ost offensive symptoms is wind,
which, as in the other species, so in this, hath great need to be corrected
and expelled.

The medicines to expel it are either inwardly taken, or outwardly. Inwardly
to expel wind, are simples or compounds: simples are herbs, roots, &c., as
galanga, gentian, angelica, enula, calamus aromaticus, valerian, zeodoti,
iris, condite ginger, aristolochy, cicliminus, China, dittander,
pennyroyal, rue, calamint, bay-berries, and bay-leaves, betony, rosemary,
hyssop, sabine, centaury, mint, camomile, staechas, agnus castus,
broom-flowers, origan, orange-pills, &c.; spices, as saffron, cinnamon,
bezoar stone, myrrh, mace, nutmegs, pepper, cloves, ginger, seeds of annis,
fennel, amni, cari, nettle, rue, &c., juniper berries, grana paradisi;
compounds, dianisum, diagalanga, diaciminum, diacalaminth, _electuarium de
baccis lauri, benedicta laxativa, pulvis ad status. antid. florent. pulvis
carminativus, aromaticum rosatum, treacle, mithridate_ &c. This one caution
of [4408]Gualter Bruell is to be observed in the administering of these hot
medicines and dry, "that whilst they covet to expel wind, they do not
inflame the blood, and increase the disease; sometimes" (as he saith)
"medicines must more decline to heat, sometimes more to cold, as the
circumstances require, and as the parties are inclined to heat or cold."

Outwardly taken to expel winds, are oils, as of camomile, rue, bays, &c.;
fomentations of the hypochondries, with the decoctions of dill, pennyroyal,
rue, bay leaves, cumin, &c., bags of camomile flowers, aniseed, cumin,
bays, rue, wormwood, ointments of the oil of spikenard, wormwood, rue, &c.
[4409]Areteus prescribes cataplasms of camomile flowers, fennel, aniseeds,
cumin, rosemary, wormwood-leaves, &c.

[4410]Cupping-glasses applied to the hypochondries, without scarification,
do wonderfully resolve wind. Fernelius _consil. 43._ much approves of them
at the lower end of the belly; [4411]Lod. Mercatus calls them a powerful
remedy, and testifies moreover out of his own knowledge, how many he hath
seen suddenly eased by them. Julius Caesar Claudinus _respons. med. resp.
33._ admires these cupping-glasses, which he calls out of Galen, [4412]"a
kind of enchantment, they cause such present help."

Empirics have a myriad of medicines, as to swallow a bullet of lead, &c.,
which I voluntarily omit. Amatus Lusitanus, _cent. 4. curat. 54._ for a
hypochondriacal person, that was extremely torment