. It is cured with the same Remedies that are prescrib'd for a confir­med Itch. Let the Patient drink Wine, and feed upon Meats of easy digestion.

Let a Vein be open'd in the Arm, and nine or ten ounces of blood taken away. The next [Page 24] day let the common purging Potion be exhi­bited.

Take of the Roots of Marsh-mallows and Lillies, of each one ounce; Leaves of Mallows, Elder, and Base Mullein, Flowers of Cammo­mil, and Melilot, Tops of St. Johns-wort and Lesser Centory, of each one handful; Lin-seed, Fennyreek seed, of each half an ounce. Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to three pounds; strain out the Liquor, and when you use it add to every pound two ounces of Spirit of Wine. Dip pieces of Woollen Cloth in this Decoction, and having squeez'd them, apply them hot twice every day, anointing the part affected after fomentation, with the following mixture.

Take half a pound of Spirit of Wine; Treacle of Andromachus two ounces, powder of Long Pepper and Cloves, of each two drams. Make a Mixture, in which dip a piece of Brown Pa­per and wrap about the part affected.

If the first Letting of Blood be not sufficient, let it be repeated; and if the Disease still con­tinue, the same must be reiterated yet once and again, interposing always one day.

In the days that are free from letting of blood, prescribe a Clyster of Milk with Syrup of Vi­olets, and cooling Emulsions and Juleps.

Take Treacle of Andromachus half a dram, the Electuary de Ovo one scruple, the Root of Vir­ginian [Page 25] Snakeweek in fine powder, fifteen grains; Oriential Bezoar, five grains: with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron pickle, make a Bolus, to be taken at the time of going to bed one and twenty days together, drinking after it six spoonfuls of this Julep.

Take of Carduus Benedictus water, six ounces, distill'd Treacle water, Plague water, of each two ounces; Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers, one ounce: mix and make a Julep.

Let the Patient drink every morning half a pint of warm Posset, and sweat an hour after it.

This course being ended, if the Pimples still remain, let the parts affected be anointed with the following Liniment.

Take of the Ointment of sharp-pointed dock, two ounces; Pomate, one ounce; Flowers of Brimstone, three drams; Oleum Rhodij, half a scruple: make a Liniment.

But these Remedies ought not to be used, till the Patients Body hath been first duely prepar'd by letting of Blood and Purging.

The Quinsy doth most frequently occur be­twixt the Spring and Summer. The first assault of the Fever is seconded by a pain and inflama­tion of the Jaws; which together with the swel­ling of the Uvula, Tonsils and Laryux, renders the sick person unable either to swallow or breath.

Let a Vein be opened in the Arm, and a great quantity of Blood taken away. Let the [Page 26] inflam'd parts be touch'd with Honey of Roses, impregnated to a very high degree of acidity with Spirit of Vitriol, or of Sulphur, or with Spirit of Vitriol alone. Presently after let the following Gargarism be prescribed, to be used, not after the usual manner, but held in the mouth, without any agitation, till it grow hot, and then spit out, and ever and anon repeated.

Take Plantain water, Rose water, and Frogs Sperm water, of each four ounces; the Whites of three Eggs, by shaking reduc'd into water; Sugar-candy three drams: Mix and make a Gargarism.

Let the cooling Emulsion prescribed for the Pleurisy be daily used.

Next morning, unless the Fever and Diffi­culty of Swallowing be abated, the Letting of Blood must be repeated, and the Purgation de­lay'd till the day after, which otherwise ought to have been attempted with some lenitive Me­dicine.

If after all the Disease doth continue (which happens very rarely) both the Letting of Blood and Purging must be reiterated. Let a large and sharp Blistering Plaister be applied to the hinder part of the Neck after the first Letting of Blood.

Every day that is free from Purging, let a cooling and softning Clyster be injected in the morning. Let the Patient use a thin Diet, and abstain from his Bed every day for some hours.

In all these Fevers which I call intercurrent, as also in that of the present constitution, it is diligently to be observed, that the sick person must abstain from his Bed a great part of the [Page 27] day, and that he must feed upon Barley or Oat-meal Broths, and such like things, and use small Beer hopp'd, and Milk and Water for his or­dinary Drink.

They chiefly invade Children. The first day they are taken with a chilness and shivering, and grow hot and cold by turns. The second day the Fever is perfected, and the following Symp­toms appear. Vehement Sickness, Thirst, want of Appetite, the Tongue is white (but not dry) a little Cough, heaviness of the Head and Eyes, and an inclination to sleep, a humour perpetual­ly dropping from the Nose and Eyes, which tears are a most certain sign of the Measles. As also sneezing, swelling of the Eye-lids a little before the Eruption, Vomiting, a Diarrhaea or Loosness, Greenness of the Excrements, espe­cially in Children that are breeding Teeth. The Symptoms increase till the fourth day, in which (and sometimes in the fifth) the Forehead and Face begin to be marked with little red specks, not unlike to Flea-bitings, which being after­wards augmented both in bigness and number, run together in clusters, and stain the face with great red spots, that are made up of small pushes raised, so little above the Skin, that you can hardly perceive the protuberancy of them with your Eye, though you may feel it by slightly touching them with your Fingers.

From the Face, where at the first they only appear, they spread themselves over the Breast, Belly, and last of all the Legs, in which parts [Page 28] they are broad and red, and rise not above the surface of the skin. After the Eruption of the Measles the symptoms are not mitigated, as in the Small-pox. The Vomiting indeed ceases, but the Fever, Cough and Difficulty of Breath­ing are increased, and the defluction upon the Eyes, the drowsiness and dejection of Appetite still continue. On the sixth day or thereabout, the Forehead and Face grow rough, the wheals dying away, and the upmost skin being broken, in the rest of the Body the spots appear very broad and red. About the eighth day these in the Face vanish, and scarcely are there any to be seen in the rest of the Body. The day fol­lowing they disappear entirely, leaving behind them certain mealy scales in the Face and Limbs, and sometimes over all the Body; and at this time the Fever, Cough, and difficulty of Breath­ing increase. In adult persons that are kept hot, the spots grow first livid and then black.

Take of the Pectoral Decoction, a pound and a half; Syrup of Violets,, and of Maiden-hair, of each an ounce and a half: mix and make an Apozem. Dose three or four ounces, three or four times in the day.

Take of Oil of sweet Almonds, two ounces; Syrup of Violets, and of Maiden-hair, of each an ounce; White Sugar-candy, as much as suf­ficeth: mix and make an Eclegma, to be taken often licking, especially when the Cough is troublesome.

Take of Black, Cherry water, three ounces; Syrup of Meconium, one ounce: mix them for a Draught, which is to be taken every night, from the beginning to the end of the Disease, [Page 29] augmenting or lessening the Dose according to the Age of the Patient.

Let the sick persons keep their Beds two days, after the first Eruption of the spots.

If after the disappearing of the Measles, they be succeeded by a Fever, difficulty of Breathing and other Symptoms counterfeiting a Peripneu­monia, in such a case a Vein in the Arm is to be opened and a great quantity of Blood taken away, once, twice or thrice, as the occasion shall re­quire, interposing always a convenient space of time betwixt. Let the Patient also continue the use of the Pectoral Decoction above described as also of the Lohoth, or Oil of Sweet Almonds by it self. And about the twelfth day from the first beginning of the Disease, let him be purg'd with a Lenitive Medicine.

The Diarrhaea or Looseness, that comes af­ter the Measles, is cured by letting of Blood.

They are of two kinds, the Distinct and Run­ning Pox. The first at the beginning are at­tended with Chilness and Shivering, intense Heat, vehement pain of the Head and Back, dis­position to Vomit; in Adult persons, with a great propension to Sweat (from whence you may gather that they will not run together), a pain under the hollow part of the Breast, if it be prest with the Hand, Dulness and Sleepiness, and sometimes Epileptic Fits (especially in Chil­dren) which if they come after the breeding of Teeth is over, you may foretel that the Small Pox is at hand; insomuch that if the Epileptic [Page 30] Fit happens over night, the Pocks will shew themselves next morning, and are for the most part of a mild sort, and very rarely run together. On the fourth day inclusively from the begin­ning, and sometimes later, but rarely sooner, the Pocks break out, at which time the symp­toms either abate, or entirely disappear. At the first, Reddish Pushes appear scattered over the Face, Neck, Breast and the whole Body; then comes a Pain in the Jaws, which increaseth as the Pocks rise higher. About the eighth day from the first invasion of the Disease, the inter­vals between the Pimples, which were hitherto white, begin to be red and swoln, and affected with a distending Pain; the Eye-lids swell, and like blown Bladders cover the Eyes. Next af­ter the Face the Hands swell, and the Fingers are distended; the Pocks in the Face which be­fore were smooth and red, now appear rough (which is the first sign of maturation) and whitish: Moreover they cast forth a yellowish Juice, in colour not unlike a Honey-comb. The Inflamation of the Face and Hands being now at the height, the intervals between the Pimples appear of a florid colour, like that of Damask Roses, and the more benign the Pocks are, so much the more lively do both they, and the skin between them express that colour. The Pim­ples in the Face grow still rougher nnd yellower as they grow riper; but in the Hands and the rest of the Body, they daily grow whiter and less rough. The eleventh day the Swelling and In­flammation abates, and the Pocks being arriv'd at their due maturity and bigness (which equals that of the greater sort of Pease) wither and fall [Page 31] off. On the fourteenth or fifteenth they perish entirely; but they in the Hands are of a more obstinate nature; and being still white and fresh they continue a day or two longer, after which they break; whilst these that are in the Face and the rest of the Body fall off in Scales, which in the Face are succeeded by Holes or Pits. Du­ring the whole course of the Disease, the Belly is either quite constipated, or very rarely per­forms its Office. The greatest part of those to whom this Disease proves mortal, die on the eighth day in the Distinct, and on the eleventh in the Running Kind. For when, in the first sort of Pocks, Sweating is promoted with Cordials or a hot Regimen, on the foremention'd day, the Face, which should be swoln and inflam'd in the distances between the Pimples, on the con­trary appears flaccid and whitish; whilst in the mean time the Pocks are red and high, and even continue to be so after Death: That Sweat also, which had hitherto flow'd abundantly, suddenly disappears: The Sick Person becomes light-headed, vehemently sick and anxious, tosseth his Body, pisseth little and often, and within a few hours expires.

In the Running kind the Symptoms are the same, but more violent: The Fever (for exam­ple) Anxiety, Sickness, Disposition to vomit, &c. do more cruelly torment the diseased Per­son; but there is not the same propension to sweat, as in the other kind. A Looseness some­times comes before the Eruption of the Pocks, and continues a day or two after, which scarce ever happens in the Distinct sort. On the third day, or sooner, rarely later, they break out, and [Page 32] the sooner they appear, the more they run to­gether. Sometimss their Eruption is retarded till the fourth or fifth day, by the violence of some Symptom, such as (for example) a Pain in the Loins, Side or Limbs, counterfeiting the Stone, Pleurisy or Rheumatism, or in the Sto­mach with vehement Sickness and Vomiting. The Symptoms abate not immediately after the coming out of the Pocks, as they do in the other kind; but the Fever and the rest also continue to afflict the sick person many days afterwards. Sometimes they break forth after the manner of Erysipelas, and sometimes like the Measles, but are plainly distinguish'd by the time of the Erup­tion. During the progress of the Disease, they do not rise to any considerable height, but being intangled together in the Face, like red Blisters, they cover the whole Countenance, which swells sooner than in the Distinct kind. Afterward they appear like a white skin glu'd to the Face, and are not much higher than the Surface there­of. The eighth day being past, the white Film grows daily rougher by degrees, and of a brown colour. The Pain in the Skin is more intense, till at last the Scales fall off, which in so cruel a Disease happens not till after the twentieth day. This in the mean time is worthy to be observ'd, that by how much nearer the ripening Pimples approach to a duskish colour, so much more dangerous are they, and disappear more slowly; but the yellower they are, they run the less to­gether and vanish more quickly. After the Film is fallen off there appears no roughness in the Countenance, but it is immediately overspread with mealy Scales of a very corrosive nature, [Page 33] which leave Pits behind them, and oftentimes Scars. Sometimes the Skin of the Shoulders and Back comes off. The Dangerousness of the Disease is to be estimated by the number and frequency of the Pimples in the Face alone. These that are in the Hands and Feet are biggest, and the higher you ascend from the extremities of the Limbs, the lesser and narrower they grow. In adult Persons, Salivation, and a Looseness in Children (tho not so certainly) ac­companies the Running Kind. The Salivation sometimes begins at the time of Eruption, some­times two or three days after, the sick Person spitting at the first a thin matter, which on the eleventh day grows more viscid, and is voided with great difficulty. He is thirsty, hoarse, ex­tremely dull and sleepy; the Cough sometimes surprizes him as he drinks, and the Liquor re­turns through his Nostrils. Then the Salivation usually ceaseth, and unless the Swelling of the Face and Hands now notably beginning, and considerably lasting, supplies its room, the sick person forthwith dies: for though, according to the Genius of the Disease, the Swelling of the Face should abate somewhat on that very day, yet ought it not entirely to disappear till a day or two after. The Diarrhaea surprizes not Children, so early as the Salivation doth Men. In both these Kinds of Small Pox, the Fever reigneth from the beginning to the time of the Eruption, from which to the time of the Maturation of the Pimples it abates, and that being finish'd, vanishes. The Bad Regimen, or Government of the sick Person, occasions di­vers irregular Symptoms; such as the Flacci­dity [Page 34] and falling down of the Pocks, Phrensy, Coma or perpetual Sleepiness, Purple Spots scatter'd between the Pimples, and little black Spots on the Tops of them subsiding in the middle, pissing and spitting of Blood about the beginning of the Disease, suppression of Urine.

The Separation and Febrile Ebullition are transacted in the first three or four days. The Expulsion is perfected in the following days by means of little Abscesses arising in the skin.

Let a Vein be open'd in any of the three first days, and nine or ten ounces of Blood taken a­way; and afterwards exhibit a Vomit of an ounce, or an ounce and a half of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum.

During the first days let the Blood be diluted by frequent draughts of Small Beer hopp'd.

Assoon as all the Pocks are come forth (which is usually the sixth day of the Disease) let an ounce of Syrup of Meconium be given at night, which must afterwards be repeated every night to the tenth day after the invasion. Let the Dose be augmented that night (if the Pocks be of the running kind) to an ounce and an half, and one ounce in the morning, and continued in like manner till the Patient be recovered from his Sickness.

If the Syrup of Meconium do not agree with him, you may substitute Liquid Laudanum in its place, viz. eighteen Drops for an ounce of the Syrup, and five and twenty Drops for an ounce and an half. In the mean while it is to be ob­served, that, if the Quieting Medicine given twice a day be not sufficient to allay the Com­motion (as it oftentimes happens about the end [Page 35] of the Disease, when the Pocks run notably to­gether) in that case it ought to be repeated eve­ry eight hours, or oftner, if need require.

But when the Pocks are distinct, it will suf­fice to exhibit a Composing Draught once every night after the full Eruption, and also in a smaller Dose.

But of whatsoever kind the Pocks are, and in whatsoever time of the Disease a Phrensy su­pervenes, it is altogether necessary to curb the disorderly motion of the Spirits, and therefore if the former Quieting Dose prove ineffectual, it must be repeated again and again, till the tu­mult be wholly asswag'd; interposing always a convenient space between the Doses, that we may be able to discern, whether the last Dose hath already perform'd as much as we desire, before we proceed to exhibit another.

If the Urine be totally supprest, let the sick Person be taken out of his Bed, and made to walk a little.

If the Spittle by reason of the Heat be so tough, that it cannot be expectorated, let a Gar­garism be frequently injected into the Throat with a Syringe. It may be made of Small Beer or Barley Water with Honey of Roses: Or thus.

Take of the Bark of the Elm-tree six drams, Liquorish Roots half an ounce, twenty ston'd Raisins, Red Roses two Pugils; boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half; in which being strained out, dissolve Oxy­mel simple, and Honey of Roses, of each two ounces. Mix them for a Gargarism.

If upon the eleventh, or any other succeeding [Page 36] day, the Secondary Fever, with Unquietness, Tossing of the Body, and such like other Symp­toms, be so fierce and high, that all the Pacific Medicines (how often soever repeated) are not able to put a stop to its Fury, and Death seems to be at hand, let a Vein be immediately open'd, and Blood copiously extracted, viz. to about twelve ounces, and the same once or twice re­peated in the following days, if the considera­tion of the forementioned Symptoms require it, but not otherwise. And in this case, after the Letting of Blood, the Patient may be gently purg'd on the thirteenth, or any other succeeding day, and not before; as for example, let him take an ounce of the Lenitive Electuary, dissol­ved in four ounces of Cichory or Milk Water. But neither the Letting of Blood nor Purging doth forbid the use of Composing Medicines, which (these notwithstanding) ought to be ex­hibited both largely and frequently, if need be: For after all we must constantly have recourse to them in this Disease.

When the Pocks are perfectly dried up, let the Face be anointed with a Liniment made of equal parts of Oil of Sweet Almonds and Po­mate, two days, and no longer.

On the twenty first day of the Disease let a Vein in the Arm be open'd, and the day after let a Purging Medicine be exhibited, and thrice repeated every second day.

As for the Government of the sick Person, let him abstain from his Bed till the sixth day after the first Invasion of the Disease; and after­wards keep his Bed till the seventeenth day, being cover'd only as he was wont to be, when in health.

Let him feed upon Oat-meal and Barley Broths, boil'd Apples, and Small Beer, and af­ter the eleventh day, let him drink if he pleases, foor or five spoonfuls of Spanish Wine, twice every day.

If the Swelling in the Legs yield not to the Evacuations above prescrib'd, it may be easily driven away with Fomentations of Mallows, Base Mullein, Elder, and Laurel Leaves, with Flowers of Chamomil, and Melilote, boiled in Milk.

If during the first days of the Disease the Pa­tient spit or piss blood, let the Powder and Tincture, prescribed in the Chapter of Spitting Blood, be carefully exhibited every sixth hour, till these Symptoms entirely disappear. In which case also large Doses of Composing Me­dicines must be given.

'Tis a sort of Convulsion, that infests Children from ten years old to the Age of Puberty. It is known by their Limping, or by the instability of one of their Legs, which they draw after them, after the manner of Fools. If the Hand of the same side be laid upon the Breast, or any other part of the Body, they cannot keep it a moment in the same posture, but it will be distorted by the Convulsion into another situa­tion and place, whatsoever efforts they make to the contrary. Before one of these can put a Cup to his Mouth, he useth a thousand ridiculous Gestures, and Jugler-like Tricks: For he doth not bring it to his mouth in a straight line, but, [Page 38] his Hand being strangely drawn aside by the Convulsion, he tosses it a good while hither and thither, till at last as it happens to come near to his Lips, he suddenly throws the Liquor into his mouth, and greedily swallows it down, as if he intended to make Sport to the Spectators.

Let eight ounces of Blood be taken away, more or less, according to the Age of the Patient, by opening a Vein in the Arm.

The day following let him take one half of the Common Purging Potion, or somewhat more, with respect to his Age, and at night the following draught.

Take Black Cherry water one ounce, Langius his Epileptic water three drams, Treacle of Andromachus one scruple, liquid Laudanum eight drops for a draught.

Let the purging Potion, with the pacific draught at night, be thrice repeated every se­cond day.

Afterwards let more Blood be taken away, and the purging Potion repeated as before, re­iterating in this wise the letting of Blood and Purgation, to a third or fourth time, and al­lowing always a convenient respite between the Evacuations, that the Patient be not expos'd to any danger.

In the days that are free from Purgation, pre­scribe as follows:

Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood, and of the yellow part of an Orenge, of each one ounce; Conserve of Rosemary flowers, half an ounce; old Treacle of Andromachus, and pre­serv'd Nutmeg, of each three drams; preserv'd Ginger one dram; with as much as sufficeth [Page 39] of syrup of the juice of Citron make an Ele­ctuary. Dose as much as a Nutmeg in the morning, and at five a clock in the afternoon, drinking after every Dose five spoonfuls of the following Wine.

Take of the Roots of Peony, Elicampane, Masterwort and Angelica, of each one ounce; Leafs of Rue, Sage, Betony, Germainder, white Horehound, and the tops of lesser Cen­tory, of each a handful; Juniper Berries six drams; the Pills of two Orenges. Let all be slic'd and infus'd cold in three quarts of Canary Wine. When you use it, strain out so much as you intend to drink.

Take of Rue water four ounces; Laugius his Epileptic water, and compound Bryony water, of each one ounce; Syrup of Peony six drams; mix and make a Julep. Dose four spoonfuls every night at the time of going to Bed, with eight drops of the spirit of Hartshorn.

Let a Plaister of Caranna be apply'd to the soles of the Feet.

The next year, about the same time of the year that the Disease first appear'd, let a Vein be again open'd, and a purging Medicine exhibited some days, for prevention of a Relapse.

It seemeth probable to me, that the Falling Sickness in adult persons might be cur'd by this method, which nevertheless I have not yet ex­perienc'd. But since it is accommodated to the tender Ages of those that are wont to be infest­ed by Saint Vitus his Dance, if it be apply'd to the Cure of Epilepsies in persons grown up, both the quantity of the Blood that is to be ta­ken [Page 40] away, and the Doses of the purging Medi­cines ought to be augmented.

It consists in a most profound Sleep, and total privation of Sense and Motion, excepting only Respiration, which is still perform'd, but with difficulty and snoring.

Let a Vein be instantly opened in the Arm, and twelve ounces of Blood taken away, and afterwards eight ounces more out of the Jugu­lars. Immediately after exhibit a Vomit or an ounce and an half, or two ounces, of the infu­sion of Crocus Metallorum.

Let a large and sharp blistering Plaster be applied to the hinder part of the Neck.

While these things are doing, let the sick per­son sit upright in his Bed, not oppressed with too great a burthen of Cloaths.

Let Spirit of Sal Armoniac, excellently recti­fied, be held to his Nose.

After the operation of the Vomit is finished, let three or four spoonfuls of the following Julep be from time to time exhibited.

Take Rue water four ounces; compound Bryony water, and Langius his Anti-epileptic wa­ter, of each one ounce; Spirit of Hartshorn twenty drops; Sugar-candy, as much as sufficeth: make a Julep.

Or a spoonful of compound Spirit of Laven­der, may be given twice or thrice by it self, du­ring the Fit, interposing the space of an hour, or half an hour, betwixt the Doses.

Observe heedfully, that Cordials ought not to be exhibited too frequently, and such as are too hot not at all, as it is the custom to do: For, after all, whatever specific vertue they may seem to be endued withal, they do more mischief than good, by melting the humors, and conse­quently augmenting the Disease. which incon­venience also is no less occasion'd, by too great a burthen of Cloaths.

After the Paroxysm is over, to prevent a Re­lapse, let these things be prescribed.

Take of the pill Cochiae the greater, two scruples for a Dose, to be repeated six times every third day, at Four of the clock in the morn­ing, sleeping after them.

Take Conserve of Sage Flowers, and of Rose­mary Flowers, of each one ounce; Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge six drams; pre, served Nutmeg, and preserved Ginger of each half an ounce; old Treacle of Andromachus two drams; the powders of the Electuaries Diambrae, and Diamoschu Dulcis, of each one dram; with a sufficient quantity of the syrup of Citron pickle make an Electuary. Dose as much as a Ches­nut, every morning and evening, drinking after it two spoonfuls of Langius his Epileptic water.

Take of Ambergris half a dram; the distill'd Oils of Anise-seed, Cinnamon and Nutmeg, of each two drops; Oil of Cloves one drop. Su­gar dissolv'd in Orenge-flower water as much as sufficeth to make Tablets according to Art; Let the Patient eat one at his pleasure.

Let him abstain from all manner of strong Drink, and eat Broths made of Barley, Oats, [Page 42] or of Chickens; and sometimes even the flesh of Chickens and Lambs, and such like Meats of easie digestion, especially while purging Medi­cines are exhibited.

It is manifest of it self, Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of a Vein in the Arm, and the common purging Potion exhibited the next day, and repeated two days after, and once more reiterated after a like interval of time. The same Nights let the Patient take a quieting draught of an ounce of the Syrup of Me­conium.

Also let him drink four ounces of an emul­sion of the greater cold Seeds and white poppy Seed three or four times every day that is free from purgation.

Take of Plantain water, Red-Rose water, and Frogs sperm water, of each one ounce; Powder of prepar'd Tutty one dram. Make a mixture. Pour a few drops of it into the Eye twice every day, beginning after the first purga­tion.

If the Disease do not yield to these Reme­dies, the Letting of Blood (especially if it ap­pear pleuritic) and Purging must be repeated yet twice more.

Let the Patient abstain from the use of Wine, and all sorts of strong Liquors; from Meats also that are salt and hard of digestion; and drink milk and water boil'd, all the days that are free from purgation.

Note, that it often happens, that the setting of Blood and purging, how often soever re­peated, are still found to be ineffectual. In this case a composing draught of an ounce of Syrup of Meconium exhibited every night, perfects the Cure, without the help of any other Re­medy.

Take of the Bark of an Oak two ounces; boil it in four quarts of Spring water till one half be consum'd; adding (towards the end) the Rind of a Pomgranate beaten, one ounce; Red Roses and Pomgranate Flowers, of each two handfuls; then add half a pint of Red Wine. Let the part affected be fomented with woollen Cloth dipt in the Liquor that is strain'd out, two hours before the Patient rise every morning and at night when she is in her Bed, till the Symptom disappear.

The Signs are these: A fix'd pain in the Re­gion of the Loins, bloody Urine, the voiding of Sand or Stones, the numness of the Leg on the side of the affected Kidney, the retraction of the Testicle of the same side where the pain is felt, a queasiness of Stomach, and vomiting. There is a near resemblance between this Dis­ease and the Colick, but they differ in some Symptoms, an account of which you may read in the Chapter, Of the Bilious Colick.

If the Patient be of a sanguine Constitution, [Page 44] let ten ounces of Blood be taken from the Arm answering to the affected Kidney; then let a Gallon of Posset, in which two ounces of the Roots of Marshmallows have been boll'd, be hastily swallow'd down, and the following Cly­ster injected.

Take of the Roots of Marshmallows and Lillies, of each one ounce; the Leafs of Mal­lows, Wall-Flower, Brank-Ursine, and Cha­momil Flowers, of each one handful; Linseed, and Fenngreek-seed, of each half an ounce: Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to a Pint and an half. Make a Clyster. After the rejection of the Vomit and Clyster, let a large Dose of Liquid Laudanum be exhibited, viz. to five and twenty drops, or 15 or 16 grains of Matthew's Pills.

If the Patient be an old Man, or one that is much weaken'd by the long continuance of the Disease, or an old Woman subject to Vapours, (especially if at the beginning of the Paroxysm she void black and gravelly Urine) then omit the letting of Blood, but in all other things proceed according to the method above de­scrib'd.

There is first a chilness and shivering, then an universal Heat all over the Body, which is shortly follow'd by Gripings of the Guts, and these by a frequent voiding of slimy matter (on­ly sometimes some Stools of natural Excrements are interlac'd) with tormenting pain, and as it were a descending of all the Entrals, with which [Page 45] the sick person is miserably afflicted as often as he goeth to Stool. In the mean while the mat­ter that is evacuated, is intermixt with streaks of Blood; though sometimes not the least mixture of Blood doth appear during the whole course of the Disease. In an advanc'd Dysentery some­times pure Blood is voided, and the Entrals affected with an incurable Gangrene. When the sick Person is in the prime of his age, or heated by the use of Cordials, he is taken with a high Fever, his Tongue is somewhat white, cover'd all over with a certain thick slime, sometimes black and dry. The strength of the Body is overthrown, the Spirits are dissipated, and the inward parts of the Mouth and Throat ulcera­ted, more especially when the evacuation of the peccant matter is unseasonably stopt by astringent Medicines, before that which nou­risheth the Disease is expell'd by purgation. Sometimes the Dysentery comes without a Fe­ver, and the Gripings of the Guts leading the Dance, the rest of the Symptoms follow.

In a Diarrhaea, Excrementitious Humours are voided without Blood, or the ulceration of the Entrals.

In a Tenesmus, there is a perpetual desire to go to Stool, yet nothing is evacuated but a little bloody or purulent Slime.

Let a Vein be opened in the Arm as soon as may be, the same night a composing draught exhibited, and the next morning the common purging Potion, which must be repeated to two other Doses every second day, as also the pa­cific draught after the operation of the purging [Page 46] Medicine is over; but in the intermediate days let it be given morning and evening.

After the Patient hath been let Blood, and once purged, through the whole course of the Disease, let the following Cordial be exhibi­ted.

Take of Black-cherry Water, Strawberry Water, of each three ounces; Plague Water, Compound Scordium Water, and Barley Cin­namon Water, of each one ounce; prepared Pearl, one dram and an half; Sugar-candy, as much as shall suffice; add half an ounce of Da­mask Rose Water, to give the Julep a grateful relish. Let the Patient drink four or five spoon­fuls of it, in case of fainting, or at his plea­sure.

Let his ordinary Drink be Milk boiled with a treble quantity of Water, or the white De­coction, thus:

Take of Harts-horn burnt, and Crums of a white Loaf, of each two ounces; make a De­coction in three Pints of Spring Water to two, and sweeten it with a sufficient quantity of the best white Sugar. Or if the Feebleness of the Patient require it, boil two Pints of Spring Water with half a Pint of Canary Wine for his ordinary Drink, to be taken cold.

After he hath been thrice purged, the whole Cure-depends upon the use of Laudanum, repeat­ed twice or thrice every day, only let a Clyster of half a Pint of Cows Milk, and an ounce and an half of Treacle of Andromachus be now and then injected, which is of excellent use in fre­quent Evacuations.

When the Flux of the Belly riseth no higher than a Diarrhaea, omit the letting of Blood and Purging, and prescribe the following Bolus to be taken every morning.

Take of Rheubarb in Powder, half a dram, (more or less, according to the Patient's strength) with a sufficient quantity of Diascor­dium make a Bolus, to which add two drops of Chymical Oil of Cinnamon.

Let a composing draught of an ounce of Bar­ley Cinnamon Water, and 14 drops of liquid Laudanum be exhibited every night.

If the sick Person be tormented with dry Gripings, voiding nothing, they are cured by washing with Whey, (being drunk cold, and injected warm) as in the Disease called the Cholera, with Chicken Broth or Posset.

If this Disease last long, so that all the force thereof fall upon the strait Gut, with a per­petual desire to go to Stool, let a restorative Diet be prescribed, and some cordial Liquor to be drunk at pleasure, that the Patient's strength may be re established, which returning, the Te­nesmus instantly vanisheth.

Sometimes it falls out, that after a Dysentery hath been ill cured, the sick Person is for some years troubled with tormenting Pains; but by the repeated letting of Blood, he may be resto­red to his former health.

Note, that in such Constitutions of the Air as are less favourable to this Distemper, omit­ting all Evacuations, it is cured by the alone use of Laudanum, repeated every morning and even­ing, till the Symptoms wholly disappear; or, if need be, thrice in 24 hours.

It is a most fierce Pain in the Guts, which be­gins with a Fever that lasts a few hours. Either it wrings them, as if they were girt with a Swa­thing-Band; or being contracted into a Point, bores them as it were with an Awger. Some­times it grants a Truce, but presently returns to the Assault. At the beginning it is not so cer­tainly fixed in any one Point, there is not so fre­quent a desire to vomit, nor doth the Belly so stubbornly resist the force of purging Medi­cines; but by degrees, as the Pain is augmented, it is also more obstinately fixed in a Point, the desire to vomit grows more troublesom and fre­quent, and the Belly more costive, till at last the Colic degenerates into the Iliac Passion.

It is thus distinguished from the Stone in the Kidneys. 1. The Pain of the Stone is fixed in one of the Reins, and from thence is stretched out to the Testicle, according to the length of the Ureter. But the Pains of the Colic are more unconstant and moveable, compassing about the middle of the Belly as with a Girdle. 2. The Colical Pains are increased after eating; but the Nephritical, or Pains of the Stone, are rather mitigated. 3. In the Colic, the voiding of Excrements gives greater ease than in the Stone. 4. The Urine of those that are troubled with the Stone, is at the beginning of the Pa­roxysm clear and thin, afterwards there appears some Sediment, and at last Sand or little Stones are voided: whereas in the Colic, the Urine is thick from the beginning.

Let a considerable quantity of Blood be ta­ken out of one of the Arms, and three or four hours after an Anodyne exhibited: the next day give a lenitive Purge, to be repeated every other day to two Doses more.

But if the Disease was occasioned by gour­mandizing, or by soon perishing Fruits, then first of all the Stomach ought to be washed with great and frequent draughts of Posset, and after that is done an Anodyne given; the next day order a Vein to be opened, and afterwards proceed in the method above prescribed.

When this Disease, having been unskilfully handled, hath continued very long, and the sick persons have been reduced to extreme Feeble­ness by it, the liberal drinking of either Plague Water, Aqua Mirabilis, or any other with which they were wont to be most delighted while they were in health, hath helped them beyond all ex­pectation.

It contains it self within the Bounds of the Month of August, and scarcely maketh any Ex­cursions into the first Weeks of September. There is a Disease like unto it, occasioned by Surfeit­ing and Gluttony; which tho it be cured after the same manner, is yet of another Form. The Signs are enormous Vomiting, and the voiding of corrupt Humours by Stool; with great Trouble and Difficulty; Vehement Pain, Swel­ling up and Distension of the Belly and Entrals; Gnawing at the Heart or Stomach, Thirst; the Pulse quick, frequent, small and unequal; Heat [Page 50] and Anxiety; a most troublesom Nauseousness or Loathing, Sweating, Contractions of the Legs and Arms, Swooning, Coldness of the Ex­treme Parts, and such like Symptoms, which kill the sick person in the space of 24 hours.

Let a tender Chicken be boiled in about three Gallons of Spring Water, that there be scarce any taste of Flesh perceivable in the Liquor, and let the sick person swallow down several large Cups of this Decoction lukewarm, or (for want of it) of Posset, whilst in the mean time Clysters of the same Liquor are successively in­jected. And an ounce of the Syrups of Let­tuce, Violets, Purslain, and Water-Lillies, or any of them, may be now and then mixed both with the Draughts and Clysters.

The Business of Washing being finished, which requires the space of three or four hours, a composing Medicine puts an end to the Cure.

When the Physitian is not called till after the Patient is utterly spent and enfeebled by the Evacuations, and the extreme parts are already cold, recourse must immediately be had to li­quid Laudanum, and that in a large Dose, ( viz. 25 drops of it in an ounce of Cinnamon Wa­ter) which even after the ceasing of the Sym­ptoms ought still to be repeated, but in a lesser Dose, till the sick Person be restored to his for­mer health.

There is a sort of Cholera, that usually trou­bleth Children, and is often fatal to them, which is occasioned by their Breeding of Teeth, or Surfeiting.

Their tender Age will not bear the washing of their Stomach with large Draughts of Li­quors, [Page 51] much less the raising of a greater tumult in the Humours by purging Medicines; and therefore the whole Cure is to be committed to the use of Laudanum. Let two, three, four, or more drops of it, according to the Age of the Child, be exhibited in a Spoonful of Small Beer, or some convenient Water, and repeated as the occasion shall require.

'Tis a kind of Colic that usually degenerates into a Palsy, and a total loss of motion in the Hands and Feet; which under this name is mentioned by Riverius in his Chapter of the Palsy, and is very well known in the Carribee Islands, where multitudes of People are infested by it.

This most cruel Pain is cured with Balsam of Peru exhibited frequently and in great Doses, thus, Pour 20, 30, or 40 drops of it into a Spoonful of the finest white Sugar, and give it twice or thrice in the day. But the Palsy yields not to this Remedy.

The Peristaltic Motion of the Guts is in­verted; purging Medicines and Clysters do im­mediately become Vomits; the Excrements of the Belly are voided by the Mouth.

Let nine or ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the right Arm. After some hours, exhibit the following Powder.

Take of Rosin of Scammony, or (in de­fault of that) Rosin of Jalap twelve Grains; Torquets Calomel one Scruple; mix and make a Powder, to be taken in a Spoonful of Cows Milk, drinking after it one or two Spoonfuls of the same Milk; or if the Form of Pills be more acceptable to the Patient,

Take of the Pills de duobus half a dram; Calomel one scruple: with a sufficient quantity of Balsam of Peru, make four Pills, to be taken in a Spoonful of Syrup of Violets.

After the Operation of the Purge is ended, let the Patient take the following Draught.

Take of strong Cinnamon Water one ounce, liquid Laudanum 25 drops: mix them for a Draught, which must afterwards be repeated twice, thrice, or oftner every day, till the Vo­miting and Pain be asswaged: and even after they disappear, for the Confirmation of the Cure, let the Patient continue the use of the same Composing Draught for some time, when he goes to Bed, but in a lesser Dose.

The Monthly Courses of a Woman flowing naturally, may fill the Capacity of the Shell of a Goose-egg. The immoderate Flux of them is known by the Patient's ill-bearing or uneasi­ness under it, by the failing of her Strength, want of Appetite, ill Habit of Body, ghastly colour of Face, like that of a dead Carkass, and swel­ling of the Feet.

Let a Vein be opened in the patient's Arm, [Page 53] and eight ounces of Blood taken away. The next morning let her take the common purging Potion, and repeat it every other day to two Doses more, drinking at night after every Purgation a composing draught of Syrup of Meconium.

In the intermediate Days let her take that which follows.

Take of Conserve of dry Roses two ounces; Troches of Lemnian Earth one dram and an half; Rind of Pomgranates, Red Coral prepa­red, Bole Armenick, of each two Scruples; Blood-stone and Dragons Blood, of each one Scruple: with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary; of which let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the morning, and at five a clock in the afternoon, drinking after it six Spoonfuls of the following Julep.

Take of the Water of Oak-buds and Plan­tane, of each three ounces; Barley, Cinnamon Water, and Syrup of dried Roses, of each one ounce; Spirit of Vitriol as much as sufficeth to give it a grateful sharpness.

Take of the Leafs of Plantane and Nettles, of each a convenient quantity. Beat them to­gether, and press out the Juice, of which being clarified, let her take four or five Spoonfuls now and then at her pleasure.

After the first Purgation, let the following Plaister be apply'd to the Region of the Loins.

Take of Vermilion plaister, and the plaister for a Rupture, of each an equal quantity. [Page 54] Spread them on a piece of Leather, for a plaister to be applied to the Region of the Loins.

It is a certain kind, or rather a very notable and usual Symptom of the Hysterical Disease, which is accompany'd with a most sharp pain about the pit of the Breast, and vomiting of green Humours.

First, that the glut of the corrupt Humours lodged in the Stomach may not obstruct the effi­cacy of the quieting Medicine, let a large quan­tity of posset (as for example a Gallon and an half) be swallowed down, and cast forth again by vomiting. After which, exhibit 25 drops of liquid Laudanum in an ounce of strong Cinnamon Water, plague Water, or any other convenient Vehicle.

Concerning the use of the composing Medi­cine, it is to be observed, that they ought to be constantly repeated, till the Symptoms wholly disappear, interposing a convenient space be­tween the Doses, that so we may be able to judge of the effect of one, before another be exhibi­ted.

If the patient be of a sanguine Constitution, nor hath been formerly subject to this Sym­ptom, or weakned by it, then let a Vein be first opened, before the use of the prescribed Vo­mit.

The Disease called, The Hysterical Clavus, is al­so cured by the same method.

But if the Hysterical Colic continue a great [Page 55] while, and come by Fits, then let the following things be given in the Intervals between the paroxysms.

Take a Dram of Zedoary reduced to fine powder, and make a Bolus with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron pickle, to be taken every morning and evening for 30 days together, drinking the following Infusion after it.

Take half an ounce of Zedoary cut into small pieces, Infuse it cold in four ounces of Canary Wine, and after it hath stood twelve hours, strain it for your use. Or take Balsam of Peru, as it is prescribed in the Chapter of the Colic of the people of Poictiers.

What is here said of the Hysterical Colic, ought to be applied to the Hypochondriacal Colick. And this also is to be heedfully ob­served.

The nature of both these Distempers seems in a peculiar manner to require, that we should essay several Medicines, till that at last be found out to which the Disease naturally yields: tho for the most part Steel is in this case most effectual.

This kind of Colic, both in Hypochondriacal and Hysterical persons, doth often degenerate into the Jaundice, which by degrees vanisheth of it self: But if it continue long, let the follow­ing Apozem be exhibited.

Take of the Roots of Madder, (such as Dy­ers use) Turmerick, of each one ounce; greater Celandine (the whole plant) Tops of lesser Centory, of each one handful. Boil them in equal parts of Rhenish Wine and Spring Water [Page 56] to a Quart. In the strained Liquor dissolve two ounces of the Syrup of the five Roots. Make an Apozeme. Dose half a pint warm every morning and evening, till the patient re­cover.

It is known by the following Signs: a yel­low colour of the whole Body, with which al­so all Objects appear ting'd to the sick persons, and it is chiefly conspicuous in the White of the Eyes; an Itching, Laziness and Weariness; Bitterness of the Tongue, sometimes cholerick Vomitings, Hiccoughs, White Excrements: the Urine is of a Saffron colour, and dyeth Cloths that are dipt therein of the same colour.

Exhibit the common purging potion; and then prescribe the things that are here subjoin'd, during the use of which, let the purging potion be repeated every fourth day.

Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood; Con­serve of the yellow part of an Orenge, of each one ounce; preserved Angelica, preserved Nut­meg, compound powder of Aron, and Steel pre­pared with Vinegar, of each half an ounce; ex­tract of lesser Centory; extract of Gentian, and Cream of Tartar, of each two drams; English Saffron powdered half a dram; with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the five Roots make an Electuary; of which let the patient take the bigness of a Nutmeg every morning, and at five in the afternoon, (or instead of the Electuary, you may give Chaly­beat, or Steel Pills) drinking after the morning [Page 57] Dose four pints of mineral purging Waters, and half a pint of the Apozeme prescribed in the Chapter of the Hysterical Colic after the Dose that is taken in the afternoon.

But if any Signs of a Dropsy appear, let the patient use the Apozem both in the morning and evening.

But if the obstinacy of the Disease will not be overcome by the long continued use of these Remedies, let the sick person have recourse to the Iron or Spaw Waters, which ought to be drunk at the Fountain head.

Use the same things that are prescribed in the Chapter of the Immoderate Flux of the Courses, omitting only Purgation and the Juices.

There are three things required to constitute a natural flowing of the Loches. First pure Blood flowing copiously for the first three days; then watery Blood, like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed, continuing about four days after; and last of all tough and clammy matter coming forth during the five or six days next following, and so onward to the end of the month.

Now the immoderate Flux of the Loches is to be estimated from the decay of strength; Swooning, the coming forth of clotted Blood; Loathing of Meat, Pain in the Hypochondria, or [Page 58] under the Ribs, Distension of the Belly, a weak and frequent Pulse, Dimness of Sight, Noise in the Ears, and Convulsions.

Let a thickning Diet be prescribed, and the following Potion added.

Take of Plantane Water and Red Wine, of each one pint; boil them together, till a third part be consumed, then sweeten the liquor with a convenient quantity of fine white Sugar, and let the Patient drink half a pint of it cold twice or thrice a day.

In the mean time let some mild Hysterical Julep be now and then exhibited, and the fol­lowing Bag applied to her Nose.

Take of Galbanum and Asa Faetida, of each two drams; Castoreum a dram and an half; Vo­latil Salt of Amber half a dram, mix them, and tie them in a Bag. Or

Take two drams of Spirit of Sal Armoniac, and put it frequently to her Nose.

The Signs are these: A Swelling of the Belly, a heavy Pain in the lower parts of the Belly, the Loins and Groin, redness of Face, difficulty of breathing, perturbation of the Eyes, Shiverings, acute Fevers, Swoonings, Cold Sweats, a Sense of Beating and Burning heat in the Womb, a Palsy of the lower parts, and sometimes an Epilepsy.

Let her be instantly confin'd to her Bed, and the Hysterical Plaister apply'd to her Navel, then prescribe this Electuary.

Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood, and of Rue, of each one ounce; Troches of Myrrh two drams; Castoreum, English Saffron, Vola­til Salt of Amber, Sal Armoniac, and Asa Foeti­da, of each half a dram; Syrup of the five Roots as much as sufficeth to make an Electu­ary, of which let her take the quantity of a Nutmeg every four hours, drinking four or five spoonfuls of the following Julep after it.

Take of Rue water four ounces; compound Bryony water two ounces; Sugar-candy as much as is convenient: Make a Julep.

Or let her take a scruple of Troches of Myrrh every four hours.

If after the prescrib'd quantity of these Reme­dies is consumed, the Loches continue still to be supprest, exhibit only one dose of Laudanum, namely, 14 drops of Laudanum Liquidum in com­pound Bryony water, or one grain and an half of solid Laudanum made up into two Pills with half a scruple of Asa foetida.

If these suffice not, let a Clyster of Sugar'd Milk be only once injected.

This Disease is first known by the Pits or Impression remaining in the lower parts of the Legs, after you have thrust your Finger upon them, which appear conspicuously at night, but vanish in the morning; especially if this sign be accompanied with a difficulty of Breathing; though women with Child, and such as are troubled with a suppression of their Courses, and Men that are suddenly freed from an inveterate [Page 60] Asthma, are also not unfrequently molested with swellings of a like nature. The Feet and Legs being extremely swoln, the Waters rush into the Abdomen, and by degrees filling up its capacity, stretch it forth to the uttermost, till at last fal­ling upon some of the more noble Entrals, the sick person is drowned. As the bulk of the parts affected increaseth, the rest do propor­tionably grow more and more slender. In the mean time there is a difficulty of Breathing, and little Urine is voided. This Disease doth commonly assault Men when they grow old, and Women when they leave off Child-bearing.

The principal Scopes of the Cure are, first the evacuations of the Waters, and then by the restauration and strengthning of the Blood, to prevent the new increase of the Waters.

Take of White-wine, four ounces; Jalap in fine powder, one dram; powder of Ginger, half a Scruple; Syrup of Buckthorn, one ounce; mix them for a Potion, to be taken early in the morning, and repeated every day, or every second day, according to the strength of the Patient, till the Swelling be abated. Or

Take of Tamarinds half an ounce, Senna Leafs two drams, Rheubarb a dram and an half: Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to three ounces; dissolve in the straining, of Manna and loosning Syrup of Roses, of each one ounce; Syrup of Buckthorn, half an ounce; the Electuary of the juice of Roses, three drams: mix them for a Potion, to be taken as above. Or

Take of the Pills ex duobus, one Scruple; Elaterium, three grains; Chymical Oil of Cloves, [Page 61] two drops. Make three Pills, to be taken early in the morning, and repeated as the occasion shall require. Or

Take of Gambugia, fifteen grains; White-wine, and Cichory-water, of each one ounce and an half; Syrup of Buckthorn, half an ounce: mix them for a Potion, to be taken as above. Or

Take three handfuls of the inward Bark of the Elder; boil them in a quart of milk and water equally mixt, to a pint. Let the Patient take one half of the strain'd liquor in the morn­ing, and the other in the evening, every day, till he be restored to his health. But this Remedy is of no efficacy, but only in those Bodies that are very easily moved by purging Medi­cines.

Concerning the use of Purges in this Dis­ease, three things are to be observed.

In the first place consider whether the Body of your Patient, is wont to yield easily or diffi­cultly to purging Medicines. For one ounce of Syrup of Buckthorn being exhibited by it self to such as are easily wrought upon, will evacuate the Waters very copiously; whereas in others, the strongest Purges above prescribed, will hardly produce the desired effect.

Secondly, Such Purges as are of slow opera­tion, do more mischief than good, and therefore such as work strongly, and even too strongly, [Page 62] are always to be preferred before these that are too weak.

Thirdly, The Waters ought to be evacuated with as much haste, as the strength of the Pa­tient can possibly bear; lest by interposing too long Intervals between the several purgations, we give occasion to the Waters to gather a­gain.

There are some Cases in which all purging Medicines, of whatsoever kind they be, may and ought to be wholly omitted. For when the sick person is of a weak constitution, or a Woman subject to Vapours, the Evacuation of the Wa­ters is to be attempted only by Diuretics, or Medicines that provoke Urine, among which the most efficacious are those that are composed of lixivious Salts. For Example:

Take a pound of Brome-ashes, infuse them cold in four pints of Rhenish Wine, strain the liquor through a piece of brown paper, of which let the Patient drink three ounces in the morning, at five in the afternoon, and at night till the Humours be wholly evacuated. Which being performed, let such Medicines as heat and strengthen be exhibited, as for Example:

Take the Roots of Horse-Radish, Leaf of Garden-Scurvy-grass, common Wormwood and Sage, the Tops of lesser Centory and Brome: infuse them in strong Ale for ordinary Drink, which alone doth sometimes cure a beginning Dropsie, without the help of purgin [...] [Page 63] Medicines. Or prescribe that which fol­lows:

Take of the Conserve of Garden-Scurvy­grass, and of Roman Wormwood, of each one ounce; extract of Gentian, of common Worm­wood, and of lesser Centory, of each three drams: with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron Pill, make an Electuary. Dose as much as a large Nutmeg, in the morning, at five a clock in the afternoon, and at night, drink­ing four ounces of the following Infusion af­ter it.

Take of Gentian Roots one ounce, Brome tops, and tops of lesser Centory, and common Wormwood, of each one handful; Seeds of Fennel and Parsley, of each two drams: Chop them small, and pour upon them four pints of Rhenish Wine▪ let them stand together in a cold Infusion, and strain out the Liquor when you use it.

Note, That during the use of these corrobo­rating Medicines, you must in no wise purge the Patient.

Which ought also to be observed, when Lixi­vious Salts are exhibited, during the use of which it is also convenient to give corroborating or strengthning Medicines.

Take of Horse-Radish roots three ounces, Leaves of Garden Scurvy-grass, common Wormwood, and Sage, Brome tops, and tops of lesser Centory, of each three handfuls; three Orenges slic'd. Infuse them in six Gallons of [Page 64] Strong Ale not hopp'd, while it is fermenting. Make use of it for ordinary drink.

It begins with an unusual pain of the Genitals, and a rolling of the Testicles. If the Head, or Nut of the Yard be still covered with the Fore-skin, a spot like a Measle appears on the top of it, immediately after liquid matter, resembling Sperm begins to drops out, which daily re­ceding from the colour and consistence of Seed, at length grows yellow, and of a more dilute colour than the Yolk of an Egg. In the Vene­real Pox, that are risen to a higher degree of virulency, the same is green, and mixt with a watry humour tinged with Blood. The fore­mentioned Wheal at length degenerates into an Ulcer, not unlike the Exulcerations in Chil­dren's Mouths, which daily eateth deeper and wider, the Orifice being beset with a Callus. Those that are circumcised, or have the Nut of the Yard stript bare, are not troubled with an Ulcer therein, but only with the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins. Presently a violent pain is felt in the Yard, as often as it is erected, especially in the night, when the sick person is hot in is Bed, as if it were wrung hard with ones hand. The Yard is bowed by the contraction of the part called the Bridle. To these Signs [Page 65] may be added, Scalding of the Urine, which is scarce perceptible while the Urine is coming forth, but after it is voided, there is a sense of burning through the whole Urethra, chiefly where it ends in the Glans or Nut of the Yard. Sometimes little Excrescences of Flesh hinder the passage of the Urine, and now and then there happens a pain and inflamation of the Scrotum or Cod.

Take of the Mass of the Pills Cochiae the great­er three drams, Extract of Rudius one dram, Rosin of Jalap and Diagridium (or prepared Scammony) of each half a dram, Opobalsamum as much as sufficeth. Make Pills, six out of every dram, of which let the Patient take four every morning, till the Scalding of the Urine, and the yellow colour of the Seed-like matter be much abated. Afterwards let him take them every other day for two weeks together; and at the last twice a week, till the humour wholly cease to drop out.

If the sick Person cannot easily be mov'd by evacuating Medicines, you may now and then interpose the common purging Potion between the Doses of Pills, adding thereto of Syrup of Buckthorn, and the Electuary of the juice of Roses, of each two drams; and if after all, the Cure do not succeed according to your desire, you may exhibit Turbith Mineral, to eight grains for a Dose twice or thrice, at the di­stance of four days; or instead of the Tur­bith,

Take of the Pills ex duobus, half a dram; Mercurius dulcis, one scruple: with a sufficient quantity of Opobalsamum, make four Pills, to be taken early in the morning.

If the Patient utterly dislike this method of Purging, after he hath taken the Pills that are first prescribed, for three days together, let the following Clyster be injected twice every day, namely, in the morning, and at five a clock in the afternoon; but once or twice in a week the Clyster must be omitted, and a purging Medicine prescribed.

Take of the Electuary of the juice of Roses, six drams; Venice Turpentine dissolv'd with the yolk of an Egg, half an ounce: dissolve them in a pint of Barley water, and add to the strain­ing two ounces of the Syrup of Violets; mix them for a Clyster.

Every night let him take 25 drops of Opobal­samum, or Balsam of Mecha in a piece of Su­gar; in default of this, you may substitute Tur­pentine of Cyprus, to the quantity of a Filberd Nut.

Let him use Milk and Water for ordinary Drink, and Small Beer at Meals.

Or you may follow this method.

Take of the Pills ex duobus, half a dram; Opobalsamum, three drops: make three Pills, [Page 67] which are to be taken at four in the morning, sleeping after them, and repeated every second or third day.

In the intermediate days, let the Clyster be­fore described be injected in the morning, and at five in the afternoon.

What method soever you follow, the Patient must be let Blood once or twice about the middle of the Cure. Prescribe also a cooling and thickning Diet, and Medicines that are en­du'd with the same Vertues, as Milk and Wa­ter, Emulsions of the cold Seeds, &c.

If the Yard be swoln,

Take of the Roots of Marshmallows and Lillies, of each one ounce and an half; Leafs of Mallows, Petty Mullein, Elder, Henbane, Cha­momil Flowers, Melilote Flowers, of each one handful; Linseed, and Fenngreek Seed, of each half an ounce: Boil them in Spring-water for a Fomentation, which must be apply'd to the part affected one whole hour twice or thrice a day.

After Fomentation, anoint the part affected with Linseed Oil freshly drawn, then spread a little of the Plaister of Mucilages upon Lambs Skin, and wrap about the swoln Lips of the Prepuce.

But if there be an Ulcer in the Lips of the Fore-skin, or in the Glans that lieth under them, prescribe the following Liniment.

Take of the Ointment Basilicon, six drams; Ointment of Tobacco, two drams; Praecipitate wash'd in Rose-water, and well laevigated, half a dram. Mix and make a Liniment. Let it be apply'd to the Sore upon scrapings of linnen Cloth, always after Fomentation.

If the Scrotum or God be swoln, let a Vein be immediately open'd in the Arm, and the pre­scrib'd Fomentation apply'd to the part affected twice every day, adding to each Fomentation a Spoonful or two of Spirit of French Wine, or instead of it, apply a Cataplasm of Oxycrate and Bean Flower.

In the mean time the purging and cooling Medicines already describ'd, must be given in­wardly.

When by the long continuance of a G [...] norrhaea, or the undue use of astringent or binding Medicines, the Blood is corrupted, the Disease call'd the French Pox doth arise. Bubo's or malignant Botches appear in the Groin. The sick person is afflicted with a pain in the Head, and in the spaces between the Joints, chiefly when he grows hot in his Bed; and divers parts of the Body are cover'd with a Scurf, which is of a yellow colour like a Honey­comb; [Page 69] and the more the Scab is diffus'd, so much the less he is tormented with pain. In the Skull, Legs and Arms, there are bony Excre­scences, Inflamations and Rottenness of the Bones; and in divers parts eating Ulcers, which for the most part appear first in the Jaws, from whence creeping by degrees through the Palat to the cartilaginous part of the Nose, they quickly consume it; and the Nose being thus robbed of its Prop, falls down flat. The Ul­cers, Rottenness and Pain, increasing daily, the Members perish by turns, till at the last the mangled Carkass, already grown burdensom to the living, is buried out of sight.

Take of Hogs-lard, two ounces; crude Quick-silver, one ounce, mix them for a Lini­ment, to be divided into three equal parts, with one of which let the Patient anoint his Arms and Legs, with his own hand, for three nights together.

If within three days after the last anointing, the Salivation doth not begin, let eight Grains of Turbith Mineral be exhibited in Conserve of Red Roses, or (to those that are less robust) one scruple of Mercurius dulcis: Also if the Salivation already begun, grow languid before the total disappearing of the Symptoms, it must be quickned now and then with a like Dose of Mercurius dulcis.

The Salivation ought to be so moderated, that the Patient may spit about four Pints in 24 hours.

But if it rise too high, and be attended with too great an Inflamation, and other Symptoms of that nature, it ought to be represt with purg­ing Medicines, and kept in a due degree of mo­deration.

Immediately after the disappearing of the Symptoms, let the Patient's Shirt, and the Sheets of his Bed be changed, and others put in their room, which must be such as have been formerly used.

If the Patient be troubled with a Diarrhaea or Loosness, (which for the most part happens before the Salivation be much advanced) it ought to be stopt by the use of Liquid Laudanum, still augmenting and repeating the Dose, till it hath produced the desired effect.

If the Mouth be ulcerated, let it be washed with Damask-Rose-water, or Milk and wa­ter mixt, or with the following Deco­ction.

Take of Marshmallow Roots, and cleansed Barley, of each one ounce; Quince-seeds, half an ounce: Boil them in a convenient quantity of wa [...]er to a quart. Mix and make a Garga­rism, which ought to be frequently used.

Let the Diet and Government of the sick Person be the same that is usually prescribed, when purging Medicines are exhibited; but du­ring a few days in the beginning, let him make [Page 71] use of Posset, Barley and Oat-broths, and small Beer warmed.

All these things being rightly performed (though there be no appearance of any Symp­tom left, and the Disease seem to be perfectly cured, yet) to secure the Patient from the danger of a Relapse, let him once in a week take a scruple of Mercurius dulcis, repeating it four or six times, though he should be well enough to walk abroad, and seem to be perfectly recovered.

The Humour that flows out is sometimes white, sometime [...] pale, yellow, green or blackish; it is sometimes sharp and corrosive, and sometimes stinking and of a strong smell. The Flux is accompanied with divers symptoms, as Wanness of Face, a pain in the Back-bone, Want of Appetite, Swelling of the Hands and Feet. If that which comes forth be received upon a Clout, it will manifest the Humor that causes the Flux, after it hath been dried.

Let a Vein be opened in the Arm, and eight ounces of Blood taken away.

Take of the Pills Cochiae the greater two scru­ples, Castoreum two grains, Balsam of Peru three drops; Make four Pills which are to be [Page 72] taken at four a Clock in the morning, sleeping after them, and twice repeated every second or third day, according to the strength of the Pa­tient.

Take of Rue water four ounces, compound Bryony water two ounces, Sugar Candy as much as is sufficient: Make a Julep, of which let he take three or four spoonfuls in every languish­ment. Afterwards let her use the Remedies that are here subjoined.

Take of Treacle of Andromachus one ounce and an half, Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge two ounces, Diascordium half an ounce, preserv'd Ginger, and preserv'd Nutmeg, of each three drams; Compound Powder of Crabs Claws, one dram and a half; the outward Rind of Pomgranates, Roots of Spanish Angelica, Red Coral prepar'd, and Troches of Lemnian Earth, of each one dram; Bole Armenic, two Scruples; Gum Arabic, half a dram: with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of dry'd Roses, make an E­lectuary, of which let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the morning, at five in the af­ternoon, and at night, every day, for a whole month, drinking six Spoonfuls of the following Infusion after every Dose.

Take of the Roots of Elicampane, Master­wort, Angelica, Calamus Aromaticus, of each half an ounce; Leafs of Roman Wormwood, White Horehound, Lesser Centaury, Common Cala­mint, [Page 73] and Sage dry'd, of each one handful; Ju­niper Berries one ounce: let them be chopt small, and infus'd in four Pints of Canary Wine: let them stand in a cold Infusion; strain it only when you use it.

Let her eat Meats of easie digestion, and ab­stain from all sorts of Pot-herbs, and Fruits; and at every Meal drink Spanish Wine.

The Juices that are brought into the Blood being crude and undigested, seek a passage forth through the Urinary Ducts, by which means the strength is by degrees wasted, the Body is melted or dissolved, and as it were the substance of it drain'd out through this Kennel. This Disease is also attended with Thirst, burning Heat of the Bowels, Swelling of the Loins and Haunches, and frequent spitting of frothy Mat­ [...]er.

Prescribe the same things that are com­mended in the Chapter, Of the Whites, the [...]etting of Blood and Purging being only [...]mitted.

The sick Person is tormented with a most intense pain, when he voideth Excrements, the surface of which is also sprinkled with Blood. Sometimes Tumours like Warts lurk inwardly in the Muscle, call'd the Sphincter, or appear in the Brims of the Fundament.

Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the Right Arm.

Take of the Seeds of Melons and Pompions, of each half an ounce; White Poppy Seeds, two drams; five sweet Almonds shell'd. Beat them in a marble Mortar, pouring in gradually of Barley Water above a Pint, Rose Water two drams; fine white Sugar, as much as suffi­ceth. Make an Emulsion according to Art; of which let the Patient take three ounces fre­quently.

Take of Flowers of Brimstone, Powder of Liquorish, and Sage of each one dram: with a sufficient quantity of Lucatella's Balsam, make six Pills out of every dram, of which let him take thrice a day, drinking six spoonfuls of the Emulsion after them.

Take of Frogs Sperm Water, four ounces [Page 75] dissolve in it of Litharge, two drams; Opium, one scruple: Apply a linnen Clout soak'd in a little of this mixture to the part affected; or if the Tumour lurk inwardly, inject three spoonfuls of the same mixture by way of a Clyster.

Let the Patient make use of Water boil'd with Milk, or of Barley Water, for ordinary Drink, and abstain from Flesh. Every night let him take Diacodium.

It is known by the Decay of Strength, a long and copious Flux of Blood, foul colour of the Body tending to a Citron colour, as in the Jaundice. It brings an evil Habit of Body, and afterwards the Dropsie.

The same things are profitable in this Case, that are prescribed in the Chapter, Of the immo­derate Flux of the Courses, omitting only Purga­tion.

Children are usually troubled with the Fal­ing Sickness, either during the first Month, af­ [...]er a Loosness, (in which case Diacodium, to [...]he quantity of a Pepper Corn, dissolved in [Page 76] Saxifrage Water, or Mothers Milk, and exhi­bited, is a most excellent Remedy;) or about the time of their Breeding of Teeth, from the seventh to the tenth Month; it is accompany'd with a Cough, or (which is far worse) with Vomiting and Loosness, the Infant voiding green Excrements, after the manner of Hysterical Women. Sometimes the Fit cometh suddenly, and unawares, distorting the Mouth and Eyes, overspreading the Face with Blackness, and cau­sing convulsive Motions in divers Limbs: And otherwhile the coming of it is signify'd before­hand, by the Contraction of the Fingers into the Fist, and a setled and unusual unmoveableness of the Eyes. The Fits are sometimes long, and sometimes short; sometimes they return at set­times, and otherwhiles observe no certain pe­riod; but when Death is at hand, they come so thick, that they seem to tread upon one anothers heels. If at any time they grant a Truce, the Child remains drowsie, and prone to sleep, till he be rous'd by a new Paroxysm.

Apply a Blistering Plaister as soon as may be to the hinder part of the Neck.

Take of Langius his Epileptic Water, three drams; Liquid Laudanum one, two, or more drops, according to the Age of the Child; Syrup of Peony, one dram: mix them for a Draught, which must be instantly exhi­bited.

Take of Rue Water, three ounces; Langius his Epileptic Water, and compound Bryony Water, of each one ounce; Syrup of Gilli-flowers half an ounce: mix and make a Julep, of which give a spoonful every hour, if the Draught already prescribed hath not discust the Paroxysm.

It is known by the Looseness, Softness, Fee­bleness, Languishment, Laziness, Dulness and unequal nourishment of the parts, viz. the Head is bigger than is meet, the Face fuller and more florid, the fleshy parts beneath the Head pine away, the Joints are possest with Knotty Pro­tuberances, chiefly the Wrists, but the Ankles not so much, the Bones are bowed, especially those of the Legs, and next to them those of the Cubit between the Elbow and Wrist, some­times also the Shoulder and Thigh-bones: the Teeth come forth slowly and with pain, they are loose, black and fall out, the Breast is nar­row toward the sides, and high and sharp before: Other signs are a stuffing of the Abdomen or Paunch, distension of the Hypochondria, or places under the short Ribs, Coughing, faultiness of the Lungs; and an averseness from lying on one side, which happens to be sometimes the Right side, and otherwhiles the Left.

Take of the Leaves of common Wormwood, lesser Centory, White Hore-hound, Germain­der, Scordium, common Calamint, Feverfew, Meadow Saxifrage, St. Johns wort, Golden rod, wild Time, Mint, Sage, Rue, Carduus Benedictus, Penny-royal, Southern-wood, Ca­momil, Tansy, and Lilly of the Valley, all freshly gather'd and chopt, of each one hand­ful; Hogs Lard four pounds, Sheeps Tallow two pounds, Claret wine a quart. Let them stand twelve hours soaking on hot ashes in an earthen Vessel, then boil away the Moisture and afterwards strain them for a Liniment, with which anoint the Belly, and the parts under the short Ribs, and also the Limbs every morning and evening, for thirty or forty days, or till the Child recover.

Take of each of the prescribed Ingredients two handfuls, infuse them cold in four Gallons of Beer not hopp'd, for ordinary drink.

When Tumors possess the Bellies of Chil­dren, caused by excessive Evacuations,

Let the Blood and Bowels be strengthned with corroborating Herbs, as in the Rickets (properly so called); Only let the Armpits be also anointed on both sides, but not the Limbs.

Let two, three, or four Drops of Spir it o Hartshorn, according to the Age of the Child, be exhibited every four hours in a spoonful or two of Black Cherry water, or some other con­venient Julep, repeating it four or six times.

They languish with a notable Heat, and De­jection of Appetite; the Trunk of the Body, and the Limbs are extenuated.

Put two drams of Rheubarb sliced into a Glass Bottle capable of containing a Quart of Small Beer, for ordinary Drink: and after it is drunk up, pour upon the same Rheubarb ano­ther Quart of Beer, and so a third time.

But if the Drink be too strongly impregnated with a Purgative Vertue, after one Pint is drunk up, let another be immediately added to that which remains.

It is attended with Pain and Heat in the Fore­part of the Head.

Let a Vein be frequently opened in the Arm, and a cooling and thickening Diet injoined. Prescribe also cooling and thickening Juleps, and cooling Emulsions.

Let a cooling Clyster be injected every day, and a composing Draught of Syrup of Meconi­um exhibited every night, and prescribe the common purging Potion to be be taken once or twice.

Dip a piece of Linnen cloth four times dou­bled in cold water, in which Sal Prunellae hath been dissolved; and squeezing it a little, apply it to the Neck behind and on both sides, often­times in a day.

After the Evacuations, apply the following Liquor.

Take of Hungarian Vitriol, and Allum, of each one ounce; Flegm of Vitriol half a pound: Boil them t [...]il the whole be dissolved, then suffer the Liquor to grow cold, and strain it through Brown Paper, and separating it from the Crystals that now and then arise, add to the remaining Liquor a twelfth part of Oil of Vitriol: Or rather,

Take of Plantane Water, four ounces; Bole Armeniac in fine Powder, half an ounce: mix them thoroughly. Dip a Tent made of the scrapings of Linnen in this Liquor, and put it [Page 81] into the Nostril out of which the Blood flows, where let it remain two days.

If these things do not prevail, dissolve Roman Vitriol in common Water, and dipping a Tent therein, put it into the Nose. Clouts dipt in this Liquor, and apply'd, do also stay Bleeding in any of the external Parts.

The Signs of this Disease are these: Ill co­lour of Face, and of the whole Body, Swellings in the Face, Eye-lids and Ankles, Heaviness of the whole Body, a stretching Weariness of the Legs and Feet, difficult Breathing, Feverish Pulse, Sleepiness, Pica or longing for things that ought not to be eaten, and stoppage of the Courses.

Let the Patient take the Chalybeat Pills or Powder, prescribed in the Chapter, Of the Hy­sterical Passion, more or less, according to her Age, drinking after them a Draught of any sort of Wine that pleaseth her, or of the corrobo­rating Infusion of the Roots of Angelica there described. If she be not very weak, purge her once or twice, before she enter into this Course.

They loath Meat, the Face is discoloured, the whole Body is heavy, the Forepart of the Head, Loins, Legs, and Lower Belly, are pain'd, and the Feet are swoln.

Prescribe the same Remedies that are com­mended in the Chapter, Of the Hysterical Pas­sion; but if these will not prevail, proceed thus:

Every morning, and at four a clock in the afternoon, give five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep without Castoreum, with twelve drops of Spirit of Hatts-horn, and every night at her entrance into Bed, let her take one scruple of the Troches of Myrrh made into a Bolus, or Pills with Syrup of Mugwort.

Spitting of Blood is accompany'd with a Pain and Heat in the Breast, and a certain Feeble­ness.

Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the Right Arm. The next morning let the Patient [Page 83] take the common purging Potion, and the same night a composing Draught, of three ounces of Black-cherry Water, and one ounce of Syrup of Meconium

Then let him use the following Reme­dies.

Take of Bole-Armeniac, one ounce; Powder of Comfry Roots, two drams; seal'd Earth, Blood-stone, and Dragons Blood, of each one dram; fine white Sugar the weight of all the rest: mix them, and make a fine Powder, of which let him take one dram in the morning, at five a clock in the afternoon, and at night, drink­ing four ounces of the following Apozeme af­ter it.

Take of the Leafs of Plantane, wild Bramble Bush, and Yarrow, of each one handful. Boil them in a convenient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half: in the straining dissolve two ounces of syrup of Comfry: mix and make an Apozeme; or let him take six spoonfuls of the following Tincture.

Take of Red Rose Flowers, six drams; the inner Bark of the Oak, half an ounce; Plantane Seeds somewhat bruss'd, three drams; Spring Water, one quart; Spirit of Vitriol, as much as sufficeth to give the whole a pleasant sharp­ness. Infuse them four hours in a close Vessel, with a gentle Heat: To the straining, add three [Page 84] ounces of Barley Cinnamon Water, and as much fine white Sugar as is sufficient to make it pleasant to taste.

If the Patient have an aversion against Pow­ders, let him use the Electuary prescribed in the Chapter, Of the Immoderate Flux of the Terms.

Prescribe a Clyster to be injected every day, and Diacodium to be taken at night.

Moreover the Patient must be let Blood again once, twice or thrice, according to the necessity of his condition, some days being interposed. Also, if need be, let him once again repeat the purging Potion,

And observe a cooling and thickning Diet.

A watery Humour or thin Gleet doth per­petually drop out of the Orifice of the Vein that is cut.

Take of White Lilly Roots boil'd in Cows Milk till they grow tender, and beaten, four ounces; Lin-seed flower and Oat-flower, of each three drams: Boil them to the consistence of a Cataplasm, in the same Milk in which the [Page 85] Roots were boiled. Apply it to the part affect­ed, every morning and evening.

Foment the part affected with Clouts dipt in Spirit of Wine, till the pain be asswaged; then dip the Clout again and apply it three or four times in a day to the part affected.

This Disease proceedeth from a too vivid and exalted Constitution of the Blood. There is also another sort of Madness that comes after long intermitting Fevers, and at length degenerates into Folly, which is caused by the Weakness and Flatness of the Blood, proceeding from a long Fermentation thereof. You must therefore prescribe high Cordials, such as Treacle of An­dromachus, the Electuary de Ovo, the Coun­tesses Powder, Sir Walttr Rawleigh's Powder in Plague water, Treacle water, or some other convenient Vehicle. And injoin a Restorative Diet.

In young Persons let a Vein be opened in the Arm, and eight or nine ounces of Blood taken away twice or thrice, every fourth day.

Then let the Jugular Veins be once opened. After which the whole Cure depends upon the use of the following purging Medicine, which must be given every third or fourth day while the Disease lasts; But in the mean time it is to be observed, that after the Patient hath been purged eight or ten times, the exhibition of the Evacuating Medicine must be omitted for a Week or two.

Take of the Domestic Medicine (that is, White Briony Roots) in powder, one dram; Cows Milk four ounces; Or,

Take of the same Roots half an ounce, or six drams; White Wine four ounces: Infuse them a whole night. In the strained Liquor dissolve one ounce of Syrup of Violets. Mix them for a Potion. Or,

Take of Gambugia fourteen grains, Black-Cherry water three ounces, Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers half an ounce: Make a Potion.

Let a Vein in the Arm of the side that is most affected be opened, and ten ounces of Blood taken away. The next morning exhibit the common purging Potion; and thenceforward in like manner repeat Blood-letting and Purga­tion [Page 87] by turns, till the Patient recover. In the mean while, if the inward parts are hurt, let him use the following Remedies during the whole course of the Cure.

Take of the Pectoral Decoction a pint and an half, Syrup of Violets, and of Maiden-hair, of each two ounces: Mix them for an Apozem, of which let him take half a pint thrice a day. Exhibit also frequently a Spoonful of Oil of Sweet Almonds newly drawn.

Take of Oil of Sweet Almonds, the Oint­ment Dialthaeae and Pomate, of each one ounce: Mix them for a Liniment, with which anoint the part affected morning and evening, laying over it a Cabbage Leaf.

Let the Common Purging Potion be twice exhibited. Then

Take of Oil of bitter Almonds, Oil of Lau­rel, the Ashes of Sothernwood leaves, of each one ounce: Mix them thoroughly for a Lini­ment, with which anoint the whole Head eve­ry night, rubbing it in diligently, and then co­ver it with a Sow's Bladder.

But first let all the Hair be cut off, and after­wards rub off the Scales by degrees, every morning, according as they are ready to fall away.

After 40 Days or more, the Signs of Melan­choly appear: a Fever. Thirst, Hydrophobia, or the Fear of Water, and at length Convulsions of the extreme Parts.

Take of Spirit of Wine highly rectified, four ounces; Treacle of Andromachus, one ounce: make a mixture, with which anoint the part that is hurt, thrice every day, laying over it a Clout dipt in the same mixture.

Stinking matter is voided, or Blood, and sometimes Scales, or membranous Skins, and as it were scurfy Crusts like Bran; whereas when the Ulcer is in the Reins, pieces of Flesh (which sometimes are very big) are voided with the Urine. There is also a perpetual difficulty of Urine, and continual pain in those parts: But in an Ulcer of the Reins, the difficulty of Urine and Pain come by Fits, and there are some Inter­vals [Page 89] of ease; the Matter also that comes from the Reins is more abundant, white, thin, and not stinking, the Urine is voided like milk, but after it hath stood long, the Matter being separted, falls to the bottom.

Take of the Plaister call'd Flos Unguenti, a dram and an half: make nine Pills, of which let the Patient take three at the physical hours, ( viz. at eight a clock in the morning, and five in the afternoon) drinking six spoonfuls of the following Water after them.

Take of the Roots of Comfrey, Fennel, Birth­wort, and Avens, of each three ounces; Leafs of Agrimony, St. Johns Wort, Bugle, Sanicle and Plantane, of each six handfuls; chop them small, and distil them in White-wine and Milk, of each four Pints. Draw off only four Pints for your use.

Take of the Powder of Comfrey Roots, and Gum Arabic, of each one ounce; Sugar of Penides, two ounces: make a Powder, of which let the Patient take a spoonful twice a day.

Of this Disease there are three kinds. Dysp­naea, which is a difficult Breathing, in which the Breath is drawn often and thick, without noise or ratling, arising from the stuffing of the Lungs. Asthma, or a great and frequent Breathing, in which the Diaphragma or Midriff, and intercostal Muscles, as also the Muscles of the Abdomen are violently mov'd, with a ratling noise and whee­sing. In the former kind the substance of the Lungs, in the latter the Bronchia, or Gristles are stopp'd. And Orthopnaea, which is the greatest difficulty of Breathing, in which the sick per­son cannot breath but sitting, and with his Neck stretch'd upright; the Muscles also of the Breast and Shoulders are vehemently agi­tated.

Let ten ounces of Blood be taken from the Right Arm, and the next day let the Patient take the common purging Potion, and repeat the same every third day to two other Do­ses.

In the intermediate Days let him proceed thus:

Take two drams of Anniseed in fine powder, [Page 91] and with a sufficient quantity of Lucatella's Bal­sam make twelve Pills, of which let him take three in the morning, and at five a clock in the afternoon, drinking after them four ounces of the bitter Decoction, without the purging In­gredients, warm.

If the Symptoms still remain, let the whole Process be iterated afresh.

Both the Faculties of Sense and Motion, or either of them singly, are entirely lost, or at least diminished, and vitiated in the parts affected.

Take of the Pills Cochiae the less, two scru­ples; let them be exhibited six times every other morning: And afterwards let the Patient take the Antiscorbutic Electuary, thrice a day for thirty days together. See the Chapter, Of the Scurvey.

Take of the Unguent call'd Nervinum, three ounces; compound Spirit of Lavender, and Spirit of Garden-Scurvy-Grass, of each an ounce and an half; with which anoint the parts affected, as the Back-bone, &c. every morning and evening.

The most part of the Re [...]ks there prescri­bed, [Page 92] though they seem to be only adapted for the Cure of the Scurvy: yet forasmuch as they are peculiarly qualify'd to volatize crude and fixt Humors, they are also good against the Palsy.

The Cough is evident of it self. As for the Consumption it is to be observed, that People are obnoxious to it from eighteen to thirty five years. The Signs of it are these: An Hectic Fever, which is augmented after Meat (as ap­pears by the quickness of the Pulse, and Red­ness of the Cheeks;) the Matter that is spit forth with Coughing is bloody or purulent (that is, mixt with Quittor,) being cast into the Fire, it sendeth forth a noisom Smell; and if it be put into a Vessel full of water, it sinks to the bottom: Sweating at Night, Blueness of the Cheeks, Paleness of Face, and Sharpness of the Nostrils. And the sinking of the Temples, crookedness of the Nails, falling off of the Hair, and melting Flux of the Belly, are the immediate Forerunners of Death.

When the Cough is of no long standing, nor is yet accompany'd with a Fever, or other Signs of a Bastard Peripneumonia, nor came after a Pleurisy or Peripneumonia, for want of sufficient Blood letting, in such a Case it will be sufficient [Page 93] to caution the Patient against the use of Wine or Flesh for some days, and to prescribe these or the like Remedies to be used by him at his plea­sure.

Let him take ten drops of Balsam of Sulphur anisated in a spoonful of Sugar-candy, twice or thrice every day, and frequently eat one of the following Tablets, which he ought always to carry about him.

Take a pound and an half of Sugar-candy; boil it in a convenient quantity of Spring wa­ter, till it stick to the ends of your Fingers: then add to it of the Powder of Liquorish, Eli­campane, Anniseed, Angelica Seeds, of each half an ounce; Powder of Flower-de-luce, of Florence and Brimstone, of each two drams; Chymical Oil of Annis, two scruples. Make Tablets according to Art, which may be called Domestic Lozenges. And in the mean time let the Patient use the following lambitive Medicine.

Take of Oil of Sweet Almonds, two oun­ces; Syrup of Maiden-hair and Violets, of each one ounce; Sugar-candy as much as sufficeth to make a Lohoch; let the Patient lick thereof with a Liquorish Stick, when the Cough sur­prizeth him.

In a thin Defluxion, you may prescribe thick­ning Lohochs.

But if the Cough yield not to these Reme­dies, (more especially if it be attended with a Fever, or came after a Pleurisy or Inflamation of the Lungs) in that case it will be to no pur­pose to rely upon pectoral Medicines, forasmuch as the Cure must be wrought by Blood-letting and Purging, according to the method de­scribed in the Chapter, Of the Bastard Perip­neumonia.

If after all, the Cough do not only continue to molest the Patient, but by long and vio­lent concussion of the Lungs, hath exceed­ingly weakned them, and thereby introduced a Pthisis or Consumption, you must proceed thus:

Pour ten drops of Balsam of Peru into a spoonful of Syrup of Ground-Ivy, or (if the Patient dislike that) of Sugar-candy; and let him take it thrice a day, drinking after it four ounces of the bitter Decoction, prepared without the purging Ingredients, or if that doth occasion a Looseness of his Belly, let him diminish the Dose to three oun­ces.

But of all the Remedies that hitherto have been invented, the most excellent and effica­cious, is for the Patient to take long and far Journies on Horse-back. It is moreover to be observed, thar Men, or such as have already [Page 95] past the years of their Youth, must spend more time in this exercise, than if they were Boys or Young-men. And, truly, the Peru­vian Bark is not a mucn more certain Remedy for intermitting Fevers, than, in this Age, Ri­ding is for a Consumption.

It is attended with Heaviness of Body; Weariness that cometh of it self, or without any precedent Cause; difficult Breathing, es­pecially after Exercise; Rottenness of the Gums; stinking Breath; often Bleeding at the Nose; difficult and uneasie Walking; and (which is a constant Symptom of this Dis­ease) Spots in the Legs, which are black and blue, yellow, or of a lead or violet colour, the Legs in the time being sometimes swoln, and sometimes extenuated, and the Face of a colour between pale and tawny.

Let a Vein be opened in the Arm, and eight ounces of Blood taken away, if no Signs of a Dropsie appear.

The next morning exhibit the common purg­ing Potion, and again a second and third time every third day.

In the intermediate Days, let the Pa­tient take the following Remedies, and con­tinue the use of them for a month or two af­terwards.

Take of Conserve of Garden-Scurvy-grass, two ounces; Conserve of Wood-sorrel, one ounce, compound Powder of Aron, six drams; Syrup of Orenges, as much as sufficeth to make an Electuary, of which let him take the quantity of a large Nutmeg, in the morning, at five a clock in the after­noon, and at night, drinking after it six spoonfuls of compound Radish water, or of that which follows.

Take of Raspings of Horse-Radish Roots, two pounds; Aron Roots, one pound; Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass, twelve handfuls; Leafs of Mint, Sage, Water-cresses, and Brook-lime, of each six handfuls; Seeds of Garden-Scurvy-Grass a little beaten, half a pound; Nutmegs, half an ounce; White-wine, twelve pints: Di­stil them in a common Still, and draw off only six pints for your use.

Or distil the fresh Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass by it self, for the same use.

Moreover, let the Patient make use of the following Beer for ordinary Drink.

Take of the fresh Roots of Horse-Radish slic'd, two drams; twelve Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass; six Raisins ston'd; and the half of an Orenge slic'd. Put them altogether into a Glass Bottle capable of containing a Quart of Small Beer, and stop it immediately with a Cork.

After the manner that is here described, prepare at the same time six Bottles for your use, and after some days six more, be­fore the first be quite spent, and so onward. Or,

Instead of the Beer, you may add three or four spoonfuls of the following mixture, to eve­ry draught of your ordinary Drink.

Take of the Roots of Horse-Radish, and Seeds of Garden-Scurvy-Grass, of each half an ounce; Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass, two handfuls; the pulp of one Orenge. Beat them together in a marble Mortar, pouring in by de­grees half a pint of White-wine. Strain them, and squeeze them a little; and reserve the Li­quor for your use.

The same Remedies are also of excellent use in the Scorbutic or Hysterical Rheumatism; only the letting of Blood, and Purging, must be omitted.