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A89138	The cure of ruptures in mans bodie, by physical, and chirurgical meanes, and medicines. Whereby any person under forty yeers of age, that is diseased in the bodie, with any kind of rupture or burstness whatsoever, may (by Gods assistance, be perfectly, and unfailingly cured. And to whose persons who are above fortie, of declining age, having passed their naturall vigour, maturitie and full strength, present helpe, and desired ease, assuredly procured, for the whole terme of their remaining life, even to their dying day, by the carefull use of some prescribed meanes, and medicines. / By Levvis Millvvater, dwelling in Peterburgh, at the Minster Gate.	Millwater, Lewis.	1651 (1651)	Wing M2074; Thomason E625_9; ESTC R206468	4,871	8

THE CURE OF RUPTURES In Mans BODIE By Physical and Chirurgical Meanes and Medicines Whereby any person under forty yeers of age that is diseased in the Bodie with any kind of Rupture or Burstness whatsoever may by Gods assistance be perfectly and unfailingly Cured And to those Persons who are above fortie of declining age having passed their naturall vigour maturitie and full strength present helpe and desired ease assuredly procured for the whole terme of their remaining life even to their dying day by the carefull use of some prescribed Meanes and Medicines By LEVVIS MILLVVATER dwelling in Peterburgh at the Minster Gate VIDE FIDE Try and Trust MATTH 9.8 When the multitude saw it they marvailed and glorified God which had given such power unto Men. feb 28 1650 LONDON Printed in the Yeer 1651. Christian Reader THou canst not be ignorant under this Noon-tide of the Gospel that all diseases aches and pains that befall man in this life are the proper Effects and Fruits of mans own sin we may thanke our selves for any evils that befall us Our breach of obedience due from us to God is the cause of all breaches made by God upon us in our bodies or estates He hath broken me with breach upon breach saith Patient Job Job 16.14 Sin brings sufferings and sorrows upon us Why then doth living man complain Lam. 3.39 Thy breach is great like the Sea who can heal thee Lam. 2.13 Whereupon David prayes to God to heal the breaches Psal 60.2 He alone is the repairer of our breaches Yet there be sundry second causes of these Ruptures or breaches in mans bodie and divers things occasioning them They befall some in their very cradles and infancie sometimes by their fierce crying and frowardness Sometimes again they happen to some through carelesnesse in their dressing swadling and attendance Sometimes they come through some extream cold and coughing In some that are bigger and elder they are occasioned by vehement agitation or stirring of the body in some violent motion of Riding running leaping ringing lifting some great weight or by some stroke or blow on the belly or sometimes by loud shouting with the voyce straining the body and many such like whereby the inward rim of the belly wherein the bowels lye wrapt up and enclosed being distended rent or broken the bowels fall down at such a breach swell and cause grievous pains swellings inflammations of and torments in those tender parts within as Physitians more largely and learnedly tell us My way of Cure is gentle and ease-full not causing the least pain or grief to to the body or the affected part 'T is such as the tenderest child may endure without whinching and therefore applyable unto and easie to be used on any other of riper yeers and more discretion I launce not cut not pierce not the flesh or skin with any instrument as Chirurgions often doe for the stone in the Bladder and sew the wound up again and yet we know some that for hope of future health and recovery endure all these torments though the remedie oftentimes prove worse then the disease even willingly and patiently and pay dearly for it too in great sums of monie Whereas I put my Patients to no pain at all but procure and bring them present ease certain remedie and relief unfailing cure through the help and blessing of my Lord God who is the chief closer up of breaches for his people and heals the stroke of their wound whose helping and healing hand I have hitherto alwayes found graciously working with mee and by me to whom therefore be th● Glory I arrogate not to my self any Apostolicall or miraculous way of healing or giving soundness of body to the diseased I doe the cure by Chirurgicall and Physicall meanes Medicines and Directions to be prepared used and applyed by mine own hand as I see need and find cause If thy self or any of thy friends son or daughter stand in need of my skil pains or help thou mayest find me or hear of me at my House in Peterburgh at the entring into the Minster-yard I am often sent for abroad sometimes unto places an hundred miles from my own dwelling Thou mayest every week send from London to Peterburgh by the Lincoln Carriers who passe and repasse through our Citie not far from my very door And if it so fall out that I should not then be at home and therefore cannot come to thee at the instant of thy sending yet I will not fail to repair unto thee and wait upon thee at my first leasure and opportunity if it bee not too troublesome or painfull for thy self or thine to come home to mee I boast not of what God hath wrought and done by mee already though many would not have beleeved what they themselves upon trial have found true I tell thee not crackingly of any great undertakings I hang out no false Titles nor mountebank Tables of lying wonders or imaginary cures Many where I have bin imploied can and wil bear me witnesse of my real performances towards them and theirs And doe often with thankfull hearts blesse God for me and are still glad upon any occasion to see mee and acknowledge Gods goodnesse towards them for prospering my pains in their desired recoverie they bid me kindly welcome give me during the time I can stay courteous entertainment So that as Job 29.11 When the ear heard of me then it blessed me and when the eie saw me it gave witness to mee My bodily presence or person promiseth not much nor did it in S. Paul 2 Cor. 10.10 no nor yet in the Sacred Person of the Lord Jesus Christ himself who went up and down healing every disease and sicknesse among the people For Isai 52.14 His visage was marred more then any mans there was no form or comliness to move men to desire even Him I rufle not in silk or sattin I flaunt not in Scarlet or gorgeous Apparel I tell thee therefore before hand ere thou see me what a one thou shalt find me lest when thou seest me thou through pre-conceipt and mis-prision be disappointed and fall short of thy expectation as Naaman 2 Kin. 5.11 Was wroth and went away and said Behold I thought he will surely come out to me and stand and call on the Name of the Lord his God and strike his hand over the place and recover the Leper To undeceive thee therefore know that I am as Jacob a plain man Gen 25.27 and thou shalt find honest and plain dealing at my hands I am verily perswaded that there be a great many in this Nation grievously troubled with this kind of infirmity of Ruptures and slipping down of their bowels into the lower parts of their body who for lack of timely help do languish droop w●ar away and their breach becommeth daily bigger and bigger for when the Caul or Filme that should lap in the bowels and bear them up from sinking and setling downward is rent and

broken how can the vessels within but ever and anon slide down and be with much pain and difficultie lifted or kept up Many such I fear there be who through too much modesty and shame hide their weakness or if some near friend know it do yet utte●ly despair of cure or mends in this world and so lead miserable and uncomfortable lives For upon any more then ordinarie motion and agitation of their body yea upon every small distemper through cold or wind the parts above fall down into the breach fret and swell and make the body very sore and fall of cruell torment yea it makes them stomack sick and to vomit and they are so dis-abled hereby that they grow listlesse unweldie cannot or care not to walk abroad least it should fall down and put them to pain much lesse can they or dare they work at any bodily labour ride a journey or exercise themselves though it be even with moderate and more gentle movings and stirrings of the body Now by Gods blessing I can and shall so help them that even those whose infirmities and grievances in any kind of these Ruptures whether Wind-rupture Gut-rupture or Flesh rupture be the greatest painfullest and most tormenting shall in very short time be able to walke ride work bear burdens and cheerfully go about any stirring imployment And whereas some that undertake to help persons diseased in this kind doe it by painfull cures and are a long while in doing it and many times enjoyn their Patients to lie continually in bed for thirty or fortie dayes together and apply Sear clothes Plaisters c. My way is more easie more speedie and safe and sooner then thou thy self haply couldst expect or desire Good things the more common the better Wells the more drawn the sweeter water my candle shineth no worse because another is lighted by it it now growes towards evening with me I am sixty yeers old and upwards and therefore desire before my Sun-set and it be past working-time to doe all the good I can that my Candle may blaze a little in the s●cket before it go out and be no more seen Some of my good friends have seriously intreated me to make my skill more common not to bury my talent which God hath given me for the good of others and indeed I sometimes check my self as those hunger-starved men 2 Kin. 7.8 and thinke I do not well to conceal my experienced skill but should draw out my selfe who indeed am now already on the tilt that the best wine may be at last for publike benefit in releiving the needfull not reserving it as Misers doe for any private ends or gain to my self Wherefore I have thus at last thought good and resolved to publish in Print for the behoof of my Countrie and to make known this particular disease of Ruptures what I dare undertake and professe to doe or to professe rather what God hath done and I hope will yet doe by me I doe verily thinke that some vain-glorious and vapouring Mountebank some self-seeking greedie Emperick would have raked together a great estate gotten great summes of money by lesse skill lesse profitable usefull and easefull cures then I by Gods blessing have done and can doe For my part though I be a man of mean estate and condition yet I seek no great things to my self not Balaams wages Num. 24.13 I desire onely a competent viaticum to maintain my self and family in a comfortable sufficiencie and to eat the labour of my hands as Solomon concerning the vertuous woman bids Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gate Prov. 31.31 I have heard how that some learned and carefull Lawyers have had lands and great Annuities given them during their life in reward of their prosperous and successefull pains in carrying some one cause in some one great suit of Law And yet health is more worth then wealth Skin for skin yea all that a man hath will he give for his life Job 2.4 what would not some diseased rich man give to be made sound and whole or find ease and remedie against some lingring sickness or tormenting pain which makes his life sad and uncomfortable Health is a jewell which when men doe buy Physitians value it accordingly The Woman in the Gospel that had the issue of blood twelve yeers spent her whole estate upon Physitians so fain would shee have had health against that languishing infirmity and yet shee was so far from being bettered or getting remedie that she became rather worse till she happily touched the great Physitian of soul and body and then was made presently and perfectly whole Mar. 5.26 I boast not of things beyond my line I onely tell thee what God hath done by me I ascribe nothing to my s●lf mine own worth or works but with that Divine Poet Du Bartas Quadr. of Pibrach Stanz 5. Say not my hand these Cures to passe hath brought Or these my vertue hath atteined to I rather say These God by me hath wrought God's Author of the little good I doe Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the praise who dost mightily manifest and magnifie thy wisedome power and goodness by imploying and blessing the poor labours parts and services of thy meanest and most contemptible servants and instruments for the good of others To whom therefore be all the glory In whom I shall ever be From my House in Peterburgh at the Minster Gate January 8. 1651. Thy Friend and Servant to use Lewis Millwater Postscript LEst haply Reader thou shouldst thinke some things here written to be arrogantly and boastingly expressed by way of applause by the Actor or Author of these cures We think it not amisse to let thee know that this was not indeed his very Antograph or act thus to write or publish this Paper but that is was penned by some friends of his who have had comfortable experience of his dexteritie and successe in the same who being much taken and affected with his skill and honestie herein have thought fit to publish to others what themselves have found true in their own knowledge and experience and what good thou also or thine may get by this notice if need bee This then thus published is not a Preface to any larger Tract wherein his Medicines and meanes of cure should be exactly described for we must tell thee that cannot be they are practicall not notionall and must be done by his own hand which when thou seest thou mayest and wilt beleeve He then will leave with thee and thine his experimented skill and directions which thou mayest propagate and communicate to others This is now published as an Index assuring thee of the realitie of those Cures which can be no otherwise or better taught than by practise or seeing done Vale Utere FINIS