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A25754	Every man his own doctor in two parts, shewing I. how every one may know his own constitution by certain signs, also the nature and faculties of all food as well as meats as drinks ... : the second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox, running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions and obstructions, agues ... / written by John Archer.	Archer, John, fl. 1660-1684.	1671 (1671)	Wing A3608; ESTC R27652	39,777	161

of any thing is an enemy to Nature 3. Nature is the Physitian of Diseases but the Physitian is the servant of Nature and ought to imitate her she acting aright 4. Custome is a second Nature and those things which he are accustomed to a long time though worse they are wont to be less troublesome then those things we are not used to Doctrine of the preservation of health DOctrine for health is comprehended in these 2 parts viz. Materials of health or wholesome causes 2. A knowledge necessary for the preservation of health teaching how things called Non-Natural are to be used for the keeping men in health they are comprehended under the notion of things Non-Natural and ought to be ordered into four Ranks as 1. First Those things which are taken in 2. S●condly Those things which are carried 3. Thirdly Those things which are emitted and Retained 4. Fourthly What befalls the body by accident as Of Air Meat and Drink Passion of the mind Motion and exercise of body Rest Sleep and Watching Venery excretions and Retentions CHAP. VI. Of Air. AIr is the most worthy Element for the preservation of Life in every creature nay the other Elements subsist by it as for example fire is extinguished if you keep Air from it and water putrifies and stinks if Air comes not to it and the very Earth brings forth nothing to maturity without it Therefore we may well give precedency to its worth in discourse The Air affects our bodies two wayes viz. Extrinsecally as it insinuates through the pores of the skin and as it is attracted by inspiration so it hath a force upon our bodies and impresseth its quality whether good or bad upon us according to all writers The best air The best Air is temperate as to the primary quallities and is pure and infected with no pollutions but is Serene moved or stirred with the Winds breathing sweetly with pleasant Gales and sometimes moistned with wholesome showers Corrupt air On the contrary that Air is vitious which is infected with exhalations and vitious vapours breaking forth on every side or is compassed with marish or standing waters after what manner soever it be impure and such as cannot be purified by the blowing of Winds that Air which is troubled or too Hot or too Cold too Dry or too moist Constitution of air But the Constitution of Air may be polluted though divers causes first the Constitution of the Air depends on the scituation and nature of places for some Regions are hotter then others others colder for by how much the more any Regions receive the direct beams of the Sun and by how much the longer the Sun remains above their Horizon by so much the Country is more hot the contrary Reasons make it so much the Colder yet this cause only doth not suffice neither is the same Constitution of Air in all the inhabitants under the same Latitude for these ten Reasons First the mold and proper Nature of the Earth conduceth to the Constitution and Temperature of the air wherein is to be observed what the Nature of Ground is whether Fat Dirty Filthy Gravelly Stony Sandy Whether the place be high or low what scituation there is of Mountains and Valleys what Winds it often admits and from what Climates whether the Sea or any Lakes be near it whether it brings forth mettals from whence malignant air may be exhaled 2. Scituation of Mountains The Mountains also change the Constitution of the air according as the blowing of certain winds drive away and admit it and if the Mountains drive away the North wind but admit the South wind it comes to pass that the air is hotter and moister the contrary makes the place colder and dryer 3. Winds The different winds bring forth great Mutations as the Oriental or East winds are more temperate also the Occidental or West but these are moister the Northern are cold and dry and have power to bind bodies and dry them the Southern are hot and moist therefore as the Region or Scituation is more or less disposed to this or that wind so it obtains this or that Constitution of air but generaly Countrys exposed to the Oriental Sun are more wholesome then those which are exposed to the Septentrional or North winds and hot winds are more wholesome then those which are exposed to the West 4. Sea and Lakes The Vicinity to the Sea and Lakes conduce much to the peculiar Nature of the air unless interjected Mountains prohibit for from moist places of this Nature many exhalations are drawn up which mingle themselves with air and moisten it and indeed the humidity will be increased if the Sea or Lake be scituated on the South but if towards the North fridigity 5. Metallick Pits or Mines Mines generally communicate their malignant smell and vapou●s to the neighbouring places also Caves exhale venemous air also Woods that are too thick hinder the light of the Sun and Moon as also the motion of the air 6. Times of the Year Indeed the seasons of the Yeer change the air which Astronomers constitute equall according to the motion of the Sun and Zodiack being divided into four parts but Physitians regard these times according to the temper of the air and call that the Spring when the constitution of the air is more temperate when we grow neither stiff with cold nor sweat with heat but the Summer when the same is hot and dry Winter when it is cold and moist neither do they appoint these seasons to be equal in all Countries 7. The Spring The Spring being the most temperate or as Hypocrates calls it hot and moist that is when calidity moderately overcomes frigidity and humidity moderately exceeds driness it is the most wholesome time of the Year and although diseases are generated or rather shews themselves in the spring time yet the spring of its self doth not produce them but the vitious humors which are gathered together in the Winter time are driven out in the spring by the heat o● the Sun and Planets 8. The Summer This quarter is hot and dry ergo makes bodies more hot and dry purifies and disolves and renders them weaker by reason of heat it attenuates humours and kindles them from whence Cholorick and Acrimonius humors are accumulated 9. Autmne This Season is mixed with cold and heat that is mornings and evenings are cold the midle part of the day hot its Constitution is hot and cold and by Reason of its inequality in Air it is very obnoxious to Diseases and blood at this time of the Year is diminished by Reason of approach of cold Winter makes it dangerous to Phlebotomise but upon necessity for now Melancholly abound bodyes are thickned by the Retiring of Blood and Spirits which causeth the pores to close 10. Winter Now the Frigidity of the Air with moisture makes Flegm abounds and procures Catarrhs Distillations Rotten Coughs But if the Seasons of the Year are variable and uncertain

Mustard is much for heat tast and efficacy like the Root of Wild Horse radish Leeks and Garlick Leeks and Garlick are near of Nature but the Garlick is the hotter and more potent they are hot and dry little nourishment and that bad they have a power of attenuating thick Phlegm and viscid humours taking away cold and this is a good Remedy for the pravity of Waters also against the Plague and venemous Air. Onions Onions also afford but little nourishment have a heating attenuating cutting Faculty inflame the blood they leave behind them a thick Juyce provoke Venus they are all hurtful to the Head Eyes Teeth and Gums and cause disturbive sleep and turbulent dreams Cabbage Cabbage is generally accounted to be cold and dry yet the bitterness and acrimony of the Juyce is observed to stir the belly 't is hard of concoction affords little nourishment and that thick and melancholly from whence fulliginous vapours fly into the head and produce turbalent sleep and weakens the sight and are very dangerous for those are incident to a Vertigo or swimming in the head Being boyled in the broath with Fat Meat it is somewhat corrected yet the stinking coction or broath shews its danger and that its only fitting for laborious people Artechoaks Artechoaks heat and dry to the second degree they afford no good Aliment they are hard of concoction and stimulate Venus Windy yet the Meat of the Leaves Stalks and Roots do wonderfully cleanse the Reins sending forth stinking Urine and cures the Running of the Reins if it be decocted in White-wine and the decoction drank Lettice Letttice is esteemed the best of Sallads affords more nourishment then other herbs 't is cold and moist and corrects Choller and good for hot Stomachs it provokes sleep allays the heat of the Reins but too much doth diminish the natural heat Spinnage Spinnage cools and moistens affords little nourishment it generates col● and Serous humours in the Stomach unless it be corrected with Oyl Pepper or Butter it is not profitable and begets wind Beets Orach and Mallows They all loosen the belly by humectation they nourish little and yeilds a watry Juyce and unpleasing of tast except the sawce mends them Asparagus Asparagus and like to them are the young branches of Hops they neither heat nor manifestly cool they are grateful to the tast and cause Appetite yet afford little nourishment they have a detergent cleansing faculty provoke Urine they cleanse the Reins open Obstructions of the Liver and other intrails Parsley Parsley is hot and dry provokes Urine and the courses opens Obstructions purges the Reins and Bowels yet it affords but little nourishment Purslain Purslain is an excellent Sallad with Oyl it cools the Reins helps such as have a scalding of Urine and pain by heat also Rectifies the Teeth being set on Edge Mints Mints are pleasing in smell especially Spear mints which are hot and dry and very strengthning to the Stomach they stay Vomiting and are a most excellent Sallad minced in Vinegar and Sugar for any fresh meat Melones Melones are pleasant in tast and send forth an Aromatick smell but are of a cold watry moist substance whereby they quench thirst and cause Urine they cool and cleanse the Reins but are easily corrupted and being corrupted become as it were of a poysonous nature and stir up Choller or generate Feavers whereby many great men are killed therefore they ought to be eaten at the first course or before meat that they may the easier descend through the belly and after the eating of them some good Food ought to be eaten and good Wine to be drank that their corrupting may be hindred Cucumbers Cucumbers are also cold but not so moist and the Juyce not so dangerous nor so easily corrupted in the Stomach they are least offensive to hot Stomachs Strawberries Strawberries are cold and moist they are profitable to those that are troubled with Choller in the Stomach they cool the Liver and restrain the heat of blood and Chollerick humours they allay thirst therefore profitable to hot constitutions they have thin juyce purge the Reins cause Urine but are easie corrupted in the Stomach therefore ought to be eaten before meat Fruits of Trees First of Apples Apples there are divers sorts which discover themselves by their tast the sowre are colder then the sweet and of a thin and less flatulent substance the austere and sharp are yet colder and of a thick substance and descend more slowly through the belly and stay it yet their violence is corrected by boiling and sowre sharp Apples are rather to be used for Medicine then Aliment they afford ill Juyce but those are worst which are watry and have little or no tast the best have a sweet Aromatick tast and smell and such as afford an indifferent quantity of Aliment they strengthen the Heart exhilerate the mind and are very beneficial to those which are troubled with Melancholly Pears Pears there are of divers kinds and faculties the austere and sharp are astringent and cooling and hurtful to the Stomach and Guts sweat are more temperate yet almost all are of a cold moist nature but some are hot and moist if taken before meat they are apt to stop a looseness being taken after meat they loosen the belly and shut the mouth of the Stomach they are better boyled then raw Quinces Quinces are cold and dry and have an astringent quality they afford little nourishment and are hard of concoction they strengthen the Stomach stop vomiting and if they are taken after meat hinder vapours so that they cannot easily ascend to the Head and so loosen the Belly but being taken before meats they stops a looseness if they are eaten raw they hurt the Nerves and often cause Fits of the Chollick and Obstructions Peaches Peaches are cold and moist and are easily corrupted and afford little nourishment and therefore are to be eaten sparinly and warily and not without danger to cold Stomachs and they are to be eaten before meals not after other meats neither is water or any cold drink to be drank after them but generous Wine being dryed they are less hurtful but best boyled in Wine whereby their pravity is taken away and become not dangerous Apricocks Apricocks are far beyond Peaches in goodness and are more pleasing to the Stomach and are not easily corrupted Medlers Medlers are cold and dry and are not eaten till they are Rotten they afford little nourishment and are slowly concocted they stop the belly and all Flux they stay vomiting and agree well with a Chollerick Stomach Cherries All Cherries have a cooling Faculty but the sowre especially they are easily concocted and quickly descend through the belly and cool the Stomach and Liver they quench thirst and raise an Appetite and are not so easily corrupted nor of so hurtful a Juyce as the sweet ones which are much inferiour to the sharp in goodness by reason of the moisture abounding are easily corrupted

drinking of Beer or Ale for 4 days taking this drink at meat and else and take also 3 of our corroborating pills every morning for a week together early stirring after them it will free your body with ease and safety Avoiding the violent sweats the Jesuits powder doth commonly bring upon all that take it CHAP. X. Of a Consumption and decays of Strength or Consumptio corporis I Am come now last of all to treat of a Consumption any of which Diseases before mentioned if neglected may bring the body into therefore we say veniente occurite Morbo it is easier to prevent then cure the least Disease Diffinition Tabes Quia partium ingreditur soliditatem soluit A Consumption so called because the Disease enters into the solid and noble parts and consumes them as Fire doth mettles by melting them though properly it signifieth an Ulcer in the Lungs which by spreading doth wast and consume them and the whole body the French call it Le pulmonick by the name of the Lungs and there it doth begin by a putrid corosive sharp humour contained in the mass of blood which humours become such for want of Fermentation and continue such by additional acrimony which is the cause that all salt sharp Rheums and distillations which usually fall down most by night are so destructive and mortal and that the venenat quality of that sharp Phlegm distilling doth so continually stimulate the expulsive faculty of the Lungs desiring to free it self by Coughing Therefore all sharp salt acrimonous things or things easily corrupted are most dangerous to consumptive persons and all things that resist putrifaction and acrimony are the best preservatives For cure of a Consumption and all decays of Strength and Nature Be carefull to dispose of your self so that the Disease may be oppugned and nature strengthened and first I shall admonish you to have regard to those things called not naturall as Air Food Sleep the passions of the mind exercise and to the former may be added excrements that these may be Rectified if amiss and procured if wanting the full directions there to you are taught in the begining of this treatise in the Doctrine of preservation of health be careful of keeping your body from all excess which is hurtfull to nature also leave not of suddenly what you have been long acustomed to although worse except Air which we ought to change though you live in the best yet change is better walking Mornings to Hills or high grounds in the Evenings in Summer time by pleasant Rivers according to the saying Fons speculum gramen haec dant occulis Relevamen mane igitur montes sed serum inquirito fontes I caution you not to be out of house after Sun set nor to live in nor adjoyning to old Stone Walls nor new Buildings the former being though most before wet Wether yet dampishly unwholsome penetrating and will transmute Sound and Solid Bodies to putryfaction the latter very Suffocating till Summer Air hath throughly dryed putrid Air is also to be avoided if you live near stinking Lakes of Water Moorish Ground c. for as Air is more or less putred it is better or worse in this distemper for Air is obnoxious to putrifaction as well as any thing else therefore it is worth while for all Weak or Consumtive people especially to enquire into the nature of the Air of the place they intend to live in for we chiefly live by the Air by reason we are continually drawing in and breathing forth Generally the Air in Cities we find by daily experience is not so good as the open Country because the breath of many people in a close place doth putryfie the Air as well the transpiration of the pores of the Body and also the ill smells of divers filth These things are and may be proved as also the goodness or badness o● any Air by the keeping of any kind of Flesh meat for the better the Air is the longer it will keep uncorrupt and so it is with our instruments of Respiration as the Lungs will keep longer sound in a good Air then bad small Ale is most agreeable at meals and warm For dyet your best dyet being meat easie of concoction not easily corrupted fine manchet Land Birds Rabbets Poultrey c. Also where the Stomach is not very Phlegmatick milk hot from the Cow with Sugar of Roses dissolved to be drank about 5 a Clock in the afternoon is safely to be taken to the quantity of half a pint But for the Consumption Cure The most effectual remedy you will find is especially where there is any Catarrh distillation Rheum or Cough is our cordial dyet drink and corroborating pill therefore take of the dyet drink half a pint morning and evening warm in Bed which strengthens the vitals and resists putrifaction lying every morning an hour after it without drinking or eating any thing for that space at night taking as much and sleep upon it the Pill is to be taken one or two in a morning when you rise either constantly or as you find your strength and walk after it and you may eat or drink within an hour after It doth cleanse the Stomach and body in general it is a little laxative but very strengthning making a due Fermentation and a lively complection you ought to exercise according to your strength and to have your Legs arms and body often rubbed with a soft hand never drink cold nor sharp things which duly observed is the best means for recovery CHAP. XI Treating of all sorts of Jaundies and Green-Sickness Obstructions ICteritia est effusio bilis modo flavae modo atrae subnide utriusque quod in puellis saepe accidit per Universum corpus or the Jaundies is nothing but a diffusion of Choller or Melancholly or both through the whole body many times happening when the blood is corrupted without a Feaver as in the Crisis of Diseases and in Maids that have the Green-Sickness all oftentimes caused by Obstructions of the Gall Liver Spleen c. It is easily discovered by the yellowness and discoloration of the skin and deep Red tincture of the Urine or pale colour in the Green Sickness of young women The cure Be it to Men Women or Maids the cure is very safe and speedy first vomit with 2 or 3 of my emetick pills drinking posset drink as they work then sweat at night and morning with our cordial dyet drink hot half a pint at a time the next morning after your Sweat take 3 of our corroborating pills stir much after the taking of them and half an hour after taking them drink a large draught of small Ale or posset drink Maids ought to take the pills for 3 weeks time for the Green Sickness If Maids take them for the Green Sickness let them drink White-wine and continue taking the pills as directed for 20 days though you may be cured before 't is not safe to leave dregs behind and walk much every day after your pills and the Cure will speedily be effected though it be black Jaundies yellow or Green Sickness or any other obstructions in Liver Spleen or Reins in Men Women or Children and doth strengthen the noble parts and Reins to admiration For your dyet in the Jaundies it ought to be tender cooling and opening easie of concoction as Barley Grewel Fresh Fish Poultrey Rabbets and drink freely of small Ale or Barley broath with Liquorish boyled in it But Maids in the Green Sickness ought to use hot drinks that are opening as our dyet drink is also White-wine spiced meats c. because their Disease of Obstruction riseth from a cold cause therefore they must avoid all stopping cold things as Milk Cheese Fruit Nuts and such like One thing I shall say for the comfort of all persons that have lost their Complection that the corroborating pills being taken every morning for ten days or longer doth wonderfully revive and clear the countenance and make a fresh colour though in aged people and if Ladies once try them they need never paint more besides it makes the body sound and strong CHAP. XII Of the Prices of the Medicines that cure the Diseases aforementioned First our cordial dyet drink is 2 s. 6 d. the quart Morbus Pill the Box containing 30. at 5 s. The corroborating Pill the box containing 40. at 5 s. The vomiting Pill the box containing 20. at 3 s. The Cordial Pill giving ease in an hour and frees thy body from the greatest pain If pain be great in any part of the body occasioned by Gout Chollick Pox Stone or otherwise take one of my Cordial Pills at night going to bed and indeavor to sleep upon it and it will give ease in one hours time provided you do not eat nor drink any thing after for two hours space and fotbear speaking or else that may hinder its efficacy upon the Vitals for it gives ease by corroborating and not by stupifying It is most beneficial when the Patient hath had a stool not long before the taking of it Which may easily be procured by help of any small Glister I need not write more in commendation of it for he or she that finds release from pain will not longer doubt of the value and goodness its price 12 d. each pill there being three in a box is 3 s. price These pills and dyet drink are so well known by all that have used them for their excellent vertues that they need nothing of pen praise their benefit in use will shew their worth and to be had only from my house in Winchester-street near Gresham Colledge next door to the Fleece Tavern FINIS

Scurvy Companion but when some are at a loss in the understanding and full comprehending of the cause of Distempers in Patients it is common to fly to the sanctuary of the Scurvy like young Phylosophers that when they cannot find out the cause or reason of such an effect will fly to their ultimum refugium and say it doth it by an occult quality or some hidden property my thinks such might ingeniously say I do not understand it nor can yet find out the reason but most certain such a Disease there is which is peculiarly called the Scorbute or Scurvy which in brief not mentioning all the Catalogue of Distempers entailed to it it is a putrifaction of the blood by which sundry Diseases may be bred after which I think it ought to loose the name of the first cause as the names of small brooks are swallowed in the current of a great River Generally the symptomes are laziness or wearyness without cause especially in the Calves of the Leg and Thighs pain spots putrifaction of the Gums blackness and looseness of the Teeth for the Cure after purging with one dose of our Morbus Pill with 3 4 or 5 as the Patient is strong or weak let them drink Morning and Evening half a pint of our excellent dyet drink and stir much after it every morning and every night endeavour to sweat with some in bed after 2 days from taking your purging Morbus pills take every morning before your mornings draught of dyet drink one or two of our corroborating pills and so drink your dyet drink and walk or stir much after it presently helps And for the corruption of the Gums I have often experienced and I find very certain if you apply a Leech to suck them it will draw away the corrupt blood presently and the dyet drink and Physick takes away the inward cause so continuing the pills and dyet drink every day till cured CHAP. VII The Cure of the Gout THe Gout is a most grievous pain in the Joynts or est articulorum imbecillitas dolorque ex inter vallo invadens the cause is an acremonious humour proceeding from the Spermatick part of blood and congealing in the Joynts therefore very seldom Women or Eunurches or Children are ever troubled with it it takes its various names from its scituation or place residing if in the Hands or Fingers it is called Chiragra if in the knees it is called Genogra if in the Feet Podagra in the Hips Sciatica For the Cure it is best cured in Spring and Fall although all diseases are then best cured yet this is especially moved then in youth it may be perfectly Cured but in the Aged seldome so throughly but it will sometimes give a visit to his old Mr. especially if they eat plentifully or drink French Wine much or sharp things For the absolute Cure leave off all Wine Beer and Ale for a season and drink every night and morning for 14 days half a pint at a time of our Cordial drink and one Pill of our corroborating pill every morning after the Pill stirring about much take the dyet drink warm And at meals drink only Fair Water take this Water at meals constantly but after you have used about 30 of the corroborating pills you may leave them off at pleasure or use them as you find cause For pains in any part nothing is better then a poultess of Milk Bread and Marsh-mallows applyed with some Saffron and put a little Oyl of Camomile to it so put it to the pained place or you may use Oyl of Camomile Marshmallows and Oyl of Turpentine each alike quantity mixt with some Brandy-Wine so anointed by the fire keeping it warm avoiding salt meat sharp things Strong Beer and Wine this remember that one of our pills every morning and drinking nothing but dyet drink and spring water for a season will be the Cure If pain be extream use one of my cordial Pills that gives ease in an hours time you may find its use with directions at the latter end of the book CHAP. VIII Of different Dropsies For Diffinition Hydrops passio est quam aquosi humoris copia comitatur propter sanguificandi facultatem vitiatam A Dropsie is a gathering together of the serous and watry humors from the Veins and Arteries into several parts of the body through hurt or imbecillity of the sanguifying faculty and by want of excretion by Urine and Sweat and by weakness of the Liver from a cold cause there are three sorts of Dropsies to wit the Dropsie Ascites Timpaintes and Anasarca When the waterish humor is collected in the Abdomen it is called Ascites or the Water Dropsie Timpaintes is when much windyness is heaped up between the peritonaeum and the Bowels Anasarca is when the ill humors are dispersed throughout the whole body that all the flesh appeareth moist like a spunge all proceeding from a cold cause and want of Fermentation of the blood the want of which bringeth obstruction of the Ureters and in the pores by which means what ought to be emitted is retained How to cure the Dropsie One method may well work the Cure of all Dropsies that is let their dyet be easie of concoction and very d●ying abstaining as much from Drink as possible and keeping altogether to our cordial dyet drink and Sweating a little morning and evening with half a pint at a time of it warm in bed and it will dry up the humors powerfully and speedily even as Lime doth water and for 3 weeks or a month take every day if possible one or two of our corroborating pills which will cause Fermentation strengthning the Liver and Ureters free them from all weakness and Obstructions and by exercising after your dyet drink and pills it safely cures CHAP. IX Of an Ague or Feaver what it is A Feaver is so called from the Latine word Ferveo because it is a Fervor or heat affecting the body it is a preternatural heat kindled in the heart as in its proper subject primarily and per se hurting our actions which heat by the meditation of blood in the Veins and Spirits is diffused through the whole body The reason of circuits of intermitting Feavers is of no small moment amongst the Learned for what one allows another rejects and therefore as well from their difference in judgement as their frequent Failing in Cure the Ague may be truly called Approbrium Medicorum but Feavers are usually distinguished into putred and malignant and putred Feavers into continual and intermitting not to enlarge upon all Agues passing under the several denominations or names though proceeding from putred of Quotidian Tertian Quartan double Tertian c. But the difference of its fits shews the humour it came from How to cure the Ague First take 2 or 3 of our vomiting pills in the morning then at night take of our cordial dyet drink half a pint hot every night and morning sweating upon it every time and forbear