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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56769	Some observations made upon the root called nean or ninsing imported from the East-Indies shewing its wonderful virtue in curing consumptions, ptissicks, shortness of breath, distillation of rhume, and restoring nature after it hath been impaired by languishing distempers and long fits of sickness / publisht by a doctor of physick in York-shire in a letter to Mr. Colwell, a member of the Royal Society, 1680.	Simpson, William, M.D.; Peachi, John, fl. 1683.; Pechey, John, 1655-1716.	1680 (1680)	Wing P937A; ESTC R27606	2,243	7

SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the ROOT called Nean or Ninsing IMPORTED From the EAST-INDIES SHEWING Its wonderful Virtue in curing Consumptions Ptissicks Shortness of Breath Distillation of Rhume and restoring Nature after it hath been Impaired by Languishing Distempers and long Fits of Sickness Publisht by a Doctor of Physick in York-shire in a Letter to Mr. Colwell a Member of the Royal Society 1680. LONDON Printed for the Author SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon The ROOT called NEAN or NINSING c. SIR I Have read that some famous Divines have not spared to report in Print that they believed Cardan Physician to King Edward the Sixth was now in Hell because he refused to tell the World a Secret with which he wrought great Cures And therefore for my part I am resolved to prevent the Occasion of any such Censure and freely Communicate this Noble and Excellent Medicine that hath done such great Cures in China Japan and many other parts of the World when abundance of compounded Elaborate Remedies have proved ineffectual When I lived at Hull in Yorkshire a parcel of it was given me for a Present which I used with wonderfull success And particularly to a Relation of Mr. Andrew Marvel's who was much emaciated and reduced unto a perfect Skeleton a meer Bag of Bones by a long Hectick Feaver joyned with an Ulcer of the Lungs being despaired of by all Friends I was resolved to try what the Tincture of this Root would doe which I gave every Morning in Red Cows Milk warm from her Duggs which my worthy Friend and intimate Acquaintance Dr. Primrose preferrs before Asses Milk as you may see in his Book called Popular Errors And I found his Flesh to come again like that of a Child and his lost Appetite restored and his natural Ruddy Complexion revived in his Cheeks to the Amazement of his desponding Relations that he was called Lazarus the Second I solemnly profess that I hate all Pretences to Secrets and I look upon the Printed Bills of Quacks who pretend to Nostrums and private Medicines to be meer Cheats and Tricks to amuse the common People and to pick their Pockets But if any Man can communicate a good Medicine he shews himself a Lover of his Countrey more than of himself and deserves Thanks of Mankind And for my part I verily believe that next unto the Virtue of Scarborough Spaw which I suppose I have sufficiently recommended I think this is one of the best Medicines in the World and in many cases better against Consumptions and Distempers of the Lungs than that Ogleby in his Natural History of China tells the World that a Pound of this Root is sold in the Countrey wherein it growes for three times its weight in Silver it is looked upon as so great a Cordial And Piso that Learned Physician esteems it a mighty Restorer of Nature and as far as may be a Renewer of Youth Publick Fame saith that the Popes of Rome who are chosen to that Office when they are very Old doe make great use of this Root to preserve their Radical Moysture and natural Heat that so they may the longer enjoy their Comfortable Preferments I once recommended this Root to my good Friend Mr. Steel the Minister with singular advantage to his Health as he told me but finding him under the Care of an Excellent Physician I advised him to lay aside all Medecins but what he prescribed When I read the Bills of Mortality and find three or four Thousand dye in a Year of Consumptions notwithstanding all the rational Methods of Physicians and the boasting Pretences of Quacks and Mountebanks I could no longer conceal this Excellent Specifick A very considerable Person at Hull who was very much pined away had a Cough and Shortness of Breath a Quick Pulse and an intense Heat at some certain times with wandering Pains in several parts of his Body and restless Nights and no Appetite to Food my Advice being desired I wisht him to take the Extract made with this Root every Night in Almond-Milk and in a Months time he gtew fat and plump and all his ill symptoms left him and he is yet alive to the Glory of God and the Comfort of his Relations One thing is very remarkable that let the Cause of the Consumption be what it will viz. an Ulcer of the Lungs or a Scorbutick sharp Humour in the Blood or a Hectick Feaver or the Infection of the Spermatick Vessels which in time and in various Disguises spoyls the whole Habit of the Body and by disabling the parts to digest their Nourishment bring Leanness and Consumption I say let any of these or all of them be Causes yet this Root proves advantageous as Experience testifies The Case of the Gentlewoman at Leeds in Yorkshire is very remarkable who catching cold in her Lying in fell under great Weakness a dry Cough Stitches in her Brest and Sides Heat in her Palms and Feet pining away insensibly many Physicians were consulted but all in vain at last I advised her to take the Spirit made of this Root about ten Drops at a time in a Glass of old Mallago after Dinner In a short time after she gathered her Flesh and had Five Children At Rippon there was a Good Friend of mine of a considerable Estate whose only Child falling into a deep Consumption upon his Breeding of Teeth the Parents being almost distracted for want of an Heir nothing else being expected but Death and the Child being tyred out with other Medicines I recommended the Tincture Spirit and Extract made of this Root and in six Weeks time the Child mended and grew strong and lusty and is like to be a Man These and many such Examples might be given which are great Encouragement to make use of such a known safe and experienced Remedy and so very pleasant as this is being taken only in Drops whereby it becomes extreamly agreeable unto Children who pine away upon breeding their Teeth as daily Experience shews to the great Grief of many tender Mothers A Friend of mine at York who buried Six Children preserved the seventh under God with this Root for it hath no manner of Heat but is exceeding temperate and may be given in all their Victuals and Spoon-meat Mr. Boyle once told me he thought it was a Medicine sent from Heaven to save the Lives of Thousands of Men Women and Children FINIS