The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

CHAP. V. What cure to be used for the Worms.

* 1.1IN this disease there is but one indication, that is, the exclusion or casting out of the worms, either alive or dead, forth of the body, as being such that in their whole kind are against na∣ture; all things must be shunned which are apt to heap up putrefaction in the body by their corruption; such as are crude fruits, cheese, milk-meats, fishes; and lastly, such things as are of a difficult and hard digestion, but prone to corruption. Pap is fit for children, for that they require moist things; but these ought to answer in a certain similitude to the consistence and thickness of milk, that so they may be the more easily concocted and assimilated, and such only is that pap which is made with wheat flower, not crude, but baked in an oven, that the pap made therewith may not be too viscid nor thick, if it should only be boiled in a pan as much as the milk would re∣quire; or else the milk would be too terrestrial, or too waterish, all the fatty portion thereof being resolved, the cheesie and wayish portion remaining, if it should boil so much as were necessary for the full boiling of the crude meat; they which use meal otherwise in pap, yield matter for the ge∣nerating of gross and viscid humors in the stomach, whence happens obstruction in the first veins and substance of the liver; by obstruction worms breed in the guts, and the stone in the kidnies and bladder. The patient must be fed often, and with meats of good juice, lest the worms through want of nourishment, should gnaw the substance of the guts. Now when as such things breed of a putrid matter, the patient shall be purged, and the putrefaction represt by medicines mentioned in our Treatise of the Plague.* 1.2 For the quick killing and casting of them forth, syrup of succory, or of Lemmons with rubarb, a little treacle or methridate is a singular medicine, if there be no fe∣ver; you may also for the same purpose use this following medicine. ℞. cornu cervi, pul. rasur. eb••∣ris, an. ʒi ss. sem. tanacet. & contra verm. an. ʒi. fiat decoctio pro parvâ dosi, in colaturâ infunde rhei opti∣mi, ʒi. cinam. ℈i. dissolve syrupi de absinthio, ℥ ss. make a potion, give it in the morning three hours before any broth. Oil of Olives drunk, kills worms; as also water of knot-grass drunk with milk; and in like manner all bitter things. Yet I could first wish them to give a glyster made of milk, ho∣ny and sugar, without oils and bitter things, lest shunning thereof, they leave the lower guts, and come upwards; for this is natural to worms, to shun bitter things, and follow sweet things. Whence you may learn, that to the bitter things which you give by the mouth, you must alwaies mix sweet things, that allured by the sweetness, they may devour them more greedily, that so they may kill them:* 1.3 Therefore I would with milk and suger, mix the seeds of centaury, Rue, wormwood, aloes and the like: harts-horn is very effectual against worms, wherefore you may infuse the shaveings thereof in the water or drink that the patient drinks, as also to boil some thereof in his broths. So also treacle drunk or taken in broth, killeth the worms; purslain boiled in broths, and distilled and drunk, is also good against the worms; as also succory and mints; also a decoction of the les∣ser hous-leek and sebestens given with sugar before meat; it is no less affectual to put wormseeds in their pap, and in rosted apples, and so to give them it. Also you may make suppositories after this manner,* 1.4 and put them up into the fundament. ℞. coralli subalbi, rasurae eboris, cornu cervi usti, ireos an. ℈ii. mellis albi ℥ii ss. aquae centinodiae q. s. ad omnia concorporanda, fiant Glandes: let one be put up every day, of the weight of ʒii. for children; these suppositories are chiefly to be used for Ascarides, as those which adhere to the right gut. To such children as can take nothing by the mouth, you shall apply cataplasms to their navels made of the powder of cummin-seeds, the flower of Iupines, wormwood, southern-wood, tansie the leaves of artichokes, Rue, the powder of coloquintida, citron-seeds, aloes, ars-smart, hors-mint, peach-leaves, Costus amarus, Zedoaria, sope and ox-gall. Such cataplasms are oftimes spread over all the belly, mixing therewith astringent things for the strengthening of the part, as oil of myrtils, Quinces and mastich; you may also ap∣ply a great onion hollowed in the midst, and filled with aloes and treacle, and so rosted in the Embers, then beaten with bitter almonds, and an ox-gall. Also you may make emplasters of bit∣ter things, as this which follows. ℞. fellis bubuli, succi absinth, an. ℥ii. colocyn. ℥i. terantur & misceant∣ur

simul, incorporentur cum farinâ lupinorum: make hereof an emplaster to be laid upon the Navel.

Liniments and ointments may be also made for the same purpose, to annoint the belly,* 1.5 you may also make plasters for the navel of pillulae Ruf. annointing in the mean time the fundament with hony and sugar, that they may be chased from above with bitter things, and allured down∣wards with sweet things. Or else take worms that have been cast forth, dry them in an iron-pan over the fire, then powder them, and give them with wine or some other liquor to be drunk, for so they are thought quickly to kill the rest of the worms. Hereto also conduceth the juice of ci∣trons, drunk with the oil of bitter almonds, or sallet-oil. Also some make bathes against this af∣fect of worm-wood, galls, peach-leavs boiled in water, and then bathe the childe therein.

But in cureing the worms, you must observe that this disease is oftimes entangled with another more grievous disease, as an acute and burning fever, a flux or scouring, and the like; in which (as for example sake) a fever being present and conjoined therewith, if you shall give worm-seeds, old Treacle, myrrh, aloes, you shall increase the fever and flux, for that bitter things are very con∣trary to these affects. But if, on the contrary, in a flux whereby the worms are excluded, you shall give corral, and the flower of Lentils, you shall augment the fever, makeing the matter more con∣tumacious by dry and astringent things. Therefore the Physician shall be careful in considering whether the fever be a symptom of the worms, or on the contrary it be essential,* 1.6 and not symp∣tomatick; that this being known, he may principally insist in the use of such medicines as resist both affects, as purgeing and bitterish, in a fever and worms, but bitter and somewhat astrictive things in the worms and flux.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The general indications of cureing the worms.
• * 1.2

  Wherefore, and wherewith, such as have the worms, must be purged
• * 1.3

  Har••s horn good against the worms.
• * 1.4

  Suppos••ory a∣gainst the As∣carides.
• * 1.5

  A plaster a∣gainst the worms.
• * 1.6

  A fever some∣times a symp∣tom, and some∣times a disease.