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A61146	Observations on fevers and febrifuges. Written in French by Monsieur Spon, one of the most eminent physicians of Lyons; upon occasion of reading a book entituled, The discovery of the admirable English remedy. Now made English, by J. Berrie	Spon, Issac, 1647-1685.; Berrie, J.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5019; ESTC R219131	25,424	122

the hardness of the Spleen with a Pultis made of a Root which produces the effect of a Vesicatory in drawing to it abundance of Water This has some affinity to the practice of the Ancients who were wont to apply actual Cauteries to the region of the Spleen He was also to have discoursed to us of their ingenious method of curing Venerial Distempers and the Lethargie ●n a Description of Virginia which at my request he was making An American named Raocomoco one of their Physicians for a little money shew'd him a certain Root which if chewed in the Mouth and the hands rubbed therewith one might handle all sorts of Serpents without danger He said that none besides himself understood the vertues of that Plant which he called Kibaschkonko that is in their Language the Death of Serpents or Serpents-bane Its vertues are much like those of the Plant called Dictamnus Virginius which is found in Virginia The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Anno 1665 relate that with this Plant ●ounded and put upon the end of a Staff they kill that kind of Serpent by them called Rattle-Snakes if they but smell it it s very smell making them dye within the space of half an hour That in all places where this Plant grows none of those Serpents are found In the same Transactions we find that the Virginians have a Root called Vichacan wherewith they cure Wounds Raocomoco passed for so able a Magician that he could by the Invocation of one of their Gods called Heiamsough cause Slaves that were run away to return to their Masters and could handle burning Coals without receiving any harm He foretold that he should die a violent death for which cause he preserved a friendship and conversed much with the English from whom he apprehended less danger than from those of his own Nation as indeed he had good reason for he was assassinated by order of one of their petty Kings he having rendred himself suspected for having sojourned too long among the English of Carolina The knowledge of the qualities of so many Plants is admirable in those ignorant people There may be some reason to believe that those Daemons which instruct their Priests or Sacrifisers in the art of Physick cure Diseases only by the knowledge of certain Plants and Minerals whose vertues they understand and not without such external means as may naturally produce the effect A Fragment of the Oracles of Aesculapius may be seen in Gruter where the Remedies which this God or rather this Daemon prescribes to the Sick which come to consult him are natural and proper for the Disease Here follow three which I have translated LVCIVS BEING SICK of a pain in his side and being given over by all the God Aesculapius pronounced this Oracle That he should come and take off from the Altar Ashes which he should mix with Wine and apply the mixture to his side Which he did and was presently cured and came publickly to give thanks unto the God and the people congratulated his recovery Here 's the Remedy which Women use for the pain in their Sides for they are wont upon this occasion to apply to their side a little bag fill'd with hot Ashes The Wine augments the vertue of the Ashes in dissipating the Wind which is sometimes the cause of this pain But as it must be a Physician who can discern whether this pain proceed from Wind or from some other cause it happens oftentimes that people do more harm than good with their Applications and instead of discussing a Wind augment an Inflammation which was but beginning JVLIANV'S SPITTING Bloud being given over by every body the God being asked commanded him to come and take off the Altar Kernels of Pine-apples and eat them with Honey for three days wherewith he was cured and came to give thanks to the God in the presence of all the people Kernels of Pine-apples are good for the Breast they sweeten the Humours and serve for a Balm to shut up the Vessels so that they are excellent in Ptisick and Spitting of Bloud and every one knows that Honey is 〈◊〉 great Pectoral Hippocrates wh● is by some accused to have copied his Remedies from those i● the Temple of Aesculapius prescribes these Kernels with Myrrh● to compose a Remedy for th● Breast VALERIVS APER BEIN● Blind the God ordered him 〈◊〉 his Oracle that he should come and take of the bloud of a white Cock and mix it with Honey and make thereof a Collyrium to be put upon his Eyes for three days and he recovered his Sight and came to give thanks publickly to this God The bloud of a Cock is very proper by its heat to dissipate the spots that are beginning in the Eyes and Honey clears the sight so that there is nothing strange in it if Medicines composed of these two ingredients recover the sight of a man that began to be blind 'T is true indeed that upon the same Marble may be read the Cure of another blind man whom the God commanded to put his five fingers upon the Altar and then put them upon his Eyes which has in it no natural cause which might produce such an effect But to return to our Febrifuges we may hope that the reserches which shall be made herein may discover unto us many things which now lie hid And to this purpose I think it would be necessary for us to disengage our selves from the Sentiments of the Antients wherewith we are prepossessed for these tell us of nothing but Choler Flegm Melancholy Remedies cooling and evacuating and such-like For upon their Principles there is no way for any new discoveries but we are confin'd and hindered from penetrating further into the nature of things I shall now give you some Idea's the clearest I can of the nature and causes of a Fever which are not much different from the Sentiments of the most learned of the Moderns upon which it will be easie to explain its Symptoms and cure A Fever is an extraordinary agitation of the mass of Bloud which disturbs the Oeconomy of the body of man This Agitation is produced by many external causes as immoderate Exercises heat of the Sun Falls all those Objects which may stir up our Anger Fear or Sadness and by other causes which move the Bloud with too much violence But the most ordinary cause of Fevers and which doth not onely produce Ephemera's and those of a few ●ays but also intermitting and ●ontinual Fevers with their returns at certain periods and also malignant Fevers is a Ferment or Chyle become too sharp which being introduced into the Bloud does there produce an extraordinary Emotion which causes different Symptoms And this may be proved from this that all sharp Liquors or Acids mixed with other Liquors of an opposite nature which we call Alkalies do cause an Effervescence So if you mix Oyl of Vitriol with Oyl of Tartar they make a considerable ebullition and become

considerable Cold. 2. Whence proceeds the heat of Fevers which succeeds the cold fit whence the thirst pains of the Reins and Head-ach The heat proceeds from the irregular motion of the Particles of the Bloud which is composed according to the Observations of the English by the Microscope of an infinite number of little red Globules swimming in a clear water for the heat of all Bodies proceeds but from the motion of their several Particles The thirst proceeds from the heat which consumes the serosity of the Chyle The pains of the Reins which accompany sometimes the cold fit sometimes the hot are caused by the ebullition of the mass of Bloud in the great Vessels lying along the Reins The Head-ach is the effect of the violent beating of the Arteries of the Brain against the Membranes that encompass it so those whose Bloud rises higher or beats stronger or who have their Membranes more sensible have also more of the Head-ach than others 3. Why are melancholy People which abound with acid humours less subject to Feavours than others Because the mass of Bloud being infected with this Acidity and unapt to ferment and the Chyle though it often contract an acidity in the Stomach yet produces it no Fever as being of the same nature with the Bloud for two Liquors that are not contrary one to the other do not ferment together no more than two Friends whose Sentiments are agreeable do quarrel and fight So that you need not wonder if in cold Countries they be less subject to Fevers than in hot Climates and if those whose Bloud is more gross and melancholy are less attacked by Fevers than others This made Hippocrates say That those who have sharp Winds are not very subject to the Pleurisie because their Bloud is more gross and so less apt to precipitate it self with violence upon the side to cause Inflammation I remember I saw at Monpellier a Dane who in a Fit of Melancholy had cast himself out of a Window two stories high into the street and had with the fall broken his legs and arms This man during his whole Cure had no Fever at all 4. Whence is it that Fevers are more frequent and more obstinate in Autumn than in the other Seasons of the year 'T is because the preceding Summer has rendred the Bloud too inflamable and more susceptible of a Fever besides that the inequality of the Season helps much to corrupt the Chyle Further Fruit coming in now in abundance produces in those that eat much of it a Ferment that causes long and obstinate Fevers particularly Quartains which sometimes continue from one year to another according to the Sentence of Hippocrates and the old method of curing them Pliny says that Quartains begin not in Winter and indeed it is but very rarely that they do But the temperature of the Seasons is uncertain for sometimes we see in the middle of Winter days like those in the Spring or Autumn 5. How is it that Tertians change into double Tertians and Quartains and Quartains into Tertians Tertians change into double Tertians and Quartains into double Quartains when the Chyle becomes more disproportionate to the Bloud and these two Liquors not agreeing together do justle one another the oftener Tertians become Quartains when by a too cooling Diet or cooling Medicines unseasonably given the Ferment becomes sharper or sowerer and the Bloud thicker On the other side Quartains change into Tertians when by a too hot Diet or Medicines the Ferment and the mass of Bloud become more subtile and more inflamable And generally Intermittents may be changed into Continuals by an ill Regimen and over-hot Medicines which makes all the Ferment pass into the Veins and renders the Bloud too susceptible of an Agitation of long continuance And Continuals become Intermittents when Nature strives to disengage her self from this Ferment in precipitating it into its first passages as after the ebullition of Oyl of Vitriol and Oyl of Tartar there is precipitated to the bottom of the Glass a white matter which we call Tartar Vitriolat 6. What is the cause of the regular Return of Fevers Though there be something inexplicable in the return of Fevers which is sometimes as certain as the flux and reflux of the Sea I say that it seems probable that it proceeds from the equal portion of Aliments which is taken and of the Chyle which is made For those who eat too much cause the Fit to come sooner though indeed it might come sooner for other reasons as when the Bloud heated by the preceding Fits becomes more susceptible of Fermentation On the other side it comes later when less nourishment is taken or when the Ferment begins to grow milder In fine there are some Fevers that are both uncertain and unequal as to their Returns which is a mark of disorder either in the Orgains or in the mass of Bloud which renders the cure of such Fevers more difficult and more subject to Relapses and this may be called a Symptomatick Fever as is that which proceeds from Obstructions 7. Why comes not the Fever upon the sick soon after Meal The reason will easily appear if you do but consider that the last Fit of the Fever has dissipated and driven out by a considerable Transpiration and sometimes by a copious Sweat a great part of the Acidity of the Lympha that produced these disorders So that immediately after a Fit it is not strong enough nor in quantity great enough to give to the Chyle a certain degree of Acidity which may produce when it is mixed with the mass of Bloud that Fermentation and Emotion which we call a Fever But this Ferment having recruited its forces and being augmented both by time and the Aliments taken will not fail to give battel to the Bloud as formerly Those who have any knowledge in Chymistry and have made Observations on the Opperations of Nature will easily be of my Opinion for they will have observed that a long Fermentation is required to make a Liquor that is sweet become acid and that there must be a certain quantity of Liquors one contrary to another to produce a Fermentation that is considerable By this one may give a reason why those who observe no Regimen and forbear nothing that they imagine will gratifie their Appetites cause the Fit to come sooner and to continue longer On the contrary those who govern themselves regularly are sooner delivered from that domestick Enemy At the same time may be seen the reason why the Fever ceases if the Ferment be changed by a Medicament contrary to its nature and which may reduce it to its first state and that without any considerable evacuation Had I been minded to make a Book rather than a kind of Letter I should here have made some Observations upon the Nature and Origine of Acids and upon the difference of Fermentations but since these things are so learnedly treated of by D'Willis and Monsieur Maiow I should