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A25757	Secrets disclosed of consumptions shewing [h]ow to distinguish between scurvy and venereal disease : also, how to prevent and cure the fistula by chymical drops without cutting, also piles, hæmorrhoids, and other diseases / by John Archer.	Archer, John, fl. 1660-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3610; ESTC R27653	20,607	80

Secrets Disclosed OF CONSUMPTIONS Shewing How to distinguish between Scurvy and Venereal Disease ALSO How to prevent and Cure the Fistula by Chymical Drops without Cutting Also Piles Haemorrhoids and other DISEASES By JOHN ARCHER Author of the Book called Every Man his own Doctor to be Sold by the Booksellers and also to be had from the Authors House at Knightsbridge or at the Sadlers against the Mews by Charingcross LONDON Printed for the Author 1684. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Kind Reader I Having about fourteen years since writ a small Treatise Entituled Every Man his own Doctor with an Herbal shewing every ones Constitution the nature of all food and to whom agreeable and of the most common Diseases how to Cure Which little Book was so accepted and well esteemed that few Booksellers Shops are now without it and no Foreign place where English inhabit but it is in use and Considering that Consnmptions have been of late years so mortal that they too much furnish the Bills of Mortality and the very name of a Consumption is grown so formidable that few hope for Cure if once sure they are in it the cause being evident the neglect of means proper in the beginning and not divulging to a skillful Physician the original Cause so the Physick and means is used in a blindfold way it is possible a private Distemper undiscovered may make a good Doctor give bad Physick Very often discontent of Mind is the cause that Bodily helps avail nothing it being easier to Cure the Body than Mind Sometimes a person is afflicted with a Venereal Distemper that for want of a skillful Doctor takes Physick from the ignorant who poysons the Body with Mercury thence I frequently find bad and dangerous symptoms following as pain in the Head Neck Back Teeth Deafness Dimness of Sight Distillations at length ● Consumption and without proper Medicines Anti-venereal and Anti-mercurial the noble parts are assaulted and overcome and so the do make the number of them in the Weekl● Bills of Mortality dead of a Consumption therefore to prevent Death before the accomplishment of our allowed time is chiefly design'd in this third part of Every man his own Doctor shewing the chief cause of Consumptions ariseth from Melancholy Scurvy or the Venereal Disease and the original cause being throughly known the Disease is the better and speedier cured the want of which knowledge I mean the procuring cause hath been the reason so many good Physicians have had so bad success in cure of Consumptive people therefore it is my advice to all sick or inclinable to a Consumption to take timely advice Principiis obsta and be careful to live in good Air use Temperance and Exercise of Body and with good advice and proper Physick you may with Gods blessing be healthy and brisk in old Age for I may aver that most persons living intemperately and dying before they have lived thirty forty or fifty years might as well have lived to fourscore a hundred or more years if they had used chiefly Temperance and Exercise as in my Book you may further find directed Verbum sapienti sat A way then with that necessity of dying at such a time when a man is cut off for his wickedness or by his foolish intemperance for the wise man said Be not wicked or foolish over-much why wilt thou die before thy time From my House at Knights-bridge a little Mile from Charing-Cross Aug. 1. 1684. J. A. CHAP. I. Of prevention and Cure of Diseases IT is matter of lamentation to see the great distress poor mortals are in by the common Enemy of Mankind languishing sickness with grief of Mind wandring from one Doctor to another and from this Receipt to another Experiment for Cure of some churlish accident which unfortunate people lie under the pressure of till the vital and noble parts are penetrated and chiefly by despising or neglecting small beginnings till the Enemy of nature gets ground and by wandring in errors path the cure is more difficult to avoid which let us proceed methodically to the understanding and benefit of the meanest Capacity First Know that all Diseases ought to be prevented or Cured and that the health of humane Bodies do mainly rest upon these two great Pillars viz. the Prophylactical and Therapeutical the Prophylactical part shews how Diseases may be prevented the Therapeutical shews how Diseases may be Cured when the Body hath contracted them the way and means to prevent Diseases is rightly to understand every ones Constitution and Complexion and to keep your self in a right temperament and you must observe those six things called by Physicians non-naturals as Air Diet Exercise Sleep Passions of the Mind Excretion all which you are taught in my Book Every Man his own Doctor These things being rightly ordered to every ones Constitution and fitted in proportion to our Bodies and so continued in use as ought to be done by him that treads Via recta ad vitam longam though I commend not such rigid Staticks as to eat and drink but just to such a weight because nature may at some time or other be over-charged or lessened therefore a moderate evenness without exact severity is the best Rule for if you do not especially if Diseased the Enemy of nature gets ground and the Cure becomes more difficult because the blood is vitiated so a Scorbute a Cachexia evil habit of the Body acquired which weakens the Senses terrifies the mind and divers symptoms may arise as decay of strength weariness spots pains dimness of sight cum multis aliis for the Body being diseased adds grief to the mind the mind being distracted encreaseth the Disease so both being oppressed the Patient too often despondeth and before sufficient cause instead of using good means and advice do wholly neglect means of recovery till the noble parts are infeebled that they cannot perform their office for digestion fermentation nor due Circulation of the Blood and Spirits thus beginneth a Cachectical Scorbute Consumptive decays many ill symptoms Hectick Feavers complicate Distempers and falling à minori ad majus till at length you must die and this is the cause of lamentation it might have been prevented for many a year longer to whom Solomon saith Quare morereris ante tempus tuum and that you may not die too soon I will endeavour to set down the chief sign of Consumptions Scurvy Melancholy and the French Disease that so you may prevent them and knowing the signs and degrees of danger with the more satisfaction Cure them CHAP. II. BEfore I enter upon the Discourse of Consumptions in Cure it is convenient to Advertise you of some of the chiefest Causes which ordinarily lead Men and Women into it which firmly observed you may with ease prevent the approaching Enemy we say Venienti occurrite morbo for it is much better to prevent than Cure which that you may do take good heed to these six Harbingers or in-lets to a Consumption