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A49182 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 ... Lamport, John. 1685 (1685) Wing L307; ESTC R11793 15,715 38

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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 th●m 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 C●olerick Humor here spoken of being stirred is generally the ca●se 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 thereabou●s 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
Licensed October 14 1685. Rob. Midgley 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 Ease Speed and Certainty than hath been hitherto commonly known AS ALSO How to prevent the usual Deformity of Marks and Scars with the most usual Names of such Remedies as are necessary to be made use of with their Dose and the Manner of Applying them All made plain to the Meanest Capacity For the Benefit of all But Especially the POOR Being the Twenty Years Practical Experience and Observations of Iohn Lamport alias Lampard Practitioner in Chyrurgery and Physick Errata Page 5. l. 4. for or Vitriol r. of Vitriol p. 28. l. 3. I Cure LONDON Printed by I. Gain for the Author and are to be Sold by Samuel Crouch at the Flower-de-luce at the Entrance of Popes-head Alley in Cornhill 1685. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Country-men THis small Tractate was intended as an Appendix to another book now almost ready for the Press but that occasion which did move me to think of inserting it at the end of that Book being augmented hath exposed this sooner to a view than was intended Of how singular use a Treatise of this kind may prove to all sorts of people may e●sily be conceived if we do but consider how hard a matter it is to get any body but to enter into an infected house the great Charge it is for poor people to pay a Nurse and how ignorant the most of them are of their business when they are obtained Or do but consider what a sad condition it is when it happens in a Family where none hath had the distemper and a Tender is not to be gotten whereby the Husband is constrained to tend the Wife or she her Husband or they sometimes three four or more Children sick of this Disease How Ioyful would they be to know my cheap Antidote for preserving some to tend the rest Or to be assured with what Liquor they may boldly and safely refresh their Darling Husbands Wives or scorched thirsty Babes Or what would not some pretty Maidens yea or young men either give to preserve that beauty they have hitherto enjoyed All this have I by Gods assistance often performed far beyond the expectation or belief of most people and now for the general good of Mankind do freely communicate my Experience And Lastly Let me perswade you not to give heed to those who out of Envy or Self-Interest Demetrius like tell you that I do not understand the Subject of which I have written because I cry down cooling Liquors as poyson to Febrile people for I do assure you that I have not Wrote from bare Conjecture but from undeniable Experiments as you will quickly find when you do put my Advice into Practice Wishing you happy Success with my Prayers to God Almighty for his blessing on my Endeavours under his alone Protection as it is I Emit it to the World He who fault with this doth find I 'le thank him when he proves more kind I. L. From my Study in Havant Septem 28 die Lunae 1685. THE CURE OF THE Small-POX I Having written a small Treatise concerning the many gross Abuses and dangerous Errors commonly used amongst such as do pretend to the Curious Art of Healing discovering the evil of such fraudulent Impostors to the Capacities of plain Country People Upon hearing the Lamentation of divers Persons not only that the small Pox was spread much about the Country but also that many did die of it did resolve to conclude that book with these short but sure Directions for ordering people in that Disease Being fully perswaded that I can hardly do my Country much better service than to communicate my knowledge herein having had large Experience and wonderful happy Success as well in curing without much difficulty or future Marks as preserving those conversant amongst the sick from the Infection being things much desired by all people that do conceive themselves in danger of this Noysom Disease w●ll known for Truth to all such as have imployed me Yea whilst I lived i● Aldingbourne there was one No●able Example viz. all died that had this Distemper not one escaping until three died out of one small Family and one out of a Neighbo●rs House yet the former wanted not the Advice of the most famous Men in the Faculty of Medicine The later did immediately after the death of his servant seek to me and God so blessed my Endeavours that not one more died yet one Child or more had the Disease but if I forget not they hardly kept their bed a day for it One great Cause of this Disease being so Mortal in the Country is because the Infection doth make many Physitians backward to visit such Patients either for fear of taking the Disease themselves or transferring the infection to others By this means the Tending Nurses do generally assume the sole Authority of Physitians although that their Experience perhaps is no more but what they did gather by their being once a sufferer under the like ignorant practicing Nurses And in case the Master of the Family do give himself the Trouble and Charge of taking Advice and Remedies of some able Physitian yet this signifies nothing for their ignorant Confidence is such that they will be guided no farther by it than it agrees with their own shallow Brains and Customary Practice And considering how hard it is to break or alter an Old Custom that hath fully possessed the fond conceits of a multitude of ignorant people I have resolved not to strive against so turbulent a stream but rather endeavour to make such as are not too proud to learn more able in their Callings by communicating my Knowledge grounded on Reason and confirmed by many Experiments And to begin I will teach an Antidote or preserving Medicine which is this Take flos sulphuris i. e. flowers of Brimstone which is commonly sold by the Apothecaries four ounces of clarified Honey one pound warm the Honey and then stir in the powder and so keep it in a Gally-pot for your use And when you do conceive your self to be in danger of the small Pox take the quantity of a Nutmeg or more at Morning and Evening or oftener if you please You may go about your business as at other times not minding any order of Diet for it is a very safe harmless Medicine and never the worse for being cheap I have had very happy success in the using it as there are several living can bear me Witness and some of them I believe will wonder to see me make it so common but it is the Real Good of my Neighbour that I do aim at in publishing this Paper and not Applause Those people that are near a Chymist may