Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	arm_n	belly_n	leg_n	2,979	5	10.3355	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47035	Jones of Hatton-Garden, his book of cures this book dated April the eighteenth, 1673.	Jones, of Hatton-Garden.	1673 (1673)	Wing J941AB; ESTC R36855	25,077	13

with the blessing of God and for the pain of the Collick if it be of Wind Sand Gravel or tough slimy humors it doth give present ease as aforesaid It doth commonly bring away Stones as big as Pease and abundance of Gravel from Men and Women what I have spoken of this thing is true for I have proved it for many years It helpeth the Rickets in Children and such as are torubled with Pthisick Cough or Consumption and pining away with loss of their flesh if they be not too far spent it will soon recover them it is no matter what age they are I have helpt hundreds since my coming to London as you may read of some of their names in this Book which were pined away to skin and bones and done it in a short time with small charge I cure all sorts of Blindness or any distemper in the Eyes so far as curable without pain or putting any thing into them and take away the causes thereof so that they are not troubled any more therewith therefore I advise you not to put any thing at all into your Eyes for that never taketh away the cause neither can it cure but causeth much pain and many times putteth the Eyes out or at least maketh them past cure then for you that ever intend to have cure put not any thing at all into your eyes I cure any sort of Bursteness in Men Women and Children and keep a Truss-maker on purpose to make Trusses for them otherwise they cannot be cured I cure any sort of Deafness provided it came not with blowes the sound of B●lls the shooting off Guns or that the Organ of the Ear be not fallen together then you may have cure without pain I cure the Scald or Leprosie-head without pain or loss of a hair of the head as you may read among the cures you will find where I have done the like I have present help for such as cannot make water but with great pain and take away all sharpness of Urine though never so bad and give present ease I cure all sorts of Wens without cutting or any other sort of Tumor let it be what it will I cure Convulsions Falling-sickness and Fits of the Mother Dropsie and Tympany Consumption and Cough in such as are almost at Deaths-door the Jaundies yellow and black the Evil of any sort the Cancer Wolf Fistula the Ague and Feaver all pains in the Head though it be Megrim Vertigo Lethargies or Apoplexies pains in the Shoulders Armes Stomack Sides Belly and Bick Knees Legs Ankles and Feet I would not have any to be so foolish as to question the truth thereof seeing you have the names of so many witnesses set down in this Book which I have already cured their names and places where they live round about you and you will find it as true as I say and if there be any cure you shall have it speedily and for small charge I should not need to have spoke so much but that I find the people some of them very faithless and I suppose that is because the Cheats have guld them of their money therefore I advise you not to make use of every one alike but diligently to enquire for him that is known to do great Cures for by such means you may have help for he knows presently what good can be done for you and do you good if possible there be any help but those that have practised but a little while they must practise on your bodies seven and seven years before they can have the experience to do Cures I have had several times in my travels ten or twenty pounds for a Cure after the Women and other unskilful persons have done with it which if they had gone to an able Physician at the first might have had help for a Crown or it may be less but there are so many of these young Doctors in every corner that no sooner any person falls into any Distemper but they are ready at hand and will undertake the Cure presently there they podder with their sorceries till they have either killed them or made them past Cure and if they cure one by chance though they kill hundreds afterward they will say their times were come and in this manner Thousands of the meaner sort of people lose their lives the truth is Millions of people are bound to curse all that practise on peoples bodies without art for Physick is a very dangerous thing for unskilful people to meddle with 〈…〉 will of their own 〈…〉 There are some Men and Women because their friend doth practise Physick they will make use of none but him It is true my friend will do what he can for me but when my life is gone my friend cannot help me to it again therefore if I hear of any that hath more skill than my friend I will make use of him and yet love my friend well but my life better Many of the people before they are helpt when they lie in great misery Oh! what they would give for ease but when I have made them well they say surely it was but a small Distemper because he did it with so small a matter and for so little money I helpt the wife of Mr. Midaleton at the sign of the Golden Patton over against the Kings-beech in Southwark of the Dropsie who had lost the greatest part of her blood so that she had little or nothing left in the Veins but watery humours which turned to a sad Dropsie with great weakness and this came with a miscarriage of two Children at one birth I cured Mr. Iohn Chersly living at the Sign of the Swan and Key in Brick-lane in Old-street who had been Deaf and troubled with great noise in his Head about forty years he was quite Deaf and threescore and seventeen years of age when I cured him both he and his wife returned thanks both to God and me and he heareth very well Mr. William Shearman in Black-Fryers over against the Dark-entry of the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys and Bladder and of the Sciatica pain in his Hip and I helpt him in a fortnights time with Gods help two years since and cannot hear that he was troubled any more therewith I helpt Mr. Ralph Steel of Clarken-well the next door to the sign of the Flying-horse of a Consumption and great weakness Now if I should advise you to have of my Balsome of Balsoms and keep it in readiness in the house it may be you would say I speak for my own ends to sell my Balsome I say no I do not for it is but one shilling the ounce and it is ready if you should have a Burn a Scald or Squat a Bruise a Straine a Cut or any other mischance which will come in Families and you may look for them every day and when any of these distempers comes and having nothing to apply so soon as it is hurt it runs on till it doth