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A57896	Organon salutis an instrument to cleanse the stomach : as also divers new experiments of the virtue of tobacco and coffee, how much they conduce to preserve humane health / by W.R. ...	W. R. (Walter Rumsey), 1584-1660.; Blount, Henry, Sir, 1602-1682.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing R2280A; ESTC R5405	22,294	82

Organon Salutis AN INSTRUMENT to cleanse the Stomach As also divers new Experiments of the virtue of TOBACCO and COFFEE How much they conduce to preserve humane health By W. R. of Grays Inne Esq. Experto credo LONDON Printed by R Hodgkinsonne for D. Pakeman living at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet neer the Inner Temple Gate 1657. To the right honourable HENRY Lord Marquess of Dorchester c. AS Apollo among the Planets so I may say your Lordship is among Peers In the vast Firmament of Learning you out shine them all And understanding that among other scientificall Speculations your Lordship hath been addicted to the study of Physick wherein you have made such an admired progresse that you have attained not only the Theory but the practise thereof I am bold to dedicate this small piece to your Lordship wherein there are divers new physicall experiments for the universall health of mankinde Therefore I presume no discerning Reader will adjudge this addresse to be improper Moreover ther 's another Reason that induced me hereunto which was That I knew your Lordship to have been pleased to admit your self to Gray's Inne and make it your Musaeum or place of retirement which I hold to be one of the greatest honours that Society ever received and being a Member thereof my self I adventured to make this Dedication For which nevertheless I crave your pardon and rest My highly honoured Lord Your obedient and most humble Servant W● RUMSEY TO My Worshipfull and much Honored Friend Sir HENRY BLOUNT Knight SIR MY miseries in matter of my health made me in my old age being now seventy two yeers old to remember what I learned in my youth at School in reading of Tullies Office that is after taking notice of my own body to observe what did doe me good or harm before I should use the help of Physitians this made me to collect what I have written in this Book for mine own private use Many of my friends urged me to leave the same to be printed for the benefit of others which I was loath to doe in respect it is a Novelty not prescribed by others untill I understood by you that it was well accepted in foreign parts by persons of great quality and knowledge which came by the same Relations of yours unto them I lately understood that your discovery in your excellent Book of Travels hath brought the use of the Turkes Physick of Cophie in great request in England whereof I have made use in another form than is used by boyling of it in Turkie and being less loathsome and troublesome wherefore I thought meet to send this Book to you and to referre it to your Iudgement whether it be fit to be published in print If you let it to passe under your protection I little care what others speak of it and rest Sir your loving Friend and Servant W● Rumsey The Answer of Sir HENRY BLOUNT Knight to the preceding Letter of his worthy Friend Iudge RUMSEY SIR I Present you with many thanks for your excellent Physick Treatise and for your favour in the direction of it to me But for your printing of it all mankinde is to give you thanks For certainly all ages and Nations have ever held a gratefull memory of the inventors of any Devise or Engine to the publique advantage of humane life For as it is the goodnesse of God that gives us life so of all men they are most subservient to that goodnesse who help to make that life long and comfortable amongst whom this your Whalebone Instrument will assuredly cause your name to stand It hath already though crept out by stealth gained much credit abroad in forrain Countreys where I have known persons of eminent quality to hold it in great esteem And besides the undenyed reputation where rightly used it gains in the experience practise thereof it cannot in a rationall discourse but have much preeminence above the usuall way of Physick For doubtlesse mens diseases arise from the Stomach whose impurities obstruct the passages of life poysoning and fermenting the whole moisture of mans body till it becomes like a House which having it Vaults and Sinks furred up and stopt soon growes so full of putrifaction and stink as cannot be endured In which case Physitians are like men who should advise to cast into such a house Mirrhe Musk Amber-greece or other pretious stuffe in hopes to amend the uncleannesse thereof And to magnifie that course as rationall they make learned discourses of the Drugges and the severall degrees of heat or cold with their specifique virtues which countenanced under strange names and Authors prevail to be made tryall of But at last when the simple Master of the House after much fruitless trouble and expence finds no effect but that the corruption and stench is grown more abhominable Then come you with this Engine like some discreet Person who with a Broom and a little water without charge in half an hours time makes a cleaner House than the others with all their parade cost and trouble could ever doe But as for the two remarkable Simples which you most imploy that is Tobacco and Cophie a man may guess at their rare efficacie who observes how universally they take with mankinde and yet have not the advantage of any pleasing taste wherewith to tempt and debauch our Palat as Wine and other such pernicious things have for at the first-Tobacco is most horrid and Cophie insipid yet doe they both so generall prevail that Bread it self is not of so universall use The Tartars and Arabs two great Nations have little or no use of Bread yet they the Turks Persians and most of the eastern World have hourly use of Tobacco and Cophie but especially of Cophie For besides the innumerable store of Cophie houses there is not a private fire without it all day long They all acknowledge how it freeth them from crudities caused by ill dyet or moist lodging insomuch as they using Cophie morning and evening have no Consumptions which ever come of moisture no Lethargies in aged people or Rickets in Children and but few qualmes in women with child but especially they hold it of singular prevention against Stone and Gout When a Turk is sick he fasts and takes Cophie and if that will not doe he makes his will and thinks of no other Physick And as for your way of taking both Cophie and Tobacco the rarity of the invention consists in leaving the old way For the water of the one and the smoke of the other may be of inconvenience to many but your way in both takes in the virtue of the Simples without any additionall mischeif And as for Tobacco not in smoke but swallowed down there is not observed a more sure or sudden remedy for a Cough or the Stone amongst all that men have found out And whereas most medicinall Books are usually but bare transcriptions from former Writers and so nothing but hear-say upon hear

opinion of Physitians And that the same are the principall causes of all diseases which is plainly set forth ●y Gratorolus in his Chapter of Exercises 3. That the increase of these Superfluities may be much mitigated by temperate Dyet and Exercises as the opinion of all honest and godly men whereof a man may see good directions in Ecclesiasticus cap. 31. But how impossible it is for a man by a strickt diet although he observes the Rules of Lesius to help this evill a man may read at large in Doctor Primrose his book of vulgar errors in Physick lib. 3. cap. 3. c. And many learned Physitians doe maintain that there is lesse danger in a little over liberall than in an over sparing diet whereof see Hippocrates Aphorisms lib. 1. Aphor. 5. c and Rantzovius and many others maintain the same and Lemnius de occultis in many places maintaineth the same in so much that he spendeth a whole Chapter to maintain that after a light Breakfast a man shall be more able to eat a more liberall Dinner and there is good reason for it for that when nature hath no food to feed upon then it feedeth upon the corrupt humors which breeds unrecoverable diseases and a generall decay of nature for want of sustenance I leave this to every mans age and experience but I finde it expedient for all men rather to eat often sparingly than to eat much at usuall meals and especially at supper CHAP. IV. In the stomach undigested meat Fleagm and evill humors from whence proceeds Choler and Melancholy c and by consequence the Stone and many other Infirmities 1. TThat after the disposition of the meat in the stomach there remains part of the meat undigested it is too well known to moderate Surfeiters and very often to foul and weak stomachs and to old age As for the time when the stomach hath disposed of what it can digest that is after sleep so Heurinus upon Hippocrates Aphorismes and then a man must look to it to remedy himself or suffer great evils 2. That superfluous matters doe arise after the concoction and digestion of our meat hath been shewed before cap. 3. That those matters are at first Flegme which being baked with the heat of the stomach breed Choler c. and by consequence the Stone is the generall opinion of learned Physitians And Vanthelmont a rare late Writer describeth the same in many places and sheweth how the humors are not of such severall natures as they are ordinarily distinguished but originally are Flegme and then baked to higher degrees and get other names as Choler c. 3. The seat of these humors are in the stomach but principally in the mouth of the stomach which is the principall seat of life which Vanthelmont describeth excellently where he saith That in the stomach but especially in the mouth thereof as in the very center point and root is evidently setled the beginning of life of digestion of meat and of the disposition thereof to maintain life what then soever the Philosophers or Physitians did talk or think to be of great moment concerning the heart whether they will or no they have made it common to the stomach 4. Common experience shewes this to be true in very many men who can neither eat or drink in the morning but loath the same and are troubled with waterish humors but cannot get away the same with all their fasting and physick 5. How to avoid these superfluous humors is our great labour for otherwise they are the occasions of diseases as is said before and besides that while they are in the body they make our bodies like unseasonable Vessells which doe spoyl the good meat which we doe put in our stomachs for our nourishments so that it cannot be well digested which made Hippocrates to deliver the Aphorismes lib. 2. Aphor. 2. Corpora impura c. That the more sustenance is taken into unpure bodies the more mischief happens unto them How far then doe they erre who having foul dodies doe endeavour to help themselves with Caudles and Cordialls before their bodies be cleansed and made fit to receive the same 6. Labour and Exercise have been accounted and are the best ordinary means to wear out these corrupt humors and to help digestion thereof for which purpose Rantzovius cap. 9. and Grator in his Chapter of Exercise have written much out of many Authors yet for all that it must be with this Limitation Dum vires c. while youth and strength of body doth last and before old age come or the body groweth weak with Infirmities And let a man be never so lusty and strong yet nevertheless excessivenesse of humors in the body doe often kill the strongest and most laborious men whereof we have daily many fearfull examples which made Rantzovius cap. 18. say well That the retaining of corrupt meat in the stomach is a strong destruction of the body and cap. 50. saith That the Plague it self cannot invade that man who hath not corrupt humors How farre then doe they erre who think to weare out these humors by fasting and exercise when it may be quickly done otherwise with so little labour and trouble as before cap 2 n. 1. And hereafter n. 8. c. I leave it to every mans judgement and leave careless men to perish in their own negligent wayes 7. Lemnius de occultis hath written a whole Chapter of the rattle which men have in their throats before they die and ascribes it to the contractions of the vitall spirits c. and so it may be well enough for that a mans breath is stopped by flegme and undigested humors which come from the mouth of the stomach into the throat as well as an halter doth stop it outwardly 8. When all means are tried to avoid both corrupt humors and corrupt meat in the stomach vomiting of it up is accounted the best means by Rantzovius and Heurinus and many learned Physitians commend it exceedingly and say that the Egyptians and Caldeans used it twice every moneth And Fernelius saith that it purgeth not only the stomach but also all the other parts of the body to the very heart And finally That as all evill humors doe come out of the stomach to disturb all parts of the body by certain secret passages So if the stomach be made clean by vomiting the same corrupt humors return into the stomach again by the same passages to be avoided by the ordinary passages of nature which otherwise cannot be purged downwards whereof a man may read it at large in Rantzovius cap. 18. and Fernelius there lib. 3. cap. 3. and Parent his notable book of Chyrurgery and Physick and many others 9. How dangerous it is to procure vomiting by the ordinary course of Physick I leave it untill you come to the eighth following pointe cap 10. But how to doe it otherwise with little or no offence or disturbance unto nature and