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A43010	The art of curing diseases by expectation with remarks on a supposed great case of apoplectick fits : also most useful observations on coughs, consumptions, stone, dropsies, fevers, and small pox : with a confutation of dispensatories, and other various discourses in physick / by Gideon Harvey ...	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1689 (1689)	Wing H1056; ESTC R15429	64,822	230

industrious Readings at the hours of his leisure among the Ancient Authors Remedies for his Sickness And the more he thought on his Disease the more difficulty he found to cure it Also that he had successfully served the King several times and that without him he had not been alive for as much as the other Physicians had oft order'd him Purges and other strong and violent Medicines and that he alone had privately corrected their Prescriptions He did further persuade him to command that no body should come into his Chamber hence forward without the leave of the foresaid Cottier and by this means did secure the Government of the Kings Person to himself 3. And to insinuate better thence forward into the Kings Favour he did confederate himself with Olivier Ie Dain his Barber but a man very ignorant though the King was much advised by him This Barber confirmed the King in what the Physician had told him and by the same means he put the Apothecary in ordinary in disfavour having reported to the King that he never had good Drugs whereby he was cashier'd with a great deal of disgrace Saith Luis Guion from whom and Iean de Serres this Relation is extracted one may easily see how Princes very often are subject to be deceived by false Reports 4. The King grew so shagrin that when they had brought little Lyons from Africa which he had expresly sent for he would never see them One day among the rest the King was peevish and took a fansie to discharge one that waited upon him in his Chamber because he had given him warm Ptisan to drink and said angerly that he did not only discharge him but all the Officers of his House And ●aques Cottier who was there present told him I know very well 〈◊〉 that you understand I shall be comprehended among them but I do assure you swearing a great Oath that after I am gone you will not live eight days and this will be found true The King was so frightned with the words of this man that from thence forward he put all both his Person and his Kingdom and all that he had into the Power of the said Physician and would no more see neither his Children nor Wife to which his Physician had contributed very much 5. A great Gentleman of Campaigne who was called Cortenay had committed two Murders coming to Court to procure a Pardon obtained it by the Intercessions this Physician made to the King. The Chancellor then having refused to feal this Pardon being granted against all Equity which being come to the Kings knowledge caused the Seals to be brought to him and made the Physician Cottier Lord Keeper of the Seals and the Chancellor was sent home with a great deal of disgrace 6. It hapned that for ten or twelve days this new Chancellor received but little money by the Seals whereof he made his Complaint to the King who was sick that he got nothing in regard he never stir'd from him and that he used to get a great deal of money by Consultations and Visits he made to the sick before he was confined to be always near him and that he pray'd him to take notice of that and of his Merits This King who believed that his Life did entirely depend upon this Physician fearing that he would abandon him made his Privy Purse Thresorier de l'espargne give him in ready money fifty four thousand Crowns which in those days was as much as six or seven hundred thousand Crowns now and should have had much more if more had been found in his Coffers for looking after him only five Months Mezeray as I remember agrees in the same Sum of Money Moreover he caused to be given unto his Nephew the Bishoprick of Amiens and all his Friends and Relations were provided with brave and great Estates such as he liked best The King being sick let him do what he would and durst not contradict him in any wise 7. The King grew so thin and dried up that he seemed to be rather a Skeleton than a man and all through the ignorance of this Physician for his dry Melancholy Body ought to have been moistned and moderately warmed by Nourishment as well as Medicines and whereas he usually ask'd for Wine and boild Capon this wretched Physician would never allow him any though nevertheless very proper for his Health Mezeray tells you that by his Physicians advice he used to be bathed in Childrens Blood to sweeten his Humors Cottier at last prescribed him strong Presumes to smoak his Cloaths and Hair which being used very often threw the King into Convulsions and Swoonings But somethime before his fears of Death increasing moved him to take hold of another Remedy as deceitful and vain as his using as De Serres stiles him an odious impudent audacious Physician much like most other pretended Doctors One Sieur Lavardin perceiving the King was gulled out of his Life was resolved at any rate to see him and told the Physician the King ought to be confessed and to receive the Holy Sacrament and that he knew him to be near his end But the Physician told him that he knew that as well as another and that there was danger to speak to him of it in regard he had been afraid of Death this half year and that if he were spoken to about those matters he would certainly dye of fear Nevertheless Lavardin spoke aloud to the King that if he would be cured he ought to make his Confession every week and receive the Holy Sacrament of the Altar and that his Father being an hundred years old and sickly had received his Health by that means The King being perswaded said that he did agree to it provided it was through a certain religious Frier named brother Philip ancient and of a good Life and who was noised to be Learned and was Monk of the Abby of Saint Martin He being arrived in confessing of him did remonstrate to him he ought to ask pardon for all the Murders and Ravages which he had caused to be committed during his Life and advised him as far as was possible to make recompence where it could be done Among other things that those of the Franche conté complained tho' they were almost all reduced to his Obedience nevertheless his Souldiers committed the most detestable Insolencies that could be imagined remonstrating unto him that if God had spoken to his good Servant David that he should never inhabit that glorious Temple which he would build to his Dedication because he had shed so much human blood by his Wars and caused innumerable Acts of Hostility to be done that God would therefore in this manner withdraw himself from the Holy Sacrament which he would administer unto him and condemn him to Damnation wherefore he ought to cause his men to cease using any more such ways and to restore the Taxes of the Kingdom to the same state he found them for the People were

extreamly impoverish'd and the most part of them dead through want He answer'd he was so far from repenting of those Ravagements and Saccages done in Burgundy that he was extreamly sorry all the Land of the Duke of Burgundy was not in the same Estate and as for the Taxes and Subsidies which he had impoposed on the People as soon as he was cured of his Distemper not else that he would take them off nothing else could be got from him Wherefore seeing his Obstinacy for fear he should dye without Confession and without having taken the Holy Sacrament they prayed the good religious Frier to give him Absolution and the Communion which he did But I do not read that he greased his Temples to make him slip easily through Purgatory Afterwards they gave him some small matter to eat but he could not by reason of a great stink he said which rose from his Body to his Brain therefore he commanded they should smoak him with Perfumes which they did a great while and he gave up the Ghost in receiving of them and behold saith Guion how he dyed smoakt all over like an old Fox 8. His Physician Iaques Cottier after the death of the King retired to his House enrich'd with a yearly Revenue of five and twenty thousand Livers the value of which was more at that time than now thirteen or fourteen thousand pounds Sterling It was certified by the return of the accounts of the Treasurers de l' Espargne that he had received from them fourscore and eighteen thousand Crowns 9. Charles the Eighth the supposed Son of the forementioned King for saith Mezeray most People did suspect that he was suppositious caused him to be prosecuted to make Restitution of his Estate as arising from Gifts excessive and passing all Reason But the King being busied in making ready for his Journey to Naples and in raising of Money Cottier gave him fifty thousand Crowns as Money lent and so they let fall the Prosecution against him His Consort the Barber Olivier above spoken of was hanged for Murther 10. The consequence of the preceding Relation will incline any sound Judgment to these Concessions 1. That Princes and other great Persons are not seldom served with the worst of Physicians and that excessive Liberalities do not add so much vigour to their Care or Diligence as growth to their Avarice and its insatiability doth commonly draw a Disease into its greatest length and so a string too far extended frequently breaking unawares Death may be ushered in and prove the purchase of transcendent Fees. 2. That the monstrous fame of the greatest Physicians is a chain of favourable though erroneous Reports link'd from the Beggar to the Gentleman and thence to the Prince 3. That Priests or Jesuits and Physicians uniting have a most puissant ascendent on the faculties of the Soul and Body of the sick whether they be the most illustrious most noble honourable or ignoble and thence deriving a despotick command over their Estates Secrets and Lives are formed into most exquisite Tools to acquire propagate and establish unto his Popish Holiness an universal Empire over Christendom who to add a greater energy to these Organs has marshall'd both the one and the other throughout all Italy into separate Colledges of Jesuits and Physicians knowing that vis unita est fortior Behold then an instance of those two influences how admirably they conspire into one effect The Emperor Charles the Fifth for over-matching Francis the First was by the pious Arguments of a Frenchefied Jesuit authorized thereunto by his balancing Holiness perswaded to quit his Throne for to enter into a Monastery whence the Rays of his declining Glory still continuing a warmth in the Affections of his Spanish Subjects had kindled a most fervent desire of having their Prince restored but in prevention of this to accelerate his course below their Horizon the Jesuit Confessor redoubles his macerating penance of Vigilies Ave Mary Lectures and other Castigations The Convent Physician substracts from his Diet and depauperates his dryed Limbs by Purgations so that by the Harmony of these two State Instruments the most potent Monarch and wisest Prince of that Century was very cursorily reduced to a materia prima This was un trait achevi de la politique Adrian the Emperor as relateth Peter Messias was by his Physicians whereof he had many advised not to eat or drink and being famish'd to death dyed with the Expression of a common saying in his Mouth Turba Medicorum interfecit ●egem that is a crowd of Physicians have kill●d the King. CHAP. XV. Of the secure and justifiable tantamount ways of poysoning and destroying MOre are the ways that lead to the Gibbet than to the Church the antiquated venefick Methods are render'd obsolete by the refined Invention of Circulation through which bare-fac'd and by the light of the Sun the same end is attained as justifiable by innocency of the Medicines as sinisterly imposed on the inadvertized populace Suppose an elder Brother decumbent of a continual Fever a dose or two of Extractum Rudū a Medicine in repute among Doctors and Patients advised under the Hand and Seal of a gray-bearded Physician smartly encouraged by Aurum portabile in very few days answers the Expectation of the younger Brother maliciously aspiring to the Succession of the first born What pretence hath the Law the Kindred or clamor of the World against the Physician or his Medicine which in this case and several others doth as seldom miss as the most celebrated Poyson Bleedings administred long after the first kindling of a Fever of the same kind do as commonly give the fatal blow to the succumbing Spirits without danger of a repartee from the Standers by A Woman reduced to long weakness through continuance of opiniatre hysterick Fits by the swallowing down of a strong purgative though in a very small dose especially if with Repetitions is infallibly hastened to her Tomb in which particular it is in the power of the Medico to oblige the Husband or Father in lesning his charge without hazard of Reputation or a necessity of giving an account to his Collegues or the World of such Practice for what in the Physician through ignorance or error in Judgment and in the Patients and Nurses or Attendants by reason of neglect may extenuate the Crime or hide the misfortune is in the power of the Doctor to act intentionally and wilfully when sufficiently gratified and yet remain secure under the Pretences forementioned To instance all the modes of giving Patients their dispatches would be compiling a great Volume and therefore conclude it sufficient to have given you just before that general caution to which Particulars may easily be reduced CHAP. XVI The preceding Discourses being intermixt with various Digressions to prevent your too tedious amusement on the same Subject I proceed to examine the invalidity of the great number of simple Waters which consequently will serve for Tools of doing nothing

two of Arsenic or Rats-bane Wolf-bane and the like To blow your nose into a man's Porridg can do no hurt because the quantity is little is a parallel way of reasoning and of all men only peculiar to Physicians But let me tell you the proportion is great if you joyn them together thus of Agaric an ounce and half Rhubarb six drams burn'd Copperas half an ounce Sagapenum Opopanax Galbanum c. all which being purgatives make a strong party Imagine that a patient in a malignant Fever had by advice taken a dose of Venice Treacle to expel the malignity which failing in the intended effect he happens to dye The Physician should he by accident come to the knowledge that the Treacle wanted an Ingredient or two as juyce of Liquorish Orrice or any other of less moment the Hog would most certainly impute the death of the Patient to the defective Composition In conclusion Treacle is no other than a most confuse absurd and senseless Opiat which in all its pretences would be out-done beyond comparison by a mixture of of three or four as Virg. Serpentary roots Scordium Bole armene and Opium reduced with Honey into an Electuary or Angelica r. Terra sigil Gentian and Opium mix'd with Honey The Extract of Harts-horn Dictamnum Cret and Opium is also an equivalent Great is the superstition of the Indians in the worship of their Pagode Devils deformed with monstrous horns but a million greater is the superstition of Physick Idolaters that believe it the greatest Sacrilege to diminish the least tittle from a Composition as Sorrel-seeds Pepper and Ginger from Diascordium or Pellitory of Spain from the Philonia the precious fragments and Stags-bone out of Confectio de Hyacintho the neglect of rejecting of all these particulars doth demonstrate Physicians to have longer Ears then Asses To roast Saffron in an Egg-shell to improve its virtues is another Argument of their Sagess in the description of Elect. de Ovo The Additaments of Pellitory of Spain and Pepper to correct the extream coldness of Opium in the Philonia is another foolish notion they cannot be driven from 7. To what purpose is the description of so many idle Opiats as Philonium Persicum Romanum Requies Nicholai Nepenthes Pil. de Cynoglosso c. when Opium dissolved and digested with Spirit of Wine with or without Saffron and used in drops or evaporated to a Pill is beyond all the imaginary correctives which it doth not stand in need of since the onely danger it can threaten is oversleeping into a Coma Lethargy Carus or death and that is no other way to be prevented than in omitting giving of it to those that are not judged proper to take it or to exhibite it to others in less quantity than it can be presumed to exceed in operation for tho' you surround Opium with all the spices of the Indies to guard nature from its violence if you give too much it will not fail to kill or extreamly to frighten the standers by with a posture of the patient very like unto death and if you judge that advising very little of it in Phthisicks or great Weaknesses be a sufficient warrant you will find your selves deceived as those have been which I mentioned in the Conclave of Physicians I pass by taking notice of the purgative Electuaries whose Absurdities in Composition we shall sufficiently detect in the Pill Boxes CHAP. XXII Reflections upon the erroneous and absur'd Compositions of Dispersatory Pills 1. IF for those unaccountably erroneous Compositions of Treacle Methridate Pil. Aloephanginae Foetidae and the rest the Inventors ought to be censured great Ideots seventeen hundred years ago the Approvers and Confirmers of 'em a thousand years after may be inferred greater Fools but those that subscribe to the continuance of 'em at this day must be concluded the greatest Fools as if the excellency of Remedies consisted in Compofition and the more of Composition there is the greater Virtues it contributes to the Medicine 2. That this is the rule whereby to measure the Capacity of the Artist appears in the endeavours of Physicians to prescribe long Bills filled with Composition and by how much the more it is compounded by so much the more the Apothecary judges the Prescriber the best Physician On the contrary the fewer Ingredients the better Medicine which occasions less trouble and charge in the Preparation and more certainty in the Effect for where a Remedy consisteth of an hundred Ingredients to which of 'em can you attribute the effect if successful or the fault and dammage if the Disease be thereby render'd worse But such hath been the fallacia non causae pro cause in Physicians that having prescribed to Patients against Diseases of the Eyes Pil. Cochiae maj and finding Success and a laudable Event infer thence very deceitfully that their particular Composition doth arrogate specifically an Eye or Sight restoring power beyond all others whereas it s to the vertue of the Purgatives chosen according to the strength and other circumstances of the Patient and without any correctives or Conductors those good effects are to be imputed 3. The same reason confutes the specific relation of Pil. de Agarico to the Lungs Aggregativae de Tribus and Imperiales to all the Bowels Aureae and Lucis to the Eyes de Eupatorio to the Liver Diambrae Macri and de Succino to the Brain Tartareae Q. to the Spleen de aloe lota Aloephanginae Stomachicae and Ruffi to the Stomach Stomachicae cum gummi to the Stomach and Spleen de hiera cum Agarico and Mastichinae to the Stomach Lungs and Brain foetidae de Opopanace and de Hermodactylis to the Joynts and other gouty Diseases Mechoacannae and de Gutta Gamandra to Dropsies de Styrace to sharp thin Distillations on the Lungs 4. Pause a while and with me consider the depth of folly of Mankind the more astonishing for as much as it is signally remarkable in those who by the study of their whole Life-time and the pretended Learning derived from the Experience of thousands of years are advan'd no further than by giving Credit to lying Antiquity to receive such idle absur'd superfluous and pernicious Compositions into the Pharmacopoea and what is worse to impose the use of 'em upon the Physicians of a whole Nation is a perfect Physick Popery and Inquisition damning all those that are gifted with too much Knowledge and Honesty to submit to their Fopperies as Popery anathematizes such whose light of reasoning of conviction of Conscience will not be subjected to their impious Indulgences ridiculous Purgatory and blind idolatrous Worship And as Luther was the first that succeded in the detecting the antiquated follies of whole centuries of Ages the chief scope whereof was no other than by an usurpt Dominion over the Consciences of Men and detaining of them in that blind slavery to triumph over the Liberties of their Persons and enrich themselves by the high prizes of their Indulgencies Pardons

repelled upon the Brain and Nerves whence succeed mortal Convulsions or upon the Vitals viz. the Heart and Lungs occasioning an immediate Suffocation or terminative Syncope On the other hand where there is an high Fever or putrefactive Ebullition until that be reduced to a gentle Fermentation for in the most laxe sense an Ebullition and Fermentation differ only secundum magis minus and in the end the small Pox or Meazels will never break forth though using the strongest expulsives which most certainly failing in their intended effect never fail in the raising the Fever to the highest acuteness and malignity and therefore I have ever observed that most of those that are grown up who dye under the Hands of Physicians owe their death to the Fever and killing Medicines and not to the deficiency of expulsion which cannot be expected as long as the putrid Fever is not reduced to a Fermentation as they call it When the Eruption appears if too slow it is to be quickned if too violent it will be moderated by such proper Medicines as resist that Malignity Moreover this remark hath been constant that the great proflux of virulent matter to the skin in a flux't Pox proceeds from not resisting the putrid Fever in a foul Body and in others also by peculiar Medicines unknown to most of them before it came to too great an height If any part of their external matter of steems return into the internal parts in a fluxt Pox where the external Pores are very oft stopt it doth not seldom prove mortal the principal parts being too much weakned to repel it back to the circumference The truth of these Observations may seem probable from my own good Fortune who never to my remembrance was concern'd with Man Woman or Child that dyed under my Hands of the small Pox or Meazels in thirty years except one a Boy aged seven or eight years to whom I was sent one day before he dyed to consult with one Mr. Barmick a Physick Doctor and the Families then ordinary Physician The Childs Skin being speckled with black Spots like Pestilential Exanthemata or Tokens the Pox appearing of an Olive colour and attended with a bloody Urine it was told the Parents it was too late we agreed upon two or three Expectation Remedies and so ended our grave Consult 11. Coughs as I mentioned before are through Expectation cured by Syrups and other sugar'd composts which sometimes prove the worst of Expectation Remedies in regard they clog and oppress the Stomach though by a present smoothing of the Gullet and giving ease they readily perswade the coughing Patient he receives benefit and therefore is very willing to stay from one time to another until by the help of abstinence Nature hath thrown up the abounding slyme 12. For the better understanding of this matter know there are more Coughs of the Stomach than of the Lungs and that most Coughs in the beginning are Stomach-Coughs though afterwards by long continuance some turn into Lung-Coughs and then they threaten danger The Diaphragm with the help of the Musculs of the Breast and Belly or abdomen do as readily discharge or displode and throw-up humors out of the Gullet and by succession out of the Stomach as out of the Wind-pipe or Lungs These humors are lodged in the glanduls of the Gullet discoursed of at large in my Treatise of the Scurvy which being swelled up and irritated by Acrimony contracted from the admixture of the vitiated dissolvent or ferment of the Stomach and long Stagnation by consent of parts and vellication of the Nerves of the sixth pair incite and spur the diaphragm to an Explosion The Argumentum à Iuvantibus laedentibus plainly proves the assertion 1. Smoothing Medicines have a present influence upon those Coughs which must necessarily be from their immediate acting upon the Gullet for their property and vertue without all contradiction must be changed into a different Operation before they can be supposed to arrive to the Lungs 2. It s vulgarly known that Vomitives or Purgatives have cured thousands of these sort of Coughs by emptying the Stomach and drawing from the Glanduls of the Gullet 3. Sharp foure drinks Salts and Spices do oft immediately force violent Coughs 4. The sense of the Patient doth testifie a weight and oppression at the Stomach loathing of Victuals and impair of digestion 5. Fasting by diminishing those humors in the Stomach is another affirmative proof 6. Long and deep coughing oft moving to nauseousness and Vomits plainly demonstrates the Stomach chiefly affected in this sort of Cough 7. The slime that 's thrown up being oft yellow green and of other variegated colours receives that tincture in many cases from the different qualities and nature of the dissolvent or ferment of the Stomach varying according to the nature of the food ingested a day or two before 8. The same slime hath sometimes been observed to be mixt with an indigested chyle 9. Syrup of Violets hath oft been return●d by Cough and Expectoration with Phleme tinctured blue a Proof it came from the Stomach or Gullet Besides these I must omit many other Arguments too prolix to be here inserted 13. Those Coughs that have followed some ten twenty or thirty years and others I have known to continue forty years are undoubtedly Stomach Coughs and assuming rather the office of an Issue or drain are scarce to be termed Diseases but necessary Evacuations and are to be treated very cautiously for being violently turned downward by repeated strong Purgatives nature having lost its accustomed roads must in some interval of time extreamly suffer by it Very frequently a long Cough doth turn either to a Consumption with an Hectic Fever or to a putrid continual Fever In Consumptions attended with an Hectic Fever the slime that 's expectorated is intermixt for the most part with purulent Particles My design not being a Treatise of Coughs further than to give you an instance of its expectative mode of curing which in this and the preceding Diseases is a sufficient pattern for many others I proceed to the next CHAP. XXIV Of the Vse and Abuse of a College of Physicians THE Term of College of Physicians making such an obstreperous noise it may be of use to inform the Reader with the right sense of the matter A College of Physicians is a voluntary friendly Club Society or Association of Doctors of Physick mutually consented and agreed unto under certain just and equal Conditions Rules Laws Covenants and Promises corroborated made binding and valid by the Allowance Concession or Approbation of the Magistrate to the end a mutual friendly Correspondence Behaviour and Respect he had to each other a just Regulation be made in the Practice of Physick the Art improved by their joynt Endeavours and amicable Conserences and most chiesly that all may be intended and designed for the publick good in general and of every one under their Care in particular also for the Honour