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	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
A66989	Amicus naturæ an advertisement of the virtues of Woodward's cordial pills and elixir salutis : prepared and fitted for the cure of most diseases curable, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children ... whereunto are added directions how to take them / by Daniel Woodward ...	Woodward, Daniel, fl. 1682-1700.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3477; ESTC R37263	6,802	10

Noon or when the Pills have done working eat what you most desire so it be not too hard of Digestion But if your Body be weak or laxative take not above two or three Pills at the first you may increase or diminish the number as occasion requires and in that you 'l be a Physician to your self Therefore till you know what number of Pills agree best with your Body remember to begin with the least Dose which if your Body be strong and costive is 4 Pills if weak or laxative but two or three you had better take ten times too little than once too much if the first Dose does not work to your Mind increase it afterwards by taking 5 6 or 7 Pills the next time but in the taking do not covet too many Stools or Vomits for that offers Violence to Nature and does the Body much Injury by sweeping away both good and bad together Five or six motions in a day are sufficient and every second third or fourth day is often enough to take them 't is best to use some Intermission old Diseases cannot be remov'd on a sudden Yet he has known these Pills have remov'd very rebellious Diseases in a short time Three Doses sometimes will do as much good as ten of others The Pills are very sweet and pleasant to take and may be swallowed whole or held or chew'd in your Mouth with Sugar till they dissolve after which wash your Mouth with 2 or 3 Spoonfuls of Drink or bruise the Pill and infuse it into 2 or 3 Spoonfuls of Sack or White-wine till it s dissolv'd and then drink it or mix the bruised Pills with some Codling Honey or roasted Apple and take it that way But the Pills will work most when they are dissolv'd and strengthen most when they are not dissolv'd For Children the usual Dose is one Pill one and a half or two Pills at most for weak or young Children half or a quarter of one or less will be sufficient Dissolve what you give to your weak or young Children in a little Sack or Breast-milk Follow these Directions and you need not fear Miscarriages for thousands have found benefit but no Person harm withal keep your self warm till you know the nature of their Operation and you 'l find them the best and safest Pills ever thus published to the World But in truth the Pills are so various in their Operation he cannot exactly promise their manner of working for they operate as Nature pleases sometimes by Vomit sometimes by Stool and sometimes both ways at once but constantly without Violence nay he assures you they have conquered many Diseases and have never wrought to outward appearance even as tho they were Natures Medium to equalize her Extreams acting more like Rational than Natural Agents Therefore whensoever you take of these Pills and they operate neither by Stool nor Vomit they certainly work by expelling Wind Water or by Sweat and if there be cause in due time by Stool or Vomit for under God in those Bodies where their Operation is not so visible yet it will not be over in two or three days after for which he advises the Continuation of the Pills with God's leave they 'l soon overcome your Malady being good for any Disease curable by Physick and so safe that Women with Child often take them for they strengthen both Mother and Infant II. His Elixir Salutis has been experienced many Years an excellent inoffensive successful Cordial Drink and so analogous to the Human Frame that it effects all its Operations even as Nature is dispos'd for Action And to oblige those Persons that cannot conveniently take Pills he publishes this his inestimable Elixir Possibly some Persons may approve of this far beyond the Pills and on other Persons Bodies the Elixir may work as great Effects and that in most Distempers without the least hinderance of Business either at home or abroad if the Person that takes thereof is able to walk or follow any Imploy for the more you exercise and stir your Body the better this Elixir Salutis or Quintessence of Life performs its Office gently evacuating whatsoever offends the noble Parts This great Preserver hath been administred to Men Women and Children and proved it self wonderfully successful in the Cure of the following Distempers Namely the Cholick Griping in the Guts Shortness of Breath Green-sickness Ptisick Coughs Surfeits Consumptions Agues Exulceration of the Kidneys Gout Stone in the Bladder Scurvy Jaundies Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys Dropsy bad Digestions Wheesings Fits of the Mother and Vapours from the Spleen Worms Rickets King's-Evil c. Likewise this Cordial-Drink revives Drooping Melancholy Spirits removes Pains from the Heart and Stomack Wind and Crudities causes a good Appetite opens Obstructions of both Liver and Spl●en clears the Passage between the Head and Heart not admitting any noxious Humours to offend those noble Parts helps hot Rheums in the Eyes burning Heat of the Feet and Palms of the Hands 'T is also excellent to cleanse the Body after the Measles or Small Pox or other Sickness and after the drinking of the Waters for this Elixir leaves the Body in a perfect healthful settled Condition Besides 't is exceeding beneficial for wet Nurses because it cleanses their Blood and makes their Milk wholsome and nourishing and a most salutiferous Medicament for Women in general powerfully opening the Obstructions of the Womb and helping them to the benefit of Nature whether the Obstructions proceed from catching of Cold or otherwise rendring Virgins their Maiden Blush sweet Breath strong lusty Body together with a delicate Complexion It also exalts the Procreative Virtue restores Radical Moisture the Magazine of Life cleanses and strengthens the Spermatick Vessels in both Sexes preparing the Body for Conception In short as his Cordial-Pills so his Elixir may be given to all Persons as a universal Remedy against many Diseases and Distempers incident to Mankind 'T is often taken by Women with Child two Months after Conception to carry off Distempers of the Mother which causes the Child to thrive the better 'T will retain its full Virtues several Years sealed up in half Pint Bottles the Price of each Bottle is half a Crown General Directions how to take it No Man living excruciated with either Stone Dropsy Gout Cholick Ptysick or any Disease or Distemper of long standing which by the tract of time is seated and as it were riveted in the Body can rationally expect immediate Cure or the recovery of Health on a sudden whether by this Elixir or the Pills or indeed by any means prescribed by the most learned Physicians under Heaven Possibly one Bottle may chance to answer your Expectation if not pray take three or four before you desist by which time without doubt under God if you have not a real Cure you 'l find much Benefit provided you avoid Melancholy and keep a good moderate Diet for as Diseases gradually come on so gradually Nature must