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A49391 The new disease, or, A rational account of the great colds and couhgs [sic] now raging amongst us shewing the true causes of the said distempers, and approved remedies for their speedy cure : together with the author's solemn invitation to all that shall escape those maladies, to come and dine with him Christmas next / by J.L. student in physick and astrology. J. L. 1676 (1676) Wing L34; ESTC R30926 3,986 8

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The New Disease OR A Rational Account of the Great COLDS AND COUHGS Now Raging amongst Us SHEWING The true Causes of the said Distempers and Approved REMEDIES for Their speedy Cure TOGETHER With the Author 's Solemn Invitation to all that shall escape those Maladies to come and Dine with Him at Christmas next By J. L. Student in Physick and Astrology London Printed for W.T. 1676. The Nevv Disease OR A Rational Account of the Great Colds and Coughs now raging amongst Us c. OBserving Colds of late to be a General Affliction wherewith most Persons especially about this City are troubled and which in Many at this time are farr more Dangerous and attended with worse Symptoms than ever were known heretofore I could not but think my self obliged in Pity and Christian Charity towards the Multitudes now Labouring under Them to give some Physical Account thereof with the best and most approved Remedies for the same that People may know how to help themselves in time and prevent the more mischievous Consequences The rather for that I do not remember any Physitian that has Professedly treated thereof But generally they over-pass them as scarce worth their notice though t is well known that they are the principal Cause to which most Diseases have their Original An over-flowing of Rheum being as destructive in the little World as an Inundation of the Sea in the Great I confess a Cold to many seems a very Contemptible matter not fit to trouble a Doctor with People generally slight it but often pay for their Vanity They find their Head stufft with crude vapours and their Breasts clogg'd with vitious unconcocted Humours and the cry T is but a Cold They find their Lungs afflicted and obstructed in their Functions and Offices and themselves scarce able to draw their Breath and yet T is but a Cold They find a want of Appetite and weakness of Digestion a general Stupefaction of the Animal Spirits and faint with Coughs and languish with Catarrhs and sink under Lethargies and lose their Senses in Apoplexies yet still T is but a Cold In short their Brain is at last drowned by a deluge of Phlegm and the Soul is forced to leave the ruinous cottage of the Body and the Man dyes and is fairly buried and still T is but a Cold When it may be a little Care and a Medicine of Three-Half-Pence might under God have preserved him alive till the Year 1700. And therefore I hope none will think this our friendly Undertaking Superfluous or Impertinent nor undervalue it because it s presented in a single Sheet As opiniated Ladies that have more Money than Discretion refuse many times wholsom Medicines meerly because they are Cheap and may be had in their own Gardens In all Medicinal Inquiries the Great Masters of the Art of Healing advise us to begin with the Cause For Scire est per Causas Cognoscere Now the Causes of these extream Colds that at this time so universally afflict us are either General or Particular Immediate or Remote The Immediate or Particular Causes are various according to each Persons occasions and circumstances The Remote primary or general Cause we are not to look for on this ●ide Heaven for let Ignorance or narrow Learning rail at Astrology as they list we are satisfied t is only that Art can give any tolerable Account of the Reasons of Epidemical or Endemial Distempers and why they Rage at such particular seasons more than at other times If therefore we lift up our Eyes to that glorious Glass we shall find in the last Month of October a great number of very rough and threatning Positions first a Conjunction of Mars and Mercury an Opposition of Mercury and Saturn a Conjunction of Mars and the Sun an Opposition of Saturn against both the Sun Mars and Venus and a Con●●nction of Venus and Mars all within the space of one Month From the Consideration whereof it was very easy without the least suspition of Witchcraft or Conjuring to Judg and conclude that Mankind would at or about that time be afflicted with some kind of general Disease or Distemper The particular kind of which is sufficiently intimated unto us by the Signs through which the opposing Planets make their present Transit as Saturn the fountain of Cold as the Sun is of Heat and causer of most frigid Diseases in Taurus an Earthly cold Sign and the Sun Mars Venus and Mercury all in Scorpio a Sign Watry and Feminine Cold and Moist and of which J. Gadbury has affirmed in Print that it is the most vitious Sign of the Zodiack Anim. Cornutum p. 20. Now is it less evident that London more especially should suffer in Its Inhabitants by these extraordinary Colds since Jupiter the only Planet that can lend us any Assistance in this case is posited in Opposition to the Radical Ascendant of that City These are the Celestial reasons of this raging Distemper for by these rugged and contradicting beams and unwholsome infrigidating Influences the Air was not only suddenly altered and the we●●her changed from very warm to very cold as we may remember but likewise impregnated with certain unseasonable particles which are no sooner drawn in by the Lungs but they incorpora●e with the Serum or watrish part of the Blood and render it more impure and thence is generated that vast quantity of Mucus or Snivel which we find Nature unloading her self of continually at the nose and other Emunctories raised and increased by reason that the External cold unwarily received at some of the Pores gets up to the bra●n and by compressing and overcooling the same adds still fresh crudities whence proceed continual distillations of Rheum which falling upon the Lungs and Aspera Arterea or windpipe causes a tickling by the Acrimony and sharpness of the humour and thence comes the Eructation or little Earthquake in the Microcosm which we call a Cough For the Prognosticks of this Distemper we conceive it to be of longer continuance than ordinary and of a more stubborn and contumatious nature not yielding to common Remedies besides people shall be in much danger of Relapses and at sometimes the Disease shall seem almost wholly vanisht of which mitigation we shall have an instance about the 10th of December and from thence continue very moderately till Christmass but afterwards shall spread it sel● abroad a fresh I is a common saying Prevention is the best Physick I know no better way for them to avoid this troublesome companion that makes a kitchin-stuff pot of your head and a Limbeck of your nose than for to keep your self wa●m but be sure arm your self against him Cap a Pe I mean whatever you do secure your head and your feet for they are common sally-por●s where the Enemy enters keep them therefore warm and dry a cap will be a good bedfellow and t is better to pay the Shomakers bill than the Apothecaries But if the intruder have already by a forcible