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
and a Pint of Milk to the consistence of a Cataplasm or Poultice which is to be spread upon Linnen Cloath as thick as two Crown Pieces put together and applyed I say as warm as can well be borne to the Gouty Part renewing it very Night and Morning The Pot of Ingredients are to be had only at the Place aforementioned Electuarium Balsamicum OR True Balsamick Electuary FOR All manner of Weaknesses in Women c. THIS is such a wonderful Medicine that I think it cannot be equal'd its Vertues being such in the Distempers to which it is appropriated as every one that shall take it must own are not ordinary it being a far different thing than what by its appearance may be taken for by most or the Medicine makers now adays would have it to be being an Electuary which has done and by the Blessing of God will do much more benefit in the following particular Cases than any other Medicine of what kind soever numbers of both Sexes having with wonder observ'd its Effects and been cured by it who for many Months together have been under Courses of Physick by Advice of Eminent Practitioners to no purpose It infallibly and expeditiously cures Weaknesses of the Back in both Sexes and all Pains of the Back whatsoever whether occasioned from Bruises Falls Wrenches Strains by lifting carrying or by Sickness and Weakness or from Womens Miscarriages Lyings-in Frights Grief or the like And for Bearings down or falling down of the Womb by weakness or relaxation of the Lagaments caus'd by hard Travel or by violent occasions as Blows Falls lifting or carrying heavy Burdens Over-walking Running or the like 't is a present Remedy by comforting easing healing and strengthning the Parts It effectually prevents Miscarriages tho' you have miscarried never so many times and this it does by strengthening and nourishing the Womb and weak Foetus therein for it corrects the Blood and Humours that affords Nourishment and if the Symptoms or danger at any time of Miscarrying appears the taking immediately of this Electuary certainly secures you if not too far let alone before you begin It wonderfully corrects and alters the heat thinness and sharpness of the Blood which occasions immoderate or over-flowing of the Courses of Nature by which many are reduc'd to a very low and dangerous condition and that more especially in Elderly Women upon whom they ought naturally to stop which if neglected and not timely remedied will occasion Bearings down bring the Whites and other weaknesses and soulness of the Womb introducing in time Ulcers Cancers c. for prevention of which the Electuary is a most admirable Remedy only the better to correct and thoroughly to evacuate the vitious Humours 't will be necessary that you Purge twice or thrice in the time of taking it with our English Pills aforegoing And also for the Whites a Disease very troublesome and spending and which most Women are incident to both Old and Young but more especially Elderly Women after their Courses have left them or are about to leave them and that generally more than ordinary for want of taking proper Medicines to settle their Bodies at the time of their Termes leaving them 'tis an excellent Remedy perfecting the Cure tho' of never so many Years standing and the Patient reduc'd by the length of time and greatness of the Flux to so weak a condition as scarcely able to go about only twice or thrice in the time of taking the Electuary you must also Purge with our Pills aforesaid but if the Whites be neglected or not timely cured they will bring great pain and weakness in the Back and whole Body and occasion many other dangerous Maladies as Cachexies Dropsies Consumptions c which may prove fatal Such Women therefore that have regard to their own welfare will have recourse to this Electuary at such time as the Courses of Nature are about to leave them and not as many do take little or no care concerning it notwithstanding Nature is always so kind to let them know that she wants the help of Art at that Juncture by their Courses dodging them and their flowing but poorly and sometimes not at all ebbing and flowing untimely and irregular sometimes paler and thinner at other times in smaller quantity and foul which is warning sufficient that she stands in need of help and that they ought at that time to be settled and disposed after a particular manner and not be neglected as many Women to their Sorrow have done who for want of such care are now complaining of either Vapour Flushings all over the Body the Whites in abundance pursiness at Stomach loss of Appetite Cholicks Faintings or other the like Weaknesses and Indispositions which if not timely remedied brings Ulcers or Cancers in the Womb Dropsies Consumptions or other fatal Distempers but Women that are wife will in time prevent those inconveniencies by making use of this Electuary which will be of unspeakable advantage who in the time of taking it if Plethorick or full of Blood and not much reduc'd must once be let Blood and purge with our English Pills aforegoing once just before you begin with the Electuary and twice or thrice more in the time that your are taking it by which means they will assuredly be preserved and secured from those Dangers Also for such Women that are afflicted with a Flux of their Courses and the Whites together as numbers of them are and reduc'd extreamly low with the same this Electuary is a Remedy that cannot be equall'd only for correction of Humours and the better to cleanse the Womb 't is convenient to Purge also once or twice with our Pills aforegoing And likewise for all Loosnesses Bloody-fluxes inward Bleedings Bleedings at Nose Spitting or Vomiting of Blood bloody Urine and the like whether from the sharpness of the Blood a Vein broke Falls Bruises or any manner of cause or occasion there is hardly the like present Remedy in the whole Republick of Medicine it retrieving in such cases many times when all hopes of Life have been dispair'd of and dissolves congeal'd or coagulated Blood remaining in any part of the Body tho' indeed in all those cases if strength will permit 't will also be necessary to Purge now and then with our English Pills aforesaid And as this Electuary has cured many in the aforegoing Distempers so likewise has it perfectly cured several Children and others of riper Years of incontinency of Urine Pissing in Bed and the Diabetes and that after the continuance of the Distemper for several Years and when multitudes of Medicines have been used to no purpose and has also cured several Children and others of the falling down of the Fundament and Ruptures where the Rim or Peritonaeum has not been broken it being a Medicine which so admirably and potently strengthens the inward Parts as never to fail tho' sometimes I have been oblig'd for the better facilitating and making lasting the Cure so as
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
the frightful and as it were dying Disease the Vapours of all sorts Fits of the Mother Cloggings Stuffings Gnawings or Illness at Stomach whether from Wind Humours or the like also for such as grow too fat sweat much and have nauseous spittings in the Morning Bleeding at Nose Cachexies have costive or hot Bodies and for all as have lost their Complexions by the Green-sickness Jaundice or otherwise and such as are overtaken with lingring Diseases growing worse and worse every Year than other not knowing well what they ail having ill Digestions Stoppages in the Head and Breast shortness of Breath c. till such time as they fall into Dropsies Hectick Fevers or deep Consumptions pining and wasting away with dry Coughs Wheesings faint Sweats in the Day or Night Weakness fainting Fits and the like These admirably Pills carry off all those Diseases the right way by taking them twice or thrice in a Month or oftner if you find occasion They are the best Physick in Nature for to take Spring and Fall as a Preventative Remedy and to preserve Health as most People that have any regard to the welfare and security thereof are mindful to take and likewise from any Disorder or Indisposition whether from Heats or Colds Surfeits by eating or drinking or the like If taken as soon as your perceive your self ill they most assuredly prevent any Fever or other Disease from invading you and there is as much prudence in taking Physick Spring and Fall twice or three times in each Season to discharge the peccant Humours which are heap'd up in the Stomach and lodge there tho' at the same time you seem to be very well in Health thereby to preserve from and prevent Diseases which all Persons are liable to every Moment as there is to take Physick for curing those Diseases when they have seized you and no Person that desires a happy and healthy State of Body will be so imprudent to neglect that which is so absolutely and undeniably necessary for for the preservation thereof and I can assure them from a very large Experience that no Physick under the Sun will answer such a purpose beyond these famous English Pills These Pills purge by Stool Phlegm Choller and Melancholy disposing all old Ulcers Fistula's running Sores Sore Breasts Sore Eyes Scald Head King 's evil Swellings or Sores Wounds Gangreens Cankers Cancers Tettars Ring-worms Scabs Salt Humours or any other Breakin gs out as Pushes Boils Wheals c. to a speedy healing by purging away the evil Humours which feed them and perfectly removes the cause of the Elephantiasis or Leprosy These Pills are of wonderful use for all Travellers Seamen and such like Persons who live on bad Dyet in ill Airs and moist Places and near the Sea Coast and for all such as have spoiled their Bodies and surfeited their Heats and Colds hard and excessive Drinking in their young Days and for such as cannot attend upon a Cure but are forced to go about their Business They may take them to Sea with them because they keep their Vertues many Years nor do Sea Voyages spoil them They will will be found to stand them in great stead in all Sea-sicknesses sickly Climates or Seasons Calentures Fevers Fluxes Poysons Agues Surfeits and the like Scorbutick Diseases which so commonly afflict such as go to Sea as that scarcely any but are afflicted in one or more of these Diseases so excellent are these Pills that more cannot possibly be done by a purging Medicine These Pills are incomparable against all manner of Coughs Colds Rheums or Distillations difficulty of Breathing Vomiting weakness of the Stomach want of Appetite Pleurisies Pains of the side spitting of Blood c. performing every thing of this kind to admiration suddenly and strangely easing of Pains proceeding from Wind Humours Colds Surfeits or any other Cause whatsoever They cure Fevers and Agues of all sorts sometimes in three Weeks sometimes in fourteen Days and sometimes in less time altho' of 2 or 3 Years standing and given over by all Physicians and when almost every one thought the hopes of Recovery had been past These Pills kill all sorts of Worms in Old or Young altho' the Patient has been almost destroyed with them they bringing away not only the Worms dead or alive but also Slime Filthiness or wormy Matter both from the Stomach and Bowels which generates and breeds them bring down the great Bellies of Children and others which Worms occasions causing a strong Digestion and a sanative Constitution and I cannot forbear repeating them to be as they are indeed and which every one that make tryal will find the very best Remedy in the World against the Dropsy and the Gout taking away all Swellings from the Belly Thighs and Legs and all manner of Pains tho' fixed in the very Bones and that in Rheumatisms when the Pains have been so cruel and intollerable as not to be born without violent Roarings and Cryings out they have done wonders and that when no other means whatsoever would any thing avail They also dissolve the Stone as much as any Medicine in the Universe is able to do bringing away Slime Sand and Gravel from the Reins and Bladder taking away Stoppage of Urine and causing those to make Water plentifully and easily who could not do it in some Days before this they have done in numbers of People to admiration These Pills are a certain Cure for the Falling-sickness Convulsions that deplorable and fatal Disease to Infants whereby several Thousands and that from a Scorbutick Cause are carried off in a Year Apoplexies Palsies Cramps Lamenesses weakness of Limbs loss of Memory Sciatica's and all manner of fixed or running Pains whatsoever in any part of the Body all which does most certainly proceed from the Scurvy that Bane and distroyer of Health and Life insomuch that many Bed-rid Persons given over in ail appearance as incurable have under God unexpectedly met with a Cure almost to a Miracle so that many learned Physicians could not but admire at their wonderful Vertues These samous English Pills Cure Barrenness effectually whether the fault be in the Man or Woman they exalting the Generative Faculty cleansing and strengthning the Spermatick Vessels resisting all Foulness and Infection in the Act of Generation bring down the Terms in Women and Maids strengthen a weak Back cure Ulcers and Stoppages in the Womb and are wonderful in all other Diseases belonging to the Female Sex they expel Wind carry off the Wind Cholick to admiration and so speedily Cure the Griping of the Guts that many who seemingly were at the point of Death have found them a present Remedy when all other means have failed They are the most powerful Pills in Nature against the Rickets in Children the pale and wan Countenance whether from the Green-sickness or otherwise in Virgins all manner of Stoppages and Pains in the Stomach Head and Brain Liver Spleen Reins Womb and Bowels they purify cleanse and
sweeten the whole Mass of Blood rectify all the Distempers of the Head quicken the Senses add a good Colour to the Face strengthen the Sight and so wonderfully recreate the Natural Vital and Animal Spirits as that the Body thereby is made perfectly able to withstand and resist all its Diseases They cleanse the Body of Wind Water and ill Humours without the least Griping or making Sick unless as was said before the Stomach be very foul or any way weakning the Body which done they cease working for they will work no longer than there is Diseasy Matter to work upon but contrarywise will help all inward wastings or decays of Nature caused through Pains Wrenches Bruises or over-strainings they stopping all Weepings Moistures Whites Fluxes c. by carrying off the Humours another way thereby strengthning the Vessels fortifying Nature and restoring the decay'd Parts even to a wonder In fine these Pills are the chief and real Medicine now used for the Scurvy and the aforesaid Diseases which are produc'd there-from and found to be such from long Experience not only here in England but in many Foreign Countries and Kingdoms they being cryed up and prized above all Remedies whatsoever insomuch that in some Thousands of Families on most occasions they are their only Physick and indeed no Person living from the highest to the lowest can have a better Purging Medicine in the World let the Patients condition be from what cause or occasion soever they being known to be safe in Operation and certain in the end proposed for no Person curable troubled with the aforesaid Diseases ever failed of a Cure especially if they continued them without delay of time or taking of other Physick according to the Directions and all Persons that have been known to take these Pills have found good at the first taking and several Hundreds yea Thousands of People who have taken them have given them as great Commendations as it was ever possible any Medicine could deserve Their safety and the success that has followed upon the use of them has brought them into the great estimation they have have acquired in many parts of the World for as much as they that take these Pills need not go under long dangerous and chargeable Courses of Physick nor suffer by bad Medicines or be driven time after time from one Physician to another as many hundreds daily are not knowing where to apply themselves safe when only a Box or two of these Pills will do more notable Cures than twenty times that Money expended upon Doctors These Pills are the only Antidote in Nature against all infectious Diseases contagious Airs and preserves from the mischief of Fogs and unwholesome and suffocated Vapours in Marshy or Fenny Countries which arise from the Earth or Water they making old Age comely and the Countenance of all that take them to be chearful and Sanguine they mundify and cleanse the Skin of all its Impurities restores and increase Beauty and abound with more Vertues than any one Medicine besides for altho' many Diseases have been mentioned the labour might have been saved for as they are Pills of an universal Tendency and I verily believe the only Purging Medicine in the World it might only have been said they are good for every Disease and not only for the Distempers herein inserted but also for many others known or unknown without name or number even when they are so unaccountably afflicted as not knowing what they ail These Pills being endowed with such excellent Properties and are so full and effectual a healer that they deservedly merit the Title of the only universal Pills in the World And although they are of such admirable Vertues yet I must inform you that when the Disease is of long continuance and stubborn a perfect Cure cannot be expected in a few times taking them in those Cases you may take them in the largest Dose and that at least for ten or fifteen times or more as need requires omitting them a day or two as you shall see cause but if any shall presume upon the commendation of these Pills that any Disease in whatsoever condition the Patient is in must be infallibly cured he is mistaken for I speak here only of such Diseases as by God's Blessing and the very best of Means as these Pills undoubtedly are they may receive cure for for in some Cases no Medicine in the World can prevail for sometimes the Lungs themselves or the Liver or the Reins are ulcerated and putrefy'd and sometimes other internal Parts are consumed and what Medicine in Nature can repair such Ruins or make new Viscera when the old are perished These Pills operate extreamly pleasant safe and gentle and is Physick fit to be taken by Persons of the greatest Rank and Dignity and that by all Ages and Sexes from Two Years old to Fourscore and upwards at any Season of the Year and it is observable that these Pills after four or five times taking keep the Bowels open for a Month together and leave not the Body costive and bound as is the Property of all other Physick by which good Property Diseases seem to melt away insensible These Pills are of an admirable and friendly quality performing all its Operations as-Nature-her self requires and is disposed to the Action tho' chiefly by Stool and Urine so that they are bound to that way of Operation as best serves Nature's end in restoring Health Hence it is that they cure Diseases with so great safety speed and ease and that without almost any other Medicine they being as was said before fitted for all Ages Sexes and Constitutions whatsoever and that if there but little Corruption in the Body they bring forth but little if much they bring forth much and in Persons perfectly well they will scarcely work at all because in such they have no Enemy to meet or contend withal These Pills are not only the surest and most certain Medicine as well as cheapest for the Scurvy and all the asoresaid Diseases which are the consequents or productions thereof of any ever yet published or administred but doth a thousand times more excel the best prepared and most celebrated sorts of Spirit of Scurvy-grass so highly applauded for the Scurvy they affecting what is herein proposed so stupendiously and beyond the power of any other Remedy whether ordinary or extraordinary as that they never can be vallued or esteemed enough for what Reachings Strainings Vomitings Gripings illness at the Stomach sickness at Heart Faintings and other very unpleasing Effects many Medicines occasion which are here avoided this single Medicine gently cleansing the Stomach and Bowels of their drossy mucilaginous Dregs saluting the Vital Powers like an Angel of Peace and piercing the whole Body like Lightning doth as it were by its Character and benign Beams subdue the Malignant Powers of Diseases and throughly overcome the morbisick Matter thereof and that without the least perturbution of Humours alteration of Body change
livid or black Colour having great Veins every way round it which the Blood extends and makes turgid and visible resembling the Feet of a Crab from whence it took its Name and is full of Pain and very hot and of a cruel and horrid Aspect and sometimes rises to such a hight of Malignity that the Matter it contains when it is broke is as sharp and as corrosive as Aqua Fortis They are as said at first Whole or Ulcerous in the beginning growing or increasing they are generally whole but when come to ripeness they break run or gleet and are then called Cancer Ulceratus or Ulcus Canceratum This Humour being fixt upon some one or more of the Glands of the Breast from either of the Causes mentioned and being sharp and corrosive is apt to convert whatever comes to it of Blood into the same Acrimony with it self and so increases apace while the Skin is whole but much more when upon the breaking of the Skin for then the accession of the Airs adds to the vigour of the Ferment when it grows fierce or enraged and so shoots forth it self in the nature of a Fungus or Excrescences or Tubercles c. This part being deprav'd and a vitious Ferment therein the Humours that flow thither are still farther changed till at length they partake of a malign and poisonous Nature vehemently deleterious consisting of a stinking Arsenical Sulphur and a Catheretick or highly corrosive Salt extreamly subtle and penetrating This malign Humour when so from whatever Causes chiefly take up its seat in parts that are Glandulous beginning in the Glandule of a Part and most often affects Womens Breasts by reason of their looseness great Humidities and strong Ferment they contain and at first is very difficult to be known for it at first exceeds not the bigness of a Pea or a Bean which in time increases slowly to the bigness of an Egg or a Melon or as sometimes it has been known as big as a Pompion tho again in some according as is the Cause it grows big of a sudden and discovers its evil Nature by the grievous Symptoms that appear and a◠it increases in bigness it increases in malignity In the Cure of Cancers various Successes have happen'd which have divided the Opinions of Practitioners concerning the Causes of them The Ancients observ'd that Women were most troubled with Cancers upon the stopping of their Monthly Visits and that when at any time they had swellings in their Breasts upon the provocation of that Evacuation the swellings either sunk or left thin from whence they concluded that the stopping of that Course in Women was the only Cause thereof and this they endeavour'd to explain by saying that the Blood by such stoppages being not purify'd from the Atribilious Humour or Acids which separate themselves from it by the regular flowing of the Courses discharge themselves upon some one of the Glandulous Parts and those of the Breast more generally from the Communication there is between them and the Womb which Communication Experience confirms because we see that just upon or a little before the coming down of the Courses the Breasts of Women are tender that is the Glandules or Kernels of them so as not to be handled or press'd with ease which upon the flowing of the Courses that tenderness leaves them and they may be felt and handled without any manner of uneasiness so that it is plain that upon the stoppage of the Courses in Women Cancers are oftentimes occasion'd especially where the Blood abounds with Atrabilious Humours or Acids I say sometimes it is so for it must not be said to be always so because we have instances without number of Women that have had them by Blows Bruises c. as before we have made mention of and as was the case of a Gentlewoman whose Husband after a Drunken Bout was thrown into a Fever and being delirious upon her giving him something to drink he hit her Left Breast with his Hand which caus'd it to Cancerate of which she soon after dy'd We are assur'd by many observations that Cancers sometimes have proceeded from the stopping of the Monthly Visits by Frights violent Grief and by letting of Blood unseasonably at the times of the Courses actually running which are dangerous stopping them and care should be forthwith taken to bring them to flow again or else the Breasts may be affected especially if the Blood abounds with Atrabilious Humours or Acids as before-mentioned The hardness of Cancers is from the thickness of the Humour the pain of them is from the conjoyn'd Cause it being sharp and corrosive the Heat of them proceeds from the extremity of Pain the livid or blacksh colour is from the Malignity and Poison which even discolours the purest Metals if touch'd with it the roundness of the Cancers is from the thickness of the Matter which cannot spread it self abroad as Humours do that are more fluid the inequality of shape of the Cancerous Tumour as sometimes 3 or 4 square or longish proceeds from the Ferment of the Humour and because sometimes it is contain'd in several little Glands and its turgid Veins like to Crab's Claws is caused from the Recrements of the Blood filling those Parts which by reason of Matter obstructing or pressing upon them hinders its getting forth Cancers are known in part by the Places they fix on which are the Glands tho' they may breed in almost all parts of the Body and this Aegineta confirms who says a Cancer may happen to sundry Places as the Lips Tongue Cheeks Womb and other loose Glandulous Parts but were One has a Cancer in any part besides Twenty have them in their Breasts and so says Galen That Cancerous Tumours are chiefly in Women's Breasts which have not their Purgations according to Nature and the reason seems to be from the consent of the Parts as before observed for that the Mammariae Veins or Veins of the Breasts meet with the Uterinae or Veins of the Womb under the Musculi recti of the Belly by which means there is a translation of the Matter from the Womb to the Breasts Where Cancers in the Breasts are painful there is also attending a Pulsation or beating like a Pulse together with a Heat more than ordinary and where the Pains are very sharp so as if the Part was struck with a Dart 〈◊〉 the Matter is very corrosive and will certainly in a little time break forth in a Gleeting or some dangerous stinking Ulcer and when they are Ulcerated as frequently they are from the breaking of some of the Tubercls lying under the Skin whether the Matter that runs be much or little the Ulcer is painful and very stinking and not only discharge a stinking Gleety Humour but also there thrusts forth hard and painful Lips which in time if not rightly managed fixes to the Ribs that is if the Cancer be in the Breast or side of it becoming by the quick progress it
that the Distemper may never return again to exhibit our English Pills so often mentioned for correcting of the Humours administring them in proportion to the Age and Strength of the Patient In fine 't is so excellent a Medicine that it corrects and amends all ill Vices Weaknesses Foulnesses and disorders of the Womb Bowels and Reins that tend to corrupt and destroy them whether it be from any preternatural Fluxes or abounding of virious Humours c. and which happening upon the Womb is most times the cause or occasion of Barenness and will and that more especially with the use also of our aforesaid Pills preserve the Womb truly clean and fine and make it apt for Conception as by many has been experienc'd and prevent the many Inconveniencies and Mischiefs which Women are daily complaining of and therefore do recommend it as one of the most useful and necessary Medicines hitherto discover'd for the several particulars occasions before mentioned Directions TAke the quantity of a Small-Nut of it from off a Knife's Point every Morning fasting and the same at going to Bed drinking a Glass of Tent Alicant raw or burnt Claret or Ale after it and if your condition be very bad then take the like quantity at Noon eating nothing for an Hour before or after it and this repeat every day till you find your self cured And Children must take it after the same manner only the Dose is to be proportion'd according to their Age and in every of the Cases mentioned the Pills must occasionally be exhibited as aforesaid It is a Cordial corroborating and strengthning Medicâ—ne makes not the Stomach sick or uneasie unless it be very weak or soul nor causes the least disorder whatsoever but is so very safe and harmless that you may go abroad in the taking if able and that without any other care or observation than what is usual only let your Motion and Exercise be gentle the quieter and stiller you keep the better OF THE CAUSES OF THE FISTULA in Ano OR The Fundament With its certain Cure by an Injection without Cutting or Burning c. THE Causes of Fistula's proceed chiefly from Plegmons and Hemorrhoids or Piles broken or ill cur'd or that are not cur'd in a long time as also from the application of Horse-leeches to the Piles which are commonly done and not well cur'd they leaving some Venemous Matter behind them which in time creates a malignant or corrosive Indisposition that in time makes a Sinus or Hollowness becoming if neglected Callous also Bruises or Hurts on those Parts cause Swellings and Fistula's I say often those are the causes of Fistula's in the Fundament but there is another Cause not much taken notice of or at least wise is what few People care to own and that is proceeding from an ill cur'd Clap which is more frequently the cause of Fistula's than any other I having observ'd that where one Fistula is occasion'd by any other means ten proceeds from that tho' it may be so many Years after as to give reasons to the contrary yet is certainly so especially if the Patient had been for Cure of that Clap in the Hands of some Pretender or was too hastily cur'd which is what now adays tho' very wrongful to the Patient most endeavour to be valu'd upon when a true Cure is gradatium and ought to be no more hudled up than it should be prolong'd as all true Artists in such Cures well know The Fistula generally comes on gradually its Matter passing at first between the Tunicles of the Intestinum Rectum and is of a thin gleety Nature which makes its way out near the verge of the Fundament through as it were at first of a small Pin-hole and is perceiv'd by its staining the Shirt or Shift of the Patient without any Pain and is thought tho' mistakenly to be rather a kind of Sweating Moisture than a real Fistulous Matter But in time if not remedied this Humour occasions an itching and subjects the Patient to excoriation or galling of the Part by it continual moistness and sharpness of the Humour which also in longer time causes several kinds of small Pimples or Pustles to break out and sometimes Rhagades Fissurae or Chops which at length causes the Sinus to spread outwards and the extremity of the Orifice to grow hard callous and so contracted as not to admit the passing in of a small Probe Sometimes those Fistula's pass deep among the Interstitia of the Muscles according to the sharp Matter can make its way sometimes they penetrate through the Intestinum Rectum to the very neck of the Bladder may sometimes into the Pelvis or amongst the Musculi Glutâ—i and other Parts being then very painful and sends forth a purulent sanious Matter sharp ugly and stinking and that in greater or less quantity as the hollowness reaches which in time grows very Callcus and makes its twisting and twining like a Coney Burvow which are the very worst sort of Fistula's There are two sorts of Fistula's in Ano one pierces through the Intestinum Rectum or Gut into the Fundament and the other not and both of them are either shallow or deep which you may easily come to find out If it passes into the Fundament you will upon breaking Wind find part of it make its way through the Sinus of the Fistula also if the Excrements appear mingled with the Quittour of the Fistula or if the Quittour that comes from the outer Orifice of the Fistula smells like the Excrements it is a certain sign it passes into the Fundament If by injecting any Liquor at the outer Orifice of the Fistula part of it passes through into the Fundament or if by passing a pliable Probe into the outer Orifice of the Fistula you can feel the end of the Probe bare to your Finger put into the Fundament they are infallible signs the Fistula goes into the Fundament As for the Presages or Prognosticks of Fistula's it is allow'd by all that they are not easy of Cure for the Parts being depending and as it were the Sink of the Body so great plenty of Humours and Impurities and much superfluous Moisture slows naturally down and always hinders the Cure The Curative part of Fistula's Authors tell us depend on five means viz. Diet internal Medicaments Incision Deligation and Topical Applications As for Diet and internal Medicaments they are what is absolutely necessary as also some Topical means but for Incision or Cutting or applying Causticks or Corrosives so frequently now adays advis'd and almost as frequently perform'd but with what Success the Patients themselves are best able to relate I by no means agree to unless in some particular Cases where the Patients Life is in danger and where no other means whatsoever will avail Such I say for to save Life cutting or applying Causticks c. are and ought to be us'd as also in some superficial Fistula's that run upwards by the Intestinum Rectum but to
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