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A50447	The mystery of curing comprehensively Explained and confirm'd, by exemplar of the Catholic medicine. Powerfully impregnated, and accuratly formed; to assist the regent principle, disabled, or impeded in vital government. Enabled hereby; more vigorously, and constantly to execute; the functions and daily operations; necessary to health, and life. For support of human bodyes, variously declining; and recovery out of a diseased state. The most useful, efficacious, and comprehensive expedient; (preventive and curative) against the painful diseased, and decays of human nature. By E. Maynwaringe. M.D. Jan. 11. 1693/3. Imprimatur. Edm. Bohun.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1693 (1693)	Wing M1506; ESTC R217894	13,756	17

you Purge and not Purify much of your labour is lost The Catholic Medicine is no such Deceiver but a faithful Servant that keeps sweet and clean all the Apartments Canals and Offices in the Body Opens all the August Obstructed Dictures and private Recesses lets no Filth abide in any place to annoy or impede the Vital Spirit in diradiating its Influence to all the Regions and Parts thereof which will save the daily labour of dressing stinking Issues that many are constrained to for a discharge of putrid Humors And farther we may rationally expect from thence a more Sound and Healthful Progeny in the World than these latter Days do produce from Parents of degenerate and corrupt habit of Body There can no better Expedient in Physick be contrived to Preserve Bodies from Diseases and to Help them out of Diseases than this secure wholsom Medicine that so truly and effectually performs the two grand offices of Apertion and Abstertion For these two eminent Virtues purely united in one wholsom Composition they always are attended and adorned with other Consorts of great worth which follow one another inseparably the one making way for the other Apertion leads foremost Abstersion follows and introduceth Purity this ushers in Healing and soundness to come after then Roboration and vital Vigour follows at the heels of these Praecursors And after this manner Infirm Diseased Bodys and Parts thereof are restored to their Natural State and made able to execute their Functions by the strength of this Chain of Virtues link'd together in dependency to produce great effects Thus the Catholic Medicine assists the Life to perform many and various Operations and rationally it may be expected that many and various Diseases should be corrected and conquered thereby And therefore it is not so improbable as some do imagine that a single Medicine should have so large a capacity and comprehensive Power to command and subdue many different Diseases in divers Persons since it is endowed with such a complication of the choicest Physical Virtues The Vital Principle being thus disintangled and freed from obstructing matter and humoral Impurity recovers Strength and Vigour thereby and conquers the many various Diseases arising from Debility laxation of Parts and Stimulating matter which includes a great number of Diseases if by Name particularly they were reckoned Wherefore it is not so strange that a Medicine should be designed Catholic for curing divers and contrary Diseases since the same Causes in specie do produce different and Contrary effects in several Persons or Subjects they operate upon that which begets Obstruction and Astriction in some produceth Debility of Retention and Laxation in others Quicquid recipitur recipitur per modum recipientis The Sun hardens the Clay but softens the Wax This Radical Instrument applying to Causes for their removal in all Bodyes which being subtracted their various effects do vanish also whether they be contrary or consimilar Which unfolds the Mystery of curing comprehensively Diseases being the product effects are multifarious when causes producing are not half so various Consider also that the variety or multiplicity and difformity of Diseases do not proceed so much different and dissimilar from the diversity of fluxile humoral and degenerate Matter as from Structure and Fabrication from the Diversity of Organs and the Difference of their Offices Therefore one and the same depraved matter as it perambulates or lodgeth infesting several Parts of the Body does thereby beget Diseases of various Names differently appearing and differently molesting what then shall hinder the Catholic Medicine from performing its universal Office in Curing Now observe who it is that manageth this comprehensive Instrument The Vital Principle A Cathosic Agent of ubiquitary Presence in the Machine of Human Body That operates variously and contrarily at one and the same time in several places yet consentaneously for the whole Opens and Shuts expels and retains Liquifies and Coagulates c. in the daily Course and Administration of Government Consider also the multifarious Qualifications of this Physical Expedient Not forcing and compelling but flexible and gentle complacent and complying with the Regent Principle to be conveyed here or there materialiter vel virtualiter and is made useful as the Case requires yielding up such Virtue as Nature Morborum Medicatrix stands in need of In like manner as the same Aliment is converted to various uses so one Catholic Medicament is applyed to various purposes Nature directs and hands the Medicine here and there to work what and how she pleaseth And now I have proved sufficiently and explained this Mystery that Catholic Adaptation rightly instituted for Diversity of Persons and Diversity of Diseases is the safety of the Catholic above the Appropriate that it is a Tryed and well proved Medicine with many But the Appropriated to a single Person and Case is an uncertain Chance Medicine because not experimented by any but conjecturally presumed at a Venture being designed and formed for the occasion presenting And yet this is esteemed a safe and learned Invention for the great and the rich to trust their Lives with Let the World dote on and the Sham be their Help when they need Let Ignorance and Errour manage their Cures sic Populus vult decipi decipiatur I need not tell you now all the Diseases by Name that this Medicine is proper for and effectual Sufficient it is and more satisfactory that I have shewed you how it opposeth the most of them in their Nature and Causes whereby you may trust your own Reason and not my bare assertion But some sort of People that know nothing of Diseases but their Names will say you have not told us what Diseases this Catholic Medicine will Cure To gratify the Desire of those weaker understandings I shall give in a particular Account of many by their Names commonly so called For the Vertigo Epilepsy Apoplexy and Convulsions a proper effectual Remedy applying to their Causes Allays Pains of the Head or Limbs Rheumatism and Gout And is the most secure Anodyne because it draws off morbific matter and frees the Body from acrid sharp and corroding Humors Corrects and amends ill Digestion of the Stomach sharpens a blunt Appetite removes Nauseousness and fullness For Asthma's Coughs Wheesing and short Breathing very prevalent Against unweldy Corpulency Dropsys Scurvy Jaundice inflation of the Spleen Hypochondriac Melancholy hard and big Bellyes approved and applauded herein Takes away fullness and foulness of Body dischargeth gradually safely and cleanseth effectually A certain Preventive against the Production of Worms in Human Bodyes By purifying and evacuating Verminous putrid matter of which they are bred Also the best curative Remedy to kill Worms already generated and to bring them forth They often being the cause of dangerous Sickness Gives speedy ease in the Colic and Gripes of the Guts Restrains all violent and contumacious Fluxes The most certain Help above all Methods and Medicines in this Case For if any Physical means

Names and to vary as Names are varyed but to the Nature and Condition of Diseases in their Causes many of them being of the same kind may be link'd together under one Denomination and will admit of the s me Medicine and Method of Curing Hereby the Practice of Physick will not be so extravagantly large but reduced into a much lesser compass and easily comprehensible The Intentions of curing but few and the Number of Medicines not many Success therein more hopeful with the Charge and trouble more easy to Patients in their courses of Physick Nominal multiplicity of Diseases have amused the People puzled young Practisers to adapt Medicines differently to each And the elder sort I doubt are sometimes misled thereby Diversity of Diseases by Names only or chiefly have begot Diversity of Methods and Diversity of Medicines The which have created much Business employed more Hands and consumed more Drugs than was necessary To illustrate and prove what hath been said I shall give you some Examples Take a Hundred Sick or Diseased Persons examine them where their several Complaints do lye what Parts are affected or grieved Some complain of their Head others their Breast or Lungs Some of the Stomach others about the Region of the Liver many of the Spleen some the Guts others the Limbs c. And for all these several Parts complaining your Physician will give you various Names to distinguish them by and peculiar Medicines and different Methods of Curing as in practical Authors you may find such like forms of Medicines and Methods Then Inquire of the same Authors and see what Judgment they pass as touching the Causes of all those Diseases differently seated and variously named And you will find that depraved Humours and Obstructions are the general and principal Causes assigned for all those Diseases though commonly reputed as different in their Nature as they are in their Names From which mistake or Delusion intended the Recipe's have superabounded If so as true it is then what shall hinder the Catholic Medicine from being a proper and fit Instrument to unbar and unbolt all these Obstructions and cleanse away all such degenerate and depraved Humors in this or that Part whereever they be Then this Catholic Expedient stands as fair and probable to cure a Hundred or a Thousand thus variously complaining as the Hundreds and Thousands of Medicines designed by appropriation to every particular Person And farther I must add That this often tryed and long proved Medicine in many such difficult and different cases with laudable Operation and Success must needs be more hopeful than appropriated Medicines to every ones particular cases that never was tryed before but every Sick or Diseased Person must make the Experiment of their new invented Medicines People being thus greatly mistaken yet think themselves very wise and wary and well provided for when they have purchased some conjectural appropriated Recipes devised for their particular case which particularity lies chiefly in Name and not much different from the Diseases of other Persons But for your further satisfaction in this point as to the certainty and worth of Catholic and Appropriated Medicines I refer you to another Tract The Practice of Physick Reformed which Informs you fully To Answer the Nominal and unnecessary multiplicity of Diseases there are Thousands of Medicines invented and daily more are inventing And for this purpose we fetch in all the Venemous Weeds Shrubs and Minerals out of Foreign Countrys to make variety of uncouth and unlucky Medicines which you must think to be proper for the many several Diseases variously denominated and peculiar for divers Persons differently affected So that after t is Rate of appropriating Medicines to Diseases and to Individual Persons Millions of Medicines for Millions of People will be but sufficient to supply the Practice of Physick after this unreasonable Mode And here I might upbraid and laugh at the World for their Folly having lost their understanding in this matter and being imposed upon beyond all Reason But I 'le wave the Subject at this time hoping to see tandem al quando some Champton come forth in Defence of this beloved Practice so much do ed upon By what hath been said you may plainly perceive that the great work of curing many and divers Diseases such as are Curable and Persons rightly endeavouring to be cured lyes fair and probable to be effected by the Catholic Medicine The superfluous Number of Diseases being reduced and the Nature of them being explained The Vital Catholic Agent called Nature having a true Catholic Instrument to act with operates universally and powerfully against a Multitude of Diseases Performs the work of Curing more readily and safely with an amicable well tryed extraordinary Medicament by a Physician 's Industry and long labour compleated under his eye than with a Number of Compositions conjecturally devised Prescripts transmitted to the Shops to be made at a venture who then can tell what they may prove The Third Part. IN the First Part having set forth the Power and wonderful Operations of the Agent or Efficient In the Second Part the Difficulty and seeming Impossibility of the work made probable and likely to be effected I come now in the last Place to lay before you the Qualifications and fitness of the Instrument to apply exquisitely in this undertaking The Catholic Medicine eminently declares its Vniversality and properly bears that Title in these two Respects First as having a general Amity with Mankind being most agreeable with Human Nature Operating friendly pleasantly and hopefully with All disgusting or disagreeing with none But promoting all the necessary Operations and aiding all the Functions daily to be performed in Vital Government Secondly as having Enmity with all the Diseases of seminal and humoral Production in Man's Body Allways and in all cases shewing opposition there●o and prosecutes such inbred secret Enemies to Human Life constantly and efficatiously The Reasons why and manner how appears evidently First by these two insignal Properties Aperitive and Abstersive wherewith it is primely endowed which two grand Virtues operating so clearly and fully gives two such killing Stroaks at the very Root of all the Seminal and Humoral Diseases that the Buds Blossoms and Branches fed from thence appearing variously and in divers Parts of the Body do soon wither decay and Dye Apertion and Abstersion are the two principal Operations both preventive and curative against a multitude of Diseases if performed by such due means as is required to do that work as it ought to be done The common reputed Purgatives venenous Stimulators they do open the back Door they rake and empty the Body and sometimes alleviation does follow But what then they carry a Sting in the Tail they leave some ill impressions behind them that stain and vitiate the Body which lyes breeding for another production and in a little time you must Purge again for that and this is labouring in a Circle and find no end If

may deserve the Title of Infallible against Gripes and Fluxes this Remedy may bear that Character And had this Medicine gone over with the Army in the late expedition for Ireland as was endeavoured it had preserved many Hundred Lives that perished miserably for want thereof This single Medicine would have done more service than all the Medicines for internal use that were sent over to supply the Army But private interests and particular favour too oft stifles a publick Good Epidemical depopulating Fluxes have infested Armyes in all Countreys both in their Camps and Marches the Reasons why are many and Causes unavoidable which have so weakned the strength of the surviving and shrunk their Number by Mortallity that their present Designs and Enterprizes have been checkt and frustrated The only expedient to be fought for is a certain Preservative to stop the beginning and prevent the Mortality which to perform I do believe nothing in Nature and Art grounded upon Experience is equivalent to this Catholick Arcanum And doubtless would readily be accepted and much esteemed by Foreign Princes if only for this case though perhaps may not so much be regarded here at Home as it justly merits But many Lives are lost by the want of such a Remedy 'T is the best Help for weak Backs Loyns or Genitals for Strains and over Reaches for Spermatic wasting and Seminal issuing To stay the Whites safely by cleansing purifying and roborating To purge ●oul Reins Vreters and Bladder that send forth strong scented thick or muddy Vrine This purifyer restores the Parts to cleanness and soundness and corrects the former ill effects For Claps and Venereal Taints producing hot and sharp Vrine or running of the Reins nothing Cures more certainly and safely and may be managed with great Privacy This tells no Tales but smothers such misfortunes by speedy ease and Help Very useful to promote external Chirurgical Cures by drawing off and evacuating all humoral offending matter thereby disposing Nature to Heal else external applications avail little But for curing Wounds Contusions Apostems Vlcers c. internal this Medicine alone does all the Work and acts a dexterous Surgeons part in such secret places where neither his Eye can Discern nor his Hand come to Dress you then this Sovereign Remedy is more helpful and more to be depended on than all the Practisers in Physick and Surgery And is therefore the most necessary and important Medicament to serve in Navies Armies and Hospitals most commodious and ready easily managed by the meanest Capacities performing singly and securely above all the uncertain Methods and multiplicity of Medicines appointed by Authors or used by Practicers Experto Crede For all sorts of Fevers of various and obscure dependencyes this is the most confiding means to rely on as radically applying to their several Causes and Parts primarily affected Fevers known to the World but by Name only therefore blindly and perniciously prosecuted by Juleping Blistering c. of fatal consequence to many Thousands of Sick People The Fleet Fevers and Camp Fevers that slays more Men sometimes than the Enemy by such erroneous Methods and injurious means or insufficient means which is their best Help But of this in another Tract Ignota Febris Fevers mistaken c. Sir William Hussy his Majesties Embassadour to the Port unfortunatly to the Confederats great loss Dyed at the point of his Negotiating a Peace And the report came that he dyed of a Feaver which is no better Satisfaction to me than he Dyed of they knew not what for none dyes of a Fever though few dyes without a Fever Febris est Symtoma morbi Solummodo Febrile Heat is no Disease but a Symptom dependant thereon I remark from thence that his Help and his Helpers were but mean And if they mistook the State of his Case that it was a Fever and prosecuted upon that Notion as reported then there was a great Minister lost and a great Affair miscarryed thereby And how many brave Men have dyed here at Honie by the great mistake of Physitians not knowing what a Fever is The Account to great for me to Summ up This Catholic is a proper good Medicine for a Disease that hath no Name and for a Disease that hath a wrong Name This seeks out and finds out ductu Nature when the Physitian knows not what the Matter is nor where it is When he groaps in the Dark and knows not where to aim This knows the way by Natur 's guidance goes readily and rightly about the business This will not be deluded with Fevers as Practisers have been But finds out their Dependancies and dischargeth its virtue there If you send this Medicine upon a wrong Errand it will act not as you intended but as it ought to be done Nature medicatrix amicably receiving this good Assistance directs it here or there as the Case requires and the Giver hath no more Power of the Medicine afterwards For various suddain Hamorrhages Bleedings issuing from divers parts of the Body This mitigats retracts and evacuats their Stimulating Causes This is both Physick and Physitian and Surgeon too in some Cases ready and safe Assistance for Travellers by Land or Sea a great Security to them upon emergent occasions and accidents For Country Inhabitants that live remote from Physick and Physitians This is necessary Provision The Physitian may be long in comeing and after that Medicines may be long in Preparing and Coming In the mean time the Patient may be wrackt with Fain half spent or past Recovery and then the long look'd for Physick Comes at last The Old way of Practice was the good way when Physick and Physitian liv'd together and went abroad together but now he is disarm'd and become a naked talking Man able to do nothing without the Help of a Pothecary For Practisers that are not Prescribers this Medicine will do them great Service and Credit by effecting what the Common known Medicines cannot do in dubious and difficult Cases which some ingenious men have experienced to their Advantage and do make use hereof This is a great Help to antient People for making their lives more easy and Comfortable Age commonly being attended with Infirmities that does afflict them Their Bodyes being grown Stale and Sour producing Rheums Coughs short Breath sharp Urine Aches and other decayes of Nature against which this Medicine will give them much assistance and mitagate their Complaints being the best expedient immaginable to Repair and Mend old Bodyes that they may be serviceable a longer time Hability and Soundness of Body promotes the Durability and Prolongation of the Life For if the vital Spirit labours under corporal impediments and unfitness for use in Goverment by so much is the Life abbreviated in Duration For Admirals Generals and great Officers For Embassadors Envoys and Residents whose lives are of great importance to Princes and publick Safety upon their Enterprizes and Negotiations This is Cabinet Help above all they can procure in forreign