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A24961	An Account of the causes of some particular rebellious distempers viz. the scurvey, cancers in women's breasts, &c. vapours, and melancholy, &c. weaknesses in women, &c. gout, fistula in ano, dropsy, agues, &c. : together with the vertues and uses of a select number of chymical medicines studiously prepar'd for their cure and adapted to the constitutions and temperaments of all ages and both sexes / by an eminent practitioner in physick, surgery and chymistry ...		1670 (1670)	Wing A259; ESTC R7121	53,236	92

peculiar faculty of impressing a Scorbutick Idea on it Of the same Nature are Melancholick Meats as Beef Pork Geese Ducks Salt-fish and all other Fish that are bred in Standing Waters as Eeles and others also pickled and marinaded Fish as pickled Herrings Anchovies and the like which bears a great part in this Morbifick Production also a Salin Air render'd thick and constipative by Vapours and Damps Nitrous Evaporations out of the Earth filled with putrid Steams of Sinks Gutters Ditches muddy and dirty Streets and Sulphurous Smokes of Chimneys stagnating and pent up between narrow Lanes and Corners and seldom or but little serenated or putrify'd by the Rays of a clear shining Sun nor frequently ventilated with Easterly Breezes and such is the Clime of London where the Air is experienced close dull damp salin and muddy over-spread with dense dark salin Clouds attracted out of the Sea for two Thirds if not three Fourth Parts of the Year during which time the Winds seldom blow Easterly or is favour'd with a smiling Sun the two viz. Dyet and State of the Air c. are accounted by all the principal external and internal Agents or Causes of the Scurvy agressing the Body both within and without the first by making its efforts on the Stomach and its Ferment thereby assaulting the Blood and animal Liquor and the latter by entring the external Pores by their subtle effluvium's as is most certainly and at large set forth in a late ingenious Tract entituled Scelera Aquarum Wherein the Author tells us That London is situated on a wicked Bottom of Earth called blue Clay this Bottom is many contiguous tho' separated Bodies extends it self round the Metropolis and Lines of Communication some Miles in Circumference and reacheth likewise downwards to an enormous Depth towards the Center for the boreings that have been frequently made by the Brewers in quest of the impregnated Water called Spring Liquor hath been mostly attempted to thirty and forty Fathom Depth without success As all sorts of Clay are found by Experience and Observations of Country Farmers and Brewers to abound with a Juice or Salt of an Esurine Acid Nature and Quality which vitiates all the Fruits of the Earth except it be first sweetned and sheath'd by Chalk both crude and calcin'd into Lime so this blue kind of Glebe more scelerous and corrosive than all the other maleficates equally Air and Water and renders all the stagnate Waters of the Neighbourhood esurine to a very high degree And here it is that the bounty of Nature hath made it self remarkable to the Eye in burying this bottom of Clay near twenty foot in depth under Ground and besides covering it over and over with repeated Strata of diffe●ent kinds of Moulds towards the Gravelly Surface of the Earth left the Atmosphere should be invaded and the ambient Air we aspire should be thereby exasperated and rendred Catarrhous through the corrosive effluvia sent up from below so that till about One Hundred and Fifty Years ago when an endless number of Perforations began to be made by the common Brewers into the Subterranean World the City of London enjoyed its Native State of Health and was entirely free from Coughs and Catarrhs Periodical Fevers vulgarly call'd Agues and in a word from all the Symtomatical Branches of the Scurvy hitherto enumerated And here it may be observed by the by that the acrid Effluvia sent up from the Clayey Bottom by reason of their volatile Nature do little harm in the Summer Season but during that of the Winter whilst they are weighed down and reverberated back towards the Bafis of the Atmosphere by the Fogs and Frosts then I may say it is and not till then that they begin to Bite even Persons adult bur more especially the unseason'd Bodies of Children and Foreigners In short the Scelus Aquoe Loci or corrupted or corrosive Waters here insisted on slept for a long Succession of Ages out of Harms way in the Bowels of the Subterranean World and besides the corrosive Waters were not employed either in Bread or potable Liquors extracted forth of Malt And as I may add they were only made use of for clearing of the Sight and for eating away the Kells and Cataracts off of dim Eyes But about the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Crown as I am well inform'd Clay Waters began to grow into credit with such as Brewed or Baked for Sale as a more powerful-Menstruum for extracting the Tincture out of Malt And at that period of Time it was that the Waters of D AT C. were Carted from Hogsdon to the several Brew-houses in the Metropolis or City of London at 800 l. per Ann. Expence and at the same time a world of Wells were made and Pumps erected at every corner of the City and Suburbs In a word the Scelus Aquoe Loci now spoken of that is to say the acrid Nature and esurine Quality of the Stagnate Waters in and about this City is sufficiently evinced a Posteriori from the ill natur'd Effects thereof in all Domestick Uses First in chopping and ditching of Hands and Face Secondly from coagulating of Alcalous Fluids both Soap and Barm Thirdly from hardening of Pease and redning of Bacon and all Flesh Meats if boiled therein which the Lord Bacon enumerates amongst ill Signs and Diagnostick of Insalubrity or Unwholsomness Fourthly from the killing of Flowers and destroying all manner of Garden-stuff unless the acid Salt be rst fievaporated by open Airings and Insolations on the Surface of the Earth as was practised by the Ancients and put in practice by Gardeners to this Day I had almost forgot to add here that the prodigious bottom of Clay now spoken of extends it self from the Metropolis or City of London all along the Banks of the River Thames into the Marshes or Flats of Essex which vitiates both Air and Water in the Hundreds to a very high degree whereby the Foundation hath been laid of such Chronical Fevers and Scorbutick Agues as incessently reign in the Districts of Dench and Rochefort In a word the River of Thames is also vitiated by Dyers c. so that no Water is fit for Bread and Brewer's use save the New River which is far more Salubrious or Healthful than any other Water in or about the City of London However the Scurvy whether from immediate or remote Causes is certainly a Corruption and Putrefaction of the Blood and Humours whence the Concoction being hurt the Stomach which is the Index of Diseases is depraved Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen c. are occasion'd bringing by degrees a general Cachexie or evil Habit of Body whereby manifold and complicated Distempers are at length introduced which affects all Persons according to their various and different Tempers and Constitutions Such I say is the Scurvy that grand Enemy to Health and only reigning Disease of this Kingdom which Persons of all Ranks Ages and Sexes are more or less

sweeten the whole Mass of Blood rectify all the Distempers of the Head quicken the Senses add a good Colour to the Face strengthen the Sight and so wonderfully recreate the Natural Vital and Animal Spirits as that the Body thereby is made perfectly able to withstand and resist all its Diseases They cleanse the Body of Wind Water and ill Humours without the least Griping or making Sick unless as was said before the Stomach be very foul or any way weakning the Body which done they cease working for they will work no longer than there is Diseasy Matter to work upon but contrarywise will help all inward wastings or decays of Nature caused through Pains Wrenches Bruises or over-strainings they stopping all Weepings Moistures Whites Fluxes c. by carrying off the Humours another way thereby strengthning the Vessels fortifying Nature and restoring the decay'd Parts even to a wonder In fine these Pills are the chief and real Medicine now used for the Scurvy and the aforesaid Diseases which are produc'd there-from and found to be such from long Experience not only here in England but in many Foreign Countries and Kingdoms they being cryed up and prized above all Remedies whatsoever insomuch that in some Thousands of Families on most occasions they are their only Physick and indeed no Person living from the highest to the lowest can have a better Purging Medicine in the World let the Patients condition be from what cause or occasion soever they being known to be safe in Operation and certain in the end proposed for no Person curable troubled with the aforesaid Diseases ever failed of a Cure especially if they continued them without delay of time or taking of other Physick according to the Directions and all Persons that have been known to take these Pills have found good at the first taking and several Hundreds yea Thousands of People who have taken them have given them as great Commendations as it was ever possible any Medicine could deserve Their safety and the success that has followed upon the use of them has brought them into the great estimation they have have acquired in many parts of the World for as much as they that take these Pills need not go under long dangerous and chargeable Courses of Physick nor suffer by bad Medicines or be driven time after time from one Physician to another as many hundreds daily are not knowing where to apply themselves safe when only a Box or two of these Pills will do more notable Cures than twenty times that Money expended upon Doctors These Pills are the only Antidote in Nature against all infectious Diseases contagious Airs and preserves from the mischief of Fogs and unwholesome and suffocated Vapours in Marshy or Fenny Countries which arise from the Earth or Water they making old Age comely and the Countenance of all that take them to be chearful and Sanguine they mundify and cleanse the Skin of all its Impurities restores and increase Beauty and abound with more Vertues than any one Medicine besides for altho' many Diseases have been mentioned the labour might have been saved for as they are Pills of an universal Tendency and I verily believe the only Purging Medicine in the World it might only have been said they are good for every Disease and not only for the Distempers herein inserted but also for many others known or unknown without name or number even when they are so unaccountably afflicted as not knowing what they ail These Pills being endowed with such excellent Properties and are so full and effectual a healer that they deservedly merit the Title of the only universal Pills in the World And although they are of such admirable Vertues yet I must inform you that when the Disease is of long continuance and stubborn a perfect Cure cannot be expected in a few times taking them in those Cases you may take them in the largest Dose and that at least for ten or fifteen times or more as need requires omitting them a day or two as you shall see cause but if any shall presume upon the commendation of these Pills that any Disease in whatsoever condition the Patient is in must be infallibly cured he is mistaken for I speak here only of such Diseases as by God's Blessing and the very best of Means as these Pills undoubtedly are they may receive cure for for in some Cases no Medicine in the World can prevail for sometimes the Lungs themselves or the Liver or the Reins are ulcerated and putrefy'd and sometimes other internal Parts are consumed and what Medicine in Nature can repair such Ruins or make new Viscera when the old are perished These Pills operate extreamly pleasant safe and gentle and is Physick fit to be taken by Persons of the greatest Rank and Dignity and that by all Ages and Sexes from Two Years old to Fourscore and upwards at any Season of the Year and it is observable that these Pills after four or five times taking keep the Bowels open for a Month together and leave not the Body costive and bound as is the Property of all other Physick by which good Property Diseases seem to melt away insensible These Pills are of an admirable and friendly quality performing all its Operations as-Nature-her self requires and is disposed to the Action tho' chiefly by Stool and Urine so that they are bound to that way of Operation as best serves Nature's end in restoring Health Hence it is that they cure Diseases with so great safety speed and ease and that without almost any other Medicine they being as was said before fitted for all Ages Sexes and Constitutions whatsoever and that if there but little Corruption in the Body they bring forth but little if much they bring forth much and in Persons perfectly well they will scarcely work at all because in such they have no Enemy to meet or contend withal These Pills are not only the surest and most certain Medicine as well as cheapest for the Scurvy and all the asoresaid Diseases which are the consequents or productions thereof of any ever yet published or administred but doth a thousand times more excel the best prepared and most celebrated sorts of Spirit of Scurvy-grass so highly applauded for the Scurvy they affecting what is herein proposed so stupendiously and beyond the power of any other Remedy whether ordinary or extraordinary as that they never can be vallued or esteemed enough for what Reachings Strainings Vomitings Gripings illness at the Stomach sickness at Heart Faintings and other very unpleasing Effects many Medicines occasion which are here avoided this single Medicine gently cleansing the Stomach and Bowels of their drossy mucilaginous Dregs saluting the Vital Powers like an Angel of Peace and piercing the whole Body like Lightning doth as it were by its Character and benign Beams subdue the Malignant Powers of Diseases and throughly overcome the morbisick Matter thereof and that without the least perturbution of Humours alteration of Body change

An Account of the CAUSES Of some Particular Rebellious DISTEMPERS VIZ. The Scurvy Cancers in Women's Breasts c. Vapours and Melancholy c. Weaknesses in Women c. Gout Fistula in Ano Dropsy Agues c. TOGETHER With the Vertues and Uses of a Select Number of Chymical Medicines Studiously prepar'd for their Cure and adapted to the Constitutions and Temperaments of all Ages and both Sexes By an Eminent Practitioner in Physick Surgery and Chymistry THEY BEING His Choice Secrets Experienc'd for many Years in his Practice to be of wonderful Efficacy as the Cures performed by them Manifest and now by the Importunities of many judicious Persons set forth and recommended for the universal Good and Benefit of all People And are to be had only at _____ THE PREFACE THERE needs no Apology for publishing the following Account of Diseases and the Medicines for their Cure the Title Page telling the World 'T is done for the universal Good and Benefit of all People which indeed was the Motive but that the excellent Remedies recommended for their Cure may not be branded with the infamous Appellation of Quack Medicines so detestable to all wise People and indeed not without Reason if it be rightly consider'd what Riff raff Stuff is set Abroad and vended under the Specious Name of Medicine I shall take leave to say only thus much in their behalf that they have all of them been really experienc'd for many Years to be of most excellent Uses for the Distempers to which they are appropriated and 't is presum'd will be found upon Tryal more Efficacious than some may be willing to believe upon only the bare hearing of them or by reading the following Account given of their Vertues which have been lagely known or else had not been recommended Therefore 't is hoped as the intent by publishing them was to serve and not deceive the People as is too notoriosluy known many of the Quack Medicines vended Abroad have done to the bringing disrepute on the most excellent ones none will condemn them till they have tryed them which is the true Test and by which the Author is content to Stand or Fall have Credit or Disgrace The Histories of Cures perform'd by them might have been enumerated had not design'd Brevity forbid The few inserted 't is hop'd will be sufficient to convince all People till they have tryed them that they are Medicines effectual and for further Confirmation should have mentioned the Names of the Persons on whom the Cures were wrought but that the Author is obliged to conceal himself for the sake of his constant Business besides the World is now so Censorious that if the best Physician recommends but a Medicine for Publick Good which he has experienc'd to be Excellent he shall presently have the scandalous Epithet of Quack put upon him tho' it s no more than what the greatest Physicians in all Ages have done without thinking it digressive because they did it as the Author here does his for the common good of his Country-men but now I say it cannot be done publickly with any tollerable Reputation For which Reason does the Author conceal himself and oblig'd the Seller of them never to let his Name be known to any without which solemn Promise they had never been made publick and consequently the People never been benefitted by them But because of this none need to doubt their Efficacy neither will any want proper Directions how to take and use them every thing in that kind being sufficiently provided for in the Book so that none will be at a loss or have any need at any time upon any pretence to speak with the Author concerning 'em besides for their Efficacy the People that sell them can give some Account being well assur'd both of their Vertues and the Authors Skill or else had not undertaken the task of selling them And as they are Medicines effectual so are they lasting for they will retain their Vertues many Years and may be carried beyond the Seas For that no Climate Season of the Year or Age will in the least altet or diminish them provided they be kept from the Air and the Wet A Catalogue of the Names and Prices of the Medicines mentioned in this Book which are to be had only at the Place directed in the Title Page viz. At the _____ Page 1. THE English Pills for the Scurvy c. each Box Price 3 s. 6 d. Page 19. The Liniment for Women's Swell'd or Cancerated Breasts each Gallipot price 5 s. Page 33. The Suffumigating Powder for Vapours Hypocondriack Melancholly and Diseases of the Nerves each Parcel 3 s. 6 d. Page 42. The Ingredients to make the Poultice for the Gout price 5 s. Page 50. The Balsamick Electuary for Weaknesses in Women c. each Gallypot price 3 s. 6 d. Page 55. The Injection for the Cure of Fistula's each Bottle price 5 s. Page 61. The Cephalick or Head Tincture each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 67. The Balsamick Restorative Elixir for all Diseases of the Lungs each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 70. The English Vegetable and Plaisters for the Cure of all sorts of Agues both together price 6 s. Page 76. The Hydragogue Tincture for the Dropsy each Bottle price 3 s. 6 d. Page 79. The fam'd Eye Powder and Water both together price 6 s. Page 81. The Carminative or Wind expelling Lozenges each Box price 2 s. 6 d Page 83. The Balsam to make Issues run c each Box price 2 s. 6 d. English PILLS FOR THE SCURVY And all other Cutaneous Diseases or Breakin gs out of the Body Sores c. from that or any other Causes AMONGST all the Diseases incident to Humane Bodies there is none more predominant tho' least regarded than the Scurvy a Disease that seems incident to this Climate and which spares none of any Age Sex or Constitution being a general Malady scarcely taken Notice of because it seldom kills tho at the same time it introduces many direful Distempers and proves the principal and efficient Occasion thereof The cause of the Scurvy is from an acid corrosive Humour tainting the Blood and Juices of the Body incumbred with Earthy Sulphurs of a Nature rebellious and stubborn and attended sometimes especially when inveterate with a very strong Smell or Stench which Volatile Saline Acid irritates the Nerves and Membranes sharpens the Lymph debauches the innate Spirits of the Parts and perverts the equal Temperature of the Blood this is the immediate cause of the Scurvy But the remote Causes are the sea-Sea-Air and the Specifick Malignity of the Stagnated Waters and the Earth affecting by their corrosive Effluvium's also by infection an hereditary conveyance from the Parent and from gross faeculent and obstructive Dyet especially if over-charged with Salt or render'd hard and compact with Smoke as dry'd Neats Tongues Bacon Sawcages red Herrings dry'd Salmon hung Beef c. do not only contribute Matter but obtain also a