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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

presently abated and that night he rested pretty well for he had no sleep worth mention since he was ill the next morning I sent him four Grains more of the Powder which gave him three Vomits and two Stools about six in the Afternoon I went to visit him and found him about his Chamber saying he thought he was as well as ever his Stomach being returned and he very hungry Thus you see a Fever cured in eighteen hours or less which in all probability would have been at the least three or four weeks if recovered at all before nature by such enfeebled helpers or rather hinderers as are the common Medicines could have freed her self from the Disease I could instance many the like cases were it needful This Medicine hath besides its other gifts such a general tendency for the curing of all Fevers that upon the first knowledge of it in practice I called it my Species Febrifuga by which name I published it in my Catalogue of Medicines Printed in the year 1676 although I had then seen this little Book of the Authors I shall here subjoyn a short Discourse of intermitting Fevers or Agues in which Mr. Couch is silent except in the name yet I cannot doubt but he must be well acquainted with the power of this Medicine in curing them Of Agues GReat Diversity hath been and yet is among Authors concerning this Disease some holding one thing and some another concerning its Seat and Causes but I without reciting their differences or contending with any man's opinion either of which is no way profitable shall briefly endeavour to give you my own sentiment It needs no Definition being sufficiently known here neither Division seeing all the sorts thereof proceed from one cause and may be cured by the same Medicines Seat The Place or Seat of Agues is the Pancreas or Sweet-bread for all the parts of Man's Body being considered which only by intervals may transmit the cause of intermitting Fevers to the Heart none is found to which not only the Focus or source of those Fevers but also the causes of all their Symptoms may be ascribed besides the Pancreas or Sweet-bread Cause The Cause is an Obstruction of one or more of the Lateral Ducts or Branches of the Pancreas by reason of Phlegmatick Matter carried thither in too large a quantity and there detained the which being separated from the Blood together with the Pancreatick Juice by the Glandules of the Pancreas and sent to the main Duct or Pipe thereof causeth an Obstruction there and detaineth the juice of the Pancreas contrary to nature which ought continually to flow into the thin Gut called the Duodenum This Juice being thus stagnated quickly grows acrimonious or sharp and acquires a putrefactive Ferment whence at length it makes way through the obstructing Phlegm and is effused into the Duodenum where meeting with the Bile or Gall it stirs up a vicious and preternatural Ferment from whence comes the Ague Fit with all its Symptoms as in the beginning horrour chilness cold shaking c. then presently reachings yawnings and vomiting of bitter or four relish and afterwards burning heat the causes of Heat Cold Thirst c. you have in the foregoing Chapter of Fevers but if any desire further satisfaction concerning the reasons of the differences of Agues and the constant or various access of their Fits with the particular causes of Symptoms they may read it at large in Regnerus de Graaf in his Book intituled de succo Pancreatico published by me in the year 1676 to which I refer the Reader not having room here to be any larger Cure The Cure consists in opening the Obstructions changing the diseasie Ferment and expelling such matter as the Disease hath rendred incapable of being redintegrated and taken into the communion of life All which intentions are truly and radically performed by this Powder for an Ague being removed by the due use of this Medicine returns not again neither leaves any danger of its degeneration into another Disease both of which too frequently happen after the use of some Medicines which take off the Fit only by a kind of soporiferous quieting the present fury of the Archaeus If it be taken before the Ague hath exceeded three Fits one only Dose is usually sufficient to carry it away if fix or seven Fits two Doses or three at the most yea I have cured divers at twice or thrice giving it that have had it six or eight weeks but if it be a year old or more the continuance of its use but a reasonable time with the help of the Balsamick Pill will not fail to cure it I have also known it to cure Agues when it hath had no other sensible operation than Breaking of Wind. A person living in Greenwich who had a Tertian Ague and sometimes a Quotidian all the last Winter was cured this Spring by three Doses of the Powder which never had any sensible operation and two Doses of the Balsamick Pill so that in eight or ten days he was abroad about his Affairs and never had any Fit since although he was before so low brought that he could not sit up any longer than while his Bed was made notwithstanding the constant advice of an eminent Physician of that Town which he had used It is to be taken in a Spoonful of Drink or Posset drink about an hour before the Fit comes for two or three Fits together according as the Ague is in continuance If the Patient be weak or of a tender habit of Body let him take a Dose of the Balsamick Pill the same night after the Powder hath been given when he goes to Bed with a draught of warm Ale or a Glass of good generous Wine which Pill will mightily corroborate and refresh his Spirits and also tends much to the Cure if the Ague have been of a long continuance or be a Quartan or fourth Ague then after the Patient hath taken the Powder three times if the Fit still remain then let him take a full dose of the Balsamick Pill two or three hours before the coming of the next Fit and goe to Bed and dispose himself to sweat before the Fit comes the which if he do it s ten to one but the Fit comes no more but if there should be a failure of sweating timely enough then let him take the powder before one Fit and the Pill before the next till it be gone but not one Ague in twenty will need to be thus treated A general Direction in Fevers TO drink liberally of such Liquor as is most convenient is good I like not Beer of any Liquor in a Fever before the peccant matter wherein the Disease doth subsist be evacuated because it hath a nutriment from the Grain it is made withal which doth add unto the matter of the Disease whereby Thirst is exasperated as is commonly seen I rather advise to drink Wine and Water two parts Water and one Wine sharpened a

the Cure only give some present ease Flatus Hypochond or Windy Melancholy ANd likewise there is the Windy Melancholy that many both Men and Women in this Country are troubled with especially those that live near the Sea I will not say that if the party hath been troubled with it above a year it is not to be cured but I never knew it cured Though this Powder of mine is the best thing that ever I used for it it gives them speedy ease and much corrects the sharpness of the Malady And one that hath not been above a year troubled with it it cures them at once taking And because this Distemper bears an affinity with some other flatuous and windy Distempers I shall treat of their causes together as Coliack and Illiack Passion with a windy Pleurisie and Tympany These are called windy Distempers though very improperly neither Air or Wind are the cause of any of them Cause Negatively not Air or Wind that is breathed into us nor from any windiness that is in Meat or Drink that is the cause of those Distempers but positively from some malign or putrefactive or dungy quality that is contained in them or from a vitious quality or debility of the digestive Ferment or from Excrements detained beyond their due order There is in every Vegetive an aiery spirit or Gas which doth defend and preserve it from putrefaction and endeavours its subsistence in its primitive essence and figure which suffering a Fermentation is evaporated and exhaled EXAMPLE As in New Wine after it comes into the Cellars it passeth another Fermentation Likewise a Raisin of the Sun when the aiery spirit which was in the Grape is separated from its concrete Body the Grape contracts it self and taketh a new Ferment of Raisin Also we see in an Apple when it is roasted at the Fire this aiery Gas is exhaled which was co-fermented with the Apple In like manner all things that begin to putrefie this aiery Spirit parts from them and then they take another Ferment As in poysons when their venemous sharp quality seiseth on the Muscles this aiery Blas flies from them whence the Body tumifies and swells so as we see in Bodies that die through putrefaction a little before they die how they are oppressed with this Wind which doth puff up their Bodies after they are dead The windy Blast is made chiefly in those three places the Stomach Ilion and Colon. From the Stomach proceeds this windy Melancholy as they call it and most of those Flatulent Distempers for whensoever any thing is not well digested in the Stomach this Blast is presently made as we see in this Distemper whatsoever they eat or drink how they belch for it and are worse commonly after they have eaten than they were before which doth clearly demonstrate that the principal defect is in the Stomach and therefore not from the meat they eat but from the viciousness or defective Ferment for let another eat and drink of the same it doth not disturb them at all And to talk of windy Meats is but a meer Chymera there are no Meats or Drinks windy to good and healthful stomachs too great repletion doth likewise stir up and cause this windyness in the stomach By the favour of belchings you may understand the temper of the Stomach Sour Belchings betokeneth a weak stomach Unsavory sheweth a weaker Burntish bitter and sharp ones proceed from a vicious stomach There are some Specifical which give their own savour as Garlick Onions Radishes c. I could say much more to vindicate the Spleen from having a hand in those flatulent Distempers If you would be better satisfied read Doctor Highmore de affectione Hypochond fol. 105. as also that air or wind that we received from without is not the cause whereof they are made But lest I should make my Book outswell an Enchyridion I do pass it in silence and desiring to be ingenious and faithful to all and not willing to write the least thing that I were not convinced of the truth of nor give you the least occasion to say that I extol this incomparable Medicine beyond its merit wherefore I must confess what 's truth I never knew them really cured in my life if they were habitual and of a long continuance Quo diuturnus eo difficilis nor indeed is there any Disease if once it be familiar to nature that is of easie curation I could wish for the sakes of those that are troubled with these Maladies that I had such a sure Remedy to cure them after long continuance as this powder is to prevent them when they are in the beginning and the surest to bring the greatest help at last I would not willingly be mistaken by any one nor have him to abuse his judgment as to think he may be as soon well of an old and chronical Distemper as of one that hath newly taken possession of the body To proceed This Disease hath great affinity with the Scurvy and therefore the same Medicines are proper for both â„ž of Crabs-eyes prepared two drams Tartar Vitriolated a Scruple Flowers of Sal Armoniack a dram Confection of Alkermes without Musk three drams Conserve of Garden Scurvy Grass three ounces mix them into an Electuary of which let the patient take every morning and evening a dram and a half or two drams upon an empty stomach that is let him fast an hour after it in the morning and take it three hours after supper Strong Purges are injurious in this Disease but after the use of the aforesaid Electuary you may purge with the following Powder â„ž Cream of Tartar fifteen Grains Salt of Wormwood and Scurvy Grass each ten Grains Rosin of Scammony eight nine or ten grains powder and mix them and give it in the morning in a little warm Posset drink The Elixir Proprietatis of Paracelsus is highly profitable in this Disease being taken three times a day in a Glass of Sherry Wine fifteen sixteen or twenty drops at a time So is also the Volatile Salt of Amber being taken to fifteen grains twice a day in warm Broth. But amongst all the Remedies I know I assure you I never found any of that efficacy in this Disease as my Balsamick Pill for that destroys the sharp putrefactive Ferment discusseth all windyness refresheth the spirits and takes away melancholy Illiaca Passio or the Wind in the Small Gut IT hath been an old received opinion that this Disease comes from the twisting of that long and small Gut but I have reason to believe the contrary This great Torture is not from the wind contained there but from an excrementitious matter that doth adhere unto the Illion it is as it were glued unto it by its slimy matter which it is lined withal and in time is coagulated into a very obdurate and hard substance I remember when I was in Dunkirk there was a Soldier which was miserably troubled with this Disease for some days