MEdicine is defined with reſpect A Galen de conſtitutione artis. to its End, in this manner: It is an Art which teaches the preſervation of preſent health, and the reſtoring of that which is loſt; or a Science by which we protect the preſent health, and expell Diſeaſes.

In Phyſick be theſe five parts:

Firſt, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , Phyſiology.

Secondly, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or Pathology.

Thirdly, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or the Semeiotical part.

Fourthly, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or the Dietetical part.

Fifthly, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or the Therapeutical part.

The firſt of theſe treats of thoſe things which are call'd Natural; as Elements, Temperaments, Humours, Parts, Faculties, Actions and Spirits. An Element is defined to be, the leaſt or moſt ſimple part of the thing which it compoſeth: Or thus, the four firſt or ſimple Bodies are called Elements, Fire, Air, Water, and Earth; or an Element is that moſt ſimple part which cannot be divided into any ſpecies diverſe from it ſelf; and that which is not perceptible to our Eye, but is imbarqued in the ſhell, or clothed upon with thoſe more 〈◊〉 Bodies, • hich we call Elements. And therefore thoſe pure, virgin, or unmixed Elements, are rather to be conceived in our Minds, than otherwiſe to be apprehended; becauſe they preſent not themſelves to any mortal view: And they are called Elements, becauſe they are thoſe firſt Principles that enter into the compoſition of all Natural and created Beings; and by reaſon o • their Effects, they are deſcribed or expreſs'd by Hypocrates, by the names of Qualities, as Hot, Moiſt, Cold, and Dry.

Of theſe Elements there are in number Four; Fire, Air, Water and Earth and every one of theſe have a doubl • Quality: The Fire is hot and dry, th • Air is hot and moiſt, the Water is col • and moiſt, and the Earth is cold an • dry. Theſe Elements, you ſee have eac • of them two Qualities, viz. The Fire is hot and dry, the Air is hot and moiſt, &c. that ſo their firſt Qualities might be tempered by other qualities, viz. the Moiſtneſs of the Air might temper the Heat of the Fire. And theſe Elements are by Philoſophers divided again into Male and Female; the Male are the Fire and Aire, and the Female are the Water and the Earth; the firſt of theſe, forms and concocts the ſeed; and by the Aire, as it were the ſheath o • •• e conceived ſeed, ſends i • i •• o the Water and Earth, there, as in its proper Matrix to be formed, according as the Archeus or Spiritus Mundi ſhall diſpoſe, and the Nature of the place or Womb ſhall be adapt for thoſe ſeeds, in order to the production of ſuch and ſuch an Off-ſpring. Theſe Four Elements in the compoſition of mixed Bodies, retain the qualities, and are ſo mixed on with the other, that no ſimple part may be found.

Of theſe Elements, two be Light, as Fire and Aire, becauſe theſe delight to move upward; the other two are heavy, viz. the Earth and Water, becauſe they incline downward: The two firſt, as Fire and Aire, are called Active, the two latter are accounted paſſive: Becauſe the firſt, by reaſon of their innate and active heat, doe act upon, and as it were incubat upon the other, as that Divine Philoſopher in his Geneſ. gives us an Account, The Spirit of God moved upon the face and ſuperficies of the Water, in which the Earth, the Womb of all things, lay obſcure.

From the Compoſition of theſe come all mixed Bodies, and from the variety of mixtion comes the variety of Temperament.

THere are fluid parts which are ſuſtained by the help of the other parts, ſuch as are the Humours and Spirits. The Humours are either Alimentary or Excrementitious; the Alimentary humour is that that is dedicated for the nouriſhing of the ſolid parts, which do draw their Original from a Commixtion of the four Elements: But the Excrementitious, are the ſuperfluous Liquors, unuſefull, and unfit to Nutrition; and theſe are diſtinguiſhed into Primary and Secondary.

The Primary are thoſe which paſs with the Chyle into the Liver; being put on by the power of the Native heat in every part of the Body, are diſtributed by the Veins to Nutrition.

And of theſe primary hu • ors there be four; Blood, Chole • Melancholy and Flegm; which be mixed • ll together in the Veins. This fo •• -fold mixture of humours is call'd the Maſs of Blood, by reaſon that the blood doth abound in that Maſs.

The name of Blood is ſometimes taken largely for the whole maſs of Blood, but properly it ſignifies the more benign and purer part of it; generally the Blood is accepted for the whole bloody maſs well tempered, which from an equal mixtion of the four contrary humours, and ſo there ariſeth a harmony from a juſt and decent proportion of humours; but if it be co • ſidered by it ſelf as pure and ſince 〈…〉 is hot and moiſt in temperature▪ 〈…〉 Nature it reſembleth Aire, and not as by Reaſon of this tempeature, but alſo in conſiſtence, colour, ſavour and uſe it is diſcerned from other humours Blood is of ſuch a mediocrous conſiſtence, that while it is retain'd within the bounds of Nature, it appear not thicker nor thinner; it is of a red colour, a ſweet taſte; it mightily nouriſheth the muſculous parts, as often a • it exceedeth above the reſt, it maketh men fleſhy, flouriſhing, fair, pleaſan • and merry.

But Alimentary bile is the thinne • part of the bloody maſs, partaking o • a fiery Nature, by temperament hot and dry, of a yellow, or a pale yellow; to taſte bitter, men in whom it abounds, are cholerick, lean, hardy, quick, ſoon angry.

But the Excrementitious is drawn forth to the bladder of Gall, and that it might ſtir up the Ejection of the Excrements, and that it might gently cleanſe off the Flegm and hindrances adhering to the Inteſtines.

Alimentary Melancholly is the thic ••• Melancholly. what. part of the maſs of Blood, by na • ure Earthy, in Temperament cold and dry, in colour black, in taſte ſoure; men in whom it abounds, are ſad, thoughtfull, moroſe, ſevere, conſtant, the more ſolid parts of the body dry.

The Excrementitious is carried to the Spleen, where the Alimentary part which yet remains, being the more benign Juice, the reſt is ſeparated, when it is preſs'd into the ſtomach by the Vas breve, that it may ſtirre up Appetite to meat, and doth endeavour to retain the Meats there, till they be concocted.

The Alimentary Flegm is the more thin part of the bloody maſs, of a wateriſh Nature, in temperament cold and moiſt, in colour white, in ſavour ſweet, men in whom this abounds, be dull, ſleepy, groſs, fat, they are clear and ſoft, adminiſtring Aliment to the Brain, and other cold moiſt parts.

Excrementitious Flegm is a ſerous, or a wheyiſh ſuperfluity, which is ſeparated from the blood, and is tranſmitted to the Bladder by the Ureters, where it is call'd Urin.

PHyſicians have laboured much to d • monſtrate the Manner of the production of this Diſeaſe, and the mo • evident is taken from an Analogy th • the Fermentations of Wines bare • the Fermentations and Concoctions • our Food received into our Body, an • the various alterations that it ſuffers b • our innate heat, and other Concomitan • of producing Chyle, and the fitting it i • the various work-houſes of our Body • the great end to which it is deſigne • viz. the Nouriſhing of our body: an • to this Analogy it is obſervable, that t • Juice expreſſed from the Grapes, begi • in ſhort time to put forth it ſelf into m • tion; and by this there is by a certai • Fermentation, an Alteration and a Rari • cation, the groſs and dull is made ſpirit • ous and lively, the thick is made thi • the tart is made ſweet and pleaſant. An • that that was unfit to be taken into ou • Bodyes, by reaſon of its heterogeneit) is by this Fermentation made moſt homogeneous or Friendly to our Nature, but in this there are ſeveral things or accidents obſervable.

Firſt, that when the Faeces are ſeparated and caſt to the bottom, if they are again elevated to motion, or if any heterogeneous thing, not agreeable to it, (as Fat, or any Exotick Sulphur,) be caſt into the Veſſel, from thence there will ariſe a notable perturbation, which unleſs it be appeaſed, tends to the ruin of the whole.

Secondly, the Sulphurous parts of the Wine being exalted above the reſt, it induceth an immoderate heat or ebullition which in the Idiome of our Language is call'd the Fretting of Wines.

Thirdly, it is not ſeldom, that there happens a cloſe union or Conſtriction of the Sulphur with the wearied or tired Spirit, the Saline parts being brought to a fluidneſs, it excells the reſt in Power and Force, and ſo the Liquor paſſeth into an Acetum or Vinegar.

There is yet another Intemperature of Wines, viz. when the ſpirits being depreſt, the ſaline and ſulphurous particles combin'd together, are exalted: And this may be done in Wines in a twofold manner. And this is obſervable, that Wines may degenerate into Vappa▪ or Vinegar, and that ſometime from the Spirit being depreſſed, and alſo the Sulphur with the Salt doth become muſty, clammy or ſlimy, which we call Wine over-fretted, or become ropy in eithe • Mutation, the Spirit being brought under the Yoak, the ſulphurous and ſalin • being aſſociated together, they excel • the other Elements, and ſo they may change into the groſs diſpoſition of it • own Liquor; notwithſtanding theſe things are not done altogether in th • ſame manner in both: Wherefore in th • firſt, Dyſcraſia, or Intemperature o • the Wine, the Sulphur ſomewhat abidet • with the Salt, but in the latter, the Sal • rather exiſteth with the Sulphur, bu • whether it be one or the other that i • made moſt powerfull, the dominion o • the Spirit being driven away, the othe • adheres to it, and taketh away its du • ſtate; the manner of both ſeem explicable.

Note, When Generous Wines have long waxed hot, the particles being much agitated, and by little and little being wounded, the ſpirit partly evaporates, being rapt up with the groſſer Elements, it is ſuppreſt. In the mean time the Sulphur (the abundance of which) is advanced by a greater agitation, and then the Spirit is brought under the yoke adhering to the ſalt, and lifting it up, it alters the mixture of the Liquor; then by reaſon of the Excellency of the ſulphur, combinated with the Salt, thence cometh the muſtineſs, even as with thin Wines longer kept. The Salt exalted, and made victorious, it depreſſeth the ſpirit, and from thence it induceth a ſharpneſs to the ſubjected Latex, and then afterward the exalted Salt which is in a leſſer quantity, getting the Sulphur to it ſelf, and joyning of it intimately to it, doth turn the ſubſtance of the Liquor from thin into thick, and as it were Oleaginous, and from a ſour ſavour into a very ungratefull, and (as it were) a Muſtineſs.

Theſe being the Productions by reaſon of the Fermentation in Wines, you ſhall ſee how amply the Analogy will hold between this Fermentation, and the manner of producing the Scurvy.

It is to be underſtood, that the Aliments received into our Bodies, are firſt concocted, and as it were gently boyled in our Stomachs, by which means there is made a ſeparation of the groſ • and the excrementitious parts, which are unfit to nouriſh, and are caſt forth into their proper Receptacle, viz. the Guts.

In the mean time, as it were by a certain Fermentation, by which thoſe things that were before thick and groſs, are rarified, and thoſe that were fixed, are ſpiritualized, and they are made volatile; and this is done by ſeparating their Excrements, that there might be an aſſimilation of that which is profitable to our Bodies, and to adminiſter a pure Aliment, that ſo they might afford matter to our ſpirits in manner as hath been above demonſtrated, in the Fermentation of Wine: As Planerus brings that ſentence of his, That Meat and Drink in our Stomachs is reſolved into an Aire, which is drawn and paſſes into the Meſaraicks, and is changed by a certain Concretion into the ſpecies of Blood; and not only thoſe parts of Aliments and Drinks are rarified and made volatile, as it were in our Bodies, but even that ſalt it ſelf which is in theſe Aliments, and is aſſumed in with them, though fixed, yet are rendered volatile, ſpiritual and as it were Animal: And this is not difficult to believe, if any one will take notice how theſe volatile Salts and Spirits may be drawn out of Horns, and Bones, and Urines of Animals.

And ſo while all things are well performed in our Bodies, the Aliments are reſolved in our ſtomachs, and the parts unfit to nouriſh, are ſeparated; but thoſe things which are proper to nouriſh, are by the proper and peculiar Faculty of the Stomach and Bowels elaborated, and by that means rendered conſentaneous to humane Nature: But when in our Stomachs and Inteſtines they cannot attain to that ſimilitude and form which they ought to have, to nouriſh our bodies.

They are ſent to the Liver, which is (as it were) the work-houſe of the blood, to be more fully elaborated; but as the purer blood is elaborated in the Liver, the groſſer part of the Chyle is (by the large quantity of the Serum, with which it is moiſtened, and reduced to a greater aptneſs to •• uxibility and motion, and is attracted by the Spleen, and that part of the Chyle which yet remains thick, (by reaſon of Pontick and Acid Qualities) is there elaborated and changed into blood fit for the nouriſhing the neighbouring parts.

And theſe things being rightly done, and fitly ordered in our Bodies, the man continues ſound and in health; but if by reaſon of an ill manner of Living, and if they ſhall eat crude groſs and naughty Diet, and ſhall gorge themſelves with many ſorts of Food, ſo that it is not able to ſeparate from the Body, though otherwiſe in health and ſtrong, by the power of concoction thoſe vitious Excrements with which the concoctive power labours, but ſo the Chyle abounding with many groſs and tartarous parts, and comeing to the ſecondary Bowels deſtinated to concoction, it happeneth that theſe groſs ſalt and fixed parts cannot all be attracted by the Spleen, neither be all ſufficiently elaborated there; and ſo that concoction which ought to ferment, and as it were to ſpiritualize all the Aliments, is hindered, and the groſſer parts of the Food, with the fixed and tartarous, carried in abundance with the Meats, is ſent away groſs, in its fixed nature, being not able to render them volatile, rarified and Animal, as they ought, and the impure, unprofitable, and tartarous parts cannot be ſeparated from the uſefull and profitable, whence the Bowels appointed to the ſecond concoction, at length waxe too weak to diſcharge the abundance of groſs humours, and by little and little are debilitated, & from thenceforth are rendered more unapt, ſo that they cannot correct the Coction and Elaboration of the Aliment, and the overmuch thickneſs of the humours, and that which is deficient in the Rarification and Attenuation, (how to expreſs it in one word, is not eaſie) and from hence appears the Reaſon of the controverſie about the Name: Gr. Hortius calls it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or Crudity, and that he accounts the neareſt and propereſt Name for this Diſeaſe.

And therefore that Salt and the groſſer parts of the Chyle, when all cannot be attracted from the Spleen, and elaborated and attracted by the Liver, without Impediment, even that which is the ſubtiler part of the Chyle, as that which is familiar to it, and naturally more apt to the generating good blood, and cannot expell all things from Nature, becauſe of the abundance and unaptneſs, they ſtick in the firſt wayes, and abide in the branches o • 〈◊〉 Porta and Meſaraick 〈…〉 the Meſen • ary it ſelf, Pa •• r •• • nd 〈◊〉 ▪ and by reaſon that it is wo •• to adminiſter matter of Cauſe to ſuch humours, they are continually encreaſed every day: And to theſe ſalt, groſs fixed humours, there are joyned and mixed other crude and vitious humours, and are detained in theſe places; and ſo • he Cymiſts do call the foulneſs▪ of theſe humours heaped up in the firſt wayes, Tartarous.

Having premiſed theſe things, let us return to the Analogy that ſeems to be between the Fermentation of Wine and the Blood o • Humo • rs, and concerning ing the firſt note in the Fermentation of Wine▪

THE firſt is that in which the Blood is touched with the Scorbutick Mia • ines, or the prae-exiſting heat, in which, to wit the Sulphur, having got the prae-domination, gets the ſalt to it ſelf; wherefore that being made more rancid, or Rammiſh, waxeth inordinately hot in the Veſſels, and the Excrements being • urnt, to wit, the Concretions of the Sulphur and Salt, the Sulphur wholly forſakes it ſelf, and is diſperſed here and • here; the which truely being drove • utward, do produce ſpots, Puſtuls, Ex • nth • mata, and Ulcers, but being diſpo • ed inwardly, they occaſion Vomitings, • nrdialgia, or heart-akings, Diarrhaeas, • r Dyſenteries, and alſo moſt cruel pains: • n the ſcorbutick Rancidity of this kind • f Blood, temperate Remedies onely, • nd frequent Phlebotomies, (as Scurvy- • raſs, Horſe-radiſh, and other things, en • owed with a ſharp and biting taſte,) are • onvenient; and for the like reaſon muſty • r rancid Wines are cured, by taking from them their Faeces: Moreover by th • pouring in of Milk, Starch, Iſing-glaſs and of other things, aſſwaging or mitigating them.

In the ſecond place, in the Blood no • riſhing the Scurvy, the Salt having g • the Dominion, it joyns the Sulphur to i • wherefore that is not ſo hot, but it b • comes thick, as ropy Wine, and as it we Mucilaginous, it is ſlowly circulated • the Veſſels, and whiles it paſſes the Bo • els it is apt to ſtuffe them, and to faſt • the muddineſs to them, ſuch Effects oft • times are made without cutaneous Eru • tions, there are produced ſhort breatedneſs and wearineſs, they labour wi • a ſpontaneous Laſſitude, a ſtraitneſs • the breaſt, and often times they are o • noxious to Fainting of the ſpirits, Vertig • and Convulſions; but in theſe ſcorb • tick Diſpoſitions they are wont to u • Remedies more hot, and thoſe endow • with a volatile Salt, and alſo Chalybia • which doth thin and ſtir the blood: A • truely in the ſame manner do they hand Ropy Wines, viz. They ought to • much ſhaken and ſtirred.

Thus far concerning the Radicate Principles of the Scurvy in the Blood Maſs; and here it is to be explained from what Cauſes the Blood, (the Parent of the Scurvy, degenerating from its proper goodneſs) doth take that diſeaſie diſpoſition: Notwithſtanding, it ought firſt to be ſhewn, in what manner the ſeeds of this Diſeaſe, with the other Humour in general, is caſt into the nervous Juice.

From the Blood driven forth the Borders of the Brain, doth ſtill forth a moſt ſubtil matter, as for Animal ſpirits, ſo for a Vehicle, and doth ſcatter them there continually, by the whole nervous kind, that Latex, as long as the Spirit and Salt is well combinated or volatiliſed with it, remains very powerfull: there is alſo a little water with which theſe are diluted, there ſeems little need of Sulphur and Earth, and yet that Concretion of the Spirit and volatile Salt, which can paſs through all things, doth penetrate, actuate, and irradiate that moſt excellent humour.

Concerning the beginnings of the Scurvy, untill the Blood (being thick) and Tone of the Brain are vitiated, that Dewy Liquor of the Brain and Nerves, as yet ſpirituous and ſweet, abides not very unfit to every Office to which it i • appointed; but afterward being impoveriſhed by the bloody Maſs, and muc • enfeebled, it is dropped out, inclinin • towards a ſoureneſs: Moreover from the faeculent, and as it were the rancidous or muddy blood, heterogeneo • particle, are adminiſtred, much infeſte • with an Animal Regimen.

And the Brain being made more wea • within, are admitted without repulſ • and thence is powered out into the ma • rowy Appendix, as alſo the nervou • with the moiſtning Juice; hence no • there follows (the failings and the Eclipſes of the ſcattering Animal Spirit in • every Region) diſtractions, and doloro • complaints, and Cramps, wherefore Pa • ſies, Convulſions, Vertigoes, Pains, Tre • bling, and other preternatural Afflict • ons of the Brain and Nervous kind, an • the more forceable Roots producing th • Scurvy are wont to follow.

And hence it is to be noted in genera • that in theſe three doth conſiſt the ſco • butick ſpot, affixed to the nervous Juice viz. That the dewy Liquor of the Brai • and Nerves, is become much more thi • or impoveriſhed, which doth degenerat • à Craſi Spirituo-ſalina, toward a ſoureneſs, which is repleniſhed by the heterogeneous and morbifick particles. Hitherto we have ſhewn how the firſt ſeeds of the Scorbutick Affection, are ſown in the Blood, and therein to the Nervous Juice.

FI • ſt, A Heavineſs of the whole Body. Secondly, A ſpontaneous wearineſs, which notwithſtanding Bodies that a •• more groſs and big, may not ſo ſoon pe • ceive, without a contin •• l Exerciſe.

Thirdly, A certain ſtraitneſs of the Praecordi • m.

• ourthly, A debility of the Legg • .

Fifthly, An i • ching, redneſs, and pai • of the 〈◊〉 .

Sixthly, The colour of the Face incl •• ing from a paleneſs to a dusky.

Where-ever theſe are found joyntly you may with certainty pronounce they 〈◊〉 the Scurvy. Not that theſe be al • • he Signs of this diſeaſe, but that this •• uculent diſeaſe may be the more unmasked, and every ordinary Capacity may underſtand whether he or ſhe have the Scurvy; you ſhall here have a more particular Liſt of well-nigh all the ſymptomes of this Diſeaſe.

THe Scurvy firſt invading, there is preſently a ſenſe of heavineſs and wearineſs without a manifeſt Cauſe over the whole Body, moſtly about the Veſſel dedicated to Concoction, and that from Cacochymia, preſs'd out of all the Veins by the whole frame; for by the heap of humours in this Evil, there is need that the powers be ſtirred up.

2ly, They are troubled with a difficult and ſlow breathing, eſpecially between Labour, when the ſick is moved or ſtirred, by Reaſon of a flatulent humour lying under and diſtending the Hypocondries, together with the neighbouring parts, the Diaphragma, and Organs of Reſpiration.

3. Often-times they are driven over the whole Body, but chiefly through the external parts, as the Arms, Belly, ſides, Hips, between the Entrance of the back, having a notable paſſage by the Veins that paſſes down by the back, but chiefly the ſpots do bud and put forth themſelves in the feet and leggs.

4. When the Fountain and Fuel of this Diſeaſe is circumſcribed in the Bowels, that neither much of it is powred forth into the veins, then either the Veins it ſelf, or both, do begin to ſwell in the Panch-belly, and ſo they are rendered bigger, but chiefly the Spleen, which ſwelling, or being puffed up with Afflatus, and glutted with the muddy part of the blood, it ſpreads to a greater magnitude.

5. The fifth ſymptome of this diſeaſe is, that from hence is produced an extenuation of the Body, by reaſon of a defect of the more benign Aliment and nutritive Juice, or from impure Food, the blood being not ſufficiently cleanſed.

6. The Appetite, the Faculty of the ſtomack, the deſire of Food needfull and neceſſary to Life, is dejected, conflicting almoſt continually with a nauſeating, loathing and averſion to all food, with ſome it is dulled, but with others the natural habit of the ſtomack, is well-nigh loſt, and truely all theſe things are wont to happen by reaſon of the diſparity of the humour flowing, as from the Liver, ſo alſo from the Spleen into the Center of the ſtomack.

7. The Seventh ſymptom is this, that ſometimes one, ſometimes another of the Hypocondra • are afflicted with pain, and as it were with an obſcure deadneſs, wherefore they are vehemently diſtended by winds or Flatus that hides, and are ſhut up in theſe places, from whence the power of Riſing up, and going doth ariſe.

8. Eightly, The pain of this place is not perpetually circumſcribed and abiding here but every where, now here, now there, according to its wandring diſpoſition; now in the ſides, and anon in the lower parts of the Body, and by and by through the whole Body; and thus it very imperiouſly maintains its own bounds.

9. In the firſt which is extended to the Loyns, the Loyns ſeem as though they were broke, and in theſe there is perceived too much blood abounding in the great Veins of the Loyns, before the ariſing of marks, Buboes, the Haemorrhoids being ſtopt in men, and the monthly Courſes in Women; and other pains running over the whole Body, but chiefly the Joynts, ſometimes with, and ſometimes without a tumour, ſometimes with a certain quivering, and diſcovering its ſelf of its own accord, and often times it reſembles the Gout.

10. The tenth ſymptome is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , or ſwounding, which doth aſſault many, the heat and ſpirit being wearied, even as it is wont in the Hypochondraick affection, in which often times there is certain Reſpits or Intervals, as it were, the Spirits leading themſelves to the Caſtle of the heart, as to its ſtrong hold.

11. If the humour paſs downward, becauſe Nature with its own Gravity maketh it to travel into the Veins, there is pain, with a Flatus, and vexes their extream parts abundantly.

12. Some are Coſtive, or more ſparingly go to ſtool, by reaſon of the drineſs of their bodies, but others are attended with fluxes.

13. The Urin appears muddy, and yet it neither reſideth to the bottom, nor hath any troubled Sediment at the bottome.

14. There is ſuch pulſation of the quivering Arteries as there is in them that are afflicted with a Quartan Ague, which is weak hard and frequent.

15. And if the Praecordia's by reaſon of ill Living have been inflamed by heat, becauſe of the ſtraitneſs of the place, the matter having been ſhut in as in a hot Oven, a Fever will ariſe, gentle to the touch of the hand, neither having any period or time of Endings.

16. The Scurvy hath frequently its own periods, with which by little and little it is diſſolved, and returns as it were again per Circulatum vel circuitum.

17. When the fleſh of the Gums by its nature being ſofter becauſe of its Texture, and being moiſtened with vapours from the impure Bowels, ſcorching by the power of the heat from below, truly they then are moſt apt to be fill'd, and then it ariſeth into a leſs and fluid humour.

18. The Gummes do begin to itch at their roots, becauſe of a ſcorched, putrid & ſalt humor, moiſtened by its Ichor, with which by its nature is acrid and ſharp, propagated either by contagion, being ſtopt no longer, and by taking another courſe, and afterward it hath by ſtaying in the place acquired an Acrimonia.

19. The Scurvy is alwayes accompapanyed with the ſtinking foetor in the mouth.

20. Another Infirmity that attends the Scurvy, is a weakneſs and feebleneſs in the knees, for which cauſe, the ſick can walk but ſlowly, though he endeavour much, by reaſon that the Muſcles and nervous parts are over-charged with groſs and melancholy humours, as alſo a Contraction of the Nervous parts, that many cannot ſet their feet plain upon the Ground.

21. To ſome there happens an obſtinate ſtifneſs of the Jawes, that they cannot well gape or yawn, by reaſon of the ſtubborn ſtifneſs of the Joynt of the Cheek.

22. In ſome there happens a convulſive motion of the Muſcles and Nerves, in others a paralytick diſtemper; in ſome a ſwelling in their legges, in ſome the Scurvy and Dropſie are complicated together, in others there is an Atrophy, viz. a Conſumption of ſome one part, whiles the reſt are in good plight, by reaſon of undue attraction of Aliment.

23. There often happens a trembling and palpitation, and great Aſſaults of the Heart, and theſe Paſſions are meerly convulſive from the Cardiacous Nerves, to wit, of the Praecardium and Heart it ſelf, by reaſon of the ſpaſmodical matter that beſieges it.

24. Some annoyed with wandring Fevers, and alſo ſudden ſuffuſions of heat, and alſo Cold in ſeveral parts of the Body, now hot, and anon cold, fluſhing heats in their faces, eſpecially after meals, untill the Concoction be over.

25. Alſo Scorbuticks are wont to be moleſted with copious ſweats, and ſpecially in the night, becauſe the nutritive Juice every day brought into the Maſs of blood, by reaſon of the intemperature, impurity and foulneſs of it, is very little aſſimilated, being rejected of the blood, breaks forth under the form of ſweat; but becauſe that Nutritive Liquor, whiles it is aſſimulating, is made worſe; being ſick it produceth not a Fever in its own manner, the ſaltiſh intemperature of the blood, which being leſs apt therefore, abideth in the burning Fits; theſe immoderate kinds of Sweats, continual Fevers, with other Chronical Diſeaſes, doe often happen to ſcorbutick perſons, where the Nutritive Liquor by fault of the aſſimulating Blood is perverted more than the concocting Bowels.

26. In Scorbuticks the Urine appears red, like a Lie made of Wood-aſhes and this we pronounce as an undoubte • ſign of this Diſeaſe; for whiles the ſerou • Latex, diſſolved with the ſaltiſh and ſulphurous uncocted particles, ſome do • impart and communicate to it the highly ſaturated, and as it were the Lixivial tincture, and alſo ſuch a Urin abounde • much with Contents, which when it • cold doth praecipitate to the bottom.

27. To this ſad diſeaſe there happe •• a copious ſpitting, and often-times 〈◊〉 bloodineſs and ſwelling of the Gumme • and then a Spongineſs, and after th •• putrefaction, as alſo an aeroſion of th • Teeth, and looſneſs, or a falling ou • accompanyed with a ſtink of the mout • the reaſon of which better appears, if be conſidered, that there are conſtit • ted certain peculiar Ducts, to wit, S • livales, or Veſſels ſerving to ſpit, b • which the ſerous humours are copiouſ • diſcharged, theſe ariſe from various Gla • dules, viz. à Parotidibus, maxillaribus, ſu • lingualibus, and are terminated much 〈◊〉 the parts about the Gums, or very ne •• them; the conſtant office of theſe, is 〈◊〉 ſend down the ſpittle for certain uſes i • to the Cavity of the mouth: and it is further to be obſerved, that the ſuperfluous, groſs and vicious are ſeparated, as the groſs are by Sweat and Urine or other wayes, from the blood, ſo theſe are carried out of the Body by this way.

28. Marks breaking out in the Legs, and other parts of the Body, is the Pathognomical ſign of the Scurvy, as hath been already mentioned.

Thus I have given you a brief accompt of the Signs and Symptomes of the Scurvy, which appear to be many, and in many, very truculent or ſevere. And this the Reader is to note by the way, That no perſon may judge themſelves free of this diſeaſe, becauſe they have not all theſe ſymptomes attending at once, for that perſon is rarely to be found that is ſo, though ſome we have recovered, that it was difficult enough to perceive the abſence of any one of theſe ſymptomes.

THere are four Intentions by whic • the Scurvy is cured, and the baniſhed health is recovered: The firſt i • Evacuation, the ſecond is Alteration, th • third is comforting, and the fourth is th • removing the ſymptomes, but foraſmuc • as theſe chiefly depend upon the Pharmaceutical, or Curative part of Phyſick that ſhall be referred to the uſe of othe • (Athleteſes) I mean thoſe Medicines ſpecified in the Index Medicamentorum a • the end of this Book, which have power to extirpate the ſeeds of this diſeaſe • corroberate the parts, open obſtruction • baniſh the ſymptomes, and conſequentl • bring in the baniſhed health: therefor • paſſing that, we ſhall proceed to the nex • thing, as that which is very neceſſary fo • all to know, and eaſie to follow, an • and which will compenſate the price o • this Book, in anſwering that neceſſar • Queſtion which is requiſite to be propounded by every ſcorbutick perſon, and that which will have a tendency to do much in ſeveral of the Intentions propounded, and that is, What is the Diet to be ſhunned, and what is the Diet to be followed? And here it is to be obſerved, that under the Name of Diet; Meat and Drink are not onely to be underſtood, but alſo the Manner and way of Living, conſiſting in Sleep, Watching, Venus, Bathings, Exerciſe, Idleneſs, Perturbations of the mind, and all ſuch things which are done in the Bodyes of Mortals.

Two things are principally to be conſidered in Meats, The firſt is ſuch as muſt reſpect the ſtrength of the ſick; the ſecond muſt reſpect the Diſeaſe: All Diets in this Diſeaſe ought to have the faculty of thinning, cutting, cleanſing and of oppoſing the Diſeaſe; it muſt be of good Juice, fit to nouriſh the body, and that in favour of the Bowels, helpfull to Concoction, the chief and proper Inſtrument of which is the native heat, which muſt not be impoveriſhed by binding things, but rather by defending and preſerving, by penetrating things, that they may nouriſh and be reſtoring.

LEues Venerea hath obtained variety of names, the Neopolitan Diſeaſe, Malum Indicum, the Indian Evil, Morbus Italicus, the Italian Diſeaſe, and by Fracaſtorius Siphilis Pudendagra, the Great POX, but in common Morbus Gallicus, the French POX, a name by which it is as well known as any, it may aptly be called Flagellum Dei Irati, the ſtroke of a Provoked God: It is defined thus, The POX is an occult and contagious Diſeaſe of the whole ſubſtance of the Body, bewraying it ſelf by Puſtles, Marks, Ulcers, Torments and Pains; the Efficient cauſe is an occult and venomous Quality contracted by contagion and touch, and ſticking in a certain Humour, as the ſubject; but this pernicious ſpot, although it ſpread it ſelf abroad by various ways, yet it is moſtly propagate into Mankind by a Venereal Copulation; and this Evil being ſowed, the 〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 cruel Symptoms bud through the whole Body, the Mind is ſad, the Body is weary and heavy, the Face pale, Puſtles breaking forth chiefly about the Forehead, and then over the whole Body, there's felt a wandring and vehement pain now in the Head, anon in the Muſcles, and by and by in the Joynts, and chiefly moleſting in the night, bewraying it ſelf by a ſtinking and foeted Gonorrhea, Ulcers and Bubo's ariſe about the Privy-parts, there alſo happen naughty Diſtillations, which do Erode one while the Palate, another • hile the Uvula, and ſometimes the Jaws and Almonds, ſometimes conſume the Lips, in ſome the Noſe, in others the Eyes, and in ſome the whole Privy-parts are conſumed, and all the Members do languiſh, there is no deſire to Meat, no ſleep but ſadneſs, and a continual diſpoſition to anger.

Some time they are accompanied with a ſmall Fever, there happens a ſhedding of the Hair, a falling out of the Teeth, and when the Malida becomes very inveterate there are Cancerous Calous, Fiſtula's, Ulcers and Tophies, viz. in various parts of the Body a Caries or Rottenneſs of the Bones, and firſt in the Cranium, then in the Palate and Noſe, a Hectick Fever, a Conſumption, Cachexia, or an evil habit or diſpoſition of the whole Body, Falling-Sickneſs, Deafneſs, Blindneſs, Exaſtocis, or bunching out of the Bones, and theſe are done in a double manner, either by the adheſion of the groſs or viſcide matter fixed or faſtned to the Bones, or in the manner of an Excreſcence of the Bone from the Interno meditullium, or inner part of the Bone; for although the Bone by his own Nature is hard, yet it is Extendet, and increaſed by the power of the venom.

Theſe are the Signs and Symptoms by which you may know this horrid Diſeaſe, and come to a Judgment whether you be infected, yet for your better Information (and that becauſe all theſe Symptoms are hardly, if ever, found in any one perſon, and if they ſhould, that perſon may juſtly doubt of his Cure) we ſhall give you a more particular deſcition of it. Phyſitians have given many differences of this Diſeaſe: Bruſanola hath given 234. Differences, but many of them are uſeleſs and unprofitable, the more uſeful are brought under the Number of Three or Four.

1. Differ. In former time it was obſerved by Phyſitians, That upon an Impure Copulation there immediately followed Gallical Symptoms, ſometimes they grew a little remiſs, and ſhortly after departed without means, but ſometimes there followed moſt grievous Symptoms, and thoſe very ſtubborn and hard to be Cured.

2. Differ. The ſecond Difference is fetched from the Cauſe and manner of the Contagion where the Leues Venerea is hereditary, and was derived from the Parents into the Iſſue, with the Seed and Blood; but now having a Being in the World by an Impure Copulation, it is communicated by Kiſſes, Pocky Nurſes, Garments, pulling on of Gloves, and ſuch like things.

3. Differ. The third Difference is taken from the Signs and Symptoms eminently following, as Buboes, Gonorrhea, falling of the Hair, pains of the Joynts; for neither the Symptoms and Signs which do follow, and are new, are not the ſame in all. Euſtachius tells us he had obſerved many Young Men to have lain with one and the ſame Whore in one and the ſame day, and nevertheleſs one hath had a Gonorrhea, another the falling of the Hair, another a Bubo, another a Caries, another a pain of the Head, another preternatural Effect, and all this hath happened by reaſon of the various diſpoſition of Bodies, and debility of the parts, and variety of Humours; for the weak parts do more eaſily take to themſelves the evil & viſcious Humours, then the ſtronger one hath a more purer Body, another a more impure, and which being corrupted with the veneral quality, do ſtir up other, and other Diſeaſes and Symptoms, according to variety of Diſeaſes and Symptoms, which ſometimes are joyned and complicated together, do enumerate fewer or more Differences.

4. Differ. The Fourth Difference is taken from the time, as this Leues is one while new, and another while old, ſome in the beginning, ſome in the augmentation, ſome in the ſtate, and ſome in the declination, from which there ariſeth Four Degrees of this Diſeaſe from the Defferences, the time, the variety of concomitant Symptoms.

1. The firſt Degree is moſt light, when only the Hairs of the Beard and Head by little and little, without any hurt of the Body, fall off.

2. The other Degree is worſe, when the whole Skin is beſprinkled with many marks or ſpots, and Extuberations, and theſe Symptoms in the form of Lentills, ſometimes much more large, ſometimes viſciated with a redneſs, and ſometimes with a Yellowneſs.

3. The third is more heavy, not only when the marks or ſpots, but alſo there breaks forth Puſtles and Hillocks at the firſt about the Temples and forehead, behind the Ears, and then every where in the Head, but at length over the whole Body.

4. But the fourth Degree of this Leues Venerea is when it invadeth the ſolid parts, the Ligaments, the Bones, Membranes, and Nerves, and corrupteth them, in which many Groſs, Glutinous, and Malignant Excraments are gathered, which when they abide about the Tendon or Perioſtium, they pull the Membrane, and drive it from the Bones; they are wont to ſtir up moſt implacable pains, increaſing within night, from which Excrements there grows by little and little Tophies with grievons pains Adequate, to the hardneſs of the Bones, which if it be in the Bones, they are ſo inlarged and extended, that often times the Bones are not only made of a monſtrous Figure and Magnitude, but only that a Crimonious Malignity doth by little and little eat out the Bone, and with a Caries conſumeth the Bones; of which more ln the Diagnoſtick part.

THirdly, if the Evil be inveterate there may occur alſo the Symptoms of the Diſeaſe of every Kind, as Callous, Fiſtula's, and Cancerous Ulcers, Tophies in various parts of the Body, Caries of the Bones in the Shins, Arms, but chiefly in the Crannium or Skul, in the Bone of the Palate and Noſe, a Hectick Fever, Pthiſick, Cachexia, Falling-ſickneſs, the falling of the Teeth, Deafneſs, Blindneſs: To the truth of theſe things the Hiſteriographal part doth abundantly witneſs, as to what concerns the Differences, Verulentſy, although the formal reaſon of it is known, which is known from the Effects; for ſometimes more, ſometimes fewer parts are infected; ſometimes the Contagion has a greater power of acting, ſometimes a leſs.

In the Tympany the Belly being ſtruck, it ſends forth the ſound of a Drum, the bulk of the Abdomen is not ſo painful as in Aſcites, but the Inflamation is greater, Pains and Torments go before, or precede, eſpecially about the Navel, and the Side; the Sick lying upon his Face, the Belly remains diſtened and hard, when the Sick turns himſelf, and is roul'd to either ſide, belching and noiſe doth frequently break forth, there is heard Murmurings and Grumblings.

In the Anaſarca not only the whole Belly, but the Legs, Shins, alſo the Hands, Arms, Breaſt, Face, and whole Body does ſwell, and the Fingers being preſt into the Fleſh, they leave the Marks and Footſteps of their Impreſſion, and with theſe there Frequently follows a Pale and Cadaverous Colour of the Skin, the Fleſh ſoft and loſs, the Urine thin and White, the Reſpiration difficult, a continual and ſmall Fever.

THe Greek Word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ſo called, a Viverra a Ferret, becauſe his Eyes are tincted with a Yellow Colour, vel ab Ictero ave, God ſpeed the perſon that hath the Jaundiſe, and it is ſo called Galgulus, which if it be beheld by a perſon that hath the Jaundiſe, the Bird preſently dies, but the Sick is healed, in Latin it is called Aurigo, the Kings-evil, Regins Morbus Arquatus, the Kings Diſeaſe, or the Kings-evil, it is the Effuſion of Choller through the whole body, the Cauſe is attributed to an obſtruction of the paſſages of the Bladder of Gaul and biliary Pores; and hence the Choller of the Bladder of Gaul, deſtinated to the Inteſtines, the Ductus being abſtructed is rejected, and is for that Cauſe diſgorged into the Blood, from whence it is ſent forth every where into the Blood, and from thence it is thruſt forth every way into the Skin, one is called the Yellow, and the other the Black, and both is produced from one and the ſame Cauſe, they differ in this, that in the Black the Gauley Bladder being longer obſtructed; ſo that the particles of the Gaul is ſo Copiouſly heaped up; being not Concocted, they produce a Black Colour, not a perfect Yellow to the Blood and Serum, the Stools in the Jaundiſe are whitened; but not always the Jaundiſe thickens the Urine, and from thence it looks blackiſh, it ſuddenly invades a Man, and for the moſt part without a Fever, and without any great decays of ſtrength; alſo the Jaundiſe is produced by reaſon of the ill Diſpoſition of the Liver, from the hot intemperature of the ſame, either with or without an Inflamation.

It comes in Fevers in manner of a Criſis, and alſo by drinking of Poyſon, or biting of venomous Beaſts, by which the whole Maſs of Blood looſes its former purity, and is corrupted into a Citron Colour'd Humour, by which means at length the whole Skin is infected, and tincted with a Yellow Colour; for the Jaundiſe is known by the Yellow Colour of the whole Body, but chiefly perceived in the Whites of the Eyes, as alſo by the dullneſs and Itching of the Body, bitterneſs of the Tongue, Chollerick Vomitings and Sighings.

That which takes its Riſe from vitriated Flegm, if ſtiffly adhering to the Inteſtines, produceth as it were a ſenſe of perforating the Inteſtines with an All or Stake, and is frequently accompanied with a Nauſeouſneſs and Vomiting, a Retention of Excrements, ſo that ſometimes the Wind can neither break upward nor downward, and oftentimes a Pain, now in this part, and anon vehimently infeſting another, by which the Pains of the Chollick may be diſtinguiſhed from the Pains of the Gravel and Stone; but it is much more manifeſt if the Pain be in the higher parts of the Reins, and vitriated Flegm be ejected by Stool, or the Pain hath been quieted either with the Ejection of the indurated Stools, or with other matter; for theſe do ſufficiently manifeſt the Chollick other ways, as chiefly the place and a ſtability, but otherwiſe dull pain of the Legs ſtraight upward, and the Excluſion of Sand, Gravel and Stone, doth ſhew that the pain is the pain from the Stone.

THe Liver, (whoſe Office it is to receive the Blood from the Vena Portae) being ſeperated from the Gauliſh Humour, and depurated, and to lead it into the Vena Cava, it lies open to many and various Diſeaſes, ſuch as be hot and cold Intemperatures, Obſtruction, Scirrhus, Inflamation and Pain; an Obſtruction is very familiar to the Liver, and it is aſſaulted with no diſtemper more than this, which is eaſily done by reaſon of the ſmall Branches of the Vena Portae diſperſed every where into the ſubſtance of the Liver, the Cauſes be theſe.

Firſt the more obſtructed Pores of the part, binding things, a Contuſion, Compreſſion and Ligature.

The ſecond is by reaſon of the unaptneſs of the Blood to paſs the Pores, becauſe of its great Viſcidity and Thickneſs.

A Cachexia is an evil habit of Body, and as it were a Dropſie, it is a more ſoft and looſe Conſtitution of the fleſhy and skinny parts of the whole Body, and as it were a puffing up with an ill favour'd Colour of the whole Skin, either Pale, Livid, or Leadiſh; this evil is wont to come from impure, naughty, and corrupt Aliments; but if theſe be not the cauſe it is charged upon the Imbecility or Impurity of the Stomach and Viſcera, for Imbecility produces a weak and crude Concoction; for the parts of the more pure Aliments being carryed into the habit of the Body, notwithſtanding it is ſent to, and as it were agglutinated to the parts, yet it is not perfectly aſſimilated; and from hence is made not true and legitimate nutrition, but a viſcious and unprofitable; the Impurity of the Viſcera maketh an evil and corrupt Blood, which at length is brought into all the parts, and being unuſeful to be diſſipated into the Subſtance of the Body, thence follow an unmeet nouriſhment, the external Cauſes are Meats of evil Juice, frequent gorging of the Belly, ſtudying too late at night, over much watching, ſuppreſſae evacuationes menſium, ſuppreſſion of the Hemorrhoides, frequent bleeding at the Noſe, or ſtopping of other Matter, which were wont to flow as a Diarraea, and Dyſenteria longa. Long being in Priſon, and Subterranian places, Venom being drunk, or the Bite of venomous Beaſts; that alſo which makes much to this Diſeaſe is continual Fevers, ſtubborn obſtructions of the Liver or Spleen, hard and Scirrhous Tumors; old people are alſo corrupted with this Diſeaſe, by reaſon of the Imbecility of the Native Heat; and Women (ob retenſionem menſium) and Children by Gluttany or exceſſive eating. And alſo a Cachexia ſometimes hath its original from an Ulcer of the Reins, where there is Gravel, when the perulent Matter, by reaſon of the Obſtruction of the Ureters, flows back into the Reins, and ſo infecting the Blood, the whole habit is defiled.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 tabes 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Corrumpo, in Latin Tales, and in general it is taken for the Extenuation of the whole Body, and it is accepted for any thing that flows from the ſame Cauſe, and in that ſenſe it is taken among Phyſitians, and ſo it is taken frequently; for that Conſumption of the whole Body, which flows from the Ulcers of the Lungs, and ſo this Calamity may be defined, it is an Ulceration of the Lungs from a ſharp Matter coroding cum febre lenta, a Cough with a foul and perulent Spittle, by which by little and little the whole Body is Conſumed aad Extenuated.

The Cauſe of the Phthiſis is beſides the viſcions Conſtitution of the Lungs, a ſharp and ſalt Diſtillation from the Head, as alſo a ſharp Humour from the neighbouring parts caſt into the Lungs, as Inflamation, Suppuration of the pleura mediaſtina Diaphragma, and aſpera arteriae, which is converted into an Epyema, and from thoſe naughty depraved Humours which are generated, there is produced a Phthiſis, and moreover from the broken or eroded Veſſels of the Lungs▪ and putrifying there, this evil is contracted.

The Anticedent Cauſes be viſcious Humours Collected in the whole Body, which when they be moved or ſtirred, from External Cauſes, and tranſmitted to the Brain, and thence flow into the Lungs, and if to this there happens a ſuppreſſion of other wonted Evacuations of the Hemorhoids vel Menſium.

The External Cauſes are Contagious Air very hot or cold, or the Autumn Air.

Thoſe which are diſpoſed to a Conſumption are ſuch who have narraw Breaſts, their Neck long and narrow, and their Shoulders ſtanding up.

The Signs be theſe, a continual Cough, at firſt a Bloody Spittle, and afterwards perulent, a ſmall and continual Fever, which afflicts moſt in the might, an Extenuation of the whole Body, a difficult Reſpiration; the Diſeaſe being confirmed, the Puſs becomes ſtinking.

But the third is an Excretion of Black and ſhining Blood, and this is Gold Melancholly.

But the fourth and laſt is a Dyſentery, in this the Inteſtines are primarily affected, which does appear by the Torments and Gripings of the Belly, and it is defined thus, it is a frequent, crude and perulent Dejection, with pain and ulceration of the Belly and Inteſtines, from a ſharp Matter Eroding, which is peculiarly contrary to the Inteſtines. The next cauſes are certain ſharp Humours, obtaining a peculiar and an occult diſpoſition with which the Inteſtines are Infeſted and Exulcerated.

The remote cauſes are naughty and unſuitable Food, Muſty Drinks, Water that runs through Leaden and Old Pipes, the uſe of Autumnal Fruits, as of Grapes, and other ſuch like venomous and violent Medicines, the Air in the Spring being hot and dry, after a rainy aed ſlabby Winter, accompanyed with Southerly Winds; for oftentimes this Diſeaſe is ſtirred up at the end of Summer and beginning of Autumn, and in Countries very hot, for it doth ſhew forth very much Contagion in thoſe hot parts of the World in the production of this Affect.

The parts affected are the Inteſtines, ſometimes the thick ſometimes the thin, and ſometimes both; if this diſtemper be in the thiner Bowels, it bewrayeth it ſelf very much in theſe following Signs, The Torments do come by longer intervails, the pain is more ſharp, and ſheweth it ſelf to be about or above the Navel, the Feces and Blood are very much confounded, and mixed together, becauſe before they are caſt forth, they perform a long Journey.

When the thicker Bowells are affected, the pain is not ſo great; and the Torments are not only felt in the lower Bowels, but alſo preſently after the Torments the Excrements are caſt forth, upon which alſo there ſwimeth a Cruor, which is in the other intimately united.

A Diarrhea (which as it is commonly taken, doth note every flowing of the Belly) but properly ſo called, it is an immoderate, frequent, or continual dejection of the Belly, in which there flows not Crude Aliments as in a Lienteria, neither bloody filths as in a Diſſenteria, but Excrementious and more unmixed Humours, more ſincere in quantity and quality, without Inflamation, Exulccration, or a vehement ſence of Pain; the abundance and pravity of the Humours procureth this Diſeaſe by ſtirring up the Expulſive faculty of the Stomack and Inteſtines; things furthering this Diſeaſe are Errors committed in Diet, and Meats of evil Juice, venomous and eaſily corrupted, and gorging themſelves with exceſs of Food, new Beer or Ale, intemperate Air, the omiſſion of bodily Exerciſe, the conſtriction of the Pores of the whole Body.

In the Caeliacal Paſſion this is taken for a Cauſe, viz. the ſtraining through of the Chyl (being hurt by the ſpungeous ſcurf of the Inteſtines) in paſſing into the Milky Veins; moreover the Lienteria does often ſucceed moſt grievous and deadly Diſeaſes, as it is ſeen in a Dyſſentery and malignant Fever, becauſe of the great imbecility of the retentive faculty. Theſe Evils are not to be ſlighted, for that they draw the nutriment from the whole Body.

ARthritis or the Joynt-diſeaſe, Morbus articularis, which is alſo called Gutta articulorum plurium, it is a pain running from thence, which is a defluction of a ſerous and ſharp Humour falling into the Joynts hath ſtirred up the parts affected, the Membranes, Tendones and Ligaments, taking their original from the Perioſtium, and from thence indued with ſenſe; for the Joynt is made firm from theſe, the conjunct cauſe of the Gout is ſolution of unity; but the Antecedent is a ſerous Humour, Salt and Tarterous, from Aliments impregnated with a Tarter, from the imbecility of the parts appoin • ed to concoction, taking its original from thence; thoſe Foods being not well digeſted, by this means this ſalt and ſubtil Humour comes to the Joynts, the ſenſible parts being partly diſtended, and partly tearing by its Acrimony, bringeth moſt cruel and ſharp Torments, which can ſcarcely be laid aſleep again, although helps be adminiſtred by the very hand of Apollo; and hence it is called medicorum opprobrium.

The Fourth is the lighteſt of all, and is judged the ſafeſt, which doth not take the interiour Jaws only, but alſo the Pole and the Muſcles, and yet by a Tumor of theſe the interiour Muſcles of the Laring is preſt together, and all the entrance is ſtopped.

The Cauſes of all is Chollerick or Sanguine defluction which flows down into theſe ſeats, and bringeth either an Eryſipelus or a Phlegmon.

Or Angina is wont otherwiſe to be divided when the internal Muſcles of the Throat are inflamed with a great ſtraitneſs of Reſpiration, but alſo when the external are inflamed.

Again, when the internal Muſcles of the Face are taken with a Phlegmon, and doth very much hinder the ſwallowing, and at length the external parts of the Jaws and Chin are beſieged with an Inflamation.

Nota, The Baſtard is without a Fever, this is produced when there is a petuitous diſtillation falling into the Jaws and Muſcles of the Neck, and then perchance there is a Tumor, but without redneſs, heat or a Fever.

THe Melancholly is a Delirium joyned with fear, ſadneſs or ſorrow without a manifeſt Cauſe, and without a Fever, and it is either a deprivation of the Imagination and Ratiocination, ariſing from from a Melanchollick Phantaſm, by which he is detained in his thought by one Cogitation without a furious anger and a Fever, with ſadneſs and fear; the original of this Diſeaſe dependeth upon a certain diſpoſition of the Animal Spirits produced from the mixtion of a Melancholly Humour, to which there follows the ſad dark Phantaſms, which afterwards rouling the Objects to the Intellect, do ſtir up this doting and anguiſh of Mind. They who have this evil Diſeaſe are ſad and ſolitary, very fearful and ſtubborn, which from certain Phantaſms to themſelves, which neither are nor can be; they imagine many falſe things, they fear things not be feared, they ſudden and diſquiet the Mind without a cauſe, they are ſilent, Moroſe and ſuſpicious, they have hunger above what is uſual, they ſigh often, the Reſpiration is ſlow and ſeldom, and ſo is alſo the Pulſe, they ſpeak abſurdly.

Some are primarily affected from the Brain. Some by conſent of the whole Body. Others again are called Hypocondriack, and do return by Circuits or Intervals. And laſtly others are thus by a Symhathy of the Womb.

PAlpitatio Cordis, it is an immoderate and violent Concuſſion of the Heart, which being troubleſome to it, it endeavours to ſhake off; facultas motrix doth occaſion this; ſome troubleſome matter ſtirring of it up, which do ſtir or vex the Heart, ſuch as vapours and flatuouſneſs in malignant Fevers, ſuppreſſio menſium Hypochondriack Melancholly approaching the Heart, alſo putrid and ſharp Humours, and too copious, and ſo Gravel and Worms, for ſuch as theſe be many times generated in the Heart, and then it doth neceſſarily induce a Palpitation of the Heart, and alſo Tumors ariſing in the Praecordium, Blood effuſed from Wounds to the Heart, and alſo a nefect of vital Spirits, and preternatural heat in the Heart, as they ſtir up by a more vehement motion, ſo alſo a Palpitat • on which is a depraved motion enſues.

The Declination follows the Criſes, in which in the kindling of the Blood (languiſhing) it is not ſo hot, and being very powerful with the Vital Spirit, that now it ſubdueth the reſidue of this aduſt Matter, and by little and little caſteth it out, until it be reſtored to the former Vigour, or with the ſame too much depreſſed Spirit, more infected with the aduſt Excrements, and ſo it paſſeth away foul and impoveriſh • d; ſo that it doth not aſſimilate the Nutritive Juice; nor is it fit to circulation, nor to come to the Heart, nor to ſuſtain the Lamp of Life.

AN intermitting Fever is not leſs violent and intenſe, during the time of the Fit there is in this a furious heat of Blood, as in a continual, yet this is not peculiar to an intermitting, it hath a certain time of intermiſſion, and for the moſt part every Fit from the time of the cold or ſhaking, and the Fits return with certain States and Periods of time; ſo that it can hardly be meaſured, more exactly by a Clock or Dial; but this furious heat of the Blood conſtituting this Fever doth depend upon the aſſimilation of the nutritive Juice, the vice of the Blood it ſelf being fettered; for whilſt the nutritive Juice is not aſſimilated with the Blood; for although the Particles do perſiſt in the Maſs of Blood, as a Heterogeneus, and not of the ſame Stock or Linage; yet now it •• Circulated with it without tumult or trouble, and ſaturated with it to a ſwelling up of the Maſs of Cruor, and ſo that preſently boyleth, and catcheth a feveriſh heat, with which it is ſubdued or thruſt out of doors, as a Hetrogeneous thing, from the ſociety of which when the Blood is freed the intermiſſion of the feveriſh heat follows at length afterward from a freſh ſupply of this Juice a new Fit is induced; for the cauſe of this cold and ſhivering in the Fit of this Fever is ſtirred up, ſeems to be the fluor and ſweling, or puffing up, Viz. of the nutritive Juice degenerated into a nitrous and acetous Matter, wherewith the flowing Spirits and Heat are dulled and blunted, from thence there is perceived in the whole body a ſenſe of cold, and the nervous Bodies irritated are ſtirred up into tremblings, but afterwards with theſe nitrous Particles being thruſt forth from every part into the Superficies of the Body; the Blood being now freed from the weight and oppreſſion of them, do gather it ſelf together, and getting up again, do begin to ſhine forth, and ſo that moſt intenſe heat ſuccedeth, which perſiſteth till that Fermitive Matter be well nigh burnt, brought under and ſubtillated, and Evaporateth by ſweat, and inſenſible tranſpiration; but why the Fits do return often in the appointed intervals of times, ſuch a reaſon as this may be given for it, becauſe an equal portion of the nutritious Juice is continually adminiſtred to the Blood by flowing into the Veſſels.

Franciſcus Sylvius thinks the cauſe of all intermitting Fevers to be the pancreatical Juice ſtagnant in ſome part of it or more: The leading Veſſels of the Pancreas being obſtructed, and by its delay in that place is made ſharper; and that acid Acrimonia, and by the Flegm more or leſs viſcid is the cauſe of the ſaid obſtruction, the way being prepared, penetrating by force, and being poured out into the thin Inteſtine, and their ſtirring up with the Choller and Flegm the fury of the intermitting Fevers, are divided into Tertian, Quartan and Quotidian, the Tertian repeats its Fit every Third day, and if it be Exquiſite, it begins with a vehement ſhivering, to which a ſharp and a biting heat ſucceeds, which is turned into a ſweat, and the Fit is finiſhed within Twelve Hours.

The Third is, when the Febra's and Membranous Subſtance is waſted, and the whole Body waxeth lean, then follows Facies Hypocratica, the gaſtly Countenance, and the Bones only appear covered with the Skin: This is the true waſting and Hectick, which of the Greeks is called Maraſmodes, and which is incurable.

The internal Cauſes of the Hectick are burning and continual Fevers, Ulcers, and continual inflamations of the Liver, Stomack, Lungs, Reins and other Bowels. Thoſe things which refer to outward Cauſes are ſuch things as can generate other Fevers, ſuch things as do very much either conſume the humid Subſtance in the ſolid Members, or very much ſtirs up a continual heat, or are apt to perform both, to which the promptitute and diſpoſition of the ſubject, and the continual diſpoſition of heating do make to the receiving of this preternatural heat: Such are the heat of the Sun or fire, vehement Exerciſe, heating Meats and Drinks, immoderate Excretions, as a Diarrhea, Dyſenteria, Animi Pathemata, or more vehement paſſion of the Mind. And laſtly Hunger, a more hot and dry Habit of Body is more apt to take this Fever. The beginning Hectick is not eaſily known, the other kind is difficultly Cured. The Signs of all Hecticks are common, the heat of the whole Body is equal, and of which they do not complain, nor do they underſtand themſelves to be Feveriſh; it firſt appears weak, by reaſon of the fewneſs of the Vapours; but if thou wilt apply thy hand longer there appears a ſharpneſs and gnawing heat, by reaſon of the dryneſs and ſolidity of the ſubject, and greater in the Arteries than in other parts, by reaſon of the communion of the Heart; and this Heat increaſeth one Hour or two after Meat is received, no other ways waxing hot than Calx Vive, if Water or any ſuch thing be poured upon it, the Pulſe ſmall, frequent and ſwift, the Urine oleaginous with a branny ſedement.

RAchites, the Rickets, a Diſeaſe unknown to the Ancients, which yet at this day no Diſeaſe is more frequent in this Kingdom; it is a cold and moiſt intemperature of the whole Spinal Marrow entring the Skul, the ariſe of all the Nerves, and of all the Membranous and Febrous parts of the whole Body, with the defect and feebleneſs of the Spirits, and tone of the parts viſciated; the cauſe and parts primarily affected, do fetch their definition from this, whoſe Signs and Symptoms are looſeneſs and ſoftneſs of the parts primarily affected, debility and pining, or enervation of the parts ſerving to Motion, weakneſs and feebleneſs of the Joynts, the Head bigger than is meet, the Face fuller and more florid, the Muſculous parts wax lean, certain Protuberations and Nodes about certain of the Joynts, moſtly in the Riſt, and in the Extremity of the Ribs, a bowing or incurvating of ſome of the Bones, which more frequently happens to the Bones of the Cubit, Shins, Thighs and Shoulders, ſharpneſs and ſtraitneſs of the Breaſt, Bunches and Tumors of the Abdomen, Repletion and Tention of the Hypochondries, a frequent Cough, difficult Reſpiration, and many other evils of the Lungs, as the ſtuffing of them, hard Tumors, Impoſthumes, Inflamations growing or ſticking to the Pleura, a weak and a feeble Pulſe; the common Cauſe of which ſeems to be an unequal and unprofitable Nutrition; the Antecedent Cauſes are beſide the falt in the Seed of the Parents defiled with the like diſpoſition, redundant viſcious Humours in the Body, Flegm, Choller, and chiefly Melancholly; but the Procatarctical Errors committed in the uſe of res non naturales: Infants are taken with this Diſeaſe till they are Two Years and a half old, and ſometimes after.

A Convulſion in Greek called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , according to the Celſus is a diſtention of the Nerves: Or thus, a Convulſion is a continual and involuntary contraction of the Nerves and Muſcles towards their original, upon which there follows a ſtiffneſs, a deprivation of the Figure and Form of the Part, with a moſt cruel Pain, the Part affected is the Muſcle, which is the proper Inſtrument of voluntary Motion.

The neareſt Cauſe of this Convulſion is an Irritation of the Nervous Parts, from any thing moleſting and troubling the Muſcle, the Animal Faculty, performing the Motion, being drawn into conſent.

The Material Cauſes are any Humours; (Flegm only excepted) ſo that they have acquired alſo a certain occult enemical diſpoſition in the Nerve; as alſo the Vapours and Humours in the N • rves, and Chollerick Diſeaſe, which can pull the Nervous Parts, and become a true cauſe of Convulſion.

A Convulſion is either of the whole Body, or it is of more or fewer parts; that which is of the whole Body doth conſtitute Three Species or Sorts; the firſt is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , when the Head, Neck, and upper parts of the Back is pulled together. The ſecond 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , is when thoſe parts, or the lower parts of the Spine are vexed. The third is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , that wherein the Neck and whole Body appears ſtiff and bowed into neither part; but theſe laſt Species of the Cramp are very rare.

Moreover there are other Species of the Convulſion, which are wont to be called Flatulent, which by the Italians is called Crampa, and vulgarly with us Cramp; this happeneth oftentimes to the Muſcles of the Shoulders, Shins, Fingers, Hands and Feet; and this done with great Pain; that which is ſtirred up from Flatulentſy is not ſo dangerous; for that is eaſily taken away by frixion only.

THe Rhumatick Affect is near of Kin to the Gout, in which not only the Joynts, (as in the Gout) but in the whole Body, viz. in the middle ſpaces between the Joynts, the Muſcles, Membranes, and the whole Habit of the Body is tormented the Body is tormented with moſt cruel pains; this riſes from a ſerous Humour, accompanyed with a great Acrimonia, and ſometimes there is joyned with it a Flatus; alſo the Internal parts of the Body, as the Stomack, Inteſtines, Womb, Lungs &c. do ſometimes ſadly Experience the Rhumatick Affect.

Of thoſe Medicines which performs the things mentioned, mowing down the moſt ſtubborn and truculent Diſeaſe, rooting out their Seeds, that by good Diet, and the due uſe of res non naturales before mentioned, for that end that new and better fruit may grow in the room.

The first is our Pillulae Solares, or our Solar Pills, which are ſo called, becauſe they are of the Nature and Operation of the Sun; for as the Sun is among the Stars, ſo is this Pill to other Medicines; the Son hath Light in it ſelf, and being the Fountain of Light, communicates Light to others, and radiates the whole Ʋniverſe with its Beams, attenuates and rarifies the thick, diſſipates the thin, it Worms the Earth, the Womb of Vegitables and Minerals, it excites the whole Ʋniverſe to perform its Office to which it is deſtinated. So to be ſhort, theſe Pills of ours in like manner ſheds forth their power in our Bodies, they open stubborn Obſtructions of the Liver, Spleen, Pancra's Miſſentery, Midriff, purges the Head, cleanſes the whole Body of Flegm and Melancholly, takes away Obstructions of the Viſcera and Ʋriters, excites Nature into act, by which means theſe Pills Cure the Scurvy, Dropſie, Jaundies, Agues, Fevers, Kings-Evil, Rick • ts, Melancholly, Frenſie, Madneſs, Stinking-Breath, Vomiting, ſtopping of the Stomack, Green-ſickneſs, want of Appetite, kills Worms; it Cures ſhortneſs of Breath, barrenneſs in Women, Fits of the Mother, stoppages of their Months, they diſpoſe all filthy ſtinking Sores, Ʋlcers and Fiſtula's to healing, by mundifying and cleanſing the Blood above all other remedies by altering and taking away thc acidity thereof, and ſeperating its Hetrogeneous parts; they reſiſt corruption and putrefaction of Humours; and theſe Pills are eaſie to take being few in number, ſmall in Doſe, gentle in operation, certain in ſucceſs, being a certain remedy in moſt Diſeaſes. And ſuch as have been famous for doing good, and in ſome, as it was ſaid of the Sun, they Eradiate the whole Microcoſm with their ſolar Raies, ſhaving off the occaſional Cauſes of Diſeaſe, and enlivening the Archeus or innate Spirit, and inabling it to put forth all its power into Acts, by which means the Functions are ſet at liberty to perform their reſpective Offices. Beſides theſe Pills Cure the Scurvy and Pox above all other Remedies, cauſing the filthy Scabs to vaniſh, and in ſhort time to fall off like Leaves in Autumn; restoring the Body in ſtatu quo prius, clearing the Skin of all morphewous filths, and reducing it to its former floridity. They that have this Remedy will want few others, and for all mens uſe becauſe cheap in price, and excellent in their Effects.

The next Remedy is our Cordial Wine, which Cures the Scur • y, Leues Venerea, Dropſie and Gonorrhea; this Cordial Wine purges the Blood, and frees it from all watriſhneſs, it opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, purifies the Blood, promotes its Circulation, comforts the Heart, revives the Spirits, opens the Pores, cauſes gentle breathings, and by gentle tranſpiration frees the Body from burdenſome offending Humours and Filths caſt to the Habit, by which means the Body becomes quick, nimble and ſprightly, fit for the performance of its Offices with agility and pleaſure; and as this Wine is of great Vertue, ſo it is of ſmall price, and therefore a Remedy for the Poor.

The third Remedy is our Anodyn, which puts forth ſuperlative Effects in the Gout, Stone, and almost in all Diſeaſes, and eſpecially in the most deplorable, it is a moſt Rich high Cordial, comforting and reviving the Spirit in the moſt languiſhing Diſeaſe, ſeewtens the Blood, thickens Rheums, ſtops and totally takes away Catarrhs, ſtrengthens the Brain, opens the Pores, cauſes gentle tranſpiration, an Effectual Remedy in all Rheumatiſms, giving ſweet, delightful and ſafe eaſe in all manner of pain, even in the Stone and Gout, in Excoriation of the Lungs, and Aſpira Arteria, it is a good Remedy by which Conſumption and Ʋlceration of the Lungs are prevented, and conſequently many delivered (to our Knowledge) from inevitable death.

In Vapours and Fits of the Mother, where all Remedies have failed this hath never. This Remedy dulls and takes away the Orgaſmus Sanguinis, which puts the Womb into ſuch a fury, that no other Remedy will ſo certainly, ſafely and ſpeedily appeaſe it.

This being a Diſeaſe ſo general almoſt to all the Female Sex, of what Condition or Degree ſoever, and that which ſo miſerably afflicts ſo many, making their Lives ſo uncomfortable, and by which means have cauſe to believe many are diſpatched to the Grave alive, under a bare ſuſpicion that they are dead, when they are only in a Fit through the ignorance of relation and tender, theſe things conſidered, what a value would this put upon ſuch Remedies as that hath been found to be, in truth time would fail us if we ſhould tell the Times, Caſes and Perſons wherein we have put a ſtop to the moſt Impetuous Carrear of the most truculent Diſeaſe, Acute, Peracute and Chronical, we could inſtance in Fevers, Conſumption, and ſometimes where according to the Indicium of Diſeaſes, we have had good reaſon to believe a beginning Conſumption of the Lungs, by means of this Remedy the Rheums have been thickened, the Brain comforted, the Blood ſweetened, the taſt, whether Salt or Acid, of the Catarrh or Snivil altered and ſweetened, the Hectick appeaſed, the Feveriſh Morbifick Matter caſt through the Pores, they being gently opened, the Archeus quieted, the Lungs eaſed, and a reſpit being procured to them from violents, occaſioned from perpetual Coughing and Labour to pump up the offending Matter, and this not by stopping the proper paſſages of Expectoration and weakning of Nature, ſtupifying the ſenſes, but by altering the dſpoſition of this forrein Gueſt, strengthning of Nature, com • orting and reviving of the Spirits, fortifying of the parts, and eſpecially them moſt concerned, the Brain and Lungs, cooling the Fever: This and much more is done, if the Testimony of the Sick may be believed, by this means as is ſaid we have Cured Beginning Conſumption, and never could perceive the leaſt Veſtigium or Footſtep of any inconvenienſie ariſing thence, and therefore this may be called Divine Anodynum for its apparent and ſuperlative Effects that it puts forth in the moſt dolorous and afflicting Diſtempers, and as in theſe ſo in many others.

Our next Remedy is our Laudanum without Opium, which appeaſes the Archeus, Eradiates the whole Microcoſm with its ſolar Raies, the Remedy is a true reſtorer and preſerver of Health, being given four times in a Month, a preſervative, and commonly three times in a week for a Curative; for this Medicine Eradiates its Vertue through the whole Body, and Expels from it all Impurites, either ſenſibly by Sweat or Ʋrine, or inſenſibly by gentle or amicable tranſpiration.

The Fourth is our famous Antidote or Remedy againſt Convulſions and Falling-ſickneſs, with two or three Spoonfulls of of which, according to age and strength we have ſnatcht many from the Jaws of Death, where the Diſtemper hath baffled the moſr powerful and prevailing Remedies againſt thoſe Diſeaſes, Inſtances of which we ſhall give you herafter at the latter end of this Book; and though we have uſed them for may years, yet to our Knowledge have not failed where instructions have been obſerved; this Remedy hath no apparent Operation by either Vomit or Stool, and ſuitable to any Age or Condition.

Fifthly our ſure Balſom for the Aſthma, ſhortneſs of Bre • th and Conſumption; where this doth not good none will, which we have Experienced for many Years as a ſure Remedy eaſie to take for all Ages or Sexes, a Balſom which we believe will never corrupt or decay.

The Sixth is our Vegetable Cordial Tincture, whoſe Vertue will commend it ſelf, bebeing a high Cordial, and of Volatile parts, friendly to our Microcoſm, next of Kin to our Animal and Vital Spirits, and therefore quickly and eaſily aſſimilated and drawn into Ʋnity with us, and Corroborates the Heart, revives the Spirit, opens the Pores, and all Obſtructions, is ſingular against Lipothymia and Syncope, all Swounding and Faintings whatſoever flowing from a debility of the Spirits, or Obſtruction of the Nobler parts, or defiſ • entſie of ſupply to the Lamp of Life, good in all Fevers whether malignant or peſtilent of what ſort ſoever.

The Seventh is our Cordial or Cachexical Pill, ſo called becauſe it is our infallible Remedy againſt all Female Obſtructions, Green-ſickneſs, Feebleneſs, ſhortneſs of Breath, pain in tha Head, ſides proved ſo by many infallible Experiments, and is highly Cordial, and without any manifest Operation, it wonderfully ſtrengthens the Heart, revives the Spirits, corroborates and ſtrengthens the Heart, by bringing in freſh ſupplies of Fuel to the Vital Fire, it takes away the pain of the Head after a wonderful manner. In ſum, its Doſe is whatſoever any Phyſitian can in that Coſe deſire.

The Eighth is our Remedy againſt Conſumption, and all Diſtempers of the Lungs which is a precious Balſom next of Kin to our Humidum Radicale, it comforts all the Natural powers of the whole Body, it purifies the Blood from all Impurities, from whence various and cruel Diſeaſes are wont to ariſe, it preſerves from the Apoplexie, Convulſion of the Nerves, Leproſie, Leues Venerea, it is the only Specificum of the Lungs: It preſerves from, and Cures the Aſthma, it takes away both old and new Coughs, it conſumeth and drys up defluction flowing from the Head, it comforts the Brain, it hinders the ventaſitie of the Stomack and Chollick, it is an admirable remedy for the Hectick, comforting and ſtrengthning of Nature, it is a ſecret help for Conſumptions, increaſing the radical moiſture, it wonderfully conduceth in the Gout, whether in the Joynts or Feet, as alſo in the Sciatica. Like an occult Fire it conſumeth Diſeaſes as Fire conſumeth Wood.

The next is our Pill Hydragogum, which opens Obſtructions of the Viſcera, Liver, Miſſentery, Spleen, and all other parts, cleanſing the Stomack of all Clammy and Flegmatick Matter, ſticking to the Tunicle thereof, Curing the Dropſie, and all wateriſh Diſtempers, cleanſing and ſtrengthning the Liver, and the Tone of all the parts, deſtinated to Concoction, waſhing and ſhaving off all ſlimy Matter adhering to the Viſcera, the refuſe of imperfect Concoction.

The Tenth is our Remedium Melangogum, which we have Experienced in all Melancholly Affects, and in which we have failed none, and that theſe may appear to be more than words, we will give you Inſtances of Perſons by Name, and Place of abode that we have Cured, and ſuch as have been deſpicably afflicted with this Black and ſad Diſeaſe even to deſpair of Cure, and diſpair in Mind, and ſome that have come to a Mania, the higheſt Degree of Madneſs.

And this Remedy does by a very gentle opening of Obſtructions, by inciding, cutting, and diſsolving of the Tarterous Clammy Filths that obſtruct the Viſcera, Miſſentery. Liver, Spleen and Stomack, wonderfully altering the temper of the Humours and Parts, and by conſequence takes away all Inſtamation and Dyſcraſia Sanguinis in the Parts where theſe Filths are uſed to ſtick; ſo that the Tarterous Clammy Matters are waſhed away, the Stomack gently cleanſed, the Flatus Hypochoudraicus repeled, and ſtrangely allayed, the Hypochondriack pains vaniſh, and the Mind quieted, and Health reſtored, the Mind, and ſo the Body Capacitated to put forth all its wonted Offices, for the wellfare of its own Being.

The Eleventh is our Febriſiga, which Cures Fevers, and all Quartan Agues by a gentle Operation in opening Obstructions of the Spleen, and all the harberers of Melancholly Filths, taking away the ferment of Fevers and Agues, and that in a ſhort time.

Our Speciſicum for the Rickets, which Cures in a ſhort time by opening Obſtructions of the Veſſels deſtinated to Concoction, and takes away the occaſion of that ſad Symptom the Atrophia, the waſting and conſuming of one Part, by an Erronious diſtribution of the Aliment, which ought to be ſent to it, and aſſimilated by it, and the monſtrous growth of ſome one Part by altering the Aliment due unto it. Theſe and all other grievous Symptoms attending this Diſeaſe are taken away, in a wonderful manner in a ſhort time.

And there is yet another, viz. our Remedy most peculiar to all Women againſt all Vapours, whether Hiſterick, viz. from the Womb, or from the Hypochondriack, which marvellouſly ſuppreſſes all Melancholly Fumes from the Womb, Spleen, Stomack, or any other parts, by which means it Cures Fits of the Mother, Palpitation of the Heart, Pains in the Stomack, with thoſe Pains that ſo much afflict Women at the upper part of the Oeſophagus, or in the Throat, which makes them fear they ſhall be ſuddainly Choaked Fits, Heart-qualmnes, all manner of Effects riſing from Fumes below the Head, Pains of the Head, Swoundings, Faintings riſing from any cauſe, of which we have had many Hundred Experiments.

And lastly our Remedium Faetiſicum, which is a ſingular Medicine against barrenneſs, it cleanſes the Womb from all things that hinder Conception, it worms, ſtrengthens, and diſpoſes it to bear Fruit, it takes away the Impediments proceeding from what Cauſe ſoever; it is eaſie to take, being very pleaſant, and without any manifest Operation, and that of which we have had Experience.