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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29646	A brief discovery of the chief causes, signs, and effects, of that most reigning disease, the scurvy together with the causes, symptoms, & effects, of several other dangerous diseases most usually afflicting mankind. Whereunto is added, a short account of that imcomparable, and most highly approved medicine called Bromfield's pill. Being the only remedy this age hath produced against the scurvy, and most other curable distempers. Formerly prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield; and now wholly assigned by him to Mr. Joseph Stent.	Bromfield, M.; Stent, Joseph.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4884G; ESTC R217246	15,354	18

being the most common I shall say no more of the rest at present only thus much shall add that if Worms be voided alive without other excrement in the beginning of a Disease 't is dangerous and signifies great Crudities and if voided dead signifies much putrefaction that has killed them which probably shortly after kills the Patient In short 't is the opinion of our Age grounded upon experimental proofs that Worms and their effects have conducted more People to their Graves than any one Distemper whatsoever And therefore you that suspect them in your selves make much of these PILLS as a choice remedy to prevent a Worm-eaten Carcase and take them ere too late by which doing you may prolong your days in case and health and be obliged to thank your Adviser The Causes Symptoms and Effects of DROPSIES THE Dropsie Ascites is from abundance of Water heaped up between the Peritonaeum or inner-coat of the Belly and Bowels which infecting the Mouth of the Stomach doth bring great thirst and often a Fever Sometimes it begins in the Feet and swells upward to the Legs Thighs and Cods but at the same time the upper parts of the Body usually consume The cause of this Dropsie may be from a cold Distemper of the Liver which cannot make perfect Blood but Flegm Wind and Water Sometimes a Dropsie may proceed from a Fever hot Meats and too plentiful drinking of Wine whence the Liver Spleen and kidneys may lose part of their native heat and consequently their ability to attrack the Water and eject it by the Vreters The same may be caused from the natural Flux in Women flowing too plentifully or from retention of the same And drinking much cold Water may diminish and disperse the native heat and by that means make way for a Dropsie The Dropsie Tympanites is from wind shut up in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly and sometimes in the Guts This wind is bred from crude thick flegmatick or Melancholy humors which by heat having motion and made thin become gross windy Vapors This Dropsie is never of wind alone but always mixt with Water But the greatest part of this Distempper proceeding from wind it is then called a Tympany The Dropsie Anasarca is without controversie bred from a cold Distemper of the Liver which hinders its concoction from whence instead of good Blood it disperseth flegmatick humors and causeth the whole Body to swell A Dropsie may be also caused from all tumors or obstructions of the Liver much bleeding great evacuation by Stool Sweat c. Note All Dropsies are dangerous and hardly cured Yet the Dropsie Anasarca which is occasioned by flegm spread over the whole Body is easiest cured of the three but Ascites and Tympanites with much more difficulty Notwithstanding I here promise that my Pills do very rarely fail to give help in the most dangerous Dropsie provided the Disease be within the Power of Physick to remedy Note That all the Symptoms afore-mentioned are seldom in every one that have these Diseases at one and the same time except those in Dropsies but most are and some have more and some fewer of them There remains now something more to be said of those excellent Pills afore-named of which briefly thus Two of the larger Boxes of them price but six Shillings are usually enough for perfect Cure of either of the aforesaid Diseases except the Disease be of very long continuance and then the Person doth sometimes take a small quantity more to perfect the Cure These Pills are also of admirable use for such as have the POX Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins and for such as formerly have had either of those Diseases and suspect an ill Cure or dread a relapse and for such they are of good use taken in the Spring or Autumn to carry off any reliques of the Malady that may be suspected to remain They are likewise one of the most sure and speedy Medicines in the World against the Green-sickness and for such young Women as want their monthly Visits And as I hinted before have recovered many who have been brought even to the Grave with these Distempers They are also of good use against Fits of the Mother as likewise against foulness and other Distempers of the Womb taking away the causes of Barrenness They free the Body from lumpish Melancholy humours and revive drooping Spirits even to a wonder cure the Jaundies and are a good Medicine against heat and sharpness of Urine I shall add That these Pills taken sometimes to prevent Diseases or more closely followed to cure as need shall require are a choice remedy for all Families especially those who inhabit near the Seas such much more than others being liable to Obstructions Agues the Scurvy and many other Distempers They are also a precious Medicine for Mariners and such as use the seas to whom the Scurvy and many other Diseases are very incident partly from bad Airs Sea Fogs sudden Heats and Colds much Salt Diet and sometimes from excessive drinking of Foreign and unfrequented Liquors c. and they are the more commodious for such to take to Sea with them because in the time of taking them none is confined to keep in but every one may walk abroad at pleasure except the weather be extream sharp or the body very tender for indeed they are so gentle that they are safely taken by all Persons from three Years Old to the greatest Age and at all times of the Year even in the coldest or hottest Seasons being so congruous to all Constitutions as gently to wait Nature in her dictates as is daily manifested by their sundry and facile Operations for in some they gently move sweat in others much Urine and in others they operate effectually by Stool and in some again they work by sweat Urine and Stool So that which way soever Nature is inclined to acquit her self that very way they are ready to assist her Many more are the Vertues might truly be ascribed to this Medicine but I shall only add that it being taken some few times at Spring and Autumn doth fortifie the Body against the assaults of most Diseases and it is also found by daily Experience to free the Body from malignant humours and to resist these Disease viz. the SCVRVY the violent Head-ach Palsie Falling-sickness Apoplexy Lethargy or sleepy Disease vertigo Dizziness Frenzy Madness Catarrbs or Defluctions Asthma or Shortness of breath obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery Agues Quotidian Iertian or Quartan Foulness and Distempers of the Womb Pain and foulness of the Stomach putrefaction of Humors Kings-Evil Leprosie Mange Scurf Running Pain Stitches Convulsions Gout Sciatica Cholicks Stone Loosness Fluxes Excoriation of the Intestines or Griping in the Guts Surfeits loss of Appetite Vomiting c. purges gross Tartarous humours from the Body thereby preventing the Gout also sweetning and purifying the whole Mass of Blood c. And know that it doth not only prevent these Diseases