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.

An Appendix seruing for the cure of the DROP∣SIE, called in Latine, AS∣CITES.

FIrst, the humors shall bee well concocted, at the length such things shall be prescribed that doe take away the water out of the body; to these such things shalbe added, as doe comfort the liuer, and amend the distemper, and this may bee effected both by inward and outward medicines: the accidents also that doe follow this disease, must be amen∣ded, viz. thirst, swelling of the parts of the body, the stop∣ping of vrine, and many other accidents formerly recited. Cataplasmes and Vnguents, must be applyed to the belly with great care, for they must not touch the region of the liuer. For the swelled legges, a bath may bee made with lee made with the ashes of Cabbages, Fig-trees, Vines,

Alome, salt, and the roote of Daffodill. And then cataplasm•• may be made with Cows and Goats-dung, figs and wine. In the tympany those things shalbe prescribed that do dis∣cusse the wind. And for this purpose emplaisters that heate and dry, are very good. Anasarca wilbe cured by purging medicines, and such as doe prouoke vomiting▪ after that, baths, and dry stewes, and such as cause sweat are good, if the strength will permit, or if the disease be caused by the suppression of the monethly terms or hemroids, a veine shalbe opened, but in Tympanita, and Aascite, a veine shall not be opened, although the vrine be very red, for here∣by the cold distemper of the liuer would be increased. Yet in the latter of these two, rather then the monethly termes and hemroids shalbe suppressed, a veine shalbe opened, lest the matter should runne to the liuer, and so the liuer bee ouercharged.