Culpeper's school of physick, or, The experimental practice of the whole art wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot, with their proper and effectuall cures, such diet set down as ought to be observed in sickness or in health : with other safe wayes for preserving of life ... / by Nich. Culpeper ... ; the narrative of the authors life is prefixed, with his nativity calculated, together with the testimony of his late wife, Mrs Alice Culpeper, and others.

Of the Flux of the Belly.

A Disentery, so properly called, is a Flux of the belly with exulceration and exco∣riation, whereunto great pains with gripings are joyned; chiefly fat corpulent bodies are gal∣led by sharp humors, and sometimes the Filmes of the inward tunickles of the Bowels are voided

by stool; the inward parts are affected as those things which are voided do testifie, for the excre∣ments are thick, and some fat or bloody drops are mixed therewith; and sometimes foamy, which is voided with winde; this blood for the most part swims upon the excrements, if the Ulcer be fastned on the inward Bowels, but if the pain rest about the Navel, or somewhat high∣er, or that a quantity of blood is mixed and drowned with the stool; in the beginning of this disease, for the most part slimy biting Chollerick excrements of divers colours are voided, where∣with at the last some quantity of blood is mix∣ed; also there is a griping of pain of the Bowels; the excrements are little, and expelled by little and little; and after this a small quantity of flesh is voided, and sometimes parcels of the Bowels, ••••ward Tunicles do appear in the Excrements: This Flux is caused by sharp humors, such as are putrefied and very much biting. Signs of this dis∣ease are the weakness of the Stomach, increase of thirst, continual Flux of the Belly; also if the Urine be not answerable to that which is drunk, and black Excrements are voided, the body being lean. The air wherein the Patient is to re∣main ought to be temperate, his diet easie of di∣gestion, and such as will breed good Blood, be∣cause the Concoctive and retentive faculties are feeble; exercise and motion are not to be ••sed, watchings and all perturbations of minde ••••e hurtful.