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AS the parts of the body, so are the Diseases thereof divided into external and internal, those which speak of the internal Diseases are interpreted in this Distinction, those which touch the external in the following Distin∣ction.
A Summer more than ordinarily dry and cold, and a very wet and warm Autumn, do cause head-aches, Coughs, Hoarsenesse, Rheums in the Winter, and to some Ptisicks.
Troubled water in Feavers, like those made by Kine argue a head-ach present, or shortly to come.
Suffumigations of sweet odors bring down the monthly evacuations of Women, and were often profitable for other purposes, if they did not cause a heavinesse of the head.
It is hurtful to give milk to those who are troubled with pains in their head, &c.
The breathing of the streight vein in the fore∣head, takes away the Head-ache of the hinder part of the head.
Matter, water, or blood, flowing out of
the Nose, the Mouth or Ears, doth take away the Head-ache, and the vehement pains thereof.
If sudden pains of the head happen to health∣ful bodies, with losse of speech, and snorting in sleep accompany, they dye within seven days, unlesse a Feaver lay hold on them.
EIther sleeping or waking if they exceed a mean, are ill.
In the winter, Plurisies, Inflamations of the Lungs, and Lethargies, &c.
A Confirm'd or strong Apoplexy is incurable, a light one is easily cured.
Diseases for the most part are caused by con∣tinual rains, as long Feavers, Diarrhaeaes, Rot∣tennesse of humours, the Falling Sicknesse, and Apoplexies.
The Diseases of the winter season, are Pluri∣sies, Inflamations of the Lungs, Lethargies, Rheums, Hoarsenesse, Coughs, pains of the Breast, Sides, and Loins; Head-aches, Megrims, and Apolexies.
Diseases incident to old men, are difficulty of breathing, distillations causing coughs, Strangu∣ries, difficulty of urine, pains of the joynts and reins, Megrims, and Apoplexies.
[See this Aphorisme in the last Aphorisme in the Chapter of the Diseases of the Head.]
Apoplexies do most usually take men from the age of Forty to Threescore.
IN the Spring time melancholly, madness, the falling sicknesse, profusions of blood, squi∣nancies and rheums, &c.
Many of the Aestival Diseases do also happen in Autumn. Quartane Feavers, and Erratick, Diseases of the Spleen, Dropsies, Consumptions, Dropping of Urine, Lienteries, and Dysenteries, Sciaticks, Squinancies, frequent Asthmaes, Iliack passions, the Falling Evil, Madness, and Melancholly.
Melancholly persons are to be purged liberally downward, observing the contrary way in con∣trary affects.
The Haemorrhodes (that is a Flux of blood by the veins in the Fundament, by which blood is commonly voided) are conducible and profita∣ble for Melancholly affects, and the Diseases of the Reins.
If Melancholly blood be disposed to its pro∣per veins, or if the Haemorrhodes appear, Mad∣nesse is thereby taken away.
Continual fears and sadnesse, are signes of Melancholly.
The insults and prevailings of Melancholly Diseases, are dangerous, for they foretell a de∣privation of some part of the body, a Convul∣sion, Madnesse, or Blindnesse.
Excoriation of the Bowels, a Dropsie, or a vehement commotion of the mind, coming of Madnesse, a good signe.
It is a signe of Melancholly if the Tongue sud∣denly be loose and uselesse, or if any part of the body be deprived of sense and motion.
BUt to such as have passed that Age (that is their youth) these Diseases are incident
Pursinesse, Diseases of their Sides, Inflamations of the Lungs, Lethargies and Phrensies.
Very cleer and white Urines are bad: but it especially appears in Phrenetick persons.
A Phrensie proceeding from an inflamation of the Lungs, is a bad Messenger.
They do seldome perfectly recover which are Phrenetical after the age of fourty years: For they are lesse endangered to whose nature and age the Disease is familiar.
IT is a good signe when raving is appeased by sleep.
Those alienations of mind which come with laughter, are more safe; but those which come by seriousnesse or study, are more dangerous.
A rigor and raving caused by drink, are bad.
Vomiting, the Hicket, or a Convulsion or Raving occasioned by the Disease of the thin gut, called Ileum, is bad.
EIther a Convulsion or Dotage caused by a Flux of blood, is naught.
Stupidity or Dotage occasioned by a blow re∣ceived upon the head, is ill.
A Convulsion or Dotage caused by watching, is naught.
YOung men are freed from the Falling sick∣nesse chiefly by the mutations of their age, the change of air and dyet.
They who are troubled with the Falling Sick∣nesse before the age of Fourteen years, are reco∣verable; but if the Disease take any at the age of Five and Twenty years, it commonly doth ac∣company them to their death.
IT is better that a Feaver come upon a Con∣vulsion, then a Convulsion upon a Feaver.
But when they are come to breeding of Teeth pricking pains of the Gums, Feavers and Con∣vulsions, it is bad.
It is dangerous giving black Hellebore to sound bodies, for it causeth Convulsions.
A Disension of the Nerves or Cramp, or a Convulsion, is cured by a succeeding Fea∣ver.
Convulsions and violent pains about the bow∣els, are bad signes in acute Feavers.
Tremblings and Convulsions happening to Feaverish persons, are naught.
Interception of Spirits happening in Feavers, is bad, for it shews a Convulsion.
A Convulsion caused by black Hellebore, is mortal.
A Convulsion happening upon a wound re∣ceived, is deadly.
A Convulsion or Hicket coming by a copi∣ous Flux of blood, presageth ill.
A Convulsion or Hicket succeeding profuse Purging, are bad.
If a Druken man be taken with losse of speech on a suddain, he dyes convulsive, unlesse a Feaver seize him, or return to his speech at the hour when the distemper useth to be digested.
They which are taken with a disension of the Sinews, dye within four dayes, the which if they escape, they recover.
Abundance of cold water cast upon them
which have tumours in their joynts, griefs not ulcerated, gouts and convulsions, for the most part, diminisheth the pain, and takes away the grief; for a moderate stupefaction hath a power to take away pain.
A Convulsion or Syncope happening to wo∣men, in the time of their Purgations, is bad.
They which have tumours with Ulcers, are seldome taken with Convulsions, or droop into Madnesse. But if they vanish backward, the par∣ties are Convulsive, and have distensions of the Nerves. But if they vanish forward, either Mad∣nesse, Plurisies, Apostemes, or Dysenteries suc∣ceed, if the tumours were red.
They which have Quartan Agues are seldome taken with Convulsions. But if they were Con∣vulsive before, they are freed by a succeeding Quartan.
A Convulsion ariseth either from emptinesse or fullnesse, so doth the Hicket.
The assaults of Melancholly Diseases are dan∣gerous; for they foretell either sideration of some part of the body, Convulsions, Madness, or Blindness.
Doting or a Convulsion by a Flux of blood, is naught.
Vomiting, Hicket, Convulsion or Delirium, caused by the Iliack passion, is bad.
A Convulsion or Cramp caused by vehement Inflamations, are bad.
A Convulsion or raving caused by watching, are bad.
A Convulsion caused by a Purging potion, is mortal.
A Numnesse of the Senses, or dotage caused by a hurt on the head, is dangerous.
IF North winds blow much in Autumn, and the season be without rain, such a season is most commodious for bodies of moist constitu∣tion, and to women; but to other constitu∣tions it will produce Sore eyes with blood-shed in them, &c.
North winds condense the body, makes them stronger, nimbler, of a more lively colour, and in a better plight, dryes the belly, and grieves the Eyes, &c.
A potion of wine, a bath, somentation, breath∣ing of a vein, or a Purging Medicine, do take away the pains of the Eyes.
Regard must be had to such things which ap∣appear out of the Eyes in sleep. For if any thing appear from the White, the Eye-lids being not shut, and it doth not happen by a Flux of the belly or a purging potion, it is a bad signe, and very mortal.
The Hicket and rednesse of the Eyes caused by vomiting, is bad.
The Diseases of the Eyes must be cured by Phlebotomy, draught of Wine being first exhi∣bited, and a plenteous bath of warm water.
Voluntary tears in Diseases, are good signes, but involuntary, are not good.
He that hath a Vertigoe with a dark glimmer∣ing of his Eyes, and is taken with a Coma or much sleep, and extreme heat, is in a desperate Condition.
SOuthern winds do produce dulnesse of hear∣ing, dimnesse of sight, and heavinesse of the head, &c.
Southern winds do dissolve our bodies, moisten them, and induce difficulty of hearing, heavi∣nesse of the head, and Vertigoes, &c.
In the Summer season are continual Feavers, burning Feavers, very many Tertians and Quar∣tans, Vomitings, Diarrhaeaes, sore Eyes, and pains of the Ears.
In continual Feavers, if the lips, eye-lid, eye or nose be perverted, or turned away, if the sick neither see nor hear, and if he be weak in body, death is at hand.
Deafnesse caused by Feavers, is taken away by a succeeding Flux of blood out of the Nostrils, or motions of the belly.
Matter, Water, or Blood issuing forth by the Nostrils, by the Mouth, or by the Ears, doth take away head-ach, and the vehement pains thereof.
Cold Ears, shining, and contracted, are signes of death.
HOarsenesse, and the Flux of humours to the Nostrils, called in very old men are not concocted.
If the Summer be more than ordinary dry, and the wind Northward, but the Autumn exceeding rainy and wet, head-aches arise about the winter, coughs, hoarsenesse, stuffings of the head, and to some also consumptions.
In the Spring season, madnesse, melancholy, the falling Evil, Fluxes of blood, Squinancies, Stuffings of the Head by Rheums, and Coughs are incident.
When they have accomplish'd riper years, and have attained to the Age of fourteen years, many of the former, but rather continual Feavers, and bleeding at the Nose will follow them.
When there is an Expectation that tumours should arise about the joints, plenty of Urine
thick and white frees from the Abscess. Tumors of this kind do begin in some every fourth day in Feavers with a lazinesse. But if blood issue forth of the nostrils also, then the solution will be in a very short space.
Bleeding at the nose happening to Women in the Deficiency of their monthly purgations, is good.
They are of a more sickly Constitution which have their Nostrils, and parts of Generation extraordinary moist: but they which are of a contrary constitution are more healthful.
SNeezing is good for Women that are trou∣bled with a suffocation of the Matrix, or who have very hard labour and travail.
Sneezing, happening to one that is troubled with the Hicket, takes away the Hicket.
Sneezing is either caused, the brain being over heated, or the empty part of the head being over moistened: For the air there included, is dispersed abroad; but the noise made by sneez∣ing is occasioned, because the included hath its passage by streight and narrow instruments.
HOarsenesse and Rheums in very old men, are not concocted.
IN the Summer season, Diaries, Burning Fea∣vers, and very many Tertian and Quartans, Vomitings, Diarrhaeaes, Bleer eyes, pains of the Ears; Exulcerations of the mouth, putrid Ul∣cers about the Privities, and Pimples caused by Cholerick Sweats.
Spreading Ulcers of the mouth called Apthae, are a Disease common to young Infants and Children.
Stammerers are most of all taken with a long Flux of the Belly.
It is a signe of black Choler when the tongue is loose and uselesse on a suddain, or when any part of the body becommeth benummed or dead.
If the Tongue be neither black, nor bloody, if either of these Signes be absent, it is no very bad Signe. For hereby is signified a lesser Di∣sease.
BUt when they are come to breeding of their Teeth, Pricking, Itchings of the Gums, Fea∣vers, Convulsions, Fluxes of the belly, and then chiefly when they begin to breed their Dog Teeth, and to those who are of a grosse constitu∣tion, and who are costive.
Those Feavers are most vehement, whereby a clammy gluttinous humour doth grow to the Teeth.
Cold things are offensive to the bones, teeth, nerves, brain, and marrow of the back-bone, but hot things are profitable.
IN continual Feavers, if the Lip, Eye-lid, Eye or Nose be perverted and turned, if the sick neither see nor hear, and his Body be weak, then death is nigh at hand.
Wan lips or pale, or resolved, turned in and out, and cold, are mortal.
AMongst those who are strangled, and dissol∣ved, and are not quite dead, they seldome or very rarely return to life, which have froth gathered together about their mouth.
Diseases are usually caused by continual showers, as long Feavers, Fluxes of the belly, putrid Feavers, the falling sicknesse, Apoplexies and Squinancies, &c.
In the spring season, Melancholly, Madnesse, the Falling-Evil, profusions of blood, and Squi∣nancies, &c.
A Strangulation happening to him that is Sick of a Feaver, no tumour appearing in the Jaws, is deadly.
In Feavers a sudden perverting of the neck happening, so that the Sick can hardly swallow, no tumour appearing, is mortal.
Humours falling down to the Throat, if they turn not to the Squinancy they settle upon the Lungs, and the Sick dyes within seven dayes; but if he escape that time, the matter turns to Impostumation.
It is a good Sign if in a Squinancy, a Tumor do appear in the neck, for then the morbifick matter is sent forth.
They which are made Crook-back'd by an Asthma, dye before they come to the Age of Fourteen years, or soon after.
An impostumation or rednesse happening in the breast of him that hath a Squinancy, is a good signe. Because the matter is excluded to the ex∣ternal parts.
IN the Winter season, plurisies, inflamations of the lungs, lethargies, rheums, hoarsenesse,
coughs, pains of the breasts, sides, and loins, head-aches, megrims, and apoplexies, are com∣mon.
Difficulty of breathing, catarrhes causing coughs, the strangury and difficulty of Urine, are Diseases familiar to old Age.
If difficulty of breathing, and dotings happen in continual Feavers, it is mortal.
HOarsenesse and rheums in very Old men, are not concocted.
But if the season be dry and cold, it causeth coughs, exasperates the jawes, hardeneth the belly and suppresseth Urine.
But if the Summer be more then usually dry and cold with North-winds, and the Autumn rainy with South-winds, expect head-aches, in the winter, coughs, hoarsenesse, rheums, and to some consumptions.
But in the Spring, madnesse, melancholly, the falling sicknesse, profusions of blood, squinancies rheums, hoarsenesse and coughs will follow.
These Diseases happen to infants and children newly born, spreading Ulcers of the mouth, cal∣led Aphthae, vomitings and coughs.
Difficulty of breathing, and distillations infer∣ring coughs do happen to old men.
If dry coughs lightly provoking happen in burning Feavers, and persevere long, the sick is not then much troubled with thirst.
Cold things, as ice and snow, are offensive and enemies to the breast, they cause coughs, erup∣tions of blood, and catarrhes.
A Cough happening in a Dropsie is a bad sign.
If crookedness were occasioned by an Asthma, the party thus affected dyes before he attain the age of Fourteen years, or presently after.
If a cough do hold him that hath a Dropsie, he is in a desperate condition.
IF loss of Speech happen on a suddain to a Drunken man, he dyes convulsive, unlesse a Feaver lay hold on him, and his Speech return to him at the hour when nature useth to digest the Surfet.
They which are taken with sudden pains of the head, and were not sick before, and if their Speech fail or leave them, and a snorting com∣meth withal, dye within seven dayes, unlesse a Feaver lay hold on them.
Losse of Speech must necessary ensue presently if the brain have bin hurt by any occasion.
BUt in the winter plurisies, inflamations of the lungs, and lethargies.
But to those who are in their youth, thicknesse of breathing, Diseases of the Sides, and inflama∣tions of the Lungs are incident.
A Diarrhaea or Flux of the belly, succeeding the plurisie or inflamation of the lungs, is bad.
Inflamation of the lungs succeeding a Plurisie, is naught.
A phrensie occasioned by an inflamation of the lungs, signifies ill.
IF pluretick persons are not clensed within Fourteen dayes, the matter turns to impostu∣mation.
Humours falling to the Throat, if they turn not to a squinancy, settle upon the Lungs, and the sick dye within seven dayes, but if they escape that time, the matter turns to suppuration.
If pluretick persons being suppurated are pur∣ged and clensed within forty days, they are freed, otherwise do grow consumptive.
They, in whose bodies ulcerated tumours do arise, are neither taken with convulsions, nor driven into madnesse; but these tumours sud∣denly vanishing, they to whom it happens in the back parts have convulsions and distensions of the Sinews; but if it happen in the fore part, ragings and acute Diseases of the sides, impostu∣mations, and dysenteries do follow.
They certainly dye, who are either burnt or cut for an impostumation of the breast, or for a Dropsie, if matter or water slow forth upon heaps.
When an impostumation is in the body, and it gives no signification of it self, the want of that discovery is either caused by the thicknesse of the matter, or place wherein it is contained.
Spitting of suppurated matter from spitting of blood is naught.
Distillations upon the upper ventricle are tur∣ned into suppuration within the twentieth day.
When suppurated persons are cauterized or lanced, if pure and white matter issue forth they escape, but if it be somewhat bloody, filthy and ill favoured they perish.
A Dry and cold Summer with North winds, and a wet Autumn with South winds, cause head-aches in the winter, coughs, hoarsnesse and rheums, and to some consumptions.
Many Diseases which are usually in the Sum∣mer, appear in the Autumn, as quartane and erratick Feavers, diseases of the spleen, dropfies, consumptions, lienteries, and dysenteries, &c.
Young▪men are afflicted with spittings of blood, consumptions, acute feavers, the falling evil, and many other Diseases, but especially those mentioned.
In purging consumptive persons, we must be very wary, and fearfull in exhibiting vomitive medicines.
Consumptions happen especially from the eighteenth year of our age, until the five and thirtieth year.
It is a mortal sign when the spittle of such as are in a consumption being cast upon the coals sends forth a grievous smell, if the hair of the head fall off likewise.
It is an argument of death when the hair of the head of consumptive persons falls off, if a loosenesse of the belly succeed.
Frothy blood cast forth by spittle, is voided from the Lungs.
A Flux of the belly is mortal to consumptive persons.
In the curing of the Hemorrhoids or piles, un∣lesse one vein be left open, there is danger that a dropsie or consumption will succeed.
A consumption, and flux are caused by spitting out suppurated matter. But when the spitting ceaseth, the sick dye.
[You have this Aphorisme before in the same Chapter. Aph. 5. whether I refer you.]
All things which incline or tend to consump∣tions, are vehement, but some are mortal; but it would be advantageous if the Disease should seise the body at such a time when the season did afford some help for the Disease, as the Summer for a burning Feaver, the Winter for the Dropsie; for that which is according to nature doth obtain the victory, but in the Diseases of the Spleen, it is rather cause of fear.
BUt in the Winter season, plurisies, inflama∣tions of the lungs, and apoplexies.
If Pluretick persons are not clensed within fourteen dayes, the matter turns to impostu∣mation.
Pluretick persons being suppurated, if they are clensed within forty dayes after the impo∣stume is broke, are freed, otherwise they grow into a consumption.
We must learn whether the pains in the sides, in the breast, and in other parts do differ much.
A Flux of the belly succeeding a plurisie, or the inflamation of the lungs, is a bad signe.
They which have sour belchings, are not much troubled with plurisies.
An inflamation of the lungs coming upon a plurisie, is bad.
YOung men are troubled with spittings of blood, consumptions, acute feavers, the fall∣ing sicknesse, and many other Diseases, but es∣pecially these.
Any blood whatsoever voided upward, is bad, but if black blood be voided downward, it is good.
Frothy blood cast forth by spittle, is brought from the lungs.
Matter, water, or blood, voided by the no∣strils, the mouth, or the ears, take away the head∣ache, and the vehement pains thereof.
Vomiting of blood happening without a fea∣ver is good, but bad with a feaver, and the di∣stemper must be cured with such Medicines which have a cooling and restringent quality in them.
MEn of unblameable and perfect health, do quickly faint when they are purged, and such also who use ill dyet.
Such as are often and violently taken with a Sin∣cope or Swounding without some manifest cause, dye suddenly.
Abhorring of meat, gnawing of the mouth of the stomach, a vertigoe withdrowsiness, and a bit∣terness in the mouth, without a feaver, do instruct us that purging by vomit is necessary.
A Convulsion, or Sincope happening to wo∣men in the time of their purgations, is naught.
Faintings, vomitings, and swoundings, are caused by the rupture of a tumour inwardly.
IF the Breasts of a woman with Child, grow slender on a suddain▪ she is in danger of abort∣ing, or miscarrying.
If one of the Breasts of a woman with Child with Twins, grow slender, she will abort with one of her Children; and if the right Breast grow slender, she will miscarry a Male, if the left, a Female.
If a woman which neither is with Child, nor never had Child, have milk in her Breasts, her monthly purgations have failed.
When blood is gathered together into a tu∣mour of swelling about the Breasts, raging or
madnesse, is thereby signified to those women.
If you would stop the flowing of womens courses, apply very large Cupping-glasses to their breasts.
Plenty of milk runing forth of the Breasts of women with Child, argue a weak Child; but if the breasts are solid, they argue a more strong Child,
They which are like to miscarry, will have slender breasts, but if their breasts grow hard, they will have a pain in the breasts, or in the hips, in their eyes, or in their knees, and will not miscarry.
IN the winter and spring our stomachs are most hot, and our sleeps most long, therefore in those seasons our meals ought to be more plen∣tiful, because when there is most natural heat our bodies need more plentiful nutriment, which Ages, and Wrestlers signifie unto us.
A draught of Wine takes away hunger.
A vehement heat of the Stomach, and a gnaw∣ing of the mouth of the stomach in Feavers, is naught.
Pains of the Stomach, which are in the upper part thereof, are more light, and not so vehe∣ment as those which are in the lower part thereof.
It is mortal, if the bladder, brain, heart, midriffe, any thin intestine or bowel, the sto∣mach or liver be peirced or divided.
When Phlegm is included between the mid∣riffe and the stomach, if it cause pain, and have no passage either way, if it be turned into the bladder by the veins, the Diseases are dis∣solved.
Abhorring of meat and sincere dejections in a continual Feaver, fortell ill.
When the vital spirits above the navil ascend above the Diaphragma, all the humour is burnt up then death is come. But when the lungs and heart, having lost their radical moisture, the heat being gathered together into mortiferous places, breath forth the spirits of heat altogether. More∣over partly by the flesh, partly by the pores of the head, by which we say we live, the Soul leave
the Cottage of the body, yeilds up this cold and mortal Effigies, together with the choler, blood, flegm and flesh.
THey which having taken a purging potion, and are not thirsty while they purge, will not leave purging, until they do thirst.
To have the outward parts cold, and the in∣ward burn with a vehement thirst, is mortal in continual feavers.
If one sick of a burning feaver, have a long dry cough lightly provoking, he is not much vex∣ed with thirst.
It is a good signe, if such as have a desire to drink in the night, do fall asleep while they are thirsty.
IN vomitings and going to stool, which come of their own accord, if such things are voided which ought to be purged, it is conducible, and it is born with ease; but if not, it succeeds other∣wise, &c.
Diseases common to Infants and young Chil∣dren are spreading Ulcers of the mouth, vomit∣ings, coughs, watchings, tremblings, inflama∣tions about the navil, and moistnesse of the Ears.
It is most convenient to purge by Vomit in the Summer, in the winter, by stool.
Thinne bodies and such as vomit with ease, are to be purged by vomitive Medicines, being very watry and fearful of the winter season.
But such as vomit with difficulty, and are moderately grosse, ought to be purged down∣••ard, but we must be very cautious in the •…•…mmer.
We must be very wary and fearful in purging consumptive persons by vomit.
It is very inconvenient to purge such as have a Lientery by vomit in the winter time.
Bodies which do not vomit easily after they have taken black Hellebore must be moistened with plenty of meat and rest before they take their Physick,
Abhorring of meat, gnawings of the mouth of the stomach, a dizzinesse in the head, with a dimnesse of the eyes without a Feaver, if the mouth be bitter, shew unto us that a vomit is necessary.
Pains above the midriffe, if they ought to be purged, tell us that they ought to be purged by a Medicine that will purge upward. But if they are beneath the midriffe, then they must be pur∣ged downward.
It is a deadly sign if melancholsy blood be voided either upward or downward at the be∣ginning of any Disease whatsoever.
Any blood cast forth upward is bad, bu••
if black blood be voided downwards, it is good.
Vomiting of blood is stayed and taken away by the eruption of the monthly purgations.
The Hicket and rednesse of the eyes occasion∣ed by vomiting, is a bad signe.
Faintings, vomiting, and swoundings, are caused by the rupture of a tumour inwardly.
Vomiting, Hicket, or Delirium, caused by the Iliacke passion, is naught.
Vomiting of blood, if it happen without a feaver, is wholsome, but bad with a feaver, and it must be cured with cooling and restringent Medicines.
When we intend to purge the body, it ought to be made soluble; if you would have them flux∣ible upwards, you must stay the belly, but if downward, it is to be moistned.
A Convulsion or Hicket coming by a large effusion of blood, doth foretell ill.
The Hicket succeeding over much purging, is naught.
The Strangury succeeds an inflamation of the wombe, and of the streight gut, and suppurated Reins. But the Hicket succeeds, if the liver be grieved with an inflamation.
If sneezings happen to him that hath the Hic∣ket, they take away the Hicket.
A convulsion ariseth of too much fulnesse or emptinesse, so also doth the Hicket.
The Hicket or rednesse of the eyes, caused by vomiting, is naught.
Vomiting, hicket, convulsion or dotage caused by the Iliack passion, portends ill.
The Hicket coming by the inflamation of the liver, is very bad.
It is no good signe if the hicket happen to el∣derly persons, being over much purged.
IF the yellow Jaundice come to a Feaverish person, the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or four∣teenth day, it is good, unlesse the right Hypo∣chondrium be hard, otherwise it is lesse good.
They whose midriffe is elevated and rumbles, with a succeeding pain of the Loins, have moist bellies, unlesse wind break forth backward, or plenty of urine be voided, these accidents are contingent in Feavers.
Milk is inconvenient for those who have the head-ache, neither is it to be allowed in Feavers or to such whose Diaphragma being elevated have rumbling noises, &c.
When there are griess about the Midriffe without an inflamation, a succeeding feaver doth take away the grief.
A Strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight intestine, and of the wombe and suppurated Reins, but the hicket succeeds when the Liver is inflamed.
If either the bladder, brains, heart, midriffe or any thin bowel, stomach, or liver be peirced or cut, death ensues.
A Stirrus of the liver succeeding to them which have the yellow Jaundies, is naught.
The Hicket coming by the inflamation of the liver, is naught.
If any man be cut or burnt for the suppuration of the liver, if pure matter and white follow, they survive, but if matter like the Lees of Oyle pro∣ceed, they perish.
If the liver full of water empty it self upon the kell, the belly is fill'd with water, and the sick dyes.
IN the Autumn many Estival Diseases happen, and Quartan and Erratick Feavers, Diseases of the Spleen, Dropsies, Consumptions, &c.
When the bowels are wound and wrested a∣bout, great pains about the navil, and grief of the Loins are concomitant, the which if it be not cured by a purging Medicine, nor any other means, is confirmed into a dry Dropsie.
Ulcers arising in the bodies of Hydropical per∣sons, are not easily cured.
In the Dropsie if the water flow forth of the veins into the belly, the Disease is dissolved.
Empiecal, or Hydropical persons being burnt or cut, if either water or suppurated matter
abundantly flow forth, the sick certainly dye.
A cough happening to him that is sick of the Dropsie, is naught.
A dysentery, Dropsie, or a vehement com∣motion of the mind, succeeding raging or mad∣nesse, is good.
If an Hydropical liver issue violently forth up∣on the kell, the belly is fill'd with water, and the sick dyes.
IT is no good signe if the Yellow Jaundies do succeed a Feaver before the seventh day.
If the Jaundies coming upon a Feaver do appear the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or four∣teenth day, the Crisis is good, unlesse the right Hypochondrium be hard, otherwise it is not good.
Icterical persons are not much subject to wind.
It is an ill sign, if he that hath the Jaundies have a Scirrhus of the Liver.
MAny Diseases frequent in the Summer hap∣pen also in the Autumn, and Quartan and Erratick feavers, and Diseases of the Spleen, &c.
When suppurated matter is in the body, and doth not exhibit any signification of it self, the cause either is from the grossenesse of the matter, or of the place where it resideth.
A Dysentery coming in spleenetick persons, is good.
CHanges of the excrements in the flux of the belly are good, unlesse they change to bad.
Diseases are usually caused by continual showers, or rain; as long Feavers, Diarrhaeaes, putrid feavers, the falling sickness and apoplexies.
When Children are breeding their teeth, itch∣ing and prickings of the gums, feavers, con∣vulsions, fluxes of the belly do afflict them, and then more especially when they have begun to put forth their dog teeth, and to those most cheifly, who are of a more grosse constitution, and have their bellies hard.
But to those who are now past their youth, fre∣quent Asthmaes, plurisies, inflamations of the lungs, lethargies, phrensies, burning Feavers, continual Diarrhaeaes, choler, dysenteries, lien∣teries, and flux of blood by the Haemorrhoidical veins in the Fundament.
Black excrements like dreggish or black blood proceeding without provocation either with a Feaver, or without a feaver, are very bad, and so much the worse by how much the more their colour are many and bad. But if they are caused by a medicine, they are so much the better, by how much their colours are many, and not bad.
An issue of black blood, either upward or
downward at the beginning of any Disease what∣soever, is deadly.
If voiding of black choler, like dreggish or black blood, shall follow to such whose bodies are attenuated, either by acute feavers, or con∣tinual Feavers, by wounds or any other means, the patient dyes the day following.
A dysentery caused by melancholly blood, is mortal.
If little peices of flesh are voided by stool, by him that hath an exulceration of the bowels, it is mortal.
Bilious dejections cease if deafnesse ensue, and deafnesse is taken away by bilious dejections suc∣ceeding.
When the hairs of consumptive persons fall off, a flux of the belly succeeds, and they dye.
A Diarrhaea coming upon a consumptive per∣son, is mortal.
If a woman with Child be taken with an ex∣treme loosenesse, she is in danger of aborting.
They to whom tumours with ulcers do appear are neither taken by convulsion, nor driven into rage or madnesse. But they presently vanishing, to such to whom this happeus backwards, convul∣sions, and distensions of the nerves are caused; but if it happen forwards, ragings, acute diseases of the sides, suppuration of humours, or a dysen∣tery doth happen, if the tumors were red.
Abhorring of meat in long dysenteries is not good, but worse if it come with a feaver.
A Diarrhaea which▪ hath continued long, is taken away by a voluntary vomiting; succeed∣ing.
A flux of the belly coming upon a plurisie or or an inflamation of the lungs, is naught.
It is beneficial for those which are troubled with sore eyes, to be taken with a loosenesse of the belly.
We must observe what things appear from the eyes by sleep, for if from the white, the eye-lids being open any thing appear, and not caused by a flux of the belly, or a purging▪ Medicine, it is a bad signe, and very mortal.
Splenetick persons which are afflicted with a dysentery, after a long succeeding dysentery, a dropsie or lientery happens, and they dye.
A dysentery coming upon the Spleen, is good.
A dysentery, dropsie, or an Exstasis coming upon raging or madnesse, is good.
A dysentery succeeds sincere dejections.
A vehement flux of the belly cures that kind of dropsie which comes of white pituite, and is called Lecophlegmatia.
Frothy excrements voided by stool come from the brain.
A dysentery succeeds a Diarrhaea.
A lientery succeeds a dysentery.
A flux of the belly succeeding a long Disease, is bad.
THat dysentery is mortal which was caused by black choler.
In a dysentery, if small peices of flesh are ejected by stool, the Disease is mortal.
Splenetick persons afflicted with a dysentery, after a long excoriation of the bowels, a dropsie or lientery succeed, and they dye.
IT is dangerous purging lienterical persons by vomiting Medicines in the winter season.
If sowre belchings, which were not before, succeed a long lientery or levity of the bowels, it is a good signe.
A voluntary vomiting happening to him which hath had a long flux, doth take away the flux.
MAny Aestival Diseases happen in the Au∣tumn, and Quartan and Erratick Feavers, Diseases of the Spleen, Dropsies, Consumptions, dropping of the Urine, Lienteries, Dysenteries, pains of the Hips, Squinances, frequent Asth∣maes, Iliack passions, the Falling Evil, Mad∣nesse, and Melancholly Diseases.
If the Iliack passion succeed a Strangury, the Sick dyes within seven dayes, unlesse plenty of urine be voided, and a feaver succeed.
Vomiting, Hicket, a Convulsion or Dotage occasioned by the Disease of the thin bowel cal∣led Ileum, is bad.
VVHen the Bowels are wrung or wrested, pains are felt about the navil, and grief of the loins, is present; if the distemper be cured neither by a purging Medicine, nor any other means, it is confirmed into a dry dropsie.
A vehement heat about the belly, and a gnaw∣ing of the mouth of the Stomach, is a bad signe in Feavers.
We must observe and learn whether the pains of the breast, sides, and of other places are much different, or not.
Pains which are caused about the belly, if they are high and sublime, are more light and easie, but if they are not sublime, they are more vehe∣ment.
A succeeding Feaver dissolves such pains which arise about the Diaphragme, without an inflamation.
Suppuration or impostumation is caused by a continual grief of those parts which appertain to the belly.
A coldness or chilness of the extreme parts, caused by a vehement grief of the parts which belong to the belly, is bad.
He that pisseth blood, and stuffe like curdled milk, and hath the Strangury; if the grief extend it self to the Rorinaeum; lower belly, and parts about the privities, hath a defection in those parts which appertain to the bladder.
IF a Tenosmus or an often and vain desire of going to stool, without voiding any thing, hap∣pen unto women with Child, it will cause abor∣tion or miscarriage.
THey which are beyond their youth, frequent Asthmaes, plurisies, inflamations of the lungs, lethargies, phrensies, burning and conti∣nual feavers, Diarrhaeaes, cholers, excoriations of the bowels, lienteries, and profusion of blood by the veins in the fundament, called the Hae∣morrhoides.
Evacuations of blood upward, be the blood of what condition soever, is bad; but if black blood, be cast down beneath, it is good.
The Haemorrhoides, or a flux of blood by the mouth of the veins in the fundament, whereby nature doth usually ease it self, are convenient and beneficial in melancholly affects and Disea∣ses of the Reins.
In the cure of the Haemorrhoides, or conti∣nual flux of blood, by the veins in the Funda∣ment, unlesse one vein be preserved and kept, there is danger that a dropsie or consumption may succeed.
If the veins do swell with melancholly blood, or if the Haemorrhoidical veins flow and empty the body of blood, madnesse is thereby dissolved.
DIseases accompaning old age, are difficulty of breathing, Catarrhes causing coughs, stranguries, difficulty of pissing, pains of the joynts and the reins, &c.
An exulceration of the reins or bladder, is signified by blood or suppurated matter, sent forth with the Urine.
Small peices of flesh or something like hairs carried out with the Urine, are sent from the reins.
Blood issuing forth freely with the Urine, doth signifie the rupture of a vein in the reins.
A Strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight intestine, an inflamation of the wombe, and a suppuration of the reins.
The vices of the reins and bladder in old men are hardly cured.
The Hemorrhoides or blood sent forth by the veins in the fundament, is beneficial in melan∣choly affects and Diseases of the reins.
Bubbles standing on the top of the Urine, do signifie a Disease of the reins, and the length thereof.
When the upper part or superficies of the Urine is fat and greasie, thick and gathered toge∣ther, then is signified a Disease of the reins, and that a sharp one too.
But when the aforesaid signes do happen in those whose reins are Diseased, and pains are felt about the Muscles of the back bone, if they are carried to the external parts, expect that the abscess will be external; but if they tend more to the inward parts, it is to be feared that the abscess will be inward.
IN the Summer time some of these Diseases, and continual and burning feavers, very many tertians and quartans, vomitings; fluxes of the belly, sore eyes, pains of the ears, exulcerations of the mouth, corruptions of the privities, and small pustles caused by cholerick Sweats.
A small Ulcer growing in the Yard, if there happen a suppuration, and break, a solution suc∣ceeds.
Heat causing suppuration doth not exhibit un∣to us the certainest signes of security in every ulcer, it softens the skin, extenuates it, takes away pain, aswage rigors, convulsions, and cramps, dissolves heavinesse of the head, is very much available for broken bones, and for such espe∣cially which are bare of flesh, and for those cheifly who have ulcers in their head, for such also who are stupified with cold, or are ulcerated for creeping, and eating sores in the fundament, yard, wombe, and bladder; to all these things heat is acceptable, and doth cause a crisis, but cold is an enemy, and destructive.
Women which have cold and condens'd wombes, do not conceive, nor they whose wombes are overmolst, for in such the seed is extinguished, neither such who have extraordi∣nary dry wombes and very hot, for in those the seed is corrupted for want of nutriment. But such who have naturally a moderate temperature, between those two extremes, do prove fruitful.
There is the same reason also in men, for either by reason of the rarity of the body, the spirit is diffused abroad, so that it cannot send forth the seed, or by reason of its constipation or thickness the humour cannot be sent forth, or by reason of its coldness, the seed is not heated, so that it may be gathered to its proper place, or the same may happen by heat.
If a bone, a grissel, a nerve, or any small par∣ticle of the jaw bone, or the foreskin of the yard, be divided or cut a sunder, it is neither nourished, neither doth it grow together again.
IF the season of the year be cold with North∣winds, it causeth coughs, exasperates the jawes, hardeneth the belly, suppresseth urine, causeth horrors, and pains of the sides and breast; when it so prevaileth such accidents are to beex∣pected in Diseases.
Great Droughts cause consumptions, sore eyes, pains of the joynts and stranguries, with Diseases of the bowels.
In the Autumn many Summer Diseases do happen, and quartan and erratick feavers, Disea∣ses of the spleen, dropsies, consumptions, the strangury, lienteries and dyfenteries.
These Diseases are contingent to old men, Asthmaes, catarrhes, the strangury, stopping of urine, and pains of the joynts and reins.
Urines in Feavers, if they change from thick, and such as have curdled stuffe in them, and few, too many and thin do ease the patient, especially if such are made wherein there appears a sedi∣ment at the beginning, or not long after.
Troublesome Urines, like those of kine in Feavers, argue either the head-ache to be present, or to ensue.
When a Crisis doth happen the seventh day, the urine hath a red cloud the fourth day, and other things answerable thereunto.
When an abscess is expected to the joynts plenty of urine thick and white, frees from the abscess, &c.
Cleer and white urines are all bad, but that appears chiefly in Phrenetick persons.
[See this Aphorism in the Chapter of the af∣fects of the Hypocondries.]
If blood or corrupt matter be sent forth with the urine, an exulceration of the reins is thereby signified.
When small peices of flesh, or things like hairs are carried forth with the urine, they are brought from the reins.
When things like bran are voided with the urine, the bladder hath a scab.
Blood issuing forth wilfully with the urine, shews a vein to be broke in the bladder.
Sandy sediments seething in the urine, argues the stone in the bladder.
He that pisseth blood and matter like curdled milk with his urine, and if he hath a strangury and the pain fall to the Perinaeum, and the lower belly, hath a Disease in those parts which belong to the bladder.
He that pisseth blood and corrupt matter, and small scales with an ill odor in the urine, hath an ulcer in the bladder.
If a tumour grow in the conduit of the urine, if that suppurate, and break, a solution happens.
Very much urine made in the night, argues but few excrements by stool.
[See this Aphorism in the Chapter of the affects of the Privities.]
The strangury succeeds the inflamation of the the streight intestine and the wombe, and suppu∣rated reins, but the Hicket the inflamation of the liver.
The affects of the reins and the bladder, are not easily cured in old men.
If the bladder, brain, midriffe, or any thin bowel, stomach, or liver be cut into or divided, it is deadly.
The Iliack passion succeeding a Strangury, kils within seven dayes, unlesse plenty of urine be made with a succeeding Feaver.
Urines with bilious sediments but thin at the top, do signifie an acute Disease.
Urines with bubbles at the top, argue a Di∣sease of the reins, and a long one too.
But when a fatnesse is gathered together upon the top of the urine, it signifies an acute Disease of the reins.
[This Aphorism is the same with Sect. 4. Aph. 18. in this Chapter.]
Drinking of wine and breathing a vein, doth take away the strangury or difficulty of making water, but the inward veins must be opened.
IF the right Testicle be cold and convulsive, it is mortal.
IF the wind be Southward in the winter, and the season very wet, and the spring extraordi∣nary dry, with North winds, women with Child which expect to be delivered in the spring, do abort upon any occasion; and they which are delivered produce but weak and sickly Infants, so that either they dye presently, or if they live, are small and sickly, &c.
A dry and cold Autumn with North winds, is commodious for those who are of a moist con∣stitution, and for women, &c.
The Diseases of Children, are usually dissolved
by their Crisis, some within forty dayes, some within seven months, and others within seven years, or about the time of fourteen years. But those Diseases which continue to children, and do not leave them at the age of fourteen, to Males, and to Females all the time of the erup∣tion of their monthly purgations, usually are of a long continuance.
Women with Child may be purged, if the humour incline of it self to evacuation, in the fourth month unto the seventh, but in these less. But when the issue is newly conceived, or very big, we must be very wary and circumspect.
Suffumigations of sweet Odors, doth bring down the courses in women, and were also pro∣fitable for other things, if they did not cause a heavinesse in the head.
Phlebotomy or opening a vein, doth cause women with Child to abort, and then most cer∣tainly if the issue be very big.
If a woman with Child be taken with an acute Disease, it is mortal.
A Diarrhaea or flux of the belly, doth endan∣ger abortion to great bellied women.
If women of a rare texture or thin habit of body, do miscarry or abort in the second or third moneth, without a manifest occasion, the vessels of the wombe, called by the Greeks 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉▪ are full of corrupt matter, so that by reason of their fulnesse and burthen, they cannot sustain the Infant, but are burst in sunder.
If the wombe be suppurated in that part which extends it self to, and resteth upon the hip-bone, the cure must be wrought by Linements dipped in convenient Medicines.
Medicines causing sneezing do expel the after∣birth, but after the taking of them, the Nostrils and the mouth of the Patient must be close stopped.
When women have conceived and are with Child, the Orifice of their wombe is contracted and shut close.
If the Orifice of the wombe be hard and solid, it must of necessity be close shut.
If women with chiid fall into a feaver, and are emaciated or made lean without some ma∣nisest cause, they have difficult and dange∣rous
travail, or else are in danger of abortion.
A Strangury succeeds an inflamation of the streight intestine of the wombe, or suppurated reins; but the Hicket an inflamation of the liver.
They which have cold and thick wombes, or else if their matrix be overmoist, do not conceive, for the genitive matter is extinguished in them; neither they which have over dry and hot wombes, because the seed is corrupted for want of nutriment. But they are most fruitful, which are of a middle and moderate constitution and temperature.
VOmiting of blood is stayed by the breaking forth of the monthly purgations in women.
An Haemorrhagia or bleeding at the nose, is beneficial to women in the deficiency of their monthly courses.
Ill coloured purgations of women, and not proceeding alwayes at their appointed seasons, signifie a necessity of purging.
It is an absolute sign of the deficiency or fail∣ing of her monthly purgations, if a woman who neither is with child, nor never brought forth child hath milk in her breasts.
If you would stop the menstruous flux in wo∣men, you must apply great Cupping-glasses to their breasts.
A Convulsion happening to women in the time of her menstruous purgations, is naught.
Both the overflowing of the monthly Terms, and the suppression thereof, do cause Diseases.
If a Woman with child have her courses, it is impossible that her child should be healthful.
If a woman have not her monthly purgations, and neither horror nor feaver succeed, but a nausea or abhorring of meat happeneth unto her, believe her to have conceived with Child.
A woman is not troubled with the gout, until her monthly purgations have left her.
IF you would know whether a woman have conceived with child or not, give her water and hony mingled together when she goeth to sleep, and if she have wringings and gripings of the belly, she hath conceived, otherwise she hath not.
If a woman be with child with a male, she is better coloured than if she were with child with a female.
An Erisipilas in the wombe of a pregnant wo∣man, is mortal.
They which do not conceive by reason of a preternatural grosseness, have the Orifice of their wombe pressed by the Kell, neither will they be pregnant or conceive until they are extenuated or grown thinner.
If a woman do not conceive, and you desire to know whether she be fruitful or wil conceive, apply suffumigations to her beneath, she being
very well wrapt close with Clothes; and if the sent or smell be perceived to passe to her nostrils and mouth, you may conclude her not to be un∣fruitful of her self.
[See this Aphorisme the last but one in the sore-going Chapter of Womens monthly purga∣tions.]
BReathing of a vein doth cause Abortion, but more especially if the birth be somewhat big.
If the breasts of a pregnant woman grow thin and slender on a suddain, there is danger of abor∣tion.
If either of the breasts of a pregnant woman with child with Twins, grow thin and slender, she miscarries with one of her burthens; if her right breast grow thin, she aborts a male, if the left, a female child.
Women which are made lean by some preter∣natural cause, do abort until they grow more full bodied.
They which abort the second or third month, without some especial occasion, have the vessels of their wombe filled with filthy matter, so that by reason of that burthen they do break, and can∣not contain the issue.
If pregnant women fall into a feaver, and are very much wasted without some sensible cause, either have difficult and dangerous labour, or else fall into a hazard of abortion.
A Tenasmus, or a frequent and vain desire of going to stool without any performance, com∣ing upon a pregnant women, doth make her abort.
SNeezing happening to one troubled with the suffocation of the Matrix, or else to one in hard travail, is commodious.
Male Children are born in the right, and fe∣males in the left side of the wombe.
Store of milk flowing forth of the breasts of a woman with child, signifies a weak child, but solid and firm breasts argue a stronger and more healthful child.
When the child is like to dye in the wombe, the breasts of the mother grow slender, but if they become hard, she will have grief either in her breasts, her hips, in her eyes or knees, and she will not corrupt her issue.
Feavers and extreme wastings happening to women with child, argue either a difficult and dangerous travail to them, or a hazard of abor∣tion.
It is impossible that that child should be healthful which is bread by one who hath her monthly courses in the time of her Child∣bearing.
WHen two pains are felt at one and the same time in different places of the body, the one doth very much obscure the other.
Great droughts cause consumptions, sore eyes, pains of the joynts, difficulty of Urine, and ex∣coriations of the bowels.
In the spring season, madness, melancholly, the falling evil, fluxes of blood, squinances, rheums, hoarseness, coughs, leprosies, tetters, dry itches, ulcerous pimples, small swellings, and pains of the joynts do afflict mens bodies.
Difficulty of breathing, catarrhes, stranguries, difficulty of making water, pains of the joynts and reins, vertigoes, and apoplexies are incident to old men.
Extreme gripings and twistings of the bowels, heaviness of the knees, and a pain of the loins without a feaver, tell us that purging downward is necessary.
When a sense of wearyishness occasioned by Feavers, is present, then tumours do arise about the joynts, but especially about the man∣dibles.
But if any part be full of pain after the reco∣vering from a Disease, the abscesses are made to that part.
Small tumours and pains of the joynts do ap∣pear to such who have had long feavers.
They who have tumours, and pains about their joynts after long Feavers, do feed more plentifully.
When there is a probability that some matter will be sent to the joynts, plenty of urine and white being made, doth deliver from the ab∣scess. Such as usually begin to be conveyed every 4th, day in feavers with a wearyish indisposition; and if a flux of blood break forth by the Nostrils also, then the solution of the Disease will be ve∣ry shortly.
Plenty of cold water cast upon the tumours of the joynts, griefs without ulcers, the places af∣fected with the gout and convulsive members,
for the most part easeth them, diminisheth and takes away the grief; for a moderate numnesse hath a property to take away pain.
Eunuches are not afflicted with the gout, nei∣ther do they grow bald.
A woman is not troubled with the gout, be∣fore her monthly purgations cease.
A boy is not troubled with the gout before he use the act of Venery.
The gout Diseases do stop within forty dayes, the inflamation being taken away.
The affects of the gout usually expresse them∣selves in the Spring and Autumn.
In Sciatick pains when the hip bone falls out of his place, and is received again, filthy matter is ingendred therein.
They which are troubled with a continual Sciatica, if the head of the hip bone fall out of its place, have their thigh wasted, and they halt unlesse they are cured by cauterizing.
IF the nails grow black, and the fingers and toes either contracted or remisse, argue death approching.