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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67479	Physick for families discovering a safe way, and ready means, whereby every one at sea or land, may with Gods assistance be in a capacity of curing themselves, or their relations, in all distempers or extremities, without any the hazards, troubles, or dangers, over usual, in all other wayes of cure.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1669 (1669)	Wing W687; ESTC R15165	56,948	126

things were as before in the Evening Cupping-glasses were applyed with scarrificaton which did her good On the seventh day her Courses began to flow plentifully by which means all Symptoms were verymuch abated On the eighth day she was better On the ninth day she had a light loosness joyned with a Tenesmus by which she voided few Flegmatick excrements and before that loosness she vomited much bitter stuff the Humours were prepared with temperate aperitives On the tenth day which was the eighteenth day of the Moneth her loosness was less at night it stopt quite ●he had no Fever and after that she plainly amended On the 29. of the said Moneth of April when she felt her helf exceeding well and was busy about her houshold oc●asions as she was sitting in a Chair she fell suddenly to the ground and died Her body being opened her Mediastinum was found full of wheyish blood which peradventure the Membrane being broken towards the upper part of the Lungs and pressing the same and the Aspera Arteria might suddenly choak her moreover the whole substance of the Lungs was found full of purulent matter exceeding heavy Also her left Testicle was as big as a small Egg of a blackish colour and as it were Gangrenated yea and as soon as it was open'd there leapt out of the middle of her Testicle a certain matter like a Nut-kernel and very like a putrisied clotter of blood we conjectured that to have been the cause of her Mother-fits to which she was very much subject yea peradventure the Palpitation of her heart arose from thence viz. From the filthy vapours ascending from that part Here you have a very smooth Story yet of so unquiet rugged pe●plexed and disconsolate a handling of a sick and Diseased body that to one accustome● solely to mild and gentle ways in Physick as nothing seems more cross to reason so truly hardly any thing more grievous or more justly to be lamented for although the Relation of five times bleeding of one in her sad Condition and divers times Glisters Ligatures Cuppings and Scarrifications and purgings be here very plausibly delivered as if the Fears Troubles and Disturbances these Attending were not at all felt or thought on by the Patient yet whoever sensibly considers the many tossings and turmoilings this sick and tender person was exercised withal during her ten Dayes sickness can hardly avoid believing but that it was even without any other Distemper sufficient to have brought any weak person to their end or far towards it nor can I but firmly apprehend That if any Patient taken as is here exprest should for such a time be Discreetly plyed with Refugium Vindex Salus Vita naturae Clavis or Radix being all strengthners of Nature and of Power to subdue the venomous causes of Distempers I say so plyed I can hardly see it possible but that recovery must necessarily follow And therefore truly the course taken was and is still to be bewailed and much the Rather because in this ye are to reckon that ex ungue Leonem you have a full prospect of the generally approved Practice of Physick The Essence Quintessence master-piece not of a learner but of a Teacher and most Reverent Author and Doctor in the Science such as who ever follows may Authentically subscribe Secundum Artem to all their Prescriptions and Proceedings for which they are both prais'd and liberally pai'd too And wherewithal their patients speed how they will must be contented And yet who so blind as with half an eye doth not see what extream uncertainty this Learned person was at throughout his whole Engagement in this Distemper how slenderly discerning of the Cause how weakly judging of the alterations how insensible of the Patients mollestations by Glisters Blisters c. how regardless of her loss of blood and Spirit which though very fruitless yet often repeated of how little use his Learning and former reading seemed herein how insignificant all his former opening and Anatomising of Bodies appeared here where he was afresh fain to open his Patient to learn what her Disease was And being open'd how meanly he Guesses taking notice meerly of apparent defects of Parts which are but Effects without any consideration of the cause thereof which indeed is the Disease and indiscernable but by the Intellectual eye of the understanding Also how poorly he was furnished with Medicines of so mean casual and hazardous qualifications as not in the least strengthened but weakned nature through which she fell So that the whole considered to any rational conscience I think there will appear a cause for all I have said or done In this weighty affair of Physick and Medicines and cannot but judg that the World h●d been infinitely more happy had it with the resignation of Judaism and Gentilism for Christianity at the same time both questioned reformed and exchanged their groundless hazardous and rugged Physick for what had been more pure peaceable and more suitable to that sublime and healing Doctrine But it doth not appear to have then been thought of nor ever since to any considerable purpose for though Chymistry hath struck in with large and fu●l pretences and fil'd our heads with new Bookish Tearms and Notions yet have they afforded us scarce any thing but vapouring Fancies Mysteries and Riddles the proper issue of Vain-glorious and Superstitious Reformers who though very bad Leaders themselves being led by Quicksilver and Antimony have had the fortune yet to be both admired and followed by every Student in this useful Art But with so little Fruit not one Master Medicine yet appearing that it would amaze ones Reason even to astonishment But that vain windy hopes and ostentous shews or shadows have ever been of more esteem then substances and useful realities but if hence forward it should be better I to this piece will deem my self a debtor And so in time I doubt not will others also acknowledge for however some may still shamefully persist even against the testimony of so many instances one while to fright people from their use upon pretense of their heat and otherwhiles to accuse them of impotency by reason of their mildness yet have I not found all Doctors so partially inclined I here being one and he neither young nor mean who having tasted all with very much attention and satisfaction openly affirmed that in producing that Catalogue of Medicines so qualified as the particulars imported and the instances manifested I had done a more real service to Physick then either Hippocrates Galen Paracelsus Vanhelmont or any other he had ever Read or Heard of And that could He Produce them in that perfection I did he would not stay many dayes in England I told him his meaning and the place he aimed at and he confessed I guessed right but I thuoght the place that bred them best deservd them though but for their sakes who esteem them equal to this high Encomium how Ironically soever given And

indeavoured all I could and bent all my Studies for the obtaining of such kindly and Powerful Medicines as thereby safely to avoid and wholly to abandon all those troublesome painful hazardous and dangerous operations and Ingredients too to usual in practice It being too sad a time to add affliction to affliction as I have much comfort therein so I conceive my charitable intentions sufficiently justified by the Text The truly Christian Vertu eof Compassion being as essentially needful in a Physitian as in the most tender hearted Samaritan and without an eminent proportion whereof what ever other parts or Arts abound none ought in justice to be owned as a competeut Helper in times of such necessity Nor did I decline the common Road of Physick for any other cause Imaginable but for its manifest uncertainty in Principles Roughness Harshness and Cruelty in Methods Impropriety Impotency and danger in Medicines Nor found out any way to relieve my understanding when first at so great a loss but by withdrawing my thoughts from out the wilderness of all the uncertain Notions and Guesses of Philosophy and giving them free liberty in the walks of Scripture Where the true Original of man the sole subject of Physick hid from Phylosophy being apparent and the sublimity of the true Humane Temperature thence deducible I soon discerned that all miscarriages in Phisick proceeded from the admission of gross virulent and dangerous materials into practice together with other Rugged and Boysterous handling And for want of assimulating all Helps and Helpers in times of sickness more agreeable to the distinct purity of mans Nature Upon which noting with great circumspection every the least Glance or Lustre of this my surest Guider the Scriptures insinuating any spark of instruction towards the appropriation and power of Medicines It was not long before I apprehended a possibility of obtaining all Effects attainable in Physick solely by kindly and pleasant means void of all noxious operations or mischievous Materials In persuance whereof I concieve it very conducible to my end to confine every of my Medicines to such qualifications of what specifick intention soever as being such should necessarily answer all my aims and expectations and which since proving in their performance accordingly I have deemed it a considerable advantage to the Science of Physick to propose those their peculiar qualities as sure Marks of Real Medicines whereby to distinguish those which are fit and proper for Humane Constitutions and Rational to be relied on in all cases from those which are not as by the sequel of this Discourse will more fully appear An undertaking in the whole of so strange a Difficulty that I have many times since wondred I was not astonished and utterly disheartned at the first conception Nevertheless assisted as I have said and as I verily believe with very Effective Propensions in Nature and with a Palate suitably exercised in the Discerning of the Spirits and bent to the Discovery of the Vertues of materials whereby all Compounds as well as Simples lay open to my assistance with a mind thus furnished and prepared resolving neither to flatter nor indulge my self in trifling insignificant Attainments nor to be startled in so Worthy and Needfull an Attempt by any Difficulties with due Submissions I proposed my End made choice of Materials wrought them into the consistence and Qualities of real Medicines satisfied my Palate in their tast proved them upon my self and as cause required either altered or immediately fixt them for general Use and Practise In which way of proceeding in process of time I became so happy as to satisfie my reason in the Production of so large a variety of kindly and powerful Medicines so Equally proportioned to mens Natures and so peculiarly qualified for particular Distempers as sufficed for all Occasions and Necessities And which ever since they had a being have with that constancy wrought so many remarkable Cures that I now deem my self bound in duty to propose them as the most proper Physick for Families according to the Titles judging I should highly offend if I should fail of my uttermost endeavour to beget a right and thorow understanding of their performances And this not only because of the manifest good they bring with them in theiruse with safety but also for that absolute exemption from all those troublesome painful hazardous and dangerous proceedings with which the general course of practise is sadly and grievously encumbred A brief view of the particulars whereof may here be needful that every one may see and lay to heart how much more dreadful painful and Dangerous the afflicted times of sickness are thereby rendred and what an unspeakable happiness it would be both to all Conscionable Compassionate Physitians and all considerate Patients to have such Medicines alwayes in readiness by which all those Evils and Inconveniences may Safely and securely be avoided The first of which molesters of the sick in the usual course of practice are commonly Glisters which how innocent and harmless soever they are esteemed are nevertheless attended with more Trouble and Danger then is considered For besides their pressing over hard upon the modesty of the more bashful natures and so Disturbing their minds by the odd position and Distastful handling of the body they also expose very much to the taking or increasing of Colds and exceedingly disorder when Quietness and Sleep are most desirable But how they amaze with fears when they one after another work not at all as often befalls to extream prejudice and how dreadfully they affright when they work too much as sometimes they do in my apprehentsion deserves very much consideration Especially since in their mildest working the state of the body and Distemper may be such as they may prove no less then mortal by diverting and withdrawing the Spirits from their more needful combating the venomous Cause of the Disease to this needless operation and consequently leaving Nature destitute in her greatest extremity Nor is the very manual part how slight so ever the most make of it altogether free from the most feared effect It having been known where a small errour in the Hand administring hath occasioned an incurable Ulcer And therefore all circumstances duly weighed it must be deemed a very great advantage to understand the use of such Medicines as bring an absolute freedom from all those Troubles Hazards and Mortal Inconveniences After Glisters the next afflicter of the sick is generally Bleeding a practice not so frequent in former as in latter times and both highly commended and every whit as much condemned by persons equally Learned So that in this their Trumpet gives an uncertain sound And some who are famous upon Record Esteemed it the more proper work of worthy Physitians to rectifie rather then draw and wast it in times of sickness when Nature most needeth its assistance of which cautious judgment also seem the Chineses and the Bannian Physitians but later times and Operators are at that

found these remedies so certain Now these being Pleuretick Distempers and which are not only accompanied with violent pains and heat and pass not off but with the avoidance of an abundance of thick Flegm it would amaze an ordinary Artist that Medicines so hot as these could be so proper and so succesful as these have proved in such Cases and which they often object to disswade their use But as their Objections proceed from want of a due distinction between Vertuous and Vitious heats so hath their constant good success baffled their Objections the Patient being not to be startled from what gives him most sure and certain Remedy for their Groundless if not partial counsell 19. Another Gentleman about 30. Extreamly afflicted with a quartane Ague to quit himself whereof he had run the whole course of Physick but all in vain his cold fits being very turbulent and tedious his hot more long and irksom being accompanied with intollerable thirst and followed with such vehement Sweatings as if he had been in a boyling Bath which sweatings with sickishness also continued as much upon his well nights as upon his ill And being much engaged in business which required his being abroad he was ful of anxious thoughts what to do for relief When one who had good experience of my way recommended him to me so I gave him when he came unto me a draught of Sanguis well heated and a quarter of a pint of Vindex for his Fit which taking twice and not finding remedy he withdrew his hopes and it being not my manner to press any beyond their own minds our Proceedings ceast for above a week he hearkening to his former Councel being possest that if any thing carried off the Cause of so great disturbance it must be Purging and Vomiting Physick which rowsing all parts of the body and voiding so great a mass of ugly coloured and nasty filth the Ague or what ever it be must needs out at last Arguments indeed with custome of knowing no better so powerful as deceives both the Learned and unlearned parts of the whole World and therefore no marvel if it retained this our perplexed Patient as long as he could stand or till he was almost off of his legs But at length wearied and tired out Discoursing again with his friend he told him he was to blame to Desist from my way so soon that he was certain it was a sure way and if followed would not fail Why says he why did he not tell me so then He did says his friend and I told you so too but you regarded it not besides says he you are to urge him to do his utmost and to spare for no cost if you mean to be cured and not to expect that he should press you that having such a shew of self respect as is abhorred by all ingenious Artists Upon this he returns to me again and Earnestly desires me to do my utmost for him that he would with all his heart give twenty pounds to be cur'd of his Distemper Whereupon I fell to work amain giving him Radix to carry always about him and to drink it in good quantity continually Also to take every night at resting time 4 ounces of Salus and not to rise too soon in the morning Then for his fit he was to take a quarter of a pint of Vindex either a little before or just upon its entrance And in his hot fit to sip continually of Salus vitae And if thirst enforced to relieve by White-wine Posset or now and then with Table Beer and tost Sugar so pursuing this course for about ten Days the whole work was finished and he perfectly recovered And this without spending much more of his twenty pounds then fifty shillings so far have I ever been from putting any to farther charge than meerly necessary though it be very much to my Encouragement to have the whole in all respects wholly referred to me Nor with me shall any over speed the worse for so doing nor is any thing more improper or absurd than in sickness either to starve their Cause or to trust to halves But though this Gentlemans Ague were quite discharged and Strength and Stomack restored and all faculties in Due State and good Condition Yet being performed without Purging Vomiting Bleeding Issues or Blisters or Sweaters Except such as restrain'd and put an end to his most violent sweating this seem'd so strange a Mystery to those in whose hands he had been that they told him the work was but falacious could not be perfect but would either return upon him or bring him into some more dangerous Distemper and this he would certainly find if he did not speedily take some fit Purgative to carry off the Relicks Now though this somewhat prevail'd with him as it doth upon most yet he would be so ingenious as to tell me what was said before he would take any thing I told him they were so accustomed to that course that it was no wonder they thought it necessary But for him that had seen the Impotence of their Purges and Vomiters as to the subduing of his Distemper and the powerfulness of those Medicines that did subdue it for him to doubt that which had performed so far above his hope and upon which he found himself so compleatly well would leave Relicks that must want the help of such nasty miserable helpers should give the least Ear or yield in the least thereto would argue him a fit Subject to be play'd upon by every trifler and never more to be assisted by such benigne Medicines as when they had done his work must be made liable to so abominable Disparagement Upon this he seem'd fully fortified against their charming And when next they undertook him and in reply to what he urged from my Discourse said they did allow the Ague was subdued and kill'd But say they admit you kill a Dogg in your house if you let him lie there and not quickly throw him out hee 'l soon make you weary of your Habitation Ergo If you throw not your Dead Dogg out you must look to quit your house afore ye are aware And this frighted him again to me with a witness I smil'd to hear this Syllogistical Conclusion putting out a Candle that was before us I ask't him where was the flame he said it was Exstinguish't I askt him whether there were any Danger to be feared from it he said no I ask't him why he said because it was Extinguish't I told him so it was with his Ague the Venom which caused all his various Disturbances being also Extinguished by the Vertue Efficacy of the benign and powerful Medicines he had taken whose good qualities were such as to leave nothing behind but what they put Nature into an ability to Evacuate And this satisfied him and it was well it did for though it be the common Course and frequently passeth without manifest prejudice yet as here it was