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A29646	A brief discovery of the chief causes, signs, and effects, of that most reigning disease, the scurvy together with the causes, symptoms, & effects, of several other dangerous diseases most usually afflicting mankind. Whereunto is added, a short account of that imcomparable, and most highly approved medicine called Bromfield's pill. Being the only remedy this age hath produced against the scurvy, and most other curable distempers. Formerly prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield; and now wholly assigned by him to Mr. Joseph Stent.	Bromfield, M.; Stent, Joseph.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4884G; ESTC R217246	15,354	18

being the most common I shall say no more of the rest at present only thus much shall add that if Worms be voided alive without other excrement in the beginning of a Disease 't is dangerous and signifies great Crudities and if voided dead signifies much putrefaction that has killed them which probably shortly after kills the Patient In short 't is the opinion of our Age grounded upon experimental proofs that Worms and their effects have conducted more People to their Graves than any one Distemper whatsoever And therefore you that suspect them in your selves make much of these PILLS as a choice remedy to prevent a Worm-eaten Carcase and take them ere too late by which doing you may prolong your days in case and health and be obliged to thank your Adviser The Causes Symptoms and Effects of DROPSIES THE Dropsie Ascites is from abundance of Water heaped up between the Peritonaeum or inner-coat of the Belly and Bowels which infecting the Mouth of the Stomach doth bring great thirst and often a Fever Sometimes it begins in the Feet and swells upward to the Legs Thighs and Cods but at the same time the upper parts of the Body usually consume The cause of this Dropsie may be from a cold Distemper of the Liver which cannot make perfect Blood but Flegm Wind and Water Sometimes a Dropsie may proceed from a Fever hot Meats and too plentiful drinking of Wine whence the Liver Spleen and kidneys may lose part of their native heat and consequently their ability to attrack the Water and eject it by the Vreters The same may be caused from the natural Flux in Women flowing too plentifully or from retention of the same And drinking much cold Water may diminish and disperse the native heat and by that means make way for a Dropsie The Dropsie Tympanites is from wind shut up in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly and sometimes in the Guts This wind is bred from crude thick flegmatick or Melancholy humors which by heat having motion and made thin become gross windy Vapors This Dropsie is never of wind alone but always mixt with Water But the greatest part of this Distempper proceeding from wind it is then called a Tympany The Dropsie Anasarca is without controversie bred from a cold Distemper of the Liver which hinders its concoction from whence instead of good Blood it disperseth flegmatick humors and causeth the whole Body to swell A Dropsie may be also caused from all tumors or obstructions of the Liver much bleeding great evacuation by Stool Sweat c. Note All Dropsies are dangerous and hardly cured Yet the Dropsie Anasarca which is occasioned by flegm spread over the whole Body is easiest cured of the three but Ascites and Tympanites with much more difficulty Notwithstanding I here promise that my Pills do very rarely fail to give help in the most dangerous Dropsie provided the Disease be within the Power of Physick to remedy Note That all the Symptoms afore-mentioned are seldom in every one that have these Diseases at one and the same time except those in Dropsies but most are and some have more and some fewer of them There remains now something more to be said of those excellent Pills afore-named of which briefly thus Two of the larger Boxes of them price but six Shillings are usually enough for perfect Cure of either of the aforesaid Diseases except the Disease be of very long continuance and then the Person doth sometimes take a small quantity more to perfect the Cure These Pills are also of admirable use for such as have the POX Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins and for such as formerly have had either of those Diseases and suspect an ill Cure or dread a relapse and for such they are of good use taken in the Spring or Autumn to carry off any reliques of the Malady that may be suspected to remain They are likewise one of the most sure and speedy Medicines in the World against the Green-sickness and for such young Women as want their monthly Visits And as I hinted before have recovered many who have been brought even to the Grave with these Distempers They are also of good use against Fits of the Mother as likewise against foulness and other Distempers of the Womb taking away the causes of Barrenness They free the Body from lumpish Melancholy humours and revive drooping Spirits even to a wonder cure the Jaundies and are a good Medicine against heat and sharpness of Urine I shall add That these Pills taken sometimes to prevent Diseases or more closely followed to cure as need shall require are a choice remedy for all Families especially those who inhabit near the Seas such much more than others being liable to Obstructions Agues the Scurvy and many other Distempers They are also a precious Medicine for Mariners and such as use the seas to whom the Scurvy and many other Diseases are very incident partly from bad Airs Sea Fogs sudden Heats and Colds much Salt Diet and sometimes from excessive drinking of Foreign and unfrequented Liquors c. and they are the more commodious for such to take to Sea with them because in the time of taking them none is confined to keep in but every one may walk abroad at pleasure except the weather be extream sharp or the body very tender for indeed they are so gentle that they are safely taken by all Persons from three Years Old to the greatest Age and at all times of the Year even in the coldest or hottest Seasons being so congruous to all Constitutions as gently to wait Nature in her dictates as is daily manifested by their sundry and facile Operations for in some they gently move sweat in others much Urine and in others they operate effectually by Stool and in some again they work by sweat Urine and Stool So that which way soever Nature is inclined to acquit her self that very way they are ready to assist her Many more are the Vertues might truly be ascribed to this Medicine but I shall only add that it being taken some few times at Spring and Autumn doth fortifie the Body against the assaults of most Diseases and it is also found by daily Experience to free the Body from malignant humours and to resist these Disease viz. the SCVRVY the violent Head-ach Palsie Falling-sickness Apoplexy Lethargy or sleepy Disease vertigo Dizziness Frenzy Madness Catarrbs or Defluctions Asthma or Shortness of breath obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery Agues Quotidian Iertian or Quartan Foulness and Distempers of the Womb Pain and foulness of the Stomach putrefaction of Humors Kings-Evil Leprosie Mange Scurf Running Pain Stitches Convulsions Gout Sciatica Cholicks Stone Loosness Fluxes Excoriation of the Intestines or Griping in the Guts Surfeits loss of Appetite Vomiting c. purges gross Tartarous humours from the Body thereby preventing the Gout also sweetning and purifying the whole Mass of Blood c. And know that it doth not only prevent these Diseases

A BRIEF DISCOVERY of the chief CAUSES SIGNS and EFFECTS Of that most Reigning Disease the SCURVY Together with the CAUSES SYMPTOMS EFFECTS Of several other dangerous Diseases most usually afflicting Mankind Whereunto is added A short Account of that incomparable and most highly approved MEDICINE CALLED Bromfield's Pill Being the only Remedy this Age hath produced against the SCURVY and most other Curable Distempers Formerly prepared and set forth for the Publick Benefit By M. BROMFIELD And now wholly assigned by him to Mr. JOSEPH STENT LONDON Printed in the Year 1694. The chief Causes Symptoms and Effects of the Scurvy THIS Disease doth chiefly proceed from Melancholy bred by distempers of the Stomach or Spleen which being crude stays in the passages of the Arteries and Veins and thereby doth excite grievous Fermentation or Workings from whence are sent Vapors which afflict the heart and brain c. from all which is caused malignant and contagious putrefaction of Melancholy and thence proceed these Symptoms viz. Giddiness in the head sudden flushings heat and redness in the face and body putrefaction and stinking of the mouth and gums Tooth-ach stinking breath blackness and looseness of the teeth want of digestion much wind and unsavoury belchings and by thick vapon arising from the Hypocondria to the midriff are occasioned obstructions of respiration or shortness of Breath and straitness of the Breast c. The body is dull and heavy and in the legs are spots sometimes red purple black or blue There are also violent pains in the head shoulders arms fingers belly thighs knees legs ancles feet and toes Whence some who have had the Pox though cured do fear the return of their old malady There are many thousands have this Distemper that are perswaded they have the Gout because sometimes it hath the very signs of the Gout which also is the cause why the Scurvy which by mistake is judged the Gout is so seldom cured For those Medicaments pertinent in the Gout are not the very same in the Scurvy and consequently cannot cure it Other signs of the Scurvy are bad sleep and frightful dreams a feverish heat and sweats towards the morning Some have risings on their body as if stung with Bees or Wasps c. others have dolors in their sides imitating those of the Spleen And in short it doth appear to a judicious eye with and in the shape of most Diseases as hath been sufficiently apparent not onely to my self but also to several other experienced Physitians who have traced this Disease and made exact inspection into its variable dresses for many years together And it is also observed that it is propagated and spread abroad in these parts of the world more than any other Distemper whatsoever and by its sundry shapes hath seduced many in their judgment of the Disease For in some it passeth for a Consumption in others for a Dropsie c. and Medicines are given accordingly but alas to little purpose and all for want of a true knowledge of the original of the Disease it self And here observe a great truth viz. that there are very few afflicted with any Distemper of long continuance who have not joyned with it a Scorbutick taint which unless it be considered and some powerful Antisoorbutick Medicaments given the Patient is very rarely if ever cured Now the conclusion of all if the Scurvy be not timely remedied and that it grow predominant is sometimes Swoonings Apoplexies Dropsies great decay of the Body Consumptions and very often Death it self Note That in some the Scurvy is hereditary and that there are some few causes thereof besides those here set down but these being usually the chief the other are omitted The Causes Signs and Effects of the VIRGIN or MAIDEN Disease called the GREEN-SICKNESS THE main cause of this Disease is from obstructions or stoppage and the cause of such obstructions c. are evil thick and clammy humours which choak and stop the passage in the Vessels and spoil the making and passage of the Blood c. and these proceed from bad Diet as eating of raw Wheat Oatmeal much Salt Ashes Clay Chalk c. drinking of much Vingar or much cold Water from too much or too little Sleep eating much raw Fruit sitting too long at Sewing work Melancholy violent Exercise great Heats or Colds c. The signs of this Disease are a pale and greenish colour in the Face the Face and Eye-lids swelled especially after Sleep the Heart beats and fainteth the Stomach swell'd or pained they loath Meat have a tickling cough and their Breath short they sometimes Vomit they have thirst Head-ach and are often Melancholy they are swell'd about their Ancles and Feet and care not much to stir especially up Stairs or an Hill The continuance of this Disease brings long Fevers Barrenness great watery Swellings and the Dropsie Some have a Schirrus or Tumour and wasting in their Liver others by oppression of the Heart die suddenly and many fall into Consumptions which end in the Grave Note That great caution ought to be used in Bleeding any Maid in the Arm before she have had her monthly Visits but if an urgent occasion call for Blood-letting then rather breathe a Vein in the Ancle By following this advice you shall most certainly prevent the Death of some and many Diseases in others but more especially that most dreadful Disease of Barrenness And against this very Disease viz. the Green-sickness and also to procure the monthly Visits in such Women in whom they are wanting there are but few Medicines comparable to these PILLS as has been often proved when no other means or Medicines could prevail I shall here give some account concerning WORMS OF these Creatures are several sorts but the most usual are shaped round and long these are bred in the Guts yet sometimes get into the Stomach The second are short and very small like threds and commonly lie in the right Gut and in the end of the Fundament wherein is almost continual itching which Worms also provoke the Patient very often to stool The third sort are long and broad of an incredible length but very rarely seen Worms are chiefly caused from raw gross flegmatick matter and therefore Youth and such as eat much Fruit are seldom free from them Also all great Eaters are very subject to them especially those who eat Meats that easily putrifie in the Stomach and more at once than Nature can well digest whence follow Crudities and thence Worms the signs of which are many Some have unsavory belchings and a stinking Breath wasting of the Gums heaviness fainting great thirst vomiting cold sweats and often a Fever a short Cough unquiet Sleep intolerable gnawing pains in the Stomach and Belly loss of Appetite weakness and consumption of the whole Body Many times the Patient hath an insatiable Appetite caused by flat Worms which devour the Food that is eaten There are a few signs more of Worms but these