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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    were caufed of cold,and groffe and vifcous humours, as Galen witneffeth, Lib. 2.de Compofimedicam. fecundum locos.Alfo for the fame it profiteth much to vie oile, wherein Sowes, called:in Latine Dfillipide, be boyled. And thus much of the cure of Cephalea coming of plenitude. As for the cure thereof coming of ether caufes,you may gather it out of the former Chapter. CHAP, XIII. Of the AAsgrime. Hen isa painefull euill remaining in one halfe of the head, either on the righthalf or on the left, andis diftinguifhed by the {came thatrunneth alone inthe skull, from the middle forehead to the hinder part of the head: this griefe in Englith is called the Migrime. This paine cometh often by fits, and in ome the griefeis felt without the skull, in fome within deepe in the braine, {ed by afcending and flowing of many vapours or humours either hote or cold, either by the veines, ot by thearteries, or by both. Sometime they onely pro. ceed from the part contained in the skull,thatis,from the braine and his filmes, which thruft out their excrements and fuperfluities from them; and fometime from the parts of the bodie beneath the head, which fend vp corrupt vapours koow whether vapours or humours do abound, and whether they be hote, or cold, areto be gatherd out of the former chapters : asalfo to hace in what part ofthe head the griefe is,whether within the fcul] or without, reade the for- met Chap. of Cephalea, Onely this I adde bere,that ifin this difeafe , the filme that couereth the skul be affected,then is their pain fo vehement, that they cane not fuffer to be touched with oneshand: fothatit feemeth the skinit elfeis affected in this cuill. As for their diet what they fhould vfe,& what they fhould efchue, may readily be gathered and prefcribed out of the former Chapters, according to the diuerfity of canfes: but {pecially let the patient refraine from fuch things as do fend abundance of fharpe vapours vp tothe head, as be Gar- ding tothe diuerfity of caufes.And therefore when you will cure the Migrime, confider diligently firft whether the patient needeth bloudletting or purging, For ifthe griefe come through plenitude and abundance of bloud & humors, then cut the Cephalica in the arme on the {ame fide thatthe griefeis, but ifthe Migrinae be caufed of abundance of one humour, then purge that humour by contienient medicines,which are prefcribed in the former Chapters. The whole body being purged, you may come to locall and outward medicines , an caufethe patient, either with his owne fingers, or with alinnen cloth, torubbe and chate thehalie othis forehead which is grieved , and {pecially about the mufeles ofthis temples,vatillit be red and hote;_and this muft be done betore the fit of paine cometh, . After the fit ( as Galen teacheth in the end of his {econdbooke De Compof. medic» fecundum locos) you mutt apply medicines which of the old Phyfitians were called Hemicrania, for that they were vied for the Migrime : noting this alwaies, that if with the paine there were much heate felt, then you ought to apply {uch things as _ fomewhat coole. But