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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59264	A friend to the sick, or, The honest Englishman's preservation shewing the causes, symptoms, and cures of the most occult and dangerous diseases which affect the body of man : with a particular discourse of the dropsie, scurvy, and yellow jaundice, and the most absolute way of cure : whereunto is added a true relation of some of the most remarkable cures affected by the author's most famous cathartique and diueretique pills.	Sermon, William, 1629?-1679.	1673 (1673)	Wing S2627; ESTC R1171	103,319	301

time perfectly cured with my Pills and Sweating Bolus directed in the Chapter of the Gout pag. 225. who lived till the year 1669. though well stricken in years and at last supposed to shorten his days by drinking of Brandy In the Easter-week 1665. I was called to a person of Quality who had been married five or six years at least which by reason of the over-much moistness and slipperiness of the Womb could not conceive with Child and by taking four and twenty of my Pills with the use of a Cordial Liquor I directed her to take upon the intermitting days she conceived before Whitsunday next following and she was brought to Bed of a Girl about Christmas which is very well known to Persons of Quality living now in this Honourable City who will be ready to declare the truth hereof if demanded Many other Great Cures I could inform you of but must here omit About April 1666. my Occasions called me to Bristol and the Physicians there leaving the City I was by the desire of John Willoughby Esquire then Mayor of the City shut up at the Mermaid-Tavern upon the Back and after that at Mr. Richard Winstone's house in the County of Gloucester near the City aforesaid in which infected Houses I continued the space of three months and cured all of the Pest that took my Directions And after I had my Liberty the first news I heard was of the unhappy Fire in London which was the absolute Cause of my Settlement in that Honourable City where it is still known that I had a sufficient practice upon the worst of Diseases attended with a wonderful and good success The first Patient of the Dropsie in that City was Mr. James Perry who lived then at the White Lion in Broad-street who was most horribly afflicted with that pernicious Distemper His Belly Thighs and Legs extreamly swelled and very hard insomuch that he could not go He had a great Cough and Suffocation of the Lungs loathed his Meat who for the space of seventeen Weeks used all means imaginable and had the Advice of Fifteen Physicians some caused him to be Cupt others used Scarification c. but took no effect so they all left him for a dead man Yet by Gods Blessing with my Pills which caused him to evacuate by Stool at several times about sixteen Gallons of discoloured Water besides forced Urine freely all his Swellings forthwith abated his Ulcers unskilfully procured healed and he was perfectly cured in thirty six days About February 1666. I was called to one Richard Bush near St. Nicholas Gate being intolerably afflicted with the Yellow Jaundice Dropsie and Scurvy and left by all void of help was through Gods mercy and the use of my Pills in a very short time perfectly cured though he was near seventy years of age and lived two or three years after About which time I cured one Mr. Hodges who lived then in Broad-Mead that was very far gone in the Dropsie c. Also Mr. Chandler near the Pity-Gate long troubled with the Dropsie was perfectly cured in a short time with my Pills About Easter 1666. I was called to one Mr. Robert Lancaster then living at the Bell in St. Nicholas-street who was afflicted very much with a Dropsie being much swelled in his Belly and Legs also hectique under Cure for six months but to no purpose who had been at great expence in Doctors Fees c. whom I cured under thirty days with about 20 s. worth of my Pills Mr. Robert Lisson of Bristol far gone in the Dropsie and had a Cough that sorely vexed him was Cured with one 12 s. Box of my Pills Upon Whitsunday 1667. I was called to Mr. William Kinton Copper-Smith formerly living at the Red Lion in Castle-street who was troubled with the Dropsie and extraordinarily swelled especially in his Belly and had a great Cough was at last Cured by two 8 s. Boxes of my Pills In January 1667. I was called to one Mr. Richard Davies belonging then to the Sugar-house in Temple-street very far gone in the Dropsie his Belly and Members much swelled which I cured in a short time And not Many weeks since coming to London from Ireland came to my House to return me a second thanks continuing very well ever since the date hereof Also Anne Estridge aged near 22. in St. Peters street in the City aforesaid for want of her monthly Sickness fell into a Dropsie and so extreamly swelled that her Belly Thighs and Legs were ready to split who for some time lay speechless Yet by Gods blessing and my Pills was perfectly cured One Phillis in Wind-street in the same City aged near Fifty her monthly Courses had left her and being full of Excrementitious Humours fell into a violent Dropsie c. very much swelled and in great pain whom I cured in few weeks And for the future to prevent such Accidents I counsel the female Sex about the time that those are leaving them to take some of my Pills as directed in this Book for certainly it hath been found and still will be the best Medicine under the Heavens in such cases not only to prevent the Dropsie but several Distempers that beget Mortality before the appointed time which none shall pass neither can Physick then take the least effect The Wife of Mr. Arthur Baker in the Parish of Cromwel in the County of Gloucester afflicted much with the Dropsie and sorely tormented with a Spasmas a Disease in which the Sinews are drawn or plucked up against the Patients will was cured by my Pills though in the Winter-time and very much Frost and Snow Mr. William Vnderhill's Son in the Parish of Bitton five miles from Bristol afflicted much with the Dropsie was cured with two or three Boxes of My Pills Mr. James Russel of Bath was cured of the Dropsie with a small quantity of my Pills About August 1668. I was called to a person of the Female Sex sorely afflicted with sharp Humours falling upon her Eyes Pallet and Throat several Ulcers near the Vvula and the Privy not free who was salivated but to no purpose and at last perfectly cured with two 12 s. Boxes of my Pills with the use of the Gargarisms directed page 95. Another young person of the same Society having for ten or twelve months a violent burning pain in her Head was cured by taking eight or 12 s. worth of my Pills with the use of the Poppy Seed and the Ointment made with Housleek Oyl of Roses and Womans Milk directed page 4. About the latter end of March 1669. I was called to Mr. Peter Grant now living at the Sign of the Blew Bores Head in the Shambles in Bristol being brought exceeding low with the Dropsie who also had a violent pain in his Stomach his breath very short his Relations and Friends gave him over having no hopes of Life aged near Sixty He at last making use of about 16 s. worth of my Pills was in a short time