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A92873	A discourse concerning the sovereign internal balsom wherein is intimated the ingredients, and method of its preparation; and a satisfactory account given of its great virtue, efficacy, and usefulnesse. With the manner of taking it, for the cure, and prevention of most diseases incident to humane bodies. By Thomas See, physitian. With allowance.	See, Thomas, fl. 1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing S2405A; ESTC R230271	10,045	18

to whose Reason and Learning upon an impartial surveigh of the ensuing Discourse it will approve it self especially considering it is not destitute of the universal suffrage and concurrent testimony of the most Credible Writers both of the past and present age whose Ability in Physick hath been indisputable and hath in effect their tacit consent and commendamus which few or none of those who are friends to the Art of Physick and instructed in its principles will disallow As for those who are through want of Learning unable to judge of this Medicine by those Rules which are proper to Scholers they may soon satisfie themselves not onely by a cheap but advantagious experience of its Worth That Books have been written not only concerning the Virtues of Compositions but also that single Simples have been celebrated by select Discourses is not strange to them that are but slenderly acquainted with Physical Authours whose Examples I have in this present Treatise I hope inoffensively imitated And although by a copious induction of instances I might give to many abundant satisfaction of its efficacy in the accomplishing all those ends for which it propounded to be administred yet I shal for the present decline that way not because of its savouring of Empericisme and being unsutable to this occasion of my writing but because another opportunity may shortly offer it self when among other Experiments they shall be mentioned and in this paper make use of that way of arguing which is dependant upon the testimony of Authours which I prefer to the attestation of any single and private persons it being no wayes probable that those which have by the experience of m●ny years practise throughly acquainted themselves with the nature of these Simples should attribute to them such a degree of efficacy wherewith they are not endowed I readily believe that none which have the first fruits of Reason but will rather be satisfied with this way of evidence then the other which I have omitted to insist on as being more obnoxious ●o mistakes and fallacies I am not at all doubtful but if Reader it should be your lot to be afflicted with any of those Distempers at which this Balsome is level'd that upon the ●aking of it according to the directions you will subscribe ●our probatum est provided you take it for such a consider●ble time and with such circumstances as the nature of ●our melady doth require for none can reasonably expect ●hat their bodies which have been some years decaying ●hould be immediately repaired or those vicious habits of ●ny of the viscera which plead a kind of prescription should ●e as suddainly exterminated as encountred or that the ●nnate heat when almost suffocated and extinguisht should ●pon the first approach of assistance recover its former acti●ity If any intend to use my Balsome with such expecta●ions let them first prepare themselves by a Dose or two of ●ellebore and then proceed As Nature doth not act per saltum but is gradual in all ●er operations so this Balsome intended for her assistance ●n the bodies of Men is prepared to such a degree of work●ng as is agreeable thereto and may move with it there ●…ing not one Ingredient in the Composition any wayes vi●lent or molestful but all have such an amicable corres●ondence with it and easie insinuations to fortifie her against ●he secret invasions of Life which lodge in the supplies of ●he radical moisture that I know no Medicine more justly ●erits the Title of Universal then this For though … ong and violent Catharticks in many cases prudently ad●inistred have been seconded with a good Effect yet I … ppose that in most Diseases t is greater security to attempt ●●e Restauration by Cordial Pectoral and Alexipharmacal ●eans which will gently blow up the sparks of Life which ●re left into a 〈◊〉 then adventure their dissipation or ex … ction by too strong a blast That Roman is not to be for●otten but imitated Qui cun●tando r●stituit rem I do not pretend to any Catholick Medicine which upon its first entrance into the body will compose and silence all the Tumultuous and Impetuous Efferations of the Humours if with their leave who boast themselves the Masters of it I may so call them and reduce every extravagant and disorderly particle to its proper place Was I to dispute not for victory but the truth upon that question an detur panacea vera I should chuse the negative having as little credit for him that affirms all Diseases to be cured by the same Medicine as for him that should say the same shooe will fit every mans foot but he that would loose his labour in the further pursuit of this subject may repaire to the Rhodomontados of some arrogant Chymiasters or to the Fanatique Chymaeras of the Brethren of the Rosie Crosse Dic quibus interris eris mihi magnus Apollo That a Polychreston may be prepared whose virtues may extend to at least those Diseases which have affinity with one another hath been in all Ages uncontroverted The diverse operations of some Simples so vulgarly known must needs inform us how powerful and comprehensive their efficacy may be when Artificially knit together I have been very cautious in the Enumeration of the Diseases which are Curable by my Balsom that I may not wrong my self in the abusing of others to a belief of receiving benefit only by this when there may be an urgent necessity of addressing themselves to the use of other Medicines for the promotion of their health and so trappan them with flattering hopes into their winding-sheets by the promise of relief in such maladies to whose extirpation it is not accommodated Most of those Distempers for which this Medicament can be bonâ fide commended are not of a very different nature but originally the same though under various Appellations and have not that Heterogeneity which at first view seems to appertain unto them there being little but another name or symptom on which to ground a distinction for the Remedy of which no essential alteration hath been yet made in medicinal prescriptions which if it had not been reserved for another Generation or not at all to be accomplished would have hardly escaped the Essayes of some late Ingenious and Industrious Artists whose Anatomical Inventions and Mechanical Hypotheses have given just occasion to put a difference between that Sect of Physitians which have hither to been known by the Title of Dogmatical and Rational in distinction from those other two of Empirical and Methodical and make a fourth entirely Rational not at all depending upon those futil and insipid suppositions which hitherto have so much obtained in Physick through their oscitancy who had a greater share in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If their be any Maladies which have not the same source which yet are mentioned as under the influence of my Balsom they are subject to the same method of Cure so