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	great_a	nature_n	1,832	5	4.9469	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43110	The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth.	Haworth, Samuel, fl. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1192; ESTC R19359	42,399	174

our Indeavours that we can be discouraged by those base Reflections that he spues forth from his sordid Mind which are the products of nothing but Hatred and Malevolence I shall therefore here present the Reader with some Observations of my own upon Consumptive Persons and by those Observations make it evident that the trite vulgar Method will never reach the bottom of this Disease but that another kind of Method is absolutely necessary 'T is not the Pectoral Decoction so much used by Physicians that will remove the Cause of this spreading Malady What doth it signifie to dawb and plaister the inward Parts with Balsoms Lohoch's or Eclegms and such like nasty sticking Medicines When all their Vertue if they have any is gone before they can attach the part affected what benefit can be expected from greasing the Whistle with Oils And what do the cooling Emulsions the insipid Snail-water and other refrigerating Slops profit None of these things are refined enough to penetrate into the obscure Recesses where the Seeds of the Distemper lurk nor do they consist of Particles any way adapted to relieve distressed Nature Thousands are every day hurried out of this World for want of better Remedies Is it rational to believe that feeble Nature is any way cherish'd by such dull and clogging or cold spiritless stuff Are there no Etherial Spirits nor Eradiating Sulphurs nor rich Mineral Tinctures nor brisk Elixirs to be foud by Art which may prove Restoratives O the idleness of slothful Man Can a Physician who would be esteemed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Minister of Nature content himself to go on in a trite beaten road and prescribe for weak emaciated Bodies nothing but fulsome Hodge-podges and loathsome Mixtures Certainly the true genuine Sons of Aesculapius are more diligent and consciencious Is it not a shame to our Profession for a Patient to languish under a Physician 's hands perhaps for a whole year in a deep Consumption and have nothing prescribed but mixtures of Oil of Almonds and clogging Syrups Milk-water Snail-water the nasty Syrup of Garlick Conserve of Roses the Syrup or Juice of Turneps the fulsome indigested Syrup of Brimstone and such like Medicines Perhaps a stinking Issue may be prescribed or a troublesome Seton as if the Distemper would jump out at the Vent sometimes cruel tormenting Blisters and the Head must be shaved forsooth because we would not prescribe out of the Fashion and Plaisters must be applyed which by a Magnetic Influence keep the Rheume from falling upon the Lungs But will this cure a Consumption No sure I do here challenge any Physician that dares to say he ever cured one Patient of a confirmed Phthisis or Consumption by any of the above-mentioned things notwithstanding the are so much applauded and used Now what can the reason be that those Physicians who pretend to be exactly Methodic and Dogmatic in their Practice will still persist in their old thread-bare Method notwithstanding they find no success in it I am apt to fancy the reason is because they know no better Medicines and are very loth to bestow the pains to find them out and perhaps they being so unaccustomed to search into the hidden Mysteries of their Mistriss Nature think it but in vain to begin and so content themselves with the Medicines of honest old Galen and Hippocrates and their followers and so let them go on we know better things I can by my own particular Experience declare that there are such Medicines in the World which by degrees will exterminate and destroy those male-figur'd Particles which are the Tormentors of Man's Body in this Distemper provided the Body be not reduced to so infirm a condition that Nature cannot be supported till such Remedies have affected what they would otherwise undoubtedly do There is a particular Remedy which immediatly abates that Feaver which usually attends this Malady which is no cooling Medicine but is impregnated with a Faculty of stopping the motion of those Particles which create that fervour in the Blood and in time of freeing the Blood of them all This is the Feaver which Physicians improperly call a Hectic Feaver or an Habitual Feaver They will tell you it is a Feaver in the Flesh and Muscular Parts of the Body and not at all in the Blood though I cannot for my life but think that there is no such thing as an Habitual Feaver nor a Feaver of the Flesh a Feaver being an actual Ebullition of the Blood which in a Ph●hisis is not constant but ariseth at some particular times especially an hour or two after eating or in an evening and this Ebullition of the Blood I should say of the Flesh is caused by the motion and agitation of some incongruous Particles Besides the little Logic that I have obtained tells me that an Habitual Feaver which is an much as an Habitual Motion Ebullition or an Habitual Action is no less than a contradiction There are other safe and most potent Medicines which I frequently exhibit in these difficult Cases that will absorb those tickling and pricking Particles which produce the Cough and hereby great ease to the Patient is immediately procured We have other penetrateing Medicines which reduce the Functions of the Body to their Eutaxy and regular Order and so when the Cause of the Malady is removed and the Functions regulated Nutrition is again augmented and the Body grows fatter and stronger every day the whole Crasis of the Body is meliorated at last all bad Symptoms cease and the wonted and desired sanity doth then ensue Is it not most censentaneous to reason that those Medicines whether Vegital Animal or Mineral wherein the pure balsamic lively Parts are separated by Art from the more impure grossy and dreggy Feculencies are most effectual Medicines to answer the Indications of this Malady Certainly the most refined and depurate Medicines the very Quintessences of Drugs excel those that retain in them their earthy and phlegmatic Parts which are exhibited without any Depuration either by Digestion in which is comprehended Fermentation Solution Extraction and Putrifaction or Distillation which Preparations are not easily perform'd and therefore so much rejected There is required no small Labour and Diligence to the true Preparation of any good Medicine but to find out Remedies which do exactly quadrate with the Symptomes of any one particular Distemper is a work of extraordinary pains study and scrutiny and is to be indeavour'd by none but such as are resolute fix'd and indefatigable in diging in the secret Mines of Nature 'T is reasonable that those who seek Jems and precious Minerals should dig to find them and what Jewel is comparable to a duely prepared Medicine effectual in the Cure of any one Distemper The several Remedies which I exhibit in a Phthisis or Consumption are most refined and purified Medicines which indeed were not obtained without much labour and industry Now in the sequel of this Discourse it cannot be expected I should divulge the

and the puddle Water or thick Pectoral Decoction or clogging stuffing obstructing ●ohoch's and Electuaries I say when they have taken all manner of these kind of Slops that can be invented and be continued a whole year in such a Method without the least benefit or amendment the very same persons have by our Method and Energetic Medicines been restored in less than one quarter of the time to perfect Health● witness the subsequent Observations As to the second grand Intention I dare upon my oath avouch that there is not one Medicine I use but what is so safe that a Child of a month old may take it without any prejudice And tho they are pure refined volatile etherial subtil and penetrating Medicines yet they are as innocent as Mothers Milk and to satisfie the incredulity of any I will at any time take twice the quantity my self of any Medicine that I exhibit to any Patient I likewise challenge the whole World to accuse me of having ever given one Grain of Physic to any particular person whereby there ensued any apparent prejudice But that the trite comun Method is dangerous and destructive to thousands is a matter of no great difficulty to prove As for the third Intention I must needs declare that no Medicines in the World can possibly be pleasanter than those I mentioned And altho in the vulgar Method such sulsom nasty Medicines are prescribed that the Patient loaths the very sight and smell of them and by taking them his Appetite is quite obtunded and a continual nauseating and aversion to all Food and Physic too attends him nay besides vast quantities of filthy Potions which he is compelled to gusle down and the bitter-sweet maukish Electuaries and strong-scented Pills which he is forced to swallow frequently at the very thoughts of which his Stomach riseth yet besides all this he must and that by all means have a foetid Issue running upon his Arm or Leg whereby those Members especially the Arm are much weakned and emaciated the Matter and Steam which reaks from it while dressing is enough to give a Horse a vomit the Arm or Leg in the mean time is galled sore and inflamed all which if it would any way conduce to the Patients recovery might be dispensed with but we never find any success attend these formal Prescription only the Doctor resolves to prescribe something for his Fee hit or miss and thinks the most probable way to hit is to imitate the comun Vogue of Physicians whereby likewise he shall shew himself to be a Methodic and Dogmatic Physician because his Bills forsooth upon the Apothecaries file do exactly agree with the fashion and custom of other Prescribers and so he passeth for an Able Man a Man of excellent Judgment when all this while what he prescribed is nothing but that which any one may read in Sennertus or Riverius's Praxis Thus the Patient is to no purpose tormented and that extensive noble and improvable Faculty of Physic is imagin'd to have arrived at its Ne plus ultra and these rare Doctors have hoarded up every inch and scrap of it in their profound Noddles witness their learned Bills in the Apothecaries Shops But on the contrary our Medicines are so pleasant and grateful to the Stomach that never any Patient complained of them neither do we ever prescribe those unprofitable painful Issues and Setons c. That which the next occurs to our Consideration and Enquiry before we relate our Practic Observations in Consumptions is to examine the Cause of this Distemper which if we a little explain the manner of the Operation or our Medicines will the better be understood The immediate proxim Cause of those Affects which appear in Consumptions tending to Exulceration saith Riverius is a sharp eroding Humour flowing in upon the Lungs or generated in them The Renowned Franciscus De Le Boe Sylvius in his Praxis Medicinae tells us That a Phthisis or Consumption proceeds from some Vitiated Lympha falling down upon the Aspera Arteria and so in time Affecting the Lungs Both which Op●nions are much what the same and tho I am unwilling to thwart or oppugn the Sentiments of either of those worthy Authors yet I shall endeavour to search more narrowly and enquire whether the true original Cause of this Distemper may not more probably be somewhat yet unexplain'd by the above-cited Authors I am apt to believe that the cause of the sharpness and eroding Quality of this Humour is yet in the dark and consequently the true Cause of the Distemper as latent as before It is an easie matter to say Pains in the Head Belly Limbs and other Acute Dolours proceed from a Humour as Vulgar Physicians express it but this is only to stop the Mouths of the Inquisitive Patient when he inquireth after the Cause of his Malady That which I have to offer to the perusal of the unbyassed Reader concerning the Cause of the Disease we are discoursing of is this When God first made Man he gave him Temperamentum ad Pondus or such an exact Temperament that his Body would have been perennial and have remain'd as vigorous and spritely to the extensive duration of perpetuity as it was at its first Creation had he continued in that State but when he by his folly had revolted from h●s Maker he justly reduced him to a State of Mortality not by immediately altering the Crasis or Constitution of his Body but by mixing a variety of ill figur'd Particles inimical to the texture of a Humane Body with that Air which he must necessarily receive into his Lung and Blood and also with that Food from which he must expect his Sustenance and thus these Particles find shelter in our Bodies some of them being received from our Parents and so hereditary others afterward imbibed from the Air and from our own Nutriment these were some of the Effect of Gods Curse for our wilful Rebellion It is from these Particles that our Juices are vitiated the Vessels of our Bodies obstructed its Organs impaired the whole Crasis of the Microcosm reduced to an Ataxy and the Genuine Functions of Nature diverted and hereby a Thousand Maladies accost a Humane Body For as there are several sorts of these Particles differing in Figure and Magnitude some of which impregnate the Air at some Seasons in some places and also inhabit some kinds of Diet and other shaped Particles either bigger or lesser ones swim about in the fluid Air at other Seasons in other Places and are multiply'd in some other sorts of Food So variety of Diseases are hereby created the Symptomes differing according to the Number Shape and Motion of these several sorts of Particles when they praedominate in the Humane Body Thus from a great quantity of some Particles heterogeneous to the Particles of the Humane Blood or to the several Pores which Nature hath formed in the Body for Secretion several great Disorders arise when from few of the same smaller

Indispositions have their rise and origin sharp pointed pungent crooked and hooky Particles vellicate the Membranes cause Acute Pains and are difficultly removed while the smoother ones glide about with more ease and are sooner exterminated some are bigger in magnitude and apt to create Obstructions especially when their shape is not adaequate to the several pores of the Body destin'd for Secretion and the small Ductus's some sticking and glutinous Particles of the Blood are linck'd in with them and so great Obstructions made while the lesser Corpuscles cannot so much injure the parts likewise those that are violently agitated in the Blood cause greater Ebullitions and consequently do more mischief when those that are more dull and slow in Motion cannot hurry the Juices about with that velocity and consequently not hurt so much For instance There are some Particles which often affect our Bodies which are Tetrahedic or Pyramidal in Figure somewhat large in Magnitude but slow in Motion these we call Frigorific or Cold Particles which when our Bodies are exposed to a great company of them they sometimes enter the Pores of the Body and joyn themselves with the serous or phlegmatic Particles of the Blood and are then secerned by some of the Glandules and thrown off by the Emunctories of the Body either upon the Pallat into the Nostrils or upon the Lungs whence Catarrh's Coryza's and Bronchus's do proceed Sometimes the Particles quite close the Pores hinder Perspiration by not permitting Nature to expel other unwelcome Particles which were before in the Blood and which she continually thrusts out that way which Particles when pent in by their pricking Points corroding Angles or Velocity of Motion forthwith cause Inflammations and end in Quinsies Pleurisies Reumatisms Empyems Feavers or other Acute Maladies That there are such Particles as these and that Cold is no Negative but a Positive Quality is evidently enough demonstrated by Gassendus in his Epicurean Phylosophy and by our own Countreyman Dr. Charleton in his Philosophia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charletoniana and likewise by the Honourable Robert Boyle the Mirrour of this Age for Learning and Sagacity That these Particles do not always injure the Body by Obstructing the Pores and hindring Perspiration but likewise by entring the Body and uniting themselves with the Serum or thinner part of the Blood is manifest because we often experience the Body to be injured by Cold when onely one part hath been exposed thereto and the whole Body besides enjoy a free Perspiration as for instance let a Man put his Foot or any other Member into cold Water where I am sure a good number of these Frigorific Particles float especially in Winter and continue it there for some considerable space and in the mean time let the other parts of his Body perspire being kept as warm or warmer than at other times yet he shall receive apparent prejudice from this Experiment For either a Cough Running at Nose Hoarsness or some other Symptomes shall convince any one that he hath got a Cold as the vulgar express it There are other Particles of a quire differing Nature viz. sphaeric or round in Figure exile or small in Magnitude and swift in Motion these we call Calorific or Hot Particles The chief Seminary of these Particles in Unctious Matter as Oils Grease Fat and Sulphureous Things That Hot and Cold Particles are the Seminaries of several Diseases is to me very demonstrable but besides these there are certainly numerous forts of Particles of different Figures Now this Hypothesis is so far from being a fois ted Fiction of my own that altho it was never yet prosecured with that strict scrutiny and diligence as it might deservedly have been yet it is that which many of our later Authors drive at For what reason can we give why one Distemper is Epidemic at one time another at other Seasons But because the Air at those Seasons is fraught with swarms of such contagious Particles as are the banes of those dire Pestilential Griefs as our Exquisite Dr. Sydenham declares in his Learned Treatise of Acute Distempers Mr. Boyle also seems to be a Strenuous Abettor of the Doctrine of Particles in his Corpusculorian Philosophy and the Famous Dr. Willis is a great Friend to this Hypothesis tho I must confess he favours the Doctrine of the Five Chymic Principles in his Pharm R●● or a Treatise of the Operation of Medicines upon Mans Body Whence have Emetics Diuretics Diaphoretics Cathartics Hypnotics c. their various Effects upon the Body but from their consisting of Particles of various Configurations What occasions those cruciating pains in the Gout but some of the more Austere Particles of Claret or pungent Corpulcles of some other ingested Matter sticking to the Nerves or Tendons and so pricking their tender Fibres The Phaenomena of many more Distempers might be thus solved It is agreed upon by all our Modern and Ingenious Philosophers and Physicians That all Smells are made by the small Effluviums of Bodies and distinguish't by their differing Figures whereby they affect the Olfactory or Smelling Nerves and cause Sensation That Colours arise from nothing but the different Reflection of Light according to the Position and Configuration of the Particles that are visible on the superfice of Bodies affecting the Optic Nerves That Tastes are discriminated by nothing but the differing shapes and figures of Particles in Meats and Drinks and things offered to the Gust and striking the Organs of Taste differing ways Thus an Acid or Sowre Taste proceeds from exceeding sharp Particles pricking upon the Nerves destin'd for Taste as in Vinegar the Austere Taste is when those Acid Particles are blunted and made more obtuse by the union of some grosser Terrestrial Particles with them as in Claret c. It is also granted by some of our best Authors that the Spirits Sulphurs Salts Phlegm and Earth extracted from Bodies and received for Principles of mixed Bodies were never praeoxstent in those Bodies from which they are extracted but are onely the Particles of Bodies artificially reduced to that form and fashion by the force of Fire How do Pearl Coral Crabs Eyes and other Alkali's sweeten the Blood as we commonly tell the Vulgar they do not from any intrinsic dulcifying property in them but by their absorbing and licking up those sowre and unwholesome Particles mixed with the Blood and Juices for we find by common Experiment that an Alkali will unite it self with an Acid and closing in with its hooks it will obtund its sharpness and pungency as may be seen by the mixing of Salt of Tartar with Spirit of Vitriol and likewise if you Distil Coral Pearl Crabs Eyes or almost any Alkali with the sowrest Vinegar it will utterly deprive it of allits sharpness and make it an imsipid Liquor meerly by licking up the Acid Particles that gave it that sour Relish Then if Colours Tastes Smells and other supposed Qualities which daily affect our Senses if the Operation of Medicines on

already alienated by the in jury of Cold is sometimes turned into a copious Mucous Matter frequently expelled by Coughing But if the Layrnx happen to be debilitated thro a continual Defluxion thereof then it falls upon the Lungs where it perverts the Alimentary Juice of that part turns it into a putrelaginous corrupt Matter which as wormed up by the force of Coughing still increaseth as fast so that at length fretting upon the spongy substance of the Lungs it creates an Ulcer in the Lungs and hereby renders the Distemper for ever Incurable Hence we gather how dangerous a thing it is to neglect to seek a present Remedy for a Catarrh or Defluxion of Rheum which being neglected frequently throws the Patient e're he is aware into the profound Lake of a confirmed Tabes We may likewise hence take notice how ridiculous the Opinion of the Galenists is concerning the Cause and Origin of a Catarrh viz. That it proceeds from Vapours ascending from the Stomach which being condensed by the coldness of the Brain Distil thro the small Channel of the Pallat down the Wind-pipe to the Lungs for if we consult Anatomy we sall find that the structure of those parts is such as can never admit of any Defluxion or Distillation of Rheum from the Brain as is exquisitely manifested by that Eminent Physician Dr. Richard Lower in his Dissertatio de Origine Catarrhi at the end of his Book De Corde besides we deny that Vapors arise from the Digestion of Meat in the Stomach so as to reach the Brain for as soon as the Stomach hath received its Food or Pabulum it s upper Mouth or Orifice is immediately shut and the Aesophagus closeth it self together so that no Vapors can pass it Innumerable are the Absurdities which attend this Opinion of Vapors for then no sooner would the Meat and Drink be taken into the Stomach but the heat and moisture would forthwith send up Vapors we should thereupon be constantly troubled with Catarrhs also the most sound strong Stomachs whose heat is lively would certainly always breed Catarrhs because of sending up most powerful Vapors from the Liquld Parts of Food Also in Cold Winter from the forcible injury of the cold Air working upon the Brain and causing a cold Distemper there we should never be kept free from a Catarrh Not to say what a constant dropping would there be at the Pipe of the Alembick the Nose enough to fill a Receiver in a little time and to make every one go with one hung at his Nose Also it would follow that all Defluxions of Rheums should have but one taste and that insipid too because Vapors from whatsoever things they may ascend yet when they are condensed become Elementary simple Water Whence therefore according to their Doctrine should the variety of Consistence and Tastes proceed that one should be salt another sharp and fretting one thin another more thick So that this Doctrine of Vapors is on every side beset with Difficulties and Absurdities I might now at large explicate how and which way these Particles Enemies to Mans Body do predominate over and oft-times conquer several noble Functions of the Body but the necessity of contracting my Discourse within the limits of a brief Tract will not permit so great a Digression The cause of this grand Evil being thus explicated it follows that those Medicines are most rationally and dogmatically used which consist of such Particles as are most contrary and opposite in Figure to those injurious Particles which are the bane of this grief or such that are so figured as that they may absorb and swallow up the Morbific Particles by linking their Hooks with the Angels of the pernicious Particles They must likewise be penetrating otherwise they will not reach the Distemper nor be nimble enough for their desired prey but if a brisk penetrating Medicine consisting of such shapes as are mentioned be exhibited the Particles of this Medicine will like so many little Ferretts pass into all the smaller Vessels and narrow Passages and rout the Enemies out of their holes Such as these are the Medicines which I have already mentioned Having proceeded thus far it might be expected I should treat more fully of the Secondary Causes of this Distemper and likewise discourse of the particular Symptomes of it as likewise the kinds and sorts of Consumptions and their particular differences also the Signs both Diagnostic and Prognostic but this being a Work besides our present Design we shall refer our Reader to those Authors that have wrote concerning them till leisure will permit me to write a more full and particular Discourse of this Malady which perhaps I may hereafter do if God spare life and health Therefore now to evince and demonstrate the truth and reality of what he have asserted concerning our Method of Curing this Distemper and the effectual Virtue of our Medicines I thought it necessary to publish these Observations which are no Fictions of my own I being able to produce sufficient Testimonies to assert the reality of every one of them and will readily do it to satisfie any scrupulous or incredulous person Observation the First THe Case of Mr. Obrian being very Remarkable and differing ways related it will not he here amiss to give the Reader a faithful account of all the particular Circumstances of it which was as follows About the middle of April last after I had Cured several persons of Consumptions two of which had some Relation to the Court His Majesty came to be informed of this my success by His Royal Highness who had first had Intimation of it whereupon his Majesty being immediately willing to satisfie his Royal Curiosity in this thing Ordered me to attend the Court and desired that Worthy and Deserving Gentleman Collonel Oglethorp then altogether a Stranger to me tho since my very good Friend to find out some person about the Court in a deep Consumption for me to make an Experiment upon whereupon after some search the Collonel heard of Mr. Kennedy Obrian a Gentleman of the Guards who had been languishing above a year in no Capacity of performing his Duty and was never expected to be seen upon the Guards again being so impotent and infirm that he could hardly stand or walk extreamly wasted and emaciated perplexed with an inveterate Cough and a constant Tickling Rheum a continual Wheazing and Shortness of Breath and cold faint frequent Sweats with a burning Feaver attending all these Symptomes his Vrine was high Coloured without any Sediment he constantly complained of a great straitness and oppression at his Breast While in this Condition he had consulted three Physicians successively one after another but received no apparent Relief or Benefit in these direful Circumstances and while attended with all these discouraging Symptomes he was brought before the King his Majesty examined his Condition and was soon satisfied that his Distemper was a deep Consumption which Distemper was then legible enough in his