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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77577	A brief discovery of the true causes, symptoms and effects, of that most reigning disease, the scurvy. Together with the causes, symptoms, and effects of several other dangerous diseases. : Whereunto is added, a short account of those incomparable and most highly approved pills, called pilulae in omnes morbos: or, pills against all diseases ... / Prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield, approved physician ...	Bromfield, M.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4884J; ESTC R175607	17,167	18

A BRIEF DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE CAUSES SYMPTOMS and EFFECTS Of that most reigning Disease the SCURVY TOGETHER WITH The Causes Symptoms and Effects of several other dangerous DISEASES Whereunto is added A short Account of those Incomparable and most highly approved PILLS CALLED PILVLAE in Omnes MORBOS OR PILLS against all DISEASES Which are the only Famous Medicine of this Age against the above-named Distemper and all other Curable Diseases Prepared and set forth for the Publick Benefit By M. Bromfield Approved Physician And are to be sold At his own House at the BLUE BALLS in Plow-yard in Fetter-Lane LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1675. The Causes Symptoms and Effects of the SCURVY THis Disease doth chiefly proceed from Melancholy bred by distemper of the Stomack 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 vapours 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 toothach stinking breath blackness and loosness of the teeth want of digestion much winde and unsavoury belchings and by thick vapours arising from the Hypochondria to the Midriff is occasioned obstructions of Respiration or shortness of breath and straitness of the breast c. The body is dull and heavie and in the Legs are spots sometimes red purple black or blue There is also violent pains in the head shoulders arms fingers belly thighs knees Legs ankles feet and toes Whence some who have had the POX though cured do fear the return of their old Maladie There are many thousands have this distemper that are perswaded they have 〈◊〉 Gout because sometimes it hath the very signes of the Gout which 〈◊〉 the cause why the Scurvy which by mistake is judged the Gout is ●…dom cured For those Medicaments pertinent in the Gout are not the very same in the Scurvy and consequently cannot cure it Other signes of the Scurvy are bad sleep and frightful dreams a feverish heat and sweats towards the morning Some have risings in their body as if stung with Bees or Wasps c. others have dolours in their side 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 only to my self but also to several other experienced Physicians who with me have traced this Disease and made exact inspection into its variable dresses for many years together And we have 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 judgement 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 true knowledge of the Original of the Disease it self And here observed a great Truth viz. That there are very few afflicted with and Distemper of long continuance who have not annexed with it a Scorbutick taint which unless it be considered and Antiscorbutick Medicaments given the Patient is very rarely if ever cured Now the conclusion of all if the Scurvy comes to be predominant is sometimes Swoonings Apoplexies Dropsies great decay of the body incurable Consumptions c. 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 for brevity the other are omitted I Shall now to oblige the Sons and Daughters of Venus briefly discover the true symptoms and effects of the Grand POX and Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins The Discourse will hardly infect any that are not already Diseased or in the least prejudice their reputation And to read it heedfully is the way to instruct many in what before they were ignorant Also those in these Distempers concerned will for what I have writ be obliged to give me thanks I shall begin with the symptoms of the POX Which are pains in the head shoulders arms back knees shins and Legs Nodes or hard knobs in the head joynts or shin bones Bubo's in the Groin Tumors in the Testicles Scabs or breaking out in the head neck face or other parts of the body Ulcers in the throat mouth palate nose or privie parts and sometimes in the Legs with a general indisposition of body These are the symptoms which usually go along with this Disease Now rightly to distinguish the pains of the POX from those of such other distempers as most resemble it please to accept and observe these following Rules First the pains of the POX are very like those of the Scurvy save that these of the POX do usually seize the patient in the night and when well warm in bed are then most violent They frequently continue till towards day and then vanish almost if not quite away until night the come again only sometimes in the day are felt some sharp pains in the head shoulders arms Legs c. but are quickly gone again Moreover the pains of the POX are ever between the Joynts and usually if the Disease be of very long continuance those pains do fix Nodes or hard knobs on the Joynts but neither of these symptoms are so incident to the Scurvy It is distinguished from the Arthritas or Joynt-grout by its nocturnal dolours or pains in the night for the pains of the Gout contrary to those of the POX are often greater in the day than night Many have joyned with this Disease a consuming Hectick Fever often caused by those unlucky over hot and drying Diet-drinks violent Purges and Sweats rashly given to those of thin hot and dry constitutions such bodies receive the same mischief from an ill-managed Salviation or Fluxing and an Hectick thus contracted for the most part ends in the grave and others by unskilful Fluxing have the pockie humours plentifully raised into their heads where by their corroding quality they too often ulcerate the throat and consume the palate and gums which humours being raised and mixed with a venomous and ill-prepared Mercurial Medicine do also poyson and level the Nose and beget all those dishonourable and fatal consequences of this foul Disease The Symptoms and Effects of the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins THis Disease is known by an Issue from the privities not of Seed as by some supposed but of a virulent matter which often ulcerates the Urinary passage and causeth Caruncles to grow in the Yard from whence is sent corrupt matter which falling by parcels resembles small pieces of flesh The Patient hath a scalding heat sharpness and pain in making Urine which sometimes comes away by drops there is also a great pain in