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A34728	Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...	Couch, Robert.; Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6510; ESTC R9840	74,356	218

that Maxim of the Ancients Ejusdem partis atque potestatis sit functio sana cujus est vitiata ac vicissim i. e. There is a sound function of the same part and power whereof there is a vicious one and on the contrary I could speak much in defence of the Dignity of this noble part but at present shall conclude with this the great Offices that proceed from it and that rich and noble Retinue that attends it speaks it no less than the pallace where the sensitive soul keeps her Residence Of the Liver I shall but only hint at this because I shall speak more largely of it when I come to treat about Dropsies and other Diseases that are falsely fathered on it what a common complaint is there about a hot Liver and a cold Stomach when as I shall demonstrate that the Liver is never hotter than is necessary nor the Stomach never colder though it may seem so by imperfect or weak digestion And although Sanguification is not begun in it yet it is the perfecter and rectifier of it whereby the Blood is assimilated and conveyed into every part through the Veins In a word the Liver is the Administrator to all the natural parts in man Of the Gaul In the first Disease that I shall speak unto I shall be enforced to anatomize this Bowel only by the way take notice that this Gall is the great Balsom of Nature as well for preventing and destroying of Diseases as the curing our Wounds Understand that whatsoever is done by nature in any thing of this kind is performed by this great Balsom nor hath this as well as the rest been free from the Calumniations of the ignorant in making it guilty of causing several sharp Diseases c. But more of this in the next Of Fevers I Shall speak a word in general then come to particulars all Fevers are of the same essence and name and differ not so much in the matter as place Place The Place it acts in is the Stomach mostly The Cause is from the error and estranging of the Faculties or from things undigested and untransmuted or else from Excrements not being rightly subdued or separated and orderly evacuated Division there are two sorts continual and intermitting From the first there are several Species viz. some very malign others accompanied with less Malignity others with none at all Intermitting ones are of three sorts Legitimate Quotidian Tertian and Quartan Not to trouble you to treat of any contagious and pestilential Fevers none hath yet been amongst us God still keep them from us and remedy them where they are I shall therefore begin with malignant Fevers which are very rife in this Country especially amongst Children A malignant Fever differs from a Synochus or Burning or any other Fever in this that it draws its putrefaction immediately from its own matter for indeed putrefaction is joyned with it A burning Fever and other Fevers do not derive their putrefaction immediately from their matter but gradually and casually either from the peccancy of the matter or debility of the Ferment where it resides those are of a less malignity and bound in a less quantity of the matter offending Ephemera or an one days Fever is more from a disposition or inclination to a Disease for that morbifick matter in the stomach is soon cast up by Vomit or digested I rather call it a Distemper than a Disease But more particularly A Malignant Fever in Children AS I have shewed that a Malignant Fever is from the present putrefaction of its own matter Parvae Febres quandoque valde malignae Hipp. Diagnost so this violent Disease in Children is of that nature which is clearly demonstrated from the Symptoms in the first assault that within forty eight hours putrefaction hath been nigh perfected as is perceived by a coldness in the extreme parts and cold sweats c. Cause It is from some thing received which may contain some vicious quality or abounding in quantity or from an ill disposition of the digestive Ferment for it often happens that when the season is most hot then the digestion is weakest and then crude Fruits and things hard to digest take advantage of the stomach But above all I look at Milk and Sugar to be the greatest cause for Milk is the general Food of Children and there is such a propensity in its own nature to curdle that if it be not quickly digested it obeyeth the acid Ferment of the place which soon is coagulated and a Curd made like new tough Cheese which doth strongly resist digestion especially in a weak and tender stomach and if it be not speedily vomited up it soon begets a putrefactive Ferment and then soon after those terrible Symptoms are produced as Vomiting Scouring Griping c. Natura morborum est medicus medicus naturae minister Now Nature which is the Physician to Diseases unites her force and takes with her a quantity of this Gaul-balsom to rectifie this Malignity and eradicate the Morbifick Matter and whatsoever this Balsom doth incorporate with it hinders its putrefaction as Salt doth in Flesh or Fish and seasons it with its taste and colours it with its tincture as a little Wormwood doth any thing it is commixt with and a little Saffron doth Milk c. and what part of it is separated for its putrefactive Body nature endeavours to cast forth and by reason it still retains its acquired sharpness from the putrefactive Ferment falling down upon the Pylorus or lower mouth of the stomach stirreth up those violent motions and what part of it passeth through the Intestines it abstergeth and scoureth away that mucous or phlegmatick matter which nature hath lined the Guts withal for a twofold end first to hinder Obstructions that the Chyle may have a more speedy and slippery passage Secondly to defend them from any sharp or corrosive quality that may be in the Chyle which is transferred through them Which slimy matter is commonly seen to scour from them in this Disease and this being gone this excrementitious matter doth easily corrode by its sharpness which is the cause of those Tortures and Gripings And in regard that this peccant matter which is cast forth is tinctured by this Balsom it hath deceived many who have taken it to be the Gaul itself 'T is true there are Excrements in Children from eating Milk not perfectly digested which are of this Tincture but of no bitterish Taste it is brownish in the stomach yellow in the Ilion and green in the blind Gut yet they may not be sick And no marvel that there is little or none of this Balsom found in its Receptacle or Bladder in dead Children for if this be spent Death immediately follows according to that Proverb When the Gaul is broken the drowned Carcase riseth to the top of the Water when it can no longer withstand putrefaction Those Sacrilegious Jews knew that this Gaul was a great Cordial for the preserving

experientia difficilis c. though the Age of a man is too short to obtain it It is much against my temper to conceal any thing from any Ingenious and honest Artist but I have been much mistaken and I am sorry to speak it that if I had told less it would have been more for my credit and profit I can say with the Poet Ovid Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honores Nevertheless the unworthiness of some shall not detract from the worth of any Civil and Ingenious Brother I shall always be civil to all but especially to those that I find are so Ars praeclarissima Artifex sordissimus I am sorry to see so many shabby and course spirited Fellows that practise in so high and honourable a Calling There is such a vast disproportion between the Art and the Artist that well may the Art be ashamed to own them There are not only ignorant Jack-daws that are intruders upon this worthy Art which square out all things by their crooked and indirect Rules but likewise there are Pompeys and Caesars too who scorn to admit of Equals and be Caesars or no bodies c. who think it much below their Greatness to advise with any If they are at any time petitioned unto it they grant it with this reservation to themselves to deny every thing others say though it be never so undeniable and clear a truth they would rather twenty should die under their hands than part with one to be cured by another that 's a great affront to their Ambition whereunto they sacrifice many a mans life and dissemble their Pride under the cloak of Humility and so blind the poor Country-man that they think such a one to be Aesculapius himself and that his Medicines were extracted from the balm of Gilead when he may be but some Imposter and his Medicines it may be no better than a little Cow-dung or some thing worse and as the Papists are kept in blindness by praying in a Language they understand not to the hazard of their souls so are many amongst us led away by such deceivers in harkning unto the false Doctrine of the Heathens to the hazard of our bodies for they thunder out Art in Quarto and Conscience in Folio and shower down such Heavenly Apologies for their deceit and ignorance with such clashes of Lightning that frights the simple into such a belief as to mistrust were a crime unpardonable whereby they are canoniz'd on Earth and written in the Rubrick in the Calendar of the World I believe there have been many such Saints on Earth that never found any room in Heaven Brethren have a care none of you be ever found akin to any such Homicide though you may with such juggles and indirect means deceive the people you cannot deceive the all-seeing God he will make you smart for it in the end when the popular applause of the World shall but torment you the more The life of man is more worth than all the Creation And as it is pretious to the Creature so it is to the Creator and he will not suffer it to be trampled upon by the pride of any without revenge and yet those sad fellows may be much cried up and in great esteem amongst the vulgar when a far more knowing and worthy Practitioner may not be regarded Let not this be any discouragement to any young Practitioner for if there be anything of worth in him and he acts like an Artist let him expect to be undervalued by the ignorant and let him not admire why it is so for we find that it hath been the unhappiness of all Ages that Falshood hath been preferred before Truth and persons of no worth or value have had the precedency of persons of true worth and esteem Scientia non habet inimicum praeter ignorantem as for the vulgar whom Nature huddl'd up in hast that Act meerly by the prerogative of depraved Nature speak against every thing but what is naught whatsoever is of Worth and Art be sure they will dislike and exclaim against all Persons but such as comply with their ignorance whose Malice and Fury is like the Waves of the Sea driven by the fury of enraged Boreas I have read of Cato that he was forty four times brought by the vulgar sort of people to the Judgment-Seat and every time came off acquitted what a great happiness it is when a man hath many malicious Enemies to find impartial and upright Judges Every Country hath its Diana as well as Ephesus And he that will not sacrifice with the people shall be crucified by them but he that doth keep a pure and undefiled Conscience towards God and acts like an honest and ingenious Artist towards his Neighbour may extract a Cordial from the World's poyson and live above the reach of Envy The most splendent Creature is sometime clouded and the most vertuous Lady suffers an Eclipse in her innocency by some malevolent Neighbour when a Strumpet goes unsuspected It is not every Artist's fortune to arrive at Corinth but I could wish every ingenious Artist could practice what he knows and that he knew more to practise better so I desire to be understood when I say that Practise is the best part of Physick that there must be first a knowledge of the Disease and likewise of the Remedy and so to proportion the Remedy to the Disease and not to try practices on mens bodies * Care at successibus opto Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putat that the Poet cursed but first you must know before you practise and so your practice will confirm your knowledge So I conclude with this advice first let God go before you to counsel and direct you unto the direct means let him go with you to crown it with a good Success and let him follow you to take all the glory unto whom all glory is due Caepta faveat Deus ac vota nostra secundet So wisheth Robert Couch TO MY Candid and Cordial COUNTRYMEN Friends and Countreymen SInce Death and Diseases which are Diametrically opposite unto life are entailed unto us through the Transgression of our first Parents the Creator and sole Authour of life foreseeing the weakness of our Natures to withstand the strength of such mortal Enemies created Medicine from the beginning out of the Earth to correct the fury and tyranny of Diseases whereof Death is the Daughter whereby each should be at his good pleasure and so governs it at his will that he permits and suffers this man to die and that to be sick by secondary Causes which happen as well directly as irregularly And whereas the Nature of Diseases are various so he hath endued the Earth with various and sundry Medicinal Vertues and he hath likewise called and ordained some to administer and apply such suitable and fit means as the nature of Diseases do require But the great difficulties by reason of the invisibility

and continuing life wherefore they gave our Saviour Vinegar and Gaul Vinegar to excite the faculties of the stomach for the Gauls quicker passage into the vital spirits to prolong his life that they might the longer torment him under his pains before death But to stay no longer here it follows in the next place to treat about the great Heat and Cold which happens by Intervals as well in most other Fevers as in this and likewise of that inordinate Thirst Of Heat THough Heat and Fever are counted Synonyma's of one and the same name individual companions c. yet I say this Heat is not of the Quiddity or Essence of the Disease neither is it the cause of any Disease but is caused by the stirring up of that vital aiery spirit the directoress of life which spirit it is that makes the assault Archaeus Paracels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hippoc. now this spirit being provoked by the Disease allarms all the Faculties Virtues and Powers both Vital and Natural which it doth unite unto it self and so furiously assault his mortal Enemy as many Coals of Fire raked together and blown up make a great heat so doth this heat proceed from this inflamed Spirit EXAMPLE A Thorn or Splinter being got into the Finger or Hand presently a heat pain and pulsation is felt which this spirit or Archaeus stirreth up for the expelling of that extraneous Body now this heat is not a product of the Thorn but casually from this spirit and occasionally only from the Thorn therefore heat is a latter accident and subsequent upon the essence of a Fever Cold. COld is the Diseases Colours or Banner under which it fights but it is not either the Disease nor Cause but a product and effect of the Disease Calorem frigus non esse morbus ut neque borum causas Hipp. putrefaction brings in coldness the Ferment of Putrefaction is sharp and cold as we have an ocular Demonstration in Gangrenes and Mortifications whilst it is but in fieri a Gangrene what a hard task it is to revive it by the hottest and most penetrating Medicines we can get nay and fain to scarrifie deeply too lest it should hinder their operation or if it fouls a bone no less than a Medicine that is hot in the highest degree can effect it and when a Sphacelus or Mortification is confirmed without natures Second comes in speedily to her rescue A Chyrurgion Chyrurg naturae minister and dismember it it would soon run her to the heart and did not putrefaction work by a cold a Body would be hotter after it was dead than it was before but we see the contrary when putrefaction grows stronger the Body grows colder I could evidence by many demonstrations more that the Heat is not of the essence neither the cause nor occasion of a Fever and likewise that Cold is meerly the effect of the Disease but I think this sufficient Thirst This great Thirst in Fevers doth not proceed from Heat and driness as in a true and natural Thirst for this will not be allayed by drinking as that will but this Thirst is deceitful and is produced by some excrementitious matter which adheres to that sensitive faculty and deludes the Organ Nec sitis est extincta prius quam vita bib●ndo as if a great dryness had suddenly come unto it as I have observed in a very malignant Fever which the Army in Flanders was infected with being always cold and very thirsty as likewise in the cold Fit of an Ague c. and so this is evident that heat in Fevers is not the cause of that inordinate Thirst besides I have extinguished this Thirst by those things which have been virtually hot Contraria contrariis curantur which if heat had been the cause would rather have exasperated Thus you have the matter manner and Concomitants of this Disease The Schools have observed some Heads from whence they have derived many Species of Fevers which I shall not insist on because they depend upon one and the same way and means of Cure without mention of an Hectick or intermitting Fever which differ only in the place they reside which I shall speak to in their proper places It is my chief design to do good unto my Countrymen who I know would rather have something to ease them and be rid of their Diseases than to hear curious and learned Discourses or quaint Distinctions and in pleasing them I care not whom I displease As I have put the knowledge of the cause into your Heads so I shall put a remedy into your Hands Cure You may clearly see what first is to be done and wherein the Cure doth consist which is in removing the cause or matter offending the neglect whereof hath suffered such an infinite Slaughter which gives me reason to think that either the cause is not known or a fit Remedy not yet found for unless there be a proportion between the Remedy and the Disease It will do but little good Diseases which come suddenly if they are rightly understood they are soon gone Extrema non permanent though they may be extreme sharp whilst they continue I know it is the practice here to look more unto the Effect than the Cause in correcting the Symptoms than the matter whereof they are produced Si ta tollantur quae conveniunt aeger melius se habet facile sert Sublata causa tolletur effectus which is a very pernicious course and contrary unto reason and all principles in Healing And that you may the better understand your error I shall recite your practice When first any one is taken with this or the like Distemper either Child or those of full Growth first you run and fetch Mint Water and a little Syrup to stay the Vomiting Secondly then Cinnamon Water and Syrup of Quinces or Myrtle Berries to stay the scouring Then it may be you give a Carmi●tive or Clyster to expel Wind and correct the Griping That done you give some cooling Julep to allay its Heat and to quench in Thirst And when it is cold you give a little Mithridate or Theriack of Andronica o● London Treacle and lay a Plaister of it to his Stomach And then lay a Spell against the Fever to the Wrists c. And so you keep doing till you can do no more just as a man who hath lost himself in a Wood he keeps going but whither he knows not You see all those things do but respect the effect here is nothing hath any regard at all unto the Cause And should things answer the intention for which they were given the party either Child or Man would presently die To hinder the evacuating of this morbifick matter is directly against the intention of nature Quo natura verget ad locum conferentem ●eo ducere oportet Hippoc. for the evacuation of this matter is to be looked at as the Crisis of Nature

branch about the Throat not so dangerous without it be the Jugular which pours out so violently without any intermission that in few hours life will expire If it be in those Panicles Dura or Pia Mater which cover the Brain the pain of his Head And especially that side where the hurt was will increase and likewise his Fever The Cure doth solely consist in opening the Skull and that place where he feels his pain most to stop and cleanse away the congealed Blood If it be in the Throat in applying strong Defensitives round the Throat and next repellers to the Head and Shoulders opening a Vein in the Foot and strong Ligatures or Boundages to his Thighs a little above his Knees with vulnary and specifical means If it should be in the containing parts of the breast as in the Muscles c. letting blood with discussive means to the place giving him some proper thing to stir up a gentle sweat cures him But if there should be a Laceration or renting of the Pleura with an Eruption of a Vein in the sides which is a thing hardly ever heard of whereby the Blood doth fall into the concavity of the Breast the Cure is thus Make incision upon or as near the place as you can where the Eruption is then to tie the mouth of the Vessel is the practise of some but I would rather restrain the Blood by some fit means whereof my Powder for Wounds is admirable used as in the Directions and so it is for Haemorrhagia or bleeding at the Nose a Tent of Tow or Lint and armed with the Powder stays it presently or any where else if it doth but touch the mouth of the Vessel immediately stops the blood Remove it not presently but let it unite and heal the Vessel first which it will not be long in effecting But if there should be any Blood fallen down upon the Diaphragma or Midriff which should not be presently evacuated but there lies coagulating which is perceived by some weight in the place and likewise a Fever to assault him with constant increase In that case if the Orifice where you cut to stop the Vein may be so high whereby you cannot make it depending enough for the evacuating this blood there must be another Orifice made more lower for that purpose But this operation doth belong to an experienced Chyrurgion Those internal Wounds are very dangerous and a great deal of circumspection is to be had about them and are not to be cured but by a skilful Chyrurgion that is well acquainted with those operations which are the highest practise in the Art Wherefore have a care you are not deceived with any old Wifes Stories of Tom Thumb and Jack of Newberry c. to tell you of a Vein broken in the Lungs or Heart or Liver c. 't is just as they tell you about Diseases 't is a great absurdity to speak it and should an Artist speak it he would be laughed at by those that understood the nature of such things for the two Roots of Veins in the Liver either of them hurt death presently ensues If it should be asked what Veins should be broken in the Lungs and Heart whether the Vena Arteriosa or the Arteria Venosa There is not any Vein in the Lungs only some small Twigs of the A●terialis or Artery which are dispersed through them by which they are nourished and for what use are the Ribs but to defend them from such injuries and it is impossible they should be hurt by such accidents And in case what they say were granted to be true there is no other way under Heaven to save his life but immediately to perform that operation of a Paracentysis which is to make an orifice in the same side whereof there is no more danger in performing by him that hath done it and knows what belongs to it then in opening a Vein in the Arm though probably there may be some professors of Art that what they never saw neither understand they speak against and tell of danger in letting in Air and letting out spirits and a great many more nonsensical Stories Pray be advised that you take but little notice of it for although they may be old practitioners yet look on them but as young Artists Fluxes of Blood without sudden help will soon flux out life and to expect a Cure from those that know not a Remedy nor the place where to apply it seems very strange to me And besides without it be well cured in the beginning it will break out again upon certain times which at last will kill him whereof I have known many such examples Wherefore get the best advice you can from Chyrurgions Without it be from the Head as I have before told you the party can very well tell you himself where the hurt is for he will not only perceive the Blood to flow but he will find some pain there if it be from the Head he will perceive a great dulness and heaviness and pain in his Head with a tickling as it flows down into his Throat sometimes ready to choak him which stirreth up a Cough whereby this Blood is cast forth from the Amygdales or Glandules which are of each side the Wind-pipe and those spungy places about the Throat and so some have thought them to be from the Lungs when alas 't is from the Head I did presage this in a Gentleman of this Town Mr. Bishop only by his Brothers Relation which he can well tell of his pain which was in the fore part of his Head I advised him by all means immediately to be let blood and to be repeated if occasion served for I told him Which that night happened unto him and he died in the morning if he did bleed at the mouth before he was let blood he would presently die for he would be beyond all means in regard he was ancient c. the place difficult to apply the Trepan or Trefine without which I look on it as impossible quoad artes for any to recover unless the blood be discharged which falleth between the Skull and the Panicles which cannot be done by any other way For what happens in the lower Belly it is to be cured as wounds by vulnary Drinks and Clysters I have been a little longer on this than I intended but those internal wounds are of high concernment and I fear not rightly understood by all pretenders to Art Coryza Catarrbus Tussis Asthma COughs and Catarrhs Rheums in the Head Eyes Nose c. proceed from the Evening cold sharp wind beating upon the † spungy Bone of the Head Ethmoides os cribriformae Asthma or shortness of Breath cometh through a vicious matter contained in the Wind-pipe or Lungs I have not time to inlarge upon them The three first are commonly cured in one night by one of my Balsamical Pills The last by the Arcanum I have strong reason from experience to