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A67767	Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.	Yarwood, John, 17th cent.	1683 (1683)	Wing Y18; ESTC R25217	23,195	122

תריפה צריף׃ Physick Refin'd OR A LITTLE STREAM OF Medicinal Marrow Flowing from the BONES of NATURE WHEREIN Several Signs particular Rules and distinct Symptoms whereby the most ordinary Diseases may be distinctly known and truly judged are perspicuously Delineated AND The most proper Way safe Method and simpathetical Cure whereby Nature may be helped the Sick eased and Languishing Patients relieved without the Use of Poysonous Purging Potions and Venomous Medicaments is succinctly Demonstrated By John Yarwood Professor of Physick LONDON Printed for Tho. Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1683. TO Mrs. Mary Allsop DAUGHTER OF Anthony Allsop of Allsop-i th'-Dale Esq SInce that Antient House the Place of Your Nativity hath been a Magazine of Medicine out of which the Poor of Your Country have been Armed gratis against those Darts of Sickness which fight against Nature I have assumed the Boldness of this Dedication not doubting but a Person so rarely qualified as I know You to be will in real Generosity not only cast a Benevolent Aspect on these my Publick Endeavours but according to the wonted Goodness of Your Heroick Spirit candidly Accept and Countenance so small a Present as this little Tractate which I have boldly enough presumed to shadow under the Wing of Your Favour not as if I thought One so acquainted with Books would be advantaged by reading this Compendium for I have seen You peruse large Volums and known You deduce Judgment from the best Authors but that you may couragiously go on as You have begun and like your good Mother continue helping them that cannot help themselves And that all other Noble minded Ladies Gentlewomen may follow Your Example is the sincere Wish of Your Obliged Servant Iohn Yarwood From Shepshead in Leicestershire Octob. 9th 1682. PHYSICK REFIN'D c. SECT I. Scurvey THere are wandering Pains running up and down the Body Spots appear in the Fleshy Parts and if the Disease be confirmed the Gums are affected with Bleeding and Soreness This Disease of it self is more Troublesom than Dangerous but if it be not cured it many times brings Dropsies Consumptions and other Distempers arising from Obstructions of the Spleen and is oft the Usherer in of such Acute Diseases as terminate in the Grave The Cure The most Excellent Medicines in this case are Tincture of Tartar Tincture of Antimony and Tincture of Corals Twenty Drops at a time taken at Night going to Bed of any of them in Spirit of Scurvey-Grass or which is better Spirit of Tartar Use it forty Days together I have often cured it with Antimonium Diaphoriticum taken as the former in Beer or Broth twenty Grains at once every Night for forty Days together using in the mean time a Diet Drink made with Horse-Radish Celandine and Mustard-Seed Crocus Martis Apperitivis in this case is very proper but Oleum Martis is better and may be taken eight Grains at a time A Spirit distill'd from Antimony one part and Salt-Peetre three parts taken to the quantity of five Drops at a time is highly Famous in this Distemper SECT II. Dropsie THis Disease is a Watery Habit of the Body 'T is call'd by three Names according as it affects this that or the other Part. The First is called Ascitis that is When much Water is between the Peritoneum and the Bowels The Second is called Timpanites i. e. When 't is of a Windy Cause known by the Hardness of the Place where that of Water is more soft and all other Parts of the Body wax lean The Third is called Anasarca or Leucaphlegma that is When all the Flesh of the whole Body appeareth moist and swelled 'T is generally concluded to be a Defect of the Liver There is great Thirst shortness of Breath an ill Colour and great Heaviness If in the Beginning of the Disease there be a Flux of the Belly with Concoction or the Vrine Made be more than what is Drunk there is hope of Recovery The Cure Let all the Patient's Drink be sharpned with Spirit of Salt or Oyl of Sulphur They that fancy Purging Medicines use Syrrup of Buckthorn an Ounce at a time in the Morning But Syrrup of Pellitory of the Wall is better taken a Spoonful at once two or three times a day The Root of Hog-Fennel powder'd and taken a Dram at a time is excellent I use Ens Veneris twenty Grains at once every Night going to Bed SECT III. Small Pox. THere is first a Pain in the Head and Back the Body is feaverish hot and the Face is red and swell'd they are sleepy have Red Urine and Pricking all over the Body The Third or Fourth Day small Pustles arise and break out in the Skin If they soon come forth and Ripen easily appear white round and the Breathing free there is great Hopes of Recovery But Bleeding at Nose great Third difficulty of Breathing Loosness Bloody Flux black or livid Urine a great Feaver the Pustles appearing Green Black or Blueish or go in again or black or blue Spots appearing all these are dangerous signs The Cure First provoke Sweat with Bezoar Mineral six Grains for a Child and sixteen Grains for one of full Age. Take it at Night going to Bed Or Antimonium Diaphoriticum may be given after the same manner and the same Dose Take them in Sack Tincture of Saffron in this case is excellent taken a Spoonful or two at a time three or four times a day in good Wine Ten drops of Tincture of Corals or six Grains of Tincture of Tartar given at Night in Sack is very good Take a little Red Fennel and Saffron and boyl in Posset-drink and give the Patient to drink often before they come out I make up a Medicine thus Take Spirit of Wine or Aquae Mirabolis two Ounces Syrrup of Clove-Gilly-Flowers one Ounce Confectio Alkermes one Dram mix and give a Spoonful at a time four or five times a day SECT IV. Cachexia 'T Is caused through Obstructions and Hardness of the Liver and Spleen which brings the whole Body into an ill State and Disposition This Disease commonly follows some long Sickness as a Dysenteria and Lienteria The Flesh waxes loose and soft the Patient is weak hath bad Digestion loatheth Meat desires Drink The Body is whitish and he goeth weakly 'T is mostly incident to Old Men and Children If it continue long it brings the Patient into a Dropsie The Cure All Medicines that potently open Obstructions are proper in this Case Take Pulvis Cachecticus half a Dram at a time every Morning and stir after it taking every Night ten Grains of Sweating Antimony Pilulae Anodynae which is most commonly known by the name of Matthew's but more properly Starkey's Pill in this Case is excellent being taken to the quantity of twenty Grains at Night going Bed two or three Hours after a light Supper Crocus Martis Apperitivus in this Case is proper but Oleum Martis is better taken eight Grains at a time I distill

for and desires to eat hurtful things not fit for food as Oatmeal unripe fruits Chalk Coals Ashes c. it commonly happens to Women with Child and Maids troubled with the Gren sickness this may be of long continuance but of it self in Maids it is not dangerous yet if it be not cured great obstructions Cachexia's Dropsies and pain of the stomach follows Want of Appetite is cause by obstruction of the mouthes of the Meseraicks or through too much fullness and over glutting of the stomach or else weakness want of natural heat c. and if it happen in the declination of a disease it signifies a relapse if it be caused through want of natural heat 't is most dangerous and worse to be liked in children than in men The Cure To women with child the blood of a Vine is commended Maids may remove the cause which is best performed by Elixir Proprietatis Essence of Garlick Savin or Penroyal Tincture or spirit of Tartar taken 4 or 5 times at Night going to bed 8 drops at once In a depraved appetite give 9 drops of oyl of Cloves or oyl of Cinamon in warmish broth sharpen the Patients drink with the oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur and in both cases strengthen the stomach as at Sect. 30. Sect. 30. Vomiting THis disorder is generally caused through weakness or foulness of the stomach weakness may arise from Antecedent causes as too much emptiness want of natural rest superlative Anger boundless Passion and the like If the matter vomited up be green black livid or stinking it is for the most part dangerous but being of none of these colours but coming after a Flux of the belly 't is good or on a Critical day 't is accounted by the Galenists a plausible sign of Recovery provided the matter vomited up be such as they call Flegm and Choler The Cure Most Physitians in this case when it is caused through the foulness of the stomach give a gentle vomit The stomach must be strengthened with Syrup of Corals and Pearls and Spirit of Mint take a spoonful at a time morning noon and night Crude juice of Quinces is wonderful powerful and Syrup of Vinegar is none of the worst Medicines Let all the Patients drink be sharpned wirh oyl of Sulphur give 15 Grains of Elixir Proprietatis in Sack at night going to bed or the like quantity of Elixir Vitae applying to the stomach a Cataplasm of Bread and Vinegar or a plaister of London Treacle There may be a Magestery made of Oyster-shells and given to the quantity of 20 grains at a time with good success Sect. 31. Iliac Passion THis is a distemper of the small Guts commonly occasione through obstruction of the Bowels with a coldness and putrifaction of food it is known by most vehement and horrible pain the stomach abounds with too much moisture there is a great rumbling in the Bowels Wind and belching without ease the dung is stopt and if the disease increase the Patient voyds all the excrements upward and then 't is mostly accounted deadly and being accompanied with the Stranguria 't is the worse The Cure 'T is performed by those Medicines prescribed for removing the Colick at the 32 Section a dram of Cream of Tartar dissolved in a mess of unsalted broth hath been found effectual so hath oyl of Almonds and Malmsey wine I use to sharpen the Patients drink with oyl of Vitriol to a pleasant acidity which hath proved effectuall when all hope from common means hath been past and clisters was vomited upward Sect. 32. Cholick T IS a pain in the Gut Colon sometimes caused by Wind and then there is a stretching forth and swelling of the belly if it be occasioned through Inflammation of the said Gut there is an inward burning hear stoppage of Urine the body is bound sometimes there is vomiting thirst and a Feaver If the distemper be behement the belly bound with watchings vomiting Hiccough coldness of the extream parts and cold sweats all these are desperat symptomes but if the disease be gentle and the body soluble there 's little danger The Cure Take Salt of Wormwood and drop on it spirit of Salt till it cease broyling dry it and give 8 or 9 grains at a time in broth Infuse Hawthorn flowers in Rhenish wine distill off the spirit and take a spoonful at once Take Lemmon Orange and Citron peels of each two ounces spirit of wine one pint infuse them together 20 dayes pour off the Tincture and give a spoonful at once in wine with a few drops of oyl of Cinamon Take spirit of Salt and spirit of wine of each a like quantity mix them in a Glass and administer 40 drops at once in a draught of wine or Ale Take 6 or 7 grains of salt of Lead in white wine or ten grains of Ens Veneris taken in broth at night going to bed and the like quantity at morning and noon two hours before and after meat hath been found very effectuall If the disease be caused by wind give Oyl of Anniseeds Fennel or Carawayes in warm broth proper spirit or distilled water Sect. 33. Flux of Blood and Matter A Bloody Flux is an Exulceration of the Bowels known by vehement pain and bloody Excrements when the disorder is in the Great Bowels the dung is as at other times comes forth with wind froathiness and Blood aloft but if the small Guts be exulcerated there is pain about the Navel the Excrements are of various colours if black and stinking the case is desperate commonly they are of a Lead colour and there is a gnawing felt If there be pain in the Liver and Midriff Vomiting and Hiccough Loathing of meat a Feaver thirst or pieces of flesh voided the ease is dangerous A Flux of Matter generally follows a Flux of blood the Patient continually goes to stool the Excrements are crude and pale and the taste is lost if the disease last long it may turn to a Dropsie when it follows other diseases 't is for the most part deadly There is also an ordinary flux of the belly which in a dropsie shews recovery but if it happen to a woman with child or the Excrements be Green Blew Black or Yellow 't is of evil signification The Cure Let the Patient drink Cows Milk plentifully Potable Gold and tincture of Corals are excellent so is the juice or pulp of Quinces or a dram of crude Allum dissolved in water and so drank but Roach Allum dissolved in water and it distilled off in Ashes is highly famous so are Bramble Berries gathered unripe dried and powdered and given in Red wine the juice of sloes or Poppy water Tincture of Emeralds is excellent 5 grains at a time See the following Sect. Sect. 34. Tenasmus THis distemper is a continual desire in the Patient to go to stooll without voiding any thing except bloody or filthy matter like snevil some say it is generally caused by cold or that it may