The methode of phisicke conteyning the causes, signes, and cures of invvard diseases in mans body from the head to the foote. VVhereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our phisitians commonly vse at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, & names of ech [sic] medicine. By Philip Barrough.
Barrough, Philip, fl. 1590.

CAP. VIII. Of headache caused of windynes.

IF headach be caused of windines,* the diet vsed before was such as did engen∣dre wind besydes the nature of the body, and other circunstāces were such as were apte to engēdre wind. The signes be these,* if ther be felt discention and stretching in the head without heauines & beating, and if ther be a sound & noyse in the eares, then doth it betoken windynes in the head.* The diet of the patient must altogether be suche as doeth not engender windynes. For the cure, if the win∣dynes be not only bredd in the head, but doeth ascend from some parte beneath: first of all you must vse suche medicines, as doe repell and dryue backe, such be vineger, pomgarnet rindes and flowers, wormewood, melilote, mintes, plantaine, walwort, bursa pastoris, nut∣megges, purcelaine, houslike, laurell leaues and such lyke. Which being moderatly vsed a whyle, you must then adde to those repulsyue thinges, some such medicines as doe mitigate concoct and digest, as be fenngreke, lynesead, cammomil, yolkes of egges, saffron, hennes grease, goose grease. &c. Laste of all adde discussyue medicynes oyles of dill, and rewe, barley meale, lupines, lillie rootes, nigella, &c. It is good therfor first of all to empty the bealy with a strong clister, but that must be made of a decoction that doth dissolue windi∣nes, by seathing in water anyse seades, and caraway seades, fennell sead, comyn, dry figges,* branne and suche lyke: herein you must dissolue benedicta laxatina. ʒ.iiij. or Electutrium Page  10idum in like quantity, or Diaphenicon. ʒ.iiij. or Diacatholicon. or hierepicre. ʒ.vij. Suche kinde of clysters doe not only purge the intestynes, and the partes about the lyuer, but doe alsoe pull back suche thinges as ascend to the head. Afterward you must strengthen the af∣fected member, that it doe engender wind noe more, whither it be the stomake, the lyuer, the splene, the intestynes, or any other member: which being done, if heat abound in the head together with the windines then apply oyle of roses, wich is both repulsiue, digestiue, and discussiue,* and add to it vineger which is both repulsyue and discussyue alsoe, and doth extenuate besydes. Alsoe rose water or iuyce of purcelaine, knotgrasse, or nightshade may be vsed & applyed whith a litle vineger. If ther be cold in the head with the wyndines, then vse oyles of cammomill or dill, mixed with a litle vineger, or if the greyse encrease apply the iuyce of rewe with vineger and oyle mixed together, or apply the iuice of the roote of floure de luce whith vinegre, or iuyce of laurell bearyes and rewe mixed with vineger is good to be applied. Likewyse bitter almondes beaten whith vineger and oyle, and applyed to the forhead in a linnen clothe, are very good, when the greyse doth first beginne to encrease. And if you had rather vse drye quiltes, you may make them at the first of milium, roses, wil∣lowe leaues, knotgrasse, nightshade, and purcelaine, and soe apply them to the forhead, and fore part of the head. Afterward you may adde to the afore said maiorame, serpillū, hysope, rewe, tender leaues of laurell, ciperns and such like. It is good also to vse odours and smelles, as Castoreum, muske, amber, and suche like. To prouoke sneasing, and to minister inward∣ly to the sicke is good, eyther Diacuminum, or Dianisum. ʒ.j. or as muche triacle, or Mithrida∣tum proffiteth. But if the wyndines be caused through imbecillitye of some partes of the head it selfe, then you shall not neede to vse repulsyue medicines, but rather concoctiue and discussiue medicines suche as are before declared. As for inwarde medicines they auaile or profit litle in this case.