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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29646	A brief discovery of the chief causes, signs, and effects, of that most reigning disease, the scurvy together with the causes, symptoms, & effects, of several other dangerous diseases most usually afflicting mankind. Whereunto is added, a short account of that imcomparable, and most highly approved medicine called Bromfield's pill. Being the only remedy this age hath produced against the scurvy, and most other curable distempers. Formerly prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield; and now wholly assigned by him to Mr. Joseph Stent.	Bromfield, M.; Stent, Joseph.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4884G; ESTC R217246	15,354	18

A BRIEF DISCOVERY of the chief CAUSES SIGNS and EFFECTS Of that most Reigning Disease the SCURVY Together with the CAUSES SYMPTOMS EFFECTS Of several other dangerous Diseases most usually afflicting Mankind Whereunto is added A short Account of that incomparable and most highly approved MEDICINE CALLED Bromfield's Pill Being the only Remedy this Age hath produced against the SCURVY and most other Curable Distempers Formerly prepared and set forth for the Publick Benefit By M. BROMFIELD And now wholly assigned by him to Mr. JOSEPH STENT LONDON Printed in the Year 1694. The chief Causes Symptoms and Effects of the Scurvy THIS Disease doth chiefly proceed from Melancholy bred by distempers of the Stomach or Spleen which being crude stays in the passages of the Arteries and Veins and thereby doth excite grievous Fermentation or Workings from whence are sent Vapors which afflict the heart and brain c. from all which is caused malignant and contagious putrefaction of Melancholy and thence proceed these Symptoms viz. Giddiness in the head sudden flushings heat and redness in the face and body putrefaction and stinking of the mouth and gums Tooth-ach stinking breath blackness and looseness of the teeth want of digestion much wind and unsavoury belchings and by thick vapon arising from the Hypocondria to the midriff are occasioned obstructions of respiration or shortness of Breath and straitness of the Breast c. The body is dull and heavy and in the legs are spots sometimes red purple black or blue There are also violent pains in the head shoulders arms fingers belly thighs knees legs ancles feet and toes Whence some who have had the Pox though cured do fear the return of their old malady There are many thousands have this Distemper that are perswaded they have the Gout because sometimes it hath the very signs of the Gout which also is the cause why the Scurvy which by mistake is judged the Gout is so seldom cured For those Medicaments pertinent in the Gout are not the very same in the Scurvy and consequently cannot cure it Other signs of the Scurvy are bad sleep and frightful dreams a feverish heat and sweats towards the morning Some have risings on their body as if stung with Bees or Wasps c. others have dolors in their sides imitating those of the Spleen And in short it doth appear to a judicious eye with and in the shape of most Diseases as hath been sufficiently apparent not onely to my self but also to several other experienced Physitians who have traced this Disease and made exact inspection into its variable dresses for many years together And it is also observed that it is propagated and spread abroad in these parts of the world more than any other Distemper whatsoever and by its sundry shapes hath seduced many in their judgment of the Disease For in some it passeth for a Consumption in others for a Dropsie c. and Medicines are given accordingly but alas to little purpose and all for want of a true knowledge of the original of the Disease it self And here observe a great truth viz. that there are very few afflicted with any Distemper of long continuance who have not joyned with it a Scorbutick taint which unless it be considered and some powerful Antisoorbutick Medicaments given the Patient is very rarely if ever cured Now the conclusion of all if the Scurvy be not timely remedied and that it grow predominant is sometimes Swoonings Apoplexies Dropsies great decay of the Body Consumptions and very often Death it self Note That in some the Scurvy is hereditary and that there are some few causes thereof besides those here set down but these being usually the chief the other are omitted The Causes Signs and Effects of the VIRGIN or MAIDEN Disease called the GREEN-SICKNESS THE main cause of this Disease is from obstructions or stoppage and the cause of such obstructions c. are evil thick and clammy humours which choak and stop the passage in the Vessels and spoil the making and passage of the Blood c. and these proceed from bad Diet as eating of raw Wheat Oatmeal much Salt Ashes Clay Chalk c. drinking of much Vingar or much cold Water from too much or too little Sleep eating much raw Fruit sitting too long at Sewing work Melancholy violent Exercise great Heats or Colds c. The signs of this Disease are a pale and greenish colour in the Face the Face and Eye-lids swelled especially after Sleep the Heart beats and fainteth the Stomach swell'd or pained they loath Meat have a tickling cough and their Breath short they sometimes Vomit they have thirst Head-ach and are often Melancholy they are swell'd about their Ancles and Feet and care not much to stir especially up Stairs or an Hill The continuance of this Disease brings long Fevers Barrenness great watery Swellings and the Dropsie Some have a Schirrus or Tumour and wasting in their Liver others by oppression of the Heart die suddenly and many fall into Consumptions which end in the Grave Note That great caution ought to be used in Bleeding any Maid in the Arm before she have had her monthly Visits but if an urgent occasion call for Blood-letting then rather breathe a Vein in the Ancle By following this advice you shall most certainly prevent the Death of some and many Diseases in others but more especially that most dreadful Disease of Barrenness And against this very Disease viz. the Green-sickness and also to procure the monthly Visits in such Women in whom they are wanting there are but few Medicines comparable to these PILLS as has been often proved when no other means or Medicines could prevail I shall here give some account concerning WORMS OF these Creatures are several sorts but the most usual are shaped round and long these are bred in the Guts yet sometimes get into the Stomach The second are short and very small like threds and commonly lie in the right Gut and in the end of the Fundament wherein is almost continual itching which Worms also provoke the Patient very often to stool The third sort are long and broad of an incredible length but very rarely seen Worms are chiefly caused from raw gross flegmatick matter and therefore Youth and such as eat much Fruit are seldom free from them Also all great Eaters are very subject to them especially those who eat Meats that easily putrifie in the Stomach and more at once than Nature can well digest whence follow Crudities and thence Worms the signs of which are many Some have unsavory belchings and a stinking Breath wasting of the Gums heaviness fainting great thirst vomiting cold sweats and often a Fever a short Cough unquiet Sleep intolerable gnawing pains in the Stomach and Belly loss of Appetite weakness and consumption of the whole Body Many times the Patient hath an insatiable Appetite caused by flat Worms which devour the Food that is eaten There are a few signs more of Worms but these

but doth also cure the most of them And in a word is a significant and most Noble Medicine against most curable Distempers I shall also add that these Pills do wonderfully remedy a Stinking-breath if the cause be not in the Teeth They are likewise a singular good remedy against those Painful Watery Flegmatick or Cholerick Vomitings incident to the Good-fellow after drinking much and sitting up late at night Also the Pills being taken to the number of Three Four or Five as the body is able the next morning after hard drinking and the person to lie in bed two or three hours after taking them or until they work do prevent Surfeits Fevers Gouts Palsies Dropsies c. which are often the effects of too much Wine or strong Liquors I shall now insert the Names and dwellings of some few of the great number that I might who have been restored by my Pills out of many dangerous Distempers after all other Medicines haue failed Mr. Harding of Linnington near Warwick being near Eighty years of age had been a long time troubled with a dangerous Scurvy and Dropsie being swelled as much as his skin could hold in his feet legs thighs belly privities breast arms hands and head so that he was not able to stir out of his bed was with six shillings worth of my Pills perfectly cured Mr. Richard Hinton Living near the Cock towards the upper end of Leather-Lane being brought into such a low and dangerous condition with Griping in the Guts as there was very little hopes of life was however by a Friend of his advised to my Pills as the only Medicine to be hoped in for his Recovery whereupon he freely took them and was thereby in a very few days perfectly recovered Mr. Joseph Seidon Woodmonger on Mill-bank Westminster being exceedingly afflicted with a dangerous Dropsie insomuch that the print of a singer would have continued a long time in his flesh and in this condition by a sad accident was thrust into the body with a Sword and bled much inwardly his wounds alone were judged so dangerous that most gave him over for a dead man and yet some perswaded him after all to try what my Pills would do for him which he willingly assented to And their effects were indeed most wonderful for they brought from him all the Coagulated or hardned blood which was judged before would very much hasten his death they caused his wounds quickly to heal and perfectly cured this Dropsie Mary the Wife of Dennis Barnard of Butleigh in the County of Somerset having been above three years troubled with a violent tormenting pain in the left side of her Stomach but more especially after eating or drinking when it was her constant use to tumble her self on the ground in hopes of ease thereby had the advice of many Physitians and took many Medicines they prescribed her but found no ease at all And being brought exceeding low even to the gates of death almost despairing of life was informed of the wonderful effects of my Pills where upon a Box of them was bought for her at Yeovil in the said County she took of them as many and as oft as her body was able to bear and they brought from her by Stool many hundreds of living Worms of strange shapes some about an inch in length some longer and headed like Eels At last they brought from her somewhat like a bag which was judged to be that wherein the Worms had lain The woman upon this recovered perfect health look't fresh and well and became as able to follow her business as in all her life she being at that time Fifty years of Age. Mrs. Griset of Rockshal near Warwick having been a long time sorely afflicted with an Ague was thereby brought into a very weak condition and withal being much troubled with the Scurvy had spots of several colours on her legs and such violent pains in her joynts that she was hardly able to go This Gentlewoman was perfectly cured with Fifteen shillings worth of my Pills and in a short time became one of the heartiest women in that Town Matthew Griset of Rockshal above named being very far gone with the Scurvy and full of blew spots and knotted in his joynts had many great breakings out on his body all which with nine shillings worth of my Pills were perfectly cured Mr. Samuel Hookey of Thrupe near Christ-Church in Hampshire being for a long time exceeding sick and weak and judged by all to be far gone in a Consumption and being given over by most Physitians for a dead man was to the great wonder of all that knew him perfectly cured with my Pills Mr. John Hall of Stowmarket in Suffolk being extreamly afflicted with the Scurvy and Gout was cured with my Pills Edward Goodall of Stowmarket was also cured by my Pills of the Gout Scurvy and several other Indispositions Mr. Robert Taylor of Hadleigh in Suffolk being much troubled with the Scurvy and having great pains in his bones was perfectly cured with my Pills The Wife of John Roper of Southover in the Parish of Tolpidele in Dorsetshire was exceedingly troubled for the space of eight years with the Scurvy and Dropsie her legs being full of purple red and yellow spots and so swelled that they were ready to burst and she was often so full of pain in them that she could not go but upon her hands and knees she was lifted into and out of her bed and after the trial of all likely means that could be heard of for her Cure proved successess she had perfect help by the use of my Pill which made her so well that she could travel on Foot nine or ten miles in one day being then Fifty years of age Mr. John Edmonds of Arundel in Sussex being extreamly afflicted with the Scurvy insomuch that himself and others concluded it would in a short time end his days was to the great admiration of all his acquaintance perfectly cured by my Pills as in his Letter to me he doth fully and thankfully acknowledge Mr. Pearson of the Bank within two miles of Sheffield in York-shire was exceedingly swelled with the Dropsie and his breath so short that he judged he had not long to live And being in this sad condition sent for a Box of my Pills with which he cured not only himself but also two of his neighbours who at that time were so desperately ill that their Physitians gave them both over for dead men And in the same Parish one of my Pills perfectly cured a Child of Convulsion-fits Mr. John Johnson servant to Mr. Thomas Forth Brewer in St. Giles's in the Fields London being so far gone in a most dangerous Dropsie that he appeared to all that beheld him absolutely past Cure and not likely to live three days was to the great admiration of all that knew him perfectly cured with my Pills And of this great Cure any may be satisfied at the house of the said Mr. Forth as also