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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26131	A discourse shewing the nature of the gout with directions to such remedies as will immediately take away the pain ... : and also helps for palsies, plurisies, cholick, convulsions in limbs ... : with receipts and directions for the cure of the king's evil and other diseases / by W. Atkins.	Atkins, William.	1694 (1694)	Wing A4125; ESTC R28312	46,595	146

principal intended Business is to attend such who are afflicted with Gouts Rheumatisms Palsies Convulsions and all such-like Cases I have cured some that have been lame many Years and the Cure hath been performed very speedily but some do require a longer time This you may conclude if I undertake a Cure you may be encouraged it shall be my loss if I do not perform it If I should tell here the Cures I have done for Consumptive People you could hardly believe it but I shall not insist here on such things If I could have had time I should in pity have writ something to help such in this Book but that I shall refer to the next Impression and in the mean time shall be willing to help such by my Advice if they can come or send to my House Now I must return to the Matter intended for if I should fill up my Book with never so many Testimonies of curing the Gout and such-like Diseases yet still some cannot or will not believe this to be true that there is a Man that can do these things In a Trial at Law in difficult Matters the plain Proof of two or three Witnesses on Oath puts an end to all Controversies and both Judg and Jury is convinced to believe and judg according to the Proof and Truth of the Evidence Such large Proof hath been given of speedy Cures of many diseased Persons of Gouts Rheumetisms Palsies and such-like and were so speedily freed of their Pains that it is incredible to declare it But that you may be convinced of the Truth I have given you the Testimony of ten Men who have declared on Oath every Man in his own Case their particular Cures and how speedily done in the presence of many Witnesses was this Proof given before the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet late Lord Mayor of the City of London And for a farther Confirmation he hath given it in writing under his own Hand also subscribed by his Attorney at Law It cannot be supposed that I should put a Cheat on the People by publishing this or that I should dare to counterfeit the Hand-writing of so great a Magistrate which would but expose me shamefully to suffer punishment for so doing All rational Persons may believe this is Truth therefore I shall not need to give any of their Names in this Book but such as desire to be further satisfied may see every Man's Affidavit in Writing under their own Hands or may have a printed Paper of the Copy at the Author's House with many others who have given under their Hands the manner of their Cures therefore shall not mention any of them here Several of these also are perfectly cured by my Gout-Balsam being applied freely to blister the Parts by which all may be well satisfied there is no danger though it may blister and cause the Skin to come off where it is freely applied but yet some Bodies are so differing from others that if they use never so much they cannot feel it and it will not cause either Pimple or Blister on them but yet though it be not felt it doth so open the Pores that it lets out the Disease let it be Wind or Water and no more to be seen afterwards than if nothing had been done so some are cured with ease and pleasure rather than punishment by using it And this may be observed for a Rule if you do not feel it you may use it as often as you will or if you are minded to use but little it doth require the longer time for your Cure Now this is my way of vindicating my self by giving you a plain Account what is done by my Medicines rather than to name or publish what envious lying Persons report If I should be as unkind to them as they are to me I could spoil their Practice and selling of Medicines by making known what Discourse has passed to me in the hearing of others for many have visited me in pretence of Love that will in other Company speak against me without a Cause being only envious for my Prosperity and good Success in Business and there are many offended at the Good I do It would be a Crime in me if I should not do Good and the Cures I perform prefer me in Practice and the Success I have shameth my Adversaries who are not able to do the like You have had an Account here of Cures mostly concerning the Gout and such-like painful Diseases that have been performed chiefly by the Gout-Balsam being freely used to blister the Parts and no hurt done to any Thus you have that which is sufficient to prove them Liars that would say 't is a dangerous Medicine The next thing as a farther Vindication of the Excellency of my Gout-Balsam is to give you an Account of what strange Cures have been done in Palsies and such-like Cases with the use of that and my other Gout-Medicines Great and Remarkables Cures performed on Palsies and Convulsions in the Nerves Mr. Hoar a Painter in Wapping lost the use of his Limbs by the dead Palsy for five Months was perfectly cured in a few days Mr. Dimsdell in Wenford-street by Spittle-Fields was helpless in his Limbs by the Num-Palsy and Convulsions in the Nerves and was perfectly cured in about two Weeks time Many poor People who have been brought to my House being helpless in Coaches have been speedily recovered to go away on foot and without Crutches Mrs. Ashworth in George-Yard in Shoreditch who for a long time had been afflicted with running Pains in all Parts with Convulsions She had used all Means as could be heard of to help her had tried the Bath and all was ineffectual but grew worse but at last by Providence she heard of one in the same Neighbourhood that I had cured I was sent for when I came the Neighbours were about the Bed expecting her departure with all speed I applied the Means for I found it was the Cholick Convulsions and Gout had affected all parts at once both Limbs Bowels Stomach and Head In about two Hours I did remove the Cause and she was comfortably revived and in four days time she was cured Mrs. Lucas just without Aldersgate had been lame many Months in a helpless Condition the Doctors could not find out the Cause and none could help her so she lay under great pain and weakness which was on one Side only yet she could not help her self the Nurse carried her about like a Child in Arms. When I came I went speedily to my Work and in one hour's time she walked about and in about four days time she had recovered such strength that she could walk from her Country-Lodgings at Islington to her Dwelling-House at Aldersgate Mr. Morgan's Son at the corner of Little-Britain in Aldersgate-street had been helpless a long time almost in all Parts It was a kind of inward Convulsion that affected the Bowels and Limbs as was the Cause of his weakness I