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A77577	A brief discovery of the true causes, symptoms and effects, of that most reigning disease, the scurvy. Together with the causes, symptoms, and effects of several other dangerous diseases. : Whereunto is added, a short account of those incomparable and most highly approved pills, called pilulae in omnes morbos: or, pills against all diseases ... / Prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield, approved physician ...	Bromfield, M.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4884J; ESTC R175607	17,167	18

erection of the Yard These are the Symptoms that most frequently attend this Disease The Effects are many times the POX to which 't is somewhat related but is chiefly brought in by such as unskilfully attempt to cure the Disease whose practice it is without respect to their Patients health or their own credit with all speed to obstruct the issue at the Privities from whence the virulent matter immediately mounts into the liver and other principal parts where it infallibly vitiates the Bloud and confirms a POX that yeelds to no slight cure and sometimes from an ill managed Cure is left resident with the Patient an immedicable Gleeting and many are the mischiefs brought upon the Patient by ill-prepared Mercurial Medicaments c. I thought to have given you the causes of the POX and Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins but the chief of them being already well enough known to proceed from Venereal embraces it would be a kinde of lost labour to insert them here Those who please may from my self have Imfallible Medicines and Directions for perfect and speedy cure of these Distempers According to promise in my other Books I am in This to give you some account concerning Worms which are a Vermin though but little regarded yet exceeding troublesome and very often most pernicious Of these creatures are several sorts but the most usual are shapeb round and long these are bred in the Gouts yet sometimes get into the Stomack The second sort are short and very small like threds and commonly lie in the Right-gut and in the end of the Fundament wherein is almost continual itching which worms also provoke the Patient very often to Stool The third sort are long and broad of an incredidle length but very rarely seen Worms are most caused from raw gross flegmatick matter and therefore youth and such as eat much fruit are seldom free from them Also all great Eaters are very subject to them especially those who eat meats that casily putrifie in the Stomack and more at once then Nature can well digest whence follow Crudities and thence worms the signes of which are many Some have unsavoury Belchings and a stinking breath wasting of the gums heaviness fainting great thirst vomiting cold sweats and often a Fever a short Cough unquiet sleep intolerable gnawing pain in the stomack and belly loss of appetite weakness and consumption of the whole body Many times the patient hath an insatiable appetite caused by flat Worms which devour the food that is eaten There are a few signes more of Worms but these being the most common and because I would not be too tedious shall say no more of the rest at present only thus much I shall adde that if worms be voided alive without other excrements in the beginning of a Disease 't is dangerous and signifies great Crudities and if voided dead signifies much putrefaction that has killed them which probably shortly after kills the patient In short 't is the opinion of our age grounded upon substantial proofs that worms and their effects have conducted more people to their graves than any one Distemper whatsoever And therefore you that suspect them in your selves make much of these Infallible PILLS as your most speedy help to prevent a Worm-eaten carcase and take them ere too late by which doing you will certainly prolong your days in ease and health and be obliged to thank your Adviser The Causes Symptoms Effects of Dropsies THe Dropsie Ascites is from abundance of water heaped up between the Peritonaeum or inner coat of the belly and bowels which infecting the mouth of the stomack doth bring great Thirst and often a Fever Sometimes it begins in the Feet and swells up wards to the Legs Thighs and Cods but at the same time the upper parts of the body usually consume The cause of this Dropsie may be from a cold distemper of the Liver which cannot make perfect bloud but flegm winde and water Sometimes a Dropsie may proceed from a Fever hot meats and too plentiful drinking of Wine whereby the Liver Spleen and Kidneys may lose part of their native heat and consequently their ability to attract the water and eject it by the Vreters The same may be caused from the natural Flux in women flowing too plentifully or from retention of the fame And drinking much cold water may diminish and disperse the native heat and by that means make way for a Dropsie The Dropsie Tympanites is from winde shut up in the cavitie of the Abdomen or belly and sometimes in the cavitie of the Gouts This winde is bred from crude thick flegmatick or Melancholy humours which by heat having motion and made thin become gross windie vapours This Dropsie is never of Winde alone but always mixt with water But the greatest part of this distemper proceeding from winde it is then always called a Tympany The Dropsie Anasarcais without controversie bred from a cold distemper of the Liver which hinders its Concoction from whence in stead of good bloud it disperseth flegmatick humours and causeth the whole body to swell A Dropsie may be also caused from all tumours or obstructions of the Liver much bleeding great evacuation by Stool Sweat c. Note All Dropsies are dangerous and hardly cured Yet the Dropsie Anasarca which is occasioned by Flegme spread over the whole body is easiest cured of the three but Ascites and Tympanites with much more difficulty Notwithstanding I here promise to the world that my Pills will perfectly cure the most dangerous Dropsie that man can have provided the Disease be medicable or curable Note That all the Symptoms afore-mentioned are seldome in all that have these Diseases at one and the same time except those in Dropsies but most are and some have more than these which should have been here inserted but brevity being intended and most suitable in this place I therefore judge what hath been already said sufficient to satisfie all reasenble persons in the true knowledge of their Disease if afflicted with either of these distempers There remains now something more to be said of those Excellent Pills before named of which briefly thus One whole Box thereof price but 6 s. is usually enough for perfect cure of either of the aforesaid Diseases except the Disease be contumacious and inveterate and then the person doth sometimes take a small quantity more which most certainly cures either of these Diseases and without the least danger of future relapse These Pills are also of most admirable use for such as have the POX Gonerrhaea or Running of the Reins and for such as formerly have had either of those Diseases and suspect an ill Cure or dread a Relapse And are likewise one of the most sure and speedy medicines that is or can be against the Green sickness and for such young women as want their Monthly Visits They are also excellent against Fits of the Mother and have a peculiar vertue against Barrenness if overloosness of

A BRIEF DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE CAUSES SYMPTOMS and EFFECTS Of that most reigning Disease the SCURVY TOGETHER WITH The Causes Symptoms and Effects of several other dangerous DISEASES Whereunto is added A short Account of those Incomparable and most highly approved PILLS CALLED PILVLAE in Omnes MORBOS OR PILLS against all DISEASES Which are the only Famous Medicine of this Age against the above-named Distemper and all other Curable Diseases Prepared and set forth for the Publick Benefit By M. Bromfield Approved Physician And are to be sold At his own House at the BLUE BALLS in Plow-yard in Fetter-Lane LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1675. The Causes Symptoms and Effects of the SCURVY THis Disease doth chiefly proceed from Melancholy bred by distemper of the Stomack or Spleen which being crude stays in the passages of the Arteries and Veins and thereby doth excite grievous fermentation or workings from whence are sent vapours which afflict the heart and brain c. from all which is caused malignant and contagious putrefaction of Melancholy and thence proceed these Symptoms viz. giddiness in the head sudden flushings heat and redness in the face and body putrefaction and stinking of the mouth and gums toothach stinking breath blackness and loosness of the teeth want of digestion much winde and unsavoury belchings and by thick vapours arising from the Hypochondria to the Midriff is occasioned obstructions of Respiration or shortness of breath and straitness of the breast c. The body is dull and heavie and in the Legs are spots sometimes red purple black or blue There is also violent pains in the head shoulders arms fingers belly thighs knees Legs ankles feet and toes Whence some who have had the POX though cured do fear the return of their old Maladie There are many thousands have this distemper that are perswaded they have 〈◊〉 Gout because sometimes it hath the very signes of the Gout which 〈◊〉 the cause why the Scurvy which by mistake is judged the Gout is ●…dom cured For those Medicaments pertinent in the Gout are not the very same in the Scurvy and consequently cannot cure it Other signes of the Scurvy are bad sleep and frightful dreams a feverish heat and sweats towards the morning Some have risings in their body as if stung with Bees or Wasps c. others have dolours in their side imitating those of the Spleen And in short it doth appear to a judicious eye with and in the shape of most Diseases as hath been sufficiently apparent not only to my self but also to several other experienced Physicians who with me have traced this Disease and made exact inspection into its variable dresses for many years together And we have also observed that it is propagated and spread abroad in these parts of the world more than any other Distemper whatsoever and by its sundry shapes hath seduced many in their judgement of the Disease For in some it passeth for a Consumption in others for a Dropsie c. and Medicines are given accordingly but alas to little purpose and all for want of true knowledge of the Original of the Disease it self And here observed a great Truth viz. That there are very few afflicted with and Distemper of long continuance who have not annexed with it a Scorbutick taint which unless it be considered and Antiscorbutick Medicaments given the Patient is very rarely if ever cured Now the conclusion of all if the Scurvy comes to be predominant is sometimes Swoonings Apoplexies Dropsies great decay of the body incurable Consumptions c. Note that in some the Scurvy is hereditary and that there are some few Causes thereof besides those here set down but these being usually the chief for brevity the other are omitted I Shall now to oblige the Sons and Daughters of Venus briefly discover the true symptoms and effects of the Grand POX and Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins The Discourse will hardly infect any that are not already Diseased or in the least prejudice their reputation And to read it heedfully is the way to instruct many in what before they were ignorant Also those in these Distempers concerned will for what I have writ be obliged to give me thanks I shall begin with the symptoms of the POX Which are pains in the head shoulders arms back knees shins and Legs Nodes or hard knobs in the head joynts or shin bones Bubo's in the Groin Tumors in the Testicles Scabs or breaking out in the head neck face or other parts of the body Ulcers in the throat mouth palate nose or privie parts and sometimes in the Legs with a general indisposition of body These are the symptoms which usually go along with this Disease Now rightly to distinguish the pains of the POX from those of such other distempers as most resemble it please to accept and observe these following Rules First the pains of the POX are very like those of the Scurvy save that these of the POX do usually seize the patient in the night and when well warm in bed are then most violent They frequently continue till towards day and then vanish almost if not quite away until night the come again only sometimes in the day are felt some sharp pains in the head shoulders arms Legs c. but are quickly gone again Moreover the pains of the POX are ever between the Joynts and usually if the Disease be of very long continuance those pains do fix Nodes or hard knobs on the Joynts but neither of these symptoms are so incident to the Scurvy It is distinguished from the Arthritas or Joynt-grout by its nocturnal dolours or pains in the night for the pains of the Gout contrary to those of the POX are often greater in the day than night Many have joyned with this Disease a consuming Hectick Fever often caused by those unlucky over hot and drying Diet-drinks violent Purges and Sweats rashly given to those of thin hot and dry constitutions such bodies receive the same mischief from an ill-managed Salviation or Fluxing and an Hectick thus contracted for the most part ends in the grave and others by unskilful Fluxing have the pockie humours plentifully raised into their heads where by their corroding quality they too often ulcerate the throat and consume the palate and gums which humours being raised and mixed with a venomous and ill-prepared Mercurial Medicine do also poyson and level the Nose and beget all those dishonourable and fatal consequences of this foul Disease The Symptoms and Effects of the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins THis Disease is known by an Issue from the privities not of Seed as by some supposed but of a virulent matter which often ulcerates the Urinary passage and causeth Caruncles to grow in the Yard from whence is sent corrupt matter which falling by parcels resembles small pieces of flesh The Patient hath a scalding heat sharpness and pain in making Urine which sometimes comes away by drops there is also a great pain in