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THE blood that nourished the child in the womb, is turned into milk to nourish him after he is born, because he can eat no solid meats. And be∣cau••e from weakn••ss or a disease,
the mother somtimes cānot suckle her child, she must have a Nurse of good habit of body, and red complexion, which is the sign of the best tem∣per; and let her not differ much from the tem∣per of the mother, unless it be for the better: let her be between twenty and thi••ty, well b••ed, and peaceable, not angry, melancholy, or soolish, not lecherous, nor a drunkard. Let it not be after her first child, and let not her milk be too old or too new•• o•• ten months old at the most. Let her breasts be well fashioned with go••d Nipples, that the child may take them with pleasure.
Let her keep a good diet, and abstain srō hard wine and copulation, and passions: these chiefly trouble the milk, and bring diseases upon the child. If there be a bad humor from high ••eed∣ing in the Nurse, let her take a gentle Purge when she gives not suck, except the child be to be purged by the same.
Some say by a Nurse: others say the Mothers milk is more like the nour••shment it had in the womb, which is best, except she have a disease. For he that gave her strength to conceive, travel, and bring forth, wil give her strength to play the Nurse, though she be weak. And honest women will be very obedient to directions, for the good* 1.1 of the child they love so dea••ly: of which P••a∣••••rinus.
IT must be neither too thick nor too thin, for too thick cannot be concocted, and the thin argues crudities. If it be dropt upon the nail, or a glass, and falls not e••sily off as water; if it sti••k too fast, it is too thi••k.
Let the colour be whi••e, the more it differs from that, the worse it is. Let it be sweet, not four, ••alt, or bitter, or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Let i•• neither smel burnt or so••, for then it will easily corrupt in the stomach of the child.
THe usual fault, is when it i•• too thi•• by r••a∣son of plenty of S••rum in the blood•• this nou••isheth little: and mak••s lean ••hild••••n that sall into a Diarrhaea or Belly flux. If it be too sharp, th••y are scabby.
Give hot and dry things, let bread be wel ba∣ked* 1.2 with Anise and Fennel seed, roast the meat, and give Rice and sweet Almonds: avoid Fish, Sallets, Summer-fruits, much Bro••h, use of••en ••xercise, and purge Serum or Whey, with Sy∣••••p of Roses, and Mechoacan, or R••ubarb, if i•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hot or cholerick.
If ••••ro••s humors come from the dist••mper of the Liver, amend that, and let cold and mo•••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be am••nded with things hot and d••y.
It is from gross diet and drink, or from a hot and dry distemper in the breasts, that burns up the thin blood.
Give flesh of good juyce, and easie concocti∣on,* 1.3 as Chickens, Kid, Veal, abstain from gross food; use moistners and attenuaters, and if there be thick humors with the blood, let them be e∣vacuated.
There are divers tasts, scents and colours in milk from variety of diet. Therefore let a Nurse take heed of fryed Onions, and all four, salt and spiced meats: and let her eat Sallets and Rha∣dishes, and the like. Let her not be passionate. Milk also is somtimes falt, sharp, cholerick, and m••lancholick.
This breeds dangerous diseases, as wringing in the belly, flux, watching, leanness, trush, and falling-si••kness.
Correct the blood, and keep a good diet, be∣ware* 1.4 of things that corrupt the milk, as sharp, ••alt things: avoid anger, and other passions, and Venery. Good Wine moderately, taken by such as have used it, takes away the ill scent from milk.
If these will not do, purge the Cacochymy or evil ••uyces, with Medicines proper for the hu∣mors offending.
THe best colour in a new-born child, is red∣ness all over the body, that changeth by de∣grees to a Rose-colour; they who are white, are s••••kly, and short lived. It must cry clear and loud, which shews the strength of the breast. Ob∣serve all the parts, and ••igure, and passages dili∣gently: let the Midwise handle it gently. Roul it up with soft cloaths, and lay it in a cradle, and wash it first with warm wine; give it a little ho∣ney before it sucks, or a little Oyl of sweet Al∣monds newly drawn, that if there be any filth contracted in the stomach from the womb it may be clensed, for there is a black matter yellowish in the guts, which if not voided, will cause an Epilepsie.
Keep it from cold air, and not too hot; nor in too great light, set not a candle behind it at the head, nor let it see the Sun•• least it be squint∣ey'd. Let it not be frighted, nor left alone sleep∣ing or waking, least it receive hurt.
Let it sleep long, carried in the arms often, and give it the dug, but ••ill not too much his stomach with milk. After four months, ••oos••n the arms, but not the belly, and breast, and ••eet, but keep them rouled from cold above a year. Let it be often clensed from the excrements of the belly and bladder, least they cause itching, o•• pain, or excoriation.
A little crying empties the brain, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the lungs, and sti••s up natur••l 〈…〉〈…〉
it not cry too much, for to prevent Catarrhs and Ruptures•• but it do••h least hurt•• befo••e sucking, and a••te•• ••onco••tion.
Th•• ••i••st months, let it only suck as often as it will, ••o the stomach be not over ••harged. Give it change of breasts, somtimes the right somtimes the le••t. Afterwards make Pap of Barley bread ••••e••pt in water, and boyled in Milk. Let strong children have it b••times, and not suck an hou•• after, thus it must be nourisht til it breeds teeth.
WHen the teeth come forth, by degrees give it more solid food, and deny it ••ot milk, such as are easily chewed. When it is st••on∣ger, let it not stand too soon, but be held by the Nurse, or put into a go-chair, that it may thrust fo••ward it self, and not fall.
In pla••es where bathing of children is used, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it be wash••d twice a week, f••om the seventh ••••nth, till it be we••ned.
W••••n it n••t till the teeth are bred, l••••t when 〈…〉〈…〉 ••••••th, it ••••use feavers, and 〈…〉〈…〉 ••nd ••ther Symptoms.
The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ch••ld ••n mu••t be sooner wean••d 〈…〉〈…〉 som•• in the twel••••h, some in the 〈…〉〈…〉 I•• is good to ••ean them a•• a
year and half, or two years old, but give it not suddenly strange food, but bring it to it by de∣grees while it sucks.
It is best to wean in the Spring or Fall, in the increase of the Moon, and give but very little Wine.
FOr seven years the diet must be such as nou∣risheth and causeth growth, for Hippocrates* 1.5 ••aith, They cannot endure to fast, especially if they be witty. Keep them from passions, sorrow, and fear, and cocker them not, but keep them to rea∣son. Let them play to temper the affection, but so as not to hurt the body.
HIPPOCRATES divides their* 1.6 diseases according to their age••; In new born children there are al∣cers in the mouth, vomiting, coughs, watchings, fears, inflammation of the navel, ••oistness of ears. At* 1.7 breeding of teeth the gums itch, and there are Fea∣vers and Convulsions, and a loose belly when they* 1.8 breed the eye-teeth. When they are older, the Ton∣••••••s art inflamed, the Verteb••e in the neck are lu••a∣••ed inwardly: they breath short, they have the stone, or round worms, or As••arides, Warts, Satyrism or ••tanding Yards, Strangury, Struma's, and other Sw••llings.
They have other diseases at other times, as Mea••les, small Pox, the ligament of the ••ongue ••s tooshort, ••hasing.
In the Cure, use not strong Remedies, nor bleeding, not purging, but Suppositories and Clysters As, Take Violet leaves, Mallows, each a handful; flowers of Chamomil and Violets each a pugil: boyl them, to four or five ounces strained, ad Syrup of Roses half an ounce, or six drams, Oyl of Violets half an ounce, make a Clyster.
If it need other Physick, give it to the Nurse, for the purging ••orce is sent to the milk, as Hip∣pocrates* 1.9 ••aith, If a Woman take Elaterium or wild Cowcumbers, the Child is purged; but you must not give these to the Nurse, but gentle things will purge the in••ant, if the Nurse take them.
THey a••e subject to all sorts of Feavers, but they have chiefly a Feaver from milk which putri••ies, and turns to choler, and inflames the humors. And when the teeth break forth, the gums are inflamed, they have watching and itch∣ing p••in in the mouth, and then feavers.
When feavers come from corrupt milk, they* 1.10 expel no teeth, and there are signs of corrupt milk•• bellyach, many stools yellow and green. A ••eaver from breeding of teeth, hath its proper sig••s.
These feavers cease when the cause is remo∣ved,* 1.11 but if corrupt milk last long, it is dange∣rous.
A ••eaver from corrupt milk is commonly from* 1.12 choler; therefore give cold moist things to the Nurse, as Lettice, Endive, Emulsions of the four g••eat cold Seeds, Barley cream. Give no Wine
while the child is in a feaver. Purge the Nurse gently, with Manna, Cassia, Lenitive Electuary, and Syrup of Roses.
Give Alterers to the insant, as Syrup of Vio∣l••ts, Sorrel, Citrons, Succory, Endive water, and of V••olet with Sugar.
Anoint the Back-bone with Mucilage of Quin∣••••s, ••leabane, with Oyl of Violets and a little Wax, lay Astringents to the Stomach. As, Take Oyl of Roses, Mastich, each half an ounce; red San∣der••, Coral, each a scruple; with Wax mix it.
If the feaver come from breeding of it, abate the pain, and give the Alterers, of which Chap. 14. of Bleeding of Teeth.
There are Epidemical feavers at certain times* 1.13 that cast out Meazles and small Pox, of whic•• before. The cause is not only from the impuri∣ty of the terms, but from the malignity of the air, for they are more or less, as the air is purer or impurer.
Somtimes it is infectious, and the humors are so co••rupt, that worms breed under the scabs and corrode the bones and internal parts, as hath been seen in bodies opened, dead of this dis∣ease.
If the disease be very infectious, before there is a ••eaver, it is good to preserve by change of air and Antidotes, when many die of it, but when few die, it is not amiss to let them alone, lea•••• they have it in a more dangerous time, for most will have it: only give a gentle Purge, and ••or∣tifie Nature, that she may better expel them.
If there be a ••eaver, use no more Preserva∣tives, ••ut labour to get them forth by Medicines
mentioned, and defend the eyes and throat, and ••••event deformity, of which before.
THe milkey Scab is at the first sucking, the Acho••es are after. The Achores are scabs not white, and the white scab is not only in the face, but all over the body. The Achores are on∣ly in the head, but they are cured alike.
They are all ulcers chiefly in the head, with hol••s that run with matter constantly.
They come from excrementitious humors, wa∣terish* 1.14 and sharp, mixed of thick and thin, very* 1.15 ••alt. Therefore they are sometimes yellow, or white, or red, or black, but alwaies salt, and bi∣••ing and itching, that makes them scratch. They are g••thered in the womb, and from corruption of the milk.
The Vulgar think they are healthful, when* 1.16 they run, because Nature sends them forth, and if they strike in, they cause diseases and Epilep∣••ies.* 1.17 They cure in time ••f themselves, but if the matter be very bad, it pierceth the skull.
Dry these not rashly, so they disfigure not the* 1.18 ••••c••, nor hurt the eyes. But drive them forth with ••••abious C••rduus water and Cordials. Use no Coolers nor Astringents, least the matter be stroke in. Let the Nurse forbear salt and sharp, ••nd spiced things, and strong Wine. Pepare the humors with Borage, S••••••ory, Buglo••s, Fumi∣t••••y, Hops, Polypody and Dock roots. Then purge with Senna, Polypody, Epithymum, Rhu∣••••••b, and strengthen th•• Bowels. As, Take
Conserve of Borage, Bugloss, Violets, Fumit••ry, Succory, each an ounce; Succory roots, and Citrons candied, each half an ounce; Diarrhodon, Diamar∣gartion ••rigid, Harts-horn, each a s••ruple; with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 o•••• G••••••i-••••o••••rs mak•• an Electuary. Let the Nurse take every day two drams. Or, Take* 1.19 Harts-horn prepared two drams, Mag••stery of Co∣ral a dram, Diamargariton frigid half a dram: give half a dram, or a dram of this Pouder. Let the child be purged with Manna or Raisons laxative.
If you fear great putrefaction under the scabs, and that wil turn to a scald head, or eat the skul; wash the head with Decoction of Mallows, Bar∣ley, Celandine, Wormwood, or with Althaea∣roots boyled in Boyes urine, and Barley water. And then anoint with Oyl of Roses, bitter Al∣monds, and a little Litharge. Or,
Take ashes of Mirtles and Nut shells, each a dram; Tutty a dram and half, Butter washed with Rose-water an ounce. Or, Take juyce of Beets, Ce∣landine, each an ounce; Hogs grease two ounces, Sulphur a dram. Or, Take Cer••ss, Litharge, each two drams; Pomegranate flowers and Agarick, e••ch a dram; with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar, make an Oyntment: or wash with Soap, and then with the Decoction. When the skull is bare, use Honey of Roses and Spirit of Wine, and after round Birthwort, and Balsom of Peru, and Turpentine with Tobacco water.
IF Achores or Favi last long, or are ill cured. They turn to a Scald, which is a scabby ulcer that corrodes the skin, and stinks; it is called Tin••a or Moth which eats garments•• as this doth
the flesh, Achores are moist ulcers in the head and body, Tinea is a dry ulcer in the head only.
The immediate cause is a salt and sharp hu∣mor,* 1.20 melancholick from the mothers blood, or bad milk, it infecteth others, by the clouts or caps.
Some are like a bran or scurfe with scales,* 1.21 some are slimy, and when the scab is off, there appears red quick nobs of flesh, like the insides of sigs, some are malignant, some not, some new, some old.
There are dry scabs in the head, yellow or ash* 1.22 coloured, that run little, and that which is void∣ed stinketh.
It is hard to be cured. If it be new, or the* 1.23 matter yellow, or the like it is easier. An old Scald ash-coloured and black is stubborn: a••t••r cure the hair will scarce grow there again, be∣cause the skin is so hard; if it will not grow red after rubbing, there is no hopes of hair coming again.
First take off the Scab with ••lensers a little* 1.24 sharp, and because the humors make the skin dry and thick, moisten with Hogs grease upon Beet or Colewort leaves. Or, Take juyce of Fumito∣ry, Coleworts, Docks, Elicamp••ne, each an ••unce and half; Litharge half an ounce, with Hogs grease, oyl of Rue, and Wax, make a sof•• Oym∣ment.
When the Child is of age and strong, make first universal ev••••uation with Senna, Rhubarb, Agarick, then take off the Scab with Sulphur two drams, Mustard half a drain, Stavisacre, Bri∣ony roots, each a dram; Vinegar an ounce, Tur∣pentine half an ounce, and Bears grease. Or
beat Watercresses with Hogs g••ease and apply it, the scab wil fall off in twenty four hours, con∣tinue it.
After the scab is off, pull the hair out by the roots, with instruments or medicines; common∣ly they use a pitched cap, and pull it off violent∣ly which brings away the hair. Or, Take Starch or Wheat flour two ounces, Rosin half an ounce, boyl it in water for a Pultis, lay it upon the several S••ald•• and let it stick some daies, then pluck it off suddenly. Then use Emollients that correct the dry di∣stemper.
Also use things to take the excrements out that lie deep in the skin. As, Take roots of Al∣thaea, Docks, Lillies, each an ounce; Mallows, Fu∣mitory, Sage, each two handful; boyl them in Li••, add Vinegar, wash the head with it every day Then••
Take Ostratium, Sulphur, each half an ounce; oyl of Eggs an ounce with Hogs grease. After that Take Briony and Dock roots, and Elicampan•• roots, each an ounce; Fumitory, Celandine, Scabi∣ous, each two handful; Chamomil and Balm, each a handful; boyl them in Lie and wash the head twice a day therewith•• or foment it, then rub the head with a course cloth, or with oyl of Staphesacre, or of Raddish till it grow red: to draw out the bad hu∣mors that lie deep.
Then use Tarr and Wax for a Cerot. Or•• Take Sal••-p••ter an ounce, Oxymel an ounce and half. Or, Take quick Brimstone an ounce, whi•••• H••llebore, Staphisacre, each two drams, with Hogs grease.
It is not safe to use Arsenick, or O••piment, or Mercury, or other poys••ns that corro••e because it is so neer the brain.
LIce are creatures which breed in clothes that are constantly worn, but they are chiefly in children from the excrements of the head.
All say, that filth and nastiness alone is the cause of lice, but I think not so, for filth alone cannot do it without heat, for besides the first qualities there is a hidden force in the matter by which it is disposed to produce a particular spe∣cies; for fleas and worms wil not breed of that matter which breeds lice, so it is in Plants.
Heat is the helping cause which raiseth the se∣minal force, and brings it into act, and though the matter be putrid it doth not wo••k upon it, but as it is somwhat natural.
Excrements are not presently putrid, but there is in them a heat that can raise forming force, and though there is some putrefaction, yet is it not so great as to hinder the action, hence it is that children and women that are hot and moist have many excrements that are fit to breed lice.
Some meats breed lice, as Figs by their fat* 1.25 juyce which doth naturally tend to the skin, and varieties of meats, and not clensing nor combe∣ing The pl••ce where lice breed in children is the skin of the head, where they stick fast with the hair, especially if there be scabs.
The Signs are needless, they are manifest. * 1.26
It is a filthy troublesom disease, many have* 1.27 them ••reed all over the body, and some have di∣ed by them. Somtimes the lice leave them when they are about to die.
To prevent breeding lice, let children eat no food of evil juyce, especially Figs, let the head be often combed and washed, and the matter purged that breeds them, with hot dry thin me∣dicines, that draw the matter out and consume superfluous moisture.
* 1.28 Take heed of Mercury and Arsnick in children but make this Lotion Take round Birthwort, Lupines, Pine and Cypress leaves, each equal parts; boyl them. Or, Take Elicampane roots two oun∣ces, Briony half an ounce, Beets, Mercury, Soap∣wort, each a handful; Lupines a dram, Niter half an ounce, boyl them for a Lotion. then use this oyntment. Take pouder of Staphisacre three drams, of Lupins half an ounce, Agarick two drams, quick S••lphur a dram and half, Ox gall half an ounce with ••yl of Wormwood: there are stronger, as white Hellebore and Mecrury, which are not safe.
WE spake of this in the water wi••hout the Skull: but Hydrocephalus is from wa∣t••r gathered within the skull or in the ventricle•• of the brain, as when the childs head in the womb hangs down, or when the brain is ver•• moist.
* 1.29 A tumor from water contained in the brain is less and harder then when it is out of the skull.
* 1.30 It is harder to be cured then when it is gathe∣red without the skull, and is often deadly.
* 1.31 There are many medicines mentioned that are good here, to be used outwardly, and to the
nose and ears. As, Take Snails in their shells thirty, Marjoram, Mugw••rt, each a handful; stamp, add Camphire a scruple, Saffron half a dram, with Oyl of Chamomil make a Pultis. Snuff this Wa∣ter often. Take Nutmeg, Cloves, C••bebs, each •• s••ruple; Calamus, Frankincense bark, each half •• dram; Marjoram water three ounces, drop hot Oyls into the ear••. If in twenty daies the water be not gone, open the skull, and let out the water by degrees, and take heed of cold.
The tumor of wind in the skin of the head or membranes of the brain, is seldom without wa∣ter which breeds wind.
Use Discussers that make thin, as Chamomil, Rue, Organ, &c.
IT is from Aetius, a di••ease with a ••eaver, or an* 1.32 inflammation of the membrane•• and the brain, so that there is a hollowness of the eyes and for∣head.
It is from flegmatick blood that grows hot by* 1.33 putrefaction, and so becomes like choler. The remote causes are hot weather, and milk full of wind, from the evil diet of the Nurse. Such milk will make the child drunk, and cause this infla∣mation.
Heat of the forehead, and hollowness there,* 1.34 redness of face, a ••eaver, driness, no appetite, watching. The hollowness in the ••ore-part of the head, is where the Sagital and Coronal ••u∣tures meet, for there the bones are membranous, and grow at last hard.
It is dangerous, and counted deadly among* 1.35 women, and as often as this bone o•• membrane
••als, there is a pit, and the brain fals down, they commonly die in three daies.
* 1.36 First, give a Clyster, of syrup of Roses or Vio∣lets, then Coolers, of the juyce and water of Let∣tice, Gourds, Melons; or apply a Pumpion split in two. But cool not the brain too much, anoint with Oyl of Roses. Or, Take Oyl of Roses half an ounce, Populeon an ounce, the white of an Eg, and of the Emulsion of cold Seeds drawn with Rose water two drams.
After the flux is stopt, and the inflammation abated, use Discussers. As, Take Oyl of Chamo∣mil an ounce and half, of Dill half an ounce, with the yolk of an Eg.
Let the Nurses diet be cooling, or the milk be changed: let it not be vexed.
* 1.37 HIppocrates saith this is often; the cause is unclean vapors mixed with the animal spi∣rits that disturbe them, and present horrible ob∣jects to the fancy. They arise from the depraved concoction of the stomach, in full feeding chil∣dren, that eat more then they can digest. These vapors ascend not onely by the wea••and, but by the veins to the head. It comes often from wor••s also, or corrupt humors that knaw the mouth o•• the stomach.
* 1.38 They groan in their sleep•• and twitch, and b••¦ing frighted out of sleep, they cry, their breath is hot, and often s••inking.
* 1.39 ••ure it presen••ly, for i•• is the ••ore-run••er of an Epilep••••••.
Give good Milk and le••s, th••t the stomach be* 1.40 not over charged. Let it not sleep presently af∣ter food, but carry it about, till it is in the bot∣tom of the stomach. Use Oyl of sweet Almonds or Honey of Roses two spoonfuls to clense the stomach. Then strengthen it with Magistery of Coral, or Con••ection of Hyacinths with Milk. Or, Take Magistery of Coral a dram, Diapleres a scruple, with Sugar dissolved in Rose water an ounce m••ke Rou••s.
Anoint the stomach with Oyl of Nard, Worm∣wood, Mints, Mastich, N••tmegs. If it be from a feaver, look to that. If from wo••ms, I shal af∣ter speak of it. Some hang Coral and Wolves teeth about the childs neck.
A Child new born sleeps more then he wakes, because his brain is very moist, and he u∣sed to sleep in the womb. If you cannot make him sleep by singing nor rocking, no•• the like, it is a disease.
Are dive••s in m••n and children: in these it is* 1.41 from milk corrupt in the stomach, from which sharp humors arise, and disturbe the animal Spi∣rits, and infect them; and if there be sad fancies, frights ••ollow, of which before.
If it cries alwaies, and cannot by any art be* 1.42 made to sleep, it is a sign of a disea••e of watching which is dangerous, because children use to sleep much. And hence come Cata••rhs, Convulsi∣ons, Driness and Feavers.
The bad milk mus•• be amended, and the cor∣••upt* 1.43 meat prevented. If it be from a feaver or pain, ••emove them. Galen adviseth you of••en to * 1.44
change the bed and place. Sleeping Medi∣cines are not safe, but hurt, but are rather to be given the Nurse moderately, as sweet Almonds, Lettice, Poppy seeds.
Wash the feet with Decoction of Dill tops, Chamomil flowers, Sage, O••iers, Vi••e leaves, Poppy heads. Cool not the head too much, nor use Narcoticks. These are sa••e, Oyl of Dill to the temples, Oyl of Roses, with Oyl of Nut∣megs, with Poppy seed, Breast-milk, Rose or Nightshade water with Saffron.
In great driness of the brain, let the cove••ing of the cradeles head ••e wet.
IT is either by consent from parts below, when the milk corrupts in the stomach, or from an ill quality in it from the Nurses bad diet, or from worms in the guts, or from vapors, from bad hu∣mors that twitch the membranes of the brain, as in the Meazles and ••mall Pox.
It is somtimes from the brain first, as when the humors are bred in the brain that cause it, either from the parents, or from distemper, or bad diet.
It may come from toothach also, when the brain consents, and from a sudden fright.
* 1.45 It is manifest. You shall know by the signs of the diseases, whether it comes from bad milk, worms or teeth. If from a fright, the people wil tell you. If these all are absent, it is certain that the brain is first affected.
* 1.46 It is a great disease, and kills for the most part
young children. But when in older, and it comes* 1.47 at a distance, it vanisheth by age. If it come with Pox or Meazles, it ceaseth when they come forth if Nature be strong enough.
Give this Pouder to prevent it, to a child as* 1.48 soon a•• it is born. Take male Piony roots gathe∣red in the decrease of the Moon a scruple, Magistery of Coral half a scruple, with Leaf-gold make a Pou∣der. Or, Take Piony roots a dram, Piony seeds, Mis••eto of the O••k, E••kes hoof, Mans skull, Am∣ber, each a scruple; Musk two grains, make a Pouder.
The Florentines burn behind in the head to* 1.49 dry the brain, and Celsus saith it is the last Re∣medy. Aegineta saith that children cannot en∣dure* 1.50 such cruelty, for the pain and watching* 1.51 would kill them. See Sylvaticu••.
The best part of the cure is in the Nurses diet•• which must not be disordered. If it be from co••∣rupt milk, provoke vomit, thus; hold down the tongue, and put a quill dipt in sweet Almonds down the throat.
If it come from worms, give things that kill worms, with Piony roots, and the like. If there be a feaver, respect that also. Give Coral, Sma∣radgs, and Elkes hoof.
In the ••it give Epileptick water, as Lavender∣water, and rub with the Oyl of Amber, or hang a Piony root, Elkes hoof, or Smaragd about the ne••k.
This is when the brain labo••s to cast out what troubles it. The matter is in the marrow of the ••ack, and fountain of the nerves. It is a ••••••b∣born disease, and often kills.
In the ••it wash the body, especially the backbone
with decoction of Althaea, Lilly roots, Pio∣ny, Chamomil flowers. And anoint with Mans and Goose grease, Oyl of Worms, Orris, Lillies, Foxes, Turpentine, Mastich, Storax calamite.* 1.52 The Sun flower is good boyled in water, for to wash the Child.
THis is when they lie in the cradle with their head from the light, or on one side, and they still look towards the light, which cau∣seth distortion of the eyes: or it may come from the Epilepsie, or by birth.
* 1.53 If by birth, it is not curable, nor if it come from an Epilepsie. If it come from custom, and be new, it is curable.
* 1.54 You must put a candle on the contrary side, or a picture, so long till the eyes come to be right.
OF these in the first Book. But here we shal speak of in••ants•• the brain in them is ve∣ry moist, and hath many excrements which Na∣ture cannot send out at its proper p••ssages; these get often to the ears, and cause pain, and flux of blood, with inflammation and matter with ••ain.
* 1.55 In children pain and inflammation are hard to be k••own, they cannot relate it, only it is k••own
by constant crying, and feeling their ears, and will not let others touch them; sometimes the parts about the ears are red.
It is dangerous, because it brings watching,* 1.56 and Epilepsie: the moisture breeds worms there, and fouls the spungy bones, and at length deaf∣ness incu••able.
Presently allay the pain, but children must not* 1.57 have strong remedies. Only use warm milk a∣bout the ears, Oyl of Violets, or the Decoction of Poppy tops. To take away moisture, use Ho∣ney of Roses, and Aqua Mellis, to be dropt into the ears. Or, Take Virgins Honey half an ounce, red Wine two ounces, Allum, Saffron, Salt-peter, each a dram; mix them at the fire. Or drop in Hemp seed Oyl, with a little Wine.
THese are from bad milk, or from ••oul hu∣mors in the stomach, for the mouth is ten∣der, and connot endure the sharp milk, nor the vapors from the stomach, because the coat is the same as in Lib. 2. Part. 1. Cap. 18.
The bladders in the gums are thus cured. Take Lentils busked, pouder them, lay it upon the gum••. Or, Take Milium in flour half an ounce with O••l of Ros••s make a Linimem.
The inflammation of the Tonsils is more from eleven to thirteen, for then the parts a••e harder, and hold the humors longer, and they cannot sweat out.
For Cure, keep the belly 〈◊〉〈◊〉 b•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 * 1.58
the like; use Repellers at first, then Resolvers with Repellers, and at last Resolvers alone, but not too hot; in age Gargles are best: in infants anoint with Honey of Roses, Mirtles, Pome∣granates, Diamoron inwardly. Outwardly use Oyl of sweet Almonds, Chamomil, St. Johns∣wort,* 1.59 &c.
THis is a necessary evil in all children, and very great by reason of the variety of sym∣ptoms joyned with it. It is about the seventh month, first the fore-teeth, then the eye-teeth, and last of all the grinders•• First they feel an itch∣ing in their gums, then they are pierced as with a needle, and pricked by the sharp bones, whence is great pain, watching and inflamation of gums, feaver, loosness and convulsions, especially when they breed their eye-teeth.
First, it is known by the usual time, as the ••e∣ginning* 1.60 of the seventh month. Also they put their ••ingers in their mouths to allay pain. 3. They hold the nipple faster then before. 4. The gum is white where the tooth begins to come, and there are divers Symptomes mentioned before. The feaver that follows breeding of teeth, comes from cholerick humors inflamed by watching, pain and heat.
The longer teeth are breeding the greater the* 1.61 danger, so that many die of feavers or convulsi∣ons. They are best that have their belly loose:* 1.62 These have no convuision, & a feaver consumes the humo••s.
Hard breeding of teeth is from thickness of the* 1.63 gums; therefore molli••ie and loosen them, rub them with the finger dipt in Butter and Honey, or a Virgin Wax Candle is to be chewed u∣pon. Or anoint with ••ucilage of Quinces made with Mallow water, or with the brains of a Hare. Foment the cheek with the Decoction of Althaea and Chamomil flowers, and Dill, or with juyce of Mallows, and f••esh Butter.
If the gu••s are inflamed, add juyce of Night∣shade and Lettice. Let the Nurse keep a tempe∣rate diet inclining to cold, as Barley broaths, or Watergrewel, rear Eggs, Prunes, Lettice, Endive. Avoid sal••, sharp, biting and peppered meats, and Wine.
WHen the tongue is tied, they cannot freely suck. This must be done by skil∣ful Artists; or use this Liniment. Take clarified Honey, and boyl it gently till it may be pou∣dered. Then Take yolks of hard Eggs dried in a glass in an Oven, till they may be poudered, a dram, ••rankincense and Mastich, each a scruple; burnt Allum six grains, with Honey of Roses make a Li∣niment.
The Frog is when the veins under the tongue, are filled with bad blood; and if flegm sweat out, and stick in the passages, there is a tumor like Mushrooms which causeth stamering. It is cu∣red thus: Take Cuttlebone, Sal gem, Pepper, each a dram; burnt Spunge three drams, make a Pouder, or with Honey a Liniment: rub under the tongue.
Lay under the chin a Plaister of goose dung and Honey boyled in Wine, till the Wine be con∣sumed.
WEE have spoken of these before, but* 1.64 because Hippocrates reckons them in Childrens diseases, I shall touch up∣on them.
The general Cause of a Catarrh in a child, is* 1.65 a moist brain, and much milk that burdens the stomach, from whence many vapors fil the brain; and if the brain be full of excrements, it is easily dissolved or melted, either by heat or cold, and goes to the nose, ••••ws or lungs, which cause a cough or Asthma. Moreover much food makes crudities in the first passages, and flegmatick blood is bred of crudity and thick chyle in the li∣ver. This is sent by the ar••erial vein into the lungs, and pr••ssing the Bronchia or pipes of the lungs, causeth difficult breathing and Asthma.
It is known to be from a hot humor, if it be* 1.66 thin, they often neese, the face is red, and the jaws; the breath is short, and the Nurse ••inds it in her nipples. If difficulty of breathing come from the head, there will be a cough and snort∣ing in breathing, and a noise in the lungs, when the air passeth not freely through them. If it come from the parts below, there is neither C••∣tarrh nor cough, but hardness about the Liver, and a tumor.
In children a great Catarrh with short breath* 1.67 is hard to be cured, because they cannot take Physick.
First, let it and the Nurse keep a good diet, fil* 1.68 not the stomach with milk nor other diet; but let the Nurse forbear sharp, salt, peppered, ••our things, and things that fill the head with vapors. And give her a Pectoral Decoction: Take Figs, ••ujubes, each ten; Sebestens thirty, Raisons stoned ••en drams, Liquorish two drams, Maidenhair, Hy∣sop, Violets, each half an ounce: boyl them in three pints of Water, to the consumption of the third part. Let her take six ounces every morning.
Keep the belly open with Syrup of Roses, or Cassia, or a Clyster; with oyl of sweet Almonds with Sugar candy, or juyce of Fennel, with Milk, or hold down the tongue, and provoke Vomi∣ting.
Give Syrup of Jujubes, Maidenhair. If the matter be thick, give Syrup of Hysop, or Hore∣hound, or an Emulsion of oyl of sweet Almonds, Pine-nuts, Scabious water. Or give a Lohoch of Diaireos, Diatragacanth frigid, Pe••idies, with Syrup of Jujubes.
If it be hot give Emulsions of the ••our great cold Seeds, with Mallows, Pellitory, with Dia∣tragacanth frigid.
To dry up the matter, lay outwardly a stuph of Hemp hot, and sprinkled with pouder of red Roses and Frankincense. Apply Basil and Mar∣joram to the nose, to make it sneese.
IT comes from corruption of the food in the stomach, or from milk ••illing it, or from cold 〈◊〉〈◊〉 these hurt the expulsive faculty, and it is ••••••rred up to expel what is hurtful.
If i•• come from re••letion of milk, the belly * 1.69
swells, and there is vomiting after. If from cor∣ruption of milk, the Nurse hath bad milk: the child cries, and is pained, and the excrements s••n••••l of stinking milk.
Hi••kets is commonly not dangerous in child∣ren,* 1.70 and cease when the cause is taken away. I•• it be from a vehement cause, and goes to the nerves, there follows a Convulsion, or Epilepsie, and death.
That from corruption of nourishment is cu∣red* 1.71 by vomit, with a feather dipt in Oyl, to tic∣kle the throat; then strengthen the stomach with hot things. As Syrup of Mints, Bettony, and so∣ment it with Decoction of Mints, Organ, Wo••m∣wood; then anoint with Oyl of Mints, Mastich, Dill. Or, Take Mastich an ounce, Frankincense, Dill seed, each two drams; Cummin seed a dram, with juyce of Mints and Flax apply them to the stomach.
There is a disease like the Hi••kets in children from anger or grief, when the Spirits are much sti••red, and run from the heart to the Diaphrag∣ma forceably, and hinder or stop the breath Som∣times they have a shril voice, the Spirits sudden∣ly breaking forth, but when the passion ceaseth, this Symptom ceaseth.
IT is from too much milk or bad milk, or f••om fl••gm that fals from the head to the stomach, but this is seldom in children. It is of••en from a moist loose stomach, for as driness retains, so loosness lets go.
If it be from much milk, they are better after* 1.72 vomiting. If it be from corruption of milk, that which is vomited is yellow, green, or otherwise
ill coloured, and stinking: worms are known by their signs.
It is for the most part without danger in chil∣dren,* 1.73 and they that vomit from their birth, are the lustiest, for the stomach being not used to meat, and milk being taken too much, often∣times crudities are easily bred, or the milk is cor∣rupted, and it is better to vomit these up, then keep them in. If Vomiting last long, it causeth A••rophy.
When it is from too much milk•• give it less:* 1.74 if it be from corrupt milk, amend it, as I shewed. Clense the child with Honey of Roses; and strengthen the stomach with Syrup of Mints, Quinces. Or, Take Wood-aloes, Coral, Mastich, each half a dram; Galangal half a scruple, with Sy∣rup of Quinces make a Linc••us.
If the humor be sharp and hot, give Syrup of Pomegranates, Currans, Coral.
Apply to the belly the Plaister of Bread, the Stomach-cerot, or Bread dipt in Wine hot. Or, Take Oyl of Mastich, Quinces, Mints, Wormwood, each half an ounce; of Nutmegs by expression half a dram, Chymical Oyl of Mints three drops. Co∣ral hath an occult propriety, therefore it is hung about their necks.
IT is often with the flux of the belly, and from milk alone that breeds wind and sharp hu∣mors. When it is corrupted, it gets to the guts, and causeth a gnawing pain: worms staying in the guts, do the same.
They cry continually, hate the breast, and toss* 1.75 to and fro. If it be from wind, it ceaseth, som∣times the belly swells, and they break wind. If it be from humors, it is constant: if it be tough flegm, the belly is bound, and the dung is slimy. If it be sharp, there is a flux yellow and green. If from worms, there are signs of them, and of cru∣dities and wind.
If this pain lasts long, they are weak, or have* 1.76 Convulsions or Epilepsie, it is worse when ••rom corrupt milk and worms, and is dangerous.
If it be from crude humors and wind, give a* 1.77 Clyster. Take Pellitory, Chamomil flowers, each a handful; boyl them in Chicken broath, to three or four ounces, add Honey of Roses an ounce, with the yolk of an Eg make a Clyster. This may be given safely to a child of two month•• old. Or give oyl of sweet Almonds, with Sugar candy, and a scruple of Aniseeds; it purgeth new born Babes from* 1.78 green choler and stinking flegm. If it be given with Sugar Pap, it allays the crying pains of the belly.
Anoint the belly with Oyl of Dill, or lay Pel∣litory stampt with O••l of Chamomil to the belly. Or, Take Chamomil flowers, Dill tops, each a hand∣ful; Faenugreek and Lineseed, each half an ounce; boyl them in Wine, foment the belly twice a day be∣fore meat.
If pain be from corrupt milk ••hat is sharp, give Syrup of Roses, or Honey of Roses, or Syrup of Succory, with Rhubarb, or a Clyster of the De∣coction of Bran, Pellitory, with S••rup of Roses. And use outwardly Oyl of Roses, Dill and Cha∣momil.
WHen they suck too much, the belly is swel∣led under the ribs, for want of concocti∣on, and there are crudities in the stomach and wind, and also in the parts adjacent.
The Hypochondria are hard, and pussed up,* 1.79 and there is straitness in the mouth of the sto∣mach, and short breath.
It is easily cured with good diet. * 1.80
Give a thinner diet, that the crudities may be co••cocted. Give no fresh nourishment til th•• first* 1.81 be digested, then give Honey of Roses to purge. Or the Decoction of Cardiaca, which is good for the heart and mouth of the stomach: it opens obstructions, and clenseth flegm. Or pouder of Piony roots, Cummin seed, Jesamine; or make it up with Honey, Oyl of sweet Almonds, or Su∣gar for a Liniment. Foment the sides with the Decoction of Cardiaca, Chamomil flowers, and Cununin seed.
IT is 1. From breeding of teeth, with a feave•• commonly, and the concoction is hindered, and the nourishment corrupted. 2. From much watching. 3. From pain 4. From stirring of the humors by a feaver. 5. When they suck or drink too much in a feaver. Somtimes they have a flux without breeding of teeth, from outward cold in
the guts or stomach, that hinders concoction.
If it be from teeth, it is known by the signs in* 1.82 breeding of teeth: if from external cold, there are signs of no other causes. If from a humor flowing from the head, there are signs of a C••∣tarrh, and the excrements are ••roathy. If crude humors are voided, there is wind, belching, and flegmatick excrements. If they be yellow, green and stink, the ••••ux is from a hot and sharp hu∣mor.
It is best in breeding of teeth, when the belly* 1.83 is loose; but if it be too great•• and you fear A∣trophy, it must be stopt: if black excrements are voided with a feaver, it is bad.
A sucking child needs not cure so much as the* 1.84 Nurse, you must chiefly observe the condition of the milk and mend it, if not, change the Nurse, & let her not eat green fruit, and things of hard co∣coction. If the child suck not, take away the cau∣ses of the flux, with purges that bind after: as Sy∣rup or Honey of Roses, or a Clyster. Take the decoction of Milium, My robalans, each two or three ounces; with an ounce or two of Syrup of Roses make a Clyster. After clensing, if the cause be hot, give Syrup of dried Roses, Quinces, Mirtles, Coral, Curr••ns, or the pouder of Diamar••ariton, Co∣ral, Mastich, Harts-horn, red Roses, or pouder of Mi••tles, with a little Sanguis Draconis.
Anoint with Oyl of Roses, Mirtles, Mas••ich. Or, Take red Roses an ounce, Mirtles, Mas••ich, each two drams; with Oyl of Mirtles and Wax make an Oyntment. Or•• Take red Roses, Moulin, each a handful; Cypress roots two drams, make a Bag, boyl it in red Wine, apply it to the belly: or use the Plaister of Bread or Stomach oyntment.
If the cause be cold, and excrements white,
give Syrup of Mastich and Quinces, with Mint∣water.
Use outwardly Mints, Mastich, Cummin. As, Take Rose seeds an ounce, Cummin•• Aniseeds, each* 1.85 two drams; with Oyl of Mastich•• Wormmood and Wax make an Oyn••men••.
IT is from a cold and dry distemper of the guts, from birth in some. 2. From slimy flegm that wraps the dung, which sticks in the guts. This is from bad milk, when the Nurse eats gross food, slimy and astringent, or drinks little. 3. It is from a hot distemper of the kidnies or liver, that dries the excrements. 4. It is when choler doth not stir up the guts to expel.
If it be from a dry distemper of the guts, it is* 1.86 hard to be cured: if it be from slimy flegm, the dung is wrapt in it. If choler comes not to the guts to provoke them to stool, the dung is white, and the body yellow.
It is best in children to have a loose belly, and* 1.87 they are more healthful; for if it be bound, the belly is pained, and there is headach.
First, take away the cause: if it be from a hot distemper of any bowel, or dry, wash the child* 1.88 often, to moisten and cool it in a Bath of Succo∣ry and Le••••ice boyled. In a cold distemper use hot for the stomach, and in a dry use moist things, as Oyl of Lillies, Dialthaea, Hens grease, Butter. Let the Nurse avoid astringent me••ts, as Q••in∣••es, Medlars, Beans, and use Emollients. If the chi••d be big, give juyce or Decoction of red Colwo••ts,
worts, with a little Salt and Honey. If it be from slimy flegm, give Honey or Syrup of Roses. Cor∣rect the hot distemper of the Liver and Reins, with Syrup of Violets, and Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds. If choler come not from the Gall to the Guts, give the Decoction of Grass∣roots, Fennel, Sparagus, Maidenhair.
Give Clysters to cut and clense tough flegm. As, Take Al••haea roots, Mallows, Pellitory, each half a handful; Faenugreek and Lineseed, each a dram; Chamomil flowers a pugil: boyl, and to three or six ounces, ad three drams of Cassia, Oyl an ounce, and the yolk of an Eg.
To the Navel, apply Hens grease, and Ox gal. Or, Take Aloes two drams, Ox gall a dram, Sca∣mony a scruple, with Butt••r make an Oyntment. Fill a Walnut shell with it, and apply it to the Navel. Anoint the belly with Emoillients. Take fresh Butter, Goose and Hens grease, each half an ounce; Oyl of sweet Almonds, and Lineseed, each two drams; Veal marrow, Dialthaea, each two drams; with Wax make an Oyntment: Bran and juyce of Danewort make a loosning Cataplasm for the belly. Only keep it from the stomach, as you must do other Cataplasms.
IT is observed that children have had worms in* 1.89 their mothers belly, and voided them after they were born. But they are chiefly bred by mixing milk with other meats in a hot and moist constitution, and from sweet meats which wo••ms love; and Summer-fruits: they are round and long, or broad and little.
Besides what is said in Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. * 1.90
Cap. 5. Worms are known to be in a body, when there is much spittle, and a stinking breath, troublesom sleep, gnashing of teeth, crying and bawling; a dry cough, loathing, vomiting, hic∣kets, want of appetite, or too much, thirst, a bel∣ly swelled, or bound, or too loose, thick white urin with pain, when the belly is empty, and the worms want food. There is a cold sweat over the face, and a high colour, with sudden pale∣ness; sometimes a feaver and convulsion which ceaseth presently. These are the signs of round worms rather then of the flat.
Infants are often long troubled with worms* 1.91 without any great inconvenience, sometimes there are great Symptomes. The long round worms are worst, and have eaten sometimes the guts and belly through, with a feaver they are more dangerous: few are better then many, and small then great, white are better then those of other colours. The other Prognosticks are men∣tioned in other places.
It is better to prevent the breeding of worms then to expel them, by eating of meats of good juyce, with Oranges and Pomegranates, and a∣voiding sweet, fat and slimy meats, fish, milk, and Summer-fruits, and figs. Drink thin Wine, and Grass and Sorrel water with it, and with pouder of Harts horn.
Let the belly be kept loose, with Clysters fo•• children: or give the Decoction of Sebestens be∣fore meat, or of Wormwood and Scordium, but children will not take bitter things; therefore give Grass water, and juyce of Lemons or Ci∣t••ons, or a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol.
When you know by the signs, that there are * 1.92
worms, kill and expel them with pouder of Co∣ralline, Wormseed. Harts horn, or eight grains of Mercurius dulcis. Infuse them a night in g••ass water, and cast away the substance o•• the Mer∣cury, and give the Water. Or, Take Wo••mseed two drams, Coralline, Harts horn prepared, each a dram; roots of Piony, Dittany, Magistery of Co∣ral, each a scruple; make a Pouder: or give the Es∣sence of Peach flowers, or the Decoction, of Fern∣water half an ounce, or an ounce. If there be a fea∣ver, use colder, as juyce of Lemons, Pomegra∣nates, Oranges, Vinegar, Harts horn, Bezoar, Confection of Hyacinth, or this Potion. Take Grass water four ounces, Syrup of juyce of Citrons an ounce, of Violets half an ounce, Spirit of Vitriol two drops, give two spoonfuls.
Give bitter things at the mouth, and sweet at the fundament, as a Clyster of Milk. Or, Take Raisons ten, Figs seven, boyl them in water, take of it four ounces, add Sugar an ounce and half, make a Clyster. Use varieties that the worms may not be too familiar with one.
Apply Peach leaves to the Navel bruised, or a Cataplasm of Ox gall, Wormwood and St. Johns∣wort. Or, Take pouder of Wormwood, Gith, Cen∣taury, Wormseed, Lupines, each half an ounce; with Oyl of Wormwood, and Wax half an ounce, make an Oyntment. Or, Take Treacle half an ounce, with juyce of Wormwood apply it to the navel: or make a Bath of Peach leaves and Wormwood, put the child into it up to the navel. If there be a Fea∣ver, use colder things mentioned.
IT is from the Peritonaeum loose or broken, when the s••all guts fall into the cods, from crying, cough, strainin•• at stool•• and from vehe∣ment motion, or a fall. Sometimes the Perito∣naeum is well, and a water falls from the belly into the cods.
The tumor is visible: if it be from a gut, it is* 1.93 in one part only, as the right or left, and it may be felt, and the hole also ••hrough which it fel. If from water, it is even all over, and there was no cause of other Rupture.
It is easier cured in infants then in elder per∣sons,* 1.94 for it is safer, but worse then that of water which goes away of it self when the water is con∣sumed.
Let the belly be kept open, let not the child* 1.95 cry. Avoid vehement motion, lay him upon his back, and thrust it up gently, and apply this Plaister. Take Lambs tongue, Sanicle, each half an ounce; Lentils, and Lupines, and red Roses in pouder, each two drams; Frankincense a dram, Al∣lum half a dram, with the white of an Eg. Or, Take Frankincense, Cypress nuts, Alo••s, Acacia, each two drams; Mirrh a dram, with Izinglass make a Pla∣ster. Or apply Gum Elemni steept in Vinegar, till there be a Cream at the top, and with oyl of Eggs make a Cerot.
Inwardly, Take Sanicle, Lambs tongue, each half a handful; Agrimony a handful, Comfrey the greater half an ounce, boyl them, to a pint strained, ad Sugar, give it often. Or give pouder of Mousear or Moonwort with Wine.
If it be from water, anoint with Oyl of Elder,
Bayes, Rue; or apply a Cataplasm of pouder of Beans, ••oenugreek, Lineseed, Chan••••mil flow∣ers, Cummin seeds, with these Oyls.
IT is without inflammation. 1. When it was not well tied, and too much left that sticks out. 2. When the Peritonaeum is loose, and hath water or wind in it, from crying or cough∣ing. 3. When the navel is ulcerated, and the guts fall into it: this is called properly Exom∣phalon.
The navel yeilds to the touch, but in an infla∣mation,* 1.96 it is hard; there is neither heat nor red∣ness•• and it lasts longer then an inflammation.
If the navel was not wel cu••, there wil be too great a quantity, if the Peritonaeum be not bro∣ken, but loose, the navel starts not much out, and is not greater by crying; if it be broken, the tu∣••or scarce appears when he lies upon his back, but it increaseth by crying or walking.
If the Midwi••e did not cut the navel wel, it is* 1.97 more troublesom then dangerous. If it be too large or ulcerated, at first it is easily cured, but afterwards it may cause a deadly ilia••k passion, when the guts that fall in, are inflamed.
When the Peritonaeum is loose, wind stretch∣eth* 1.98 the navel; then use a Cataplasm of Cum∣min, Bayberries, and Lupines poudered in ••ed Wine, or a Bag of Cummin and Spike boyled i•• red Wine. Then lay on an astringent, and roul it.
If the Peritonaeum be broken, first put in the gut, then bind it close, after you have laid on astringent
Pouders. Or, Take pouder of ••ypress∣nuts, Frankincens••, Mi••••l••, Mastich, Sarcocol, Al∣l••m, ••••inglass, each a dr••m; with the whites of Egs make a Pultis, and give Medi••ines against Rup∣tures.
IT is from pain, when it is hot well tied, that draws blood to it. There is redness, hard∣ness, heat, and beating.
If it turns to an impo••t••um••, and breaks, the* 1.99 gu••s come forth, and the child usually dies.
First abate pain. Take Ma••••ows boyled and stampt* 1.100 two ounces, Barley meal half an ounce, Lupines, Fe∣n••gree•••• ea••h two dram•••• with Oyl o•• Rose•• ••••ke a Cataplasm. To repel Blood; Tak•• Fra••kincense a dram, Acacia, Fleaban•• seed, e••ch half a dram; with the white of an Eg mak•• a Cataplasm. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Suppuration as much as may be: but i•• it doth suppurate, Take Turpenti••e half an ounce, the yol•• of an Eg•• and Oyl of Roses two ounces.
VVHen the muscle tha•• ••huts the Ars••-hol•• is loose, the fundament comes f••rth the cause is moisture of the muscles afte•• a flux, or straining at stool, in Tenesmus or Need∣ing, or when the belly is bound.
The ••eople will tell you the causes, and you* 1.101 may see it.
It is easily cured, when it is from straning at* 1.102 stool, if it have not been long out. If it be from great store of moisture, it is hard to be cured, es∣pecially if there be a loosness of the belly, for then Medicines cannot lie on.
First, put it up, if it be swollen foment it with* 1.103 the decoction of Mallows and Althaea, or anoint with Oyl of Lillies•• then keep it in with astrin∣gents. As, Take ••••d Roses, Pomegrana••e peels and flowers, Cypress nuts, each half an ounce; Sumach, Frankincense, Mastich, each two drams•• boyl them in red Wine, foment with a Spunge, then sprinkle on this Pouder. Take red Roses and Pomegrana••e flowers, each half a dram; Frankincense, Mastich, each a dram; lay it upon a clout, and put it to the Fundament•• See Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 1. c. 6.
THe stone in the bladder is usual in infants, as that of the kidnies is in elder people. How it is cured, we shewed before•• In in∣fants* 1.104 it is from gross unclean milk made of tough meats, this too much taken in, causeth cru∣dities sit to breed the stone, ••r pap of Barley meal and milk may cause it. There is al••o a weakne••s in the liver and stomach, when they do not sepa∣rate unprofitable food, but much earthy juyce re∣mains in the chyle that breeds stones. Also a ho•• distemper in the reins, by which the chyle is drawn to the bladder, and if there be a native hereditary disposition to breed the stone, an ear∣thy part is in the humor, which makes the urine thick•• this is in bigger Boys more then in infants
They piss by drops, with itching and pain, the * 1.105
Urin is stopt often, and tha•• which is pissed is like cleer wa••er white, or like milk or whey, somtimes blood is pissed, and the yard often stands.
It increaseth dayly i•• it be not opposed, and* 1.106 cannot be cured without cutting, which is dan∣gerous for yong or old.
Prevent the breeding of it when you see the* 1.107 least disposition to it. Let the belly be alwaies kept loose, and the Nurse eat no gross slimy food: make a bath of the decoction of Althaea. Mallows, Pellitory, Parsley, Dill, Faenugreek, Lineseed. then anoint the bladder with Althaea, oyl of Lillies and Scorpions, and apply a Cata∣plasm o•• Pellitory, boyled with oyl of Lillies.
A Pouder. Take Magistery of Crabs eyes, white Amber, Goats blood prepared, each a scruple;* 1.108 with Parsley water, give it often. Or give two drops of spirit o•• Vitriol with half a dram of Cypress Turpentine.
THere are many causes in ripe age that are mentioned, but in Infants they are chief∣ly two causes: the thick humor that breeds the stone, that makes a strangury and dysury; and the Stone that stops the bladder.
It is voided by drops, and the child cries, and* 1.109 the urin is thick, you may try with the Catheter if there be a Stone.
If it be not presently cured, it turns to the* 1.110 Stone: and all natural evacuation in Children being stopt is dangerous.
It is as in the Stone, you must evacuate hu∣mors* 1.111 from the first passages with Hon••y of Roses, Cassia, Turpentine, foment and anoint as before with Grass water, Restharrow, Dropwort watter, and decoction of red Pease. Or, Take the blood of an Hare an ounce, Saxi••••••ge roots six drams, cal∣••ine them, give from 〈◊〉〈◊〉 scruple to half a dram, with white Wine or Saxi••••age water.
SOm••••piss no•• o••••y in their sleep, but alwaies, because the muscle that should close the o∣rifice of the bladder is weak, and when much water pricks it, it suffers it to come forth, some∣times a Stone in the bladder hurts the Sphincter, so that it cannot do its duty. The cause of weakness is a cold humor and moist, from gross ••ough meats, from gluttony and the like.
It cannot b•• known i•• Infants, but i•• may in* 1.112 elder children, that ••now they ought not piss abed.
If it come by custome, it turns to an habit,* 1.113 or a disease, and is hard to be cured in ripe years: if it be from distemper it is easie to be cured.
Alter the cold and moist distemper, dry and* 1.114 consume the flegm, let the Nurse have a hot dry∣ing diet with Sage, Hysop, Marjoram, let not the child drink much, keep the belly.
Outwardly a••o••••t the region of the bladder with oyl of Costus, Orris, and other driers: make a bath o•• Sulphur, Allum, and Oak leaves, o••luse Sulphur or All••m baths: give this pouder.
Take Hogs bladders burnt, roasted stones of a Hare, Cocks throats roasted•• each half a dram; Acrons two scruples, Nip, Mace, each a scruple; give half a dram with Oak leaves water. see Lib. 3. Part 8. Sect. 2. c. 6.
IT is th•• separation of the scarf-skin from the true in the Hips, that causeth pain and un∣qu••etness.
It is from sharp piss, when the clouts are not* 1.115 changed often: in such as are fat, to whom filth sticks easily.
The Skin is off and it looks red. * 1.116
It is troublesom by reason of the pain, and* 1.117 causeth want of sleep, and ulc••rateth if it be not cured.
Change the clouts often, wash and clense the* 1.118 child often, sprinkle on ••his fine pouder. Of Litharge of Silver, seeds and leaves of Roses, burnt Allum and Frankincens••, or anoint with white oyntment and Diapompholigos.
SOmtimes children and men grow lean; the elder from Feavers, Consumptions, and o∣ther diseases; but children pine away, and the cause is not known, and though they eat and perform other actions, they are not nourished no•• grow.
The causes of Consumption in Infants are,* 1.119 little or bad milk by which no blood is bred fit to nourish the body, so that they thrive not till they change the Nurse.
The second is worms that suck away the nou∣rishment.
The third is worms about the body without, ••s in th•• Back, Aims•• ••r Leg•• and all parts, these are very small a••d br••ed in•• ••••ufculous parts, and stick in the skin, and never come wholly out, but after rubbing in baths, th••y put forth their heads like black hairs, and run in when they feel the cold air: they breed of ••••imy matter shut up in the capillar veins, which turns to worms from transpiration hindered.
The fourth cause in the opinion of people is fascination or witchcraft, either from the eyes of Witches, or by vapors, or by touch, or by words from a Witch; these are alleadged by many Authors. I neither allow nor plainly de∣ny all these waies of fascination, though it is not credible that a child should suffer by words or looks only. I deny not but diseases may be sent from sick bodies to others, as the Leprosie, the French Pox, Consumption, and the like, and may infect Infants. And I believe that they may be hurt by Witches and malicious persons by the help of the Devil and Gods permissio••, as Basil the great writeth: for wicked people make* 1.120 a league with the Devil that they may hurt such as they look enviously and angerly upon. And I add one thing, a habit of body that is grown very excellent is in most danger, as Hippocra••••s ••aith, when children come to be very healthfull and fair, they fall suddenly into a disease, and the vulgar not knowing the cause of it, impu••e it to Witchcraft.
The signs of the causes, if they be lean from a* 1.121 feaver or other disease, it is easily known. If these causes be not, view the Nurses milk•• whe∣ther little, or her breasts ••lag without milk, and that is the cause of leanness in the child; if she have milk, see if it be not hot and dry, and cho∣lerick. And consider her constitution. If the milk be blameless, see if it be not from worms ei∣ther in the Guts or in the skin; the wo••ms in the skin are known by putting the child into a bath and rubbing it, especially on the back with the hands, and with Honey and Bread, and then you shall see little ash coloured or black hairs come out of the skin.
If there be no outward nor inward cause, you may mistrust a venemous vapor or witchcraft.
If it be for want of milk, change the Nurse.* 1.122 If it be from worms in the skin, it is not hard to be cured; if it be from an occult quality, or from Witchcraf••, it is hard to be cured, because we know not the nature of the malignity.
If the Nurse have any Disease, or be contrary* 1.123 to the constitution of the child, change her, kill and cast out the worms. If it be from worms in the back, rub it and anoint it with Honey and* 1.124 Wheat bread, and when their heads come forth kil them with a Razor or crust of bread•• do this often.
There are many superstitious things carried about against witchcraft, some hang Amber and Coral about the childs neck, nor is it impossible that plants and Gemms should have power a∣gainst witchcraft, As, Briony root, and Elks hoof are ••ood against the Epilepsie, also there are Amulets against other diseases••
••f leanness be from a dry dist••mper of the
whole body there is no better Remedy the•• of∣ten bathing in a decoction of Mallows. Althaea, Branckursine, Sheeps heads, and the like, and a∣noint after with the oyl of sweet Almonds.
If he be hot and dry, add to the bath Lettice, Endive, Violets, Poppy heads, and anoint after with oyl of Roses and Violets.
Lib. 12. c. 1.
The Cure.
The Cure.
The Cure.
1. Aphor. 13.
3. Aphor. 24.
Apho. 25.
Apho. 26.
6. Epid. c. 6.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
Lib. 4 de ••ebr. c. 12.
The Causes
1. De com. po. med. sec. lo. c. 8.
The Pro∣gnostick.
Hipp. lib. de sacro morbo.
The Cure.
To Con∣quer all Infirmities Study my Sennertus, Platerus, Riverius, Bartholi∣nus and R••olanus, of the last Editions.
The Causes
The Diffe∣rences.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
Gal oriba. Ausc.
The Signs.
The Pro¦gnostick.
The Cure.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
Tetra. ••. serm. 4. c. 13.
The Causes
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
3. Aphor. 24.
T••e Signs.
T••e 〈◊〉〈◊〉
The Cure.
The Causes
The Signs.
The Cure.
1. De tu••n. c. 8.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
Hipp••. 58. apho. 7.
The Cure.
Lib 3. 6. 25.
1. 3. c. 13.
Sylvatic. contro. 87.
Ex Paulo Aegine••a.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure. Lib. 1. par. 3. c. 43.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick. Hipp. 1. prog. ••. 16.
The Cure.
〈…〉〈…〉 26.
Lib. 2. par. 1. cap. 22.
The Signs.
The Pro∣••nostick.
Hipp lib. ••e demitio.
The Cure.
Lib. 1. par. 2. c. 34.
The Causes
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Sign••
The Pro∣gnostick.
The C••re.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
Heur meth. ad prax. l. 2. c. 26.
The Signs.
The Pr••∣gnostick.
The ••••re.
T••e Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick. Hipp. lib. de dentitio.
The Cure.
Lib. 3. par. 2. cap. 5. & 6.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick. Hipp. 2. aph. 53.
The Cure.
Ex authore lib. 4. de morb.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cur••.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Signs••
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
Lib. 3. par. 3. sec. 1. c. 6. & par. 8 sec. 1. c. 1.
••he Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
Lib. 3. pra. decal. ves.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Causes
The Signs.
The Pro∣gnostick.
The Cure.
The Causes
B••sin ho∣••e invidia.
The Sign••
The Pr••∣gnostic••••
The Cure.
To Cure al diseases Read my Sennertus, Platerus, Rive••••us, Bartholi∣nus, and Ri••lanus, of the last Edition.