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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61146	Observations on fevers and febrifuges. Written in French by Monsieur Spon, one of the most eminent physicians of Lyons; upon occasion of reading a book entituled, The discovery of the admirable English remedy. Now made English, by J. Berrie	Spon, Issac, 1647-1685.; Berrie, J.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5019; ESTC R219131	25,424	122

with Monsieur de Blegny to give the Remedy or one very like it to the Poor gratis 2. Not to impose upon ones self a necessity of administring every Dose to the Patient nor to endeavour to hinder such Physicians as are curious in the search of it from finding it they having taken the pains to examine it for after that being satisfied with the trouble they have been at they 'l hardly go and discover it to those who have not also taken pains for the discovery of the same 3. Not to fear to communicate it to those of our Profession and our Friends especially if they live far remote from us whither it would be difficult to send the Remedy yet with this Proviso that they do not make it common 4. To assure our selves for two or three years of its operation and effects by reiterated experiences before we communicate it to any And if after this we give some light of it in Writing in such manner that the Learned may near the truth conjecture what it is and form to themselves Idea's of it which may come very near the truth without letting the common sort penetrate into it 5. Not to maintain too eagerly that it is not such or such a Drug but let those that will believe that it is a simple Infusion of Kinkina or of Centaury or if they please of Nut-shells provided the Patient be quickly safely and agreeably cured as far as is possible for a Physician who has ne're a Loop-hole to see through into the body of his Patient Thus I believe that Monsieur de Blegny whose aim is the publick good and the good of the Poor would not be sorry that another should find out his Remedy after examination of the taste colour sediment and its effects since he himself had the ingenuity to find out that of the English Doctor who made it so great a mystery In the Chapter of the utility of this Discovery we find a very good description of certain Physicians who in the cure of Fevers use nothing but Bleeding Cassia Sena Clysters and a great number of hard words which are to little purpose unless to deceive the curiosity of the Patient of the Nurse or of those people who will needs know every thing 'T is not good so to tie ones self up to the authority of the Ancients as not to consider what additions to the Art of Physick have been made by the Moderns as well in the Oeconomy of the Body as in the causes of Diseases and their Remedies For there are a sort of Physicians who derive every thing from Hippocrates Nay one of these days you shall see now that Febrifuges have gotten a general esteem they 'l be ready to say the Moderns borrowed them out of that Author The Chapter about Mountebanks is very well done for he plainly sets forth who they are that deserve that name whether those who with great swelling words of Greek and Latine promise the cure of the Sick but rarely perform it or those who not being very well skill'd in those Tongues yet cure their Patients in few days But methinks he puts too great an esteem upon some people who have indeed made a great noise in France as one that was called the Medecin de Boeufs or Ox-Doctor and one Father Ange who did no Miracles but such whereof either hazard or an imagination prepossessed by their Admimirers were the greatest promoters And then on the other side for a man that is an Enemy to Satyr he treats the ordinary Physicians with too little respect The preference which ought to be given to the English Remedy is sufficiently authorized by its success and from that it does not tire out the Patient If this of Monsieur de Blegny produce the same effect one would be glad to save forty Pistols by taking his Remedy for the English Doctor seldom took under Fifty And people will be very cautious how they trust themselves with him that was his Foot-man who pretends he has the secret of the Remedy however he not having the least knowledge in Physick may easily mistake one Disease for another As for the Country-people they will apparently be more reserved in sending for it for besides that it may corrupt iâ— carrying they will sooner trusâ— themselves to a skilful Physician than to the hazard of a Medicine blindly given whereof thâ— Composition is not known Besides there are every where meâ— that are curious which make nâ— bustle in the world and yet understand very well how to cure a Fever The design of advancing our progress in the matter of Febrifuges beyond that of the English Doctor which we believe we have found obliged Monsieur de Ville and my self to stay a German Chymical Physician here in his return from America where he had practised Physick for about Ten years But the poor man after he had told us very strange things of the practice of Physick among the Americans fell unfortunately down a pair of Stairs and remained dead upon the place He had been about a Month with us during which time he had begun to discourse unto us of the manner of curing several very considerable Diseases as of Intermitting Fevers and particularly of Quartans of the ulcerated Cancer of the Gout of the Ulcer of the Lungs of the Epilepsie and some others which puzzle the most expert Physicians He had also prepared for us certain Medicines in our presence which we have found answerable to the relation he had given of them of the goodness of which every days experience convinces us The Digression I am going to make touching the practice of Physick among the Americans of Virginia where he had sojourned will not I hope be unpleasant to the Reader nor quite from our purpose to shew the little care had here of searching into the nature and virtues of Plants He told us that they had admirable Remedies for all Diseases drawn from Simples and that he had seen very extraordinary Cures done there That they pierce the Skin with points of Cane which served them instead of Lancets and suck out the Bloud without swallowing it which is instead of Phlebotomy and Cupping-glasses That they cure the Dropsie after an extraordinary manner of which manner of curing he has been an eye-witness They take Flint-stones and make them red-hot and put them into a hole made for that purpose in the Earth and make the Patient lay his Belly over them whilst they sprinkle a certain Decoction of three sorts of Herbs one whereof is a kind of Essula or Spurge that after the Patient has received the Smoak very hot against his Belly his Navel opens and the Physician lets out a certain quantity of Water according to the strength of the Sick after which to close up the aperture he applies a certain Moss to it and this he repeats as often as he thinks necessary to draw out all the Water He related to us the manner how they cured

sensibly hot The same may be said of many other Liquors of which I shall say nothing in this place since it may be seen at large in a book of Dr. Grews of the mixture of Liquors translated into French by Monsieur Mesmin a Physician of Paris Another proof which to me seems convincing is that the Chyle mixing it self with the Bloud causes every day naturally even in the most healthy a certain shadow as it were of a Fever which differs not from a real Fever but as more and less For half an hour or an hour after Meals as soon as the most subtile part of the Chyle or but the vapour which by its fermentation it drives before it doth insinuate it self into the Bloud it causes a coldness in the hands and feet which is taken for a signe of Health In some it produces Yawnings and a desire of Sleep with a Pulse less and more frequent than ordinary Here you have the beginning of the Fever This cold being past there succeeds a heat all over the Body which is very great in the palms of the hands and soals of the feet of such as are of a Cholerick temperament and at the same time the Pulse rises and beats stronger Here you have the state and vigour of the Fever Four or five hours after Meals when all the Chyle is mixed with the Bloud and has receiv'd a part of its perfection from the circulation the Heat diminishes the Pulse comes to his natural state and Appetite returns Here you have the declination of the Fever If after this one stay twelve hours or more without eating any thing the Pulse becomes extreamly slow and the vigour one had diminishes Here you have the state of a man when the Fever is almost past But as the Aliments wherewith we are nourished are not all alike and our Temperaments different which is the reason why some have little or no Cold that others feel a great heat after Meat and are lighter or heavier all which has relation to the different accidents or symptoms which accompany the Fever If the Chyle find the Bloud too much subtilized or exalted it produces a lingring Fever which may be particularly perceived after Meals This causes leanness and a considerable falling away in the Patient By this may be understood the reason why Coffee and Thea taken after Meals hinders those from sleeping who are subject to sleep unless a common custome of drinking one or other of them render them ineffectual because by their bitterness and moderate heat they dissipate the over-thick fumes of the Chyle This also conduces to the understanding what the Naturalists say of Lions and Goats that they have every day a Fever for as they are of a Temperament hot and dry their Chyle has the greater disproportion to their Bloud and in mixing it self with it it procures a greater Combat than in other Animals Pliny makes mention of one Caius Maesenas who had all his life long a Fever and never slept a moment during the three last years of his life On the other side Deer that are of a cold and dry Temperament and by consequence their Bloud less apt to ferment never have any Fever as the same Author says He adds that certain Ladies having accustomed themselves to eat Deers flesh every morning lived very long free from Fevers This Ferment in intermitting Fevers has its seat in the Glandules of the Velvet-coat of the Stomach and Intestines described by Monsieur Payer These Glandules have each their little Channels of Excretion through which they discharge a very lympid Serosity which is of the same nature of the Lympha which circulates through the whole Body and this subtile Liquor joyned to that which is constantly furnished by the ductus Salivales and to the Pancreatick juice serves for a ferment and dissolvent for the Chyle This Dissolvent being too acid communicates to the Chyle its Aciditie even as Acids cause a Coagulation in Milk so that the Chyle entering into the Veins and Arteries and not being capable of being perfectioned by the ordinary circulation when a quantitie thereof great enough to produce a Fermentation remains in the Bloud more violent than that which happens after Meals the fit of the Fever begins and continues until this sharp Chyle be dissipated and driven out by Sweat or insensible Transpiration Now according as this Ferment is in greater or less quantitie or the Bloud more or less susceptible of an Effervescence Fevers become Tertians double Tertians or Quotidians Quartains or double Quartains So the Cholerick having their Bloud more boyling and subtile fall commonly into Tertian or double Tertian Fevers Hence it is that the Antients have said and 't is in some measure true That Choler is the cause of Tertian Fevers both intermitting and continual for there is reason to believe that that which causes an Intermittent causes also a continual Fever of the same kind seeing that every fit of an Intermitting Fever is as it were alittle Continual Fever and a Continual as a long fit of an Intermittent the fit of this beginning continuing and ending almost as a Continual Fever The continuity proceeds from this that the Chyle introduced into the Bloud could not be perfected and by consequence the mass of Bloud could not furnish a Ferment fit to make the digestion of the Aliments perfect 'T is also to be observed that the mass of Bloud acquiring a more acre and inflamable disposition the Chyle although natural produces also a Continual Fever which is a thing to be noted in the practice of Physick for then bleeding and cooling Aliments and Medicines will be more convenient and above all such Acids as calm the agitation of the Bloud by thickning and cooling it and by precipitating the sulphurous parts which maintain the Tumult This being thus laid down it will not be difficult for me to answer many Questions that may be made about Fevers and Febrifuges And First Whence come the Shiverings in Fevers and why are the Shakings greatest in Quartains The Acid Liquors thickning the Bloud among which they beging to mix themselves hinder it from communicating its heat to the parts and the Bloud the more distant it is from the Heart the less hot it is This is the reason why the Shiverings begin at the Extremities of the Body and continue until by the efforts of the Heart and Arteries to purifie the Bloud by their redoubted pulsation all that fume be dissipated the heat of the Bloud violently agitated succeeding the cold fit The Ferment of Quartains is more acid and glutinous and the Bloud more gross which causes most commonly the Cold to be more violent And as these Vapours often have much acrimony in them they sometimes affect the membranous parts by which they pass in such manner that the Patient suffers pains as if one stuck Pins in his Body Those who have their Bloud subtile and the Chyle more gross have their Fits without any

the hardness of the Spleen with a Pultis made of a Root which produces the effect of a Vesicatory in drawing to it abundance of Water This has some affinity to the practice of the Ancients who were wont to apply actual Cauteries to the region of the Spleen He was also to have discoursed to us of their ingenious method of curing Venerial Distempers and the Lethargie â—n a Description of Virginia which at my request he was making An American named Raocomoco one of their Physicians for a little money shew'd him a certain Root which if chewed in the Mouth and the hands rubbed therewith one might handle all sorts of Serpents without danger He said that none besides himself understood the vertues of that Plant which he called Kibaschkonko that is in their Language the Death of Serpents or Serpents-bane Its vertues are much like those of the Plant called Dictamnus Virginius which is found in Virginia The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Anno 1665 relate that with this Plant â—ounded and put upon the end of a Staff they kill that kind of Serpent by them called Rattle-Snakes if they but smell it it s very smell making them dye within the space of half an hour That in all places where this Plant grows none of those Serpents are found In the same Transactions we find that the Virginians have a Root called Vichacan wherewith they cure Wounds Raocomoco passed for so able a Magician that he could by the Invocation of one of their Gods called Heiamsough cause Slaves that were run away to return to their Masters and could handle burning Coals without receiving any harm He foretold that he should die a violent death for which cause he preserved a friendship and conversed much with the English from whom he apprehended less danger than from those of his own Nation as indeed he had good reason for he was assassinated by order of one of their petty Kings he having rendred himself suspected for having sojourned too long among the English of Carolina The knowledge of the qualities of so many Plants is admirable in those ignorant people There may be some reason to believe that those Daemons which instruct their Priests or Sacrifisers in the art of Physick cure Diseases only by the knowledge of certain Plants and Minerals whose vertues they understand and not without such external means as may naturally produce the effect A Fragment of the Oracles of Aesculapius may be seen in Gruter where the Remedies which this God or rather this Daemon prescribes to the Sick which come to consult him are natural and proper for the Disease Here follow three which I have translated LVCIVS BEING SICK of a pain in his side and being given over by all the God Aesculapius pronounced this Oracle That he should come and take off from the Altar Ashes which he should mix with Wine and apply the mixture to his side Which he did and was presently cured and came publickly to give thanks unto the God and the people congratulated his recovery Here 's the Remedy which Women use for the pain in their Sides for they are wont upon this occasion to apply to their side a little bag fill'd with hot Ashes The Wine augments the vertue of the Ashes in dissipating the Wind which is sometimes the cause of this pain But as it must be a Physician who can discern whether this pain proceed from Wind or from some other cause it happens oftentimes that people do more harm than good with their Applications and instead of discussing a Wind augment an Inflammation which was but beginning JVLIANV'S SPITTING Bloud being given over by every body the God being asked commanded him to come and take off the Altar Kernels of Pine-apples and eat them with Honey for three days wherewith he was cured and came to give thanks to the God in the presence of all the people Kernels of Pine-apples are good for the Breast they sweeten the Humours and serve for a Balm to shut up the Vessels so that they are excellent in Ptisick and Spitting of Bloud and every one knows that Honey is ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ great Pectoral Hippocrates whâ— is by some accused to have copied his Remedies from those iâ— the Temple of Aesculapius prescribes these Kernels with Myrrhâ— to compose a Remedy for thâ— Breast VALERIVS APER BEINâ— Blind the God ordered him ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ his Oracle that he should come and take of the bloud of a white Cock and mix it with Honey and make thereof a Collyrium to be put upon his Eyes for three days and he recovered his Sight and came to give thanks publickly to this God The bloud of a Cock is very proper by its heat to dissipate the spots that are beginning in the Eyes and Honey clears the sight so that there is nothing strange in it if Medicines composed of these two ingredients recover the sight of a man that began to be blind 'T is true indeed that upon the same Marble may be read the Cure of another blind man whom the God commanded to put his five fingers upon the Altar and then put them upon his Eyes which has in it no natural cause which might produce such an effect But to return to our Febrifuges we may hope that the reserches which shall be made herein may discover unto us many things which now lie hid And to this purpose I think it would be necessary for us to disengage our selves from the Sentiments of the Antients wherewith we are prepossessed for these tell us of nothing but Choler Flegm Melancholy Remedies cooling and evacuating and such-like For upon their Principles there is no way for any new discoveries but we are confin'd and hindered from penetrating further into the nature of things I shall now give you some Idea's the clearest I can of the nature and causes of a Fever which are not much different from the Sentiments of the most learned of the Moderns upon which it will be easie to explain its Symptoms and cure A Fever is an extraordinary agitation of the mass of Bloud which disturbs the Oeconomy of the body of man This Agitation is produced by many external causes as immoderate Exercises heat of the Sun Falls all those Objects which may stir up our Anger Fear or Sadness and by other causes which move the Bloud with too much violence But the most ordinary cause of Fevers and which doth not onely produce Ephemera's and those of a few â—ays but also intermitting and â—ontinual Fevers with their returns at certain periods and also malignant Fevers is a Ferment or Chyle become too sharp which being introduced into the Bloud does there produce an extraordinary Emotion which causes different Symptoms And this may be proved from this that all sharp Liquors or Acids mixed with other Liquors of an opposite nature which we call Alkalies do cause an Effervescence So if you mix Oyl of Vitriol with Oyl of Tartar they make a considerable ebullition and become

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