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THe Nostrils are destinated for the purging of the* 1.1 brain, and these have their diseases. The diseases of the Nostrils consist either in an Ulcer or growing forth of some flesh in the Nostrils, as also in all the parts of the body Ulcers rise. But these Ulcers do not rise from the excrements of the brain and their acrimony (as the ••a∣lenists fable) after this manner falling down, and so by
their acrimony exulcerating the Nostrils. But the cause of these Ulcers is contained in the bloud and veins of the nostrils; as of all other Ulcers in all the parts the uni∣versal cause is Salt, which is separated from the bloud and lurketh in all the veins and all the parts, it is cor∣rosive, sharp, sowr, and bitter. The destruction of Salt (saith Paracelsus de origine & curatione morbor.) tis the cause of Ulcers, there is in this Salt Arsenicks putre∣factive poison. The Ulcers of the Nostrils for the most part are putrid, from which there falls a filthy Scab, and from which there runs a stinking excrement.
The Ozena, of Theophrastus de ulceribus* 1.2 cap. 59. is called an imposthume, therefore he that hath the imposthume smells ill both to himself and those which are nigh him▪ as also he is molested with the contagion of the obscure spirits. Oftentimes daily Ulcers spread abroad which exceed and putrifie the wings of the Nostril, or the place within, or the tender bones thereof, as also the hole, they eat the pallate oftentimes with great deformity, and especially if they bear the form of Cardinoma, or if they be produ∣ced from the filthy lues Venerea, which is most frequent.
The fresh Ulcers being neglected, oftentimes there* 1.3 grows forth a piece of flesh (which is called Sarcoma) of that length that it hangs forth in the Nostrils, or else the flesh falls unto the jaws, and then it is called Polypus, for that flesh is like to the flesh of the fish* 1.4 which (for his many feet) they call Polypus. Galen de compositionibus pharmacor. lib. 3. cap. 3. so also de tumore praeternaturali, c. 16. Aegineta lib. 6. cap. 25.
The symptoms of smelling are the diminishing and* 1.5 abolishing or deoriving of swelling; for smelling pe∣risheth, or is diminished, the passage of Nostrils or of the
bone being, stopped, by which breath and smells are drawn, and this is done either by the Sarcoma or Poly∣pus, or inflammation of bloud, or heaviness. If none of these signs appear, the cause of hurt ought not to be re∣ferred either to the former Ventricles of the brain, or un∣to their couples, in which the sense of smelling is. In these the aboundance of humours or corruption conta∣minates the sense and the spirits thereof; sometime about those places imposthumes are caused with no Fever and less pain, from which being burst, sometime a pure filth is blown forth of the nose, as also there flows forth filth out of ears full of filth, and that by no discommodity of health.
The Gravedo is a flegmy distillation into* 1.6 the bone A••thmoides and his membranes effused from the parts which are about the brain or the Ventricles thereof; by it the head waxeth heavy, and breathing is made more difficult; neither can breathing be made except with a wide and gaping mouth. The voice (as before) sounding hath some sound, and is caused in the Nostrils, in the beginning little, after more gross •• furthermore, bloud bursts forth of the nostrils, the vein being burst, opened, or eaten, which ends there.
The Hemorrhagy of the Nostrils is called* 1.7 of Physicians a violence; the veins do not go from the inmost seats of the brain into the nostrils, but from the mouth and palate, they are sufficiently detected and large that they may be (as it were) an Emissary or Pipe for the su∣perfluous bloud, for the expelling the Ulcers of the No∣strils.
The Ozena or imposthume is cured by the herb Arista∣logy.* 1.8 Pliny lib. 25. cap. 13. Therne••s, lib. 5. cap. 40. cures it with Betony, Fengreek, Savory, the stalk of Ap∣ples
and Penniroyal. Those which have these Ulcers* 1.9 are cured by the cutting of the head-vein in the chin or end of the nose. Rulandus says that such Ulcers are best cured by the oil of Lead, and the sweetness of Mercury, by the water of Mercury, by the oil of Antimony which Paracelsus describes in his Chirurgia vulner. de corruptis Vulneribus, so also by the balm of iron, the oil of Auri∣pigmentum, and the oil of wax. Paracelsus cured the Polypus which is a stink of the nostrils by the oil of Vi∣triol with wax. The symptoms of sinelling if that they be not caused from manifest causes are cured by the me∣dicines for rheum. The pushing forth of bloud is di∣versly cured. Take shepherds purse, and the herb Poly∣gon a like quantity, let them be bruised and the juice ex∣tracted, one or two drops of this being attracted or in∣stilled stays the bloud. Give in the too aboundant flux of the bloud four drops of the oil of iron in a draught of wine, and it forthwith stays the bloud, so the essence of Corals is exceeding good. Thurnens in pisone lib. 4. cap. 4. cures the flux of bloud forth of the nostrils by the water of the stone Haematites, and of Lapis Judaicus and Bergrota.
The Ulcers of the No∣strile.
The Ozena, Theophrast is an Imposthum: The Ozena is a putrified and stinking▪ Ulcer of the Nostrils caused from cor∣ruption of sharp humours flowing from the Brain to the Nostrils.
Sarcoma.
Polypus is a fleshy, loose, and porous tumour begot in the Nostrils besides Nature.
The symp∣toms of smelling.
The Gravedo of the No∣strils. The Corysa or Gravedo is an obstruction of the holy bone in the superiour part of the nose.
The Hemorrhagy of the Nostrils. The Hemorrhagy is a bloud bursting forth of the Vessels by the No∣strils.
Of the cure of the Im∣po••••. hum.
The cutting of a vein.