A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.

The night MARE, is the hurt of breathing and of animal actions, with an Imagination of weight.

The Cause. Senn. will have the cause to be oft times a grosse vapour stopping the hinder part of the Head. But Plat. and Fern. say, it is fleam and melancho∣ly sticking about the Midriff, which swells either by drunkennesse or crudi∣ty, pressing the diaphragma and the Lungs, and the grosse vapour exhaling into the Throat and Brain stops the Voice, and troubleth the sences. These two causes may be joyned together.

Prognostick. It threatens an Apo∣plexy or Melancholy. It is evil if it op∣presseth those that are partly waking, and if a cold sweat follow.

The Cure. The sick must be raised from the fit: he must be cured by Ge∣neral and Topical Remedies, as is the Apoplex, a Wolfs skin is commended for a covering of the Head. Anniseed strewed in the Bed, is thought to help by the smell. It is familiar to children by over-eating; wherefore they must

not sleep presently after eating. Honey is good for them to lick. One dram of Piony roots must be infused in Beer for to drink.