Paroxisms the manner of taking which Pills with observations to be heeded as to Diet c. is at large before set forth with which and this Suffumigation they observing Rules as to Diet c. numbers of Hysterick Persons have been cured when they have lain some Months in violent Ravings and other Symptoms almost suppos'd irretrievable Secondly of Hypochondriack Melancholly or Flatus in Men which is a sort of Cachexie that frequently reigns in our Northern Climates whose Symptoms appearing mostly in the Hypochondria is term'd the Hypochondriack Disease and when its Symptoms are very fierce and exalted 't is entitule the Scurvy a Name given it by the Saxons in Norâ—â— Germany who are most liable to it the better part of Authors upon this Subject being amus'd with its Symptoms and Effects have vainly fancy'd to establish its Original Seat in several Bowels that are only accidentally concern'd but if they trac'd it to its state of Infancy and first beginning they must have pitch'd upon the Stomach for the Place of its Nativity and upon the Acid viscous Cruditie that a faulty digestion occasion for its Causes For our further satisfaction in this matter we shall briefly run over its Symptoms and if we find that they owe their Being to an Acid Crudity in the Stomach shall reckon that we have made our point good In the first place then the Appetite is over-keen in Hypochondriack Persons their Digestion being weak and follow'd by Convulsive or weighty Pains in the Stomach belching Wind and Noise especially in the left side of the Belly where the Gut-Colon is straitned they are always Costive and Laxatives operate better in them than Purgatives if an Artificial or Natural Vomiting happen they throw up Acid Matter which stupfiies or sets the Teeth on edge and which will corrode a Copper Vessel so as to render it rusty After Eating they are oft-times seiz'd with a gnawing Pain in the Stomach reaching along the Back from the lower part to the Neck of the Gullet which some miscal Nephritick Pains as also with sudden flushings in the Face wringing Pains in the Guts palpitation of the Heart perturbation of Mind and a difficulty of breathing occasion'd either by viscous Crudities distending the Stomach or Convulsions of the Midriff and Muscles of the Breast or Wind in the Abdomen hindring the descent of the Midriff while their Stomach is empty they are apt to be giddy and dull they are liable to periodical Exasperations frequently they are sensible as it were of Fumes rising up from the Belly and the Paroxism resembles an Hysterical Fit in the Paroxism the colour and consistence of their Urine is inconstant but when 't is over returns to a Natural order These are the Symptoms of Hypochondriack Person but all of them are rarely to be seen in one Person the most certain Symptoms that always attend are Gripings and Wind in the Guts a weak Stomach Costiveness and Perturbation of the Head The Symptoms being thus premis'd we come now to enquire after the Cause of this Disease the first and original of which is a vicious Acid in the Stomach enlarging the Appetite but unfit for Digestion hence ensues an Acid Crudity in the first Passages which depraves the crasis of the Blood prevents the due separation of volatil Spirits upon which the Lymph becomes Acid and the Bile inactive These are the Sources of all the preceding Symptoms since Wind Noise Griping of the Guts and Costiveness are the natural result of a vicious Acid in the first Passages as flushings in the Face arise from its effervescence with the Bile the Convulsions of the nervous Membranes in several Parts of the Body are the effect of its Iritation its Crudity impairs the due Fermentation of the Blood and causes a palpitation of the Heart and difficulty of Breathing it depraves the Nutritious Juice of the Bowels which settles into hard Swellings and occasions a degeneracy and austerity in the Spirits hence Fear Melancholly irregular Thoughts and uncouth emotions ensue The remote Causes that promote Crudities are Acid Liquors or Salt Victuals or such as are dried in the Smoak since both partake of the Acid Spirit of Salt or Soot also want of motion to promote digestion and the speedy assimilation of the Chyle likewise Nocturnal Study and over thoughtfulness and care exhaust the Spirits impoverish the Blood and render the Lymph acid Thus much for the Symptoms and Cause of this Disease Now as to the Cure its consists in correcting and evacuating the Crudities of the first Passages fortifying the Stomach retrieving the due crasis of the Blood and restoring all wonted Evacuations to their former course in order to compass which ends let the following Rules be heedfully minded 1st That a Dose of the English Pills aforementioned be taken so often as you find occasion with a careful regular Diet and using a moderate quantity of true natural red Wine mix'd with Water instead of Malt-drinks which with the use of the Suffumigating Powder I shall by and by give directions about never fails setting them to rights as numbers in very deplorable conditions have happily experienced 2dly Their way of living both in the Vapours and Hypochondriack Melancholly as to Dyet ought to consist chiefly of cooling refreshing Nourishments Food of good Juyce eating Water-gruel Barley and Rice-Broths Rice-milk boil'd and roast Veal and Mutton Veal or Chicken-Broths not made so strong as usually eating no Salt or spiced Meats 3dly They must sleep not too much neither indulge Melancholly or thoughtfulness but be cheerful and use diversions keeping in company that is mirthful and talkative ride and take the fresh Air which with the variety of different Company and Objects which they see concur to pleasure the Mind and remove all anxious Thoughts and thereby contribute much towards the Cure And for all Diseases of the Nerves Fits of all sorts whether Convulsions Falling Sickness Apoplexies Lethargies Palsies or other Disorders of the Animal Spirits and Brain Spasms Tremblings Contractions Relaxations of the Limbs Numbness Coldness or the like a Dose now and then of the aforesaid English Pills and using the Suffumigating Powder as I shall presently direct nothing will be found more efficacious especially if the contracted or relaxed Limbs be anointed every Night with Oil of Amber and the following Diet-drink be made and drank constantly of which is also excellent in Vapours and Melancholly Take Mustard Seeds 4 Ounces buised Horse-radish Roots two Ounces Scurvy-grass two Handfuls Aaron Roots half an Ounce Bryony Roots two Ounces boil all in a Gallon of Spring Water till a Quart be boil'd away then strain it and drink half a Pint three times a day Use the Suffumigating Powder thus put a Paper of it upon some live Coals in a Chasing-dish or some such a thing and put in under a Chair with a Hole in it clapping a Funnel upon the Coals so that the Smoak will go through the Funnel and the Patient sitting upon
makes of a horrible and frightful appearance Such Cancers sometimes bleed either through the eruption of some Vessels or from the sharp corrosive Nature of the Humour which gnaws the Vessels asunder tho' I have known them to bleed while they have been whole the Blood issuing through the Nipple or some small Pin-hole Some Cancers again that are Ulcerated send forth a Fungus or fleshy Excrescencies other consume and eat away all the Flesh about them after a wonderful and indeed dreadful manner and both these often bleed and that in great quanties sometime because the Capillary Vessels are by the corroding quality of a Cancer eaten asunder whence the flux of Blood is so great that the strength of the Patient is quickly spent and the Spirits being exhausted and consumed they soon dye as a poor Woman did that I knew after labouring under a Cancerated Breast very painful for near two Years and could all that while have no Remedy for indeed such are very rarely to be cur'd and if at all it is by Surgery that is by cutting off the Breast in time which the Woman I mention was by many Surgeons advis'd to but would not submit to the Operation Those inveterate and dangerous Cancers but seldom happen and is frequently more from want of timely and proper Applications than the Nature of them for they are oftentimes aggravated and enraged and the Humour by wrong Applications inwardly and outwardly made corrosive and sharp as we frequently find it to be and the Humour is 〈◊〉 corrosive it is as subtle quick and penetrating as Poison it self as will appear from the following Relation which a Surgeon tells us happened upon himself who was by Name Mr. Samuel Smith one of the Surgeons of St Thomas's Hospital in Southwark who at the cutting off of a large Cancerated Breast had after the Breast was off a Curiosity to taste the Juice or Matter contain'd in one of the little Cystis's or Glands of the same which he did by touching it with one of his Fingers and then tasting it from the same with his Tongue the Taste of which he protested did immediately like a Gass pierce through the whole substance of his Tongue and passed down his Throat not less sharp or biting than Oyl of Vitriol Spirit of Nitre or Aquae Fortis or some vehement Catheretick or Caustick Salt and altho ' he presently spit out and wash'd his Mouth with Water and that oftentimes and also with Wine and drank presently very freely of Wine after it yet could not get rid of the Taste thereof but it continued with him and brought him who was a very strong Man into a Consumption or wasting pining Condition attended with several other ill Symptoms which in a few Months after killed him the Taste thereof never going off from his Tongue to his dying Hour and that the Taste of the Juice or Matter of that Cancerated Breast he declared upon his Death-bed and near the last Moments of his Life to be the true and only Cause of his languishing Condition and Death Galen tells us and the same is confirmed by daily Experience that Cancers in the outward Parts as in the Breast may in the beginning be cur'd but when they are come to a considerable bigness oftentimes will yield to no Remedy but extirpation indeed a palliative Cure may be prescrib'd which if the Cancer be not Ulcerated may make the Patient easy and prolong Life so as not to dye the sooner because of that Cancer but when it is Ulcerated it can never be cicatrised but as long as it so remains the Patient will live in continual Pain and Filthiness and at last dye miserably unless it is cur'd by Ustion Cautry or Extirpation and then may prove but a doubtful Cure If a Cancer in the Breast proceeds from malignant Humours or corrosive Salts in the Blood it is generally incurable by reason of its malignant and poysonous Ferment which seldom yields to any internal and external Remedies whether Vomiting Purging Bleeding Sweating Dyet-drink nay Salivations or application of Annodines Suppuratives or any other kind of Medicine or if in some it should seem to yield or indeed seem to be cur'd while it proceeds from those corrosive Humours they many times breed again and break forth afresh either in the same place or in some other parts of the Body But if a Cancer proceeds from external Causes as Bruises Blows c. and be taken in time and the hurt lies not very deep a Cure with good Success may be undertaken yea oftentimes tho' they lie deep but then must be with proper Applications for wrong Medicines apply'd tho' the Injury be but small is increas'd to what of it self it might never have came to therefore is a caution worthy to be taken notice of many Women by undue tampering and ill advice and Medicines having been ruin'd and lost their Lives which otherwise in all likelihood might have been preserv'd Therefore before external Applications be made to a Cancerated Breast or supposed Cancerated Breasts it ought to be consider'd whether it be recent and small or inveterate and great if the first it will by proper Applications admit of Cure I say proper Applications because by and by I shall come to relate what is the most proper to apply to a true Cancer or an imagin'd Cancer of the Breast if the second it never will admit of Cure without cutting A pallative Cure may be had if it be not ulcerated as said before where by proper Remedies Ease may be had and Life prolong'd and that done by divers Medicines at least every Nurse or good Woman has a Medicine and that if you will believe them they say will cure but those hap-hazzard Remedies I have known fatal and therefore advise none to give Ear to them But I would not have it understood that I design here to direct to the Cure of Cancerated Breasts of all sorts I mean those that are running and ulcerate which require a skilful Surgeon's attendance and care but only those that are Swell'd and Tumefy'd as well such as are continually or only intermittingly painful and whether proceeding from Blows Falls Strokes ill Habits of Body Tumours from Milk hardnesses of the Breasts by Imposthumes after Lyings-in c. which oftentimes by ill management and pressing and handling turn to Cancers I say from what ever cause they proceed from so they be whole and taken in time may be cur'd by proper Applications and if they be broken or ulcerated to prevent its increase and remove the hardness and swelling about it a Medicine or two may be directed that will if any thing will not fail of proving successful But as I said before every swell'd Breast being not always Cancerous it may be necessary in two or three Words more to explain which hard or painful Breasts can justly be said to be Cancerous and which not so A Cancer in the Breast at its first appearance looks like
of in time before Nature is too much depress'd by the severity of the Disease and yet even in People that were Young and not Old they have effected the Cure which before had baffled Jesuits Powder the Bitters Alteratives c. And in those Agues of late standing the Vegetable alone has cured without the Plaister and in some the Plaister without the Vegetable but where the Case is severe to expedite the Cure I generally use both but some especially Children cannot be gotten to take any inward Medicine at all and there the applying the Plaisters most commonly does only must be renewed more times than there would be occasion if the Vegetable was taken also at the same time Directions for taking the Vegetable Powder and applying the Plaisters A Man or Woman may take a whole Paper at a time which must always be taken in a Glass of hot Wine an Hour or two before the Fit and be cover'd up warm whereupon it will cause in some gentle Vomiting and Sweat in others only Sweat in others will only work by Urine but which way soever it operates it never falls short of expectation curing almost all Agues without using any thing else but where the Case is inveterate and has been of long standing we are forc'd to apply the Plaisters also which I shall by and by give Directions about One of 12 or 15 Years of Age may take two thirds of a Paper those of younger Years in proportion always giving it in Wine as before directed and is to be repeated to every one for 5 or 6 times more or less as the Ague is severe or has been of longer or shorter continuance tho' not one Ague in twenty requires its being taken above three times Note There is no occasion to drink any thing with it more than the few Spoonfuls of Wine just to mix it and make it drinkable which may be White Wine or any other Wine proportioning the quantity as the Patient is either a grown Person or Child A grown Person taking it in 6 or 8 Spoonfuls and always as hot as it can be well drank The Plaisters to the Wrists must be prepared and applyed thus To all the Powder in the Box and the whole Yolk of a new laid Egg which mix and beat up well together in a Mortar or Porringer â—â—â—â—â—â— rating them well together adding so much 〈…〉 and strongest Vineger as will be sufficient to make it into such a consistency as Venice Treacle is then spread it pretty thick upon a Linnen Cloth of 2 or 3 Inches broad for a grown Person but narrower for Children which apply upon the Pulses of both Wrists tying them on so as not to come off where they must remain without changing them for nine Days because this Remedy exerts its vertues but by degrees And it ought to be applyed an Hour or half an Hour before the Fit comes and if the Ague be not cur'd in nine Days to be laid on afresh The Price of the Vegetable Powder is 2s 6d a Paper and the Box of Powder for Plaisters is 3 s. 6d both to be had at the Place afore-mentioned Note These Plaisters to the Wrists frequently I may say generally Cure all forts of Agues unless they be of very long standing indeed and attended with other Indispositions without any inward Medicine at all but where there is a complication of Infirmities besides the Ague that the Stomach is foul and Blood injur'd there is a necessity for an inward Medicine than which nothing can exceed the Vegetable Powder before-mentioned and will do a hundred times more Service and is a thousand times more safer than Jesuits Bark or any other Medicine whatsoever Hydragogue Tincture OR DROPS Purging away Water thereby curing Dropsies of all sorts BEFORE I speak of the excellent Vertues of these Drops I shall say something of the several species of Dropsies which as they affect diversly so go under divers appellations as the Ascites Tympanites and Anasarca The Ascites or Hydrops Abdominis is in English the Watery Dropsy in the Belly and is always attended with a stretching of the Belly by reason of the superabounding of ferous watery and salt Humours cast forth into the capacity of the Abdomen through fault of the Liver Spleen and Reins causing also the Feet Thighâ— and in Men sometimes the Cods to swell and is known by the swelling of the Belly a difficulty of Breathing and the hoarse sound of the Belly if struck like as if a Bladder half full was struck upon also upon compressing the Belly with the Fingers it pits and leaves the print of them thereon and if the Patient turns from side to side a Noise like the murmuring or waving of Water is heard and the Water by continuance there will in time putrify and corrupt the Bowele cause a Fever and Thirst and waste the Patients Strength and Spirits Therefore all imaginable care ought to be taken to evacuate the Water in time both by Stool and Urine or else the Patient will dye and if let alone so long as that the Patient's Strength be spent not being able to bear Purging Medicines then Tapping must be used as the only present way to secure the Patient if that Method will do it The Tympanites or Windy Dropsy shews it self also by a distention or stretching of the Belly but as the other contains Water within the capacity of the Abdomen this contains only Wind which so distends the Belly that it being struck upon with the Hand sounds like a Drum and is rather more swell'd than the watery Dropsies and the Navel hangs out but will not leave any impression upon pressing it with the Fingers the Patient is most afflicted with Pain about the Navel and Loins in Windy Dropsies like a Cholick when there is no such Pain in a watery one and is easier to be cured and of less danger The Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia is a Dropsy of the whole Habit of the Body the Water being dispersed so that all the Flesh appears moist swoln and wet wherein not only the Hands Arms Breast Face Thighs Legs and Feet swell but the whole Body also whereby if you make a pressure with your Finger into the Flesh in any part it will pit and leave an impression The cause of this Disease is chiefly Cold or by very plentifully drinking cold Water or Small Beer or else proceeds from a defect of the Liver or defect of Natural Heat Obstructions and imbicility of the Stomach from whence a collection of pituitous and watery Humours is produced and universal Cachexy If this Disease be recent and in a young Person it is not difficult to cure In Persons aged it is very doubtful if not desperate and indeed such as are much in Years seldom find a Cure for it But yet the Vertues of the Hydragogue Tincture are such as that it has cured several Elderly People by being follow'd for some continuance which they must tho' it is
An Account of the CAUSES Of some Particular Rebellious DISTEMPERS VIZ. The Scurvy Cancers in Women's Breasts c. Vapours and Melancholy c. Weaknesses in Women c. Gout Fistula in Ano Dropsy Agues c. TOGETHER With the Vertues and Uses of a Select Number of Chymical Medicines Studiously prepar'd for their Cure and adapted to the Constitutions and Temperaments of all Ages and both Sexes By an Eminent Practitioner in Physick Surgery and Chymistry THEY BEING His Choice Secrets Experienc'd for many Years in his Practice to be of wonderful Efficacy as the Cures performed by them Manifest and now by the Importunities of many judicious Persons set forth and recommended for the universal Good and Benefit of all People And are to be had only at _____ THE PREFACE THERE needs no Apology for publishing the following Account of Diseases and the Medicines for their Cure the Title Page telling the World 'T is done for the universal Good and Benefit of all People which indeed was the Motive but that the excellent Remedies recommended for their Cure may not be branded with the infamous Appellation of Quack Medicines so detestable to all wise People and indeed not without Reason if it be rightly consider'd what Riff raff Stuff is set Abroad and vended under the Specious Name of Medicine I shall take leave to say only thus much in their behalf that they have all of them been really experienc'd for many Years to be of most excellent Uses for the Distempers to which they are appropriated and 't is presum'd will be found upon Tryal more Efficacious than some may be willing to believe upon only the bare hearing of them or by reading the following Account given of their Vertues which have been lagely known or else had not been recommended Therefore 't is hoped as the intent by publishing them was to serve and not deceive the People as is too notoriosluy known many of the Quack Medicines vended Abroad have done to the bringing disrepute on the most excellent ones none will condemn them till they have tryed them which is the true Test and by which the Author is content to Stand or Fall have Credit or Disgrace The Histories of Cures perform'd by them might have been enumerated had not design'd Brevity forbid The few inserted 't is hop'd will be sufficient to convince all People till they have tryed them that they are Medicines effectual and for further Confirmation should have mentioned the Names of the Persons on whom the Cures were wrought but that the Author is obliged to conceal himself for the sake of his constant Business besides the World is now so Censorious that if the best Physician recommends but a Medicine for Publick Good which he has experienc'd to be Excellent he shall presently have the scandalous Epithet of Quack put upon him tho' it s no more than what the greatest Physicians in all Ages have done without thinking it digressive because they did it as the Author here does his for the common good of his Country-men but now I say it cannot be done publickly with any tollerable Reputation For which Reason does the Author conceal himself and oblig'd the Seller of them never to let his Name be known to any without which solemn Promise they had never been made publick and consequently the People never been benefitted by them But because of this none need to doubt their Efficacy neither will any want proper Directions how to take and use them every thing in that kind being sufficiently provided for in the Book so that none will be at a loss or have any need at any time upon any pretence to speak with the Author concerning 'em besides for their Efficacy the People that sell them can give some Account being well assur'd both of their Vertues and the Authors Skill or else had not undertaken the task of selling them And as they are Medicines effectual so are they lasting for they will retain their Vertues many Years and may be carried beyond the Seas For that no Climate Season of the Year or Age will in the least altet or diminish them provided they be kept from the Air and the Wet A Catalogue of the Names and Prices of the Medicines mentioned in this Book which are to be had only at the Place directed in the Title Page viz. At the _____ Page 1. THE English Pills for the Scurvy c. each Box Price 3 s. 6 d. Page 19. The Liniment for Women's Swell'd or Cancerated Breasts each Gallipot price 5 s. Page 33. The Suffumigating Powder for Vapours Hypocondriack Melancholly and Diseases of the Nerves each Parcel 3 s. 6 d. Page 42. The Ingredients to make the Poultice for the Gout price 5 s. Page 50. The Balsamick Electuary for Weaknesses in Women c. each Gallypot price 3 s. 6 d. Page 55. The Injection for the Cure of Fistula's each Bottle price 5 s. Page 61. The Cephalick or Head Tincture each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 67. The Balsamick Restorative Elixir for all Diseases of the Lungs each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 70. The English Vegetable and Plaisters for the Cure of all sorts of Agues both together price 6 s. Page 76. The Hydragogue Tincture for the Dropsy each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 79. The fam'd Eye Powder and Water both together price 6 s. Page 81. The Carminative or Wind expelling Lozenges each Box price 2 s. 6 d Page 83. The Balsam to make Issues run c each Box price 2 s. 6 d. English PILLS FOR THE SCURVY And all other Cutaneous Diseases or Breakin gs out of the Body Sores c. from that or any other Causes AMONGST all the Diseases incident to Humane Bodies there is none more predominant tho' least regarded than the Scurvy a Disease that seems incident to this Climate and which spares none of any Age Sex or Constitution being a general Malady scarcely taken Notice of because it seldom kills tho at the same time it introduces many direful Distempers and proves the principal and efficient Occasion thereof The cause of the Scurvy is from an acid corrosive Humour tainting the Blood and Juices of the Body incumbred with Earthy Sulphurs of a Nature rebellious and stubborn and attended sometimes especially when inveterate with a very strong Smell or Stench which Volatile Saline Acid irritates the Nerves and Membranes sharpens the Lymph debauches the innate Spirits of the Parts and perverts the equal Temperature of the Blood this is the immediate cause of the Scurvy But the remote Causes are the Sea-Air and the Specifick Malignity of the Stagnated Waters and the Earth affecting by their corrosive Effluvium's also by infection an hereditary conveyance from the Parent and from gross faeculent and obstructive Dyet especially if over-charged with Salt or render'd hard and compact with Smoke as dry'd Neats Tongues Bacon Sawcages red Herrings dry'd Salmon hung Beef c. do not only contribute Matter but obtain also a
make Incisien in all promiscuously has been the ruine of many and the one cutting which the Patient was told would be sufficient for Cure has occasioned more Sinus's by the Inflamation and Pain and the fâ—uxion of Humours thereby upon those depending Parts so that cutting again and again has been done to the utter spoiling of the Patient causing the Fistula to be inveterate to run much to the extenuating the Body decaying the Strength whence loss or debilitation of Stomach ensues and at length Faintness cold Sweats c. which brings the Fistula and whole Body into such a State as that all hopes of Cure are past especially if the Fistula was deep or penetrated beyond the Musculi Ani for by cutting such if they are cur'd the Patients will scarcely ever retain their Excrements but with great difficulty if no worse accidents happen and if they reach beyond the Sphincter the retention of the excrements will be impossible so that great care ought to be taken and a Skilful Surgeon advis'd with before the Patient submits to be cut at all It is allow'd by all that Fistula's that are very Sinous and have been of long standing are dangerous and of difficult Cure especially if they discharge a large quantity of Pus and lie so far distant as that there is no coming at the bottom but the nearer they are to the Anus the more easie they are of Cure The Anus or Fundament is more subject to Fistula's than any other part in the whole Body because the great quantity of Fat with which the Intestinum Rectum is loaded and the Evacuation of the Excrements this being the common Sink where all the filth of the Body is brought down to be carried off from its continual Humidity and numerous Vessels as Branches of the Hypogastrick Arteries and Veins a Branch of the Aorta another of the Inferior or Mesenterick Artery the Hemoirrhoidal Veins the vast number of Lymphaticks the Glands also seperating a white Glairy Viscous Liquor I say those meeting there and Humours from internal Causes whether Obstructions Inflammations Ascesses Ulcers Piles or external as Blows Contusions impure Embraces Falls Leeches ill applied c. which happening more or less to meet there as being a Part more dispos'd it is no wonder to find Fistula's so soon form'd and so frequent as we observe them to be There are some Fistula's that are not noisome nor very troublesome or painful and that sometimes are open and run at other times close and the Patient is dry and thus they do for many Years without any great inconveniency and is what is found expedient for the Health of the Patient for thereby the Body is discharg'd of superfluous Humours which otherwise might breed great disorders and endanger the Patient's Life I have known many People have such Fistula's which have contributed greatly to their Health and continued on them to the end of their Lives But enough has been said as to the Nature Cause and Consequence of this troublesome and oftentimes dangerous Indisposition I shall now come to speakof its Cure which is what was chiefly at first aim'd at and what I presume is by the Patient expected I have said already that cutting is not necessary in all and shew'd wherein it is and is not for the Patients safety and where it is not I shall recommend a Method which if follow'd according to directions will be found more beneficial than many Physicians and Surgeons will be ready or willing to believe In the first place the Patient is gently to purge with the English Pills herein recommended and to repeat them oncein a Week oftner or seldomer as the Body is gross or Humours abound but not to take too large a Dose for gentle Purging is best and he is also at the same time to make the following Dyet-drink which he is constantly to drink of till he is perfectly well and is this Take Burdock Roots 8 Ounces Elecampane Roots 3 Ounces Tormentil and Bistort Roots of each an Ounce Sanicle 2 handfuls Germander Ground-Ivy and Agrimony of each 2 handfuls Sarsaparilla 6 Ounces China Roots 3 Ounces Sassaphras 3 Ounces Guaiacum 4 Ounces Raisons of the Sun and Figs of each 4 Ounces Liquorish 3 Ounces boil all in 12 Pints of Lime Water till 2 Pints are boil'd away then strain it and drink half a Pint every Morning and 4 or 5 in the Evening and at Night going to Bed a little warm'd Upon the use of this Dyet-drink and now and then but not too often purging with the aforesaid Pills and using at the same time the Injection into the Fistula the Patient will find the Cure will come on for the Purging gently carries off the Humonrs the Dyet-drink dries up the superfluous Moisture and nourishes and strengthens the Body and the Injection which I am now going to mention will cleanse and cicatrize the Fistula that the Patient if he continues the Course long enough which he must be sure to do if he expects to be well for those things will take up time in some more in some less according as is the Indisposition will find it to answer his expectation without the pain and danger of cutting which has ruin'd many The Injection for this purpose is neither corrosive or will cause pain it is to be injected into the Fistula every Night and Morning warm with a Syringe two Syringes full each time which upon casting in he will find if the Fistula goes into the Fundament to come some of it out at the Fundament but he is not to put the point of the Syringe into the Fistula too far but just so much in as that the Liquor will be forc'd into the Orifice By this means I have cur'd several and most if not all that use the method will have the same success for the Injection takes away all Callosity and yet I say without pain cleanses astringes dries up and cicatrizes the Part that by degrees the Fistula will close and heal up from end to end to the great pleasure and satisfaction of the before terrify'd Patient who cou'd hear nothing from his Surgeon but Cutting Cutting which News is receiv'd by some as unwelcome as an Old-Baily Sentence to a Criminal The Price of the Injection is 5s the Bottle To be had only at the Place before-mentioned Tinctura Cephalica OR HEAD-TINCTURE THE most incomparable and appropriated Medicine that can possibly be made use of for preventing and curing all Distempers of the Head and Brain as Head-achs Megrim Vertigo Epilepsies Palsies Apoplexies Lethargies Convulsions Phrensies Carus Coma trembling of the Nerves Numbness loss of Memory dulness and heaviness of the Senses Drowsiness tasting and smelling hurt weakness glimmering or dulness of the Sight thickness of Hearing noises in the Head beating or shooting Pains c. which numbers of Persons are sorely afflicted with and which very often seizes such as are over thoughtful and studious c. those Diseases amongst the numbers that