things were as before in the Evening Cupping-glasses were applyed with scarrificaton which did her good On the seventh day her Courses began to flow plentifully by which means all Symptoms were verymuch abated On the eighth day she was better On the ninth day she had a light loosness joyned with a Tenesmus by which she voided few Flegmatick excrements and before that loosness she vomited much bitter stuff the Humours were prepared with temperate aperitives On the tenth day which was the eighteenth day of the Moneth her loosness was less at night it stopt quite â—he had no Fever and after that she plainly amended On the 29. of the said Moneth of April when she felt her helf exceeding well and was busy about her houshold ocâ—asions as she was sitting in a Chair she fell suddenly to the ground and died Her body being opened her Mediastinum was found full of wheyish blood which peradventure the Membrane being broken towards the upper part of the Lungs and pressing the same and the Aspera Arteria might suddenly choak her moreover the whole substance of the Lungs was found full of purulent matter exceeding heavy Also her left Testicle was as big as a small Egg of a blackish colour and as it were Gangrenated yea and as soon as it was open'd there leapt out of the middle of her Testicle a certain matter like a Nut-kernel and very like a putrisied clotter of blood we conjectured that to have been the cause of her Mother-fits to which she was very much subject yea peradventure the Palpitation of her heart arose from thence viz. From the filthy vapours ascending from that part Here you have a very smooth Story yet of so unquiet rugged peâ—plexed and disconsolate a handling of a sick and Diseased body that to one accustomeâ— solely to mild and gentle ways in Physick as nothing seems more cross to reason so truly hardly any thing more grievous or more justly to be lamented for although the Relation of five times bleeding of one in her sad Condition and divers times Glisters Ligatures Cuppings and Scarrifications and purgings be here very plausibly delivered as if the Fears Troubles and Disturbances these Attending were not at all felt or thought on by the Patient yet whoever sensibly considers the many tossings and turmoilings this sick and tender person was exercised withal during her ten Dayes sickness can hardly avoid believing but that it was even without any other Distemper sufficient to have brought any weak person to their end or far towards it nor can I but firmly apprehend That if any Patient taken as is here exprest should for such a time be Discreetly plyed with Refugium Vindex Salus Vita naturae Clavis or Radix being all strengthners of Nature and of Power to subdue the venomous causes of Distempers I say so plyed I can hardly see it possible but that recovery must necessarily follow And therefore truly the course taken was and is still to be bewailed and much the Rather because in this ye are to reckon that ex ungue Leonem you have a full prospect of the generally approved Practice of Physick The Essence Quintessence master-piece not of a learner but of a Teacher and most Reverent Author and Doctor in the Science such as who ever follows may Authentically subscribe Secundum Artem to all their Prescriptions and Proceedings for which they are both prais'd and liberally pai'd too And wherewithal their patients speed how they will must be contented And yet who so blind as with half an eye doth not see what extream uncertainty this Learned person was at throughout his whole Engagement in this Distemper how slenderly discerning of the Cause how weakly judging of the alterations how insensible of the Patients mollestations by Glisters Blisters c. how regardless of her loss of blood and Spirit which though very fruitless yet often repeated of how little use his Learning and former reading seemed herein how insignificant all his former opening and Anatomising of Bodies appeared here where he was afresh fain to open his Patient to learn what her Disease was And being open'd how meanly he Guesses taking notice meerly of apparent defects of Parts which are but Effects without any consideration of the cause thereof which indeed is the Disease and indiscernable but by the Intellectual eye of the understanding Also how poorly he was furnished with Medicines of so mean casual and hazardous qualifications as not in the least strengthened but weakned nature through which she fell So that the whole considered to any rational conscience I think there will appear a cause for all I have said or done In this weighty affair of Physick and Medicines and cannot but judg that the World hâ—d been infinitely more happy had it with the resignation of Judaism and Gentilism for Christianity at the same time both questioned reformed and exchanged their groundless hazardous and rugged Physick for what had been more pure peaceable and more suitable to that sublime and healing Doctrine But it doth not appear to have then been thought of nor ever since to any considerable purpose for though Chymistry hath struck in with large and fuâ—l pretences and fil'd our heads with new Bookish Tearms and Notions yet have they afforded us scarce any thing but vapouring Fancies Mysteries and Riddles the proper issue of Vain-glorious and Superstitious Reformers who though very bad Leaders themselves being led by Quicksilver and Antimony have had the fortune yet to be both admired and followed by every Student in this useful Art But with so little Fruit not one Master Medicine yet appearing that it would amaze ones Reason even to astonishment But that vain windy hopes and ostentous shews or shadows have ever been of more esteem then substances and useful realities but if hence forward it should be better I to this piece will deem my self a debtor And so in time I doubt not will others also acknowledge for however some may still shamefully persist even against the testimony of so many instances one while to fright people from their use upon pretense of their heat and otherwhiles to accuse them of impotency by reason of their mildness yet have I not found all Doctors so partially inclined I here being one and he neither young nor mean who having tasted all with very much attention and satisfaction openly affirmed that in producing that Catalogue of Medicines so qualified as the particulars imported and the instances manifested I had done a more real service to Physick then either Hippocrates Galen Paracelsus Vanhelmont or any other he had ever Read or Heard of And that could He Produce them in that perfection I did he would not stay many dayes in England I told him his meaning and the place he aimed at and he confessed I guessed right but I thuoght the place that bred them best deservd them though but for their sakes who esteem them equal to this high Encomium how Ironically soever given And
found these remedies so certain Now these being Pleuretick Distempers and which are not only accompanied with violent pains and heat and pass not off but with the avoidance of an abundance of thick Flegm it would amaze an ordinary Artist that Medicines so hot as these could be so proper and so succesful as these have proved in such Cases and which they often object to disswade their use But as their Objections proceed from want of a due distinction between Vertuous and Vitious heats so hath their constant good success baffled their Objections the Patient being not to be startled from what gives him most sure and certain Remedy for their Groundless if not partial counsell 19. Another Gentleman about 30. Extreamly afflicted with a quartane Ague to quit himself whereof he had run the whole course of Physick but all in vain his cold fits being very turbulent and tedious his hot more long and irksom being accompanied with intollerable thirst and followed with such vehement Sweatings as if he had been in a boyling Bath which sweatings with sickishness also continued as much upon his well nights as upon his ill And being much engaged in business which required his being abroad he was ful of anxious thoughts what to do for relief When one who had good experience of my way recommended him to me so I gave him when he came unto me a draught of Sanguis well heated and a quarter of a pint of Vindex for his Fit which taking twice and not finding remedy he withdrew his hopes and it being not my manner to press any beyond their own minds our Proceedings ceast for above a week he hearkening to his former Councel being possest that if any thing carried off the Cause of so great disturbance it must be Purging and Vomiting Physick which rowsing all parts of the body and voiding so great a mass of ugly coloured and nasty filth the Ague or what ever it be must needs out at last Arguments indeed with custome of knowing no better so powerful as deceives both the Learned and unlearned parts of the whole World and therefore no marvel if it retained this our perplexed Patient as long as he could stand or till he was almost off of his legs But at length wearied and tired out Discoursing again with his friend he told him he was to blame to Desist from my way so soon that he was certain it was a sure way and if followed would not fail Why says he why did he not tell me so then He did says his friend and I told you so too but you regarded it not besides says he you are to urge him to do his utmost and to spare for no cost if you mean to be cured and not to expect that he should press you that having such a shew of self respect as is abhorred by all ingenious Artists Upon this he returns to me again and Earnestly desires me to do my utmost for him that he would with all his heart give twenty pounds to be cur'd of his Distemper Whereupon I fell to work amain giving him Radix to carry always about him and to drink it in good quantity continually Also to take every night at resting time 4 ounces of Salus and not to rise too soon in the morning Then for his fit he was to take a quarter of a pint of Vindex either a little before or just upon its entrance And in his hot fit to sip continually of Salus vitae And if thirst enforced to relieve by White-wine Posset or now and then with Table Beer and tost Sugar so pursuing this course for about ten Days the whole work was finished and he perfectly recovered And this without spending much more of his twenty pounds then fifty shillings so far have I ever been from putting any to farther charge than meerly necessary though it be very much to my Encouragement to have the whole in all respects wholly referred to me Nor with me shall any over speed the worse for so doing nor is any thing more improper or absurd than in sickness either to starve their Cause or to trust to halves But though this Gentlemans Ague were quite discharged and Strength and Stomack restored and all faculties in Due State and good Condition Yet being performed without Purging Vomiting Bleeding Issues or Blisters or Sweaters Except such as restrain'd and put an end to his most violent sweating this seem'd so strange a Mystery to those in whose hands he had been that they told him the work was but falacious could not be perfect but would either return upon him or bring him into some more dangerous Distemper and this he would certainly find if he did not speedily take some fit Purgative to carry off the Relicks Now though this somewhat prevail'd with him as it doth upon most yet he would be so ingenious as to tell me what was said before he would take any thing I told him they were so accustomed to that course that it was no wonder they thought it necessary But for him that had seen the Impotence of their Purges and Vomiters as to the subduing of his Distemper and the powerfulness of those Medicines that did subdue it for him to doubt that which had performed so far above his hope and upon which he found himself so compleatly well would leave Relicks that must want the help of such nasty miserable helpers should give the least Ear or yield in the least thereto would argue him a fit Subject to be play'd upon by every trifler and never more to be assisted by such benigne Medicines as when they had done his work must be made liable to so abominable Disparagement Upon this he seem'd fully fortified against their charming And when next they undertook him and in reply to what he urged from my Discourse said they did allow the Ague was subdued and kill'd But say they admit you kill a Dogg in your house if you let him lie there and not quickly throw him out hee 'l soon make you weary of your Habitation Ergo If you throw not your Dead Dogg out you must look to quit your house afore ye are aware And this frighted him again to me with a witness I smil'd to hear this Syllogistical Conclusion putting out a Candle that was before us I ask't him where was the flame he said it was Exstinguish't I askt him whether there were any Danger to be feared from it he said no I ask't him why he said because it was Extinguish't I told him so it was with his Ague the Venom which caused all his various Disturbances being also Extinguished by the Vertue Efficacy of the benign and powerful Medicines he had taken whose good qualities were such as to leave nothing behind but what they put Nature into an ability to Evacuate And this satisfied him and it was well it did for though it be the common Course and frequently passeth without manifest prejudice yet as here it was
either Dead or had put him self into other hands But when I least expected the messenger came to me desiring me to send him somewhat to support his spirits as he went about his occasions I ask't what was become of his Ague and found he was absolutely quit of it The party telling me that that night he took the last things I sent him he had 6 or 7 large stools which quite Discharged his Ague and that ever since he had been very well only upon stirring a little faint And truly this manner of effect I have often noted in obstinate Distempers for that which I always give being not slight insignificant but powerful friends to Nature cannot possibly be utterly frustrate but first or last must some way or other prevail for good as here by Purgation so sometimes by Vomit when their forces by frequent repetition become so united as not to be resisted And this way of Operation as it hath Established my hope in all I give So may it be of good assurance to Patients though for a time they see little or no alteration For that which is good in it self and powerful and taken in full quantity frequently when least look't for produceth even above and beyond all hope Imaginable And is the peculiar blessing of Prudence in Patients and Perseverance under the use of means so certainly safe and so prevalent as these upon all occasions have been approved But this Gentleman adventuring too much upon his mettle before confirmation of his strength before two moneths came to an end renewed his Ague and being much nearer to other means then mine sell into the common Road of Physick under which in few days he ended his life somewhat under the blame of his Relations for declining his own Reason and Experience but is the usual fruit of Instability and Inconstancy 27. A young Child so ill and stupid that none knew what to what of it as the manner is was excused and laid upon toothing so long till help was almost too late the Father Disired my advice so I ordered two ounces of Salus vitae to be given by a spoonful every hour which before it was quite taken gave an appearance to the small pox and so he perfectly recovered 28. A Gentleman far in the Countrey having contracted a very ill habit of body with weakness of Stomack and aptness to vomit By the use of Vis for days and Salus for night in less then a moneths time was restored to a far better condition 29. A Gentlewoman having a young Daughter very much languishing under a Distemper and weakness like that of the Green-sickness by the use of three quarts of Vis vitae taken thrice every day between meals and last at night â— spoonfuls at a time recovered into a very good condition 30. A Gentlewoman very much stuffed in her breast with Cough and shortness of breath by three quarts of Flos vitae taken thrice every day and a little in the night became very well and hearty 31. A Gentleman of somewhat a weake Constitution through many occasions both at home and abroad subject to Heats Colds Weariness and thereby frequently to illness and sometimes to very Dangerous fits of sickness using in all such times full and large quantities of Salus Vindex Stella and Radix freely and seriously professes that he believes they have often by taking the value of a quarter of a pint saved him both a fit of sickness and a chargable course of Physick And that in his extremity of sickness they have saved his life when it was in his judgment impossible for any other kind oâ— Physick to have done it having seen to his grief as he says divers of his friends fail and fall under the best of the usual practise And which hath so confirmed his Opinion of their safety and Efficacy that he soly under God Depends upon them for support of his no small Family and whereby both to his Son and Servants so much hath been performed both in Small Pox and Griping of the Guts and other illness as might well make out many weighty instances But where as in this large Family they are always at hand and in readiness it 's hardly credible how frequent and how speedy very great Inconveniences are daily prevented But for this Griping of the Guts which every week rose higher in the Bills of Mortality as many times to exceed an hundred as I have never known any so Distempered to fail under these Medicines So I do verily believe they would have proved a perfect Remedy to whosoever had relyed upon them And it troubled me Exceedingly they were made no more use off in that Mortal Distemper by those who undertook its Cure or that those who were concern'd took no more beed to them whil'st with a little consideration and small Cost they might have cur'd themselves which is the main intention of this Treatise 32. A young Maiden by overmuch toyling above her strength taking cold fell into a Feverish Distemper which stopping the course of Nature strange pains flew all over her Body and into her head especially Some Artist at hand presently bleeds her but that proving rather to the increase then abatement of her Distemper I was desired to help what I could I ordered 3 ounces of Vindex naturae for the night and half a pint of Vis vitae for the Day And this repeated next night and next day reduced her to a very good condition 33. The Father of this yong Maid being tortur'd with violent pains of the Srangury and stoppage of his water sending to me I sent him only half a pint of Vis vitae which he had no sooner taken but he found instantly a perfect release both from pain and stoppage to his Extream joy satisfaction But this also is a Family long time used to a Dependence upon these Medicines unto which there belongs so many stories of Cures performed by them for young and old as would take up a larger room then is needful at this time 34. An Elderly full bodied Woman troubled and almost strangled often with stoppage of the stomack and Vapours flying up into her breast and throat hath not failed of relief by half a pint of Sangis vitae well heated and drank off in an hours time 35. One about 27 of long time troubled with a vehement pain in his Legs yet nothing to be seen having used sometimes one Plaister and then another instead of ease redned and pimpled all over swelling somewhat but itching so extreamly that by scratching became extreamly painful and tedious to him Asking my advice I smelt the Plaister and found it too hot and rank so I ordered him to put no kind of Plaister any more to it but to moisten a fine Cloth or Linen stocking with fine Tallow dropt in fair Water and to keep that on till that Leg was like the other which happily proved to be so in some five or six nights Then as to
So this also proves another testimony of their fitness to be Established Physick for Families 44. In the next place I should recount the manifold remarkable Cures performed by them in another worthy Family Being the same where that strange recovery of the young Gentlewoman referred to afore and recited in the Touchstone of Physick But truly they are so many that I choose rather to omit them all then to make so large an Enumeration Especially considering how ready they will be on any occasion to aver their safety and Efficacy in all Cases wherein they ever used them and it is a very considerable time that they have under God solely Depended upon them even in all Extremities 45. A Gentleman well seen in my Medicines comes hastily to me for a Child Exceedingly troubled with Convulsion fits so as there was very small hope of life and said I you will have me Engage and so the Death of it by those that will neither understand you nor me shall be imputed to what I sent it but he would have no Denial so I sent two ounces of Succus mixt with an ounce of Refugium which given to the Child by spoonful and spoonful at neer an hours Distance so prevailed that the Child recovered and had never any fit after it 46. A Gentleman and no stranger to Physick nor to my way his Wife being Exceedingly and often afflicted with Mother-fits and being to take a long journey gave her a pint of Refugium for her relief in case of extremity And he told me afterwards she thought it saved her life 47. A Lad about fourteen or fifteen taken with a Violent pain and swelling in his knee had something given him to anoint it and a Plaister but without any ease or remission his Mistress telling me of it I gave her half a pint of Sanguis vitae advising it be taken one half that night hot in bed and the other half next night she laugh't and said this was Chirurgians work what could Sanguis do to a swel'd knee she was one who for her self and Family had long time solely Depended on my Medicines and so I did believe she thought it Chyrurgians work or she had referred him to me at first I told her 't was no great nor Difficult matter I advised yet such as I hop'd would answer her desire so it was given and the venom being extinguish't the swelling fell and the knee remained perfectly well as the other And so I hope neither I nor my Medicines shall ever be hit in the teeth with the chargableness of this Cure Nor shall I insist upon the manifold Cures performed for this Family where there is always a readiness to justifie That there is no physick so proper for Families as they are at least in their judgments 48. A Gentlewoman between 30 and 40 in Difficulty of Chidbirth speedily relieved by the Cordial afore mentioned but before the end of the moneth striving above strength to be a Nurse fell into a most tedious Ague of which in about ten Days being cured by the continual taking plenty oâ— Radix in the Day time and Salus or Vindex or Clavis or Vita naturae every night and sometimes Stella and othertimes Refugium for her Fits Being very well and hearty for some time became on the suddain Extreamly afflicted with violent pains all over her body which because she was accustomed to Fits of the Mother and by all about her taken for those had very may pretious Cordials given her for the same yet not only without any the least mittigation but settled with such perpetual and such intollerable pains in her stomack that greater could not be imagin'd whereupon I inquired how it was with her as to her natural course and found they had long time been absent so then immediately I caus'd her to take a pint of vis vitae in three hours time upon which in the middest and heighth of her torment she would fall fast asleep for two hours together and so by plying her day and night only therewith in less then a weeks time no one could be in a more setled or healthful condition But she also is one of a Family That from the youngest to the Eldest for all occasions and very many they have had solely under God depends upon these medicines and very much to their satisfaction 49. A Gentleman near 30 overwrought to compass matters of Importance admitting no deferment upon a journey in bad ways and weather returned somewhat ill yet so as he was enforced next morning to begin another when as one said after there was some appearance of the Small Pox yet then he must go or the opportunity ever lost 't was not far but tedious through his indisposition and matters sorting to his mind bore up for his return home but no sooner there but head and heart and stomack most violently out of order so as one who with his whole Family had long depended solely under God upon my Mesticines He took a large quantity of Salus as upon half a pint in three hours time and last at night 4 ounces of Vindex towards morning his wife perceived apparent signs of the Small Pox but for fear of Discouraging him forbare to speak of it withal a violent loosness took him which being upon those Cordials could not have been hurtful had he not in that case through dislike of his attendant upon every occasion risen out of his bed upon which taking cold as the loosness increased so the Pimples sank in and an Extream Fever ensued with head-ake thirst and restlesness and which though he took Radix and Salus hourly and every night last Vindex or vita or Clavis or Athlaeta besides within night the Arcanum Stella Refugium c. yet in three days time there was no vsiible remission but rather advanced towards lightness of head with a Mouth and Throat sore and scurft all over Besides my care he had a Worthy and skilful friend that often visited him But seeing the course taken preserved from Extreams Did not in the least interpose at length noting how great a quantity he had taken and the small effect produced being full of thoughtfulness I grew jealous of my Medicines and proposed to mine and his Worthy Friend the use of Coolers which upon consideration was assented to and preparations ordered But upon this Resolve some reflecting upon the high venomous nature of the Distemper That all along he was admitted White-wine Posset-drink and in four hours time a Draught of Beer and Sugar with a toast which moistened and cooled as much as consisted with safety that in al my undertakings I never saw cause to accuse my Medicines nor in this neither For though his Loosness was staid in due time yet once in eight or ten hours he had constantly a well consisting stool That now if I should withdraw these and fal to cooling Drinks Ptisans or Juleps I might please the palate but weaken nature that only by
found so much relief both as to his Spirits and Inflammation that he thought it much expedited his cure if not saved his life But this unknown to his Surgeon who generally are so set in their way that they will not admit themselves the liberty of so much as supposing any thing can be helpful in their undertakings but what they are brought up in and accustomed unto though its thought they have as much need as the Physitians who God knows have need too much to inlarge their quarters and encrease their contributions of at least such safe Assistants as these have every way approved themselves 72. This Gentleman having a Daughter about 12 sorely afflicted with Feverish Distempers and weakness by the use of half a pint of Salus perfectly recovered 73. An Elderly Gentlewoman about 60 overburdened with business and so subject to Heats and Colds Watchings and Weariness being taken at length with extreme Vomitings Gripings and Loosness and Lightness of Head after having used abundance of the best advice and Physick money could get at least as she thought and being nevertheless worse and worse and at last so ill that she had no hope of her life being visited by a well known Friend could hardly be made to know her so strangely confused were both her sight and understanding This Friend seeing her in this sad condition put her in mind of my Medicines telling her if she were free from other Physick 't was very likely as bad as she was she might receive good by them So she took her counsel and had in some three days three half pints of Refugium which perfectly recovered her and immediately gave her liberty to follow her occasions 74. Also a Gentlewoman after her Lying-in being taken in so confused a manner that the most Skilful knew not what to make of it nothing thriving they gave or could imagine a Dear Friend of hers bewailing her condition where my Medicines were well known was soon perswaded to take my advice So I gave her a pint of Refugium to be taken as I remember by nine spoonful every three hours which perfectly recovered her at the cost only of eight shillings So that henceforth it s to be feared Market Cry will alter and those who on all occasions have cryed them as good but dear being put to their shifts must change their notes and cry what 's more due to common Medicines They are too cheap to be good or alas what will they do to slur them 75. An Elderly Gentlewoman troubled extremely with Gripings in her Bowels sending for my assistance I sent her half a pint of Refugium to take the one third part well warm'd as soon as it was with her which would be about ten in the forenoon and another like part at four afternoon and the remaining part last at night and this through Gods mercy perfectly cured her 76. A young Girl about 4 so extremely troubled with a hooping Cough as made the bloud fly out at her Nostrils through the continual violence thereof and had also some Convulsion Fits The Mother full of sadness telling me with weeping that just that day moneth she had buried a younger of the like Distemper and that she was even out of hope of this having used all means she could get but all in vain blaming her self that she had not come sooner to me as having received much good from my Medicines both before and in the sickness I comforted her all I could and gave her near four ounces of Succus and Refugium mixt 2 parts Succus and one Refugium to give the Child two spoonful every hour Next day she came to me rejoycing and took as much more nothing at all doubting her recovery and through Gods goodness sped accordingly 77. A Sea Captain being much encouraged by one who had great experience of my Medicines took a large quantity for his Voyage of several sorts and divers of them of the higher prizes as 8 s. and 12 s. the pint which fell out very happily for him the place where he arrived being a very hot Climate and at that time extremely afflicted with the Calenture insomuch that whatsoever good he might do for others with great joy he ascribeth his own preservation from that threatning and mortal Distemper under God to their assistance And being askt how they kept in so hot a Country he said every whit as good as at first which being a further confirmation of their durable qualities still proves them as fit for Sea as for Land as useful in Forreign Countries as our own and for persons travelling every way as for fixed and setled Families 78. One about 30 who was extremely surfeited by eating long and exceedingly disturb'd thereby was perfectly recovered by half a pint of Sanguis half taken about 4 afternoon and the other half last at night well warm'd 79. A Gentlewoman about 22 very long afflicted with pains in her stomack head and loss of appetite by the use of three quarts of Sanguis vitae taken by nine spoonfuls every forenoon between breakfast and dinner and as much every afternoon between dinner and supper perfectly recovered 80. A Merchants Child under long Feverish Distempers after very much means of Physick fruitlesly used perfectly recovered by twice four ounces of Salus vitae taken by three spoonfuls every three hours 81. A Child about 3 years old almost past hope through a Fever and Surfeit and bad Physick past all hope of the Parents ' recovered by twice three ounces of Salus vitae taking two spoonful every hour till it was spent White-wine Posset being its constant Drink 82. A strong busling working man taking an extreme Cold and surfeited by drinking Small Beer his Workmaster that imployed him finding him apt to give ear to slight Medicines so as it was like to run out into a desperate and long sickness and having always by him in readiness for the use of his Family large quantities of the best of my Medicines told him plainly if he would take of them and no other he would spare for no cost in his behalf but if not he would immediately send him home to his friends So the man taking plenty of Stella Vindex and Salus in one day and nights time became perfectly well 83. A young Gentlewoman being far gone of her first Child illish and sickish often upon apprehension of very near danger taking a fright grew so il as al her friends doubted an immediate miscarriage but her Husband always furnished with Stella c. prevailing with her to take two ounces compleatly setled her I hope the Reader will not think much of his pains in casting up the charge of these Cures for satisfying the charitable repinings of such Artists as still sighingly bewail the dearness of my Medicines For indeed this last out of which how much money they would fetch let those judge who are used to the costliness of their Visits the length of their time and largeness of
small occasion if not to worse Distempers arising from the unhappy remains of unwholsome Physick Whil'st the other are no sooner discharged from their main Distemper but in a manner immediately their Strength Stomack Courage and countenance return at once without fear of any after inconveniencies And may well appear a circomstance of no mean consideration to manifest the difference of the means and Medicines And having thus far disburthened my reason of so many important thoughts which I judged worthy the knowledge in this weighty cause of Physick upon which mans happiness so much dependeth wherein my principal aims have been to make the differences of the usual Physick And that which I here propose so apparent that every capacity may be enabled to make their choice accordingly For perfecting this work having been somewhat large in shewing the stilness quietness safeness and untroublesome way of cure by my really benigne Medicines very much resembling the operations and effects not of Terrestrial but of Celestial Influences for a more evident witness of their difference and to put this main point past all dispute I shall here present the whole Entire Process of no mean Physitian but of a most learnred Doctor Engaged in the undertaking of a Cure and by himself published in Print as what he deemed most laudable though the success was doubtful And wherein is chiefly to be minded what afore I have expressed Touching the trouble hazard danger and ill Events of Purging Vomiting Bleeding Glisters Blisters c. And the happiness of that way by which all those are safely and securely avoided His own Relation verbatim being as followeth RIVERIV'S Observations page 36 37 c. The Distempers Denominated Tisick Inflammation of the Lungs and Palpitation of the Heart ON the 8th of April 1632. The Widow of Monsi Sejelory of Mon ' Pelier Starting out of her bed at midnight thinly clad to the window was presently taken with great shortness of breath like a Fit of the Tisick with a Cough spitting of blood a Feaver and readness of Face I being sent for caus'd a vein to be open'd in her right arm and 8 ounces of blood being taken away her shortness of breath presently ceased Afterwards a Laxative Glister was injected and a Julep given her of Red Poppy water Sirrup of Violets Sal prunellae and Confectio de Hyacintho On the ninth day at ten in the forenoon I visit her again and find her in a Fever troubled with a Cough and spitting of bloody matter also she felt a heavy weight in the middle of her breast with an inward burning and pricking in many parts of her Chest I cause her to be let blood in her left arm and that the Glister and Julep should be repeated to anoint her breast with Oyl of Violets and that she lick frequently some Sirrops of Violets after the blood-letting she was presently eased that sense of weight and burning in her Chest were â—bated At five in the Evening the same day conceiving that vapours arose from beneath and humours into her Chest which that shortness of breath did sufficiently declare I cause her to be let blood in the Saphena Vein after which she was also better The night following she took the foresaid Julep again she slept but little On the tenth day in the morning she was better her Fever and other Symptoms were very remiss About the third hour of the Evening she had a coldness in her extream parts with a light sweat in her Feet and palms of her hands after that an aâ—â—te Fever her pulse very much expressed and the sense of heaviness in her chest very much augmented Dr. Ranchinus the Chancellor was called to Consultation who conceived that it was a Pluerisie arising from inflammation of the Mediasticum and by common consent she was Let blood in her right Arm to seven ounces after which also she was better The other Medicines were continued also Frictions Ligatures and Cupping-glasses were applyed to her lower parts On the eleventh day which was the third of her sickness moved with what I had observed in another Disease of the same patient in which she was afflicted by turns with a Flux of her Belly joyned with a Tenesmus and a Catarrh falling upon her breast So that as often as her loosness stopt she was grievously afflicted with her Catarrh and when her Flux recovered her Catarrh presently ceased The humour falling into her breast being drawn downwards I conceived that a Purge would do her most good which I made after this manner Take leaves of Bâ—gloss and Lettice of each one handful Tamarind haâ—â—â—â— ounce Liquorice â—hâ—ee drâ—â—s Violet flowers 〈◊〉 Pugil boy all to â—our ounces in the strained Liquoâ— dissolve one dram of Rubarb infused in Begloâ—â— water with yellow Sanders Manna and firrup of Roses of each one ounce make all into a potion which she took in the morning and voided much Flegmatick Wheyish sharp and stinking matter nevertheless the Disease was more violent towards the Evening than formerly yet her Pulse was not oppressed as before and the weight in her breast was less But she felt a pain about her right Chanel bone which encreased by handling the same she slept little that night she took Emulsions frequently The fourth day of her Disease and the twelfth of the moneth when as in the morning her Fever and the pain in her Chanel bone continued Dr. Ranchinus was again called to Consult and besides the foresaid Symptoms a great palpitation of the heart which appeared also in her right Hypocondrium also in her right side but it lasted not long there But about her heart it continued and did beat like a Hammer violently she was again Let blood in her right Arm. And an Ovntment was appointed for the part pained and Remedies to revel the humours to the lower parts About Evening the Disease was again exasperated and the Palpitation continued some hours after she did sweat a little all her body over by which she was a little eased But her Palpitation and Fever continued as before when we began to suspect that Vapours did arise from her Womb we prescribed her a Glister for the Mother Frictions Ligatures and Cupping-glasses to be applyed to her lower parts Emplastrum Hystericum was applyed to her Navel and a Julep was given her to assist her sweating of Scabious and Carduus water with Bezoar stone and half an ounce of Orange flower water in regard of her womb In the night she had three large stools of stinking corrupt matter after midnight she slept quietly till morning On the fifth day of the Disease I found her in the morning with a small Fever without any oppression in her breast or any pain and with very little Palpitation of heart about Evening she did sweat a little and was better afterwards After she had voided her Glister her palpition was augmented her Fever became more intense and she was pretty well in the Night On the sixth day all