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A53204	The poor mans physician the true art of medicine as it is prepared and administred for the healing of all diseases incident to mankind, by Thomas O Dowde Esq; one of the grooms of the chamber to his sacred Majesty King Charles the Second.	O'Dowde, Thomas.	1664 (1664)	Wing O139CA; ESTC R218541	4,207	1

The Poor Mans PHYSICIAN The true Art of Medicine as it is prepared and administred for the healing of all diseases incident to mankind By Thomas O Dowde Esq one of the Grooms of the chamber to his sacred Majesty king CHARLES the Second BEfore I give an account of many persons of quality by me cured of most desperate Diseases I shall give the world a particular satisfaction in the present method of Cure of Mistress Elizabeth Frind the daughter of Mistress Alice Frind of Little Warley in the County of Essex Aged 13 years and under a violent falling Sickness seven times a day Munday March 14.1663 12 Vomits 3 Stools and had that night onely two fits neither of them lasting two minutes Thursday Mrach 17. 10 vomits Stools 4. Sunday March 20. 8 Vomits Stools 10. Wednesday March 23.9 Vomits Stools 8 Saturday March 26. 7 Vomits Stools 4. Tuesday March 29. 11 Vomits Stools 7. being all a choler of the highest Tincture and large quantity Saturday April 2.7 Vomits Stools 6 after the Operation of the Medicine the Patient standing carelesly in a wet room without either shoes or slippers caused a flatulent vapour to arise which occasion'd 2 fits the day following but not so violent as the former to correct which Monday April 4.7 Vomits Thursday April 7.11 Vomits Sunday April 10.17 Vomits Stools 7 and an extraordinary sweat occasioned by adding one fourth part of the Medicine more Thursday April 14.9 Vomits Stools 8. Munday April 18.8 Vomits and not in the least sick Friday April 22.8 Vomits Stools 3 the Patient by accident drinking 6 spoonfulls of milk after the operation of her Physick the Friday before the tartarus matter being in agitation did coagulate the milk and from that mov'd to a Symptome of a fit but onely as a qualm lasting one minute which occasion'd my immediate giving her some Phisick which at the third vomit brought up the coagulated milk in 3 several knots almost to a suffocation and occasioned her immediately to cry the Vomit being past that her Stomach was as well and light as ever it had been in all her life and at a eleven a Clock came down stairs eat her breakfast and after her dinner and eat at other times that day as chearfully as ever she did and from this course of Physick yet to be continued she grows fat and chearfull to the admiration of all her friends and acquaintance and many eminent persons from the court and others do daily see her from the 25th the putrefactive matter as green as grasse and grosser then the white of an egge Gircum the Grand-child of Mrs. Brown at the blew-Boar in High-Holborne aged 18 years or thereabouts under a violent Falling-sickness 7 years falling 10 17 and never lesse then 4 times in 24 hours and three persons usually to supress the violence of his convulse cured by me in six dayes of Medicine according to the former method about 10 or a 11 months agoe free from all Symptomes of that disease and all others and clearly alter'd for the better in the whole figure of his Body My dearest friend Col. Robert Werden of the Bed-Chamber to his Royal Highness cur'd of the Gout general obstructions and a twenty years continual cramp in 24 hours The Lady Freeman wife to Sr. George Freeman cur'd in 2 days of medicine of the Scurvy Dropsy Gout in one knee she being at that time with child My loving Friend Mr. William Payn cur'd of the Gout in 24 hours and went abroad the day following who usually lay by it a moneth Mr. Adams a Brewer in St Thomas Apostles Southwark cur'd of the Gout in 2 days of Medicine and many others of that disease Sr. John Denham Knight of the Bath His Majesties Surveyour general for his buildings under the great affliction of the Convulse and Gout freed by me from the first after the tryal of many eminent persons and much abated in the second in three days of medicine and might have been perfectly cur'd long agoe if he had pleased Sr. George Freeman Kt. of the Bath son of Sr. Ralph Freeman the most remarkable Patient of England sixteen years under the great affliction of active pains from head to foot convulsion tumour of his side obstruction of his lungs c. in all that time in constant Physick under several eminent persons to his great expence and hundred times wishing himself dead as not onely by his verball relation but by his letters appeard cur'd in ten days to great admiration Madam Katherine Needham daughter of the late Lord Kilmurry under a Tympany of 7 years continuance and for 3 weeks of every month in a dying condition by reason of violent obstructions the first day of Medicine sunk not onely one handful but likewise freed from 150 hard Kernells on her belly which the Phisick from others could never reach and in halfe the course of her cure often declared her self to be so miraculously well as not desiring to be better and is now well living in Cheshire Mrs. Elizabeth Booth daughter of Sr. John Booth cur'd in 6 hours of a Surfet Henry Clerk servant to the late Lady Byron cur'd of a violent Feavour unable through extremity of pain to rise out of bed or open his eyes in 6 hours Dively servant to the same Lady under a violent pestilential Feavour Lunacy weakness given over as dead perfectly cur'd in 24 hours a peice Mr. Henry Brunk●●d of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness cur'd of obstructions of the stomach and violent pains in 24 hours Captain Randall Moulton and man 〈◊〉 persons of Southwark cur'd of obstructions Fevers Agues Lunacies c according as there several distempers were in 24 hours Mr. Charles Arth● 〈◊〉 ●am●●● House in R●t●orife himself wife and 4 children cur'd of Agues and violent Fevers with Lunacies in 24 hours a peice when some off the 〈◊〉 ●ere given over as dead The wife of one Becket a O●diner in the foresaid place troubled with great obstructions of her stomach and violent pain 〈◊〉 head to the extremity of running her head against the wall perfectly cur'd in 24 hours and so continues Anne Nichols the wife of John Nichols Soap-boiler in Glene-alley in S. T●oly's street in Southwark poisoned by an ill prepared Medicine taken from I know not whom ●●der so great a salivation six moneths continuing in that distemper so much passing from her every night as would wet a sheet as she relates her jaw 〈◊〉 her mouth Ulcerated her face swoln troubled with intolerable pains and thousands of worms in that great quantity daily passing from her stom●●●● almost to a Suffocation daily wishing her self in hergrave after the experiment of some eminent men and highest trials of Art in the Hospital of S. Thomas in Southwark where her teeth were forc't open by an instrument and a gold ring being by her self put into her mouth to procure ease was ●●●isibly consum'd within 48 hours by the virulency of the poison and

of all this cur'd in 48 hours being 2 days of Medicine and the very poison brought out by the distinction of her pallat Mr. Haugh-ton in Crown Court over against St. Clements troubled with a Dropsy his Members swoln as 〈◊〉 as a childs head of 2 years old and other parts proportionably cur'd in 6 days and still continues well the cure being many months since George Mors of Rose and Crown Court in Grayes-Inn-lane troubled with a violent Dropsie not making water in 3 weeks and 4 days but as drops from a qui●● and given over as incurable by some eminent Artists cur'd in five days and is at present as well as any man and as many others of these distempers Mr. Lewis at the Dolphine near the Gate-house in Westminster 9 months under a violent Scurvy and Dropsie and had been the Patient of several eminent Artists of this City and by them left as a dying man insensible in hands arms leggs and feet breast and belly having received the rights of the Church was desir'd to send for me and cur'd in ten days and is at this present in perfect health and restored to the perfect use of all the aforesaid members Mr. Thomas a Cheese-Monger at broken crosse in Westminster And Mr. Morton at the Fox near the new Chappel at Westminster both of a deep Consumption and Cough the first cur'd in 4 days of Physick the second I leave to the satisfaction of enquiry as being most remarkable The Wife of the aforesaid Mr. Thomas under great obstructions and weakness in knees and leggs cur'd in six hours and at that time some months gone with Child and will I am confident have a fairer child and better delivery then in all her life Mr. John Redding in so deep a Consumption and Cough that I refused to give him medicine till prevailed on by the importunity of his sister Mistress Mills in ●●own Court next door to my house cured in two days of medicine and continues well he was cur'd about 4 moneths agoe Mistress Shue the wife of Mr. Shue a Strong-waterman near the Kings Bench in Southwarke under a violent Surfet bloudy Flux and Griping of the Guts going to sto●● 14 15 or 16 times in an hour for 6 days and having been in the hands of others was cured by me in 5 days being 2 days of medicine My honoured friend Justice Peck of Westminster and his Lady cured of their several distempers and one of his grand-children of the Yellow Jandies in one day 〈◊〉 For my cure of an ulcerated Leg and remains of Mercury after many moneths affliction to the patient I leave to the judgement of the Physician 〈◊〉 patient the parties have been Mr. John Powell an ingenuous Chyrurgion near M. Shelberies an Apothycary in the Strand under a violent Ague six years with some intermissions yet so weak and low having tried all means was cured and the moving Cause carried off in 24 hours many moneths sin● 〈◊〉 Mr. Cerby a Carpenter living in Loins-Alley in Bishopsgate-street the most afflicted patient I ever met from the remains of a two years Ague lying 〈◊〉 a ditch in Finesbury-fields weary of his life providence sending me that way I gave him medicine next day and perfectly cured him in 24 hours 〈◊〉 miracle and is well to this day he was cured many mone ths since These cures an● many hundred more in this City together with my constant practise in Darby-shire for four years and a half being considered by all rationall and un●yassed men may make it appear a modest proposition for a Chymist who hath been a sufferer to misery and ruine in the late War for the King to 〈◊〉 in the sight of all the world without ostentation or vanity to make triall of 〈◊〉 skill with the most considerable of the Galenist party in the most de●●●ate diseases prosessing that I would rather at any time have such patients on whom they have experimented then such as never took medicine an● 〈◊〉 let the world see that this is not done for lucre of money I never did nor never will turn my back up on the poorest patients though many hundreds in a year but in charity have as tender a care of them as of the wealthiest persons and will when I shall be required administer in their common hospitals to their most desperate patients if curable by the Art of medicine without regard to the dictory or other usual impositions and will likewise undertake to cure the Plague in six hours And to conclude though all my medicines be as safe as the most harmless Milke I doe declare in the pres●●●● of the alseeing God that I never administer to any person but with an aking Heart and trembling Hand from an awfull reverence to the great treator of all things who is pleased to intrust me the lowest of his servants with so great secrets faithfully extracted from the meanest of his creature● whose blessings on all my endevours I shall ever beg From my Labaratory over against St. Clements Church in the Strand Licensed 〈◊〉 28 1664 Roger L'Estrange