The method of phisick, : containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly vse at this day ... / By Philip Barrough.

Philip Barrow

Date:: 1596

Credit: The method of phisick, : containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly vse at this day ... / By Philip Barrough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ad se. iol r ere aie ee da eer sa - se 2A, Se mh Aaa “f = ae Difcatientivs, mandrak apples,or roots,& a litle vineger. You may alfo lay vader his pillow, poppy heades, or mandrake apples.You may alfo for the fame purpole, giue him to drink water wherin poppy or henbane feed hath bene fodden, or fome fomnoriferousicompound,asis regines Nicolai,or philonivm, or fuch like, in mi- niftring whereof,you mut dbferue,thatyou giue them notin the vehemency of the fit,butin the declining therof, Befides note that you muft efchue conti- tinuall vfe of ftupefactiue medicines afwell inwardly as outwardly alfo.Forin this difeafe,by ouermuch cooling you may turne the frenefic intoalethargics wherby youmay caufe him to fleepe fo,that you can awake him no more. Al- foif the patient be weake,beware how you minifter ftu pefadtiue things to pro- uoke fleepesforin {uch as be weake(as 7 raltianm faith fomnoriferous potions doe no final] hurte, and fomcetime they kill. At the laft when the difeafe is af- waged,and waxeth mote gentle, which for the moft part chaunceth the third day:you may apply difcuifliue medicins which haue vertue to difperfe the rem- nant of the difeafe. And for that purpofe you may apply the aforefaid embro- cation, adding ‘to it before, floures of cammomill , dill, melilote, marth mal. lowes and {uch like. ‘There be fome that at that cime( the difeafe declining;) doc apply tothe head,hennes or whelpes cut in the middeft, or the loungs of a wether hote, But take good heedethatno fuch ching be applied in the be- ginning ofthe difeafe,ot in the vehemencie therof, for fo you {hould increafe the infhammation and the feuer, and make the fick in more perill. Moreouer if you may vie Cafoream,for that it is of fubtil fubftance,and will worke his force. through the fcul. When the frentick perfonis recoucred,let him efchue drii- kennes, idlenes,varicty and corruption of meates, and efpecially che burning heat of the funne. Hereby you may learne not onely the cure of the frenefic, but alfo aremedie againft immederate watching, and rauing in any forte en- gendred by feuers,when the patient is fo vexed by them,(although they come by confent,and be butaccidents of the feuers) that it is neceflarie toremedic CHAP. XVI. : Of the Lethargse. [ Ethargus in Greeke and in Latin alfo,is a difeafe contrary to the frenefic 4 for ie caufeth fluggithnes & an incxpugnable defire of fleeping,fome call this difeafe in Latin 7 eternus. They thatbe také with this difeafe, do forget all things,whereupon ithath that name. For Lethein Greekeis foreetfulnesiaind Argesis flothfull or dull, fothat Lethargus is nothing elfe but a dull obliuion, and therefore may be called in Latine Oblinio inersItis caufed of fleume,which cooleth the braine ouermuch,and moiftnethir, and thereby prouoketh fleep. The flcume doth putrify inthe brain,& therby caufeth a feuer whichis alwaies annexed with this difeafe(as Galen teftificthin his 13 .booke de Methodo meden- di.A\fo they haue alwayes a profound and dead fleep. Their pulleis great,and ftriketh {eldome,and is watery( that is)it beateth as it were full of water. They ferch cheir breath feldome & weakly, they are contnually fluggith & fleepy, and can {earcely by any wicanes be compelled to anfwer, They will fomtime open$