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A33286	Vermiculars destroyed with an historical account of worms, collected from the best authors as well ancient as modern, and expe[r]iments [pr]oved by that admirable invention of the microscope : with directions for the taking those most famous medicines, intituled Pulvis Benedictus, &c. : also diagnostick signs of worms and signs of health in children, with the various causes of vermiculars / by R.C., chymist ...	R. C. (R. Clark)	1690 (1690)	Wing C4484; ESTC R39983	18,229	31

Birch-water it will effect the same Pearl dissolved Birch-water Dissolves Pearl and makes a rare Cosmetick which is a Secret very little known if you find it too sharp for your Skin mix it with water or May-Dew clarified by the Sun Some use the waters of Bean-Blossoms White-Thorn and Lyllys But I am convinced that all waters drawn by Fire are iniurious to the Skin unless extracted with some Balsamick Body as Hungaria water is though the Composition is only Spirit of Wine and Rosemary-Flowers Aqua Hungaria Four pound of Flowers to three Quarts of Spirits and after 24 Hours infusion draw it off in Balneo the Head and Receiver being well lu●ed This is a rich Cosmetick and hath many other Vertues which I shall omit here by reason they are so well known And now you may think as many pretenders do that is having the Receipt you can make the Water which already hath blasted its Estimation For some make it of Rosemary-tops instead of Flowers others of Flowers they know not when gathered or from whence they came But if you design to make this Water observe and you will find upon Rosemary-Flowers a rich White Gum or Balsamick-matter then they are in their prime gather them on a dry day for if they hang long that Balsamick-matter is exhaled by the influence of the Sun and the Flowers good for little but to set Fools to work Such as design to make use of Birch-water must tap the Tree in April Oyl of Myrrh BOyl Hen-Eggs hard and cut them long-ways through the middle take out the Yolks and fill the Cavities with Powder of Myrrh joyn them and bind 'em gently with a Thred put them on a Grate in a cool moist Celler a Dish under and the Oyl will drop from them This Oyl dropt in Water is a good Cosmetick prevents Worms breeding in the Face creates a fair fresh and youthful Complexion and if used in time I believe might prevent the Marks of the Small-Pox by reason it will heal a Wound without leaving a Scar. Or thus So soon as the Small-Pox appears To prevent marking in the Small-Pox that you are satisfied it is the Disease with a Feather anoint the Fa●● with Oyl of Sweet-Almonds six or seven times over Let the Oil be new drawn when you have done so cover the Face all over with Leaf-gold the Eyes excepted be sure you leave no part uncovered but rather lay two leafs on for where there is a defect of Gold there will be a scar Let it remain on till the Scabs shale off This is the only thing yet known for this purpose and if well applied seldom if ever fails The sick must lye on their Back while it is done That Worms are the occasion of the shedding of Hair Worms in the Head kill'd is the Opinion of many wise and learned Authors Being bread in the Roots which frequently appears after a Fit of Sickness on the Head as well as the Hands and Feet and to destroy them rub the Head morning and night with the Inside of an Out-Peel of an Orange for a month or six weeks and it will not only kill the Worms but make the Hair grow thick I have known it bring Hair on a Bald-Head 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 killed There is another sort of Worms by some called Teredo These Vermin are bred in the Feet and hands and cause a great itching in those parts They generally appear through weakness after a Fit of Sickness They are killed by anointing with Black-Soap and Quick-silver Worms very often are the cause of a Red-Face and the way to destroy them and take away the Redness if there should be no Worms is as followeth The Cure of a Red-face Take half a pound of distilled Vinegar two New-laid-Eggs with their Shells two spoonfuls of Flower of Sulphur Let these infuse in the Vinegar three days then take out the Eggs and with a Needle prick them full of holes but not too deep lest any Yolk come out and let the Whites run into the Vinegar and strain all through a fine Cloth and tye the Sulpur in the Cloth like a little Ball and when you use it dip the Ball in the Liquor and pat the Place three or four times a day and in a short time you will find the Effect Keep the Ball in a Box from the Air. Directions for the taking of Pulvis Benedictus I. AN Infant of six Months old so upwards to a year may take half a Paper in the Morning How taken by Infants you may give it in a spoonful of Breast-milk and let it take it two or three Mornings together which with the same Quantity of my Night-powder taken at night may effect a Cure not only as to Worms and Vermiculous matter but in any other grievance or Disease incident to their Age. Though if you find they do require more proceed and give it only intermit a day for the Medicine is so safe you need not fear any prejudice by it and an Infant of two or three Months old may take the same From a year to two years II. From a year to two years of age you may begin with half a Paper if that give not two or three Stools give the next Morning a whole Paper From two years to four or five III. From two years of age to four or five you may begin with a whole Paper From five to ten IV. From five or six years and so to ten you may begin with a Paper and a half V. From ten to fifteen with two Papers From ten to fifteen From fifteen to twenty c. VI. From fifteen to twenty with two Papers and a half or three if your Constitution be very strong and hard to work on you may take four but this is very rare The difference in Constitutions and Dose to keep to VII So great is the difference in Constitutions that it is impossible to propose any one Dose for all though of an age when a Child of five or six years of age will and do often take three Papers and shall have with it no more Stool than a man that takes the same Quantity therefore I would advise you to begin with a low Dose till you know the strength of your Constitution and keep to that Dose as gives only two or three Stools VIII You may take it three Mornings successively How often taken and then intermit a day and so continue till the Cure be effected which will be in a few days But for Men and Women they may take it six or seven days without intermission if the Wormatick matter be so obstinate and rebellious as to repaire it and they have strength to go through it IX You may take either the great or lesser Composition in a spoonful or two of Beer Ale or Claret or in the Pulp of an Aple In what it may be taken c. The more curious may give

and found a multitude of Worms in his Liver which were the cause of his unknown Disease But we have Examples of Worms not only in the Principal parts of Mans Body as the Heart Liver Brain Lungs Reins Spleen Bladder Stomach c. But in these Channels of the Blood the Veins and Arteries but few do imagin that we carry about with us an Off-spring of Animals begotten out of our own Blood and Bowels The aforesaid Author saith he hath with his * An Instrument so made and fitted with Glasses at each end as the smallest thing will be presented by it in so considerable a bigness that the Frame and Composure of its parts may be discerned MICROSCOPE examined the Blood of Men Sick of Fevers which has satisfied him over and over of the Business for viewing the Blood an hour or two after opening of Veins I have saith he found it full of Worms that it made me almost Astonished so that we may with Job I said to Corruption thou art my Father and to the Worm thou art my Mother and my Sister Kircherus a Famous Man Living at Rome Writ a most Learned Piece in the Year 1658. The Subject of which was That there are a sort of invisible Worms or Vermiculars which were discovered in the last Plague at Naples and at Rome by the help of a Microscope And he saith these Worms are so fine that they insinuate themselves not only into Cloths Ropes and Linnen but into other Bodies less Porous as Cork Wood Bones yea into those which are least Porous and most Compact as Mettals Money c. This he in another place tells us They had daily experience in the Great Plague Time where no Money was Receiv'd in payment but was first well soaked and washed in Vinegar if it came from an Infected place Cardan saith The great Plague that fell out in his time at Millain which Unpeopled that City not only the Air being filled with them but the very Dust of the Earth Animated into such kind of Virmiculars Georgius Agricola Writes That in his time a great Plague came by Eating of Fruit so that the Eaters Died in few Days after which Fruit swarmed with multitudes of Indiscernable Worms which were no more than the Animated Corpuscles or Particles flowing from Contagious Carcases and fastning upon Trees and Plants being carried through the Air But these Indiscernable V●●niculars had been still hid from our Eyes had it not been for that Rare Invention of the Microscope We see that the Earth out of I know not what Putredinous Matter in its own Bowels doth produce not only Insects of all sorts but also various Monsters of Venemous Creatures as Serpents Toads Dragons in Dens and Caves of Mountains which have their Original from Moisture and a various mixture of Virulent Drags and Slime and the like are produced out of Ponds Lakes and Marshes by the Heat of the Ambient Air working upon a Conflux of the Terrestial Parts Yea Water it Self kept in a close Vessel and exposed to the Sun is quickly animated into Worms as is seen by daily Experience both in Voyages at Sea and within the Walls of our own private Houses At Beverly in Yorkshire on the 28th of August 1660. there was seen in the Maketplace and other places innumerable company of young Frogs and Toads the people not knowing from whence they came but are supposed to come out of the Air in the night by reason the tops of their Houses were covered with them Prodigies pag. 41. Moreover Water Elevated by Vapour Air Hail Snow are full of Worms Pliny saith so of Snow in his Book de Divinis Nat. Charact. And Cornelius Gemma of Hail In Lib. de Arte Metallica As much is said of Air by Georgious Agricola and the sudden Generation of Worms Frogs and Insects which have come down with Rain upon the Earth doth confirm it There is also scarce a Stick or Fruit or any other mixt Body which doth not produce some Animal which disposeth that to Destruction which Begat it according to that of Lecretius Obnoxia Cuncta putrori Corpora putrores Insecta Animata sequuntur And that the Reader may more fully behold the admirable Power of Nature what hath hitherto been said may be manifested by Irrefragable Experiments as followeth Experiment I. TAke a piece of Flesh and expose it by Night to the moisture of the Moon till early the next morning then view it diligently with a Microscope and you shall find that all the Putrefaction contracted by the Moon is degenerated into innumerable Vermiculars differing in bigness but when you remove the Microsc●pe you cannot discern any by the Eye alone unless perhaps some few be among them that are grown to a sensible magnitude You may try the same in Cheese Milk Vinegar and the like Bodies abounding with Putrefaction yet think not 't is to be done by any slight Microscope but one made by a Skilful Hand Experience II. IF you take a Serpent cut into small pieces and putting it into Rain-water expose it for some Days to the Sun then Bury it in the Earth for the space of a Day and a Night and afterward taking out the Parts grown flaccid with Putrefaction and examine them with a Microscope you will see all that 's putrified swarming with little springing Serpents which Experiment may be performed in all kind of Serpents and sometimes in dead Putrified Serpents you will find some of them discernable by the Eye alone The Putrifaction of Serpents will not produce Worms as other dead flesh doth unless they be kill'd by Lightning that purges 'em of their poyson and their corrupt flesh will be animated into Worms of strange and various shapes Experience III. MAtthiolus Euchsius and many other Herbalists declare That Sage unwasht is very hurtful to such as Eat it But I have discovered the Cause examining more curiously the Constitution of this Plant by the help of a Microscope at length I observed in those Leaves which were more rough than the rest that their whole Superficies was covered with somewhat like a Spider's Web within which appeared Animals exceeding small and which were perpetually at work therein and certain round things as it were Eggs were spread upon the Superficies which as it is doubtless a certain Breed or Spawn of that sort of petit Animals so by their Virulent Humour they may do a Man a deal of mischief but wipe a Leaf with your Finger or wash it and they will Disappear From whence I collect the true Cause of the Pernicious Quality of Sage that is not washed Experiment IV. IF with the Microscope you examine the Powder of any Rotten Wood you will find a prodigious number of Vermiculars some armed with Horns some set out as it were with Wings and others not unlike those Worms that have many Feet their Eyes also you may discern like black Points and that they have a long Snout so that it appears