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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    Cataraéls cus rable, z. 4 See ord -LIBER 2. moutrs caufed of frigidity and coldneffe: and thus haue the Phifitions de(cribed the eye.!t fhall not be vaneceffarie alfo to diftribute it into his parts,and theres fore(as Iobannicus faith)the eye hath feuen coates,which they call tunice,foure colours,and three humours,But his opinion concerning the tunicles,by funds Anatomifts hath bene ewifted , making but onely fixe:yea and fome there be, that ({waruing from the moft receiued opinion)haue made roome for aco. iecture of their own, as they thinke by reafonze xcluding all thofe ouer curious diutlions, (namely Iris, Cornea, AraneayVuea, and the refidue,) and imaging but onely two coates, the one whercof they name Saluatrix, becaule it {iueth and keepeth the humours: and the other they terme Difcolorata,thatis having no colour: and they maintaine, that in the eye it (elfe there is no colour, but that which is caufed of the Chriftalline humor,which if ithe planted very neare to the tunicles,then the eye feemeth of no colour: if it lie deepe within, it de- ferreth three vifible colours vatothe beholder,and(as they fay )the diuerfe pla- cing of this chryftalline humor begetteth the variety of colours inf undry eyes; which gaue our Apatomifts matter to deuife their diftributions, while they res ferred the colour to the nature of the tunicle, which (indeed) is to be imputed tothe humours. For mine owneiudgement, if it be lawful to idee fo intri- cate a canfe, (1 thinke) I could very well maintaine, that the humours be the caufers of the diuerfity of thecolours:, though our blinde Anatomifis do ime pugac itin their common bookes, But] haue taken vpon me, rather to cure the malady of the eye,then to define the nature of it, alzhough this htle Prelue dinra will not feeme altogether vnneceflary, CHAP, XXXI,. Of a Cataraét. Awa is a corrupt water, congealed like a curde, ingendred of the br- Amouts ofthe eye,diftempered betwixt the tunicles and fet before the fight of the eye and Chrittalline hamours.Of thefe manner of Cataracts there be fe~ uen diverfe {pices or kinds, whercoffoure be curable.and three be vacurable. The fift kind of the curable Cataraét is light,very bright, like white chalke,or’ as alabafter well polifhed: and itis caufed by a ftroke in the eye, either witha’ fticke or'a ftone,or any other outward violence. The (econd kind:is fomewhat white, and much like voto a celeftiall colour:and this proceedeth from the flo« mach, and is commonly caufed of ynwholefome meates, and vnkind nourifh~ ment, whereof a groffe fumofiticrefolueth, and afecodeth vp into the braine, and from thence falleth downe into the eyes. The third kind is alfo whitifh, but itturneth into the colour of afhes,andis commonly engendred of paine inthe head,as of the Migrimejor {uch like difeafes:and itis cauled fometime of great forow and heauinefle,whereofcometh immoderate weeping:and{omerime of much cold; andmuch watching, and {uch other hke. The fourth {piceis ofa Cytrine colour,and iscommonly engendred of excefliue meate and drinke in. digelted;and alfoof great labour, and fometime of the humour melancholic, Thefe are the foure curable kinds,but they be never healed till they be grown and confirmed : and the figne or token of their full perfe@tion is, when the pa- tient feeth nothing, vnleffe it be the brightnes of the Sunne by day ligbt,or the lighe