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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63799	Miscellania: or, A collection of necessary, useful, and profitable tracts on variety of subjects which for their excellency, and benefit of mankind, are compiled in one volume. By Thomas Tryon physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing T3185; ESTC R220931	73,089	207

observe the necessary Rules of Temperance how careful then ought Mothers and Nurses to be in ordering their Children A great part of the Children that die especially in Towns and Cities is occasioned either by the Intemperance of their Mothers during the time they go with Child or afterwards by their unnatural and badly prepared Food and suffering them to eat to excess also by their keeping of them too warm and too close from the Air and lapping of them up in several Double Clothes and Swathes so tight that a Man may write on them and then puting them into warm Beds and covering them up close If a strong Man was so bound up he could not endure it without great injury unto his Health Besides the Window-Curtains are drawn and also the Curtains about the Bed by which means the Air becomes so hot and sulphurous that it causes great Disorders to attend both the Mothers and the Children This ill Kind of Management does also cause such a Tenderness both in the Mother and the Child that on every small occasion they are liable and apt to get Colds and divers other Distempers Also Women have the entire Management of all things that concern our Healths during the whole time of our Lives they prepare and dress our Food and order all things in our Houses both for Bed and Board There is not one Man of a hundred that understands or takes any notice whether his Food be well prepared or not and if his Bed stinks he is used to it and so counts it all well Mens Time and Study is chiefly taken up about getting a Livelihood and providing things necessary for themselves and Families so that there is not one among a thousand that understands any thing what belongs to the Preservation of his Health Whatever the Women do and say touching the Preparation of Food and other ordering of Families for Health most Men believe not making the least scruple or question of the truth thereof And well they may For the chiefest Doctors of our Times do bow before them and are altogether as subject to the Rules and Directions of Women as other Men. Where are your Doctors that teach Men Sobriety in their Lives or the proper and natural way of preparing Meats fit for the Stomach Which of them adviseth against the evil Custom of keeping their Chambers so over hot when People are sick and in the time of Womens lying in Child-bed Why do they not advise them not to have their Curtains so close drawn both before their Windows an● Beds insomuch that they are often times in a manner suffocated for want of the fresh Air For I affirm That all sorts of People that do keep their Beds let the occasion be what it will have ten-fold more need of the refreshing Influences of the Air than others that are up For the Bed being much hotter than a Man's Garments are when he is up the thin refreshing moist Vap●urs that do penetrate the whole Body more powerfully when a Man is up are thereby hindered This is one chief Reason why a Man cannot digest a Supper so well in Bed as if he sits up All Men know that the Bed destroys App●tice If a Man go to Bed a● Eight a Clock and lies till Eight in the Morning he shall not be hungry but it he goes to Bed at the same time and rises at Four in the Morning though he s●s still without Action yet by Eight he shall have a good Stomach to eat and drink so great is the power of the Air For when a Man is up his Body is cool and the pure Spir●s and thin moist Vapours of the Air have power to penetrate the Body which Element the Body sucks in like a Spunge thorow the Pores and this doe not only cool and refresh ●he Spirits and the whole Body but also powerfully strengthens the Action of the Stomach But I pity the young Children most who are so tender and of so delicate a Nature both in their Body and Spirits that every Disorder does wound them to the very Heart Nothing is more grateful and refreshing to them than the pleasant Air It comforts their Spirits and cau●eth a free Circulation of the Blood and Radical Moisture begets Appetite and makes them grow in Strength But on the contrary hot sulphurous Airs with great Fires and warm Clothing do not only hinder the Circulation of the Blood but suffocate the Spirits and destroy the Appetite causing an unnatural Heat to possess the whole Body whence does proceed various Disorders and Diseases making them to cry and be very froward Also close Bindings and over-warm Clothings and thick hot Airs do oft in weak-spirited Children cause Convulsions Vapours and Fumes to fly into the Head sometimes occasioning Vomitting which People call Windy Diseases Again the Food of most Children of late years is so enriched with West and East-India Ingredients that is with Sugar and Spices that thereby their Food becomes so hot in Operation that it does not only breed too much Nourishment which generates Obstructions and Stoppages but it heats the Body drying up and consuming the Radical Moisture and infecting the Blood with a sharp fretting Humour which in some Complexions and Constitutions causeth languishing Diseases contracting the Breast and Vessels of the Stomach and hindering the Passages of the Spirits so that the Joynts and Nerves become weak and feeble In others with the help of bad Diet and other Uncleanliness does cause Botches Boils and various sorts of Leprous Diseases Also many that have wherewithal will frequently give their Children Sack strong Drinks and fat Meats as long as they will eat which is abominable and absolutely contrary to the Nature of Children There are a hundred other Disorders and Intemperances that many Mothers and ignorant Nurses affect their Children with which I have no room in this place to discourse of Therefore I commend unto the Women Milk that is raw only made so hot as the Mothers or Nurses Milk is when the Child socks it and sometimes Milk and Flower boyled together giving it the Ch●ld about t●e warmness of Breast-milk and indeed neither Children nor others others ought to eat any Food hotter Also no Children ought to drink any kind of strong Drink I could commend Water as the most wholesom but it being contrary to our Custom ordinary Beer may do well or rather small Ale If Women did understand but the hundredth part of the Evils and Diseases those indulging and intemperate Ways do bring both to themselves and Children they would quickly be of my mind which I never expect They are too wise CHAP. III. A short Discourse of th● Pain in the TEETH Shewing from what Cause it does chiefly proceed and also how to pr●v●nt it THE terrible Pains and Diseases of the Teeth do chiefly proceed from two Causes The first is from certain filthy Phlegmy Matter which the Stomach and Vessels do continually breathe and send forth which does lodge

observed and do effect the Cure not only in shorter time but much safer and with greater ease to the Patient For by this Philosophical Operation of repeating it so often it doth mightily advance and forward the Cure And Note that every fresh Application of this Homogenial-Poultice to the grieved part do add new and fresh Supplies of Vertue for in all Operations of this Nature the fine healing Spirituous Qualities thereof do first impart and give themselves forth which by a secret simpathetical Power do penetrate the whole and incorporate with their similes administring their sweet Vertues which gives a new Life to th● wounded Spirits and dismayed Oyles and do at the same time withstand and allay the fierce raging awakned or irritated poysonous Humours it being the way of Nature for all homogenial Bodies that have passed through any Preparation Digestion or Fermentation when aptly applied or joyned to any Proper Subject or thing For the fine cleansing healing Qualities and good Vertues do give themselves forth and joyn or incorporate with their Similes even as the fine sweet Spirituous Qualities of 〈◊〉 do imbibe or give themselves forth and incorporate with the hot Water in● our Mash-Tub in the method of Brewing therefore every Applycation does add new supplies of Vertue and strength to the wounded Spirits and draws forth and consumes the gross humidity and exalts the Essential Life of that part and are as refreshing to the wounded Spirits as the pleasant influences and salutiferous Breezes of Wind in a hot season For Note that the Spirits and fine Qualities of each thing are light volatile ready quick and powerful in Operation that in a moments time they penetrate even to the Center for every particular Quality in Nature has a Key in it self to open the Gate of its own Principle what Man in the World would believe the attractive inclination which the Load-stone has upon Iron if it did not appear to his sight the very same simpathetical Power have all other things though in some it is more occult And for this cause one Body works upon another by a certain natural attraction and simpathetical Inclination Thus the wise and wonderful Creator has endued every thing with an attractive and influential Vertue it is not therefore the gross Body of your Poultice that will do your Business that is full of corrupt and poysonous Humours which are awakened by the long Continuation thereof for these Reasons the long lying of Poultices and Plalsters on Wounds and Sores have no better Effects then the long Continuation or standing of the Liquor on the Mault in your Mash-Tub which if it continue more then two three or four Hours it will spoil and corrupt the whole for First as I said before the fine sweet Volatile Spirituous Vertues imbibes or incorporates themselves with the hot Liquor and then if there be not a separation made in two three or four Hours by drawing it off but the applycation continued then there will soon awaken another Quality of a gross harsh sour ●een Nature which with a rapid motion tinges or transmutes all the fine sweet healing Vertues into their own Qualities which all Brewers and good House-Wifes are sensible of the like is to be understood in the applycations of Poultices and Plaisters do not their long lying of them on the wounded or sore part cause them to smell four and stink when they have been continued on for twelve or twenty four Hours which do not only indanger the part and prolongs the Cure but it puts the patient to great Pain and Torment and often the Limb is cut off and sometimes the Life too which by this forementioned method might have been prevented for if Physitions and Chyrurgeons do not understand Nature then there can be no certainty in their Operations or Cures Also Note that during the time your Poutices Plaisters Ointments or Salves are making on the Fire that you keep them stirring by which you keep the fine Spirits and Qualities Living for by this stirring the friendly Powers and thin Spirits of the Air do penitrate the whole Mass or Body which incorporate and assist the Spirits and good Vertues and keep them from being Stagnated and Suffocated the Air being the Life of all things and where its Friendly influences and circulations are prevented the Life and Spirits becomes heavy dull and gross for these Reasons all Spoon-Meats made thin are sweeter and of a more quick penetrating Operation and Digection then those made thick therefore despise not our method nor our plain home bread Poultices I could produce many living Testimonies of its Success but it is needless since every Man's Experience that tries it will soon confirm the Truth of what is here delivered nor I am not much Solicitous whether I am credited or not it is the consideration of the publick good it may do to many poor People pomps me to publish it whether you will follow the forementioned Rules or not I have done my Duty in offering it and therefore am satisfied True and Natural Methods how to Cure all sorts of Cuts Bruises Pricks of Thornes Weapon's or any kind of Wounds Also Old Vlcers and to prevent Gangreans and other Evils whatsoever viz. To Cure Cutts TAke Spirit of Wine one Pint put in three Ounces of double refined Suger shake it together With this wash your Wound or Cut very well then take some of the same Spirit and mix so much Sugar as will make it as thick as a Salve clap this into the Wound then bind it up for Ten or Twelve hours after this open it wash it again with your Sugared Spirits very well then sow it up with a small Needle and Silk then temper a little Water Bread and Sugar together and lay a little on a Linnen Cloth and bind it on Repeat this every five Hours always washing the outside of your Wound with your forementioned Spirits This will Effect the Cure in a few Days provided the Humours be not too Venemous and the Parties keep themselves Temperate How to Cure Pricks in any Member of the Body Take one Pint of double Spirit of Wine three Ounces of double refined Sugar one Ounce of Camphir mix them well-together and if your Prick or Wound be deep then take ths Spirit and with a good Serringefrce it into the Wound then Temper some of this Camfired Spirit with Sugar as thick as a Salve clap this on the mouth of the Wound then bind it up with a Cloath that the Air may not penetrate the Wound repeat this every seven Hours for five or seven times every time Cleansing the Wound with your Serringe then ●ew it up laying the forementioned Poultis to it repeat it as you did the former and wash it every time you lay your Poultis on with said Spirits This doth likewise Cure with great ease and safety To Cure Old Vlcers Take one Pint of the best double Spirits of Wine half an Ounce of Aloes beaten three Ounces of