AND because the HUMOURS are _Thick_ and _Frigid_, proper _warming_ and _attenuating_, or preparing and purging _Medicines_ are to be used in their Turns; or _rarefying_ and _inciding Matters_ may be mixed with the _Purgatives_. As also in Case the HUMOURS lodge about the _Ventricle_ and _Mesentery_, a gentle VOMIT may be convenient.
BUT because divers _Parts_ suffer _OBSTRUCTIONS_ in this sickly _Affection_, proper _Aperitives_ are to be made use of; and _Those_ chiefly, which have a _natural Affinity_ with every respective _affected Part_: As for Example; _Hepaticks_, for the _LIVER_; _Spleneticks_, for the _SPLEEN_; _Uterines_, for the _WOMB_, &c. Wherefore the _Physician_ ought to weigh and consider well, whether the _Veins_ about the _VENTRICLE_ and _MESENTERY_, or _LIVER_ and _SPLEEN_, be most _obstructed_; since the most special Regard must be had to the _Part most affected_.
IN the _Beginning_, such _Medicines_ as serve best to open the _Obstructions_ of the _MESENTERY_, _SPLEEN_, and _LIVER_, sparingly mix’d with such as provoke the _MENSTRUA_ or _MONTHS_, are to be discreetly used: But afterwards, in _Progress_ of the CURE, the _Uterines_ may (by Degrees) be prudentially _augmented_.
HOWEVER, at last it often happens, that tho’ the _grosser HUMOURS_ are evacuated: yet some _watry, serous Humours_ remain in the Circuit of the Body, too much refrigerating and infesting it still; which are most conveniently remov’d by _Sudorificks_.
BUT because the compleat _CURE_ of this _Disease_ requires some Length of Time, I would advise proper _Preparatives, Purgatives_, and _Corroboratives_, to be exhibited by Turns; as also the very _Form_ and _Composition_ of the _MEDICINES_ to be varied in their Courses, for the preventing of _Nauseousness_.
THE _Patient’s REGIMEN_, must likewise be well prescrib’d, and curiously _regulated_; especially her DIET. She ought to live upon Victuals of the best _Nutrition_, and easiest _Concoction_, carefully avoiding all _others_ that are not so agreeable: Especially such as are of a _frigid or humid Quality_; such as _Pot-herbs_, _Garden-Fruits_, _Milk_ _Fish_, &c. She may drink generous _Wine_, or good _Ale_ cautiously abstaining from all _small Drinks_, and other such like noxious _Liquids_, as much as possible.