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cause_n	child_n	great_a	woman_n	1,867	5	6.2906	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57952	A physical treatise grounded, not upon tradition, nor phancy, but experience, consisting of three parts. The first, a manuduction, discovering the true foundation of the art of medicine. Second, an explanation of the general natures of diseases. Third, a proof of the former positions by practice. By William Russell, chymist in ordinary to His Majesty.	Russell, William, 1634-1696?	1684 (1684)	Wing R2357; ESTC R218554	58,632	208

deplorable Cases above mentioned Example 1. Of an Imposthume in the Womb of a Woman with Child A Woman about seven Months gon with Child was afflicted with great Pain and Torture in her Womb which manifested the proper Signs of a contra-natural Cause existent by Issue of Bloud not Flouding-like but by Driblings at last of Quitter Upon these apparent Signs of a suppurated Imposthume I was sought for and hearing what had hap'ned could not but give Judgment of an Imposthume present Yet having read Hipocrates of whose Sincerity and deep Skill in curing Diseases of his time no Prudent Man unto this day doubts and finding him to proclaim Imposthumes and Vlcers of the Womb not curable in Women with Child I was very loath to be concern'd in this Case but Importunity and Necessity overweighing I adventur'd to apply my self to the Cure In order to which I first gave my Pouder once in 8 hours and my Arcanum Veneris at Night going into Bed This Method was continued every Day without other Medicines except some small Cordials for Support unto the time of her Delivery During which space of Time after the taking these Medicines Matter flowed each Day more than other for a great part of that time in which time her Pains nevertheless vanished and she grew more lively than before but when the time of her Delivery drew near the Matter that came forth was less and less each day After Delivery I viewing the Bag in which the Child had been contained did plainly discern the Compass of the Imposthume and some part of the Matter unresolved upon the Out-side of the Bag. But afterwards to this same Woman so well delivered of a Sound and well proportioned Child I gave my Medicines all the time of her lying in in the same Method as is above prescribed and she recovered Strength and after this had several other Children and is now alive tho this hap'ned fourteen years since Example 2. Of a Dropsy in the Womb of a Woman with Child A Woman with Child before quickning being swelled to outward appearance like one ready to be delivered sent for me I seeing the Woman and hearing how it was with her could not but be amazed and doubt of the reality of her Conception Nevertheless because I well knew the certainty and effecacious Power of my Medicines above specified in Cases no less deplorable I rejected all thoughts of particular Remedies and applyed my self to that general Method I had formerly used Accordingly I gave my Pouder Night and Morning for three days yet no separation hap'ned during that time but the Woman found her self somewhat more lively than before The fourth Day I gave my Arcanum Metallorum and the following Morning my Pouder That Day came forth a Dribbling of Water and the next Day more This Method I continued and in three Days time after more than too Gallons of Water was voided and the Dropsy separated Then I ordered the Pouder to be taken Night and Morning until Quickning and all the time after of her being with Child I prescribed to her the same Pouder to be taken a Day or two at a time whensoever any Appearance of a Return of the Dropsy was and by this means she went out her full time had a sound Child and several Children after and hath continued Well and in Health for about these seven Years since Example 3. Of an Vlcer in the Womb. In this sad Case the Neck of the Womb was tumified uneven hard in one place tender in another and raw in a third as was clearly testified by divers Midwifes then present The Sanies that flowed from thence was Red Yellow and greenish White In Cure of this Woman I gave my Pouder every Day once and at Night my Arcanum of Metals and perhaps the next Night my Arcanum Veneris changing them as I saw occasion but my Pouder I always gave once a Day During this Cure many Changes and Accidents hap'ned to which I applied particular Remedies too long to be here incerted After some Series of time all these Accidents vanished and the suppurated Matter by little and little abated and at length perfect Health followed This Woman after her Recovery Conceived and hath had several Children since and is alive at this day This Cure was performed about seven Years ago Example 4. Of a Tumified Womb. A young Woman labouring under a natural Deficiency propagated to her striving to extrude it self by Hemeroids and Piles being also at the same time afflicted with a Tumified Womb hard and sore so that she could not possibly bear the Congress of her Husband and having long sustained this Calamity and finding the Remedies of other Physicians useless applied her self to me I streight in order to her Cure gave her my Pouder every Morning and my Arcanum Veneris every Night appointing my Scerbutick Tincture to be taken in Drink by twenty Drops at a time as often as she drank And this Method was continued for full four Months after which time she quickly Conceived with Child and hath ever since remained well though she were cured of this Malady divers Years ago Example 5. Of a Mola Being called to a Woman labouring under great Floudings who conceited her self to be with Child when I had observed the great quantity of Bloud that came from her the Midwife then present gave me an account of the closure of the Womb and so an Impossibility of distinguishing the Concern I finding her Case such caused the Pouder to be given twice in one hour in which time the Flux of Bloud began to stop and the Womb to open a little yet no more than sufficed to admit the Midwifes finger to distinguish somewhat unusual Whereupon I desired her to give me some more plain Testimony of what she felt and by her words I judged it to be no Child And as I judged so it proved for when the Midwife could somewhat better reach what she had before touched she brought forth a Gleuy Matter white and clear I seeing this ordered her to bring it away as fast as she could but she having no more place open than for one Finger to enter brought it away by piece-meal I giving some Cordial for support to the afflicted Woman in the mean time This Matter I caused when as much was brought away as possibly could be by the Midwifes Finger to be put into a Bason of Water where it joyned all together and seemed in quantity to be no less than a Quart would contain Now because without force the Womb could be no further opened the Remainder was left to the power of Medicine Therefore I gave my Pouder every hour for twenty four hours at the end of which this sadly distressed Woman began to be pretty sedate and quiet and no Bloud appeared for I think she had before evacuated all or the greatest part of all she had Then I gave my Pouder twice or thrice a Day for several Dayes after and sometimes my

Phlegm of Tartar in all her Drink By which Method in three Weeks time there seemed to be some Amendment the Nerves were more relaxed the Head began to ake backward and a Warmth more than usual in that Part and this descended down by the Back-bone Soon after this appeared a Drivling in the Mouth After the Pouder had been taken for a Month it began to work every Day and wrought a whole Month after by Vomit and Stool alternately yet still with Increase of Strength and Restoration of Faculties And in about ten or twelve Weeks time she was perfectly restored to her pristine State of Health and is since married hath had Children and is alive at this time Note In this whole Cure no other Medicines than what are above specified were used except a Resolving Oyl and that only for the first three or four Weeks untill the Powder began to work then I ceased the use thereof Example 2. Of a Resolved Palsy IN Resolution of the Members of a Male Child where all the Nerves were relaxed so that Arms Legs and Neck hung like Parts that never had Capacity of Motion I used only my Powder and my Arcanum Metallorum for three or four Weeks together and the Child by little and little gathered strength and was at length perfectly recovered is since become a strong man and alive at this day Example 3. Of a Numn Palsy A Man of Seventy years of Age was numned all over one side his Speech for the present quite taken away but coming to me and taking my Medicines presently having long before been my Patient he was cured in three Weeks time in manner thus I gave him my Powder twice a day and my Arcanum Metallorum every night with my Scorbutick Tincture in all his Drink This Method being followed in the first three days he could move some of his Fingers and so Strength and Heat coming gradually into every Part about the tenth day he began to drivel and the Powder to operate so that he had loose Stools every Day and soon after recovered his Speech and the perfect Use of his Limbs and is yet alive though about Ten years since Example 4. Of a Shaking Palsy A Lad about 14 years of Age labouring under an Autumnal Feaver fell into a Palsy having a continual Shaking with strong Convulsions also attending To him I gave as to Others I had don my Powder my Arcanum Metallorum my Mixtura Simplex and the Arcanum of Antimony prescribed by Basilius By which Medicines used after my former Method he was perfectly restored in a short time Of Convulsions COnvulsions take beginning either from an unnatural Fermentation of the Juyces of the Body whereby every Vessel or Organ is overmuch disturbed or by particular Compunction or Compression of the Nerves contracted or else from Nature's true Sense of what is fit to be separated from the Parts offended and her Endeavour to separate the same as is apparent in the Beginnings of the Small Pox where the nutritive Juyces are condensed by reason of the Morbific Ferment and so made unfit for the Nutrition of the Spirits and the necessary Separation appertaining thereunto being wholly uncapable to be distributed to the Parts Here Nature regularly acting makes Convulsions which open the Nerves and render that Diseasy Ferment fit to become the Matter of the Small Pox or Feavers for so soon as the Convulsions cease the Small Pox appears as is sufficiently evident by the Events and it is apparently manifest that such Convulsions are sooner Perioded than the Ideal And althô the Small Pox or Feavers be very Malignant yet it is rare to see any One fail under those Distempers where Convulsions have preceeded thô a Convulsion happening after those Diseases is most frequently Mortal For the first is the result of Nature's strife against the Disease but the other the Disease being annihilated and Nature overcome ariseth from the Terror of Death of which it is a general Prodrome Also the Superfluities that Children bring with them into the World are the occasional Causes of those many Convulsions that attend them in their Infancy For they being Retents of the Maternal Nourishment which coming then first under the Dominion of the Stomach of the Infant cannot not be received as a Guest but are rejected and opposed as an Enemy to Nutrition and if not subdued in the Act of the first Digestion by Vomiting or Stools Red or White-Gum c. they become the Matter of long continuing Convulsions Likewise in Breeding Teeth Convulsions often happen For by the Compression or Punction of the Nervous Fibres in the Gums made by the ingrowing Teeth Nature is enforced to make Convulsions that the Teeth may break through those Fibres impeding their forth-coming But most lamentable are the Ideal Convulsions which have their Original from Terror Frights or Fears For the Spirit by the amazement they infer produceth a dark Image or Impression by which it is overwhelmed and so driven to irregular Actions which occasion uncertain Events because being surprized with Stupor and not knowing what to do it doth nothing to right purpose by reason of the variety of Imaginations which in these Cases are as various as the Conceptions of the mind can be Of the Cure of Convulsions that happen before the Small Pox c. In the Cure of these Convulsions I generally use my Pouder once in six hours by which the rigour of them is usually abated but if in a short time the Convulsions be not lessened by the use thereof then I give my Arcanum Metallorum or my Arcanum of Camphire administring either of them as I see Cause and repeat the Dose once an Hour till the Convulsions cease Note Here it is to be observed that even in these Convulsions where my Medicines are used the Fits are more frequent but shorter until wholly annihilated and the Small Pox appears Of the Cure of Convulsions from Relicts of Maternal Nourishment These Convulsions rarely happen where my Pouder is given to Children so soon as they are born and often repeated and if they do afterwards arise such Convulsions are soon and easily taken off by the Use of other Medicines prenominated But where Convulsions happen in Children that have not had the Benefit of such Remedies there I must confess the Work to be long and irksome requiring Soundness of Judgment in the Physician because of the great Variation that happens therein but more especially by reason of the Dissatisfaction of Parents and Nurses seeing the Fits more frequent thô much shorter when under my Cure For I once knew a Child so afflicted that had an hundred Fits in one Day and this continued ten Days together the number not lessening yet with this Advantage notwithstanding the Fits were so numerous that the Child became daily more lively and each Fit shorter and shorter After the Tenth Day this Child had no more Fits but was constantly attended with Breathing Sweats unto perfect Recovery Note In Cure of