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
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
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
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
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
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
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
of Countenance impair of Health or any ill attendance they gently removing Obstructions of all kinds exciting an Appetite and rendering the Body vigorous active and sprightly to the admiration of all And this they do not only by fighting or contending with the Disease after a rugged and robust manner but in a passive way by glancing as it were and piercing of it with the subtilty of their Effluviums and as it were by charming of it undoes it in its very Root and Essence whereby the Diseasy Matter being melted and changed in its Nature Diseases and the very Seeds of of them insensibly vanish away thereby curing those Distempers which are almost incredible to relate But no more need to be said of their Vertues only give me leave to add that these Pills are cheap easy approved helps free from the least danger upon any account whatsoever are safe and benign in their Composition rational in their Preparation amicable and adapted to all Constitutions most powerful against those Diseases to which they are appropriated able to stand the test of all Tryals and have an uncontroulable Probatum est continually attending them they being made of nothing that neither nauseates the Stomach or tortures the Patient but operates Cito Tuto Fucunde even when many other Medicines of far greater Names have wofully failed Their gratefulness to the Senses and Animal Spirits are such as will invite as well as assist all the Powers of Nature to withstand the Diseases and by the subtilty of their Temper pemetrate into those close Recesses where the Roots of Distempers usually lodge and into which the common dull and earthy Preparations so frequently used in practice can never possibly enter or reach into but as Experience is the best Schoolmaster I leave every one to make Tryal and judge as they find and accordingly to commend or dispraise them to their Neighbours and Friends not doubting but they will perform what is herein asserted without hazard of Body Purse or Expectation as some Thousands in this Kingdom can upon their own Knowledge testify what is said of them being no Rhodomontade Story to raise a Penny nor guilded Bush to set off bad Wine but Matter of Fact back'd with such number of Experiences as not to leave the least umbrage or shadow of Falsity or Pretence For these Pills are no fallacious emperical Medicine repugnant to Art or inconsistent with Reason but a regularly prepared Arcanum much in vogue for their Vertues being homogene to Nature and so peculiarly adapted against the Scurvy and its Consequents as that no Medicine in the Universe can possibly transcend them they being a Medicine tho' very difficult expensive and tedious in preparing yet are of such Properties as to retain their Vertues for numbers of Years and that to work all good effects as well after a length of time as at their first preparing I shall now close all with Advice that you take your Disease in time and not render it incurable by delay an Error daily committed tho' contrary to the wholesome Dictates of the Poet. Principiis obsta sero Medicina paratur Cum mala per long as invaluere moras Delay not any known Disease too long Lest thou grow weaker and it grow more strong The way and manner of taking these Pills are as follows viz. From Two Years old to Three or Four Years you may give one Pill from Four Years old to Ten Years you may give two or three Pills from Ten Years old to Sixteen Years you may give three or four Pills and from Sixteen Years old to Threescore and upwards you may safely give five or six Pills You may begin with a little Dose first and so encrease it as you find the Body is in strength They may be either swallow'd down alone or taken in a Spoonful of Ale Beer Posset-drink or Water-gruel of wrapp'd up in a Wafer the Pap of an Apple or Honey or in a stew'd Prune or in a little Syrup and such as cannot swallow Pills may bruise them and take them mixed with a little Beer Ale Wine or Broth as every one likes best and so take them early in the Morning or late at Night going to Bed drinking in the Morning Posset-drink or Water-gruel as they operate or you may omit drinking any thing if you had rather and that without observation of any other order whatsoever only taking heed that you get no Cold. The price of a Box of these famous English Pills each containing six Doses is Three Shillings and Six Pence and are sold only at the Places aforementioned and which for prevention of Counterfeits are to be had at no other Place in the Kingdom besides whatever may be pretended by any to the contrary A LINIMENT FOR Sore Swell'd or Cancerated BREASTS IN WOMEN WITH THEIR Nature Cause c. IT is not my design to write any thing here concerning Cancers in any part of the Body save only those that happen in the Breasts of Women wherein I shall to the meanest Capacity shew the difference between those that really are and those that are only imagined or reputed to be Cancerous whereby the Mistakes too common may be prevented and Ruine to the Patient saved when the Name is now so frequent and the fear of it so dreadful that not one swell'd or pained Breast in Twenty but is presently thought so and every Goody Nurse Doctress or Midwife will pronounce so right or wrong and consequently has a never failing Remedy for Cure which upon applying produces a Cancer where no such thing perhaps had been A Cancer is as much as to a Crab and is a hard painful Tumour either Whole or Ulcerous and is said to have its rise from many Causes some say from ill Diet Meats of ill Juice of a hot quality and thick and glutinous substance and that Onions Leeks Garlick Venison and hot Spic'd Meats eat too plentifully and hot fiery Liquors that burn and make adust the Blood and Humours such as Brandy strong Wines c. immoderately drank breed them Others that the Air perturbations of the Mind Melancholly ill Habits of Body hot sharp Humours where there is a discrassys of the Blood and Lympha being fill'd with an Acrimonious Salt and a malign Sulphur is their occasion Others that they seldom proceed but from Blows Strokes Punches or such external Violence ill handling Tumours from curdled Milk upon Lyings in Imposthumes c. by which means there being an acid Ferment in the Blood or it may be Obstructions of the Terms or some other illness which oftentimes causes Humours to flow thither where coagulating is capable to produce a Cancerous Germen especially upon ill management so as in time it increases and arrives to to that degree of inveteracy which we sometimes find them to be Having now accounted for the cause of Cancers in the Breasts we come to their Definitions and are preternatural Tumours of a hard lumpy round or unequal Substance of a
makes of a horrible and frightful appearance Such Cancers sometimes bleed either through the eruption of some Vessels or from the sharp corrosive Nature of the Humour which gnaws the Vessels asunder tho' I have known them to bleed while they have been whole the Blood issuing through the Nipple or some small Pin-hole Some Cancers again that are Ulcerated send forth a Fungus or fleshy Excrescencies other consume and eat away all the Flesh about them after a wonderful and indeed dreadful manner and both these often bleed and that in great quanties sometime because the Capillary Vessels are by the corroding quality of a Cancer eaten asunder whence the flux of Blood is so great that the strength of the Patient is quickly spent and the Spirits being exhausted and consumed they soon dye as a poor Woman did that I knew after labouring under a Cancerated Breast very painful for near two Years and could all that while have no Remedy for indeed such are very rarely to be cur'd and if at all it is by Surgery that is by cutting off the Breast in time which the Woman I mention was by many Surgeons advis'd to but would not submit to the Operation Those inveterate and dangerous Cancers but seldom happen and is frequently more from want of timely and proper Applications than the Nature of them for they are oftentimes aggravated and enraged and the Humour by wrong Applications inwardly and outwardly made corrosive and sharp as we frequently find it to be and the Humour is 〈◊〉 corrosive it is as subtle quick and penetrating as Poison it self as will appear from the following Relation which a Surgeon tells us happened upon himself who was by Name Mr. Samuel Smith one of the Surgeons of St Thomas's Hospital in Southwark who at the cutting off of a large Cancerated Breast had after the Breast was off a Curiosity to taste the Juice or Matter contain'd in one of the little Cystis's or Glands of the same which he did by touching it with one of his Fingers and then tasting it from the same with his Tongue the Taste of which he protested did immediately like a Gass pierce through the whole substance of his Tongue and passed down his Throat not less sharp or biting than Oyl of Vitriol Spirit of Nitre or Aquae Fortis or some vehement Catheretick or Caustick Salt and altho ' he presently spit out and wash'd his Mouth with Water and that oftentimes and also with Wine and drank presently very freely of Wine after it yet could not get rid of the Taste thereof but it continued with him and brought him who was a very strong Man into a Consumption or wasting pining Condition attended with several other ill Symptoms which in a few Months after killed him the Taste thereof never going off from his Tongue to his dying Hour and that the Taste of the Juice or Matter of that Cancerated Breast he declared upon his Death-bed and near the last Moments of his Life to be the true and only Cause of his languishing Condition and Death Galen tells us and the same is confirmed by daily Experience that Cancers in the outward Parts as in the Breast may in the beginning be cur'd but when they are come to a considerable bigness oftentimes will yield to no Remedy but extirpation indeed a palliative Cure may be prescrib'd which if the Cancer be not Ulcerated may make the Patient easy and prolong Life so as not to dye the sooner because of that Cancer but when it is Ulcerated it can never be cicatrised but as long as it so remains the Patient will live in continual Pain and Filthiness and at last dye miserably unless it is cur'd by Ustion Cautry or Extirpation and then may prove but a doubtful Cure If a Cancer in the Breast proceeds from malignant Humours or corrosive Salts in the Blood it is generally incurable by reason of its malignant and poysonous Ferment which seldom yields to any internal and external Remedies whether Vomiting Purging Bleeding Sweating Dyet-drink nay Salivations or application of Annodines Suppuratives or any other kind of Medicine or if in some it should seem to yield or indeed seem to be cur'd while it proceeds from those corrosive Humours they many times breed again and break forth afresh either in the same place or in some other parts of the Body But if a Cancer proceeds from external Causes as Bruises Blows c. and be taken in time and the hurt lies not very deep a Cure with good Success may be undertaken yea oftentimes tho' they lie deep but then must be with proper Applications for wrong Medicines apply'd tho' the Injury be but small is increas'd to what of it self it might never have came to therefore is a caution worthy to be taken notice of many Women by undue tampering and ill advice and Medicines having been ruin'd and lost their Lives which otherwise in all likelihood might have been preserv'd Therefore before external Applications be made to a Cancerated Breast or supposed Cancerated Breasts it ought to be consider'd whether it be recent and small or inveterate and great if the first it will by proper Applications admit of Cure I say proper Applications because by and by I shall come to relate what is the most proper to apply to a true Cancer or an imagin'd Cancer of the Breast if the second it never will admit of Cure without cutting A pallative Cure may be had if it be not ulcerated as said before where by proper Remedies Ease may be had and Life prolong'd and that done by divers Medicines at least every Nurse or good Woman has a Medicine and that if you will believe them they say will cure but those hap-hazzard Remedies I have known fatal and therefore advise none to give Ear to them But I would not have it understood that I design here to direct to the Cure of Cancerated Breasts of all sorts I mean those that are running and ulcerate which require a skilful Surgeon's attendance and care but only those that are Swell'd and Tumefy'd as well such as are continually or only intermittingly painful and whether proceeding from Blows Falls Strokes ill Habits of Body Tumours from Milk hardnesses of the Breasts by Imposthumes after Lyings-in c. which oftentimes by ill management and pressing and handling turn to Cancers I say from what ever cause they proceed from so they be whole and taken in time may be cur'd by proper Applications and if they be broken or ulcerated to prevent its increase and remove the hardness and swelling about it a Medicine or two may be directed that will if any thing will not fail of proving successful But as I said before every swell'd Breast being not always Cancerous it may be necessary in two or three Words more to explain which hard or painful Breasts can justly be said to be Cancerous and which not so A Cancer in the Breast at its first appearance looks like
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
make Incisien in all promiscuously has been the ruine of many and the one cutting which the Patient was told would be sufficient for Cure has occasioned more Sinus's by the Inflamation and Pain and the fâ—uxion of Humours thereby upon those depending Parts so that cutting again and again has been done to the utter spoiling of the Patient causing the Fistula to be inveterate to run much to the extenuating the Body decaying the Strength whence loss or debilitation of Stomach ensues and at length Faintness cold Sweats c. which brings the Fistula and whole Body into such a State as that all hopes of Cure are past especially if the Fistula was deep or penetrated beyond the Musculi Ani for by cutting such if they are cur'd the Patients will scarcely ever retain their Excrements but with great difficulty if no worse accidents happen and if they reach beyond the Sphincter the retention of the excrements will be impossible so that great care ought to be taken and a Skilful Surgeon advis'd with before the Patient submits to be cut at all It is allow'd by all that Fistula's that are very Sinous and have been of long standing are dangerous and of difficult Cure especially if they discharge a large quantity of Pus and lie so far distant as that there is no coming at the bottom but the nearer they are to the Anus the more easie they are of Cure The Anus or Fundament is more subject to Fistula's than any other part in the whole Body because the great quantity of Fat with which the Intestinum Rectum is loaded and the Evacuation of the Excrements this being the common Sink where all the filth of the Body is brought down to be carried off from its continual Humidity and numerous Vessels as Branches of the Hypogastrick Arteries and Veins a Branch of the Aorta another of the Inferior or Mesenterick Artery the Hemoirrhoidal Veins the vast number of Lymphaticks the Glands also seperating a white Glairy Viscous Liquor I say those meeting there and Humours from internal Causes whether Obstructions Inflammations Ascesses Ulcers Piles or external as Blows Contusions impure Embraces Falls Leeches ill applied c. which happening more or less to meet there as being a Part more dispos'd it is no wonder to find Fistula's so soon form'd and so frequent as we observe them to be There are some Fistula's that are not noisome nor very troublesome or painful and that sometimes are open and run at other times close and the Patient is dry and thus they do for many Years without any great inconveniency and is what is found expedient for the Health of the Patient for thereby the Body is discharg'd of superfluous Humours which otherwise might breed great disorders and endanger the Patient's Life I have known many People have such Fistula's which have contributed greatly to their Health and continued on them to the end of their Lives But enough has been said as to the Nature Cause and Consequence of this troublesome and oftentimes dangerous Indisposition I shall now come to speakof its Cure which is what was chiefly at first aim'd at and what I presume is by the Patient expected I have said already that cutting is not necessary in all and shew'd wherein it is and is not for the Patients safety and where it is not I shall recommend a Method which if follow'd according to directions will be found more beneficial than many Physicians and Surgeons will be ready or willing to believe In the first place the Patient is gently to purge with the English Pills herein recommended and to repeat them oncein a Week oftner or seldomer as the Body is gross or Humours abound but not to take too large a Dose for gentle Purging is best and he is also at the same time to make the following Dyet-drink which he is constantly to drink of till he is perfectly well and is this Take Burdock Roots 8 Ounces Elecampane Roots 3 Ounces Tormentil and Bistort Roots of each an Ounce Sanicle 2 handfuls Germander Ground-Ivy and Agrimony of each 2 handfuls Sarsaparilla 6 Ounces China Roots 3 Ounces Sassaphras 3 Ounces Guaiacum 4 Ounces Raisons of the Sun and Figs of each 4 Ounces Liquorish 3 Ounces boil all in 12 Pints of Lime Water till 2 Pints are boil'd away then strain it and drink half a Pint every Morning and 4 or 5 in the Evening and at Night going to Bed a little warm'd Upon the use of this Dyet-drink and now and then but not too often purging with the aforesaid Pills and using at the same time the Injection into the Fistula the Patient will find the Cure will come on for the Purging gently carries off the Humonrs the Dyet-drink dries up the superfluous Moisture and nourishes and strengthens the Body and the Injection which I am now going to mention will cleanse and cicatrize the Fistula that the Patient if he continues the Course long enough which he must be sure to do if he expects to be well for those things will take up time in some more in some less according as is the Indisposition will find it to answer his expectation without the pain and danger of cutting which has ruin'd many The Injection for this purpose is neither corrosive or will cause pain it is to be injected into the Fistula every Night and Morning warm with a Syringe two Syringes full each time which upon casting in he will find if the Fistula goes into the Fundament to come some of it out at the Fundament but he is not to put the point of the Syringe into the Fistula too far but just so much in as that the Liquor will be forc'd into the Orifice By this means I have cur'd several and most if not all that use the method will have the same success for the Injection takes away all Callosity and yet I say without pain cleanses astringes dries up and cicatrizes the Part that by degrees the Fistula will close and heal up from end to end to the great pleasure and satisfaction of the before terrify'd Patient who cou'd hear nothing from his Surgeon but Cutting Cutting which News is receiv'd by some as unwelcome as an Old-Baily Sentence to a Criminal The Price of the Injection is 5s the Bottle To be had only at the Place before-mentioned Tinctura Cephalica OR HEAD-TINCTURE THE most incomparable and appropriated Medicine that can possibly be made use of for preventing and curing all Distempers of the Head and Brain as Head-achs Megrim Vertigo Epilepsies Palsies Apoplexies Lethargies Convulsions Phrensies Carus Coma trembling of the Nerves Numbness loss of Memory dulness and heaviness of the Senses Drowsiness tasting and smelling hurt weakness glimmering or dulness of the Sight thickness of Hearing noises in the Head beating or shooting Pains c. which numbers of Persons are sorely afflicted with and which very often seizes such as are over thoughtful and studious c. those Diseases amongst the numbers that
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