Volume 1

The method of physick, conteining 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 phisitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, and names of ech medicine / by Philip Barrough.

  • Philip Barrow
Date:
1617
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Credit: The method of physick, conteining 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 phisitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, and names of ech medicine / by Philip Barrough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vitlus ratio, Curatio. Vene fettio. Rewul/io. Localid. ZYote. Verbenaca- velhe ye LIBERO L windines. But ifthere be beating with it,there is iaflamation in the filmes ofthe head:and if there be heauinefle with the diftenfion,then it declareth abundance of humours within the filmes. And if the painebe felt fuperficially, asitwere omward, then it betokeneth that the filme which couereth the(call is grie= ued But if it be felt deepe within , che filmes of the braine are vexed, Note that tho'e that haue paine within the (cull , they feele griete at the rootes of their eyes, becaufe that the tunicles of the eyes baue their beginning, of the filmes ofthe braine, And if fo be that a putrified humour in the head do waxe hotter and hotter, then there is a feuerioyned with the headach. They alfo arevexed with a feuer,which haue headach caufedby inflammation As for diet to be vied in this griefe, you may cafily prefcribe it out of the former Chapters, accor= ding to the diuerfitic of the caufes thereof:and therefore I omitit here willing. ly, left I fhould vie a fond repetition of one thing often. The cure doth differ according to the diuerfity ofthe caufe. For if you finde abundance of humours or vapourstobe the caule, ifitbe ingendred of plenitude of the whole body, you muft begin with cuacuation ofthe whole body, And therefore you mult let him bloud on the Cephalica on the fame fide, it his ftrength will (ufferit, and no other thing let it. Butif thehead doth receiue the humours and vapours thatdo afcend, for thatit is weake, then you mutt pull backe the matter ynte the whole body, and fo remedie the part affected. Therefore you mutt vie very fharpeclifters, and bindings of the armes and Jegges, and many friGions of the neather partssand fometime alfo in this cafe you may let bloud inthe arme. Aad if after that, bloud do feeme ftillto abound, you may open aveine in the nofthrils, and drawbloudfrom thence , as much as fhall be requifite. Shortly afteryou muft purge the body with Hierapicra , or other thinges that are pre icribed inthe former Chapters. After purging ofthe whole body, you may fafely cometo purging of the head,and in the end vfe medicines to ftrengthen it. The head isto be purged with Gargarifmes, and with medicines putinto the nofe,asiuyce of Leekes or of Cyclaminus, or fuch like, which be rchearfed before in the feuenth Chapter. To the headit felfe you mutt firft apply things that do repel] and driue backe: fuch be, oyle made of vnripe Oliues, and oyle of Rofes alone, or applyed with vineger, alfo oyle made of Poppy heads and of luie berries, and of greene Mints, and fuch like, whereofwe hate {poken be- fore. But note, ifthe humours that abound inthe head be cold and crude, then apply the former medicines warme; but if the humours abounding be hote and cholericke, then apply thofe medicines cold, Afterward you mutt apply thofe medicines that do difcuffe and difperfe humours, as beoyles of Cammomill and Dill,and fuch like before rehearfed; bur ifthe humors abounding be thicke and tough, boyle Serpillum,or Peniroyall, or Calamint, or Mints in oyle, and thou fhalt extenuate them by applyingthereof. Befides,thele things do ftreng- then the part affefted, and therefore they are to be vfed yntill the cure be B. nifhed. Aboucall other things Veruaine doth difperfehumours, and mi htily corroborate the head, efpecially being greene. Allo being drie, and boyled in Ale,rootes and all together, with Serpillum, it doth thelike, ifthe head be an- nointed therewith. Moreouer if you boile Veruaine alone in oyle,& do fprinkle the headtherewith , it helpeth all paine of the head ef long continuance, if it were