sweeten the whole Mass of Blood rectify all the Distempers of the Head quicken the Senses add a good Colour to the Face strengthen the Sight and so wonderfully recreate the Natural Vital and Animal Spirits as that the Body thereby is made perfectly able to withstand and resist all its Diseases They cleanse the Body of Wind Water and ill Humours without the least Griping or making Sick unless as was said before the Stomach be very foul or any way weakning the Body which done they cease working for they will work no longer than there is Diseasy Matter to work upon but contrarywise will help all inward wastings or decays of Nature caused through Pains Wrenches Bruises or over-strainings they stopping all Weepings Moistures Whites Fluxes c. by carrying off the Humours another way thereby strengthning the Vessels fortifying Nature and restoring the decay'd Parts even to a wonder In fine these Pills are the chief and real Medicine now used for the Scurvy and the aforesaid Diseases which are produc'd there-from and found to be such from long Experience not only here in England but in many Foreign Countries and Kingdoms they being cryed up and prized above all Remedies whatsoever insomuch that in some Thousands of Families on most occasions they are their only Physick and indeed no Person living from the highest to the lowest can have a better Purging Medicine in the World let the Patients condition be from what cause or occasion soever they being known to be safe in Operation and certain in the end proposed for no Person curable troubled with the aforesaid Diseases ever failed of a Cure especially if they continued them without delay of time or taking of other Physick according to the Directions and all Persons that have been known to take these Pills have found good at the first taking and several Hundreds yea Thousands of People who have taken them have given them as great Commendations as it was ever possible any Medicine could deserve Their safety and the success that has followed upon the use of them has brought them into the great estimation they have have acquired in many parts of the World for as much as they that take these Pills need not go under long dangerous and chargeable Courses of Physick nor suffer by bad Medicines or be driven time after time from one Physician to another as many hundreds daily are not knowing where to apply themselves safe when only a Box or two of these Pills will do more notable Cures than twenty times that Money expended upon Doctors These Pills are the only Antidote in Nature against all infectious Diseases contagious Airs and preserves from the mischief of Fogs and unwholesome and suffocated Vapours in Marshy or Fenny Countries which arise from the Earth or Water they making old Age comely and the Countenance of all that take them to be chearful and Sanguine they mundify and cleanse the Skin of all its Impurities restores and increase Beauty and abound with more Vertues than any one Medicine besides for altho' many Diseases have been mentioned the labour might have been saved for as they are Pills of an universal Tendency and I verily believe the only Purging Medicine in the World it might only have been said they are good for every Disease and not only for the Distempers herein inserted but also for many others known or unknown without name or number even when they are so unaccountably afflicted as not knowing what they ail These Pills being endowed with such excellent Properties and are so full and effectual a healer that they deservedly merit the Title of the only universal Pills in the World And although they are of such admirable Vertues yet I must inform you that when the Disease is of long continuance and stubborn a perfect Cure cannot be expected in a few times taking them in those Cases you may take them in the largest Dose and that at least for ten or fifteen times or more as need requires omitting them a day or two as you shall see cause but if any shall presume upon the commendation of these Pills that any Disease in whatsoever condition the Patient is in must be infallibly cured he is mistaken for I speak here only of such Diseases as by God's Blessing and the very best of Means as these Pills undoubtedly are they may receive cure for for in some Cases no Medicine in the World can prevail for sometimes the Lungs themselves or the Liver or the Reins are ulcerated and putrefy'd and sometimes other internal Parts are consumed and what Medicine in Nature can repair such Ruins or make new Viscera when the old are perished These Pills operate extreamly pleasant safe and gentle and is Physick fit to be taken by Persons of the greatest Rank and Dignity and that by all Ages and Sexes from Two Years old to Fourscore and upwards at any Season of the Year and it is observable that these Pills after four or five times taking keep the Bowels open for a Month together and leave not the Body costive and bound as is the Property of all other Physick by which good Property Diseases seem to melt away insensible These Pills are of an admirable and friendly quality performing all its Operations as-Nature-her self requires and is disposed to the Action tho' chiefly by Stool and Urine so that they are bound to that way of Operation as best serves Nature's end in restoring Health Hence it is that they cure Diseases with so great safety speed and ease and that without almost any other Medicine they being as was said before fitted for all Ages Sexes and Constitutions whatsoever and that if there but little Corruption in the Body they bring forth but little if much they bring forth much and in Persons perfectly well they will scarcely work at all because in such they have no Enemy to meet or contend withal These Pills are not only the surest and most certain Medicine as well as cheapest for the Scurvy and all the asoresaid Diseases which are the consequents or productions thereof of any ever yet published or administred but doth a thousand times more excel the best prepared and most celebrated sorts of Spirit of Scurvy-grass so highly applauded for the Scurvy they affecting what is herein proposed so stupendiously and beyond the power of any other Remedy whether ordinary or extraordinary as that they never can be vallued or esteemed enough for what Reachings Strainings Vomitings Gripings illness at the Stomach sickness at Heart Faintings and other very unpleasing Effects many Medicines occasion which are here avoided this single Medicine gently cleansing the Stomach and Bowels of their drossy mucilaginous Dregs saluting the Vital Powers like an Angel of Peace and piercing the whole Body like Lightning doth as it were by its Character and benign Beams subdue the Malignant Powers of Diseases and throughly overcome the morbisick Matter thereof and that without the least perturbution of Humours alteration of Body change
An Account of the CAUSES Of some Particular Rebellious DISTEMPERS VIZ. The Scurvy Cancers in Women's Breasts c. Vapours and Melancholy c. Weaknesses in Women c. Gout Fistula in Ano Dropsy Agues c. TOGETHER With the Vertues and Uses of a Select Number of Chymical Medicines Studiously prepar'd for their Cure and adapted to the Constitutions and Temperaments of all Ages and both Sexes By an Eminent Practitioner in Physick Surgery and Chymistry THEY BEING His Choice Secrets Experienc'd for many Years in his Practice to be of wonderful Efficacy as the Cures performed by them Manifest and now by the Importunities of many judicious Persons set forth and recommended for the universal Good and Benefit of all People And are to be had only at _____ THE PREFACE THERE needs no Apology for publishing the following Account of Diseases and the Medicines for their Cure the Title Page telling the World 'T is done for the universal Good and Benefit of all People which indeed was the Motive but that the excellent Remedies recommended for their Cure may not be branded with the infamous Appellation of Quack Medicines so detestable to all wise People and indeed not without Reason if it be rightly consider'd what Riff raff Stuff is set Abroad and vended under the Specious Name of Medicine I shall take leave to say only thus much in their behalf that they have all of them been really experienc'd for many Years to be of most excellent Uses for the Distempers to which they are appropriated and 't is presum'd will be found upon Tryal more Efficacious than some may be willing to believe upon only the bare hearing of them or by reading the following Account given of their Vertues which have been lagely known or else had not been recommended Therefore 't is hoped as the intent by publishing them was to serve and not deceive the People as is too notoriosluy known many of the Quack Medicines vended Abroad have done to the bringing disrepute on the most excellent ones none will condemn them till they have tryed them which is the true Test and by which the Author is content to Stand or Fall have Credit or Disgrace The Histories of Cures perform'd by them might have been enumerated had not design'd Brevity forbid The few inserted 't is hop'd will be sufficient to convince all People till they have tryed them that they are Medicines effectual and for further Confirmation should have mentioned the Names of the Persons on whom the Cures were wrought but that the Author is obliged to conceal himself for the sake of his constant Business besides the World is now so Censorious that if the best Physician recommends but a Medicine for Publick Good which he has experienc'd to be Excellent he shall presently have the scandalous Epithet of Quack put upon him tho' it s no more than what the greatest Physicians in all Ages have done without thinking it digressive because they did it as the Author here does his for the common good of his Country-men but now I say it cannot be done publickly with any tollerable Reputation For which Reason does the Author conceal himself and oblig'd the Seller of them never to let his Name be known to any without which solemn Promise they had never been made publick and consequently the People never been benefitted by them But because of this none need to doubt their Efficacy neither will any want proper Directions how to take and use them every thing in that kind being sufficiently provided for in the Book so that none will be at a loss or have any need at any time upon any pretence to speak with the Author concerning 'em besides for their Efficacy the People that sell them can give some Account being well assur'd both of their Vertues and the Authors Skill or else had not undertaken the task of selling them And as they are Medicines effectual so are they lasting for they will retain their Vertues many Years and may be carried beyond the Seas For that no Climate Season of the Year or Age will in the least altet or diminish them provided they be kept from the Air and the Wet A Catalogue of the Names and Prices of the Medicines mentioned in this Book which are to be had only at the Place directed in the Title Page viz. At the _____ Page 1. THE English Pills for the Scurvy c. each Box Price 3 s. 6 d. Page 19. The Liniment for Women's Swell'd or Cancerated Breasts each Gallipot price 5 s. Page 33. The Suffumigating Powder for Vapours Hypocondriack Melancholly and Diseases of the Nerves each Parcel 3 s. 6 d. Page 42. The Ingredients to make the Poultice for the Gout price 5 s. Page 50. The Balsamick Electuary for Weaknesses in Women c. each Gallypot price 3 s. 6 d. Page 55. The Injection for the Cure of Fistula's each Bottle price 5 s. Page 61. The Cephalick or Head Tincture each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 67. The Balsamick Restorative Elixir for all Diseases of the Lungs each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 70. The English Vegetable and Plaisters for the Cure of all sorts of Agues both together price 6 s. Page 76. The Hydragogue Tincture for the Dropsy each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 79. The fam'd Eye Powder and Water both together price 6 s. Page 81. The Carminative or Wind expelling Lozenges each Box price 2 s. 6 d Page 83. The Balsam to make Issues run c each Box price 2 s. 6 d. English PILLS FOR THE SCURVY And all other Cutaneous Diseases or Breakin gs out of the Body Sores c. from that or any other Causes AMONGST all the Diseases incident to Humane Bodies there is none more predominant tho' least regarded than the Scurvy a Disease that seems incident to this Climate and which spares none of any Age Sex or Constitution being a general Malady scarcely taken Notice of because it seldom kills tho at the same time it introduces many direful Distempers and proves the principal and efficient Occasion thereof The cause of the Scurvy is from an acid corrosive Humour tainting the Blood and Juices of the Body incumbred with Earthy Sulphurs of a Nature rebellious and stubborn and attended sometimes especially when inveterate with a very strong Smell or Stench which Volatile Saline Acid irritates the Nerves and Membranes sharpens the Lymph debauches the innate Spirits of the Parts and perverts the equal Temperature of the Blood this is the immediate cause of the Scurvy But the remote Causes are the Sea-Air and the Specifick Malignity of the Stagnated Waters and the Earth affecting by their corrosive Effluvium's also by infection an hereditary conveyance from the Parent and from gross faeculent and obstructive Dyet especially if over-charged with Salt or render'd hard and compact with Smoke as dry'd Neats Tongues Bacon Sawcages red Herrings dry'd Salmon hung Beef c. do not only contribute Matter but obtain also a
afflicted with it being the original and productive Cause of almost all the Distempers incident to Humane Bodies and from which alone Disease if not timely removed more especially proceed Rheumatisms Gouts Fevers Agues Jaundice Green-sickness Dropsies Cholicks Stone and Gravel Phtysicks Consumptions Convulsions Apoplexies Palfies Hectick Fevers Hypochondriack Melancholly Hysterick Passion Vapours Fits of the Mother Rickets in Children Kings-evil Falling Sickness and the like which these Pills if taken both prevents and Cures their Reputation having by their manifold Vertues been kept up for many Years and accounted the only Sovereign Medicine in the whole Art of Physick against all Scorbutick Distempers whatsoever they penetrating in a very short space the whole Humane Body from Head to Foot and tho' they never till now were made publick to the World yet many Thousands of Boxes have been dispersed with wonderful Success not only here in England but also in Germany Holland and other remote Countries where that devouring Disease the Scurvy hath likewise predominated they being so certain a Cure for that stubborn and rebellious Disease that Thousands have been cured when the Distemper has grown so inveterate and deplorable as to become a shame and scandal to those that have had it and which hath been taken by many to be some bad Distemper for the Scurvy often causes great Pains in the Head Nose Shoulders Arms Hips Legs and Bones with the Sciatick and other tormenting Pains all over the whole Body whereby they sleep ill and tumble and toss in the Night with great uneasiness and trouble and are attended with a heaviness and weariness having reddish or blueish Spots or Breakin gs out on the Skin weakness in the Back Loyns and Knees a bad Stomach and sometimes loss of Appetite strong or stinking Breath looseness or foreness of the Teeth and Gums Throat and Mouth with Itchings Pimples Blotches Boiles Ulcers Morphews Scabs Scurf a general Weakness and Faintness over the whole Body the Scurvy most commonly afflicting People after various means and sometimes with Vomitings Loosenesses and the disguise of almost innumerable Distempers according to their Constitutions different Situations and Places where they dwell and so resemble all manner of Illess too tedious here to enumerate as that it s no wonder their Diseases are so frequently mistaken and doth with so much violence and force oftentimes wander about the Body and affect it that if it be neglected it will at last get into the Bones and infect the very Marrow thereof yet notwithstanding so famous are these most excellent Pills the Cure then will be performed by only a few times more than ordinary taking of them Tho' it is advised that upon the appearance of any of those Symptoms you have speedy recourse to these Pills which will prevent their increase and carry them off with less trouble and difficulty there being scarce one Disease which People are afflicted with here in this Climate but the principal and efficient Cause thereof is the Scurvy that Disease carrying Thousands to their Graves when it scarcely has been known-of what Distempers they have dy'd there being very few that discerns or indeed will give themselves the trouble to consider what the original Cause or occasion thereof is tho' it too manifestly appears as every judicious Physician may discover if he will that it is the Scurvy Therefore be well advis'd about your Distemper and run not into the Hands of inconsiderate Practitioners who take not due Thoughts about the original Cause for how many both Old and Young are daily carried off by Fevers Rheumatisins Apoplexies Consumptions Convulsions Rickets King's-evil and the like which if the original Cause had been consulted and timely recourse had to these famous Pills might in all probability have been alive to this day these Pills being very harmless and safe and proves the only Universal Purgative Preservative Preventative and Curative Remedy in the whole Republick of Medicine They wonderfully so far as any Purging Medicine can prevent and cure the Dropsy and Gout speedily those Diseases being the product of the Scurvy taking away the Water in one and the Pain in the other tho' never so great and not only gives present Ease Relief and Comfort in the Gout and that beyond expectation but also very much lessens if not totally prevents the Pains returning for the future they working gently by Stool and Urine and sometimes by Vomit if the Stomach be very foul without the least Griping or making sick thereby curing most curable Diseases by stirring up and discharging those lurking offending Humours sweetning the Mass of Blood and Juices and bringing the ill and untoward Habit of Body into a good sound and firm Disposition These Pills having cured numbers of Persons both of Dropsies and Gouts and that in a very short time some of which have been given over as incurable others have gone above a dozen Years upon Crutches and never heard to this Day that they ever mist the Cure of one Person although they have been used in Practice for above Twenty Years These Pills are admirably good against Consumptions of all sorts that disheartning Disease so daily and apparently dwindling a Person to the Grave and is the manifest product of the Scurvy not so much from their adding of Matter as by taking away the Obstructions which hinder the Nourishment from going to its respective Parts in which Disease whether in Old or Young they have done Miracles making the Persons grow plump and full who but a while before were reduced to nothing but Skin and Bones and this they have generally performed and scarcely been ever known to fail Also in that rebellious troublesome and oftentimes loathsome Disease the King's-evil whether hereditary or not which numbers of Persons of different Ages and Sexes are infested with they are a wonderful Help and Cure whether in the Swellings or running Sores disposing the vitiated and scorbutick Blood and Humours into such a state that the Disease is as it were pulled up by the Roots as never to return again These famous Pills are the most excellent Head-purge in Nature and that for all Diseases therein as Head-ach Megrim or Swimming Vertigo or Giddiness Lethargy Frenzy Madness Melancholy Diseases of the Spleen Dimness of Sight Rheums and all other Distempers in the Eyes Deasness Noise in the Ears Drowsiness Heaviness or Dulness of the Spirits c. all these Distempers proceeding originally from Scorbutick habits and is a Medicine beyond any ever yet known being of so Amicable a Property that none can pretend to a greater Secret to extirpate the Scurvy and all the effects thereof there being no Disease so remote or abstruse soever in the Body of Man but these Pills will find out insinuate into and potently and universally expel or throw out These Pills are an admirable help for such Persons who are unhappily afflicted with the Scurvy to that degree as to be exercised with Hypochondriack Disaffections Hysterick Passions risings in the Throat
the Chair bare will receive it up the Fundament which must be so done every Night going to Bed or once in 2 or 3 Nights according as there is occasion whereby in Fits Vapours c. there is instant Relief The Price of this Powder is 3 s. 6 d. the four Papers To be had at the Place aforementioned THE CATAPLASM OR POULTICE FOR THE GOUT THO' I shall say something concerning the Gout before I speak so particularly of the Poultice for its ease yet the Reader is not to expect any learned account of it that being sufficiently Done by divers Authors but only just so much as to inform those that are afflicted with that Distemper how far they may preserve themselves from its fury by a regular mode of living and how thereby those that ever had any touch of it may certainly nip it in its Bud so as never after to be afflicted with it But the Publishing a Medicine tho' the most celebrated one and crying up its virtues without giving a Rationale of the Disease looks so rank Quackish that every Man of Sense will and with very good reason account it all bombast and splutter and for that very reason decry it as coming from some illeterate Pretender for the sake only of getting a little Money for which reason to convince the World that the Author of this Medicine is not altogether unacquainted with the Nature and Cause of the Gout 〈◊〉 as the way to Remedy its excruciating Pains 〈◊〉 not recommend this Medicine but from a well gâ—â—â—â—â—ed Experience he here offers to every ones conâ—â—â—â—ration a short hint of the Blood its changes A nalitically prov'd and the Rationale of the Gout its Nature and Causes from thence explicately deduc'd The Blood of Man is made up of a mixture of divers Principles to wit a Bitter a Sweet a Salt an Acid c. the mixture and temperaments of which while mutual preserves the Body in a state of Health and consequently creates no trouble or uneasiness But when any one of these Principles is divided or seperated from the rest and exists by it self then the effects plainly shew what great Trouble Perplexity and Pain it creates in the Body Now nothing more conduces to the separation of those Homogene Principles of of the Blood than a fault in either some or all of the six Non-naturals as Air Meat and Drink Sleep and want of Sleep the Motion and Rest of the Body the retaining and discharging of the Excrements and the Passions of the Mind but the chief error is in Meat and Drink in pampering the Body with more plenty than is needful by which means the Particles of the Blood are not so exactly mix'd with the rest of the Mass but are blended and confounded so as to become Heterogeneous the Principles jarring one with another occasioning such a perturbation and preternatural Fermentation as evidently shew Sanguification to be vitiated and the whose Mass corrupted thereby forcing the Sharp and Foreign Juices together with part of the Serum by what way it finds as for instance if they get into the Guts they are evacuated by a watery Looseness if into the Kidneys by plenty of Urine if into the habit of the Body by the Pores of the Skin but if they fall upon the Joynts they pierce into the innermost recesles and interstices of the Nervous Parts and cause the Gout and as the Salt in the Serum is the thicker or thinner it much alters its Nature so that when the Extremities of the Muscles Tendons Ligaments Fibres and other Nervous parts of the Joynts are twitched by them more or less Pain Heat and Violence are occasion'd and it proves to be a Fit of a longer or shorter duration This Serum tho' it be thin and sharp is at first but very small occasioning but little Pain but that little Pain if the Cause of it be timely remov'd grows greater at every Fit and the more violent the Pain is greater store of Serum abounds and very often a flood of other Humours is carried along with it which causes that Swelling Heat Throbbing and Uneasiness every one afflicted with it feels which leaves not the Patient till the Humour is spent at which time that Fit of the Gout is at end I said before that a fault in some of the six Non-Naturals nam'd was the cause of the Gout and that pampering the Body with plenty was the Chief I mean thereby Gluttony and Drunkenness especially upon eating such Meats as are stor'd with sharp Matter not to be sufficiently separated or discharg'd or that can be easily mix'd or temper'd with the other Juices of our Bodies as also drinking too plentifully of Wines which have much Tartar in them For not only that Tartar but the Spiritous part breeds the Gout which Spirit consists of an Oil an Acid and a Volatile Salt in which the strength of Wine consists Yet as Excess therein hurts so Temperance preserves the Health For those Wines which most abound with Tartar are much more homogene to our Bodies than other Wines that have little Tartar in them and should be made choice of and are the best with Moderation for all Constitutions and Temperaments and the Red of all sorts is far more preferrable than the White And not only is it manifest that the Gout is bred by Gluttony and Drunkenness but also other innumerable inconveniencies are caus'd thereby for by that means the Appetite is destroy'd the Digestions vitiated c. the consequences of which every one may easily consider and time if not prevented will most certainly and fatally determine For a good Appetite and perfect Digestions are so indispensably necessary to the support and preservation of Humane Life that we can no more well subsist without the one than we can long without the other the one indicates Diseases present the other threatens Diseases to come and frequently brings the whole Humane Oeconomy into disorder and confusion For when there is a depravitty of the Primae Viae the Chyle into which the Food is converted in the Stomach is deprav'd also and according as is the Chyle so must the Blood of necessity be whether it be good or whether it be bad and according to which the Body suffers more or less And as some forts of Meats and Drinks and Intemperance therein are hurtful so also the Eating of Suppers are more than ordinary pernicious for they pervert the functions of the Body and injure the mind and then at those Seasons to eat too plentifully contributes much more to the spoiling of the Blood as every one that has for any time followed the Practice has observ'd few things being more detrimental and ruinous to the Health as all Physicians allow and as in Schola Salerni it is well noted where it is said Ex magna Coena Stomacho fit maxima Paena Ut sis nocte levis sit tibi Coena brevis Great Suppers put the Stomach to great pain Sup lightly if good
Rest you mean to gain Also over hard Study especially in the Night time which in this Case is the worst and afflicting Cares hinders Sanguification and breed the Gout so that the sharp part in the Aliment receiv'd is either not well mix'd or not well separated and therefore cannot be well discharged Likewise Anger and Passion very much injure For Exhiler at Tristres iratos placat amantes Ne fuit amentes mens laeta requires c. 'T is Mirth that Nurseth Life and Blood Far more than Wine or Rest or Food Also immoderate and unseasonable Venery conduces not a little for it weakens the Strength hurts the Brain extinguishes Radical Moisture and hastens old Age and Death the Sperm or Seed of Generation being the only Comfort of Nature which willfully shed or lost injures a Man more than the loss of forty times that quanty of Blood wherefore Virgil well says Nulla Magis animi vires Industria firmat Quam Venerem caeci stimulos avertere amoris Much Venery cause great Ills to Mind and Blood Exhausts the Stock unfits Man for 's Wife's good When moderately us'd holds long and helps as Food Levinus Lemnius likewise says if a Man intends to Live Long and happy during the Life he leads he should Vesci citra saturitatem non refugere laborem vitale semen conservare That is make light Meals use Exercise and preserve his Seed which is the vital and principal Part of Life and certainly nothing more assuredly breeds the Gout than immmoderate Venery Thus the Causes of the Gout being sufficiently explicated I shall next give a definition of it its Nature and Remedy The Gout then is a most intense sensible Pain of the Tendonous Membranous Parts about the Joints caused by a Serous Pungent and exceeding sharp Humour forced suddenly out of the Vessels from an inward dispesition and led thither by the interstices of the Nervous Parts The sign of its coming or being present are sometimes wandring Pains especially in the Joynts of the Feet or Hands That it is at hand is shewn by a stretching yawning painful weariness Catarrhs Pains in the Limbs and Joints and sometimes a heaviness in the Head a kind of Feverish heat a pricking Pain in the Joints causing starting with inability to move and after that comes a Swelling usually red attended with Watching loss of Strength stiffness of the Parts and several other complaints not alike to all at all times yet is what Gouty People well know and are more acquainted with than is consistent with their Ease The way to remedy this untoward Evil is first to remove the Cause that is that which aggravates the Paroxism and secondly to preserve the Patient from the return of a Fit or at leastwise to render it when it comes more easy and not so intollerable as we frequently find it to be for when it has once feiz'd a Man it will if not prevented by proper Medicines return again at certain seasons and distances of Time as the Gouty Matter in the Blood is a fresh increas'd gather'd and led down to the Joints which distances are longer or shorter and the Paroxisms greater or lesser according as the Patient live Regular or Irregular and according as is the strength or weakness of his Constitution for if it be weak or broke or the Patient in Mala Stamina Vitae it occasions its coming oftener pains him worser and holds him longer than if the same Constitution was stronger and the Patient in Bona Stamina Vitae and also acccording as he takes proper Medicines to evacuate that Humour by leading it away by the proper Passages I know some Physician 's Doctrine is to let Nature take her free Course advising their Patients to bear under the burden of that intolerable Misery as well as they can Indeed in the Knotted Gout the Advice may hold good for there no Cure can be expected according to that known ancient but true Axiom Solvere nodosam nescit Medicina Podagram Against the knotted Gout no Medicine can prevail But even there a Cure as to the Fit may be obtain'd as well as in other Fits of the Gout for the longer a Patient lies under its severity the more the Humours of the Body flow down which keeps the Part more lax and weaker and the Patient longer confin'd which may be prevented and when a Remedy to Ease by carrying those Humours away by Urine and Perspiration which would crowd down upon those weakned Joints may so easily be had for a Patient to reject it and not to hearken to such a Remedy shews his willingness to retain his Misery and is like suffering an Ague to shake him for a Year or some certain time before he 'll prevail'd with to take Medicines to cure it But the common saying among all being That there 's no Cure for the Gout makes every one's Proposals look Preposterous even where there is but the bare mentioning of doing it But if any thing I say be found out that manifestly carries off the Gouty Cause by Urine and Perspiration which would otherwise flow down to the Joints so that the Patient is sav'd from the Pain I fee not why any should be offended or that a Gouty Patient would rather bear his Pain than be so incredulous as not to make experiment of it when the Nature of the Medicine is such and the Operation so safe that every one that has any knowledge of things must allow that it cannot possible be hurtful for that no Evacuation is more to advantage than by Urine and Peripiration and that with such a Medicine as makes a regular separation by the strainers by first carrying them away smoothly and freely throughly the Uteters which always of necessity would have been thrown upon the Joints and consequently cause a Fit proper Dieureticks being what all Physicians allow to be the most effectual Evacuations to divest the Blood of those peccant Salts which if not remov'd would prove injurious to the Patient And to do this nothing is more prevalent than the English Pills aforemention'd whose admirable Virtues are such that those who never try'd them will scarce believe who yet after taking them will to every one of their Friends recommend them Therefore to say more would be needless nothing being so like to convince a Man of their Efficacy as making tryal which is the trust Test and by whose Success the Reputation both of the Medicine and the Author desires to depend and by which he is content either to stand or to fall The Pills are taken as directed in the Account before given of them and that oftener or seldomer as there may be occasion And to give present Ease and remove wholly the Pain the Cataplasm is to be apply'd warm to the Part every Night and Morning till the Pain is quite gone which will soon be The Price of the Ingredients is Five Shillings the Gallipot which are to be boiled with fix Ounces of Crumbs of White Bread
and a Pint of Milk to the consistence of a Cataplasm or Poultice which is to be spread upon Linnen Cloath as thick as two Crown Pieces put together and applyed I say as warm as can well be borne to the Gouty Part renewing it very Night and Morning The Pot of Ingredients are to be had only at the Place aforementioned Electuarium Balsamicum OR True Balsamick Electuary FOR All manner of Weaknesses in Women c. THIS is such a wonderful Medicine that I think it cannot be equal'd its Vertues being such in the Distempers to which it is appropriated as every one that shall take it must own are not ordinary it being a far different thing than what by its appearance may be taken for by most or the Medicine makers now adays would have it to be being an Electuary which has done and by the Blessing of God will do much more benefit in the following particular Cases than any other Medicine of what kind soever numbers of both Sexes having with wonder observ'd its Effects and been cured by it who for many Months together have been under Courses of Physick by Advice of Eminent Practitioners to no purpose It infallibly and expeditiously cures Weaknesses of the Back in both Sexes and all Pains of the Back whatsoever whether occasioned from Bruises Falls Wrenches Strains by lifting carrying or by Sickness and Weakness or from Womens Miscarriages Lyings-in Frights Grief or the like And for Bearings down or falling down of the Womb by weakness or relaxation of the Lagaments caus'd by hard Travel or by violent occasions as Blows Falls lifting or carrying heavy Burdens Over-walking Running or the like 't is a present Remedy by comforting easing healing and strengthning the Parts It effectually prevents Miscarriages tho' you have miscarried never so many times and this it does by strengthening and nourishing the Womb and weak Foetus therein for it corrects the Blood and Humours that affords Nourishment and if the Symptoms or danger at any time of Miscarrying appears the taking immediately of this Electuary certainly secures you if not too far let alone before you begin It wonderfully corrects and alters the heat thinness and sharpness of the Blood which occasions immoderate or over-flowing of the Courses of Nature by which many are reduc'd to a very low and dangerous condition and that more especially in Elderly Women upon whom they ought naturally to stop which if neglected and not timely remedied will occasion Bearings down bring the Whites and other weaknesses and soulness of the Womb introducing in time Ulcers Cancers c. for prevention of which the Electuary is a most admirable Remedy only the better to correct and thoroughly to evacuate the vitious Humours 't will be necessary that you Purge twice or thrice in the time of taking it with our English Pills aforegoing And also for the Whites a Disease very troublesome and spending and which most Women are incident to both Old and Young but more especially Elderly Women after their Courses have left them or are about to leave them and that generally more than ordinary for want of taking proper Medicines to settle their Bodies at the time of their Termes leaving them 'tis an excellent Remedy perfecting the Cure tho' of never so many Years standing and the Patient reduc'd by the length of time and greatness of the Flux to so weak a condition as scarcely able to go about only twice or thrice in the time of taking the Electuary you must also Purge with our Pills aforesaid but if the Whites be neglected or not timely cured they will bring great pain and weakness in the Back and whole Body and occasion many other dangerous Maladies as Cachexies Dropsies Consumptions c which may prove fatal Such Women therefore that have regard to their own welfare will have recourse to this Electuary at such time as the Courses of Nature are about to leave them and not as many do take little or no care concerning it notwithstanding Nature is always so kind to let them know that she wants the help of Art at that Juncture by their Courses dodging them and their flowing but poorly and sometimes not at all ebbing and flowing untimely and irregular sometimes paler and thinner at other times in smaller quantity and foul which is warning sufficient that she stands in need of help and that they ought at that time to be settled and disposed after a particular manner and not be neglected as many Women to their Sorrow have done who for want of such care are now complaining of either Vapour Flushings all over the Body the Whites in abundance pursiness at Stomach loss of Appetite Cholicks Faintings or other the like Weaknesses and Indispositions which if not timely remedied brings Ulcers or Cancers in the Womb Dropsies Consumptions or other fatal Distempers but Women that are wife will in time prevent those inconveniencies by making use of this Electuary which will be of unspeakable advantage who in the time of taking it if Plethorick or full of Blood and not much reduc'd must once be let Blood and purge with our English Pills aforegoing once just before you begin with the Electuary and twice or thrice more in the time that your are taking it by which means they will assuredly be preserved and secured from those Dangers Also for such Women that are afflicted with a Flux of their Courses and the Whites together as numbers of them are and reduc'd extreamly low with the same this Electuary is a Remedy that cannot be equall'd only for correction of Humours and the better to cleanse the Womb 't is convenient to Purge also once or twice with our Pills aforegoing And likewise for all Loosnesses Bloody-fluxes inward Bleedings Bleedings at Nose Spitting or Vomiting of Blood bloody Urine and the like whether from the sharpness of the Blood a Vein broke Falls Bruises or any manner of cause or occasion there is hardly the like present Remedy in the whole Republick of Medicine it retrieving in such cases many times when all hopes of Life have been dispair'd of and dissolves congeal'd or coagulated Blood remaining in any part of the Body tho' indeed in all those cases if strength will permit 't will also be necessary to Purge now and then with our English Pills aforesaid And as this Electuary has cured many in the aforegoing Distempers so likewise has it perfectly cured several Children and others of riper Years of incontinency of Urine Pissing in Bed and the Diabetes and that after the continuance of the Distemper for several Years and when multitudes of Medicines have been used to no purpose and has also cured several Children and others of the falling down of the Fundament and Ruptures where the Rim or Peritonaeum has not been broken it being a Medicine which so admirably and potently strengthens the inward Parts as never to fail tho' sometimes I have been oblig'd for the better facilitating and making lasting the Cure so as