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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56757	Some observations made upon the Barbado seeds shewing their admirable virtue in curing dropsies / written by a physitian in the countrey to Sir George Ent at London.	Peachi, John, fl. 1683.; Ent, George, Sir, 1604-1689.; Pechey, John, 1655-1716.	1694 (1694)	Wing P928; ESTC R27599	1,299	7

SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Barbado Seeds SHEWING Their Admirable Virtue in Curing Dropsies Written by a Physitian in the Countrey to Sir George Ent at London LONDON Printed in the Year 1694. SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Barbado Seeds SHEWING Their Admirable Virtue in Curing Dropsies In a LETTER c. SIR ACcording to your Desire I have made many Experiments with the Barbado Seeds you sent me and I find them wonderful serviceable against Dropsies they open the Sluces of Nature and let the watery Humours run away both by Seige and Urine and that in a very plentiful manner with very little disturbance to Nature If you have any more Indian Specificks I pray send them into the Countrey and I will make Observations upon them and I hope with as good Success for by this Method the Art of Physick is likely to be much improved and in time we may be able to Answer the Lord Bacon's Desire viz. to write a History of the Cures of Diseases thought to be incurable I was lately sent for six Miles from my own House to a Countrey Farmer who was miserably swelled by the Dropsie not only his Belly but his Leggs and whole Habit of Body I had given him many Medicines but I found that his stubborn Disease would not give way and at length trying your Specifick in several forms I perceived a plentiful Evacuation of Water by Seige and Urine he is become very lank and his Colour begins to return and I hope by the Use of good Volatile Salts and bitter Medicines to restore the ferments to the several parts and prevent the danger of a Relapse Another Person who was a Servant was so exceedingly swelled that his Friends had all concluded that he must be tapp'd but having heard of the former Cure came ten Miles to my House being brought in his Master's Coach I used the same Method and in due time Cured him I must needs own as Mr. Boyle saith that the Theories of divers Diseases are so hotly disputed amongst many Eminent Physitians that in many Cases a Man may discern more probability of the Success of the Remedy than of the Truth of the received Notion of the Disease And as the Controverted Methods are not to this Day agreed on nor establisht in the Schools themselves so divers who are not acquainted with the Schools do by the help of Experience and good Specificks and the Method their mother Wit and other Emergency prompts them to take do very great and extraordinary Cures the Causes of Diseases are much less certain and much more disputed than the Uninquisitive imagine Nor are the Methods of Curing which depends upon those Causes settled as they should be and therefore he fears that the generality of Physitians have but an imperfect Method in the Cure of many Diseases and therefore he observes that the Communicating some good Medicines in an unpolished manner though they may disparage an Author yet they may save the Life of a Patient These Considerations have encouraged me to communicate my Observations of this Nature which may a little gratifie the inquisitive part of Mankind until the Learned Dr. Sloan from whom we expect considerable Informations gives us a more compleat Account of American Rarities and their Medicinal Opperations This I must say that after universal Evacuations by Purging Vomitting Sweating which ought to be left to the Prudence of able and experienced Physitians I have ever found Specifick Allerative Remedies wonderful Advantagious Many Persons of different Ages and Sexes have been Cured of Dropsies by these Seeds taking only the Spirit the Tincture and the Extract of the same sometimes in Broom-Beer and sometimes in Rhenish-Wine only observing an agreeable Dyet and enduring Thirst as much as may be FINIS