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A29646	A brief discovery of the chief causes, signs, and effects, of that most reigning disease, the scurvy together with the causes, symptoms, & effects, of several other dangerous diseases most usually afflicting mankind. Whereunto is added, a short account of that imcomparable, and most highly approved medicine called Bromfield's pill. Being the only remedy this age hath produced against the scurvy, and most other curable distempers. Formerly prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield; and now wholly assigned by him to Mr. Joseph Stent.	Bromfield, M.; Stent, Joseph.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4884G; ESTC R217246	15,354	18

A BRIEF DISCOVERY of the chief CAUSES SIGNS and EFFECTS Of that most Reigning Disease the SCURVY Together with the CAUSES SYMPTOMS EFFECTS Of several other dangerous Diseases most usually afflicting Mankind Whereunto is added A short Account of that incomparable and most highly approved MEDICINE CALLED Bromfield's Pill Being the only Remedy this Age hath produced against the SCURVY and most other Curable Distempers Formerly prepared and set forth for the Publick Benefit By M. BROMFIELD And now wholly assigned by him to Mr. JOSEPH STENT LONDON Printed in the Year 1694. The chief Causes Symptoms and Effects of the Scurvy THIS Disease doth chiefly proceed from Melancholy bred by distempers of the Stomach or Spleen which being crude stays in the passages of the Arteries and Veins and thereby doth excite grievous Fermentation or Workings from whence are sent Vapors which afflict the heart and brain c. from all which is caused malignant and contagious putrefaction of Melancholy and thence proceed these Symptoms viz. Giddiness in the head sudden flushings heat and redness in the face and body putrefaction and stinking of the mouth and gums Tooth-ach stinking breath blackness and looseness of the teeth want of digestion much wind and unsavoury belchings and by thick vapon arising from the Hypocondria to the midriff are occasioned obstructions of respiration or shortness of Breath and straitness of the Breast c. The body is dull and heavy and in the legs are spots sometimes red purple black or blue There are also violent pains in the head shoulders arms fingers belly thighs knees legs ancles feet and toes Whence some who have had the Pox though cured do fear the return of their old malady There are many thousands have this Distemper that are perswaded they have the Gout because sometimes it hath the very signs of the Gout which also is the cause why the Scurvy which by mistake is judged the Gout is so seldom cured For those Medicaments pertinent in the Gout are not the very same in the Scurvy and consequently cannot cure it Other signs of the Scurvy are bad sleep and frightful dreams a feverish heat and sweats towards the morning Some have risings on their body as if stung with Bees or Wasps c. others have dolors in their sides imitating those of the Spleen And in short it doth appear to a judicious eye with and in the shape of most Diseases as hath been sufficiently apparent not onely to my self but also to several other experienced Physitians who have traced this Disease and made exact inspection into its variable dresses for many years together And it is also observed that it is propagated and spread abroad in these parts of the world more than any other Distemper whatsoever and by its sundry shapes hath seduced many in their judgment of the Disease For in some it passeth for a Consumption in others for a Dropsie c. and Medicines are given accordingly but alas to little purpose and all for want of a true knowledge of the original of the Disease it self And here observe a great truth viz. that there are very few afflicted with any Distemper of long continuance who have not joyned with it a Scorbutick taint which unless it be considered and some powerful Antisoorbutick Medicaments given the Patient is very rarely if ever cured Now the conclusion of all if the Scurvy be not timely remedied and that it grow predominant is sometimes Swoonings Apoplexies Dropsies great decay of the Body Consumptions and very often Death it self Note That in some the Scurvy is hereditary and that there are some few causes thereof besides those here set down but these being usually the chief the other are omitted The Causes Signs and Effects of the VIRGIN or MAIDEN Disease called the GREEN-SICKNESS THE main cause of this Disease is from obstructions or stoppage and the cause of such obstructions c. are evil thick and clammy humours which choak and stop the passage in the Vessels and spoil the making and passage of the Blood c. and these proceed from bad Diet as eating of raw Wheat Oatmeal much Salt Ashes Clay Chalk c. drinking of much Vingar or much cold Water from too much or too little Sleep eating much raw Fruit sitting too long at Sewing work Melancholy violent Exercise great Heats or Colds c. The signs of this Disease are a pale and greenish colour in the Face the Face and Eye-lids swelled especially after Sleep the Heart beats and fainteth the Stomach swell'd or pained they loath Meat have a tickling cough and their Breath short they sometimes Vomit they have thirst Head-ach and are often Melancholy they are swell'd about their Ancles and Feet and care not much to stir especially up Stairs or an Hill The continuance of this Disease brings long Fevers Barrenness great watery Swellings and the Dropsie Some have a Schirrus or Tumour and wasting in their Liver others by oppression of the Heart die suddenly and many fall into Consumptions which end in the Grave Note That great caution ought to be used in Bleeding any Maid in the Arm before she have had her monthly Visits but if an urgent occasion call for Blood-letting then rather breathe a Vein in the Ancle By following this advice you shall most certainly prevent the Death of some and many Diseases in others but more especially that most dreadful Disease of Barrenness And against this very Disease viz. the Green-sickness and also to procure the monthly Visits in such Women in whom they are wanting there are but few Medicines comparable to these PILLS as has been often proved when no other means or Medicines could prevail I shall here give some account concerning WORMS OF these Creatures are several sorts but the most usual are shaped round and long these are bred in the Guts yet sometimes get into the Stomach The second are short and very small like threds and commonly lie in the right Gut and in the end of the Fundament wherein is almost continual itching which Worms also provoke the Patient very often to stool The third sort are long and broad of an incredible length but very rarely seen Worms are chiefly caused from raw gross flegmatick matter and therefore Youth and such as eat much Fruit are seldom free from them Also all great Eaters are very subject to them especially those who eat Meats that easily putrifie in the Stomach and more at once than Nature can well digest whence follow Crudities and thence Worms the signs of which are many Some have unsavory belchings and a stinking Breath wasting of the Gums heaviness fainting great thirst vomiting cold sweats and often a Fever a short Cough unquiet Sleep intolerable gnawing pains in the Stomach and Belly loss of Appetite weakness and consumption of the whole Body Many times the Patient hath an insatiable Appetite caused by flat Worms which devour the Food that is eaten There are a few signs more of Worms but these

in a little of the pap of an Apple stew'd Prunes five or six spoonfuls of Beer Ale or Wine or they may be bruised or cut small which indeed is the best way if they be very hard by long keeping and taken with Honey Sugar the pap of an Apple Beer Ale or Wine c. VIII Against the Pox Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins let the Pills be taken in the largest Dose yet not so as much to weaken the Patient IX Note My Pills sometimes give an easie Vomit or two that is when the Dose is large the Stomach foul or Nature much inclined that way which proves very well for the Patient For they carry forth such Choletick Flegmatick and other noxious Excrements as Nature could not well avacuate any other way and by that means often compleat the Cure And if in their working the Patient chance to be much stomach-sick which seldom happens then let him drink a glass of Sack or Whitewine or if Wine be too costly a draught of strong Ale warm'd either of which usually gives speedy ease And because I would have no mistake pray observe That those whose Distempers are of long continuance cannot in reason expect perfect Cure with three or four times taking my Pills such should therefore take them in a Dose as large as they can conveniently bear and continue them ten or fifteen days or longer if need require omitting them a day or two sometimes as before directed or as the Patient shall see cause And that my Pills may fully answer every ones expectation I do advise all persons that shall swallow them whole and not find them opperate by Stool or other ways by Sweat Vrine c. as may be expected from the number of Pills taken that they would afterwards cut or bruise them pretty small and so take them in the Pap of an Apple Honey or stew'd Prune or drink them in half a dozen Spoonfuls of Ale Beer or what best like the Patient which is a sure way to make them opperate to content they being really not at all the worse but only harder though seven years old And indeed it is also a piece of good Husbandry besides it's great advantage in forwarding the Cure to cut or bruise them for four or five Pills so taken will be to all intents and purposes as significant as six or seven taken whole also to drink a good draught or two in the forenoon of Posset-drink thin broth or Ale will very much forward and quicken their operation But withal you should note That when not only my Pills but any other purging Medicine hath been taken three or four days immediately one after another there cannot be matter the third and fourth times to work on as there was as there was at the first and second takings And so is it also most true that half so many Stools when they have been taken three or four days as above mentioned are as significant to the cure of a Distemper as so many more were at first taking Now these things being but throwly considered and my Directions rightly followed I am very confident that every rational mans expectations in the use of my Pills will be fully answered But for such as will not follow Directions in taking them it will be much better both for them and me that they let my Pills quite alone and so I heartily desire them to do My PILLS are disposed of in Tin-boxes sealed up with my Seal at Arms being a Lion passant Guardant the larger Box containing about Forty Pills or within one or two more or less is Three shillings and the lesser Box of Nineteen or Twenty Pills is Eighteen pence But because of Dangers and extraordinary charge of Fraight by Sea and great cost of Returns from many parts out of England the larger Box of Pills in Scotland and Ireland is sold for three shillings six Pence and the lesser Box for one shilling nine Pence and not under And are to be sold by Mr. Brabazon Aylener Bookseller at the Three sidgeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil and at the Royal coffee-House in Exchange Alley Mr. Charles Brome Bookseller at the Gun near the west end of St. Pauls Church Mr. Martin at the Coffee-house in kingstreet near Guildhall Mr. John Rowse Trunk-maker in Ratcliff Highway at the end of Old Gravel-lane Mr. Burgess Cheesmonger at the George at Shadwell Dock Mr. Jeffery Woolston at the Holly-Bush at Queen-Hithe Mr. Horrod Cheesmonger within Smithfield Barrs Mr. John Weld Bookseller at the sign of the Crown betwixt the Temple Gates in Fleetstreet Mrs. Stanly Semstress at her Shop without Moorgate Mr. Avertey at the Cake shop without Aldersgate Mr. Francis Rakestraw Tallow-chandler near the Gate in Tuttle street Westminster Mr. Robert Collet Tallow-chandler at the end of Newport-street near Leicester fields Mr. Natha Chandler Cheesmonger against Drury-Lane end in St Giles ' s. Mr. Thomas Vmfrevile Tin man against Cree-Church in Leadenhall Street Mr. Butcher Distiller at the Plow and Still against the George-Inn in Southwark Mr. John Seckle Tinman at the Bird-Cage at Cock-Lane end against the Conduit on Snow hill Mr. Bentley Bookseller at the Post-house in Russel-street Covent-Garden Mr. Paget Cheesmonger in S. James's Market Mr. Lloyd's Coffee-House against the Star-Inn in the Strand near Charing Cross Mr. Joseph Adams Cheesmonger at the Frying-pan over against the Market-house in Clare Market Mr. John Rogers Haberdasher of Hats at the Hat and Harrow against the Bull-Inn within Bishopsgate Mr. Thomas Stent Cheesmonger without the Barrs against Hoglane in Bishopsgate-street Mr. King Razor-maker at the Flying-horse against St. Clements Church in the Strand Mr. Israel Harrisen Stationer under Lincolns-Inn Gate in Chancery-lane Mr. Thomas Ingleton Hosier over against Cripplegate Church Mr. Francis Parr Oil man in middle-Row in Holborn Mrs. Green Semstress near Fauntain Stairs on Redrif Wall Mr. Chapman Bookseller at the Angel in the Pall Mall Mr. John Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard Mrs. Mary Tonson Stationer at Gray's-Inngate next Gray's Inn Lane Mr. Robert Diment at his Shop at Billingsgate and at his Shop upon St. Mary-hill Mr. John Wilson Sail-maker upon CopesKey at the Hermitage-Stairs Mr. Robert Fage Grocer at the Golden SugarLoaf in Piccadilly over against BurlingtonHouse Mr. William Willis Stationer at the Bible in Kings-street Westminster Mrs. Banbury at her Shop in WestminsterHall near the Common-Pleas Mr. Thomas Barras Pastry-Cook next the Bull near the Barrs in White-Chappel Mr. Samuel Bampton Cheesemonger in Hungerford-Market Mr. Marshal Bookseller at the Sign of the Bible in Newgate-street Mr. Leicester Tallow-chandler in Edmonton Mr. Crosdeal Chandler near Battle-Bridg in Tooly-street Mr. Adam Levingston Fruiterer at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange Mr. John Own Cheesmonger at the 〈◊〉 Head in Drury-lane against the Play 〈◊〉 william Vine at his House over against the Rope-Yard in Woolwich Mr. Robert Todd Salesman at the Star in chiswell-street Mr. Edmund Collet at the Angel and three Crowns a Cake Shop in Smook-Alley near Spittle-Fields Mrs. Harding Chandler over-against the Mount in White-Chappel And are also to be sold as heretofore at my former Dwelling at the Blue Balls in Plow-yard in Fetter-lane London by Mr. Joseph Stent ADVERTISEMENTS FOR above 25 years past that my Pills have been made publick they have through the assistance of God been attended with admirable success in caring most dangerous Diseases incident to mankind and thence hauing deservingly gained an high esteem and reputation some wicked persons out of a design filthy lucre have falsely pretended they have gotten a Receipt of them who wandring through the Countries have offered at under rates a sort of dangerous Counterseit Pills to sale these are therefore to request all my correspondents for sale of my Pills that if they can discouer any such person or persons as about-mentioned they will give me speedy notice thereof that I may proceed against them according to Law all such pretenders being absolute Imposters or Cheats designing only to Couzen the Countrey WHereas it hath of late been falsely given out by some Persons that M. Bromfield the Inventor and Publisher of the abovementioned Pills 〈◊〉 died and that one Mr. Joseph Stent sets forth Pills in his Name without euer having had any order for 〈◊〉 so doing these are therefore to satisfie all Persons that I the said M. Bromfield blessed be God 〈◊〉 in good health at my House now in Tottenham-High-Cross in the County of Middlesex and I do hereby further signifie to all Persons that I the said M. Bromfield for divers good Reasons and Causes thereunto to me moving have some Years since set ouer and assigned my whole and sole Right and Interest of preparing making uending and selling my said Pills to the said Mr. Joseph Stent and to no other Person whatsoever He the said Joseph Stent being the only person to whom I ever did or shall discover the Secret of preparing the said Pills and who hath constantly assisted at the preparation of them at my former Dwelling-house in Plow-yard in Petter-lane aforesaid for the space of about fourteen Years together Dated at my House in Barnet my former Dwelling March the 13th 1685 6 M. BROMFIELD FINIS