CAP. XII. De Hemicrania.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Is a painful distemper of one half part of the head onely, which ariseth from those parts that are situated beneath it.
Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield ...
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- Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield ...
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- Bayfield, Robert, b. 1629.
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- 1663.
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He micrania multo durans tempore, & quae in∣curabilis facta est, ad malas oculorum aegritudines, visus scilicet debilitatem, & caecitatem, perducere solet.
A certain Gentleman was troubled with a pain possessing the one half of his head, for many years together; and after many Medicines tryed in vain, he was cured by the smoke of Amber, which he received in at his mouth and nostrils, for half an hour together, when the pain was upon him.
Paraeus and Formius highly commend the opening of an artery in the temples, for the cu∣ring of Hemicrania; especially if the cause pro∣ceed from hot, thin, and vaporous blood, which will yield to no Medicines.
Zacutus Lusitanus propounds four Remedies, confirmed by experience: Namely, An Issue in the back of the hand, between the thumb and fore finger; opening of the vein in the forehead, and the corner of the eye, and Horse-leeches to the temples. He is not content to apply two or three, as ordinarily is done, but ten or twelve, round about the temples; whence comes a great attraction of blood, which may draw forth the whole matter of the disease.
Among the proper Medicines for the Head∣ach, from what cause soever it ariseth, Vervain is the chief; whose water distilled, you may both apply externally, and give of it internally, to the quantity of four ounces, with three drops of the Spirit of Salt.
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Green Vervain onely hung about the neck hath cured two Patients, when many other Me∣dicines failed, as Forestus reports.
Sweating decoctions are very good in Hemi∣crania; and famous Authors declare that many have been cured thereby.
Plura de Hemicrania, & Cephaloea, Vide in meo Enchiridio Medico, lib. 1. c. 16.