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death_n	body_n	die_v	life_n	17,544	5	4.8615	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56766	Some observations made upon the Mexico seeds imported from the Indies shewing their wonderful virtue against worms in the bodies of men, women and children / written by a countrey physitian to Dr. Burwell, president of the Colledge of Physitians in London.	Peachi, John, fl. 1683.; Burwell, Thomas, 1626-1702.; Pechey, John, 1655-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing P936; ESTC R35390	1,336	8

SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Mexico Seeds Imported from the INDIES SHEWING Their Wonderful VIRTUE against WORMS in the Bodies of Men Women and Children Written by a Countrey Physitian to Dr. Burwell President of the Colledge of Physitians in London LONDON Printed in the Year 1695. SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Mexico Seeds SHEWING Their Wonderful Virtue against WORMS in the Bodies of Men Women and Children In a LETTER c. SIR I Received your Letter with your Desire to know what particular Specifick I had ●bserved the Indians make most use of against Worms and I must freely tell you that I have often seen them give the Mexico Seeds which powerfully expels them in Men Women and Children The Seeds look like an Insect o● sort of flat Worm it self and is spotted like a Leopard it is a sort of a Palma Christi it resists the Putrefaction of Humours and Purgeth the Stomach and Bowels and drives ou● all sorts of Verminous Matter by Siege which cause gnawing Pains in the Body The Deaths of more People is owing to Worms than is generally supposed for they cause Vomiting Loosness Feavors and wha● not I saw an Indian Doctor give a Medicin● made with these Seeds which expell'd forty Worms at one time Many famous Physitians have of late Year in their Observations taken Notice that i● most Distempers especially Putrid and Malignant Feavors there hath very much 〈◊〉 Worms been a Cause which hath made them prove more difficult to Cure and generall● more Mortal and a Curious Physitian tells the World that with the help of Microscopes he had discerned in his Patients Blood and sometimes in their Urine many Animated Vermicles and until he hath applyed himself to the use of Worm-matick Medicines could perform no Cures but upon the use of Medicines against Worms he quickly perceived an Abatement of all Feavourish Symptons I knew a young Gentlewoman who had a great Pain in her Head much Sickness at her Stomach a very pale Countenance want of Appetite and a continual Feavourish Heat and sometimes a Chillness in her Back and a great Faintness Many Means I applyed to mend her Blood to cleanse her Stomach and to alter the Habit of her Body but al● in vain at length I gave her this Medicine in a Decoction of Bitter Herbs about twenty Drops at a time every New and Ful● Moon she sometimes took it in good Mum and now and then in Milk with Lavender Cotton boiled in it she voided many Worms and wonderfully recover'd A Maid Servant who had a gnawing Pain in her Stomach and Bowels especially being Hungry a dry Cough a Loathing and sometimes Vomiting and Loosness a Symptomatical Feavor and Sleep often disturbed with horrible Dreams starting and gnashing of Teeth But notwithstanding all these formidable Symptoms I gave her the Tincture of these Seeds and ordered her to take them in Wormwood-Wine and she was restored to a perfect State of Health Many young Children have been destroyed by Worms because they would not take bitter unpleasant Medicines but this being given only in Drops and insensibly conveyed into their ordinary Drink hath proved very successful towards the Preservation of their Lives especially when Clysters have been administer'd made with Alloes and Worm●eeds boiled in Ale and the Belly anointed with Oyl of Worms I knew a young Gentlewoman who complaining very much of a great Pain in her Stomach especially when she had at any time fasted she dying very suddenly her Brother who was a Physitian caused her Body to be opened and to the great Wonder of the Spectators the Worms crawled about in a strange manner which gave abundant satisfaction as to the Cause of her Death If this Medicine had been known sooner the Lives of thousands might have been saved who made up the Numbers in your Yearly Bills of Mortality at London FINIS