Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	disease_n	humour_n	3,248	5	8.1860	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50455	The test and tryal of medicines and the different modes of medical practice. Shewing what hopes of help, from physick and physicians. By E.M. Med. D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1690 (1690)	Wing M1515; ESTC R217778	10,282	10

what he had to do and seeing some Glasses upon the Table I tasted of one with a Label inscribed The Cordial of a maukish flat and sweet tast more likely to make a Stomach sickish than to refresh and cheer a faint languishing Stomach I took another Bottle and tasted a few drops upon the Pallat turning it about in my Mouth but swallowed none yet this so drew my Chaps together with such vehement astringency that my breath was stopt a while until I could recover my self If any one would give me a hundred Guineas I durst not take a Spoonful down for fear of suffocation I said little only that I did not like that Medicine but my thoughts were full Two or three days after meeting a Servant of that House in the street I asked how that Patient did the answer returned she was dead Now these Medicines were prescribed by guess at a venture and ill composed or else the Apothecary or his Servant was highly in fault but where the miscarriage was did not belong to me to examine and so it past off The Doctor was an able Man the Apothecary was an honest Man and the Patient was become a dead Woman and there is an end of the Story But not a few such Casualties do fall out in the Prescribing Practice and many People can tell such Melancholy Tales something like to this The Diseases and unhappy Casualties thereupon in and about London if a true account could be had would make a Weekly Bill not inconsiderable but worth remarking I see and do hear of many learned Men and yet I can see but a very few learned Medicines either they fail in the association an Ox and an Ass cannot well draw together or by disproportion in quantities or in the manner of Process and finishing If Learning be not brought down into the Medicine what signifies Learning in point of Curing only a varnish and a flourish to set off and dazel Folks Eyes Let me see the Medicine I 'll tell you what the Doctor 's Learning is worth in the design of Curing The great Men of the World that can command all the assistance and help this Art can afford and therefore deem themselves the more secure are oftentimes the most unfortunate under Physick of all others chiefly at the times of the greatest danger in acute and peracute Sicknesses having three or four or more Physicians to attend them each of them must put in for a share in designing and forming the Medicines one will have this another that ingredient and a third something else to be added then the form of the Medicines and the Modus praeparandi is not readily agreed upon but dissent and thwarting arises there each Man stiff in his opinion and loth to yield but the urgency of the Case admitting no delay sometimes forceth an abrupt Conclusion not a free Consent and general Concurrence Now what can you expect from these Consultations and excogitated new Compositions though designed by Men of Learning for they themselves can have no assurance in them but an uncertain conjecture no well grounded hope and so long as Practice thus depends upon the Invention of Remedies whose operations will be very Casual and then success must needs be very dubious And now my Lord you have but a Chance Medicine for all your Guineas but that 's not all the loss here is a cast thrown for your Life it may happen well by the benign aspect of your Stars the good Providence that protects you but not the Doctor 's Skill they put it upon the Venture they can have no true knowledge of such Appropriated Medicines and what the result of their mixture will be is but strangely presumed and groundlesly hoped being formed without a Rule and not confirmed by experimented Proofs for although the single ingredients be good and innocent in themselves yet what their Concord will be in Composition and what Concurrence to the intention aimed nothing but Experience in the Tryal can determine If then dubious Medicines be put upon dangerous Diseases the attempt seems desperate and the event looks fatal If this be the Practice of Physick then Physick shall never be practised after this manner upon me then rather give me the Countryman's Pepper Posset and I 'll venture it that way I don't like to die by Physick then I shall know whether my Disease be mortal or not but he that dies in the other chance Practice who can tell whether his Disease or his Medicines let him slip or thrust him out of the World 'T is a known saying Plures gula quam gladius and I wish it were not as probably true Plures Medicamenta quam morbus I have a farther charge to exhibite against the Prescribing Practice which you may expect at my next opportunity then the World shall see what they have doted on and what they have trusted their lives with In my former Sheet called A serious Debate relating to Health and Sickness having there set forth and aproved that from the beginning and for many hundred years after Physicians were all Preparers of Medicines for their own Practice That Medicines were then celebrated with the Author's Names and Places for the People to resort thither That of later times Physicians have imprudently departed from that laudable and exemplary custom and taken up the new Mode of prescribing to the Shops an innovation hazardous to the Patient injurious to the Progress and Performance of this Art rendring it uncertain and unsafe and in the end will prove the ruine of the Professors That although illiterate Empericks have defamed the publishing of Medicines by spreading their trifles abroad yet the legal Physician is not to decline his duty because such Interlopers incroach upon his Priviledges and right for such abuses will happen in the best of things And as for my self having deserted the Prescribing Practice near thirty years and adhered to the Practice of the Antie●ts I there made mention of some Medicines of my own Preparation conform to the Ancient Custom of the most renowned Physicians and there gave an account of their Virtues Dose and manner of use that those who stand in need thereof may know where such help is to be had which perhaps elsewhere the like may not to be purchased In vain it is diligently to labour a long time and earnestly pursue the acquiring of extraordinary means and being attained then to bury the success in obscurity and deprive the World of that relief which many have languished for want thereof and now are dead The Medicines named were such as most generally are wanted viz. Scorbutic Pills and a Restoring Elixir The Pills by their Purgative and Diuretick Operations radically cleanse and purify the Body from all Scorbutic and degenerate humours which being evacuated and drawn forth the various Diseases bred from those Causes must needs wither and will daily lessen if duly prosecuted They fitly apply to most Cases requiring Purgation and urinary evacuations and