Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to the foote: explayning the nature of each disease, with the part affected; and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. ... Written by that famous and worthy physician, VValter Bruel.

Signes.

Besides the ordinary signes of melancholyans, by the excessiue heate of the humors, the parts about the heart are inflamed, and seeme to be somewhat mitigated by cold meates: oftentimes the patient doth feele paine in his sto∣macke, and short ribs, after he hath eaten such meates that are not easie of digestion, for from hence much crudity is caused, whereof the more plenty there is, by so much the more doth this mischiefe rage. They doe eate much, but in the meane while they haue their bellies bound: they breake winde often, and belch very much, which is caused by raw and melancholly humors contayned in the aforesayd places. In those places are very frequent rumblings, & mur∣murs heard; and this is an especiall signe of this disease. Sometimes they haue paines in their shoulder, the Midrife is drawne vpwards, the arteries beate strongly, and disor∣derly; Ringing in the eares, and inflamations of veines and eyes, are caused by vapours which are carried vp thither. Their sleepe is short and troublesome. They are troubled with a dizzines, and palpitation. Vomit of crude phlegme is caused, wherewith choller is sometime mixed. They are eased of their paine, after they haue digested that which they haue eaten, after stooles, vomits, and belchings.