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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

as First The Scurvy Secondly The Catarrh or tickling distillation Thirdly The Phthisick Cough Fourthly The Hectick Feaver Fifthly The Venereal Disease not well Cured or Mercury femaining in the Body Sixthly Is Melancholy or Discontent of Mind which breedeth flatus Hypochondriacus or Hypochondraick Melancholy and lest you should not rightly distinguish the fore-mentioned Diseases in coming on you take care to observe if any of these following Symptoms are upon you viz. First If you have a continual burning in the palms of your hands or soles of your feet Secondly If you are weaker than before Thirdly If you have pain between the Breast and Belly Fourthly If you have a continual looseness or purging Fifthly If you spit corrupt matter Sixthly If you have fainty Sweats Seventhly If you have a short breath ill savoured or a Grave-like scent from the whole Body these or some of these Symptoms speak it high time to look for remedy and according as the Symptoms are it shews whether the Consumption comes from the Lungs Liver or other Cause CHAP. III. Of a Consumption Atrophy or Tabes WHich signifies a leanness decay or diminution from former strength and vigour whereby the vital faculties do senescere tabescere wither and decay without visible means through want of nutrition This dreadful Disease which is the fatal consequence usually of other Diseases hereditary or personally acquired I think necessary to shew some differences of its kinds as in respect of cause it proceeds from or the Disease that inducted it the definition most received is Tabes partium ingreditur Corporis soliditatem solvit a Consumption so called because the Disease and Corrosive humours enter into the noble parts of the Body and doth consume them as fire doth Metals by melting them The Lungs being a soft spongious part are most easily corrupted by sharp distillations and Catarrhs yet in this Disease the Liver is principally hurt by a sharp humour in the mass of blood which humours continue such for want of fermentation and by additional Acrimony from which sharpness of humours a Catarrh or Distillation with a tickling defluxion especially by Night falling upon the Lungs which by Ulcerating putrifying and spreading waste and consume the Lungs although there may be a waste and general Consumption of the Body and strength without an Ulcer of the Lungs yet if it once make an approach by any Disease it is the most dangerous of Diseases because it speedily attacques the noble parts and without good Remedies proves mortal and now that we may avoid the danger of a Consumption it is best to lay open some Diseases that do most frequently and naturally bring it upon us that so by resisting the beginnings we may be free from the ill consequence and effects Now I have in my practice observed that one of these three Diseases have been the cause of Consumption in the most part of people viz. Melancholy Scurvy or the French Disease to which may be added Mercury as an Appendix I say one of these are usually the Forerunner and cause of the Consumption in the greatest part of people whether personally acquired or hereditary descended And now that every one may be his own Doctor that is to judge by Symptoms whether it be a Consumption from what cause it came and if Curable I shall endeavour as clearly as I can to solve all doubts by shewing the signs of Consumption Scurvy Melancholy and the French Disease the want of which knowledge have caused many to perish irrecoverably by using a wrong method so endeavouring the Cure of another Disease by mistake or keeping that private which ought to be considered till despairing of Cure have yielded their Weapons the means for recovery and through inward discontent shame and infirmity have fallen into deep Consumption and quickly made their Exit thus many dying before their full accomplish'd time through want of timely means and true knowledge of the prognostick part of Symptoms which through fear and shame do keep to their own heart till their Disease becomes formidable and deadly and finding the World defective to the sick in Consumptions especially in not giving them some light and guide how to be acquainted with their condition of danger with directions how to get out of that toil without the usual ill success and few Doctors do in all points satisfy their Patients Queries Therefore I thought it useful acceptable and charitable to give some light in so dark a Distemper therefore I advise first find out and be sure of the cause that first ushered it in for the Venereal Consumption is to be Cured one way and the Scorbutick another and the Melancholy another that which is most likely to be your bane and death is most considerable therefore hide nothing from your Physician of the Disease or Cause lest you lead him into a wrong method and be sure to have regard in the Cure of a Consumption to those six things we call not natural as Air Food Sleep Passions of Mind Exercise of Body Venery Excretions Retentions all which are fully set forth in that little Book Every Man his own Doctor therefore needless here to direct you in but now I shall give you the signs First of a Consumption then of a Scurvy Melancholy and the Venereal Disease and to judge of the danger of your Disease or recovery termed the prognostick part being especially useful because many are affrighted almost out of life and hope of Recovery by that too common received opinion that once have a Consumption or the Pox you can never be well again which saying or doubts ought to be refuted because many have been and daily are recovered out of Consumptions and the Venereal Disease the fear and doubt of which have caused many to despair and by neglecting means have consumed and died The usual question a sick person asks is How long will it be before I am Cured therefore know the more urging and greater Symptoms are most dangerous and require most time for Cure and the less the soonest and easiest cured and for satisfying your doubts if afflicted you are instructed by the signs in the several Diseases as following it is likely some may be your case and condition and that you may not be deceived consider circumstances and consult your Doctor or if you please to take my Experience by word of mouth at my House I shall in particulars advise you CHAP. IV. Further signs of a Consumption and different Disease it came from and the part first assaulted most worthy to be known by all AS I take sharp acid acrimonious humours to be the chief cause of vitiating the blood and corroding the Lungs c. and this sharp acrid humour doth sometimes arise from ill digestion of food by a bad temperament disordered constitution by irregular living hurting nature in its actings whereby comes a decay of ferments nutritive causing ruine to the Microcosm I say though by vitious debauch'd living an ill