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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50457	Useful discoveries and practical observations, in some late remarkable cures of the scurvy. By E. Maynwaringe, Dr. in Physick.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1668 (1668)	Wing M1518; ESTC R217779	22,967	63

Coloquintida Rhuhab Hellebore c. having a laxative venom that stimulates Nature to expulsion Since Purgation is thus necessary and purgatives so choisely to be elected and chosen not every medicine that causeth stools but such as is also endowed with balsamic and amicable properties no way injurious to nature I have therefore been a diligent Searcher and Improver of such a Medicine that may answer the intentions proposed and by degrees of improvement in some years time by various alterations and tryals have perfected a purgative vegetable Extract that sully satisfies and pleaseth me in its manner of operation and effects and this Medicine is my Scorbute Pills so called because primely intended and contrived for the most efficacious purgative medicine in all Scorbutic Cases Now the Scurvy as appears in the former part of that Book is complicated and joins with all manner of diseases Scorbutic Dropsies Scorbutic Feavers Asthmaes Palsies Gouts Scorbutic Consumptions c. that a particular medicine for this or that humor being too narrow and not adaequate to the latitude of the disease will take no effect in many Scorbutic persons but such as are radical and graduated in universality are the powerful and laudable medicines I have therefore framed and improved this Medicine to answer the intents of Purgation in all Scorbutick persons and cases and is the best purgative medicine both in the manner of operation and the effects that ever I used or read of For farther satisfaction and proof of this I shall give you some brief Account of these Pills from my own experience and observation in divers cases upon several of my Patients They are effectually used against the defects and errors of digestion in the first second and third office in the first namely in all diseases of the stomack requiring purgation and cleansing downwards and the bad symptoms arising from thence as Oppression Fulness Nauseating Wind Pain or Griping Worms loss of Appetite in all these cases this medicine is very proper to cleanse and discharge the stomack make it clean and fit for the reception of wholesom food not till then can you expect good nourishment if the stomack be soul the nutriment conveyed from thence to support and maintain the body must also be vitiated and impure And here I must relate to you what hapned to a Gentlewoman that had been long in a Scorbutic Atrophy a Consumption arising from the Scurvy for some years but not discovered she was observed to droop and decline and her Complexion change and yet she complained not of pain in any part she slept indifferently but had little or no appetite to meat Several conjectures there were concerning the cause of her langu shing by Physicians and others her Friends some said one thing others another try'd this medicine then that but all this while received no help at last she applyed to me and upon examination of the whole matter I found her to be Scorbutical I gave my judgment of her present state and condition how and from what causes procured and a Prognostick what whould follow if not prevented whereupon she willingly resigned her self to my care and to do what I thought fit to restore her At first I appointed her to lay aside her Dyet-drinks Restaurative Electuaries and Potions with which she had been loaded again and again and to rest Ten dayes before I would give her any thing of Physick in the interim to cat such meat as her stomack did like and best agree with which pleased her well she having been strictly tyed up to a Dyet at Ten dayes end I gave her a Dose of these Scorbute Pills one over night and two next morning which workt six times very-gently with her that day the night following she slept well and the next morning I appointed her to take a Dose of my Catholic Elixir sixteen drops in a spoonful of Sack and likewise three mornings following but increasing two drops every morning her stomack now was something better and she more lively The fifth day I ordered her a Dose of the same Pills which operated much as the former and brought away two worms fourdays following she took the Elixir and the fifth a dose of the Scorbute Pills thus intermittingly she used these two medicines for the space of six weeks At a fortnights end her stomack was much better both for appetite and digestion at the months end she was stronger and well able to go very chearful and eat her meat with delight her Complexion altered much for the better and about the sixth week she improved in flesh and began to be something plump and full then I bad her desist from her Pills but continue the Elixir which so strengthened the digestive faculties that she daily improved grew strong and in a short time obtained perfect health To reflect upon this Story Here was a latent Scorbutic Impurity that deaded the appetite and what was forced down the stomack did not digest but degenerate so that the body could not thrive nor had the benefit of that little food received but this vitious matter being carried off by a proper medicine and the loaded tyred parts refreshed and relieved by a generous spirituous Medicine nature then revives and returns to her wonted duties with that strength and regularity as formerly I might instance in many cases parallel to this that I have met with in Scorbutic Patients but I must be brief and proceed Not only in Diseases of the stomack but also in the subsequent Digestions I have found these Pills most effectually Abstersive and Aperitive opening Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Mesentery and Gutts exonerating and discharging those parts of crude coagulated depraved fermenting matter from whence arise pains and flatulent humors of those parts Cachexies or ill habits of body Fluxes Colicks Hypochondriac Melancholy c. and here I must relate the case of a Patient pertinent to this place worth your observation which was thus A Gentleman aged between Thirty and Forty something studious and melancholy complaining of pain sometimes in his left side under the short Ribs sometimes in the other side opposite to it sometimes he was Costive a stool once in two or three dayes sometimes Laxative two or three stools in a day with some gripes and wind his Belly often puffed up and distended at which times he complained of a shortness of breath streightness over his Breast and difficulty of breathing like one that is Asthmatick in the night often afflicted with frightful dreams and Palpitations of the heart after this manner with other Circumstances which I omitt he continued for the space of four years or there abouts all which time he was not negligent in procuring help nor sparing of his Purse having wherewith to do it but applyed himself here and there for advice some was of one opinion another of a different judgment and having tryed variety of medicines with little success was tyred and resolved to sit down contented with his