Platerus golden practice of physick: fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures, in respect to the kinds, and several causes, from whence they come. After a new, easie, and plain method; of knowing, foretelling, preventing, and curing, all diseases incident to the body of man. Full of proper observations and remedies: both of ancient and modern physitians. In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick. By Felix Plater, chief physitian and professor in ordinary at Basil. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts. Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick, and astrology.

The Kinds,

THe wants of bleeding, which is divers waies at set times; differ first, in respect of the place; as they are not, or not sufficient, either from the womb, Fundament, or Nostrils, or the like.

A suppression of the Terms, is when the monthly Evacuation of women, * 1.1 by the womb for forty years, in which they are fit to bear Children; is wanting, and they are neither with Child, nor give suck. Some women, but it is rare, never have them and without inconveni∣ence, these are Virago'es, because they are like men. Others have had them, but they stopped and never re∣turned. Some have wanted them a whol year, or some months; In whom Laziness presageth Diseases: Then follows heart pain, want of Appetite, and loa∣thing, with inclination to Vomite, Palpitation of heart and Arteries, Head-ach, troublsome dreams, palness of face, and crudity of urin, discovereth it. And as these are preternatural in Plethory and Cacochymy, so are they Natural in Women with Child, whose Terms are stopped, they vomit in the first month. Also suppres∣sion of Terms, is when they flow too slowly for the constitution, in less quantity, or shorter time then is meet. This causeth inconveniences.

There is another flux of the womb after Child-bearing, that is necessary, * 1.2 and continueth some dayes, more a∣bundant then the monthly, the blood is called Lochia. If these flow not, they cause great Diseases, Colick, and Convulsion.

There is a flux at the Fundament in both sexes called Haemorrhoids, * 1.3 in some Natures, either once in a year, or at a

certain time, this is said to be stopped, when it hath been, and is called suppression of Hemorrhoids. Phy∣sitians explain this defect chiefly, when there are other accidents from the retention of them; as Cacochymy, Cachexy, Quartan Feaver, Melancholly, and the like. The Patient disdaining the Flux, Complains not of the want of it, but when he is Pained by the swollen Veins, which cannot open, which are called the blind Hemorrhoids.

Some have a natural Evacuation at the Nose, * 1.4 at a set time, which are young and Plethorick, and bleed at no other part, as women that want their terms that are with child, or Virgins, before they have them; And hither may be refer'd, the critical evacuations in Diseases. If any of these are stopped, the Physitian must endeavor to procure them.

If blood flow another way, though som∣times it doth good, * 1.5 yet in regard it is not so according to nature, it belongs to the defect of Natural bleeding if it stop.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Stoppage of Terms.
• * 1.2

  Want of clean∣sing after child-bearing.
• * 1.3

  Stoppage of Haemorroids.
• * 1.4

  The want of bleeding at Nose.
• * 1.5

  Defect of bleeding by other parts.