Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield ...

CAP. XIII. De Monoplegia, seu Clavo.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, seu Clavus, is a sharp pain pos∣sessing a small part of the head, most com∣monly the right or left eye-brow, as if a nail were driven in there, caused by a fierce and sub∣til matter shut up with some wind.

Forestus, in one of his Observations, declares, how his wife Eva Teylingia, being taken, in the year 1572. in the moneth of January, with the pain of the head called Clavus, and much afflict∣ed with the Cough; after she had used a de∣coction of Hysop, Betony, Maidenhair, Rai∣sins, and such like; was helped with the follow∣ing Pills, which she took after midnight.

℞ Pilul. mastichinarum ℈. i. ss. pilul. cochi∣ar. aurear. de agarico, ana, ℈ ss. cum syr. è stoe∣chade: Fiant pilulae quinque. They gave six stools, and so she was delivered from her pain.

Formius, in his 31 Observation, saith, That the opening of the temporal artery does wonderful∣ly help in Monoplegia, or Clavus, and that he hath safely performed it in many. Concerning the manner of doing of it, vide Riverii observationes, cent. 2. observ. 56. & 89. & Simeonis Jacoz observ. 12. sicut & Paraei, lib. 17. cap. 6.

Anno Domini 1642. Memini unum ex cogna∣tis meis circiter annos quinquagenos natum correp∣tum fuisse vehementissimo dolore paulo supra dex∣trum supercilium, quitandem in phrenitidem ipsum ingessit; but escaping that danger, fifteen years after he was taken with the like pain, and fear∣ing the like event, I first prescribed a dose of Cephalick Pills, which wrought very well; and then caused him to chase and bathe the part af∣fected with that incomparable Unguent set down in my Tractate, De tumoribus praeter natu∣ram, sect. 1. cap. 5. p. 21. After twice or thrice using it, the pain was quite taken away, and re∣turned no more. And so much touching the Symptomes of the External senses: Next fol∣low those of the Common sense.