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

CAP. XXXVI. De Caro.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is a deep, and profound sleep, with the hurt of the sense, and motion (the breathing only excepted) and likewise the ima∣gination, arising from the impeded motion of the Animal Spirits. Et dicitur 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 quòd caput in eo gravetur, pars enim anterior cerebri potissimum in caro afficitur. Ab Arabibus subeth nucupatur.

Carus in declinatione febrium continuarum pro∣veniens, si vires sint debiles, lethalis est. It is e∣vil, if it befall the party after some great evacu∣ation, or if in it the breathing be hurt; the cure is exceeding doubtful, Si cum capitis gravitate carus conjungitur; because that a humor not o∣ver gross and thick, penetrating into the sub∣stance of the Nerves, and extending them, im∣mediatly a Convulsion follows.

Peter Whitebread, a Baker, I remember, was taken with a most grievous Caros, insomuch that when I prickt the sole of his foot with a Needle, he stirred not in the least, neither did he taste the bitterness of this Potion which I gave him: ℞ Extracti Rudii (quia melancholico tempera∣mento affectus erat) ℈ i. pillularum cochiarum, ʒ i. Resinae benedict. gr. iii. Aquae betonicae, ℥ ii. misce. It gave him nine or ten stools; after which, he

came to himself, and was able to sit up; yet for fear of a Relapse, I prescribed him Clysters, gave him more Pils to take, one at a time, every second or third day: Also Sneezing pouder with Castoreum was not omitted, and sometimes a draught of Mithridate was given him last at night in Posset ale, wherein the flowers of Rose∣mary and Betony had been boiled: Thus at length he was perfectly cured, and is at this day in very good health.

A certain man taken with a profound sleep, having a cold and moist brain, abounding with flegm; after Oxymel sciliticum, & syrup. de stoechade, given to prepare the humor, he took the following Pills, with most happy success; ℞ Pilul. cochiar. ℈ ii. ss. Castorei, ℈ ss. cum sy∣rupo de stachade, fiant pillulae: Next. ʒ i. of Treacle was given; after which he awoke, and returned to his own minde.

The daughter of a certain Goldsmith, four years old, was taken with this sleepy evil, for the removing of which, there was given her of the juyce of Onions, and ordinary Oyl, of each one spoonful mixed together, wherewith she vomi∣ted, and was presently cured.