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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57952	A physical treatise grounded, not upon tradition, nor phancy, but experience, consisting of three parts. The first, a manuduction, discovering the true foundation of the art of medicine. Second, an explanation of the general natures of diseases. Third, a proof of the former positions by practice. By William Russell, chymist in ordinary to His Majesty.	Russell, William, 1634-1696?	1684 (1684)	Wing R2357; ESTC R218554	58,632	208

deplorable Cases above mentioned Example 1. Of an Imposthume in the Womb of a Woman with Child A Woman about seven Months gon with Child was afflicted with great Pain and Torture in her Womb which manifested the proper Signs of a contra-natural Cause existent by Issue of Bloud not Flouding-like but by Driblings at last of Quitter Upon these apparent Signs of a suppurated Imposthume I was sought for and hearing what had hap'ned could not but give Judgment of an Imposthume present Yet having read Hipocrates of whose Sincerity and deep Skill in curing Diseases of his time no Prudent Man unto this day doubts and finding him to proclaim Imposthumes and Vlcers of the Womb not curable in Women with Child I was very loath to be concern'd in this Case but Importunity and Necessity overweighing I adventur'd to apply my self to the Cure In order to which I first gave my Pouder once in 8 hours and my Arcanum Veneris at Night going into Bed This Method was continued every Day without other Medicines except some small Cordials for Support unto the time of her Delivery During which space of Time after the taking these Medicines Matter flowed each Day more than other for a great part of that time in which time her Pains nevertheless vanished and she grew more lively than before but when the time of her Delivery drew near the Matter that came forth was less and less each day After Delivery I viewing the Bag in which the Child had been contained did plainly discern the Compass of the Imposthume and some part of the Matter unresolved upon the Out-side of the Bag. But afterwards to this same Woman so well delivered of a Sound and well proportioned Child I gave my Medicines all the time of her lying in in the same Method as is above prescribed and she recovered Strength and after this had several other Children and is now alive tho this hap'ned fourteen years since Example 2. Of a Dropsy in the Womb of a Woman with Child A Woman with Child before quickning being swelled to outward appearance like one ready to be delivered sent for me I seeing the Woman and hearing how it was with her could not but be amazed and doubt of the reality of her Conception Nevertheless because I well knew the certainty and effecacious Power of my Medicines above specified in Cases no less deplorable I rejected all thoughts of particular Remedies and applyed my self to that general Method I had formerly used Accordingly I gave my Pouder Night and Morning for three days yet no separation hap'ned during that time but the Woman found her self somewhat more lively than before The fourth Day I gave my Arcanum Metallorum and the following Morning my Pouder That Day came forth a Dribbling of Water and the next Day more This Method I continued and in three Days time after more than too Gallons of Water was voided and the Dropsy separated Then I ordered the Pouder to be taken Night and Morning until Quickning and all the time after of her being with Child I prescribed to her the same Pouder to be taken a Day or two at a time whensoever any Appearance of a Return of the Dropsy was and by this means she went out her full time had a sound Child and several Children after and hath continued Well and in Health for about these seven Years since Example 3. Of an Vlcer in the Womb. In this sad Case the Neck of the Womb was tumified uneven hard in one place tender in another and raw in a third as was clearly testified by divers Midwifes then present The Sanies that flowed from thence was Red Yellow and greenish White In Cure of this Woman I gave my Pouder every Day once and at Night my Arcanum of Metals and perhaps the next Night my Arcanum Veneris changing them as I saw occasion but my Pouder I always gave once a Day During this Cure many Changes and Accidents hap'ned to which I applied particular Remedies too long to be here incerted After some Series of time all these Accidents vanished and the suppurated Matter by little and little abated and at length perfect Health followed This Woman after her Recovery Conceived and hath had several Children since and is alive at this day This Cure was performed about seven Years ago Example 4. Of a Tumified Womb. A young Woman labouring under a natural Deficiency propagated to her striving to extrude it self by Hemeroids and Piles being also at the same time afflicted with a Tumified Womb hard and sore so that she could not possibly bear the Congress of her Husband and having long sustained this Calamity and finding the Remedies of other Physicians useless applied her self to me I streight in order to her Cure gave her my Pouder every Morning and my Arcanum Veneris every Night appointing my Scerbutick Tincture to be taken in Drink by twenty Drops at a time as often as she drank And this Method was continued for full four Months after which time she quickly Conceived with Child and hath ever since remained well though she were cured of this Malady divers Years ago Example 5. Of a Mola Being called to a Woman labouring under great Floudings who conceited her self to be with Child when I had observed the great quantity of Bloud that came from her the Midwife then present gave me an account of the closure of the Womb and so an Impossibility of distinguishing the Concern I finding her Case such caused the Pouder to be given twice in one hour in which time the Flux of Bloud began to stop and the Womb to open a little yet no more than sufficed to admit the Midwifes finger to distinguish somewhat unusual Whereupon I desired her to give me some more plain Testimony of what she felt and by her words I judged it to be no Child And as I judged so it proved for when the Midwife could somewhat better reach what she had before touched she brought forth a Gleuy Matter white and clear I seeing this ordered her to bring it away as fast as she could but she having no more place open than for one Finger to enter brought it away by piece-meal I giving some Cordial for support to the afflicted Woman in the mean time This Matter I caused when as much was brought away as possibly could be by the Midwifes Finger to be put into a Bason of Water where it joyned all together and seemed in quantity to be no less than a Quart would contain Now because without force the Womb could be no further opened the Remainder was left to the power of Medicine Therefore I gave my Pouder every hour for twenty four hours at the end of which this sadly distressed Woman began to be pretty sedate and quiet and no Bloud appeared for I think she had before evacuated all or the greatest part of all she had Then I gave my Pouder twice or thrice a Day for several Dayes after and sometimes my

their Fore-fathers never knew thinking that Man who was made in the Image of GOD hath no Light or Guide in himself sufficient to direct Him to his own help or the help of his Neighbour O great Blindness What Man the Summary of all created things that hath an immortal Soul shall not that in him which descended from above be capable to distinguish what is fit for his help Shall Birds and Beasts have the priviledge to know the fitness of Remedies and Man be judged uncapable thereof Shall barbarous Indians and rude Shepherds Husbandmen or Old Women do greater Cures than the Learned Doctors of our Age O Shame For to be ignorant of what illiterate Persons know is a great reproach to the Learned if they pretending great knowledg perform little even in the Faculty of which they call themselves Masters and the other pretending little are able to do much more than they But this is because the One is excited by natural Instinct and the Other only by credulous reading Althô at present these things may sound harsh to the Ears of some yet being true and having Nature for their Foundation they will perhaps out-live the Enemies of the same and in this latter Age be as generally received as heretofore in times of Apostacy they have been denyed Our Ancestors in Art though vulgarly reverenc'd under the notion of Antiquity were really but the Infancy of the World 't is our Age which by following long after theirs is indeed the true Antiquity Why then should we dote wholly upon their Childhood-inventions and not rather having the advantage of Example which the Beginners must needs have wanted proceed and grow old in Understanding as well as in Time a Pigmey set upon a Giant 's shoulders may be able to see farther than Him The Second Part. OF THE General Nature of Diseases A Person is then properly said to be Sick when some Part at least cannot perform its due Action and whatever produceth that Infirmity is styled the Cause and that Disability of the Part to do its proper Office or Function is call'd a Disease of which some are Simple some are Complicated Simple Diseases are either Natural Preternatural or Contranatural Pardon the Coinage of the last Word because it seems as analogical as the Terms Supernatural Vnnatural Connatural and the like Of the first Sort are all Hereditary Diseases transferr'd from Parents to Children and may be considered under the deficiency of Parts transmitted Idea's or corporeal Venoms sometimes singly as when any weakness of Parts in Parents not labouring under any other Disease is conveyed to their Off-spring who have those deficiencies during Life in one measure or other yet are not at all thereby the more lyable to greater Diseases but to the trouble of Nature's exercise where that deficiency is except Nature failing in her own endeavour admit Retents of things to her further Disturbance which yet may easily be prevented by the help of Remedies specifick to the Parts But if to the weakness of a Part a material Evil be added then indeed the Persons if not quickly cleared of that Disease through the weakness of their inward Parts do either soon die or live a miserable Life Nevertheless even in the conveyance of such Morbifick Idea's if the Parts be sound and no accidental thing happen to give vigour thereunto they perceive nothing thereof for a long time as is observable in the Derivative Gout which a Child thô begotten by Parents strongly possessed therewith feeleth many times nothing thereof till 40 or 50 years of Age For it is absolutely necessary and essential to every Ideal Disease except Mental Evils to have material filths for the Idea to work upon For instance I have observed that those who have contracted the poyson of the Lues mummially and have otherwise been of sound Parts have had no tokens nor appearance thereof in several Years themselves and perhaps never may yet some of the Children proceeding from the same Bodies have been naturally infected therewith And likewise I have known other Parents Ideally defiled to have had Issues that appeared sound and free because Seeds admit not of ought but Idea's for 7 10 or 12 Years and afterwards that Ideal Disease by occasional Matter hath manifested it self apparently as an hereditary Communication Besides it is observed generally that those who are contaminated with that Disease by a seminal Contact have never any Sense thereof for several Months and Others on whom the Disease so acquired breaks out at any time are conscious of some disorderly Acts that have introduced Superfluities for captivating the Spirits without which that Malady when seminally induced is not made manifest But if the Lues be materially contracted then the soundest Body and the clearest Spirit escape not free from the sense thereof for many hours or at the most not for above 3 days because it materially affects the Parts discovers its proper Signs and manifesteth it self to be material and the Archeus striving against it produceth Sores and Fluxes in the Parts infected thereby to center the Evil in the Part to prevent its further progress in the Body by which means Gororrhea's newly gotten are quickly healed all the internal Parts being sound nor do they ever arise to the Lues except Means be wanting to keep them from further spreading For Material Diseases thô very venomous by reason of their corporeity are easier overcome than the spiritual or Ideal because they aseend not to so great an height as to captivate Nature so as to make her nourish the Evil without resistance except great Errors are committed whereas the Ideal do at first darken the Spirits and then make them subservient through insensibleness of the unmateriated Venom to prepare Matter for the existence and nourishment of that spiritual Evil and then is the Disease formed Now for corporeal Evils that are derived from Parents having their original from maternal Nourishments they manifest their cruelty so soon as the Child is born by one Sign or other evident to the Sense as by Vomitings Loosness Restlessness Thrush or Convulsions sometimes by Acrimonies external or otherwise by which their Lives are quickly cut off if they be not helped with Remedies that can fortify the natural powers to resist those Evils And that general Opinion grounded upon the defectiveness of common Remedies that Physick is not fit for Children hath in all probability cast away many that might have been preserved for material Evils how great soever they seem are seldom mortal if the internal Powers are strengthened by natural Medicines because the Spirit in them is not so vitiated as to nourish the Evil thô indeed a diseasy Idea imprinted upon the Archeus of a Child striveth to bring the Disease into act upon the advantage of every occasional disorder Preternatural Diseases so called because they have no Root naturally from Parents or from diseasy Seeds but are accidentally begot by variety of Distempers as the Spirit or Part is more