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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67767	Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.	Yarwood, John, 17th cent.	1683 (1683)	Wing Y18; ESTC R25217	23,195	122

תריפה צריף׃ Physick Refin'd OR A LITTLE STREAM OF Medicinal Marrow Flowing from the BONES of NATURE WHEREIN Several Signs particular Rules and distinct Symptoms whereby the most ordinary Diseases may be distinctly known and truly judged are perspicuously Delineated AND The most proper Way safe Method and simpathetical Cure whereby Nature may be helped the Sick eased and Languishing Patients relieved without the Use of Poysonous Purging Potions and Venomous Medicaments is succinctly Demonstrated By John Yarwood Professor of Physick LONDON Printed for Tho. Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1683. TO Mrs. Mary Allsop DAUGHTER OF Anthony Allsop of Allsop-i th'-Dale Esq SInce that Antient House the Place of Your Nativity hath been a Magazine of Medicine out of which the Poor of Your Country have been Armed gratis against those Darts of Sickness which fight against Nature I have assumed the Boldness of this Dedication not doubting but a Person so rarely qualified as I know You to be will in real Generosity not only cast a Benevolent Aspect on these my Publick Endeavours but according to the wonted Goodness of Your Heroick Spirit candidly Accept and Countenance so small a Present as this little Tractate which I have boldly enough presumed to shadow under the Wing of Your Favour not as if I thought One so acquainted with Books would be advantaged by reading this Compendium for I have seen You peruse large Volums and known You deduce Judgment from the best Authors but that you may couragiously go on as You have begun and like your good Mother continue helping them that cannot help themselves And that all other Noble minded Ladies Gentlewomen may follow Your Example is the sincere Wish of Your Obliged Servant Iohn Yarwood From Shepshead in Leicestershire Octob. 9th 1682. PHYSICK REFIN'D c. SECT I. Scurvey THere are wandering Pains running up and down the Body Spots appear in the Fleshy Parts and if the Disease be confirmed the Gums are affected with Bleeding and Soreness This Disease of it self is more Troublesom than Dangerous but if it be not cured it many times brings Dropsies Consumptions and other Distempers arising from Obstructions of the Spleen and is oft the Usherer in of such Acute Diseases as terminate in the Grave The Cure The most Excellent Medicines in this case are Tincture of Tartar Tincture of Antimony and Tincture of Corals Twenty Drops at a time taken at Night going to Bed of any of them in Spirit of Scurvey-Grass or which is better Spirit of Tartar Use it forty Days together I have often cured it with Antimonium Diaphoriticum taken as the former in Beer or Broth twenty Grains at once every Night for forty Days together using in the mean time a Diet Drink made with Horse-Radish Celandine and Mustard-Seed Crocus Martis Apperitivis in this case is very proper but Oleum Martis is better and may be taken eight Grains at a time A Spirit distill'd from Antimony one part and Salt-Peetre three parts taken to the quantity of five Drops at a time is highly Famous in this Distemper SECT II. Dropsie THis Disease is a Watery Habit of the Body 'T is call'd by three Names according as it affects this that or the other Part. The First is called Ascitis that is When much Water is between the Peritoneum and the Bowels The Second is called Timpanites i. e. When 't is of a Windy Cause known by the Hardness of the Place where that of Water is more soft and all other Parts of the Body wax lean The Third is called Anasarca or Leucaphlegma that is When all the Flesh of the whole Body appeareth moist and swelled 'T is generally concluded to be a Defect of the Liver There is great Thirst shortness of Breath an ill Colour and great Heaviness If in the Beginning of the Disease there be a Flux of the Belly with Concoction or the Vrine Made be more than what is Drunk there is hope of Recovery The Cure Let all the Patient's Drink be sharpned with Spirit of Salt or Oyl of Sulphur They that fancy Purging Medicines use Syrrup of Buckthorn an Ounce at a time in the Morning But Syrrup of Pellitory of the Wall is better taken a Spoonful at once two or three times a day The Root of Hog-Fennel powder'd and taken a Dram at a time is excellent I use Ens Veneris twenty Grains at once every Night going to Bed SECT III. Small Pox. THere is first a Pain in the Head and Back the Body is feaverish hot and the Face is red and swell'd they are sleepy have Red Urine and Pricking all over the Body The Third or Fourth Day small Pustles arise and break out in the Skin If they soon come forth and Ripen easily appear white round and the Breathing free there is great Hopes of Recovery But Bleeding at Nose great Third difficulty of Breathing Loosness Bloody Flux black or livid Urine a great Feaver the Pustles appearing Green Black or Blueish or go in again or black or blue Spots appearing all these are dangerous signs The Cure First provoke Sweat with Bezoar Mineral six Grains for a Child and sixteen Grains for one of full Age. Take it at Night going to Bed Or Antimonium Diaphoriticum may be given after the same manner and the same Dose Take them in Sack Tincture of Saffron in this case is excellent taken a Spoonful or two at a time three or four times a day in good Wine Ten drops of Tincture of Corals or six Grains of Tincture of Tartar given at Night in Sack is very good Take a little Red Fennel and Saffron and boyl in Posset-drink and give the Patient to drink often before they come out I make up a Medicine thus Take Spirit of Wine or Aquae Mirabolis two Ounces Syrrup of Clove-Gilly-Flowers one Ounce Confectio Alkermes one Dram mix and give a Spoonful at a time four or five times a day SECT IV. Cachexia 'T Is caused through Obstructions and Hardness of the Liver and Spleen which brings the whole Body into an ill State and Disposition This Disease commonly follows some long Sickness as a Dysenteria and Lienteria The Flesh waxes loose and soft the Patient is weak hath bad Digestion loatheth Meat desires Drink The Body is whitish and he goeth weakly 'T is mostly incident to Old Men and Children If it continue long it brings the Patient into a Dropsie The Cure All Medicines that potently open Obstructions are proper in this Case Take Pulvis Cachecticus half a Dram at a time every Morning and stir after it taking every Night ten Grains of Sweating Antimony Pilulae Anodynae which is most commonly known by the name of Matthew's but more properly Starkey's Pill in this Case is excellent being taken to the quantity of twenty Grains at Night going Bed two or three Hours after a light Supper Crocus Martis Apperitivus in this Case is proper but Oleum Martis is better taken eight Grains at a time I distill