The practice of physick in seventeen several books wherein is plainly set forth the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs : together with the cure of all diseases in the body of man / by Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... and William Rowland ; being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ...

Chap. 2. Of the Pain of the Spleen.

SOmtimes the Spleen is pained without Feaver or hardness; and this comes from wind which doth not only stretch the substance of the Spleen, which is almost insensible, but the Membranes that covereth it.

It is easily distinguished from the Inflamation by the Feaver, and hardness being absent, but hard∣ly from the Chollick, because the Colon is just under and over the Spleen: yet the pain of the Spleen is weighty, and in one place; but the pain of the Colon is stretching, sharp, and movable, and runs about the whol Belly.

The Cure of this Disease, is with Clysters that are Carminative, or that expel wind with conve∣nient purging, and with Emollient and Discussing Fomentations mixed with Vinegar: As also with Liniments made of Oyl of Lillies, Chamomel, Capars, and Wormwood, with a little Spike and Vinegar.

If the pain remain after the use of these, apply a Cupping-glass to the left Hypochondrion, if there be no suspition of the Inflamation or Defluxion.