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	pain_n	part_n	1,706	5	4.5101	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50431	The catholic medicine, and soverain healer rectifying and assisting the depraved functions, of infirm and diseased bodies : for reducing and curing in all cases, enabling thereby to digest, expectorate, transpire, open, dissolve, discuss, evacuate, cleanse, purifie, allay, ease, heal, strengthen, and restore the decayed parts of unsound and distempered bodies : confirm'd by demonstrations of fact, in eminent cases performed : communicated to the world, as the most happy, comprehensive, expedient, preventive and curative, against the diseases of humane nature / by a strict examiner of medical art.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1684 (1684)	Wing M1490; ESTC R18244	18,376	19

the Phisitian sees it not and knows not what to aim at But here is an Engine to quench a Feaver surer and safer than with Buckets full of Juleps But will this Medicine remove Obstructions Then it will cure many a Disease yes if it were a heap of Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder it will carry it away and sweep the place I perceive now Dame Nature Medicatrix with the help of this Instrument will cure a multitude of Diseases if there were never a Doctor and Pothecary to be found This is a far better Medicine than any Paper Medicine the Recipes and Decipes the Pot-guns and Crackers that make a noise and do no execution yes sometimes they do mortal Execution For Pains of the Head or Limbs Stitches or Gripes in the Body Reumatism or Gout this Medicine is most proper means and very prevailing to free all parts of the Body from acrid sharp punging and corroding Humors the Causes of such restless painful assaults that molest you And for such as have the Gout or incline thereto this is both Preventive to keep off and a Curative Remedy in the Paroxism or Fit and is the safest allaying easing means in those extream tormenting Cases when Physitians dare not give a Medicine for fear of the danger and of making them worse but this comfort they will administer when the Fit is off they will then prescribe a Course of Physick Thank you for nothing truly Doctor if you cannot help me when I am tormented with pain you shall not meddle with me when I am at ease for you are not likely to do me any good To assist the Genital Function and remove the Impediments of those Organs belonging to that Faculty for the better and due Performance of their Offices this Medicine is singular good it enables feeble insufficient Persons by cleansing and giving strength to those Parts and is probable good means against Barrenness 'T is the best Remedy for weak Backs Loyns or Genitalls for Strains or Over Reaches for Spermatick Wasting and Seminal Issuing to stay the Whites safely by cleansing and purifying to digest a crude thin watery Seed and reduce it to better Consistence by cleansing the Spermatick Vessels and elaborating the Seed it knits and roborates the Spine and Genitals of both Sexes For Diseases appearing outward declaring an ill habit of Body and foulness of Blood as when Spots Pimples Itch Scabs Pustuls Swellings c. this Extract is very proper for a more free Perspiration and to send forth by the Pores for a purification of the Blood and nutricious Juices of the Body For the Venereal Lues or Pox and that long Train of Symptoms which attend and gradually follow this grand Disease as Gonorrhaeas sharp Vrine Buboes Pains Scabs Pustuls Vlcers c. This Catholic Medicine is incomparable for power and most convenient for Privacy being a Remedy so easily managed and giving the most Liberty that can be allowed if the Weather be not very bad to go abroad in for its Operations are so gentle and this to be taken at Nights that whil'st you sleep it is doing the Work that you desire to be effected and although other dogged ill contrived Medicines do make the Diseased look thin and suspiciously this enables them in body and also puts a good face upon it and you will not be worn down and enfeebled by this Medicine as commonly by the untoward methods now practised To promote and set forward all Chirurgical Cures that appear outward and may be managed by the hand this Medicine is most excellent and useful for Wounds Tumors Contusions Apostems Vlcers Cancers Fistula's and Gangreens if not too far gone to a Mortification nothing is more available and conducing towards a Cure and put it forward when you are at a stand by drawing off and evacuating all Humoral Feeding Causes which continues and keeps Sores from healing But for the like Cases internal this Medicine does all the Work and acts a dexterous Chirurgeons part in those places where neither his eye can discern nor his hand come to help you then this Medicine is more helpful and more to be depended on than all the Practisers in this Art this alone will do the Work if possible to be done This Medicine will help you to throw away your Crutches and for a decayed rotten CARCASE if possible to be restored this is the Remedy Chirurgery is a very fine Art but I do not like the Craft nor the Ignorance that some of those Professors are plentifully endowed with they can dress and plaister up the Patient but know little of the true Design and Mystery of Curing but he that is truly Knowing Skilful in Healing and Honest is a man much to be esteemed such are but few else what makes the Surgeon so long about Healing in Cases not so difficult Because he wants the right designment and good internal Medicine to promote the Work Healing ariseth primariò from Nature within not from Plaister and Vnguent without External Applications will not do without good Internal Medicine disposing and inabling Nature for Healing thereby to effect the Cure after six Months and twelve Months tormenting you shall have this comfortable News your Leg or your Arm must be chopt off if you will save your Life This is an After-Game to be played Natura Corroborata Is that the Quid agendum That 's easily said but quibue auxiliis What Medicines have you to do it with Additu difficilia they are not so soon found out for want of these the Gangrens and Mortifications too often put a period to the Surgeon's Labour and the Patient's Life I have seen the woful Experience of this and I have seen the joyful Experience of the other Ab infortunio fortunium This Vlcer and Apostem taught me to be a Surgeon and this two Months Cure inform'd me more than seven years Hospital Practice could teach me true I might learn there the Art of Dismembring how to cut off Arms and Legs cleverly but I learned a better Art than that namely how to save Arms and Legs and Bodies from mangling Amputation would not so frequently be the mode of Curing nor the extream Remedy of saving the Life if the true Art of 01 Healing was rightly known I might learn there to Cut Carbonado but here I learned the Art of sleeping in a whole Skin that 's better I saved both Belly and Back from ripping up with the help of this Medicine only and for these good Deeds I must never forget this good Medicine For inward Bruises to prevent or dissolve coagulate Blood to discuss and dissipate collected Humors resorting thither and fixing to defend and strengthen the grieved part nothing more availeable And as for Fractures and Disloctations which necessarily require a skilful Surgeon's hand outward Applications yet for inward Medicine to keep the Body in due temper and to promote such Cures this is most helpful and assisting to Nature for a safe and more