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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    noint liquid things with a feather.Dogs dang mixed with hony and anointed, taketh away the roues maruclloufly, which will be the better, if the dog be fed onely with b uorineffe being miniftred in meates. Alfo the afhes of Swallowes burnt, and the athes of Centory minor burnt,with hony mixed,is good.After the irritations and chafings made by medicines,you muuft appeafe it with decoction of liquo- rice,and with a Gargarifme,which is made of Mafticke,Misthe,Tragacanthum, Amylum, and Saffron, miviftring alfo while the vicer feedeth,milk mixed with Terra lemnia to gargarife, What need many words? You muft be diligenr and carefull, {pecially in clenfing and purging the vicers. Many infants do (uffer the cramp in purging of the vicers. Some be ftrangled,becaufe the way of {wallow- ing is dried vp. Itis goodto apply outward foments,and emplaifters, with ta- king heed left he do coole it.For the cure will profper, if the matter that is hol- den within, can be drawne outward; Therefore alwaies after the taking of the plaifters away, couer the parts that be about the chinne, by laying vpon it foft wooll,{prinkled with Olewm Nardinum.To conclude,when the feurfs are loofe- ned,and the vicers purged,vle this remedy following: Rv. flowers of red Rofes, 4..iij. Saffron,2.}. {5.Baulauftie,Z, .Mirshe,>).j. Pine nuts made cleane,2. ij. Amylis%, j.Sumach,Roch allume,ana.3 j.. beate them,cemmixe them with hony, and.vfe to annoint itthree times on the day, CHAP. V; Of the Squsnancy. Ax ‘gina in Latin, Squinancic in Englifh,but in Greek Synanche.Itis proper- ly an inflammation which isin the throate, or in the iawes. There be foure kinds of Squinanciesjone is,when the iawes be inflamed, (by the iaweslmeane the place where the ends of the wefand.and the trachea arteria do agree.)Ano- ther is, when neither the iawes nor other parts of the mouth , nor yet the out- ward parts do feeme to be inflamed, yet the ficke feeleth peril] of choking in thethroate. The thirdis, when the parts about the throate be inflamed both outwardly and inwardly. The fourth is, when the ioynts betweene the bones ofthe head and the necke be loofenedto the former part of the necke: where- by the place appeareth hollow, and the ficke feeleth paine when itis touched without, The Squinancy is caufed through abundance ofhote bleud,flow- ing vanaturally to the places before rehearfed. Itis knowne by thefe fignes:the breath is drawne very hardly, and not without the necke be holden right, and thereis difficultie in: {wallowing. Allo in fome,a feuer,rednefle of the face and’ necke. There chanceth alfo in many , {welling : the ficke yauneth with opes mouth and drawethbreath. Therforein the beginning every Squinancy requi- reth a hafty and {peedy remedy. Wherefore you muft by and by cutthe out- it: but youmuft take away the bloud by little andlittle, at many times, and not all at once,forthe bloud being taken away altogether on heapes; the heart foone faileth, and fo the perill of choking cometh vpon him. And morcouer ~ Gargari(me. GenAp I 2 » cha Si ig» YUM fe 190