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

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

c. where they are now to be sold for if there be truth in man I have daily tidings of their most wonderful efficacy in curing such Diseases as by most are judged incurable Notwithstanding for urther confirmation have been perswaded to insert the following Letters A Letter from Mr. Humph. Harris Chirurgeon and School-Master in Sandwhich in the Isle of Purbeck Sir I Have lately bought some of your Pills of Mr. Churchil at Dorchester in the County of Dorset and having taken of them my self have found them excellent Pills my wife also having been a long time troubled with a disease in her head much like a Vertigo by a few times taking them hath received much ease they have also eased her stomach which was very foul and very much straitned and obstructed with a continual wheezing and want of breath I have spared some to my neighbours who have found much benefit by them and commend them as the best Physick they ever took Pray be pleased to send me about Forty or Fifty shillings worth and let them be delivered to the Pool-Carrier who will pay your Messenger for them I have no more but remain Sandwhich the 2 of April 72. Sir Your humble servant Humphry Harris A Letter from Mr. William Woodgate Mercer and Grocer at Brenchly in Kent Much Honored Sir THe Providence of God bringing one of your Books to my hand wherein you discover the Causes Symptoms c. of the Scurvy with which and Gravel a consumptiveness much oppression by winde and the Jaundice I have been some years past exercised I sent for some of your Pills and used them according to directions and through mercy do finde much benefit by them praised be to God who hath directed you in making those Excellent Pills And Sir I had quite lost the Sense of Smelling long before ever I heard of your Pills which is almost returned but not fully and do therefore desire your further Advice in that particular which please to send by my Carier John Austin who Innes at the George in Southwark Several hereabout observing the wonderful Cure that your Pills have wrought upon me have taken many of serving the wonderful Cure that your Pills have wrought upon me have taken many of them with admirable success The particulars of their effects with testimonies of the several Cures they have performed in these parts you may suddenly expect from Brenchly the 22 of May 72. Sir Your most humble Servants Will. Woodgate A Letter from Mr. John Bingham at Belwood in the Parish of Belton in the Isle of Axholm Lincoln-shire SIR I Make bold to acquaint you of a most wonderful Cure the Lord hath been pleased to work with your Pills I have a Son about 23 years of age that hath been very Dropsical troubled with the Scurvy and several other Distempers these 5 or 6 years and of late hath been exceedingly swelled with the Dropsie in his legs privities and almost all parts of his body a great dimness fell into his eyes and withal he had a pain in his head so violent that he could hardly contain himself within the bounds of patience and by reason thereof his head was held almost continually be slept not in 3 or 4 days nor nights and in this languishing condition fell into a grievous Flux and had in a very short time at least 30 stools of nothing but bloud so that my self and several others judged he could not live 6 hours for indeed he appeared as like a dying man as ever we saw any And in this condition I ventured to give him some of your Pills and it pleased God that with 2 or 3 doses of them his stools began to change and before he had taken out an half box the violent pain in his head and his Dropsie were much abated and by that time he had taken out a whole box all his distempers were perfectly cured to the great admiration of all that either saw or heard of his condition only his eyes continue weak and dim And for recovery thereof I humbly intreat your advice in a line or two which I shall take as a very great favour endeavor to requite and ever remain Belwood Jan. 11. 1674. Sir Your most obliged Friend and Servant John Bingham A Letter from Mr. Nicolas Pierson Mayor of Portsmouth Worth Sir A Servant of mine by name John Gawler wat most extraordinarily afflicted with the Scurvy and also very Dropsical being through that distemper so swelled that he was hardly able to lift his hands to his head and withal was very much troubled with sores in his hands and legs which did so torment him that indeed he was an Object of Pity We made use of what means could be had here for his Cure but in vain until at last your Pills proved so effectual that by his taking less then two half Boxes I praise God he was made in perfect health I had given you this account some months ago but doubting he might fall into the same distemper again did forbear but now I see his Cure confirmed have thought fit to acquaint you thereof Also Mr. Fairehill Shoomaker in Portsmouth being exceedingly prrplext with the Scurvy and his legs so swelled that he was hardly able to go out of his house was as he did himself acknowledge by taking one Box of your Pills made perfectly well And further I 'le assure you Sir I have heard many others most higly commend them but at present have not time to give a more particular account and therefore shall add no more but that you will grant a line to Portsmouth Oct. 17. 1672. Sir Yours in all love Nicholas Pierson A Letter from Mr. William Higgins of Pembridge near Leominster in the County of Hereford SIR I Hold my self obliged to give you an account of the great benefit I have received by the worth and excellency of your Pills My distemper has been an inverterate Cough with an extraordinary straitness of my breast and shortness of breath much opprest with flegm anh melancholy with violent stitches and pains so that for some years past I have been visited so sharply and brought so low with the violence of an incessant Cough spitting up corrupt matter and flegm with frequent long and faint Sweatings that all that ever see me in that condition judged it to be the last actings of a Consumption and that each fit would have pakt me to the grave And in this condition your Pills were proposed by some that had experienced them as the most likely Medicine for my relief whereupon I sent to Leominster for some of them which I took as your book directed and finding immediate ease and comfort I continued as strength would permit until I had emptied several half boxes with admirale success and am now I praise God hearty strong and well having escaped this last Spring the usual time of relapsing into my old distemper This Gentleman the bearer hereof can give you a more ample relation than