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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

Venereal but if you have no preceding cause of Disease you cannot have that cursed fear which generally possesses the mind of guilty persons if only a corruption of the Blood the Disease will not be so terrible in afflicting your Mind or Body neither will those nocturnal night pains torment you nor any Spots Pustules gleetings or Issuings be about the Privities if free from those Symptoms fear it not but if afflicted in Body and Mind if you acquaint me with your Symptoms 't is possible my Experience may contribute to your satisfaction CHAP. X. Of Fistula's I Having for some Years have had more Experience in the Disease of Fistula's and Piles than most Physicians it being desired that I should publish my knowledge therein I have both briefly and faithfully set down their Causes and how to know their difference and Cure which hath been often performed by Chymical Drops not Cutting Therefore know A Fistula in Ano being the worst of Fistula's and always held to be most difficultly cured by Chirurgery according to an old Proverb Fistula in Ano semper insano but to the praise of God and comfort of several I have by my Drops cured divers and some by once dressing Therefore first we will define what a Fistula is Secondly How it is bred For definition Fistula est ulcus putridum plerumque Nervosum cum variis orificiis unde Fistula dicitur For it hath several Orifices either Internal or External This Disease is bred from divers Causes as from Blood inflamed or Tumours Boils sometimes from Piles and Hemorrhoids not discharging the corrupt blood falling into those parts of the Fundament and Ulcers of the Anus or Piles not well Cured but most dangerous when a Venereal Disease lies lurking in the Blood and Reins which I have known too often the cause of Ulcers and Fistula's in Ano and therefore whoever attempts the Cure without taking away the original Cause is like another Ixion condemned ever to turn the Wheel up the Hill which always runs back again For by reason of Excrements always passing that way the blood and humours having once found a Cavous Receptacle admits not a Remedy but by proper and powerful Medicines especially where the Patient is of an ill habit of Body irregular and the worse if of a costive Constitution Of Fistula's some are easily Cured some more difficultly as those that have newly had it are easier cured than of long continuance those that penetrate into the Intestinum Rectum where the Excrements are voided through the Orifice and liquor injected comes through the Gut out of the Anus or if it pass into the Bladder for then the Water will come through the Fistula therefore conclude if the Fistula penetrates through the Intestinum Rectum or into the Bladder or into both or if it be in the Sphincter Muscle it is most difficultly Cured It sometimes happeneth that a Tumour and Inflammation is between the Scrotum and Anus by bruises in hard riding which turn to Fistula's if not Cured Fistula's in the solid parts of the Body may be easier means be Cured taking away the inward cause which feeds it Fistula Lacrymalis and all Fistula's near the Eyes must be cautiously dealt with by reason of the vicinity to so noble a part as the Eye in most of these Cases I have by long Experience found the most successful means of which some of my Patients have acquainted his Majesty who was pleased thereupon to Command me to help some Noble Persons afflicted with a Fistula which Disease if not prevented corrupts the blood and humours vitiates the radical moisture offends the Heart and Brain decays the Senses weakens the memory and by several ways hasteneth Death if not Cured CHAP. XI Of the Piles c. or Verucae Ani Ragades c. and Haemorrhoids HAving now done with the Fistula it is necessary to speak and the rather because this Disease is least handled by Authors though a most common affliction to both Men and Women therefore what I write must be more from my Experience in practice than prescription it is therefore I say an evil not to be flighted by any though not a-like dangerous in all for where it is very painful or troublesome as is usual to Child-bearing Women it forceth to look for help yet in others if neglected may turn to a Fistula c. therefore better Cured being recent than inveterate therefore take notice there are chiefly four kinds viz. I. Condylomata COndylomata being very hard and of a callous substance like Nuts bunching out about the Anus but not very painful this sort proceeds from a Melancholy Acrimonious Juice and generally from a costive Constitution II. Thymi NExt kind to these we shall treat of is Thymi a sort of Pile rough at top narrower in the bottom and large upwards if you rub these with a course linnen cloath they easily bleed which serves for ease a little time but soon fill again III. Crista THE third sort is called Crista Excressences of flesh which generally are caused from too much Venery attracting heat to the part IV. Ficus THE fourth sort is called Ficus or Fig being a flat sort growing like a Mushroom or Fig of a narrow foundation and a broad Superficies Now as to the prognostick part or danger of them as I find by the Judgment of Authors and my own Experience the Condylomata Pile is more troublesome than dangerous yet it is obstinate to remove because of a hard and deep rooting Thymi are easier cured than the former if they degenerate not into worse Symptoms Crista have a malignancy and as Authors say hard to Cure yet by my Drops I have Cured them at one application Ficus is a dangerous Pile or Excressence because sometimes they prove Cancerous they are most dangerous if subject to bleed as bad as any of these Piles Ragades I Have found in my practice the Disease called Ragades or Clefts of the Fundament especially if they have been of long continuance being subject to turn into Fistula's they are the worse if they happen in old Age in a Melancholy Constitution where natural heat is wanting if Women with Child are troubled with this infirmity they are very subject to miscarry and in men where they have been of long continuance and nature hath disburthened it self that way it will be difficult in curing by common Artists Haemorrhoids LAstly The Haemorrhoids being a Flux of blood by the Fundament occasioned by an Acrimonious humour which generates internal Piles call'd blind Piles which by going to Stool do send out blood sometimes with pain if this Disease be of long continuance it sometimes keeps a Lunar Motion like the Feminine Sex and proves dangerous if neglected it often degenerates into a Fistula a worse Disease cannot happen I have been the more careful to declare in all plainness the several sorts of Fistula's Piles Haemorrhoids and other infirmities belonging to the back parts and Fundament which for the

danger being pleasant to smell to and not liquid without danger of breaking Glasses as in other Cordials being dry it is a pleasant Companion which I shall scarce go without For Consumptions It is conveniently taken to the quantity of a scruple or more three times a day Mornings Afternoons and going to Bed in a little Wine or Ale or put into a draught of warm Milk from the Cow with some Sugar of Roses and you will rest the better with a pleasant breathing and your food will better concoct For the Ague or Feaver If you desire to sweat away an Ague or Feaver with it put half a Dram or a Dram to an Ounce of Treacle-Water and dispose your self to sweat For the small Pox Measles or Plague In these Distempers you cannot take a better Cordial to drive it out than half a Dram of this Powder in one Ounce or more of Treacle-Water or good Sack and every three hours about a scruple in a little Sack till safely come out and sometimes after to uphold the Spirits For Pains Gout Stone c. It is good to take half a Dram Night and Morning in a little Sack or Whitewine and sweat upon it It Cures the green Sickness and breeds a fresh Complexion in young and old it is very good for all weakness of the back in Men or Women and will remedy issuings or wastings but for gleetings or weakness of the Spermatick Vessels I have another excellent Cure that strengthens the Retentive Faculty in a little time which I have remedied divers by and shall give directions to any gratis in Venereal Distempers The use of this Cordial Stone or Powder taken in some Whitewine or Sack mightily resists the flatus Hypochondriacus and Melancholy it strengthens the Memory and by comforting the Brain revives the Senses it is a great helper to fruitfulness in Men and Women inclining all to a pleasant disposition If taken by those in health it prevents the Gout Dropsy Scurvy all infections causing strength and a good Complexion For Children it prevents and Cures Consumptions Rickets Liver grown Convulsions Worms and other infirmities and no ways dangerous any way taken or in quantity also it doth wonderfully help the easy cutting of Teeth in Children Now it is necessary after acquainting you with some vertues and uses of this great East-India Cordial that I also acquaint you with the prices there being now some in my hands sent very lately from India the smallest sort of Balls are at ten shillings price some at a Guinny the largest of the bigness of a Turky Egg five pound a piece they will keep many years without the least decay The Ague Pills causing Vomiting two being the usual Dose is one shilling The Anodine Pill which gives ease in less than an hour at one shilling each Pill to be taken in Bed and rest upon it CHAP. XIII Of occult Qualities of Antipathies that vulgar Magick is Witchcraft if maliciously used TO Answer expectation to these Heads distinctly is my design First For occult Qualities we say it is an usual Refuge for Ignorance to take Sanctuary in when a reason cannot be given as to shew why such a Cause produceth such an effect and the cause for the most part is by reason we do not labour nor search into the nature of things but for the most part sit down with a contented Ignorance if we cannot find our questions and doubts resolved in other mens Writings Works and Labours then we say by occult Quality it is done but truth and knowledge is dear in obtaining and what our Predecessors were short in we ought to discover to our Successors for we may better and easier do it than they from their Writings and our own reason with Experience For the general discovery of the nature of things the Doctrine of Sympathy and Antipathy Learnedly discoursed by Sir K. Digby and others doth in some things much facilitate the Work shewing how by Sympathy a Medicine may work at distance upon a person by the Effluviums of the Air which have been experimented by applying to a cruental Cloth or Weapon which made the Wound one while Anodine and Sanative Medicine at which time and during that application they found ease and amendment and the applying of Vinegar or other Corrosives to the Cloth or Weapon should presently cause pain and anguish though at many Miles distance it is related the Italians are so well acquainted with this Magick and Philosophy that they usually in revenge of him that hath been so unmannerly as to ease his Body at their Doors they presently heat a Spit or Iron-Fork red hot and many times thrust through the Excrements of the absent person knowing that the bruning Iron acting upon the spirits of the Body in the new made Excrements will corrode the Bowels and very often they find the sad effects of it we all forbid our Children to piss upon Fire because it breeds a present inflammation in the Neck of the Bladder c. on the contrary some have accidentally been cured of a Cold Flux of the Belly a Looseness when their Nurses have casually cast hot ashes upon their ordure to take it away It is not unworthy the relating an experiment of my own of this kind about the year 1660. I being upon practice in Dublin there came to my House there a rich Citizen in the behalf of his Wife who had lain sick about two Months and had made use of most of the Eminent Doctors in Town but having no remedy he desired my assistance and visit when I saw her in great agony by an inflammation and burning she complained of in her Belly and Womb which she and the Standers by said came to her in fits holding her about two hours at a time Mornings and Evenings I finding her condition very deplorable enquired of her Self Husband and Friends what might be the first cause which they all being ignorant of they told me she being thus left by her Doctors her Neighbours her Mother and all concluded she was bewitched for the violent Fits came so exactly in time Mornings and Evenings after I had considered the Distemper and violent Paroxysms of pain I sent for a Chirurgeon to breath a Vein and that no methodical means might be wanting I directed her Cordials to an Apothecary but all signified little she having used good means before about that time I read Sir K. Digby and some other Books of Sympathy and Antipathy which did the more fasten it in my mind that some strange trick or magick art had been used upon her Her Husband being a Soap-Boiler by Trade it came into my mind to ask the Maid Servant and made her shew me where she emptied her Mistresses Pots of Water so I went with her where was a great heap of Ashes made in Soap-Boiling this standing nearer to her by much than the necessary House she usually threw her Water upon the Ashes to save her labour of going further after I