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

CAP. XCIII. De Sonitu, seu Tinnitu Aurium.

TInnitus, or ringing noise, is defined to be a preternatural sound in the ears made and perceived in the instrument of hearing, or else in the cavity of the Head-bone, arising from va∣pours, First shut up therein, and then moved.

As to the Prognostick, a new begun noise in the head is easily cured, but an old hardly, and the more si à luë venerea ortum habet. Si in fe∣bribus sonitus aurium fiat ex spiritu vel humore frigido & crasso, sponte sonitus ille, absque medica∣mentorum usu, cessare solet. Pulsationes in capite, & sonitus aurium, haemorrhagiam narium signifi∣cant. Diuturnus aurium tinnitus à materia pitui∣tosa

in aure contenta oriundus, in surditatem dege∣nerat; for when the matter is increased, the pas∣sage of hearing is stopped.

A certain Gentlewoman, 36 years of age, troubled with a ringing noise in her head, I thus helped: ℞ Extracti Rudii, ʒ ss. Calomelanos, gr. vi. resinae jalappae, gr. iv. misce, & f. pil. num. vi. they wrought very well, and did her much good: Next I commanded her to sneeze every third morning with a little of this pouder; ℞ Pulveris sternutatorii, (descripti in meo Enchi∣ridio Medico, p. 6.) ℈ ss. pulveris castorei, gr. iii. misce. Every night, for seven nights together, there was dropt into her ear two or three drops of Carduus water, twice distilled; after which, the ringing noise in her head was quite taken a∣way, and returned no more.

Plura de hoc affectu vide in meo Enchiridio Me∣dico, lib. 3. cap. 14. Next follow the diseases, and symptomes of the nostrils.