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IT is evident, both by seeing it, and the Determination of Physi∣tians, that the griefs of which the most Noble, and Honorable La∣dy Maria Cordula Trappin complaineth of, are a Hemicranium or pain of one side of the Head, and a Tumour under the skin of the upper Jaw, containing a matter like to Fat or Hony; the cause of
these effects, is a pituitous matter, thin, and mixed with Gall; and as the Gall hath its original from the heat of the Liver, and the ob∣struction of the Spleen, so it cometh partly from the head, partly from the Stomach, and Womb: and for the curing of this, it is necessary, that the pituitous and bilious humours be evacuated, the ••iver cooled, the Spleen free'd from obstructions, the Head dried, the Stomach & Womb strengthened, to hinder these humours from being generated, or ga∣thering together, so as to flow to the head. Upon these Indications, I believe I shall satisfie in my Prognostick: and considering this in∣disposition of the Head, and also of the lower parts, the Cure must needs be difficult. Notwithstanding (lest in the space of some few months the Disease may not grow worse, which certainly it will, unless fit Remedies upon the first occasion be made use of) I will propose what ought to be done in this case; and according to my judgment, the Cephalick Vein of the right Arm should be opened, and six or seven ounces of bloud let out. This being done, for revulsion, and de∣rivation sake, the Lady should admit a Seton to be made between the first and second Vertebra of the Neck; or instead of it, apply a blistering Plaster to the Neck every third month, and make an Issue four fingers above the left knee, Tab. XLIII. Let. I. and in the most convenient place of the right Arm, Tab. XLIII. Let. H. As to the hard Tumour, before the use of the Acid Mineral Waters, and the Decoction of Sarsa, I would not apply any thing. Let her Body be prepared and purged with these gentle Remedies. Let her make use of this purging Syrup.
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Then let her take Hydromel with Tartar, and afterwards be pur∣ged with the infusion of Agarick, Rubarb, leaves of Senna, Syrup of Roses solutive, and Manna. Let the heat of the Liver be tempered, and the obstruction of the Spleen opened by the use of the Acid Wa∣ters; then for the purging of the whole body, and particularly the head, by reason of the pain on one side, let her take these following Pills.
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Afterwards let the Head be cleared with gentle Masticatories, and sneezing Remedies, lest the humours too much stirred up, be thrown upon the eyes and breast, let the head be strengthned with a Cephalick Spirit; of which, to take fifteen drops morning and evening in a few spoonfuls of Black-Cherry Water. In the Autumn, after general purging, cooling the Liver, opening the Spleen, and strengthning the head, there is nothing better to dissolve the Tumour in the upper Jaw than a Decoction of Sarsa, which hath this Prerogative to digest, and dissolve all hard Tumours, but let it be so prescribed that it heat∣eth not the blood.
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Take five ounces of this five hours before dinner; and four hours before Supper, and every morning sweat gently in bed, after the ta∣king of it let there be a second Decoction made for ordinary drink, boyling the Ingredients of the first Decoction in ten pints of Water, till the third part be boyled away, adding at the latter end, two ounces and a half of Raisons, continue the use of these Decoctions thirty days, renewing every second day the second Decoction, in using this Sudorifick there must be care taken that she be not bound; and there∣fore every other day let her make use of a Glister, or a laxative Po∣tion. Once in a Week let her take the forementioned Pills, or some∣thing equivalent to them: and abstain that day from the use of the first Decoction. For the weakness of her Stomach, let her take half a spoonful of the following Spirit of Mastick.
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To the outward part of the Stomach apply a Cere-cloath of Ca∣ranna, and Tacamahaca, and the like: and if the Tumour doth not yield to these Remedies, it must at last be cut, and these few thing••, the most Noble Patient, may safely use; but I leave them all to the judgment of the most famous, and excellent Physitian upon the plac••. From Ʋlme in Schwaben-land, Aug. 20. 1642.
This Tumour, of which I wrote in my advise, was on the upp•••• Jaw on the right side, bigger than a Hens Egg, white, unmove••••le, and hard. The Last Autumn (her body being prepared, and bloud ta∣ken away,) the Patient made use of the Decoction of Sarsa, by which means the Tumour was almost discussed, as appeareth by the Letters written to me fr••m the Lady.
The Tumour upon the right Jaw, after the use of the Decoction of Sarsa, was decreased, and almost disappeared; and it pleased Almigh∣ty God so to direct the Cure, that I thought it had been perfectly well: but unhappily, after Christmas Holy-days, by the consent and advise of a Physitian, I went into an ordinary Bath, and was scarce come out of it before I felt an alteration, and increase of the Tumour, and from hence I feell daily a greater compression, not without pain, as in former time, &c. from hence, the benefit of the Decoction of Sarsa is evident.
But after some months, using the Bath, and her head being heated, the Tumour, upon much grief, and continual shedding of tears, in∣creased to the former bigness. Things being thus, the Patient came from Heilbrun to Ʋlme, to be cured. Consulting therefore with the most excellent D. D. Christopher Eysenmenger, Physitian to the Re∣publick of Heilbrun: we gave our Prognostick, hoping for very good success if the bone was not hurt. She being therefore purged and let bloud; upon the second of May, 1643. we placed the Lady in her bed, binding her hands to her side. Then one of the standers by, drew the upper lip, upward, with a hook, that with my separating Knife I might come conveniently between the Tumour, and the first Muscle, which lifteth up the lip. I passed this Knife as far as the Suture of the Os Jugale, and separated the Tumour from the foresaid Muscle; but lower, neer to the grinding Teeth, and the Gum, I
found the coat of the Tumour Cartilagineous, and in vain attempted to bring it from the fourth bone of the upper Jaw; so that I was for∣ced to cut the bag; which being cut, there flowed out a thick yellow matter like to honey, and the Tumour subsided: the matter being taken out, and the Cartilage cut off with the Pincers, I bound up the Wound with the white of an Egg, the Pouder of Chrysolite prepared, and the Astringent Pouder of Galen. The next day the blood being stopped, I found a little swelling neer the second Muscle, which draweth away the lip, under which there was a hole, through which I could easily pass a blunt Probe into the hollowness of the bone. On the 12th day, in the presence of Dr. Eysenmenger, I cut into the swelling, and dilated the hole. On the 13th, after the departure of Dr. Eysen∣menger, I found, neer to the Dog-tooth, another swelling, hard as a bone; which also I cut out with the Pincers, Tab. XI. Fig. II. The space where the bag was, between the last grinding tooth, and the dog tooth, was so consolidated, that not one drop of matter came out, but I kept the hole open, till the bone might skale by the help of the decoction of Sarsa, and the bone being taken way, I healed up the Wound.