Chapter co explain and creat of this Subject, | faid humors; we muft therefore more. efpe-

without eitherthe Greek or Latine name; for) cially do the utmoft of our endeavor chat che vie the German name is of al others che beft known, as} tious Confticucion of the Liver and Spleen (upon are alio the very {pots themieives. which the breeding of thefe humors doch depend)
The Canles. may beamended : and thismay be performed by
a ood and wholtom dyet, by che which chat dry The Caufe of thefe Spots isa humor very dry | confticution of the Liver and Spleen may by de- and Melancholy brought unto the Skin, cogether | grees be reftored unto abetter condition. And with che aliment of che parts 5 or alfe blood chac| therfore we are to prefcribe Meats of a good Juyce, is feculent, ful of dregs, and-very chick 3 which} fuchas Goats flefh, Veal, Lamb, Pullets, Eges, when it cannot al of it be aflimiaced, chat of it | and che like, Barley, Wheac, Apples throughly that isexcrementitious 16 thruft forch unto the! ripe,, Prunes, Raifins, Almonds. Buc the Paci- Skin. But although that’ more feculent blood | ent muft avoid meats chat are thick, falc, & fharp, may be generated from an overdry Livers (from | and generally al meacsof an i] juyce, fuch as are whence it is that by che Germans itis called Le-| flefh chac is {moke-dried, and che like. For che berflecke » that is to fay, Liver-{pots:) —yet| Confticucion of the Bowels being by the ufe of neverthelefs, feeing thatthe Liver doth its office) good meats reduced unto a better eftate and in its fanguifying faculty, and breedeth good) condition, the vitious humors wil no more be ge= blood, the Spleen wichouc doube isnot alrogether| nerated, but only agood and cempeeate blood. free from fault, Whereupon I have obferved; But as for what concerneth Topickss ic wal be chac after thofe {pots ( if chey have continued! very good in the morning to rubthofe parts chac long) Quartan Feavers have arifen, An unfic| are thus defiled and deformed with fpots. Buc
breed a thick and feculent blood, and a Melancho-| it wil.not be amifs cocake the Water, or the Sy- ly humor, maketh very much likewife for the ge- | rup of Fumicory, witha liccle Treacle. After his
neration of chefe {pots 3 touching which we have | fweat lec che place be anointed with Muftard feed
already {poken eltewhere,
Prognofticks.
with warm water teduced into the formof a Puls cifs; which may be chere lefeco continue fo Jong, even until chat a heat anda cercain pricking be fele
1. Thefe very fpots indeed. have inthemfelves | and perceived in the part ; and afterward let ic be little or no danger 5 neither do they breed any | wathed. wich warm Water. Or elfe lec it be ae
kind of erouble, or any deformity vifible unto the |
eye, when they atife in che Pace and Hands, as
noinced with chis Ma{s. Take White Sope balf apound, let it be fliced
the Lentigines, butinthofe places that arecove- | and-dried; and afterwards add of Muftard feed
red with Clothes.
3, And yet nocwithftanding, in regard of che Cautle upon which they depend, and che vicious Conftirution of the Liver, and Spleen, they pre- {age other Difeafes : and very frequently Tercian and Quartan Feavers follow thele Spots.
3. Althoughthofe Spots may eafily be taken away (asanon wefhal fhew you) yet neverche= lefs, uniefs the faulc and imperfection of che blood and bowels (from which the vitious blood is gene- rated) be taken away, they again return and flou- tifh ina fhore time after.
The Cure.
Since therefore chefe kind of Spots being caken away may again feturn, unlefs che Caufe upon which they depend be likewife caken away, the vi- cious humor is cherefore fo be evacuated by Medi- caments that are made of the Rootsof Polypody, Succory, Borrage, Spleenwort, Dodder, Maiden= hair, Egrimony, the Leaves of Sene, Rheubarb, Jalap. And thists fomeimes co be repeated: and
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pines, of each two ounces; the foft Crumb of bite Bread one ounce; with the juyce of Fu- |
mitory, or the foarp-pointed Dock, tingle, and ufeit.
Chap. 3. Of the Itch.
Lthough that the Irch may be joyned coge= ,
cher wath many other Affects, as Scabs, che
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Impetigo, Leprofie, and the like; fo chat chefe |
being caken away, this very Affect’ is likewife re= |
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moved; yec notwithftanding it fomtimes fingly
and alone vexeth and croubleth perfons 5 and {o |
croublefom it is, that the party thus affected is often enforced to implore the help and affiftance even of the Phyfitian alfo; and of chis we incend co creat here in this Chaprer. ‘
Now the Itch is a pain chacis excited froma
book ofth AChane,
Now a vithe na tan dif My the n | Ut if (xr
as
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thin and fharp excrement fticking becween the |
Scarfeskin and che Skin ac felf.
the place of che Itch be fcracched, chere is percet=
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ved acertain feeming pleafure 5 yet neverthelefs chis pleafure doth not belong to che Nature of the Icch, buc ic followeth only upon che fcratching, whilft chat the parts chat were gnawn by a fharp matter do fuddenly retucn unco cheir natural ftate, and cheic wonted {moothnefs, For like as chere isa pain excited from chat {udden motion unto a preternatucal. ftace 5 fo in like mannet here is a tertain pleafure felc from this fudden motion and return unto cheic Natural ftate. Now che truth is, the Irch te felf ceafech afcer {cratching; becaufe chat che maccer which was the caufe of che Itching 1s evacuated 5 and becaufe al- fo that che folution of Continuicry chat exciceth the pain, is again brought unco an* Union and quietneds, if the {cratching be any thing ftrong.
eR The Caufes.
The neereft caufe of che Itch is a fale Excre= ment chac is bicing and fharp 3; cowict, either meer pure Choler, or elfe black Choler, commonly cal- led Melancholy ; orelfea falc flegm. Which ex- crement albete chat ic be prefenc alfo in che {cabby Affect, yec inche Icch ttc is more chin, and infinuatech ic felf chrough che leaft patcicles. Buc ac fticks becween the crueskin and che {carf-skin, aid thereupon by its acrimony it poadeth (a1 may fo fay) and pricketh che fenfible particles in the skin, and provoketh chem unto {cratching. And indeed like as the Natute of che excrement it felf maketh much for che fticking of the faid Ex- crement in cheSkin (chis Excremenc although it be chin, yec having in it acerctain kind of clammi- ne({s and glewifhuels, by che which ic fticketh ve-
‘ry clofe‘and pertinacioufly unto che parts; ) fo
doch likewife che chicknels of the skin ic felf, by reaion of which ic cannot exhale,
But now that excremene 1s collected by reafon ofthe heac and drinefs of the Liver, the ufe of fharp meats, and many Spices. Aud hence te is that old men (chofe efpecially of them chat in theic youth had a hot Liver, and fuch of chem as then ufed a bot kind of Dec in their meat and drink) are in their old age fo fenfible of the Icch, and ac length come to be troubled wich fcabbi- nefs. See further hereof in Galen his fecond Book of the Cauies of Symptoms, and the fixch
Chapcrer. The Differences.
Now according to the variety of the humor, and the nature of the places affected, chere is a certain difference likewile of the Icch. For look how che matrer 1s more or lefs fharp, fo the Icch thac 1s excired is more or lefs contumacious and
‘troubleiom. And fomtimes chere is felc an itch-
ing in the skin of che whol body 5; and fomzimes in fome parcs only.
Prognofticks.
1. The Itch is for che moft parc che forerunner
ese anes tae.
of Scabbinefs fhorcly cofollows. For if che Itch be of any Jong continuance, chere is chen ac che lengch collected a greater abundance of the matter; and chis receiving a putridnefs is rendered more fharp, and iccorrodech the Scarf-kin, and exci- tech Puftules. waka, 2. By bow much che worfe the humor is chae exciteth the Itch, by fomuch the worfe is the mas ladyalfo. Towir, che Icchthat is exciced from burnt bload, or Choler, is fooner ended and gone 2 buc chac which proceedech from fale flegm laftech longer 5 and longeft of al chac which hach its ori- ginal from burnt Melancholy. 3. The ltch in which chete is great pleafure tas ken in che fcratching chereof, is evil, becaute chaz ic arifeth froma fharp Choler. . 4. The Itch in oJd people is feldom cured, efpe= cially inthofe that are decrepit. For fince chat old age is fic for the treafuring up of thefe falc hu- mors, chat difpoficion of che body ts hardly chan- ged, and brought unco abetcer ftate. And yer nocwichftanding if diligence and care be fhewn, ic is fomcimes healed. And Mercurialis ( in his Tract of the Difeafes of the skin, Chap, 3.) rela= ceth chac Leonellus Pivs (aman fourtcore yeers old) was freed from an extraordinary great Irch by che benelit of Medicaments. §« Hippocrates (in Coacis) wriceth chac the Itch in chole chat have Confumpzions (ific fuc- ceed the fuppreflion and binding of the Belly) is net only dangerous, buc deadly. For by reafon of the trouble and difquiee of the Itch, chofe in Confumptions can neither fleep, nor take any celt , whereupon there is lictle or no Conco@tions and cherelore they have cheir deach hafiened upon
chen The Cure.
The lich Cfeeing thac it isa pain) if ic be exe traordinary great and vehement, and caule watche fulnefs, thereby decaying the ftrengch, fheweth chat mitigation by Ancdynes is co be procured 3 but che Caufe thac ic dependeth upon callech for evacuation. And indeed the next Caufe Cfince chacic 1s a fals humor fticking in che Skip) chis ig likewife co be evacuated from the Skin. And in regatd chat chis faid nexccaufe is nourifhed by a like humor concained inthe Veins, cherefore this is likewife cobeevacuated. And becaufe chat this humor is generated from a diftemper, and vicious difpofition of the Bowels, ic is therefore £0 be a= nointed: and fo the generating of fuch like hu- mors is to be prevented.
Thofe Moifteners take away the Icch that micis gace the fharp matter chat is the Caufe of the Icch. Now thofe chings chat evacuate chefe ex- crementicious humors ftom che Skin, are chofe Medicaments that Cleanfe, Mollifie, and make chin, Purgers take away che Antecedent Caufes Alterers amend he vitious difpofition of the Bos wels; burmoxeefpecially a good courfe of Di-
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Of Practical Phyfick.
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And therfore in the firft place theSalr,Nitcous, | ated. But for difcuflion we may likewife make and fharp humor isto.be prepared and evacuated. |ufe of either common Oy}, or Oy] of fweec Al The humor ts prepared by fuch Medicaments as |monds with Sale and Sulphurs as alfo Oleniz have in chem a power of Coolingand Moiftening 3 | Coffinum, or Oy| of biter Coftus. Or elfe che and fuch aswithall acrenuate the Thick Clammy | body may be wafhed with the Decoction of Smale
humor; fuchas are Succory, Endive, Borrage,
Buelofs, Fumuory, Hops, Maidenhair, Alpa-
rapus Roots, Polypody, Mocher of Time, and Sy~
rups made oucofthefe; and more efpecially that |.
of Hops, Fumicory, Succory, the Byzantine Sy*: rup,and che Syrup of Maidenhair.
Now rhe Humorsare evacuated by the Leaves of Sene, Poly pody, black Hellebor, Jalap, the com- pound Sycup of Polypody, che Blectuary Diaca- cholicon, Confection of Hamech,Excraét of biack Hellebor, the Melamagope Excradt. The forms of thele are ellewhece propounded, and fo they are alfo in the Chaprer of the Scabs.
And fomecimes alfo Venefection (if che Age and ftrengch wil bear tc_) isco be infticuced: and becaufetnacicofcen falleth our, chat either the Hamocchords, or che Courtes fuppreffed and kepr ismay afford matter and occafion unto this Eval 5 ic wil cheretore noc be amifs to provoke and draw forth chefe Hemorrhoids, or Courtes.
Bur for che cempeting and allaying che heat of chefe Aduft humois, as alfo of che Bowels cthem- felves, chere is nothing that doth 1¢ foonec then the Whey of Goats Milk; which may be given from one pint to three. But ic wilbe better for uleif chere be added tome Juyce or Syrup of Fu- mitory. But chat which more efpecially correct- ech che diftemper of che Bowels, and maketh for che generating of good blood, isa fic and proper Goucleot Die. Letche Air be cemperate, in. clining unto cold and moift: and che Meats of a good Juyce, of aneafie Concottion, and that are noc eafily corrupced, thefe may be alcered with
lage, Parietary, chefharp Dock root, the Seed of the-bitter Vetch Orobus, Lupines, White Cicers, Bran. Or,
Take Lupine. meal three ounces, Sulpbur two
ounces 5 mingletbem voiti Vinegar, and anoynt the bodytherewiib. Take Litharge, Sulphur, Turpentine, of each cone ounce and balf, the Fuyce of Mallows, and
Or,
Partetary, of each one ounces Oy! of Cinna- mom as much as you think fit, and mingle them.
Buc chen afrer che ufe of fuch like things as have been mentioned, the fick Perfon muft make ule of 4 blood-warm Bath of {weec Water.
More bereof may be feen in the firft Part,Chap.
27¢ touching Scabbinefs 5 fince chat moft of chote -
Medicaments that Cure the Scabs, and efpecially
the dry Scabbinefs, they are likewife ulefulia the Itch. :
Chap. 9. Of the ill and offenfive Smell,
Nd laftly, among the Affects of the Skin,
we muft not pals over in filence that ftinks
ing and offenfive {mel thac is fometimes wont to breathe forch out of the external parts of the body through the Skin and to be very offenfive, née only co the By-ftanders, but unto che Perfon himfelf alfo, whofoever he be chac is troubled therewith, Forthebody of man, whiles it con= cinueth initsright ftate fmelieth noc ac all, nei-
Borrage, Endive,andefpectally Lectice; which laft! cher doth ic fend forth any favor thac may by any
procureth alto fleep which in this Affect 1s very cequifice and ufetul. Buc ali {uch meacs as are Shacp, Salt, Biccer; Sour, Sweet, Fat, and mioft of all fried meats, ace co be fhunned and a- voided.
Ascouching Topicks, for the mitigating, and moderating of che Itch ac felf, and for the cemper- ing of the bumors Acrimony, and likewafe for dif- cuffing of che humors, a Bath of {weet Water made blood-warm is of fingular ufe 3; in the which the fick Perfon may fic for half an hour Cora whole hour) in che morning fafting; becaufe thac ic doch at once cemper the hear and drmefs of che Bowels, and withallrarefie che Pores. But the Medicina) Baths (to wit, thofe of Sulpbur, 8c. ) are more ufeful in the ftronger difcufling ot the maccer 5 and it wilnog be amils (by: curns_) one while co make ufe of a Bach of {weet blood- warm Water, and another while of chat chat ts falcand fulphury. For fo by this means both che Icch fha} be micigated, the Pores loof{ned, and the excrements in che Skin Cleanled away and evacu=
cf
one be perceived. For every hving Creature ( whatever itbe) doth breathe forth {ome kind of Smel proper unto its own kind, as Theopbra- fiws teachech us in his Book of Smels ; and chis he proveth by expérience; by which we fee thac Dogs find our and follow their Mafters foor-fteps, by the help they have from this {mel; and wild Beafts likewife do the fame in feeking their Prey. Bur yet neverthelefs if any {mel thal be perceived to come from any one, this is a ching chat is pretere natura}, as being beyond and befides Natures In= tent. che life of Alexander the Great ) chat che body of the faid Alexander {ent forth a {weet and plea- fancf{mell, cthisisa ching very rare; unlefs hap- ly it come more fromthe Cloaths, then the bo- dy. But thatill and ftinking {mels do oftentimes proceed from Mans body, is a ching. wel known by frequene obfervation. ‘Now the places ftom whence the offenfive {mel cometh, are tbe Mouth, che Arm-pits, the Privy Parts, bug more ¢{pecia!-
ly
And as for what Plutarch writeth Cin
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Oy Thacile WH dets ofthe tion, andl Wp chs fink
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ay | Oban | Cle the F tSmal F Seed of # Cac
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Of each i
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! thn as have | i]
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he Ski, i t fuke # Wont tf he body I ve, oe, Peilon roubled . sit cone ff |], nei pby any steature ff ne kia |) enpitae {chs hi fee that || aette M, 4 nd Wl) TG erceivel g pet ! ures Ir 8
I :
“| fome.
Chap. 9.
likewife do fometimes ftink, this proceedeth from the Ulcersthacareinchem. Yet fometimes notwithftanding,there exhalech forth a ftinking 8 offenfive {mel even out of the whole body of him chat is thus affected: as for the ftink of che Mouth,
_ we have already {poken chereof, in Book 2.Pare r.
Chap. I Do 4 But now itis not our Intent, here ( in the ge-
neral ) co difpute of the Nature of fmels, what ic is, and likewife by whac means che {weet or unf2- vory {mel is generared ; in repard this may be known from Philofophical and Phyfical Difcour- fes. Inthis place ic is {ufficient that we know, that chis offenfive {mel and ftink proceedeth from afupertluous humidity puttefying, and exhaling fuch a like vapor. | The ftinking fmel of che Armepits: is
called Hircus. Avicen ( Septima | quinti, Tract. 3. Chap. 2,30) tels us, “That there are {ome who aflere thac che Remain- ders of che Seed that were {uperfluous in Genera tion, and brought into this place, are che caufe of chis ftinking and offenfive {mel. © Which Opinion alchough thac Avicen rejecteth ic, and that by o- thers the caule of this {mel is faid co be the aftricti- on of the pores of rhe Skin in that place, by rea fon of which the vapors cannoc freely breathe through and exhale: yet nocwichftandingy this conftriction or fhutting up of the Pores is not fuf- ficienc; forific were fo, thencthis Affe@ fhould be moft familiar unto old people: nion albeit chus rejected by Avicen, dothnot in any thing feemto beablurd. For we know well) thar chis Affect is moft familiar unto Virgins chat are marriapeabl motion. Andchatcthe Tefticles, and the Seed have inchema full power of imprinting fuch an offenfive and ftinking {mel upon the blood, we may fufficiently know ic from Goats, and ocher living Creatures that are gelded. Yet nevercthe- lefs this feat {mel is moft efpecially familiar unto thofe chat have very moift bodies, becaufe chat moifture is moft obnoxious unto putridnefs. For although that alithe blood do not putrefie, yer notwithfanding aboucthe Emunétories the ex- crementitious vapors are apt and very ready core= ceive the putridne(s.
Hivcus
A And for the very fame caufe che
The offen- | privy parts of many yieldeth che like
: ee Lei of | offenfive ftrong {mel,by reafon of ex- Sse ie Crementitious humors, which from
; the Liver and the Veins are chruft
forth unto the EmunCtories that are feated in the Groyns, from which ftinking vapors do exhale.
The Feec likewife of fome have a very feacand ftrong fmel, and may cculy be faid co ftink. For whereas | Nature is wont cochruft forch the ex=
Sinking Feet.
*}) €fementitious humersunto chefe external pares,
And this opie |
Of the ill and offenfive Smell.
i pn
the Feet being fo covered and fhod that che vapors exhaling from them cannot freely expire and breathe forth, they chen and there receive a pu- cuidnefs, and from thence thac ftiak is contracted, And laftly Cbuc thisis very rare) the whole bo= dy finkech Cunlefs chisfmell arife from {weary as mott frequently it doth ) and chac ftrong Fear {mel ( ftinking you may cal it’), chae is fomeimes atcribed unto the whol body, is properly che {me} of the Arm: pits. And yet nocwithftanding Mar- tial Cas we find ic extancin his fixth Book ) hath this Epigeam upon haps.
Thais ftinks worfe than Pullers Pot ere fiunk that lay :
Pur'd upto th’ brim, but newly burft, in th tnidjt of tb” may:
Worfe then the lufiful Goat nevo come from’s ‘Mate ere ftank ;
Worfe then the Dogs skin flay’d beyond great Tibers bark:
Worfethen th? Abortive Chicktbat’s found in rotten Eges ;
Worfe then the Tankard marr’d with Corrupt Sauce, and Preges.
This Cheatto damp ber poyfonous flink with foceet Perfumes, 3 Whenas he’s flript, and takes the Bath, fha
then affumes : Piilothra, Perfumes, Oyntments, or lies bid with Chalk, And thus by fhifts fhe keeps ber ftink from com= mon Talk, : When fb’ bath usd all ber thoufand Arts, and thinks all wel, ae fil {be fkinks, and Thais doth\like Thais mel.
Prognofticks.
1. This {trong and ftinking {mel is. loathfom{ and very offenfive to tbe Standers by, and fuchas is very unfic for Converfinp with others ; and it oftentimes ‘rendereth che Wifé unaccéprable and unpleafing in the Eyes of her Husband.
2. And yet norwichftanding this ftinking {me} isa fure fign of an overmoift Body; and a Body wherein there are many moiit Excremeénts heaps ed; and thisthe body is very eafily obnoxious unto in Feversand other Difeafes arifing from pus
tridnefse ‘The Cure.
The Cure refpeéeth either the ftink ic felf¢ char may be palliaced and covered by a {weer {me} ) on che very caufe of it; and this is the crue Cure; And therefore the bodies of chem cthac are thus croubled; are in aconvenient mabner, by Vene- fection ( ifneed require ) and Purgation co be evacuated, and its overgreat humiudity.cobe dried up» And here more e{pecially there is commends
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2610 . Book V. ed Aloes Rofate, which drieth the body, and po- | ufe muft be made of Baths of the {weet {melling
Of Prattical Phyfick.
SSS eee
Pare IIL
werfully prefervecb tc from pucridnefs.
Herbs‘a licrle before. mentioned. And if the {aid
Lec che Diet likewife be foordered chat it may | offenfive ftink cannot orherwiie be obf{cured and tend coward drinefs, and refift putridnefs. And | palltared, we are then to make ule of perfumed therefore lec his Meats be fauced with Vinegar, che | Garments, {weet Bals, Balfams, and che like.
guyce of citrons, & oranges, Rofe-water,& Role vi- nepar: Buc there muft be an abftinence from meats thac are eafily corrupted s fuch as are Cucumbers, Melons,Musk Melons,Figs,and the like, Fhe over- much ufe of Fifh,efpecially che fofcer force chereof likewifetobe avoided. The Exercifes of the bo- dy let them alfo nor be neglected: neicher let che fleepbe exceflive. Afterward we are wel cotake notice from whac pare the ftink exhalech, and ac- cordingly that pare 1s co becleanfed and wafhed with the Decoction of Barley, Scabious, Flower- deluce Root, Aloes, Myrrh, Guajacum wood, Ci- tron Rind, Saunders, A(palachus or Thorny buths and after this a Cerote isto be impofed of Styrax Calamice, Benzoin, Cinnamom, Cloves, Myrrh, and Aloes, incorporated, and made into a mafh with Rofin, and the Oy! of Lavender.
But feeing thac ( before fuch time alfo as che Caule be quite taken away) che faid ftink is troublefom and offenfive unco al perfons chat come neer; itmay cherefore be obfcured by {weet {mels, and thereby be both depreffed and pallia- ted. The Arm-pits cherefore and the Groyns (as there fhal be need ) may be anointed with fome {weec {melling Liniment or Unguenc ) made of the Flowerdeluce Root of Florence, Cinnamom, Ligit Aloes, Cloves, Gallia Mofchata, S:yrax Ca~ Jamite, Oy! of Lavender, or Balfam of the Citron, Cloves, Ginnamom, or many of thefe mingled to- gether, adding thereto Musk, and Ambar, if ic {eem good unto you foto do. Under che Arm- pits there may likewife be born {weet fcenced bals,oran Ambar Pomander. The faid ftinking
and offenfive {mel is edfily caken away, if che Feet |
be every day wafhed with Wacer or Ley,in which Bay Leaver, the Leaves of Organy, and Sage, che flowers of Rofemary, Rofes, Camomile, and Flowerdeluce root areboyled; orelfe che Feerc may be wafhed in W ine ta which Allum hath been |
_ diffolved.
After the wafhing we may likewife adminifter thofe Remedies chat che Greeks cal Diapa{mata ; which (as Pliny writeth in bis r3.B. chap.2.) con- fitt of odoriferous things that are dry 5 and they are the {prinklings of fome dry Medicamenc thacis made incoa fine pouder 5 wich che which we are torub the Feer, and co {prinkle fome thereof be- twixcthe Toes. As,
Take Bay Leaves, and Organy, of each one ounce; Flowers of red Rofes, the Florentine F lowerdeluce Root, and Cyprefs root, of each balf an ounce; Bean meal, and Lupine meal, of eachtwo ounces; Salt dried one ounce: ‘Make a Pouder.
The fame courfe is tobe taken if the whol body |dead body 3 orchat fhe took conceic, and a loach- | And then frequens |ing from the putrid and ftinking Excremen:s chat: |
fend torth a fiinking {mel.
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| But icis becter co take away the Caufe of che of-.
fentive {mel, chan to goabout by {weer {cents and perfumes co obfcure and palliace ic; fince char perfumes unlefs chey be very ftrong, they mingle themfelves with the ftink, and are bucas ic were avehicle unco it, and focaufe the fmelcto be che more unfavory. Whereascthe truth is, chac he chat {mels of nothing at al, {mels beft of al.
There is excant in che Phyfical Epiftles of chaz
famous Phyfitian Georgius ‘Horfiius, Book 3. -
sect. 10, a very memorable Hiftcry of a ftinking and offenfive {mel proceeding from the whol bo- dy: where Dr. Sigifmind Snitgerus writeth unto Dr. Andreas Libavius, that a cereain Au- guftane Virgin Cfeventeen yeers of age) wasfenc unto Bamberg, and there put into the Monaftery of the holy Sepulchre, thae fo fhe might live as a Reclufe and Nun of che faid Order, And chae fhe was no fooner entered into thar Monaftery, but fhe fenc forth a ftinking fmel Gnot unlike un= co that of adead pucretying Carcafs) greatly of- fenfive and difpleafing unto the reft of che Nuns ; whether fhe kepc chem company in their common meeting place, or elfe kept her felf clofe and mew’d up in her own Cell 5 foreven here alfo they {mele her as they pafled by: buca diligens enquiry and fearch being made into the caufe thereof, he came (ashe writeth) aclengthroun= derftand that this ftink of hers proceeded noc from any thing amifs in ber Mouth, Stomach, Womb, or any other particular pare of che Body, bug from the general habit, temper, and conftitution of che whol body. Yee neverthelefs Libavins. Cin his Epiftle wherein he returnech an anfwer} doth noc admic of chis faid proper Conftirurion and cemperament of che whol Body ; in regara thac co render the reafon thereof, 1s beyond che reach and power of any man living 5. but he rather chinks cthac fomthing happening from: wichouc broughe upon her that alceracion of her fubftance, and io caufed this offenfive{mel. And he.con- ceivech wdeed,, thac chis diftemper was contracted in che Womb from the pollucion of che blood,and che corrupted fecd 3 and chatic did confift and was nourifhed in che Womb of the Mocher: or thac this Maiden ( being then buc an Enebryo iz che Womb of the Mocher, while ic yet Jay chécein) {uffered fomebing from: the naufeoufnels and vo-
miting of the Mother, and from affrightment be=
falling her, or from {ome grievous Affect chat fhe jay under. He conceiveth moreover, that che
Mother might be affrighted and terrified upon the Ad fight.of fome Sepulchre, or chat fhe happened to |
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‘ "0 |) fhe wasfome way or other greatly affected by wi), | qhiefe and che like accidents. You may read ue _ more hereof in thealleadged Epiftle of Lzba- i}, ius.
: like, g Andanother Example of che ftink of the whol be h) pody: the fame Libavius hach in che following "td! Bpiftle, where he writech, chat he wel knew a wi. - certain yong woman, that afterfhe was married,
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THE
“| FIFTH BOOK:
THE
' THIRD PART.
Sect. Il, Of things amifS in the Hair and Nails.
Chap. 1. Of the Nature of the Hairs.
SSsss' cer the faults of the Skin, we wil Cand thac nor unficly) fubjoyn 1 chofe things charare amifs in the Hair, Forthe Hair is fixed in the Skin; neictheris icany where elfe co be found ‘but in che Skin. Neither indeed are the Vices of tbe Hair tobe paf- fed over in filence; in regard thar even thefe are (although ignoble, yer) parts ofthe body. For as no man can Wel deny, That che Nails, che Hoofs,and Horns of al living Creacures, and like- wife that the Feathers in Birds are parts of cheic body ; and that none can wel fay that a Peacocks Tail, and al the various Feathers in Birds chat are Of fo many feveral colors; lfay, asnone can wel affirm chat thefe Feathers affording fo great va- riery area thing meetly excrementitious, and not pares of heir body : fo likewife it is in no wifeto be denied; chat che Hairs are alfoa pact of the bo- dy. And this we are fufficiencly caught by che con- formation of chem, by cheic various figure, and their diffecent colors: Fhe fame is likewife pro-
Of ibe Nature of the Fairs.
ved by che ufe of them, and foalfo by cheir dif- eafes; touching which we thal fpeak hereafcer3 and efpecially thac we cal Plica Polonica. And laftly, That vecy effective and cofiformative powerthac che Hair hach as wel as other parts, (as we thal by and by thew you) cleerly demon- ftraceth che cruth of chis. And the growing of the Hairs-again after cheic being cut, doth not in the leaft prove that they therefore are no parts. For both che Nails, and che Hoofs, the Claws of Lobfters, and in cercain bruit Beafts che Horns; afterchey are flied and fallen off, yec they grow forch again’ and fo do likewife che Teeth in Men and Women. els
We ate indeed vulgatly ( buc etroneoufly} taught, Tbac Haics are generated when from the heat of our bodies fuliginous and chick vapors are out of the chird Concoétion elevated in the parts of our body,and are driven unto the pores of the Skin; in che ftreight paflages whereof whiles chey ftick, they are chere conglutinated ; until at the length the pore being filled up, other vapors coming underneath drive ic forwards and thefe vapors ate likewife followed elofe by other vapors; and after chem by more, and fo in the end they are thruft forch ouc of the poré, and the hair 18 formed; which afterward ( the hike vapors fuc- ceeding, and chrufting forch che hair) and agglu- tinating themfelves unco the root thereof 16 thence cometh co be prolonged.
But now if che Hair fhould be ge= neraced in this manner, a reafon could not then be given why hair fhould not | alike be bred in al parts of the body 5 i and in thole pares where they are bred, why theré fhould be in fome places more ftore thereof, in (ome lets; and: why fome of them aré alwaies growing, when others ‘grow noc ac al. fn che Neck and Face there grow no baits natarally, but in the Head and Cheeks chere are préac abundance of chem ; as-alfo in the privy Parts,in the Armpics, Eyelids, and above the Eyelids on the Eye-brows. The hair inthe bead and beard is ever growing, and is concinually lengthened out; but thofe hairs that are in the Eyelids ever keep at one and the fame length, and moreover they evermore re= main ttraight. . And furthermore no caufe could ac al be piven, wherefore men only fhould have Beards, and that women fhould nor likewife have thems whénas nocwichftanding women have on their heads moft ufually the longer hair.
| FThe breéd= ing of ihe Hair.
of che Hiftory of living Creatures, Chap.12.) di~
ftinguifhed into chac wh is bred coegther wich us (fuch as is che hair of the head, eyelids,&eyebrowsy
and chas chat is afcerwards bred, co wir, fuchas ac length arifeth in procefs’of time as age Comes On >
of which there could nocaufe at al be rendered, if (according toche vulpat opinion) the hairs had
theic original ous of chofe vapors that break forth. | Gg 2 And
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More= over, the hairis by Ariffotle ( in his third Book
_ the haus are generated by che formative or pili-
2612 Book V.
OF Prattical Phy fick.