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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    ava,Z.iij. Centory the lefle, M.j. rootes of Polypody;4.vj fine Agaricke,, .iij, Pulpe of Coloquintida, 3. ij, boile thefe in fufhicient quantity of water,vntill halfe be confumed: then take of that decoétion, 3.xv. of Hierapicra, and Beneditta laxatina,ana.3.{.of Eleftuarium Nidum,4.i.0f Diapheenicon, %-ij.0f mel Rea farum darificd 3}. G. of oiles of Laurell, Rew, aad Cafforenm, ana. j. of fale gemme,%,j.-.commixe them all,& make a clifter.Alfo the vile of fuppofitaries inthis difeafe is very commendable, made of Coloquintida, Agaricke, blacke Hellebore,and {uch like, after this fort, Ry. of Hony boiled to a height,.ij. of Coloquintida, Agarick, and Hellebore,ana.5) ij. fal gemme,))j. beate them in- co powder, commixe them withthe Hony, and make fuppofitaries,vj. fingers long, and hang a threed in them , that you may draw them out when you lift, You may alfo put intothe {uppofitaries Hierapicra or Pils Cochie. Afterward annoint the whole body with a good quantity of warme oile, wherein wild Thime, Calasnint, Dil,& (uch like haue firtt bene boiled. Alfo the extreme parts muftbe bourd ftrongly, and vehemently chafed with the decoétion of the roote of Floure-de luce: many cupping glaffes muft be fattened to the fhoul- ders : the head mutt be fhaued,and annointed with oiles of Commomill, Dill and Rew, or with oile wherein the aforenamed herbs ‘haue bene boiled. You muft apply to thenofthrilsfuch things as bytheir odour can ftirre and raife vp the ficke, as be, Opoponast, Caftoren mSagapenum,Galbanum. Alto you may vie medicines to prouoke neefiag, made of white Hellebore, Cafforewm,and (uch other,rchear(ed in the former Chapters, Or it profiteth much to vic embroca- tions,made of Cammomill, Melilot, Sage,Peniroyall, Marioram, Origan,Ca- jamint, Sauory, and Hyfop, boiled in equal] portions of wine and water, But yet RY. Olei coftivi, = j. oiles of Caftoreis & En horbi#, ana.Z dij. Muftard feed,3 .ije 5) P a4) quantity of Waxe,make an Emplaifter. Allo you muft open their mouth by force,and put into it your finger, or a fether dipped in oile of Ireos,to provoke vomit, and to caufe the grofic humours that be in the mouthto be caft out,Al- fo their fundament mutt be annointed with {uch medicines as diffolue windi- nes, as be Rew, Comin, Nitrum, and Hony. When theeuillis aflwaged, you Ifhis {peech come not yet againe, fo that his ftrength permit, you muftfaften cupping glaffes to the hinder part of the head with (carification. And in like fortynder the fhort ribs, if you may, Afterward let the ficke be caried in a wa- gon of horflitter.Let his drinke be Mulfa,or Oximel. Let him drinke no wine. After 21,daies be paft the ficke may. enter a bath, but as touching medicinesre~ quifit for the reft of the cure, you fhal find the abundantly in the Chap. follow- ing. Aud this may fuffice for the cure of the Apoplexy,iffo be it be curable. CHAP. XXII, Of the Palfey. Aralyfisin Greeke, Refolutio in Latine: in Englifh the Palfey. Itis'a difeafe Pekercia the onchalfe of the body, either the right fide or the left, doth lofe