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Elixyrlogia, or, A compendious discourse wherein the eminent and effectual virtues and properties of the universal elixyr are set forth not only for the particular use of them that would prevent the contagion of the plague ... but for the general cure, remedying, and certain prevention of most acute diseases incident to mankind ... : with the manner of taking it ... and a rational accompt how it may certainly conduce to the prolonging of life if medically administred in a little quantity every morning to an empty stomach / by Theod. Le Medde, M.D.
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Le Medde, Theod.
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1665
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Wing L1037; ESTC R41364
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is likely you may hear no more of it In case you cannot easily Vomit take the like quantity and it will forward nature to digest what you have taken After the eating of any Cold or Windy Fruits or meat a little quantity hereof will profit you not a little In defect of the spirits whence happen swoonings faintings and a distillation or scattering of the spirits in this case this is the most appropriate Cordial Heaviness about the Heart often arising from grief and other causes it removes Pain in the Stomach caused by Wind and Crudityes it not only helps but removes the cause Pain in the Stomach by tough and Cold Humours it easeth and attenuates them for expulsion Wind in the bowels it expells effectually The pain in the belly if arising from a Cold cause it wholly removes Inconcoction usually proceeding from the weakness of naturall heat sometimes from the intemperature of the Stomach caused by the drinking of cold water or other small Liquor in extremity of heat it wonderfully remedieth Pains in the sides it takes away by taking a little draught of it in Posset Drink and Sweating but these pains must arise from flatuosity not from the inflamation of the Pleura If you have no appetite to eat it usually provokes one If you have an appetite to eat and are faintish for want of something to refresh you it is the best thing in the world to be taken especially if you be hot Towards the prolonging of Life it is not a little conducing if constantly taken in the Morning That great naturalist the L. Ver. Visc St. Alban sayth take his own words Whatsoever is given with good success in curing of Malignant and Pestilentiall Diseases c. may very happily be transferred to prolongation of Life and in another place It is consonant to reason that those things which being taken in Cures do defend and fortify the heart or more truly the spirits against poisons c. being transferred with judgement and choice into diet should have a good effect in some sort towards the prolonging of Life pag. 190 c. Some of those Cordial simples he mentions as Lignum Aloes fol Indam Mint Saffron Cardaus c. he propounds waters to be made of these not such as our phlegmatick common distill'd waters but waters that are lively and sending forth a Benign vapour he objects against burning waters of spirit of wine Some may suppose that the spirit of this Elixyr is too hot or burning may yeild an heat preditory to the Spirits which may be an objection against its continual use directed and advised as conducing to long life to which I answer That as wine or any other cordial Liquor if immoderately taken doth prey upon the spirits so this may but if it be taken in the quantity advised or in somewhat a greater for the person that takes it may easily judge what will be convenient every Morning instead of preying upon the spirits making them eager or thin it shall notably condense or thicken them for I do not intimate hereby the transferring of this Elixyr into a dyet drinking of it as old women do Ale in the Chimney-corner but only commend it medically that is a little quantity to be taken every Morning instead of all other Mornings draughts for the corroborating of the Spirits the preventing of Infection for the resisting of putrefaction for the correcting of crudities that abound in the Stomach I commend it as the most salubrious or healthful thing that can be taken fasting in the Morning 1. By Cold and Phlegmatick Persons such are most antient people that are stricken in years 2. By them who have Cold waterish and as they call them raw Stomachs such are those who have accustomed themselves to drink strong drinks in their younger days 3. By them that abound with wind and crudities in their Stomach and Bowells 4. By them who have no appetite through indigestion from whence a source of weaknesses and infirmities and Diseases do spring that being a lingring sometimes a sudden death By all generally that live a sedentary life whose callings require not laborious exercises to such if the would live long let me leave this caution with the medical use of this Elixyr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thar is Be moderate in eating and drinking c. and I may warrant you as far as the Art of Physick will reach I say I commend a little quantity hereof which you may guess by discretion as half a Spoonful or a little more to be taken every Morning instead of all other liquors whatever which you should do well to take upon an empty Stomach About an hour after eat what is convenient for you I shall last of all shew you of what admirable use it is of to be used outwardly and how to be applied 1. To any part bitten with any Venemous Creature whatever apply it upon a fine ragg or pledge at of lint dipt therein But first of all let the Lady with her little sharp incision knife make some little incisions on the place that is hurt till it bleed then after this manner apply a Cupping-glass take the Glass dry it rub it that there be no moisture in it dry a little flax or tow at the fire put it into the Glass and light it with a Candle or Paper and as the flame is almost ready to go out put on the Glass and hold it a little hard too untiil their appear a swelling arise under the Glass take away your hand and the Glass will stay on of its self there let it stick a quarter of an hour remove the Glass and the blood and wash the incisions and the hurt with this Liquor dip lint therein and apply it putting over it a warm Plaister observe that wounds made by Venemous Creatures must be kept open very long and while any ill symptomes appear use this as one of the Choysest Medicines when you have thus drest the wound let the person wounded go to bed and give him of this one full-Spoonfull at the least with as much of the Juyce of Citrons Vervane Rue or Mugwort and sweat thereon the next day if you think the Venome in good measure drawn out you need not apply the Cupping-Glass the second time did your lint again and apply it as at the first and so till all be well In want of Cupping-Glasses tho' they are much more effectual apply the vents of pullen c. To any part bitten or hurt with the teeth of Animalls not Venemous as Man Horse Dog not mad if the part hurt become of an evil colour and stincketh use this many times it happens through a fall or blow upon the mouth a Tooth may bruise the flesh if the breath smell or the place looke white the place bruised corrupts wash it with this there is nothing better To any part that is gangreend apply it That there is a gangrene in any part you may know it by these signes
Elixyrlogia OR A Compendious Discourse wherein the Eminent and Effectual Virtues and Properties of the Vniversal ELIXYR are set forth Not only for the particular Use of them that would prevent the Contagion of the PLAGUE so far as Art and Medicine can reach but for the general Cure Remedying and certain Prevention of most Acute Diseases Incident to Mankind Together with common and daily Accidents terrible in themselves which outwardly happen and are often accompanied with Death if not prevented With the manner of Taking it the Time when and how Outwardly to be Applyed when the Distemper is without And a Rational Accompt how it may certainly Conduce to the prolonging of Life if Medically Administred in a little quantity every Morning to an empty Stomach By THEOD Le MEDDE M D. London Printed for Henry Eveâ—sden at the Greyhound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1665. To the English Lady MADAM MEn Quack to get money I doubt you 'l say so of me too when you come to the last page Gentlewomen do good gratis like the Samaritan when they have poured in Wine and Oil and bound up the sores of the wounded give Money to the relief of the Sick of such there are several persons in this Kingdom of Honourable Degree who are also so good proficients in the Therapeutick or Curative part of Physick that without a strein we may term the daughters of Apollo Coronis I may seem then to supererrogate in offering this though a choyce Medicine when they are furnished with Medicines apt for all intentions yet Madam how well so ever you are provided let me add this one to your store and if you find it not as efficatious as is pretended in the Title-page let me be blamed for impertinence Untill then suspend that censure upon Madam Your Ladyships most humble servant Le Medde Elixyrlogia THere is an Herb which is called Panax 't is a Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Herb which healeth all Diseases That the due use of this Herb produceth health to all that use it let the world judge But let us understand the Etymoligers aright and take their meaning which was this because this simple was of good Medicinal use and proper in many cases they called it Panax or All-heal For better reason do we put this Epithete upon our Elixyr and call it Universal not that it will Cure all Diseases whatever mans body may be the subject off but that it is absolutely proper for preservation from all malign Contagion and of great and effectual use in the general Cure of malign Distempers and several accidents which daily happen to mankind I know there be and have been some who pretend to a Compleat Panacea or Universal Medicine but with what deceipt their imperfect cures and by its use and administration sometimes worse rendred do declare That which in short is here promised is That we would not so mueh as seem to pretend to more then can be made good neither will it be convenient to give this Medicine its utmost due Encomium least we flatter the vulgar sort into the beleif of working wonders as is the usual Custome of Pamphleteers which is not here intended but the bare knowledge of the truth Having given you the reason why this Medicine without injury to the truth in that it is of absolute use in the Cure of all malign and venemous Diseases and of effectual use in the general Cure of other Distempers not malign with other accidents in themselves terrible and often accompanied with death if not prevented such as Gangreens Bitings of Venemous beasts c. is termed Universal it will be needful in order to dispose what these Diseases are that it is most effectual against To all malign Contagion and venene or poisonous qualities whether arising from putrefaction and so bred within the body or conveyed to it insensibly by malign Contagion or sensibly by external instruments as the Bitings of Venemous creatures it is the most proper and powerful Antagonist or adversary to be used by way of prevention or expulsion of Infection poison or poisonous qualities received To prevent malign contagion there are appointed by Authors Medicines of vertue Antidotal to be used externally and internally The externall to be hung about the body or so conveniently placed that by the heat of the body their vertue may be exhal'd or being by an innate quality effluvious of themselves as Gums Spices Herbs Roots c. for the altering and correcting the ambient air that which is continually about us drawn into the mouth and nostrils and so into the Lungs These they call Amulets by a general name and were compounded of many bodies as Pomanders or Simple as some sorts of pretious stones Amber Mercury Arsenic c. That Amulets are of use is not to be disputed but it may be a question whether these Minerals shut up within their intranspirable Occluders do eradiate or beam forth spirituous Vapours if they do not what use can they be of if they be placed about or born about the body and do emit or send forth any spirituous and thin parts we may suppose them of ill consequence But being placed about the body if their spirits emitted could be made friendly to ours but in reasonable proportion of Homogenitie they might be of excellent use when the cause is ab extra That Roots Herbs Pomanders c. are of good use to salubriate the Air while they are held to or about the Nose we doubt not but held or placed or carried at a distance alter it not to our purpose These are neat and cleanly things and take with all I wish they were as effectual But if you would use an external Medicine as a preservative against Infectious Air at any time or upon any occasion not that you are advised to rely in an Internal or External Antidote onely to use them as the lawful means one shall be commended to be used in form of an Ointment it is but a plain Medicine think of it as you please the efficacy of it is known The Ingredients are Brimstone poudered very fine or rather the flower of Brimstone fresh Lard or Butter Oil of Elecampane with the addition of a little of the Chymical Oil of Wormwood There is a common Medicine in the countrey made of Brimstone and Cream its use is known to all The person that useth this Ointment is perceived at a distance by reason that the Brimstone being heated by the body its spirits are drawn out and mixing themselves with the Air are drawn with the Air into the bodies of them that are standers by who perceive it and are apt to say that there is a stinck of Brimstone and so people are apt to say of other things whose Odours are healthful and resist putrefaction when in as propriety we are only to attribute stinches to those bodies whose Odours are unwholesome and promote putrefaction But the Camphire