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A direct method of ordering and curing people of that loathsome disease, the small-pox teaching the common sort of people (to whom the care of the sick is for the most part committed) how to go thorow their business with much more safety ... : as also how to prevent the usual deformity of marks and scars ... for the benefit of all, but especially the poor / being the twenty years practical experience and observations of John Lamport, alias, Lampard ...
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Lamport, John.
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Wing L307; ESTC R11793
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do well to get such flowers as have been twice or thrice sublimed and the last time from Colcothar for an Ounce of such are worth 3 or 4 ounces of those that are commonly sold. But beware that you do not use powdered Brimston in the stead of flos sulphuris least you should meet with a little Ratsbane amongst it But to my business when you find some of the symptomes to appear as the Head-ach Drowziness sometimes motions to vomit pain in the back these or some of these signs being accompanied with a feaver at a season when the small Pox are rife you may well Imagine that the Disease hath seized the Patient When these signs do shew themselves do not run madding to Dr. Dunce or his Assistance to be let bloud but go to your Chamber I do not say to your bed and drink strong Beer and now and then a Glass of Sack and never fear increasing the Feaver by your so doing for it strengthens Nature to cast out his Adversary that way which Nature doth most incline unto as sometimes by Vomit sometimes by Sweat and Urine But I have alwayes given an Antimonial Vomit as soon as I could possibly have a fit time to give it of which more hereafter for it doth expel such a quantity of the Morbifick Matter from all parts of the body but especially from the Head and Stomach that the disease afterwards seems to be quite Mastered no light-headed discourse no unruly actions no excessive thirst appearing or very little afterward And this have I done with very happy success very often nay I have had some Patients have been angry that they should be confined to their Chamber for a few Pimples as they called thâm and some never kept within doors But such as cannot have well prepared Antimony may give a drachm of Salt or Vitriol and for want of that give a drachm or a drachm and half or two drams of purified white Vitriol and those which cannot obtain that neither were better to give the like quantity of crude white Vitriol than not to Vomit at all for I have always observed that according as the stomach is more or less loaded with ill humors so is this disease more or less violent and not as some of our Country-people conjecture as people that are fat and corpulent to be full of the small-pox and that spare lean people should have but few I shall in the next place give my Reader a Taste of some other Authors Opinion how far they may be said to countenance this kind of Practice and will herein be as brief as possible I can as having treated more largely in the forementioned Book under the Title of Feavers Doctor Riverius in his Practice of Physick page 624 telleth us That the Cure of Pestilential Fevers must be directed to three things viz The Fevers must be opposed with Coolers and Moisteners the Putrefaction with Evacuators and Alterers the Malignant Quality with Antidotes In the Chapter of putrid Feavers pag. 576 he sayes But if thirst be caused by a Cholerick Humor contained in the Stomach the said Humor must be voided by Vomit or Stool The Câolerick Humor here spoken of being stirred is generally the caâse of Super natural Thirst in all Fevers whatsoever In the Chapter aforesaid pag. 570 he writes thus Sometime also in the beginning of these Fevers Vomit is to be procured viz. when the Patient is much vexed with illness of Stomach and with Vomiting c. And many times it falls out that great quantity of matter is contained in the Stomach and parts thereabouâs which must be evacuated as soon as possible may be by Vomit then he giveth a good Reason for so doing seeing no Concoction can be expected of such Excrementitious matter in so great a quantity and whatsoever the Patient eats or drinks is changed into such like Humors and encreases the matter which is Cause of the Disease Then by consequence to pour your cooling Julips Apozemes Pippin-Possets c. into such depraved Stomachs is like to pouring Oyl on Fire to quench it instead of Water Then he tells us that Fernelius hath well observed that all superfluity of Humors in the Stomach Spleen Pancreas Mesentery and the cavity of the Liver is conveniently emptied out by a Vomit which sometimes will not be removed by Medicines that work downwards though divers times Administred Thus far Riverius Now I must tell you that the Material cause of putrid Feavers and the small-pox is the same but that which doth put it into act or sets it on working is different for the small-pox is set on Fire by the contagious Air as you may see that a common surfet as you call it when the small-pox is Epidemical it often turneth to be the small-pox which had otherwise proved only a putrid Feaver But of this I have given a larger account in another Treatise which I hope shortly to publish I will say no more of Vomits in this place having in the aforesaid book shewed almost a Universal use of them and proved it by undeniable Experiments And considering the aversness of many people to this kind of Physick partly out of a natural Antipathy but more from observing the bad Events of ill prepared Medicines too frequently made use of by such whose Idleness and Ignorance keeps them from the knowledge of good Chymical Remedies of which well prepared Vomits are to my knowledge of most admirable benefit to sick People Well if you will not be so suddenly rid of your Disease as you might be by vomiting half a dozen times in two hours space then I must give a touch again at the order of diet And here I will tell you again that if you keep your Patients from strong Beer to satisfie their Thirst you do thereby exceedingly increase the Disease And note likewise that if you perswade them to eat either Flesh or Broth you do almost as ill But if you will be feeding them though far better it were let alone until they Hunger after it then give them now and then three or four spoonfuls of a plain Sack-Posset or a piece of White-bread Toast dipped in such strong Liquor as the Patient likes best whether it be Sack White-wine Metheglin Cyder March or Mild Beer or good Ale and fear not to let him make his Toast swim in his Stomach if he do desire it And for to make you the bolder I will give you Doctor Thompsons Opinion herein in his Book of preserving the Bloud pag. 164 says he Let none then Haesitate to offer liberally what is potulent or liquid to one that is Thirsty for 't is both necessary and consentaneous to Nature so to do yea through this omission the good juice or solid parts may suffer a deperdition And in the next page having given divers Reasons for giving strong Beer in Fevers he breaks out thus Away then with these Clogging Dull Flat Vapid Debilitating