The Sweating Sickness: A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesseCaius, John
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The Sweating Sickness: A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse
Caius, John
Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Sweating-sickness -- Early works to 1800
Cause theim to lie on their right side, and bowe theim selues
forward, call theim by their names, and beate theim with a
rosemary braunche, or some other swete like thynge. In the stede
of posset ale, they whiche be troubled with gowtes, dropsies,
reumes, or suche other moiste euill diseases, chauncing to
sweat, may drinke a good draught of the stronger drinke of
_Guaiacum_ so hote as they can, for the lyke effecte, as also
others may, not hauynge these deseases, if it be so redy to
theim as the other. After they ones sweat fully, myne aduise is
not to geue any more posset ale, but clarified ale with suger,
duryng the hole fitte, neither vnreasonably, nor so ofte as they
call for it, neither yet pinchyng theym to moche when they haue
nede, alwayes takynge hede not to putte any colde thynge in
their mouthe to cole and moiste them with, nor any colde water,
rose water, or colde vinegre to their face duryng the sweat and
one daie after at the leaste, but alwaies vse warmeth accordynge
to nature, neuer contrariyng thesame so nighe as may be. If they
raue or be phrenetike, putte to their nose thesame odour of rose
water & vinegre, to lette the vapoures from the headde. If they
slepe, vse theim as in the case of faintyng I said, with betyng
theim and callynge theim, pullyng theim by the eares, nose, or
here, suffering them in no wise to slepe vntil suche tyme as
they haue no luste to slepe, except to a learned mã in phisicke
the case appere to beare the contrary. For otherwise the venime
in slepe continually runneth inward to y^e hart. The contrary
hereof we muste alwaies intende, in prouokyng it outwarde by all
meanes duryng the fitte, whyche so longe lasteth in burnynge and
sweatyng, as the matter thereof hath any fyrie or apte partes
therfore. For as great & strong wine, (37) ale, or bere, so
longe do burne as there is matter in theim apte to be burned,
and then cesse when that whiche remainethe is come againe to hys
firste nature: that is, to suche water clere & vnsauery, as
either the bruer receiued of the riuer, or vine of the earth:
euen so the body so longe continuethe burnynge and sweatynge,
as their is matter apte therefore in the spirites, and then
leaueth, when the corrupcion taken of the finest of the euill
blode is consumed, and the spirites lefte pure and cleane as
they were before the tyme of their corruption.
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