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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62068	The compleat method of curing almost all diseases to which is added an exact description of their several symptoms / written in Latin by Dr. Thomas Sydenham ; and now faithfully Englished.	Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.	1694 (1694)	Wing S6307; ESTC R34635	47,961	126

the Scurvy It is attended with Heaviness of Body Weariness that cometh of it self or without any precedent Cause difficult Breathing especially after Exercise Rottenness of the Gums stinking Breath often Bleeding at the Nose difficult and uneasie Walking and which is a constant Symptom of this Disease Spots in the Legs which are black and blue yellow or of a lead or violet colour the Legs in the time being sometimes swoln and sometimes extenuated and the Face of a colour between pale and tawny Let a Vein be opened in the Arm and eight ounces of Blood taken away if no Signs of a Dropsie appear The next morning exhibit the common purging Potion and again a second and third time every third day In the intermediate Days let the Patient take the following Remedies and continue the use of them for a month or two afterwards Take of Conserve of Garden-Scurvy-grass two ounces Conserve of Wood-sorrel one ounce compound Powder of Aron six drams Syrup of Orenges as much as sufficeth to make an Electuary of which let him take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the morning at five a clock in the afternoon and at night drinking after it six spoonfuls of compound Radish water or of that which follows Take of Raspings of Horse-Radish Roots two pounds Aron Roots one pound Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass twelve handfuls Leafs of Mint Sage Water-cresses and Brook-lime of each six handfuls Seeds of Garden-Scurvy-Grass a little beaten half a pound Nutmegs half an ounce White-wine twelve pints Distil them in a common Still and draw off only six pints for your use Or distil the fresh Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass by it self for the same use Moreover let the Patient make use of the following Beer for ordinary Drink Take of the fresh Roots of Horse-Radish slic'd two drams twelve Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass six Raisins ston'd and the half of an Orenge slic'd Put them altogether into a Glass Bottle capable of containing a Quart of Small Beer and stop it immediately with a Cork After the manner that is here described prepare at the same time six Bottles for your use and after some days six more before the first be quite spent and so onward Or Instead of the Beer you may add three or four spoonfuls of the following mixture to every draught of your ordinary Drink Take of the Roots of Horse-Radish and Seeds of Garden-Scurvy-Grass of each half an ounce Leafs of Garden-Scurvy-Grass two handfuls the pulp of one Orenge Beat them together in a marble Mortar pouring in by degrees half a pint of White-wine Strain them and squeeze them a little and reserve the Liquor for your use The same Remedies are also of excellent use in the Scorbutic or Hysterical Rheumatism only the letting of Blood and Purging must be omitted FINIS THE INDEX A. ABortion 57 Ague 14 Apoplexy 40 Asthma 90 B. BIting of a mad Dog 88 Vlcer in the Bladder 88 Bleeding at the Nose 79 Vomiting and Spitting of Blood 82 Difficult Breathing 90 Bruises 86 Burning 85 C. CHolera 49 Hysterical Clavus 54 Bilious Colic 48 Hysterical Colic 54 Colic of the people of Poictiers 51 Consumption 92 Contusions 86 Cough 92 Immoderate Flowing of the Courses 52 Suppression of the Courses 82 D. DIabetes 73 Diarrhaea 44 Biting of a mad Dog 88 Dropsy 59 Dysentery 44 E. EPilepsy 75 Epilepsy in Children 75 Erisipela's and Erisipelatous Fever 23 Inflammation of the Eyes 42 F. FAlling Sickness in Children 39 Cleansing Fever 1● Erysipelatous Fever 23 Hectic Fever in Children 79 Intermitting Fever 13 Pestilential Fever 11 Present Fever 14 Present Fever in Children 16 Scarlet Fever 17 Fever from the Breeding of Teeth 79 Flux of the Belly 46 Immoderate Flux of the Courses 52 Immoderate Flux of the Hemorrhoids 75 Immoderate Flux of the Loches 57 White Flux 71 French Pox. 68 G. GOnorrhaea 64 Green-sickness 81 H. HEctic Fever in Children 79 Flux of the Hemorrhoids 75 Pain of the Hemorrhoids 74 Hypochondriacal Passion 5 Hypochondriacal Rheumatism 22 Hysterical Clavus 54 Hysterical Colic 54 Hysterical Passion 5 Hysterical Rheumatism 22 I. JAundice 56 Iliac Passion 51 Itching 24 K. STone in the Kidneys 43 L. IMmoderate Flux of the Loches 57 Suppression of the Loches 58 Looseness 46 M. MAdness 85 Measles 27 N. NEphritical Paroxysm 43 Bleeding at the Nose 79 O. OPthalmia 42 P. PAlsy 91 Bastard Peripneumonia 19 Pestilential Fever 11 Phthisis 92 Pleurisie 18 French Pox. 68 Small Pox. 29 Q. QVinsy 25 R. COmposition of Remedies 1 2 3 4 5 Rheumatism 21 Scorbutic and Hysterical Rheumatism 22 Rickets 77 Running of the Reins 64 S. SCarlet Fever 17 Scorbutick Rheumatism 21 Scurf in the Head 87 Scurvy 95 Diseases of the Skin 24 Spitting of Blood 82 Stone in the Kidneys 43 T. FEvers from Breeding of Teeth 79 Pricking of a Tendon 84 Terms See Courses Tertian-Ague 14 V. VEnereal Disease 68 St. Vitus's Dance 37 Vomiting of Blood 82 W. WHites 71 Falling down of the Womb. 43 FINIS

the animal Spirits run into disorderly motions the Urine appears sometimes limpid and in great quantity the sick persons cast off all hope of recovery and portend the most dismal things to themselves Whatsoever part of the body the Disease doth affect and it affecteth many immediately the symptoms that are proper to that part appear in the Head the Apoplexy which ends in a Palsy of one half of the body comes presently after Child-bearing sometimes they are seized with Convulsions that very much resemble the Epilepsy and are commonly called the Suffocation of the womb in which the Belly and Entrails rise upwards towards the Throat At other times they are miserably tormented with the Hysterical Clavus in which there is a most vehement pain in the head which you may cover with your thumb the sick person in the mean time vomiting up green Matter like to that sort of Choler that has its name from Leeks The Paroxysm doth also counterfeit the Palpitation of the Heart the Cough the Colic and Iliac Passions the Stone and Suppression of Urine it is attended with prodigious vomitings and sometimes with a Diarrhaea outwardly in the musculous Flesh it causes sometimes Pains and sometimes swellings In the Legs it is like a Dropsie nor which is wonderful doth it leave the Teeth untouch'd The Back is often cruelly pain'd and almost always the external parts are so cold that a dead body is not more The sick persons break out ridiculously into excessive Laughter and Tears without any cause and are some times troubled with spitting to such a degree as were enough to make one believe that they had been anointed with Mercury Hysterical Pains whatsoever part they affect leave a Tenderness behind them that cannot endure to be touch'd as if the Flesh had been beaten Let Blood be taken away to the quantity of eight ounces Apply the Plaister of Galbanum to the Navel And next morning let the sick person begin to use the following Pills Take of the Pills call'd Cochiae the greate● two drams Castoreum powder'd two grains Balsam of Peru three drops Make twelve Pills of which take four every morning of every second day according to your strength about four or five of the clock sleeping after them Take Rue water four ounces compound Briony water two ounces Castoreum tyed in a knot and hung in the Glass half a dram Sugar-candy a sufficient quantity Of this take four or five spoonfuls in every Fit After the Pills take what follows Take Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Extract of Wormwood make three Pills which must be taken early in the morning and repeated at five in the afternoon for thirty days drinking after them a draught of Wormwood Wine If the form of a Bolus be more grateful Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and Conserve of the yellow part of Orenges of each one ounce preserv'd Angelica Nutmeg preserv'd Treacle of Andromochas of each half an ounce compound Powder of Aron three drams preserv'd Ginger two drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the juice of Citrons or in want of that Syrup of Orenges make an Electuary Take of this Electuary two drams Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Orenges make a Bolus which is to be taken morning and evening drinking after it a draught of Wormwood Wine or six spoonfuls of the following Infusion Take Roots of Angelica Elicampane and Masterwort of each one ounce Leaves of common Wormwood lesser Centory white Horehound and Germainder of each one handful the Barks of two Orenges slic'd pour upon them so much Spanish Wine as will rise two inches above them and strain it at the time of using it Or To delicate persons the Steel may be given in the form of a Powder as follows Take Filings of Steel finely powder'd one ounce compound Powder of Aron six drams Coriander seed prepar'd seeds of Anise and sweet Fennel of each half an ounce the best Cinnamon red Coral prepar'd of each three drams Nutmeg two drams Beat them all into a very fine Powder to which add of the best white Sugar to the weight of all the rest Take half a dram of this Powder in a Spoon twice a day four days together and afterwards a whole dram twice every day for forty days drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep or of Wormwood and Wine Take Milk water twelve ounces compound Gentian water four ounces Wormwood water of the greater composition two ounces White Sugar a sufficient quantity Make a Julep Or Take half a pint of Rhenish Wine prepar'd with Wormwood compound Gentian water two ounces Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers one ounce Make a Julep Take choice Myrrh Galbanum and Assa foetida of each one dram Castoreum half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Balsam of Peru make them up into Pills twelve out of each dram of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of compound Bryony water during the whole process of the Cure If these Pils move the Belly use these that follow Take Castoreum one dram volatil salt of Amber half a dram with a sufficient quantity of extract of Rue make four and twenty Pills of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep Spirit of Harts-horn exhibited frequently to sixteen or eighteen drops is of excellent use But if the Disease doth not yield to these remedies then take the following Pills Take Troches of Myrrh powder'd one scruple Balsom of Sulphur terebinthinated four drops with a sufficient quantity of Gum Ammoniac disolv'd make four Pills which must be taken morning and evening drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep with twelve drops of Spirit of Harts-horn The Antiscorbutic Electuary with the Water there described is good also in this Disease and likewise the corroborating Electuary with the addition of Conserve of Garden Scurvy-Grass one ounce compound powder of Aron six drams drinking after it the forementioned Water But if all these Remedies prove ineffectual you must have recourse to the waters that partake of Iron and if these also do no good to those that are sulphureous such as are the Bath waters Concerning the use of the Mineral waters these things are to be observed If any bad symptom appear which may be ascribed to the drinking of the water in such a case you must abstain from them till the symptom disappear Continue the use of them for six weeks at least rather two months Eat now and then preserv'd Ginger or Caraway seeds confected to warm the stomach You may also take three of the Hysterical Pills the first ten nights drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep As for the Bath waters you must dsink them two days and bath in them the third proceeding thus alternately six weeks or two months If the Steel heat the body too much