The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker].

  • Ambroise Paré
Date:
1634
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Credit: The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diteafes fami? ' liarto Melans chaly petfons. From or by what their veines are fwoUen. by a froall and weake hcatCj fucbas Phlegraatickeperfons have, which by its naturall lightnclTe is diver ily carried through the turnings of the guts, and diftcnds and fwells them up,and whiles it drives for paffage out, it caufeth murmiirings and noifesin the belly, liki. winde breaking through narrow paflages. Signes of a jAeUmholike perfon, '^He face of Melancholy perfons is fwarr, their countenance cloudy and often cruel!, their aiped is lad and froward*, frequent Schirrhous, or hard fwellings, turhorsotthelpleene,H£eiTiorroids,(orfvcolk/^veines) ^artame leavers,whe¬ ther continiull or intermitting, Qmrftaine^Sextaineyznd Septtmanekavoxm ; and to conclude, all fuch wandering feavers or agues fet upon them. But when it happens the Melancholy humor is fliarpcncd, either by aduftion, or commixture of Cholcr, then Tetters, th^ blackc Morphew, the Cancer finsple and ulcerated, the Leprous and filthy feabbe, -fending forth certainc fcaly and branlike excrcfcenfcs, ('being vul¬ garly called Saint Mam tijis evill) and the Leprofie it felfe invades them: They have fmall veines and artcricSjbecaufe coldnefie hath dominion over them, whofe proper- tie is to ftraicen, as the qualiiieofheate is to dilate. But if at any time their veines feeme bigge, that largcoefic is not by reafbn of the laudable bloud,contained in them, but from much windinclTe; by occafion whereof it is fomewbat difficult to let thcni blond; not onely becaufe that when the veine is opened, the bloud Bowes (lowly forth, by reafon of the cold (lowneffeof the humors 5 but much the rather, for that the veine dothnot receive tho imprclTion of the Lancet,Biding this way and that way, by reafon of the windinefTc contained in it, and bccaufc that the harfh drineffe of the , upper skinne, refiftsthc edge of the inftrumenr. Their bodies feeme cold and hard to Theirdreames the touch, and the^^aretroubled with terrible dreames,for they are obierved to (cenae to fee in the night Devils, Serpents,darke dens and caves,fcpulchers,dead corpfes, and tn^ny other fuch things full of horror, by reafon of a blacke vapour, deverfly moving and difturbing theBraine, which alfo wee fee happens to rhofc, * whofearG the Their mans Water, by reafon of the biting of a mad dogge. You (hail findc them froward, frau¬ dulent, parfimonious, and covetous, even to bafenefTe, (low fpeakers, fearefull, fad, complainers, careful], ingenious, lovers of folitarineffe, man-haters, ob« ftiuatc maintainers of opinions once conceived, (low to anger, but angered not be pacified. But when Melancholy hath exceeded natures and its owne bounds, then by reafon of putrefaction and inflammation all things appeare full of extreme fury and madnefTe, fo that they often caft themfelvcs headlong downe from feme high place, or arc otherwife guilty of their owne death, with feare of which notwithftanding they are te rrified. But wemuft note that changes of the native temperament,doc often happen in the the'^changeof courfb of a mans Ufc, fotbat hee which a whileagonc was Sanguine, may now bee ChoIerickCjMclancholickjOr Phlegmaiickjnot truly by the changing of tlje lDloiidinto ^ * fuch humors, but by the mutation of Diet, and the courfe or vocation of lifc.For none H®wonemay ofa Saiiguinc complcxion but Will prove Cholerickeif he eatehotanddrierncates, (as all like things are cherifbed and preferved by the ufe of their like, and contraries arc deflroyed by their contraries) and weary his body by violent cxercifes, and con- tinuallhbours^andif there be a fuppreffion of Cholerickeexcrements, which be¬ fore did freely ■now, either by nature, or arc, But whofoever feeds upon me arcs ge¬ nerating groffe bloud, as Bcefc, Venifon, Hare, old Cheefe, and all fait mcates, he without all doubt Biding from his nature, will fall into a Melancholy terapetj efpeci- ally it CO that manner of diet,he (hail have a vocation full of cares, turraoiles, railerics, Brongand much ftudyjcarcfull thoughts and fearcsj and alfo if he (it much,wanting excrcife, for fo the inward hcateas it were defrauded of its nourifhmenr, faints, and growes dull, whereupon groffe and droifie humors abound in the body. To this al¬ io the cold and dric condition of the place, in which we live, doth conduce, and the fuppreffion of the Milancholy humor accuftomed to be evacuated by the Harmor- rhoides, courfes, and fteolcs. But he acquires a Phlegmarickc temper whofoever ufech cold & moift nouriffinacnc, much nen. Prom whence How melans choJick, How Pl«g' aatJeke, %