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A80034	The poor-mans physician and chyrurgion, containing above three hundred rare and choice receipts, for the cure of all distempers, both inward and outward: together with necessary considerations before purgation; easie rules for the opening of a vein, and the manner of bleeding by horse-leeches, with a method for drawing teeth. All being of great worth, and now published for the publique good: / by Lancelot Coelson student in Physick and Astrology.	Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-ca 1687.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4884; Thomason E1666_2; ESTC R208391	66,632	176

THE POOR-MANS PHYSICIAN AND Chyrurgion CONTAINING Above Three hundred rare and Choice Receipts for the Cure of all Distempers both Inward and Outward Together with necessary Considerations before Purgation Easie Rules for the opening of a Vein and the manner of Bleeding by Horse-leeches with a Method for drawing Teeth All being of great Worth and now Published for the Publique good By LANCELOT COELSON Student in Physick and Astrology London Printed by A. M. for Simon Miller at the Starre in St Pauls Church-yard 1656. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir John Barkstead Knight Lieutenant of the Tower of LONDON High-Steward of COLCHESTER Major General of MIDDLESEX and WESTMINSTER L. C. wisheth all Health with long Life and Increase of Honour Right Honourable FOr many ages past it hath been a custome amongst these who have endeavoured to leave to posterity any of their Labours to Dedicate them to some eminent Personage partly to expresse their gratitude for benefits received and partly to procure with the Readers a more easie acceptation of the Work and a more firm protection for it from the reproachfull tongues of malicious censures which no age hitherto ever wanted Among the sage sayings of Solon being an ancient Philosopher of Athens this is continually to be born in minde that he only did glory of the good he received by his endeavours and study the which Philosopher was a Heathen man I would we Christians could follow the like example but I fear most in our age neither return thanks for what they receive nor apply themselves to study any good nay rather there be some will speak evil of them which apply their study to the knowledge of their Profession and especially the Professours of Arts. But in part being sensible of Your Honours ingenuity and so much a friend and lover of Vertue and Learning I did make this bold attempt which I hope Your Wisdome will be pleased to pardon this did the more encourage me to enterprise it For I do ingeniously confesse that I have not thought this Labour of mine fit or worthy to be perused of Your Honour by reason of my own inability who am altogether insufficient to perform any thing suitable to the acceptance of Your Honour It was not the affectation of any popular praise but an honest zeal to benefit my Country which begot in me a desire to publish this Work and in the next place I perceived in my self a certain earnest willingnesse which I have alway had to commend some piece of service to Your Honour this meeting together did induce me and re-inforce my over-presumptuous determination with such a bold confidence as it were to rush into Your presence and to demand without any shew of merit Your Honours most favourable Protection that this Book of my Labours may runne under Your Patronage The Lord God who hath made Your Honour an Instrument to work the advancement of his Glory the furtherance and propagation of good Learning protect guide and blesse You with all successe in this world and eternall happinesse in his Kingdom Your Honours most humble Servant Lancelot Coelson TO THE READER READER WHen God had perfected that wonderfull work of his I mean the frame of the World and had assigned to every part thereof his speciall duty as namely to the water to harbour fishes to the ayr to uphold all feathered fowls to the earth to softer beasts and to produce and bring forth good and wholsome herbs and trees and over all these as Regent and Governour had appointed man his last and noblest creature he demanded of his Angels who were present with him at this work what might be desired in this so rare and strange a workmanship who answered Nothing but a tongue to unfold the secrets of his Labours to talk and commune with them with the which also He as a Workman of all might be extolled and magnified there being no better way to advance his glory As he did infuse into man a conceivable minde apt to understand his mysteries so now he gave him a tongue to utter what the minde was capable to receive and it hath been the delight of many of our Ancestours to give themselves to study this noble Art of Physick and Chyrurgery not only to study them but to practise them for the good of themselves and others and not only so but have spread their Labours and Knowledge over the whole world knowing that what they had was nothing but what they had received and not only for themselves but for the good of their Country But we will remember some of those Kings who had an especiall fantasie to this Art whose names are devolved and brought unto us by the succession of ages though their Works have not escaped the wrack but have perished in the Sea-gulf of Antiquity which have swallowed the good actions of many And Mithridates the King of ●ontus shall be the first whose glory in battell being victorious did much fore-passe all other and yet gave his minde much to study the Book of the creature In so much as ●liny remembereth was alike profitable to the Commonwealth and to mans life For in his Mannor where he lay there were found many Books written by his own hands both of the vertues of Herbs and of the constitution of mans Body with remedies for many infirmities of the same E●ax also the King of Arabia wrote a Book of the effects of Simples which he Dedicated to Nero the Emperour I need not mention them in particular there was no King either of Ethiopia Aegypt or Arabia who did not himself either write somewhat concerning this Art of Physick or else by his liberality encouraged others to imploy their time in the same I will not stand to recite any of our famous Physicians who have lived before us in severall ages as Dioscorides Galen Paulus Aetius Egyneta and others For it will easily appear of what credit this Noble Science of Physick was in times past the insolency and pride of which Physicians was so high that many of them disdained the fellowship of Kings and expected homage as Gods The opinion of this Science did so possesse the mindes of the people in those daies that they imagined the Professor of the same immediatly to be sent from heaven for the commodity of the whole Countrey and for the preservation of man-kinde which begot in those Physicians such a spirit of pride expecting much reverence I desire the Physicians of our times may have contrary spirits humble meek and lowly visiting even the poorest of Patients when help is required for the life of the most miserable vassal is as dear in the sight of God as the life of the most renowned Monarch they glorifie God in so doing serve their Country and gain much experience For it is not enough for a Physician to know the constitution of the body the diversity of temperatures the variety of diseases the causes signes and symptoms of the same but by knowing these

thereof and now I do purpose to speak somewhat of the use and commodity of purging Of the Vse of Purging and the Commodities that come thereby FOrasmuch as it is necessary to be understood of all persons that every kinde of purgation hath that secret vertue and property in it self that when it is received into a mans body and provoked to exercise its vertue that it hath by naturall heat labouring to digest it then doth it draw unto it all such humours as it hath vertue and power to purge And therefore a purgation is an evacuation of vicious and corrupt humours which do often trouble and molest the body but not of all corrupt humours alike For every purging Medicine doth draw unto it self one peculiar and proper humour that is either fleagm choller or melancholly or watery humours And therefore persons in health ought not to take a purgation since they do not abound with corrupt humours For when the Medicine findeth no such superfluous humour as it hath vertue to draw it consumeth and wasteth the blood and the flesh and therefore age ought not to take purgations because it wasteth where there is not that abounding as it hath vertue to draw and so it is dangerous for age and for those that are in perfect health which thing is also testified by Hippocrates in the 37 Aphorisme of his second Book where he saith after this sort Qui corpore benè se habent hos purgare periculosum est That it is dangerous purging those that are in perfect health And again Because every purging Medicine hath vertue to draw one peculiar humour there ought good heed to be taken that such a Medicine be ministred as hath vertue to draw out the humour abounding and no other or else the not right administring of it may do much harm and work many inconveniences to the body and according to the saying of Hippocrates in the last Aphorism of his first Book in this manner Si qualia oportet purgari purgentur confert facilè ferunt difficulter that is If such things be purged as ought to be it profiteth and may easily be suffered but if the Medicine be contrariwise it doth much harm and may not be born But alas the greatest number of the common people do hold an opinion that if they have a Medicine for a little money which will provoke them often to stool what humour soever it purgeth they perswade themselves they are safe enough But I would have these rules observed by all Physicians before such time as they minister any purgation which is before related 1. Consider the quantity and quality of the humour abounding and the strength of him or her that is sick the age and the time of the year and the Disease minister no purgations to those which are weak and feeble because all manner of purgations do weaken nature 2. Beware of strong purgations old people and children are not to receive a purgation except great necessity 3. Consider the time of the year and take notice that Summer-time during the dog-daies is not good to purge And also when the Sun is in Leo it is not good to purge for then is nature burnt up and made so weak withall that she is not able to suffer the violence of a purge the Spring time is best then it is temperate And again the Physician ought to behold and contemplate the Disease that so he knowing of what kinde it is may the better finde out of what humour it is caused As for example If he do perceive the Disease to be a Tertian Feaver then straitway he knoweth that is caused of great abundance of choler and therefore must of necessity minister a meet Medicine to purge choler and so likewise in all Diseases Note also that before a purgation be ministred there ought to be a Medicine taken which shall prepare the body and make it apt to purge and therefore it is called a preparative It is given for two causes either to divide extenuate and make the gross and clammy humours that they may be ready to flow out when the medicine draweth them or else it is given to unstop and open the conduits and vessels of the body by which the purgation must draw the superfluous humours to it and this is that which Hipocrates doth counsell in the first Aphorism of his second Book where he saith Corpora cum quisque purgare voluerit oportet fluvia facere that is When a man would purge the body he must make it flowing by opening and unopening the vessels There is good heed to be taken what sign the Moon is in when you do administer a purgation for some signs are very good other-some very ill therefore I would advise all that study Physick to mark well all such things before rehearsed least they do more hurt then good Good to the Moon in prepare humours Gem. Libra Aquary Vomit Aries Taurus Capri. Purge by sneezing Cancer Leo Virgo take Clysters Aries Libra Scorpio take Gargarisms Cancer or Aries stop Rheums and Flux Taurus Virgo Capri. bath for cold Diseases Aries Leo or Sagitary bathe for hot Diseases Cancer Scorp or Pisses Purge with the Moon in Electuary Cancer Potions Scorpio Pils Pisses A purgation must also be taken hot for so it offendeth the stomack least and it will work the sooner and better And as for those which are apt to Vomit and are not able to bear smelling to a purgation let them stop their nostrils or let them smell to some odoriferous thing when they are about to take it And so soon as it is taken it is good for the patient to smell to a tost of brown bread dipped in Vineger and to apply warm clothes to the stomack and also to put the tast of the Medicine out of the mouth with chewing some sweet and pleasant thing and so by this means hinder Vomiting Note also that for the space of an hour after that any purgation is taken let the patient fit still and be quiet and in any case avoid sleep four or five hours so that the strength of the Medicine may the better pass into all parts of the body if it work but slowly let the patient walk up and down a good space after And after the purgation hath done working the patient must be nourished with a mean quantity of broth and that will breed good juice and be easily digested and afterward by little and little return to his accustomed diet again Also note that there ought to be more care taken in ministring of all Potions Electuaries and Pils than in Clysters and Suppositaries by reason they enter no further then into the guts where the ordure lieth and by that place bringeth forth the matter which causeth the Disease But the other entereth into that way which both meats and drinks do come into the stomack and there is boyled and sent forth into the places of digestion and afterward is mixed with the juice whereof

things and doing good to your Country you gain much experience at least you finde many times diseases to deal withall which Galen did never dream of even such diseases as make many Physicians amazed and to judge that their Art is unperfect If then it be so that Art is weak without practice and that as Galen saith Experience is gotten ●ongo rerum ●su let our Physicians not minde gain and self interest more then to be harboured under the roof of the poorest vassal in the world and seeing there is nothing given unto us of God more acceptable then the health of the body how honourably must we think of the means by which it is continued and restored if lost Pyrrhus the King of Epire did sacrifice unto no other God or Goddess but only unto health to whom he erected a famous Temple in his own Country calling it Templum Sanitatis He craved nothing at the hands of his Gods but the fruition of his health when going to battel against his enemies thinking ●hat industry and diligence meeting with the health of the body were able to atchieve any thing were i● beset with never so many dangers Then Courteous Reader the health of the body deserving so much to be esteemed and the means so honourable by which it is preserved and restored if lost and truly the ignorance of my Country so much abounding being perfect enemies to the health of their own bodies I may compare them to those people of whom God complaineth in another case Isa 5. 12 13. which did not regard the works of the Lord neither considered they the operation of his hands therefore were they gone into Captivity because they wanted knowledge But see what God saith of them Jer. 4. 2● They are wise to do evil but to do good they have no knowledge and for want of knowledge they are destroyed See Hosea 4 6. there being too too many such persons now living in this age have been arguments to provoke me to put this small book forth to the view of the world which I really intend for the publique good I do desire both the Learned and unlearned to take view thereof I have endeavoured to give language suitable to both their capacities expecting and desiring the kinde acceptance of both resolving if God shall be pleased to preserve life and health not to let my pen rest but I will endeavour still further to serve you to my power London East Smithfield March 25. 1656. LANCELOT COELSON A Table of the Contents A AChes Page 36 38 39 118. Ach or Ague 40 Aches or Bruises 37 Appetite lost 45 Ague an excellent Remedy 41 42 43 44 B BAck 46 51 62 63 155 Belly bound 46 Biting of a mad dog 72 Bruises 49 50 55 115 Bruise or Cut. 49 Breath stinking 53 Bleeding to stop 51 Broken bones 53 Broken veins 55 Blood staunching 48 56 62 Breast sore 54 Burn or scald 56 Burning with gun-powder 61 Balsom Lucatella 57 Black plaister 60 142 Bone mortified 63 64 Breast diseased 65 Bruises or Ach. 117 Bloody Flux 47 Balsom rare 183 C CAnker 71 112 113 Chin-cough 65 Child-birth 50 Choller 67 Chollick and stone 68 69 Chollick 72 Consumption 70 72 Corrupt Coar 71 Corns 67 Cough 69 105 D DEafness 75 Diet-drink 73 Digestion 75 80 Dropsie 74 76 77 78 79 E EYes sore 81 82 83 F FAlling sickness 93 Feavers 144 Fistula 88 93 Fleam 86 87 Flower of Oyntment 119 Flux of blood 87 95 Flux 92 Fracture in Scull 96 French Pox. 123 124 150 G GOut 93 94 116 Green sickness 146 147 Green wound 154 155 157 H HEad 157 Head-ach 97 98 99 100 Heat in face 96 Heart-burning 98 I JAundies 101 102 104 Imposthume 80 102 103 144 Itch. 101 102 103 K KIngs-Evil 104 L LEgs sore 106 Liver heat 106 107 108 Lungs 53 105 M MAtrix 111 Menstrues 86 114 Milk to increase 112 Molten 110 Morphew 110 Mother 111 N NVmbness 40 114 P PAlsie 121 131 Pipes to open 66 120 Plaister 91 Plague 121 122 126 127 Plurisie 123 127 Preparative 129 Purges 125 126 129 130 131 132 R REins running 95 134 135 136 Rickets 133 S SAlve rare 136 139 153 Sear-cloth rare 140 142 Sear-cloth 154 Sciatica 41 116 140 1●7 Scurvy the cure 146 Sinews shrunk 146 Skull 145 Sleep to provoke 136 138 144 Smal Pox. 125 Soars 140 149 Speaking in sleep 139 Spleen 138 139 Stitch in the side 137 144 Stone 47 136 144 Stomack weak 62 Strain to cure 143 Swelling 147 T TEeth 150 Tisick 148 Tooth-ach 45 150 V VEnome 54 Vlcers 156 Vomiting to stay 151 152 Vomiting to cause 151 Vrine to provoke 152 153 W WAter to serindge 152 Weakness 154 Winde 148 157 Women in Travel 158 Worms 156 197 Wounds 119 158 Errata PAge 77. line 14. adde the dose one dram p. 96. l. 4. reade heat p. 103. l. 7. r. Corall p. 107. l. 19. r. no blood p. 134. l. 16. r. Dealthee INSTRUCTIONS to be Observed in Physick Chyrurgery When you enter upon the Cure of any Disease let this be your Method SEE what superfluous humor doth abound that have respect to either by Vomit or Purge with a meet Medicine for it As if Fleam abound it must be holpen with such a Medicine which expels Fleam And so if Choler abound or Melancholy the same must be considered Likewise if the distemperature of the Liver or Spleen do weaken the Stomack then the cure consisteth only in the healing of those members and not to administer any thing for the Stomack at all And let not any man ground himself only in the knowledge of an Urine in the distinguishing between the Disease and the Cause thereof as namely the Ague or Cholick or Flux and such like and so to minister Means or Medicine according But let him search out if by all means possible the cause it self For in all inward Diseases there ought to be as much care taken of the pulses and of the State and of the Disposition of the Brain of him that is sick as of the Urine Also the egestion sweat and spittle and other excrements ought not to be neglected for they may shew that which the Urine shew not As for example in a Plurisie or Inflammation of the Lungs or in a Squinzy or such like there is more known by the spittle than there is by the Urine And again in a Lask or in a bloody Flux or in a Chollick or Illiack there is more certain judgment to be given by the egestion or ordure than there is by the Urine For Urine is nothing else but only the washy part of the blood for it is separated from the blood in the Liver and sucked from thence into the Reins from whence it distilleth down into the bladder and so passeth forth Seeing therefore that Urine is the excrement that is separated from the blood there is good reason why it should shew the state of the Liver and also of the blood