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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

A Physical Treatise Grounded not upon Tradition nor Phancy but Experience Consisting of Three Parts The First A MANVDVCTION discovering the true Foundation of the Art of MEDICINE The Second An EXPLANATION of the general Natures of DISEASES The Third A PROOF of the former POSITIONS by PRACTICE By WILLIAM RUSSELL Chymist in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed for John Williams at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCLXXXIV THE PREFACE TO THE READER MY Blooming years happening to be in that sullen Time wherein nothing here but Storms and Tempests appeared were so blasted that little else was manifest in me but what those sad Disturbances had impressed so that at the One and twentieth year of my Age I found Ambition to outweigh my Natural Inclination which I had never discerned had I not been overwhelm'd by the Providence of the Almighty and by his great Judgments both on Mind and Body brought to submit to his Government Whereupon it was clear to me that the Actions of Childhood had not so blemished my Understanding as youthful Ambition had done from hence a Strife arose in me which ended not until through Mercy a right Apprehension was given to me again by which after some series of time I could and did willingly turn out this Unnatural and Haughty Guest Hence proceeded my Private Life which hath now continued for about Thirty three years and given being to my Principles and Practice and by Consequence birth to this Treatise which is a brief Account of my frequent Experience That being an unquestionable Ground and every Thing that hath not its Original from some such undeniable Principle can never have a certain Effect To fear GOD and love our Neighbour are Precepts so universally adhered to as the Summary of Divine and Moral Acts that Jews and Christians Turks and Pagans have ever subscribed to them notwithstanding the various Forms and Figures wherein they have been represented Therefore do I think that there is no sensible Man but must say that Remedies of an Universal Tendency in which all Apprehensions and Inclinations agree are more efficacious safe certain and speedy than any particular Remedy whatsoever whereof there are Doubts and different Opinions in as much as Nature never varyes in all her Endeavours from the Capacity Ordination and End of every Individual and that which all concur in must needs be true so that whatsoever Seed she manageth to Generation that still produceth the uniform Figure and Virtue according to its Primitive Appointment unless by some accidental Cause impeded Nevertheless altho I seem in this whole Treatise to mind nothing but Universal Dispositions yet I have bid fair for Particulars also as my Seven years living upon Vegetables hath sufficiently demonstrated and in that time my Examinations of their particular Virtues not by Reading what others have Written thereupon but by experimenting their Operation on my own Body and on others also But since I do not find them useful except particularly to some Persons and tho specifical to Diseases of each kind yet unable to supply the Defects of Nature so well as Things of an Universal Tendency being seldom singularly serviceable till after other Medicines are given I presume no ingenious Man will think I wholly decry their use but rather exalt them in their proper place intending in my Explanation of this Treatise to write more fully of them whereby it may be known I have indeavour'd to understand the use of Particulars as well as of Generals But let not any one think the Doctrine here asserted to be Novel for 't is as ancient as Physic or Physicians which Hermes Trismegistus his Smaragdine Table sufficiently declares where he saith As is that which is above so is that which is beneath and all is by the Mediation of One Thing Which true Position of his hath been so far from being denyed by those Men who have observed Nature in her secret Meanders from that Time unto this very Day that None of common Reason will or dare contradict the same for the Egyptian Learning plainly enough demonstrates Hermes to be their Prince and their Hieroglyphicks shew that not Tradition but Natural Sagacity should be the Guide of all Inquisitive Minds whereby to understand their Powers and Actions This was so certainly believed in that Age that all the neighbouring Nations even in the Times of the Greeks sought knowledge no where but in that Place and from thence the same hath been derived to Us as appears by the Romans first admitting thereof and bequeathing it to our Climate For from Esculapius his time to Hippocrates the 14th in Descent from him it doth appear Nature was always allowed to be the Physicianess of Diseases and from that time unto this Day none have denied it except such Men as sought Innovation and thought they could govern Nature better than she could govern her self But since that Age there have risen a sort of People that did not so ingenuously follow Nature and Reason in the Investigation of Truth as their Predecessors did but have for Interest sake or else out of Ignorance espoused and imposed upon the World false Doctrines suitable to their Ambitious or Covetous Designs whereby they have clouded the Understandings of Men and introduced erroneous Positions to the shame of Sciences and prejudice of Mankind Aristotle having a Monarch to defend him presumed to burn the Books of his Ancestors yet could not fully confute nor wholly smother the Truth therein contained By these and other like Means the very Tract of the Ancients is almost wholly lost and now Nothing but Nature her self can restore that to Man of which there are no plain Presidents or evident Footsteps For when Christians had forsaken that Simplicity which was the Crown of Religion and became Asserters and Ascribers of Infallibility to themselves then arose the Roman Vicar as their Dictator the Limiter Bounder and Measurer of all Divine and Natural Things which they themselves being seized with Egyptian Darkness could not distinguish so that if any new Matter was apprehended and declared which was not affirmed by this Governor death ensued as appeared by that German Bishop who endeavouring to prove the Antipodes was condemned to dye because he had presumed to assert That which was not approved by this Head of the Church and the Learning which many Academicks at this Day boast of is not so much the Result of Natural Sense as of that Politic Government Nevertheless these Men own and acknowledg Hippocrates to be their Patron but did they as they pretend truly consider and imitate him they would not force but follow Nature For it appears by his Rules and Sayings that Nature was his Guide because he taught that Matter while crude was not to be expelled out of the Body which is a perfect Indication that he would have Us to expect a due time 'till Nature shewed what she would have performed and when she expected such assistance and not to precipitate her into