L. Septalius alfo doth admonith us here, chac chere isa cereain fore of Guajacum,

whtch is never Co be brought intoufe, which hach no true blacknefsin the middleof at, but is of a fomewhat darke and greenifh colour, which makes the decoction very thick, cbacit wilnever becleare, and by its exceedingacrimony, ic caufecha heat
both
wo it and hol ther cau! moi befi ! its | pal hur {upe ( WI there cul tiul mot fom red alex this: lency whic culty hada med wood come dlecog me; ¢ haps inhis ment lent, bute; gain t fome Hletht afteryp Fr tory be wg attr chicks and ef
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both in che throat and jaws , and by reafon of its thick and earthy parts , for che moft parc it caufeth obftructions in the {pleen, fomecimes alfo in the liver, Empiticks cal ic che wild holy wood : but whereas he finds no where in Authors this cwofould difference of domeftick, and wild ; he rather thinks ic acquires thefe qua- licies from the nacure of che foil.
Alfo ifthe barke be thick, and cleave {o to the wood, that iccan {carce be pul- fed and parted from it, the wood is good: but if the Bark be eafily feparaced from che wood, either’tisold, or perifhe by falc water : alfoif che wood appear fatty whiles itistafped, and thac being mafticaced doth bite, and leavea bitternefs behind it 5 and whiles ic is cuc, ic appeare folid with aneven {uperficies, not tough and ful of holes, the wood is good.
The Bark of this wood ts endewed wich great acrimony and bitterne(s » and
therefore dries, atcenuates, and digefts more, powerfully than the wood; but bee 1e barkof
caufe thac occult vercue which is oppoficeto this difeafe, isracther in thac fatty and moift, and balfamical fubftance, the wood isalwaies preferred before the batk sand befides che bark is not fo conveniently given in hot and dry bodies, ~
As Concetning the vertues of Guajacum, it is hot and dry,as may be perceived from
Chap... — Of the Indian Wood, and Guajacum,
uUajacums
its caft, {mel, and acrimony , and chat in che fecond degree, and °tis alfo of chin The veriues parts, whence ic hath power to accenuate crafs things, to cut and cleanfe clammy of Guaja~ humors, to.open obftructions, comove fweat and urine, and to diflipace and waft cum.
fuperfluous cold humors ; but this pockwood isnot chiefly given for thofe qualities ( whenas there are found in Exrope medicaments endewed with thofe qualities, chac there was no need Co tranfpore them out of the Indies) but principally for thac pe~ culiar and occult power. By which itis oppofed to the Veneral vitulency ; and truly al phyficians almoft doe agree thac pockwood doth deferve the firtt place a~ mongft che alexiplarmaca of the veneral difeafe: for though Fernelius would fomewhat leffen its vercue, becaufe al chat are affected with chis difeale are not cu= red by the ufeof ir, yet chisis no fufficienc caufe, fince there is found no fuch alexipharmacum , or other medicine which can cure difeafes paft hope. Bue this wood is by an occulc qualicy and propriety oppolite to che Venera! viru= lency it felf, and is a friend co che radical moifture, and natural baliom ; which doth moft of al fuffer by chis virulency inimicous to the nutritive faq culcy 3 and doch fo ftrengthen it, chac ic hath been obferved, that thoie allio, who had a liver, and whol habic of body hot and dry, and who have been almoft confu= med with the veneral difeafe, as was faid before, by che ule of the decoétion of this wood, though by its heat and drynefs adverfe to chem have been teftored, and be- come better habiced and more corpulent. Some indeed have dared to wrice,chac the decoction of chis Wood doth nourifh as much as chicken broach: but chefe feem to me, Co be excefiive inthe praife of this wood : for though it bea vegecable, and per- haps may leave {ome alimental juyce inthe decoction, yet I think no body that is in his tight mind wil eafily deny, chaca chicken hath noc more convenient nourith=
ment for a man,than Guajacum, but chat fome after chis difeafe become more corpu- lent, is accidental ; for whenas by reafon ofthe Veneral virulency nutrition was burc in the whol body, when chac is difcufled and extinguifhe, the body begins a-
gain to be nourifhe wel, and tobe augmenced: the like of which happens alfo in
Whetber
ock-wood
do nourifhe
fome other difeafes, efpecially in feavers , before which whenas men were not wel Ff whether the flethe by reaton of evil nourifhment, the vicious humors being waifted by the difeafe decoction of
afterwatds they begin co be nourifht wel, and become more corpulenc.
Guajacnen,far-
Fr. Arceus alio lib.de curand, vulner.rat. gives the + Decoétion of Gua jacum faparilla, faj-
for ulcers of che Lungs, and che ptifick; and he writes, that bodies, though che be wafted, are noc offended by i,buc racher grow fac upon it:nay there are fome,who
afras China root, do fatten. * The decofti-
accribuce a nutritive power to Guajacum, and write thar it 1s no lefs nourifhing than on of Guaja-
chicken broath. The {ame vertues alfo others do accribute,* to Sarfa parilla,Saflafras, ce Sa fay
and efpecially co Chinaroor, buc indeed thoughvit be fcund by experience, chat in a af map ey ig G2 the ‘
vifh not but by accident
a= 2 SEU AS RAR CASS Ew hi a rea gh
36 sient Of the French Pox.
ee. Ss ete” ~~ ee
the ptilick, Veneral difeafe, {cab and other difeafes, bodies extenuated, have been reftored'again, and made fat by theufe of thefe decoctions, yet this comes ro pafs not of ic felf, becaufechefe decottions havea nutritive faculty, as other nou= rifhments, bucby accident, inas muchas they take away the caufeofieannefs. To ptifick bodies che cafe is plain; for whenas that wafting of the body proceeds from anulcer of the Lungs, the ulcer being dried up by the ufe of Guajacum, the body begins to be wel nourifht again: the fame happens in orher difeafes, asthe French, che Scab, andchelike. For whenas that leannefs, and confumption doth proceed fcom bad nourifamenc, buc bad nourifhmenc for che moft part from acrid and fale humors, which do both confume the good blood, and hinder che agglutination of it tothe body, thofe vitious humors being wafted by che decoctions, and diicufled by {weats, the bodies begin co be nourifhe wel again, nay grow fat, 4 va
But chis wood hath not only an alcerative power, and by ics occulequality to ex- tinguifh thacmalignicy ofthe Venera! virulency, imprinced both on the humors, and thefolid parts, but alfocoevacuate, both fenfibly by {weating, and infenfibly by infenfible cranfpirauon : and therefore the way of curing the French difeafe by Guajacum, and medicines of affinity with thac is mofkin ufe. For though by reafon of the length of the eure, and che pains of {weating, and che flendet dyet, ic caufe fome trouble cochem : yet it is farfafer than that way, whichis-by quickfilver, where if there be an error, the patient is inno {mal danger.
Medicines But there are prepared out of Guajacum divers medicaments, and chofe either in made out of aliquid forme, orina tolid, and in fubftance: but thofe given in a liquid forme, Guajacum, ace moft effectual, whenas they are eafily deduced into act and penecrace into the whol body,and do irricae the expulfive faculty of al pares to caft off what is hurtful: buc ina folid forme, whenas chat part in which che vertue of the medicine doch cheifly velide, is not yer feparated from the earthy and thick parc, *tis noc fo eafily deduced into act. The decogtion therefore as moft convenient is moft in ule: yer ifany by reafon of the continued ufe of chismedicine be weary of it, and never- thelefs do feare leaft there be fome reliques of the evil humor remaining, or their courte of life wil no longer admit of the ufe of the decoction as ic ought to be taken, co fuch, medicines made out of this wood, may be given in another form. Amongft which extracts and {pirits, as fhal be faid, are moft efficacious, and far more ex= cellenc than pouders.
But the manner of boyling this wood is various, both in refpect of the liquor in which the decoction is made, and of the quality of che liquor : for {ome boy] the wood in water, fome in Barly water, fome indiftilled waters, othersin wine, o*
1m
The man- ner of pre- paring a de-
mae i nue 204. teprehendsthofe who deny, chac the decoction of thiswood may ‘be
Whether Made in wine only, when as nothing is more fit to excract the faculties of medicines, it ought to than wine, and the wacer of wine (he had {poke righter than the fpiric of wine ) : bal d in and therefore he prepares his decoction with wine, which he ufeth when the difeafe i oyieG TT saveterate with an evil habic of body, anda cold matter predominance ; after’this Wines manner eight ounces of the bark of the beft holy wood groffely poudered being ine fuled in forty cwo phyfical pints of che beft whice wine, for twodays, the.wine
being firft heated and alwaies kept hot thofe twodays ina double’ veflel, or in the
afhes; afterwards witha flow fire boyl it away ina double veflel, to.the yee os
tion of che third pare, which let che fick make ute ofboth in the mornihg inftéad'o ra
fycup,and for his drink at meales, let him cake in che morning feven orifices, & an hour
after move {weac: but at dinner,and {upper Jet him not exceed fourteen Ounces, But
though we grant chac-wine is moft commiodious to extract the vercues of vegetables,
yet chiscannotbe denied that by boyling the ftrength of wine doch vanifh, and
when the {piric is exhaled, there is left a naufeous phlegme lefs profirable than
plain fimple water. And therefore ] am of that opinion that either the wood is co
be boyled in water, and cowards the end, che wine 1s tobe added, or elfe the wood
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Chap.13. Of the Indian Wood, and Guajacum.
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is only to be a long while infufed in wine, or to be boyled ina double vet. fel, that nothing be loft, but by no means to the Confumption of the third part.
Therefore moft commonly and rightly the decoétion is made in pure water which doth both a little corre&t the Heat and drinefs of the Medicine, and farther the diftribution, and provocation of fweat, yet if che body, and efpecially the ftomach be cold and weak, and the Patient accuftomed to wine, Wine is not un- profitably mixt with it, as was faid even now, and fhal be faid hereafter; for by the admiftion of Wine the ftomach is lefs hurt, and the vertue of the Medicine doth the eafier penetrate to al the parts.
And a different proportion of the wood to the water is obferved according to The propor-
the age, conftitution of the body, and feafon of the year, and they taketo twelve tion of
pound of warer,from three ounces of the wood to twelve : for if the feafon of the wood to the year and the body be hor, ’tis fafeft, totake a lefs quantity of the wood, and ina water.
longer time to perfect the Cure, than by too ftrong a Medicine to damnefie the pa- tient, efpecially at the beginning of the cure, and before the fuperfluous Humors in the body be abated, and fweat begin to flow eafily and exquifitly, and the pa- tient be accuftomed to the Decoction, afterwards by degrees you may take more of the Wood, which unlefs it be obferved, che Patient is eafily brought into dan- ger. And Eufiachivs Rudins writes, Lib. 5. de Morb. occult. Cap. 13. That he hath feen patients who by chis error,viz. too great a quantity of the wood given on the firft daies, have fallen intoa Feaver, that afterwards they have been forced to abftaine from the ufe of the decodtion, to their great detriment: but where there is no {uch thing to be feared, in chofe of ripe years, we commonly add to'one pound of the wood rafped orturned fmal, twelve pound ofwater, inan earthen Veffel glafed, and let it infufe twenty four hours inawarm place, afterwards the vefiel being wel covered boyle it with a gentle fire, tilhalf, or the third part re- main, and let the decodtion cool in this veffel ftil covered, afterwards ftrain it.
Fallopius Lib. demorb Galli. cap. 46. difputes whether it be better to boyle
it with an open fice, or ina double veffel as was faid, or in Balneo Mariz, and re- After vebat prehends them who hold thar the decoétion made in Balneo is more dilute, or lefs sera ue powerful: and chat the decodtion made in Balneo, is more excellent thantbat 2° ¢ 20yHG-
which is made with an open fire, he endeavors to prove by the example of diftilled waters,which by the balneum are made moft excellent, when as there is no adufti- oniathem, but the greater eliquation which is made in that-hot and moift, doth render the decoction more excellent; but experience teacheth otherwife, which reafon alfo doth confirme. For though out of fome moifter plants, as Rofes, Violets, Lilly of the vallies, and the like, being frefh, whofe vertue con- fifts inthe volatile part, as the Chymifts {peak, the beft waters are made in balneo without the affufion of water: yet in hotterplants, efpecially in Roots and woods, whofe vertue confifts in the oyly part, their vertuecan never be extracted by the too gentle heat of a Balneum, as happens alfo inmany feeds, but they muft be di-
{tilled by a fT Vefica through which by the vehicle of the water, thofe more fixed 4 chymical
parts may be elevated: when as then the whol vertue of Guajacum doth confit in Veffel.
that oyly and rozeny part, andthereisneed of ftrong boyling that that may be extracted, the gentle heat of a Bolneum cannot do it, butic muft be boyled in an open fire, which neverthelefs caufeth no aduftion, iftherebe added a fuffi- cient quantity of water.
Some for the better guft, and that the bitternefs and acrimony may be abated, little before ’tis boyled enough add of Raifonand Liquorifh, of each one ounce ; and you may add Sugar, or fome Julep corelliffitt, Aurelius Minadous, de virulen. Vener. Cap. 4. holds the Deco@ion ought chiefly to be Dulcorated with Honey ;
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Of the French Pox.
Honty ; for he thinks that a {mal quantity of Honey, if it be boyled with it and Skimmed, wil rebate al the bitternefs, and the Deco@ion acquire 4 Sreater power to cleanfe, attenuate, open, and make fufil che Humors, and ftrengthen the parts: which we grant may take place in phlegmatick bodies, and e(pecially ina cold ftomach ; fo whenas honey doth eafily turn to Choller, we think it cannot fafely be ufed, inchollerick bodies, hot and dry, but more conveniently and fafely Raifons, Liquorith, or Sugar.
Some alfo in thofewho have a hot and dry Liver,do add towards theend of the decoction a root or two of Succory,one or two handfuls of Endive,Sowchiftle:bue whenas fuch decodtions are co be continued along while, we muft have a care leaft by the admiftion of {uch things they be made ingrateful, and provoke naufe- oufnets inthe Patient: befides whenas for the moft part there is boyled at one time Decoction enough tor many daies, but the addition of fach Herbs doth canfe, that the Decoétion wil not laft fo long, to prevent this, fuch herbs are to be added not to the whol deco@ion, but to about one pound of ic,
Some not unprofitably, efpecially to thofe accuftomed toit, and whofe fto- mach is weak, doadd towards the end of the deco@ion three pound of a {weetifh white wine ; fome prepare the whol decoGionin wine, but not fo rightly: forthe beft part of the wine doth evaporate in boyling, and there is left an ingrateful Flegm as was faid before.
Aurelius ‘Minadoys, alfo doth admonith, that the deco@ion of the wood is to be given with a vehicle, which may direé the vertue of the Medicine to the parts principally affe@ed; and the Head moft of alaffeGed we mutt mix Cephalick things ; the Reins affected, things Nephbritical; the Liver, He patical ; the Spleen, things Splenitick. Whichas we donot wholly difallow of, fowe donot alwates think it neceflary, whenas the verrue of the deco@ion doth eafily of it ielf pene. trace into the whol body: but we muft chiefly have acare, Jeaft bythe admiftion of fuch Medicines, the deco@ion be rendered-naufeous and ingrateful tothe Pa- tient; which when he himfelfalfo confiders, be admonitheth rightly, chat fuch Medicines are more commodionfly taken by themfelves reduced into a pouder, or Bolus,or fome other forme, than mixt with the decoQion; but we fhal {peak here~ afrer of compound deco@ions.
Diftitled — The Chymifts whenas they fear leaft by the long boyling, which isto the half, water from or athird part, the Spirituous and fubtile parts fhould exhale and be diffipated, Guajaum. and fo the vertue of the Medicine be diminifhed, prepare this decoG@ion anorher
way, fo that it lofeth nothing of its ftrength, they take the pouder of Guajacum and putitintoa retort, and pouring a fufficient quantity of water, they place the- retortinthe afhes, and apply the receiving veffel, and making a fire underit, firft they makea digeftion, then diftilit, tothe Confumption of one half of the water they give of the diftilled water four ounces; yee it were moft commodious if the diftilled water were mixed with the reft of the deco@ion inthe retort being {trained ; for fo they would have al the vertue ; tothat deco@ion remaining in the retort may be poured more water,and let it digeft cwelve hours,afterwards di- ftil it ; and the liquor diftilled may be given for common drink,and whenas it hap- pens fomtimes, that Infants are born infeGed with the Veneral difeafe, Or are ine fected by their Nurfes, this diftilled and fweetned with Sugar may be given them inftead of Juleps. |
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Chiap.1z. Of tbe Indian Wood, and Guajacum
two of Coriander feed prepared, and fweeren the deco@ion withtwo orthree ounces of Sugar.
But if any Herbs have been added to the firft deco@tion, the deco@tion for drink at meals muft not be made of the remainders of the firft deco@ion becaufeit would be naufeous, but you muff prepare another freth decoction, but more dilute, ora wine of Guajacum,which ts made thus: Take four or five poundofthe 7 wood, fout pound of white Sugar, ten pound of white Wine, and putthe wood @,, into a wooden Veffel, and heat the Wine and powr itto it. é
Somme boy] the wood the third time, and ufe the deco@ion to boy! meatin, the The third fame deco@tionalfomay be ufedto wafhthe hands, toclenfe the Noftrils and decottion. mundifie Ulcers. ; ‘
And fome give this wood other waies, fome inthe formof a pouder, others 4, avjoct= make eleCtuaries of ic. Thus Nicol. Maffa. Lib. 2. deMorb. Gal. Cap. 6, he Seg
ine of ajacum.
takes ofthe Indian wood moft finely prepared one pound, and with Syrup of Fu- per mitory boyles it co the form of an EleQuary, of which he gives halfan ounce oran 24
ounce; ortake of the wood of Guajacum, Sarfaparilla, finely poudered, of each one ounce, of the fpecies of the three faunders and Diarrhodon Abbatis; ofeach two drams ; Conferve of Succory, Rofes,of each fix ounces;with Syrup of Succory make an Ele@uary.
Others with a convenient Syrup make pills of ic.
But others not without caufe do here admonith us, that fuch Medicines are lefs effectnal, and that many, who were newly infe@ed, when as they hoped for health by the ufe of fuch Medicaments, by that delay and lingring and weaknefs of the Medicine have fallen into a moft grievous evil : for as was faid, fuch Medi- cines do lefs penetrateiato che body. Yet towards the latter end of the Cure, when the evil is almoft overcome, and’tis only feared, that there may remain fome evil difpofition, and the long continued drinking of the deco@ion of the wood is naufeous to the patient, fuch Medicines may be ufed to confume the re- liques of che difeafe.
An extrac of this wood is more commodioufly prepared, and out of that pills, An extras orrowles: but after the ufe of it there is need of taking fome liquor, by whofe of Guaja~ vehicle the extract may be diftributed and carried intothe whol body: nay thefe cum, — extracts, according to the opinion of Hercules Saxonia, have {carce fo great ftrength as to overcome this difeafe ific be very great and ancient, but thedeco- ction is defervedly preferred before chem.
Hercules Saxonia de lue Vener. cap. 27. writes that the oy! is ftronger, and he thinks the whol Alexipharmacal! power of the wood is placed in this Oyl, andh relatesthat he hath proved by experience, hat by the benefit of thisoy!; th greateft and ancienteft difeafe hath been overcome. But he gives it divers waies, inwafted bodies with milk, in others ofa hotter temperament, with Conferve of Rofes, or whey of Goats ; in Melancholly with conferve of Burrage or Bug- lofs, in Flegmatick with Conferve of Betony, in thofe that have knobs with Tur- pentine, and twofcruplesforadofe. But doubrlefsit was not oyl which Saxonia . gave, buta liquid extract or Tin@ureas they calit. For no oyl is diftilled from this wood by an Alembick ; but that which is diftilled by a retorc, or defcent by an open fire, is found to be fuch, that it cannot conveniently be given into the bo- dy, nay fcarce with fafety.
Tateribute more to the fpirit of Guajacum, the preparatiog of which is noteves ‘The [pivit ry bodies work, for it requires a longerand more diligent digeftion and fermen- of Guaja- cation forthe preparing of it. | Cun,
There arefome alfo who think, the leaves and fruit of this tree being reduced into Conferves and Ele€tuaries are to be ufed, and they relate, that the Indians infefted with this difeafe, doufe them as Medicines; butthough the leaves and fruit may do fomwhatina light difeafe, yet they are not {ufficient inthat whichis ,
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Of the French Pox.) — great and inveterate, neither are they able to perform what the wood doth. © But *tis obferved that che fruit of this Tree hath alfo a power vehemently ro loofenthe Belly ; and whenas a frefh and light difeafeis fomtimes cured’ only with purges, cis no wonder that the Indians may be cured by thefe purging fruits; efpecial
fince that al Alexipharmacal vertue againft ‘this: difeafe cannot be denyed them:
CHAP. XTY. Of Sarfaparillg.
Savfapa- villa. Sra plant called ronuginbindweed. By reafon of its thornes *tis called Sarfa, (for Sar- & in Spanifh venihes bryers or Brambles) but by reafon of its leaves, and boughs, Parillay that isto fay shethorny vine.» Nay allopius de‘Morb. Galli. Cap. 63. isofthatopinion, thatiris truly the rough bindweed, which grows every where in Italy, and he writes that by the nfe of it, he hath with happy fuccefs freed ma- ny fromthe French Pox. ‘Dzofcoridesalfo Lib. 4. Cap. 139. writes thus of the rough bindweed, its leaves and fruit being drank before, and: after, are antidotes againft deadly poyfons; and befides ‘tis delivered that if fomwhat of them pou- dered: be given to anew born infantto drink, no poyfon fhal afcerwards butt it Bur grant itbefo, thatthe Italian rough bindweed cando fomwhat apainft this difeafe, as alfo againft,other poyfons, yet he himfelf grants, that there is no dight
difference betwixt thisand the Indian. The native ~ ButSarfaparilla grows in Peru, inthe hedges, asrough bind weed, the white place of far- and black Bryony, and hopsdoinEurope. The Root creeps far up arid down
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faparilla by the Earth, cthat’cis oftentimes above fix cubits long, whieh gathered into ban- dies is brought overtouse The good. and freth is white, {clid, burthae whichis
reddith, and poudery when ‘tis broke, islefs effe@ual. The vertue ~ its vertwe as Ihave faid is very greacalfo in curingthis difeafe, end ’tis found
y experience, thatmany have been-cured, bythe ufe of it, without Gugjacum, and becaufe ‘tis more Temperate ; and moderatly:hot, and without any acrimony, bitcernefs, or aftriction, or fmel, duc hath a,cerrain ob {cure fweetnels, it may fafely be given to al couftitutions of body, and jal Ages; -befides cis of ‘thin parts, provokes, fweat, dries eminently, refifts purtrefaction,:| wafts' fuperfluons humidity, fomwhat loofneth the body, and therefore is went.in fome fortre weaken the ftomach,;butthough Guajacum bemore. powerful aod eficacions, yer Sarla in this exceedsehat wood, thanichath an eminent power to allay the French pains, though never fo accute and ftubborn,., by reafon of its ekeeeding tenuity, penetrating and: laxative vertue: and ful. Palmarius writes, thatno paincanihappen foconcumacious and {o.continual, which at lengthit dochinotlay afleep and overcome, if any one ufethe deco@ionoef it for along time andicon- ftansly.., Nay abkoorty,.French Tumors,fo they be-not bony, in what part foever they ares are Roored out by che ufe of it, their matter being meltedand caftforrh by fweats; or an thedeaft wafted and emptyed byinfenfible perfpjration: and Fal- lopius writes intheatleaged place, thatif afterthe difeafe is;overcome there re- main Ulcers, Clefts about the Arfehole, that Sarfaparilla -willcheal them} fooner by hal thaathe Indiantwood, and inafhore timealfo the moft:hard knobsiare difcuiled by ie.!; Yetfome admonifh here, thatby Guajacum!indeed this difeafe may beperfectly cured, and that al things are found in Guajacum, whichare neceffary for the curé‘of this difeafe, but that farfadoth not alone, but mixt with
| Guajacum,
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Chap. 19. Of China Root.
en ee ccpen
z > a eee Guajacum, China Rooe, , and Saflafras wood cure th becaufe it loofnefs the ftomach,, heats le{s
truly thac Guajacum doth ch allenge the firft place in in the incerim it bath been obferved alic by many, been cured by che ufe of chis Root on!
hey thac wil noc {pare forcoft and defire the decoction fhould be more effeétyal » they ought to take only the bark, as whichis
the more effectual parc of che Root, and co caft away cheinner piths as chat which is lefs effectual, nay as°tis delivered by fome ’tis more cold, and hath a certain
But the Root of Sarfaparilla is taken being fliced chinandto.oneoun poured two pound of water, or to two ounces and an half of che Roor of Water; fome pour co four ounces of the Root three ounces ; ten pound of waters Neither can the quantity of che water to che Root be fo ftriétly prefcribed, bucic may be varied according to the Nature of the difcafe, andthe condition of the fick, and the feafon of the year. Forin aninve- cerace difeafe there is need of a ftronger decoétion, ina new, of aweaker. But ic as ftceped firft of al fifteen hours or twenty, and afterwards boyled to rhe Confump- tion of one half; and reafons, liquorifh and other things are added co the decoction, as need requires as in che decoction of Guajacum 5 and becaufe the decottion of Sar-
fa doth fomwhat lax che ftomach, for the moft part mint, Berony, or fomwhat elfe thac ftrengchens che ftomach is to be added, or what feems more commodious, Gua= jacums or leaft che mixture of divers things may breed naufeoufnefs after che taking of the decoction of Sarfaparilla, chey mufttake fomwhac that ftrengthens the fto- mach.
Afcer the firft decoction is prepared, fifteen pound of w
the, remainders, and are boyled cila third is wafted, and the decoction is ufeda dinner and Supper ; fome alfoadd cowatds the end of the decoction three pound
of Wine; yer this muft be done then only as Fallopius thinks, either when
the fick body goes abroad, co prefetve his ftrengeh, or when the dtomach is weak.
Yet there may alfo be prepared out of chis Root, pouders, Electuaries, extratts, as are from Guajacum.
feven pound of Water, others co
CHAP, XP. Of China Root.
He Portugal Merchants brought over in the former Age, from the Gouner
China, acertain Rooc for the cure of this difeafe, which they called China Root ; for when as the Venereal difeafe had invaded chat Country aliosas che Ame= ricans fhewed the ufe of Guajacum for the deftroying of this difeafe, fo the peo- ple of China ufed this Rooe co cure the fame difeafe, and taught others che ufe of it. Buc che Root 1s.a handbreadth long, fomrimes: pretty thick, fomeimes thinner, knobbed, fomwhat reddifh, pretty weighty, which being newly digged» up they report is fo render, that ic may be eaten raw, and boyled, ascurnep and rapé Roots are with us; che which feems not tobe very ceedible, whenas our Tur- neps, Rape Roors dryed never attain co fo great a hardne(s:they are brought tous divided.
H Rees As
Ad isdifeafe, and forthis reafon, , Isvoidofal acrimony, and therefore is
DIRE Rian dg SRE ANS SRI scorn # §
wy ee
for the moft pare as Guajacum inthe decocti~
Ince Of ICIS The dec offi. four pound ,
ater are pouredagainto Thefecond C decottion.
yf China root;
ties
The de-
cottion of China.
Of the French Pox, 23. sc
~ As concerning ics vertues, ’cis neicher ftrong in {mel, nor taft, and cherefore there
is no excels of it. in heac andcold, but’cis rather temperate, or if therebe any excels
Anir, ’cis rather. in cold 5) yet "cis dry in the fecond, of thin fubftance, yet witha
certain aftri¢tive power, and a kind of fubftantifical moifture, fo that by the ute of icmendo grow Fat. Whence alfo the decoétion of it doth eafily fowt. ‘When
ic was ficft brought over by the Portugals into France and the neighbouring proyin= ces, ic was wonderfully cryed up by the Merchants, as being’of thin parts, and having power to digeft, co more urine and fwear, to confum Excrements of al forts, toclenfethe Bowels, free from obftructions, clear the blood from cortuprion, to cake away pains in the Joynts, to be good for the Venerea) difeafe, and becaufe ’tis cemperate, itmay fafely be given toany age, fex 5 any time of the year, and to thofe chac aré feaverifh 5 al which faculties whenas they are nor in Guajacum, by fome of chat time it was made ule of not only. for the cure of other difeafes, but alfo for the cure of che pox it was preferred before Guajacum. Which very thing caufed thac Charles che fitch Emperour, being fick of amoft grievous Gout, ‘was the firft almoft chac would make tryal of the ute of chis Root, upon the advice of fome Phy- fitians. But experience afterwards leflened that fame,’ and Ful, Palmarius writes of chis bufinefs de le Vener. Cap. 14. that many to their great detriment have pre- ferred this root before Guajacum,and that he hach found by experience, chat alfo ui 4 very ftridt diet it hath been uneffedtual againft this difeafe, oftentimes alfo the fto- mach is feen to become fo moift with che ufe of 1s‘decoction, ‘and che Native heac oppreft, thatagreat Lientery, and crudity hath often followed in‘ thofe who had but weak Fuell for cheic implanted heat. Befides thefe difcommodities and faults, he writes alfo chat it doch oftentimes caufe {welling of the Spleen and hatdnefs, in thofe that ufe ic long 3 neither doth he granc it co have extraordinary‘vertue apgaintt chis difeafe eicher by its whok:fubftance or occulc quality, when as after che ufe of it, chey who chought themfelves wel, do dayly falintoa relapfe' of ‘the fame’ Dileafe. The fame alfo. is confirmed by Gabriel: Fallopius: Lib! - de’ Morb.~ Galii. Cap. 60. who writes that he hach ufed chis Root again and again, for the Cure of this Difeafe, but could do nothing with it, in the meerim he writes chat he hath ufed it with happy fuccefs for the dtopfie, tomoderate the mobility of the Humors in hot bleared Eyes,: and ina hot diftemper of rhe ftomach and Liver.’ And other Phy- ficians alfoagree inthis, that chis Root for the Cure of the French Pox is far in feri=
our’to Guajacum and Sarfapatilla, alchough it be proficable‘to preferve and ftreng-
then the heat of our body, and therefore for other difeafes. Andif by. chance any cne, who could not be cured neither by. che decoction of Guajacum nor by the unétion of Quick-filver, hath recovered health by the Decodtion of China Ful.
P glmarius thinks this is the Caufe of it, becaufe Nature rejoycing in the Variety of ° > Remedies and weary of che ftronger,at-length is eafied by chofe that are lefs effectual. -
Yet Garzias ab Horto, relates of the Root being freth, chacit doth fo exceedingly heat, chat ifany one ule the pure Decoétion of it, or drink it hoc, by reafon of the coo great heat of che Medicine he wil fal incoexceeding beats of the liver,Eryfipilaes, and Phlegmons, and ocher moft grievous Symproms. Buc when.as ’tis broughe over co us infipidand fomrimes dufty, there 1s no caufe co fear any fuch ching. Neitherdoth this only happen in this planr, but alfoin many others, that the Ali- mencal juyce hach far othec vertues, then the dryed Plants: and therefore though perhaps ‘this’ Roor being frefh in China may have great vercue to Cure the Venereal’ Difeafe,’ yet ic is noc neceflary , that ic retain che fame with us. But divers prepare the decoction ofthis root diverfly, Ful. Palniarius writes chat the common way Of preparing it is this, thac co two ounces of the root, cut in= ‘orounds; and put in an earthen pot, there is poured four pound of water and lec chein fteep twelve houres, afterwards boy! with a gentle fireto the confumption ok the
vert fire 0 as ou fulec three andh lupp Sor may t they that thisra mena Co pect
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Chap. 15. Of Safafras wood.
the one half. Frallopivs boylescwo ounces of the root in twelve pound of water, co the confumption of half, but according co che nature of the difeafe the proportion of the root and water may bevaried: and che root may be boylled from one to three in cwelve pound of water, Yet Septalins adviteth us here, chat chis decoction is moft commodioufly prepared, if one ounce of che root frefh and not rotten be boyled in cen pound of water, & two ounces in twelve pound of water.For he writes,chough many phyfitians,to fave charges, whenas many cannot cake al chat decoétion in one day,and they feare if chey fhouild keepic another day ic would grow fowre, do boy! half che portion of China in half the quantity of water, and boy! away the half, or cwo thirds, chinking that fo they have both faved their purfe, and prepared che decoction as ftrong, yet they are very much deceived, and if they have not loft their tafte, chey fhal eafily know, that chat firft deco@ion is much more powerful, than che fecond, and the reafon isready, becaufe ’ris nocenough to givea ptoporcton of the rootra the water, but the cime of boyling is cheitly tobe confidered, and the action of the heat of the fire, and the reaction of the water. For whenas, foure houres fj pace, imagine, ought to be allowed, to extract the vertue out ofa moft hard roor, and communicate it to the water: how much time wil be fpenctin boyling away fix or eight pins of water, if taking buc thehalf quancicy, viz. half an ounce of China with fix pints of water, we fuffer che half co waft or two thirds, which wil be con= fumed in Jefs than two houres {pace, the water being lefs able to refift the action of the fire? nor let any one dare to fay that we may prevenc this inconveniency, by making a lefs quantity of fire, and if ic he boyled by a flower fire for to extract chis vertue out of amore folid fubftance, there ought alfo co concur a due quantity of fire.
Out of rhe remainders another drink is prepared by fome for dinner and fupper. . : as out of Guajacum. Yer Palmarius rhaole che atthe vertue of that root is eee The Second fufed in the liquor ac the firft boyling, and therefore for ordinary drinkhe boyles decottion. chree ounces more of the root in eight pound of water cilrwo pinrsare coniumed and he ads raifonsand liquarifh,nay fome alfo drink the firft decoction,ac dinner and {upper, whenas ir is noc unpleafant coche caft.
Some alio do admonish us, chat we provide nomore of the decoction at once than may befpent in oneday, whenas it quickly growes four when ’cis cold, therefore they command alfo chat ic be kept on warm afhes: but experience hath taughe us that it willaftfourdayes. Yet becaufe it growes four, chac very ching tels us thac this rooc hat¥ in it, fomewhat {pirituous and alimenta}, which isthe caufe of fer- mentation, and hence of acidity.
Contult concerning this with Amatus. Lufitamus centur.’1. curat. 98. and ef- pecially centur. 2. curat. 31.
CHAP. X Vil. Of Saffafras wood.
Hey ufe alfo forthe cute of che Venera) difeafe that wood whichis connonly Saf i called faffafras, which is imported form the Ifland called Florida : it is of an afjasr as aromatical cafte like fennel : cis hot and dry in che fecond degree, of a chin fubftance ” 90% and endewed with an opening, difcuffive, and acrenuating faculty 3 and therefore Fepaoceee| is commended by them who have failed to che Indies, againft long tertian feavers, xf si evilhabit of the body, and dropfie, andco ftrengthen the ftomach, and againft ne- phiitical paines, 1¢ is comended alfo for the gout, to move the courfes, and many o- cher difeaies, co treat of whichis not proper to this place 3 ’tisufed alfo for che cure of the French pox, yet moft phyficians agree chat ’cis lefs effectual than Guaja~ cum and farfaparilla, and the decoction of ic isprepared almoft as chat of Sarfapa- rillae H 2 CHAP.
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Chap. X71, | we ied noisy Of Supe: wort; i : |
Soapwort. i of alfopewort is commended by fome phyfitians forthe cure oPthis dileate which is bitrer, acrid, and endewed witt'an abfterfive and opening faculty, and is praifed for the French pox and contumiacrous paines, which cannot be over come by orher remedies. °Tistreported to be the invention of Zapata atpannifh Empuirick : tis'‘ufed both in the deco@ion 9 andin fubftance, the decoction ts prepa= réd after this manner. Take ofgreen fopemort two bandfulsinfufe tbem al nigbt in eight pound of tater, than boy! it til the (o pewort rs boysed enough, then {train one pound of it with balf & pound of water and the herbs hove boyled . and (queez them, and referve it for 2 mornings draught to provoke {reat 5 taking (oven or eight ounces. ‘but that which remains fooeet?n with ratfors’ or {ugar jor drink at meales, in {ummer and Choterick bodies you may add one bandfn! of Sowtbiftle or bafterd Navel- mort.
But cis a remedy unpleafing co the taft, Euftachiaes Rudius takes of {oa p-wort fix pupils or inore, and infaferhicin twelve pound oi water,and boyles 1c to the. cou= fumprion ofaalf ~ Buc as Septallivs hath obferved,tis too preata quancity of Water tofeimala portion offoa p- Wort.
The pouder. but che Root Cheifly is ufed. in fubftance,,and Rudius doth very much Conte mend-ic wranctent french pains,* and our of it Ke prepares this pouder. Take ofground pine to ounces ; of wobite dittander one ounce and balf 5 of Ze- doary fix drams: of the root of foapooort three drams : of pearl prepared balf a es dram.
Its deco- ion.
pouder? and the other medicines do'far exceed the foapwort, which nocwithftan- ding ought to be the balis.
CHAP XVTIL Of Componnd Alesipbarmaca.
Compouond 4% U: though al the medicines hitherto reckoned up, aregoodto deftroy this dif Alexipbbr- P cafe, yet fome are more eff: tual thehlothers, and befides tome have other macainthe qualities, for che which chey are uleful tometimes for chis, fomérimes for chat end, as was faid of che irmples : and therefore feldonporigof theie medicines is ufed, buc for che moft parr, many of chem cogecher. Madeed if che difeate be fimple, cnd none of che bowels be affected, nor there is boeminent diftemper in any part,.% hichinay ‘+hinder the ufe cf Guajacuny, chat Wood is thé moft exceéllent d: al, becaute at refifts this difeate both by ts occule and matter qualities: btic if arty’ dileate be joyned with it, tis ofteniciayes Mott proticable ‘to add’ farfapadrilla ad’ China and there are added by'fome manny afcecing medicines, 6f which whenas We'feake before, ih chis place we tha} ad nothing of chem, burchis, that we mutt have a'care leaft by the mix- cure of Succoriesand ’ endives and coating medicines which ara ‘added to moderate che heat of Guayacumy which yet ts not ie much to be feared, they hinder {wéating which is only ro be defired, and which brings tiore bénefic, chena litcle heating can do dammape ‘next df al leat by che admixcion of other things the drink be made uns gratettr! aud nauieous, therefore palfitig by thefe thac we may {peake fomewhat of che mixture of alexipharmaca, if the nature of the patient be very bot aud dry, and | che
Veneral dif- Cafe.
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Chap. 18.
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the humors: violenely fal fromthe headbonthe turigs; ‘Brealt or athe pars, ‘Ga; aa
aca Seat Leo See ace
‘cin Wood is nor commodioufly piven alonejwhenas'itdoth fitther Heacand diy the’ “patts, and by its heae make che hunvors tun and hsve, but: chen Tarfaparilia is fat er, and China more comodious, which doch at oncéiiodérate the heats‘ and ‘hath. an aftrictive power, ‘by which ic ftops detluxions: en'che contrary if the ftréngth be feeble, and there be a weakniés of che fight, farfais hotcommedious, whenads' ic loofenfs the ftomach, and duls che fight,’ if chere bea plédc confumption ( if fo be dr hath not ics original from the V enereal difeate,for thet chis difea te being téken away
as the ‘caufe, that wafting alfo ceafeth;’ and the bédy bepins to be hourifht ‘beteer’)
Guajacumi and farfapitilla are not fafe, But chén chinais facmere proficable
, ds
thar which moiltens iubftatcifically, as they fpeak) Yer Ludiciptalivs commends Salaparilla above alche réft againft a'confimption, lib. 7. animadv. num. 214. as fhal be {aid alfo hereafter in the laft chaprer. Soif cruel paines moleft the pati- ent, OF gumMmMoLs cumors, Or exceeding ulcers be joyned with them, Safaparila
is moft proticable, which doth difcuflé the french knobs, and eafier apreate the
pains,then Guajacum. Thus accordih¢ to the confticucion of the Patients, and the
Nature of che Di ealesyoynhed withit, "ti$ god lomtiies to ule Guajacum alone fomtimes Sarfaparilla, Toritimes Chita Roor,’ and formtimes io mix al of chem, in
€s trite heh et acum isadded; fomtime
a greacer of leffer quatitity, ‘and fomtiniés the bark of Guraj three or four ounces weight toone porind'of che wood, andt pound of water. For examples'fake.
~
3
$
hey are boyiled in fifteen
Take Of thewood of Guajacuin balf a pounds of the bark of the fame, of fanta~
rt
parila each three ounces: of China root one ounce and balf. | njule them troenty four boures in toelve pound of water, afterrearas letibem be boyled to the confum-
ption of balf, for afweating drink, Podure onibe remainder
. } 2 Fan] tmweive pouna or 7
water, let them ftand and infufe eight houres afterreards boybibem to a confump-
tion of athird part, for drink at meales, ~ Or.
Take of the Wood of Guajacum one pound 3 the bark of the fame, Sarfaparilla of
o
each thre ounces. Boyt tbem in fixteen pornd of water,to the confiie pion of balf.Or
°
Take of the wood of Guajacum,Chind root each ove ounce an ball Sarfaparilla one ounce;infuje them twenty four bours in fix pound of water,afterraards boyl balf away. Poure on the refidue ten pound of water , boylit te the conjaim ption ‘oy three
pound : Strainit and give it for drink atineales, Or;
Take of wood of Guajacumeight ounces; of the bark of the fame four ouncers [ar-
faparilla,faffafras wood each two ounces.” Boyl them in iwelvé poiind Of to4ter
to ibe confumption of trvo thirds that there remains four pound towards tbe éndiad four pound of wine.Poure to the remainder fixieen powa of water: boyl to tbecoit~ fumption of balf
Inchis place we muft nor omic a queftidn, “coucerhihp’the ule of. putgers, whilés the decoction is drank co wit whether chey ought co be mixt with che decoction ote be ufed at thie fame time wich the decattion: For fonie do wholy-rejeGticheam,s and hold that purgetsare neither to be mixéd’ wich cthe‘decoction } ‘fer to be Juled aparc, forthis reafon, becatsfe the bodies! are wont dihpencly co be peaged before they come ro the'wfe of chete decoctions, ‘next of albecatife putsers andi{weacers docaafe contrary motions, + Orhers on the contrary do ndix plirgers wich ichefe’ de- coctions, that by benefit of chent the blood may be purefied, avid che belly ¢conftanes ly kepe loofe :' others'do not mix purgers with thefe decuctions, but purge at cere cain intervals, every eighth ortench day, or ata lonpérdiftance, asneed requires.
which laft opinion feemes co me to be creweft. For though the body be purved bee’
fore che ufe of chefe decodtiotis, yer fome may eafily remain, and ever and’ anon be collected, and tweating doch purgeonely thethinner humors, ' bac leaves theichick, neither after thismanner are there caufed’contrary mdtihs 3‘ for chat day; that pur= ping wordered {weaters aré'not ddminiftred > bue if ptiegers were mixed with the iweaters chen there would be! contrdty motions. “And befides ‘by the admittion of purgers, che decoGion being'to be ufed fomany weeksic would become nauteous and ingracful. «© Hercules
Whether purgers
ought to be
mixt vith the deco- tion}:
SSR ec nse GO :
4.6 YAH! Of the French Pox.
PES
a ee, rr ne elaacale =
Whether... ‘Hercules Saxonia, alfo holds de lue Vener, Cap, 38. ‘That. purging may be or- purgers may dered every,day,, to witiachofe, in wham {weat cannot, or ought not-to-be cauled: ferve inftead he chinks {weat cannot be provoked in, chem, .who either are.of {uch a hard and thick of fweaters. Skin, chat they canby no means {weat, or in thofe whofal, into. faintingand {wou-
hing fits,} as {oon as {weacersare adminiftred : but he thinks chey ought not to {wear, in.whom che Veneral difeafe pofleffech noc the Joynts, ‘nor che Skin, nor the fuper= ficies of che body, buthath rather raken up its teat about che bowels; bur this opi- nion feems nottome to be agreeable co cruch: for whereas he chinks, chat fome ought to have purgers adminiftred becaule they cannot {weat by reafon of the thick- nefs of theic Skin, or becaufe they prefently fal inco{wouning fits, is agreeable neither co reafon, nor experience: for fcarce any onehath iochick a Ski, chac the pores wil no way open for {wear, and chough on che firft. daies fweat doth nor prelencly follow, yetafterchat che Humors,are atcenuaced by che ufeof thedeco- ctions, che pafiages and pores are opened, chen {weac fucceeds; efpecially if thole Laconick Batis be applied as fhal be faid hereafter. And the Patient may tomo- devate bis iweating, chat he need not fal inco tainting or {wouning fits: and chey that cannot endure {weating, wil noveafily endure purging. Laft of al purgers cannoc performe che iame, aschoiefweatersdo. Burchat infome bodies {weaters are not tobeadminittred, is fali: for chough che difeafe may have its principal feac abour the Liver and bowels, yer it cannot be, butalfo vicious Humors do abound in the whol body,whenas the Liver infected with this difeate doth generate virulent blood, and diitribuce it co che who! Bady.
Chap. XIX. Of the manner of ufing thefe Medicines.
The manner S concerhing the manner of ufiug thefe Medicamenrs, firtt of al rhe decoction of ufing of Guajacum 15 adminiftreds tor the molt pattinthemorniog, and afternoon the Medi=two hours before Supper. in the morning cis given from five ounces co eight or shar nine ounces before che evening, trom three ounces ta, Aix ounces; the pouder is The dofe of givento two drams,. the extract toLtwo iccuples, Yet IQPaUnEs (6 evening draute the decotti= 1s omiccec, efpecially at the begining, before the patient is accuftomed to the De- coction. For what was faid above of moderating che quality of the decoction, Hh that alfo is to be obferved concerning the quantity of che Decoction co be piven, chat the fick be not offended and overcharged which too much of 13. which unle{s it be obferved, .ic happens fomeimes, chat che fick fal into Feavers, con- tract. Crudities, and there is caufeda loofnets, ill habic of body, and a Drop- ear oe the (ame manner we mutt give the Decoction of Sarfaparilla, China Roor, and the compound decoctions. For though tome. do prefcribe here divers dofes,yec
he fhalnocerre, that fhal adminifter them 1n the aforefaid manner. ' 4 And indeed after the mornings drauft, we. muft endeavor thar che Patient {weats Sweat. for experience ceacheth, that they chac, {weac noc upon theraking ot thete Medica- ments, are {carce clearly freed from this Diteate : buc thar {weat may flow the ealier, let the Pacient fleep one hour after he harh taken che Medicine, tor fo the Medicine is deduced into act. As for the time of {weacing, firft of al ic 1s fufficienc, if the “Ihe time of patient {weat one hour, aftecwards by degrees let hum rifeto more. But the man~ Sweating. per of {weacing isvarious ; moft do fuffer cheir Patients to {weat in bed, which chat chey may do the eafier bottles ful of warm water, or hot brick wrapt up in Cloachs, mutt be placed under the Arm=pits and iides of the Patient. Some provide a Woo> den Mantle fuch a one as Andreas Tengelivs, hath ditcribed and tec forth in Excegef. Chymiatre;, which manner of {weating isnot a liccletoublefome. But noc wichouc caule moft men do prefer before al kinds of {weating in. thisditeafe, chac which is in
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ina bach or {weating placeas that which brings lefs trouble cothe fick, when as weak Pacients (wearing in their bed, may ufe.a Bath anda {weating place, and the heat of the bath may be made more intenfe or remifs at pleature, be made dry or moift as the condition cf the fick requires: , yet amoift bath, aid gently. heated by che Vapor of hot water is moft commodious; whenas that hor vapor of the Water, doth open and Lax the poresof the Skin, chat che {weat flows theealier, and without any trouble to the fick: but dry baths are alcopether laborious, and ought not to be ufed in dry and Melancholy bodies. ee, But thofe fweating baths. are twofold, firft of al thofe gaeat_ ones in which a body may walk, fuch as are our bachs fo commonly. called in which many at once may fweat and be wafhed ; fuch though they be uled for the cure of this difeafe by Barbers in Italy, yee they oughtcto be efchewed,. whenas if one that is lightly infect- ed, receive ¢hat which exhales fronranocher grievoully infected, he may be infeét- ed more, and ’tismore commodious that every fick body {weat by hunfelf. Then there are bachs or {makfweating places in which one alone clafed upmay {weat: fuch ate made of bords of woad Joyned together, which again aregasotold, fome which cal receive aman upright... Withouc bowing. of his body cribes i¢ delue Vener. Cap..17. of a Square figure, feven Foot J 4gh, and four. foor longand broad, whofe defcription you may fee there. Wi pus others are in ufe made up of boards. mutually receiving and received by one another, {quare, buc oblong. of thar bredch, thata man may without any impediment {ec and extend his Arms, but two ftories high, one where the Pacienc fers,’ fo high, chac ashe fershe may, puc forth hts Head, . chrough a hole of che bords firiétly ficted for che neck, buc the lower part.is of thac depth, thar ifthe Patient fetcing ftretch forch his Feer, he’ cannot reach the loweft board : and it hatha litcle door, through which che fick tha G9 ico it, and a.window behind, which may be opened upon heceffity : and ic hath anocher:litrle door towards the feet,:,chrough which an Iron or brals Veffel is puc in ful of ftonesor refufeIcton ed hoc; and a Pipe in che uppér patc of it over a= gainft che Veffel;, through which either plain hot water, ot {ome convenient de= coction is, poured on che ftones or drofs by degrees, as much as che Patient can en- dure, from whence the Vapor exhaling diffufed al chrough the body’ doth provoke
« {weat > and chough.afrer this manner. che -head-be chruft. forch, yet chac doth no
hurr, neicher 1s ic unprofitable, even where the head is affected ; for though it ftands
forth, .yet thac {weats plentifully enough: inthe interim the Pacienc doth nor ace “tract again by drawing in his breath. thofe filchy Vapors which do Evaporate from
~ vbis bedy, but the free and pure ayre by which he is teftefhc, that he doth. more eafi= » ly and happuy endure {weating. Buc in what bath foever {weac is provoked, after
the {wearing 1s. over the bath ought to be opened, that thofe filthy Vapors may be
blown away and difcufled by the free Air. © ; The meft convenienc. cime for {weating is the morning, yet fomcimes we may
fweat afcer noone, in which cafe che ftrength of the Patient is to be confidered for »,
there are fome who wil eafily endure {weaciog twice a day, ‘other who but once, others who are not able to endure {weeting once every day. Buc the Medicines which moue.{weat mitt be taken upon an em pty. flomach,. and'an hour or twoafter che
ules ui
“takitg of che Medicine fweac muft-be urged,:. ;
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Buc we muft {weat fo long’as the ftrength of che Patient wil bear it, and ifthe patient {wear ia bach, or{weating place; and is not able to endure any longer che heat of the baeh, he muff be laid i his bed, in which afterwards {wear wil flow of
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aud after. {weating the'cold ayre muft in no wife be admic- ced. | :
Ofthe Maner of ufing thefe Medicines,
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Baths two- fold.
When we uft foveat.
‘How long.
But how often we muft fwear, and how long the ufe of thefe Medicines is to bear often.
continued, cannot-be defined in general. - They corhmonly ‘ceach chat chefe de- coctions are to be continued for forty daies, yet {omtimes twenty five daies or chircy do fuiffice : and fomtimes ina more grievous Difeafe we muft perfift in che ufe of
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thefe Medicines til fixty daies and more.'' ‘For we muft fweat fo often and fo long, til the Malignity of the Difeafeis overcome, and the vitious and virulent Humors aré difcuffed by {weating, and al the Symptomes ceafe, efpecially the running of the Reins and Callous skars. For as fong asthefe laft! We muft remain inthe ufe of thefe Medicines. Nay though al the Symptomes do vanifh, yet itis good fo to.continue the Medicines for fome daies, chat alfothe Maligne difpofitions of the parts may be taken away, ‘that there be no fear of a relapfe.
But after noon, though {weat be not moved, yetthe fame decoGtion given then, may infenfibly difcuffe the vitious Humors, and deftroy the virulent difpofition impreft boch on the parts and Humors.
CH AP. xX x
Of otber common Alexipharmaca ‘
Common Utfome truft not to chofe Alexipharmaca alone, as Guajacum, Sarfsparilla; Alextpbar- {) China Root, and Saffafras wood, bur add alfo common Alexipharmaca. This MAC. was firft done by Fernelins, who gave co thofe chat were to drink: the decoGtion,
halfadram or one dram ofthis Opiate; or Alexipharmacal antidote, which is prepared chus. : Fernelius, “Fake of the Leayes of water Germander, balf an ounce; Poley of the monnt. bis antidote. Penny royal, wbite Hore-bound, Origanum, Calamint, St. Fobns-wort, cen= tory thé lefs'; French Lavender, ground pine, Germander, Spikenard, of each two drams;of the Seeds of Anife,Pennel,Parly wild carrot,Libiftich Rue, Bafile, Clary, Greffes, of the Berries of Bay, Funiper, of the Seeds of Male Piony, of ee ea each half a dram; of the Roots of round Birth-wort, Gentian, ‘Dittandér, 1 Wa Valerian, “Afarabaccha, of each one dram; of Nut-megs, Cloves, Pepper, Me Saffron, of each four fcruples ; of Cinamone, “Myrrb, Caftor, Styrax Calamite, iy of each three drams; of good Honey as much’ as is Sufficient, ‘make’ an ¥ Opiate. ihe Po. ‘Palmarius, Ferneliys his Scholer followed him, who, as was faid be- Ce fore in Lib.1. de lue Vener. Cap. 7. writes,that Fernelins, was moft averfe from mb the ufe of Quick-filver, and firft dared co promife the Cure of this Difeafe without He WM the help of that, and did take care for the compounding of many ‘Alexipharmaca at his Houfe, which he adminiftred againft the Mifcheif of this Difeafe,with Gua- jacum and alfo without it, two of the which, which he found to be moft excel- Jent and efficatious, he defcribes, the firft was difcribed even now, the other is ditt peepee
Takeof Divils. bit, Scabious, Burnet, flowers of Marigold, Mullein,Plan- tane, Balme, Rue, Broom, Origanum, Rofemary fiowers, Red Rofes, of each threedrams , of the Seeds of Citron, Sorrel, Fennel, bleffed Thiftle, of the Roots-of Dittander, Gilliflowers, Tormentil, round Birtbwort, Gentian, Ze- doary, Roman Woolfesbane, of each two drams4 “Hartshorn, foavings of Ivory, Wood.of Aloes, Yellow Saunders, Choice Cinamome, of each balf an ounce ; Saffron, Cloves, Nutmeg, of each two drams. :
And He relates that he called the firft compofition, the greatet Opiate, the o- ther the lefs, and that he gave for a dofe halfa dram of either with the like quan- tity of conferve of Buglofs and halfafcruple of Mithridate, and fomtime without Mithridate ; bot that he, after Fernelins departed this life, out of them both did compleat one, adding alfo certain other Medicines, which he found to be pre- valent againft poyfons,, and moft fitto provoke fweat, the defcription of which is
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Cs eae me ORR tet Di ot Take of water germander half an ounce; of divels-bit, {cabious ‘Mount, peneroyal, calamint, white {weet Snelling Horehound St. Fobns-wort, centory ihe lefs, French Lavender, Germander, Ground Pine, Plantane, Balme, rue, Tune, Elder, each two drams ; of Hyffop,. the leffer Sage, Oake Ferne,vervin, bot! {peedwels each two.drams 3 Flowers of Betony, Marigould, Mullen, Broome, Kofemary, Fafmin, Sage, Red Rofes, Sr. Fobns wort, Buelofs, ‘Burrage, Violets, Water Lilies of each Anis, both Parfleys, voild Carot, Scarlet Graines, St Fobns. Wort, Libiftick, ‘Rue, Lovage, Bafil, Berries of Bay, Funiper, feeds. of both mort of each on dram and half, Seeds of citron, Sorel, Bleffed Thifile, Fennel, of each three drams ; of the roots of male Piony, Round Birthwort, Gentian, Sweet cane,Flowerdeluce of Florence ,Smpeet.C yprus,each one dram; of Angelico, Dittander, Gilliflowers, tormentil , Zedoary,. Romane Woolfesbane, of each three drams and an bal f 5 of choice perle three drams and hal 3 of Harts born,Sha- wings of Ivory each one ounce wood of aloes,yellore faunders bone of the heart of a hart,beth currals each half an ounce-; choice cinamon onedram and balf; Balfome wood,if it may be bad one ounce;of al pretious ftones,each balf a dram; of Nuimeg, mace, loves, myrrh, ftyrax,C alamite,Benjamin,Saffron,Caftorseach half adram ; peice of liquorifh one ounce 3oyl of the feeds of F ennel, Anife, of Sage,mint,juniper, Nutmee,Cloves, red opobal{amum brought out of America if it be to be bad of each one dram. Eee al che che herbs, flowers, and rootes be gathered at that time the telt ftrenech, lec chem be dryed, and kept in paper cafes, then al of chem being res duced into a moft fine pouder, let chem be mixt with wine and honey, and be Boyled into an electuary, cil it comes cothe thicknefs of wel prepared mithridace - yet che Howers may be candied and kept with {ugar, chac they may be mixc with the other things cowards che end of cheir boyling,co one pound of honey mix two ounces ofthe pouders Ler ic be kept in a moft large earthen veflel, whofe chird pact may beempry, leaftic{wel up, and gtow hor, neither lec ic come co chac ule we thal by and by {peakeof, before it be three years old. He ads chere alfo a cordial wae ger, and an alexipharmacal pouder, their difctiptions arethefe ; che Cordial wa- ter. Take Of the keaves of fage, mint, marioram, ‘rue, hyfop, of betony each one handful, Bruifetbem al and put them in a in avoarm place and cover them voith the voater of bleffed thiftle, th tty every day ftir them with a flick, and before they foure, (which wil be the fourth or fifth day after.) Strein out the liquor and keep it, cafting aay the Feces. Ac eqin, Take of planiane leaves, marigold, balme, mullein;St. Fobnswort centory te leh, burnet, each too handfuls. After they bave beenfteeped four dayes and ftrei- ned caft them away, and take again of water germander, Bivels- bis, fennel, par- fly, buglo{s, burage, angelico of each one bandful. Which alfo being fieeped, fo many dayes ftreined and tben caft awdys Take of the roots of angelico,’ dittander ; tormenizl, betony, Zedoary, each balf an ounce ; of galangal, three drams 5 Netmegs , Cloves, each one dram ; feeds of Fenel, Citron, Sorrel, Bleffed thifile, Funiper ‘berries each two drams ; whavings of Ivory, barts born, wood of aloes, Yellow Saunders, cinamon each ene dram, Saffornbalf a dram; make a pouder of it and mice it pith the Liquor ftreined, then weigh out of the amulet againft this difeafe, and of choice mitbredate each one pound and balf ; of old treacle foure drams; and being mixt with the
y are of prea~
Said liquor and pouder, and putup ina glafs alembick,or an earthen one glazed,
expose them fix or eight dayes to the beat of June, it! they grow bot, and be perfettly
fermented, and at length diftil them in a double veffel with a moft gentle fire. If the fame fimples be putinto anew pot with the water of baftard jaffron and be beat-
ed fifteen dayes in warm horfe-dung , there wil be extratted a more excellent Water. 1 Take
s burnet; Poley Palinarius . , origanum, mint, bis antidote
three drams; Seeds of
Ponies, Hart-:
origanum, the tops Galmarins + great earthen wveffel bis Cordiok at they be under water.
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50 | ‘Of the French Pox. ~~ \Pake of the aforefuid water three ounces S yrup of Lemmons and | Violets, « of
reach fie drams, Make a dofe. A Deleription of the Pouder.
ag | Palmarius Take ofthef~bavings of lvory, the younger Harts- born, Choice Pearles of eacis PY bis Alexi- ‘balfa dram, woodof Aloes, Yellovo Saunders, the bone of the beart of aHarty A pharmacal ofeach one feruple, Seeds of Fennel, Coriander prepared, ‘of each one dram ; the Mi Beit Pouder. ‘Leavesof Ment; Plantane, Vervin, Burnet, of each'two fcruples , the Roots cf Tormentil, ‘Betony, Zedoary, of each half adram ‘the dryed flowers of Betonys We a ‘Marigold, ‘Broom, of each balf adram; Sugar of Roles three times as much. he | | ‘Make a fine Pouder. i Thedofe'is one fpoonful beforemeat, and before a drauft of the {weating drink, i iat if the'Patient refufe the ufe of the Opiate. {ge 4! And incap. 13. Lib. de le Vener. where he difputes, whether this Dileafe may Dt beipetfedtly cured by the ufe of Guajacnm alone, or whether there be need of the i, NaN affiftance of other Medictnes joyned with it, aclaft heconcludes with a diftinéti- hy i on, ‘tharcthe-vertue of Guajacum is neither fo great, that that alone can wholly ee at Extirpate, the Roars znd whol malice of the Venereal poyfon, nor fo weak, that bi " iccan perform nothing without the help of others; that by the ufe of that only, Mit the Fluniors'be wafted, ai Symptomes wil at length beallaied, and wholly lie hid, Va bucverthe cgine of che ddeafe, which hack already taken poffeffion of the folid | } ‘ol cannot in moft\bocies be wholly overcome, and extinguifhe by thar re- f MI meay. i Wl Rondeletius Pondeletms, doubtiefs followed thefe men alfo, who de morb. Itali, com- hh bis Treacle mend his Treacle water, which provokes {weatin the inveterate Italian Difeafe, Waier. and takes away the pains, the defcription of which is chis. Take of Treacle, one pound ; of Sorrel, three bandfuls; of the flowers of Cha- i momel, “Peny-royal, Pomesranates, bleffed Thiftle, of each two ounces. ‘Mix | WY them alin white wine'and difti them. / Pa hy “OF which water give three ounces to drink with three ounces of Sorrei and
ij | Buglofs water, when the Patient goes into bis bed or hot houfe. | 7 “Platerus alfo thinks that it is confirmed hy experience, thatthe decodions of Phelan _ _ other plants, befides Guajacum, Sarfaparilla, China, Saffatras 5 can performe the Tih dee Vee fame inthis difeafe as theydo, and therefore fals incothis opinion, but evilly. - éafe, do work ratherinche cure of this difeafe, by moving {weat, then by an ee- cult quality, and therefore he thinks that not oaly a decoction ef box wood, Ju» _ fiiper, Cedar, Cyprefs, and Savin, Agallochus, Rofe-wood, bne aifo the de- cocion, and Treacle water, which are given in Peftilent Feavers, are profitable
allo here.
Whetber . A#relius Minadons de Ine Vener. cap. 53. when.he had {pcken many things in
treacle be the praife of Treacle at lengch concludes, chat Treacle alfo may be ufed agasnft che codinthe Venereal virulency,as a moft excellent Alexiterum,notas if it were co be numbered Pe rceal amongft them, which of themfelves are faid to expel this virulency, but amongit
fe chem, “which expel ic by accident, inas much asic doch ftrengthen the {pirits, by difeafe. , > : 4 ? . 4 a Conformable proportion co them, fo charthey being now made ftrong, are able as the principal agent, cogether with the Treacle as their inftrument to overcome the maligoity ofthe venereal virulency. ~ pron, Lnefame Author cap.44. commends Trochisks Cypheos inthis Dileafe, 2s Trochisks eo. ; h,! : Pils Lo Guvbeos being fuch, which do-principally Itrengthen the Liver, which inthis Difeafe 1s dag chieHy affeGed, and free itfram Excrementitious Humors, which are collected io this Dilcafe, being. powerful co concoct, cleanfe, anddry upthe Excrement and therefore as Gulen thought this Compofition-was to be preferred before al o- ther Medicines written by. Ajclepios, Andromachus, and other moft Famous Phys fitians for the affedts. ofthe Liver, fo he thinks the fame isto be ufed and Magnifi« ed beyond al others in this Difeafe.
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Chap.21. Of the (wre by Quick-filver.
But as I wil not diffwade any one from the ufe of fach common Alexipharmaca in the cure of this Difeafe, whenas in other cafes itis acuftome, when any one hath drank poyfon, or any waies takenit, and knows not what itis,to give treacle and common Alexipharmaca: fo] wilcounfel no body. that he confide only in thefe Medicines, and neglect thofe proper ones. And I fee it done by very few Phyfitians, as being taught by experience, that this Difeafecannot wholly be ex- tirpated without Guajacum, Sarfaparilla and the like, neither doth it follow,that therefore, becaufe fome fick of an incurable French Pox, could not be cured by Guajacum wood, that we muft place more hope in thefe Medicaments. For they that could not be cured by thofe proper Alexipharmaca, wil much lefs be cured by thefe common ones.
CHAP. X'XT. Of the Cure by Quick-filver.
Nd this is the chief kind of Medicine for the cure of the Venereal difeafe,and Of the cure this is the chief manner of curingit. Forthereis alfo another way of cu- b Quid ring the fame Difeafe by quick-{ilver, which was firft brought into ufe by Chy- ner rk rurgions and barbers,afterwards alfo was applyed by learned Phyfitians.Forwhen-- as, as was faid before by Fraca(torius, certain Barbars had found out amoneft the Medicines of our anceftors for the filthy fcab joyned with the pains of the joynts, unguents compounded of Mercury and Sulphur, other Medicines profi- ting little, they begantoufethem. Theufe of which being not altogether un- fuccefsful, afterwards quick-filver was ufed inthe cure of this Difeafe by many learned Phyfitians. But though it be not my purpofe in this place to treat of quick-filver, which the Chymifts cal Mercury, but rather of the ufe of itin curing this difeafe, yet I thal admonifh you of a few thingsin general. Quick-filver is reckoned amongft the ___ mettals, and tis called Silver from its color in which it refembles filver, but quick Quick filver becaufe . tisalwaies moveable: andics Nature is altogether wonderful, which hence fo many learned menadmire, and which hath tortered the wits of many Chymifts, called. and deluded cheir pains. Forthoughit be mortified, fixed, or what way foever Its wonder= ic oftentimes feems tobe changed, yeticis eafily reduced to its former quick Na~S#! Nature. ture. And though it be reduced into the {malleft bodies,and tranfmitted through leather, or be orhetwife reduced into atomes, and a ftrang form, - yetit retaines in them its whol Nature and effence, and returns to its former quick body- F Neca lists and Phyfitians differ concerning itstemperament, whilesfomehold —_fyporher itto’be cold others hot. “Matthias Ungerus, hath collected the arguments Of Quick filver both in Anatom. Spagyr. “Mercu. co alleage al whichat large inthis place, is not be bot. er ourintent, for you may confulc wich him on that bufinefs in the alleaged place; Hi 8 yetby and by we thal make mention of fome of them: but Ungerus himfelf, : cap. 12. goes the middle way, and holds, thatfome natural things have often- Waithias times inthem diverfe, and wholly contrary vertues and faculties, and fome of Ungerus bis them are manifeft, orhers occult,and that chefe depend onthe fpecifick form,thofe opinion. on the firft qualities of the Elements, which he proves by the examples of Worm- wood, Rhubarb, Vineger, and others: and hechinks Mercury is co be reckoned in the number of thefe which may be confidered bothas crude, and as prepared : the crude he thinks hath mixt qualities, andis partly hot, partly cold, and that diverfity isto be attributed to che divers parts of che matter of which ic confiftss fome of whichare very thin, Subtile, pure, and Spirituous, but fome are thick, earthy and feculent: but ke thinks that Mercury prepared hath no longer - a 52 ie ree) fn
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1. ee Of the French Pox.
cold quality, but they are wholly taken away by the outward help of fire, or by the Application of the menftrua, and therefore that it is very hor
Hercules ‘Hercules Saxonia, holds the fame de lue Vener. Cap. 39. Whiles he teacheth, Saxonia. that chis Medicinedorth exulcerare, and caufe heat and inflamations on theocher fide ic caufeth numnets, Palfies, and other cold afftéts, and that ir proceeds from the inequalicy of itstemperament, and becaufe cis an imperfect mixe body, and if it be prepared by calcination, chac the cold fubftance doth fly away, and chat which is lefr, 1s fire,
But thele auchors erre very much. indeed it cannot be denied, that there are many Medicines, which have Hecerogeneous parts, by verrue of which,they produce divers effects, which parts alto may be feparaced by the help of art : But char Quick-filver hach fuch parts, is fall, neicher was there yec ever found any Chymift, who could fhow the diverfe parts inic, and feparate chem by are: for the whol is Homogene= ous, if there be any ching fo in Nature, and eicher ir al flies away, or alremaines, and what way foever ic ts prepared, ac jaft ital revives wholly Homogeneous: and
The authors Opinion.
Quick filver whatfoever Chy mit can fhow any Heterogeneous parts in Quick- filver, as in Rhus
ws Tomoge~ barb, thal be in my efteem apreac Apollo. Neither is precipicace of another Na-
2COUS» ture then thac whichis crude, neither doth Quickefilver loofe any thing by its prea paration, andchac prepared does differ from the crude only in excernal form which is caused by che admifticn of other chings, which fomtimes are Sale parts as happens in Mercury Sublimate and Precipicace, fomeimes only watry as when Mercury ig reduced iato water by a rerore without che admiftion of any other ching, as the fameé Ungerus teacheth Lib. 2. de Anatom. Mercu. cap. 2.n. 4. for chis warer is nothing elfe buc che Quick-filver refolved into che {malleft bedies or Atomes by che ftrength of the firey and mixc with watry Vapors, or che moift Air. Yet inchac there ap* peare no effects ofcold, but rather ofhear, and chat very water, as other mercurj= al waters, wil diffolve gold in ike manner, Saxonia is miftaken, for Quick-filver is no imperfect mixt body, buca body thac hath the moft perfeét miftion, and can» not be deftroicd, by any are of the Chymifts, buc every where retaine; its form, neicher whiles it is calcined Cor. rather expofed co che fire, for Quick-filver cannot properly be faid to be Calcined ) dothe cold parts fly away, and the fiery ftay be« hind, buc if Chole parts which are railed up be received, they are of che fame Natiice with thole that remaine, asis wel known to the Chymift,
Therefore whenas this Reconcilation is of no force, lec us fee who ts in the righrer Quick filver whecber thofe who hold Quick-tilver co be hor, orchofechac fay ciscold. Bur { is bot. chink that chey are alrogecher of che r:ghter judgment, who chink irtobe hor; fot
that appears by its preac penetrating and corroding vertue, fo rhac it penerracesand Eatsinto Metcals, andthe fleth, nay the very bonesare corroded by Mercury preci= picateand {ublimate. Aud Libavius writes intraé. deignenati. cap.30. rhat he knew by therelation of a moft learned Phyfician, chat a certain Chyrurgion dying by the too freqnent ufe of Mercurial Medicines, had his bones plainiy britle or frangible. hl i The anfwwer But whenas they object ficft of al, that whiles *cis quick and whol ic doch not of therea- corrode: thecaute of thatis, becaute it cannoc infinuace it {elf into the body, and fons againft worke upon it, whenas al its parts are moft clotely knit together nor cannor be mixes it. ed with other bodtes 3 bur che Medicines prepared out of It as Mercury fublimare, 7? Precipitace, Oyl of Mereury; and if chere be any more of this kind, havea great power to burn and corrode not only by rhe reafon of Salrscommixt, wnich is very licele, but becaute "tis refolved inco the {maleft bodies,and being :mxt with the Salts it can adhereco che body, and by the benefit of things admuxc, mott intimately iné {inuace it felf inco it. fi Secondly whereas Quick-filver appears cold to the touch, that is common to it with ftecl, Brais, Lead, Wine, things of their own Naturehor, which by accidene feel robe cold. Thirdly,
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Thirdly, whereas fomealfo from the effects wou cold, in that they are very much deceived 3 and the which have their dependance eliwhere. Truly, with quick filver on the Alps, are fick of divers fluxes, and are taken with a bron= chocele. Goldi{michs, and others, who often deal with quick=filver, are feldom healehful and Jong lived, butate obnoxious to numnelies, tremblings, palfies, con= vulfions, lechargies, fuffocating, catatths, and appoplexies, Thus ‘Fernelius ree lates of a cereain Gold{mith that im prudently admuicting the vapour of quick-filver Only, prefently became ftupid, drowzy, and wholly {peechle(s. Ferdinandys Ponrettus relaces chac the fame happend to another, lib. 1. devene. cap.3. And Foreftus, lib. 8. obfer. 5. writes, That acertain yong man learning the Smiths arc upon che aching of a Cup wich quick-filver, had all the hair of his head fell off, and that his face became extraordinary pale, and all his body tremulous: and many o- thers have obferved the fame. And Facobus Oethoeus, in bis obfervat. reports, Whac a certain yong Noble man troubled with Crab-lice in his Privities, ufed Mercu~ rial Oyniment todrive them away ; upon which his Yard grew cold and fluggith; and unfic for Venery. Buthere isa fallacy of the canfe, for quick-filver doth not ge cheiethingsby cooling, but becaufe it hath a peculiar and occult quality , chat is
an enemy to the Nerves and Brain, as appears in many other ftupifying poy= fons,
Fourthly , That which is Objected, is eafily Anfwered; to wit, That che Gamage brought upen mans body by quick filver, is cured by the ufe of hor chin $5 as Sage, Hyffope, Origarum, Clary, Rue, Caftor, and the like: For thofe Medica= meats are not thetetore applied co che prerernatural affects caufed by quickefilver only, becaule they are hot, but becaufe they are friends co the Brain and Nerves : and furthermore, as they themfelves grant, by a {pecifick property are enemies to the Mercurial virulency ; and that iuch things are not therefore applied becaufé they are hot, bur becaufe by a peculiar verrue they are friends to che Nerv peais by this,becaule other hor things, as Ginger, Pepper,and che like, whi ipecilick property ireindly ro che Nerves, do not perform the fame,
But concerning che Occule Vercue and Propriety of Quick-filver, we chief meet Withrwodeubis; Fuft ofall, Whether it be poyfonous: next of all, Whe= thee it be tightly applied for che Cure of the Venereal Dileale.
Concerning tre tormer Queftion, Whether Quicks filverbe Poyfonous, we have aleeady treated before, in rrattat. deC byin. & Ariftot. confenf. & diffenf. cap. 19. where we {peak 0 Mercury, and we faid there, That Matthias Unzerus de anatom. fasyr. Meras, did endeavour to prove at large, Thac Mercury is not poyfonous
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WIites, oq: pa area Fi) Me by Fe +, ws denied That Quickfilver doth not hurr many hac drink it 5 for chat with its qualici Blea
es pokes forth by the fteol. Haly Abbas lib 1. pratt cap. 35, Rbafes in no. ad Manjfor.
de potm areen, vi. do affirm the fame. ‘Braffavolus alfo doch ceftifie in Izb, de fiirp, exami. That he bath given Quick-tilver co Infantsco expel Worms.’ And Fallo- pims de Metallis cap. 37. holds, Thar Mercury may be caken inro the body without the fear of any burc; and he relates rhat Beafts do {wallow quick-filver wechone any hate: For when they abound with Worms, which your Leeches know by their breach, if they (wallow four feveral times half a Filbert thell full of Quickfilver caft into their mouths,they are cured, no worfe Difeafe fucceedingit. And he witnef- fech that he bach civen to Children in extream danger, whom ocher means have availed neching, the quancicy of two or three grains of Millec wich evident {ucce{s, The fame Author, de Morb. Gallic. cap. 76. writes, Thac he faw a Woman which crank a pounder Mercury to canie an Abortion, yer withouc any bure. “Matthiolus allo reports th Yb.1. diofcorid. cap. 170. ( which allo Euftachius Rudius relates, That he hath eften obferved, when be practifed Phyfick there ) That in the Town Gorritienfis the Nurfes do give Quick-filver to litcle Ghildren to drink in che
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a ee oe 54. Of the French Pox. kb SUES EEEEEEREEETEE i eM TI sveendehinad quantity of two grains of Millec forthe Wormsin the Belly, without any trouble at | pi al. Andthe Midwives when great bellied Women lie long in Jaber, do prefently tet give to drink a fcruple weight of Mercury without any inconvenience: and Georgim ©) jie us Agricola relates, that.a certain Woman did oftentimes fraudulently give Quick- D Wie filver co her Husbandthaefhe might kilbim, and neverchelefs he continued healch- er: ful nay it hath been obferved thac {ome thirfty in che night, bave in the dark taken up ne Veffels ful of Quick-filver.inftead of drinking Cups, and witha wide Throat have aa taken of the Quick-{ilver in agreat quancicy, yet have caftic forth again by the | ‘it ftool without any hure. And Exftachius Rudius, add Lib. 5. de Morb. occult. | wt cap,15 that he.hach feen. chis, and chat others have obierved ir, chat tome bodies " have been diffected, in which no {mal quancity of Quick-filver hath been collected ‘i in the-Cayities of the bores, from che unétion in the French Pox, who notwith- | ds {tanding have lived many,years after che unétion. Which feems not poflibleto be | sth Tis af done, if it were poy fon by Nature; vt . e ert : But Galen, Aetius, the reconciler, Cardan, Fernelius, Perdinandus Pon- Ay firmed. gettus, ful, Pabnarius, whom alleaged in the queted place cap. 19. des 7 confens, et.diffens, Chymic. cum. Aviftotele. do difter from thefe. And experi- " ence it felf hach brought moft eminenc men into that opinion, by which ic is evidenr, ye that quickfilver doth no lets caufe numnefies, convulfions, “tremblings, palfeys, per epileplies, apoplexies, f{yncopes, than other poyfons, nay fomeimes death ic felf. cuty And{ome doreporr, chac chey are feldom Jong lived, who digg up che veins of aah quickfilver 3 and though they be very {trong bodied, and of the beft temperament, onc that chey canicarce hold out in chac work coche fitch yeare, burby drawing in the pth venenate yaporstbey are caken witha trensbling of al cheir parts. si The Au- And the opinion of thefe we chink alcogecher more confonanc co truth as being thac tte tbors opt which is confirmed by experience it felfe: buc as concerning the experience of thofe, ive shi who write that quickfilver hach often beenidrank and given without any hurt, thac | doth nor excufe quickfilver from its venenofity. For cochecompleating of an acti~ Bike: on, Chereiscequireda right application of che agent tothe patient, and {iome ftay, ir which whenas ic was wancing in the alleaged examples, che quickfilver could done | Asc bucc for quickfilver is given ether alive or prepared,if it be taken alive ts lets hurr | Ae ful, for whenas quicklilver isa body moft exactly mixc, abd the leaft parts of irdo | Phyl moft pertinaceoufly cohere ro one another, from whence alfo7cs contitiually moves | his able, whiles itis whol andalive ic brings liccle or no dammage to our body, bur Ba prelently ts.caft forth by cheftool. Forinhke manner.as a leade),or orher met~ Bo: tallick bullets 1f ic be {wallowed whol is preiently caft forth of the body, and brings | Mare, nohure, buc if ic be relolved into the leaft parts, and contract ruft, may do very pa much mifcheif, as chat hiftory concerning lead doth futhciencly teach us, which | Uthee Fernelins recites de lue Vener. cap. 7. So allo if quickfilver be caken who], move= tant able, andcoherent coitielfe, and by realon of its mobilicy be prefently again caft thaw forth of the body, it brings no dammage; buc it it be refolved inco the imalleft par= i: ticlesy and efpecrally, with che admuftion of falcs, and by thei help be asic were fixe tne Cy cothe body, and penetrate into it, bothinwardly and outwardly applyed, ic caut- ) ht ech molt greiyous evils, as fublimate and precipate do futhciently teach usyneither is this there any reafon for any one co atcribe that corroding faculty co the jalis mixed; for ) wath chere is noJalcin che fume which exhales when Silver 1s gilding over,-and yer chat (| My very fume ishighly hurctiul; neither can fo liecle fale as is mixc wich tublimate or pre~ Dit dog cipitace, Cause fo preat buic, whenas tale choughit be given ina great quancity doch 5 Poces no fiich ching, ' o) Rye “Mercury But asconcerning prepared mercury, know indeed,with how great prayfes fome medic irepared. doexcolmercurialmedicines. Somecal precipicate the angelical pouder, ando- (Det therwife prepared mercury of lie. Some commend the flowers sah pexcury of _ they 4 which wef{pake in conjens,. et. diffens. Cbym. p. 365. others mercurtMs-dulcisand Cet oR fohighly,, chey write ifit berightly prepared and given cisas gentle as nignna, ta- his bog ' macinds, cafliay and therefore they ule icinthe flighteft difeates, which might ea~ Ted thi
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Chap. 21. Of vbe Cure by Quick. flver. 5
fily becaken away by ritore benigne iiedi¢inés. “But'thefe commendatidtis ute too much, neither ischeir rafiinels commendable, who give quickfilver itary’ difédfe, whenas we ha\'e every wheie examples of them, ‘who by’ che afe ofthe medicaments, have'not uly been eaft ineo danger of their'lives, bite have plainly perific by them, Whereupon Guifh. Fabricius in Bpift. “ad D. Doringitim lib. '3. obfer'vas. annexa, chinksthacthac called mercurius vite may fOnitimes be called mércutius mortis, and mercury‘oflife’ecertial. ‘Atid- how much *mercuritis dilcis, ‘which ‘is counted the'genrleft of al, may fomcimes prejidice, Was faidin the alledged ‘place’; but thae quickiilver'may omufies be piven wichotic any dammage coms to pafs,either becatife *cis'crude, rrétaines the'gactire of chat alive : ‘atid'cherefore as was faideven ‘now, ‘can work ‘little on ‘our body, ‘of Which fore is ’mercurius ‘dulcis, and ‘the flowers of filver niercury, ‘or ‘becaufe irts ‘in tts ‘kind fixe. Pdr as whol ‘mectals though they be'caken into the bedy, ‘they'do nioc‘affect ic unlels they be tefolvéd, fo fo alfo whenas fixe méretiry doch'as ic were puc'on ‘the ‘nattite of fixe mertals, ‘foi doch'not hurt, asthat which %s'ftilvolaci), and ‘can‘eafily infinuate ic Lelf into the body:
Yer prepared Mercury oughc not 'rafhly'to beufed and be piven in'every diféafe In what or'body efpecially ac the'bepiiting, ‘but in thofe only ih whom there is‘predc {tate of difeafe pree vicious humors, which thacmay énipty, and where the Body is ftronip; ‘for as Mer- pared Mer= cury fublimate and'precipitare ‘outwardly applied in fordid ulcers, doth mitindéfie cury is to be them, and'couchech noche found fleth as long ‘as there’ts any'fileh, ‘burif ic be layd givens onthe fourid flefb at ears thac - 10 alfolif, quick-filver taken into the body do find cor- rupt bumors on which ictay work, ‘ic'doth ‘noe éafily ‘damnefie the niore inward parts, buc sc workes upon the humors, arid cauferk chac they be empried ;. but if there benoftich’bumors'there, it altoaffarlesche found parts. Buc whenas Quick- filver given mwardly isnoc ufed orely'for the Venereal difeafe, bucto drive away many other'difeafes, we wil {péak’ho'more'of'thac here 5 buc let us now inquirecon- concerning it, whether ic ‘can, and how it may do pood in ‘the Venereal dif- eafe,
Asconcerning one of them therefore, to wit whecher quick-filver ought cobé Whether piven inthe French pox, and whecher ic'may be fafely, andby what vertue ic atts, Gilickafilver Phyficians dovery muchdiffer. Epipbanius Ferdinandus indeed, Hifto. 17. posote pie thinks chac amongft ninety Auchots that have writ of che Venereal difeafe; thac there 20 in she are onely foure, who have difallowed of the ufe of Quickfilver in chis difeafe, viz. cure of the Cafparus Torellus, Montanus, Minadous, and Frataftorjus, but there are many venerealdifs more, which Fobannes Baptifta Silvaticus doth recon tip Contr. 34. which Sil- eale. vaticus himtelt is in che number of cbofe, whodenny Quick-filvercobeaneney Tye nega- to chee ffence of the french pox.For Ulerictis abbuten,a German knight aid Phyfi- pia) opinion tian Cap, 4. in lib. demorb Gall: wrires chat in his time fcatce one ina hundre chat was anoynted with Quickfilver did efcape a relapfe, the benefit of it lafting but forafewdayes. Sebuftianus Aquilianus lib. demorb. Galli. Cap. 4. Cals che cure of this difeate performed by quickfilver, fophiftical, and ‘writes chac al ~ anoinced with icin his age fuffered arelapfe. Gafpar Torelus bifhop of St. Fufta, in hisdeclammation againft unétion with Quickfilver, cals ic a perniciotis medicine and chinks ic is to bé fhunned as thé plague. Fob. Baptifia Monsanus, cract. de morb. Gal. writes that quick-filvet doch mdeed reprefs the difeate for a Cetcdin time but does induce an evil qualicy inthe part, ahdinno wile remove it, wherefore in procefs of time, ‘al things become worfethen they were before. Fob Fernelins lib. 2. de abdit. morb. caf. cap.14. Writes that he belevés hothing lefs, then'chata medicine made of Quick-filver can cure the Venereal difeafe, fince that in his judg- ment it only takés away che fimptoms,leaving the root behind. Vitor Pavintinus cap. 7. demorb. Gal. chinks che ciire of che difeafe with Quick-filver is falfe, de- ceitful and dainigérots. Meitherdoes Fallopiws magnetie this cure, as appedrés by his book de morb. Gall. Cap. 76.Bernardus Tamiranus alto hach openly condem- ned this cure t7b.,2,d2 morb: Gallcap. 13. asalfofome others : to whole opinion |
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Jeeves. chat quick={tlyercan wholy cure this difeafe, and that cis anancidoce diame« trically repugnant toche Venereal evil: he doch not deny. indeed. that. chis medicine ‘may allay fome evil and vehement accidents of the difeate, buc chac cis diamerrically adverle cothe effence of the french pox,: which is an occult property, inimicous to the liver, and chacic.can overcome thar, he, doth, not beleeve, Buc though.acrhe firft rife of this difeate, Carpus the Chycurgion firft.made ufe of this medicine (whome. perhaps that, barbor followed, whom Fracaftorius makes. Mention of) being moved by thisreafon, becaufe he had. ob{erved thac the ancient ArabianPhy+ {icians. did make ufe of Quick: filver againft the concumacious {cab, and many other ebellious difeafes of che skin ; yec experience hath no way confitmed this remedy as the beft, and, cherefore it hath been rejected by many phyficians : for if Quick-fil- ver wereone of the antidotes of this dileafe ic would have alwaies and every’ where an{wered che expectation, and there had bin no need that more effectual remedies fhould have been fought for from the remoteft Countries beyond the Seas, which have hicherco been uted with moft happy fuccefs, chat noman doth any farther doubc of their efficacy in this Difeafe; and though Quick-filver doth heal French
_ Ulcers, .yer.ic doth not follow, chat ’cisan Antidore dgainft the Virulency of it.as
neither thofe Medicines, which heal Buboes, or Carbuncles in the plague, can for that reafon be accounted: for Antidotes.. Aurelius Minadous agrees wich chefe, ‘Lib. de Virul, Vener. cap. 39. Who. wholy rejects the ule of Quick-filver in this Difeafe, moved thereunto by, three reafons ;_ the firft is, becaufe he never {aw an
reftored co heaJth by.che ufeofit ; on che Contrary he hath rather obferved many thac by the ufe of Quick-filver have fufferred worfe Symptomes in fo much that they have affirmed, they have received greater dammage from the fuppofed Reme dy, then from the Difeafe : thefecond1s, thac Quick-filver is hurctul by Reafon of its exceflive coldnefs : .che chird.is becaufe no body can explain, after what man
ner Quick-filver doth good in this Difeafe.. To which fome add a fourth Reafon, ~
thac of it felf ic is poyfon; and a fifch that many have died by the ufe of iC, vilvere
On the contrary many other: Phyfitians,do very much commend the ufe of Quick-filver in chis Difeafe: and, chac I may now pafs by others, Epipbanins Perdinandus, Hiftor. 17. writes chac he can make good by Oath, chat he hath
pectectly cured, leavingnoevil Symptomes, a hundred and fifty people Frenchi- fied of al Apes; Sexes, and of diverfe Temperaments, and at divers {eafons of che
_ year; and he.names.anocther moft experienced Phyfitian, Foban. Laurentius Pro=
topapa, who hath affirmed, to him by Oath‘ that he hath cured abovea thoufand men Frenchified with the Mercurial Unguent wich moft happy. fuccefs, and he writes that we ought to give God thanks, chathe would, make known {o. wonderful aremedy for fogreatadieafe. |
Thatwe.may quit our felves of this difficulc concroverfie, Firft ofa] we think
thors Opi-§ the ule of Quick-tilver isnot wholly co be rejected in the Cure of this Difeate, nei-
ther do the reafons alleaged before by ‘Minadous, orothers evince ir : for firft of alas concerning experience, here one experience may be oppoted againft another, and there are many Phyfictians who taught by experience it {elf do with wonderful praie fes extol Quick-filyerin this Difeafe. The Second reafon,. that Quick=filver isto be rejected becaufeac iscold, 1s falf, for the effectsof Quick-filveras was {aid be« fore, do:teach us chat icisracher hot chen cold... Thirdly, concerning the manner how it works, and cures.this Difeafe, we fhal fee hereafter. And chough that manner could not be found our, yet the experience muft not therefore be denied 5 for chere aremany Medicines that work by occult qualities; whofe manner of acting cannot be perfectly explained. Fourthly, chough Quickefilver be poyfonous yer "tas not therefore.wholly to be rejected in this difeafe, whenas other venenate chings come anto Phytical ufe, as opium, Gantharides, Oy] of Scorpions and others. But
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ents or cothe vehemency ofthe Difeafe, which could be overcome by.no Medi. cite,» thoughcthe beft chat is. | Butasqaick-filveris not wholly robe reje@ed, fo we think it is nor unwatily [When quick, and rafhly co be ufed, .buronly upon urgentneceffity, co wicthen when this dif- fylver is to be eafe could notbe cured with Guajacum wood or Sarfaparilla., For we muftcome ufed inthe tothe nfe of quick-filver fortwo caules efpecially, the firft is when -the Difeafe is Venereal fo ftnbborn, chatit wil not yeild co thofe ufual Medicines : Secondly whenthere Difealé. is fomecthing prefenr, which. doth not admit: of the ufe of the Decoion of the : weed and Sarfaparilla, efpecially the beac and inflamation of the Kidneys and Liver. And Exjtachins Rudius writes L2b. 5. Cap. 15. that he hath cured fome, who if they had. ufed never fo little of Guajacum, though corrected with cold things, were prefencly caken fo with a heatof Urin, that an Inflamationof thofe parts arifing. they have hardly efcaped death; and therefore in fuch cafes fom- times, wilweornilwe, we arecompelled to make ufe of qnick-filver, as the fame Rudius {peaketh ; and that oftentimes may be done fafe enough, fo that he writes he hath anoinred with quick-filver even infants infeed by their Nurfes at fuck, and hach cared them.
. Yet we muft nor comerafhly and inconfiderately to this unction, but. firft of al Things pro= we muft confider, whether chere be any thing prefent that doth prohibit it; hibiting un= for firft of al unction with quick-filver isnot admitted, when the ftrength is but tion with feeble, .and therefore in old men it feldom takes place. Secondly, if the Body do Quick filver' ftilabound with many vitious Humors, forthen che qnick-filver doth nor eafily penetrate: and by a commotion of che Humors it caufeth grievous Difeafes and symproimes, therefore the body muft firft ofal beemptied. Thirdly, if the Ait betoo hot, and ifitbe dog daies. Fourthly, if the body be extenuated, if there bea Feaver, Ulcers of themouthy and inclination toa quinfie ; this kind of Medi= cine alfo is notconvenient for them who before the French Pox, fuffered numnefs, tremblings, Palfie, and painsin their joyars. :
butthar quick filver may rightly be made ufe of, we muft frftofal enquire Whether after what manneritisto begiven, and whatitcan performe, and do in this dif. Quick filver eafe,on which bufinefs the hinge of this controverfie turnes.. Where firft of al we be an Al- are not of their opinion, who chink quick-filver tobe an Alexipharmacum of this ¢x#pbarma=
Difeafe. Querceian indeed affirmesit in Confil. de lue Vener. where he writes that Mercury is che only true and fole Alexipharmacum of this Difeafe, efpecialty Venereal ifitbeinveteratee From whom Felix Platerus doth not much diffent, who Dieafe writes that Mercury by its occult qualities and propriety contrary to this dileafe, doth quel the Venenate quality of that difeafe, but this cannoc fimply be admit- ted, forwhenas there are three things inthis Difeafe, firft of al chat Malignant quality imprinted on the parts dedicated to nutrition, and efpectally on che Liver, or an occult Difeafe; Secondly, vitious Humors, generated inthe Liver evilly affected, and polluted by this Malignity.; Thirdly, Difeafes and Symptomes which are raifed every where inthe body by chofe vitious Humors, we do not deny in- deed that Quick-fitver may conduce fomwhat co the Evacuating of the vitions hus
mors, as fhal be faid here after, and hence alfo to the taking away of the Difeafes and Symptomes which do arife fromthem ; but that ic doth overcome the malige
nant and virulent difpofition it felf, which is the property of an Alexipharmacum,
is that which we deny. | For firft of al experience doth not confirmic, ‘neither
hach chat Alexipharmacal vertue of Mercury been hitherto proved by any one, by
any folid argument ; but whatfoever it performes, it doth by falivationand vio«
lent purging, which is noc che property of an Alexipharmacum, for otherwife af
Medicines purging vitious Humors fhould be called Alexipharmaca. © Thisrather
as manifeft, that fome cured by mercurial ane after a long interval oftime
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have relapfed into this Difeafe, that occult and Malignant difpofition being left in
thebody. Secondly, thet quick-filver is no Alexipharmacum, appears alfo by
this, becaufe ‘cis no way friendly to out body, butrather hurts the brain, Heart, and other Members, and caufeth moft grievous Difeafes and Sympromes in the jawes, which P!arerus endeavorsin vain to remove from Mercury, and co afcribe ‘them co the virulency of the fpittle. Forthirdly, Quick-filver caufeth falivation, not only in the French pox, butalfoin orher bodies, which are not Sick of the French Difeafe,and belides hurts in the mouth, inflamation, Exulceration, Stinks, injuries of che Teeth, whichis obvious for every one co experience and obferve, bucthatis more confonant to truth, that quick-filver is to be numbered amonpft Evacuating Medicines, whenas “tis evident by experience, that by benefir of chat, many thick, tough and virulent. Humors are emptyed by the mouth, fomtimes alfo by fweat, or other waies, and that irdoth not much good inthis Difeafe, unlefs falivation enfue: therefore when icis applied, itcan be ufed only for this end, toevacuate virulent Humors, which being emptied, whenas the Symptomes caufed by them do vanifh, ’tisconcluded by many, that ic may be adminiftred forthe Mitigation of the fymptoms,when as yet it doth only mitigate or take away che Symptomes by accident, the viruleot Humors, on which they depend, being takenaway. Which cure avtwithftanding, as Fernelins is of opinion, is the cruelleft ofal, and folhard, chat many would rather perith of the Difeafe, than be cured with fo great dariger,fo bitter hazard:but that quick-filver may be applied to external and contumacious Ulcers, isknown to every body. ‘How many ' But to-evacuate vitious Humorsitmay be ufed three manner of waies ; either reays quick to move by ftool and vomit; or to caufe {weat 3 orto caufe Salivation and {pit- filver doth ting. Concerning the giving of quick-filver to move by ftool or vomic is already Evacuate. {poken before, and the Chymifts are large in the praife of it ; and do extol it with wonderful commendations: and Crollius calls Mercury the Balfome of Nature,in By ftool and which there is both a vertueincarnative, and regenerative, which doth wonder- vomit, fully renew, and purge from al impurities, and therefore cals ic a divine Medicine: to whom ‘eguinus affents, who in Lib. 2. Tyrocin. Chym. cap.3. writes chac Mercury is the chiefeft Alexipharmacum againft al corruption and putrefa@ion : ~ from whom though Platerws do not wholly diffent, whilehe ceacheth, chat this Difeafe may eafily be cured by purging with Mercury, and truly in no long time, but very (peedily, being fcarce drank twice orthrice, from whence is raifeda plentiful flux of the belly, and alfo vomiting, fomtimes alfo {weat and Urinis provoked: yet he cannot deny, that it doth perform this by a violent irritation of Nature, and not. without danger. . But I would have a Phylitian rather timorous, than bold andrafh inthe ufe of Tis to bethis Medicine,for that which Pliny {aid wasthe poyfonof althings, Lib. 37. cap.6. iven wari- that wil oot {pare mansbody, butoffends the ftomach, Liver, Guts, and al the i bowels, and is efpeciallly an enemy to the Nerves and brain: bur though the Chymiftsaffirtne that being prepared ic may grow more mild, and that icmay not hurt; they precipitate it, fublime it, and prepare flowers of it, Aquilam, Avruin wite, and other things ; yetthough you expel Nature with a fork, the wil ftil re- turne:for as it was faid even now out of Plargrus,ic purges violently and not with- outdanger: and as‘Pernelins Lib. delve Vener. cap. 17. writes of this bufisels, upon the giving of prepared Mercury, (dousiclefs be meant precipicate) pre‘ently fromthe compafs of the whol body, Humors of al forts: break forth upwards and downwards, with fo great force, and fo violent, chac the fpiries being exhautted, and the ftrength wafted, the fick do either die prefently, or lie fome daies with- out ftrength like unto dead men: fomtimes al the mouth is inflamed, and con- cractsa Gangreen, putrid Ulcers and very ftinking, and fomtimes the jaws {wel, that the Patient for fome daies is noc able to fwallowacal: although fomtimes i¢ work more gently, yet ic purges violently enough,
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Chap. 2 Of the Cure by Quick-filver:
uc ific do work more mildely, either ic retaines, tle, nature of that which is crude, or being fixe ic doth almoft pucon the nature ofa fixe metcal ; ofthe ficft fort is metcurius dulcis, of which Angelus Sala faith in the riper aged it workg little, unlefs ic be given inagreatdofe, co witchircy five grains, and chen it eafily raifeth falivation ; aud chat chis is true a certain Phyfitian wel known tome, Jearne
to his coft and found it fo by experience, as we have {aid de confens. et di fen. cap. :
18. butif it be more fixe, it doch not move the belly ; therefore ic muft needs be that ithavea middle nature, if ic ought co purge, that it. may ftimulace nature; where yet alwaies tohold chat medium is very difficulc, ‘Yet amongft thofe me= dicines, wehave nominated of prepared mercury that which is called mexcurius vite doth eafily challengthe firft place, fo thac I chink ic would be needlefs co make mention here of more medicines prepared out of mercury ;.buc we muft note this concerning mMercurious vits, that it is no pure Mercurial medicine, but chere is ‘cori+
teined in it fome part of antimony as appears by the vitcum and Regulus, which’.
may be made out of che mercurius vitz, buecan by no art be prepared out ofmercury alone, but char chey may be made of antimony is wel known,
Yec when we are minded co adminifter mercurius vicz, and other merctivial mes Wher it is dicines, we mutt diligently confider Mefues cule, chat ic is a grane of wifdom,notto be giver to come to {trong medicines, but where weak ones wil not fatiffy. If therefore in the Vene- chis evil be new and gencle which may be cured by gencler purgers, and by the deco- real difedfe.
ction of Guajacum or Sarfaparilla, we mutt not rafhly come to the ufe of quick fils ver. But if che evil be ftubborn and invecerate, and chere be many virulene:bumors inthe body, metcurial medicines may be given without danger: for chen cis not ealily tobe feared, char it fhould affail mans body, when ic, hath vicious humors enough towork upon. And oftentimes neceflicy compels uscocome tothe ufe of quickfilver, and {omedo hope in vain, coaffect the {ame buifinefs by weak medi- cines often repeated as by ftronger taken plentifully ac once.. For expérience hath Jong fince caught us, chat we do oftentimes {pend our time in vain in fuch medicines given againft percinaceous difeafes. On the contrary that ftrong medicines, and amongft chem quickfilver, after once or more times taking, havehappily overcome
pertinacious difeafes, whofe caufe wasabout the ftomach, che cavety.of che liver; °
Sweating medicines. > made of quick filver.
the {pleen, pancreas, the cal, and from thence was communicated to othet parts.
Secondly out of quickfilver are prepared {weating medicines, co wicche white {picicof mercury, or the white or red oylof mercury, one drop.of which or two are given to drink in treacle water and fpicits of Guajacum, or fome {uch like de cottion to move {weat, as alfo other preparationsand fixc medicaments of quick fil- ver: and in cafechat quickfilver performe-thac, for which end icis given, and move {weat, anddifcufsche vitigus humors by ic, ’tisnot fo dangerous a medicine.
The chird way is by Salivacion, and many indeed do place al cheir hopes of the
Salivatie on by quick=
Cure of this difeafein Salivacion, fo chat Platerus wricech,. uole(s that inthe cure filver.
by quickfilvet Salivacion be raifed by theufeofic. And at laft be fupervenienc, che cure doth noc fucceed,neicher is ic ficcing fo much cocondemne the ufe of it and who- ly to reject ic for the faults which happen in the mouch inthis cure, oc for other accidents, amongft which convulfions are cheifly tobe feared, which are wont fom times to happen, if chere be any great error committed in the ufe of it, ‘whenas af= terwards in che cure che faults of the monch are eafily corrected again. -Onche cons trary Fernelins delue Vener..cap. 6x doch exactly fet forch chis manner of curé and de{cribes its inconveniences : fo gceac faith he as che cruelcy and harfhnefs of chis Unguent, that che patient prefently beginsco languith the fecond or ‘third day 5 for by its extraordinary cenuicy ic doch melt: and diffolve, - whatfoever is in, the fuperficies and. whole- compa(s . of . che body,’ and ‘at length by ics extream cooling faculey with which it is endued, it driveschemo the inward parts, from thence into che ftomach and breaft, from. which afterwards it drives them upwards by a “geome of parts tothe chroat and mouth, with fo great and fo violent an injury, that
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€my, doinal prefently, prow loofe, ‘atid in fome become blackith and a] dropout. | ad
Some things it difcuffes out of the body by {weac, {ome by its purgative faculty ir r qe
cafts forth by ftool, witha preac deal ofrorture. And breifly to comprehend al, al | rt
certainly whoaré thus cured have their jaws exulceraced, théir congue and pallate By!
{wollen, their gums ad ceerh loofe, and {pitcle runs through their mouthes with | fe
Out any incermiflion, {melling worfe then any ftink, with {6 great contagion, thac | ve
the lipps by touching of that contract ulcers, and the cheeksare tlcerated within :
the ftomach being cooledand difturbed with the ftink, che fick ate defticute ofany e
appeciareto meat, and being tormented wich inro lerable thift, yet they are {carce | ee
able to drink, their whol’mouth being but one ulcer. Kefides their tongue ftam- laa
When un~ Mets, thew eares grow deaf, in fome incurably, Althe houwfeabout ftinks, id &ion with » And indeed chat manner of cure is bitter enough, that one ought not eafily to ad= is quicksilver Mit of it, and therefore tiénor be ufed when the evil'is new and light, buc when ’cis os : ws to be ufed. inveterate and contumacious, avd when other remedies asthe decoétion of Gua Vie leg cum, Sarlaparilla, and the like, have firft of al beet tryéd in vain > neither muft they
wecome co the ufe of chat unlels tbebody before be diligently purged, leaft too preat ) tedu
a quantity of virulent humors be curned rufhing co the’ mouth and jaws; neither js the
this cure convenient for old men, nor for weak bodies; nor chofe thatare wa fted, ry
and ate fick of a weaknefs.of the hervesy and have weak heads, and fubject co dftil- nyu
lations, leaft by che quickfilver, it being hurtful for chem, thee parts be more dee an
bilitaced. Bi ravi
Therefore as ‘Her wles Saxonia dé lune. Vener. cap.39. writes of this fubject, | byw
they are.neither co be approved of who ufemerciivial wnétions without any differe ott
ence, neither muft we hold wich chem, who wholy’reject the ufé of them. Foe fad
fomcimes this difeafe is fo concumacious, ‘that cis not cured with the decodion of | eth
Guajacum taken fifty dayes, ‘and twice or'thrice a day; but grows worfe ; whehas ise
therefore che patients are weary of taking any more decottions, and alfo of {weat= | toiis
. , ang, and hungring, thar they may not be left without alhelp,«’tisbetter to admi- anoy!
How quick: nifter adanperous remedy then none at al. | the hy filver doth But what way quickfilver doth raife falivation, Authors do differ, Euftacbius cane raye a fiux Rudiuslib. 5. de morb. occult. cap. ‘15. dilputes at large of this bufinefs, and mou ficft of al he worthily derides chen} who hold that quick/ilver by itsmoft inten{e cold- Th
nefs, or reprefling faculty: docth-répel the humors from the externa] parts wtothe and
innermoft parts ofthe body 5 for repelling thinges aré of thickand dry parts bue fort quickfilver is of moft thin parts: neither do other repelling medicines, nay pnocthe thet moft coldayre, or coldeft water,’ performeany fuch thing; neither can here be gi= lve fa ven any reaion, why the repulfion fhould beco the mouth, and noc to other parts Watio
chat areneerer. This cherefore muft be inquired, why quickfilver is moved tothe Cteeps head, andis cheifly purged through the mouth. » Many are of opinion, neither Ba doth that difpleate Piaterus, that quickfilver doth caule {pitting bya peculiac ut vertue: buche explains notche manner 3! neither doch this pleafe Radius. For callee faith he if quickfilver be moved tothe head by vertue of ics whol fubftance, and by ward apeculiar property, it doth that either by a fimilicude or concrariety of fubftances Quic ac canot be-by a fimilicudeof fubftance; becaufe quickfilver doch rather hurt, then trate; befreind the brain and nerves: and therefore as cantharides do invade and offend the / andy
bladder, che Sea harethe lungs, {o alfoin this manner‘quickfilver feems ro affante corp
the brains, Buc Rudivs overthrows that opinion two waies, firft of al, becaute he bite f hiach proved before mercury, to be no poyfon;fecondly becaufe he thinks he ts able to H | Ye render a reafon from the mamfeft qualities, why quickfilver doth affaulcthe head 5 A undo
where firft ofl, he fuppoterh chis that mercury-as‘ opium hath herercgeneous parts 1 fone; and that *cis made up of'parrs of a different nature, yer fo, chatthe hac pares do Tequi predominate 5,,and chat ’cis compounded of anaery and ezrchy fubftance but very May much attenuated wich hear, which like unto {moak fcarce enduring the heat, flyes > unt away infumeand 1s difperfed. Therfore amongft al othermedicines of this faculty it } mmy ‘ doch moft powerfully extenuate the humors, ‘difeuls,-and converpthemto motion, q then
M and’ }
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Quickefilver may be reduced into the {malleft parts thac ‘it
Chap. 15. Of the Cure by Quick-filver. and therefore doth purge by fweat, by ftool, by the mouth, and fo patcly by its purgative verte, partly by che heat of its thin parts doth draw the hus mors: along with ir, and that ic happens fo, chac che thinner going to the skin are emptied by fweat, but the chick and unfic co be emptied by {weat) being extenuated rogether with the quickfilver curnd into vapor are drawn up into the head and then caufing diftillations do fa] down agains, andat length he conclis des, whenas quick filver outwardly. anointed doth hor remain in the ftomach, as other purging medicines do; but affails the head; >cisno wonder if it ptincipally purgebythemouth 5 } } |
But indeed he doth not this way fatisfie rhe doubt, and thisisa great peice of ig- norance both in things phylofophycal and Chymical. . For fitft of al that Quick filver cannot be cleared from venenofety, wasfaid before, and proved, and thereae fons for the contrary anfwered.' And Rudius hinwelf inthe chapter even ‘now al- Jedged, reckons up fomany and{o greate evils, which mercury doth caufe, cthac they cannot al be reduced ro manifeft qualities :. which: chac imay compendioufly reduce, Quick filver hath a cozroding tacultys caufecha trembling and weaknef{s of che heare, hurts che animal faculey,weakens the fubftance of the nerves and their pro-
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perunity, whence are raifed incurable tremblings and greivous torments, and ma- of Quick, ny ufing of mercurial medicines, have fuffeced cunvulfions, falling ficknefs, ang faver.
apoplexy. Nay the fame Rudiss reports that {ome after unétion have fallen into raving and madnefs: but whereas he endeavors to reduce that operation of metcury by which it caufech falivaction, co the manifett qualiciesin that he laboures in vaith for firft of al chere are no fuch héterogeneous parts in metcuty ashe phanfieth, as was faid before, neither could any Chymift ever yet fhow them, and whether Qiickfil- verbe burnt, orwhecher it be reduced to water, or what other external forme {o« éver ic puts ony iC retaines its whole effence, and witha licle labour may be reduced co itsancient forme. Befides Rudius renders no reafon, why Mercury out wardly anoynced on thebody, israther moved co the head then tothe ftomach; and carries the humors thither wich ic: for whereas he thinks, that iris refolved into vapour and carried up into the head, cis fall, whenas.it may be colleéted whol both in the mouth, and in other parcs. ENT
*T 1s more agreeable therefore to trueth, chat quickfilver is offenfive and brain, as the cremblings which it caufeth do futhciently de monftrat fore that it creepes up by the nerves co the brain, and carries the vitigy ther with ic, which cogecher with che vitious humors whenas nature and theexpul- five faculcy of che brain doth expel, and caft down co the jawes, hence follows fal- ivacion : and’ quickfilver whecher outwardly applied, or inwardly taken, {til creeps up to the head, ‘and cauifeth much {pitcing: : }
But chere are divers wayes of ufing Quick-filver to railea flux, co wit eicher
to the nerves e, and there s humors thie
Reick filver an Enemy to tbe nerves
' ; : cis TF] : outwardly applied to che body by-unguents, plaifters, epichems.and Javatories {o a ie called, by a girdle, by bracelets and Rings, by {uffumigacions 3 or cis taken
in- watdly, by al which ways not withftanding chere is nothing elfe done, buc that the may the eafier pene- » 1 keeps ics nacure, ccurne co their anciene great quantity of ic hath
trate into the body yet what way foever tis broke into peices and the leaft parts are eafily again uniced co. one another and r corpulency, chac it hach bin obferved, that fometimesa: bin collected in the veins, and cavities of che bones. )
Yecthe moft. common way af applying Quickefilver jis by un@ions: but that unction may be performed rightly, tometimes are tobe obferved before unction
quick filver |
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. “ = i . ? FF {ome inthe anoynting, and ome afrer unction, before union thebody, if neeq “tion
require, muft be emptied eicher with purging medicines or:bleedin many-vitious humors abound inthe body, tis tobe feared, that by ¢ unctions they rufh cogether in a heap co the jawesand fuff rapt up tothe brain docaufean apoplexy, or palfie, and therefore fir
POpIeXy ofal pare of. them oughttobeemptyed, Allo ifcheicbe plenty ofblood, leaft the patient may.
fuffer
g: for if very Fr, be ufe of thefe’™™ ocate the patienc, or being
th quick= ver ws to ba dered.
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Of the French Pox. fuffer an inflamation of his jawes ora feaver, tis good to take away alittle blood. Falopivs alfo, thac parc of che matcer may be confumed, the bowels ftrengthened, and not be offended by the Quickfilver, gives the decoction of Guajacum eight or cen dayes before unction.
As concerning the unction ic felf, che bafis of thefe unguents is Quick-filver, which muft be chofen pure, or vivified by cinnabar, and it muft be mixed with hogs- greafe hens-fac, buccer, oy], turpentine that ic appeare no longer quick.to the fight,which
How Quick's commonly called mortifiying of ic. Some alfo ad cofix ounces of Quickfilver,
filver és to
four ounces of red fugar. Somedo mix divers other things co correét che malice of
be prepared. Quick-filver, and indeed this or chat according co the different confticution of the
iy.
difeafe, which notwichftanding profit little. For chofe oyly and unctuous things, or other things, do ftick on the:skin and fuperficies of the body , and cannot follow che Quickfilver into the innermoft parts of thebedy, nor cortect its malignity.. But chofe chings which are neceflarily mixed, are mixt, to chat end, chat che quickfilver may be reduced into the {malleft bodies and fo may the eafier infinuate ic felf incothe body. Some alfo inthe compofition of this anguent, think we ought co have refpect to divers things : and therefore Hercules Saxonia, if thece be hard knobs, ads thofe things which do mollifie, asthe fac and greafe of geefe, ducks, the Marrow of oxebones, buccer, oyle of {weet almons; if there be ulcers he bidsusad drying pouders, Franckincenfe, Myrrh, aloe, Litharge, whice lead, which if they be il conditioned, heads Cincabar precipitated. Befides he commands wsto mix medicines, which ftrengthen, the patts: more over he bids us ad thoie things, which do refpect the principal parts, and chofe chat are moft hutr, and therefore if the joynts be affected he bids us ad ground pine; if the liver, hepatick means ifthe ftomach, things fiomachical, Bucbefidesthe reft hedoth aprove of oyle of Guajacum added tothe ointment; al which as wedo-not wholy difallow of, fothey ought tobeexplained. Firft of al, if the unction be ordered cheifly for rumors or ulcers, medicines may commodioufly be mixed withit, buc if falivae tion and emptying by {pittle be cheifly intended chereis: no need ‘of that laborious compofition, Secondly Quick-filver ic felf if ic be reduced into {malleft parts, doth eafily penetrate, neicher hath ic any need ofhelpers, and thereis nothing that. can penetrate eafier thenthat. Thirdly I can {carce be perfwaded, that medicines ouc~ wardly anointed, can penecrate to the ftomach and liver, and ftrengchencthem 5 this likes me beft, thathe thinksoy] of Guajacum ought cobe addedca thofeun-
guentse i ; The Quantity of Quick-filver that isufed, is fometimes more, fometimes Jefs,
The quan-.” according to the vehemency of the difeafe, and the patients ftrength, Yct wemutt
not exceed feven ounces which is fufficient for frrong bodies, in weak bodies ’tis fuf- ficient to ufe three foure or five ounces 5 but every cime uferwo or three ounces; of the unguenc, or for every dofecake two:fcruples 5 in tender children for every place {o much oynrmentas is the bulk ofa lentilis{ufficient. Such oyntments therefore
may bemade thus.
Formes of . Take of. mercury fix ounces, of bogs-greafe without falt one pound ; ‘Kil the Mescurial Mercury with the greafe and mix itexattly, thenad of the marrow of an ox leg Unguents. half an ounce; of Turpentine three ounces of the oyl of it one ounce, of the oyl of
Guajacum two ounces mix itbem. PHL :
Or Take of venice Turpintine one pound, of Quick-filver feven ounces; umx them diligently, then ad of bogs-greafe eight ounces oyl of foveet and bitter al- monds of each two ounces, pouder of cinamon two drams , Musk fixgvanes mix
at and make an ointment. Euftachius Rudins commends this form, whichhe ufed with moft happy: fuc=
“ce(s for many yeares at Utine, in che great hofpital of chat City, with fomuch fafe-
cy, chat not one of them perifhe which he had in cure.
Take ake of Quick-filver one ounce and half ; Frefh Sows greafe three ouncesy 7 pouder
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Chap. 21.
OF the Cure by Quic filver.
pouder of maftickone ounce 5 oyl of maftick one ounce and half Saffron balf'a dram two Sweet apples of a middle fixe. Firft of al let the (ows greafe be moft exattly mixed voith the mercury, ‘then ad the maftick finelypoudered yogetber voith the oyl of maftickand Safforn, and afterwards the aples through ripe cleanfed
from the parings and core.
Or, Take of mercury killed with (pitle three ounces; old oyl four ounces} of Fran- kincenfe prepared as common maftick too ounces ,maftick one ounce; bogs-greefe too ounces and half oy! of bayes one ounce and balf ; virgins wax twoources oint= ment of dialtbea one ounce and half; fagapen one ounce; 0 f wax as much asis sufficient. Make an Ointment. : Or Take of mercury tvo ounces; of boesereafe three ounces 5 turpentine one ounce , pouder of orice franyincenfe, maftickeach two dramys 3 oyl of chamemel, white lillies, bayes of each twoaunces', Stivax half an ounce mix them. Or Take of bens; bogs, avid beares greadé each one ounces oy} of white lillies, bayeseach two ounces; mercury fix ounces’; mix the greafes in amorter 3 after wards ad the mercury, and ftir them an bourein the morter,- then’ ad of frankin- cenfemaftick, myrrb, amoniacum, ftirax,pouder of Arabick;lavinder each balf a dram make an ungnent. The Places which are anointed are the joynts andthe fpacés between, and the Jefs flefhy parcs in che hands, elbows, feec, knees, fometimes ii ftrong: bodies the emunctories of che liver are anoinred, ‘and ‘the backbone. Fallopius expects the hands, and firft of al anoints the feec crantverfly’ about the begining of the feec, af- terwards the {paces bet ween the joynes of the leg, then the «idle of che chighs, the middle of che Elbow bones, and the midle of the Armes, afterwards the whol back, be time The moft commodious cime for anointing, ische{pring andaucum, the wineerfor anoint and fummer are lels convenient and che unétion isto be performed in the morning, ing. upon an empty ftomach, in aclole and; warmplace, beginning at the lower patts, and fo pafling to the uppec unction 1s feldom ordered twice-on ‘the fameday. The patient anointed mut eicher be ropped up in linnen,or che parts anointed be covered wih cou:fe flax or hemp and fo the pacienc be placed'ithis bed.” ‘Hor long Buc the unction isco be concinued fo long, cil falivation ora loofnefs, or fome yn ition is to ocher evaccuation fucceed 5 and che fympcomes be leffened ‘and ceafe; and cruely be continun if aloofnels follow, ic isnot iuddenly co be fuppreft, yer we mutt have a care leaft ed. che gutstuffer any hurt, cafting wwby Clyfter chaly beat milk, or the juyce of pti- fan with milk, or the decoction of barley and afterwards if need require, come to aftringenc mganes. Some think that {weacalfocught tobe moved; but ifnacure tend to falivation, tismor convenient tq move iweac, leaft chere be contrary motions caufed ;: buc if na= cure of her own accord tendcof{weat, tisnotro be hindered, yet undtion is fcarce co be continued above three dayes at one cime 3 fomercimes alfo chere prefently fol Icw greivousfympcomes as great ulcers of che mouth, {wellings and inflamation of the congue and jawes, the iwallowing is hurry checeech loofened, an exctraordina= ry flux of virulenthumors from che mouth, a diarrhy or dicentery, and then we mutt prefently forbear anointing, yer fomecimes ichapensbuc very fildom 5 chat no fuch greivous fymptom followes. But only {weats, and puftles are mulceplied al overithe body. When unction is now perfected, and the fpitle runs'wel, lec che parts anointed Whatis to be wafht with wine, in which fage, Arabick, lavender, flowers, rotmary, grownd YE done af~ pine, bayleav.s, calamine origanum have bin boyled, afterwards lay upon them #er unttion. tome platfter for che nerves. At Jaft when che unction is paft, we muft ufe our endeavor, chat the mercury be not left in che body, and that noevil be contracted neicher in che mouth nor other parts 5 and therefore we muft move {weac in a Laconick bach keep gold money. in che mouth, fhaveings of gold muft be dranke, or bullets or pils made up of leafe gold muft be {wallowed : for the mercury is imbibed by the gold,and with it is emptied’ out ofthe body, and foalevil chat mighthappenisprevented,. Te
1) ak i | Y | ) WV d { i | cf : * ‘ | ‘hid ui i
woh \Of the French Pox:
Loaflwape pain;, che mouth and jawes. mutt be wafhed with.warnie milk or thé Decoctian of Barley ;.co hinder inflamarign lec thesparient.uleche decaction of plan® taine. or plantaine water, ox of Vineileaves,'with,che tyrup of Mulbecries and dry rofes, theceech muft be wafhed with che decoctionof fape, .orwith, Sage, .colum= bine water,or auftere winesatcéer unction we mufk nor pretenchy defift from the cures
bus the decoction of Guajacum.as being the alexipharmacum of this dieafe, muft
be drank {til for cercain days5, which fit be incermitceds a relapfe is. wont eafily 0d fOllOW UPON bes ot eos 7 | | ) Mercurial S¢conadly,emplafters made of mercury are wont co be applyed in this difeafe,which plaifters. though chey caufelefsccouble, yet theyarelets effectualto.empry by {picting. ' ‘They atepeepared of the fame mactesof which che ointments ares co which alfo we May.adcmnabar; bus.quickfilver either is mixc wich ufual) plaitters,.-as diachylum Ireacum , meliloct, or-new ones are compounded... The plaifter called de ranis with mresguty.s:4s.alie in. ule... Thele plaifters;are {pred upon linnen clerh, leathers:and are appiyed.co che. fame places as che o1memencs, efpecially to.che hands and feér, al- {otoahbeemunctories, and fomemes to the back bone, and they ase-worne’ continu ally. night and day. and every third.or fourth day are renewed: this’ cure is lefs troublefome, and upon faire dates che patient may go abroad, yerthe cure isnot fo perfect, and.cheretore miift beconcinued longer. : , i Toe Thirdly,Linnen clothes wet in mercury water,are'applyed co. the fame places in avaboris ee oitherr becaufe fublimate is moft commodioufly diffolved of mercury. the farme ofanepitheme, and ecaule : i y ip-water,.the fame:places which are. wont co be anointed, are be{meared wich mercury _ diffolyed in chismanners which medicines are commonly called lavatories, which are antit s4 } pgepared ofmercurius {ublimace one ounce, whichis difolved intwo pound of fome ANIONS igure S 1 Nt outers aii i i ... For Examples fake. > Lakeof Mercury fublimate one. ounce of Scabious, Rofey Fumitory water, eacheightiounces 3 Sage water four ounces. Let them boyland be mixed. ‘Fhe ute oficis this. with acloch wee in this liquor, let the knees and tee be bes I cot ean efmeated, andthe acmes from che elbow, cowards the hands, and that muft be don¢ Woke. lerphe morning and cowards the eveningy ina warme place and continued for ten tog, (days, cikf(paccing foHows. > feat Foutthly ,Girdles avd bracelets aremade of Mercury killed wich fpitcle and mixe Mercurial . i) the whice ofanegg,: which mixture is {pred iyxpon Corton, and that is owed into girdles and \eacher or cleath, and of that gicdles or bracelecs are made. bracelets. Fiftly,Alfo chis difeafe is cured by fuffumigations made of quickfilver, but this way of cure is more dangerous than thacby unction,nay ic hach been deadly to:lomey
Se bor and therefore isnot-co be made ule of, unlefs al othe: nieanes have been tried in vaing Rations 0
saa patientsthat do admit of t,every day-are wont to voide cen pints of virulenc {pictle 3
burictakesnor place in thote chac are weak, wafted, endewed with a hot and dry diftemper, notin thofes, whichare troubled wich a difficulty of breathing, or are tub- ject co. diftillacions from the head onthe breatt, or who {pte blood, or are takeii with a lienitery, or dyfentery : but phyficians do cheifly ulethofe tuffumigations ina cohcumacious French ophthalmy,and upon af imminent fhedding of che haves which cannot be hindred by other medicines 5 for chis {uffumigacion doth faften the SEAT IS Share Wen then a particular {utfuniigation may beappointed. a Their: dif= |; Borwe mult noce here, that there is adifference of iuffumigations in this dif> ferentessseafe's forfomeare univerfal which are received by the wholibody, and therefore alfo do empty the whol body 3 others particular, which are applyed only co certain parts ;. agasa fome fuffuntigacions ace prepared of benigne medicines, ‘as frankin~ cenfes myth, oy] Ginamon, Styrax calamite, ipikenard, Amber, Ammonia* cum,;:benjamin, wood of aloes, Amber preele, Musk, Gallia moichata; and the like, which chough they may be ficced for che ufe ofcertaine pares, yer they do not ‘ deftroy che venereal difeaie. vee Chote
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and only on very ftsong bodies ; for this way of cure is very viojeur, whenas che.
are nl thiscur Lely Wine, quer f ptvfo, ater, Analoy Which] frome body ( Contin the fr Patient Ipeech, that fa Y Inter
Bury tee, { Luoceed ‘ ) Migatig pin li Oure 0}
Bur
mnt aif the ule} | dry {ub cakel i{1008 hal ai te
dil lore ettalll nkiny onta’ i the {0 10 That
Chap. ar.
Thofe therefore which are and of chofe things made o mace. ee
As concerning thofe univerfal ones
9 is mercury any way prepared; fome ad the Greeks Sandarach, and yellow arinick, buc whenas
> neither do
Or Take. of Cinnabar three ountes; TD Laudanum, Ammoniacum, each one oun pills. se BoM Or Take, of Cinnabar three ounces, Mercury RincenféyAloe, Maftick, Myrrh, Benjamins Styrax Galamite, snake a pouder.. Epiphanins Fzerdinandus reports the following forme is much in ute at Naples in the Hofpical.for thole chat are incurable. . Coty s :
Take, of Litharge five ounces, of antimony, Cinnabar, each one ounce; of Pontich Rhubarb fix ounces ; Polipody of the oake'three ounces, | Smeet cane Cinamon, Laudanum, Rofes; Mace, Nutmegs, Alum, Verdegrece, Aloe; each three drams., Red lead, the Greeks Sandarache, each. one ounce. Gumme caranna, 4x0 drams;, Water of Rofes and Citron F lowers as much as ig Sufficient, mix them according toart... | | i » Buc ic feemescome co be a forme made up without al reafon which conitaines ma Ay things unproficable, and alfo hureful. j y} i! ., (hac 1s {afer which Perdinandus himfelf propofeth.
Take of Cinnabar,Mercury fublimate each one ounce; Gumme of. ibe Owes Hd Laudanum each half an ounce ; ‘Nutmegs, Bay and Funiper berries, each three drams; Marjoram, Coppras onedvamand an half 5 T.
, ; ppra. : urpentine as much az is Sufficient to incorporate it, make a mas.’
_ Burthofe medicines whether they be reduced into pouders, or pills or trochisks, areuled afcer,chis manner: firft ofal the ‘patienc nay
( ) nhanne : that he(may-be able to under this cure (fit fauce for him, and they:are defervedly thus handled whoideéfile rhem-
felves with luft.) you muft give hun two ceare eggs. a mortel of bred dipc in ftrong wine, anda draught of wine, anda {poonful of confe
quiet fora quarter ofan houre 3 in the interim lec that Venereal’ bed prifon,. viz che {weacing place be heated, and in that hor houfe or atenc, of a pavilion of chick linnen Cloath, under which the patient may fit naked ina low feat 5: under che fame pavilion place a por or veffel ful of burning coales, on which by degrees caft either the pouder, or che pills, -or trochisks, that che fume from thence may be dif perfed chrough his whol body, and be received by the naked body of the patient; when the {moak abates, ftrow freth water on the coals,’ and €ontitiue fo.doing fora third or fourth pate of an houre,for halfor a whol houre, as the ftrength of the pacienccanindureic. For we mult carefully obferve, ‘thac che patiencfaine not, which doth ofcen happen 5) if ic be collected by his ftammerin Jpeech, he muft prefently be caken forch and be reftefhe with ficcing medicines. Bue that faintings may be prevented, the patient may be permitced to draw the cold ayre by, intervals chrcugh a reed, and put torch hisnofe without the pavilion
~, But chefe fuffumigacions are apphied eicher once or twice a day and indeed for three, fix, or pine or more daies, according as che purgation doth fooner or later fueceed, for when this comes, ora loofnefs, we mutt pretencly feate ftom the fuffu- migation. After che patient hach tweacfufficiently under his cenc, Being wrapc up 19 linnen he muft be laid in his bed, .chat he may chere conciaue his {weac for an houre or cwo,
t1 > OF rather
orcBut patcicular fuffumigations are oa applyedco the whol body;
Formes.
The man-
g0e ner of pre=
paring thefe uffumigas
tve of rofes; then lec him rete, reas
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dry bath Prepare ~
Particu=
but only to Jay fuffumi- Parts gations.
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parts exulcerated or affected with pains. bur chen Salivatien i ae ae is that theintent, bucicis.ufed only co take away difeafes ads prc ih el - 1 ternal parts, viz. for che falling of che haire fuffumigatons are applyedro h wi yl co the hands and Feet for cheir paines, and when they {uffer Chaps a ae sant | whe
at Internal i Laft ofal alfoa flux may be caifed by taking Quick: filver inwards which ehicueh ia :
Medicines ic was not known co Pernelins, yet it hath been taken nocice of by the: ous andy
caufing Sa-'dern, and Quickefilver.is ufed to this end by ‘Rondeletins Platers a ae ie away
iwation. Suchare thote Pills called Barbaroffa which have Quickefilver in eBiert : rae Ph a q ue?
tians give Pills made of Mercury fo, chat ac one dofe there is given fix oF fei oA
grains of Mercury, and they give them almoft every day, and to Jong, «1 laf H fuch’
followeth, and this cure they continue for thirty daies. “Yet Platerus admoni the Ne
_ eth chae thts kind of cure is not eafily robe admitted, and not ublefs the Diteale be fal
inveterate, when other Medicines premifed availe nothing, He alfo chinks ch eo ) mitt
iscommodious, if ic be prefencly caft torch by ftool either by ics wii Wel tty = 1 ofthe
by che admiftion of other things 5 buc if that be done, doubrlets ir wil noc cannfe SA ,
livation; therefore ’cis beccer that Mercury what way {oever prepared, be seas a ne
lefsdofe, chan can caufe purging either by vomit, or ftool: viz. hat shy half ina flend
thigd, or foucch parc obly of thac dofe be given, which otherwife is wont to be ae Be
so purge. For example fake, precipirare of Turbith Mineral is wont co be ia Ae fon
orher cimes Co vomir of purge to che weight of {ix grains, ‘but if only three Re tw Bs
orone be given, by che concinued ufe of it a flux is raifed: and therefore h ale in
i would ule fuch Medicines, thal do very right, if firft of al _he-give the ful dofe of Be at the Mercurial Medicine to purge, the fecond day halffo much, the third da % | diets Hae third part, she fourch day a fourth pat, «and continue fo, til che {pittle run, ie | what 3a he need not fo precil ely obferve ic: and cis altogether {afer in this diféate to ive thot ; Paes Mercurial Medicines, which donot move the belly with great violence. at: fi Ole bu it) My danger,’ yet by their continued ule do provoke fpitting. REO sit in he hi ‘ ; oe aniet | | f 2 ’ | 4 Wath CHAP. XXII. : a Be Bad 2 bepubst | bnef, | hia Of the Diet to be obferved ini the Cure of the Venereal which ae Difeafe. | eso deri . \4 tes} ttrengt : Ree altly
Diet. A Dier inthe cure ofthis Difeafe is ftrictly co be obferved ; -firft o i
The Air. % in which the Patient is converfant, thes: bhi aifenfibsle mieianee i fler
be free, and {eating be not hindred, bycrather promoted, yet not fohot, as ‘3 Heas
make faing, Therefore if need require let che pacienc keep himfelf in a warm cham-= | Heh
ber che whol time of his cure, and lec not him expofe himfelf co the free Ayre, une wart
lefs ic be fomwhar hot by reafon of the feafon of the yean, and then not before io | cul
af ae whole courfe of life wil not allow them to keep ac home, lecthem onfaiil | toes
; ae it nee wich Cloaths againft external: cold, andasmuch as they can fhun the | cy ‘
rhe Meat. As concerning their Meat, there ismuch difcourfe indeed ¢ Mi Mit
Whetber a eafe concerning. flendes. Diec; but whenas a flender se tpt oat d a
flender diet (ome fort impart the ftrength, or which doth lictle preferve the enfeebled fren b, Coy
be conveni~ {uch diet is only convenieng in acute dilcates, which whenas they Jaft noc } ei oa une
ent in the ftrength alfo fomwhat debilicated.is able co hold out co the end of ident 3b 7 chk r via
Venereal asthe French pox is a Chronical difeafe, and che Cure is excended for ak 7 4 1 to
difafe. _iftths ferengrh bg dejected by a flender dier, it cannot holdout till theend of che dif | Nd
ealee Buycchat Phyfitiansdo chiefly feed their Pacients with bread and raifons. I wal
chunky sts ahs celia Dearne would givethe moft fimple food, and that of |
good juyce: for whenas variety of meats doth eafily fupply vicious humors, and biske
Mach,
felt, and.fiths andthe like meatsaxe more eafily corrupted, chen bread andi raifons : they | Maar
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er ce ere Chap.22. Of the Diet tobe obferved.in the Cure irc. 67 they orohibic che-fick variety of meats) and-flefh, and. wouldi-have them concerted ooly wich bread and ailons : therefore thac courte and formof dietiis to:be obferved
which may fuifice for the.confervacion of {trength, rhoughinor to. encteaferit, ‘but
muft no way opprets.Nacure. | The meatalfo nut; be of good juyce, and: fimple,
and which no wates.affords matter for che generacion of excrements, nor may. call
away WNacure from refifting che Difeafe ro che concoction ef-that. And»cherefore
che patient muft nor be allowed above two dithes, and meac muft be'given but cwice
aday 5 theretore when che fick is prepared for che ufe of Medicines, ‘lec shis diet ‘be
fuch, which may noc impair his ftrengch, but, catcher preferve ity nay, wm fome fort
encreafeit, chac the patient may afterwards be able to undergo che evacuations that
thal be ordered, and a more (lender diet : but when Sweaters or Quick=tilver is'ad~
miniftred, if che {ftrengrh wil bear ic, we muft ufe.a more {pare diet, left the vercue
of che Medicines be hindered by plenceous nourifhmenc, andJec the fuperfluous hie
mots in che body-be rather wafted, thanheaped up, andJlec the: paffages: by wnich
they ought co be expelled, be al kept free and open; but. Jet not chedierbé too
flender, left che ftrengca tail, , but be able to -hold,ouc 21 che perfedt chreof the dif=
eafe, whichis wont.co be jong, firft-; and chough fomwhat is. co be bared of theuccu-
ftomary diec inthe cure of this difeate, yec thac 1s nor co -be dene prefently ‘at the
beginning, nos thac change is noc iuddenly ce be made 5, buc the firkt eight daies: by
liccle and liccle, fomwhac muf be fubftracted: fromthe. accuftomary dies: as! alto
the laft eight daies of che Cure, by degrees he mult returg to thé. former coutfe of
diet 5,.yet, we muft alwaies have refpect unco che ftrengths, and: diligencly confider
whac chat 1s able co endure, and. we muft havea greater care, of chat, chanofhedif-
gale, as without which che Cure-cannoc be perfected. : but how much concerns the quantity of the mear, we muft alfo refpect’the
ftcength, and the dileafe 5 for by how much the ftcengchiis ftronger, by fomuch’tis
able co fuffer the lefs quancity of meat; buc cheftrengch is demonftraced by che ha-
bigof the body, the cemperament, cuftom, theage, fealonofthe year, che Coun=
rry,and condition of the fick 5 of which we have dpoke in its proper places In
brief, .as much as poflible may be, fomwhat muft be bared of che accuftoniary food,
which alfo the people of India, . trom whom the manner of curing chis difeafe was
derived tous, are reported to do;.yet fo, chat alwaies refpect be had.unto the
itrength : For if the patient be ftrong, his Body of a cold confticucion, that-he can
ealily endure bunger; flefhis nocto be given any more afrerseight, daiesy biit che
patient mult be content with bread and raifons :, but if che ftcengch be weak, the bo
dy f{lender, cholerick, fome Meth allo may be granted, viz. che: fledh: of ‘Chickens,
Mens, Parcridges, Veal, Kid, and tender weather, as allo. Hens Eggs}: -butiHogs
tleth which 1s hard of. digeftion and diftr:bution, and doch-encreale the:morbifick
matters is chiefly to be elchewed 5-as alio corruptible Fruits;-and fofe: fithes so and
«uly che moft commodious F cod in this difeate, is raifons, and co be preferx’d be-
fore al other meats : befides,chey do noc eafily putrefie, and they afford goodyuyce
and nouzifhment, and correct che malipnity of che vitious:Humors 5: whentetome
are of Opmion, Thac Raifons in this Difeafe arenor only meaty: but: medicine x00
and efpecially chofe greater ones called Cybebe, ate moft proficable,. in which there
is greacer.plenty of nourifhment, and amore abftarlive and ftrengt héning faculty.»
Concerning bread here 1s {ome doubr 5, many'commend Bisket,: nay admie‘of that What kind only, .which as we do not difallow of in ftrong bodies, which ard moift and abound of bread is wath flegm and excrements, being inclined cacher co putrrefaction,: chemadatt, and +5 beviven 30 chofe who have ftrong ceeth, andvare accuftomed to itt) {oialio. Bread‘ dhce-wel are : baked, and noc roo moilt,may fafely be permitredy as a nourifhmenc moft: fatitiliar coal Natures, Sexes, Ages and any feafon of the year :. neher muft we cauleany crouble to che pacieng, by forbidding commonmbread, if he.defice chatratherchen Bisket : nay Biskec {eems to have its difcommodities 5. for it ftaies longer in'thefto- mach, andisnoc foeafily difpefteds:,and for.cherighe difpefting of ic thereis. need of a greater ftrength of che ftomach, ae notwithf{tanding tor the moftypatcin °
2 chofe
sir as pa
SeSaa aman csc Spee aaa SERNA SERS ay
a. a eo.
See
ted
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ay
Of the French Pox.
thofe chat are fick of the French Pox is very languid: befides whenas in chofe {ick of the Venereal Difeafe for chemoft part aduft Humorsdo abound, by Bisker they are increafed, onthe contrary by common bread as being mote moift hey are made temperate, and at Jengch more nourithment and good blood is afforded {rom it, @s being beft cempered, and in meats chac which is bett tempered, isto be preferred be» fore that which is intemperace.
Many alfo do weigh out che quantity of the meat, and write chat at one meale, four ounces of bread, and two or three ounces of fleth wil fuffice 5 but thiscannot be fo accurately obfervedin al men, ‘but here there ts no {mal regatd to be had to Na= tutes and cuftome.
Their drink As concerning their drink, Authors al{o do not fully agree concerning that, fome
\Wrae’ of
Guajacum.
Sleep.
ink nothing is co be piven for drink but che decoction of Gutajacum and Sarfapa- rillay.and wholly forbid wine, and think tis asmiuch to be denied in this Difeafe, as ina pleurifie, ‘and are of opiniou that wine is nox {o much as tobe tafted of, the whol courfe of the cuce $ and Pernelixs writes that wine is fo averfeto Guajacum as tisto Hemlock, delve Vener. cap.13, But for this caufe chiefly they forbid Wine, becaufe the body and Humors which before were aduft, and which grow hor by che ufe of Guajacum, by che ufe of wine are inflamed. But indeed this rea- fon {eemsinot fufficient 5 for chat Second decottion may heat as much, as wine, if ic bechin and diluce and moderately drank : therefore che ftrengch is hece to be confi- dered, and whenas wine hath a notable agreement with our body. and doth ftrenp= then the heart and al parts, and efpecially the ftomach, is moft eafily diftribuced into the whol body, doch moft {peedily nourifh, and fo forcifie Nacure, that it may the betcer beable rooppole the Difeafe; the ufe of it is not fimply co be re- jetted, efpeciallly in chofe whoare lefs hot, and have a flegmatick body ftufe wich crude Humors; yet the ule of wine isfoto be moderated, chat it do no way mflame the body 3 bur chofe chat can ab&aine from wine without any burc,lec them drink thac fecond deco¢étionmade of Guajacum and that plencifully ac meals, and other times, ‘when they are thirfty, yer they co, may fomcimes cake a drauft of wine to ftvengthen theftomach. After the fame manner if the Cure be ordered by Quick-filver, at chac time when Evacuation js not yet made by the mouth and {piceing, and che patienccanchaw meat, be muft be nourifhe with the beftbread and good flefh, and dilute wine mult be piven him : but when Salivation begins, and the Patient can chaw no longer, by reafon of the loofnefs of his teeth, he muft be ‘nourifhe wich fuppings, and Barly Pciflan, and fleth broachs with bread in it, and whehas an Inflamacion of the jaws is feared, he muft abftain from wine. But after the cure is finifhc, chough che Pacient may reurne to his accuftomary Diet, yer cis moft convenient chat he be nourifhed with mears of good juyce, from which the beft blood may be generated 5 for whenas the body is extenuated, and the veins emptied, we mutt wholly cake care, chat the body or Veflels be not filled with vitious blood, buc tiscommodious chat chey be reftored and filled with good, Neither mutt itbe granted, chat upon recovery he prefently arife from a {mal quantity of meat, toa greats whenas al change to extreames is dangerous, “And when it may be feared,that the Liver'be heared by che ufe, of hot and dry Medicines, confervye of Rofes, Violets, che pouders of che theee faunders, Diarshodon Abbac, muft be given for fome weeks; and lec che courfes of dier, efpeciaily'in Summertime, be cooler, provided chiefly of Barley, che Whey-of Goats Milk alfo is good. But ifchere be any fear, chat fome reliques ftil and Malignanc difpoficion of this difeafe be remaining in the body, givea Phyfick winemade with Guayacum and Sarfaparilia which is moft commo- dioufiy prepared at vinvage time, if toevery Gallon of wine one pound of Guaja+ cum, and chree ounces of Sarfaparilla be addéd, and let cool with the new wine afe cer'theaccuftomed manner 5. but out of vintage time thofe Medicines may only be fteepedan Wine. é ‘
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Chap.23. Of the (ure of the Difeafes, dc. 69 nn RS A TC cy a Le TN oie I BS ee te CLR LTTRN Al violent exercife is hurtful; for whenas the ftrength is impared by ir and there Exercife. is a. greater tranfpiration and diffolucion of chebody, chence it comes to pafs, that
, the patient cannot be concent wich chat {maller portion of nourifhmenc, which is
wont cobeuted, inthis Dufeafe, Buc he muft wholly abftaine from Venery, as che greaceft enemy tochis Difeafe: let {weacing in his Chamber be inftead of ex- ercife, and frictions which may be done wich che fame labor when the {weat is wip- ed of: feccheaffectionof hismind be compofed to micth,
We mutt ufe our endeavor chat the belly be kept loofe, and whenas by reafon of the {mal quancicy of meat ir is wont eafily to be bound, it mult be loofned with Clyfters, and Raifons with leaves of Seny 5 nay by intervals co give fome purgets is not only profitable, but alfo neceffary : for chough thofe Laxatives do empty che firft paffages, yet becaufe they reach nor to the more diftant places, and by {weacere only the hinnet parts are Evacuared, but the cbick are left behind, cis good after feven or cen daies, or afcer a longer tpace, or need requitesy co givea purging Me- Gicine agreeable to che body of che Patient.
Excranents
CHAP. XXIII.
Of the Cure of the Difeafes and Symptomes, which are wont 10 be joyned with the Venereal Difeafe,
W Henas divers Difeafes and Syrnptomes are wone to be joyned with the Veo nereal Difeafe, fomeare very large in explaining, whac way thofe Dif- eafes and Symptomes ought to be removed: but whenas thofe Difeafés are for the moft parc manifeft, and we have treared of their cure in furmer Books, Ichinkie not worch my pains co creat at large of them in this place: and therefore I fhal only alleage certain few things, and thofe principally which are propet co chis Difeafe, lec che reft be fetch from their proper places,
Ulcers.
As concerning the Ulcers of the Yard efpecially, which are very comimon in chis The Cure Difeafe, we have {poke of chem in general Lib. 3. Pratt. Part. 9. Cap. 11. that wemay add alfrcle, the Roor of the Yardbeing guatded wich a defenlive Oynt- ment, che Ulcer muft be wafht with the Decottion of Scabious, Horehound, and e{pecially Soape-wort, and Guajacum : afcerwards lec che Ulcer be anointed with {ome convenient unguenc ; chofe Oyntments are chiefly profitable, which have Mercury inthem, either a live, or fublimate, or precipitate, or Cinnabar. And in Ulcers of the Yard, and roccennefs of che Nut, as they {peak Hercules Saxonia weites there sno Medicine yet found out more proficable then precipitate: yet ic oughc not to be applied, but where chere is a chick filth, bucin clean Ulcers tis not co be ufed Euftachins Rudius Lib. §.de Morb. occult. Cap. 19. commends two Oynements efpecially. The firft ts: |
Take of Oyt of Roles, {rect Almonds, of each half an ounces Oyntiuent of Rozin Cohich is made f pure oyl, Rogin of the Pine, Turpenvind, and Yellow The Merce: Wax) fix drams ; Mercury Precipitate, onte dram; alittle Wax: Mia ab over rial Un as except the Mercury prectpitate, and taking them of the fire ftir them cave-guents fully, sitthey are cool, then addthe prectpitate 5 yet according to the Natere of of the Ulcer, and the part affetted with it, you may add more or befs of the Mercury precipitate, |
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ore . ‘ « Take of Oy! of {roeet Almonds, Oyntment of Roles, of each three ouncer= tbw wax, one ounce : Mercury precipitate balf an ounce. Mix them! .
And thofe Oyntments are good not only for the Ulcers ofthe Yard, but for
French Ulcers of other parts, forthe Difeafe called Ficus, fwellings in theFun- ‘daments, and Crufts. *
The Balfame of Mercury alfois good, which is thus prepared.
‘Take of Quick filver diffolved in {pirit of Nitre, toone pound of this di 'ffoluti~ on, pour of Oyl of Olives, three ounces. Let them fland and digeft eight daies, afterwards feparate the oyl and keep it for your ufe.
Or, Take'the Yelk of one Lee boyled bard, Honey one ounce.’ Mix them ower agentle fire, let them boyl, and add of Mercury Sublimate, balf a dram.
After mundification this Oyntment alfo may be ufed. ~ "Take of the beft aloe, balf an ounce, Grocus Martis, toro drams ; Frankin- cenfe, red Lead, of eael one dram 3 Honey, balf an ounce Turpentine, ttvo drams, the YelkofanEgo. “Mix them.
But occult and hidden ulcers:are wont to lie hid either bound up under the fore= skin, orelfeare in the internal paflage of the Yard; if the Ulcer be under the fore-skin contracted, either a convenient medicine is co be injected by 2 fyringe,and afterwards.atent dipt.in oyntment is with a probe to be applied tothe pare affe@ed or the fore-skin muft be cut long waies, ard neceffary Medicines be layed to it.
But.if the ulcers be in the very paffageofamans Yard, they are hard to be cured, and have caruacles joyned with them, or flefhy excreflences, which hin- der the emiffion of the urine, therefore ina flight ulcer, we muftinje@ Plantane water, in which Alum, Jlitharge, and white Lead have been boyled, but in more gricous ulcers, ufe this Liniment.
Takeof “Mercury precipitate, one ounce; Mercury {ublimate, one dram: burnt lead,iwodrams. Grind them on a Marble ftone, vafh them often with Rofe- voater, and let them dry in tbe fhade. Aftervoards take of Hogs Fat, fix ounces s White Wax,tvwo dvams. Let them be diffolved over the fire, and add ihe pouder, andiwo scruples of Gamphire. “Make a Linment, vobich muft be be{meared over a Candle made of five ounces of WhiteWax, and one ounce of Turpentine, and let the Candle be put up into the Urinary paffage: or let fome convenient plaifter rapt over ajmal probe, be thruft in : the Cartncle being taken away a drying and confolidating oyutment muft be caft in.
But if there be an ulcer in the womb, and that fordid and creeping, the evilis incurable: ,but che flighter are cured by injeCions of Alum waters, in which Guajacum and Sarfaparilla is boyled,or with peffaries of the juyce of Plan= tane, with pouder of Aloes, Bole Armenick, white Lead and the like. In avery fordid ulcer the Oyntment Agyptiacum may be added, or fome Mercurial un- guent: and at laft a drying. and confolidating Oyntment may be ufed, as that of Tutty, or che like. ‘
.«, Immore grieous. ulcers fuffumigations of the Womb are moft profitable, but whenasthe Pipes are overheated by the coals, thefe candels of Hercules Saxonia
“are good for a.fume, ,
Lod Cs ake of Styrax,Calamite, Beniamin, of each fix.drams 5 wood of Aloes, fever ix {eruples.5» rebite Frankincenfe, ome ounce; Ladanum, one dram and.an halfs
ue, Orrices, Cloves, of each.tmo.drams 5 Damask Rofes. fix drams., Cinnabar,two drams.5 coales of Willow, balf a pound; Aqua Viteas muchas w fufficient. Make
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of plancane, {cabious, mittley, red rofes, pomegranace pil, fumach, towhidh ada liccle alume che decoétion may. be made. in watery and towards, the end ada liccle auftere wine ; afcer chey are wafhr,the ulcers muft.be clenfed.with oy! of {ulphuryad= ding a convenienc liquor, of the compound waterof alum, which .as thus pre- pared, | NO
Take of mercury fublimate, roch allum, each one ounce 3 G rind themonmarble The come. fione, then ad to them juyce of Lemons three ounces, plantane water one pound and pound wa- an balf ; rofe water nine ounces 3 Boyl them in a glafs to the confumption of thefifth ter of alurne
art. a = ee | ft es : But you muft have a care,that no part of fuch medicines be {wallowed downs but= ter of antimony fo called is very efficacious, if che ulcer be gently touchediwitha pre of cotton moiftned with che buccers but chere ts Heed of che fame caution dere: ut whenas ic cannot alwaies be prevented, bur fomewhac wil flideinco theiftomach, and fo fuch medicines cannot be given fafely enough 3 but on the contrary, other more gencle medicines are of litcle efficacy, thefe ulcersare hardto be:cureds nay oftentimes are incurable ; the {olution of goldis more fafely. applied co thefe.ulcers, prepared after chis manner. | raw bey : Take fifteen leaves of Gold, roch alume, nitere, Salty each one ounces grind them on marble, and poureto it fome drops of {pirits of vitriol s.afterreands poure on it {pirits of voine two fingers bredth abovett, .and Jet them fland in marm afbes, laft of al boyl, that the leaves of the gold may be diffolved,. andthe Spirits of, ppine grow yellow. Seperate the Spirits of wine by diftillation, then poure more onagain and digeftit, and do this fo often, til the {pirits of eine diffolwe, the goldy: and the
' faite beleft atthe bottom 3, at laft feperatethefpirits of temme hy difiillation paillsis
dry, and pour on{pirits of turpintine and digeft it eight dayes in a warm place, sill the gold be diffolved, with this folution mafh tbe part affetted trice every day. by fuffumigations made of Guajacum and cinnabar, ;
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Clefts of the bands and feet.
If there be chapsand clefts inthe. palmes of the hands and foles of the. fer, | fet Clefts of the
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them be wafhe wich che decoction of Guajacum, igs barke, {cabious water, german= bands and der, cinquefoile; and if there, be hardnefs witbic, cake alfo.marth mallowes, or feet.
the root of wild cowcumber, afterwards ufe an ointment of buccer, goofe-greate or hens, ammoniacum, bdellium,, apples, co which ad alictle of ynilaked loome, or preciptcace, or the oyntment propoted before. Si es setts
Or Take of bogs-greafe as much as you pleafe, and put as much oyl of tartar to it, that by it-the oyntment may, be made fharpe. Sita. pele
If che evil yeeld nor, to chele, apply a particular fuffumigation of .cinnabar 5 Hercules Saxonia de luevener. Cap. 30. ;writes chat he.bath obferved acertain woman who for eight years together had clefts inher hargs,, and bad ufed the help of al che Venetian and Padua do¢tors tono purpofe, was in a {hore cue eafily cu~ red with thejuce of an herb, which {ome.cal mugwort, others tanfie, being caretul- ly dropc witha feather into al che clefts, and forbearing co wafh her hands at-al, and charg he hath found the fame,juyce profirable in ringworms: and Crufty Ulcers. aa , - teegtes
Buboes. papal
Concerning buboes which are wone often to break forth in the groines inthe Ver The cure of
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Ulcers of che nofe are cured by errhines, ‘or/infufions, by pouders ‘ftrewed, on it, Of the nofee
nereal difeafe, we mutt hold faft chis in general, chat we do our endeavor, to help buboes.
the expulfion of chat matcer, which nature aflayesand imdeavots to thruft forch co che more ignoble parts; whenas fometimes by chis evacuation nacure is wont co free * her’
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Neko things emimollienc, ‘atcenuating, and digefting mutt be laid udé
balfone ounces mix them and with war and pitch
‘pares bac af purgersand {wearers tiand ‘times the bubo.doth wholly vanithi without any danger. :
Be ne a nee,
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het felf from alcharditeales ‘therefore buboe break noe ‘creafech*bue tendech not to fuppurationy we muftule our en ‘and {wppurare it. Theréfore the thigh of the fame fide muft be rubbed, and fearifi- ed about che lower parti; /or elfea vein ‘mult be opened abcuc ‘chat Place; but on
the bubo it felf chere muft be layd ftrong drawing med'cires. As, b Take ‘of fagapent, Ainmoniacum each’ three drams, opo} onax, Badellinm; each treo dramss muftards pepper, Pellitory of fpatn-of each one dram; blacke fone make aneémplafter, © 00S
Yet if narure be oppreft wich the plenty of virulent Matrer, thac it cannot expel
ital, then *tis good co pivea purge, ‘that part off che burchen being'taken off, nature ‘may the eafier expel the reft; IP IRS ot fa ") When-the tumor hath broke forth enough, we mutt take care ie be fpeedil ed, and‘be kept’ open a ong while 5. that ic may {uppurate went maturatives, which are wont to be 3 pplied in inflaniations, of the mucilage of mal= ‘Jows,’ matfh-mallows, wheat and! flax. {eed 9 figs hops-preafey foole-preale, and the like ')6r the fimples diachy led'y”or'thac compoond with pumis 3° when tis rte cered,we moft not expect thac che bubo fhould open of ic félt, bur it mutt be Opened betimes,> leaft che virulence humor derainedithere'do hure otliet Parcs; the cumorbe- “ing opened the forementioned dipeftives and abiierfives muftbe'layd on, to ‘which ‘there wil be need fometimes to ad a litcleof mercury precipicace,° and che nicer mult
forth enouph, ‘and in= deavor to draw it forch
peedily opens uft lay on it thofe
“be kept open a long vime, »
NS Yetircoldbubses there is no fuch'feare; thatthe *macter fhould afcénd CO. Cther proper: alexipharnidca be applied, fomes
‘ootee LS 2% “Gata fitier arid’ Noddy;
~ Truely Stich camorg and nodes" whith do tilea; places void of fleth, as the fore- head, theskul, and che outward ‘patt'of the legs, ‘do oftentimes vanifh, if the dif= eafe be perfectly cured; efpecially afrer the ufe of farfaparilla, which is moft effectu- al in difcufling of thefe difeafes andafrer the ute Of'merctirial unctions, whichare
applied to fuch tumors yet ifafcer the cure is jnded tuch tumors and nodes remain,
n them, and that are
ve” “ftrongyas the rootsof wild cowcumbery bdellium,fagapen, Opoponax,and cheifly am=
moniacum,or diachylon wich pumsjora meércirial Cerote; this is pood and proved by experience, Aa Ne 9 AMIN Epebeiiss aS 4
Pake Of the plaifter diachylum with gums one ovine; fimple ‘diachylum balf an ounce ;mercury killed with {pitile one'ounce, eybof guajacum as much as is fufficient make aplafiers 9° mes bs Mo ced tagsat oe ig
Or, Take of Ammoniacum, Opoponax, Gume of ivy diffolaed in AqUa Vite, bens andgoo(e greajeeach one ounce and half’; the'marow of d calfs'leg one ounce ladanum; flyrax, éalantite and liquid each two dram 3 the pewder of hermodattil Toot? orriceseach three.arais ;\ Cinnabar one dram :' quick filver mix roith turpin~ tine fix Grams ; oyl of lihiies and ax as much ys Sfficient, make acerote. **'
Alto the ‘lavatories ‘made of mercury; mentioned before, are good in chefe ty- mors, thou ees eb yay esas: AS iy FO Pict [39h
‘Ifchefe things do not faticfie: * the’ tumors mult be opened: with caufticks , ef= pecially ifthey be not in che jOynts, nerves, tendons, and the place muft be Kepe open, and che bone underneath, Which for the moft parc is hurt, muft be {cra- ped, ’
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Smal Bunchings and puftles.
Bunch ings alfo and {mal puftles, thymi, verrucz, favi, asin other body, fo elpecially chey are wont to rifein the head, about the arfehole, yard and privicies in the french pox : which though fomerimes after a univerfal cure they va- nifh oftheir ownaccord, yer fometimesalfo they require a peculiar cure.
This {ort of bunchings which are in the head, mutt be wathed often with che de= coction of guajactim, and cheifly of thebarke of it and farfaparilla ; fome ufe oyl of f{corpions aud vipers : to which ifthey yeeld not, chey muft ‘be anointed with {ome mercurial unguent, or the compound water of allum, prepared of roch allum and mercury fublimate, which fomealfo prepare thus.
Take Of roch allum, “Mercury {ublimate each too drams : grind them, ad of plantane and rofé water each one pound: Boyl them in a glafs to the confumption of half, aftervards let them ftand fifteensdayes that the allum and mercury may finkto the bottom , and let the cleare rater be poured off, and kept for your ufe. .
"Tf che puftles be inthe mouth, ufe wafhing ofthe mouth with the decoction of guajacum, or if there be an inflamation, with chalybeate whey, to which may be added roles and plantane 5 and if the puftles be foule, ad {cabious and cen graines of alum ro every pint of che whey or decoction. The compound alum watec even now defcribed is moft proficable 5 yer in puftles ofthe mouth, tis not fafe co ule that alone, bucic muft be diluced with a creble or quadruple quantity of tofe and plen- cane water. But che puftles of the arfehole and yard, muft every day be ofcen fomen= ced with a Jinnen cloth wet in the decodtion of guajacum and farfaparila;for the fame che alum water even now defcribed is very good : or if theevil be ftubborn, fome ointment mutt be laidupon chem, wich pouder of precipicate, fuch as’were pro= poted before,or precipitate mrxt with foure times asmuch of the white of an eg5 weh Jayed upon tuchexcrefcenfes of rhe arfehole,in 24. houres {pace extracts and roots them out : afterwatds drying and cooling things muft be layed oy. Some cut off the french warcs-with Sciffers, and afterwards cake ou the root wich the medicines even iow propoted : alto ifthe extream parc of che wact be coucht with oylofvi- ttiol, it dries up and falls off,
Falling of the Hair.
The falling of the haire wich is joyned Wich thisdifeafe, doth happen racher from
the knawing off; of the roots ofthe hair, than from other caufes, both in thehead Falling af and beard which that i¢ may be cured, generals being premized firft the hair muft be the bair.
fhaved off, ifthe patient wil allow it: for al donocadmit of it,e(pecially religious men, whole di{cafes muft be kept private as Hercules Sdxonta writes de lue Vener. Cap. 38. thenaftringent things muft not beufed, by the ufe of which che evil is made worfe,atid ulcers and paines of the head do follow upon it che matter being re- tained : bur chole chings rather areco be ufed, which do difcufs and clenfe awa
that vicious matcer which eaies of the haires :_as a lye in which have bin boyled Gua- jacum and its bark, farfaparilla, leavesof fumitory, berony, {cabious, fouchern- wood, wormwoo peayroyal,afarabaca,agrick:and if che skin be dry,ma!lowsmarfh= mallowes, pellitory of the wal muft be added: chen the other medicines muft be applied 5. which are propounded I7b, §. pratt. par. 3. fett.2.cap. 3.and 4,-a\ which ii chey fatisfie nor, particular fuffumigation tor the head and face, muft be pr epared of quicktilver and cinnabar, by which remedy in the {pace of fix ornine dayes, the failing ofthe haire is Rayed. Buc for che moft pact, if univerfal purgers, and emp7 tiers be applied, and the matterknawing the haires be caken away and proper lotions be ufed, afterwards haire doth {zcced of its owne accord in the place of chac that fel away, fee more in the place aliedged de Alope. et Capil. defke. | M Painee
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|| GbeCure Allo moft grievous pains do often afflict chofe who ate fick of the Veneréal Dif of pains. cafes but they are moft commodioufly taken away by medicines proper to this dit- ' eafe : but Satfaparilla is chietby pood to rake them away ; therefore if che pains be " very urgent, onthe firft daies you muft take a greaver quantity of Sacfaparilla, and a lefs of Guajacum = and though the matter being diffolved and melred, the pains it phi be encreafed cil che fecond week, becaufe Sarfa hath an extraordinary attenuating i \ | faculty, without any aftriction of the bowels; yet we mutt not defift from the ule man of it, but the patient miuft be told of it: afcerwards when the paints ceafed, we may ay Pi call encreafe the quatrity of Guajacum, and China Rooc may be added alfo to mitigace A | ,/! thofe pains: but by intetvals, almoft every week, give proper purging medicines 3 bail g bur to che places pained apply fomentations of Guajacum, Leaves ot Penyroyal, rk Gl. | Sape, Rofemary, Chamomel flowers: Oy! of whice Lilliesalf Oy Of Rue, Scorpions, r Vipers, Guajacum, are good : if che pain be very urgent, we may pive alfo Lauda~ ( num Opiate. Uponthe ule of al which, if che pain depart nor, thofe mercurial Un= fi " guencs, which we propounded before in the univerfal Cure, muft be anointed on the ay Places pained; or by[che addition of wax make Cerotes of them,and lay them on the SE paits pained, or fome other plaifters above propounded ; co which alfo may be : ‘added, Caftor, Hermodactil Roots, Orice,and other Arthritical Medicines ; efpe= Wil cially Vigo’s Cerore of Frogs is of good ule to lay afleep thofe pains: and this Cerot hh es of Platerus ts goad too. : | Lake of Quick-filver ibree ounces 5 ftir it with one ounce of Turpentine mafbt with Aqua vite, adding Bears greafe, the marrow of a Calves Legg, of each an ounce and balf : Oyl of vbite Lillies, Chamomel, Dill, bayes, worms, or F OXESy Pen of each balf an ounce: Spike or Turpeniine treo drams : ‘Bupborbium, Frankin« tA | cenfe, of eaci half an ounce : Liquid Styrax fix drams: ermodattils tvo \y drams: Caftor onedram: Wax asmuch as és fufficient. Make a Cerote. Alfo che aforefaid Lavacories prepared of Mercury, formerly propounded, appli= ed to che parts pained, efpecially che Legs, do allay the pains.
| \ The “Running of ihe Reins.
The Cure The Running of the Reins, which alfo is frequent in this Difeafe, is nor to be Kopt | of the Run at the beginning, vor tathiy : whenas Nature doth endeavor co purge the virugdenc i ) ning of the matcer through that place, witch if it be fuppreft flies upro che Head, nay infects | Reins. the whol Body : buc if it do not ftop when the decoct fon hath been uied til che chird hi ‘week, ler the Region of the Loyn:, and Perinzum, be anointed with altringent | in Oyts, made of Maftich, Mint, Rofes, Mircle. , | But let Medicines be given of the feed of the Chaft-tree, Lertice. Hemp, towhich an add a double quanticy otthe pouder of Sarfaparilla: and chofe Medicines may be eh iven either in che form ofa pouder, or with Syrup of Water of Lillies, be reduced i! | iW inco the form ofan EleCtuaty. °Tis good alfo it every day there be given CWO OF dy three dranis of Wacer-lillies, with one or two {cruples of Turpentine : Some alfo do give for this Running of the Reins, green Mercury precipicate, or che Rozin of An aN Guajacum and Turpentine, which is wafht with Violerc Water, and adding ché bi Yolk ofan Egg, and the Decottion of Sartaparilla, °cis reduced into the form ofa Potion.
A Consumption
A @on- At lafticoften happens, chac either by the violence ofthe Difeafe, or. the Cure femption. notrightly ordered, the fick come into a deep Confumption: For the Cure of which, the common Medicines for a Confumptien wil not iuffice, buc chere is need
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Take of choice Sarfaparilla cut fal, fix ounces; infuféit tooenty four bours in fifteen pound of rarm water, in awarm place, in aveffel fbut: afterwards. boyl it with a gentle fire till five pound be wafted : then with a {poon perforated take out the Sarfaparilla, and bruifeitin amarble morter : then ca{t it into the fame water again, adding two pound of lean Veal, Coriander feed prepared one ounce, or in~ Stead of tt, fo much of the fhavings of Guajacum, or three drams of yellovo Sanders fliced, according to the condition of the Patisnts body andbumors : and the veffel being covered, let it boyl agai with a gentle fire, till there remain five pound; and towards the end aromatigze it with three drams of choice Cinnamon : then ftrain it, (queezing it bard, and keep it for your ufe in a glaf or glazed veffel.
Of which lec the pacient cake in a motning fourhours before meat, fix or feven ounces; but in the evening three hours before fupper, four or five ounces; Andif ic be Summer, or a Hedtick Feaver is joyned with it, he adds of Barley excoriated or husked, four ounces : and he concinues the ufe of this Medicine many dayes, fom= times to the hundreth day.
Let che reft be fought for out of che*Gure of the parcicular Difeafes, and out of Fallopiusde morb. Gal. who hath writ at large concerning the Difeafes and Symp-
tomies which are joyned with this Difeafe.
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but it bath been my bard hap alfo to fee bis Reputation; and Memory (which wil badear tovdl Pofterity, for the Works be hath written for the Common G vod.of this Nation) blemifbed,and Eclipfed, by the covetous and unjult Forgeries of
fiom being an Ifcaclite in whom there is no'guile 5 who was not content to publifh a Hodgpodg: of uny digefted Colle@ions, and Obfervations of my deer Husband deceafed, under the Tile of Culpeper’slaft Legacy 3 but to make the Deceit more taking, be fiteled his Forebead fo far, and brafedit fo bard, as not to be albamed to forge two Epifiles, one in mine, and the other in my Husbands Name 5 of the penning of which, henorl, never fo much as drea- med? And yet beimpudently affirmeth in my Name, that my Hisband Laid a fevere InjunGion on ihe to publith them for the general good, atter his deceafes and that they arehis laft Experiences in Phyfick and Chyrurgery. And in the Tiile of bis Book, be faid, They are the choyceit, and molt profitable fecrets, refolvednever to be publiffied til after his Death. AZ whith Expréfionsein the Title and Epiltles, are as falf as the Father of Lyes 3 and every word in them, | forged and feigned. And he knew wel enough, that no difcreet, honelt. man, that was afriend to my Husband, or me, would ever have agreed to [uch | infamous and difbonelt practices 5 and therefore 1 defire all Courteous Readers of the Writings of my |
Husband, to take notice of this Deceit, and to affuve themfelus that it never entred sato bis head,+ to publifh fuch an undigetted Gallimoffery, wader the\ promifing and folemn Kame of bis Laft Legacy, and shat whereby he gained his Reputation in the ! World, as the Impofer makes bim peak in bis |
ee Se RO great ave the Affiiétions |
| one, Who, though he calls hwnfelf Nathaniel, is far | l
I ‘ay, be world have done it ix fuch «a whinin® fathion, and fo in the Stile of a Balade-maker, as i> fay; Ané now, if it pleafe Heaven to puta perio tomy Life, and Studies, thar I mutt bid al thines under the Sun fatewel: Farewel. to my dear Wite and Child, faréwel Arts and Sciences farewel “i worldly Glories, adiew Readers. Certainly my Hine band would have been far more ferious, and m tevin al, in fuchacafe, as any dilcrect ian wit Fuld Neither cam it be thought, \ that in {uth a folem Valediction, be could. poffibly forget bis wontedre~ [pects to the Colledg ot Dottors, to whom be did fo frequently addre bim{elf, m divers of bis writings Courteous Reader, 1 hal (ay no move touching te abufe of the Book-feller, ‘only to prevent (as mich ms concerns me) thy being ubufed for the funre. know; That my Husband left feventy-nine Books of his own making, or Tranflating, in my band, and { have depofited them into the bands Of bis, and mk much bonoved Friend, Mr. Peter Cole, Boobs filler, at the Printing-Prels, meer the Royal Exchange (for the good of my Child’) from whom thou mayelt expect to vreciive in print, (uch of them as foal be thought fit to ferve thee in due feafony ‘without any Di(guifes or Forgeries, unto which 1 do hereby give my atveftation. Alfo my Husband left feveateen Bouks compleatly perfeticd, in the hands of the faid Dar Cole, far which he paid my Hysband in bis lifetimes And Mv. Cole & ready and willing (on any good A: Cafion) to {bew any of the paid feventy-nine Books or the feventeen, to fuch as doubt thereof. P
And if any Perfon fosl gucltion the Treth of any part of thw Vindication, or Epifile ; if they wit take pains to come to me,\ wilface to face,juftifie the truth of every word thereo{, as 1 have [ubferibed my Hand thereunto in the prefence of maz y witnelfes.
I profe® inthe prefence of the great God, the fear- cher of al hearts, before whom Mr. Brooks and ¥ mult one day give an account of al our Adtions : That | Vave not publifhed this € pile or indians, ow; ott of any dif-re(pc& to Mr. Brooks (for I much ve[peet the man, and would be élad to. ferve him to my power) but only tocleer my Husband from thé
forged Epiftle. And 1 defire any in different Reader, | folly and weakne caft upon bim by the means above
that hath obferved my Husbands lofty, and Mafcu- line manner of expreffing him([elf i hus Prefaces, and * Epiftles Dedicatory, whether in cafe be bad been minded or difpofed to take fo folemm a farewel of the worldsastheForger makes bim to do 3 whether;
From my Houfe, next door to the 2 Red Lyon in Spitele-fields, e Olfober, 18. 1,65 §- 5
| expreffed. And out of tenderne®k to Mr. Brooks:
I fir(t tried otber means of keeping, and afterwards of repaiwing my Hisbands Credit, and then flayed long tofee if he would repair (in any meafure) the wrong done to my Husband and my felf.l defire to be:
Your Servant (in, Y and for the Truth )
Alice Culpeper.
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: &®% He Gout is by the Gre@ks called Arthritis; fcom Arthron figni- 4.5 Neg eee ttt t: fying a jovi: ; buc by the Latinesic istermed, “Morbus or to a cand, SECON S = Jor Articularis ; and by us in Englifh it hach ics Name from che ea Cee ge place affected, and in generalis calledthe Gout.: The: more BES res Barbarous among the Latin Phyfitians calic Grata, becaufe chat & ear OZ Sei this Malady is excited by a flux, made as it weredrop by drop. ee ee ey ® And there are likewife of the more.Modern i writers, who HLELE?PE SVS follow thefe; yea chey prefer this Appellation before all other
: whatfoever ; bucyetnot forightly, asanon; inthe firft Que- ftion, we fhall fhew you. eke Sele] : vs 68H | ie But now, albeic that Arthron (as by the Author of the Medicinal Definitions and Arthros Tistroduttion icis defined, ) bethe Compages'and Compotition of the Bones, ordai- whatit#. ned for the motion of che feveral parts 5 yet here norwithftanding in this place, by the word Articulus, or joynts, wearenocro underftand che very Compages of the bones ; aad the Syntbefsis or Union of chem; or the Extremicies of the Bones that are conjoyned; or the {pace betwixt the Bones,which are Joyned cogecher by the joynt: but the parts thac Joynche very Joyne together, and enconipafs it ; efpecially fiurch of the parts as are endued with fenfe, to wit,the Membrans, Membranous Ligaments, rhe extremities of che Mufeles, and the Nerves chat arcinfercedincthefeparts.. - But in regardthat tie Joynes are various, from the difference of thefe, and from Tbe differ- the variety of rhe parts affected, the Gout (which the Greeks cal Artbritis) hach ences of she alfo received divers and different Names 5 andif the Feet be affedted, itis called sents Podagra; if the Hands, Chiragras ifthe Hip, Ifchiass if the Knee, Gonagra; and many other ofthefe words, derived fromthe place afte@ted, and the Greek: word yy ie Agra which fignifiech a taking or feizing upon 5 fothac Podagra is nothing elfe but Foynts, the raking of the Feet 5 and C biragra the taking of the Hands; inregard that thefe members are in this Difeafe as it were taken, » and by it enfnared, and held: fafk : even as by Lucian (in his Tragopodagra) the Gout is brought in thus {peaking By the moft of Men lam calied Podagra; being the taking, and deteining of the Fees. But in the other Joynts it hach no {pecial name,but by a common and general name iis called Artbrit#, that is, the Gout 5 like as alfo in general, it is then called Arthritis, when at one and che fame time a pain feizeth upon many of che Joynts : fome-certain men there have been who have feig- ned & made very many fuch like words as thefejand among the reft,Ambrofe Parry, Cin his firfe Chapcer of the Gout :) and if the Malady be in the Joynt of the Jaw- i€ inthe Neck, ‘Tracbelagra;: if in the Spma ep Or
Back-bone, Rrcbifagra; if in che fhoulder;: Omagra;.andif in the Joynt.of the head G _ - Elbow,
Se ee i A ps 3 | Of the Nature of the Gout. Chap.1, |B Gup Elbow, they termit Pechyagra. But we meet with nofuch Names as thefe in any a Baa of the Greek Authors ; neither indeed are they commonly ufed ; alchoughthat thefe |§ py oo Grecians themfelves tel us very often that the Arthrir® may bergeneratedia.many — {9 ie[0)!
parts of the Body. 7 Bane IM chart ean. And in Pliny alfo ( in his 27: B. Chap.1.y we meet with the word “Mentagras, ae |B ey rehii bas: firit invented (as he faith) in {porc, and merriment, ( for it isa vitious medley — |i fovel Compolition of aword, froma Latin and aGreek word, andfuchasthelearned | Hundt are never wont to make ufe of )but foon after notw ithftanding ic became common: | jines « buc che cruth is, chat Affect belongs not to the Arthritis or Gout ; buticwasacer- |§ reve a
cain foulnefs and naftinefs of the face, and a kind of Scabbinefs, perteining, and — {i jeds
to be referred unto che Lichenes. HW Now The Latines have likewife reteined the Greek words, fince that even fromthem || iat she
they received the Difeafe aifo. Touching which Pliny in his B.26°Chapter,ro. The J onto tbe
Podagra (faith he) Was wont to bea Difeafe more Rare, and not only a flranger unio — | ghe a the memories of our Fathers and Grand-Fathers, but even unto our-own allo. For Wis Tu es it been anciently known in Italy, it bad ere this time received a Latin i i aud AME. oA ih And yet notwichftanding it is hére to be obferved, that although the word Po- | ee dagra be properly taken for the pain of theFeer; Yet fomtimes alfo (asevenCra-_ | oi 4 to inhis 253 Confil. confefleth ) by an appellation borrowed from oneMember, | ae the word Podaera is tobe taken and underftood for every kinde of Goutin what | ane part foever; in regard that fo ic is: wont to happen, that che Feet for che moft Tio. and pact, inthe firft place, and more frequently are taken, and affected wich chis Dif- |} jeey j . eafe5 and they alfo are very feldom free, when theother Joynts areaffeGed. And | ear henceicisalfo, that Lucian infcribech that Dialogue of his, which is couchingthe | hem Arthritis: or Gout in general, by. the name of Tragepodagra.. Andfothey thathave | ortwel written in praife of the Gout Podagra (a3 Cardanwss and others} they.all of chem A thinker feemtotreat of Arthritis or the Gout imgeneral, .,Yeaand certain Phyfitianschere | the Cox are that«peréat properly of Arthritis ‘or the Gout, in General, and yer they | berruly da thefe: their Traéts, de Podugria; or ' of, the. Gout Cin fpecial ) of: the | his ta eet. ety yo a) a what place - To wav, -moft frequently. this paininvadeth the Feet 5 and indeed moit of al; and | ha the Goxe in the firft place, che great Toe of che Foot. For Nature (as.muchvas fhe is able) “jf , mopfre- ts wontto.drive forth che vitious Hunfossiunto the extream and remote parts 5 and i fi Qu quently in- the Reeware likewife more remote fronythe Fountain.of heat; and they are alfo | "ae vedech. morein motion, ‘by which the Humorsare drawn unto them. And fromhenée it is Hi ee that Galen (inthe fixth Se. of the Apborifins, Apborifm.28.) writeth, that althofe | aie chat are troubled wich: the Gout, that; is to fay,.with the pains of all ch Joynts, | aay they are firft of all taken with the Gour Podagra, or. the Guutin the Joynts of the | si Feet. ‘This indeed for che mok patcfo happeneth, but yer not alwaies. For ig | rut -fome the' Gcut begins intheir Hands.5,,and fome have ic firftin their Knee, andin | jabel fome ic beginneth in fome other of the Joynts, And albeit chatatfirf¥ of al feizeup- | the omcthe Feet, yet notwithftanding ic afterwards alfo.forthe moft parctinvadeththe | Cg «-Joynes of the Fingers, or thofe places chat are about the Hand Wrilt, asalfo | ay the foynts of che: Armand Elbow, and fomtimes likewife the Neck, andthe | Ks deh Joynts ofthe Jaw-bone. And indeed this Evil in the-firft beyinningof ic (for the | ident) moft pacc)feizerh upon but one of the Joynes, either inthe Foor; (which moft ufu- | ees ally happeneth) or elfe where; but thenafterwards, (the bowels being debilicated | ine by che chick and often returns of the Difeafe, andthe Native heat being muchim- _| ‘delay, paired, andthe matter dayly moreand more heaped up) it then invadeth more of | ta the Joyntss-fo thac it oftenicometho that pafs, that.there is fcarcely any Joyne | toa lap
orjuncture of che bones throughout the whole Body that may be faidcto be free from | chis Malady ; and as Lucian (in his Tragopedagra) wricech, This Evil tortureth and — | *hek
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But now this Malady is not wont co continue long at a time, but to effi the party by certain intervals and Periods, whiles che matter heaped up is thruft forchunto the Joynts by certain incervals ; which indeed in the beginning are fomwhat longer 3 fo that the Difeafed perfons are often free for fix months, and, fomtimes likewife they are free fromthis Gout for a whole year together 5 butthen afcerwrads the Bowels and the Native heat being much:weakned and impayred, and many vicious Humors being heaped uptogecher, the Malady returneth by fhorter intet vals, Lome The period times after three months, and fomtimes every month; . Yea. and fome of the gout there are, whom ic doch continually ali andmake them to keep their beds.
Now Arthritis, orthe Gout, is in the general defined to be, A pain of the partpa- The dep bout the Foynts,excited from the defluxion of a ferous and fharp Humor, and portred forth nition of into them out of the Veins and Arteries.. Or, if it pleate yourather to. define icin any tbeGout ia ether manner, whena {welling doth now €oncur with ic, you may theh fay thar ac 5'*ral. is a Tumor or Swelling about the Foynts, arifing from a defiuxion of the ferows or pobey= ifh, and fharp Humor by the Veins and Arteries unto the place affetteds and by.reafon of the extenfion of the Membranes about the Foynts, and the Acrimny of the Humors Twinging and pulling them it bath Foyned with it apainy and binderance of moti- on.
And becaufe that the Nature of this Difeafe is fuch, that when it hath once Heguwr yportey 5
to infelt and crouble a perfon, the Body camhardly ever be fo carefully looked un- pe faire to, and well ordered, but thatupon evety fleight caufe and upon the leaft occafion:eathe gone given ic will againseturn, and indeed by .cercain Periods, ({omtimes once a year, to returs fomtimes every fix Months, and now and then once. every Month:) many therefore 2 r= of the moft learned Phyficians do likewife add chis in the definition, that it isa pain a or {welling returning by certain intervals and Periods. -But ifthéerebe any one that thinketh it,cherefore tobe omitted, becaufe that he whois at the frit troubled with the Gout, and fo hath not {uffered many Paroxy {ms returning by intervals, yet may becruly faid co be affected with che Gout: yet Notwithftanding, . he cannot deny this, chat che very Nature of the Difeafe isfurch that even in the very firft Paroxyfm the Dileafe is in 1¢ felf naturally fit co return by intervals ; like as he who is at firfk taken witha Tercian or Quarcane Feaver,is truly faid'co be troubled with a Tertian ota Quarcan; albeic chache hath nor yecundengone many Paroxy{ms or fits returs. ning every Third or Fourth day. . . Francifew India mdeedtilameth thofe that define the-Gout by apain, in regard that negiecting the Difeafe they define his Malady by:its Symptoms.” Bur ic isno new thing, to define fome cerrain A ffects( in the which théSymptom and the Difeafe concur) by che Symptoms, asmoreatgent, more troubléfom and grievous uitothe Difeafed party; and,more!manifeft in ichemfelvés.' And fo-the Phrenflyis defined by a Delity, -and the Plewifie by apain ; ‘although that there-bein both [places prefenca| Difeafe, to wir, an inflammation. | And therefore theré are many of the ablett Phylitians, borh Ancient and Modern, who infcribe their Tracts touching this Aftect, of the pain cf tbe Foynts. Neither again may the Gout beshere alwaies fo ficly defined by a Tumor orfwelling; :in regard )chat oftentimes theve isino {welling evidently appearing in che/Excernad iparts5: and yet-neverthelefs ithe: pain is rhen greater and more vebemenc then whenthereis a fwellmg im the part, But India himfelfisvery, much miftaken and greatly erreth whiles he definech this Malady by a deflux. / CE
And moreover, although chat everysGoucthac happeneth.about the Joynts May whether be called a pain (and in'thismanner chis' name may be alfo attributed unto pains every pain
that happenin disjoyntings,; Concufions,:or bruifes and‘blows, wounds, that which ¢f the
is in cheFrench'Pox,cthat:which bappeneth unto Virgins while their: Courfes are flo : pir % wing from them, er fuch as happen untorhe Hips of great Bellyed Wonien that'are nated the neer the time of their Travail, of in general, unto ali pains whatfoeverithat happen Gong ? about che Joynts :) yernorwichitanding, we donor there cake the word Gout info
large a fence, but in amoneeminent andefpecial manner wehere by this Nameiun- derftand that peculiar kinde of pain which che Germans:cal Das Zipperlein, ating
froma fudden influx of a Humor into the Joynts, anfmuating icfelf into:rhe ‘more hidden and inward parts of che Joynts,’ and returning by intervals and Periods. : The
SS ee a ee ne ee eee sant #
4 Of the Nature of the Gout: Chap, 1. _ The fob- The fubjéct of the Gout Cif it be defined by pain)are only the Membranous parts, ‘abl the and thofe parts about the Joynts that are endued with a quick fenfe and feeling. For whether al that ave grieved wich pain do fuffer ic as they are membranous; from which never- the Lige- thelefs we may not exclude the Membranous Ligaments. For although that Galen mets — geachus that all che Ligaments want fenfe, yer notwithftanding we are not to deny mast feafe fenfe unto the Membranous Ligaments, which ( as we finde by experience) are very fenfible of pricking, and the Gout it felf doch evidence it. Neither is chac Reafon they commonly alleadg tothe Contrary of any great weight and moment, to wit, that a Man fhould be alwaies Obnoxious unco pains, and never free from exerucia- ting Tortures,ifthe Ligaments that are fenfible of pain fhould dafh and {trike againft the bones: for Nature hath fo fencedand guarded thofe parts, and fo admirabl ordered it, that wo fuch thing can-happen.- And hence it is chat we daily lay hold on with our hands, and walk upon our Feet, in which thereare very many Ten- dans, Nerves, and Membranes, and yet neverthelefs we are not fenfible of any pain. Bur if ic be defined by a Tumor or {welling,.then all the parts that joyn together the Joynet, and lie round abour it, may.befaid to be the fubje& of cheGout. Butnow that chefe pains are excited: more about the Joynts, then elfewhere, che Canfeis this, tcowit, thatthe Veins and Arteries pcur forth inthefe places (in che which thereis a Concourfe of the Membranes and Nerves) thofe Sharp Humors which Na- ture endeavorethto expel, and which cannot flow forth in the middle Channel of nthe faid Veins and Arceries ; and becaufe thac the Humors arriving at the feat of the Joynes ftick faft in chefe more ftreight and narrow places, where all the parts thac end there are joyned together, and infolded the one within the other; whereas elfwhere they might more freely be moved up and down, and have room enough to difperfe chemfelves hither and thither, And indeed, the truth is, that now and then that Humor is alo diffufed into other parts 5. and there is a certain Namelefs Author,who (in the eighth Seftion of bis B.of the Gout, added unto the writings of the principal Phyfitians) celleth us, char thefe kind of fluxions donot only infeft che Hands, Feet, and all the jyoynts, buc that it likewife maketh an impreflion upon the very Head,upon the very Liver, yea aud fomtimesupon the very Heart it felf... And “Hieronymus Capivaccius alfo ( in his Confil. collected from. Scholtgius, Confsl..226.) maketh mention of the Gout pain in the frde; by reafon of which the fick perfon was conftrained to lieupon his ‘Back; neither was he ableto movehis fides. And a perfon of Honor once told me(as I ree member) that a certain man afflicted with che Gout, felt likewife very fore and grie- vous painsiti his very Yard: and ic was related unto me by an Honorable Lady, that.a Kinfwoman of hers being troubled with the Gour,, aicercain Marl (for fo fhe called ic, and:indeednoc unficly..) brake forch alfo in her Fore-Head, fothat ic mighc have been even {wept off hke fand,; and grains of Sale. Buc the crutch is, the Caufe breeding the Gout, if itbe in great abundance,: it may likewife be diffu- fed into other parts befides the joynts, but yer notwithftanding it doth not breed the Gout any where elfe but in the joynts. wig ibelt But now it may here in chis place Cand that not withont good caufe)be demanded whe are BOW it comes co pafsthat thofe perfons chat are: affidted with the Gout do yet fo treubied {eldom fuffer any Convulfion (but only a pain) whenas yet the Nervous parts are withthe here affected, and indeed fotwingedand pulled by the {harp Humor that there Gout do may feem to be great caufe for the exciting of a Convulfion? Thomas Eraftm, in his i fae 4-Difputar. againft Paracelfus, thinks this'to be the Caufe, that the Humor thatis sonal poured forth about the Nerves is waterifhiand Flegmatick, and therefore doth on? more loofen.then extend them:. and if-this,benot the Caufe, he confeffeth ingeni. _Tbe opi? oufly that he is alcogether ignorant ofic; and knoweth not whatic is. But yet we sion of B- do not acknowledg this forthe only true Caufe; neither is it indeed a truth chat the rabiss ° Wumor exciting the Goutis fimply watetith and Flegmiatick, that rather loofeneth then excendeth the parts, as we fhallhereafter prove, and as ic appeareth even by the pain it felf, which is moft fharp and incollerable. » And therefore I conceive the cauie hereof co bein the place affected, co wic, that nut the very Nerves thenifelves (as they areinferced into:che/parts deftined unto motion, v:g. The Mufcles that fervethereunto) areaffe&ed, butwather the Membranes, and the Membranous Li- gaments, which parts arenocordained for motion, neither ferve they thereunto 3 an
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and therefore. although they fuffer moft grievous pains,;;,yet nevertheless they
excite no Convulfive motion, yatefs haply she Brain, be drawn into: confent; like,
as we may plainly fee the truth of this in,the;pains/of,¢he- Teeth, che Eyes,: the ‘Pleura Membrane, the Colondinreftine, andthe like pains 5, in all whiclrtt 1s not the Nerves (appointed for motion) but rather she.Membranes chat are affected, with- out any kind of Convulfion. | And the very famevhappenech in the Gout, in which the membranous pacts that are abourthe Joynts, and knit together, the extremities ofthe Joynts, are either diftended, or twinged and pulled by the Humors flowing thereunto. Pb an bt een tae Av} Thereare fome indeed who afferc, thatthe very Cavity or hollow fpacechat is between, the extremities of. the Bones’ do receive che Humors, thac flow
chereunto, and that this {pace is the true fubject of the. Caufe breeding:
the Gout. Bur chis is falfe, as anon we fhall fhew you inthe Third Queftion,
The Proxime.or next Caufe of rhe Gout pain (as in other,parts tikewife) is the folution of Continuity, whichis produced by che afflux of. the dharp.Humors into the Membranous parts about the Joynts either by diftending them, or elfe by their acrimony at once both pricking and pulling them.
Now cthofe things that accompany. this pain, are Firft, an impotency.and weak- nefs.of rhe motion 3 and by the motion ofthe joynt the pain is irritated and augmen=
ted. Andthenalfoa {welling (and this forthe moft part. with arednefs and heat ),o
followeth upon ic, andis difcerned more efpecially intheextreamjoynts 5 and yet:
veverthele(s, chere appeareth now. and.then only -a moift and waterith {welling wichout any.Fednels at al. Intheklip and Shoulder blade( being tlefhy places))there fcarcely appedreth any {welling at allexternally,. but.che.Humor.thayhathdlown thereunco lieth hidand covered by the flefh. And there is alfoaFeaver (a conti- nued one)-that almoft alwaies, witha pam invadethsin the Aribritis,,-or, Gout in general, and ofcentimesalfoin the Gout of the Feet and Knees; and thedick perfon is firft of allcaken with an extream Chilnefs, and then prefently a heat:ifoNoweth upon it; and this isthe Caule that the fick.perfons arefo vexed and. troubled with
thirft, andthat. che pulfe is changed, andythat the UrineS become very red, which,
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Oftenctimes~at the firlt beginning are water, sbut now what kinde of Feaver this,
is chat accompanieth che Gout, in chis many, Authors differ, as below, in che fourih Queftion, we thallfhew you. . Andfommimes there arelikewife other Symp- toms that follow upon the faid pain; andamang the.reft, watchings, reftlefinels, anda Spafm.
if che Gout continue long,, andofcen aflidt the fick party, then at the length there,
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are generated inthe joynts Lard knots and knobs, fromthe more thick parc of the!
ferous or wheyiih Humor, that even of its ownaccord tendeth toa Coagulation or Clotting togethers and if the Skin be opened, out there runnech’a matter, fomrimes iluid and whice, and fomcimes, like unco Playfter, or white inme; and fomrimes che.matter is hard, like unto gravelly ftones, that. may; be: ccumb- led, pegs a : 3
This Malady.is likewife, known cto difperfe ic felf among the common People, the Caule being Generated from the. general and,.common, faulc; and. vice either of the Air,. of of the; ordinary diet in many places. But, now, whether it May at any time happen by Reafon of any defect of that kind of fruit we cal] Mul- berries, wethall further difcufs this point anon, inthe fift Queftion,
Chap. 2: Of the Caufes of the’Gont.
Pap Proxime or nigheft Canfe of this pain in the Gout, is the Solution, of Unity in
the Membranous parts abouc che joynts: Now. this folution proceedeth not (as, The cauje
Capivaccius wil haye it) only froma Compreflion of ‘the fenfible parts about the joynt, cauled by a preternatural repletion of the Ligaments with a Humor flowin thereto, Fot why,theLigaments are moift folid,and moft chick,in fo much chat{inshe
fir{t place)they themfelves cannot admit of the Humors 3.and the pain is oftentimes
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ig therefore rather caufed bythe diltcnrion, and cw inging, ot pricking,in.the fenfible and tender parts about the sevits | gent | : | D Bue:
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Of the Canfes of the Gout. Re Chap. 2.
Bus now, whac the Cafe of chis diftention, Pulling, and Pricking, is, cannot
ont d be explained, by reafon of the difference in Opinions (among Phy fitians, couchingthe fame. For fomechere are that teach us how chat theGout is generated only from a diftemper 3 others from a Winde; a third fort, only from a Humor 3 and fome of thefe will have this Humor to be flegm, others Choler, others. Flegm with Choler; others affert it cobe Flegm mingled with blood; others, Crude and Watery blood ; others fay that it isa whey 3 andothers there arethac admit of all thefe Humors. And indeed fome affirm that chis Humor flower down from the Head, others again from the internal parts; others from the external parts be- tween the Skul andthe Skins fome again wil have it to flow forth of the Veins, and others by both thefe waies; touching which we intend co difcourfe more at large; below, 1n the feventh Queftion.
Bucin brief, chat we may here ina word ftate the Controverfie, che immediate and neereft Caufe of the Gouc isa Humor, partly diftending the parts of a quick fenfe about the jyoynt, and partly pricking and lancing them, to wit, che ferous o&
wheyifh Humor, and yer fuchas is not waterifh, but Salt and fharp, and (as the’
Chymifts callic) Tartarous; bred inthe fanguification, in che Liver, andin the Spleen, and by Nature chruft forch by the Veins and Arteries into the parts about thejoynt. And indeed this Humor is alcogether of a peculiar Nature, and much different from thofe other Humors that breed an inflammation in orher parts; and it hath its original from the fame kind of Aliment that Plants draw from the Earth. For in all fores of Earth there is fomthing chat is falcifh, and partaking of a Mine- ral Nature. Which whether we callicthe Salt of che Earth, orelfe Tartar ( with the common fort of Chy mifts) it matcers noc with me, fo chat we agree inthe thing it felf. ) And yet notwithftanding ic feems not al one tome, whether we cal! it che Salt of
poppe Tartar (as it is in truth taken here generally in this place by the Chymifts) is a com-
differ.
-€acious. And moreover it appeareth from this, ¢ in the Joynts certain hard knobs and kuots; out of which there istaken, and goeth
pound of Salt, and Earth, yea and of Siilphur likewife. From whience alfo ic is that there ate conftituted Differences of fuch like Earths; and fo there arifetha diverfity of the Humor breeding the Gout in divers Bodies and places. And from either the abundance or fearcicy of this Sale, and che mixture of it with other Juyces there arife various differences of Earths; fo chat fome of themaredirty, others muddy, athird fore Clayith, afourch fandy and Crumbling, a fifth Limye; and in fome Earths there is an abundance of that we call Marle, in others Chalk, and in others there is fomthing elfechat aboundeth : and in fome Earths ( in the which likewife Bread Corn grows very plenctifully ) there is fo great, a ftore of this Salt, that even ouc of them there may be deftilled a certain {pirit chat diffolveth Metals, That Salt or Tartar is actraéted from Plants Ccogether with their Aliment) out of che Earth 5. and hence it is derived into men unto whom cthofe Plants ferve for
Meat and Drink: andunlefs it be fevered and feparated in a Convenient manner, it
is at length mingled together with the blood, and being alcogether unfic for rhe nourifhing of the Body ic is inthe end driven down and thruft ito the joynts, for thofe Caufes that we fhal anon declare unto you. And this Sale Humor chat cauf-
eth che Gout oftentimes confeth very neer untothe Nature of f{pirits (as che Chy=
mifts call them) fuch as are thofe of Wine, and other Vegetables, endued witha volatile Sale; asalfoof Salt, Vitriol, Nitre, and Aqua Fortis; which although thac they arechin, Subtile, and Refemble the Nature of Warer, yet notwichitan-
ding they containin them a moft fharp andbiring Salt. And this Salc is contained.
as wellin the Arteries, asin the Veins; from whence likewife itis, that being moft fubtile icexciteth very extream, intollerable, and moft acute pains. For itis not requifice, chat chofe Humors fhould alwaies hurt the Body ina thick and grofs manner 3 but oftentimes they are made {piritual, as we shal afcerwards alfo (inthe Canfes) fhew you, touching Wine. And many things there are that teach us the. truth of this. Firft of ay ke very vehemency and fiercenfs of the pain it felf,
which cannor poflibly proceed from a Flegmacick or watry Humor, or elfe from
Blood diftending che parts; bur froma very fharp Humor, being oftentimes in- deed but little in its quantity and bulk, but yet in power very great, and moft effi- Bi at length there are generated
forth
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__ Of the Canfes ofthe Gout,
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: i ae Z ; i : — forth amatter like unto\Lime, fuch as aifo fome certain Wines before they be
wracke and taken off their Lees do yield forth; which happeneth not atall in othér Tumors, which are rather turned into Ps, then any duch mattter as this and therefore it {uiticiencly fheweth chat the Gout hath fone orher peculiar caufe, chat the reft of the Lumors orfwellingshavenot. And Thirdly, che Caufes do argiie and proyethe fame; fince thac shere is nothing that maketh more for thé genétacion of the Gouc then Wine, which! moft. of all abotndech -with fich a Sale and Tartar as: we mentioned before 5 there béing ‘no plant « Ca$ we fhall alfo further thew you below!) thac doth. more artra@ that cHat is Salt, Clayie; and Limye, inthe Earth, chen the Vine itfelf; although indeed o- ther Plants likewife,(as Wheat and Barley) do draw unto theni che very fame mat=' terasthe Vine doth, bucin nothing neer fo great. an abundance. Yea, and chis matter is fomtimes likewile conteined in the Water § atid from hetice it is, that now and then fuch as are Abftemious, or that otherwife by teafon of their poverty they drink no Wine, but Water,are yer troubled with che Gout 3 and in fome placés we find chat even Beer is exceeding hurtfulunro chofé'that are fubjec unto the Gout, whether this happen by Reafon of the Corn there growing (Of which they make cheir Beer) or fromthe Water they ufe for the fame perpofe.
And from-hence it cometh to pafs, that che Gout in very many places is a Dif- eafe almoft Epidemical. Andinchofe very places where the Gout is ‘in a matinet Epidemical (asic is in many‘places of ‘Moravia) the inhabitants there, ‘befides the Gout, are troubled likewife with the Stone, Colicks and that which arifech from thence, che Paliie and concraction of the Members,’ and ‘likewife the Falling-fick- nefs 3 which affects Call or moft ofthem) proceed not from the Watery Humor, but alfo from that whiich is fharpand Sale. ‘And latt ofall, even this reacheth ug that this Humor is ferous or w heytfh, that the Gour'can by no means be drawn toa fuppuration. . For the blood is eafily turned into Pus; and {fo are likewife the other Humors 5 butasfor the ferous and Salt Humors, this is the Nature of them, char if they be alcogether chin, they are then wholly refolved; |
7
hard knots, and {mal Stunes chat are brittle and crumbling.
This matter, inregatd chat ic cometh neerer unto the Nature of Minerals then of vegetables, ic cannot therefore by any means afford a good and fit Aliment unto the Body; and fo ic ought either immediatly in the Firft, or elfe in the Second Concoction to be expelled; which when ic happeneth,' the Gout isnor then genera ated. And-.from hence it is, thac many Wine-bibbers, and Gluctons, are free fromthe Gout; which therefore happenerh, becaufe chat they have chofe cheir Bowels char are deftined for Concodtion very ftrong atid vigorous; £6 that they do exactly feparace all whatfoever is Excrementitions in thofe Meats and Drinks chat they take in, and evacuate chem by convenient waies.. But if this mattet be Hoe forthwith evacuated, but be reteined ftil in the Body, it is rhe chruft for ward hither and thither. in-the Body, until ic be at the lenoth driven ulito' the Joynts.
And therefore without caufe or grounditis ( as anon in the g
thing that, is Tarcarous and thick mingled with them, they are then converted into
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more at large fhew you) that by {ome Choler, Fleym, Melancholly, and Blood, ©4047
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arehereaccufed. For poflibly ic may be chacin one Body this Humor may abound and in another that Humor may be in great abundance, unto the pained Joynct: yet neverthelefs,
Flegm, or w elanchoa and may together flow yy, oc. be
that whey ifh:-Pumor:€ which Nature de='the can/e
fireth to'expel forth and therefore thiniftsic forward wnro the Joynts’) is the firtt-of the gous
Caufe of the motion ; andcthen afterwards the pain likewife ftirs up‘and catfeth other humors to flow unto the place affected: and therefore ifthe Body be Plethos trical, theblood ; but if Cacochymical, then: othet Humors alfo aremoved unto the placeaffected. Mean while, thofe very Humors are tiot the prime caufe of rhe Gout; andif they had been altogether wichont that faltiand ferous Humor, it had’ fince that there aremany that are Plechorick and Ca- cochymick, who yet notwithftanding are not troubledwith the Gout, Andthere- fore what Mercatus writeth, is a truth, cowir, that although: juyces or Humors may much abound in the Body, and become very vitious, they do not for this pres fently degenerate into the Articular affects, and produce the Gout: but that Humor which ought to produce the Gout Cas we have already, faid ) is
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ferous, Salt, Sharp, and Tarcarous; and hath a peculiar tendenéy unto the ce
joynts. é init
: whatre- And now, whereas unto every fluxion there is required the matter flowing, the. & a
i quired ut- Term from which, andthe place whichercoiccendech, and the way by which; and | can
i “vey “that we have now already fpoken unto the matter, the caufe of the Gour s it temain- ey Be Mi fluxiot. ech that we proceed to {peak of the Term from whence, € or the placein which the | aio ’ Ihe matter is generated) the way by whichit floweth, and’ thererm unto whichitrca- | | a rely deth, ot the part receiving. yf aie And that. we may firft of all Treat of the part receiving, (chat fo we may afcter-- | robe . wards Joyntly explain the Caufes boch internal amd external : in che firft place, the j vii
i parts recipient are here the Joynts, Cand thofe of the Feet efpecially, from which | oft i the Gout Podagra hath its original) as weaker then al the reft of che partis, invegard = Boll \i Wl thac they are endued with a weaker heat, confifting Cas they do) of bones, hga~ 4 te Ah Hi The part MENS; Cartilages, Tendons, Nerves and Membrans5 andare further diftane frohy fg pe i; \" receiving CHE Fountain of heat; and are likewife greatly expofed unto che ifijiifies of Exter- fj te
| A tke fluxion Nal Caufes; and are alfo much weakned by labor and frequenc exercifes , and cen i mM in the gout hereupon are rendered moft apt and ready to receive the Humors that How there \ ff 200 wt | The weak unto. And yer notwithftanding the alone imbecillity ofthe joynts isnor fuficient W cath i i mn vfs of the for thegenerating of the Gout, but there is likewife altogether neceflary the fluxion fj sll h «| Ghee ed IC felf. | wel eget heaps For (as Galen hath it in his Sizth B. of the prefervation of Health § chop the Gout. Chap. 13.) they who Colleé& and Treafure up nothing within them that | patial
Tht I" 1S fuperfluous, in them thefe weak and infirm parts remain til in fafery.” Of jut pi hhh which this is one moft evident Argument, that’ fome have>for meny — § mut 4 Bis Months together been very weak and infirm in divers pats of their Body, — jj wht byt without any fuch pain asthe Gout bringeth along with it 5 “whereas if weaknefs a-, fj lath rai lone would caufeir, the infirm parc fhould perpetually be troubled, there being ng. ff Joy t Ceffation at all of cle Caufe of its weaknefs and infirmity... And now therefore, Haid a ip becaufe that ic isnot perpetually afflicted, (the Caufe of ics imbecillicy being fill jf Hum ay continued) we may conclude, asa thing moft manifeft, that there isfomething elfe — } titbo Vy antervening,which is the Caufe of the breeding of this affedt; and this moft certaimly — ff ott Bal) is nothing elfe, but that that is redundant either in qualicy or quantity. And yer fj inp | Waa notwithftanding, that the imbecillity of the parts is the neceflary caufe of the ge: jj ml
| nerating of che Gout, (asthe moft of the ableft Phyfitians doaffert and détermine) — f illo(: hy) is denied by Carolus Pifo Cin hisB. touching Difeafes from the affinence of tbe ftrous 1 ther pa Lie ty Humor, Conf). 1. of the Gout) whileft he writeth, that Phyfitians oftentimes as pol trouble themfelves tono purpofe, when they admonifhus, thatihereisa very f{pe- —j]untol cial. regard to be, had unto the weaknefs cf the recipient parts, fecing that the — jj lythy foynes do more ealily andreadily of their own accord receive and admit rhe hee — jj oftie W heyifh Humor, then the reft of the Members; this doch not (faith he) proceed jf ate; from their imbecillity, or from any diftemper, that is, loofnefs, orraricy, bus
from the very Conformation it felf, and this noc placed inthe Cavity, but rather °|} bene
in the Conjunétion with che ends ofallrhe Veffels; which Conformation to alter |} whe
and change is nocatallwithingur power. And he hath there afferred, that the i ting:
Joynts for this Reafon only admic of and drink inthe hoc Wheyifh Humor,becaufe | | lion,
that inthem are terminated the externat branches of the internal Veffels. Towir, |} Seo
that the Ebullition or boyling out of this ferous Humor doth firft of all begininthe — || Gner,
greater and the ineernal Veffels, andthat from hence it falleth forth into the leffer, | tioua
and at length into the extream branches, which having noother place whither they — |) tayiy
they may pour back the Humor they have received in, it is thereupon ftopt and ~ nell
heaped up together in the joynts, in which the externa! Veffels (almoft alofthem) — |) Wit ¢ areterminated. All which although ic may.feem very agreeable unto therruth, | ttey
yet notwithftanding two things chere are that muft herebecaken notice of. The | pleei
former isthis, chat although it be true, that thofe greater Trunks of the hollow thould
Vein, andthe Arteries, (their branches being difperfed hither and thither) arefor — |) {oe
the greateft parc of them terminated in the joynts: yet Neverthelefs there are Bid th
likewife many of thofe branches which here and chere are Terminated in the Flefh, |) lnc,
| and other parts, and yet for all chat they Transfufe not the matter ofthe Goucinta — |) othe ; | thofe parts. And moreover.alfo.the matter of the Gout is not alwaies poured forth — }) the},
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even gnto che extream Joynes, but chat it oftentimes alfo ftops and ftaies in che mid-way s inthe Hip, Knees, and Elbows. The other thing co be taken notice of, is this, chat albeic thac Conformation of che Veffels ( by reafon of which they are terminated into che Joynts ) cannot be changed 3 yet notwichftanding the Laxity and weaknefs of che pacts into: which
they are ingrafced may in {ome meafure be changed by thofe medicaments that corroborate, -
although it be che leaft part of the Cure (as hath been faid ) chat is to be expeted from
chefe. 3 But befides the imbecillity of the Joynts, chereis yet fomething elfe chat feemeth to me
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to be che Caufe why chis humor is moved unto the Joynts rather chan to any other parts 5 bamor thac
which conceit of mineIfubmic ( asa Paradox only ) and Jeave it untothe free judgment of the Judicious and Candid Reader 3 and itis this. Ic is moft cercain, chat the Blood in our
is the Caufe of the goue ts moved
Bodies is not alcogecher homogeneous, buc obtainech divers parts, and chat divers parcs Of waro. the the Body are nourifhed by thofe different parts of che Blood ; as che Flefli by che more tem- Joynts ra- perate, the Bones by the thicker, the Lungs by the more fubrile, and fo likewsle the reft of *her than che parcs attract unto chemfelves from che blood a ficand convenient Nutriment, And chis £2 ¢%¢ ober
feemeth alfo to be proved by che ftone called Offeocolla ( fo called becaufe that ichath in it a notable virtue of Conglutinating the broken Bones > which being taken inwardly penetra- tech into the Bones, rather than into any ocher parts, and caufeth thac che Calli are genera- ced ina very fhort time; yea, in thofe chat are yong it producech ab overgreat Callus; as we may fee in Guilbelm. Fabricius bis firft Century, Obfervat. 90. & or. Neither are thele things done in a found Body only ; but even the vitious humors likewile have nor an inclt- nation al of chem, neither are chey al driven unto any one parc; bus fome of chem tend unco one part, and others of them unto other parts 5. and this we ake taught, as by other dileafes,fo more efpecially by the Plica Polonica above mentioned. And therefore seeing that Her- cules Saxonia in his Book of the Phica, Chap. 26. writeth nothing butche cruth, when he faith chac the humor ( che Caule ofthe Plica ) bath a propriety noc wel agreeing with the "i yge re leben RAL aR al che Membranes ; buca certain familiarity wich che airs and che extream part of theskin: Iconceivechat Imay alfoas rightly Affert thar che Humor the Caufe of the Gout hatha certain kind of familiatity and natural alliance with the Bones 3 bucthac it isan Enemy unco the Membratious parts,ifnot inan occult manner, yet certainly by its Acrimony, and by its cwinging and lancing faculty. Foc very probable itis, feeing thas che Bones as alfothe Ligamentsand cendons, arenourifhed by a Blood thac is more Earthy, as having an alliance wich che Taccarous humor 5 that other Partarous humors allo (as wel the thick, as the fubtile) are chruft forth mote unto the Joynts chan uotaany oe cher parts ; and mor e(pecially unco the Juynts of excream parts, fince chat Nacure Casmuch as poflisly thecan ) is wont cothruft forth the vitious humors from the principal places unco che moft remore parcs.. For alchough it be fo fomcimes chat Nature doch not prefent- ly thruft forch into the extream Joynts ofthe Feer or the Handsthe matcer chat is the Gaufe of che Gour, but chat ic ftops and ftaies in the mid’ft of fome Joynes yet notwithftanding aftecwacds when the pains begin Nature (if fhebeyecany ching ftrong) dcivech back ae gain inco the greater Veins the Matter by the fame waies by which ic flowed in and from hence fhe thrufts it forward even upro the extream Joynts: couching which, as alfo whether thére lie any thing hid in the very Bones themfelves that may make for che exe citing of che Archricick Paroxyfm, we fhal fpeak more hereafter in che eighth Que= ftion. ) Secondly, Ascouching thefe humors ( that are che Caufe of che Gout ) where they are
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Generated, and by what waies they pafs intoche Joynts, che Opinions of Phyfitians are va- the Gone tiousand different; of which we thal {peak furcher in che feventh Queftion. But now cha " gemere
may in few words comprize che fum and fubftance of the ching in queftion; f{eeing tha al
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{wellings, and che preternatural Collection of humors inany part, is dohe CWO Watess CO of she bie wit, either by Congeftion by which the humor is by litcle and liccle collected and heaped up mers;
inthe part, orelfe by Afflux ; we cannot conceive char the former of thefe wates bach any place inthe Gout. For if by Congeftion and che alone weaknefs of che parts che humor fhiduld be collected in the Joynts, chen the pain and {welling could not be bred fo fuddénly,
. foeafily, and fo evidently 5 and cbeinficm parc fhould perpecually labor and fuffer; in re-
gard chac the Caufe of this diftemper and pain fhould never be abfenc from it. Buc now, fince chat Perfons char have the Gout are nor ina contibual fuffering condition, but that fome of theta are free for {tx months copether, and that afterwardthe matter apain floweth unco the Joynes, and that indeed fuddenly, co wit, when there isa vicious butior collected in the Body, which urgeth and provokech Nature unto the expulfion thereof: it eafily from hence appeareth
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the excrement that is heaped up togecher fromthe Blood about the Region of the Joynts, the place affected being ex:teamly weakned from the many fluxions, and there heap,ng ro= gether new excrements, and caufing a pain chat is noe very grievous or intolerable, which producethia moift and watry kind ot {welling rather than any others and he afferes ic for a moft certain truth, chat shoie who are thus affected arevery feldom or never free from the Gout 5 and fomcimes by realon of che affluence of the humar, and {omtimes again by the congeftion and heaping of ic up; from the one or che other of chefe Caufes they alwaiescatry about with them certain figus and tokensiof the {ame,and are continually {uffering fomching or other by reafon of it. |
But che truch is, chis is no peculiar kind of the Gout; andif fo be char ic differ from the Gout which we have defcribed, ic isnofjehen che Gouc, burcrather a moift and warry {wel- linginthe Feet. And hence sc is chae Platerys bimfelf confeffech chat 1¢ very felcom ar ne- vet ficft bepinneth of ic felf, -buc. chat ic'is won: to follow fone orher chat was caufed from afe fluxion. Towit, by pain, and the longicontinued.and frequent afflux of che bumors the Joynts are fo weakned, chat chey cannos.cightly concoct che Aliment chat floweth unto chem 3 much }efs affimilace the fame unto'themfelvess and hence itis thac chere are many Excremenis collected 5 and chefe being heaped up do excitethac monft and watry {welling without any grievous pain: which {welling notwithftanding (1f che pain proper unto the Gout be not prefent wich ic) isnot properly the Gour. Buc af the true Arthritis or Gout be gayned cogether with ity che debilitaced part cannoc chen without much difficulty, and long time, difcuis and {catter the humor that bath flown unco it 5 and hereupon ic hapennech chac before one humor bedifperfed (which.as Hippocrates wriceth, is feldom or never before the fortieth day ) another humor floweth unto it, and foche fick Perfon may feem continual- ly asic were.co be afflicted with the Gour 5, or hikewife, if che Afllux be but by fhore inser- vals, he as in very deed perpetually ccoubled cherewich,
From But now, in what.manner, and from whence this aflux proceedeth, here likewife Auchors whence the feem co differ much among themlelves, . Bus if waving and laying afide Authority, we aire beedfully ateend and oblerve the ching wt felf, and thofe chings chac are done about the. fick
pecfon, we thal eafily perceive chac chis Aiflux is by the Veins and Arteries, For in fuchas are troubled with the Gout (upon the very ficft approach of the Paroxy{m ) the Vedflels that céad-untothe Hands and che Feet, and are inferced into the excceam Joynes, are wone maniefiiy cofwel. Audthenagain, this Difeafe dothfuddenly invade, and che afilux is wont to be very, {udden; which cannot happen but only by the Veins and Acceries. And
fran moreover, ig eafily paflech.out of one place intoanother, elpecially if. cooling and repellin whence the : P L : Afflve ye Foot, this Foot is nofooner freed cherefrom, but ic prefently beginnech co afflict che other
in the oot,orchehand. Or, if Nacuce lie underthe burden, and be not ableco expel hole viti« Gout. ous Humors (chefe fticking faft about che Bowels, and e{pecially abouc che Hearc.) there arecthenexciced freightnings of che Heart, and faintings, wh {wounding fics (as J have oftentimes obferved)) which ceafe not until chac the vitious Humor be again driven ouc inco
another Joyat: which morion of che bumor cannot be burt by che common Veffels. And fuccherasore, Feavers (as wel continual as intecmicting ) are fomtimes terminated into che
Gout 5. which could not be, unlefsche matter were inthe Veins, And laftly, a Feayer is
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And therefore feeing that this Humor (the caufe of rhe Gout) is contained within the where be Veins and Arteries, and out of chem poured forth into the Joynts; without donbe ic mutt 2wnor,the of neceflity be generated in fome Concottion of the Blood, and indeed fuch a Goncottion as ““* #.. out of which che Veins and Arteries receivethat Humor which they contain’ and this we cm a0 Ay decermine co be in che Liver and Spleen, the Sanguification being there hutt in its own hie es manner.
Buc now, the Caufes (by teafon.of which this humor is generated) areewo! The former. For whee whereof isfomehing amis in che Liveriand Spleen, and more efpectally the éxceffive hear (/ # * and drinefs of thofe pares 5 and chen che other caule thereof (this being indeed the chief and Bench edie ptincipal) isfuch a kind of Aliment foom Meats and Drink as maketh a continual (upply of fuch a like Tarctarous matter.
As for the firtt of chefe, The Scomach may indeed likewife confer fomwhat hereunto, “if aini¢ che Chyle be noc rightly elaborated; and if that after this Goncoétion che Tactarous feces or dregs be not mnoft of chem inftancly feparated : and hence itis alo chat al Phyfitians warn us inthe preventing of the Gouc, to have a [pecial regard unto the ficft Concoétion : and yet nocwithftanding that hure Concoction of the ftomach doth not moft immediately cons duce unto che generating of the Gout, but chat there is a neceflity that che Concoétion in the Liver and Spleen fhould likewife be burt, For if there be any ching amifs in thefe (which cannot indeed very eafily and dererminately be demonftrated and made to appear) it then cometh co pafs thac che anufeful parts, falc and tarcarous (which are inthe Chytle) cané not be cightly feparaced, but remain mingled with the blood, and copether with it ate deri« ved untothe Veins. And by reafon of this Vice and faul of chefe Bowels it happeneth that oftencimes from Meats and Drinks in chemfelves not very hurtful fome perfons ate very eas fily offended 3 and on che contrary, others that have ftrong Bowels ( in whom the Conco= ction of the blood, and the fepara¢ion of the excrements is rightly performed’) although they ufually feed upon meats apc'co breed che Gout, and fil chemfelves alfo with Wine Cand that eee none of she whoifomeft ) chey are! not yee for al this at al troubled with the
out.
Bus what this diftemper of che Liver and Spleen is, cannot fo eafily be explained and une ivbar kind folded. And yer neverchelefs, if any one fal determine ittobe a hot and dry diftemper, I of difteme fhal noe at al gain=fay him. Bus in wha manner chis hot and dry diftemper doth effect what Pet it is hath been {aid, this isnot focleer. Prancifcus Vallefius celsus for a truth, That by chis di- oe ahh ftemper there is ftrongly preffed forth a water from the reft of the Juyces 3 which is not pro- eh ee bable, unless itbe ficly explained. For chis we willingly-granc, That if che Liver be more ee hoc and dry than what paturally ic fhould be, inftead then of a moderate Elixation ot boy-
’ fing chere wil be a certain Affation or rofting , and fo the blood that is generated muft needs
befharp. Ochersafficm ( and indeed not unficly) chat che Liver and Spleen when they are vehemently and incemperately hor, accraét the ferous and falt Juyce in the Food, which oughe co have been {eparaced and evacuated in the firft Conco@tion, and 6 it comes to be mingled together withthe blood. Yea, and haply alfo in che diftempered Liver ig felf and Spleen che Blood is not wel elaborated 5 and fomching there is lefe retiaining therein thac oughr by right co have been feparated, which being afterwards heaped up inthe Veins is the cauleof the Gout.
And Iam of Opinion thag the very fame happenech in che Liver and Spleen, chat happe> nech in the Reins. . For many there are chat ear Gheefe and other teats chat are very apc to breed the Scone, and yer nocwichftanding they do not generace the fame; Whereas ochers on the contrary, in whofe Reins chere is a fandy, gravelly, and ftony confticution (as Fer
_ nelis callechit )_ ora powerin the Reins of breeding the ftone, thele are eafily offended by
the meats aforefaid. And I conceive that the cafe isthe fame in the Gout; and that'chere is @ certain vicious confticution in the Bowels of chofe chat aretroubled with thé Gouts and Tam of Opinion chat chis vicious Conftitution is che efficient caufe of chat Sale or Tarears by reafon of which chat Humor whichis the caufe of the Gouc is produced, ‘which when it once cometh to abound, it af chen afcerwards thruft forth unto the Joynts. And this vicious conftitution is communicated unto fome from their Parents; and by others it is contracted from the ufe of Meat and Drink of a like Nature, and likewife fcom che Errors they commi€ in the whoi courfe of their Dyet. ig ip And moreover, Although the faculcy of the Bowels be wel conftisuced s yet if che Meat and Drink abound with fuch a like Tarcarous macter, it cancos al of i¢ be evacuated by Nae cure, ia regard that neicher in che fic& Concoction, nor yer in the fecond, it cantor be fepara~
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* Nature is wont to.thruft not only the ferous Humors,. bac whasfoever likewife bathiany al- liance ac al wich the Humorthac flowech, But now the imbecility of che Joynts is either Na- Thi wear. tive ot acquired, lt may then be-faid to be Native, when.eicher the Joyntsthem(elvesin their ne of the ich ftructuse are more loofe, fofter, and alore apt co receave che Humors flowing unto Foyars’” them; or elie when chey|have either from the Parents, or fromthe Grand Parentéthus affee iwofolds ted, by aright of lohericance (as it were) -coritracted chis diftemper and»weaknefs. > But it may chen be faid ro be acquired, when the Joynts axe weakned either by overfnuch labor,
excels and injuries of the Airs or other Caules alcering che Joynts. why che... Dut now, | that the Humor whichis heaped.up in the Véws, and about the Bowels fhould Unmor is be movediunto the J oynts, this cometh to palsy. Becaufe that; Nature being fticred up and BIST
bis @ forced by the abundance of vicious humors, atvemprech the expulfion of chem. And yer if
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JP" awy thing happen rhat may move che humons,the Paroxy{m,is then more eafily excited, And this Cometh ro pa(s if any one be provokedco wrath, or ftticken with terror, or aby orher vehement affect of che mind, or if any dha] be-yery-hor, and then fuddenly cool apain on one and the fame day, or elfe thal exer¢ife. binifelf immoderately, ot make ufe of the Bath aunfeafonably, And this islike wife done by che recencion of the ufualandaceuftomedf weat, or. che exce(sin qualities of che Ambient Afr, ad the chanpetherenf; and more efpecially that change shar as made at.cercaio cimes of the Yeen :. andiigis manifert by Experience, thas about the bepinning of che Spring, and Autumn,.the Blood isumoved and fitted vp and down in che Body 5, and ifibere be any ching feulty.ip.ic, Natureiswont ¢o expelac uhcorhé more jenoble pacts 5 from whence arile (cabbinelsthe Eryfipelas, Reavers,Gours, and many other Diteafes, according co. the various difpoficiomof bodies. >: )
The Ante- . Feo al which itis eafie to: find ouk. the: Antecedent, Procataccick, ‘aiid alrogecher red
pee mote Caules, as alfo che external and internal Caufes 3 which ( of what kind {oever they
AIL ESs be.) ‘eachex phey-moake. for che generating of che matter and hamor producing’ the Gout; .or
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Buc fince chat tbefearevariouss and that fome of chem doconcur more waies for the gene= _ Rating o} she Gout ,chan others; chey may-therefore be confidered according co chofe chings we cai Thingenot Nacucal: $F 5; Air. © ~ And firltof al, Astor the Aur, We have already faid that in the. Spring time the Gout as. molt chiefly excited ; and thén again in che Autumn, by reafon of che motion and change of the Humors chat happenethat that ume, « Andcthecruthis, the Gouc is wont in the Spring time moft.efpecially to inieftthe party, becauie tbat the bumors that have been a} che Win= ter long heaping up, are wont. then to be pouted:abroads:and maved up and down, as Luci=
an celleth usin mofk elegant Yerfes making a deferipuon thereof; in his Tragopodagra.
And che very{amemay likewife be fomumes effected by other diftempers op che Air > and likeas the moift-Conftutution of the Air.doth otherwafe produce Catarrhs and Fluxes; foi likewale oftentimes caufeth the Gour. And without doubr chat Epidemiéal Gour-( of which out of Atbencus. we {hal anon in the-fift Queftionmakemention) wasac firft produ- ced by fome peculiar. Confkisution of che Air. |, | |
And moreover, the Courfe.of Dyes that is obferved doth makevery much for che penéra= ung of the Gout; andefpecially che.drinking of ftrong) Wines, by. which alone many have arcracted the Gout unto themfelves 5 as Quintus Serenus wrireth of Eninius.
And indeed there is. no onething chat is more offenfive and hurcful unto perfons rharare scoubled with the Gout cham the drinking of Wineyas we find ac to be crue by common expe-
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you pleafe,): that is fo apr.and fic to generate rhe Gour chan’ Wine. Which matter alchough.Caswe faida little before.) it :may in fome ficonger bodies be
feparateds yernevecthelels, chofe chat find thenafelves fubject cothe Gourphaving buc week:
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certain Marqueis, and chere kepe ewenty yeers3 and thar be was ever afcer chis freed from A cheGout. And Solenander alto (in his 5. Seé. Confil. 1.) relaceth of a ceccain Wid- ii dow, aSpanterd boca, char having omitted and lete off che ule of Wine (which yet nor= y Hy withitanding the bad buc very {paringly made ufe of atrer che cuftom of ber Country; and ni alwaies diluting 1 with Warer) fhe was nevec more afcer chat troubled with the Gour. i And thae are many ocherfuch hke known Hiftories of chem thathave either been caft into ‘a | Prifon, or ellehave been reduced unco poverty, and fo have of neceflity abftained. from lJ ta Wine, and chereby been freed fromthe Gout. Towir, whereas che next andmoft imme= th diare Caufe of the Gout (as we likewile told ye before). is fome certain ching thac hachas Me at were the Narure of a Mineral, and chis alcogether unfic for the nourifhing of the body tae ( fuch like as isco be found tn al kind of Earchs, buc yet in {ome more, in fome lefs.) the Vine actractech 1 more powerfully chan other Plants (and chac chis is {0, appearech even 2.) from that Tarcar which is to be found more abundantly in the Vine than in any other Plane; [ and in chat Vines wil grow and chrive in chofe places wherein other Plants wilnot pro{per, as | not having alimene enough 3 che Vines contencing them({elves.in amanner only with chat ve- il ‘id ry fale of che Harth) which afrecward togerher with che W ine (alchough varioufly changed) ih is derived into Mans body, and being there heaped up ic affordech matter unco che Hitt) Gout. | ) ex Acd yet norwich @anding there are likewife fome kind of Meats and Drinks that make veo | ry much for che breeding ot che Goucs and chere ace fomcimes Waters to be found chat pens nerate the Gout 5 andi thofe places where che Gout is Epidemical) noc only the rich thae
drink Wine, buc the poor allo chat drink Wacer, are afflicted with che Gout. © And fo as Jikewile Fulius Alexandrinus weiceth(in bis fiiceench Book of chings that are wholfam,and
fixe chapter) chache knew acetcain perf{on troubled wich the Gout; in whom by the eating } of Garps and Breams che Gout was perpetually brede, So chac he could when he lifted by Ws this means bring the Gour upon himfelf. And moreover, Wines they are not aliofthem: of 1 gout
one andthe fame kind, For fome of chem proceed froma fandy Earth, and contain lefs. of ys: | this Tarcarousmartcer, And fuch arechofe Wines that growat Faffen Ca Town hatd by) -.'® ’ 3 oy ta PS.
called Gorubergenfian Wines; which alchough that they be dcunk 10 great abundance by the wholfors 0 Tnhabicants of thar place, -yec [never heard of any of chem that was there troubled wich che ines. Gout. And fuch Wines as chele are hkewife co be found in many otherplaces.. Buco I the contrary, thofe Wines that grow in aa Earth that is facy. muddy, clayith, ftony, and “es we . that hath in wa Mineral Marl, gravel, ftooes, orany thing elfe that is Mineral mingled wich lm it, are very apt and ready co generareche Gour ; and fuch arethe Wines of Moravia, Bobe= mia, Hungary, and moft of the Wines of Aufiria. And although chat the: Wines thacda not peheraie che Gout leave ofteocimes in che Vetlel more Tarcar chan rhofe Wines that do ba aodeed produce he Gouc; yea, and if they be diftilled, chere is likewife more of che faid BS bid Tartar found in them chan there ts inthefe (like as at Uratiflavia.) as chac eminent and | famous Payfician Doctor Doringivs wrote uncome, of twenty four meafures of Renifh Vine there were found almott chice ounces of Tartar 5 whereas in the diftillacion of asmany
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1@ ‘Tocavian W ine, that is accounted the ftrongeft of al che Hungarian Wines, arcely cwo drams of Tarearro be found, yer neverthele(s al this makech nothin againtt what we faid. Forchofe Wines have that Sale or Tartar fuperficially only »(ag | Uinay fofay) and inachick manner mingled together with them; oc (that I may. {peaix with the Chymilts) chey have che Salc as yer fixed; buc chefe havea volatile Salcor Larrar i) moft ex2dtly mingled wichchem, infomuch thac chis Salt and Tartar is ina manner made {pts is ritual3, whereupon ic is, Chat che former of thefe is more eafily feparaced either in the Sto- i mach, orin che Liver, and fo 1 thruft forth eicher by che belly withthe reft of che excre® sh ments, orelie1¢ isvoided by Uctnes bue chis otaer beng mingled with che fpiric of the f Wine paffech inco the very Mais ctche blood, and fo penetratech into che moft inward pares ae ofthebody. And chat choie Salts char were fixed may be made Volatile, che Diftillacions | of Chymifts do {ufficiencly prove 3 and hac che Tartar may be made as it were Spiritual, and ) elevated by the Alembick,cthis we are caughe by che Partarized Spirit of Wines yea, and Me- tals may allo be fo diffolyed in ftyong Waters and Spirits, thac chey may not only be ftcained H through paper, bic chat chey may jikewile beelevaced inig she Alemlick: Buc yec a
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thelefs, in regard chat chis Sale alchough it be fubtile, is alcogether unfit for the nourith ing of the body, as partaking of a Mineral Narure (which is noé fic forthe hourifhment of living Creatures) albeic ic doth topether with che blood penetrate inco che Veins; yer notwith- ftanding as {uperfluousand ufelefs it is at lenpth by Nature caft forth of the Veins and Arte. ries, and thruft outuntothe Joynts. And therefore, whether or no Wine be apt tO genes rate and caufe che Gout, we are in the firft place to judg of this by the place where it grow= eth, and its effect 5 and chen next of a) by the firengththerof. For by how much the ftron= pet Winesare, by fo much the more exactly and {ubtilly isthis Sale mingled with them, and becometh more {piricual : like as ic appearech in che Spicit of Wine that is Tartarizated, which is more ftrong than the fimple Spirit of Wine.
All which nocwachitanding is thuscobe taken,’ if by reafon of che diftemper afd weal- nefs of the Bowels (as we alfo faid before) thac which in the Wine is Excrementicious and Tartarous, may not befeparated. For if ic may be feparaced, the Wine wil then be whol- fom, and without any hurcinit. Yea, andifany fuch Wine could be bad that having but Jittle of fuch a like Tarcarous matter in it fhould yet ftrengehen the weak Bowels char do not wel feparate thefe Excrements, and fo fhal help che Goncoétion and promote the fepata- cion and evacttacion of che Excrements, we egtant that this would prove to be not only harm- Jefs, but likewife very ufeful and profitable if moderacely drunk. And fome te! us thatthe ‘Pucine Wine is fuch, and therefore they commend it for the prevention of che Gout. © Bur Imuch doubr, whether this Wine be in al re{pects anfwerable unto what hath been laid 5 and therefore I conceive that it is pood firft co make trial, and co confule with Experi= ence.
We have indeed above fpoken fomthing as touching the caufe for which certain Wines
it deth ge- breed and caufe che Gout: but yet neverthelefs, my defire and purpofe is here to explain the
werate the ching, and foto make che matter fomwhat moze cleerly to appear.
Sone.
In certain places wae ters alfo generate the gout.
what that 36 that ma-
keth that Cer tainx wines ave apt to breed the g Ont.
> I think it cobe a very plain and cleec truth, that Wine produceth the Gout, not as it is Wine, but as ic conraineth in.i¢ fomthing that is unfic, and fomthing likewile that is extraneous, and unufeful unto our bodies, which is therefore by Nature thruft forch unto the Joynts. And this appeareth if by nothing elfe, yee by this, That there arefome certain Wines that donot generate the Gout; and fuchare our Gorubergenftan Wines, and many others alfo, that here in thefe Regions grow inSandy places. For albeic thefe Wines be drunk fora dayly and ordinary drink, and chat not icantly, but very plencifully ; yee thece was never any chat from hence contracted che Gour. But onthe contraiy, the Moravian, Bobemian, Auftrian, ‘Hunga~ rian, and likewife very maBy more Wines of other Regions, are molt apt to breed the Gout. ‘Yea,and not only the Wines, buc even the Warers of {ome places, dogenerate the Cour. And fo it was related unto me by chat eminent Phyfitian, Dn. D. Tobias Kreblo= chius that at Iglavia.in Moravia(where he had practiled Phy fick there for {ome yeers)chac not only che Wealchier (ort of People that drank Wine, but even the poor who ha rdly ever cafteda Cup of Wine, were al of them very fubject unto the Gour, Colick, and Falling- ficknefs, Difeafes Epidemical in chat place.
But now, Inquiry is to be made, What that fhould be which makerh chat certain Wines are apt togenerace the Gour. © Where we are ficft of al to take norice, that nothing doth nouri{h Ccouching which we have f{poken elfwhere ) bur what proceedeth from things anie mated, orenlivened. And therefore al other things, as Minerals, Merals, and divers kinds of Earths, are unapt to nourifh our bodies 5 and chereupon ifthey be at any time taken in, they are again co be evacuated either by the Urine, or elle by thebelly 5 and this if is be noe done, they are chen by Nature thruft into the Joynts, and fo they there generate the Gour
And therefore thofe Vines chat grow in a {andy Earth, chatis not acal fat and rank, have
nothing that they may actract and draw unto them, befides the Alimentary Juyce’: but thofe .
that grow in Clayifh grounds, or any other fat Earths, do not atcract unto chemfelves only a vegetable juyce,but alfo a Mineral juyce as it were,and {uch as is wholly unufeful for our bo- dies,which is not unficly cermed Tartar,a fubftance,co wir, that confifteth of a fixed and volae tile Sale, and of an Earthy and almoft Mineral mazcer 3 {uch as not only ftickech faft unta the fides of Casks, but is likewife throughly mingled with the fubftance of the Wine. And thus is alcogether the Nature of Salts,chac chey reduce ocher bodies into the {malleft Aromes, and then do affociate che Acomes untothemfelves. We may fee an Experimenc of this in the diffolving of Metals in ftrong Waters, in which che Metals (bodies otherwife chick) are fo united unto the fale of che Waters that diflolve them, that they may pafs through a Card or Paper. And che very fame we likewife fee in che diffolving of Peatls, Margarites, Corals, and Crabs Eyes, which fticking faft unto the Salt of the Vinegar, are throughly mingled
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withthe Water, and may be {trained through a Card 5 but being precipitated they will diffolve no further. “Wehave lkewifean Example hereof in Vitriol, which 4 Tl being diffolved in Watermay likewife be ‘ftramed through’a Card? but when che Bis,
vitriol is Calcined, and the Sale drawn forch of ic, there’ remainéeth an Earth thag rie is not diflolveable by any liquor whatfogver. Andfoin hor Baths of, Water thete Ne isan Earthy tubftance fo exactly mingled ctherewitha}l, thar it cattnot poffily be ry difcovered by any fenfe. ‘Bue yer-whten this afterwards fhall ftick faft unto the
wooden aiid ftony pipes, and thal fubtift apart by-it felf, it is not then ahy further 4 toibe diffolved in‘Water. From all which ic appedreth thac the GGut is not gener- a ared without Sale; and‘wichout doubrthe fharpeft and moft extream. pains in the M Gonec-are from Salt: but yet we fay net chat Sale alone, pure Sale doth this 5 fince a4
chat there are Wifes inary Regions that have Salt-alfo; and yet for allchac chey i, £9 donor géneraté che Gout; buc chere concurreth mofeqver a matcer that is Clayith, We, Limy, Marly, or fome Mineral which the Vine had’attraéted out of the ground,toge- | ther with the nourifhmenr, concocted ity atid mingled.ic with the Alimentary matter 6 and fo coninitinicated it unto the Grapes 5° and Hence the Wine alfo that is prefied ig forth of the Graps receiveth andreremechir.. And hereupon it is chat we fee, how that inthe Joynts of fuch as are troubled with the Gout there are {omtimes genera- ced hard knobs and knots, and that there is as ic were Lime taken forth of them ; Lg which indeed‘is nothing elfe. but that fame Mineral Matrer which the Salt of the ital Wine drew along withic, and which at the length Cas altogether unufeful and un- tr fic for the nourifhment of the Body ) is chruft forth unto the Joynts. Now therefore | (that wemay Come unto the Queftion, why fome Wines do generate the Gout, a. and others do not fo) the more any Wine hath of this matter, and this throughly ox bat mingled with ic by che fmalleft Atomes, by fo much the more powerful itis for che wines they generating of the Gout. Which cometh to pafs, inthe firft place, by Reafon of 47¢ that de
the foyl,to'wit, where the Wines grow, whether ina Muddy ground, or that that ee | is Clayifh, Limy, Marly, or any other Mineral Earth. And furthermore inthe poy, and —
Second place, ifthe Wines fhall not Be whally purifyed and freed from their what,lefs,
Tartar, ‘buc {till remain as it were thick andturbid; and this happeneth firft of al nh
in Wines that are new, andnorc yet wrackt by turning them from Veffel co Veffel s }
and then Secondly in fome certain Wines that wil never be alrogether cleer; fuch {'
as are thole of Hungaria, &c. And Thirdly, if that Tartarous matrer befo through-
ly mingled withthe Wine in che{malleft Atomes, that it cannot befeparated from :
our bodies, neither in the firft, nor yetin the fecond Concottion; which forthe my
moft part happeneth in Generous and firong Wines, and fuch as grow in places hots
ter then ordinary. For Wines that are not {trong and generous, although that even
thefe may contain in them fome of che faid Tartarous matrer : yet notwithftanding, A
inregard that the heat of the Country wasnot fo powerful chat ic was able ¢ either |
in the Vine,or inthe Grapes, )to mingle this Tartarous matter with the Spirit chatas
in the’ W iaéjitis thereupon alf{o afterwards( either in the fit ft, or in che fecond Cons
coction) more eafily feparated, and driven forth either by cheBélly, or by Urine. TF Buc if by the Air of ahotrer Country,’ that doch concodt more powerfully, that |
fame Tattarousmacter be'exactly mingled cogether with the Salt and {pirit of the
Wine, icchenrefuferh to be fevered by che feparating faculty, and fo penetrateth
itdelf incothe'whole Body withthe Alimentary parc. _ But yet becaufe chat ic is al-
cogether unfit ro nourtfh the Body, ‘it isdc leneth by Nature chruft forch unto the
Joynts, andchere ic generarech the Gout. | Andthatchis isf{o, wearetaught by the
experience We have even ot the Hungarian Wines. For although (as experience. it os
felf teftifyech) they be moft apc of thenifelves co generate che Gout 5. yet (as we
told-youa-little before) itis obferved in the deftillation of the ‘Hungarian, and
Renifh Wine, thatthere was more ofthe Tartarous matter collected out of che Re- iM
afb then out of the Hungaiian. Whichhappenech for no other caufe but this, to aM
wit, thacinthe Wines ot Hungary that Tarcarous matter 1s by the fmalleft Atomes
foexadctly mingled wich the{pirit ofthe Wine, chat together withthe faid {pirit ic
may likewife pafs through by the Alembick. , whethes Carolus Pifo, amongft thofe Caufes from which the matter of the Gout is hea- meats that
pedup in che Veins, puttech likewife moift and wacerifimears for one, as broths, cent |
raw fruits, andthe hike. _ Bur he doth this upona falfe Hypothefir or Suppoficion, ‘7, peas
whileft he miftakingly determineth that che Serum or whey is ameecrand pure Wa- breed ibe
: B 2 CEL 3 gout,
Of the Canfisof the Gout. Chap. n°
| Sa MME
Ae water; whereas yet notwithftanding Experience it felf ceacheth us che contrary; and there Bp xi a Was never any man yet known to gec che Gout from the alone ufe of moift and wacr ale | hi meats, neither indeed can waterifh humors poflibly excice fuch great and fo fharp intolerable wou eh Pains.
Mt a Thefup- _, Ebat which likewife makech very much for the generating of the Gout is the fuppreffion |B wr ha preffion of the wonted evacuations. And hence it is that Hippocrates (inthe fixth of his Aphor. |
\4 % z ey when Wihe the wen- Apbor. 29-) weitesh, chat Women are Hever Eroubled with che Gout buc when their Cour~ |B ah bl i ted Eva- fes fail them; of which notwithftanding we intend co {peak more hereafter in Cheninth Que. |) tke hi if! cations. ftien, “And {othe fame Hippocrates writech (‘Epid. 6. Sect. 8, text. 55.) that at Abde-. |B a i dera, Phaetula the Wife of Pichous baving been before Cwbile fhe was yong) very fruitful © bo Md Me in bearing Childreu, upona very long abfence of ber Husband from ber ber Monthly | y i \ Courfes left bev, whereupon afterveards pains and redneffes arofe about the Foynts. Die i§ tl Mi the very fame (faith be). happened alfo unto Thafo the Wife of Namyfias Gorgippus. fil th And from hence Jikewife it is, chat,oftentimesthofe Perfons are. wont to falinto the G | iat ho have had old Ulcers in cheir Legs, or Fiftuldes in the Atte fuddert 7 on h 4 who have had o cets in cheir eg, Or ulaes In the Arfe fuddenly confolidared orheas yc ) i led up, and the Fluxes Jikewife of other places wholly fupprefied... For thofe humors that Bait iL hia are wont to excite chofe long lafting Ulcers of the Legs, and Fiftulaes of the Acte.. arethem. ff ¢,: wei {elves alfo fale; and cherefoxe if they be fuppreffed, they may produce the Gout, | | ah he ui And here there are very many that are wont to be long and tedious in che: cecical of the ff he tia whether Caufes ( external and internal ),. who wil not pafs over in filence any one ofthofecthingswe J i Hii Sell cal not Natural, But alchough that every Error whacfoever in the ule of the chings nos Na- | | be Wait bings nor CUtal may produce a Cacochymy ; yer we deny that every Cacochymy hath inica fufficieng mt 7 ‘| i bigs i power co produce the Gour. And of the reft of thole things chatare not natural, there ie a. th AER meypro- hardly any of them that of ic felf doth produce che Gout: but only that by overmuchimotion, |)! 1) Bh duce the” Anger, and Fear, the Paroxy fai is excited ; and the retention. of the {weats doth alfo make | hie Hie ee "very much for the producing ofthe fame; and if che Perfon hath been tong accuftomed ma | tie ‘ik one ‘reat thofe fweats, ‘the tecention and {uppreflion-of them is an Arguments that the Goue is ver \ : ) Poin |) canje of sneer at hand. But yet we grant chat exceffive Venery doth make very much for. the encra= | i tag ie the goxts ging ofthe Gout, by weakning nor only the Joynes and Nervous parts, but alfo the Whol i ne Aa, BB cilean } eM Body : and hence it is that by the Poets the Gout is faid robe the Daughter of Bacckusand | si va Venus. : hie | a The gous” The Gout is fomeimes likewife hereditary ; and a weaknefsnot only of che Joynes, burof fj Hb , bat aps the Bowels alfo breeding the vitious humors, is from the Parents and Anceftoss communica- jf mi at Berea AY Fed tocheit Children and Nephews 5 whether this happen from the vitious feed; or elfethae Whe the matter of che Blood in Perfons troubled with che Gout is fubject and enclined chereun« 4 ‘ eae to, from whence che vital {pirits are generated, and all the partsdo receive their nourithmenr, )‘")' f And yet norwithftanding it may fo cometo pafs chat Parents that are themfelves affected g oben seh Me with che Gout may yee beget Children not fubject hereunto; and yeccheir Nephewsmay | he it, | nhotwichftanding ac che lengch be ccoubled cherewith. And indeed there are fome of this | fai Waa) Opinion that thofe Children chat are conceived in the very Paroxy{m of the Gout, thefe thay | herber We Wile be born thereunto; whereas onthe contrary, fuch as are conceived out of che fir of: | Nor | i dee *" che Gout, thefe thal be fafe and fecure. | Bur very few perhaps chere are chat beper Children nk sh rea in the very Paroxyf{m of the Gout: like as we fee alfo tha Epileptick Perfong | My ” ig ext ofthe May out of their Fis begec Epileptick Children. _ Kor the auth is, ie is nog he Welt “hate fochat the very matter it felf chac excitech che Patoxy{m is imparted unto che Children - pa f or fit 0
TRAY ae but only a vicious difpofition thereunto, which alone is not fufficienc. for the producing | a HR ae dey stibs of the Gours but chat there is required likewife an Afflux of vicious humors, And | mh he f{nbjece — therefore if chofe Childrén fhal obferve an exact and cateful Dier, it may then fo come to | et Ri thereunto? pats, thatthe weaknefs which they contracted from their Parents may beabolifhed, or elfa - |) “ti
whether 1% may be corrected ; and humors fit for the breeding of che Gour may not begeneratedinthe | Niu there be “Body. Andonche contrary, it may fo happen that albeitche Child may not be troubled he ou y ee Y with che Gout, yet neverthelefs the Nephew may be affected cherewithall » (awit, ifhe aug= || lath
out ment by errors in the Courfe of his Dyee thac vice and weaknefs chat was communicated a Joowidie fcom the Grand-Father by the Pacher; and fothatc Vitious difpofition that was wel neer «| te popece: fuppreffed and might have been wholly abolifhed had he bur ufed a good dyct, isnowapain | ‘lal tea unto
the iffue? by rhe Etrors of his Dyer (as it were ) renewed and revived.- Unto wh wife add this, thar the vice thar isin rhe Fathers feed may fomeimes be cor ded by the goodnefs of the Mothers Milk, And moreover thefe Mo 2) wile have thew own times, in which they do at lengch difcover them{ ee le) to be in Intoxications, and the poyfon ofa mad Do cheu ftrength, and fo they quite vanifh.
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Chap. 2. | OF the Caufes of the Gout.
called alfo the Difeafe of che Rich. For icis very rarely found, that Boors or Beggars are croubled with the Gour 5 and hence it isalfo that che Gout is termed a Dileafe bating the Poor: and Fovianus Pontanus hath likewile a Fable co this purpofe (in his 5. B. de oe
mon. and Chap 1.) chacona cime the Gourtambling abour, and: going inco the Counrry, poor 2
when ic faw there nothing but little Cottages moft rudely and unhandfomly built, and very filchily {cieuated ; and could find chere nothing but Matcocks and Piechforks,Rakes,and fuch like Ruftical Inftruments ; fhe curns away from chis place as alcogetherunfic for her encer- tainment, and becakes her felfco the City, if haply fhe mighe there «find, becter. Bue being brought into che City, at her firft entrance thereinto, fhe lighceth upon the Sshop'ofa Black Smith; and this fhe likewife paffeth by'as alcopecher unfie for her accommodation: but ac length when fhe hada while rambled about in the City, fhe ac jaft cometh: into @ ¢ercain houfe, before whofe door was piping and Dancing, and within doors nothing bus Jollity and Feafting ; and demanding what and whofe houfe this was, whenfhe was an{wered, chat it was the houfe of Eafe and Idlenefs, and thae ic was inhabited by flochful Perfons that fpenc all heir time in Sleeping, Drinking Wine, and Feafting, fhe inftancly enters che houfe, faying, This is indeed che houfe, and chis the Palace thac is fic for my reception and enter- cainment.' And When at any time fhe faw (ollicicude and Labor doing cheir bufinefs before the doors, fhe prefently commands chem to be fet further off, and driven quite away 3 and chargech chac all Cares’ whatfoever fhould be banifhed from thence; and more efpecially, Sobriety aud abitinence.
For Poor People and fuch as livein che Country are for the moft part contented witha ve- ry {pacing and plain Dyet: whereason the.contrary, che Rich delight chemfelves with al] variety of Meats, and drink theit Wine moft commonly without any ftine ac all; yeaand of- centimes wholly addiét and give themfelves over to Gutting, Gluccony, and excefs of Wine, And again the Boors in the Country are continually exercifed with Labor, by the.which che heat of the Bowelsis fticd up; andafat any rime there chance to be any. vitious humor it is immediately difcuffed ; whereas forthe moft partche Rich do more :indulpe:themfelves. in eafeandidlenefs, And moreoverthe Rich are very feldom {o careful co obgy the :prefcripts of their Phy fitians as they ought to be, buc they wil have the medicaments prefcribedithem ¢o firie wich their Fancies and Palats; inesher wil they continue cheufe of chem fo Jong Jas: is ficting and requifite; neither wil they have that cacé and tegard:unto the whol courfe of theic Diet which they ought co have. a ;
And befides all chis, in che laft place, the Rich do indeed make ufe of Phyfirians, butithen they change them coo often 3 and very frequently commit themfelves unto. Empericks, and others chat are altogether Ignorant, or have buc liccle knowledg of the cafe how. ic ftandeth with them 3 and thefe do ofcentimes prefcribe fuch remedies and medicaments as by the ufe of which che Difeafeas rather more deeply and fafter rooted, than eradicated and pulled
17 From all which it wil bz no bard matter co render a Reafon why che rich fhould be obno= why ihe xious and fubject unco the Gout rather chan the Poor ;: it being. therefore by the Germans Rish are more tYona bled with
hy
ats Uebetien . ; Now this Difeafe is wont for the moft part to invade and aflié& men, catherthan Women bo theji
Cnot chat thefe are wholly exempted from ic, for we find the contrary by experience) and Me that are
this more efpecially between the thircieth and fiftiech yeer of their Age 3 to.wits. be- whe fusb- caufe about chat age, by reafon of the tharpnefs of che heat, the fale and Tarcarous humors in ane
ig then more heaped up 5 and chen after chis che older they grow, the more they are afflicted withic, by reafon of the weaknefs of the native heac, and che imbecillity of che expulfive fa- culty. For Men for the moft part live not fo temperatly as Women, fuftain greater Labors, are more addi¢ted co Venery, andhurtchereby. Buc Women (onthe contrary). are more cemperate, and befides chey have likewife their monthly Evacuations, by and with which Nature is wone to thruft forth together with chemall che vicious humors, and fo to expel them out of all pares ofthe Body. Whereupon hkewife itis, that Hippocrates (in che fixth of his Apborifin. Apborif. 29.) writech, chat Women are not troubled with che Gout, until after their Courles tail and Jeavechem, Bucche cruch is, chat icis not alwaies fo chac eicherc Womenor Men chat are above or under che aforefaid age, are wholly free from
“this Malady; andalbeit thas Hippocrates (in che 6, fet. of his Apborifin. Aphorif 30.)
weiceth, chat yong Men before che ufe of Women are not at all croubled with the Gout ;_and
| chacicis aching very rarely feen, thag Youths are herewith affected, yec norwichftanding
ats Comecimes found foto be, and char even thete are troubled wirh 1¢ : as we may likewife fee many chat ace above fifty yeersold caken oftentimes withthe Gouc. And I my felf of
fics
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Signs Diagnoftick, Chap... 3 ~ fits of the Gout, Neither alfo ate Eunuches (although that Hippocrates in the Sixth Sekt. of his Aphorifin. Apb.28. dothexceprthem) alwaics wholly free from this Malady ; as we fhal anon fhew you further in the Ninth Queftion.
Chap. 3. Signs Diagnoftick.
The Diag- i Ge very Malady doth fufficiently appear of it felf; and the fick perfons-com- neftick plain of a pain about the Joyntsin their Feet; Hands, Knees,and ocher parts;
figns of nto which there is afterward addeda {welling, arednets,’ and for che moft parla
the gout» Feaver. And indeed, when the Gout begins firft of all coinvadea perfon, it like-
ly caketh him firft in the great Toe of his Foot, and) that moft commonly: the lefr. And fo in all the ocher joynts the pain moft of all confifteth and ftaieth im the.place affected, withouc fpreading any further. Butiin the Sciatica, this pain isnot fele only inthe Joynr, (by the which the-Head of the Thigh is infersedinto the Hip) but ic is from hence by the Nerves and’ Membranes carried unto the very Buttocks, by the way where the Nerves fpting from the’ Loyns, and the great beneby the Latin Phyfitians called che Os Sacrum, ov holy Bone ; and fromthence the pain is alfoextended untotheCalf of the Leg, anduntothe Foot, according tothe gni- dance and conduct of the Nerve... And in other Joynts alfo,, Cas-lying outwardly) thereis wont manifeftly to appear afwelling, and rednefs, and a great heat. to be perceived: but now in the Sciatick painful affect thefe chings,do not fo plainly ap- pear, in regard the place affe@ed heth very deepsand becaule that therein that place the top of the Skin hath not many Veins difperded hereandthere init. Inawords; in che Gout that which moft efpecially troubleth the fick perfon is the pain he feeleth, and an impotency in his motion 5 and upon chis chere follow watchings and reftlefnefs, a dejection of the Bodies: ftrengcth, anc other Symptoms; all which Lucian in his Tragopodagra hath vetyzelegantly defcribed,
Buc now in reckoning up the figns ‘by which the differences of che Caufes and che different Humors may be difcerhed, the moft of Phyfitidns are very long and prolix; and they take much pains/in reckoningup the figns of the Gout from the blood, Choler, Flegm, and Black Choler orMelancholy.’ But fince that Cas we toldyou before) thofe Humors cannot properly be faid to excire the Gout, but on- ly that chey are either ftitd up and down by that Humor that is the Caufe of the Gout, orchat being attracted by the pain of the parc affected chey flow together thereunto; We fhall cherefore inthis regard here {pare our felves the Labor, fur- thertorreac of them.
Buc yer Neverthelefs, if forthe better ordering of the Cure theknowledg of che affluent Humor feem to be altogether neceflary and requifite; ic appearech from the general difcourfe of an inflammation 5 inwhich we have declared what a pure Phlegmone is, and what figns ic hath; as alfoche figns of Oedematodes, of Erifj- pelatodes, ‘and alfo of Scbirrbodes, what figns thefe have; and indeed from the figns of the Humor predominant in che Body (which we have elf{where explained) and likewife fromthe qualities of the fwelling, and by the obferving of thofe things that’ benefic or hure che fick perfon, ic may eafily be known what humor it ts thar floweth together withir.
And yer notwithftanding it ishere acknowledged by the more learned and able Phyficians, Ceven thofe who have afferted thatrhe Gout proceedeth from divers
The figns of the - Canfes.
humors) that there is lictle heed tobe given, or regard to be bad unto thofe figns -
that arecaken from the Color, heat, orrhe like Accidents; fince that very many things occur which may betheCaufe, as of che Colour, {o likewife of che heat and coldnefs of che Member, contrary untothe Nature of the peccant Matter. Forthe humor (as Guainerins faith) that is the true and proper caufe of the Gout, abiding inthe bottom of the Member, doth not for the moft part change the fuperficies of " the {aid Member; and fothen the Color of the Member cannot afford us any fign or cokenat all : but ic may poflibly fohappen, thata Humor abounding in the Bedy may by pain be ftirred up and darwn unto. the place affected, and there i may caufe a fwelling, and yer neverthelefs ic may not be che Caufe of che
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1. "He Gout for the moft ae is a difeafe not Morcal. For-albeic chat the ftrenagth & may be much mpayred by ‘ie i and for want of reft, (infomuch chat che fick. g perions may at length be forced to take their Beds) yec this is noc done, butina longtime. And we fee thac fuch as are troubled withthe Gout do oft entimes live long, and attain unto oldage 5 to wit, for rhis Cattle, that Nature by certain inter~ vals thrufteth forthuntothe Joynts thote virious Humors from which -ocher more dangerous Difeates might have been generated; ,and fo by this means freech che pe incipal parts from vicious Humors. r
ik ifyetn otwichftanding there happen any dangerous inflammations, or per- nitious Feavers, or that Nature fayl and lie under the burthen, 14o thatic canho longer expel th 1e vitious Humors, the Patients life may then be much endangered. And if any iuch dangerous Symptom be Joyned together with the vehement pain of the Joynis (as fuppofe, a a De liry, the proarp ati of the ottabe dificul ty of brea- thing, coldiweats, anda weak pulfe) i itisthena fign th atthe lick perfon will die the very fame day, orthe day following.
Tfl. But alchouch che Gout be for ‘che mott part a Difeafe nor Morcal, yee never thelefs it is very hardro cuce3 and ic is comnionly accounted the fhamea nid diferace of Phyfitians. For albeit (ifthe Difeale be new) it may be cured without nach Seca ; yetneverthelefs, if ic be long delaied, and that it often invaderhe pare ty, tmay be more difficule to cure, in regard chat the Joynts, yea andthe very
Powel’ are weakened by the pains; ald reitlefnefs, and likewife.by-che afflux of he Humors. Andthe fick perfons are themfelves oftenrimes che Caufe thac:rhis Diteale cakerh fuch deep Rootinthem, feeing chey.do not oppote and withiftand the Difeafeacits firft Invalion; yea and oftentimes the y conceal ic; and fomethere are that will pretend other Caufes of their Difeafe, as loath to acknowledg it tobe the Gout,
But now this Difeafe proveth afcorsreH very hard to cure, borh inwegard of the many errors in Diet (from which the fick perfons wil not be periwaded to abftain) and oftentimes alfo through che unskilfulnefs of the Phy fitt ian Lge are either Ig noranct of the true caute of the Difeate, orelfe they admimufter Medicaments thatare very unfit and improper, by which chey do rather weaken rhe joynts andthe Bowels.then any waies ftrengthen them. But yet neverthelefs, inche mean time) the Goat is not a Difeafe that inic felf is alcogecher impoflible to be cured; and this we are taught by the examples of many thac have beet freed from the Gout 3) of which more anoninche Tenth Rue} (tion.
1 fais Busy tsel rec they be charbting thus affecte tect eld y age; cob have gor-
tenabouccthere joynts Callous and hard knobs bune! hing: for hs orithacdive.an a nxions aut cacefal life ; or have a dry and coltive bel ly; > theie can none of them
be cured by the Arc of Man, orany human means, fo far.as l could ever yet find: Rie gb -
CHx 4 2 4 1 Hy pboecrates inthe we cond of His ‘se reate eT 2S.
Veet inthe Gout there happen to be" a loofening ofthe Joyner; ints then very difficulcin the curving, or indeedalros gethe er incurable.’ F ora vit houghth é Joyint may pollibly be fet back aga‘ninits proper place, yet neverth ielefs becaufe that the Ligaments of the foyne: nore loofe, a perfec Cure ss fcarce ly to beex pected. And dif lik ewilein the loo{ning that followech tipdn the Gout the € Cavity ofthe Joynt be filled up witha bard knorty matter, the Difeafe is tlien alrooether incureable: for the poy ne canhor be put back again before that] Toph aceous inatter b etaken aw dy 3 this wilt hard ly ECE be removed.
WT, Among all the feveral kinds of the Gout, the Senetie> 2 pain is BF all orbhers the molt ericvous, not only inregard of the ereatnels oft ry i paiti ic ¢alf, but by reafon allo of the erievoutnefs of the Symproms chat follew rhereapon, “For by
‘xeafon of the molt grievous pain it caufech watching and areftlefie(s; kittdleth fea- Ww
vers; and fomrimes a loofning of the Joynt happenerh-t Hpen hich theve followeth alameneis anda wafting away of the whole Lepand Thioh. ) Rep igat dify time a Joynt fal OUT of if NY place Cc , bY Leé fon Oe € vf thé Aig | ithe inide oft te afittent Buamors, there
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is then a Neceflicy chat an halting and lamenefs muft follow upon it. Burt becout’s that che bonebeing fallen ouc of its proper place preffeth cogether the Mutcics, Veins, and Arteries, the Aliment and Spirits cannot pofiibly flow iro the lower parts, whereuponchere followech a wafting and Confumption of them.
Vil. Butalchough this Sczatick pain be of all others the moft vehement, yer natwithftanding, it doth inthe beginning more cafily admit ofaCure then any of the other kinds of the Gout, in regard that the ftrength and Virtue of the Medica- ments may more eafily penetrate uncorhe Veffels, (by which the Humor floweth into the Hip) chenunto theextream Joynts 5 andfo hkewile the Humor that flow- ethuncothem may the moreealily beevacuated But if the Humor be once flown in, fo chat ic hach infinuated it felf into the Hip,it is then very hard to be cured ; be- caufe chat che Difcufling Remedies by reafon of the flefh lying upon the Joynt can- not penetrate whither they ought to go.