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1. The distēper of the head with∣out matter, it is caused, by external causes, hot, cold, moist, or dry, causing it to decline from its natural temper; and it's cured, if hot, by alteratives, emulsions, juleps, epithems, irrigations, embrocati∣ons, oxyrrhodines, oiles, liniments, unguents, cataplasmes, cerots,
plaisters, saceuls, powders, odorats, gargarismes, and cooling diet, barley water &c. with evacuation: If cold, by evacuation and alte∣ration by hot cephalicks, clarets, mulse, decoctions, hydromel, di∣stilled waters and spirits, oiles, tinctures, syrups, conserves, con∣dites, confections, powders, boles, electuaries, rotules, morsules, and troches; and outwardly by epithems, fomentations, embroca∣tions and lotions, oiles, balsames, unguents, liniments, emplasters, cerots, facculs, pouders, cucupha's, sinegmes, troches, fumale cand∣les, noduls, masticatories, phoenigms, and diet seasoned with sage, rosemary, marjerom, hysop, spices, &c. so if humid, by alteration and drying diet, and a little drink, using the decoction of guaja∣cum, and drying simples, and the contrary remedies as before: So if dry, by humectation and a humid diet, sc. fatt broth, forbile eggs, chickens, veale, boiled flesh rather than rosted, barly water with liquorice, and syrup of violets, much sleepe, living neere rivers, and shunning venery, labours, and using other contraries as in the rest: If complicate it's to be cured accordingly: They are known by the pulse, sleepe, leanenesse, and ingenuity, &c.
2. The di∣stemper of the head with matter, which is caused, by things internal and external, sc. humours and vapours, causing it to decline from its due temper; it is cured, as the former, by evacuation, by er∣rhines, sternutatories, apophlegmatismes, cauteries, setons, to∣picks, &c. and correction of the distemper, and pills: If by consent, from the stomach, intestines, spleen, reines, lungs, womb, ex∣ternal parts, or heart, it's cured accordingly, by revulsives, interci∣pients, repellents, as oxyrrhodines, &c. the place is known by the site of the parts and paine: If flatulent by discussers, averters, revul∣sion, expulsion and evacuation, avoiding flatulent diet: If from bloud, by phlebotomy, repellents, intercipients, diet cold and dry, hordeats, saxatile fishes, prunes, quinces, &c. if from choller, by venesection, preparants, purgation, evacuation, clysters, vomito∣ries, diureticks, and cooling and moistening diet, using barly wa∣ter or small beere, cold water and long sleepe: If from phlegme, by preparers, appropriate purgers, evacuants, sc. errhines, gargarismes, masticatories, topicks, cauteries, corroborants, hot and dry diet, little, of easy concoction, rosted, with aromaticks, exercise, mode∣rate sleepe, aire hot and dry, wine, and frictions, &c. if from a serouse humour, by evacuation, by purgation, phlebotomy, sudori∣ficks, diureticks, and correctives, by masticatories, apophlegma∣tismes, and vesicatories, with a drying aire and diet, henns, par∣tridges, &c. if from melancholy, by preparers, purgers, corrobo∣rants,
a letificant, and hot and moist diet, sc. new eggs, the flesh of young creatures, especially cockrels, kids flesh, ptisan, borrage, sweet apples, long sleepe, &c. if from atra bilis, by preparants, purgers, topick alterants, venefection, leeches, cold and moist diet, saxatile fishes, barly water, whey with epithyme, and sleepe long, avoiding things of grosse juyce.
3. The vices of the animal spirits, which are caused, by heate, coldness, thickness, impurity, darkness, paucity, agitation & motion; & are cured, according to the cause, & by unguēts, & corroborants, sc. the confectiō of alchermes, the water of Matthiolus & carfuncle, & a fit diet, &c.
4. The diseases of com∣position, and first of figure, which are caused in the womb, by reason of ill matter or errour of the formative faculty; after birth, by the nurse, by ligature or compression, &c. & are cured, by compression & ligature.
5. The straightnesse of the passages of the brain, which is caused, by obstruction or compression; & it's cured, if from vapours, by intercipients, repellents, revellents, & discutients: If from fumes suffocating; by discutients, as aqua vitae with triacle, vomiting with oxymel, sternutatories, the balsam of rue, revulsions & frictions: If from phlegme; by evacuants, revulsives, discussers & heaters: If from compression; by elevation: if of the sutures; by discussers.
6. The di∣seases in number, and they are wormes, which are caused, by the corruption of malignant humours; and are cured, by errhines, sternutatories, with scolecobroticks, the juyce and fume of tobaco taken, and plaisters.
7. The commotion of the braine, which is cau∣sed, by external & violent causes, which moove it out of its natu∣ral place; it's cured, by revulsion of the bloud, repulsion, evacuati∣on, and discussion by pigeons &c. & the depression of the cranium is cured by the cephalick cerat, &c.
8. The contusion of the head, which is caused by percussion, or falls &c. it's cured, by repellents and astringents, using oile of roses, and the white of an egge, with rose water, vineger & tow, afterwards by austere wine with cha∣momill flowers, the alabaster ointment, a thin diet, and Vigoes cerot de minio, diapalma, Gal. and the barbarum plaister. &c.
9. The wounds of the head without hurt of the cranium membrans and brain, which if caused, without contusion of the outward parts; it's cured, by the white of an egg, the ointment of cerusse, alabaster, rosate, and Galens refrigerant: If with contusion of the outward parts; by defensives, oile of roses, turpentine, honey of roses, diapalma, and the bettony plaister, &c.
10. The solute unity of the cranium without wound of the meninges and brain, which is caused by fissure, contusion, depression, session, and contra fissure
frō evident & violent causes; which are known by symptomes, con∣dition of the blow, subject, sight, specillum, or inke mixed with a plaister, which applied will remaine black there, &c. it's cured, by phlebotomy, purgation, section, with defensives, detersives, sarco∣ticks, & epuloticks, as diapalma, &c.
11. The fracture of the craniū, with hurt of the meninges & brain, which is caused by outward vio∣lence; & is cured, by ischaimes, anodynes, sc. oile of roses, univer∣sals, the betony plaister, cathereticks &c. vulnerary potions, & thin diet, ptisans, quinces, and things like in substance, &c.
12. The fungus of the brain, which is caused by vitious humours slowing to the part; it's cured, by evacuation, revulsion, dryers, cathere∣ticks, excision, and ligature by silk.
13. The rottennesse of the skull, which is caused by the erosion of sharp humours; and is cured, by seperating the corrupted bone from that which is sound, by medi∣caments or the hand, or use the betony plaister; &c.
14. The inflam∣mation of the brain, which is a tumour of the same, caused by bloud effused out of the vessels, into the spaces of the part, and putrifying there, by reason of things too much heating; it's cured, by venesection, purgation, cupping glasses, discutients, revulsives, de∣rivation, interception, and thin and cooling diet, as ptisans, emulsi∣ons, juleps, and sleep.
15. The hydrocephal, which is a tumour of the head, caused, by a collection of a serous humour, in some part of the members constituting the head; it's cured, by evacuants, heaters, and dryers, with correctors, &c.
1. The want of sleep, which is caused, by a continual influx of the spirits; into the organs, preternaturally troubling the common sense, and those external; it's cured, by the remotion of objects, inviting the sense to one that is pleasant, and tempering hot, dry and sharp va∣pours, sc. by hypnoticks internal and external; if from vapours deficient, use ptisan, sorbile eggs, amygdalats, lettuce or violet water; so if from heat and drynesse; if from hot dry and sharp vapours, by evacuation, refrigerants, sc. barly water, emulsions and opiats; if from cold and drynesse, by things hot and odoriferous; if from paine, straightnesse of the breast, and objects of enteriour senses, by narcoticks, anodynes, lenients, and remotion of objects, &c. if from affections of the mind, by correction thereof, and evacua∣tion, &c.
2. The coma somnolent, or cataphora, which is a deepe sleepe, and is caused by a torpidity of the common sense, and hin∣derance of the diffusion of the animal spirits to the senses, that it cannot know the objects received from them, or judge thereof; it's
cured, by alterants, evacuation, discussers, revulsion, and restora∣tives, with oxyrrhodines, acid things, suffumigations, apophleg∣matismes, errhines, ptarmicks, hot topicks, rue balsam, friction, and fit diet.
3. The dreaming immoderately, which is caused, by impure vapours, sad and melancholy, arising copiously from meats of the same nature, infecting and exagitating the animal spirits, or distempers of the braine; it's cured, by abstaining from meate bad & flatulent, and taking it in too great a quantity, by venesection, purgation, pepticks, cold water, alterants, discutients; and stomach plaisters, &c. in children.
the Vertigo, which is caused, by an inordinate and circular mo∣tion of the animal spirit in the fore part of the brain, which cau∣seth a false imagination of conversion and circumgyration; it's cu∣red, by discussion, venesection, revulsion, diet without flatulency, diacydoniats, pepticks, and moderation, &c. if by essence, by eva∣cuation, discussers and roborants; if from consent, by preparation, evacuation, revulsion, interception, discutients, roborants; if from the liver, spleen, womb, or whole body, according to the mittent and recipient part, by phlebotomy, catharticks, revulsion and robo∣rants; if from the narrownesse of the pores of the brain, as before; if from the agitation of the spirits from evident causes, by quiet, and sleep, and frictions of the extreame parts.
1. The memory hurt, which is caused by things, hurting the siccity of the brain, joyned with mo∣derate heate, which is necessary thereto, and so making the animal spirits, either too torpid, or mobile, and so causing imminution or abolition; it's cured by contraries, evacuation, instauration, exci∣tation, alterants, roborants, internal and external hot cephalicks, diet hot and dry, and of thin substance, with aromaticks, easily concocted and not vaporous, and according to the cause.
2. The delirium, which is a depravation of the phantasy and ratiocination, caused, from the oblation of an inconvenient and absurd phantasme; it's cured, by alterants, revulsives, repellers, intercipients, and dis∣cutients, venesection, refrigerants, astringents, vesicatories, hyp∣noticks, the alabaster ointment, and pigeons applied; the para∣phrenitis, caused by the inflammation of the diaphragme is cured, by averters and repellers; Ebriety, is helped by vomit, things acid, prunes, quinces, butter milk, lettuce, cabbage, oxyrrhodines, and sleep.
3. The phrensy, which is a perpetual madnesse, caused, by the inflammation of the membrans of the brain, and afflicteth with a continual feaver; it's cured, by phlebotomy, hypnoticks, oxyr∣rhodines,
revulsion, coolers, clysters, epithems, diureticks, and diet, as in the inflammation of the brain.
4. Melancholy, which is a madnesse, caused by a melancholick phantasme, with which, the patient, sticks upon one cogitation, without raging and a feaver, and with sadnesse and feare; it's cured, by the generation, of thin, cleare, and subtile bloud, ceasing from perturbation, reduction to the contrary, diet thin, easily concocted, and not flatulent, sc. chickens, partridges, flesh of kids, lambs, veale, saxatile fishes, sor∣bile eggs, borrage, almonds, &c. if essentiall to the brain, by alte∣ration, evacuants, discutients, roborants, corrigents, and diet as be∣fore; if from love sicknesse, by society, mirth, spermosbesticks, rue, porcelain, mints, camphire, sugar of Saturn, and thin diet; if from philtrons, by alexipharmicks and vomitories; if by consent of the heart & whole body, by preparation, evacuation, revulsion, alterants, and roborants, phlebotomy, and diet as aforesaid; if hypochondriacal, by lenients, vomitories, preparants, attenuants, aperients, purgers, chalybiats, topicks, roborants, and diet as aforesaid; if from the womb, by phlebotomie, preparants, purgers, alterants, specificks, con∣fortants, topicks, fontanels, and humecters; if errabund, by altera∣tion, evacuation, roborants, humecters, and correction; if attonit, as the rest, but by stronger remedies.
5. The mania, which is a long emotion of the mind, with boldnesse and fiercenesse, with∣out a feaver, caused, by a fiery fervor and heate of the spirits; it's cured, by phlebotomie, preparation, purgation, aversion, repul∣sion, alteration, mutation, roborants, hypnoticks, specificks, to∣picks, cauteries, lotions, and frictions; if from the womb, by sper∣mosbesticks, refrigerants, society, sleepe, diet as before, and the rose julep, &c.
6. The rabies, which is a madnesse, caused, by some peculiar poyson ingendred in some creature, and communicated to the patient, with a great hatred to all liquids, especially water, and it's called hydrophobie; it's cured, by interception, extraction, li∣gature, scarrification, cupping glasses, attrahents, amputation, cau∣teries, venesection, purgation, preparation, alexipharmicks, sudo∣rificks, and diet, of rams, crevises, chestnuts, cabbage, walnuts, garlick, onions, radishes, and succory, &c.
7. The tarantats, which are caused, by bitings, and are cured by antidots, attrahents, cupping glasses, vesicatories, the Q E. of rosemary, and musick, &c.
1. The coma vigi∣lant, which is an exstatick drousinesse, and propension to sleepe, and impotency thereunto, caused, by narcotick vapours, causing sleepe, and troubling the mind; it's cured, as the lethargy and
phrensy, by phlebotomy, revulsion, oxyrrhodines, clysters, pre∣parants, evacuants, discutients, roborants, inunctions and fomen∣tations.
2. Somnambulants, whose distemper is caused, by humours yeelding narcotick vapours, moving the locomotive faculty, they are cared, by castigation, increpation, purgation, corroborants, and diet of good juyce, not flatulent, supper smal, and sleepe not soone after meales.
3 The lethargy, which is an inexpleble propensiō to sleepe, with a gentle feaver, oblivion, & torpor, caused by pituitous bloud putrifying in the posteriour sinus of the braine; it's cured, by cly∣sters, revulsion, venesection, cupping glasses, scarrification, leeches, ligatures, frictions, suppositories, purgations, vomitories, repellers, prevention of sleep, ptarmicks, fumes, preparation by castor, diure∣ticks, sudorificks; apophlegmatismes, masticatories, vesicatories, sy∣napismes, roborants & sulphur lunae, diet thin little & attenuating, altered with hysop &c. ptisan with cinamon, diet with vineger & cephalick herbes, afterwards meate of good juyce and easy con∣coction, oxymel, and hydromel, &c.
1. Lassitude, and it is an unaptnesse with griefe, for animal motion, which ought to be done by nature, caused by things loa∣ding and wearying the muscles, and it is spontaneous, exsiecative, ulcerose, tensive, phlegmonode, and of gracility; if it's spontaneous, cured, by discutients, phlebotomy, purgatiō & thin diet; by purgatiō in the ulcerose, phlebotomy in the tensive, and both in the phleg∣monode; if from labour, by rest, sleepe, frictions, baths, venesection and purgation if need.
2. Pandiculation, which is an unusual exten∣sion of the muscles of the whole body, caused by vapours in those parts, if in the tēporal & masticatory, they cause oscitation; if exces∣sive, it is to be cured, as lassitude.
3. Inquietude, which is a vari∣ous turning of the body, and members, caused, by matter molesting the sentient parts; it's cured, by correctors, roborants, &c. and is stomachick, inflammatory or febrile.
4. Rigor, which is a vibration of the muscles of the whole body, joyned with refrigeration and a certaine paine, caused, by something molesting, suddainly velli∣cating the sentient parts in the body, and irriting the expulsive fa∣culty; hereunto belongeth horrour; it's cured, if great, by anoin∣ting with oile of rue, chamomile, bayes, castor, pepper, triacle and mithridate, &c.
5. Trembling; which is a depravation of voluntary motion, by reason of which the part elevated cannot be kept in its place, and it's caused, by the debility, of the motive faculty; it's cu∣red, if from the absumption and dissolution of spirits, by analepticks, moderate sleepe, and wine, &c. if from cold and moisture hurting
the nerves, by evacuants, alterants, roborants, discutients, cepha∣licks, topicks, and baths; if malignant, venenate, and narcotick, by alexipharmicks, and roborants, neuroticks, and fitt diet.
6. The impotency of motion, which is caused, by too much refrigeration of the muscles, exsiccation, hard tumours, too much extension of the tendons, solution of continuity, vitious conformation of bones, their luxation and fractures, and vices of the ligaments and cartila∣ges; it is cured, if from cold, by the degrees of heate, and hot un∣guents; if from drynesse, by humectants, calefacients, roborants, baths, fomentations, and frictions; if from scirrhus's or vices of the nerves, as that by exsiccation, by emollients; and fractures, as the rest.
7. The palsey, which is a voluntary abolition of motion in the parts, without the hurt of reason, caused by the vices of the nerves, by reason of the defect of animal spirits; it's cured; if from phlegme, by lenients, vomitories, preparants, arthriticks, purgers, errhines, apophlegmatismes, gargarismes, sudorificks, roborants, theriacks, specificks, topicks, frictions, cupping-glasses, rubifi∣cants, oiles, unguents, balsams, suffumigations, baths, cauteries, diet hot & attenuating, with aromaticks, of good juyce and rosted, wild pigeons, turtles, vipers, almonds, bread with carrawaies fennel and aniseed, mustard, capers, chymical salts, hydromel, hot cephalicks, and moderate sleepe; if from a thin humour, the collick, and scurvy, by lesse hot remedies, evacuants, discutients, roborants, clysters, abstergents, phlebotomy, catharticks with humecters, and friction, &c. if from evident causes, by clysters, venesection, discu∣tients and astringents, &c.
8. The spasme, or convulsion, which is an involuntary, perpetual, and painfull retraction of the muscles, towards their beginning, caused by the abbreviation of the nervous parts, which rigor, and depravation of the figure followeth, from a vellicant matter, or rendent disease; it's cured, if by cold, by hea∣ters; if by heat or drynesse, by the contrary; if by repletion, by eva∣cuants, and corrigents, discutients, and clysters; if primary by phle∣botomy, cupping glasses, purgation, revulsion by clysters, fricti∣ons, topicks, baths, castoreum, diet as in the palsey, attenuant in∣ciding with guajacum; if by consent, by vomit, if from the stomach, &c. according to the cause, as in the epilepsy & palsey; if statulent, by clysters, discutients, theriacks, bayberries, &c.
1. The Incubus, which is an interception of mo∣tion, chiefely of respiration, and the voice, with a false dreame of some heavy thing lying upon the breast, and suffocating, caused, by
free penetration of the spirits hindered, the passages to the nerves being obstructed, and chiefely in the hinder part of the brain; it's cured by discutients, evacuants, prohibents, vellication, revulsion, phlebotomy if need, clysters, frictions, incision, abstersives, errhines, apophlegmatismes, roborants. C. alkermes, dianthos, pleres ar¦chonticon, sacculs, balsams, diacydoniats, & hot & dry diet without vapours, thin and attenuating, of easy concoction & distribution, moderate, with hyssop, & borrage, small drink, with carminatives & cinamon.
2. The catalepsy, or catochus, which is a suddain taking of all the senses, motion, and mind, caused by a fixative vapour, and causing the patients to remaine rigid, in that state in which they were taken, with their eyes open and immoveable, neither per∣ceiving, seeing, or hearing, yet with respiration and pulse; it's cu∣red, by retrahents, discutients, evacuants, hot and moistening ce∣phalicks, antepilepticks, and antihypnoticks, phlebotomy if need, clysters; preparants, topicks, inunctions, and diet as in the distem∣per with a melancholick humour, avoiding vineger, that the con∣gelant and figent strength in the vapour or humour be not increa∣sed.
3. The epilepsy, which is a cessation of the animal and principal actions, with a convulsive motion of the whole body, caused, by a sharp matter, troublesome to the braine by a peculiar strength, vellicating the beginning of the nerves, contracting them, and ir∣riting to expulsion, it's called also, puerile, herculean, commitial, lunatick, divine, sontick, and caduce; it's cured, by averters, liga∣tures, antepileptick rotuls, laudanum opiats, essence of castor, bal∣sams, revellers, discussers, dissipants, phlebotomy, preparation, purgation, sudorificks, errhines, apophlegmatismes, gargarismes, setons, cauteries, sontanels, appropriate roborant cephalicks, noise in the paroxisme, lenients, resolvents, unguents, frictions, suppo∣sitories, clysters, use rue to the nostrils &c. triacle mithridate and diacastoreum to the pallate, to the eares and coronal future a sac∣culus or cerot of hot cephalicks, fumes of galbanum, assa foetida, sternutatories, cordial epithems, a sacculus of rue castoreū mustard feed &c. put betwixt the teeth: after, by particular remedies after the universal, as aforesaid, and diet of good juyce, easy concoction, not gross or flatulent, but wild pigeons, swallows &c. with hyssop, sage, marjerom, rosemary, and nutmeg, &c. beere without much hopps, hydromel, decoction of guajacum, moderate sleepe, leni∣ents, and moderation; it's thought to be cured, if the patient fall not, at the fume of myrrhe, hyssop, &c. if idiopathetick, it's cu∣red as before, by phlebotomy if need, setons, cauteries, issues, fri∣ctions;
if by consent, as before, respecting the part, or by phlebo∣tomy, purgation, antepilepticks, actual cautery in the part, re∣vulsion, interception, frictions, & ligature; if from the ventricle, by vomitories, purgation, & roborants; if from wormes, by scolecobro∣tick antepilepticks; if from the womb, by hysterick antepilepticks, foetid things applied to the nostrils, and sweet to the womb, ster∣nutatories, cupping glasses, discutients, universal evacuations, and antepileptick emmenonagogicks, roborants, theriacks, and speci∣ficks; if from external parts, by intercipients, phlebotomy, purga∣tion, scarrification, cupping glasses, discutients, cauteries, & vessi∣catories; if uncertain, by frequent purgation, antepilepticks, caute∣ries, fontanels, and roborants; if in infants, as before, and reme∣dies given to the nurses, antepilepticks, catharticks, & roborants; if frō consent of the ventricle, by dissolvers, corrigents, & stethicks; if weaned, as before, abstaining from flesh, especially if fat, & which stuffeth the head with vapours.
4. The carus, which is a deepe sleepe with hurt of sense and motion, respiration excepted, and of imagination, caused, by the motion of the animal spirits hinder∣ed; it's cured, if from phlegme or a narcotick vapour, by universals, revulsions, by frictions, suppositories, sharp clysters, errhines, apo∣phlegmatismes, and acetose fumes; if with a feaver, or wormes, by averters, roborants, and specificks; if from poyson, by vomitories, alexipharmicks, antihypnoticks, and in others according to the cause; if from the fume of coales, or vapour of must, by exportation into the free aire, giving the spirit of wine, with triacle; theriack water, with apoplecticks, epilepticks, castor, and rue vineger, vo∣mitories, sternutatories, frictions, clysters, and analepticks.
5. The apoplexy, which is a suddain abolition of all the animal functions, respiration only remaining, though for some space hindered, cau∣sed, by reason of the narrownesse and stoppage of the passages, chiefely about the basis of the brain, through which the animal spirits are derived to the members, by phlegme, bloud, percus∣sion, vapours and narcotick spirits, and wounds, &c. it's cured, by frictions, clysters, erection, squeesing of the nostrils, moderate shaking of the body, ligature of the extreams, apoplecticks, rue balsam, castorium, cupping-glasses, suppositories, and phlebotomy if need; if from phlegme, by phlebotomy if need, cupping-glasses, clysters, purgation, vomitories, cauteries, particular evacuations of the head, inunctions of the tongue and pallat, theriacks, fina∣pismes, errhines, ptarmicks, roborants, apoplecticks, garga∣rismes, saccules, epithems, phoenigms, spagyricals, and attenua∣ting
diet, hot cephalicks, and antiparalyticks; if from bloud, by venesection, scarrification, cupping-glasses, clysters, revulsions, purgation, and particular evacuants; if from narcotick vapours, by revulsion, evacuants, apoplectick balsams as in the pituitose, ster∣nutatories, and diet as then; if from ebriety, by vomit, emulsions, hordeat water and things acid; if from external and violent causes, by phlebotomy, cupping-glasses, repellers, diet thin and cooling &c. preservation from it, is by imminution of bloud, preparation, alteration, purgation, moderate exercise, not sleeping presently after meales, or drinking then, or using aqua vitae, if sanguine; if pituitouse, by evacuants, roborants, hot cephalicks, apoplectick balsams, aromaticks, pepticks, purgers, errhines, & gargarismes; if vaporose, by abstinence, preparants, evacuants, discutients, robo∣rants, avertents, and friction.
The catarrhe, which is the defluxion of an excrementitious humour, from the head unto the subject parts, caused by the coction of the braine hurt, from a distemper, or too much repletion, irritating the expulsive faculty; it's cured, if pituitous, by preparation, eva∣cuation, aversion, correction, phlebotomy, particular evacuation by errhines, apophlegmatismes, gargarismes, masticatories, exsic∣cants, and hot cephalicks, with the conserve of roses, lotions and plaisters, fumes, powders, and odorates; if hot, by lenients, vene∣section, preparants, refrigerants, astringents, purgers, dryers, ro∣borants, cerots, &c. if flowing violently, by averters, revulsives, di∣version by clysters, lotion, friction, ligature, cupping-glasses, se∣tons, cauteries, intercipients, incrassants, astringents, laudan opi∣ats, gargarismes, rotuls, fumes, odorats, powders, and sacculs; if suffocative, by revulsion, derivation, sharp clysters, frictions, vene∣section, cupping-glasses, purgers, astringent gargarismes, interci∣pients, temporal topicks of tacamabaca, &c. phoenigmes, vesicato∣ries, coronal cerots, and antiasthmaticks if grosse, astringent ro∣borants if thin, issues, purgers, stomachicks, hepaticks, moderate diet, not hard, sharp, or vaporous, supper small, cydoniats, and moderate sleepe, &c. and if the excrements of the brain are retain∣ed, by errhines, apophlegmatismes, resolvers, discutients, and ster∣nutatories.
1. Stupidity, and torpor, which is caused by the defect of the animal spirits de∣stinated to the sense and motion of any part, and is chiefely in them as membranous and nervous; it's cured as the palsey; but with lesse strong remedies, sc. by universal evacuations, and particu∣lar, by the decoction of sage, rosemary, spirit of wine, and castor,
&c. apoplecticks, and paralyticks.
2. Pain, which is a trouble, caused, by the solution of continuity, in the sentient part, chiefely the membrans, it's either gravative in the parenchyma, punctory in the membrans, acute, mordacious, pulsatory in the arteries, profund nigh the bones, and tensive in the membrans, skin, & glan∣dules; it's cured, by anodynes, narcoticks, and hypnoticks; if in the head, by the remedies aforesaid, so, if by distemper also; if from the heate of the sun, by refrigerants, and discutients; if from falls, or percussion, by phlebotomy, clysters, discutients, & resolvents; if from ebriety, by evacuation, repulsion, alteration, oxyrrhodines, refrige∣rants, hordeats, & cydoniats; if from wormes, as aforesaid; if a Cepha∣laea; and hemicrania, that is a long and troublesome paine, with great paroxismes, but easily suscitated, troubling the whole brain, head, or its greatest part, especially the membrans; and the second troubleth one halfe of the brain; it's cured as the cephalalgy, by universal and particular evacuations, revulsions, topicks, cepha∣licks, cauteries, the decoction of guajacum, china, sarsaparilla and sassafras, and diet as in the distempers of the head with specificks.