Sentence:  And not as ſome yeeres ſince, I ſaw a Deane of S. "Hillarie" of Poictiers, reduced by reaſon and the incommoditie of his melancholy to ſuch a continuall ſolitarineſſe, that when I entered into his chamber he had never remooved one ſteppe out of it in twoo and twenty yeares before: yet had all his faculties free and eaſie, onely a <WSD>rheume</WSD> excepted that fell into his ſtomake. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. (from 14th c.)