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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14038	The opinion of Peter Turner Doct: in physicke, concerning amulets or plague cakes whereof perhaps some holde too much, and some too little.	Turner, Peter, 1542-1614.	1603 (1603)	STC 24343; ESTC S102037	4,658	14

THE OPINION OF PETER TVRNER DOCT IN PHYSICKE CONCERNING AMVLETS OR PLAGVE CAKES WHEREOF PERHAPS some holde too much and some too little AT LONDON Printed for Edward Blount 1603. beinge the yeare of the great plague ❧ The opinion of Peter Turner Docter in Phisicke concerning Amulets or Plague cakes whereof perhaps some holde too much and some too little IT is very true gentle Reader that Arsenicke Orpiment Sublimate praecipitate Quick-siluer Todes and Adders are in some sorte rancke and deadlye poysons in the highest degree For dayly experience might teach it though no learned writer had once mentioned it But it followeth not therefore that there is no vse of them in Phisick or curing of diseases For to omit all the probable arguments taken from sweete Kirnels in bitter shels precious Diamonds in the middest of course stones and Pearles in base Oysters alledged both by Philosophers and Phisitians to prooue that in most poysoned subiects may be the noblest remedies it is euident by the practise both of learned and vnlearned that they are often vsed both inwardly and outwardly My selfe I haue diuers times and yet not without the warrant of good Authors both old and new cured sundry extreame coughes and impostumated lungs with the fume of Orpiment administred by the mouth My selfe also had the rebellious rootes of a Wen after I had vsed Sublimate and Praecipitate in vaine well taken away with Arsenick The place of the Wen being close by the ridge bone ouer-against the hart I haue also many times both giuen and seene giuen Crude Mercurie that is Quicksiluer vnto children for the wormes and that with good successe As for Sublimate and Praecipitate I referre me to any man of any reading or experience whether they bee not dayly and vsually administred both within and without and that with good successe especially being brought as chymicall writers call it into Turbittes Toades dried and giuen in powder inwardly prouoake vrine exceedingly and outwardly applyed they stay bleeding most miraculously and drawe forth the matter of the plague into themselues without breaking of the parties skin or any other harme Concerning Adders who knoweth not that from them the Triacles haue their names in Greeke because they are the Basis or most principall ingredient whereof they are compounded Now if the fume of Orpiment may be taken inwardly and the substance of Arsenick applyed to Vlcers and raw wounds wherein is as much danger of poysoning as by swallowing of it as may appeare by the speedie death of wilde beasts vpon the least raising of their skinnes with Arrow-heads dipped in Toxicum and such like poysons I know no cause why a man should be afraide to weare them especially inclosed in silke vpon the whole skin Neither how they can be perpetually opposite to mans nature Nay if that be a true and sufficient definition of poyson At no time to agree with nature I see not how these things may simply be called poysons that sometimes and in some cases as hath bin shewed agree with nature as well as a man would wish As for that point that somtimes they blister the skin and cause angry wheales or pumples to arise seeing that inconuenience may be both easily preuented and as easily cured commeth onely but by the wearers default it needeth not to terrisie any man from the vsing of them For if the wearer of these Amulets or plague cakes assoone as they begin to sweat either take away the Cake or put linnen enough betweene it the skin or sew it in thicker stuffe or anoint the place with oyle or any vnctuose thing they may be free enough from that inconuenience And if assoone as it beginneth to breede any itching or raise any pimple they remooue the cake for a day or two and annoint the place with a little creame or Vnguentum album Camphoratum they shall not neede to complaine of any deepe or foule holes or vlcerations And yet it may be a question worth the considering whether to haue such things arise be not rather a benefit where they appeare then a harme For seeing the same effect or accident hapneth not to all that weare them nor to all that sweate it may seeme that only they are subiect to such blisterings in whome there is some venemous matter which nature by the helpe of the medicine laboureth to expell And as worthy the consideration it is now we talke of blistering and corroding to call to remembrance how Garleeke Mustart and Rosa solis the hearbe being greatblisterers of the skinne are not for that condemned for poysons nor refused to be taken into the stomach The ioyce of a Limon will graue vpon a knife as well as Aqua fortis or strong water and yet who euer had any harme by taking of it inwardly To blister therefore or corrode the skinne is not a sufficient argument to proue a thing a poyson It is also very euident both by experience and reason that things outwardly applyed haue action and worke into the body by communicating their spirituall qualities as I may call them to the spirites of our bodyes by the meanes of the warmth that openeth our pores and rarefying the subtill parts of the medicine is the cause of a reciprocate action and passion as may appeare by purging simples and plaisters And herevpon notwithstanding what hath beene aboue saide and perhaps not sufficiently wayed it may seeme strange to some how Arsenick such like strong poysons hauing so strong poysoning spirits should not also poyson our spirits wheresoeuer they meete For the better satisfaction of such as are not carryed away with former praeiudice and are capeable of these matters this is in briefe my answer Arsenick and Orpiment are no wayes poysonus or hurtfull to nature but by their corrosiuenes or fretting qualities otherwise they are as good if not better both preseruatiues and curers as any other most in vse and therefore so long as they are kept from corroding or fretting they can doe no harme but may doe much good in that kinde which they respect That is to say in all Arsenicall diseases as the Plague the Plurisie Noli me tangere Canckers and Fistulas and all of that kinde If thou desire this to be confirmed vnto thee by example or experience to wit that they may be kept from corroding Beholde the Mounte-bankes or Quacksaluers of Germany and Italy who before they play their parts before the people drinke first in their lodgings for that purpose halfe a pinte or more of Sallat-oyle and then comming to their stage take inwardly in all mens sight incredible quantities of these poisons and then taking nothing after them but their Triacles which they haue to sell make their beholders beleeue that by them they be preserued from all harme Of this thou mayest see more at large in Mathiolus in his Commentaries vpon Dioscorides whereby it appeareth as I saide before that they may be kept from fretting or corroding of the inwarde parts