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A34728	Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...	Couch, Robert.; Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6510; ESTC R9840	74,356	218

likewise prevent them if it be given in health for this violent Disease in Children I verily think there is not a better remedy under the Heaven if it be timely given for it carries off all that may be the occasion of the Disease or Worms one Grain is sufficient and that 's but six pence The last are the worst and sometimes the longest in curing If these continue long they encompass themselves into a Cistis or Bladder which they run out and into as a Coney into her Burrough whereby they defend themselves from the injury of any thing that is sent into the place to kill them For the two former the Powder cures them perfectly not only in killing or bringing away the worms there made but in taking away the cause The last if they have made this shelter it is very hard to kill and destroy them I have known a young Gentlewoman that was troubled with them from seven years till she was nineteen and never could get remedy they constantly came from her day and night without any excrement to her great grief and sorrow though the pain was not intolerable Now because I do desire to be found ingenious to my Countrymen I shall freely tell in what my two or three Arcanums or secret Medicines will not avail them and direct them unto that which will do it Many Physicians were befooled in this Disease of this Gentlewoman she took the advice of all within that Country where she lived many were the Clysters that she took of salt sharp and bitter things with the like ointment and plaisters to her Belly c. but all to little purpose as well as abundance of Mercurial Preparations which she took She was cured by this following The same Worm dried which is the best thing to destroy them that is and powdered and given in a Clyster with Milk and a little Honey But first let the Belly be well anointed and chafed with this Ointment Take some of the same Powder of the Worms the Gaul of an Ox a little Vinegar and Bay Salt three or four Cloves of Garlick the juice of Worwood You may have it at the Apothecaries and the Powder of Coloquintida if you have not the art to bring them into an Ointment with Honey beat the Garlick and mix them and so rub the Region of the great Gut and dip a Cloth in it and lay to the Navel do it warm In the Month of December 1677 being extreme cold Weather great Frost and Snow a young Woman being with Child and living near me laboured under a very strange Convulsion joined with a Palsie for besides the Fits which were strange and long she had continually night and day in Bed and out of Bed incessant Convulsive Motions throughout her whole Body for she had not the command of any part neither could she ever sit or lie still without drawing and writhing her Legs Arms and whole Body after a strange exorbitant manner sometimes she could speak a little and sometimes nothing for many hours but that which was most strange was this that when she had some liberty of speech and would endeavour to relate her own apprehensions of her evil her Tongue would be all on a sudden retracted or drawn back into her Throat that she could never proceed so that most people that saw her thought her to be bewitched or under an evil Tongue as they commonly phrase it but by the mercy of Almighty God I perfectly cured her with this Powder and Pill in about ten days time she went out her time with Child which Child and her self have been ever since in good health She had been almost as bad the year before and was cured then by a Physician of Hartford who buys Medicines of me Before every Fit she could manifestly perceive her great disturber to arise from about the Stomach and Midriff and ascend to her Head which is a plain demonstration that the primary Seat of this Disease is not in th● Head as is commonly believed the whic● also is not a little confirmed by thos● Children who are suddenly cut off by Convulsions whose Bellies I have seen immediately after death to turn yellow green or black and cold before the extreme parts which plainly indicates the seat of this putrefactive deadly Ferment to be the Stomach or thin Guts Amongst these Diseases I shall insert a Disaster though out of its place and give my judgment thereupon viz. Eruptio Venarum or the Breaking of a Vein THe Breaking of Veins in any place are not without some danger The place where the eruption is ought principally to be known for unless that be rightly understood in vain doth any one think to do any good as to a Cure The Schools have left it very obscure to their Scholars because it was never understood by them for indeed it doth come meerly under the consideration of an experienced Chyrurgion to lay a plaister to the Heel for a hurt in the Head is like to do but little good Wherefore I shall give you some signs that you may know the place and some directions for its Cure If it be below the Diaphragma or Midriff this Blood is evacuated mostly by Urine If in the Mesaraick Veins which are annexed to the Guts by Stool If from the upper Region of the Thorax or Breast it must come through a Thrust of some sharp Instrument that hath penetrated the Pleura or inner skin of the Ribs for without that there cannot be any Blood come into the Breast for the Lungs or Heart which are the two principal parts contained cannot be injured by any Blows Strains Bruises c. without this Pleura be pierced or broken and besides there are no Veins in them they are nourished by Arteries the Lungs by the Arterialis which doth bestow many small Twigs into its Body whereby the● are nourished There hath been many great mistakes about this part in this Disaster for a Ve● having been broken in the Intercos● Muscles or Muscles of the Sides or Breast Blood many times is evacuated at the Mouth and likewise in the Head or Throat Blood falling down upon the Epyglottis or Lap that covers the Wind-Pipe causeth a tickling which doth stir up a Cough with which this Blood is evacuated out of the Mouth and thereby the Throat and Tonsils and Glandules or spungy places which do receive the humidity of the Brain are inflamed Also the Spittle may become more crass or frothy and being discoloured by the Blood falling there many have presently concluded it to have come from the Lungs Without it were a Vein in the Head the party himself may very well tell where the eruption is for he can as perfectly perceive it to flow as if he saw it But in the Head he cannot for he only finds a distilling and tickling in his Throat with some pain in his Head If this distilling be from the Dura or Pia Mater it is very dangerous if from some

that Maxim of the Ancients Ejusdem partis atque potestatis sit functio sana cujus est vitiata ac vicissim i. e. There is a sound function of the same part and power whereof there is a vicious one and on the contrary I could speak much in defence of the Dignity of this noble part but at present shall conclude with this the great Offices that proceed from it and that rich and noble Retinue that attends it speaks it no less than the pallace where the sensitive soul keeps her Residence Of the Liver I shall but only hint at this because I shall speak more largely of it when I come to treat about Dropsies and other Diseases that are falsely fathered on it what a common complaint is there about a hot Liver and a cold Stomach when as I shall demonstrate that the Liver is never hotter than is necessary nor the Stomach never colder though it may seem so by imperfect or weak digestion And although Sanguification is not begun in it yet it is the perfecter and rectifier of it whereby the Blood is assimilated and conveyed into every part through the Veins In a word the Liver is the Administrator to all the natural parts in man Of the Gaul In the first Disease that I shall speak unto I shall be enforced to anatomize this Bowel only by the way take notice that this Gall is the great Balsom of Nature as well for preventing and destroying of Diseases as the curing our Wounds Understand that whatsoever is done by nature in any thing of this kind is performed by this great Balsom nor hath this as well as the rest been free from the Calumniations of the ignorant in making it guilty of causing several sharp Diseases c. But more of this in the next Of Fevers I Shall speak a word in general then come to particulars all Fevers are of the same essence and name and differ not so much in the matter as place Place The Place it acts in is the Stomach mostly The Cause is from the error and estranging of the Faculties or from things undigested and untransmuted or else from Excrements not being rightly subdued or separated and orderly evacuated Division there are two sorts continual and intermitting From the first there are several Species viz. some very malign others accompanied with less Malignity others with none at all Intermitting ones are of three sorts Legitimate Quotidian Tertian and Quartan Not to trouble you to treat of any contagious and pestilential Fevers none hath yet been amongst us God still keep them from us and remedy them where they are I shall therefore begin with malignant Fevers which are very rife in this Country especially amongst Children A malignant Fever differs from a Synochus or Burning or any other Fever in this that it draws its putrefaction immediately from its own matter for indeed putrefaction is joyned with it A burning Fever and other Fevers do not derive their putrefaction immediately from their matter but gradually and casually either from the peccancy of the matter or debility of the Ferment where it resides those are of a less malignity and bound in a less quantity of the matter offending Ephemera or an one days Fever is more from a disposition or inclination to a Disease for that morbifick matter in the stomach is soon cast up by Vomit or digested I rather call it a Distemper than a Disease But more particularly A Malignant Fever in Children AS I have shewed that a Malignant Fever is from the present putrefaction of its own matter Parvae Febres quandoque valde malignae Hipp. Diagnost so this violent Disease in Children is of that nature which is clearly demonstrated from the Symptoms in the first assault that within forty eight hours putrefaction hath been nigh perfected as is perceived by a coldness in the extreme parts and cold sweats c. Cause It is from some thing received which may contain some vicious quality or abounding in quantity or from an ill disposition of the digestive Ferment for it often happens that when the season is most hot then the digestion is weakest and then crude Fruits and things hard to digest take advantage of the stomach But above all I look at Milk and Sugar to be the greatest cause for Milk is the general Food of Children and there is such a propensity in its own nature to curdle that if it be not quickly digested it obeyeth the acid Ferment of the place which soon is coagulated and a Curd made like new tough Cheese which doth strongly resist digestion especially in a weak and tender stomach and if it be not speedily vomited up it soon begets a putrefactive Ferment and then soon after those terrible Symptoms are produced as Vomiting Scouring Griping c. Natura morborum est medicus medicus naturae minister Now Nature which is the Physician to Diseases unites her force and takes with her a quantity of this Gaul-balsom to rectifie this Malignity and eradicate the Morbifick Matter and whatsoever this Balsom doth incorporate with it hinders its putrefaction as Salt doth in Flesh or Fish and seasons it with its taste and colours it with its tincture as a little Wormwood doth any thing it is commixt with and a little Saffron doth Milk c. and what part of it is separated for its putrefactive Body nature endeavours to cast forth and by reason it still retains its acquired sharpness from the putrefactive Ferment falling down upon the Pylorus or lower mouth of the stomach stirreth up those violent motions and what part of it passeth through the Intestines it abstergeth and scoureth away that mucous or phlegmatick matter which nature hath lined the Guts withal for a twofold end first to hinder Obstructions that the Chyle may have a more speedy and slippery passage Secondly to defend them from any sharp or corrosive quality that may be in the Chyle which is transferred through them Which slimy matter is commonly seen to scour from them in this Disease and this being gone this excrementitious matter doth easily corrode by its sharpness which is the cause of those Tortures and Gripings And in regard that this peccant matter which is cast forth is tinctured by this Balsom it hath deceived many who have taken it to be the Gaul itself 'T is true there are Excrements in Children from eating Milk not perfectly digested which are of this Tincture but of no bitterish Taste it is brownish in the stomach yellow in the Ilion and green in the blind Gut yet they may not be sick And no marvel that there is little or none of this Balsom found in its Receptacle or Bladder in dead Children for if this be spent Death immediately follows according to that Proverb When the Gaul is broken the drowned Carcase riseth to the top of the Water when it can no longer withstand putrefaction Those Sacrilegious Jews knew that this Gaul was a great Cordial for the preserving

cure it for it will strongly repel from the place The Sciatica and Knee-Gout I never yet failed to cure with a water I make to embrocate or wash the part withal though I have had some that one Leg was a great deal shorter than the other so that they went with Crutches having an Atrophia or Consumption in that Leg and Thigh There is another Disease much like which is the Rhumatismus or Running Gout but this possesseth the musculous part as well as the Joynts and exulcerateth or breaketh out wherefore some have thought it to be that Disease they call † Scrophula the King 's Evil I have seen several that have laboured with it in this Country and without they have a Cure for it in the beginning it brings them into a Consumption yet I have cured one that had it twelve or fourteen years Place The Place that this Disease doth commonly possess are the Legs Thighs and Hip-bones sometimes the lower Region of the Belly and then it is very dangerous for it is of a very sharp and malign nature and fouls a Bone presently if not prevented Cause From some excrementitious matter that the Mesaraick Veins have attracted of a faetid savour not fit to be transferred with the Blood therefore the Liver dischargeth it into the emulgent Veins to be carried to the Reins and so to be evacuated through the Bladder but the Archeus or vital spirit of the Reins raised up with indignation against such a fordid matter passing through them forceth it to the Legs and Thighs as in an Anasarca and seating it self by its vitious quality corrupteth the place Cure If this Powder be given before it hath too much defiled the place either by fouling the Bone or becoming exulcerate it bringeth it away by the Root if not at once taking in twice or thrice be sure but if it hath had too firm a footing then it requires the assistance of some other things This Disease being so intimately joyned to the very Archeus it self hath its Inn in the most private Recesses or innermost Chambers of Life into which admittance is denyed to all common Remedies and allowed to none but the most powerful Arcanums which none but the Adeptists have known Therefore since I know not what internal Remedy to direct you that may be had in all places that hath power to obliterate the Character of this Enemy out of the spirit of life I shall be content to set down an outward application the which respecting the effect only doth frequently give ease to the pained part ℞ Common Oil of Roses two ounces Oil of Guaicum and Bricks of each one ounce mix them and put them into a clean Pipkin and set them over the fire into which cut in thin slices four ounces of Castile Soap stir it well till it all dissolve in the Oils then have in readiness half an ounce of Opium dissolved in spirit of Sal Armoniack which add to the other taking it presently from the fire and keep it stirring till it be cold Which use as an Ointment but if you would have it for a Plaister you may add so much Virgins Wax when it is hot as will give it a sufficient consistency The bathing or fomenting the pained part with hot Urine wherein Castile Soap is dissolved doth often give ease that Urine is best that is kept till it putrefieth and stinketh But the Arcanum and Pill doth certainly resolve and expel the occasional matter although I do not know them to be able to cure this Disease radically but some I have cured therewith having it in the beginning In the Month of December 1676 a Gentleman desired my assistance who was sorely afflicted with the Gout great pain and tumor in both Knees insomuch that he could not stir from his Bed to the fire side without Crutches for some weeks before during which time he had been under the dispensation of a Physician but in no part thereof ever found any comfort except in his promises but he being dismissed I first gave him a dose of the Arcanum or Powder and at night after a dose of the ●alsamick Pill after which he could go cross the Room without his Crutches I continued the use of the Pill five or six ti●● and repeated the Arcanum once and he was freed both from the pain and tumour notwithstanding the extremity of the Weather being a severe Frost and Snow But about ten days after he having urgent business abroad the Weather then breaking being wet yet cold got a Relapse the Disease then returning with great pain and tumour in one foot by the repetition of the Arcanum once and the Pill three or four times was perfectly restored and hath so remained to this day without any other Remedy except two Doses of the Arcanum which he took the Spring following to prevent a return Pluritis or Plurisie THis Disease is accompanied with a Fever it derives its name from the place where it is seated which is the inner skin of the Ribs which we call Pleura The matter hath been generally received to be blood but it is v●●● doubtful unto me There are two reasons from whence some have concluded it is blood First By derivation in opening a Vein on the same side which hath immediately brought ease I have done it several times Secondly that intention not being timely performed then an Empyema or Imposthume ariseth through the blood there suppurated But on the contrary 1. If it be from the pecculancy of the Blood that hath made an Eruption in the Veins and extend the Pleura whether this Blood doth re-enter the Veins and is evacuated by Phlebotomy which is contrary to that principle What once nature hath cast forth never more is received into favour 2. If not out of the Veins how comes an Empyema or Imposthume which is never caused in the Veins 3. How comes this Sanies or bloody matter which is often seen in a Plurisie though not yet come to an Empyema 4. If it be blood how comes it to be cured by a Diaphoretick or Medicine causing Sweat which hath been often done To treat accurately upon this Disease would make a bigger Tract than I intend this In a word I have cured this Disease both ways There is an aiery Blas contained in the Blood which doth stir up and actuate it and makes it more fluid and so likewise there is incorporated with the Blood a Serum or watery matter to contemper its Ebullition and Inflammation But when there is a redundancy or too much of it or else when it may be too sharp or salt then this aiery spirit conveys it to the Pleura to be evacuated by transpiration thorow it whereby those Veins are so repleted with this Water that it extorts and dilates the Pleura which causeth the pain in the place and unless it be repelled by bleeding or dissipated by a sweat it maketh an eruption of the Veins and the Blood issuing forth with it

branch about the Throat not so dangerous without it be the Jugular which pours out so violently without any intermission that in few hours life will expire If it be in those Panicles Dura or Pia Mater which cover the Brain the pain of his Head And especially that side where the hurt was will increase and likewise his Fever The Cure doth solely consist in opening the Skull and that place where he feels his pain most to stop and cleanse away the congealed Blood If it be in the Throat in applying strong Defensitives round the Throat and next repellers to the Head and Shoulders opening a Vein in the Foot and strong Ligatures or Boundages to his Thighs a little above his Knees with vulnary and specifical means If it should be in the containing parts of the breast as in the Muscles c. letting blood with discussive means to the place giving him some proper thing to stir up a gentle sweat cures him But if there should be a Laceration or renting of the Pleura with an Eruption of a Vein in the sides which is a thing hardly ever heard of whereby the Blood doth fall into the concavity of the Breast the Cure is thus Make incision upon or as near the place as you can where the Eruption is then to tie the mouth of the Vessel is the practise of some but I would rather restrain the Blood by some fit means whereof my Powder for Wounds is admirable used as in the Directions and so it is for Haemorrhagia or bleeding at the Nose a Tent of Tow or Lint and armed with the Powder stays it presently or any where else if it doth but touch the mouth of the Vessel immediately stops the blood Remove it not presently but let it unite and heal the Vessel first which it will not be long in effecting But if there should be any Blood fallen down upon the Diaphragma or Midriff which should not be presently evacuated but there lies coagulating which is perceived by some weight in the place and likewise a Fever to assault him with constant increase In that case if the Orifice where you cut to stop the Vein may be so high whereby you cannot make it depending enough for the evacuating this blood there must be another Orifice made more lower for that purpose But this operation doth belong to an experienced Chyrurgion Those internal Wounds are very dangerous and a great deal of circumspection is to be had about them and are not to be cured but by a skilful Chyrurgion that is well acquainted with those operations which are the highest practise in the Art Wherefore have a care you are not deceived with any old Wifes Stories of Tom Thumb and Jack of Newberry c. to tell you of a Vein broken in the Lungs or Heart or Liver c. 't is just as they tell you about Diseases 't is a great absurdity to speak it and should an Artist speak it he would be laughed at by those that understood the nature of such things for the two Roots of Veins in the Liver either of them hurt death presently ensues If it should be asked what Veins should be broken in the Lungs and Heart whether the Vena Arteriosa or the Arteria Venosa There is not any Vein in the Lungs only some small Twigs of the A●terialis or Artery which are dispersed through them by which they are nourished and for what use are the Ribs but to defend them from such injuries and it is impossible they should be hurt by such accidents And in case what they say were granted to be true there is no other way under Heaven to save his life but immediately to perform that operation of a Paracentysis which is to make an orifice in the same side whereof there is no more danger in performing by him that hath done it and knows what belongs to it then in opening a Vein in the Arm though probably there may be some professors of Art that what they never saw neither understand they speak against and tell of danger in letting in Air and letting out spirits and a great many more nonsensical Stories Pray be advised that you take but little notice of it for although they may be old practitioners yet look on them but as young Artists Fluxes of Blood without sudden help will soon flux out life and to expect a Cure from those that know not a Remedy nor the place where to apply it seems very strange to me And besides without it be well cured in the beginning it will break out again upon certain times which at last will kill him whereof I have known many such examples Wherefore get the best advice you can from Chyrurgions Without it be from the Head as I have before told you the party can very well tell you himself where the hurt is for he will not only perceive the Blood to flow but he will find some pain there if it be from the Head he will perceive a great dulness and heaviness and pain in his Head with a tickling as it flows down into his Throat sometimes ready to choak him which stirreth up a Cough whereby this Blood is cast forth from the Amygdales or Glandules which are of each side the Wind-pipe and those spungy places about the Throat and so some have thought them to be from the Lungs when alas 't is from the Head I did presage this in a Gentleman of this Town Mr. Bishop only by his Brothers Relation which he can well tell of his pain which was in the fore part of his Head I advised him by all means immediately to be let blood and to be repeated if occasion served for I told him Which that night happened unto him and he died in the morning if he did bleed at the mouth before he was let blood he would presently die for he would be beyond all means in regard he was ancient c. the place difficult to apply the Trepan or Trefine without which I look on it as impossible quoad artes for any to recover unless the blood be discharged which falleth between the Skull and the Panicles which cannot be done by any other way For what happens in the lower Belly it is to be cured as wounds by vulnary Drinks and Clysters I have been a little longer on this than I intended but those internal wounds are of high concernment and I fear not rightly understood by all pretenders to Art Coryza Catarrbus Tussis Asthma COughs and Catarrhs Rheums in the Head Eyes Nose c. proceed from the Evening cold sharp wind beating upon the † spungy Bone of the Head Ethmoides os cribriformae Asthma or shortness of Breath cometh through a vicious matter contained in the Wind-pipe or Lungs I have not time to inlarge upon them The three first are commonly cured in one night by one of my Balsamical Pills The last by the Arcanum I have strong reason from experience to