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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	humour_n	part_n	3,532	5	4.5888	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54490	A description of the venereal disease declaring the causes, signs, effects, and cure thereof. With a discourse of the most wonderful antivenereal pill. Prepared onely by Charles Peter, chyrurgeon, and practitioner in physick. And are to be sold at his House in St. Martins-lane, near Long-acre, over against the sign of the Castle.	Peter, Charles.	1678 (1678)	Wing P1682; ESTC R221448	8,267	18

Breath or perhaps it only leaves them a pain in their Joynts Methinks these things considered People should not easily be persuaded to this sort of Cure especially if they did but know what Spasmaes or Convulsions of the Nerves have been occasioned by it I have seen Mouths drawn awry and squinting caused by it Limbs contracted and innumerable more mischiefs to arise from it and I have been more troubled to help those Accidents that have hapned by reason of Salivation than ever I was to cure the Distemper it self Sweating I approve of and likewise of Bathing for being used in due time and place they are very beneficial for they attenuate the Humours make the Body lively and help to evacuate the Matter especially if any viscous Matter have possessed the Joynts they by their moderate heat do help to discuss it As for Issues they serve well enough to attract and discharge the Humour therefore very proper where the Eyes are affected or in any distillation of the Humour or in a Catarrh or Asthma they help much but have no power of themselves to overcome the Malignity But of all ways imaginable there is none like Diet and Purging which if rightly prepared and carefully used do infallibly eradicate the Distemper I can by many years experience say That Purging is the most exeellent way of Curing I mean purging with such noble Medicines as have the power to correct the Malignity of so virulent a Disease for 't is not every of those common Purgers that have power to overcome the Malignity but such Specificks which not onely purge the offending Humour but by their admirable Qualities cleanse the Blood fortifie the Heart Liver and Brain and clearly extirpate the Disease from the Body And indeed the onely Medicine that ever I have found prevalent in these Cases is my Antivenereal Pills which work so safely and so surely that I never knew them fail if taken carefully I never use any other Medicine in all manner of Claps and I could quote vast numbers of People that have been cured by them to my great pleasure and profit but Silence in such cases is and always shall be my resolution In the Pox there have been such strange Cures wrought by this Pill that have made many of my own Profession to admire the Vertues of it Wherefore since it hath pleased God to grant me the knowledge of so wonderful a Medicine I could not rest satisfied in my mind until I published it for the good of the World And now Reader pray be so charitable in thy Opinion of me as not to judge me guilty of encouraging of Lust by my acquainting the World with the Effects of it and the way to get out of the Labyrinth which it generally leaves Men in neither think that I desire more to gain by my Labours than to do good to my Country Quia Nos non nobis nati sumus The ANTIVENEREAL PILL THese Pills are of most wonderful Vertue they work by Stool and Urine and gently move Sweat They work most by Urine for 't is but rational the Distemper should be cast out the same way it was received They work by Stool pleasantly without any gripings or tortions of the Guts They do most admirably correct the virulency and take away the sharpness of Urine in three or four times taking and I assure thee upon the Faith of a Christian that I have many times cured a fresh Clap with eight or nine Doses of them and sometimes with fewer and that safely without any relapse and without any use of Restringent Medicines for 't is a common trick among rash Practitioners that having given half a dozen or more Purges they presently administer Restringents and so stop the Humour which will not lie still but returning into the Body seises the Liver corrupts the whole mass of Blood and consequently confirms a Pox in the Body perhaps to the utter ruine of the Patient These Pills are balsamick as well as cathartick and therefore do all the Intentions of Curing They are to be taken two three or four at a time still observing to alter the Dose according to the strength of the Patient Two may be taken by any one for the first Dose and if they do not work by Stool seven or eight times then increase the Dose the next day They ought to be taken two days together and the Party to rest the third and then to fall to them again but if the Distemper be inveterate let the Patient continue taking them without intermission for they will work onely on the offending Humour The best way of taking them is early in the morning and to lie in Bed and sleep two or three hours after the taking of them Sometimes I order them to be taken at night when the party goes to bed but then the dose must not exceed two or three at the most And note That the party which takes them at night ought to eat no supper but early in the morning to drink something that is warm for they will work by Stool so soon as the party rises Those who take them in the morning whether they lie in bed or not after they have took them they ought in three hours after them to take a draught of warm Ale Posset-drink Water-grewel or Mutton or Veal-broth which will much help the working of them Any one may safely go abroad after they have taken them but it would be better if they keep within till near Noon at Dinner they may eat heartily of fresh Meats and drink Wine provided they exceed not one pint a day for I have found by experience that Wine moderately drank is beneficial in most Diseases and I find that in Claps or any Distemper where the Vrinary passages are affected Wine helpeth much especially White wine This Pill is so safely prepared that it may be taken by any person without danger as Women with Child c. and the operation of it is so free and easie that it is pleasant as well as profitable It hath no corroding quality nor doth it cause any unsavoury belchings as loathsom Boles and Potions do There is no person but may take it and go about their Business as if they ailed nothing nor can any one perceive that the party has taken any thing for it exhilerates all the vital Faculties it being as much cordial as purgative It not onely cures safely pleasantly and quickly but 't is a great preservative against the Infection A Dose taken immediately after the Act either carrieth away all venom with it or causeth it forthwith to shew it self whereby a more speedy Cure is acquired In a word I am certain there is no Medicine in the World mor efficacious in all Effects of the Foul Disease than these most excellent Pills are In all manner of Poxes I have found them most admirable I have cured people which have been afflicted with all the varieties of the Pox by these Pills onely as for example In an old consumptive Pox where the parties have been so weakned by continual pains that they could scarce stir I have administred these worthy Pills which have worked so effectually with correcting the Cause and evacuating the offending Humour and by their nutritive quality corroborating the vital parts they have soon restored the Patients to perfect health Others whose privy-Privy-parts have been covered with Warts which is an absolute demonstration that the Distemper hath taken root in the Body I have given them of these Pills which have eradicated the Distemper that the Warts have consumed without any local Applications I have cured many of large Nodes by the use of these Pills for they dissolve them and purge away the dregs of the Disease These Nodes are caused by the phlegmatick part of the Venom left behind in ill managed Cures they are very painful Swellings sometimes on the Shins onely and many times in many parts of the Body and the Bones are often fouled by them if not great care taken I have met with many rebellious Vlcers in the Privy-parts and in many other parts of the Body which have resisted the force of many good Medicines outwardly applied In all such cases I have used these Pilla which has so changed the ill habit of the Body of the Patients that their Sores have easily yielded to the same Medicines and incarnated handsomly and have been cured without any relapse Reader I could relate much more of the Virtues of these excellent Pills but I suppose what I have already said may be satisfactory enough but if thou art dubious of any thing that thou hast read here I shall be very willing to satisfie thee in it and I question not but to justifie what I have here published to the World Those to whom Pills are troublesom to swallow may take them in the pulp of an Apple a stew'd Prune a Raisin or a preserv'd Cherry or they may put them into a piece of Leaf-Wafer and take them in a spoonful of Ale or any other Liquor as they best like These Pills are put up in Tin Boxes and sealed with my Coat of Arms each Box containing Thirty Pills and are sold for Four shillings the Box. They are sold at my own House and the following places Mr. Thomas Burrell 's Book-seller at the Golden Ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street And at the Sign of the Printing-Press in the Piazza on the South-side of the Royal-Exchange I have in my House most convenient and cleanly Bathes likewise very good Conveniencies of Sweating by all the several ways used here or in Foreign Parts