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A62932
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The poore mans reliefe
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Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.
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1654
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Wing T1888A; ESTC R222351
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next Day And then a Cordiall sweat as they are knowne by their Names in the Pharmacopaea Dunelmensis The Effects whereof as it hath pleased God to dispose may be Read in the Catalogue of the returnes sent from the poore Patients to be Collected together in one Booke So when the Information is Viewed the Judgement and Advice upon it the Prescriptions to the Apothecary how they answer the Advice and the Returnes what Effect such advice hath produced I hope I have acquitted the Engagement For the Remote Parts as Darneton Ward least distance of Place make this Proposall lesse Effectuall in their behalfe I doe promise to leave a Chest of Medicines and imploy one thereabout who shall carefully prosecute the intent of our Designe with lesse trouble then comming to Durham except in cases of difficulty This also I wish may be knowne That two Moneths about Midsummer being a Season but in extreame cases unfit to move the humors in the Body I shall attend my Duty at the Well on Gaterly Moore adjacent to this County This Water is of the Nature of Sweet Spawes which partakes of Vitrioll the Spaw at Knaisborough a little exceeds it in this property and therefore is more effectuall for Gravell in the Kidneys but for Diseases of the Female Sex proceeding from the Spleene and Matrix as also for Wormes and all other Diseases none excepted with due care of Physicke taken This Water hath the preheminence to my judgement and experience of others in the North Parts the Reason from hence is That it partakes of the Tinne and Lead the former Mettall is approved to be of use in Mens Bodies next to Gold from the latter it hath properties which are knowne to Physitians and therefore is not safe for Women Conceived to meddle with it I wish this necessary Caveat be not abused to sinne I hope the Country may be now satisfied That if there be no want on their Parts of Charity the Poore shall not suffer in losse of Health or Life so farre as my Care and Endeavour can prevent And seeing the onely ground and bothome of this undertaking next to the approbation of God is the good will and opinion of the Contributors having no feare at all that they by exceeding their Contribution with Messages of Patients have purpose to impoverish me in my Actings for the Poore Wherefore as I hope to be Instrumentally helpfull to them let no Man forbeare to send to us in their behalfe when there shall be need These things premised I desire it may be Published as followeth THese are to signifie That George Tonstall and William Tonstall Residing in Durham have undertaken to supply any Poore Person being an Inhabitant of this County that shall be any way infirme with Advice and Physicke according to their best Skill in all Cases wherein Physicke or Chirurgery is required except in the case of common Plague without any charge to them from the first of Aprill 1655. And they desire that such Gentlemen Free-holders and others who thinke sit to Contribute in this Charitable Proposall towards the Discharge of the Physicke and necessary Charge hereof to subscribe their Names and the Summe they will freely Yearely give to be returned to us And that they will Yearely Pay such Summes to the respective Ministers of the severall Parishes for our Vse the one moyety on the first of May and the other moyety on the five and twentieth of December And they doe Ingage to Register their proceedings to that end the said Contributers may receive Accompt Yearely how they discharge their Trust herein Provided such Poore Person Inhabitant as aforesaid that shall apply themselves unto the said George and William Tonstall doe procure and send a Note or Certificate from any * It is denied vvhen conveniency vvill permit that one of them be a Minister three of the said Contributers that they are of such as are intended within this Charitable Proposall The onely designe next in prosecution hereof is to frame a Dispensatory in such a Method that if any Person can but have true advice what kinde of Remedies is needfull for them to use then shall it be sufficient direction to mine Apothecary what to give him without prescribing such and such things in particular And this I hope will be a beneficiall worke because men prophessing Physick seldome differ in Judgement concerning what is to be done and after what manner The Logicall rules of Art leade men together thus farre but with what shall our intentions be performed here lyes the Dispute For it is naturall that he that hath made his practice with such Receipts will not yeeld to alter them upon anothers commending his This knot will be loosed when the Dispensatory is Viewed with Observations how they tooke effect Physitians then may judge of them I wish them so much comfort as a willing heart to adjoyne their Receips hereto And when all is approved on none need differ in using them An Abstract of the Poore Mans Panacaea or Pharmacopaea Dunelmensis The Rationall Method of Cure is performed by Indication And the subject of Indidication is either 1. Causa Materialis Antecedent Continent 2. Pars affecta 3. Symptomata 1. The Materiall Cause being praeternaturall hath for its Indication Evacuation which is either of 1. Blood 2. Humors 3. Wormes 4. Stone and Gravell 5. Winde 6. Maligne Vapors Externall accidents Thorns Splinters Dirt and gravel c. 1. Blood hath its Evacuation by Lances Leeches c. 2. Humors are divided ordinarily into Choller Phlegme Melancholy Water These have their proper Evacuatories Evacuatories in Generall are Vomits Purges Salivation Sweats Diureticks Blistering Fomentation which are either Internall Drinke Cordial Electuries and Powders Externall Bath Fuming in Particular Errhina Apophlegmatismi Tussilagogs c. Evacuatories by Stoole are either in forme of Pills Electuaries Potions Powders As Reason sees cause to vary 2. The part affected This hath for its Indication Corroboration which is performed by opposition of helps Homogeniall to the temperament and Humidum radicale This Humidum radicale consists in the influentiall heate of the Heart which communicates its life and vigour to the whole Body and the innate heate of every Part or Member These helps are Aliments Medicaments Medicaments are such as we call Cephalicks Pectoralls Cordialls Stomachicks Spleniticks Hepaticks Renall and Matricall these are peculiar to the noble parts of the Body which respect the innate heate of each particular part with a sweet spirit agreeable to the Vitalls The variation of this Indication is onely in respect of the temperament in hot Distempers cold Distempers 3. Symptoms These are such Effects as follow the Disease and have for their Indication their contraries The common Symptome is paine its contrary is Anodine The other Symptoms are divided in respect of Spitits Blood and Humors 1. Spirits as Want of Sense Want of Motion Watchfulnesse Drowsinesse 2. Blood and Humors These are divided in respect of their Qualities First Second Motion 1. First Qualities are Heat Cold. Moysture Drynesse 2. Second Qualities are Thinnesse Clamminesse Grossenesse Motion proceeding from the Head the Stomacke the Belly the Liver the Kidneyes the Matrix Thus the materiall Cause which is the maine opponent is discovered the part affected strengthened and the Symptoms removed which comprehend the whole Method of Cure belonging to the Physitian Now followeth Chirurgery which is a Method performed by manuall operation upon the Body The parts whereof are either Similare Organicall 1. Similare are Bones Nerves Veines and Arteries Membrans Flesh 2. Organicall are Head Palate Ears Eyes Nose c. Infirmities belonging to these Parts are either Tumors Vlcers Wounds Imposthumes Contusions Gangrenes 1. Tumors are Phlegmon Erisipilas Oedema Schirrus Flatulent Scrophular Wens 2. Ulcers are Simple These require onely Consolidation Compound These are Mild these are Plain sinnuous are Callons as the Fistula without callosity Malignant and corroding these are Herpes Phagedaina Noema Cancer Leprosie 3. Wounds 4. Imposthums 5. Contusions 6. Gangrens vary according to the division of the Parts The Remedies answerable to all Indications in Physicke and Chyrurgery shall God willing be fitly Composed and Annexed to every branch of Indication expressed in this Abstract Therefore when the Pharmacopaea Dunelmensis is Compiled you may see our businesse is little more then to give advice This Commodity also will arise That if the Contribution will amount to no more then will finde the Poore with all Medicines necessary for Physicke or Chyrurgery then may they have Advice gratis from any Artist having such Remedies for their use in all Cases as shall be Published FINIS