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A59264	A friend to the sick, or, The honest Englishman's preservation shewing the causes, symptoms, and cures of the most occult and dangerous diseases which affect the body of man : with a particular discourse of the dropsie, scurvy, and yellow jaundice, and the most absolute way of cure : whereunto is added a true relation of some of the most remarkable cures affected by the author's most famous cathartique and diueretique pills.	Sermon, William, 1629?-1679.	1673 (1673)	Wing S2627; ESTC R1171	103,319	301

Pills according to Art There are several other Pills made use of in this Disease not much differing from the former as those Pills called Barbarossae c. The Dose of either are from twenty grains to thirty more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient Which have been often made trial of not without good success ☞ But My Pills having not one grain of Mercury in the whole Composition doth more sweeten and purifie the Blood than any other Medicine yet found out by which means they are no less effectual in this Distemper than in the Dropsie and Scurvy c. But in that let the Patient use his own discretion And after he hath purged very well for a week or ten days together if strength will permit Let him sweat three days gently with my Arcanum Vitae or with the following Liquor the third day purge again and then sweat Thus do for twenty days together if need require Take Sarsaperilla and Lignum Vitae of each four ounces the Bark of Lignum Vitae and the Roots of China of each one ounce Burdock-Roots and Liquorice of each two ounces being cut and bruised boil them in six quarts of Running Water in a Vessel close stopped to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and take thereof one pint hot in the morning and lie three or four hours in a breathing sweat To every dose of this Liquor you may add ten or twelve drops of the Chymical Oyl of Sulphur The second Decoction of the foresaid Ingredients will serve to drink as of ordinary Drink Another Excellent Medicine to provoke Sweat in this Case Take the best Sarsaperilla cut in small pieces what you please which put in a Glass and add thereto Spirit of Sack that it may lie above it the breadth of two singers Let it so stand being covered close till the Spirit become Yellow then strain it and put it into another Glass and to half a pint of this Spirit add two ounces of Gum Guaicum in fine Powder that being dissolved add thereto one spoonful of Natural Balsom then keep it for use Whereof take two spoonfuls in Rosemary Posset and sweat as afore-directed And purge with my Pills every third or fourth day And doubt not the Cure if the Disease be not of too long continuance There are several other ways made use of in the Cure of this desperate Disease as Mercurial Ointments and Fumigations with Ciniber c. to cause Salivation Medicines inwardly given to cause the same are Turbith Minerale Arcanum Corallinum Red Precipitate Mercurius Vita and Mercurius Dulcis which is the most safest of all being well prepared and given at the beginning fifteen grains and increasing every day five grains till the Flux is sufficiently raised in which course the Patient ought not to eat or drink any thing except Posset-Drink or Mutton-Broth and such-like And after the Flux is raised he may drink of the Decoction of Sarsa China c. keeping himself therewith sometimes in a breathing sweat for Purging and Sweating is the best Cure for this Disease and most safe And to heal the Sores in the Mouth make use of some of the Waters directed in the Chapter of the Ulcers of the Mouth and and Throat For the Ulcers in the Secret Parts make use of the Waters directed pag. 84. especially the two last And apply the Powder of Album Graecum with Vinegar thereto for it doth not onely kill the Ulcers but heal You may anoint the part with the White Ointment with Camphir mixing therewith a small quantity of Mercurius Dulcis or White Precipitate in fine Powder To take away the Warts that often grow within the Fore-Skin of the Yard and Glans c. Take Orpment Quick Brimstone and Lime of each two drams the Powder of Savin half a dram mix them together and touch the Warts therewith or anoint them with Balsom of Sulphur Oil of Antimony and Oil of Quicksilver are of wonderful use in such Cases So is the Oil drawn from Mans Excrements In this Distemper You must remember to eat Meats of Light Digestion as Chickens Rabbets Mutton and Partridges well roasted For supper you may eat Raisins of the Sun stoned or blew Currans with Bread only and drink very sparingly But use as much exercise as possible for thereby many young men that have been able to indure sweating through the same as dancing playing at Tennis c. have been with the least Physick imaginable in the beginning of the Disease perfectly cured CHAP. XXXIII Of the PLAGUE THe Plague is a Disease that falleth upon many which we have had too large experience of and hath its original or beginning from a deadly putrifaction which in a very high measure doth exceed the Common Many times this deadly quality hath its beginning in our selves for it often times cometh to pass that the humours of our Bodies do so much degenerate from the natural temperature that at last it taketh unto it self a deadly venomous quality and so is forced to strive with pernicious poyson Sometimes it ariseth from external means as malignant and putrid Exhalations which are communicated to the Air and sometimes from dead Bodies not buried and from the Roots of Cabbages stinking above the Earth from standing corrupt Waters Fens and foggy places the stinking smells from slaughter-houses and Butchers Shambles doth cause Or take the Essence of Venice-Treacle and Tincture of Saffron of each a like quantity being mixed together give to the Patient one or two spoonfuls in the distilled VVater of Scabios or Bugloss every morning as afore-directed Or take Venice-Treacle Mithridate of each one ounce the Confection of Alkermes two drams the Conserve of Wood-Sorrel two ounces mix them together and take the quantity of a Walnut every morning Or take the Spirit of Sack one pint Venice-Treacle one ounce and a half Saffron two drams mix them together and let them stand close stopped for three days then filter it and keep the clear Spirit for use of which let the Patient take one spoonful every morning in the distilled VVater of Rue or Carduus Or take one dram of Venice-Treacle every morning in the distilled Water of Wood-Sorrel or alone if you find it not too hot Or take the Seeds and Bark of Citrons Zeduary Angelica Gentian Tormental Pimpernal and the Roots of Dittany of each a like being made all into fine powder take the quantity of one dram thereof in the distilled VVater of Carduus or Borrage every morning fasting Or take Juniper-Berries the Leaves of green Rue of each one ounce the Kernels of Walnuts two ounces Venice-Treacle Saffron of each two drams ten or twelve Figs beat them all well together then mix therewith a sufficient quantity of the best Vinegar and make an Electuary thereof of which take the quantity of a large Nutmeg every morning Outwardly to prevent this Disease Take Venice-Treacle one ounce Conserve of Cowslips two ounces being mixed

Burgundy Pitch and Harts Fat of each one ounce melt them together adding thereto one spoonful of Linseed Oil after which strain it into a Bason of cold water and with your hands rubbed with Sallet Oil make it up into a Roll and keep it for use for it giveth ease in most pains of the Joints being applied thereto CHAP. XXXV Of the Sciatica or Hip-Gout THe Sciatica is a violent pain in the Huckle-Bone which is caused for the most part through a gross flegmatick humour and being congealed is retained in the foresaid Bone Sometimes violent Exercise the stoppage of the Hemorrhoids and other accustomed Evacuations as the Mensis c. may also be the Cause of this Disease As touching the Cure In the first place let the Patient forbear drinking Brandy and sophisticated Wines and the unmeasurable use of Venery ☞ And make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they with much ease purge all flegmatick humours from the Joints if not of long standing there congealed Or take Oxymel of Squills from half an ounce to six drams at night going to Bed The next morning take the following potion Take the Electuary called Caryocostinum half an ounce Troches Alhandal five grains mix them with two or three ounces of White-wine and drink it off fasting repeating it as need shall require Or take the Powder of a Mans Skull that was never buried Hermodactils Senna and Turbith of each two drams Scamony prepared with Sulphur one dram being made into very fine Powder give to the Patient one dram at a time in the Distilled VVater of Fumatory or in Broth or Posset-Drink Or take Scamony prepared with Sulphur two scruples Mercurius Dulcis one scruple mix them and make it up for three doses The stronger may take it at twice as afore-directed which will eradicate or root out the Humour causing this Distemper but nothing near so powerfully as my Pills However let the Patient use his own pleasure Outward Medicines of Excellent Vse in this Disease are made as followeth Take a Bull 's or an Oxe's Gall and clarifie the same after which add thereto the like quantity of Aqua Vitae and gently boil the same till it come to Ointment with which anoint the part pained well before the fire Or take the Chymical Oil of Wax one dram and a half Oil of Myrrh and the Chymical Oil of Salt of each half a dram Oyl of Scorpions two drams being mixed together anoint therewith for it is of wonderful efficacy and to my knowledge hath helped many Castle-Sope is also of Excellent Virtue if it be first dissolved in the true Spirit of Sack and the Hip anointed therewith well before the fire You may also take the Oil of Foxes half an ounce Oil of Tiles and Earth-worms of each one ounce Oil of Turpentine and Saint John's wort of each one ounce and a half with a sufficient quantity of Virgins VVax make an Ointment thereof and use it as afore-directed Or take the Oil called Petrolei Oil of Tiles Juice of Dane-wort Turpentine of each one ounce Oil of Earth-worms one ounce and a half Spirit of Sack half an ounce melt all these together and anoint the grieved part hot therewith Or apply to the part the Plaister made of Frankincense White Wax c. in the Chapter of the Gout page 229. Or take Rosin Burgundy Pitch the Plaister of Paracelsus and Bees Wax of each one ounce Verdigrease in fine Powder half an ounce being melted altogether spread it upon Sheeps Leather and apply it to the part Some apply with excellent success Blistering Plaisters to the Huckle-Bone which doth attract or draw forth the matter to admiration keeping it running two or three days by the applying thereto a little Butter and Wax melted together and spread upon a Linnen Cloth CHAP. XXXVI Of the Invention and most Remarkable Cures effected by those most Famous CATHARTIQUE and DIURETIQUE PILLS ABout March in the Year 1661. many Persons sorely tormented with the Dropsie c. coming to me for Advice and then being ignorant of any Medicine though I had made trial of many that would combat the same put me upon a severe Study and soon after by searching the Great Volume of Nature observing the Property and occult Quality of Metals Minerals and Vegetables I arrived to the Knowledge and true Preparation of this most Incomparable Medicine And the first Pill that ever I gave thereof was to a very worthy Person a Good Friend of mine at which instant of time I took another my self which wrought upon us both very strange effects expelling not onely viscous or tough flegmatick Humours that lay furring the Tunicles of the Stomach but all sharp salt and watry Humours that were found offending And I will assure thee Reader that this Gentleman and many others with my self ever since the year 1662. upon the least indisposition of Body have made use of those Pills and thereby preserved our Bodies in Pristine Health Which may be a sufficient Argument to convince the People that this is a very Safe Medicine leaving no evil Qualities behind it as some of the same Faculty falsely to defraud the Patient do report In the year 1663. I effected many strange Cures upon persons very dangerously afflicted with the Dropsie and Scurvy c. Amongst which Captain Matthew Hall now belonging to Her Majesties Life-Guard being much troubled with the Dropsie and Scurvy for which he drunk plentifully of Tunbridge-Waters being there to wait upon Her Majesty but finding it rather destructive than to do him the least good against the Dropsie he forthwith made use of my Pills by which he had present help and will upon request testifie the same About September the same year I was called to a Gentleman then living in Black Friars sorely tormented with the Dropsie and from some other cause had Buboes in his Groins which were newly broke putting him to very great misery which with the Dropsie were soon cured with my Pills Onely he kept the Sores clean with White-wine wherein was dissolved a small quantity of Egyptiacum and applied thereto the Plaister of white Lead One Mr. John Powel a Taylor living then near to the aforesaid place troubled with a Tertian Ague his Legs much swelled who had a great Pain in his Back was in a very short time cured with my Pills The following Winter I was called to a Gentlewoman then living in Newgate-Market who had been for some years troubled with a violent pain in her Stomach and had made trial of many Medicines for help but found none till she made use of my Pills and drinking with them the Decoction of Pellitory of Spain and Gallingal as you have directed pag. 127. was perfectly cured and in a short time conceived with Child though she had had none before though married seven years About August or September 1664. Mr. Quallet then living in Field-Lane near Holburn sorely afflicted with the Dropsie Scurvy and Gout was in three weeks

refined-Sugar one pound and a half and make a Syrup thereof according to Art of which let the Patient take two or three spoonfuls every morning fasting The following Pills are also of excellent use Take Rhubarb Senne Aloes Succatrina Agarick Jallap of each one dram Steel prepared with Sulphur half an ounce Diarrhodon Abbatis half a dram Saffron ten grains Mercurius Dulcis one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses solutive make them up in a mass and of every dram make six Pills of which take two at night and three in the morning for fifteen or twenty days together if need require The more to strengthen the Liver and take away the obstructions of the same Take the Roots of Ground-pine and Orris the Seeds of Smallage and Annis of each two drams Asarum two drams and a half Camomile Flowers Ginger Cinamon and Carraway Seed of each one dram Red-Nettle-seed Gentian Hoarhound and Stacados of each two drams being all made into fine Powder make them up into an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of Oxymel of Squills This Medicine purgeth by Urine powerfully and hath done strange Cures You may take the quantity of a large Nutmeg at a time first in the morning and last at night the stronger sort may take more You may apply outwardly the Ointments directed in the Cold Distemper of the Liver c. CHAP. XXIV Of the DROPSIE THe Dropsie is a preternatural Collection of a thinnish Water c. There are in general three sorts of Dropsies The first is called Ascites The second Tympanites The third Anasarca Ascites is a swelling of the Belly and sometimes the Legs and Feet caused by a serous Humour and being of the Nature of Water it is cold but as it is salt it hath in it heat caused by the nearness of the Bowels and the more by the putrifaction which is gathered by long continuance from whence comes a fever and thirst namely from the stinking salt vapours which do infect the Orifice or mouth of the Stomach The Dropsie called Tympanites hath its Name from a Drum because the Abdomen is extended or stretched forth like to a Drum and being struck with your hand it sounds like it This extention is from Wind shut up in the hollowness of the Abdomen and sometimes in the hollowness of the Guts The wind which causeth a Tympany is seldom contained in the Belly alone but most commonly mixed with water as in Ascites not only water but wind also is contained Both which Dropsies have their Name of that which predominateth if more wind than water it is a Tympany if more water than wind an Ascites but if equal between both they cannot always be discerned one from the other The chief cause of wind is a raw Humour and thick whether Flegm or Melancholy which being stirred and made thin by heat sends forth thick vapours which are called flatus and are hard to be dissolved This thick raw Humour is partly in the Stomach and Guts but more especially between the Membranes of the Midriff and Guts So the more hard to be removed than from the hollowness of the parts aforesaid Hippocrates saith They who have pains and gripings about the Navel and Loins which cannot be removed have a dry Dropsie c. The Dropsie called Anasarca comes of a flegmatick Humour dispersed through the whole Body and therefore the Body is swelled and puft up and seems white from whence the Disease is called Leucophlegmatia This Flegm comes from a cold Liver which instead of good Blood produceth raw and flegmatick and when it cannot be turned into the substance of the parts leaves the raw part thereof unfit for nourishment upon them and so makes them swell from whence comes Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia this Disease in the beginning is called Cachexia c. Most Dropsies are caused through great coldness of the Liver or through other parts over-much cooled which doth bring the Liver oftentimes into the same affect The Liver is affected by the Spleen being cold and by the Stomach and Bowels likewise by the Lungs the Reins and Diaphragma and sometimes by the immoderate flux of the Hemorthoids or through the superfluity of Womens monthly Sickness but commonly through the obstruction or stoppage of the same and often through some other great affection of the Womb. And in all these the Liver is found without unnatural swelling and yet the Body affected with the Dropsie caused through the over-coldness of the Liver affected in the first place but afterward it groweth hard which may be seen in them which by drinking over-much small Beer and cold water have their Liver cooled so that the Dropsie forthwith followeth before the Liver is puft up with knotty swelling some fall into this Distemper through the loss of much Blood others after long-continued Agues c. ☞ But thousands in these days through the excessive drinking of Brandy which beyond all other Liquors commonly drunk Burns and dries up the Radical Moisture hinders the circulation of the Blood and turns it into a serous matter c. from which follows sudden death for I have not yet hardly seen an old Brandy-Drinker to receive a perfect Cure Some fall into the Dropsie after the Gout or through the violent pain of the Huckle-Bones commonly such whose Stomachs are dejected and have no good Digestion and have an evil habit of Body and troubled with the Jaundice forthwith follows the Dropsie Sometimes those who have a Dysenteria and the French Pox the Dropsie also follows The Symptoms or Signs of the Dropsie are in brief as followeth In that Dropsie called Ascites the whole Belly is swelled up and if it be but stricken there is heard such a kind of sound as a Bottle maketh that is not full of water but the other parts especially the upper parts of the Body are not swelled not puffed up In that Dropsie called Tympanites the Belly is puffed up and extended forth and being stricken it maketh a noise much like to a Tabor or Trimbrel but the other parts of the Body becomes lean In that Dropsie called Anasarca c. all the whole Body waxeth loose and as it were like to a Spunge so that it swelleth up and is like to a dead Body In most Dropsies the Feet Ankles and Legs especially upon the Shin-Bones commonly swell first sometimes the Belly and Privy Members c. so that if you thrust your fingers thereon the part will pit and leave an impression the colour of the Skin especially the Face is pale and swarthy the Urine little and thick and oftentimes very red the Breath short the Appetite dejected or altogether lost a troublesom thirst by reason of the sharpness and saltness of the humour in which the Stomach swimmeth and if not in time prevented then follows a lingering Fever c. from the corruption of the water which at length doth corrupt all the Bowels swimming therein ☞ As touching the most infallible Cure of Men

in Dropsies ever yet found out observe truely the following Method and take my word for it you will never have cause to repent neither have need to fool your selves with Medicines that are not in the least profitable So in the first place know that one Diet may properly be made use of in all sorts of Dropsies provided it be of light digestion and dry for that meat that is loose and moist is apt to turn into water therefore make use of Partridges Black-birds Thrushes Larks and Chickens especially the extream parts also of Rabbets Hares Goats and Mutton well roasted And let the Patient abstain from Milk Buttermilk Cheese and Whey c. and from all sorts of Fish except Crabs and from Eggs if not well roasted and from all kinds of broths except such that have Parsly Smallage Penniroyal Garden-Cresses Elder-Buds Leeks Onions and Garlick boiled therein and from all manner of Fruits except sweet Almonds Nuts Pomgranates dry Figs Pippins roasted and Pears baked especially Wardens and these to be taken moderately Let the Patient forbear drinking of Brandy and all other hot Spirits sophisticated VVines small Beer and VVater of all sorts for that destroys many labouring under the Dropsie witness the VVells Let your Drink the VVhite-VVine and Rhenish Wine or Wormwood-Ale and White-wine mixed together Beer not too strong nor too small but for the most part make use of the Drink directed hereafter but be very sparing in all and indure thirst as much as possible in order to it mix Vinegar and steeled VVater together and wash your mouth there-with and often chew Mastick therein and eat of Sea-Biskets or hard Crusts of Bread for it draws water forth of the Stomach to the Mouth so quencheth thirst And when you perceive any of the Signs made mention of in page 147 c. ☞ Forthwith make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they are the Only Famous and Safe Medicine ever yet known in the world to combat the Dropsie whose Composition is without Mercury or any other poysonous Ingredients as many other Medicines are to the great damage of the Patient too frequently given in this deplorable and pernicious Distemper The Patient newly taken with the Dropsie may take of those Pills every second or third day But where the Disease is stubborn and of long continuance begin with two Pills more or less according to the Age and Strength of the Patient and take them every day if strength will permit and so continue for a month or six weeks if need require And be not perswaded by any means to the contrary for I never yet knew them fail where the Distemper was really accounted curable You may take them in the Spring and Summer at night going to bed or after your first Sleep or take one at night and two in the morning But in the Winter-season take them always about five or six of the Clock in the morning lest by rising in the night you take cold If you have any Inclination to rest you may lie in your Bed two or three hours after the taking thereof and they will work the better You may swallow them in the Pap of a roasted Apple or in the Skin of a Raisin or Prune or in a preserved Cherry or with Beer or Ale or any other way Such that cannot take them whole as they are may cut them very small and make them up into an Electuary or into a Bolus with a small quantity of Venice-Treacle Mithridate or Diascordium or with any Cordial Syrup especially if the Stomach be cold Such whose Bodies abound with heat and notwithstanding the Dropsie are Hectick may take them with a small quantity of the Lenitive Electuary Cassia newly drawn or with Syrup of Roses or Violets And if the Stomach be very hot they will operate the better You need not drink Posset or Broth as with other Physick but if dry what you please as VVhite-wine Beer or Ale c. warm but as afore-directed be moderate ☞ Such that take my Pills against that Dropsie called Ascites who through weakness of Body by reason of long Sickness cannot make use thereof so often as need require the Belly being subject to Costiveness let them sometimes make use of the following Glister Take the Flowers of Camomile and wild Laurel of each two drams Agarick and Pollipody of the Oak of each one dram and a half Doder half an ounce being bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of VVater or VVhite-wine to the consumption of the third part then strain it and add to one pint thereof Honey of Roses one ounce and a half the Electuaries of Nidum and Benedicta Laxitiva of each three drams Oyl of Camomile Rue and Orris of each one ounce being mixed together make a Glister thereof ☞ In that Dropsie called Tympanites notwithstanding taking my Pills the Patient may also make use of the Glister made as followeth for it is of excellent use to dissolve and discuss wind c. Take the Roots of Fennel and Smallage of each one ounce and a half Seeds of Comin Lovage Parsly Annis Fennal and Daucus of each two ounces Caraway-seeds half an ounce Deanwort Rue Asarum and Melilot of each one handful being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and take thereof three quarters of a pint to which add the Electuary of Bay-berries Benedicta Laxativa and Hiera Picra of each half an ounce Oyl of Dill and Rue of each one ounce Sal Prunella four scruples mix them well together and make thereof a Glister which put up according to Art ☞ And not only in the Dropsie Ascites and Tympanites but in that Dropsie called Anasarca the more to provoke Urine and to expel VVind with the use of my Pills make trial of the following Powder Take the Seeds of Cithory Ash-Keys Burdock and Red Nettles Parsly Fennel Alexander of each half an ounce Pellitory of Spain three drams Sal Prunella and Juniper-berries of each one ounce being beaten into Powder take one dram in four ounces of VVhite-wine first and last except the days you take the Pills You may apply outwardly the following Plaister c. Take the Flowers of Melilot and Camomile of each two drams Savory Mints and Asarum of each half a dram Seeds of Fennel Rue Annis Comin Daucus of each one dram and a half Cardamoms one scruple Mirrh and Castor of each one scruple and a half being made into fine powder add thereto Oyl of Dill two ounces Oyl of Rue three ounces with as much VVax and Rosin as is sufficient make them up into a Plaister according to Art which apply to the Belly repeating the same as need require Or take the Plaister of Bay-berries and the great Plaister of Diachylon with Gumm of each a sufficient quantity adding thereto the Chymical Oyl of Bayberries and Juniper of each one scruple being mixed together spread it upon Sheeps Leather and