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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64315	Miscellanea ... by a person of honour.	Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699.	1680 (1680)	Wing T646; ESTC R223440	87,470	252

Medicine but only Simples proper to each Disease Burning was much in use either by natural or artificial fires particularly for all ilnesses of teeth and soreness or swelling of the gums which they were subject to from their nearness to the Sea they had an herb which never failed of curing it and being laid to the gums burnt away all the flesh that was swelled or corrupted and made way for new that came again as sound as that of a Child I remembred to have had my self in my youth one cruel wound cured by scalding Medicaments after it was grown so putrified as to have in the Surgeons opinion endangered the bone and the violent swelling and bruise of another taken away as soon as I received it by scalding it with Milk I remembred the cure of Chilblanes when I was a boy which may be called the Childrens Gout by burning at the fire or else by scalding brine that has I suppose the same effect I had heard of curing the stings of Adders and bites of mad Dogs by immediately burning the part with a hot iron and of some strange cures of Frenzies by casual applications of fire to the lower parts which seems reasonable enough by the violent revulsion it may make of humours from the head and agrees with the opinions and practice I mentioned before of Egypt and Africa Perhaps blistering in the neck and hot Pidgeons may be in use among us upon the same grounds and in our Methods of Surgery nothing is found of such effect in the case of old Ulcers as fire which is certainly the greatest drawer and dryer and thereby the greatest cleanser that can be found I knew very well that in Diseases of Cattel there is nothing more commonly used nor with greater success and concluded it was but a tenderness to Mankind that made it less in use amongst us and which had introduced Corrosives and Causticks to supply the place of it which are indeed but artificial fires I mention all these reflections to show that the experiment I resolved to make was upon thought and not rashness or impatience as those called it that would have dissuaded me from it but the chief reason was that I liked no other because I knew they failed every day and left men in despair of being ever well cured of the Gout Next morning I lookt over the Book which Monsieur Zulichem had promised me written by the Minister at Batavia I pretended not to judg of the Indian Philosophy or reasonings upon the cause of the Gout but yet thought them as probable as those of Physicians here and liked them so much the better because it seems their opinion in the point is general among them as well as their method of curing whereas the differences among ours are almost as many in both as there are Physicians that reason upon the causes or practise upon the cure of that disease They hold that the cause of the Gout is a malignant vapour that falls upon the joynt between the bone and the skin that covers it which being the most sensible of all parts of the body causes the violence of the pain That the swelling is no part of the disease but only an effect of it and of a kindness in nature that to relieve the part affected calls down humours to damp the malignity of the vapour and thereby assuage the sharpness of the pain which seldom fails whenever the part grows very much swelled That consequently the swellings and returns of the Gout are chiefly occasioned by the ill methods of curing it at first That this vapour falling upon joints which have not motion and thereby heat enough to dispel it cannot be cured otherwise than by burning by which it immediately evaporates and that this is evident by the present ceasing of the pain upon the second third or fourth application of the Moxa which are performed in a few minutes time And the Author affirms it happens often there that upon the last burning an extreme stench comes out of the skin where the fire had opened it Whatever the reasonings were which yet seemed ingenious enough the experiments alledged with so much confidence and to be so generally in those parts and told by an Author that writ like a plain man and one whose profession was to tell truth helped me to resolve upon making the trial I was confirmed in this resolution by a German Physician Doctor Theodore Coleby who was then in my Family a sober and intelligent man whom I dispatched immediately to Vtrecht to bring me some of the Moxa and learn the exact method of using it from the man that sold it who was Son to the Minister of Batavia He returned with all that belonged to this Cure having performed the whole operation upon his hand by the mans direction I immediately made the experiment in the manner before related setting the Moxa just upon the place where the first violence of my pain began which was the joint of the great toe and where the greatest anger and soreness still continued notwithstanding the swelling of my foot so that I had never yet in five days been able to stir it but as it was lifted Upon the first burning I found the skin shrink all round the place and whether the greater pain of the fire had taken away the sense of a smaller or no I could not tell but I thought it less than it was I burnt it the second time and upon it observed the skin about it to shrink and the swelling to flat yet more than at first I began to move my toe which I had not done before but I found some remainders of pain I burnt it the third time and observed still the same effects without but a much greater within for I stirred the joynt several times at ease and growing bolder I set my foot to the ground without any pain at all After this I pursued the method prescribed by the Book and the Authors Son at Vtrecht and had a bruised Clove of Garlick laid to the place that was burnt and covered with a large Plaister of Diapalma to keep it fixed there and when this was done feeling no more pain and treading still bolder and firmer upon it I cut a slipper to let in my foot swelled as it was and walkt half a dozen turns about the room without any pain or trouble and much to the surprize of those that were about me as well as to my own For though I had reasoned my self before-hand into an opinion of the thing yet I could not expect such an effect as I found which seldom reaches to the degree that is promised by the prescribers of any remedies whereas this went beyond it having been applied so late and the prescription reaching only to the first attaque of the pain and before the part begins to swell For the pain of the burning it self the first time it is sharp so that a man may be allowed to complain I resolved I

upon his Graces desiring me to give Him my Opinion what was to be done in that Conjuncture THERE never was any Conjuncture wherein it was more necessary for His Majesty to fall into a Course of Wise and steddy Councels nor ever any wherein it was more difficult to advise him To make reflections upon what is past is the part of ingenious but irresolute men or else of such as intend to value themselves by comparison with others whose corruptions or follies they condemn But in all matters of Counsel the good and prudent part is to take things as they are since the past cannot be recalled to propose Remedies for the present Evils and provisions against future events The King finds himself ingaged in the second year of a War with the Dutch and for prosecution thereof in a strict Alliance with France and now in danger of being intangled in the quarrel broken out upon this occasion between France and the House of Austria In this state of affairs it is to be considered whether we can pursue our War with Holland and yet preserve our peace with Spain whether we are able to maintain the War with both in conjunction with France and if not what there is left for His Majesty to do with the best regard to His Honour and Safety For the first we shall soon be out of doubt but in the mean time 't is very unlikely that upon the late conjunction between Holland and Spain the Dutch should have obliged themselves to make no Peace without the inclusion of their Allyes and that Spain should not have yielded to break with Us in case they could not effect a Peace between Us and Holland since the Dutch know nothing could farther induce us to it than the fear of a breach with Spain and so great a loss of Trade in those Dominions The Spaniards have but one temptation of their own to quarrel with Us which is an occasion of recovering Jamaica for that has ever lien at their hearts and 't is to be feared their Conjunction with Holland has not been perfected without early measures between them for the surprize of that Island unless our care has been as early in providing for its defence And if we should lose it I foresee little hurt we could do Spain in their Indies guarded as they would be and attended by the Shipping of the Dutch but His Majesty will I suppose soon know from Spain what He is to trust to in this point To judge whether upon a breach with Spain we are able to maintain the War must be considered the present state of the Kings Treasure the rise or fall that may happen in his constant Revenue by the Spanish War the hopes that may be grounded upon supplies from France the assurance or measure of those expected from the Parliament the credit of the Exchequer to raise present money where-ever any of these fall short and the humour of the Nation towards carrying on or ending the War For the present state of the Treasury the King best knows it Himself or His Officers can best give the account for the changes that may happen in His Revenue 't is evident they must be much for the worse the very first year of a Spanish War The main branch of it which is the Customs must wither away in a very great measure since all the Trade in a manner left us upon the Dutch War that has turned to any account has been that with Spain and into the Straits The first upon a Spanish War will be wholly lost the last can neither be secured by our own Convoys nor by the French Fleets in the Mediterranean from the Dutch Capers that will fill the Spanish Havens and from those of Biscay Sicily Sardinia Corsica Majorca which in all Wars have been the Nests of Picaroons so that no way seems left of beginning this War but as the Dutch began theirs by leaving off all Trade in the Nation while it lasts But the case is very different between them and us for they have still a Trade left from the North which running upon a sandy Coast from Hamborough is secured from our Fleets and they have driven a great Commerce by Collusion with the Swedes Danes Hamburgers Bremeners and Flemish ever since the War began Besides the hearts of their People which would otherwise have sunk by the loss of Trade have been kept up by the necessity of their defence by the last extremities which were threatned them from the War and by the general opinion of justice in their Cause both from these circumstances and the manner of Ours and of the French beginning the War This makes the States content to impose and the people to fuffer the utmost payments and besides in a manner all men of Fortunes among them have a great part of their estates lying in the Cantores of the States or the Provinces which would all be lost upon the conquest of their Countrey so as they will lend to the last for securing so much as is already in danger And these are circumstances which will not be found in our Dispositions or Constitutions For supplies from France it must be considered how their money has been drained out of that Kingdom since this War began by their payments to Us and to Sweden to the Bishops of Colen and Munster and some other Princes of Germany by their Armies in Germany and the new Conquests in Holland all which returns no more into France as money did in their former Wars with Spain that were made chiefly upon their Confines for then the Pays of their Armies being made only in the Winter-quarters which were in France or its Frontiers the money fell back again into the circulation of their own Countrey yet now their expence must upon a Spanish War be increased by new Armies in Catalonia and Italy and new Fleets in the Mediterranean so that all these circumstances with the general decay of Trade by the War must in few years time leave that Kingdom poorer than it has been this age And where money is not the King of France himself cannot have it For what supplies may come from the Parliament towards carrying on the War some few days I suppose will inform us and no measures can be taken unless by what past in the former Session which was not very favourable to that design For the Credit of the Exchequer at least to any measure that may supply the Course or Necessities of a War I fear it is irrecoverably lost by the last breach with the Bankers for credit is gained by custom and course of time and seldom recovers a strain but if broken is never well set again I have heard a great Example given of this by some of our Merchants that happened upon the last Kings seizing 200000 l. that was in the Mint about the year 38 which had then the credit of a Bank and for several years had been the Treasury of all the vast