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.

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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.
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Platter, Felix, 1536-1614.
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1664.
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The Cure.

The Cure is in order according to the Disease, the Hae∣morrhoids, Condyloma, Inflammation and Ulcer are cured divers waies.

The blind Haemorrhoids (by which we mean a swolen Vein in the Arse that is stopt and ful of pain) if it be not well or∣dered, * 1.1 will be inflamed and cause an Ul∣cer and other diseases.

This may be prevented when it comes with ease and is not hindered at its usual time but furthered, as we shewed in stoppage of Haemorrhoids.

It is cured by turning away the blood which is the cause and nourisher of it, and allaying the pain to prevent Inflammation, and then by drying and discussing the Tu∣mor. And if it Ulcerate, it must be cured, as other Ul∣cers.

We must revel the blood that it may not flow to that part to stretch or inflame it, especially if there be then an Inflammation by opening a Vein in the Arm, and then derive it by opening a Vein in the Foot, Ankle, or Ham.

Or by Cupping the sides, to revel; and the Hips to derive.

Or by Leeches to the Fundament, if pain or Inflamma∣tion forbid not.

The Belly must be kept loose that the Excrements may not hurt being hard, and by straining; With fruits and herbs in meat and broaths, or with Cassia, Manna, or the like. Or with Clysters, if they can endure the Pipe.

Or with the Decoction of Restharrow, consume them according to Dioscorides.

Or give the Pouder of Moulin with Milk, to abate the swelling alone, or with Barley meal as much, or fryed with Eggs and Butter for some daies, which is a se∣cret.

Or the juyce of Moulin alone, or with Penidies, or in a syrup, or with Liquorish Pouder, make an Electuary thereof.

Also Bdellium and Galbanum sostned with syrup of Plantane or Mullein and made Pills give a dram.

Or Narcoticks in great pain.

Topickes are applied with a Tent, or if liquid by a Syringe, or by sprinkling, or blowing them in.

Anodynes abate pain and heat also, with Stupefactives, many whereof consume the Piles.

Boyl yellow Quinces, or Herb True-love in Oyl. Or make Oyl of Gourd seed, Poppy, Henbane, or yolks of Eggs, or Indian Nuts, or De-been, or Jesamin.

Or use this Liniment of Oyl of Roses, Violet water Lillies, Willows, or Lineseed, or sweet Almonds, with o∣ther Anodynes, or fresh butter, the yolk of an Egg raw or roasted.

You may add Goose grease, or Hens, or Hops, or the grease of Goats, or Dears kidneys, or Marrow of a Veal bone, Pomatum, or Aesypus, or white Wax washt to make an Oyntment.

Mucilage of Fenugreek, Linseed, or white of an Egg.

Pouder of the rinds of Mandrake, Henbane and Poppy seed, and if pain be great to four ounces of the Oyntment a dram of Opium and half a dram of Saffron.

Or use Populeon with Opium, when there is heat, or Saffron.

Fomentations and injections, are made of Mallows, Marsh-mallows, Mulleine leaves and flowers, Chamomil, Melilot, Dill, Elder flowers, VVater-lillies, and Violets, and Faenugreek and Linseed boyled in water or fat broath or with Oyls.

And you may make Cataplasms of the residents boyled in Milk.

Thus: Take crums of Bread and Barley, or Spelt, boyl them in Milk and with Oyl of Roses, Violets or Butter and yolks of Egs, make a Pultis, you may add Papp of Ap∣ples and Mucilages of Time, Fleabane and Althaea and Saf∣fron.

Or fry Purslane, Nightshade, Poppy and Henbane in Oyl.

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The Juyce of Veal is a good Anodine.

Give Digesters to consume them, and if they prevail not, then Dryers, that bite not, if there be pain.

Or make Cataplasms of Mullein, Clowns-All-heal, Plantane, black Hawkweed, Scabious, Crownwort, Yar∣row, Shepheards rod, Dogs-tongue, Horehound, Leeks, Coleworts bruised or roasted in the Embers, and mixed with Butter or Oyl. Matthiolus commends the Oynt∣ment of Scrophularia.

Or this: Take Lillies two ounces, Orris an ounce, Moullin, Scrophularia, each three handfuls, Flowers of Chamomil, Meli∣lot Dill, St. Johns-wort, each a pugil; Dates ter, with Snails, without shells: boyl them in steeled Water, stamp, and add Foenugreek and Line-seed, each an ounce; Butter two ounces, Myrrh, Frankincense, each two drams; Sassron a dram, yolks of Eggs four, make a Cataplasin.

Or apply roasted Onions, or Leeks, with Oyl of Roses or the like; or with Dragons, or Cuckow pintles, and Oyl, least they burn, or alone, if they may be endured. All these may be mixed with the former Cataplasms.

You may foment with a Spunge, or a Bag, with the de∣coction of the aforesaid, with Dates, and Snails, to nou∣rish, and with such as consume and dry, as Sumach; Bram∣ble, Pomegranate peels and flowers, Galls, Roses, Myr∣tle berries, and the like mentioned in Ulcers of the Neck of the Womb, with steeled water, and red wine.

Or anoint with Oyl of Chamomil, Melilot, Dill, St. Johns-wort, Lillies, Olive, in which are boyled Raddish∣seed, Spurge seeds, or Earth-worms, or Hog-lice, or Sows, or Wood-lice, or Horsleeches, or red Snails without shels, or with Oyl of Bricks.

Or make a Liniment of the Plants mentioned, with Smallage, or Parsley, or Yarrow, Juyces. Or beat them with Turpentine in a leaden Mortar, and wax.

Some fill a hollow Onion with Oyl, and Verdigrease, and roast it, and anoint with the Juyce.

An Oyntment. Take Frankincense, Mastick or Myrrh, each two drams; Bdellium, Lycium, or Juyce of Sumach, or Hypocistis a dram, Saffren a scruple, Mucilage of Fleabane, and Gum Traganth, each half an ounce; a Yolk of an Eg, with Oyl of Roses, make a Liniment. If there be pain, ad a dram of Opium, or Oyl of Henbane seed, which also con∣sumes them.

To dry more, add Ceruss, washt Lead, Litharge, Tutty three drams, the Arabian Stone according to Dioscorides. And in a leaden Morter, with Mucilage, and white Wax, make an Oyntment.

It will be stronger with Vitriol, burnt Allum a dram, Verdigrease, or Rust of Iron a scruple, Camphire half a scruple.

Give a Suppository, or Suet, the Yolk of an Eg, white wax, and a little Opium.

Or make a Fume of the Decoction hot, or take in only the Fume of Moulin boyled, to ease the pain.

Or sprinkle the Pouder of Darnel, Moulin, Scrophu∣laria upon Coals, or hot Bricks, or Iron, and take the Fume to dry. It is better with Brimstone, or with Honey anacardine.

Some say it is good to sit upon a Stool, made of Pine∣tree, and anointed with Oyl.

When a Condyloma comes from un∣clean Copulation without the Pox, * 1.2 then after purging, and bleeding, and sweating, apply Topicks, as in other malignant Humors. If it be in the Pox, then cure it as the Pox, by purging and sweating, and if they remain, the Disease is not wholly cured, and then use Topicks in the Cure, mixing things that are pro∣per against the pox.

Use the same Topicks to digest and dry, as in the swol∣len Haemorrhoids, especially the strongest, because these are harder, and the pain less, adding stronger Ingredi∣ents.

Also the Cataplasms and Fomentations there mentio∣ned, as Scrophularia, Moulin, Plantane, Bramble, Pelli∣tory, Mercury, Winter-cresses, Savine, Horehound, Mai∣den-hair, Rosemary, Time, Savory, Rue, green and brui∣sed, or boyled with red Wine, or steeled Water, or water and Vinegar, or Lye, and applyed with a Spunge, or Bag or ad Roots of five leaved Grass, round Birthwort, and Bay-berries, and other Dryers, as Salt, or Peeter, raw Quinces may be added according to Dioscorides.

Sheeps dung, or Hens dung, with the Gall of a Goat, Soap, and Vinegar mixed, are good.

Or dissolve Tarr, and Ammoniacum in strong Vine∣gar.

Or use the Oyntments for the Piles.

To which add this: Take Juyce of Winter-cresses, Smal∣lage, or Parsley, each an ounce and half; Oyl of Brick two ounces, Bole a dram, with Turpentine make an Oyntment.

Or, Take Oyl of Tartar half an ounce, Lapis Calamina∣ris, Bloodstone, or red Lead two drams.

Or, Take Vine ashes, and Dill ashes, each a dram and an half; Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar a dram, Al∣lum two drams, Bloodstone, or Minium a dram, Galls half a dram, Saffron a scruple, a Yolk of an Eg roasted, Turpentine a dram, with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment.

This is stronger. Take Quick-silver two drams, Turpen∣tine an ounce, Oyl of Nuts two ounces, red Lead two drams, Allum, Vitriol, each a dram; Verdigrease half a dram, with Wax make a Liniment, add a little Sublimate.

A Pouder to dry and consume it. Take round Birth∣wort a dram, dryed Savine two drams, Ashes of Hermodacts, and Myrobalans, each a dram and half; Allum a dram, red Vitriol half a dram, red Orpiment a scruple, with Opium, and Mandrake roots make a Pouder.

Or use Sublimate boyled in Water, or Oyl of Vitriol, or of Antimony.

A caustick Oyl to consume the Condyloma, Fistula, Scro∣phulus, and any Excrescens of Flesh without pain. Take Oyl of Bricks, Mastick, and Gum Arabick the best, and Tur∣pentine, each three ounces; distil them in a Glass Alembick, and mix the first Water with Ashes of Ivy, and still it again, keep the Water.

Fumes taken in, do dry up a Condyloma, such as we mentioned for the Ulcers of the Nose. Chiefly of Cinna∣bar, as in the French Pox.

Somtimes they are cut off, when they are hard, as warts, or if they be long, they are tyed with Hair or Thread to rot.

Inflammation in the Fundament a∣lone, or with Piles, or Condyloma, * 1.3 is cured as other Inflammations in Wo∣mens privities, and if it turn to an Ul∣cer, as an Ulcer.

Therefore we let blood in the Ham, to derive and cup to revel and derive, when we fear a Flux to the part.

We loosen the Belly that the Excrements may not hurt. Clysters are not easily given.

We alter with cold and moist Diet and Medicine. Dio∣scorides commends the Water of Lens palustris to be drunk.

VVe use Anodines at the first, because the part is very sensible of pain, and we cool without binding much, least the part should be exasperated, with things against piles mentioned, that ease pain, and slupesie, and cool, as Oyntments, Baths, Fomentations, Cataplasms.

A cool Oyntment. Take Juyce of Purslane, Plantanc, Groundsoyl, each three ounces, Mucilage of Fleabane an ounce, the Yolk of an Eg roasted, with Oyl of Roses, and Violets,

A Pultis: Take Comfrey roots, Althaea roots, each an ounce; Plantane, Moulin, Groundsoyl, Sowthistle, each a handful; Melilot flowers, and Roses, each a pugil; Faenu∣greek and Line-seed, each half an ounce; boyl and stamp them, add Flower of Lentils a pugil, Oyl of Willows, Roses, and Violets, each an ounce; Saffron a dram.

In the end, use Discussers, and if Hardness appear, Softners, and consume the reliquies as in other Inflam∣mations.

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An Ulcer or other Solution of Con∣tinuity in the Arse-hole, * 1.4 being a sensi∣ble part, is very troublesom, and will scarce be cured in so strait and moist a part: If it first ulcerate, it is worse, and worse yet, if it cancerate. If it be a wound, cure it as a wound. If the Ulcer come from a wound or Inflamma∣tion alone, or with the piles, after purging, by which a∣lone Ulcers are fitter to heal; Do thus,

Drink Milk often and much, or such things as are good against wounds, when there is a wound, as vulnerary Herbs. Bettony is highly commended in this case, and Mullein any ways taken, is good in al Diseases of the Arse∣hole, & other things mentioned in the Ulcers of the Womb, as pills of Bdellium. And if Blood flow from the wound, use the pouder there mentioned.

Topicks may be used as in Ulcers of womens privities, because the part is very sensible and tender, as they, and will not admit of other Cleansers and Dryers, then are there mentioned, except such Dryers as are mentioned for swollen Haemorrhoids: And if there be a pain in the ul∣cer or Inflammation feared, use the things against pain, prescribed in Ulcers of the womb and Haemorrhoids, as pessaries and Fumes.

Besides which, the Roots of Carduus boyl'd in wine, cures the Ulcers in the Fundament: And Raisons beaten up with Rue, if they be foul and cancer'd.

Or Oyntment of Minium, Litharge, or Chalcitis called Diapalma.

And if there be a Flux of Blood, use such things as are mentioned for stopping of Blood in other Fluxes.

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