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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	boil_v	put_v	strain_v	4,145	5	10.7106	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

after general Evacuation Vomiting Clyster then carminative and fumous Clysters and abundance of other means he found not the least ease there was given him three or four ounces of Quick-silver and that came soon through him yet no ease at last I gave him four of the biggest Musket Bullets I could get about six or eight hours after I came to him and he was discharged of pain and was fallen asleep which he had not before for several nights after he awaked he had a Stool wherein was two of the Bullets and about eight or nine great round pieces of excrement greater than the Bullets and they did seem to be as hard Besides it could not be wind for it is always repleted with wind to hinder such accidents by making the more clearer and more slippery way for the Chyle and when there is a redundancy of it it is easily forced forth behind without any Griping or Torture So you see it is not from Wind or knotting of the Gut but from some excrement that doth adhere unto the same COLLICK THe Collick is commonly from Excrements contained beyond their course which vitiates the Ferment of the place whence cometh those windy Blasts which are not wind but far more subtle and rare than the most rarified air being of an incoagulate nature whereupon those retained excrements adhere so firmly to the Gut that it contracts it which is the cause of that violent dolour I had a man that was shot at the Siege of Iper in Flanders in the lower Belly Hypogastrium which penetrated the Colon all his Excrements came out at his wound for about six days so that the Intestinum Rectum or Arse-gut became useless this wound lay twenty four hours exposed to the wind before he was dressed I made a Suture to the external Orifice and cured him by vulnerary Clysters c. Besides how many wounds have I seen that have penetrated the Breast and Belly and yet never troubled with those windy Pains or Tortures and yet we see there is hardly a Distemper amongst us but we accuse wind troubled with wind c. but the small benefit those discussors of wind have brought is able to convince any that wind is not the cause But indeed this aiery Blast which is made by a bad digestion of things that seems to be wind which is perceived to move between the Muscles of the sides and causeth those Ructations and Belchings hath never been thought on by the Schools and but of very late years treated of To confirm Mr. Couch's opinion concerning the Illiaca Passio I shall here add another experiment which is this About a year ago a certain man was sorely tormented with the excruciating pains of this Disease commonly called the twisting of the Guts his Physician treated him with I suppose all the usual Remedies and some other Devices one of which was I remember to blow wind into the Intestinum Rectum or Arse-gut with a pair of Bellows but nothing taking effect to give the miserable man any ease the last Remedy was instituted which was three pound weight of Quicksilver which the Patient poured down his Throat on Friday about ten or eleven in the Forenoon and presently as advised rode a little way for the better agitating of his Body but yet to no purpose for on the Sunday Morning following I was at his House by accident with another person who was a Physician and then none of the Quicksilver had made any passage he had the very aspect of death and complained of an intollerable cold and weight in his Belly went not to bed in three nights and if he fell into the least sleep nothing but dotage and distraction appeared His Physician was at a ne plus ultra thinking him a dead man as all that saw him Upon enquiry we understood that he was not forbid the taking of any thing nor yet directed to any thing besides Canary wherefore we advised that he should abstain from the use of all acids others that might have any power to coagulate any of the Quicksilver in his Body and to drink sweet Oil plentifully the which he presently put in execution and the next day being Munday the Quicksilver began to come away like Small Shot and the use of the Oil being still continued by Tuesday night he had parted with it all or most for what they had collected wanted but four ounces of the three pounds after which somebody well advised him to swallow Golden Bullets which he did divers times and so to a wonder recovered and is well to this day Now had this Torture been occasioned only by wind such a quantity of Quicksilver could not possibly have been thereby detained in the Body one quarter of an hour or again that it should be the twisting of the Gut as is commonly believed is impossible for it cannot be that the Gut should be so closely twisted up by any accident that may happen either within or without the Body that three pound weight of this active ponderous Mineral should not in three days time find a passage besides which I had almost forgot to tell you his Excrements came away with the Quicksilver in small hard Bits like dried Sheeps Dung which plainly proves that the occasional cause of this Disease is the Excrements grown to a preternatural hardness I will here set down for the sake of the poor a cheap and easie remedy against this cruel Enemy â„ž of the Seeds of Annise Fennel Carraway and Coriander each half an ounce let them be all bruised put them into a quart of Ale or somewhat more boil them gently in a Vessel close covered for about three quarters of an hour then take it from the fire and strain it and let the Patient drink half a pint at a time warm And by God's blessing he shall soon have ease This is also good in the Wind Chollick But the Balsamick Pill is the most immediate Remedy for the Wind Chollick that I ever yet knew but it is not to be given in the Illiaca Passio therefore I will here for the sake of the ignorant shew how they may distinguish those Diseases from one another The pain called the Twisting of the Guts lies about the Navel and higher and is felt only before not extended to the Right and Left Sides that of the Chollick is about the Navel and lower going cross the Belly to both Sides even to the Back the pain generally pressing to the bottom of the Belly with a stoppage of the Urine which never is in the former there are some Symptoms which are common to both as Burning Chilness Reaching Vomiting c. but what I have said before is sufficient for any to know them asunder A Gentlewoman living in Greenwich was lately seised with a pain in all her Bones and a violent Loosness for which she took a Dose of the Balsamick Pill and in two hours time was at perfect ease and the Loosness stopped The next