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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46872	A brief discourse of the stomach and parts subservient unto it of the generating of blood and humors, their degenerating into diseases, how and by what means they are wrought up in the body. Set forth in a dialogue between a physician and a countrey-man his patie made so plain and easie, that any one may know so much of his own strength and constitution, as to judge of his state of health, and tendency to sickness, and be able to help himself therein, in order to which, is subjoyned an account of that incompatable extractum pareton, or, extract of universal vertue and sufficiency, in the cure of most, but especially chronical diseases, incident to men and women. Prepared by the art and industry of Edward Jewel.	Jewel, Edward.	1678 (1678)	Wing J732B; ESTC R216573	7,929	11

your profit And that is to make it appear to you that as the Actions of the Body are design'd and contrived by Nature for the support of the whole Fabrick thereof so from these Actions being hurt or hindred is the Original of all Diseases And therefore a disease is defin'd by Galen to be * 〈…〉 5. l. 1. 〈◊〉 Turn An Affect contrary to Nature by which the Action of the Body be hurt The Actions are hurt when the parts are disabled to perform their several Offices and Functions as when the stomach cannot concoct the Food when the Liver can no longer turn the Chyle into blood nor the parts attract and assimilate it Now this hurt is done for the most part by what is taken into the body that is our Meat and Drink● which if either it be unwholesom or taken in too great quantity it both ways offend the body for unwholesom Meats and Drinks give an unwholesom nourishment all sorts thereof giving nourishment consentaneous to their qualities if the error be in quantity the consequence is still worse for Excess in eating and drinking lays the foundation of all diseases 〈◊〉 1. 〈◊〉 de morb for neither the Air Season of the year troubles of Mind nor immoderate exercise or the like Causes can have their effects upon us to beget diseases unless the body be predisposed by ill humors Now this predisposition and preparation of ill humors is only the result of Indigestion and caused from the Faculty of the Stomach abused and perverted For when the Stomach is overcharged it cannot rightly concoct and turn the food into Chyle nor being able to contain it long thrusteth it crude a● it is into the Entralls which also being oppressed cannot so speedily convey through them the indigested load but it receiveth there an imperfect alteration and so is by the craving veins of the Mesentery drawn a way and carried into the Liver which also being indisposed by receiving this crude and unprepared matter is unable to convert the unequal Mass into good blood but throws it into the larger veins mixed and infected with evil humors and from thence to the Heart the Seat of Life which like a Lamp almost drown'd with Oyl is even stifled and overcom thus also it is carried to the Brain the Fountain of Sense and Motion which b●ing clouded with vapours and filled with superfluous humors its faculties are interrupted From the larger Vessels it is through infinite small ones carried all over the body every part taking its share which by reason of its want of d●e concoction in the principal parts is much less prepared to give nourishment to the parts remote by these means often repeated the body is made a Magazine or Storehouse of corrupt humors with which the most destructive and deadly diseases are apt and ready upon all occasions to invade the body If any thing herein seem difficult to your understanding I will explain it by an Example to wit of the Scurvey a disease which is the general Complaint of the Nation it is a malignant and infectious habit of the parts ordain'd for nourishment impressed upon them by the frequent impulse of vitious humors which being fermented and diffused all over the body deprave the faculties and functions of the parts This is caused for the most part by gross season'd salted or dried Meats or others of heavy and hard digestion and these generally taken to excess as also disagreeable or unwholesom drinks an errour chargeable upon most persons I speak not here of Gluttony and Drunkenness Natura pa●● con●… but that only which exceeds the Request of Nature which is content with a little but too often betrayed and debauched by Appetite I say these Meats and Drinks so liberally taken and not well concocted by the Stomach pass into the Entralls with many raw and excrementitious humors which from thence are carried into the Liver and Spleen and by that gradual proceeding before men●ioned into all the several parts of the Body and this work being not duely performed they are filled and oppressed with thick gross humors unapt for Nourishment which being put upon fermentation which is a working up like Beer in a Barrel they are thereby made thin and contract a fumous piercing sharpness which separates and throws it self all over the Body the thinner part fastning upon the Gums causeth them to swell makes them loose change colour subject to bleed and by degrees putrifie give an ill savour to the Mouth and breath and at last waste and consume Other parts of the humour seize the Membranes Nerves and Tendons which makes the Body sluggish listless heavy stiff and universally indisposed further they diffuse themselves upon the habit or outside of the body from whence arise red purple or blewish spots upon the skin which change colour fade and vanish but the disease continuing others succeed them These are the true signes of the Scurvey it hath many other Symptoms but they are common with other diseases and very often this joyns it self to other diseases which were it not for the aforesaid Sign were not to be distinguished from it Such are Giddiness Dulness and Pain in the Head unquiet sleeps and starting streight and difficult breathing Melancholy Sighing Pain in the Stomach Windiness Belching want of Appetite weak and slow digestion Pain in the Back and Sides with heaviness and stretching out especially of the left side sometimes Costiveness other-whiles sudden Loosness of the belly the Vrine is thick and gross sharp Pains and Aches in the Limbs and often in the Joints and may not unaptly be call'd A Scorbutick Gout when the morbous Ferment is heightned the Blood more tainted and humours putrified the Symptoms are exasperated and the disease exerciseth greater cruelties upon the body and throws its malignity into all parts thereof so that it swells all over becomes pale and wan weak and the flesh loose and often turns to a Dropsey the Pains are more sharp and with the spots arise Pustules and virulent Vlcers which corrode the Flesh even to the bones In a word as the Disease grows stronger and the humors more corrupt so the Symptomes are proportionably aggravated and happy is that Person who is so prudent to put a timely stop to the growth of this Fatal Disease Thus also is the Dropsy caused by the hurt and depravation of the Actions and Faculties of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery For the Liver sending out a thin watery Blood causeth all the Flesh to swell as if it were par-boiled and this is call'd the Dropsy Anasarca Then by default in the Stomach Liver and Spleen there is a continual gathering of Serous or a watery Matter in the Belly which swells up to a vast Bulk and this is the Dropsy Ascites and ●rom the like cause the Tympany From the same also are caused a Cachexie Di● 〈…〉 or ill habit of Body and this mostly affl●cts women who are deprived of their Monthly Sickness

in Virgins it is call'd the Green sickness wherein the Legsswell the Spleen is obstructed windiness and crudities abound and the complexion decayes and a multitude of evil Symptoms afflict that Sex Hence also proceeds the Gout Rhewmatismes Sciatica all afflictions of the Joynts and indeed there is no disease that afflicts humane Bodies but may be ascribed to the default and violation of the faculties of the principal Parts appointed for Nourishment 〈…〉 And though I should discourse to you all the Causes Signs and Symptoms of every particular disease which would but toil your Memory it would at last resolve into those Principles Patient Sir you have given me great satisfaction and prevented me in a Query I was about to make concerning the difference of the Scurvey from other diseases which it so much resembles in some of its Symptoms but being resolved of that I desire you to resolve me also how the Venerial disease is bred and propagated in the body Physician The POX is a disease which indeed comes not immediately from the causes before treated of but from an Infection taken by unclean Copulation upon which the venomous Contagion swiftly penetrates and enters both the solid and fluid parts of the Body seizing the Flesh Nerves Membranes Ligaments and Tendons and even the Bones and Marrow giving its poisonous taint to the Noble Parts before-mentioned vitiates all their faculties and by that means are the blood and humors infected and the whole body miserably diseased and according to their predisposi●ion it makes various appearances as Running in the Reins Sharpnesse of Vrine Carnosuies Nodes on the Scull Armes and Shin-bones sharp Pains in the Limbs which invade the sick still at night in bed and hinder his rest Also Gums or hard knots in the flesh Likewise Shankers and Warts in the Privities Fiery Pustules and sanious malignant Vlcers hard to be Cured and spread Scabs and Itch upon the Skin eating Vlcers in the Mouth and Throat which eat through the Palate and Nose These and many other symptomes attend this loathsom disease but all these are not at once in all bodies but are more or less according to the difference of constitutions and preparation of humors so that you see that this disease comes not immediately from these causes but after Infection is by them propagated and carried on to these extreams Patient Sir there is one thing yet remains and I shall give you no further trouble at this time and that is how to apply my self to a Remedy in these Cases when occasion offers Physician As I have given you general Grounds and Rules for the right understanding and tracing these Affects and Effects to their Causes and Original so I have taken care to provide a general Antidote and sufficient Medicine which is judiciously contrived and exquisitely prepared as well to prevent the growth of diseases as to Cure and perfectly expel them when the Body labours under any of them if you or any one takes the like care to take it in time whilst the disease is yet Curable and that is this Noble and most powerful Extract Call'd PANARETON from that universal Vertue and Efficacy it hath in the Cure of diseases for first of all it cleanseth the Stomach and takes away those tough clammy humors which cleave unto it and hinder its faculty of concoction it restores the enfeebled Appetite and mightily strengthens digestion Passing thence into the Entrails it draws out from the veins all superabundant corrupt matter which is apt to intermix it self with the nourishment it strengthens the Liver and opens the obstructions of it and the Spleen and sets them free from all viscous thick humors which may any way hinder the proper and just distribution of nourishment to all the parts and carries them all off by stools and plentiful Urine and performs this with so much ease and pleasure to the Patient th●t whereas some strong violent Medicines subdue the Powers and vigour of the body by forcing away more humour then is prepared this on the contrary only attends the spontaneous endeavors of Nature and is as all Physick ought to be its Friend and Handmaid strengthens and promotes its expu●sive faculty refresheth and enlivens the whole body and renders it universally able and ready in the right and due performance of all its functions Besides it hath a peculiar property in the Cure of the Scurvey and Dropsey expelling all those acid sour salt humors which do so sharply assault and oppress the sensible parts and draws from the remoter parts such as stick fast to the Muscles Membrans and Nerves and takes away all dulness stiffness and indisposition and other symptoms which proceed from thence it carries away by Urine and stools that serous watery matter which causeth the Dropsey strengthning the Liver and other parts so as to prevent its return for the future which is equally necessary Moreover it contains in it the true Antidote for the Venerial Disease expels its venom and infectious quality draws it away from all the remotest parts of the body and perfectly discharges it In a word this one Medicine if timely used answers all the Requests and Exigencies of oppressed Nature and disposeth the Body to a lasting state of Health This Extract for the better convenience of the Patient is made up into Pills of which you or any one may take four five or six more or less according to the strength of the Patient Take them at night going to bed and they will begin to work the next Morring but they who are easie to be wrong 〈◊〉 and may be surprised in the Night may take them after their first sleep and sleep after them but when they begin to work 'T is more profitable to forbear sleeping but rather wise and walk for then Motion conduceth more to their beneficial Operation if they work five or six times a day it is enough and the Patient may proportion their Dose accordingly they are safely used at any time of the year if need require and their Vertues are Equal at all times the Composition being so exact that they keep entire for many years They are also taken with great Profit by Sea-faring People who by eating salted Meats are subject to the Scurvey And also those who live near the Sea and in Aguish Places for they are a great Preservative against both Ague and Scurvey and will Cure both In Agues they are to be taken an hour before the Fit and in three or four times they seldom fail ☜ Furthermore take this Observation to your great benefit That if you take two or three days every Fortnight before the Full and Change of the Moon they Preserve the Body free from Customary Diseases for the Moon hath a great Domination or Rule over moist Bodies and then the Humors are stirring and most subject to take the Impression of Diseases especially those of the Head the Brain being the most moist part is subject to very many Distempers and to the ●●●laence of the Moon particularly And therefore these Pills are a great Treasure for any Family or Person being a present Refuge to such as are suddenly taken with any Illness They are put up in Tin Boxes two dozen in every Box which is to be sold for 2 sh 6 d. Seal'd with the Crest of my Coat at Arms being an Eagles Head Er●s●d Patient Sir I thank you for this trouble you have taken and the satissaction you have given me in every particular and I shall take Care to observe your Rules and Directions And as there are many who besides my self have reason to pray for you so I doubt not that many thousands will have the like cause to do the same These known by the Name of Jewell's Pills are Sold by Mr. Parker bookseller at the Leg and Star against the Royal Exchange Mr. Guy bookseller near the Stocks Market Cornhill Mr. Northcott bookseller next St. Peters Alley in Cornhil and at his shop at the Anchor and Marriner on New Fish-street hill near London-bridge Mr. Willson Watch maker in Thread needle-street by the Exchange Mr. Lacey Stationer at the Golden Lion in Southwark Mr. Deives a Cheesemonger in Bishops gate-street near great St. Hellens Mr. John Mill●r bookseller at the Rose at the West-end of St. Pauls Mr. Heldar bookseller at the Angel in Little-Britain Mr. Dring bookseller at the corner of Chancery-lane in Fleet-street Mr. Battersby bookseller at Thavie's Inn-gate in Holbourn Mr. Harrison at Lincolns-Inn gate in Chancery-lane Mr. Heyrick bookseller at Grey's Inn-gate in Holbourn Mr. Samuel Lowndes over against Exceter Change bookseller Mr. Nest at Westminster-Hall door his Coffee-house And at mine own Abode at the Golden Ball in Long Acre near St. Martins lane