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A34728	Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...	Couch, Robert.; Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6510; ESTC R9840	74,356	218

of all curable Ruptures and maketh all sorts of Trusses fit for the accommodation of any His Wife treateth with Women they give Advice for nothing A TABLE of the several Diseases and Distempers treated of amongst other things in the ensuing TRACT FEvers in general Malignant Fevers in Children Directions Heat in Fevers Cold in Fevers Thirst in Fevers Agues Dropsies Falling-Sickness Griping of the Guts Surfeits Fluxes Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Kidneys Windy-Melancholy Wind in the Small Guts Collick Wind-Dropsie Gouts Pleurisie Yellow Jaundice Stone in the Bladder Consumption without a Cough A Consumption with a Cough The Rickets Apoplexy Vertigo Palsie Convulsion Cramp Worms The breaking of a Vein Coughs Catarrhs Rheums shortness of Breath Strangury Fits of the Mother Praxis Catholica OR THE COUNTRY-MAN'S Universal REMEDY IT was the custom amongst the ancient Greeks that if a sure Cure was found for any Disease the party was bound to write it on a Table and hang it up in the Temple of Diana at Ephesus that every one labouring with that Disease might afterwards repair thither and receive their Remedy Soon after did they digest the Art of Healing into a fatal Method as a Directory to the true knowledge of Curing whereby a further enquiry into Medicines came to be neglected and so this false Doctrine of the Greeks spread it self amongst the Arabians Romans and then amongst the Christians and is still in use amongst us to this day to blind us from the knowledge of true and perfect Remedies for curing our Diseases whereby we see many yearly swept away from us through some accustomed Diseases as well as new ones and especially that amongst Children of a Griping Vomiting and Scouring which gives me great cause to mistrust that either the true cause of this is not understood as well as the rest or a fit Remedy not yet found out Nor is it Children alone that this Fever the Prince of Diseases doth appear unto in those bloody manners but to some of full Growth and Strength It doth assault us in various Shapes and Habits This Disease is a grand Enemy to man for there is hardly a Distemper but is accompanied with a Fever either going before or following after it Wherefore I shall a little anatomize it unto you and shew you its Rise the place where it commonly abides and what it feeds on and so describe it as you may know it at a distance and not only this but most of our Serpentine Enemies I shall observe that method in treating of them as I do in curing of them which is to have respect unto that first which doth most press amonst which I think that peracute Disease of Children is most urgent so my method leads me to begin with a child whom I shall trace unto his old age where I shall leave him to that great Physician whose Servant I am not worthy to be First it will be necessary that I give a preparative to your understanding in unfolding the right use of two or three principal parts whose proper uses have not yet been discovered before you enter upon the main Body viz. The Spleen Liver and Gaul From these three comes Life and Death Health and Diseases as they are disposed either well or ill These are the Pillars that do support the Fabrick of the Microcosm The two first do principally respect the preservation of Health the last is of a more Balsamical Nature which doth as well prevent Diseases as restore health when it is wanting Understand by a Ferment A Specifical Virtue or Power which every part is endued withal that whatsoever is transferred through them is transmuted into their fermental quality Omnis facultas quando praevalet ea est natura ut mutet sibique simile faciat id quod ad ipsam est victum as the Aliment in digesting in the Stomach is sow'r then when the Chyle passeth through the Guts Duodenum and Ileon it is saltish and being more elaborated in the Meseraick and Milky Veins becometh more salt which is a preparation for Sanguification which is perfected in the Liver and so assimilated by every part The whole Body is seasoned and tinctured with the Ferments of those three principal parts viz. sharp from the Spleen Whitmore de Febre anomala Salt from the Liver and bitter from the Gaul To begin with the first The Spleen This part hath been hardly censured by many to be the receptacle of the Faeces of the Blood the mother of black Choler or Melancholy the Sink and Fountain of many stubborn and rebellious Diseases and to be a Bowel of no great use only to elaborate this more feculent Blood and give a small nourishment to some of the natural parts likewise the efficient cause of Madness and Dotage c. Some have not stuck to say that if ever nature made any thing to hurt her self it was this and if she had found out some other way for discharging of this Excrement as she hath done the rest she had eased her self of abundance of trouble c. but I rather think the contrary there is not any part within us nature hath been so liberal unto as to this nor hath bestowed such special favour on Vide Dr. Highmore de affectione Hypochon fol. 132. it is enriched with ten times at least as many Arteries as any other part There is life peculiarly due unto it more than sensitive for it is extant long before quickening Helmont de Author duum virut It hath a double Ferment there is a Vital from the Arteries and the digestive faculty of the Stomach which is made by an acid juice sent from it and for that great concernment which is committed unto its charge it is termed the President of the Stomach I cannot think that any excrementitious matter can reside where it hath so worthy a place for its Emunctory as the Stomach the Arteries fetch from the Stomach of their purest Chyle and sanguifie it for their pleasure and it may be by their too liberal attraction may debilitate their Ferment that so they may require an assistance from the main Body whereby the Stomach may be neglected with a due quantity of this juice whence lack of appetite and crudities do arise and so this Ferment may be exorbitant in the Spleen from whence comes bloody and black spitting into the stomach which some have judged black Choler which is nothing but an expurging and renewing of nourishable blood from the Spleen it self the Humour Melancholy and black Choler was never yet found in nature nor indeed is there any such thing extant wherefore whatsoever distemper may arise from the Spleen it is from a vitiated or debilitated Ferment not from a peccant matter which doth offend only in quality not in quantity Again if the distemper of the Spleen be the cause of Madness then in its right order there is a sound and judicious understanding due to the same place according to

Consumptions 'T is not enough to remove the effect or matter produced nor the cause producing but the principal producer must be rectified before health be perfectly restored Thus I have directed you in the best course you can take and be sure you will do nothing that will hurt but rather to strengthen and refresh nature Obj. But you will ask me what shall we do to remove the cause Answ That is the principal Verb indeed I know a more proper and safe Medicine to effect it than I can direct you unto in all the Dispensitory 'T is true there are a great many good Medicines though good for little without it be the Laudanum of Paracelsus and some few Chymical Preparations the rest are hardly worth a man's knowledge That Physician that hath not found out better and more specifical means than what are there is like to make but a sad practice But I shall speak it to your comfort God hath given me the knowledge of such a Medicine as will effect it and not only this but it doth also eradicate and extirpate the cause of most Diseases incident unto our frail Bodies as you will hereafter perceive It is a Powder without either smell or taste and the highest dose or quantity is but five or six Grains to the most robustive or strong Body and so downward to half a Grain which a Child of two days old may safely take its operations are various according to the nature and place where the peccant matter resides How you shall take it and what is to be done and observed in the taking of it I shall give directions in the latter end of this Book And as it is an effectual so it is a safe Medicine for I have given it unto three or fourscore several Children in and about the Town of Boston and indeed I know not of any one that died that ever took it except one the spirits of which were quite spent before I gave it that it was not able to retain it in its stomach but immediately brought it up again There is an eminent person in this Country whose knowledge is great in the most curious and best Arcanums or secret Medicines that are used he could tell you it is as safe as good who was an eye-witness unto a wonderful operation it had in a most contagious and malign Disease which was the Small Pox which struck in among the Passengers in Captain Lord's Ship coming from England two years since that not one died that took it two only died and neither of them took it as the Chyrurgion Mr. Whiting can testifie I gave him some of this Powder and bade him give to every one that was infected with that Disease which he did accordingly though he gave it to some that was blind to others after they appeared twenty four hours and very ready to be suffocated and very soon made them all perfectly well which was well known unto all the Passengers in the Ship as well as unto themselves that took it which are dissipated through this Country and I question not but this Paper will find out some of them who can well witness this truth By this you may judge of its efficacy in any other Disease of a malignant nature I shall tell you what I have observed from it in some other Maladies I have cured all sorts of Fevers with this Arcanum universale in all Ages and Sexes for continual burning Fevers whether putrid or not are frequently taken off by it with one Dose in the beginning or at the most by two so that the Patient may be well before the time of the expected Crisis The same Benefit I have often observed when given in the state of the Disease that it hath been presently taken off although then nature is obliged to take a longer time to renew the strength than she would have needed if she had been assisted with this Medicine in the beginning How common a thing it is to make a Month or six weeks work in curing a Fever although peradventure nature it self hath overcome the Disease in twelve or fourteen days but the diseasie matter formed and some symptoms of effects must entertain the Physician a great while longer For if the Fever were putrid then the Stomach and Lungs remain loaden with much pituitous matter to carry off which the common practice is to follow the Patient close with Expectoraters such are their Pectoral Electuaries Decoctions Syrups Lohochs c. the which are so far from answering that end as really to add to the matter they are designed to expel for they not being Agents impowered to alter or rectifie any Ferment as soon as they come into the Stomach either nauseate it with their Load and so are cast up or if they stay submit to the depraved digestion of the Stomach and there make an increase of the diseasie matter whence an extraordinary spitting continues till nature it self by degrees retrieves the natural Ferment and frees her self from the disease matter and the pretended remedy together But if this seem too long a doing that no piece of Art may be wanting there is another way at hand and that is to exhibit purging Medicines to carry it downwards the which is more pernicious than the former for the Purge drawing a great quantity of sordid matter from the Thorax to the Guts and nature not having yet recovered her right Regiment may admit some of this matter by the Meseraick or Milky Veins again into the Blood whence may succeed again a Fever de novo called a Relapse or if the lately tired spirit take not the present Assault then the occasional cause of a Dropsie Hectick Consumption or some other Cronick Diseases All which is easily prevented by taking a Dose or two of this Arcanum which evacuates the present matter by vomit and rectifies the vitiated Ferment of the Stomach and other parts whence the power of making such matter is quite taken away This I have had very large experience of But a few days before the writing of this I was sent for to a lusty young man who had laboured under a Synochus about a week having for during that time been treated by an Apothecary first with cooling Juleps which were continued all the while then strongly sweat by a Sudorifick and the next day blooded but the Disease notwithstanding increasing as being newly changed from a non putrida to a putrid when I came made the Apothecary it seems weary or doubtful of his work for he desired the Man's Wife to send for a Physician or a Second who was a Friend of his 't is like for the Bills sake but the Woman having formerly had some experience of my Medicines sent to me about five or six that Afternoon I presently ordered him four Grains of this Powder which wrought once only by Vomit and discharged the stomach of that Diseasie matter which before felt to him like a great weight the pain in his Head

most terrible Gripings and Torture in his Guts with a great Flux and Vomiting for several days till at length his Spirit was almost spent his Belly was so inflated that he could hardly breath About ten or eleven of the Clock at night I was sent for I knew there was not any Medicine I had would do him good or preserve his life but this Powder I being not very well and much disposed to Sleep told them I would come and see him again as soon as it was day and then I would give him something When I returned home I considered he could not live till that time and if not quite dead yet could not be in a capacity to take any thing I presently went to him again and gave him five grains of this Powder within half an hour after he took it he broke wind upward and downward to the admiration of all those that were there A little after he had a stool in which came away abundance of obdurate and hard excrements that a long time adhered unto his Guts and was the cause of his sickness and presently he went to sleep which he had not before for several nights and slept very soundly till the morning The next day when I came up to see him I found him up and at Breakfast and was preparing for his going to Sea he told me he was as well as ever he was in his life A Surfeit is a praeludium to at Fever which doth not always proceed from the quantity of Meats or Drinks but it may be from a vicious quality of Meats as crude Fruits Pulse c. or from an antipathy or loathing of Meats that the stomach abhorrs and they are such things as commonly the eating of them hath made them sick before and sometimes it comes by lying with their Stomachs bare when they sleep especially in the Summer I have known many that have beeen surfeited and could not tell how they got it I never knew this Powder fail to make them well in six or eight hours In the Month of May this present year 1679 a Gentlewoman was taken with a Vomiting and Looseness which exercised her two days and then of its own accord in a great measure ceased but she using no means to rectifie the ill Ferment of the Stomach Bowels and otherwise neglecting her self within two or three days was seised with an intollerable Tortura Ventriculi or tearing pain in her Stomach accompanied with Hypochondriack Vapours and an almost total dejection of Spirits About four in the Afternoon she sent for me and being come I truly found her in a very deplorable condition having cryed out so much by reason of the insufferable pain she felt that she had very little Breath or Voice left to crye out any longer besides almost her whole Body was cold and bedewed with a clammy sweat her Pulse very little and sometimes wholly cessant so that at first sight I did not think it possible that she should escape death but I with all expedition got some of the Balsamick Pill dissolved in a good Cordial Vehicle to which for the Vapours sake I added a little of my Elixir Hystericum and so gave her the mixture by two spoonfuls at a time about twice in a quarter of an hour continuing half an hour in which time she was twice or thrice seemingly dead for about a minute at a time at the end of the last she vomited up the Medicine with much slimy matter upon which her Pulse began to return but her pain being still intolerable she dispaired of help but I being encouraged by some second considerations and confident of the certainty of my Medicine in such dolorous Affects turned up an Hour-Glass and promised her God assisting that she should have ease before the Sand was run the which to the praise of the Almighty I effectually performed within the time for I plied her quick with the Medicine in half an hour she began to grow warm in the extreme parts and as her self expressed it felt the pain go down out of her Stomach into her Belly and to lessen and that she could fetch her Breath from the bottom of her Belly in an hour she was in a fine transpiring heat all over her Body and the pain quite gone notwithstanding I was still forced now and then to repeat the Medicine for otherwise she would feel some twitchings and girdings in her Stomach threatning a return I stayed with her till near twelve at night at which time she was disposed to sleep the which she did but two hours and then was called up to lay a woman she being a Midwife by practice the which she went over the water to do and came home again to Bed about eight in the morning and hath remained very well ever since For the Griping of the Guts I do not think this Balsamick Pill hath its equal in nature How many grown People as well as Children expire yearly in this City of London by this tormenting Disease for want of a good Remedy I do seriously profess I do not think that any person need perish by that Enemy had they but this Medicine in time for it commonly takes it away at one Dose but with a second I never failed in my life for it will certainly give ease in the most violent Gripings in two hours time given in a large Dose and if the pain return it may be repeated after eight hours but where there is strong Vomitings also it is best to give it dissolved in warm Ale or Sack and so give it by a spoonful or two at a time and very often that so the stomach may not cast it up before it comes to operate for it will stay the Vomiting and Loosness as well as ease the Pain the which ought to be done with all expedition unless the Disease proceed from a Surfeit then first give a Dose of the Powder let ignorant people think what they will who often out of a foolish timerosity suffer them so long till the strength is so exhausted that it cannot be again restored and so they as miserably as foolishly shake hands with their lives FLUXES THere are three sorts of Fluxes viz. Lienteria Diarrhoea and Dysenteria and Authors have very confusedly treated of their Causes and their Places and because they would be sure to hit right they have named almost every place But the cause of the first Lienteria is from a defect of the Spleen which doth not send a sufficiency of that acid juice into the Stomach which maketh the digestive Faculty whereupon it is that the meat comes away with little alteration The second Diarrhaea is from a defect of the Mesaraick Veins that do not attract the Chyle whereby it is evacuated as Excrements The last Dysenteria is from Excrements that adhere to the Intestines and by their Acrimony corrode c. You see that they proceed from several Causes and yet to be cured by one Remedy Every

cure it for it will strongly repel from the place The Sciatica and Knee-Gout I never yet failed to cure with a water I make to embrocate or wash the part withal though I have had some that one Leg was a great deal shorter than the other so that they went with Crutches having an Atrophia or Consumption in that Leg and Thigh There is another Disease much like which is the Rhumatismus or Running Gout but this possesseth the musculous part as well as the Joynts and exulcerateth or breaketh out wherefore some have thought it to be that Disease they call † Scrophula the King 's Evil I have seen several that have laboured with it in this Country and without they have a Cure for it in the beginning it brings them into a Consumption yet I have cured one that had it twelve or fourteen years Place The Place that this Disease doth commonly possess are the Legs Thighs and Hip-bones sometimes the lower Region of the Belly and then it is very dangerous for it is of a very sharp and malign nature and fouls a Bone presently if not prevented Cause From some excrementitious matter that the Mesaraick Veins have attracted of a faetid savour not fit to be transferred with the Blood therefore the Liver dischargeth it into the emulgent Veins to be carried to the Reins and so to be evacuated through the Bladder but the Archeus or vital spirit of the Reins raised up with indignation against such a fordid matter passing through them forceth it to the Legs and Thighs as in an Anasarca and seating it self by its vitious quality corrupteth the place Cure If this Powder be given before it hath too much defiled the place either by fouling the Bone or becoming exulcerate it bringeth it away by the Root if not at once taking in twice or thrice be sure but if it hath had too firm a footing then it requires the assistance of some other things This Disease being so intimately joyned to the very Archeus it self hath its Inn in the most private Recesses or innermost Chambers of Life into which admittance is denyed to all common Remedies and allowed to none but the most powerful Arcanums which none but the Adeptists have known Therefore since I know not what internal Remedy to direct you that may be had in all places that hath power to obliterate the Character of this Enemy out of the spirit of life I shall be content to set down an outward application the which respecting the effect only doth frequently give ease to the pained part ℞ Common Oil of Roses two ounces Oil of Guaicum and Bricks of each one ounce mix them and put them into a clean Pipkin and set them over the fire into which cut in thin slices four ounces of Castile Soap stir it well till it all dissolve in the Oils then have in readiness half an ounce of Opium dissolved in spirit of Sal Armoniack which add to the other taking it presently from the fire and keep it stirring till it be cold Which use as an Ointment but if you would have it for a Plaister you may add so much Virgins Wax when it is hot as will give it a sufficient consistency The bathing or fomenting the pained part with hot Urine wherein Castile Soap is dissolved doth often give ease that Urine is best that is kept till it putrefieth and stinketh But the Arcanum and Pill doth certainly resolve and expel the occasional matter although I do not know them to be able to cure this Disease radically but some I have cured therewith having it in the beginning In the Month of December 1676 a Gentleman desired my assistance who was sorely afflicted with the Gout great pain and tumor in both Knees insomuch that he could not stir from his Bed to the fire side without Crutches for some weeks before during which time he had been under the dispensation of a Physician but in no part thereof ever found any comfort except in his promises but he being dismissed I first gave him a dose of the Arcanum or Powder and at night after a dose of the ●alsamick Pill after which he could go cross the Room without his Crutches I continued the use of the Pill five or six ti●● and repeated the Arcanum once and he was freed both from the pain and tumour notwithstanding the extremity of the Weather being a severe Frost and Snow But about ten days after he having urgent business abroad the Weather then breaking being wet yet cold got a Relapse the Disease then returning with great pain and tumour in one foot by the repetition of the Arcanum once and the Pill three or four times was perfectly restored and hath so remained to this day without any other Remedy except two Doses of the Arcanum which he took the Spring following to prevent a return Pluritis or Plurisie THis Disease is accompanied with a Fever it derives its name from the place where it is seated which is the inner skin of the Ribs which we call Pleura The matter hath been generally received to be blood but it is v●●● doubtful unto me There are two reasons from whence some have concluded it is blood First By derivation in opening a Vein on the same side which hath immediately brought ease I have done it several times Secondly that intention not being timely performed then an Empyema or Imposthume ariseth through the blood there suppurated But on the contrary 1. If it be from the pecculancy of the Blood that hath made an Eruption in the Veins and extend the Pleura whether this Blood doth re-enter the Veins and is evacuated by Phlebotomy which is contrary to that principle What once nature hath cast forth never more is received into favour 2. If not out of the Veins how comes an Empyema or Imposthume which is never caused in the Veins 3. How comes this Sanies or bloody matter which is often seen in a Plurisie though not yet come to an Empyema 4. If it be blood how comes it to be cured by a Diaphoretick or Medicine causing Sweat which hath been often done To treat accurately upon this Disease would make a bigger Tract than I intend this In a word I have cured this Disease both ways There is an aiery Blas contained in the Blood which doth stir up and actuate it and makes it more fluid and so likewise there is incorporated with the Blood a Serum or watery matter to contemper its Ebullition and Inflammation But when there is a redundancy or too much of it or else when it may be too sharp or salt then this aiery spirit conveys it to the Pleura to be evacuated by transpiration thorow it whereby those Veins are so repleted with this Water that it extorts and dilates the Pleura which causeth the pain in the place and unless it be repelled by bleeding or dissipated by a sweat it maketh an eruption of the Veins and the Blood issuing forth with it

soon suppurates which makes an Imposthume or Empyema and although an eruption by those means may be prevented yet there may be some of that aqueous matter transpired through the Pleura which may be tinctured with a sanguine complexion and cause that colour which is seen in expectoration so that I conceive the essence of this Malady is not blood with submission to sounder Judgments Now you may ask me which of those two ways I think the surest for Hippocrates saith a Plurisie not perfectly cured before the fourth day the party becometh consumptive Answ I judge the morbisick matter to be evacuated by transpiration through the Cutis or Skin to be the directest Course REASONS 1. For so there is nothing exhausted but the matter offending 2. Those that are cured by Phlebotomy or Blood-letting are more liable to that Distemper again 3. The Blood is not so depurated from this offensive matter as by a powerful Sweat 4. The party affected may be in that condition that letting Blood may prove prejudicial as women with child young women obstructed c. I am not averse to Blood-letting but I had rather make use of my Balsamical Pill which effects it singularly and not hurtful in any condition Now I am speaking of letting out blood I shall give my judgment in that great question which hath been and is to this day controverted amongst our great Doctors whether it be proper in Fevers Hollerius Forrestus Sennertus Galen Avicen with the rest of the Schoolmen press it of a necessity to be done in the beginning Paracelsus Helmont with the rest of the Quicksilver Wits condemn it as not convenient at any time Betwixt Scylla and Charybdis there is a safe Channel but he must be an experienced Mariner that can sail through As Practice is the best part of Physick so observation is the surest Errors being sometimes admitted do instruct judicious erring persons as good Remedies do confirm good Operators From my observation I shall speak something to those two extremes If I could think the School definition of a Fever true that it is heat besides nature being kindled in the heart first and throughout the whole Body I should think nothing could more clearly indicate Phlebotomy but I hold the contrary and no necessity for it in the beginning but rather prejudicial I have been an observer in this Intention about twenty two years and have had many hundreds under my consideration at once and almost some of all Diseases and those in Fevers some have been let Blood and others not and for the most part those that were not let blood were well before those that were In any contagious pestilential malignant Fever to let blood is very destructive Detracto sanguine licet impuro impurior multo succedit Fernel as experience well teacheth In a continual Fever as Synochus or burning c. it prolongs their sickness and commonly strikes them into an intermitting Ague or some other Disease In a Fever intermitting or determinated into Paroxysms or Fits it strongly confirms them In a word to let blood in any Fever in the beginning I have found to do much hurt several times good hardly at any time so that I am inforced to shew my dislike of letting blood in the beginning of this Disease Neither do I consent with great Helmont the Calciner of Physick and laudable Paracelsus that Blood-letting doth exhaust the spirit of life because the life is seated in the blood nor that it may be convenient at any time but I have reason to believe the contrary 'T is true Letting-blood doth never cure a Disease properly but it doth mightily refresh and cherish a weak nature that hath almost spent her self through freeing her from her mortal Enemy As we see often after a tedious sickness nature her self stirs it up as a Crisis Quo natura verget ad locum conferentem to ducere oportet and then to take a little blood from her doth much revive and strengthen her I have cured a man that had a Quartan Ague above a year and four months only by once letting blood who never had a Fit after The drawing blood was but the occasion nature was the efficient cause for she was much more elevated and strengthened by it whereby she expunged the morbifick Reliques with a greater facility I have cured a man that had laboured with an Atrophia or Consumption for a long time wholly become a meer Skelleton only by letting blood three times about six ounces at a time in the space of ten days without the use of any other means he became perfectly well to the admiration of all his Neighbours I have several times since experienced it in an Hectick Fever and although this nor any thing else that I know of will cure it yet they have been more refreshed by it than by all the things took and whosoever practiseth it will find it so I could instance in several more but let this suffice to evidence the truth though a Paradox that Phlebotomy is very disgustful to nature in the beginning of a Disease but very grateful in the latter end The Pleurisie is cured by Diaphoreticks and Diureticks being mixed with such things as have power to concentrate acidity as this following mixture â„ž of the Syrup of Marsh-mallows an ounce Syrup of Corn-Poppies an ounce and an half Crabs-eyes prepared and Mineral Bezoar of each a dram mix them and make a Linctus of which let the Patient lick very often till he come to sweat Or if he had rather have it in a liquid form add to this Mixture Triacle and Carduus-Water of each two ounces shake them well in a Glass and take it by spoonfuls till sweat proceed For an outward application this following is excellent â„ž of the compound ointment of Marsh-mallows an ounce oil of sweet Almonds and Roses of each a quarter of an ounce oil of white Lillies Poppies and Henbane strained each a dram and a half Chymical Oil of Cammomile Cummin-Seeds and Bricks of each a scruple Camphire half a dram mix them and make a Liniment With which anoint the pained side as hot as it may be suffered It would grieve any pitiful heart to see how many persons lives in this Disease as well as some others expire with their Blood some being blooded five or six times over and yet receiving no ease while they live as I have divers times known About three or four years since I was sent for to a Gentlewoman lying under this Disease she had been let blood three times but yet had no ease and was plyed with Lohochs and Linctus's and such like broken Reeds and while I was in her Chamber the Apothecary came in with a Commission to draw more blood if he found her not eased She was Patient to one of the oldest Doctors in London upon which and the consideration of her weakness I wholly declined to meddle with her not without much reluctancy and regret of mind since