Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	know_v	see_v	5,670	5	3.0830	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50455	The test and tryal of medicines and the different modes of medical practice. Shewing what hopes of help, from physick and physicians. By E.M. Med. D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1690 (1690)	Wing M1515; ESTC R217778	10,282	10

readily serve upon all emergent occasions or seasonable preventions operating with great ease and safety in young or aged and the tenderest or weakest Persons the Dose being suitable And being of such great use and durable in keeping some provident People do keep them as necessary provision to be ready and not to seek them at the time of need The Restoring Elixir performs a different operation from the Pills but is frequently used by turns with them for as they by cleansing carry of the impurities and noxious humours that oppress clog and obstruct the functions of several Parts of the Body from performing their office so this assisting Elixir is very useful to quicken strengthen and raise up the faculties that are languid and weak to rectify and reinforce them when declining and deviating giving an additional strength for reducing them again into the true execution of their offices ☞ I there also mentioned a Medicine very useful and proper for Ireland against the Disease frequent in that Country and other Diseases usually attending Camps and Navies which have proved so mortal to many now of late which gives me cause to think the Medicinal help hath not been so fit and efficacious as ought to be If people of the best rank be meanly serv'd at home though purchased at a considerable Charge what will not serve to fill up a Chest to be sent abroad for the use of Souldiers and Seamen the formality of Physick is enough they did not die without the use of Medicines and to alter this course is against some Mens Interests therefore any thing else proposed though ten times better it shall be opposed and stifled I wish so well to the publick service that my zeal makes me bold to offer my sentiments which I hope will not be resented ill because intended well But I hear there is care taken for a better supply that ten Physicians are put upon the work If they be Pharmacopoeians Operators in Medicines I shall expect something extraordinary from them but otherwise if Readers of Medicines and only Book Learned I expect no more than the result of other Consultations conjectural presumed chance Medicines I cannot well think how a compleat adapt Medicine should be made by Consultation unless the occasion requiring could wait upon many Adjournments and days of tryal to prove reform and meliorate their first invention for many a Medicine that hath been thought very good and promising upon the projection hath been found mean upon the tryal and rejected One Mans experience in a Medicine is better than ten Mens invention of a Medicine take that for an Aphorism And one Man sometimes finds out that which a hundred cannot and thousands never did Here are ten Mens Heads but where are the Hands The Apothecaries are to find Hands If Heads and Hands do not go together I doubt the Medicines will be spurious But farther you 'l say here will be ten Mens experience and that 's surer than one Mans but then consider how hard a thing and almost impossible it is that the experience of many in the form and methodical use of Medicines should run so even and represent each other in uniformity and likeness but there must be some grains of allowance for disparity here and there to piece them together for an accord and union of Parity to stamp the certainty of one homogeneous experience upon them and when that is done I say all these experiences so modelled and reduced into one Masse cannot be truly called concurring experience in omnibus that deserves a Probatum est and a true Copy to form experienced Medicines by but you must call it a probable experiment to be made and as yet wants Confirmation by proofs If it be so as in reason it is then I must say that a comprehensive single Medicine well approved by one Mans Experience si sit Artifex is more to be relied on than a Method of Medicines from such a compounded Experience of many But if I prove you can make no true observation in your new Mode of Practice and your experience not grounded thereupon your judgment must needs appear fallacious and the essential part of your ability taken away for what is it that makes a Physician able and secure in practice but experience founded upon true observations and without this knowledge he is but as a Novice an uncertain conjecturing Man in the methods of Curing although an ancient Practiser But this I must prosecute in my next Since all Learning reasoning and designing of Medicines must give way and yield up to Experience than which nothing so certain to depend on I must then prefer my single tryed Remedy before the methods of any learned Consultation whatever Having seen the proofs thereof and manner of operation in various difficult and deplorable Cases one whereof was my own and the condition so desperate as I would not wade through the like again for a heap of Gold and Diamonds when all hopes in other Medicines failed this alone rescued me Deo juvante performing the whole course and answering all the indications that remarkable cure required The story too long to insert here or the Contumacious Diseases of others in which this Medicine hath relieved One part of its usefulness and excellency lyes here that it is easily managed whereas Methods of Medicines being various both in Method and Medicine they always require the attendance of a Physician upon each particular sick Person which cannot be allowed to an Army marching or dispersed into Quarters or a Fleet at Sea And as for internal Ulcers or Wounds made by Gun-shot or Instrument where the Surgeon's hand cannot come to dress but must depend upon internal means this promotes digestion in the wounded part and also dischargeth the purulent matter or quittour performing the office of a Balsam and disposeth to healing and if a Surgeon hath such an expedient as this to work with it facilitates and sets forward his business with all imaginable safety This is no new Invention to allure contrived upon the present expedition and juncture of Affairs but I can prove it was fortunately designed some years since upon an extraordinary emergent occasion with its use and successes in various cases afterwards in Practice So that I offered nothing upon bare projection and rational probability but grounded upon matters of fact the greatest assurance that can be given to support the credit of a Medicine I am the more free upon the Character of this Medicine yet not the half of what I have to say because I mentioned it as most advantagious for the Publick Service that you may not think I offered a trifle or what is ordinary I wish there may be such a Medicine found in the Medicinal Apparatus for Army or Navy but I do not expect it As for Contagious Diseases which oftentimes do infest Armies and Fleets the causes whereof I could assign and begets great Mortality and this for want of a right understanding thereof good preventive and curative means and due Administration but few are fitted for this work I have seen the highest Contagion that hath been known in England Plague at London 1665. and voluntarily ingaged therein from first to last when most Physicians ran away and deserted the people in that Calamity But I being provided with Antidotes preventive and Curative and knowing it was my Duty I therefore feared nothing and visited those People seized with the Pestilence as I do now any other Disease my self remaining in good health during the Contagion I wish for a sight of the Catalogue of Medicines designed for the service then I could say something more in this matter Quibusdam Remedia monstranda sunt quibusdam inculcanda Senec. From my House in Old Southampton Buildings over against Grays-Inn Jan. 1690. E. Maynwaringe FINIS ADVERTISEMENT A Treatise of the Scurvey Shewing the various Nature and Care of that Disease By Everard Maynwaringe Dr. in Physick The History and Mystery of the Venerial Lues Gonorrhoea's c. Resolving the Doubts and Fears of such as are surprised with this secret perplexing Malady c. A Treatise of Consumptions Scorbutick Atrophies Hectick Feavers Phthises S●ermatick and Venereous wasting c. Of Pains Inflammations Tumours Apostems Vlcers Cancers Gangrens and Mortifications internal Therein shewing the secret Causes and course of many Chronick and Acute Mortal Diseases rarely discerned With a Tract of Fontanels or Issues and Seto●s The Compleat Physician qualified and dignified the Rise and Progress of Physick illustrated Physicians of different Sects and Judgments distinguished The Ancient and Modern Practice of Physick Examined Stated and Compared The Preparation and Custody of Medicines as it was the Primitive Custom asserted and proved to be the proper charge and grand Duty of every Physician successively c. The Method and Means of enjoying Health Vigour and long Life Demonstrated from the Causes of Abbreviation and Prolongation A Serious Debate and general Concern relating to Health and Sickness The Second Impression with a Postscript All Writ by the same Author Licensed and Entered according to Order LONDON Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleetstreet and Thomas Horne at the South-Entrance of the Royal-Exchange 1690.