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A34728	Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...	Couch, Robert.; Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6510; ESTC R9840	74,356	218

and continuing life wherefore they gave our Saviour Vinegar and Gaul Vinegar to excite the faculties of the stomach for the Gauls quicker passage into the vital spirits to prolong his life that they might the longer torment him under his pains before death But to stay no longer here it follows in the next place to treat about the great Heat and Cold which happens by Intervals as well in most other Fevers as in this and likewise of that inordinate Thirst Of Heat THough Heat and Fever are counted Synonyma's of one and the same name individual companions c. yet I say this Heat is not of the Quiddity or Essence of the Disease neither is it the cause of any Disease but is caused by the stirring up of that vital aiery spirit the directoress of life which spirit it is that makes the assault Archaeus Paracels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hippoc. now this spirit being provoked by the Disease allarms all the Faculties Virtues and Powers both Vital and Natural which it doth unite unto it self and so furiously assault his mortal Enemy as many Coals of Fire raked together and blown up make a great heat so doth this heat proceed from this inflamed Spirit EXAMPLE A Thorn or Splinter being got into the Finger or Hand presently a heat pain and pulsation is felt which this spirit or Archaeus stirreth up for the expelling of that extraneous Body now this heat is not a product of the Thorn but casually from this spirit and occasionally only from the Thorn therefore heat is a latter accident and subsequent upon the essence of a Fever Cold. COld is the Diseases Colours or Banner under which it fights but it is not either the Disease nor Cause but a product and effect of the Disease Calorem frigus non esse morbus ut neque borum causas Hipp. putrefaction brings in coldness the Ferment of Putrefaction is sharp and cold as we have an ocular Demonstration in Gangrenes and Mortifications whilst it is but in fieri a Gangrene what a hard task it is to revive it by the hottest and most penetrating Medicines we can get nay and fain to scarrifie deeply too lest it should hinder their operation or if it fouls a bone no less than a Medicine that is hot in the highest degree can effect it and when a Sphacelus or Mortification is confirmed without natures Second comes in speedily to her rescue A Chyrurgion Chyrurg naturae minister and dismember it it would soon run her to the heart and did not putrefaction work by a cold a Body would be hotter after it was dead than it was before but we see the contrary when putrefaction grows stronger the Body grows colder I could evidence by many demonstrations more that the Heat is not of the essence neither the cause nor occasion of a Fever and likewise that Cold is meerly the effect of the Disease but I think this sufficient Thirst This great Thirst in Fevers doth not proceed from Heat and driness as in a true and natural Thirst for this will not be allayed by drinking as that will but this Thirst is deceitful and is produced by some excrementitious matter which adheres to that sensitive faculty and deludes the Organ Nec sitis est extincta prius quam vita bib●ndo as if a great dryness had suddenly come unto it as I have observed in a very malignant Fever which the Army in Flanders was infected with being always cold and very thirsty as likewise in the cold Fit of an Ague c. and so this is evident that heat in Fevers is not the cause of that inordinate Thirst besides I have extinguished this Thirst by those things which have been virtually hot Contraria contrariis curantur which if heat had been the cause would rather have exasperated Thus you have the matter manner and Concomitants of this Disease The Schools have observed some Heads from whence they have derived many Species of Fevers which I shall not insist on because they depend upon one and the same way and means of Cure without mention of an Hectick or intermitting Fever which differ only in the place they reside which I shall speak to in their proper places It is my chief design to do good unto my Countrymen who I know would rather have something to ease them and be rid of their Diseases than to hear curious and learned Discourses or quaint Distinctions and in pleasing them I care not whom I displease As I have put the knowledge of the cause into your Heads so I shall put a remedy into your Hands Cure You may clearly see what first is to be done and wherein the Cure doth consist which is in removing the cause or matter offending the neglect whereof hath suffered such an infinite Slaughter which gives me reason to think that either the cause is not known or a fit Remedy not yet found for unless there be a proportion between the Remedy and the Disease It will do but little good Diseases which come suddenly if they are rightly understood they are soon gone Extrema non permanent though they may be extreme sharp whilst they continue I know it is the practice here to look more unto the Effect than the Cause in correcting the Symptoms than the matter whereof they are produced Si ta tollantur quae conveniunt aeger melius se habet facile sert Sublata causa tolletur effectus which is a very pernicious course and contrary unto reason and all principles in Healing And that you may the better understand your error I shall recite your practice When first any one is taken with this or the like Distemper either Child or those of full Growth first you run and fetch Mint Water and a little Syrup to stay the Vomiting Secondly then Cinnamon Water and Syrup of Quinces or Myrtle Berries to stay the scouring Then it may be you give a Carmi●tive or Clyster to expel Wind and correct the Griping That done you give some cooling Julep to allay its Heat and to quench in Thirst And when it is cold you give a little Mithridate or Theriack of Andronica o● London Treacle and lay a Plaister of it to his Stomach And then lay a Spell against the Fever to the Wrists c. And so you keep doing till you can do no more just as a man who hath lost himself in a Wood he keeps going but whither he knows not You see all those things do but respect the effect here is nothing hath any regard at all unto the Cause And should things answer the intention for which they were given the party either Child or Man would presently die To hinder the evacuating of this morbifick matter is directly against the intention of nature Quo natura verget ad locum conferentem ●eo ducere oportet Hippoc. for the evacuation of this matter is to be looked at as the Crisis of Nature

Praxis Catholica OR THE COUNTRYMAN' 's Universal Remedy WHEREIN plainly and briefly laid down the Nature Matter Manner Place and Cure of most DISEASES Incident to the Body of Man Not hitherto discovered Whereby any one of an ordinary Capacity may apprehend the true Cause of his Distempers wherein his Cure consists and the Means to effect it together with Rules how to order Children in that most violent Disease of vomiting and Looseness c. useful likewise for Seamen and Travellers ●●so an Account of an Incomparable Powder for Wounds or Hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing ●ritten by Robert Couch sometimes Practitioner in Physick and Chyrurgery at Boston in New-England ●ow published with divers useful Additions for publick benefit by Chr. Pack Operator in Chymistry ●enim si dare vitam proprius Dei munus est certe datam tueri jamque fugientem retineri Deo proximum fateamur oportet Erasm ●●●don Printed for Robert Harford at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1680. TO HIS Highly Honoured AND MUCH Esteemed FRIEND COLONEL ●RANCIS WILLIS ●his Little TRACT humbly offers and submits it self Worthy Sir SEing it hath been your generous Care and Love to your Native Country to transplant this Exotick from Transmarine Parts to us I think it highly reasonable that you should have the Oversight of its Culture and Growth That as it hath here received its First Being from your Charity to the Publick it may also under your Name continue to grow and increase Sir your Knowledge in true Medicine and intimate Acquaintance you had with Mr. Couch the Author hath rendred you as able to Judge as fit to Patronize His Judgments of Diseases are sound and accurate and deduced from such Principles as Heathens and their Followers never yet understood or were able to refute as for the Medicines be advises you know Sir they are not Toys or Trifles to gull an unwary World but such whose virtues and power of healing are undeniable both from what they have done and are always ready to perform What I have added is only a farther Confirmation of Matter of Fact the which with the whole I humbly present to you as it is except Errours if any which I reserve to my self desiring your Favourable Acceptance of those small Endeavours of Your most Humble Servant CHR. PACK TO THE READER Reader I Once having the Fortune to see this Little Book of Mr. Couch's in the hand of a Gentleman living in Carolina who did me the favour to lend it me to peruse I was so pleased with his Sentiments of Diseases and manner of describing them that I heartily wished it were here made Publick but the Gentleman 's suddain departure out of England recalled the Book out of my hands before I could half transcribe it Not withstanding at length I attained my desire through the Assista●●e of the Worthy Colonel Francis Willis a Candid Lover and Promoter of true Medicine who procured me this Book in Manuscript from Virginia where Mr. Couch died from whom also I had long before received the Knowledge of those most Excellent Remedies used by Mr. Couch for curing the Distempers treated of in this Book But seeing that all Medicines now adays of which there are too many published as Arcanums and bearing the names of Universal Remedies come so far short of their specious pretences they being indeed only Engines employed for gain that I could not reasonably expect that those Worthy Medicaments should be beheld with any other Aspect if the curing of Diseases should be here restrained to them only Wherefore I have here added other Medicines for the cure of each Disease such as are good and effectual in which I have candidly dealt with all persons and left every one to his liberty what to use Moreover because many Persons into whose hands this Book may come who live remote in the Country upon suddain occasion cannot have time enough to send to me for the Powder and Pill I have also directed the use of such as they may be served withal nearer home by which I hope I may justly avoid the censure of publishing this Book solely for my own advantage Truly I abhor such private ends which are not to be attained without hypocrisie and the prejudices and ruines of Lives and Families but so fast are most people tied to the Heathens precepts of healing and to the modes and fashions of times and persons that they know not truth when they meet her but obstinately persist in errour for its age sake and so voluntarily come short of the benefits of Gods healing mercies falling short of true knowledge because they think themselves to be already sufficiently informed according to the saying of Seneca Multi ad virtatem pervenire potuissent nisi se putassent pervenisse So that it may be as truly affirmed in relation as well to the body as the soul that many perish through unbelief neither will it be otherwise till the time cometh when the groans of the Creation to be delivered from this vanity shall cease and the Elias of Arts shall appear to restore all things This little Treatise may be useful for every considerate Reader enabling him in divers Maladies to get help at a cheaper and more certain rate than usual Neither will it be unwelcome to the Tyro's in the Helmontian Philosophy and Medicine whom it may accommodate in many cases others no doubt at first sight will not freely receive it because to them the Doctrine may be altogether novel but if they will rightly weigh the discourses of Diseases and compare them with the common precepts and notions of healing out of desire to find out the truth they shall certainly apprehend them to be more agreeable to the frame and simplicity of nature than the other But as for such Subscribers to Heathenism as have taken a Leafe of their Opinions for life I do not question but to them it will be disgustful they will contend about the shell till they lose the Kernel but be it as it will I design nothing but well in it what I have said being only out of love to truth not reflecting upon any man's person or interest To conclude I shall still make it my business to loose the bonds of Animals Vegitables and Minerals endeavouring with Chimical Keys to unlock the choycest Cabinets of Nature and whatever I from time to time by the Divine Bounty shall be able to take from thence shall readily be communicated to the use of the sick more especially into the hands of honest and conscientious Artists who may use them to the honour of God the giver their own credit and the relief of many a miserable person In the mean time I remain Your servant in the fire Chr. Pack From my Laboratory at the Sign of the Globe and Chymical Furnaces in the Postern near Moor-gate To all Ingenious Students and Practitioners in Physick and Chyrurgery Courteous Brethren WE read of Renowned

presently abated and that night he rested pretty well for he had no sleep worth mention since he was ill the next morning I sent him four Grains more of the Powder which gave him three Vomits and two Stools about six in the Afternoon I went to visit him and found him about his Chamber saying he thought he was as well as ever his Stomach being returned and he very hungry Thus you see a Fever cured in eighteen hours or less which in all probability would have been at the least three or four weeks if recovered at all before nature by such enfeebled helpers or rather hinderers as are the common Medicines could have freed her self from the Disease I could instance many the like cases were it needful This Medicine hath besides its other gifts such a general tendency for the curing of all Fevers that upon the first knowledge of it in practice I called it my Species Febrifuga by which name I published it in my Catalogue of Medicines Printed in the year 1676 although I had then seen this little Book of the Authors I shall here subjoyn a short Discourse of intermitting Fevers or Agues in which Mr. Couch is silent except in the name yet I cannot doubt but he must be well acquainted with the power of this Medicine in curing them Of Agues GReat Diversity hath been and yet is among Authors concerning this Disease some holding one thing and some another concerning its Seat and Causes but I without reciting their differences or contending with any man's opinion either of which is no way profitable shall briefly endeavour to give you my own sentiment It needs no Definition being sufficiently known here neither Division seeing all the sorts thereof proceed from one cause and may be cured by the same Medicines Seat The Place or Seat of Agues is the Pancreas or Sweet-bread for all the parts of Man's Body being considered which only by intervals may transmit the cause of intermitting Fevers to the Heart none is found to which not only the Focus or source of those Fevers but also the causes of all their Symptoms may be ascribed besides the Pancreas or Sweet-bread Cause The Cause is an Obstruction of one or more of the Lateral Ducts or Branches of the Pancreas by reason of Phlegmatick Matter carried thither in too large a quantity and there detained the which being separated from the Blood together with the Pancreatick Juice by the Glandules of the Pancreas and sent to the main Duct or Pipe thereof causeth an Obstruction there and detaineth the juice of the Pancreas contrary to nature which ought continually to flow into the thin Gut called the Duodenum This Juice being thus stagnated quickly grows acrimonious or sharp and acquires a putrefactive Ferment whence at length it makes way through the obstructing Phlegm and is effused into the Duodenum where meeting with the Bile or Gall it stirs up a vicious and preternatural Ferment from whence comes the Ague Fit with all its Symptoms as in the beginning horrour chilness cold shaking c. then presently reachings yawnings and vomiting of bitter or four relish and afterwards burning heat the causes of Heat Cold Thirst c. you have in the foregoing Chapter of Fevers but if any desire further satisfaction concerning the reasons of the differences of Agues and the constant or various access of their Fits with the particular causes of Symptoms they may read it at large in Regnerus de Graaf in his Book intituled de succo Pancreatico published by me in the year 1676 to which I refer the Reader not having room here to be any larger Cure The Cure consists in opening the Obstructions changing the diseasie Ferment and expelling such matter as the Disease hath rendred incapable of being redintegrated and taken into the communion of life All which intentions are truly and radically performed by this Powder for an Ague being removed by the due use of this Medicine returns not again neither leaves any danger of its degeneration into another Disease both of which too frequently happen after the use of some Medicines which take off the Fit only by a kind of soporiferous quieting the present fury of the Archaeus If it be taken before the Ague hath exceeded three Fits one only Dose is usually sufficient to carry it away if fix or seven Fits two Doses or three at the most yea I have cured divers at twice or thrice giving it that have had it six or eight weeks but if it be a year old or more the continuance of its use but a reasonable time with the help of the Balsamick Pill will not fail to cure it I have also known it to cure Agues when it hath had no other sensible operation than Breaking of Wind. A person living in Greenwich who had a Tertian Ague and sometimes a Quotidian all the last Winter was cured this Spring by three Doses of the Powder which never had any sensible operation and two Doses of the Balsamick Pill so that in eight or ten days he was abroad about his Affairs and never had any Fit since although he was before so low brought that he could not sit up any longer than while his Bed was made notwithstanding the constant advice of an eminent Physician of that Town which he had used It is to be taken in a Spoonful of Drink or Posset drink about an hour before the Fit comes for two or three Fits together according as the Ague is in continuance If the Patient be weak or of a tender habit of Body let him take a Dose of the Balsamick Pill the same night after the Powder hath been given when he goes to Bed with a draught of warm Ale or a Glass of good generous Wine which Pill will mightily corroborate and refresh his Spirits and also tends much to the Cure if the Ague have been of a long continuance or be a Quartan or fourth Ague then after the Patient hath taken the Powder three times if the Fit still remain then let him take a full dose of the Balsamick Pill two or three hours before the coming of the next Fit and goe to Bed and dispose himself to sweat before the Fit comes the which if he do it s ten to one but the Fit comes no more but if there should be a failure of sweating timely enough then let him take the powder before one Fit and the Pill before the next till it be gone but not one Ague in twenty will need to be thus treated A general Direction in Fevers TO drink liberally of such Liquor as is most convenient is good I like not Beer of any Liquor in a Fever before the peccant matter wherein the Disease doth subsist be evacuated because it hath a nutriment from the Grain it is made withal which doth add unto the matter of the Disease whereby Thirst is exasperated as is commonly seen I rather advise to drink Wine and Water two parts Water and one Wine sharpened a

Physicians Chyrurgions c. shall have them at my Catalogue price I have also some other Medicaments of singular use and efficacy viz. The Oyly Volatile Salt of Sylvius de le Boe. Whose vertue and use is at large described in his new Idea of Physick the first Part in English This was some time since sold in divers places in London I mean somewhat having the same name stamped upon it but nothing of this Famous Sylvian Medicine were to be found in it I had it from a Gentleman who was divers years a Student under Sylvius and was also Brother and Executor to De Graaf from whom Sylvius would hide nothing in whose Study he found it after De Graaf's Death Price 6 s. per ounce Elixir Hystericum This is an Excellent Remedy against th● Fits of the Mother the which I never y● knew it fail to help it is also very profitable in the Epilepsie Convulsion Vertigo c. It is to be taken three times a day the quantity of twelve fourteen or fifteen drops at a time in a Glass of Sack or Ale where Sack is not to be had as also in the time or rather upon the approach of any Fit it may be taken to thirty or forty drops for there is no danger of exceeding the Dose Price 5 s. per ounce Manna Mercurii This preparation of Mercury is so well divested of its Malignant Volatile Salt that it never causeth Vomiting or Salivation as the best of the Common Preparations especially if they be sometimes repeated whereby it is made so innocent ●hat it may be as safely introsumed as Man●a It is a great Specifick in the French ●ox Leprosie Scurvy and Itch against all ●enereal Nocturnal Pains as also Pocky ●lcers and Pustules it causeth the Scabs ●resently to fall off and disposeth the Ul●ers to heal I assure you I have known a ●ontumacious Pox cured by this Medicine ●one and which is more a Physician ●ce told me that he had cured one with three Doses of it only with the help of a little Bezoardicum Minerale which he used some time in stead of a Sudorifick Diet drink and which is a hundred times better The Dose is from six Grains to twenty made up into Pills with Rosin of Scammony or Extractum Rudii The best way is to begin with a small Dose at first and increase every time as occasion requires If it should work two or three days together as it may do where it meets with a Plethora of sordid Matter there is no danger but on the contrary the Cure will the sooner succeed Price 12 s. per ounce Aqua Venerea This Water or Liquor cures the most stubborn Venereal Ulcers or Sores in a few days time they being washed with it twice a day and rags three or four times double wetted in the same and lay'd upon them Price 5 s. per pint Moreover all Chymical Preparations i● use may be had at my House a Catalog● of which with the prizes any may ha● gratis Or any Person that desires to ha● any Curious Process wrought may be served faithfully therein by CHR. 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little with the Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur if it be per campanam which is drawn from a Bell Still it is the better which is a singular Medicine to allay and correct the inordinate Thirst and Heat in Fevers Medera Fial French or Sherry Wines you may use Malaga or any Sweet Wine is not so good neither Syrups or any Sugared or Honeyed Meat or Drink And when they begin to recover 〈◊〉 plainest Broths and Gruels are the best till then a little is too much and if you did use Salt and Vinegar instead of Spices and Sugar the sick would like it the better and it would be better for them a few Prunes and Currants if the sick like them may be used But some may say How shall we do that live far up the Country where we have no Wines nor can get neither of those Spirits the best that I can advise you to is Milk boiled and turned with some Vinegar or Verjuice the Curd being taken away whereof he may drink freely but he is to take it alway hot and the hotter the better This course is to be taken after the cause is removed by my powder or something else but I know not what otherwise this or any other is like to do but little good Bleeding Purging Clysters Cordials Juleps c. are but Trifles in curing a Fever they do at best but correct the Symptoms or Effects I will do more good with one dose of my Powder and one of my Pills than they with all those in a Month. If the Fever be continual and come by a Surfeit or otherwise so that the Patient feel a Load or Weight at his Stomach or hath a propensity to vomit the first thing to be done is to give a Vomit whereby the Stomach and first passages may be freed of the grossest of the Diseasie Matter wherein the Fever sits or hath taken up its Inn to which purpose you may give half an ounce of the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum or six Drams or a whole Ounce according to the age and strength of the Patient in a small Draught of warm Posset-drink but if you know any better Antimonial Preparation then give it That being done ℞ Tartar Vitriolat six Grains Volatile Salt of Amber and Harts-horn each seven or eight Grains mix them and give the mixture twice a day in a little thin Broth or Water Gruel This is abstersive and Diuretick and will cleanse the Stomach and Intestines of the remaining Sordes and expel them by Urine For the Feverish Thirst give the dulcified Spirit of Nitre or of Salt in Posset drink and all the Liquids they take from five or six to ten or twelve drops at a time Keep the Patient in a small breathing Sweat either with the Posset-drink before-mentioned by Mr. Couch or with Treacle-water and Powder or rather the Tincture of Virginia Snake-root or which is most excellent if you can get it the Aqua Prophylactica of Sylvius de le Boe of which Take three Ounces Water of Carduus and Borrage each one Ounce Syrrup of Citron Peels an ounce and an half mix them and take it often by a spoonful or two at a time But instead of this if the Fever be malignant give Bezoardicum minerale to eight or ten Grains every third or fourth hour in a spoonful or two of good Canary But because the Aqua Prophylactica mentioned is rarely to be had at any shop I will here describe the making thereof for the sakes of those who are willing to make it ℞ Roots of Angelica Zedoary of each an ounce Butterbur two ounces the leaves of Rue four ounces of Balm Scabious and Marygold Flowers each two ounces unripe Walnuts cut two pounds fresh Citrons cut one pound Let them be all beaten together and pour upon them six quarts of the best distilled Wine-Vinegar let them stand in digestion all night and then distil them by a very easie fire without burning till they be dry and keep the distilled liquor for use It is very profitable in all Fevers especially in those which are malignant and the Plague In the declining of the Fever if sleep be wanting this following mixture will much avail both to cause rest and refresh the Spirits ℞ of Treacle water an ounce the thin Syrup of Corn Poppies an ounce or an ounce and a half Laudanum Londinens or rather that of Paracelsus two grains mix them and let the Patient drink it at the hour of Sleep But give nothing wherein there is Opium or Poppies in the beginning of a Fever because they tie up the Archaeus of the Stomach and first passages thereby hindering him from separating and expelling the occasional cause of the Disease For Agues or intermitting Fevers whether they be Quotidians Tertians or Quartans proceed as followeth ℞ Of Salt of Amber twenty grains Tartarum Vitriolatum six grains Diagridium seven eight nine or ten grains according to the strength of the Patient mix them into a Powder and give it in a little Posset-drink or thin Broth four or five hours before the time of the Fit Repeat it two or three times if need be but if the Ague be not then gone give the following mixture about an hour or an hour and an half before the Fit comes the Patient being in Bed and disposing himself to sweat ℞ of Carduus Water two ounces Treacle Water two drams Salt of Wormwood half a dram Spirit of Salt Armoniac ten grains Syrup of Corn Poppies half on ounce mix This if the Patient sweat well with it frequently removes the Ague This following also hath cured many without any other Medicine ℞ of the Salt of Wormwood and Carduus each fifteen grains Tartar Vitriolat six grains Sugar of Pearls half a dram powder and mix them and give it half an hour or an hour before the Fits access The Juice of Featherfew being drank about half an ounce in a glass of Wormwood Wine is profitable against the Quartan or fourth Ague These Remedies I have used with good success but never found any thing so certain and effectual in Fevers as my Species Febrifuga and Pillula Balsamica A Dropsie There are three sorts of Dropsies viz. Anasarca Ascites and Timpanites the two first are most from Water The last Timpany is more from Wind. Anasarca is when the extreme parts swell but when the Belly then it is Ascites The Cause I do not believe as hath generally been received that it proceeds from a Distemper of the Liver and that to be the principal part affected but I have more reason to think it to proceed from an obstruction or impediment in one of the Kidneys for commonly they that are troubled with Gravel and Stone in the Kidneys are Hydropical and seldom any that have been affected with either Anasarca or Ascites but they have observed a Dolor in their Reins to precede it and so that Water which should be transferred through the Kidneys to be evacuated by the Bladder is forced out

after general Evacuation Vomiting Clyster then carminative and fumous Clysters and abundance of other means he found not the least ease there was given him three or four ounces of Quick-silver and that came soon through him yet no ease at last I gave him four of the biggest Musket Bullets I could get about six or eight hours after I came to him and he was discharged of pain and was fallen asleep which he had not before for several nights after he awaked he had a Stool wherein was two of the Bullets and about eight or nine great round pieces of excrement greater than the Bullets and they did seem to be as hard Besides it could not be wind for it is always repleted with wind to hinder such accidents by making the more clearer and more slippery way for the Chyle and when there is a redundancy of it it is easily forced forth behind without any Griping or Torture So you see it is not from Wind or knotting of the Gut but from some excrement that doth adhere unto the same COLLICK THe Collick is commonly from Excrements contained beyond their course which vitiates the Ferment of the place whence cometh those windy Blasts which are not wind but far more subtle and rare than the most rarified air being of an incoagulate nature whereupon those retained excrements adhere so firmly to the Gut that it contracts it which is the cause of that violent dolour I had a man that was shot at the Siege of Iper in Flanders in the lower Belly Hypogastrium which penetrated the Colon all his Excrements came out at his wound for about six days so that the Intestinum Rectum or Arse-gut became useless this wound lay twenty four hours exposed to the wind before he was dressed I made a Suture to the external Orifice and cured him by vulnerary Clysters c. Besides how many wounds have I seen that have penetrated the Breast and Belly and yet never troubled with those windy Pains or Tortures and yet we see there is hardly a Distemper amongst us but we accuse wind troubled with wind c. but the small benefit those discussors of wind have brought is able to convince any that wind is not the cause But indeed this aiery Blast which is made by a bad digestion of things that seems to be wind which is perceived to move between the Muscles of the sides and causeth those Ructations and Belchings hath never been thought on by the Schools and but of very late years treated of To confirm Mr. Couch's opinion concerning the Illiaca Passio I shall here add another experiment which is this About a year ago a certain man was sorely tormented with the excruciating pains of this Disease commonly called the twisting of the Guts his Physician treated him with I suppose all the usual Remedies and some other Devices one of which was I remember to blow wind into the Intestinum Rectum or Arse-gut with a pair of Bellows but nothing taking effect to give the miserable man any ease the last Remedy was instituted which was three pound weight of Quicksilver which the Patient poured down his Throat on Friday about ten or eleven in the Forenoon and presently as advised rode a little way for the better agitating of his Body but yet to no purpose for on the Sunday Morning following I was at his House by accident with another person who was a Physician and then none of the Quicksilver had made any passage he had the very aspect of death and complained of an intollerable cold and weight in his Belly went not to bed in three nights and if he fell into the least sleep nothing but dotage and distraction appeared His Physician was at a ne plus ultra thinking him a dead man as all that saw him Upon enquiry we understood that he was not forbid the taking of any thing nor yet directed to any thing besides Canary wherefore we advised that he should abstain from the use of all acids others that might have any power to coagulate any of the Quicksilver in his Body and to drink sweet Oil plentifully the which he presently put in execution and the next day being Munday the Quicksilver began to come away like Small Shot and the use of the Oil being still continued by Tuesday night he had parted with it all or most for what they had collected wanted but four ounces of the three pounds after which somebody well advised him to swallow Golden Bullets which he did divers times and so to a wonder recovered and is well to this day Now had this Torture been occasioned only by wind such a quantity of Quicksilver could not possibly have been thereby detained in the Body one quarter of an hour or again that it should be the twisting of the Gut as is commonly believed is impossible for it cannot be that the Gut should be so closely twisted up by any accident that may happen either within or without the Body that three pound weight of this active ponderous Mineral should not in three days time find a passage besides which I had almost forgot to tell you his Excrements came away with the Quicksilver in small hard Bits like dried Sheeps Dung which plainly proves that the occasional cause of this Disease is the Excrements grown to a preternatural hardness I will here set down for the sake of the poor a cheap and easie remedy against this cruel Enemy â„ž of the Seeds of Annise Fennel Carraway and Coriander each half an ounce let them be all bruised put them into a quart of Ale or somewhat more boil them gently in a Vessel close covered for about three quarters of an hour then take it from the fire and strain it and let the Patient drink half a pint at a time warm And by God's blessing he shall soon have ease This is also good in the Wind Chollick But the Balsamick Pill is the most immediate Remedy for the Wind Chollick that I ever yet knew but it is not to be given in the Illiaca Passio therefore I will here for the sake of the ignorant shew how they may distinguish those Diseases from one another The pain called the Twisting of the Guts lies about the Navel and higher and is felt only before not extended to the Right and Left Sides that of the Chollick is about the Navel and lower going cross the Belly to both Sides even to the Back the pain generally pressing to the bottom of the Belly with a stoppage of the Urine which never is in the former there are some Symptoms which are common to both as Burning Chilness Reaching Vomiting c. but what I have said before is sufficient for any to know them asunder A Gentlewoman living in Greenwich was lately seised with a pain in all her Bones and a violent Loosness for which she took a Dose of the Balsamick Pill and in two hours time was at perfect ease and the Loosness stopped The next