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A42118 A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt contain'd in Epsom and such other waters by Nehemiah Grew. Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712. 1697 (1697) Wing G1960; ESTC R27397 21,859 66

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taken as afore-mention'd Sometimes 't is good to take before every Draught a Spoonful of the following Mixture Of Marjoram and Sage of each two Drams Roots of Gentian Species of Hiera Picra of each two Scruples White-wine four Ounces digest 12 Hours in a close Vessel and clarifie the express'd Tincture by settling CHAP. VI. Of the Use of the Bitter Purging Salt in some other Diseases And first in Hysterical Fits IN this Disease after the most terrible Symptoms are quieted by Opiates ten or twelve Drams or two Ounces of the Tincture of Hiera Picra in equal parts White-wine and Hysterical-water may be given with very good success But if the Physician thinks fit to purge with a more temperate Medicine the bitter Salt may be properly and safely taken especially if in the room of the Aromatiz'd Water you use the Spaw or Bawm-water as a Vehicle for the Salt In the Wandring Gout vulgarly but erroneously call'd the Rhuematism For this seises the Muscular Parts only and that none but the Joynts 'T is a stubborn Disease and frequently eludes the force of many Medicines Bleeding must begin and be repeated at least every other day to four times and if occasion to five or six After the first or second time a Vomit is very proper for as long as the Stomach is disordered it daily transmits a new supply of Morbifick Matter to the Blood and Joynts But Catharticks and of the strongest sometimes for several days together are never to be omitted for one strong purge does often weaken this Disease more than bleeding 3 or 4 times repeated But the operation of the Purging Waters by the help of their Salt when the Patient is Feverish as they almost always are is much more gentle and performed without any fermentation of the Humours if taken in the following manner Of the Powder of Resinous Jallap half a Dram Scammony prepar'd six Grains Calamelany half a Scruple with Syrup of Buckthorn make a Bolus to be taken at five in the morning sleeping after it two or three Hours and then drink the following Apozem Of Pearl-Barley an Ounce and half Currance three Ounces boil in Spring-water to a Quart or 3 Pints adding towards the latter end Mace half a Dram and when it is strain'd of the bitter Salt an Ounce Flakey-Manna an Ounce or an Ounce and half If the Patient be difficultly wrought upon and other Indications require it add to the first Draught six Drams or an Ounce of the Syrup of Buckthorn and repeat the Bolus and Apozem every 3d or 4th day as the Physician shall Advise or with longer Intervals till the Patient be perfectly recovered In the beginning and increase of the Disease at least every other Night and always after a Purge let a proper Opiate be given to prevent any new Ebullitions of the Humours and their Influx upon the joynts When Purging must be forborn because of a Fever or the weakness of the Patient Vesicatories are apply'd above or below the Joynt with very great benefit And sometimes the Serous Latex of the Blood is so very hot and fiery that it will not yield to the united strength of the foremention'd Remedies without the help of Blisters to separate some part of it from its remaining more Balsamick and gentle In this Disease Sweats tho' very plentiful seldom profit but Diureticks very much and therefore the Apozem with the Purging Salt is very proper working at the same time both by Urine and Stooll In the time of the Cure abstain from all Wine Vinous and Malt Drinks Posset-Drink is of all Liquors the most proper for their constant Drink In a Scorbutick Itch Not Contagious but arising from the Scurvy and affecting sometimes the whole Body at others a particular part as the Pudenda c. I have often Cur'd with the Apozem alone without any other Purgings and some perfectly tired out and tormented with perpetual scratching I 've blest with a happy Deliverance especially if you join with the Use of the Apozem the Chalybeate-Waters and drink them daily and plentifully instead of Malt Drink This Apozem is likewise very profitable when the Small-Pox are dry'd off and may very properly be drank with common Catharticks instead of Posset-Drink Lastly 'T is good for Travellers who by much riding especially in the Summer are generally Costive but two or three Drams of this Salt in a Draught of Spring-Water will cool and relieve them CHAP. VII Of the Abuse of the Bitter Waters and their Salt 'T IS the Duty of a Physician not only to shew the Use of Remedies but also to Admonish the Reader of their Abuse by which he prevents a treble injury to himself to the Patient and the Medicine therefore this Salt must not at all be us'd in some Diseases and in others with particular respect had to the Causes and Symptoms In all Hydropicks 'tis hurtful doubtless because the Natural heat of the Blood is decayed and the Spirits contain'd in the Grumous part of it are very poor Moreover in such persons the Use of moist things tho' in their Food do increase the Influx of the Serum of the blood into the Morbid parts 'T is also improper in a Synochus where tho' the Cause of the Disease must be sometimes lessen'd by Purges yet such must be moderately hot as the bitter Potion Pill Ruffi and the like by which the Concoction of the Humours may at the same time be promoted and therefore all things that cool too much ought to be avoided Nor is it good for such as labour under Intermittent Fevers Nor in a Chlorosis or Green-sickness where warm Fermentations must be excited and because the Humours are too Acid they must be alter'd with stronger Alkalies This Salt is also forbidden to all that spit Blood lest by its exquisite Subtilty and penetrative Force it should tear open the Mouths of the Arteries And in the Cholera Morbus where violent wastings of the Spirits do attend as sudden Evacuations To the quieting such turbulent and over-hasty Motions of Nature Cordials and Opiates are to be given by intervals but after the Disease is tamed if Evacuation be needful the Patient of a Bilious Constitution whether Natural or Accidental he may take this Salt with a good prospect of success 'T is not proper for Paralyticks lest it more enervate the Muscles already destitute of their native Heat and Vigour But if the Disease arise from a hot Cause as Wine or Vinous Liquors this Salt may be given safely and profitably to the Patient 'T is not to be given Women with Child without a great deal of Caution Nor in a suppression of Urine before you certainly know it does not proceed from an Ulcer of the Bladder or a large Stone for in both Cases the Patient ought to abstain from all Diureticks Otherwise we have given it with admirable success I mean for the forcing away of Urine and Stones of no little magnitude FINIS