Cachexia Scurvy the Dropsie Chlorosis or Green-sickness stoppage of the Terms Suffocatio uteri Fits of the Mother and many such like Distempers which being the unavoidable Consequents of the Obstructions of the said noble viscera may by the due and proper use of this water find an admirable and approved Remedy for there is not one of the Distempers above enumerated upon which in my short time viz. within two years last past I have not had the opportunity to experiment its effects whereupon I affirm that if properly and with due caution it be used it is an absolute remedy for the more slight and hugely instrumental towards the eradicating of the most stubborn of them Now the Reason why it should be so very excellent in all these forementioned Distempers is 1 From the cleansing and attenuating quality of the Nitrous Salâ— 2 From the Astringent and cooling faculty of the Alum and 3ly From the healing and the detergent property of the Sulphur And to every one of these Concrete Juices severally since Physitians do attribute the faculty of opening of Obstructions of the Liver Spleen Mesaraicks c. how much more efficacious for the reserating all the said obstructed Passages must this VVater needs be which Nature playing the Chymist hath impregnated with all their united qualities The Femal Sex are more especially beholding to this Fructifying water there being no Medicinal water ever yet known in this Kingdom that could justly pretend to foecundate the womb and cause Fruitfulness like this If sterility be caused from the Coldness and Moisture of the Womb here is the heating and drying quality of Sulphur to rid the Matrix of its frigidity and Super fluous humidity that made it intenacious whereby it is made capable of Conception If from an hot and dry Constitution of the womb the spirit of the Sperm be dissipated and become exhausted of its Spermatick vertue here is the Cooling and attenuating faculty of the Nitre to moisten and cool it thereby making it a fit Receptacle for the virile Seed If from its plenitude of gross clammy and excrementitious humours which is a very frequent and ordinary cause of Barrenness the Matrix being as it were the Canalis whereinto all the parts of the Body do discharge their Superfluities here is the absterging and cutting qualities of the Nitrous and Aluminous Salts to cleanse divide and carry off all viscosity and so to make way for Conception In fine this water is furnished with such apt qualifications to take away sterility and cause fruitfulness that it seems destined by nature as an universal Remedy against Barrenness from whatsoever cause it be by vertue of the diverse Mineral Impregnations with which Nature by its powerful Ferments hath endued it This water excellently extinguisheth all manner of inward inflammations it sweetens all sharp humours is good for salt distillations admirably helps scalding urines as is before hinted and is approvedly beneficial for the Running of the Reines whether simple or virulem and for other Diseases which have Analogy with these This is the most absolute and surest Remedy for the Gout as I have great Reason to believe that is yet known let the Body be but prepared before hand and then properly used For we must not expect as I shall shew hereafter that it can do any great feates of it self alone but assisted by Art in many cases and particularly in this it doth wonders Nature and Art must serve each others turnes as the Poet intimates Praevenit humanum Stabilis Natura laborem Servit Naturae legibus Artis opus Nature mans labour often doth prevent And Art again doth serve Natures intent The real experiments which many are able to testify they have made in this case viz. of the Gout seriously commends the use of it to all that labour under the tyranny of that mercyless and implacable Distemper And the Reason hereof I take to be from the Nitre which in this Water I hold to be ex Praedominio which by quieting the vaporous humours that are too much in motion and by fixing the sharp Volatile Spirit that is in the Blood doth prove so excellently effectual for present ease and future prevention Very excellert must also this water be against all sorts of Worms in your Bodies since each of those several Minerals with which it is tinged is commonly known to destroy them of it self alone therefore much more effectual must this water needs be which Nature being the Art as I may so say of the Almighty hath so Artificially compounded in utterly destroying those pernicious Vermin which cause so many various Distempers and frightful Symptoms in old and young And that it is so very excellent in this case I have had sufficient experience This Water corroborates the Brain and Nerves and so prevents or cures the Apoplexy Falling Sickness Palsy Dizziness Ach of the Head andall such like Symptoms so that it be not taken actually cold as I shall shew hereafter It strengthens the stomach causeth good digestion consumes Crudities it maketh gross and fat Bodies lean and the lean fleshy In a word this water will effect whatsoever by any intention in a Medicinal way is to be performed by opening Obstructions evacuating superfluous humours allaying Vapours cleansing the Blood and corroborating all the parts of the Body There is a Corporal Substance which I extract from this water of which after serious and diligent Consideration I have with admirable success made use for the Cure of Intermitting Feavers which I may with great truth averr doth more infallibly answer the Intention than the celebrated Cortex Indicus or Jesuits Powder For out of 125 Experiments upon old and young which I have made within 19 Months last past there was not above 4 that failed to answer the desired effects It hath not only allayed the fury of the present or next succeeding Paroxism but hath totally ejected that unwelcome guest that Tyrannical Intruder viz. the Ague which it performes as I take it by depressing the power of the Morbifick and by advancing of the Natural ferment and by supplying the defects of the Blood by communicating that to it which is by Nature consimilar to its own preservative Salt I know the process of this extract the Reader will here expect but I have some private Reason that at present forbids it not that I envy the world the happiness of knowing it there is a time for all things and a season for every purpose under the Sun And when by a longer time and further opportunity I have collected a just amassment of Experiments so firmly grounded that they will endure the test of the Spagyrick Criticks and the Candid entertainment the World shall give this Treatise shall induce me to publish them also then it is probable I may therewith pleasure you with this Process and in the Interim be content with what I have offered and know that I respect the Publick good before any private Interest whatsoever
understands how incapable the Man is to judge of what Religion I am by his being wholly unacquainted with me and by being a meer stranger as it appears to all that can rationally pretend to know me for I here declare he never had any Discourse with me tending directly or indirectly to any Religious Purpose or scarce of any other Matter and I am consident at that time whatever he hath had since he never had any Conference with any Person that was of any intimacy with me or of Twelve Months standing Acquaintance So that without Conjuration it is easie to tell that this Calumny must necessarily proceed from no other Source then the malicious Efflaviums of his Sick Brain and therefore upon the same ground he might as well have declared me to be a Turk as a Papist only his Mother-wit was ready to prompt him that the last was the fitter Stigma and as Publick Circumstances then stood might prove most serviceable for his opprobrious Design whereas if he had been so idlely busie as to pry into my Religious Circumstances he being within the smoak of many of their Chymnies who have known me and my Communication all my Life time might thereby without any cost or much pains have been satisfied that I am of the Religion the farthest distant from Popery of any amongst the Reformed of the Church of England as it is now establisht and therein by the gracious Disposal of Gods Providence had the happiness to be Educated for which God make me ever thankful though I do not profess my self otherwise beholding to my Education than to manuduce me into a Truth which my riper Judgment upon wholly devesting it self of that prepossession hath upon free choice consented to To the confirmation of which as far as the nature of the thing will bear I could procure if need were a Testimonial from Persons of such Eminency Religion and Learning that if there was as much shame in him as there was Cowerdise in that Man at the Siege of Spoletto whom Nature dissavowing degraded of his Breeches would Analogically make his May-pole-size shrink into a Pigmy's Stature But as for such like Persons as this who eye more the Quis than the Quid prejudicating the Work out of prejudice to the Author they rather give a Badge of their own deplorable Weakness than any the least blemish to it therefore I value not their Censure As for the Judicious and Learned I know they will judge like themselves of whom I had rather be deservedly controlled than by the other ignorantly commended Since we are all Debtors to Truth the Candid Reader will not think it much that I have Obiter spent a little time to set my Reputation to rights thereby hoping ere long to see my self disabused The whole Design of this Tract is contrary to those Physicians who under pretence that they were supersticious Characters defaced the old Writing over Cicero's Baths which declared the names of those Diseases they Cured to divulge to the World the manifold and admirable Vertues which God out of his Goodness hath particularly bestowed upon this Water Bouum quo communius eo melius That those that never heard of these Wells or at least of their Vertues might by this means receive information and if upon tryal they reap any benefit may be added to the number of those that are particularly obliged to bless God for them I cannot omit the taking notice of a very great abuse occasioned by a rabble of Londoners and others weekly frequenting these Wells on Sundays where under pretence of drinking of the Waters they spend that Holy Day in great Prophaneness who after they have for the most part of them gorged themselves with the Water do drink upon it an excessive quantity of Brandy that Bane of English Men or other strong Liquors thereby many of them becoming greatly prejudiced in their Health to add to their Folly and Crime have not been ashamed to impute their Indisposition to this Water whereas upon a Rational omitting the Religious account the success in such cases cannot be expected otherwise This excellent Water like other choice Remedies is liable to be abused by its undue Administration many and those of a soberer rank than those before spoken of thinking thereby to cure themselves do not only much prejudice but oftentimes destroy themselves For in curing Diseases if it were sufficient to know Medicines and Forms of Receipts the Translator of the London Dispensatory hath to the meanest Person made the Physicians Imployment useless and an Apothecary were then most probable to make the best Physicians being stockt with a number of Receipts communicated by divers Physicians And in the use of all Medicinal Waters as well as this the Physicians Advice by consequence would be needless but there is far more Judgment and Skill requisite to discover the Disease and other necessary Circumstances as Cause Constitution Temperature Age Sex Custom c. than the Remedy and without such Discovery how abundant and frequent mischief do we daily see done even by applying Medicines of themselves safe So that as there is a necessity of Advising with an Able and Learned Physician in all Cases where Remedies are to be applied so in particular about the Drinking of this Water because by manifold Advantages reaped by his many years Study in Natural Philosophy his many happy Discoveries in Nature his Anatomical Knowledge of Mans Body of its Actions Use c. he is able by several Signs to discover the Causes and Nature of Maladies and from thence to know how to apply proper Agents to the Patient OF LEWISHAM WELLS SECT I. Of Water in general SEeing that Water is the Materia Subjecta of this Treatise it is a pardonable Digression to speak somewhat of it in general as of its Creation Nature and various Effects As to its Creation it is generally referred to the first Verse of Genesis which is a brief Description or a Compendious Mapp of the Vniverse of the whole Globe of Matter thereof from the Outmost Circumference to the inmost Center created in the Beginning And since we do not find that any new Matter was afterwards created we may fairly conclude that the Waters were created in the Beginning also to which truth the Original Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is translated the Heaven methinks gives us some light which receiving its Derivation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fire and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Water intimates to us the Subject Matter of the Elementary Heavens for as for the Super-aether and all other Spiritual created Substances being possibly too Sublime and Metaphysical Notions for that Age to receive it doth not appear that they were any scope of Moses his Design there to treat of but of the visible Works of the Creation only which being obvious and lying level to their Senses were the liklier to receive admittance into the consideration of the besotted and unbelieving World and gradually allure
along with them some tincture or Spirit from other Minerals As to Metals various have been the Hypotheses and endless the Disputes of the Learned about the manner how they communicate their qualities to water But methinks the readiest way to Salve this and all other difficulties of this nature is to bring all to the Rule of experimental Philosophy to deduce the causes of things from such Originals as we observe are producible by Art Art is the Ape of Nature and certainly the works of that must prove the reasonable discoveries of this And since he that is verst in Spagyrical Experiments can prepare his Acetum Philosophicum his Elixir Subtilita is and other such like Menstruums which by their penetrating vertues will dissolve the hardest Metals and be impregnated with their qualities methinks Nature her self which is the Art of God should do as much Nature cannot be behind hand with Art which is but her off-sp ring and is beholden to her for what it hath but must needs out do her by vertue of her many powerful ferments productive of such potent Menstruums such appropriate saline Liquors as are able to reserate those secret virtues which are lockt up in Metals and set them so at liberty that they willingly unite and easily suffer themselves to be imbibed by those streams that happen to glide that way thus I conceive by Menstruums of Natures preparing within the womb of the Earth are Metals reduced to a dissolution and by a fermentation of Nature are made capable of imparting their qualities to Waters And thus also it 's not difficult to conceive how the Waters of many Springs become actually hot and imbibe their several qualities and how by their long subterranean passages and many Meanders from the place of their Imbibition to the place of their eruption their heat may be utterly lost and at last gush out as cold as we say as Rock-water There is an Experiment of Mounsieur de Rochas which because it clearly demonstrates these things I will take the pains to transcribe out of Dr. French's Art of Distil lib. 5. As I was saith he with some of my Companions wandring in Savoy I found in the Valley of Luzerne betwixt the Alpes a hot Spring I began to consider the cause of this heat and whereas the vulgar opinion is that the heat of Fountains is from Mountains fired within I saw reason to think the contrary because I saw Snow upon a Mountain from whence this hot Spring came unmelted which could not possibly but have been dissolved by the hot furnes of the Mountains had they been fired Whereupon being unsatisfied I with my Companions and other Laboures whom I could hardly perswade to undertake such a business by reason they were afraid that fire would thereupon break forth out of the ground and consume us got Tools and set upon digging to find out the true causes of the heat of this Fountain After we had digged 15 days having before perceived the water to be hotter and hotter by degrees as we came nearer the Source we came to the Original of the heat where was a great ebullition In three hours more we digged beyond this place of ebullition and perceived the water to be cold yet in the same continued Stream with the other that was hot upon this I began to wonder much at the reason of these things Then I carried to my lodging some of this hot water which was both saltish and acid and evaporated it and of 40 Ounces I had in the bottom 5 Drams of saltish matter which I then yet further purified and extracted thence 3 Drams of pure Nitrous Hermetick Salt the other two Drams being a slimy sulphureous substance Yet with this I was not satisfied but with my Labourers went again to the place and digged 12 days more and then we came to a water which was insipid as ordinary fountain water yet still in a continued stream with the saltish and hot water At this I wondred much whereupon I digged up some of the Earth where the cold and Saltish stream runned and carried it home with me and out of an Hundred weight of it I extracted a good quantity of Nitrous Salt which was almost fluxile When I extracted as much as I could I layd the Earth aside and in 24 Hours time it was all covered over with Salt which I extracted and out of an hundred weight of this Earth which I call Virgins Earth I had four pound of this kind of Salt which it contracted in the foresaid 24 hours and so it would do constantly Now this satisfied me in one doubt for before I was unsatisfied how there could be a constant supply of that Salt which made the water saltish seeing there was but a little distance betwixt the insipid water and the hot water and the constant stream of water washt away the Salt which was in that little space For I perceived that this kind of Earth attracts this Universal Salt of the world partly from the air in the Cavities of the Earth and partly from the Vapours that constantly pass through the Earth After this I took some of the Earth where the ebullition was and carried it home and proved it and I perceived it to be a Sulphur-Mine into which the former acid Saltish water penetrating caused an ebullition as do Salt of Tartar and Spirit of Vitriol being mixt together and as water poured on unslaked lime After this I began to question how it was that this Sulphur-Mine was not consumed seeing so much matter passeth from it dayly but when I began to understand how all things in the Earth did assimilate to themselves whatsoever was of any kind of affinity to them as mines convert the Tools of Miners into their own substance in a little time and such like experiments of that nature I was satisfied And after all this I understood how this universal Salt of the world was to be had and I could at any time mix it with water and pour that water upon Sulphur and so make an artificial hot Bath as good as any Natural Bath whatsoever Thus far Mounsieur de Rochas By which account it appears that that Earth through which the insipid water run did impregnate the said water with an acid Nitrous Salt which running through a Sulphurous Mine caused the ebullition not far from whence the Spring making its eruption it issued out hot but by consequence if it had kept its subterranean passage much longer before it had burst out it would have come out as cold as ordinary Fountain water and impregnated with its diverse vertues from the before-mentioned causes That we may understand the Difference betwixt Mineral Springs it is requisite that we consider the Nature of Minerals that so we may orderly proceed from the cause to the effect or at least may follow the Effects to their true Causes and herein following our former Method we will begin with Earths which if they be
Springs that supply them The first terminating or setting out of the Bounds of Parishes were not so void of Providential direction or so casual as some may opine Upon which consideration I take it to be a Right due from every one to give these Waters their Proper Names viz. Lewisham Wells As to the time when and manner how the vertue of this Water came to be found out and discovered The more Intelligent of the Antient Parishioners do affirm that they never heard of any peculiar quality it had till about the year 1648 a famous Empirick in London who being tired with the fruitless importunities of a poor Female Patient whose habitation was near this water directed her thereto as to a Remedy nearer home whose effects by outward and inward application were so remarkably manifested in her recovery that thereupon they grew famous and hath ever since become the subject of such Empirical Experiments as any would be pleased to make tryal of The Distemper this Woman whose fortune it was to be the first occasion of the divulging the Medicinalness of this water was afflicted with was the Lues Venerea or French Pox as it is generally reported attended with malignant Symptomes her Nose being ulcerated and her whole Body very much emaciated from all which Symptoms by the use of this water she was delivered in a few Months by washing her Ulcers with it and by dayly taking of it inwardly But it is observable what the Antient Inhabitants thereabouts do inform us viz. that in that very place where now the Wells are there used to be only gushings of water constantly trickling down where multitudes of Pigeons used dayly to frequent which place thereupon had gained amongst the vulgar Swains thereabouts the Name of Pigeons Quillet which haunt of those Creatures was enough to give intelligence to any observing and inquisitive Naturalist that there was something more there than simple ordinary water something wherewith the water was impregnated that did invite and delight them some Saline Aluminous Liquor of which those Fowls naturally love to be tippling As God hath freely bestowed his favours upon this water so is it now dispensed gratis to any that desire it either to themselves or to any they shall send for it every one being left at liberty to gratifie the Poor people that attend there dayly to cleanse the Wells that the water may be taken up fresh and pure as they shall think fit there being no customary usage or fixt gratuity apportioned There is a credible but somewhat unaccountable report that a little after the Medicinalness of this Water was as abovesaid found out that by the instigation of a forward and active person whose habitation by reason of its propinquity was situated very advantagiously for the entertainment of any that would drink the water there was a Collection made of a considerable Sum of Money with a design to inclose and monopolize the water under pretence that the profit thereby accruing should be for the Poors use and to that end a Well was dugg handsomely wrought up with Brick and Stone about which a convenient Plot of ground was design'd to be inclosed with a Brick-wall and such Conveniences added as should be afterwards thought requisite But it is positively affirmed by the most intelligent of the Antient Parishioners who are the most faithful Registers of what was then done that no sooner was the Well finisht though supplied with water very plentifully but it lost its taste its odour and effects which was so manifestly observable that there upon there was immediately a final end put to that specious Project from which undeniable matter of fact give me leave to draw this observation that in behalf of the Poor incapacitated to right themselves God oftentimes immediately steps in for their assistance Of the Truth of which Proposition the Royal Prophet assures us Ps 140.12 Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the Poor and maintain the cause of the helpless Thus in short having given you a Traditional account of the time and manner of the discovery of the Medicinalness of this Water I am now by my Method engaged to give my Opinion of what Minerals it consists of and to ennumerate the several Diseases they are approvedly found good for and succesfully used against offering such Reasons therefore as are fairly deducible from the Natural Energie of the said Minerals The Observation and Experience which I have hitherto made from the Corporal substances which I have found by Evaporation Sublimation Precipitation c. induced me to judge this Water principally to consist of Nitrous Salt Alum and some Sulphur for there not having been as yet any digging nothing can be collected that way though an expert Artist assisted with a good Purse might much dilucidate and further this Discovery and by tracing the known experience of its effects I have found them to be such as aptly and suitably agree with the nature of these Minerals For though I do not altogether dissent from Galen who judged the quality of Waters to be rather discoverable by experience than Reason so making them Remedium Empiricum yet I shall not handle these waters so Empirically as altogther to exclude Reason but shall endeavor to discover the genuine and proper causes of its effects which experience hath already found out The sensible operation of this VVater is mostly by Seige whereby many are as effectually purged as if they had taken a strong Cathartick Potion sometimes by vomit and more seldom by Sweat and sometimes by all three wayes of evacuation the Property of it being to vary its operation according to thematter it meets with in the several Bodies into which it is taken The cause of the Purgative quality of it is not as many vainly and groundlesly affirm ravione ponderis by reason of the great quantity of it being drunk for so any water may purge but it is by reason of son its Nitrous Salt wherewith it is infected which stimulating the expulsive faculty of the stomach and guts provokes to Stoole And the reason of its operating by vomit may be attributed to the foulness of the stomach and the inclination of Nature to help it self that way that it should sometimes move sweat is no marvail since all Niters are naturally apt to do so The Enumeration of this waters Specifick vertues you may take in this Catalogue of Diseases for which daily experience findes it effectual It effectually opens and reserates all obstructions in the Intestines where-ever latent especially those of the Liver Spleen Mesaraick veines Panereas the Biliary Vterine and Vrinary Passages by which means such long lingring and almost incurable Distempers are bred as the Schirrus Hepatis Lienis the hard Tumours of the Liver and Spleen the Flatus Hypochondriacus the Black and Yellow Jaundice the Cholick the stone and gravel in the Kidney and Bladder all obstruction difficulties and sharpness of Urine the Haemorrhoides Cholerick passion Tenasmus
6 or 7 hours after it because by Supper-time the Stomach will be less relax and be more capacitated to concoct a greater quantity of Meat After the ending of the waters it will be necessary for a month or six weeks to use a very spare Diet to keep out and prevent all Crudities SECT VI. Of the Necessity of the learned and skillfull Physician 's Advice both before at and after the taking of the Waters THough this Water proceeds from such Minerals as make it highly convenient and proper for the several Diseases above-mentioned Yet we are not to imagine it such an absolute Remedy as that of it self it is able to cure Diseases without any rule for the use of it or without any other helps to be sometimes joined with it But it is necessary that the learned and skilful Physician especially such an One as is well acquainted with the water should be advised with both before at and after the taking the water First before you take it as you love your life and health be advised what Preparations are requisite to prevent the great inconveniences which otherwaies may fall out For if you should take this water upon a foul Stomach into a Body replete with gross humours it by carrying them with it with a speedy impetuousness into the veins which being not capacious enough for the reception of such a quantity of collected matter do become thereby obstructed instead of doing good and reserating Obstructions doth for want of due preparation wedge those gross humours into the veins which give rise to many stubborn Diseases before perhaps altogether unknown to the Patient and upon this account it is that many either receiving no benefit or perhaps no small dammage by this Water are apt to complain of it and thereupon do dehort others from the use of it and so ungratefully blaspheme the great blessing of God bestowed upon these Wells Secondly Whilst you are taking it the Physicians advice is also necessary by reason of the unexpected success and unlookt for appearing of Accidents which may fall out As if upon taking of it it pass not freely through the body but is accidentally retained it is to be considered in what part of the body it is at a stand that it may be evacuated by some appropriated means for if it be retained in the belly or Hypochondries which will be apparent by wind rumbling up and down and oppressure a Clyster is convenient for its evacuation if in the Stomach which will appear by a disposition to vomit some opening and cleansing Cathartick will be convenient to make a free passage for it from thence If it be retained in the habit of the body which is evident by a heaviness and chillness over the body without the aforesaid rumbling wind and oppressure some Hydragogall Medicines will be necessary So that as upon the aforesaid Account the Physicians advice is necessary to excite the water to a quicker passage So in other cases he may have reason to hebetate and stop its too active operation or may find it necessary to rectify some other emergent ill Symptoms or perhaps to advise you to desist for a time from drinking it or it may be he may hold it requisite to use with the water some Cathartick Diuretick or Deoppillative Medicament appropriated to the Distemper for which it is drunk So that by reason of the variety of particular Accidents which may happen and the various Circumstances incident in so many several cases it being impossible for any one to intimate particular Directions without dangerous mistakes to the Patient I must referr you as properly appertaining to your skilful Physician Thirdly and lastly the Physicians Counsel and help is as necessary when you have finisht your Water-drinking Course for directing you how to carry off the terrene Sediments and crude serosities which the water must needs have left behind it in your Bodies which would else be carried down into the smaller Vessels and cause obstructions whereby many great inconveniences and Symptoms may follow which if by a right course carried off will perfect the Cure which the water perhaps hath but happily begun and made preparation for but of these things I can say nothing but in general terms and therefore must as before commend you to your Physician for more full and particular Instructions as occasion shall require Since the disposing hand of Providence hath settled me in Lewisham the place which God out of his liberal bounty hath blest with this Medicinal water and there freely dispensed it I look upon it as a Providential intimation to oblige me not only to use my utmost endeavour to investigate its vertues for the general good but also freely to afford my advice for the Direction of such that intending to drink this water shall desire it So that I shall take leave to give notice that if any Persons shall be pleased to conferr with me about taking this water if I am not at the Wells I shall be God willing ready at my house every day till 10 a Clock in the Morning if no more than ordinary occasion intervene to afford my best Advice gratis where also if there shall be found occasion they may be supplied without any further trouble with variety of Medicinal preparations appropriated to the several Distempers this water is to be used for For I am not ashamed to confess that I have met with some Diseases so inveterately fixt so stubborn and difficult to be eradicated that all that I could do by the use of Artificial Medicines have proved succesless till being assisted by this of Natures own preparing and then in no very long time have they given place and been quelled So that I think it no discredit to fight at all lawful Weapons against such inveterate and implacable enemies FINIS