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A31013	An account of the original, nature, preparation, vertues, and use of the Vatican pill famous for many years past, unto this day throughout Europe, and particularly in this kingdom, for the many great and remarkable cures wrought by it / prepared exactly according to the most correct process, and recommended to publick use, by J.B. ...	J. B.	1700 (1700)	Wing B88; ESTC R35734	7,195	9

An Account of the Original Nature Preparation Vertues and Vse of the Vatican Pill Famous for many Years past unto this day throughout Europe and particularly in this Kingdom for the many great and Remarkable Cures wrought by it Prepared exactly according to the most Correct Process And Recommended to Publick Vse Medic. Lond. I Should not have suffered this Excellent Medicine call'd the Vatican Pill to have been detained so long from Publick Knowledge and Use had I not Expected that some person of greater Authority and parts then my self should have given it its deserved character and thereby a more hopefull and universal reception But I find the cause of this reserve to have been the fear of Censure because this fruitfull Age doth every day prodigally create More Doctors then Masters of Art But this consideration hath not altered my purpose of doing this intended good for it is not a Strange thing acquired by long Study hard labour and far travel which I offer nor to be vouch'd by a volumn of precarious testimonies But I only recommend to the use and benefit of infirm Persons a Medicine which from many years before my time unto this day hath by infinite Experiments advanc'd its fame and repute above Detraction Being well known to many Persons of great quality who the more the pitty Keep and value it as a Grand Secret to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most powerfully operative Remedy of this kind in all extreams which Europe in this Age hath afforded It s Original was from the Imperial Court in Germany the Author famous as well for his great learning as his Dignity was Archiater or Cheif Physitian in ordinary to the Emperour Maximilian from whence it was at first called the Imperiall Pill Afterward being transferr'd to Rome and new proofs given continually for many years together of its wonderfull Vertues it was by the Speciall command of Paul the third committed to that Noble treasury of learning the Vatican Library that it might not be lost to Posterity and so it was called the Vatican Pill and the rather to distinguish it from the Imperiall Pill of Mesue then Extant since which in the time of Vrban the 8th it was revised by the most acute Physitians then being from whom it received a very great improvement both in the Preparation and Operation And was made more appropriate to some severe Distempers then raigning and at this day distributed universally into all Europe The Nature of this Pill is to Penetrate Digest cleanse attenuate discuss and open all obstructions to attract into the Stomack and intestines and then carry off from thence all crude indigested and corrupted humours and such juices as are unprofitable to the body yet not by any violent acrimonious quality therein which may furiously provoke the Expulsive faculty to a promiscuous discharge of all humours at once both good and bad and so with the Tares root out the Wheat too But being received into the stomack doth vertually convey it self into all parts of the body and by a certain familiarity and affinity with each humour and assimilation of Substance doth draw forth and expel each offending humour and whatsoever is Supervacaneous and unserviceable to the conservation of the whole And by this Energy alone doth cure all humoral diseases This is the true genuine property and Nature of this our Vatican Pill Which both in the Election of materials and a peculiar and most elegant Preparation is brought into the highest perfection of any such medicine now in being Every particular ingredient herein being singly extracted by a dissolvant analogous to its own Nature whereas Spirit of Wine the common dissolvant of extracted Medicaments cannot equally act upon all for some being of a more hard and fix'd substance resist its force whilst others of a more airy and light body have their volatile Essences totally exhal'd and devout'd by it So that such an imperfect composition must consequently have an imperfect and deficient operation whilst ours severally imparting their essences to appropriate and adapted Menstruums or dissolvants have their virtues exalted to an exquisite perfection at length all those impregnated liquors being conjoyn'd are united into that Mass which is the true Substance of this famous Vatican Pill The vertues hereof are manifold it being as was said extensive to all parts of the body viz from the stomach to the Liver Spleen Gall Mesentery and all other parts ordained to convey to the Body its nourishment thence to the more remote and solid parts as the Muscles nerves tendons joynts and habit of the body It works by stoole and urine by sweat when required and also by vomit when the stomack is overcharged else not by which means the body is discharged of all Superfluous corrupt unnecessary and excrementitious humours which tend to the forming of diseases the whole mass of the blood purified all obstructions of what kind or in What part soever opened and the cause thereof removed The stomack is cleansed from all crudity and foulness lost appetite restored digestion perfected fumes windiness heaviness swelling and flushing heats after eating dissolved also difficult breathing movable pains in the joints back hips leggs and elsewhere palpitation of the heart faintings sick qualmes troubled and uneas sleeps stinking breath violent and lasting pains in the head Catarrhs or rhewms falling upon the lungs and other parts and all evills which may any way happen to the Reins seminall vessels and other parts designed for generation in man or woman and in a word not to trouble the Reader with a tedious Catalogue of Diseases all soul mixtures of the blood corruption of humours discrasy or intemperature of the whole Substance of the body caused either by Surfeits in Eating drinking labour watching exercise passions of the mind immoderate venery vehement paine or whatsoever elss may by oppression of the Spirits or dissipation of naturall heat drive the body into extreams pervert the course of nature create or nourish Diseases are by vertue of this Excellent Medicine wholly subdued carried off and the body restored to is wonted health and Vigour These are the generall vertues of this Pill In the use of which that I may not amuse the Reader with many unnecessary Rules observe That the stomack be not overcharged with meat or drink when you take this Pill for thereby is its operation disappointed and the stomack disabled to work a due concoction of the meat That the Dose or portion hereof to an ordinary constitution is 5 or 6. Pills and more or sewer as each one finds their own ability which is easily found by begining with a Small Dose and encreasing as you find your strength to answer the operation of them and so continue with that proper dose Having now found the quantity agreeable to your Body Observe well that they are not to be taken all at once but some at night the rest in the

morning As for Example if your Dose intended be 3 Pills or 4 take one at night going to bed 3 or 4 hours after a very light Supper and the rest in the morning following If your Dose be 5 6 or more take 2 at night and the remainder in the morning with this farther Caution that your morning dose be double the quantity at least of those you take over-night and the reason is this viz that this little dose taken at night is intended only as a preparative to tnose you reserve for the morning that is to loosen dissolve and make thin such gross and tough humours as lye deep and remote from the immediate attaque of the Medicine and dispose them to Evacuation which is performed by the following greater dose more Effectually and with more ease and profit to the body then if the whole number had been taken at once After that your Pills taken in the morning have wrought once you may drink either clear posset drink or thin broth and not before and drink not too often least they be forced through the bowels before they have perfected their work Let your diet be of good nourishment easy of digestion and moderate Salted meats old cheese and such course fare are to be avoided during the use of the Pill These are the generall rules which I propound in the use of this our Vatican Pill Which being duly observ'd I am well assured that they who shall use them will find happy Success and the desired effects thereof and shall have cause to bless God for them in whose hands only are the issues of life There are yet some particular Diseases which by a specifick on more appropriate Quality they Cure in which is required a peculiar Regiment or order in the use of them The first whereof is the Scurvy A Diseases which holdeth a secret and dangerous faction in the body and though its first assaults are light and more tolerable yet it insensibly undermines it and brings on certain though gradual ruine it s easier symptoms are loose teeth sore gums and mouth little Spots in the skin faintness and stiffness of the Limbs Which do in time amount to soul ulcers larger purple or dark and dusky spots in divers parts whitish crusty scabs like leprosy hard to cure sharp pains in the legs arms and solid parts which are still attended with wearyness and indisposition to move the whole oeconomy of the stomack is deprav'd appetite lost much crudity and indigested matter load the spleen and parts adjacent which cause stubborn obstructions there from whence the reall Miasma or Originall infection of the Disease ariseth and yet in varias in s est transire figuras it takes upon it the shapes of other Diseases as Apoplexy Palsey Feavers Agues Dropsy Plurisy intolerable Head-Ach Gout Cholick Gripings in the guts and many others and often the Pox. Which it so exactly imitates that they may be judged to be twins of the same Parent Yet in all these it retains its Scorbutick Idea t is still the Ass in the Lyons skin and though it puts on these various forms t is still the Scurvy Which by the use of this Excellent Pill is perfectly cured and they are to be used according to the rules before prescribed only the drink here appointed is to be constantly taken during the cure viz. Take of Egrimony Tamaris and Roman wormwood each 4 great handfuls cutt Small Sassafras shaved thin half a pound Juniper berries Six onnces Juices of water-cresses brooklime and Scurvy grass each a quart beat your berries Small and put them all into a Rundle●t of four gallons of ordinary beer or ale let it stand 4 or 5 dayes then use it as your common drink at meat and all other times and in the use of this and the Pill as aforesaid doubt not of your Cure by Gods help where Roman wormwood is not to be had use common wormwood but in less quantity and put not in your ingredients till the drink hath wrought Another specifick Cure wrought by this Pill is of the Dropsie whose symptomes are so obvious to every Eye that they need no description only that there are three distinct species or kinds thereof cal'd by greek Authors Sarcites Ascites and Tympanites The first shews the whole Body tumified with a watery humour between the Skin and the Flesh the second the Belly fil'd and distended with water and this is most dangerous and if not taken in time incurable being suppli'd with an uncessant exudation or dripping into the capacity of the Abdomen caused by an habituated weakness of the Liver and other Bowels The third called Tympanites causeth the same Belly to be swell'd and stretched out with wind as before with water in Ascites These are all cured by the timely use of this Pill taken by the Rules aforesaid only you need not take any over night for here the humours are thin and fluid enough only you are to take the drink before prescribed in the scurvy adding to the composition six handfuls of green Broom stamped and three handfuls of the Roots of dwarf-Elder commonly called Danewort and use this drink with the Pills till you are well which will be with as much speed as can be expected and more then in any other course The like success is found in the Gout provided that the nerves be not shrunk into knots nor the substance of the part wasted for as there is herein a concurrence of two common causes an afflux of humours and weakness of the Joynts so is there in the Pill a two fold opperation first it removes the offending humour from that part and then leaves the nerves and tendons so fortified that no humour shall be suffered to settle there for the future the same is also performed in the Sciatica or in what part else the Gout shall fasten The use of the Pill in this Disease is according to the first direction But in the perfecting this Cure there is required the Co-operation of a Balsamick liquor to be out wardly applyed which I prepare and keep in readiness by me which may at all times be had at a reasonable rate in the use of both which Medicines I dare promise a perfect Cure A farther Grand proof of the excellencies of this Pill is in the Cure of the Pox whose superficial and lighter Symtomes it soon removes as litle itchy pustules running over the Body Ulcers and Warts in the Privities Gonorrhoea or involuntary wasting of the Seed with excoriation causing a sharp and provoking pain in Pissing But when it hath sunk deeper into the Body seized the Liver depraved its faculties infected the Bloud corrupted the humours weakned the Nerves and Joynts loosened the solid parts caused filthy eating Ulcers in divers parts as the Mouth Throat and emunctories in the privities and fleshy parts and those deep malignant and hardly cured also dry crusty scabs in the Head about the Eye-Brows and Forehead