An Account of the CAUSES Of some Particular Rebellious DISTEMPERS VIZ. The Scurvy Cancers in Women's Breasts c. Vapours and Melancholy c. Weaknesses in Women c. Gout Fistula in Ano Dropsy Agues c. TOGETHER With the Vertues and Uses of a Select Number of Chymical Medicines Studiously prepar'd for their Cure and adapted to the Constitutions and Temperaments of all Ages and both Sexes By an Eminent Practitioner in Physick Surgery and Chymistry THEY BEING His Choice Secrets Experienc'd for many Years in his Practice to be of wonderful Efficacy as the Cures performed by them Manifest and now by the Importunities of many judicious Persons set forth and recommended for the universal Good and Benefit of all People And are to be had only at _____ THE PREFACE THERE needs no Apology for publishing the following Account of Diseases and the Medicines for their Cure the Title Page telling the World 'T is done for the universal Good and Benefit of all People which indeed was the Motive but that the excellent Remedies recommended for their Cure may not be branded with the infamous Appellation of Quack Medicines so detestable to all wise People and indeed not without Reason if it be rightly consider'd what Riff raff Stuff is set Abroad and vended under the Specious Name of Medicine I shall take leave to say only thus much in their behalf that they have all of them been really experienc'd for many Years to be of most excellent Uses for the Distempers to which they are appropriated and 't is presum'd will be found upon Tryal more Efficacious than some may be willing to believe upon only the bare hearing of them or by reading the following Account given of their Vertues which have been lagely known or else had not been recommended Therefore 't is hoped as the intent by publishing them was to serve and not deceive the People as is too notoriosluy known many of the Quack Medicines vended Abroad have done to the bringing disrepute on the most excellent ones none will condemn them till they have tryed them which is the true Test and by which the Author is content to Stand or Fall have Credit or Disgrace The Histories of Cures perform'd by them might have been enumerated had not design'd Brevity forbid The few inserted 't is hop'd will be sufficient to convince all People till they have tryed them that they are Medicines effectual and for further Confirmation should have mentioned the Names of the Persons on whom the Cures were wrought but that the Author is obliged to conceal himself for the sake of his constant Business besides the World is now so Censorious that if the best Physician recommends but a Medicine for Publick Good which he has experienc'd to be Excellent he shall presently have the scandalous Epithet of Quack put upon him tho' it s no more than what the greatest Physicians in all Ages have done without thinking it digressive because they did it as the Author here does his for the common good of his Country-men but now I say it cannot be done publickly with any tollerable Reputation For which Reason does the Author conceal himself and oblig'd the Seller of them never to let his Name be known to any without which solemn Promise they had never been made publick and consequently the People never been benefitted by them But because of this none need to doubt their Efficacy neither will any want proper Directions how to take and use them every thing in that kind being sufficiently provided for in the Book so that none will be at a loss or have any need at any time upon any pretence to speak with the Author concerning 'em besides for their Efficacy the People that sell them can give some Account being well assur'd both of their Vertues and the Authors Skill or else had not undertaken the task of selling them And as they are Medicines effectual so are they lasting for they will retain their Vertues many Years and may be carried beyond the Seas For that no Climate Season of the Year or Age will in the least altet or diminish them provided they be kept from the Air and the Wet A Catalogue of the Names and Prices of the Medicines mentioned in this Book which are to be had only at the Place directed in the Title Page viz. At the _____ Page 1. THE English Pills for the Scurvy c. each Box Price 3 s. 6 d. Page 19. The Liniment for Women's Swell'd or Cancerated Breasts each Gallipot price 5 s. Page 33. The Suffumigating Powder for Vapours Hypocondriack Melancholly and Diseases of the Nerves each Parcel 3 s. 6 d. Page 42. The Ingredients to make the Poultice for the Gout price 5 s. Page 50. The Balsamick Electuary for Weaknesses in Women c. each Gallypot price 3 s. 6 d. Page 55. The Injection for the Cure of Fistula's each Bottle price 5 s. Page 61. The Cephalick or Head Tincture each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 67. The Balsamick Restorative Elixir for all Diseases of the Lungs each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 70. The English Vegetable and Plaisters for the Cure of all sorts of Agues both together price 6 s. Page 76. The Hydragogue Tincture for the Dropsy each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 79. The fam'd Eye Powder and Water both together price 6 s. Page 81. The Carminative or Wind expelling Lozenges each Box price 2 s. 6 d Page 83. The Balsam to make Issues run c each Box price 2 s. 6 d. English PILLS FOR THE SCURVY And all other Cutaneous Diseases or Breakin gs out of the Body Sores c. from that or any other Causes AMONGST all the Diseases incident to Humane Bodies there is none more predominant tho' least regarded than the Scurvy a Disease that seems incident to this Climate and which spares none of any Age Sex or Constitution being a general Malady scarcely taken Notice of because it seldom kills tho at the same time it introduces many direful Distempers and proves the principal and efficient Occasion thereof The cause of the Scurvy is from an acid corrosive Humour tainting the Blood and Juices of the Body incumbred with Earthy Sulphurs of a Nature rebellious and stubborn and attended sometimes especially when inveterate with a very strong Smell or Stench which Volatile Saline Acid irritates the Nerves and Membranes sharpens the Lymph debauches the innate Spirits of the Parts and perverts the equal Temperature of the Blood this is the immediate cause of the Scurvy But the remote Causes are the Sea-Air and the Specifick Malignity of the Stagnated Waters and the Earth affecting by their corrosive Effluvium's also by infection an hereditary conveyance from the Parent and from gross faeculent and obstructive Dyet especially if over-charged with Salt or render'd hard and compact with Smoke as dry'd Neats Tongues Bacon Sawcages red Herrings dry'd Salmon hung Beef c. do not only contribute Matter but obtain also a
peculiar faculty of impressing a Scorbutick Idea on it Of the same Nature are Melancholick Meats as Beef Pork Geese Ducks Salt-fish and all other Fish that are bred in Standing Waters as Eeles and others also pickled and marinaded Fish as pickled Herrings Anchovies and the like which bears a great part in this Morbifick Production also a Salin Air render'd thick and constipative by Vapours and Damps Nitrous Evaporations out of the Earth filled with putrid Steams of Sinks Gutters Ditches muddy and dirty Streets and Sulphurous Smokes of Chimneys stagnating and pent up between narrow Lanes and Corners and seldom or but little serenated or putrify'd by the Rays of a clear shining Sun nor frequently ventilated with Easterly Breezes and such is the Clime of London where the Air is experienced close dull damp salin and muddy over-spread with dense dark salin Clouds attracted out of the Sea for two Thirds if not three Fourth Parts of the Year during which time the Winds seldom blow Easterly or is favour'd with a smiling Sun the two viz. Dyet and State of the Air c. are accounted by all the principal external and internal Agents or Causes of the Scurvy agressing the Body both within and without the first by making its efforts on the Stomach and its Ferment thereby assaulting the Blood and animal Liquor and the latter by entring the external Pores by their subtle effluvium's as is most certainly and at large set forth in a late ingenious Tract entituled Scelera Aquarum Wherein the Author tells us That London is situated on a wicked Bottom of Earth called blue Clay this Bottom is many contiguous tho' separated Bodies extends it self round the Metropolis and Lines of Communication some Miles in Circumference and reacheth likewise downwards to an enormous Depth towards the Center for the boreings that have been frequently made by the Brewers in quest of the impregnated Water called Spring Liquor hath been mostly attempted to thirty and forty Fathom Depth without success As all sorts of Clay are found by Experience and Observations of Country Farmers and Brewers to abound with a Juice or Salt of an Esurine Acid Nature and Quality which vitiates all the Fruits of the Earth except it be first sweetned and sheath'd by Chalk both crude and calcin'd into Lime so this blue kind of Glebe more scelerous and corrosive than all the other maleficates equally Air and Water and renders all the stagnate Waters of the Neighbourhood esurine to a very high degree And here it is that the bounty of Nature hath made it self remarkable to the Eye in burying this bottom of Clay near twenty foot in depth under Ground and besides covering it over and over with repeated Strata of diffeâ—ent kinds of Moulds towards the Gravelly Surface of the Earth left the Atmosphere should be invaded and the ambient Air we aspire should be thereby exasperated and rendred Catarrhous through the corrosive effluvia sent up from below so that till about One Hundred and Fifty Years ago when an endless number of Perforations began to be made by the common Brewers into the Subterranean World the City of London enjoyed its Native State of Health and was entirely free from Coughs and Catarrhs Periodical Fevers vulgarly call'd Agues and in a word from all the Symtomatical Branches of the Scurvy hitherto enumerated And here it may be observed by the by that the acrid Effluvia sent up from the Clayey Bottom by reason of their volatile Nature do little harm in the Summer Season but during that of the Winter whilst they are weighed down and reverberated back towards the Bafis of the Atmosphere by the Fogs and Frosts then I may say it is and not till then that they begin to Bite even Persons adult bur more especially the unseason'd Bodies of Children and Foreigners In short the Scelus Aquoe Loci or corrupted or corrosive Waters here insisted on slept for a long Succession of Ages out of Harms way in the Bowels of the Subterranean World and besides the corrosive Waters were not employed either in Bread or potable Liquors extracted forth of Malt And as I may add they were only made use of for clearing of the Sight and for eating away the Kells and Cataracts off of dim Eyes But about the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Crown as I am well inform'd Clay Waters began to grow into credit with such as Brewed or Baked for Sale as a more powerful-Menstruum for extracting the Tincture out of Malt And at that period of Time it was that the Waters of D AT C. were Carted from Hogsdon to the several Brew-houses in the Metropolis or City of London at 800 l. per Ann. Expence and at the same time a world of Wells were made and Pumps erected at every corner of the City and Suburbs In a word the Scelus Aquoe Loci now spoken of that is to say the acrid Nature and esurine Quality of the Stagnate Waters in and about this City is sufficiently evinced a Posteriori from the ill natur'd Effects thereof in all Domestick Uses First in chopping and ditching of Hands and Face Secondly from coagulating of Alcalous Fluids both Soap and Barm Thirdly from hardening of Pease and redning of Bacon and all Flesh Meats if boiled therein which the Lord Bacon enumerates amongst ill Signs and Diagnostick of Insalubrity or Unwholsomness Fourthly from the killing of Flowers and destroying all manner of Garden-stuff unless the acid Salt be rst fievaporated by open Airings and Insolations on the Surface of the Earth as was practised by the Ancients and put in practice by Gardeners to this Day I had almost forgot to add here that the prodigious bottom of Clay now spoken of extends it self from the Metropolis or City of London all along the Banks of the River Thames into the Marshes or Flats of Essex which vitiates both Air and Water in the Hundreds to a very high degree whereby the Foundation hath been laid of such Chronical Fevers and Scorbutick Agues as incessently reign in the Districts of Dench and Rochefort In a word the River of Thames is also vitiated by Dyers c. so that no Water is fit for Bread and Brewer's use save the New River which is far more Salubrious or Healthful than any other Water in or about the City of London However the Scurvy whether from immediate or remote Causes is certainly a Corruption and Putrefaction of the Blood and Humours whence the Concoction being hurt the Stomach which is the Index of Diseases is depraved Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen c. are occasion'd bringing by degrees a general Cachexie or evil Habit of Body whereby manifold and complicated Distempers are at length introduced which affects all Persons according to their various and different Tempers and Constitutions Such I say is the Scurvy that grand Enemy to Health and only reigning Disease of this Kingdom which Persons of all Ranks Ages and Sexes are more or less
afflicted with it being the original and productive Cause of almost all the Distempers incident to Humane Bodies and from which alone Disease if not timely removed more especially proceed Rheumatisms Gouts Fevers Agues Jaundice Green-sickness Dropsies Cholicks Stone and Gravel Phtysicks Consumptions Convulsions Apoplexies Palfies Hectick Fevers Hypochondriack Melancholly Hysterick Passion Vapours Fits of the Mother Rickets in Children Kings-evil Falling Sickness and the like which these Pills if taken both prevents and Cures their Reputation having by their manifold Vertues been kept up for many Years and accounted the only Sovereign Medicine in the whole Art of Physick against all Scorbutick Distempers whatsoever they penetrating in a very short space the whole Humane Body from Head to Foot and tho' they never till now were made publick to the World yet many Thousands of Boxes have been dispersed with wonderful Success not only here in England but also in Germany Holland and other remote Countries where that devouring Disease the Scurvy hath likewise predominated they being so certain a Cure for that stubborn and rebellious Disease that Thousands have been cured when the Distemper has grown so inveterate and deplorable as to become a shame and scandal to those that have had it and which hath been taken by many to be some bad Distemper for the Scurvy often causes great Pains in the Head Nose Shoulders Arms Hips Legs and Bones with the Sciatick and other tormenting Pains all over the whole Body whereby they sleep ill and tumble and toss in the Night with great uneasiness and trouble and are attended with a heaviness and weariness having reddish or blueish Spots or Breakin gs out on the Skin weakness in the Back Loyns and Knees a bad Stomach and sometimes loss of Appetite strong or stinking Breath looseness or foreness of the Teeth and Gums Throat and Mouth with Itchings Pimples Blotches Boiles Ulcers Morphews Scabs Scurf a general Weakness and Faintness over the whole Body the Scurvy most commonly afflicting People after various means and sometimes with Vomitings Loosenesses and the disguise of almost innumerable Distempers according to their Constitutions different Situations and Places where they dwell and so resemble all manner of Illess too tedious here to enumerate as that it s no wonder their Diseases are so frequently mistaken and doth with so much violence and force oftentimes wander about the Body and affect it that if it be neglected it will at last get into the Bones and infect the very Marrow thereof yet notwithstanding so famous are these most excellent Pills the Cure then will be performed by only a few times more than ordinary taking of them Tho' it is advised that upon the appearance of any of those Symptoms you have speedy recourse to these Pills which will prevent their increase and carry them off with less trouble and difficulty there being scarce one Disease which People are afflicted with here in this Climate but the principal and efficient Cause thereof is the Scurvy that Disease carrying Thousands to their Graves when it scarcely has been known-of what Distempers they have dy'd there being very few that discerns or indeed will give themselves the trouble to consider what the original Cause or occasion thereof is tho' it too manifestly appears as every judicious Physician may discover if he will that it is the Scurvy Therefore be well advis'd about your Distemper and run not into the Hands of inconsiderate Practitioners who take not due Thoughts about the original Cause for how many both Old and Young are daily carried off by Fevers Rheumatisins Apoplexies Consumptions Convulsions Rickets King's-evil and the like which if the original Cause had been consulted and timely recourse had to these famous Pills might in all probability have been alive to this day these Pills being very harmless and safe and proves the only Universal Purgative Preservative Preventative and Curative Remedy in the whole Republick of Medicine They wonderfully so far as any Purging Medicine can prevent and cure the Dropsy and Gout speedily those Diseases being the product of the Scurvy taking away the Water in one and the Pain in the other tho' never so great and not only gives present Ease Relief and Comfort in the Gout and that beyond expectation but also very much lessens if not totally prevents the Pains returning for the future they working gently by Stool and Urine and sometimes by Vomit if the Stomach be very foul without the least Griping or making sick thereby curing most curable Diseases by stirring up and discharging those lurking offending Humours sweetning the Mass of Blood and Juices and bringing the ill and untoward Habit of Body into a good sound and firm Disposition These Pills having cured numbers of Persons both of Dropsies and Gouts and that in a very short time some of which have been given over as incurable others have gone above a dozen Years upon Crutches and never heard to this Day that they ever mist the Cure of one Person although they have been used in Practice for above Twenty Years These Pills are admirably good against Consumptions of all sorts that disheartning Disease so daily and apparently dwindling a Person to the Grave and is the manifest product of the Scurvy not so much from their adding of Matter as by taking away the Obstructions which hinder the Nourishment from going to its respective Parts in which Disease whether in Old or Young they have done Miracles making the Persons grow plump and full who but a while before were reduced to nothing but Skin and Bones and this they have generally performed and scarcely been ever known to fail Also in that rebellious troublesome and oftentimes loathsome Disease the King's-evil whether hereditary or not which numbers of Persons of different Ages and Sexes are infested with they are a wonderful Help and Cure whether in the Swellings or running Sores disposing the vitiated and scorbutick Blood and Humours into such a state that the Disease is as it were pulled up by the Roots as never to return again These famous Pills are the most excellent Head-purge in Nature and that for all Diseases therein as Head-ach Megrim or Swimming Vertigo or Giddiness Lethargy Frenzy Madness Melancholy Diseases of the Spleen Dimness of Sight Rheums and all other Distempers in the Eyes Deasness Noise in the Ears Drowsiness Heaviness or Dulness of the Spirits c. all these Distempers proceeding originally from Scorbutick habits and is a Medicine beyond any ever yet known being of so Amicable a Property that none can pretend to a greater Secret to extirpate the Scurvy and all the effects thereof there being no Disease so remote or abstruse soever in the Body of Man but these Pills will find out insinuate into and potently and universally expel or throw out These Pills are an admirable help for such Persons who are unhappily afflicted with the Scurvy to that degree as to be exercised with Hypochondriack Disaffections Hysterick Passions risings in the Throat
Paroxisms the manner of taking which Pills with observations to be heeded as to Diet c. is at large before set forth with which and this Suffumigation they observing Rules as to Diet c. numbers of Hysterick Persons have been cured when they have lain some Months in violent Ravings and other Symptoms almost suppos'd irretrievable Secondly of Hypochondriack Melancholly or Flatus in Men which is a sort of Cachexie that frequently reigns in our Northern Climates whose Symptoms appearing mostly in the Hypochondria is term'd the Hypochondriack Disease and when its Symptoms are very fierce and exalted 't is entitule the Scurvy a Name given it by the Saxons in Norâ—â— Germany who are most liable to it the better part of Authors upon this Subject being amus'd with its Symptoms and Effects have vainly fancy'd to establish its Original Seat in several Bowels that are only accidentally concern'd but if they trac'd it to its state of Infancy and first beginning they must have pitch'd upon the Stomach for the Place of its Nativity and upon the Acid viscous Cruditie that a faulty digestion occasion for its Causes For our further satisfaction in this matter we shall briefly run over its Symptoms and if we find that they owe their Being to an Acid Crudity in the Stomach shall reckon that we have made our point good In the first place then the Appetite is over-keen in Hypochondriack Persons their Digestion being weak and follow'd by Convulsive or weighty Pains in the Stomach belching Wind and Noise especially in the left side of the Belly where the Gut-Colon is straitned they are always Costive and Laxatives operate better in them than Purgatives if an Artificial or Natural Vomiting happen they throw up Acid Matter which stupfiies or sets the Teeth on edge and which will corrode a Copper Vessel so as to render it rusty After Eating they are oft-times seiz'd with a gnawing Pain in the Stomach reaching along the Back from the lower part to the Neck of the Gullet which some miscal Nephritick Pains as also with sudden flushings in the Face wringing Pains in the Guts palpitation of the Heart perturbation of Mind and a difficulty of breathing occasion'd either by viscous Crudities distending the Stomach or Convulsions of the Midriff and Muscles of the Breast or Wind in the Abdomen hindring the descent of the Midriff while their Stomach is empty they are apt to be giddy and dull they are liable to periodical Exasperations frequently they are sensible as it were of Fumes rising up from the Belly and the Paroxism resembles an Hysterical Fit in the Paroxism the colour and consistence of their Urine is inconstant but when 't is over returns to a Natural order These are the Symptoms of Hypochondriack Person but all of them are rarely to be seen in one Person the most certain Symptoms that always attend are Gripings and Wind in the Guts a weak Stomach Costiveness and Perturbation of the Head The Symptoms being thus premis'd we come now to enquire after the Cause of this Disease the first and original of which is a vicious Acid in the Stomach enlarging the Appetite but unfit for Digestion hence ensues an Acid Crudity in the first Passages which depraves the crasis of the Blood prevents the due separation of volatil Spirits upon which the Lymph becomes Acid and the Bile inactive These are the Sources of all the preceding Symptoms since Wind Noise Griping of the Guts and Costiveness are the natural result of a vicious Acid in the first Passages as flushings in the Face arise from its effervescence with the Bile the Convulsions of the nervous Membranes in several Parts of the Body are the effect of its Iritation its Crudity impairs the due Fermentation of the Blood and causes a palpitation of the Heart and difficulty of Breathing it depraves the Nutritious Juice of the Bowels which settles into hard Swellings and occasions a degeneracy and austerity in the Spirits hence Fear Melancholly irregular Thoughts and uncouth emotions ensue The remote Causes that promote Crudities are Acid Liquors or Salt Victuals or such as are dried in the Smoak since both partake of the Acid Spirit of Salt or Soot also want of motion to promote digestion and the speedy assimilation of the Chyle likewise Nocturnal Study and over thoughtfulness and care exhaust the Spirits impoverish the Blood and render the Lymph acid Thus much for the Symptoms and Cause of this Disease Now as to the Cure its consists in correcting and evacuating the Crudities of the first Passages fortifying the Stomach retrieving the due crasis of the Blood and restoring all wonted Evacuations to their former course in order to compass which ends let the following Rules be heedfully minded 1st That a Dose of the English Pills aforementioned be taken so often as you find occasion with a careful regular Diet and using a moderate quantity of true natural red Wine mix'd with Water instead of Malt-drinks which with the use of the Suffumigating Powder I shall by and by give directions about never fails setting them to rights as numbers in very deplorable conditions have happily experienced 2dly Their way of living both in the Vapours and Hypochondriack Melancholly as to Dyet ought to consist chiefly of cooling refreshing Nourishments Food of good Juyce eating Water-gruel Barley and Rice-Broths Rice-milk boil'd and roast Veal and Mutton Veal or Chicken-Broths not made so strong as usually eating no Salt or spiced Meats 3dly They must sleep not too much neither indulge Melancholly or thoughtfulness but be cheerful and use diversions keeping in company that is mirthful and talkative ride and take the fresh Air which with the variety of different Company and Objects which they see concur to pleasure the Mind and remove all anxious Thoughts and thereby contribute much towards the Cure And for all Diseases of the Nerves Fits of all sorts whether Convulsions Falling Sickness Apoplexies Lethargies Palsies or other Disorders of the Animal Spirits and Brain Spasms Tremblings Contractions Relaxations of the Limbs Numbness Coldness or the like a Dose now and then of the aforesaid English Pills and using the Suffumigating Powder as I shall presently direct nothing will be found more efficacious especially if the contracted or relaxed Limbs be anointed every Night with Oil of Amber and the following Diet-drink be made and drank constantly of which is also excellent in Vapours and Melancholly Take Mustard Seeds 4 Ounces buised Horse-radish Roots two Ounces Scurvy-grass two Handfuls Aaron Roots half an Ounce Bryony Roots two Ounces boil all in a Gallon of Spring Water till a Quart be boil'd away then strain it and drink half a Pint three times a day Use the Suffumigating Powder thus put a Paper of it upon some live Coals in a Chasing-dish or some such a thing and put in under a Chair with a Hole in it clapping a Funnel upon the Coals so that the Smoak will go through the Funnel and the Patient sitting upon
the frightful and as it were dying Disease the Vapours of all sorts Fits of the Mother Cloggings Stuffings Gnawings or Illness at Stomach whether from Wind Humours or the like also for such as grow too fat sweat much and have nauseous spittings in the Morning Bleeding at Nose Cachexies have costive or hot Bodies and for all as have lost their Complexions by the Green-sickness Jaundice or otherwise and such as are overtaken with lingring Diseases growing worse and worse every Year than other not knowing well what they ail having ill Digestions Stoppages in the Head and Breast shortness of Breath c. till such time as they fall into Dropsies Hectick Fevers or deep Consumptions pining and wasting away with dry Coughs Wheesings faint Sweats in the Day or Night Weakness fainting Fits and the like These admirably Pills carry off all those Diseases the right way by taking them twice or thrice in a Month or oftner if you find occasion They are the best Physick in Nature for to take Spring and Fall as a Preventative Remedy and to preserve Health as most People that have any regard to the welfare and security thereof are mindful to take and likewise from any Disorder or Indisposition whether from Heats or Colds Surfeits by eating or drinking or the like If taken as soon as your perceive your self ill they most assuredly prevent any Fever or other Disease from invading you and there is as much prudence in taking Physick Spring and Fall twice or three times in each Season to discharge the peccant Humours which are heap'd up in the Stomach and lodge there tho' at the same time you seem to be very well in Health thereby to preserve from and prevent Diseases which all Persons are liable to every Moment as there is to take Physick for curing those Diseases when they have seized you and no Person that desires a happy and healthy State of Body will be so imprudent to neglect that which is so absolutely and undeniably necessary for for the preservation thereof and I can assure them from a very large Experience that no Physick under the Sun will answer such a purpose beyond these famous English Pills These Pills purge by Stool Phlegm Choller and Melancholy disposing all old Ulcers Fistula's running Sores Sore Breasts Sore Eyes Scald Head King 's evil Swellings or Sores Wounds Gangreens Cankers Cancers Tettars Ring-worms Scabs Salt Humours or any other Breakin gs out as Pushes Boils Wheals c. to a speedy healing by purging away the evil Humours which feed them and perfectly removes the cause of the Elephantiasis or Leprosy These Pills are of wonderful use for all Travellers Seamen and such like Persons who live on bad Dyet in ill Airs and moist Places and near the Sea Coast and for all such as have spoiled their Bodies and surfeited their Heats and Colds hard and excessive Drinking in their young Days and for such as cannot attend upon a Cure but are forced to go about their Business They may take them to Sea with them because they keep their Vertues many Years nor do Sea Voyages spoil them They will will be found to stand them in great stead in all Sea-sicknesses sickly Climates or Seasons Calentures Fevers Fluxes Poysons Agues Surfeits and the like Scorbutick Diseases which so commonly afflict such as go to Sea as that scarcely any but are afflicted in one or more of these Diseases so excellent are these Pills that more cannot possibly be done by a purging Medicine These Pills are incomparable against all manner of Coughs Colds Rheums or Distillations difficulty of Breathing Vomiting weakness of the Stomach want of Appetite Pleurisies Pains of the side spitting of Blood c. performing every thing of this kind to admiration suddenly and strangely easing of Pains proceeding from Wind Humours Colds Surfeits or any other Cause whatsoever They cure Fevers and Agues of all sorts sometimes in three Weeks sometimes in fourteen Days and sometimes in less time altho' of 2 or 3 Years standing and given over by all Physicians and when almost every one thought the hopes of Recovery had been past These Pills kill all sorts of Worms in Old or Young altho' the Patient has been almost destroyed with them they bringing away not only the Worms dead or alive but also Slime Filthiness or wormy Matter both from the Stomach and Bowels which generates and breeds them bring down the great Bellies of Children and others which Worms occasions causing a strong Digestion and a sanative Constitution and I cannot forbear repeating them to be as they are indeed and which every one that make tryal will find the very best Remedy in the World against the Dropsy and the Gout taking away all Swellings from the Belly Thighs and Legs and all manner of Pains tho' fixed in the very Bones and that in Rheumatisms when the Pains have been so cruel and intollerable as not to be born without violent Roarings and Cryings out they have done wonders and that when no other means whatsoever would any thing avail They also dissolve the Stone as much as any Medicine in the Universe is able to do bringing away Slime Sand and Gravel from the Reins and Bladder taking away Stoppage of Urine and causing those to make Water plentifully and easily who could not do it in some Days before this they have done in numbers of People to admiration These Pills are a certain Cure for the Falling-sickness Convulsions that deplorable and fatal Disease to Infants whereby several Thousands and that from a Scorbutick Cause are carried off in a Year Apoplexies Palsies Cramps Lamenesses weakness of Limbs loss of Memory Sciatica's and all manner of fixed or running Pains whatsoever in any part of the Body all which does most certainly proceed from the Scurvy that Bane and distroyer of Health and Life insomuch that many Bed-rid Persons given over in ail appearance as incurable have under God unexpectedly met with a Cure almost to a Miracle so that many learned Physicians could not but admire at their wonderful Vertues These samous English Pills Cure Barrenness effectually whether the fault be in the Man or Woman they exalting the Generative Faculty cleansing and strengthning the Spermatick Vessels resisting all Foulness and Infection in the Act of Generation bring down the Terms in Women and Maids strengthen a weak Back cure Ulcers and Stoppages in the Womb and are wonderful in all other Diseases belonging to the Female Sex they expel Wind carry off the Wind Cholick to admiration and so speedily Cure the Griping of the Guts that many who seemingly were at the point of Death have found them a present Remedy when all other means have failed They are the most powerful Pills in Nature against the Rickets in Children the pale and wan Countenance whether from the Green-sickness or otherwise in Virgins all manner of Stoppages and Pains in the Stomach Head and Brain Liver Spleen Reins Womb and Bowels they purify cleanse and
sweeten the whole Mass of Blood rectify all the Distempers of the Head quicken the Senses add a good Colour to the Face strengthen the Sight and so wonderfully recreate the Natural Vital and Animal Spirits as that the Body thereby is made perfectly able to withstand and resist all its Diseases They cleanse the Body of Wind Water and ill Humours without the least Griping or making Sick unless as was said before the Stomach be very foul or any way weakning the Body which done they cease working for they will work no longer than there is Diseasy Matter to work upon but contrarywise will help all inward wastings or decays of Nature caused through Pains Wrenches Bruises or over-strainings they stopping all Weepings Moistures Whites Fluxes c. by carrying off the Humours another way thereby strengthning the Vessels fortifying Nature and restoring the decay'd Parts even to a wonder In fine these Pills are the chief and real Medicine now used for the Scurvy and the aforesaid Diseases which are produc'd there-from and found to be such from long Experience not only here in England but in many Foreign Countries and Kingdoms they being cryed up and prized above all Remedies whatsoever insomuch that in some Thousands of Families on most occasions they are their only Physick and indeed no Person living from the highest to the lowest can have a better Purging Medicine in the World let the Patients condition be from what cause or occasion soever they being known to be safe in Operation and certain in the end proposed for no Person curable troubled with the aforesaid Diseases ever failed of a Cure especially if they continued them without delay of time or taking of other Physick according to the Directions and all Persons that have been known to take these Pills have found good at the first taking and several Hundreds yea Thousands of People who have taken them have given them as great Commendations as it was ever possible any Medicine could deserve Their safety and the success that has followed upon the use of them has brought them into the great estimation they have have acquired in many parts of the World for as much as they that take these Pills need not go under long dangerous and chargeable Courses of Physick nor suffer by bad Medicines or be driven time after time from one Physician to another as many hundreds daily are not knowing where to apply themselves safe when only a Box or two of these Pills will do more notable Cures than twenty times that Money expended upon Doctors These Pills are the only Antidote in Nature against all infectious Diseases contagious Airs and preserves from the mischief of Fogs and unwholesome and suffocated Vapours in Marshy or Fenny Countries which arise from the Earth or Water they making old Age comely and the Countenance of all that take them to be chearful and Sanguine they mundify and cleanse the Skin of all its Impurities restores and increase Beauty and abound with more Vertues than any one Medicine besides for altho' many Diseases have been mentioned the labour might have been saved for as they are Pills of an universal Tendency and I verily believe the only Purging Medicine in the World it might only have been said they are good for every Disease and not only for the Distempers herein inserted but also for many others known or unknown without name or number even when they are so unaccountably afflicted as not knowing what they ail These Pills being endowed with such excellent Properties and are so full and effectual a healer that they deservedly merit the Title of the only universal Pills in the World And although they are of such admirable Vertues yet I must inform you that when the Disease is of long continuance and stubborn a perfect Cure cannot be expected in a few times taking them in those Cases you may take them in the largest Dose and that at least for ten or fifteen times or more as need requires omitting them a day or two as you shall see cause but if any shall presume upon the commendation of these Pills that any Disease in whatsoever condition the Patient is in must be infallibly cured he is mistaken for I speak here only of such Diseases as by God's Blessing and the very best of Means as these Pills undoubtedly are they may receive cure for for in some Cases no Medicine in the World can prevail for sometimes the Lungs themselves or the Liver or the Reins are ulcerated and putrefy'd and sometimes other internal Parts are consumed and what Medicine in Nature can repair such Ruins or make new Viscera when the old are perished These Pills operate extreamly pleasant safe and gentle and is Physick fit to be taken by Persons of the greatest Rank and Dignity and that by all Ages and Sexes from Two Years old to Fourscore and upwards at any Season of the Year and it is observable that these Pills after four or five times taking keep the Bowels open for a Month together and leave not the Body costive and bound as is the Property of all other Physick by which good Property Diseases seem to melt away insensible These Pills are of an admirable and friendly quality performing all its Operations as-Nature-her self requires and is disposed to the Action tho' chiefly by Stool and Urine so that they are bound to that way of Operation as best serves Nature's end in restoring Health Hence it is that they cure Diseases with so great safety speed and ease and that without almost any other Medicine they being as was said before fitted for all Ages Sexes and Constitutions whatsoever and that if there but little Corruption in the Body they bring forth but little if much they bring forth much and in Persons perfectly well they will scarcely work at all because in such they have no Enemy to meet or contend withal These Pills are not only the surest and most certain Medicine as well as cheapest for the Scurvy and all the asoresaid Diseases which are the consequents or productions thereof of any ever yet published or administred but doth a thousand times more excel the best prepared and most celebrated sorts of Spirit of Scurvy-grass so highly applauded for the Scurvy they affecting what is herein proposed so stupendiously and beyond the power of any other Remedy whether ordinary or extraordinary as that they never can be vallued or esteemed enough for what Reachings Strainings Vomitings Gripings illness at the Stomach sickness at Heart Faintings and other very unpleasing Effects many Medicines occasion which are here avoided this single Medicine gently cleansing the Stomach and Bowels of their drossy mucilaginous Dregs saluting the Vital Powers like an Angel of Peace and piercing the whole Body like Lightning doth as it were by its Character and benign Beams subdue the Malignant Powers of Diseases and throughly overcome the morbisick Matter thereof and that without the least perturbution of Humours alteration of Body change
livid or black Colour having great Veins every way round it which the Blood extends and makes turgid and visible resembling the Feet of a Crab from whence it took its Name and is full of Pain and very hot and of a cruel and horrid Aspect and sometimes rises to such a hight of Malignity that the Matter it contains when it is broke is as sharp and as corrosive as Aqua Fortis They are as said at first Whole or Ulcerous in the beginning growing or increasing they are generally whole but when come to ripeness they break run or gleet and are then called Cancer Ulceratus or Ulcus Canceratum This Humour being fixt upon some one or more of the Glands of the Breast from either of the Causes mentioned and being sharp and corrosive is apt to convert whatever comes to it of Blood into the same Acrimony with it self and so increases apace while the Skin is whole but much more when upon the breaking of the Skin for then the accession of the Airs adds to the vigour of the Ferment when it grows fierce or enraged and so shoots forth it self in the nature of a Fungus or Excrescences or Tubercles c. This part being deprav'd and a vitious Ferment therein the Humours that flow thither are still farther changed till at length they partake of a malign and poisonous Nature vehemently deleterious consisting of a stinking Arsenical Sulphur and a Catheretick or highly corrosive Salt extreamly subtle and penetrating This malign Humour when so from whatever Causes chiefly take up its seat in parts that are Glandulous beginning in the Glandule of a Part and most often affects Womens Breasts by reason of their looseness great Humidities and strong Ferment they contain and at first is very difficult to be known for it at first exceeds not the bigness of a Pea or a Bean which in time increases slowly to the bigness of an Egg or a Melon or as sometimes it has been known as big as a Pompion tho again in some according as is the Cause it grows big of a sudden and discovers its evil Nature by the grievous Symptoms that appear and a◠it increases in bigness it increases in malignity In the Cure of Cancers various Successes have happen'd which have divided the Opinions of Practitioners concerning the Causes of them The Ancients observ'd that Women were most troubled with Cancers upon the stopping of their Monthly Visits and that when at any time they had swellings in their Breasts upon the provocation of that Evacuation the swellings either sunk or left thin from whence they concluded that the stopping of that Course in Women was the only Cause thereof and this they endeavour'd to explain by saying that the Blood by such stoppages being not purify'd from the Atribilious Humour or Acids which separate themselves from it by the regular flowing of the Courses discharge themselves upon some one of the Glandulous Parts and those of the Breast more generally from the Communication there is between them and the Womb which Communication Experience confirms because we see that just upon or a little before the coming down of the Courses the Breasts of Women are tender that is the Glandules or Kernels of them so as not to be handled or press'd with ease which upon the flowing of the Courses that tenderness leaves them and they may be felt and handled without any manner of uneasiness so that it is plain that upon the stoppage of the Courses in Women Cancers are oftentimes occasion'd especially where the Blood abounds with Atrabilious Humours or Acids I say sometimes it is so for it must not be said to be always so because we have instances without number of Women that have had them by Blows Bruises c. as before we have made mention of and as was the case of a Gentlewoman whose Husband after a Drunken Bout was thrown into a Fever and being delirious upon her giving him something to drink he hit her Left Breast with his Hand which caus'd it to Cancerate of which she soon after dy'd We are assur'd by many observations that Cancers sometimes have proceeded from the stopping of the Monthly Visits by Frights violent Grief and by letting of Blood unseasonably at the times of the Courses actually running which are dangerous stopping them and care should be forthwith taken to bring them to flow again or else the Breasts may be affected especially if the Blood abounds with Atrabilious Humours or Acids as before-mentioned The hardness of Cancers is from the thickness of the Humour the pain of them is from the conjoyn'd Cause it being sharp and corrosive the Heat of them proceeds from the extremity of Pain the livid or blacksh colour is from the Malignity and Poison which even discolours the purest Metals if touch'd with it the roundness of the Cancers is from the thickness of the Matter which cannot spread it self abroad as Humours do that are more fluid the inequality of shape of the Cancerous Tumour as sometimes 3 or 4 square or longish proceeds from the Ferment of the Humour and because sometimes it is contain'd in several little Glands and its turgid Veins like to Crab's Claws is caused from the Recrements of the Blood filling those Parts which by reason of Matter obstructing or pressing upon them hinders its getting forth Cancers are known in part by the Places they fix on which are the Glands tho' they may breed in almost all parts of the Body and this Aegineta confirms who says a Cancer may happen to sundry Places as the Lips Tongue Cheeks Womb and other loose Glandulous Parts but were One has a Cancer in any part besides Twenty have them in their Breasts and so says Galen That Cancerous Tumours are chiefly in Women's Breasts which have not their Purgations according to Nature and the reason seems to be from the consent of the Parts as before observed for that the Mammariae Veins or Veins of the Breasts meet with the Uterinae or Veins of the Womb under the Musculi recti of the Belly by which means there is a translation of the Matter from the Womb to the Breasts Where Cancers in the Breasts are painful there is also attending a Pulsation or beating like a Pulse together with a Heat more than ordinary and where the Pains are very sharp so as if the Part was struck with a Dart 〈◊〉 the Matter is very corrosive and will certainly in a little time break forth in a Gleeting or some dangerous stinking Ulcer and when they are Ulcerated as frequently they are from the breaking of some of the Tubercls lying under the Skin whether the Matter that runs be much or little the Ulcer is painful and very stinking and not only discharge a stinking Gleety Humour but also there thrusts forth hard and painful Lips which in time if not rightly managed fixes to the Ribs that is if the Cancer be in the Breast or side of it becoming by the quick progress it
of this Liniment which is so innocent that it may be eat and yet of such wonderful Effects that if any sore Breast be to be cur'd 't will infallibly do it and if incurable will no more injure it than applying upon it only a piece of Flannel or Cloth By this time the Reader may be in expectation or at least wise desirous of knowing what this Liniment is compounded of which I must beg pardon for concealing and shall proceed to direct the way and manner of using it which is thus Anoint the Swell'd or Pain'd Breast with a little of it with a warm Hand every Night and Morning for almost a quarter of an Hour together applying a Piece of Flannel over and this must be done daily for a considerable time for it is frequently observ'd that the Glands in the Breasts are very hard and it cannot be expected they should soften presently but this every Patient may depend upon that if they continue using it without once omitting it it will infallibly cure some People are cur'd sooner by it in others it is longer first according to the Condition of the Breast and Constitution of the Patient but the Rule must be this to persist in the use of it till the Pain Swelling Hardness c. are all gone which infallibly will be sometimes in a Month as have been done in very bad Breasts have been cured by it and some sooner others again have taken up two or three Months before they have been well but then they have constantly found an Amendment which I affirm by Experience under God every one that keeps strictly to its use without wavering or being weary and I think none should be tired on such an account for what would one give to be cur'd of an incurable Cancer Let every one but consider that and they will not be a weary of doing that which will restore them to their Health and preserve their Lives which I say under God this Liniment will do if used according as is directed But as said before it is necessary in some Constitutions to use a little Purging also during the use of the Liniment especially in Bodies that are gross or soul and where the Humours flow to the Breast to cause Inflammation Pain or more Swelling or if the Habit of the Body be but indifferent in such Cases and indeed most cases of sore Breasts it is proper to Purge to do which nothing can be more prevalent or more adapted to correct or carry off those sort of Humours whether Cancerous or otherwise than the English Scorbutick Pill so largely before spoken of the taking of two three four five or six of which according as is the strength of the Patient every third or fourth Morning oftner or seldomer as there may be occasion keeping warm those days and drinking Posset-drink Broth or Gruel warm as they operate and as is directed in the account given will be of excellent use and contribute greatly to the benefit of the Patient so that the Pills inwardly and the Liniment outwardly will do more I verily believe in Cancerated Swell'd Sore or hard Breasts than any sort of Medicines or Methods that can by all the Physicians in the World be prescrib'd or advis'd to for I speak it from large Experience and where it not so I should not be so positive in the Matter as I am therefore all People may depend upon it which when they have tryed will esteem it as many others do to be the only Remedies in that case in the whole World The Price of this Liniment is Five Shillings the Gallipot To be had only at the Place aforementioned THE Suffumigating Powder For Vapours or Hysterick Fits in Women and Hypochondriack Melancholly or Flatus in Men and all other Fits and Distempers of the Nerves in general HAD I not more than ordinary Reason and Experience for many Years of being acquainted with those Diseases and consequently of their Cure I should not take upon me to be so absolute as you will find me to be in the Matter but they being Diseases which do very frequently deceive numbers of Persons that are afflicted therewith so as that they know not what they aile I shall for their sakes and benefits before I come to treat of the abovesaid Medicine for the Cure describe the Symptoms and Causes thereof and begin first with the Vapours First then the Vapours otherwise called Hysterick Fits or Fits of the Mother is a Disease which more generally afflicts Humane Kind than any other whatsoever and Proteus like transforms it self into the Shape and Representation of almost all Distempers those who are troubled therewith generally perceiving them approach in the following manner First they feel a heaviness upon their Breast a grumbling in their Belly they belch up and sometimes Vomit sowr sharp insipid or bitter Humour they have a difficulty in breathing and think they feel something come up into their Throat which is ready to choak them they struggle cry out make odd and inarticulate Sounds or Mutterings they perceive a Swimming in their Heads a Dimness come over their Eyes they turn Pale are scarce able to stand their Pulse is weak they shut their Eyes cry shriek out groan foam at the Mouth and remain Senseless for some time afterwards by little and little their Pulse returns their Face regains its natural colour their Body grows hot as before they open their Eyes and by degrees come to themselves Some moreover have their Bellies swell'd and stretched like a Drum their Hypochondria's distended and they fancy they feel somewhat within them rowl from place to place which the Ancients imagin'd to be the Womb changing from place to place whereas the Ligaments which tye it down render that impossible besides that Men are also afflicted with this Symptom as well as Women their Pulse is almost imperceptible they feel a violent Cold run up their Backs which afterwards strikes through their whole Body their Head-achs and sometimes there ensues a Palpitation of the Heart and a fainting away there are many who when these accidents are over come quietly to themselves by degrees and in others when the violent cold is ended a no less violent Heat succeeds which casts them again into many of the former accidents as Palpitation of the Heart Head-achs Giddiness difficulty in Breathing and into some new ones as Flushings of the Face Raving Convulsions foaming at the Mouth violent beating of the Muscles and Arteries and a tingling Sensation in the Thighs which are Paralitick during the cold Fit nay sometimes the Palsie will continue in the hot Fit too sometimes the cold with which the Fit begins is hardly perceptible and then the Patient has no remarkable accidents whilst the cold lasts but when the hot Fit comes on it is accompanied with several of the above-numbred accidents but the Pulse beats higher and quicker than in the foregoing state and if no coldness was to be perceived at all before
the hot Fit then many of the same accidents will happen but only in a more violent degree and still more frequent and beats higher Sometimes the Patients in this Distemper fall into such violent Fits of Struggling that they can hardly be held they mutter odd and inarticulate Sounds grate their Teeth foam at their Mouths and strike their Breasts others suffer much violent and long continued Contractions of the Diaphragm and Intâ—â—costal Muscles that their Breast and lower Belly remain elevated for a long time together so that they cannot draw their Breath all that while nay some have lain for three whole days without the least sign of breathing perceivable by those that were about them One complains of a violent Pain on the top of her Head which is frequently accompanied with Vomiting Another is troubled with a Pain under her Heart and a reaching to Vomit or Vomits a mixture of Porraceous and Cholerick Humours and it ends in a Jaundice A third lyes with her Jaws press'd together with all the violence imaginable and her Nostrils drawn together so close that she is in danger of being suffocated and sometimes remains for a considerable while as if she were dead A fourth upon the smell of Civit Musk Ambergrease or any such sweet Scent shall fall into Fits A fifth shall be molested with them upon any Anger Passion or Disturbance of Mind which is immediately followed with great quantity of pale Urine A sixth is very thoughtful blushes or grows pale on a sudden has a deprav'd Appetite sometimes to craving at other times to loathing all sorts of usual Meats and is pleased only with the eating of absurd things as Chalk Charcole c. A seventh will on a sudden fall into extravagant Fits of Crying or Laughing without being provok'd by any external Cause Besides all these several other accidents happen to People troubled with this Disease as a Pain in the Bladder and Kidneys like that of the Stone and Gravel violent Cholicks Swellings in the Jaws Shoulders Legs Hands or Thighs which yield not to the Finger that presses nor retain any Mark Pain in the Back which all feel more or less as also in several Parts of the Body so violent that the Place affected cannot endure touching for a long while afterwards they breath short and with Pain yawn and stretch their Sleep is disturb'd and their Dreams are frightful their Eyes are fixt and staring sometimes they remember what happen'd in their Fit sometimes they do not they cough without intermission spit in vast quantities for several Weeks as if they were in a Salivation with many other accidents too tedious to enumerate Lastly we observe that those who have labour'd long under this Distempe are oppress'd with a dreadful Anguish of Mind and a deep Melancholly always reflecting on what can perplex terrifie and disorder them most so that at least they think their Recovery impossible and are very angry with those that pretend there is any hopes of it the least contradiction to their will cast them into violent Passions they are fickle wavering and unconstant now resolving on one thing and immediately changing to something else which they as presently quit and by indulging their Distemper decline all sorts of Diversions But Note that all these accidents do not happen to every one that has Vapours or Hysterick Fits but some to one some to another This Person shall be molested with a great many that with but a few of those Symptoms and it suffices that any two or three of them return by intervals to have them term'd Vapours It is also observ'd that this Distemper comes by Fits and has its intervals like an Ague tho' the return be not exactly Periodical like it and that in every Paroxism the same accidents happen as did in the precedent provided the Patient committed no excess in the interval Thus much for the Symptoms the next thing to be consider'd is the Cause of this Disease which is necessary to be taken notice of the better to be avoided as much as is possible and which some assign to this others to that and others different to both which tho' all plausible Notions fall short of the real cause wanting Reason back'd by Experience and Matter of Fact to support them but forbearing to enumerate their several imaginary Notions I shall in short content my self to shew the true and only Causes thereof which are Crudities and Indigestions of the Stomach nothing else being to be found within the Stomach and the Guts capable of producing those Symptoms unless it be the Aliments we take but these we know when well concocted and digested are so far from producing any ill effects upon Humane Bodies that they alone sustain and preserve them in a capacity of exercising their Natural and Animal Functions However if they by any vitious Concoction turn into Crudities and Indigestions then their laudable Qualities are chang'd into quite opposite ones and they produce the many Accidents and Symptoms of this Distemper for when by the vitious qualification of the Ferment of the Stomach the Aliments are not well digested they turn into Crudities these Crudities by little and little gather together in the wrinkles and solds of the Stomach and Guts where they lye for some time without much sensible motion or fermentation within themselves till at last by the Circumjacent Parts their grosser Salts are divided and put into motion which Fermentation is augmented by the various Juices that flow into the Guts from the many Glands which are placed in the lower Belly and by this means they are dissolv'd and liquify'd as to enter by the Milky Veins into the Blood where they produce all the accidents of this Distemper which the only way to prevent in all Persons and especially in such where the Vapours are fear'd is to cleanse the Stomach and Bowels of the Saburra which lies in them and that frequently viz. once in a Month oftner or seldomer as there may be occasion with some proper gentle abstersive Vomit or Purge than which nothing can exceed the famous English Pills aforegoing taking them as you see occasion thus much for the Symptoms Causes and Prevention of the Disease But perfectly to cure the Vapours or Hysterick Fits or Fits of the Mother in such that are so unhappily afflicted the Cause must be eradicated and the Blood restored to its Natural Constitution without which the effect can never cease and that the common Medicines in Practice are not capable of performing it is daily seen by the few if any that are cured therewith they only being sufficient and sometimes not that to appease the Symptomâ— and palliate the Disease but such is the prevalency of the aforesaid English Pills and this Suffumigation that they immediately strike at the Root of the Disease and never leave if reiterated till the whole Oeconomy of the Body is chang'd which will soon be perceiv'd by the 〈◊〉 or not return of the usual Symptoms or
the Chair bare will receive it up the Fundament which must be so done every Night going to Bed or once in 2 or 3 Nights according as there is occasion whereby in Fits Vapours c. there is instant Relief The Price of this Powder is 3 s. 6 d. the four Papers To be had at the Place aforementioned THE CATAPLASM OR POULTICE FOR THE GOUT THO' I shall say something concerning the Gout before I speak so particularly of the Poultice for its ease yet the Reader is not to expect any learned account of it that being sufficiently Done by divers Authors but only just so much as to inform those that are afflicted with that Distemper how far they may preserve themselves from its fury by a regular mode of living and how thereby those that ever had any touch of it may certainly nip it in its Bud so as never after to be afflicted with it But the Publishing a Medicine tho' the most celebrated one and crying up its virtues without giving a Rationale of the Disease looks so rank Quackish that every Man of Sense will and with very good reason account it all bombast and splutter and for that very reason decry it as coming from some illeterate Pretender for the sake only of getting a little Money for which reason to convince the World that the Author of this Medicine is not altogether unacquainted with the Nature and Cause of the Gout 〈◊〉 as the way to Remedy its excruciating Pains 〈◊〉 not recommend this Medicine but from a well gâ—â—â—â—â—ed Experience he here offers to every ones conâ—â—â—â—ration a short hint of the Blood its changes A nalitically prov'd and the Rationale of the Gout its Nature and Causes from thence explicately deduc'd The Blood of Man is made up of a mixture of divers Principles to wit a Bitter a Sweet a Salt an Acid c. the mixture and temperaments of which while mutual preserves the Body in a state of Health and consequently creates no trouble or uneasiness But when any one of these Principles is divided or seperated from the rest and exists by it self then the effects plainly shew what great Trouble Perplexity and Pain it creates in the Body Now nothing more conduces to the separation of those Homogene Principles of of the Blood than a fault in either some or all of the six Non-naturals as Air Meat and Drink Sleep and want of Sleep the Motion and Rest of the Body the retaining and discharging of the Excrements and the Passions of the Mind but the chief error is in Meat and Drink in pampering the Body with more plenty than is needful by which means the Particles of the Blood are not so exactly mix'd with the rest of the Mass but are blended and confounded so as to become Heterogeneous the Principles jarring one with another occasioning such a perturbation and preternatural Fermentation as evidently shew Sanguification to be vitiated and the whose Mass corrupted thereby forcing the Sharp and Foreign Juices together with part of the Serum by what way it finds as for instance if they get into the Guts they are evacuated by a watery Looseness if into the Kidneys by plenty of Urine if into the habit of the Body by the Pores of the Skin but if they fall upon the Joynts they pierce into the innermost recesles and interstices of the Nervous Parts and cause the Gout and as the Salt in the Serum is the thicker or thinner it much alters its Nature so that when the Extremities of the Muscles Tendons Ligaments Fibres and other Nervous parts of the Joynts are twitched by them more or less Pain Heat and Violence are occasion'd and it proves to be a Fit of a longer or shorter duration This Serum tho' it be thin and sharp is at first but very small occasioning but little Pain but that little Pain if the Cause of it be timely remov'd grows greater at every Fit and the more violent the Pain is greater store of Serum abounds and very often a flood of other Humours is carried along with it which causes that Swelling Heat Throbbing and Uneasiness every one afflicted with it feels which leaves not the Patient till the Humour is spent at which time that Fit of the Gout is at end I said before that a fault in some of the six Non-Naturals nam'd was the cause of the Gout and that pampering the Body with plenty was the Chief I mean thereby Gluttony and Drunkenness especially upon eating such Meats as are stor'd with sharp Matter not to be sufficiently separated or discharg'd or that can be easily mix'd or temper'd with the other Juices of our Bodies as also drinking too plentifully of Wines which have much Tartar in them For not only that Tartar but the Spiritous part breeds the Gout which Spirit consists of an Oil an Acid and a Volatile Salt in which the strength of Wine consists Yet as Excess therein hurts so Temperance preserves the Health For those Wines which most abound with Tartar are much more homogene to our Bodies than other Wines that have little Tartar in them and should be made choice of and are the best with Moderation for all Constitutions and Temperaments and the Red of all sorts is far more preferrable than the White And not only is it manifest that the Gout is bred by Gluttony and Drunkenness but also other innumerable inconveniencies are caus'd thereby for by that means the Appetite is destroy'd the Digestions vitiated c. the consequences of which every one may easily consider and time if not prevented will most certainly and fatally determine For a good Appetite and perfect Digestions are so indispensably necessary to the support and preservation of Humane Life that we can no more well subsist without the one than we can long without the other the one indicates Diseases present the other threatens Diseases to come and frequently brings the whole Humane Oeconomy into disorder and confusion For when there is a depravitty of the Primae Viae the Chyle into which the Food is converted in the Stomach is deprav'd also and according as is the Chyle so must the Blood of necessity be whether it be good or whether it be bad and according to which the Body suffers more or less And as some forts of Meats and Drinks and Intemperance therein are hurtful so also the Eating of Suppers are more than ordinary pernicious for they pervert the functions of the Body and injure the mind and then at those Seasons to eat too plentifully contributes much more to the spoiling of the Blood as every one that has for any time followed the Practice has observ'd few things being more detrimental and ruinous to the Health as all Physicians allow and as in Schola Salerni it is well noted where it is said Ex magna Coena Stomacho fit maxima Paena Ut sis nocte levis sit tibi Coena brevis Great Suppers put the Stomach to great pain Sup lightly if good
Rest you mean to gain Also over hard Study especially in the Night time which in this Case is the worst and afflicting Cares hinders Sanguification and breed the Gout so that the sharp part in the Aliment receiv'd is either not well mix'd or not well separated and therefore cannot be well discharged Likewise Anger and Passion very much injure For Exhiler at Tristres iratos placat amantes Ne fuit amentes mens laeta requires c. 'T is Mirth that Nurseth Life and Blood Far more than Wine or Rest or Food Also immoderate and unseasonable Venery conduces not a little for it weakens the Strength hurts the Brain extinguishes Radical Moisture and hastens old Age and Death the Sperm or Seed of Generation being the only Comfort of Nature which willfully shed or lost injures a Man more than the loss of forty times that quanty of Blood wherefore Virgil well says Nulla Magis animi vires Industria firmat Quam Venerem caeci stimulos avertere amoris Much Venery cause great Ills to Mind and Blood Exhausts the Stock unfits Man for 's Wife's good When moderately us'd holds long and helps as Food Levinus Lemnius likewise says if a Man intends to Live Long and happy during the Life he leads he should Vesci citra saturitatem non refugere laborem vitale semen conservare That is make light Meals use Exercise and preserve his Seed which is the vital and principal Part of Life and certainly nothing more assuredly breeds the Gout than immmoderate Venery Thus the Causes of the Gout being sufficiently explicated I shall next give a definition of it its Nature and Remedy The Gout then is a most intense sensible Pain of the Tendonous Membranous Parts about the Joints caused by a Serous Pungent and exceeding sharp Humour forced suddenly out of the Vessels from an inward dispesition and led thither by the interstices of the Nervous Parts The sign of its coming or being present are sometimes wandring Pains especially in the Joynts of the Feet or Hands That it is at hand is shewn by a stretching yawning painful weariness Catarrhs Pains in the Limbs and Joints and sometimes a heaviness in the Head a kind of Feverish heat a pricking Pain in the Joints causing starting with inability to move and after that comes a Swelling usually red attended with Watching loss of Strength stiffness of the Parts and several other complaints not alike to all at all times yet is what Gouty People well know and are more acquainted with than is consistent with their Ease The way to remedy this untoward Evil is first to remove the Cause that is that which aggravates the Paroxism and secondly to preserve the Patient from the return of a Fit or at leastwise to render it when it comes more easy and not so intollerable as we frequently find it to be for when it has once feiz'd a Man it will if not prevented by proper Medicines return again at certain seasons and distances of Time as the Gouty Matter in the Blood is a fresh increas'd gather'd and led down to the Joints which distances are longer or shorter and the Paroxisms greater or lesser according as the Patient live Regular or Irregular and according as is the strength or weakness of his Constitution for if it be weak or broke or the Patient in Mala Stamina Vitae it occasions its coming oftener pains him worser and holds him longer than if the same Constitution was stronger and the Patient in Bona Stamina Vitae and also acccording as he takes proper Medicines to evacuate that Humour by leading it away by the proper Passages I know some Physician 's Doctrine is to let Nature take her free Course advising their Patients to bear under the burden of that intolerable Misery as well as they can Indeed in the Knotted Gout the Advice may hold good for there no Cure can be expected according to that known ancient but true Axiom Solvere nodosam nescit Medicina Podagram Against the knotted Gout no Medicine can prevail But even there a Cure as to the Fit may be obtain'd as well as in other Fits of the Gout for the longer a Patient lies under its severity the more the Humours of the Body flow down which keeps the Part more lax and weaker and the Patient longer confin'd which may be prevented and when a Remedy to Ease by carrying those Humours away by Urine and Perspiration which would crowd down upon those weakned Joints may so easily be had for a Patient to reject it and not to hearken to such a Remedy shews his willingness to retain his Misery and is like suffering an Ague to shake him for a Year or some certain time before he 'll prevail'd with to take Medicines to cure it But the common saying among all being That there 's no Cure for the Gout makes every one's Proposals look Preposterous even where there is but the bare mentioning of doing it But if any thing I say be found out that manifestly carries off the Gouty Cause by Urine and Perspiration which would otherwise flow down to the Joints so that the Patient is sav'd from the Pain I fee not why any should be offended or that a Gouty Patient would rather bear his Pain than be so incredulous as not to make experiment of it when the Nature of the Medicine is such and the Operation so safe that every one that has any knowledge of things must allow that it cannot possible be hurtful for that no Evacuation is more to advantage than by Urine and Peripiration and that with such a Medicine as makes a regular separation by the strainers by first carrying them away smoothly and freely throughly the Uteters which always of necessity would have been thrown upon the Joints and consequently cause a Fit proper Dieureticks being what all Physicians allow to be the most effectual Evacuations to divest the Blood of those peccant Salts which if not remov'd would prove injurious to the Patient And to do this nothing is more prevalent than the English Pills aforemention'd whose admirable Virtues are such that those who never try'd them will scarce believe who yet after taking them will to every one of their Friends recommend them Therefore to say more would be needless nothing being so like to convince a Man of their Efficacy as making tryal which is the trust Test and by whose Success the Reputation both of the Medicine and the Author desires to depend and by which he is content either to stand or to fall The Pills are taken as directed in the Account before given of them and that oftener or seldomer as there may be occasion And to give present Ease and remove wholly the Pain the Cataplasm is to be apply'd warm to the Part every Night and Morning till the Pain is quite gone which will soon be The Price of the Ingredients is Five Shillings the Gallipot which are to be boiled with fix Ounces of Crumbs of White Bread
and a Pint of Milk to the consistence of a Cataplasm or Poultice which is to be spread upon Linnen Cloath as thick as two Crown Pieces put together and applyed I say as warm as can well be borne to the Gouty Part renewing it very Night and Morning The Pot of Ingredients are to be had only at the Place aforementioned Electuarium Balsamicum OR True Balsamick Electuary FOR All manner of Weaknesses in Women c. THIS is such a wonderful Medicine that I think it cannot be equal'd its Vertues being such in the Distempers to which it is appropriated as every one that shall take it must own are not ordinary it being a far different thing than what by its appearance may be taken for by most or the Medicine makers now adays would have it to be being an Electuary which has done and by the Blessing of God will do much more benefit in the following particular Cases than any other Medicine of what kind soever numbers of both Sexes having with wonder observ'd its Effects and been cured by it who for many Months together have been under Courses of Physick by Advice of Eminent Practitioners to no purpose It infallibly and expeditiously cures Weaknesses of the Back in both Sexes and all Pains of the Back whatsoever whether occasioned from Bruises Falls Wrenches Strains by lifting carrying or by Sickness and Weakness or from Womens Miscarriages Lyings-in Frights Grief or the like And for Bearings down or falling down of the Womb by weakness or relaxation of the Lagaments caus'd by hard Travel or by violent occasions as Blows Falls lifting or carrying heavy Burdens Over-walking Running or the like 't is a present Remedy by comforting easing healing and strengthning the Parts It effectually prevents Miscarriages tho' you have miscarried never so many times and this it does by strengthening and nourishing the Womb and weak Foetus therein for it corrects the Blood and Humours that affords Nourishment and if the Symptoms or danger at any time of Miscarrying appears the taking immediately of this Electuary certainly secures you if not too far let alone before you begin It wonderfully corrects and alters the heat thinness and sharpness of the Blood which occasions immoderate or over-flowing of the Courses of Nature by which many are reduc'd to a very low and dangerous condition and that more especially in Elderly Women upon whom they ought naturally to stop which if neglected and not timely remedied will occasion Bearings down bring the Whites and other weaknesses and soulness of the Womb introducing in time Ulcers Cancers c. for prevention of which the Electuary is a most admirable Remedy only the better to correct and thoroughly to evacuate the vitious Humours 't will be necessary that you Purge twice or thrice in the time of taking it with our English Pills aforegoing And also for the Whites a Disease very troublesome and spending and which most Women are incident to both Old and Young but more especially Elderly Women after their Courses have left them or are about to leave them and that generally more than ordinary for want of taking proper Medicines to settle their Bodies at the time of their Termes leaving them 'tis an excellent Remedy perfecting the Cure tho' of never so many Years standing and the Patient reduc'd by the length of time and greatness of the Flux to so weak a condition as scarcely able to go about only twice or thrice in the time of taking the Electuary you must also Purge with our Pills aforesaid but if the Whites be neglected or not timely cured they will bring great pain and weakness in the Back and whole Body and occasion many other dangerous Maladies as Cachexies Dropsies Consumptions c which may prove fatal Such Women therefore that have regard to their own welfare will have recourse to this Electuary at such time as the Courses of Nature are about to leave them and not as many do take little or no care concerning it notwithstanding Nature is always so kind to let them know that she wants the help of Art at that Juncture by their Courses dodging them and their flowing but poorly and sometimes not at all ebbing and flowing untimely and irregular sometimes paler and thinner at other times in smaller quantity and foul which is warning sufficient that she stands in need of help and that they ought at that time to be settled and disposed after a particular manner and not be neglected as many Women to their Sorrow have done who for want of such care are now complaining of either Vapour Flushings all over the Body the Whites in abundance pursiness at Stomach loss of Appetite Cholicks Faintings or other the like Weaknesses and Indispositions which if not timely remedied brings Ulcers or Cancers in the Womb Dropsies Consumptions or other fatal Distempers but Women that are wife will in time prevent those inconveniencies by making use of this Electuary which will be of unspeakable advantage who in the time of taking it if Plethorick or full of Blood and not much reduc'd must once be let Blood and purge with our English Pills aforegoing once just before you begin with the Electuary and twice or thrice more in the time that your are taking it by which means they will assuredly be preserved and secured from those Dangers Also for such Women that are afflicted with a Flux of their Courses and the Whites together as numbers of them are and reduc'd extreamly low with the same this Electuary is a Remedy that cannot be equall'd only for correction of Humours and the better to cleanse the Womb 't is convenient to Purge also once or twice with our Pills aforegoing And likewise for all Loosnesses Bloody-fluxes inward Bleedings Bleedings at Nose Spitting or Vomiting of Blood bloody Urine and the like whether from the sharpness of the Blood a Vein broke Falls Bruises or any manner of cause or occasion there is hardly the like present Remedy in the whole Republick of Medicine it retrieving in such cases many times when all hopes of Life have been dispair'd of and dissolves congeal'd or coagulated Blood remaining in any part of the Body tho' indeed in all those cases if strength will permit 't will also be necessary to Purge now and then with our English Pills aforesaid And as this Electuary has cured many in the aforegoing Distempers so likewise has it perfectly cured several Children and others of riper Years of incontinency of Urine Pissing in Bed and the Diabetes and that after the continuance of the Distemper for several Years and when multitudes of Medicines have been used to no purpose and has also cured several Children and others of the falling down of the Fundament and Ruptures where the Rim or Peritonaeum has not been broken it being a Medicine which so admirably and potently strengthens the inward Parts as never to fail tho' sometimes I have been oblig'd for the better facilitating and making lasting the Cure so as
afflict Mankind being generally the most uncomfortable lasting and dangerous It truly and most stupendously repairs weak Memories bad Eye-sight and Hearing being inwardly taken and outwardly made use of and strengthens and preserves the same removing dulness drowsiness and heaviness from the Spirits and Senses rendring the Intellectuals lively quick and apprehensive c. being peculiarly adapted to remove all Head-diseases even to help such that are craz'd whose Senses are almost gone occasioned from over-whelming Perplexities for which and all Discontents vain Fears foolish Fantasâ—es and Imaginations which discompose and enslave the Mind hurry and disorder the Spirits thereby hurting the Brain impairing the Memory Sight Hearing c. it has been experienc'd to do more than many other Medicines of greater repute It comforts and strengthens the Brain and Nerves powerfully refreshes the Sensitive Faculties relieves the Animal Spirits being excellent also in several other Diseases of the Head whether recent or inveterate as Stuffings of the Head Colds Catarrhs or defluxions of Rheum whether upon the Eyes Nose Teeth Palate c. cures the Palsie of the Tongue running Sores or Imposthumes in the Ears being admirable against Deafness or thickness of Hearing noise and pains in the Ears c. swellings of the Throat Jaws and the like from a defluxion of Humours It is a certain Remedy in the Apoplexy both for Prevention and Cure that Distemper of late being very frequent and fatal and will do more in that case than any Person is aware if it be inwardly taken and outwardly us'd in the beginning of the Disease and reiterated in the Intervals of time as necessity requires it discussing Flatulencies absorbing the Acid Humour which are many times the original Causes of the Disease attracting or drawing away the Morbifick Matter from the Parts affected destroying and carrying it off the right way that the the like can scarcely be done by any other Medicines In the Megrim Vertigo Giddiness or Swimming in the Head and in the most cruel vehement and inveterate Head-achs they do wonders taking away the Pain in many Persons in 3 or 4 minutes time and that with the use of it inwardly taken and a little snuft up the Nostrils and the Head Temples Forehead and behind the Ears being bathed therewith and that so perfectly as never to return more from that present Cause This I can assure you upon my own Experience for they radically cure after all other things have been found ineffectual and when the hope of Cure has been past by removing the cause or occasion thereof without doubt in the cases of an old and vehement Head-ach Giddiness Swimming c. whether continual or coming by Fits it has no equal in the whole World This Tincture and the English Pills before mentioned cured a Woman that had the Head-ach from her Minority so violently sometimes that it was thought she would be distracted and at all times so extream as to make Life very uncomfortable and unfit for the doing of any Business and this was done with only two Boxes of Pills and two Bottles of the Tincture tho' she had gone through Courses of Physick with Blistering Cupping Shaving c. for near 20 Years together to little or no purpose In the Palsie and Dead-Palsie as some call it it is the greatest and noblest Medicament known for being taken inwardly and also used outwardly it takes away the benumedness of the Parts and restores its Sense and feeling curing the shaking or trembling of the Head and Members arising from weakness and relaxation of the Nerves caused either by old Age or a coldness of Humours and so strengthens those Parts affected that they seem to put new life into them again Nor do know or believe there can be any equal to it for the Cure of the Epilepsie or Falling Sickness and that not only in Children proceeding from Faults of the Stomach Wind corrupted Food Worms c. but also in elder Persons it having cured in both Sexes of 20 30 and 40 Years of Age having done so great Cures of that kind which should they be related they would not easily be believed except by those who were Eye-witnesses of the same and likewise it cures Convulsion Fits almost to a Miracle for it digests that pituitous Humour which so much abounds in such Persons by exciting their inward heat and strengthening the Brain which is in many Persons the cause of this Disease it separating and consuming in the Stomach and Bowels those Acrid and Malign Vapours which ascend to the Brain and which by pricking with their sharp Points the Membranes and Nervous Filaments excite and induce this terrible Disease This Medicine by its subtle and penetrative Particles enter into the very substance of the Nerves opens their Pores removes their Obstructions refreshes and causes a free course and circulation of the Animal Spirits it acuates or sharpens all the Senses both internal and external facilitates and expedites the motions of the Members thro' the whole Body And by taking this Tincture inwardly and using it at the same time outwardly warms comforts and strengthens the Brain and Nerves after a very wonderful manner thereby helping the weakness of the Sight strengthning the Eyes fortifying the visive Faculties and Nerves and multiplies and clears the Animal and Visive Spirits taking away Darkness Clouds Vapours c. which obfuscates the Sight or obstructs the Optick Nerves But during taking the Tincture in all the several cases before spoken of it is necessary now and then to purge gently with the English Pills aforemention'd which together with the Tincture performs after a wonderful manner and proves thereby the most absolute and exquisite Method that the World can afford Directions TAKE of the Tincture 60 80 or 100 Drops more or less as your Distemper requires and that in extremities twice thrice or four times a Day well mix'd in a Glass of Sack or other Wine taking it the first thing in the Morning and the last thing at Night and once or twice in the Day time at convenient distances but if the case be not extream,6o or 80 Drops Night and Morning will be sufficient and this do daily as well those days you take the Pills as not without any observation as to Diet or Confinement it being not Purging but cures by a Specifick Property and such as care not to take it in Wine may take it in Ale or Beer or in Sage or Rosemary Tea but then they must drink it off immediately well stirring it Also in Pains of the Head Megrim Apoplexies Palsies and all other the Distempers of the Brain and Nerves for outward use pour a little of it into the Palm of your Hand and snuff it up your Nostrils doing so twice or thrice in a day and in extremities oftner bathing also some of it in with your Hand all over the Head Neck Forehead Temples upon the Eye-brows behind the Ears rubbing it in without the use of any Fire it will sink
in almost as fast as you lay it on and will admirably comfort the Head and Brain strengthen the Sight and perform wonderful Cures and that more esecially if you Purge now and then with the English Pills In the Tooth ach or Defluxions upon the Jaws Palate c. by holding a little in the Mouth and snuffing some up the Nostrils as aforesaid 't is a present help and by dropping a few Drops into the Ears twice in a Day putting in a little Cotton or Wool dipt in the same a little warm'd 't will be an admirable Remedy in Pains of the Ears Deafness Noise c. The Virtues of the said English Pills and Tincture in one other particular Distemper I cannot but take notice of their Effects being so very remarkable and that is in the most violent and extream Collicks or racking griping Pains of the Bowels and Stomach even when the Patient hath been at the point of Death rolling tumbling about and roaring out with Pain as if distracted four of the Pills being taken and 100 or 150 Drops or more of the Tincture mix'd in a Glass of Sack or White Wine hot or mull'd drank immediately after them gives instant Ease even upon the spot when Glysters and all other Medicines have been ineffectual and comforts and heals the Bowels so that the Patient in half an Hours time after is as if nothing had ailed him they being of great power to suppress Wind and Humours that fly upwards by which may be seen their Excellency in defending the Head from obnoxious Fumes c. which so frequently indispose it and also 50 or 60 Drops of the Tincture taken twice a Day in a little White Wine gives immediate Ease in After-pains to Lying-in Women it bing a Medicince of cleansing safe and strengthening Properties A few Drops snufft up the Nose eases the most violent Pains thereof in a Moment and that without sneezing or endangering Cold and for that very use it is scarcely to be express'd the wonderful and instant Ease it gives for no sooner is it snufft up the Nose but the Pain is gone tho' before it was never so intollerable and by continuing prevents its return having cur'd old inveterate Head-achs of many Years standing in an instant which long courses of Physick were not able to do The Price of this Tincture is Three Shillings and Six Pence the Bottle to be had only at the Place before-mentioned THE Balsamick Restorative ELIXIR FOR Diseases of the Lungs whether Consumptions Astma's Phtysicks c. BEING a wonderful rich and pleasant Medicine of stupendious Effects it admirably strengthens the Lungs being the very Life or Balsam thereof cleansing the Pipes of tough foul Spittings thickned by a preternatural Heat helps shortness of Breath eases and remedies Coughs tho' never so violent and perplexing all Asthmatick Stoppages of the Lungs Hoarseness Distillations or Defluxious of Rheum all Wheesings straitness of the Chest not to be reach by Syrups Oils Licks Slops or Lozenges which oftend the Stomach and feed the unnatural Fire it comforts Nature nourishes and enriches the Blood chears the Heart recreats and revives the Spirits and Vitals tho' never so low and drooping being an exceeding generous Cordial it takes off your spending faint profuse Night-sweats strikes at the root or cause of all Consumptions and so restores and renews the whole habit of Body and Blood as that in the most spending and languishing Cases even when the Patient is reduced to a pining emaciated Condition contributes more towards the Cure than it is possible for any other single Medicine to do and is a Specifick Cure for Hooping and Chin-coughs in Children And for weakly and Consumptive People whose Lungs are Ulcerated spitting up foul purulent bloody Matter with tedious hollow Coughs Hectick Fever c. 't is an admirable thing it supporting the Body wonderfully and will be found much more prevalent and restoring in all Cafes of the Lungs if it be taken 4 or 5 times in a Day 2 or 3 Dishes at a time in Tea made of Ground-Ivy and Liquorish two handfuls of the former and two Ounces of the latter to a Quart of boiling Water sweetned with Sugar-Candy And if at any time the Body be pursy or stopt up or the Stomach be foul and Digestion bad or are hot and costive Bodied it may be also convenient if Strength will permit to take now and then a Dose of our English Pills aforementioned of whose Vertues in Consumptive Habits you may read in its place A certain Woman among others was cured with this Elixir of an inveterate pineing and wasting suppos'd to be an incurable Consumption and that after two Years despair when she was so weak she could not stand without two to hold her looking like as it were the Picture of Death and given over as past all hopes by several very able and learned Men the alone taking of this Medicine in Sack or Milk and sometimes in Ale sweetned but most commonly in Milk Morning Noon and Night and in Extremities of Faintings c. oftner continuing the same for about 5 or 6 Weeks time restored her through the Blessing of God to the wonder of all that knew her and in all probability will perform the same in others when greater Remedies and Methods may be ineffectual You will find it sensibly raise your Spirits and give Relief after a little while taking it and will correct and destroy every irregular Humour in the Body and prevent Consumptious beyond any thing known t will assist Nature in all her declinings and decays even when the radical Moisture is consuming and the Vital flame almost spent or worn out provided the Lungs themselves Liver c. be not putrify'd for then no Medicine can repair those Ruines or make new Viscera when the old are perish'd tho' it has performed marvellous Cures in Cases that have been so reported which are too tedious here to be incerted Directions TAKE 30 Drops of it every Morning the same also an hour after Dinner and at Night going to Bed mixt in a small Glass of good Canary old Malaga the Tea aforemention'd Milk or any other proper Liquor And Children may take half that quantity or in proportion to their Age and thus continue it for one two or three Months together as you see occasion without any other observation The Price is Three Shillings and Six Pence a Bottle to be had only at the Place aformentioned AN English Vegetable For all Sorts of AGUES THERE are divers sorts of Agues which are distinguish'd according to the difference there is in their intermission c. Some are Quotidian Agues or Simple Quotidian that come daily and that not with vehemenâ— Cold at the first but cold and colder by degrees nor is the hot Fit very excessive The Thirst in such is but small the Urine white or thin and watery or thick and troubled and the hot Fit generally lasts eighteen Hours and sometimes with Vomiting of Phlegm These
Fits oftentimes seize the Patient in the Night-time and is frequently dangerous because its continuance being long is more subject to degenerate into a Cachexie Dropsy or Lethargy Hippocrates says That it is more dangerous if it comes in the Day-time than if it comes in the Night It is the Stomach that is for the most part afflicted in these Agues because as said before the Patient in the Fit is sometimes inclin'd to Vomit which when done gives relief Others are double Quotidian Agues or every Day Agues returning twice in Twenty-four Hours with Coldness of the extream Parts but there is went to be no shivering Fit or but very little the Symptoms are otherwise the same as in the Simple Quotidian afore spoken of and caus'd also chiefly from the Stomach but reduplicate and stronger holding commonly longer and more tedious unless some eminent Critical Evacuation intervene and as the Causes are reduplicate so do they shew more danger than the Simple Quotidian and if it continues long does rarely fail degenerating into some other chronick and tedious Disease and more particularly into a Dropsy Others are Tertian Agues or Agues of the third Day and comes with vehement cold or rigorous shaking Fit as tho' the Patient were pricked follow'd with a hot Fit and other Symptoms the Pulse is equal and anon a violent heat increaseth with great Thirst and sometimes vomiting of Choler with reddish Urine giving the Patient very great uneasiness dreading every Fit which oftetimes is more than other shifting as to times keeping no periodical Paroxisms but comes so uncertainly that the Patient knows not in that Day what time to expect it The shaking coldness at first coming is vehement and sharp the heat and burning in the hot Fit is also violent and strong spreading it self over the whole Body in the heigtht of the Fit and towards the end of the hot Fit the whole Body is in a gentle Sweat These sort of Agues holding not above the fourth Fit other times not above the seventh each Fit holding not above Twelve Hours and is without much danger unless Malignity be joyn'd with it and if breakings out on the Lips Scabs or a Loosness happens it is very healthful because they are critical tho' these are Malign and Pestilential Tertians which tho' they have evident Intermissions as the others yet do often kill the Patient besides many accidents may fall in upon a Tertian Ague such as a Surfeit violent Cold c. which may breed danger tho' the Ague may have none of it self Other Agues there are called Semi-tertian which whether they be exquisite that is where Choler and Phlegm equally abound vexing the Patient continually but the third Day with a shaking Fit or Spurious wherein either Choler or Phlegm most abounds if the first represent chiefly a Tertian if the latter a Quotidian of which we have spoken before yet these cause no great Thirst or Burning but sometimes is attended with an inflamation of some Viscera or Bowels as Stomach Liver Spleen or Parts adjacent which is caus'd when the Feverish Matter is carried thither with the Blood The Semiter-tian Ague both exquisite and spurious for they differ chiefly in degree are both dangerous because thereby the Stomach and Nervous Parts are very much affected and is attended with almost a continuil burning Fever but especially the exquisite being there is a dryness of the Tongue Thirst Swooning Watching and sometimes raving and dead Sleep and is what Hippocrates account amongst acute Diseases and continues long Avicen says seven Months and at last ends frequently in a Hectick There is also the double Tertian Ague which comes once or twice a Day two Days together leaving the Patient free one Day between Some Authors mention a triple Tertian where there are three Fits in two Days and one Day clear between but is reckon'd to be seldom seen and less easie to be discover'd by a Physician tho' he had Argus's Eyes These Agues are chiefly of Humours gather'd together in the Liver Gall Stomach Mesentery Pancreas or in the Veins of those Parts In this Ague it is a hard Matter to get a convenient time for the giving Medicine to Cure because oftentimes there is no long space beetween the two Fits for sometimes the Fits hold so long that the one begins before the other is ended being thereby much more dangerous than a Semi-tertian because it comes from a reduplication of the Cause The next is the Quarian Ague or Ague that comes every fourth Day and is accompanied with vehement Cold as if it would nip and break the Bones the Pulle is flow in the beginning of the Fit and afterwards the Melancholly Humour by little and little is inflam'd whence comes a burning or hot Fit the Urine is white thin and watery with two Days intermission each Fit and when the Fit is coming it causes reachings and yawning with a shaking Fit at first small but afterwards extream yet not so much pricking as rendring the Patient as if he were beat or bruisel the Cause is from Melancholly and adult Humours known by decaying the Appetite causing great Chirsts and Head and Back ach These sort of Agues are of all of them of longest continuance handling a Patient sometimes half a Year or a Year or if it happen in the fall of the Leaf two Years or longer and is sometimes dangerous especially if it degenerates into a continual Quartan or happens to afflict People of Sixty Years of Age or upwards There is also the Compound Quartan Ague which is either double or triple in the double the Fit leaves the Patient two Days free and comes the next two Days in the triple the Paroxism returns three Days together leaving two Days free after them as in a Quotidian and double Tertian these come of Melancholly Putrifying in divers parts of the Body and are dangerous if not in time cured being else apt to degenerate into chronick inveterate and incurable Diseases and that because the Fit so often returns it emaciates and wastes the Body exceedingly consuming the radical Moisture depressing the Spirits obstructing the Natural Vital and Animal Functions and at last brings the Body into an incurable Hectick Consumption or Dropsy But if the Ague be taken in time and it happens to a young strong Person and proper Medicines be exhibited there may be no great doubt of a Cure but if it happens to an old Person who is weak of Nature and that in the Winter also it is desperate and if cannot soon be got off but contiues long will prove Mortal Thus have I run through the Nature and Causes of the distinct sorts of Agues and which as all Authors observe are generally to be cured by the same Class of Medicines only regarding the Strength and Constitution of the Patient The English Vegetable and Plaisters at first mentioned seldom or never fail if us'd together to cure the most inveterate and chronick sort provided they both be made use
of in time before Nature is too much depress'd by the severity of the Disease and yet even in People that were Young and not Old they have effected the Cure which before had baffled Jesuits Powder the Bitters Alteratives c. And in those Agues of late standing the Vegetable alone has cured without the Plaister and in some the Plaister without the Vegetable but where the Case is severe to expedite the Cure I generally use both but some especially Children cannot be gotten to take any inward Medicine at all and there the applying the Plaisters most commonly does only must be renewed more times than there would be occasion if the Vegetable was taken also at the same time Directions for taking the Vegetable Powder and applying the Plaisters A Man or Woman may take a whole Paper at a time which must always be taken in a Glass of hot Wine an Hour or two before the Fit and be cover'd up warm whereupon it will cause in some gentle Vomiting and Sweat in others only Sweat in others will only work by Urine but which way soever it operates it never falls short of expectation curing almost all Agues without using any thing else but where the Case is inveterate and has been of long standing we are forc'd to apply the Plaisters also which I shall by and by give Directions about One of 12 or 15 Years of Age may take two thirds of a Paper those of younger Years in proportion always giving it in Wine as before directed and is to be repeated to every one for 5 or 6 times more or less as the Ague is severe or has been of longer or shorter continuance tho' not one Ague in twenty requires its being taken above three times Note There is no occasion to drink any thing with it more than the few Spoonfuls of Wine just to mix it and make it drinkable which may be White Wine or any other Wine proportioning the quantity as the Patient is either a grown Person or Child A grown Person taking it in 6 or 8 Spoonfuls and always as hot as it can be well drank The Plaisters to the Wrists must be prepared and applyed thus To all the Powder in the Box and the whole Yolk of a new laid Egg which mix and beat up well together in a Mortar or Porringer â—â—â—â—â—â— rating them well together adding so much 〈…〉 and strongest Vineger as will be sufficient to make it into such a consistency as Venice Treacle is then spread it pretty thick upon a Linnen Cloth of 2 or 3 Inches broad for a grown Person but narrower for Children which apply upon the Pulses of both Wrists tying them on so as not to come off where they must remain without changing them for nine Days because this Remedy exerts its vertues but by degrees And it ought to be applyed an Hour or half an Hour before the Fit comes and if the Ague be not cur'd in nine Days to be laid on afresh The Price of the Vegetable Powder is 2s 6d a Paper and the Box of Powder for Plaisters is 3 s. 6d both to be had at the Place afore-mentioned Note These Plaisters to the Wrists frequently I may say generally Cure all forts of Agues unless they be of very long standing indeed and attended with other Indispositions without any inward Medicine at all but where there is a complication of Infirmities besides the Ague that the Stomach is foul and Blood injur'd there is a necessity for an inward Medicine than which nothing can exceed the Vegetable Powder before-mentioned and will do a hundred times more Service and is a thousand times more safer than Jesuits Bark or any other Medicine whatsoever Hydragogue Tincture OR DROPS Purging away Water thereby curing Dropsies of all sorts BEFORE I speak of the excellent Vertues of these Drops I shall say something of the several species of Dropsies which as they affect diversly so go under divers appellations as the Ascites Tympanites and Anasarca The Ascites or Hydrops Abdominis is in English the Watery Dropsy in the Belly and is always attended with a stretching of the Belly by reason of the superabounding of ferous watery and salt Humours cast forth into the capacity of the Abdomen through fault of the Liver Spleen and Reins causing also the Feet Thighâ— and in Men sometimes the Cods to swell and is known by the swelling of the Belly a difficulty of Breathing and the hoarse sound of the Belly if struck like as if a Bladder half full was struck upon also upon compressing the Belly with the Fingers it pits and leaves the print of them thereon and if the Patient turns from side to side a Noise like the murmuring or waving of Water is heard and the Water by continuance there will in time putrify and corrupt the Bowele cause a Fever and Thirst and waste the Patients Strength and Spirits Therefore all imaginable care ought to be taken to evacuate the Water in time both by Stool and Urine or else the Patient will dye and if let alone so long as that the Patient's Strength be spent not being able to bear Purging Medicines then Tapping must be used as the only present way to secure the Patient if that Method will do it The Tympanites or Windy Dropsy shews it self also by a distention or stretching of the Belly but as the other contains Water within the capacity of the Abdomen this contains only Wind which so distends the Belly that it being struck upon with the Hand sounds like a Drum and is rather more swell'd than the watery Dropsies and the Navel hangs out but will not leave any impression upon pressing it with the Fingers the Patient is most afflicted with Pain about the Navel and Loins in Windy Dropsies like a Cholick when there is no such Pain in a watery one and is easier to be cured and of less danger The Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia is a Dropsy of the whole Habit of the Body the Water being dispersed so that all the Flesh appears moist swoln and wet wherein not only the Hands Arms Breast Face Thighs Legs and Feet swell but the whole Body also whereby if you make a pressure with your Finger into the Flesh in any part it will pit and leave an impression The cause of this Disease is chiefly Cold or by very plentifully drinking cold Water or Small Beer or else proceeds from a defect of the Liver or defect of Natural Heat Obstructions and imbicility of the Stomach from whence a collection of pituitous and watery Humours is produced and universal Cachexy If this Disease be recent and in a young Person it is not difficult to cure In Persons aged it is very doubtful if not desperate and indeed such as are much in Years seldom find a Cure for it But yet the Vertues of the Hydragogue Tincture are such as that it has cured several Elderly People by being follow'd for some continuance which they must tho' it is