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

CAP. XCVII. De Haemorrhagia narium.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, The Haemorrhage, is an immode∣rate excretion of the blood by the veins of the nose, the said veins being divided, rarified, or opened.

Drops of blood upon the day of demonstra∣tion, namely, the fourth, or eleventh, shew∣eth that there will be an Haemorrhagy upon the Critical day; namely, the seventh, or fourteenth, because in those days nature begins to transfer the humors to those parts.

Sanguis è naribus die critico moderatâ quantitate fluens, salutaris. Haemorrhages that are very

great are the worst, for they tend to a Convulsi∣on. I•• in bleeding, either doting or Convulsion happen, it is a very bad sign; Spasmus enim ex inanitione mortalis est. An Haemorrhagy in the beginning of a disease is evil, because it is sympto∣matical, and comes from the malignity of the mat∣ter, nature being stirred up to send it forth be∣fore her time. It is also evill, if in the affects of the Liver it flow out of the left nostril, and in the affects of the Spleen, out of the right, quia omnis bona evacuatio 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 debet fieri) and espe∣cially if it be accompanied with a sweating of the brest or head. A few drops coming from the nose, on the Critical day, are evill, na∣turae enim imbecillitatem, & malignitatem morbi significant. But a drop coming upon the day of indication, and signs of concoction also appear∣ing, it signifies that there will be an Haemorrha∣gy upon the critical day, as I hinted before. If bleeding at the nose have continued long, swoun∣ding, weakness, and too much cooling of the liver, Cachexia or Dropsie is to be feared: To him who hath bled at the nose, in quartan Fevers, it is evil; for, as Avicen saith, bleeding in Melancholy and Flegmatick people is hurtful, because it cool∣eth too much. It is a good sign, if the Patient by bleeding be eased of pain.

A young Roman, as Galen reports, had an a∣cute disease, and thought he saw a red serpent about the Chamber seeling; at which being

frighted, he leaped out of his bed: Hence Galen foretold an Haemorrhagy at hand, and hindred the letting of blood, which other Physitians had prescribed. Avicen saith, that blood hath come from the nose to the quantity of four pints by a Crisis, without any decay of strength; this might fall out in some plethorick body, such a one as the young Roman, whom Galen suffered to bleed four pints and a half before he would stop it.

Filia mea, tres circiter annos nata, Haemorr∣hagia narium correpta, retenta fuit Bufonis exic∣catae (quam semper mecum retineo) appropinquati∣one ad nasum. Et eodem modo Filium meum cu∣ravi, post sufficientem sanguinis evacuationem.

Homo quidam Haemorrhagiâ narium laborans, cùm ad me venisset ut sublevaretur, venam statim atque habuit à me apertam; postque trium aut qua∣tuor unciarum sanguinis evacuationem, in animi deliquium incidit, & statim Haemorrhagia narium penitus cessavit.

A certain Gentleman was taken with so vio∣lent a bleeding at the nose, that he was much weakned thereby; for the stoppage whereof ma∣ny Remedies being used, this alone did the cure; Viz. Vinegar and water frequently snuffed up into his nostrils, quo statim cohibitus est sanguinis fluxus. Which Flux breaking out again two days after, he used the Vinegar and Water after the same manner as before, and it was presently stopped.

A Country man being almost dead with bleed∣ing at his nose, a little vinegar of Roses was drop∣ped into that ear which was next the nostril out of which the blood came, and his bleeding pre∣sently ceased.

A certain Gentleman, having lost at least twelve pound of blood from both nostrils, had two cup∣ping glasses set upon his feet, without scarificati∣on, which wonderfully stopped the Flux; but af∣ter the cupping glasses had been a while fixed, the Patient fell into a swound; and therefore they took them off, and threw water in his face, by which he recovered; and then being refresh∣ed with the scent of Wine he came to himself, and was restored to his former health, from his bleeding, beyond all expectation.

A piece of money bound to the root of the nose (between the eye-brows when the veins or arteries in the forehead or temples do swell) stop∣peth the Flux. And for the better compression, you may lay upon the money a pledget, dipt in the white of an Egg beaten with time.

Pereda speaks of an old woman, that was cu∣red of an Haemorrhagy of three days continu∣ance, onely by Mints put into the Nose.

Rodericus à Castro, in his Book de morbis Mu∣lierum, saith, that a Physician of seventy years old, given to violent bleeding, carried always Asses dung not quite dry about him in a Box, than which, he confessed, he never knew a better

medicine; especially, if when it was dry, he mix∣ed it with the juyce of a Nettle, or if wet, he put it alone into his Nose.

Some use a Cataplasm, ex bolo armena, mixed cum ovi albumine & aceto, with very good suc∣cess.

Vinegar alone will stop blood, if the forehead be fomented therewith in a spunge.

And so will the Cotton of an Inkhorn, if squeezed a little, and bound to the forehead.

Plura de Haemorrhagià narium vide in meo En∣chiridio Medico, lib. 3. cap. 18.

Praeterca in periculosissimo casu (si permaximè debilis non sit aegrotus) cum nulla praevalent reme∣dia, tria aut quatuor grana Laudani, cujus operatio cujuslibet fluxus humorum{que} motionis repressio est, adhibere potes.