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A62068 The compleat method of curing almost all diseases to which is added an exact description of their several symptoms / written in Latin by Dr. Thomas Sydenham ; and now faithfully Englished. Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689. 1694 (1694) Wing S6307; ESTC R34635 47,961 126

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the animal Spirits run into disorderly motions the Urine appears sometimes limpid and in great quantity the sick persons cast off all hope of recovery and portend the most dismal things to themselves Whatsoever part of the body the Disease doth affect and it affecteth many immediately the symptoms that are proper to that part appear in the Head the Apoplexy which ends in a Palsy of one half of the body comes presently after Child-bearing sometimes they are seized with Convulsions that very much resemble the Epilepsy and are commonly called the Suffocation of the womb in which the Belly and Entrails rise upwards towards the Throat At other times they are miserably tormented with the Hysterical Clavus in which there is a most vehement pain in the head which you may cover with your thumb the sick person in the mean time vomiting up green Matter like to that sort of Choler that has its name from Leeks The Paroxysm doth also counterfeit the Palpitation of the Heart the Cough the Colic and Iliac Passions the Stone and Suppression of Urine it is attended with prodigious vomitings and sometimes with a Diarrhaea outwardly in the musculous Flesh it causes sometimes Pains and sometimes swellings In the Legs it is like a Dropsie nor which is wonderful doth it leave the Teeth untouch'd The Back is often cruelly pain'd and almost always the external parts are so cold that a dead body is not more The sick persons break out ridiculously into excessive Laughter and Tears without any cause and are some times troubled with spitting to such a degree as were enough to make one believe that they had been anointed with Mercury Hysterical Pains whatsoever part they affect leave a Tenderness behind them that cannot endure to be touch'd as if the Flesh had been beaten Let Blood be taken away to the quantity of eight ounces Apply the Plaister of Galbanum to the Navel And next morning let the sick person begin to use the following Pills Take of the Pills call'd Cochiae the greate● two drams Castoreum powder'd two grains Balsam of Peru three drops Make twelve Pills of which take four every morning of every second day according to your strength about four or five of the clock sleeping after them Take Rue water four ounces compound Briony water two ounces Castoreum tyed in a knot and hung in the Glass half a dram Sugar-candy a sufficient quantity Of this take four or five spoonfuls in every Fit After the Pills take what follows Take Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Extract of Wormwood make three Pills which must be taken early in the morning and repeated at five in the afternoon for thirty days drinking after them a draught of Wormwood Wine If the form of a Bolus be more grateful Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and Conserve of the yellow part of Orenges of each one ounce preserv'd Angelica Nutmeg preserv'd Treacle of Andromochas of each half an ounce compound Powder of Aron three drams preserv'd Ginger two drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the juice of Citrons or in want of that Syrup of Orenges make an Electuary Take of this Electuary two drams Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Orenges make a Bolus which is to be taken morning and evening drinking after it a draught of Wormwood Wine or six spoonfuls of the following Infusion Take Roots of Angelica Elicampane and Masterwort of each one ounce Leaves of common Wormwood lesser Centory white Horehound and Germainder of each one handful the Barks of two Orenges slic'd pour upon them so much Spanish Wine as will rise two inches above them and strain it at the time of using it Or To delicate persons the Steel may be given in the form of a Powder as follows Take Filings of Steel finely powder'd one ounce compound Powder of Aron six drams Coriander seed prepar'd seeds of Anise and sweet Fennel of each half an ounce the best Cinnamon red Coral prepar'd of each three drams Nutmeg two drams Beat them all into a very fine Powder to which add of the best white Sugar to the weight of all the rest Take half a dram of this Powder in a Spoon twice a day four days together and afterwards a whole dram twice every day for forty days drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep or of Wormwood and Wine Take Milk water twelve ounces compound Gentian water four ounces Wormwood water of the greater composition two ounces White Sugar a sufficient quantity Make a Julep Or Take half a pint of Rhenish Wine prepar'd with Wormwood compound Gentian water two ounces Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers one ounce Make a Julep Take choice Myrrh Galbanum and Assa foetida of each one dram Castoreum half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Balsam of Peru make them up into Pills twelve out of each dram of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of compound Bryony water during the whole process of the Cure If these Pils move the Belly use these that follow Take Castoreum one dram volatil salt of Amber half a dram with a sufficient quantity of extract of Rue make four and twenty Pills of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep Spirit of Harts-horn exhibited frequently to sixteen or eighteen drops is of excellent use But if the Disease doth not yield to these remedies then take the following Pills Take Troches of Myrrh powder'd one scruple Balsom of Sulphur terebinthinated four drops with a sufficient quantity of Gum Ammoniac disolv'd make four Pills which must be taken morning and evening drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep with twelve drops of Spirit of Harts-horn The Antiscorbutic Electuary with the Water there described is good also in this Disease and likewise the corroborating Electuary with the addition of Conserve of Garden Scurvy-Grass one ounce compound powder of Aron six drams drinking after it the forementioned Water But if all these Remedies prove ineffectual you must have recourse to the waters that partake of Iron and if these also do no good to those that are sulphureous such as are the Bath waters Concerning the use of the Mineral waters these things are to be observed If any bad symptom appear which may be ascribed to the drinking of the water in such a case you must abstain from them till the symptom disappear Continue the use of them for six weeks at least rather two months Eat now and then preserv'd Ginger or Caraway seeds confected to warm the stomach You may also take three of the Hysterical Pills the first ten nights drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep As for the Bath waters you must dsink them two days and bath in them the third proceeding thus alternately six weeks or two months If the Steel heat the body too much