if so much as such meats as moisten the guts and stomach Sc. Pruens Pears Apples Butter Oyl Watergruel Flumory French barly Spinage and many such like moist and anodine Aliments of which hereafter and when the bowels and stomach are over moist relax'd and slippery as in your present Patient what can Physick do more than gradually as Rice does both heal alter bind dry and strengthen especially as it may be cook'd And you would find it Eugenius a hard task to tell me of any one Disease that I cannot hope to relieve or cure by a proper Diet and very little else as safely and surely though not perhaps so suddenly as the proudest Medicine the Chymist can produce What Disease is there that proceeds not from some of the simple or compound qualities and though no man is so compleatly wise as to explicate them in all their causes and effects which makes Mempsis absolutely deny their is any such thing as qualities which is no less absur'd than to affirm there 's no such thing as Summer and Winter or Fire and Water because in all things we know not their causes and effects and yet 't is certain they really exist and are by the Suns absence or more immediate presence made up of such qualities as we call hot dry cold and moist and as certain 't is that all essential Diseases are caused and all Medicines cure those essential Diseases by some or all of those four qualities hot cold dry or moist And what meats are there not as well as Medicines that are not in one degree or other opposite to those causes And if so as so it is what hinders then as strange as the Chymist makes it that food may not perform those cures and if you please not improperly be call'd Physick there being this only difference betwixt Food and Physick that in health Nature i. e. his Archeus requires things Homogeneal or of like qualities and temper to its self but in sickness things Heterogeneal or of contrary qualities to the Disease the neglect of which absolute and necessary distinction makes the Chymist so sceptical as he is Of such force and power is food for the preventing and curing Diseases that I could name you no meaner a Master of Physick than Avicen himself who cured to use his own words innumerable Diseases by Diet and esteemed it so honest as indeed it is safe easie pleasant and useful a science that no good nor wise men but the Chymist would neglect or undervalue it However if Diet should as in some sudden and great Diseases it sometimes does prove ineffectual you are hereby no more prohibited the judicious use of greater Medicines in such great and violent Diseases than the blowing up houses to prevent and put out fires when such natural and rational helps as water will not do it And that I may no longer detain you from what at first I most intended I shall without any more ado in several distinct Chapters propose you a proper Diet for Diseases by the help of which our Cordial Spirits c. I can with the satisfaction of a good conscience assure the Reader that he may safely and with good success especially where the Physician cannot visit the Patient practise on himself and avoid the danger of putting themselves into the hands of Pseudo-Chymists silly Women Mountebanks Mechanicks Fortune tellers and such like cheats And to do this there needs not much more than to be directed or have the opinion of some honest and able Physician whether your Disease be mixt or comes immediately from a hot a cold a dry or moist cause and then as you are directed by these ensuing Chapters to use a mixt or simple Diet contrary unto that cause CHAP. I. Treats of a Cold or cooling Diet for Hot Diseases and Constitutions THere is nothing that we can think on that belongs to Aliments so absolutely necessary so good cheap and easie to be attain'd as wâ—ter without which the whole Universe must stand still or run into immediate confusion It 's peculiar prerogative is to moisten cool relax relieve ease pain evacuate thicken thin and contributes something to all the active and passive five Qualities Dryness only excepted By its cold and moist Qualities it quenches Choler and Lenifies sharp acid salt and adust humours and relieves all inflamations inward and outward and is the only potent refuge for all volatil saline thin and sharp bloods A glass of good spring Water with a little toast and a little loaf-suger mix'd is a very good mornings draught for all hot lean sanguine cholerick and hectick persons So is Water Caudle made thus Take three pints of Water boil in it a little Rosemary or Mace till it comes to a quart then beat up an Egg and put some of the scalding hot water to it then give it a wame or two aad with a little Sugar drink it hot or cold three pints of Spring Water put to one pint of Milk with Sugar-candy or double refin'd Sugar is a drink that Princes may and do often refresh themselves with So also is running Water with a Lemon and some part of the Rine slit into it thin and a little Sugar and Wine put to it or Syrup of Rasberries Baum Violets Mint or Clove gilly-flowers you cannot take too much of it in ardent Fevers out of a bottle cork'd close and a quill run through the cork to drink out of Note that raw cold Water in Fevers Inflamations and Cholerick Thirst being drank at once in great quantity may cause obstructions and many dangerous Diseases as Dropsies c. But if you first boil well the water and use it after it is again perfectly cold instead of obstructing it will deobstruate or open obstructions and may thus be given at any time in all sorts of Fevers either malignant or ardent especially if a little White-wine Vinegar be mix'd with it That Water is best which is insipid or without taste clean light and bright but to make bad water good and good water better boil it well and then let it cool again before you use it Of Water is made Water-gruel the sick man's Food and Physick when the Archeus abhors all Cordials and high Diet this is ever very acceptable and pleasing and consequently not to be neglected by Mempsis himself there are these several ways of making it Take two pints of River or Spring Water boil it first and then let it cool again then put to it a due proportion of Oatmeal a handful of Sorrel and a good quantity of pick'd and well wash'd Currants eston'd Raisins of the Sun and other ingredients as the Disease will permit may also be added â—ye up these ingredients loosely in a fine thin linnen cloth or bag boil them all well together with or without a little Mace Nutmeg Rosemary c. as occasion offers when 't is sufficiently boil'd strain the Oat-meal and press out all the juyce or moisture of the Currants and
Pig-pork Veal or Trotters let them simper ten or twelve hours by a soft fire in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water with Mary-golds Rosemary Time Savory Sweet-marjoram Mace or Cinamon when 't is almost boil'd enough add to it a crust of bread then strain it To make it more nourishing put to it as you eat it the yolk of an Egg and Sugar Or Take a quart of Sack burn it with Rosemary Nutmegs or Mace then temper two or three new laid Eggs with four or five spoonfuls of it Give it a walm or two with the Eggs and add to it Sugar to your content Thus also for cheapness it may be made with Ale stale-beer or Sider Or Take two or three spoonfuls of Brandy put to it a pint of Ale boil the Ale and scum it then put to it Sugar and drink it Or Take three or four leaves of Sage twelve leaves of Garden or Sea-scurvy-grass shavings of Horse-radish root as much as will lye on a shilling Raisins of the Sun eston'd Num. 20. put them into a quart bottle of Ale or Beer after two or three days you may drink it constantly for your ordinary drink against the Scurvy Dropsie Green-sickness or any cold Disease Egg-caudle and all sorts of broths Bocheets Caudles Cullices Jellies and liquid Aliments made with Flesh Eggs Sugar Sweet-fruit Wine or Aromatick Spices nourish more and sooner than things that are solid and in the substance and on this account no diet can exceed Eggs eaten any ways Take any flesh reer-rosted or boil'd Mutton is best press from it the Juyce or Gravy let it simper over a soft fire with so much white or Rhenish Wine as there is Gravy to which add the yolk of Eggs as you see occasion Sugar and a lirtle Cinamon Nutmeg or Mace drink often four or five spoonfuls of it or eat it with crums of sine Manchet or Naples Bisket The bottom of any well-seasin'd Venison Pasty or meat 〈◊〉 stew'd in a sufficient quantity of Wine and Water or Ale and Water or Water only makes a good stomach Potage All Aromatick Plants all exalted Sauces with Anchovacs Saffron Shalots Pepper Ginger Cloves Cinamon Nutmeg Mace Mustard or Horse-radish roots Chervil Cresses Mint Peny royal Taragon c. Steept slic'd or shred into Sack are good Sauces for cold and crude stomachs Note That Ambrosiopaea's or our Cordial Spirits much Flesh and good Wine moderately taken may be used while you are under this diet Rich aromatick scents odours and perfumes are also excellent Galen counted them the solace and support of his life The sauce and food of his Spirits and that Reverend Divine the learned Hooker found them so to fortifie rature that he could not live withâ—ut them And certainly most distempers incident to a cold and moist brain the original and prime cause of most diseases are prevented relieved or cured by Aromatick Odours these and good Air are says 't is Hippocrates I think the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 charms against all evil CHAP. III. Treats of a moist diet for dry diseases and constitutions MOst of those things mentioned in the first Chapter against hot diseases may be useful also against dry because such diseases as are hot are generally also dry and therefore it is that moisture and dryness are counted passive qualities But besides what are already mentioned in that Chapter there 's nothing can come in competition with Milk and had Gods providence confined us only to this Aliment and bread we had no cause to complain of his bounty 'T is generally suppos'd to be of a cold and moist temper but being nothing else but white blood I rather think it as blood is temperately hot and moist and so like the blood of our bodies that nothing can exceed it for nourishment and therefore 't is that Milk in acute distempers is accounted offensive unless alaid with water Asses Milk for Medicinal use is in greatest repute because 't is not so thick to obstruct nor so thin as not to nourish both which may be performed by Cow-milk either by taking from it the Cream call'd Fleetmilk or putting to it a due proportion of Whey especially if the Whey be first well boil'd and put to it cold and then it will answer all the intents of Asses milk But such as are sound and under no manifest distemper stand in no need of these cautions and directions nor can err in eating it only observing 1. That they do not eat it raw and cold when they are hot 2. Not to eat it on a full stomach or mingled with other meats this makes children so subject to Worms 3. Use no violent motion immediately after it A draught of warm Milk from any Cow 't is but conceit and opinion to count on a red-Cow more than a red-Woman the brown and black of both Kine are best so that they are young well fed and well flesh'd their Milk I say taken in bed about an hour before you rise is an absolute refection for a hot lean and dry constitution if you put a little Sugar or Salt in it you need not fear its curdling or corrupting This trifle made of Milk is pleasant Take a quart of Milk boil in it a blade of Mace then take it from the fire and dissolve in it two or three spoonfuls of fine Sugar then when 't is blood-warm put to it about a spoonful of Runnet stir it and dish it out for a wholesome repast some do it with Cream instead of Milk they are both good There are many of the like nature which this short Essay will not permit of Fish of all sorts is also cold and moist especially those that live in fresh waters but Fish that dwell in salt waters and among Rocks and gravel Rivers are best Fresh-cod Whiting Shads Place Flounder Sole Bream Barbel Smelts Carps Gudgeon Pearch Pikes Roche Mullets Jacks or broths made with these and Oysters Cockles crums of bread and yolks of Eggs are sine feeding for sick maciated people Fruit of all sorts Pears Apples Prunes c. Stew'd rosted boil'd or bak'd are good also against dry Diseases Carrots Cowslips Purslain Letice Asparagus ripe Mulberries Spinache Strawberries Dates Violet leaves Sweet-almonds Mallows Beets Endive Succory Borage Burnet Liquorish Scorzonera Raisins Currants Whey Wheat French barley Oatmeal Puddings Frumety but above all things Flumory the worth of which is known to few 't is made thus Take half a peck of Oatmeal take from it the supersine flowre put it to soke three or four days in a stand or any earthen Vessel with so much water as will more than cover it shift the water every day to take away the bitterness of the Oatmeal let it stand in the last water till it sowre and when you would use it stir it well together and strain so much as you would use at once then boil it up to the consistence of a gelly and eat it at any time cold or hot with a little White-wine or
best especially if it be not too fine and without leven or spoil'd in making or baking The crum is best for Cholerick the crust for Phlegmatick and moist constitutions or they may eat it tosted the newer it is the more it nourisheth the older it is the more it drys I have known Children cured of the Chin-cough by drinking little and eating much Bread 't is good also against the Rickets and the reason why Fluxes Surfeits Fevers and many other Diseases are so rife in Fruit-time is because Bread is not eaten with them the more moist and liquid our meats are the more Bread is to be eaten with them dry houshold Bread Manchet or Bisket eaten for a Breakfast for Supper or last at meals with a little Wine is the only refuge for Rheumatick and moist constitutions Galen by much study was troubled with distillations but preserved himself many years by eating no other Breakfast or Supper than Bread dipt in Wine and with good Odours Rice made into Bread or dry'd in an Oven and steep'd in Wine or stale strong Beer and then boil'd or bak'd with a little Pepper Seeds or Cinamon is good so are all spiced and Aromatick Aliments Eggs rosted and eaten with Pepper much Salt or Cinamon and a glass of Wine or good Drink after them nourish and dry much All Wild Fowl Partridge old Pigeons Ducks and Geese Stares Thrushes and Black-birds Larks Sparrows Teel and Widgeon Rabbets Beef Mutton Venison and Hare dry rosted dry up Rheum Broth made with Rabbets Rice Sorrel Sage Sparrows c. All sowre things also dry much as Vinegar Verjuyce Orange Lemon Allum posset is incomparable for a gargel to hinder defluxions or take it inwardly in hot and moist distempers Make it thus Take a lump of Roch-Allum put it into a quart or two of boiling Milk stir it till it is very well curdled take off the curd and drink it hot in malignant and putrid Fevers Broths made of China and Sarsa or let all your Beer and Wine be drank out of a Lignum Vitae cup Some have abstain'd from all manner of drink for many months there are many other things that might be added to dry a moist Disease and Constitution which we omit because most of the Diet in the second Chapter against cold Diseases may be used here as a drying Diet. Note That our Ambrosiopaeas or Cordial Spirits at after or before meats may be used while you are under this diet But Milk much Sugar much Drink and all moist things mentioned in the third Chapter must be omitted But Abstinence a spare diet much exercise little sleep especially in the day-time and presently after feeding is pernicious for fat Phlegmatick and moist bodies for hot lean and dry bodies 't is necessary especially in Summer and hot Seasons The Conclusion And the summ of all is this when a Pauper and sick person comes to me I direct him if any no more Physick than is absolutely necessary next I bid him keep a proper diet or take a proper Cordial against his Disease If his Disease comes from a hot cause I bid him keep till he recovers to the Medicines and diet belonging to the first Chapter If from a cold cause then to use no other Diet and Medicines than is contained in the second Chapter If from a moist or dry cause then to the Diet and Directions in the third and fourth Chapter If Diet and our Cordial Drinks do not do then I recommend them to the Stove and Artificial Bath mentioned in the second part of these Dialogues and if then and there they mend not you may conclude their case desperate and more fit for the Divine than Physician Finis part the first Miscelanea Medica OR A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick To which is added A short DISCOURSE ON STOVING AND BATHING WITH Some transient and occasional Notes on Dr. George Thompsons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec lex est justâ—â—r ulla Quam necis artificis arte perire sua LONDON Printed in the year 1675. HIPPOCRATIS GALENI FAUTORIBUS Speciatim Erudito viro mihique observando Thomae Austen Armigero Mei amicissimo Necnon Egregiè Doctis J. N. T. S. Medicinae Doctoribus PEllaeo Juveni Cultor non sufficit unus Duos igitur tanto Heroi diversi generis obtigisse memoriae traditur Craterum scilicet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hephestionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab eodem appellatos Quorum ille quidem Regem hic vero Alexandrum coluisse dicitur Mihi quoque in publicum prodeunti analogo quopiam multo magis opus esse quis dubitet Repertis enim libclli causae quam tractat justissimae patronis idoneis alios etiam Scriptoris protectores exquirendos facile persensi Nec mora Vos enim viri egregii illico mihi in mentem rediistis unde quidem ut verius dicam nunquam abestis qui me vestra familiaritate olim dignati sic me sic med omnia utcunque tenuia estimatis vel landare vel saltem excusare parati estis ut aliis hunc tractatum inscribere vel alios mei Defensores adoptare nefas duxerim De meipso more Chymicorum speciatim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 G. T. multa promittere modestia non patitur quamvis mihi non sum tam suffenus ut quidquam de me magnoperè pollicear in utraque tamen Academià educato exactis etiam viginti propè annis in studio praxi Medicinae Chymiae Anatomiae liceat mihi dicere me non prorsus ignarum esse plurimorum sive Dogmatum sive Experimentorum quae alicujus in hâc arte momenti sunt Quapropter navem solvendi hunc oceanum discurrendi copiam facile mihi dandam confido gratum aliquid utile humano generi exponere studenti Valete viri egregiè docti Accipite hoc offerentem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pergite mihi quod semper facitis indulgere meique patrocinium suscipere dignemini perpetuo favete Addictissimo Vestri T. C. Miscelanea Medica OR A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick The Second Part. ALL Physicians whom we ought most to confide in do conclude and have determined it as a most undoubted Truth to cure with contraries and preserve with Cordials according to that confirm'd Aphorism of contraria contrariis curantur Similia similibus conservantur Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus Van-Helmont and some of their late conceited Disciples without taking any notice of this distinction do morbum morbo curare and venture to attempt the putting out of fire with fire Or curing hot Diseases with hot Medicines and consequently cold Diseases with cold Hippocrates Galen and their more aged Off-spring on the other hand judge it more reasonable and practicable to put out fire with water and to subdue the cold effects of water by heat or fire and to this end if the Disease be hot and dry as a Fever they advise such Food and Physick as is
Bauds and common Strumpets Gypsies Witches and Conjurers commonly call'd cunning men and women should be most famous in this profession Is it to be supposed that all Universities Colleges and learned Societies as our Mempsis will have it throughout the whole world could remain ignorant after the greatest endeavours they could use as upon Record and in all their Writings they solemnly protest they do if any such thing as these persons boast of by Urin or their Universal Medicines were to be known or attain'd unto Laz. Truly Sir there is something in what you say and it seems to call in question ones discretion to believe all that is talk'd of But I pray Sir would you not have us then bring the Patients water when we come to you Phil. Yes by all means good Lazarus but not with any expectation of conjuring for though there be no certain knowledge of any Disease nor any safe judgement to be given only by the Urine yet it serves often times to indicate or hint something to us Laz. If Urine be thus uncertain and insignificant I pray Sir then how came this custom into such request and what still continues the repute and use of it Phil. All the account I can give you of the original and growth of this errour is chiefly the ignorance and credulity of the vulgar either in not apprehending the devices secret combinations and stratagems of jugling Vro-manticks or else the peoples mistake and fond conceit in thinking the Physicians chiefest skill lay in the Urine meerly because they observed them to view usually the water when they visited the sick and on this mistake but chiefly to prevent the charge of visits as also the Physicians condescention to the imposition has occasion'd the use of this pernicious custom But because there are some other errors I would advise you of in their proper place I shall conclude this Section with these few directions I. That whenever you visit the Physician you ever bring with you the sick persons water only that it may be in a readiness if the Physician sees occasion to require it but not with any expectation of being resolv'd any thing that is certain and material by it II. Though the Physician should omit to ask yet do not you forget to tell him all you know of the sick tell him his age sex calling complexion habit of body and constitution his customs in eating and drinking and what course of life he has led what time he was first taken whether he has a vomiting or looseness or both whether he sleeps much or wants it or has a cough stitches or pains in any part whether his thirst be great or he sweat much and in what part most or whatever else the sick person at that present labours under and complains of and be sure you do not conceil what Medicines he has already taken by the advice or perswasions of others and who they were III. Let your visits be at the beginning and first onset of the Disease and not be put off till the last which makes the Disease not only the more difficult but dangerous also and oftentimes proves fatal you may as well when your house is on fire forbear going about presently to quench it IV. When you have the direction of such a Physician as you ought to confide in be sure you keep to him and punctually in every particular observe his directions a little error herein be it in your Diet or Physick may be your death and run not from one Physician to another though perhaps more eminent and able than the first it being a most certain truth that Multitudo Medicorum Medicinarum c. A multitude of Medicines and Physicians do very often destroy the sick But as to our present concern about Diet take notice That I. All tender temperate sedentary and sickly people all Infants aged idle and decrepit persons ought to eat often but yet very little at once because much food like much fewel thrown upon sire extinguisheth their natural heat and as weak and wasted bodies are to be restored by little and little so also by moist and liquid Aliments rather than dry and solid because that kind of Diet does nourish soonest and digest and distribute easiest II. Those that have an imperfect health or are under any manifest Disease and eat much and get little strength by eating 't is a sign they have used themselves to too full a Diet and the more you cram and cherish such bodies the less they shall thrive by it but grow worse and worse because by much feeding you do but increase the vitiated and bad humours which should be wasted by Bleeding Purging or Abstinence And this should caution all good Women Nurses and Chymists how they importune and impose upon sick persons their comfortable Cordial and good things as they call them and continually encourage the sick say the Physician what he will to be eating one good thing or other to encourage the Archeus To reform this and other unreasonable customs in Diet was instituted in Old times that Order of Physicians call'd Clinicks or such as directed the diseased how to order themselves in sickness which is now the more is the pity lest to the discretion of every idle conceited and ignorant Nurse or Gossip III. Never though in perfect health eat at once till your Appetite be quite satisfied eat not till you have an Appetite and eat not so long till you have none was Galens rule who lived an hundred years without any manifest sickness This Rule also the Emperour Aurelian Cato Seneca and all the samous Dietists carefully observed and without it esteemed Physick but an insipid and insignificant thing When we want our healths we complain that we have taken cold or eaten something hard of digestion or make some such frivolous excuse or other whereas the real cause lyes in a long continued disorderly diet 'T is rare unless we offend in quantity that any food that is common to us or mankind does offend us by its Quality if there be any such thing as Qualitie as there is not says Mempsis IV. If you have eaten or drank too much at once use so much Exercise or Abstinence before you so transgress again as will perfectly digest the superfluity and excess of your former eating and drinking or else there will be a necessity of being beholden to the extraordinary helps of Physick to prevent Gouts Catarrhs Scorbuts loss of appetite Crudities Obstructions Palsies and what not V. If you eat a large breakfast eat no dinner if you eat no dinner eat an early supper if you eat a supper eat no breakfast if no breakfast eat an early dinner and by this means you will keep your stomack clean strong and vigorous and preserve thereby a good digestion and distribution of your food Custom and company cause us commonly more than thirst and hunger to eat and drink but when hunger and thirst invite us
in the Spring may by this means be prevented only observing then a spare and cool Diet which the Ancients call'd their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or succedaneum to blood-letting Abstinence rather than bleeding being their way to abate blood and prevent diseases and to deal uprightly in a matter of so great concernment for a preventive 't is to be preferred before opening of a Vein which I do not much fancy but in cases of extreme necessity and not upon every trivial distemper and occasion that offers it self Bood being that which makes blood and as the oyl and lamp of life not prodigally to be expended lest like the foolish Virgins we have our Oyl to buy when we should have it to burn The particular benefits of bathing and stoving are not easily to be reckoned up in a transient discourse but that which they are so generally fam'd for is to depurate the bad recrements of the blood the lassitude and lumpishness of the limbs and to make the whole body brisk nimble light and airy They prevent and cure all Agues and Fevers of all sorts both ardent hectick putrid and pestilential and in times of contagion are of absolute use provided the place they sweat in as it commonly happeneth be not infected which if for nothing else were enough to encourage persons to have these Stoves in their Houses And as there is nothing more effectual to prevent the Plague than sweating moderately in these sorts of Stoves once or twice a week So also if infected nothing can exceed them for a Cure taking at the same time convenient Cordials Nature by a Metastasis being thereby assisted to throw off the poyson and venom of the blood from the Center to the remote parts of the body which is the only intention of the cure the like is to be said of the Small-pox malignant Fevers and all contagious diseases It relieves or cures all sorts of pains and aches as Sciatica's Gouts c. it cures also limbs that are weak and relax'd and all cold and moist diseases got by cold Bathing by the mildness of its heat mollifies and relaxes softens smooths and on this account is very proper and very prevalent to cure contracted members and parts obstructed either outward or inward as the breast spleen liver Bathing also wonderfully relieves and easeth Nephritick pains and such as are tortured and troubled with the Stone Cholick pains Hemorrhoids stopping of Urine and Courses and makes a costive belly soluble and loose All diseases of the sinews and all internal diseases proceeding from a cold and moist cause are prevented cured by Stoving as Rheumes Palsies Lethargies Cramps Deafness weakness swelling and numbness of the joynts 't is also a specifick against the Kings-Evil and Jaundies Scabs Itch Chilblains and all efflorescences of the skin In short it so alters and defecates the blood that you may alter as you will by them and diet the whole habit of the body make it another thing than what it is like the ship at Athens though it continued still a ship yet had it not by often reparation one foot of the timber it was first built with And not only sick and diseased persons but such as are in health may receive profit but no prejudice in the least by them and my ingenuous friend Mr. H. H. has told me that in his travels to Russia Sclavonia and other Eastern parts of Europe he observed that in those Countries it was not possible for the inhabitants to live for want of ventilation were it not for their Stoves but by the continual and frequent use of them no people are to be found more sound and healthful and are thereby so little beholden to Physick that the name is scarce known among them and not a place of any note but has one in them So also the Scorbute or Scurvy by often and frequent Stoving is never heard of among those people though for want of perspiration they would else be inclin'd to it more than we in England 'T is their only refuge also to prevent Fevers Gouts Palsies c. after they have debauch'd themselves with high drinking which these people to the great scandal of their Country are most infamously addicted unto Many people especially such as are Hysterick and Hypocondriack by Stoving in common Stoves and Hot-houses are subject to fumes head-ach swounings and suffocating vapours But in this sort of Stove the head being in the open Air all the while they sweat these and many other evil accidents are prevented nor are they at all offended with any noisome vapours or suffocating fumes The manner of using it is thus Your body being made soluble by some gentle Lenitive or Clyster go naked into the Stove stay in it about half an hour more or less to your content or the nature of your disease taking while you sweat some comfortable supping as Mace ale or whatever else may be advised by your Physician while you are sweating you may increase or decrease the heat your self and sweat as you please after you have sweat to your content you may have the Flammiâ—ers or â—â—re Vessels remov'd and the neck-board slided away and so slip down into the wet Bath and there wash off the recrements the slime and filth of your former sweat with balls invented for that purpose Then after you have bathed about half an hour stand upon your feet and wipe your body dry step out of the Bath into a warm Bed and lye warm till your body be well settled and afterwards rise and having taken some warm broth you may go abroad renewed to admiration and sufficiently recompenced for what you have done That which we call vaporarium is a place in the Stove contriv'd chiefly for diseases of the Womb Anus and diseases of the inferiour belly as Dysenteries Hemorrhoids Cancers and fistulated Ulcers Scyrrhous tumours Barrenness Abortion Menses Secundines and every 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and were it for nothing else but decency Cùm vapor per infundibulum fistulam plumbeam in Vterum vel anum ingrediatur it was enough to induce private Familes and persons to have one of these Stoves by them It still remains that I give some account of the Hydroticks which feed the Flammifers or how and what it is that causeth the patient to sweat it is not caused by any gross material fire of wood coles c. as the common Chairs and Stoves are but 't is by an essential Oyl cohibited by retorts with well rectified Spirit of Wine and if you have the true exalted and perfect Oyly-spirit so well incorporated and separated from its phlegm as it ought it will penetrate and prove as active as lightning it self There are some who know no better who do in these cases use common Brandy and our poor mean English Spirits and they succeed in their cures accordingly there being seldom any visible or manifest benefit received by it Whereas those mighty and potent diseases of a confirm'd knotted Gout an ulcerated Kings-evil Palsies and the like are frequently subdued by the Oyly spirit rightly prepared as might be made appear did it not savour too much of the Pseudochymist the Mountebank and Mechanick All that I have else to add being confined to a short Treatise and supposing that after the publishing this manner of Bathing and Stoving there will be no want of undertakers and such as will pretend to the utmost that can be done by it yet that abuses may be prevented and none but wilful people deceived this is to signifie that the very same preparation of Spirits for the Flammifers that produce those great effects by sweat and that I use my self may be had at Mr. Briggs an Apothecary at his house by Abb-Church near Cannon-street or in Spittle-fields near the Salmon By the help of which Spirit any that have these Stoves of their own may do as much with them towards curing themselves as can be done for them by the most mighty hand and most magnifi'd Medicine of a Chymist Those that desire more ample satisfaction on this subject may read Galen do sanitat tuend The Learned Lord Verulam de vit morte And the wise Seneca's Epist de Baln FINIS Books sold by Dorman Newman at the King's Arms in the Poultry Folio THe Regular Architect Or the General Rule of the five Orders of Architecture of Mr. Giacomo Barozzio Da Vignola With a new Addition of Michael Angelo Buonaroti Rendred into English from the Original Italian and explained by John Leeke Student in the Mathematicks for the use and benefit of free Masons Carpenters Joyners Carvers Painters Bricklayers Playsterers In General for all Ingenious Persons that are concerned in the famous Art of Building Quarto A Golden Key to open hidden Treasures or several great Points which refer to the Saints present blessedness and their future happiness with the Resolution of several important Questions the Active and Passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved II. serious singular Pleas which all sincere Christians may safely make to those 10. Scriptures which Speak of the General Judgement and of the Particular Judgement that must certainly pass on all c. the first and second part By Tho. Brooks late Preacher of the Gospel at Margarets New Fish-street A Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several Momentous Questions and Cases of Conscience By the Learned Laborious and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ James Durham Late Minister of the Gospel at Glasgow Paradice opened Or the Secrets Mysteries and Rarities of Divine Love of Infinite Wisdom and of Wonderful Counsel laid open to Publick View Also the Covenant of Grace and the high and glorious Transactions of the Father and the Son in the Covenant of Redemption opened and improved at large with the Resolution of divers important Questions and Cases concerning both Covenants To which is added a sober and serious Discourse about the Favourable Signal and Eminent Presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest Troubles deepest Distresses and most deadly Dangers Being the Second and Last Part of the Golden Key By Thomas Brooks late Preacher of the Gospel at Margarets New-Fishstreet Letters of Advice from two Reverend Divines to a young Gentleman about a weighty Case of Conscience and by him recommended to the serious perusal of all those that may fall into the same Condition FINIS * * V. 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