Part LiL

(che Brain being wichal affected) che fick perfons are feized on by a Delirye or Dotage. For even in chefe Feavers alfo che fick parties are greatly extenuated, and there is wanting unto che body a neceflary alimenc, and the depraved humors likewife lie gnawing ac the roots of che hair, and eacthem afunder, The hair alfo falleth off in chofe chat have che French Difeafe, by reafon of the pravicy of the humors; which fomtimes hap- peneth likewife unto chofe chat have drunk poy~ fon: and icis reported fora cruth, Thac whofo- ever coucheth che Salamander his hairs wil fhed and falaway. But fomtimes alfo the hair fais
| Off by reafon of the chinnefs of the skin; and this
happenech unto Women, and efpecially in che Summertime. And hence it is, chag chofe
| who travel cu: of Germany into Italy, ot other
hot Regions, find now and then this thedding df theirhaic: forby che heat of che Ambient Air the skin ismadethin3 and ict chancechal{fo that the matter out of which che hair ought to be generated doth wicthal cranfpire,
Signs Diagnoftick.
The Defluvium or falling of che haic that isin fpecial fo called, is eafily known by che continual fhedding of the hair. But it is diftinguithed from baldnefs, che Alopecia, and Opbiafis, becaufle that in Baldnefs che bair fals off in che fore part of the head only 5 bur in Alopecia and Opbiafis the hair fals from al parts of che bead, and che head alone; bue then inchis Defluvium (the Affect we now [peak of ) che hairs fal off in al parts of che body equally, one while more, and anothes while fewer of chem. Buc from what caufe ic is chat chey fal off, may beknown from the caufes thac went before. For if there went before any ficknefs thac was in it felf apt co confixme the alt- mene of the Body, ic is then credible chat the fhed- ding of the hair proceedech from the fcarcity of the Alimenr. But ifvitious,malignanc, and de= praved humors excite and caufe any dileafe, ic is then anargumentc thac che falling of the hair pro- ceedeth likewile from che pravicy of the humors. Iflaftly, there wene before caufes rarefying the skin, it ts chen probable, that the faid Deflaviums of the hai proceedech from the chinnels of the
Skin. Prognofficks.
1. Among al other the {pecies of che thedding of che hair, chis Defluvium in {pecial fo called is moft eafily cured 3 unlets the caufe be fuch as is nottobe removed. For the skin hath not as yet contracted any preternatural difpofition that is difficulely cured, And therefore ic is chat che
Deflavium or falling of che hair that happeneth | after acuce and malignant Beavers is eafily cured 3 || when the Feaver being healed, there isan Aliment | again fupplied unto chebody $ and the hair chac |
is alueady fallen off is for che moft part reftored
withous. |
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| vim be from the depraved humors, | fapplied from al parcs of che body, they are chen | away the caule of the fhedding of che hair, bus
hatisin Mtinal | td tons beraule | epattof nate he head
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Chap. Ae
without che ufe of any Medicamencs.
2+ Buc inche Confiimption fuch a defect of the | made ule of, . 7 Alimene, and {uch a vice ofthe humors cannot by| = And Ladanum is alfo very fitly adminiftred in any means be amended, And therefore in this | almoft every falling off of the hair. Buc in cer cafe there isnot only nocure to be had fot this | gard chat is. is of coo chick confiftence init {elf co fhedding of che hair, but che fick perfons die alfo. | be anointed with, it is therefore co be diffolved in And therefore in flich as ate in Gonfumptions the | fomthing thic is liquid ( Wine or Oyl) and in- falling of che hair is a fure’and certain fign of| deed fiich ‘an Oy! is to be made choyce of that may Death approaching; as in che fifcth of che Apho- | facisfie and an{wer the caule, eo a rifms, Aphor, 11. But feeing chac Unguents and Oyls are crou- 3» If che hair fal off by reafon of che skins thin- | blefom unto many, who wil noe endute chat cheic hefs, it may then by cheufe of thickners be refto-| ‘heads fhould be anointed
‘ with Oynrments or red without any great difficulty, Oyls; therefore for chefe we muft provide Lori= The Cure.
onsforthe head (chat pleafechem bérter) which are co be made of Southetnwood, Maidenhair,
The thedding of the hair is cured by taking a- | Golden Maidenhair, Maftick, Rofes, Rofemary ; way the caufe upon which it dependeth. If thete-| Ladanun. CE ei ea fore the hairs fal away from the fcarcity and want| And wemutt here again repeat whac we gave of Aliment, it fheweth us, chat we muft ufe our you notice of about the end. of che forepoing endeavor that thece may be fiifficienc aliment bred | Chapter, co wic,Thacchere are (ome whoa ppoinr in the body, and that chat which is bred may be| (and not without good reafon) {uch kindof Me- drawn unto the skin of the head. If this Deflze- | dicaments co be made (for che recovery of che and thefe be| haic) that donot only by a manifeft qualicy cake
to beevacuated; butif they lie only ac the roots | {tich as alfo by an occule and peculiar faculcy do of the hair, chey are then co be difcuffed. If chefe | conduce tnco the bréeding of hair; and fuch as humors be of a poyfonous Nature (as in the| thefe ate only known by experience. And hele Brench Difeafe) we oughtchen to meet with and | are, al che Capillary Herbs, souchernwood, Reed oppoiechac poyfon. Ifthe Affect proceed from | root, fharp- dock roor, the toot of che grearer Bur, the chininets of theskin, che skin is then to be thic~ | Afarabacca, Ladanum, Honey (and Water deftil= Kened. Jed from 1¢) Bees beacen together with the Ho=
{therefore this Deflavium or falling of the | ney-combs, or the pouder.and afhes of them, :as haic arife from the want of Alimenc, we ought | alioof Watps, Flyes, Moles, Mice, the Land Ur- then etpecially to. cake care chac by appointing a| chin, Bears fat, andSerpents tac. Of which there due & meet courte of Dies there may be generated | are made many Compofitions. As for in- fufficient ftore of good blood, ' Bux for the dtaw-| farce, ; ing of this unto the place affected, frictions are! Take the Rind of the Reed root burnt, ‘Bees Mhore eipeciallyca bemadeufeof, Yea indeed, ! afhes, of each two drams 3 Southernvoood burnt almof before the ufe of any Topicks, the fricti- | one dram Ladanum two drams 5 Honey half Ons or rubbings of the head are co be adminiftred; | an ounce 3 Oyl of feet Almonds,and Bears fat;
as Galen ceacheth us in his firft Book ofthe Com- of each as much as wil fuffice, and make a Linie ©
ofition of Medicaments a¢cording cothe places,'iment. = = . Chap. 2: For Fridtion doth both attract the | For. the fhedding of the hair after ficknefles, Alimencuntothe head, and alfo ftrengthen and | chis Following is found to be good. a thicken che skin. Take Maidenbair, Southernwood,. Golders __ Itthis falling of che hair proceed from the pra- | Maidenbair, of each balf abandful; the Leaves Vity of che humors, then univer{al purgations (if | of ‘Myrtle, of Rofes, and of Wormwood, of each
| Beed require) being firft premifed, the head is of- | two pugils : boylthem in a fufficient quantity of
/ fred; bue yer lec che Difcuffers be moderate
padding called 18
hay qt as yet | » that 9 that the peel
curl Alimeth
ait Ht eo . Til |
) ted,and the skin rendered over thin : and chere-
fen co be rubbed, and difcuflives are to be admini- | common Oyl and red Wine, until the Wine be wafted; then fir ain and {queeye them bard. . Take. of the. aforefaid Oyl four ounces; Laz danum one ounce ; ‘Maftick balf. an ounce, and mingle them according toart. Or, rare :, Take Root of the Buredock fix ounces 3 Mai- denbair three bandfuls; Southernwood one bandful., Pour thereunto as much white Wine as wilh fuffice 5 and let them be deftilled in a blad- der : ‘Unto what is thus deftilled,if you please you may add tbe Water of Honey. ip in Sah , Or elfe lec the Roots of che Bur-dack be bayled in Ley, and the head wathed therewith. « . Hib CHAP,
(efpecially if there be a concurrence of an abun- dant aliment) left ¢hac by the exceffive and over- | Much ufe of chem the aliment be Jikewife diffipa-
fore Ladanumi is very fitly mingled cogether with the Unguears.
. Ifthe Defluvium depend wholly upon the chin- “nels of the skin, chen we ought co apply chole ‘things that condenfe ard thicken theskin, Galen Commendeth efpectally Ladanum, che Oy! of “Maftick, and the Oy! of Mycele mingled together.
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Orelfe let Ladanum be diffolved in Wine, and fo
9618 Book V. Of Prattical Phy fick. Pare IIL
in the place thereof to appear and grow again whice bairs 5, which happenech froma vitious Nu-
Chap. 4. Of Alopecia, and Ophi-
afis.
TW Rien: pA aOR. cec cauted by atcrition or gauling, there is wont |
rriment, aod che weaknels of che Skin. And of Flas
4 OM,
this Celfis gives us notice, tn bis fixth Book,Chaps» {Ibi
TL G, which is called Alopecia and |terx. co wit, thacthe Ophiafis is extended unco Mice
Opbiafis is a peculiar kind of the | che Hairof che Head alone, but that Alopecia Plone falling ofthe Harr. Alopectais{o termed from|may be extended even unto the very Beard |
Foxes; becauferchac chis kind of fhedding of the | alio,
{ Hair is familiar unto them. But, O- ' phtafis is {o called from its figure, be- } caute chat the bald and {mooth parts,
O phiafis:
The Canfes. The Caufe of both thefe Maladies isa depraved
efticute of chear Hair, and writhed, feem like un- jand {harp humotof. ( eating affunder che roots
coSerpents, Iciscommonunto borh chefe Af- fects, chac in chem che Hairs fall off areatim (as
the Hair_) of whatfoever kind ic be. jmolt Part norwicthitanding this Malady is caufled
But for che
they cerm is Jand hence itis likewife chat this Ma-| by a fa: flegm, aduft, or purified, Whereupon
lady is in che general called Area.And
Area: Celfus in one and the fame Chapter treateth of Area, Alopecia, and O- phiafis. Now the name of Area is impofed up-
on chis Affect from Country Garden-piats. For as chere the Beds or quarters are diftinct, and in certain places only 5 andasthefe Beds when they are void of Plancs are Naked and bares fo ic 1s Jikewife in chete Aree; torhere in certain places ghe Skin appeareth {mooth, bare, and flippery. Thefe Affects differ only in cheir figure. For Alopecia hath no certain figure, buc (as Celfus faith.) dilated under any kind of figure. But the Opbiafis creepeth up and down writhingly like unco a Serpent 3 and one while beinp extend-
Galen in his Book of che difictences of Symp- coms,and Chap. 4. writeth, that theie Vices tollow adepraved Nutrition of the Skin of the Head. Bur chat one while che Alopecia, & another while the Opbiafis is excited 3 and thac the Hairs do
fometimes chat chac. is winding and writhed, che Caufe of chis is che great abundance, and che qua- licy of themateer. For if chere be an extraordi= nary great ftore thereof, and it be likewife chin, then it equally and alike eareth through the Haic in che more and greater places; butitche Matcer be lefs, and mingled wich a chick humor, chen
um or fhedding of the Hair; becaule chac che
ed from the hinder partofthe Head it creepeth | humors being unequal ard mingled do nox flow
the breadth almoft of two fingers; and as {oon a- | gnaw aflunder the hair.
gain being carried beyond che Ears it creepeth
The more remote Caufleés are the heat of che Lie
forward Serpent-like even untocthe very Fore-| ver and Head, and efpecially che faule of the
of; fo chat not only che coors of che Hair, but e- | hough ic may happen in every ape, yet neverche-
The-defini- | tion of A- lopecia and
Ophiafis:
Hair reach, And fo Alopecia and Opbiafis may be thus defined, that they area falling off ofthe Hair afcer
} che aforefaid manner, areatim, ha ving ics Original froma corrupt and depraved hu- mor gnawing affunder the roots of che Hair.
The Auchor of the Book of Medicaments foon provided, refercesh che Alopecia and Opbiafis unto thofe Affections thac vitiate and marc che Colour of the Hair, But we are to know that ghis is not proper usco che faid Areal falling off of the Hair 5 buc chat chis change of Color in che Flair doch eicher precede the Alopecia and Opbi-
row, tO Wit, as faras the roots of che |and Youth; and it followeth the Affe&s, Tinea, Hd hy,
bead icfelf. And moreover there isin che Opbi- | ficft and fecond Conco¢tion, by reafon whereof || afis far more burt and danger inthe Caufe there- | falc anddharphumors are generated ; which al- | |
jyures 5 dt Aout
Hef a8" pe binder
iw tw byt ides
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| ome uno Hf thefe 43 fometimes confticuce a ftraic and direct Area, and |
at Bur jin bi, ofthe Skin the haut gro
VI iavion and
{wy oftenciat
VA weth again, there followeth an unequal and writhed ‘Defluvi- |
+ Astor w
Abe Skint | ‘Trt offend along on both fides the Head even unto the Ears, |righc forward, buc creeping along obliquely chey |
Hed chee Hand teach {boundeth i grow anew,
;| according ven the Skin it felfalfo is eaten and gnawn tho-|lefs 1¢ happenech more efpecially in Childhood | sri
Avil ew us
Achores, and Favi, by reafonof che Caufes |}
that we mentioned in che Difeafes of Chil- |
dren, And fomiumes likewife External and Malignane Caufes make very much for che generating of chis
Difeafe: among which Galen in his firft Book of |
che Compofir. of Medicam. according co the pla~ ces; Chap. 2. reckonech up Mufhcoms, becaufe
thac chey make very much for che generating of | And hither like= |
vicious and corrup: humors. | wife belongech the poyfon of che French Dil-
eafe, im regard thacchis alfo eaceth through che| roots of the hair 3 which other poyfons may like- |}
afis (ro wit, when froma vitious Nucriment che | wife do.
Hai firft becomech white, but afterwards they fal] off ) or elle the colors of the Hair are changed af- cer the Alopecia and Opbiafis. For whenafter
the Aree Hairs are again bred, cbey are chen e+ | {pects this falling of che Hair differeth from bald-| ther whice, or yellow 5 like as it is in Horfes, af-| nefs, and that fhedding of the Hair chat we call)
Signs Diagnoftick.
I, Alop ot much d lS they ihe Romy
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We have already beforecold you in whac re-| ji, Ce
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Nig i Nibe Coy
hs : : fo. . ° i D | l Ry) rer chat che haic as fallen off by reafon of {ome Ul- | Deflavium. But Alopecia differech aid isknowan) 4, i % a from) go" ty
f
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tour},
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| the Opbiafis there is nat only a falling off of che
) And che very color of the skin is alfo changed;and
Noy Ms}
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the | ie loots) ut lor tel * Gaulel lereupoay
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| the Hue} ie Matter |
Ot thea |
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| above two fingers in length 5
C aps A becaufe chat in che Alopecia the hair only fallech | off, without any bur ac all ofthe Skin. Butin |
hair, buc likewife an excortation of the Skin. in fome it appeareth more whitifh, in fome more
ale, and in others more black and if itbe prick- ed, there floweth forth a ferous whitifh blood. Touching the difference between Alopecia and Opbiafis, Celfus ia his fixth Book, and Chap. 4. That Acea (faithhe ) that zs termed Alopecia is dilated under all kind of Pi- gures; andit bappeneth in the bair of the Head,
rpent is called Ophiafis, beginneth from ahi i and sider pair it Creepeth on both fides the Head even unto the Ears: and in fome unto their & orebeads alfo: the former of thefe in all Ages, but this latter only in In-
the binder part of the Head,
But Alopecia and O phiafis differ from Tira,
| in this, becaufe that in Opbiafis the Excoriation
of che Skin is {uperficial; and when it is cured, che hair groweth again, Butin Tinea che exco- riation and Ulceration is more deep ; and theskin is oftentimes fo corrupred, chat che hair never gro- weth again. |
As for what concerneth the figns of the Gaufes, the Skin it (elf fhewech what kind of humior tt is
Ot | hac offendeth: which chac tc may be the more
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pevetthieena hildhoodiil
Hs |
Malignant ip of ci t Book iy
exactly known, the hair chat cemaineth bebind is co be fhaven away, ani the Skin to be gently cub- bed: chere are ocher frgas alfo chac wil inftrud and teach us whackind of bumor ic 1s chat a- boundethinche body. The hairs likewile chat prow anew, by the vacious colour chat chey have ( according co che Nature of the peccant bumor ) wil fhew us what humor ische Caufe of this Ma-
Prognofticks.
1. Alopecia and Opbiafis alshough they bring not much danger along wich them, yet neverche- les they caufe a great deformity: and among the Romans thofe Slaves chat were diffigured by the faid Area, and efpecially by the Alopecia, were fold at a far lower rate chen other Slaves. And in our daies alfo, thefe Aree ( inregard that they caufea fufpition of the French Pox ) are therfore accounted very difgraceful unto him that is aftected therewith.
2. But whether che Opbiafis, or the Alopecia, may be fooneft and moft eafily cured itis a great
lady.
queftion among Authors ; and they herein much | g
differ. Celfus andAvengoar are of Opinion that
Opbiafis is more eafily cured then Alopecia. And! p i) onthe Gontcary, Alexander in his firft Book, Ghap. 2. and Serapio in bis firft Book, Chap. 1.
teach us chac che Alopecia is more eafily cured
Of the Alopecia and Ophialis. — | from Opbiafis by che very figure of che Arey and ; then Opbiafis. But Celfus feemeth to {peak on
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ly of the Alopecia of Infants ;. which in the courfe of yeers and change of age is of ic {elf oftentimes
aré prown to maturity, or likewifeinone and che fame agé be compared the one wich che other; then the Opbiafis feemeth to be altopeches the more difficult co be cured, in regard chat ic hath its original from a matcer more thick and far worle chen the former, and {uch as doch not only eat affunder the roots of the hairs, but likewile e= ven the very Skin ic felf; which is never done in che Alopecia.
3. Yecnocwithftanding by how much che lon=
= But if Alopecia and Opbiafis be (uch as
nued, by fomuchthemore difficult 1s che Cute’ thereof 5 and by how much che lefs while they have continued, by fo much the more éafily aré they cured.
4, Ifby Rubbing the place become red; there is then hope of Cure; che fooner :¢ is thus; the moré eafie the Cure: butific wax noc red aé all, chen thereremaineth no hope at aJl of any Cure. | |
5 That kind of Aree is alfo the worft chat hach made the Skin thick, and fomwhac fat, and flick
7 flippery in all the parts affected.
and intbe Beard. But that which from the like. eithér of chefe Maladies hath been and contie
6. Alopecia and Ophiafis chac proceed from che Leprofie are altogether incurable ; and chat thas hach its original tcomthe French Difeafe is nos to be Cured untill che Difeafe ic felf be Gu- red. 7. There chen fhines forth fome hope of a Cure tofollow, when che exeremitiés of che Area chat ate neereft uncothe remaining hairs do again begin co fend forth otherhair. For then chofe parts that arenigh unto che’ found have the lefs receded from cheir Naturall State, and fo leonfequently will che fooner again return untod theic Natural Scate, and begin co produce
haire The Cure.
Ifa Vitious humor abound in the whole body, this is ficft ofall co be evacuated, for ocherwifeit wil continually cherifh the Malady, by fomenting the macterchereof. And foifthe French Difeafe be Joyned cherewith, chis is firft co be cured 5 ini regard chat che Aree cannot be taken away, unlefs this be firft removed. As likewife the diftemper of che Bowels upon which the breeding of che vitious bumors doth very mich depend, is to becorrected. And the antecedent Caufe being taken away, the Containing Caufe of the Aree is then to be res moved; which Galen doth by Repreffers and Di- eftives: buc we ought withal codo our endeavor, chac che skin may be reffjored unto ics natural tems
er. : And cherefore in che ficft place the whol body
is to be purged by fit and proper Medicaments, ac«
cording coche Nature of che peccant humor. And
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But for the matcer which is yee in its flux, and in the beginning thereof, before che Aree are yet made, Galex maketh ufe likewile of Repellers. And the tame likewife we are taught by Avicen ; where hecellech us that the Medicaments in che Alopecia oughe likewife by a moderate aftri@tion to corroborate the skin of rhe head; for in the fe~ venth part of his fourth Book, Tract. 1. Chap.6.
andrartmefs, Buc oucofthefe fuch of them are to be mace choyce of chat are proper and conveni-= entunco each of thefe Affects ; and thefe are alfo
rightly co be adminiftred. For thofe Medicaments _
that were by us even now mentioned, they are not al of them fic for al kinds of Aree, orat al cimes, or after any manner adminiftred, or in al apes 5 but unto each of thefe there are fuch Medicamencs as are fic and proper; and each of chefe Medica- ments have likewifetheirdue time and manner of ufe: and unto the Malady when ic firft begins,
he faith thus : And it is requifite that there be in | Cand being yer but {mal} che weaker fort of them
thofe Medicaments a comforting and ftrengtben- ing, thereby to prevent and binaer in the bead the reception of malignant matter. But otherwife;
[are to be admuniftred 5 buc if che Malady be inves
cerate, chen che ftronger fortof them : and ‘anca che fofter bodies Cfuch as are che bodies of Chils
and ifthe Alopecia and Ophiafis be already pre- | dren and Women) the weaker Medicaments 5 bug
fent, Repelling Medicaments bave then no place ; even as likewile they have no place in Scabies or Scabbinefs. .
But if the Aree be already made, and che miat- ter impacted into theskin, we ought then co ufe Digeftives. Now chefe are bor, of chin parcsand mot greatly drying. For if we make ufe of chofe things that dry overmuch, noc only the vicious hu- mors, but even the very alimene of the hair wil be chen difcuffed. ‘Yea, fince thac inthe Aree con- firmed che diftemper of the skin is hor and dry ; therefore cold and moift Medicaments are to be mingled with che reft.
But now chefe Medicaments that take away the nigheft caule of this Malady, are cermed Metafyn- eritica; of the preparing of which Galen ceach- ech in his firft Book of che Compofitton of Medi- caments according to their places, Chap. 2. and in bis fourteenth Book of the Method of Phyfick, Chap.12. To wit, inthe ficft place, if there yet remain any hairs chat are corrupted, thefe are to be plucked out either with the Volfella ( an In- ficument purpofely made to pul out hairs.) or they areco be drawn forth witha Dropacifin, or elfe the place may be fhaven with a Razor. “And | then afcecward let che head be wafhed with a Ley in which Maidenhair, Golden Maidenhair, Sou- thernwood, and the like Planrs have been boyled. After the wafhing, lec the place be rubbed witha | Linen cloth (thac isnot over moift, noc yet over | dry) until cheskin begin co be red: when this is| done, then let Topicks be adminiftred. Now
fuch like Medicaments are, Muftard feed,Cceffes,
white Lily Roots, which (as ic is faid) wil like-|
unto fuch as are'ac their ful age, atid unco Men, che |
Rrohger tore of Medicamenis are to be applie
ed.
Galen acquaints us with divers Compoficiong |
chat had been examined by long Exp: cience, and approved of (in his firft Bock of the Compoficr on of Medicaments according Co the places, Chap. 1.) to wit, Lhofe of Heras, Crito, Oreftinus, Ortho che Sicilian, Cleopatra, Archigenes, Ajele- pias, Dionyfodorus, Soranus, andochers. Galen himfelf commenderh this following’:
Take Leaves of the GreekReed burnt half an Mire |
ounce; the “Urchin burnt one dram; Moufe- dung two drams: bruife and mingle them wel voith Vinegar, and fo anoint the place thereveith, Or,
Take afbes of the burnt Reed, Goats bair burnt, Maidenbair, Bears fat, liquid Pitch Ro= fin of the Cedar, of each alike: and this he callecta che admirable Remedy. Or,
Take Houfe Mice burnt, a piece of linen Cloth’ \|
' burnt, Horfe Teeth burnt, Bears F at, the Mare | Capo
C2
row of a Hart, the rind of the Reed, equal parts
of al; Honey as much as wil fuffice; and make | esber than
an‘Unguent. Or, Take Gupberbium, Thapfia, Oyl of Bayes, of
bors, of eacb one dram; Add Wax fix drams ; which may be moiftened voith Oyl of Bayes, or old Oyl, or liquid Pitch , and mingle them toge» ther: And this Medicament is ot al other che {tcongeft, and cherefore. moft convenient for the Malady when it is become inveterate.
In the Malady that is more mild ic wil be fuffi-
wile reftore chofe hairs that bucnt places have been | cient co ufe a Medicament made of Southernwood,
deprived of by fire or {calding; Rocket feed, Ni-
or the roots of the Reed burnt, mixe and incorpo
tre, Oy} of Bayes, liquid Pitch, Sulphur, the pou=| rated wich old Oyl, Oy1 of Bayes, or liquid
der and aflies of Southernwood, the Root of Sow- | Pitch,
bread, and Hellebor, che feed of Stavefacre, and | Doves dung ; and (thefebeing the ftrongeft and | moft powertul of al) Thapfia and Euphorbium. Which aforefaid Medicaments notwichftanding by how much the newer and frefher they are, by
fo much the fharper they are alfo; and the older
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Take Rocket feed, Creffes, Nitre, equal parts’ | |, of then al, and let them be mingled with Oyl of | ‘Bayes, or liquid Pitch.
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thefe equal parts ; Bears Fat, and Oyl of bitter Almonds, of each as much. as wil fuffice, and make a Liniment.
Buc if ic be needful'to make i¢ ftronger, then add thereto Spuma Maris, live Sulphur, Bulls Gall, Rocket teed, Nicre; or even Thaplia alfo, Or
Take Muftard feed, Thapfia, the feed of Cref- fes,equal parts of them al3° wben you bave bea- ten them into a very fine powder, ‘then add Oy! of Bayes, and Fofin, of each alike; as much as will Suffice 5 and atthe fire make bereof an Emplafter according to art.
Such like Medicaments (good {tore of them) are likewifeextanr, and in divers places here and
there, in the Wricings of Valefcws de Tarania, |
Rondeletius, Vallerius, Trincavellius, and other Practical Phyfitians.
And chis is likewife inthe ufe of the ftronger fort of Medicaments co be obferved, chat in the be- ginning, the more Izquid and fofcer Medicaments, and fuch as are tempered by the mixture of Oy]s (that fomwhat abace the force of the ftronger Me- dicaments) may be adminiftred ; and afcer the
ule of che firfe Medicament we are to look what |
alteration ir hath made in che pare affected; and afterward (as need fhal require) che ftrength thereof is either to be augmenred or abated.’ Now whether orno there beany alcerarion made may be difcovered by thisefpecially, if we take notice, and welobferve, whether the skin after che ufe of the Medicament be madeever a whit the redder, or no or whether ic were madered by a light and gentle, orelle by a ftronger friction. For we ought tobe very cautious, that che skin be not burnt through by the too often tepeated ufe of rhe fironger Medicaments. And as touching che ufe of Compound Medicaments, youare likewife co take this advice, to wic, That if the hair be alco- gether fhaven off, it wil be chen more convenient
toapply Medicaments of a more folid form, fuch |
as are Emplafters: but if che hairbe not fhaven away, then tho{e Medicamients thac are liquid and foft, fuch as are Linimeots and Unguents.
But chen che weaker Topica] Medicaments are to be continued unco the head borh day and nighc,
that fo chey may exercife and put forth cheir
fitengch andvercue. Buc if che Medicaments be Of the ftronger fort, they are then to be detained upon the head fo Jong, until chere appear to be fome alteration inthe skin caufed ‘by chem, and thac there begin to arife fome kind of pains And thecefore in the ufe of the ftronger, the place affe- Ged isdayly once or twice cobe viewed, and if the Medicamenrs have fttongly affected the place, We are then COceturn to the milder fore of them ; and che place isto be anointed with Goofe Far, Oy! of Dill, ot tre jike Anodyne Medicament, For if che ficopger Medicaments be too long kepe upon cheskin, if wil barn the fame. And Cbri-
| flopborus a Vega wricesb, chat he bad feen vgry |
( many who by the ufe of Medicaments that were overftrong were thereby broughe untoa perpetu- al baldnefs ; and continued beardlefs unto theig dying day. |
: The Diet.
A good and due courfe of Diet maketh very much alfo for the curing of the faid Alopecia and | Opbiafis'; which lec ic-bé'fuch asthac good blood | may be thereby bred, and the encreafe of bad bu. mors prevented, And therefore Jec che Patiencs meat be of a good juyce, that may bring the depra-
ved humots uotoa benign and good temper. “Let che Patient abftain from Wine, before his body
be pucged,, becaufe thae Wine carriech the bad hu mors thac are detained in the body along with ig intothe Veins. Buc when che body thal be fuff- ciently purged, then the Patient may drink chac Wine chat ts temperate anda little fweer, feeing chat ic nourifhech wel, and \breedeth, good blood. Let che Air in which he breathech'be hor,
Chap.5. Of Tinea, or Worms éa ting off the roots of the Hair. —
A Move thofe Affects in the which the Hairs & & fal off, thac Affect isby no means co be’ paffed over in filence, inthe which the hairs in= deed, not whol, but in pieces Cor piece-meal, ag we fay) fal off, being eaten chrough and confus med by certain Worms. © There are but very few Auchors thac make mention of this Affect ; nei- ther Castcfeems) wasic Known unto Platerys (chough otherwife a moit experienced Phyfician) whom we find thus writing; There are fome
faich he) who affirm that the hairs of the head’
and beard have been gnawn and eacen aftinder b ceccain Worms fo {mal thar chey could hardly be difcerned. But yee neverthelefs ic is an Affect that iscommonly known wich us; and I my felf have ofcen feen it, and ic hath bsen offered unto me co Cure, Our Germans cal ic Haarmilber oder ‘Milen. And thiskind of {mal Worms thae ate {carcely vifible to che Eye (and which whe- cher chey have inthem any life or not, we cannor difcover but only by their motion) are bred in Cheefe, Honey, (if there be but a lictle bread ad- ded thereto) old Wax, Prunes, and dried Cher- ries, and divers other things befides. And with- out doubt chis {pecies of little Worms is of che fame kind with chofe that(as Ariftotle writeth are the leaft fort of al Worms, and chac they breed in old Wax, and in Wood ; and in his fifth Book of the Hiftory of living Creatures, Chap.32. he cal- leth chem Acari. A Latine word chere is none other for it, unlefs we. chink good.cocal at Tinea 5 becaufe chat like as Garments are eaten by che moth; foare che hairs likewife by thefe Worms, being bred in. che haar,
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As Lice and other kind of Vermine have their certain matter out of which they are bred (all kind of Vermine being not generated from al kind of matter ) which cannot poffibly be known but by experience: even fo likewife this kind of fmal i Wormsisbred (as we have faid) in Wax, Ho-
i ney, old Cheefe, Cherries, and dried Prunes 5 as alfo in the hair of che Head, and oftentimes in the Beard. But withouc doubt they have cheir original from a certain excrementitious humor, that copether with che Aliment of the hair, pene- rraceth into the faid hairs; and chere being cherifh=- ed by che heat of the Head it converteth into little Worms, thac afterward fticking unto the hair ( for from whence they are generated from thence chey feek their noucifhment) they corrode the fame, fo chat they fal off piecemeal. |
Signs Diagnoftick.
This Affeét is fufficiently manifeft of ic felf- For the hairs are made fhorter, and unequal 5 fome of them being more, and fome lefs Cure gaild. Thefe lictle Worms ftick in che excremi- gies of the faid hairs and chere they from day to day corrode and decurtail chem: but whether or no they ftick likewife in che midft of che hairs,for this we muft Confulc che Sight, and take an exact view of she hairs chus affected. The color like- wife of chebaic (if ic be black) ischanged ; and by reafon of thofe licle Worms fticking unto them, it becometh (in fome certain places) as at were of the color of Afhes
The Proguoftick.
The truth is chat chis Affect hathin it no dan- geratall; andyec neverchelels ic caufech a very greacdeformity, andunfightlinefs, efpecially in
them being fhorcer, Beard ic felf feemecb foul, ‘This Affect is alfo hard co be cured.
The Cure.
Medicaments that Cleanfe away thefe {mall Worms 5 and chat digeft, and difcufs che matter from whence they are generated. Neither doth it feem from the purpofe, chat we purge che whol
humor mingled cogether with the alimenc of the hair. i Take of Broom one ounce,Myrrb iwo drams, ua Winegar as much as will fuffice 3 boyl it a litle; iq ee tbe bair be Cleanjed with the firaining. r,
Take Nettle feed pulverized; let it be macee rated in Vinegar, and the Lairs wel wet mith the Jame.
The Decoétion likewife of Fenugreek and Sca-
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the Beard, by making the hairs unequal; fome of] rinefs appearech in fome before their old age, and fome longer; and che} indeed before they arecome to be Men. fluctifh, and Nafty.| furchermore Hoarinels cometh on and appearech
body, fince chac chefe Worms arife from a vicious |
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bious made with Ley is very ufeful in chis Cafe 5 and fo are alfo Squils, with che Leaves of Myrcle and Sage boyledin Oy}. Or,
Take Garlick, Centaury the lefs, equal parts of both 5 boyl them in Vinegar 5 and add thereto theGallofaBull. Or, )
Take the greater Nettle; boyl it in Ley, and wafbtbe Head therewith. Or;
Take Southernmood, oot of Avens, and Wormwood; boyltbem in Vinegar and Spring Water, as much of the oue as the other, and les the hair be wafbed with the Decottion thereof.
Chap. 6. Of the Cleaving of the Hiair.
Nd fomtimes likewife the hairs on the Head, and inthe Beard, are cloven and divided 5 {o chac thofe chat before were fingle and buc one now feem and appear co be clefe inco two. Which Vice of che Hair happeneth without doubr from (ome fharp humor, cleaving the Hair in che ends ofthem. But now, fince thac chis Vice breedeth fome kind of deformity, it is herefore co be amen- ded. Which is done, if chat pare which remaineth be anoynted about the ends of chem wich che Gall ofa Bull and be afcerwards again wafhed with the Decoétion of the Capillary Herbs, Souchern- wood, the Reed, and che like.
Chap. 7, Of boarine/s in the Hlead |
and Beard.
Or a Man in old age to become grey and hoary
in his Head and Beard, isathing alcogether Natural: buc yee fomerimes neverchelefs ic fo ; happeneth, that immacurely, and overfoon, boa- yea
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leifurely and by degrees. Bucyetic isobferved, chat fame perfons have fuddenly and all on an Inftanc become white and
For the Cure hereof there will be need of thofe| hoary. Andcothis purpofe, Scaliger in his Ex-
ercitation 312. relatetha Hiftory of fomething chat happened under Francifcuws Gonzaga. This Gonzaga having committed and impuioned aneer Kiniman of his in a ftrong Caftle, upos fufpition of creachery inhim, thereby to réferve bim until he were queftioned and punifhed accor-
morning, that his Kinfman was fuddenly become all over whice and hoary. And che like we read in Lemnius in his fecond Book, Chap, 2. of Com= plexions : and in Hadrianus Funs iv bis Com- ment. upon che Hair: In Lycbvicus Vives his
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larech many Hiftories of fuch as fuddenly out of fear became gray and hoary 3 and fo doth Foban- nes Schenhius celace the like, in che ficft Book of his Obfecvar. And of chis kind of hoarinefs 1¢ 18 (chat comech immaturely and before its due time) that Lamhere inthis placetotreat- For this At- fect Cin cegard that ic both depriveth a man of his | Natural beauty, and likewife becokeneth chac the
health is not right, and as it ought co be ; it is cher-
fore not without good caufe made the fubject of the Phyficians caceand pains. As for chat gray~ ne{s, whicenefs, and boarinefs chat chanceth unto men and women in their old age, andis a Natural ornamenc of their old age, to endeavor to cover and hide this with fucuffes and other artificial paintings, is alcogether whorifh, and an Argument of a light, wanton, and luxurious mind.
The Caufes.
cicular humor.3 whereas Galen writes chat boarie
nefs proceedeth from the putridnefs of flegsn alone. And here ic is altogether more fafe, By flegm, co underftand any {imple crude humor, then flegm properly fo called 3 and that any crus dity racber chan that puicidnets only whica ts fo called, may bechecaule of hoarinefs. To Wits (that we may in a word or Cwo propound otic opinion couching this very thing in conrroveihe, of which others have fo largely difcoucled) feetng that che hairs (as we faid before) are not genera- ted and nourifhed from vapors, or excrements ele- vated inthe form and likenels of vapors, but raz ther from theblood, as a} other patts are, itis without al difpure, that che blood thac is genera~ ced in old age is noc fo {refh, flourifhing, and cem- peracte, as in youch 5 bucthac as che-body 1s now haftening coward death, focthe blood. alfa chac 1 therein bred is noching fo good as formerly 3
Ic isnot to be doubred thar natural hoarinefs | which iscleerly fhewn and manitefted even by the doth proceed from che change and alceration of | change and decay of that frefh and lively color of che cemperament Of che body, and che blood chac lthe body, and chat witheredneis chat befallech
nourifhech che batr. how ic cometh to pafsthat chere fhould be tom-
cimes {uch a change as this in che blood and ali- ment, in chofe chat are yet in their youth and greenyeers. Ariffotle (in his fifth Book: of the Generation of living Creacuces, Chap.5.) wri- teth, hac the Aliment that producech thefe white and hoary hairs (when it is noe concocted) dothrot and purrefie, and fo becometh a white hoarinefs; becaufe chat che filchy {notcinets of them being rotten is almoft whice. “And to he deduceth this hoarine(s from the defect of Native heac; which when it cannot concoct che humors, chefe humors being deferted by cheic natural heat arethen the more atcempted by an external and
advencitiousheat, and fo they become putrefied 5 |
from which putridnefs they are made white. Galen {eemeth to follow che opinion of Arifto- tle. when hetels us in his fecond Book of Tem- pecaments, Chap. 5. That che hairs are made whice, becaufe chat che alimenct whereby chey are nourifhed is as ic were che {not of flegm, which in {pace of time putrefiech. And that which Ariftotle calleth putridnels he cermech Situs, and we cal it filth, {nor, or {nivel : this being fuch a kind ofaffection as happenech unto Bread in che Dog daies, which we therefore call finnowed or hoary Bread.. And for chis caufe likewile it 1s (ashe wrntech) that menare more apt fo grow
hoary incheic Temples, becaufe chat the fore parc
of che head is (by réafon of ics drinefs) more prone to baldnefs ; but che Temples, by teafon of their humidity, and confequently upon the gene- rating of {not and filth from the putretying of the aforefaid humidity, are more apt and prone unco hoacinefs. The Opinion of Galen in chis one thing only feemeth co differ from chat of Arifto- tle, towit, That Ariftotle {peaketh only inthe general, without making mention of any one pat-
Buc here we are co enguice | men and womenin their old age, And thereto
we are not co wonder, that, (fleeing che blood char noutifhech che haic 1s now become fac worfe eban before) che color of che hair thould hkewile be changed ; neither chat the hairs (chat recain cheig own natural conformation and nutrition even un= tila mans death) fhould only from {ome filch and fnot (chat is wont co happen usco thole chings chac putrefie) fufferany fuch like ching as cbaé wenowspeak of. Bucnow chat in Vitiligo and Leuca this color is precernaturally changed, it 18 doubslefs from chis, That in the faid Affects there is not fupplied unco the haic{o good an alimeoty buttuch.as is full of excremencs, and efpecially Heamatick excrements. Buc in fuch as are hoary before cheic cime, 1m thefe no doubr there. is a fauic and {omthing amifs even in the very humors$ and ifnot inthe. whol body , yec.at leaft in che head andcemper of che brain, Nether is 1¢ im- poffible buc chac chefe who ace thus hoary in cheat youth or middle age may come co be thus affected, and co fuftec what we are now {peaking of, eicher by reafon of the Seed, or fome difpoficion in the Tefticles; and we have already told you before, chat evermore the Seed and che Tefticles do make very much in the change of the color of the hair, And again, fince that the Pallions and Affects of chemind (efpecially feac andcerror) may pof- fibly effect fuch notable changes in the humors, and thac they may likewile greatly affect che brain; icis therefore no wonder that in a {hore time hoarinefs fhould be produced from tha change chat ismadein the humors. For tf from a {ma! Cloud,or the Air, or a hurtful Wind blow. ing upon Trees, the color of their Leaves may be changed, andthe Leaves may chereupon wither,
Che Tree it felf, and ocher pacts thereof remain-
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che vapor of Hydrarge, do our beft endeavor chat pood blood may beiprd- Srrnsad ck duced in che whol body (and efpecially in:the ens iagnoftic : head) chat may fupply untothe hair a godd and The change of the color of the hair into whice- | fic aliments and withal the vitious humors Cit nefs or hoarimefs is fufficiently manifeft of it elf; | there are any fuch prefenc) areco be evaciiated. neither is there any need of figns co difcover ir.|Neither ought the particular evacuation of the And if in the declining age the hair grow hoary, ic | head (by Sternucatoriesand Ecrhities) to be ormit- isno more than what is natural; and chis change| ced. And after this we are to malze life of thofe is made but flowly, ascoming by degrees, as ape | Medicaments chat firengthen the Native heat of encreafeth. Bus ifthis happen before old age, al-| the body, and more e{pecially che brains ton- choughitbebut flowly, yee ic is preternatural ;| ching which we have already {poken in their pro- but it is much more preternatural,if amanor wo- per place, er man become hoary al on a fudden. The Arabians commend this Gonfeétion :
Take of the black Myrobalans without theiv Pr agnofticks . Kernels five ounces, Ginger, Ammi;, (or Bi- 1. That hoarinefs thacis natural (as happen- fbops-weed_) of each ten drams + let thera be ing in old age) canno way be amended; as nei- tbroughly moiftened with Buiter ; and then'add cher likewife can the witherednefsin old age: yea| Sugar of Penidies to the quantity of the one balf: indeed it oug ot not fo much as to be atcempred by give often of this Medicament one drain. the Phyfician 5 fince char che hoary head is rather .. .. Lopicks. an ornament unto thoie chat are old, chan any| As for what concerneth Topicks, Galen indeed : ching of which they fhould be afhamed. ( 1n his firft Book of the Compofition of Medica~ ae a] 2 But that whichis precernatural, as it ought | ments according to the places, Chap. 3.) pros f ar a tobecorrected (in repard chat ic fignifiech {ome | poundeth Medicaments that are hot; and of thin Ds eee Kind of pretecnatura] affect and vitious difpofiti- parts, when he had a purpofe to difcufs aid (eir- | by Hla on ( in the brain more efpecially) fo it alo may | ter the {norty filth, and co dry Up the fuperfluoiis Pe ie! he be amended ; fince chat if che faid vitious difpofi- | humidicies in the skin, But unlefs that there af= ee a tion be amended, the color of che hair wil likewife | cerward flow thereco fuch a like alimenc chat may if) ae bechanged. .., | 9842n generate hair of the Narural color, fuch Me- ant 3- That hoarinefs chat is from che Vitiligo (a| dicaments as thefe wil avail but lictle. Others LH kind of Leprofie) is upon the curing of the faid| thereare therefore that make ufe only of chofe iu! . Difeafe likewife amended, Medicaments that dye and make black the hair. In doing of which notwichftanding we are well to Ihe Cure. heed and weigh whac honefty Pi allow of; and The hoarinefs that is incident unto old age (as| withal we are to cake heed chat by nomieans we we have already cold you) cannot any waies be a- bring any hure untothe Brain. For thele Medi- mended 5 neither indeed ought ic co be palliated | caments that make black having moft of chem an and hid with any artificial focus 3 and bechae thal aftringént power, and being withal cold, are very attempt any fuch thing may defervedly be laughed apt Co produce the Apoplexy, Epilepfie, deep at; touching whom Martial Cin the fifth Book| and profound fleep, Catarrhs, and ehe like Malae of his Epigrams ) thus: dies; and this Galen tels us he hath feen and ob- ferved to befal fome certain Women in bis Thou feemft, Lentinus, by thy dy’d bairs young | time. again, But now among thefe like Medicamencs, Gales And foon art made a Crow that waft erewhile preferreth Cadmia ot Brafs Oar, before al the o-- @ Swan. ther 5 tn regard chat by chis Medicament the hairs Gboucanft not al deceive, for Proferpine me] | are made black, che rotrenne(s and filthy {not ‘is
knows difcuffed, and the i) difpofition of the head amen- Ehy boary head; ad wil difcover thy falfe|ced, The Oy] of Coftus is alfo commended,and jbews. fo 1s che Oy! of Colequincida,or bitcer Gourd, of
( Nightfhade, and of Muftard feed. |
Buc that hoarinefs thar is caufed by Vitiligo| Some few hours after che anointing, let the head and Alpbus is taken away upon the removal of| be waftied with a Ley of the afhes of Beans, Nut- thefaid Diteafes 5 atid efpecially if Medicaments thels, in which Litharge bath been boyled ; ‘or pein that prolong the hair be adminiftred, For sii: with a Ley in which che Pulp of Colcquintida ae wen (fo
hoacinefs cheeaten, or fuddenly invade any pete | ficft Pertocbe) wriceth, to wit, That che bairs| fon (whether man or woman) the becterco.pre- | have tudidenly been turned white and hoary by | fervefromic, ad tocure i¢ if pretenr, we matt |
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(fo much commended by al) hath been boyled. | There is likewile commended the Oy! of wild Olives, Myrobalans of al the forts (which are faid roretard and hinder hoarinefs, both inwardly ca- ken, and outwardly applied ) Gals, Acacia, Fe- nugreek, Henbane feed, Ladanum, the juyce of Walnut thels while chey are green, the Leaves of Capars, and likewife the Roots of them, boyled
With Milk, mafhed, and then in che form of a Ca- |
taplafm applied fora nights time 3 the rind of che holm root boyled unto a foftnefs, and impoted ; Sage, and Copperas.
Sanaa SS ee
Head and Beuril, Ue ee ae
eerste
the
robalans have been boyled. And Avicen writeth that if Cloves be added unto chefe’kind of Medi« caments, they wil fufficiently dye the hairs, and prevenc che Brains being hure by che Tincture; Or,
Take Leaves of the Vine, and the Rinds of thé Vine Roots, and Parietary: Boyl them in Wa- ter, and afterwards add Allum, Galls, and Vi- trioks and fo mingletbem. Or,
Take Green Nutsin the month of June, and bruifetbem {mals and mingle therewith Allum balf a pound; andina new pot pour inunto
Now chefe kind of Medicaments areco be con~| thei of Oyl three pints , and lettbem fiand di-
cinued; and albeic they appear not to do any | good at once or twice ufing, yee neverthelefs we | are not to defift from che uleof them, buc we are | ftil co perfevere, and continue in the fame. Tou- | ching thefe kind of Tinétures, this is likewife co | be caken notice of, Thac if you wil have them fta- ble and lafting, it wil be very ficchat a Lonon. of che head be premifed, that is made with fuch a like Decottion that both giveth a beginning unto the Tincture, and chac likewife cavfeth chat tt conti- nue firm 3 likeas Cloch- Dyers when they intend to dye a piece of black Cloth, they firft put upon ita red color with Madder, or a Sky color wich Woad. Andtherefore lec che hairs that are tobe dyed be firft wafhed witha Ley in which Roch Alum hath been diffolved. And in the choyce of
fuch like Medicaments may bechofenchac are no waies unpleafing in cheic {mel, but rather fuch as are {weet and pleafant.
This following is found co be fure.and cercain, | and by much ufe approved of.
Take Ley balf a pint, boy! in it Litharge of In chis Decoction tec a Spunge be wel wer, and lec che hoary hairs be throughly moiftened wich che faid Decottion, by the {pace of a quarter of an hour in a warm place. And then lec che head whiles ic is wet be forchwith covered for one hour with a Linen Cloth: and afcecwards lecche hair and che head be wafhed with a fimple Ley, afd not wich chat which is o- verftrong : and this is to. be done twice a week,
He writeth that the Mercurial Medicament char | followecth wil wichin one month (and often tn lefs time alfo) make black a] the hair.
Take black Myrobalans one ounce, black Rat- fins tooo ounces aftringent Wine three pints ; boyl them in a double Veffel by a gentle fire; to the | confumption of two thirds, then add of the quyce of green Walnut Rinds balf a pound, Su- mach and Acacia, of each one ounce, Cloves one ‘ounce and balf , ‘Muskone feruple: boyl them a~ gaininadouble Veffel for balf a.day.. Let che
| hairs be anoinced wich this Medicamenc about
night, and chen lec che head becovered, with a black woollen cloth : and in che morning follow- ing let x be wathed wich Wine in which black My-
gefiing twenty dates; let them be aftervoards ftrained, and the bead anointed with the Oyl. Or, ;
Take ihe Coloquintida Apple; make a bole throughit, and take forth the feeds, and fillitup with Oyl of Bayes and the feed of Henbanes let ihem ftand for one whol night, and then let the Oyl be preffed forth, with the which the bair may be anointed. Or,
Take of Ley five meafures, Litharge ttoo ounces Sage leaves two handfuls; boy! them to the con{umption of the fourth part, and make a Lotion for the bead. | Or, ih
Take Tartar one ounce, Litbarge balf an ounce, Fuyce of Sage as much as wil fuffices minele them ina Leaden “Mortar, and make an Unguent; wich which Cufing ic with a Leaden Comb) lec the hairs be anointed. But here co add any more Medicaments is not worth the while, in regard that there ace many more of them every where excant.
But now thefe Medicaments that make black che haic are not only made ufe of for the covering and hiding of hoarinefs; but in out Germany a black color of the hair 1s greatly defired and endeavored after by fome certain of our noble Virgins 5 eicher chat they may feem cto have fomwhac Exotick, ftrange, and forreign ; or elfe chat they may be differenced from the vulgac and Plebeian young Maidens, unto whom che yellow or golden colos of che hair is moft acceptable,and in moft accounc. And thus every one hath fomching or other fair in his own eye,and high 1n his own accouns,alchough not foin anothers. And therefore chefe Virgins feem come to do guft as chat Blackmoor did cha¢ lived in che Coure of a cectain German Prince, who often feeing in che Womens Ward a white Virgin, and withala black Whelp, he would cel the Virgin chac fhe was not fair and beautiful but rather chac che black Whelp was beautiful and fair; and fo (as Fulivs Cafar Scaliger faich)
Black feems moft fair To thofe tVat are. | what things
| they ave thaé make the basi
Bue more right is the Judgment of che other Virgins, chat feek and
endeavor after a yellow or golden | yellow,
By color ij
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RP its i call ge atte: color ofthe hair. Nowchis yellow color of the, lair may be gained, if che hairs be wafhed, aud \
Of Prattical Physick.
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Vikewife their Hair-laces wel wer in thar Water or |
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Pare KLEE
Signs Diagnoftick. The Affect ic felf sufficiently. manifefteth
Ley in which che flowers of Broom, or of the) and difcovereth it felf when the Head is Sccatchry
yellowith Mullein, of the Citron-color’d Stachas
Fuub’d, or Gomb’d ;, for thenehere fal. down cer=
or Caflidony of Camomile, Citron rind, che Cow- | tatn {mal fcales refembling Bran.
cumber root,and che root of Gentian, have been infufed. And likewife Lupines boyled in, Wa- ter make the bair vellow; andfo alfo doth the Warer andOylof Honey. And they commonly fikewife ule ( forehe Combing of che hair) che Ley tharis made cf the Afhes of Vine fhoots 5 which wil be fomewhat more efficacious, if there be infufed therein che Leaves of Citrine Stachas, or of Mullen. Butchereare more of chele like Medicaments every where to be found.
Chap. 8. Of the Scurfine/s, and Dandriff of the Elead.
Either are we here co pafs over chofe Vices, which indeed happen not unto the hairs
and yet neverthelefs they are about the hair and in the Skin that is covered wich hair, and wherein 1¢ proweth 3 and of this fort are Phrbiriafis oc the Loufie Evil, and Furfuratio Scarf and Dandriff,
The Prognoftick.
This Affect hath no danger ac all Joyned with
it; yeaby fome itis accounted for a very good Sign of a found Brain, expelling and driving forth the excrements fromitfelf; and yet nevercthelefs it caufeth fome kind of deformity and much trou-
ble. The Cure.
The vicious humors if they abound in the body are co be evacuated, and-carecaken thar chey may no more be generated.
Butunto the Head ic felf Difcuffive Medica ments are to be adminiftred. There are fome liKe= wife that therewith mingle fome certain Afirin- gents, chat the parc affected may be frengthened, left chat iceafily receivethe humor chat floweth thereunto. Buttheniciscobefeared, left cthac che cranfpiration inthe Head be hindred, and the excrements therein contained excite far worfe and
like unto Brat. But having already fpoken couche | more grievous Maladies.
ing Pbibiriafis, w the fourch Book of the Difeae | Ic now remaineth chat |Compofic. of Medicaments according to the pla--
fes of Infants, Chap. §-
And thereforeas Galen in his firft Book of the
wetreat of the Furfuratio, or the Dandrif of the (ces, Chap. 5. ceacheth us, the Head is co be wafh-
Head, Beard, and Eyebrows.
This Furfuratio’ Cwhich the Greeks cal‘Pityriafis and which is by che Latines called likewife Porrigo) isan Affect, wherein when there is any {cratching there falleth down outof the Skin of che Head fomeching very like unto Bran; and indeed moft ufually from the Skin that is under the very hairs chemfelves's and fometimes alfo fromthe Beard, and che Eyebrows.
The Caujfes.
The Caufe of this Affect are bumors chat are ferous or wheyifh,and alfo Ichores or thin Excre- ments Cnot only fuch as are flegmacick, but fuch as are Cholerick alfo) elevaced unto che Head cogether with thac humor thac yieldeth and fup- plieth matcer unto thehairs; and hence ic as ‘chat chis furfuration or {curfinefs doth appear only tn chofe'placés of the head that have haic upon them: for this macter feeking’a paffage forth’chrough che Pores of the Skin, the ehinner ‘pares of them are difcuffed, “buc the more thick and Clammy ‘parts ftick in the Skin 8& about che hairs, and there they pafs inco a matterthatis hkeyneoBran,or Scales. The anrecedent Gatiles “ate allthofe that may a-
Scurf and | Dandrif. |
ed with the Decottion of Fenugreek, the Juyce of Beets,and Nicre. Or elfe it 1s to be Cleanied wich che Decoction of Melon Seed, the meal of Cicers, Lupines, and Beans. Or elle let it be wafhed with the Decoction of Cicers and Melons, adding thereto a little Vinegar. When che Head
is wafhing, in fread of Soap, bitcer Almonds bruil-
ed may be made u(e of. Ifthe Malady beconfirmed, and wil not yield, lecehe Head be firft wafhed with che Medicaments
but juft now mentioned ; and after this lec 1c be |
rub‘d with a courfe Cloth,and then anoynted with chis following Unguenr.
Take Green Hyffop, Ducks fat, of each half an ounce; the pulp of Coloquintida,Oleum Chei- rinum Corthe Oyl of Wall-flowers) of each one ourice 5 Lbapfiatwo drams, Ladanum two oun- cer; and make an‘Unguent.
Ox elfe Jec'the Head be -wafhed with the Deco- ction of Beets, and thedeffer Centaury, adding chierero Vinegar and| Honey. Or,
a yi in! jg
Ch | A
ove 10 1M igelels 0 i, then) all Miche pvt 5 19, a Cu | an, wi fap wero . fics 1 BD ceined, (0
ped by Int cies refechs, Ili zo imp tougté Wate ket i ThsD /Mpidecia) jp fuch hae jee, and | jts of Pa [aitocy be jars, the miteth D. ibe Unive
| ibetoric
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‘Take Marfbmallow roots, the Leaves of Beets |
of each onebandful, Pulp of Coloquintida half amounce,‘Nutretwo drams,; boyl allin a fujfici entiquantity of Water, to the Confumption of the fouribipart; \andiin the end add of Wine one
ny way generate chefe ferous kumors in the Head. | pent.
Bit now che mater is ‘attracted ‘and drawn: unco the Head, in thofe efpecially thac ‘have*a ‘hor Brains
Afcer'the Wafhing lec che Head be anoynted |
wich the following Unguenc.
Take Copperas, andthe Gall of a Bull, of each |
one
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Chap. 9:
one dram an
two drams 5 shemover agentle fire, and adding thereto a fuffi-
‘ent quantity of Wax, make a foft Unguent. hte may ets of thefe Medicamentsin che place before alleadged out of Galen, and like- wife in Paulus Aegineta, and Alexander Tral-
lianus.
Chap. 9: Of Plica Polonica.
Of Plica Polonica.
d balf 5 Nitre and Sulpbur, of each | writing unto you was given me by the Novelty of. Oyl of Roles two ounces; Mingle} a Difeafe amongus, and the extream difficulty of
Curing thereof. ‘My requeft is, that you the moft Eminent Profeffors of the Univerfity of Padua would botb please toread this my Epifile, accord ing to your wonted Gandor and Courtefie ; and
| lakeroife voben you have read the fame, that yout
would voucbfafe friendly to write back unto mé your Advice and Fudgment 3 of what nature and
| quality you concerve the Difeafe to be, wbat Pre-
cepts you think fit to be givzn touching the fame,
Nd laftly, among the Vices of the hairy we| what kind of Medicaments you Fudg moft expedt-
mutt not in filence pafsover chat which al- | ent for the removing of the fame. Tbe Cafefiands
houeh indeed not known inall places, yec nevet~ chelet may very wel be accounted the chief of
themall. Iriscalled Plica, to wit, ‘becaufe chat
{thus : Betwixt Hungaciaand Pocuuum (4 Pro~
vince of the Kindo of. Polonia.) vbich are di-
i frenguifbed tbe one from the other by Mountains 5.
anit che hairs are wholly entangled one within a= | out of which there break forth divers Rivers, it
nother ; and by the Polonians
Guvodgicc, that fo bappened, that very many both ‘Men and. Wo
is. a Club; and by che Roxolani it is cermed Kol | men bad one or two Locks growing forth on their 3
tun, which fignifie all Poft ech o is alfo by fome called Helotss. O-
thers call ic che Difeafe of che Locks; the Germans Wichtelzopffe, becaufe they fuperfticioufly con- ceived, thacfuch li : ed by Infanrs dying unbapt r chefe| RAicents were called Wichteln ) as likewife, Ma- reuflecht, Marenwirckeng, Marenlocht, Scbrot-
slin(zopffe , Indlexoppffe, becaufe they were Bee ca knic andtwifted by fome Incubus
inthe likene(sofaJew.
This Difea(e is very familiar, and as it were E- pidemical, efpecially unto the Polontans ; info- much chac Neceflity enforcech them Co ask thead-
i e Phyfaci-| vice, and co implore che affiftance of the Phyfic-|
| Entangled Locks be foaven off, that bumor and
| the poyfon thereof fheds forth into the body, and
ans of Padua. 1 had rather therefore give you the Hiftory hereof, in the very words of thele Pbyii- tians, chenin mine own. Now cheretfore thus
cha hiccle Stake or {mall Poft; ‘Heads, enivoifted and inf oided within themfelves
inwardly, and entangled together vith the ‘batrs nigh unto them, the Lockbereby becoming exceed ing very. thick: andthen indeed it was nothing
ke Locks of hair were encwilt-| at alltroublefom. But nov this fame Difeafe ized (for thefeby the| bath begun to Creep furtber, and fleeth up and
down throughout the whole Kingdom of Poloniay to the great difquiet and torment of all forts of People. lt infringeth the Bones 5 loofeneti the Limbs 5, infefteth the Vercebrx of the Limbs 5 maketh the members round like a Globe, and voritbeth them back; 18 caufeth them thai are af
fetted theremith to bunchout 3 1t pouretb forth ! Lice, and fo fiileth the Head with fre{h fupplies of
thefe faid Lice following one after tbe other, that it can byno means be freed of them. If thefe
writech D. Laurentivs Starnigelins ( Rector of | then (as we wroie before.) extreamly tortureth the Univerfiry of Zamofcium, and Proleffor of |*he herfons.thus affetted ; 11 difquieteth and trou-
Rhetorick ) unco the Phyfitians Profeffors of che Univerficy of Padua, the laft day of October, in
the yeer 1599.
Excellent and Worthy Sirs, our
bleth the Head, Feet, Hands, all tbe Limbs, alk the Foynts,and in a wordgall the parts of the bo- dy. Andit is found by experience, tbat fuch as have fbaven off thefe bundles of bairs fo clofely entrwifted mitbin themfeluers that thefe have foon after been taken in their Byes 3 or elfe bave been
moft dear and greatly to be moft erievoufly tortured with Defluxions unto
re{pedted Friends;
i regard of that neer and Intimate acquain- tance that we gaine ,
and abode in the loweft Sarmatia ) with you moft Excellent and Noble Dottors, by reafon of that common bond and tie vobich the beft of Arts bad knit betvoeen ws and your Excellencies; I the Rettor of the lately eretted Univerfity at. Zamo- ferum beld my felf bound to vorite unto you Cmy Noble and ever bonored Priends, famous indeed and renowned, not only by the antiquity and emt-
‘t| nency of the molt Noble Univerfity of Padua, but
alfo far more enabled and. dignified by your Learning and Pratife. The Caujeof this. my
the other parts of the body. If we.aitemptto Curé tbe Party. by the ufual-purging Medicaments the affetted Perfon is the worfe for them 5. and the
dC during our Converfe | tormenting pain rageth fo much the more 5 becaufe
that the {aid purgation 4s not able to mafter and expel the Noxtous offenfive bumors but only ftirs |tbem abroad, and thereby {catteretb and difper{= etb them throughout bbe whole body: for (after purging.) thofe that areafflited with thi Peft are fo exceedingly tormented with a burning pain of all ibeir Members, tat nothing can poffibly be added unto the fharpnefs & bitterneS of the Tor- ture. Women for the moft part are taken berewitbh; and likevoife thofe men that are inclined unto the French Difeafe, as alfo the Children begotten by ki 2 . sheng
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them that are infetted with the faid Difea(e :
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Of Prattical Phyfick.
Parc 1Eh;
and thofe likewife who by Reperculjive Medica ments bave driven back and repreffed the Porrigo of thebead (wbichthe vulear cal Tinea:) and moreover, fuch Women as in the time of their Monthly Courfes are not (sufficiently purged. Of wbich Women {ome of them there have been that in their young and moft vigorous age, baving bad no more than a {hevo of their Courfes, but witbal an extraordinary flux of blood from the Nofe, thefein their declining age (this flux at the Nofe ceafing ) have fallen into this very difeafe of the intangled Locks. Some there bave been (though wery fer) mbo baving been for (ome yeers tortu- red and afflitted with this kind of Difeafe, and not at al fhaven their beads ; and bavingunder- gone althe vexation, naftinef, and filthy defor mity of this difeafe (not without extraordinary great trouble, and a inoft intolerable naufeouf- nes) bave at length recovered, upon the falling off of thefe virulent intangled Locks, but yet ne- verthelefs the greateft part of them perifhed. ‘Ma- ny kinds of ‘Medicaments bave been fought for;
‘Many there bave been whoa (as the firfi Authors and Inventors of various Medicines) live yet even unto this very day in perpetual.praife 5 the glory and renown of this Medicine found, out by your excellent and magnifique Wifdoms, fhal be properly your oven, {bal make you famous, and Shab for ever flourifh in fucceeding.ages. Lex. pe from you your moft friendly and courteous Anfocer: but if [bavenot fufficiently (neither
quifite) expreffed the quality and condition of this Difeafe,. I defive of your Excellencies, that you voowld berein excufe me, a man rbolly con- verfantin another kind of Art. Lbave prefen- ted you with acertain Adumbration of ibn Vif-
eafe, andin a manner fhadowed fort unto you
this Malady; the:more interior Nature and hidden parts thereof your excellent Wifdoms by the foarp and quick fight of your knovelede will eafily {earch into, and contemplate. I bid’ your. Bxcellencies beartily farewel: Brom Zamolei- um, this lajt day of the month of October, in the Yeer. one tboufand five hundred ninety nine.
and made trial of , but as yet there bath been found none that would effete the Cure. The force likervife and nature of the Difeafe: and the
caufetbereof, bave been fought for, but as yet
there indeed appeareth nothing of certainty, tou-
ching what we bave fought for. The Country
Boors give out that they bave found great relief by carrying tied about them an Urchin pulled in
pieces; and for the total abolition of the faid af-
fect , they make themfelves a meat of the fatd Ur-
chin it felf , but yet we find that even in this there 7s not any thing much available. ‘They further-
more provide themfelves of a Decottion made of the Leaves of Bears-breech, with the which peben they wafb their beads, the locks we mentio~ ned before break forth, and withal great fiore of Lice. This Affett communicates with that fu- liginous and footy exbalation out of wbich the hairs are bred; and it feemeth to bave fome affi- nity with ibe affect Tinea; and by. its excrucia- ting and racking the bones with the French pox 5 by the great abundance of Lice,with the Phrhiria- fis; bythe pain of the Foynts, mith the Gout Ar- thricis ; and by the miférable contrattion of the Members tbat it caufeth, 1. feems'to bave fome neer alliance vith the Spafin. ‘That T-may. add no more (moft worthy and renowned Profeffors) your Excellencies wel'skilPd, and moft expert in this kind of Art, wil eaffly collet, bovo neceffary this deliberation is, and vith bow grent a benefit yout foal oblige unto you tbe whol moft vaft King- dom of Polonia, when 'by your deep Wifdoms and Skill you fhalb have difcqvered and found out a prefent Remedy for ths hind ‘of ‘Peftilent Mala- dy, with the which it is generally vexed and dif- quieted in amoft violent manner, and voben you bave found out an ex pedient Remedy, if you then pleafe to communicate it unto us by your Letters. (
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And yet notwirbftanding there are others hac tel us how chat chis Difeate is very common and familiar even in other Regions alfo.. For in the Obfervations of Scbenckiws we may likewile tee, thac chis Difeafe was knownalfo yato the Brif- got, and Alfatians. For thus Schenckius wrivech in che firft Book of his Medicinal Obfervagrons, Obfervat. 13. There w (faith he) voith us at this day to be obferved acertain moft borrid, yn- combed, and moft intricate kind of bairie Tufts, both in the bead and beard, no whit fhrange and unufual unto ours; but altogether unknown unr to the Ancient Phyfitians of former times, in vobat Age foever they lived: mith which fuck as are affetted, you may. fee them bave banging down’ (from the reft of the hair of their bead and beard.) even unto the fboulders, breaft, and fame times alfo even into the very Navel, very long iufts and bufhes of bair, wonderfully intricate,
oftentimes a finger. thick, exceeding dreadful to look upon, and much refembling the Gorgons bead. in a flovenelike .and vegardlef fafhion, for fome fuperftitious ends inducing them thereunto; nei» ther vail they at al fuffer it to be cut, neither aba ny time to beparted and fevered with the Comb, being altogether perfooaded that the moft grievous
Fomentevs of the difeafes of thebead (thatisto | ‘fay, the matter of the Apoplexy, PalfiesMadneff, |
‘and efpecially the pertinacious Cepbalalgie, and “the Itke Difeafes). are vobolly, or at leaftin greab ‘part confumed in nour ifbing thefe tufts of baire “And thus being lead either by Superftition, or the Tong and exatt obfervation of otber'men, they vik ‘admit of anything, raiber than the kembing or
cutting fhort of thefe bufby locks of hairy a9 a | thing altogether ominous anddeadly ; and bas |
ving
yet in fit and proper words, and {uch as mere re- ,
Which tufts of bair they fuffer to grow \I
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wot yf Hh i wit wit fi rut ye | gle wn ja D0 inna a he even Lp) & | if if | wild ne yl y | a (Bienmds Vii frange 1h bat bebo japlonblies, jond at Bring ft Him (one cert | panne Vib oping th |e patconti | iif th (aay thus a ) Whe difea ad fome ead, | in conoin Via excee [aa at pre Pais ind cine wy bat Lin We Semin ceo Pi mean as ay | Apered Op ofthe Be Carey Pe afr Hit ofthe U6 frou, Mayet ) we own Ho alth 1) Tatty ner |
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getber under fomthing they purpofely wear upon their breajts_) that fo they may not be feen. But there are likewife others of them, who Calibough
.it be even inthe publique Affemblies ) cannot
poffibly conceal thefe monfbrous and deformed bufbes of matted and intangled hair, if they would never fofain; neither would they, if they could, Sothatit is athing fowel fetled and re-
| folved on (without the leaft doubt or fcruple) in Kl} the minds both of thofe tbat wear thefe borrid and
nda firange intangled locks, and likewife of al thofe
that bebold them, that even in their publick, Af~
| femblies, without any the leaft fhame or diferace,
and as a thing altogether neceffary for the fuftai-
| ning of life, they expofetbem to openview, And
ik it) fome certain of them there are (as we have alrea- itt |) dy told you) that during their vebo! life doin this
aC be Biths Bl sw syed .
a yalons thas "40, WN
sie OF » {Hcl a } banging ead aid fr and tse ery Log mae) |
q | t0 gro | pr (one | ie | her OER be Goh : ori | shyt a ‘Mada a oil
id of Hal y, or ih | they nD yung (ty OH ih . nt |
| manner nourifh and cherifh thefe their ugly locks,
hoping that thereby they may poffebly be preferved
| from al otber dangerous and difficult difeafes
that continually threatentbem, The vulgar like- wife, if they chance to light into the company of any thus affetted, they then prefently fufpett them to be difeajed with fome bidden, undifcernable, and fome one or other difficult Malady of \tbe bead. Inwhich thing whether thetr Superftiti- on convince their Experience, or their “Experi- ence exceed and {urpafs their Superflition, 1 wil not at prefent trouble my {elf toyudg thereof. One by thie indeed I concezve fit to tel you, That as I incline very much unto tbe vulgar Opinion; fo (that I may conceal notbing ) 1 think allo, that the Seminary of thefe kind of Difeafes is not from thence fo much argued as nowrifhed, and that by this means it may be prevented that they invade not; as we are likemife furtberitauebt by the re- cerved Opinion of Phyfitians, touching the Cau- fer of the generation of Hair, the Events, and the Cures 5 there accrewing alfo (for our fur- ther affurance) the common and conftant attefta- tion of thevulgar, and which at tbis day paffetb Cas frombandtoband.) among them. I bave not as yet found that this vice of thebair is (uffi- ciently known unto otber the Europeans 3 neitber w#ithnown in tbe mofk parts of Germany: but “nto althe Brifgoi, Alfatians, Durch, and in ma- ny Trattés neer unto the River Rhine, it i ina manner Epidemical; and generally wel known likewife unto the people where I live. knew here above thirty Citizens ¢ of vobom fome are even yet living ) that were famous and re- markable for this kind of bair. The common people cal it Macenfletcht, Maren wiirkung, vind Schrotthin{zopft, as if we fhould fay, The con- torfions or yoritbings of the bairs, or the locks,
I my felf \and) writhed Harr,
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Of Plica Polonica.
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As for Hiftories, chere aretwothatin {pecial he ceckonethup, the one out of Foban. Stadle= rus,a Phyf{ician; che other out of Moccias ; and both of chem he relacech in their-own words: The firftasthis. Thor bringeft unto my remeni- brance thag noble perfon Ca{parus of Horfteims ‘Brotber unto tbe Gommendator Sigifraund in Al-
| facia, and Provincialin Burgundy, lately decea- fed; wbom voben the Commendator on 4 time fharply reprebended by reaforn of bis uncombed, | writhed, and intangled beard, which Chorrid and frightful ds it was) be ware before him; and withal tbreaining to remove bim from bis Table | €aman of about fifty yeers of age) unlef be mould | cut it off; bethen anfiwered, that be would more voillingly be deprived of bis Diet, and freely de- | part the Court, rather than want bis intangled | and altogetber Gorgonean Beard. This bappe- ned in the yeer of Chrifk 1564. wbenfrom Frc burg I ment to Alichufa for fear of the Plagues Thus much out of Stadlerus. | > The ochec Hiftory is thus relared: Of late | (faith Moccius) onerafbly cutting off thefé Locks of an old vooman, fhe died poithin tbe {pace of three daiese For they cry uptbis as a thing | very fatal, even unto fuch oftentimes as for want of goodadvice have frivoloufly been burt: al- though there are likewife {ome that telus another tale. or we know the man who was wel ac~ quainted with a certain Countef, that baving fuch a monflrous head of bair would often catfé it to be cut, even unto the neck. This ott of ‘Moccims 3 and chus tar Schenckius. ae [have beard from a certain Gaprain of Horley (hac this Malady is likkewife nor unknown unto the ‘Hungarians; and that in: Hungary nos only | Men, bucevenche Horfes alfo are fubjeé unc | chiskind of Difeafe 5 and chat he himfelé brougtit | out of Hungary.as far as Drée(da a Hore that bad fuch a Plica or intangled Lock of Hair, hanging | down unto the very feet. Unco che aforefaid Epiftle of the Rector of thé Univerfity of Zamofcium, Hercules Saxonia | anfwerethinea peculiar Book, which he entitu \leth, dePlica, or, of the monftrotis intangled Fobannes Thoma Ming=
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'dous hath likewife they had at Padua (crouching chis fad Affeey oni the 15. of the Calends of January, in the yeet '1599. and he infcribech ic, de Helotide. ’ Rode |ricus a Ponjeca hath publithed likewifea Con? fultation touching chis fame Difeafes the which
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Confulc. 1. Al’which are co be {een in chefe be- forementioned Authors. Buc now whether or no the Polonians received any confiderable bene- fic by chefe Confulrations of the Icalians, J Jeave itunto themfelvesto judg, 1 chink chat to be a very Ingenuous Confeflion, which that moft emi- nent and famous mao Dr. Fobannes Prevotius, principal Profeffor of Phyfick in che Univerfity of Padua maketh in chat Leccer of Advice and Counfel which he wrore unto the Hluftrious and moft generous Lord, Nicolaus Sapieba chief Scandard-bearer unto tbe greac Dukedom of Li- tuania, and Earl of Coden, &c. (1 fhalanon give youcbe whol Letcer ac large) where he thus writreth: The Nature of this foyfon (faith he) #s altogether unknown 3 fo that (as itfeems to me) it woas truly [poken by tbat illuftrious perfon, who faid in my hearing, that the Boors inhabiting within bis Territories bad found out more of the original of this Plica, the progref’ and the Cure thereof ,than any of thofe Authors that bad writ- ten concerningit, of wbich there bath been never @ one of them that as yet bath bad the fortune to reftore unto perfett bealth any one that bath been affittted with the {aid Plica. The Phyfick Pro- feffors of Padua have indeed made trial chere of very many Remedies, butalcono purpofe. The fame aforelaid Noble perfon ( Counc of Coden) himfelf cold me, thatacertain Padua Phytitian snduced chereunto (as ic were) by the fignature & fhape of the Difeafe ( for they chat are affected wich che crue and perfect Plica feem ina manner to have Serpents hanging down from their heads, and as it were the head of the Monfter Gorgon) ptefcribed him fome Vipers to eat, buc wichour any fuccefsat a]. Andchat another of them had provided him a Pfilothtum Oynrment co ufe in- ftead of the ufual Ley, per{wading him to conde- fcend unto the cuccing off of his hair, promifing
him amareificial covering for bis bead; buc chat be-
ing advifed coche contrary by a German (a ftu- dene in Phyfick) unto whom this Difeafe was not alcogether unknown, and one who wel un- derftocd: the danger chat was like co follow upon the rooting out al his hair, he therefore refufed ic. Buc alchough I dare nor acrogate untomy felf a perfect knowledg of this Difeafe 5 andalbeic thac in: no cafe we cannot atcain unto the perfect and exact knowledge of Difeafes thac depend upon an occult and fecret Caufe; yer neverchelefs whac ] know couching the Nature of this Difeafe ( by means of my converfe with che Noble Earl betore menticned,who was afflicted therewith) and what I-conceive couching the Caufe thereof, I wil here briefly acquaince you witb, that in fo doing Imay give afucther occalion and encouragemenc unto {uch as'live in chofe Regions where this Dif- eafe iscommonly and familiarly known, to pub- lift w hat is come co cheir knowledg touching this Difeafe.
Ic feems nor to me co be any new Difeafe. For alchough ic bath hitherto been unknown unro the people of Italy, and moft ofthe European Regi- : ons; yet neverthelefs, I fee no reafon ac al, why ic fhould’not be common and frequent in ‘Polonia mariy Ages paft as wel as now 3 tince that the cau- festhac produce che fame at thisday might then be prefenc as welas now; only thac there were then wanting Phyfitians that might inquire into, and acquaint us with what they knew touching the Narurce of this Difeafe.
Now as for che Nacure of it, we are ficft to take notice of this; to wit, thac this Difeafe (as for what concerns the name thereof) is known indeed from the incricatenefs and intangling of the hairs : yet nocwithftanding thac che faid Plica is only
fomwhat chac is Cricical as it were, arifing fromé |!
che expulfion of che vitious matter out of the bo- . dys and chat the faid Plica bringeth no danger ata] along with 1 unto che affected perfon, who oftentimes bears ic abouc wich him al his whol life, without any che leaft damage. | Buc that which moft of a] threateneth danger unco che difeafed parry 1s thac vitious humor which yer fticking faft inthe body excitech thofe moft grievous fymp- toms that have been before recounred in the Hi« ftory of this Difeafe ; which ceafe al of them af- cecward, fo foon as the matter is chruft forth unto che hair.
And moreover, this is further tobe added nto the Hiftory, Thac in fuch as are chusaffedted, efpecially if che Difeafe proceed unto the beighr, not only che hairs are vitiated, bur the nails alfo, and more ef{pecially inthe feec, but moft of al in the great Toes thereof, which become rough, long, and black, like unto che born of a Goat 5 and this I obferved in che afure mentioned nobje Lord Ni=
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are meetly fabulous and {uperftisious. Buc chac this vice of the hair, as wel as many other Difea{- es, may fomtimes proceed from Witchcrafe and Inchantment, appeareth even by the Obfervation of Chriftopborws Rumbaumus, Doctor and Pro- feflor of Phyfick, and my fellow Citizen, which ‘Hercules Saxonia reporrethto be Extant in che Obfervations of Fobannes Schenckiys the Elder, tn the feventhBook,in thefe very words of Rumbax- muse Inthe yeer 1590. while vas along time beftowing my pains (though allin vain.) in the Cure of aMans Wife (who out of the Lees of Beer artificially deftilled Brandy Wine at Uca- tiflavia.) being nerely brought to bed and by vea- fon of a great and fudden affrightment upon oc- cafion of a lamentable fire burning the next ad- joyning boufes, taken with an Inflammation of the Lungs, upon the retention of ber Courfes, Se- cundine, and what {hould afterveard bave come from ber, andtbis Inflammation (through ber own carelefinefs) terminating in an Impoftume of the Lungs, and the Con{uusption : a certain Em- perick (an old Woman) cameunto ber, and of - fering ber pains promifed prefent belp: Which fhe would by no means admit of : Whereupon the Emperical oldWomangrowing much enraged, uttering many tbreatning words, fhecaufeth ber
to be {hut out of doors, and then prefently (as fhe
was wont) fhefals a mafbing and Cleanfing a- way the filth of ber Head (having firft Combed,
plaited, and dreffed up ber bair fomwhat tong, as ber cuftom was.) with warm ordinary Spring water. Butuponthe very firfl pouring.on of the mater all the Locks of one fide of the Head, as it were all be{meared with Birdlime, become on a
fuddenfo intricate and intangled that afterward
Cas long asfhe lived) they could by no means,
wit, or device, beextricated and fevered asfor-
merly; but continued thus in long entangled
Locks, very frightful. to bebold, even unto ber dy-
ing day. Andis we conceive to be wrought meerly by Witchcraft.
But [chink chis co be very care; and that .chis Vice proceedeth from fome jinternal .Caufe we are taught even by this, ehac in chofe places Bruits likewife are caken with.chis affect. But now what kind of bumer chatas, we fhall find ic very Very many there are (and indeed. the moft)) .who xcefer the, Gaufe of this ma- lady unto acercainvifcid.andflimy humor. But thefe fal fhore ofthe cruch. Forin.many bodies, and many Regions likewife, thefe. vifcid Clammy humors are generated, which yet notwishftanding ptoduce pofuch Difeafe. .Forneither may chefe ypains of che Limbs, .Convulfions, and .other Symptoms, be referred only untoavifcid humor 5 neither can any reaton-be rendered, .why .cthis
But whac. che Nature ofthis humor isy che nourifhing of or body and the generating of other Difeafes, may in fome
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are nourifhed by the bloods yec nevertheleis,. ag divers Plants do from che fame Earth accraé? Ceachone of chem’) thac Aliment thae is proper and familiar unto them, as Hippocrates teftifieth, in bis Book de ‘Natur. buman. Texc. 21. even fo likewifle out of che fame Mats of blood conraified \inche Veins, every ome of che parts attracterh uns co it felf chac Nutciment chac 1s moft familiar unco jar. Ichappenech moreover thac if che blood be | lefs pure, chacexcremencirions aliment 1s carried | more unto one pare then unto another, And rhs is plainly to be feen even in che Joynt-Gout(Are | thritis_) where that fame ferous wheyith matcer, falc, and carcareous ( orcal ic how you pleafe > is carsied moreunto the Joynes, cheno che flethy. parts. A proof of this we have bkewife from the ftone Offeocolla (€ which is very ficly edminiftced in che fractures of the Bones ) where we find char che very bones themfelves accract unto them che faid Stone; fo chac ic is by experience found, thac | from che overmuch ufe chereof there have grown | forch Callous fubftances excraordinary grear, and junfighcly : of which fee Gulielmus Fabricius, | in his firft Century, and Obfervar. or. And chere- | fore lam ofQpinion, chat in chofe places where chis Difeafe is Epidemical, che fauls is in the Ge~ ntus of the place, andinthe Waters, which flow down from che mountains of Hungary into Polo= nia; (and in ‘Difgoia, if this Diieate be hikewafle familiarin that Region, from che /pr: ) which fupphiechunco che hair.ay abundanc Nuccimenc; buc.unto.al ocher,paces of che body fuchan alimenc as is alcogecher unufeful, and which ts worle, very, burctul; which,when Nature expellech upco che hairs, chereft ofthe body is thereby freed from all other grief whatloever, and che hairs alone be comevinous, And Lam the more confirmed in this my Opinion by what wasrelaced untome by the aforelaid iiuftrious Lord Count Nicolaus Sapieba; thac:he knew aBoorin Polonia, chac by bathing Cured {uch as were croubled with this
Difeate: by.the ule of. which che firft feven daies. the,fick perfons became very hairy ali cheir.body
over, che hairs breaking forth in all partes which € upon. continuing the ufe.of the fame Bath for.feven daies more) fell off again, and foche Difeafed perfons recovered their healch. And indeed chae {ome Waters have in them an.exe craordinary and admirable virtues will every where.appeac uncous inthe \Wricers of Naturalf Hiftory. Soin the Alpes, Styriz,and Carinthia, by che faulc of the Water, che Tumors, Bronchoe cele and Strume ( wecal this laft, beinga{wel- ling in the Neck, the Kings Evil ; che former be« ing a {welling in the ¢hroact) are Natural and as it were bred together with che Inhabitants, che viti- ous mactcer being chruft forth unco. che Glandules in the Neck, and into no other places. And -yet neverchelefs, I would. not have it thought chat Ido hereby altogether exclude che Alt.
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very preat power in altering our bodies; and tt cauferh that in chefe, or chofe Regions and bodies, thefe or thofe humors are generated. Alchough at be Iikewife true that che faid Air hath not chis power from ic felf, but chat it receiveth the fame from thofe vapors that are lifcupand raifed from the Waters, and out of the Earth which che Wa- tec wafheth upon, and paffech through. And tor Chis reafon it is,thac chis Malady 1s not general and Univerfal chroughout the whole Kingdom of Po- lonia, but only familiar‘unto Come certain places thereof, inrepard tbat ic alwaies fpreadech and rageth there, and yet is not from chence difperfed incoany other Regions; and this Difeafe Hercu- Jes Saxonia acknowledgeth to be .Endemick 3 but he wil by no méans have it co be Epidemick 5 as we may fee in the centh Book of bis Practice of Phyfick, and Chap. 7.of Plica. But we have already cold you ( inthe fecond Book of our In- fticusions, Pact 1. Chap. 11. ) that he did noc wel underftand, and therefore could nor rightly de- {cribe unto us the Nature of a Difeafe Epidemick and Endemick.
Now the faid Matcer is carried unto the hair, not (as fome would have it ) in the form of va- pors, but cogether with che blood’ tc felf; which as i¢ is of all orher parts, fo itis likewifeche Nu- triment of the hairs, as we cold above in the centh Chaprer. Which appeareth even from hence, thar the hairs inthe Plica, ifatany time they be cut, they yield forth blood. Thac ( notwith- ftanding what hath been fatd) there ace now and then fome certain perfons evenin the neer neigh- boring Regions thac are ikewife croubled with this Diteafe, chis may poflibly proceed, either from the natural neer allied Genius of that place 5 or elfe from the Parents,’ For look as Archricical perfons beget the like; fo alfoic is not impoffible, but chat chofe which are affected with the Plica miay cransfufe inco their Iffue a vitious difpofici- on unto the generating of the fame Difeafe, and Experience teacheth us che cruch of this. The Son of che aforefaid Lord, Count Sapieba, when
he was fix yeers of age, had ac the firft {ome few)
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