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death_n	day_n	good_a	life_n	10,536	5	4.7272	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67485	A touch-stone for physick directing by evident marks and characters to such medicines as without purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, minerals, or any other disturbers of nature may be securely trusted for cure in all extreamities and be easily distinguished from such as are hazardous or dangerous : exemplyfied by various instances of remarkable cures performed solely by such medicines.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing W693; ESTC R9839	36,548	128

all help might come too late I went to him and found him sitting by his fire very sadly having taken nothing nor any thing providing for him so I gave him about three ounces of an appropriate Medicine with which he rested well all that night and next morning standing at his dore I askt him how t was with him he said never better but that he had now a great swelling behind his ear I was glad I had done as I did he would have had somewhat to ripen it but I would not and it went down of it self Another being extream ill wholly neglected all means but at length desired me to give him somthing which I did but being not presently well grew humorous and would take nothing but cold water by which he brought himself into a most violent Fever with thirst flegm vomitting and restlesness and soon after so wild as he was fain to be held in his bed all which time I caused those about him to ply him day and night with plenty and divers of my Medicines which yet prevailed so slowly that somewhat else was prescribed him by one who said he had all the signs of death upon him but t was not given him so for one whole night he had no reliefe by Medicine at all which I no sooner heard but I presently sent him such as were proper as deeming it unreasonable to desist so long as there is life having found it alwaies good still to hope the best and to use the utmost means by which divers have recovered that were thought impossible as this almost dying man did to the wonder of all his friends who during his cure were much troubled because of his long costivenesse but I quicted them by telling the danger of moving his body till the venome of the disease was wholly subdued and that in due time they would see nature so enabled by these Medicines as freely and without force it would perform that and all other needfull offices which came to passe to their full satisfaction but had he been attended as too many with such as will be asking continually what do ye think of him if you think he cannot escape pray deal plainly that we may not spend more money to no purpose a course as destructive as vile and hatefull and had it been so here he had certainly dyed for it for there was no hope but in a constant perseverance And now I think it cannot with any colour of reason be denied but that the Instances recited do fully amount in their performances to what is afore proposed to be the proper effects of real Medicines and in every respect to answer those Characters which I have here established for a Standard Test or Touchstone to try and prove whether Medicines are such or not as may rationally be relyed on in cases of extremity and may as I conceive suffice to witness both the substantiality of those Characters and that there are such Medicines really in being Testifying also that my conceptions of Mans true Original and of his true Complexion unto which I have bowed all my Studies Productions have in no wise misled me but so effectually governed and steered my endeavors as to render them far beyond the usual success of first discoverers and much more true usefull and certain than other Physiology And as to their extent in Cure I have frequently and impartially compared the real Virtues and properties of these real Medicines with all the curable Discases the Foul excepted with which I never meddle mentioned in the largest Bills of Mortallity with Captain Grants ingenious Comment thereupon I have considered seriously of them in particular and upon the whole can see no reason to doubt but that taken in time with due perseverance in their use whether for prevention or for cure they are likely to prove far more pertinent safe and effectual than any Helpers Preservatives or Medicines all their marks and performances considered than ever yet were tendered to human assistance and this even in the Pestilence it selfe for though I staid not in London past the increase of two Thousand a Week but was forced away or must be cruel where all obligations of tenderness lay upon me yet took I care tha● nothing of mine should be wanting to any who desired to make use of them with some liberty of freely helping the necessitous besides I had long declined Practice visited none nor had then so much as one Patient under my Hand and withall had so published the Vertues and Uses of all my Medicines as sufficed both to encourage and to instruct every one so plainly as without further direction or attendance every one might be in a capacity of helping themselves and their relations upon any occasion for so I judged it most proper both for the good of Patients and Physitians and possibly would soon so appear to Magistrates also in such Infectious and dangerous times were they accustomed to note the happy union of Safety and Power conjoyned in one and the same Medicine or would strictly hold Physitians and Practisers to such Marks and Characters of real Medicines as would witness them to be such as might justly be depended on in that violent distemper because being such all people might without danger confidently and freely make use of them in all states and degrees of the distemper without any attendance or danger to Physitians it being true and powerful Medicines that is solely to be regarded in all contagious Distempers And it was no smal quantity I provided for the occasion from my observation of a general taint in Nature for some considerable time before so there was no want of what I could furnish at least for a season But yet though I had great assurance both of the propriety and efficacy of my Preservatives and Remedies as whoever well weigh the instances precedent may well believe I had good cause yet observing how from all quarters Medicines were loudly voiced out as most certain in the case I could not at any hand bring my mind to any fresh publication least I might possibly draw people from what was more to what was less effectual for more could not be exprest for prevalence then was of every of them how they answered it in performance after I had tasted and noted divers of them I soon saw cause to greive and fear seeing so weak provision against so powerful an Adversary Besides to publ●sh then a ●●esh when in reason I done enough before and was dayly to be seen seemed so like raising a new Mart for sale for trade and mon● as became not the sadness of the Season requiring rather a giving than a receiving hand and wherein very many to their eternal praise abounded But although the help I left proved more faithful then skilful disposing of much and taking but little accompt of the success yet it amounts to thus much that divers under God imputed their exemption from the Infection unto them and

as I feared it was but a little time after that I saw all her relations in Black All which I have thus particularly exprest That henceforth it may be seriously minded how absolutely necessary it is upon every occasion their aid is deemed requisite not to defer their use too long nor to give over too soon nor to scruple to take them in full quantity and in so doing none need to doubt a comfortable issue nor are the ingenious to blame me if hereafter I withstand all such insignificant tamperings possibly to palliate the mischievous error of a Mineral with which the wariest are frequently too bold to the irrevocable detriment of bewailing patients and ther relations My next instance of their innocency efficacy Is of a young Gentlewoman halfe gone of her first Childe who being a while in the Country under far different accommodations than what her abode in the City plentifully afforded with some unusual stirring in business soon after her return fell into a dangerous Fever with vomiting bleeding at Nostril startings and extream pains in her back her husband finding the distemper violent and threatning advised with her Friends and sent for such Physitians as they liked who for divers weeks dayly visited and administred to her with all possible care and tenderness even till every of them were hopeless of her recovery her distempers not only proving obstinate against all means they could imagine there being no spare of cost but ran hourly into higher degrees of danger upon which her husband lamenting her condition to me I told him I feared he would find her distemper far above the reach and controul of the usual Physick which he at length found too true in that after all they could doe her inflammation heightned into distraction perpetual restlesness took nothing but vomited as soon as taken painfull and tedious fits every night wasted to a very Skelli●on meer skin and bone nay so ruffe and shrivelled as seemed more like Fagot-sticks under intollerable thirst So as nothing but inevitable Death was hourly expected in this her wofull plight her husband full of griefe and fear desires my assistance I told him so long as there was life there was some hope and that possibly there might be yet means for help whereto I should be most ready were it not that she was in others hands he said all was at an end none could blame either him or me justly however he would bear it all earnestly pressing me to do my utmost whereupon I gave him somwhat above two ounces of a general Medicine which that very night gave cause of hope and so plying her both day and night with variety and large quantities of these real Medicines for a long time by degrees her fits abated her thirst ceased her rest and appetite returned her vomiting left and after a while her flesh and strength was restored to a good condition and in conclusion most happily and perfectly recovered her Childe also born alive and without blemish to the abashment of divers her Friends and Visitants who usually threatned she would undoe her self by such hot Medicines and bring a raw and scalded Childe into the world but indeed how could they well do less hearing continually as they do the wary cautions of the learned against the use of hot things in such cases but sure there are hopes such instances as are here plentifully discovered will in time incline them better to distinguish of Heats for during the whole time of her taking them there was not the least ill effect to be charged upon them though upon some accidental relapses she took in a short space a pint and a halfe of one of them every benefit of nature also being constantly procured and injoyed as freely and orderly as could be wished So that both she and her husband recived so great an assurance of their innocency notwithstanding their hear and of their efficacy and power for all their mildness pleasantness That under God they have both for themselves their children and Family solely depended on them ever since are never without good quantities of them alwayes in readiness and have time after time told me so many remarkable stories of their happy performances that were I torecite them in likelyhood they equall halfe my Instances which shewes how proper and beneficial this kinde of Physick would prove for Families Nor did he deem them deer which some having nothing else to say are wont to object to withhold and restrain their use his first course of Physick under which she was not recovered costing him three times more than this that restored her to her health But if this seems not cheap enough what will they say to this which follows for one who was very sensible of this cure and the means thereof a while after falling into a most violent Feaver and into the hands of the most eminent Physitians who yet doing all they could prevailed nothing and he in his extremities calling often for some of my Medicines either not understood or not heeded at length when every one thought him past all hope and in Convulsive strugglings of Death as himself after told me those very motions which those who stood by him deemed no other but the immediate preface to his Death proceeded solely from a strong perswasion in his Dream that he was drinking full quantities of my Medicines for they told him that he often cagerly lifted both his hands up to his mouth and down again and so up and down til he fell fast asleep and waked in a well composed condition which hourly improved to his compleat recovery and I think he owes my Studies at least a great good turn for it or who will not say this Cure was too too cheap in Conscience My next Instance is of a Gentlewoman who upon many occasions of distemper had continually found help by my Medicines but being neer to other Assistance and much out of order took something that brought such unusuall pains and shootings about her that she knew not what to think of her self indeed very like to the occult remains of Mineral Medicines and soon after fell into a violent Loosness with extreme Gripings So upon a sudden I was sent to and I sent her a quarter of a pint of an appropriate Medicine not used to fail in such Cases which being all taken a little warm perfectly recovered her But the last cure ended not so for within two dayes after the Husband of that Gentlewoman came hastily to me sadly lamenting an elderly Friend of his who lay in a very hopeless condition by occasion only of a Cold at first turned to a Su●fit and Fever which under his Physitians hands increased upon him and being bound in his body they gave him various loosning or purging Medicines but yet do what they could nothing prevailed but set him into extreme vomiting which what with the fears of his Physitians and his own very much aggravated his