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A67485	A touch-stone for physick directing by evident marks and characters to such medicines as without purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, minerals, or any other disturbers of nature may be securely trusted for cure in all extreamities and be easily distinguished from such as are hazardous or dangerous : exemplyfied by various instances of remarkable cures performed solely by such medicines.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing W693; ESTC R9839	36,548	128

all help might come too late I went to him and found him sitting by his fire very sadly having taken nothing nor any thing providing for him so I gave him about three ounces of an appropriate Medicine with which he rested well all that night and next morning standing at his dore I askt him how t was with him he said never better but that he had now a great swelling behind his ear I was glad I had done as I did he would have had somewhat to ripen it but I would not and it went down of it self Another being extream ill wholly neglected all means but at length desired me to give him somthing which I did but being not presently well grew humorous and would take nothing but cold water by which he brought himself into a most violent Fever with thirst flegm vomitting and restlesness and soon after so wild as he was fain to be held in his bed all which time I caused those about him to ply him day and night with plenty and divers of my Medicines which yet prevailed so slowly that somewhat else was prescribed him by one who said he had all the signs of death upon him but t was not given him so for one whole night he had no reliefe by Medicine at all which I no sooner heard but I presently sent him such as were proper as deeming it unreasonable to desist so long as there is life having found it alwaies good still to hope the best and to use the utmost means by which divers have recovered that were thought impossible as this almost dying man did to the wonder of all his friends who during his cure were much troubled because of his long costivenesse but I quicted them by telling the danger of moving his body till the venome of the disease was wholly subdued and that in due time they would see nature so enabled by these Medicines as freely and without force it would perform that and all other needfull offices which came to passe to their full satisfaction but had he been attended as too many with such as will be asking continually what do ye think of him if you think he cannot escape pray deal plainly that we may not spend more money to no purpose a course as destructive as vile and hatefull and had it been so here he had certainly dyed for it for there was no hope but in a constant perseverance And now I think it cannot with any colour of reason be denied but that the Instances recited do fully amount in their performances to what is afore proposed to be the proper effects of real Medicines and in every respect to answer those Characters which I have here established for a Standard Test or Touchstone to try and prove whether Medicines are such or not as may rationally be relyed on in cases of extremity and may as I conceive suffice to witness both the substantiality of those Characters and that there are such Medicines really in being Testifying also that my conceptions of Mans true Original and of his true Complexion unto which I have bowed all my Studies Productions have in no wise misled me but so effectually governed and steered my endeavors as to render them far beyond the usual success of first discoverers and much more true usefull and certain than other Physiology And as to their extent in Cure I have frequently and impartially compared the real Virtues and properties of these real Medicines with all the curable Discases the Foul excepted with which I never meddle mentioned in the largest Bills of Mortallity with Captain Grants ingenious Comment thereupon I have considered seriously of them in particular and upon the whole can see no reason to doubt but that taken in time with due perseverance in their use whether for prevention or for cure they are likely to prove far more pertinent safe and effectual than any Helpers Preservatives or Medicines all their marks and performances considered than ever yet were tendered to human assistance and this even in the Pestilence it selfe for though I staid not in London past the increase of two Thousand a Week but was forced away or must be cruel where all obligations of tenderness lay upon me yet took I care tha● nothing of mine should be wanting to any who desired to make use of them with some liberty of freely helping the necessitous besides I had long declined Practice visited none nor had then so much as one Patient under my Hand and withall had so published the Vertues and Uses of all my Medicines as sufficed both to encourage and to instruct every one so plainly as without further direction or attendance every one might be in a capacity of helping themselves and their relations upon any occasion for so I judged it most proper both for the good of Patients and Physitians and possibly would soon so appear to Magistrates also in such Infectious and dangerous times were they accustomed to note the happy union of Safety and Power conjoyned in one and the same Medicine or would strictly hold Physitians and Practisers to such Marks and Characters of real Medicines as would witness them to be such as might justly be depended on in that violent distemper because being such all people might without danger confidently and freely make use of them in all states and degrees of the distemper without any attendance or danger to Physitians it being true and powerful Medicines that is solely to be regarded in all contagious Distempers And it was no smal quantity I provided for the occasion from my observation of a general taint in Nature for some considerable time before so there was no want of what I could furnish at least for a season But yet though I had great assurance both of the propriety and efficacy of my Preservatives and Remedies as whoever well weigh the instances precedent may well believe I had good cause yet observing how from all quarters Medicines were loudly voiced out as most certain in the case I could not at any hand bring my mind to any fresh publication least I might possibly draw people from what was more to what was less effectual for more could not be exprest for prevalence then was of every of them how they answered it in performance after I had tasted and noted divers of them I soon saw cause to greive and fear seeing so weak provision against so powerful an Adversary Besides to publ●sh then a ●●esh when in reason I done enough before and was dayly to be seen seemed so like raising a new Mart for sale for trade and mon● as became not the sadness of the Season requiring rather a giving than a receiving hand and wherein very many to their eternal praise abounded But although the help I left proved more faithful then skilful disposing of much and taking but little accompt of the success yet it amounts to thus much that divers under God imputed their exemption from the Infection unto them and

Besides this Discourse was not calculated for Scholars but for the Vulgar to whose capacity it is adapted for if I had intended to instruct the former I would have taken more time and pains digested the matter better disposed it more advantageously and endeavoured to cloath it in more handsome expressions I must not here forget to acknowledge that I have borrowed several passages from the judicious Author of a late excellent Discourse concerning the State of Physick and the regulation of its Practice I suppose it will be easily imagined that I could have spoken the same things in other words but my respect for that Worthy Person disposes me to believe they will sound better and be more effectual in his own language although I must crave his pardon for transposing some and accommodating others to a proposal he did not then think fit to mention For Faults in Printing c. the Printer must be responsible and particularly for that formall beginning of the 177. Page which was never so intended by the Author This is all with which I thought fit to acquaint thee I shall therefore now end with this request That thou determine nothing in the behalf or to the prejudice of this performance till thou hast impartially examined all that is contained therein and then if it appear that I have spoken truth I expect it should be owned and promoted by thee if I be in any thing mistaken I am content to hear of it and ready to retract whatsoever is not consonant to Truth and Reason A TOUCH-STONE FOR PHYSICK c. THough of all the Natural Sciences that of Physick and therein the Medicinal part is of most Concernment to Humane Happiness yet is there hardly any Art Science or Mystery whether for Delight Convenience or Necessity but what hath gotten the start thereof by many degrees of real Improvement Whilst Physick the chief of Arts instituted for the preservation of Man's health without which all his felicity in a moment is turned into gall and bitterness hath so little to glory in that notwithstanding infinite endeavours of the studious with the utmost help of Chymistry the mok skilfull do ingenuously confess They believe the far better part rests still undiscovered A Truth too evident and the sad causes thereof too manifest to be doubted yet so accompanied with unpleasing reflections both upon the Speculative Inventive and Practick part that I willingly decline all repetition of whatsoever upon my enquiry fell into observation Onely as to the most Important and which render'd the whole Fabrick craz'd and tottering I must needs say That to my Apprehension the aims of the Studious Inquisitive after the Conservation or Restauration of Man the sole Subject of Physick had not been taken aright nor in due measure proportioned to so peculiar and so refin'd a Being For permitting my Understanding its free course throughout the Wilderness of Physical Notions at length my thoughts thus fixed That the Original constitution of Humane Nature being at first but One however since deviated into various Temperatures and Complexions and being far more sublimed than any other Creature on Earth to render his Body a fit Instrument for his Divine contemplative and discoursive Soul The whole mass of assistants assigned by this Art for his supportation or recovery appeared either so weak and impotent or else so course casual violent and dangerous as seemed very unsuitable so sublime a Nature Upon which I conceived it undeniably requisite that all provisions and preparations designed for help of Mankind ought in special manner both in purity efficacie and pregnancy to hold due and just proportion to the peculiarity of the true Humane Temperature or Constitution and that all administrations of a gross impure or improper unbenign nature must needs produce cross and perverse effects and could not but be the main occasion of the manifold failings and miscarriages so frequently and apparently discernable in Physick With which conclusion being very much satisfied my hopes soon led me into persuasions of a possibility of raising new ayds both to Diet and Medicine so refined and so suited to the true Humane Constitution and so appropriate to distinct Infirmities Distempers and Diseases that administer'd in any case and to any complexion though never so far distant from the original should really intend its reduction and without any disturbance of Nature by Loosners Vomiters Bleedings Issues Shaving the head Clisters Blisters and without Minerals or any hazardous or nauseous Ingredients might rationally be relyed on in all extremities And this solely from their powerfull friendliness to Humane Nature and efficacious virtue in extinguishing the venomous causes of Diseases In pursuance whereof depending very much upon my palate long exercised in determining of Virtues by which Compounds as well as Simples became equally liable to my assistance and pressed thereunto by an express propensity in Nature In process of time I proved so succesful in choice of materials and in heightning and uniting of Excellencies as by degrees to raise a large variety of so kindly and so powerfull Medicines That not onely have approved themselves serviceable to the Healthful in Diet and Refreshment and to the weakest women and children in manifold infirmities but in greatest extremities all other means failing have frequently been prevalent beyond all hope or expectation and this too according to my ayms without any outward Violence or inward Disturbance of the body either by Vomiters Loosners Minerals or any other Disturbers of Nature Insomuch that their various weighty and remarkable performances have long time represented their peculiar qualifications as so many evident marks and characters of Real Medicine whereby to distinguish such as are from such as are not to be trusted in cure or fit for Humane Constitutions And to my own particular ever since I understood them they have served me as a real Test or Touchstone of Medicine using no other for any that rely on me in any occasion but Medicines of their qualities wherein having been succesful to my own satisfaction and others approbation yea even to admiration I have thence entertained some apprehensions that it could not be taken amiss but rather as a fair progress towards the Arts Improvement to publish these Marks and Characters as a competent Touchstone for probation of Medicine in general especially of my own and thereby possibly come to be somewhat better understood as to my Physical Conceptions than hitherto I have been some having been over forward to imagine all I aymed at or had attained amounted to no more but onely some pleasant preparations and productions serving merely for Refreshment and Recreation without any material effect or prevalencie upon Distempers and Diseases Whether it be so or not and how far they are mistaken who thus censure the whole Discourse will plainly evince and haply may prove a safe and sure Guide to distressed Patients what kinde of Medicines to avoid and what to embrace in any their necessities The