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A25287	The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.	A. B.	1674 (1674)	Wing A2B; ESTC R222542	90,076	270

and preserved by the use of their like and co●traries are destroyed by their contr●ries and weary his body by viole● Exercises and continual labour An● if there be a suppression of choleri● Excrements which before did freel● flow either by Nature Will or Art b● whosoever seeds upon meats gener●ting gross blood as Beef Veniso● Hare old Cheese and all salt meats without all doubt sliding from his N●ture will fall into a melancholy te●per especially if to that manner Diet he shall have avocation full cares turmoils miseries strong a● much study carefull thoughts and fea● and also if he sit much wanting Ex●cise for so the inward heat as it w● defrauded of its nourishments fai● and growes dull whereupon gross a● drossie humours abound is gone out of the belly shall stuffe his panch with more Who presently after meat runs into violent Exercises who inhabit cold and moist places who lead their life at ease in all idleness and lastly who suffer a suppression of the phlegmatick humour accustomely evacuated by Vomit Cough or blowing the Nose or any other way either by Nature or Art Certainly it is very convenient to know these things that we may discern if we at the present be phlegmatick melancholick or of any other temper whether he be such by Nature or Necessity Of Spirits IN order of Nature that that offers it self to the next hand is concerning Spirits A Spirit consider as a part of a man and that which enters our Constitution is defined to be an aiery thin and clear substance the seat of the native heat the Vehiculum of the Faculties and Instrument of the out-going Functions and of these there be two sorts one is the In-nate and the other is the In-flowing Spirit The In-nate Spirit is that which is put into every Similar part by the Principles of Generation and that which of the Greeks is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is the Foundation of the Humidum radicale The In-flowing Spirit is that which breaks forth from elsewhere and nourisheth and preserveth the Faculty and innate heat carrying it every where to the acting the Functions Of this In-flowing Spirit there be three kinds Animal Vital and Natural The first is the Animal Spirit an● that which is begotten from the Vital Spirit and the inspired Aire int● the Ventricle of the Brain and distributed by the motive and sensitiv● Nerves giving sence and motion to th● whole Body The Vital Spirit is that which is begotten in the left bosome of the heart and the prepared Aire in the Lungs whence it is distributed to all the part● by the Arteries The Natural Spirit which goes forth from the Liver by the Veins with the Blood is poured forth into the Extream parts of the Body the Author of Generation Nutrition and Increase Of the Faculties A Faculty it is the Innate power of the Soul used to the performance of Actions and it is defined by Galen to be the Effecting Cause of Actions and therefore is call'd a Faculty Quod quae facit facere possit So that is understood by the Name of a Faculty which hath a power to doe and these Faculties are stated to be Animal Vital and Natural And that is the Animal Faculty which is onely proper to the Animal and for that cause it is so called That is Vital which the Vital begets in the heart and is sent forth from thence by the Arteries for the preservation of Life whence also it receives the Name of Vital The Natural Faculty is that which is in the Liver and sends Aliment to all the parts of the Body by the Veins Of Actions AN Action proceeds from a Faculty call'd in Latine a Function and therefore also they call it an Operation And as an Action so also a Function is three-fold Animal Vital and Natural But Action is defined by Galen to be of two sorts Animal and Natural From the Animal they are call'd Anamae Actiones but from the Animale Actiones Animi CHAP. V. Of Things not Natural THese Res non Naturales are s● call'd because they are not o● the number of those which enter into the Constitution or Composu● of mans Body as the Elements Humors and the rest which have been briefly mentioned already There are six thing which are Res non Naturales The ambient Aire Meat and Drink Sleep and Watching Motion and Quiet Excretion and Retention and Perturbation of the Mind in the right use of which doth consist the pr●●ervation of Health And to this purpose that Aire is to be Aire chosen which is neither thick nor rimy nor cloudy neither neer to standing Pools or Rivers but thin and serene neither too hot nor too cold neither too dry nor too moist neither infected with the ill Gales of Lakes common Sewers Sinks nor the filthy breath that is exhaled from dead Carkases nor corrupted by putrifying Dungs or any thing that sends forth filthy fumes neither that which is sent forth by windes out of the Mountains into the Vales and Caves and shut up in other hollow places but pure and thin Of Meats THat Food is to be chosen which is Of Meat of good Juice easie of Concoction that hath not much Excrementitious matter but Food of an ill Juice is to be rejected the particulars of which you will hear more hereafter upon treating of the Scurvy Those are call'd Foods of good Juice which are neither too hot nor too cold dry or moist but ●emperate neither too glutinous nor too thin but of a Medium because they beget good Blood that is neither too thick nor too thin The Quantity of Food must be measured Quantity by the Ability of the Concoctive Faculty and of whole Natures Ability to distribute that which is requisite to the nourishment to every part and therefore the quantity must not abound the power of the native heat and to this end it must be well chewed and ground by the teeth that being swallowed into the stomach the first shop of Nature it may be the easier concocted The Time of taking Food must not Time be before the fore-received Food be cast out by the power of the Expulsive Faculty into the Guts out of the Stomach The Drink must be Beer well boy'ld The drink made of Barley-malt or mixed with Oats it must not be red nor white neither sharp or soure but well boyl'd if Beer and clear and pure of good odour The Quantity of Drink must answer Quantity of drink the Quality of the received Food for if the Food be more solid and dry the Drink may be more liberal where the meats are more moist the Drink must be the less Much swashing of the stomach with The Time drink at Meals is disapproved as unwholsom and yet it must not be too sparing because that will not quench the thirst which is to be regarded As to the Time of Drink as Hunger doth admonish us when to eat so Thirst

doth wont to continue longest and the which begins in Autumn and for the most part continues the whole Winter and departs not until the Spring unless by accident and so some do continue from one Year to many Years we have known some hath been extended to Seven Years and more but in Summer they be shorter Those things which dispose to this Fever are Autumn the Sea-Coast the end of Summer a Melancholly Temper and such who by an evil manner of Diet obnoxious to a Hypochondriack affection But the cause of these constituted Periods seem to be ascribed to the divers constitutions of the Blood Viz. by which from a due temper it is perverted one while into sharp and anon into an acid or austere disposition for which cause the divers intemperatures of it the nourishable Juice newly brought doth more or less depart from a maturation and degenerates sooner or later into a matter apt to ferment CHAP. XLIV A Hectick Fever FEbris Hectica that is a Habitual Fever or a Fever conversant in the Habit it is a preternatural Hcat in the substance of the Heart sticking and burning in the solid parts drying and consuming and brings the whole Body to extream leanness There are Three Degrees of this Fever The first is when the dewy moisture is dryed and consumed The second is when the fleshy and fatty Substance is depopulated and perisheth and in this the Extenuation of the Body is evident The Third is when the Febra's and Membranous Substance is wasted and the whole Body waxeth lean then follows Facies Hypocratica the gastly Countenance and the Bones only appear covered with the Skin This is the true wasting and Hectick which of the Greeks is called Marasmodes and which is incurable The internal Causes of the Hectick are burning and continual Fevers Ulcers and continual inflamations of the Liver Stomack Lungs Reins and other Bowels Those things which refer to outward Causes are such things as can generate other Fevers such things as do very much either consume the humid Substance in the solid Members or very much stirs up a continual heat or are apt to perform both to which the promptitute and disposition of the subject and the continual disposition of heating do make to the receiving of this preternatural heat Such are the heat of the Sun or fire vehement Exercise heating Meats and Drinks immoderate Excretions as a Diarrhea Dysenteria Animi Pathemata or more vehement passion of the Mind And lastly Hunger a more hot and dry Habit of Body is more apt to take this Fever The beginning Hectick is not easily known the other kind is difficultly Cured The Signs of all Hecticks are common the heat of the whole Body is equal and of which they do not complain nor do they understand themselves to be Feverish it first appears weak by reason of the fewness of the Vapours but if thou wilt apply thy hand longer there appears a sharpness and gnawing heat by reason of the dryness and solidity of the subject and greater in the Arteries than in other parts by reason of the communion of the Heart and this Heat increaseth one Hour or two after Meat is received no other ways waxing hot than Calx Vive if Water or any such thing be poured upon it the Pulse small frequent and swift the Urine oleaginous with a branny sedement CAAP. XLV The Rickets RAchites the Rickets a Disease unknown to the Ancients which yet at this day no Disease is more frequent in this Kingdom it is a cold and moist intemperature of the whole Spinal Marrow entring the Skul the arise of all the Nerves and of all the Membranous and Febrous parts of the whole Body with the defect and feebleness of the Spirits and tone of the parts visciated the cause and parts primarily affected do fetch their definition from this whose Signs and Symptoms are looseness and softness of the parts primarily affected debility and pining or enervation of the parts serving to Motion weakness and feebleness of the Joynts the Head bigger than is meet the Face fuller and more florid the Musculous parts wax lean certain Protuberations and Nodes about certain of the Joynts mostly in the Rist and in the Extremity of the Ribs a bowing or incurvating of some of the Bones which more frequently happens to the Bones of the Cubit Shins Thighs and Shoulders sharpness and straitness of the Breast Bunches and Tumors of the Abdomen Repletion and Tention of the Hypochondries a frequent Cough difficult Respiration and many other evils of the Lungs as the stuffing of them hard Tumors Imposthumes Inflamations growing or sticking to the Pleura a weak and a feeble Pulse the common Cause of which seems to be an unequal and unprofitable Nutrition the Antecedent Causes are beside the falt in the Seed of the Parents defiled with the like disposition redundant viscious Humours in the Body Flegm Choller and chiefly Melancholly but the Procatarctical Errors committed in the use of res non naturales Infants are taken with this Disease till they are Two Years and a half old and sometimes after CHAP. XLVI Of a Convulsion A Convulsion in Greek called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Celsus is a distention of the Nerves Or thus a Convulsion is a continual and involuntary contraction of the Nerves and Muscles towards their original upon which there follows a stiffness a deprivation of the Figure and Form of the Part with a most cruel Pain the Part affected is the Muscle which is the proper Instrument of voluntary Motion The nearest Cause of this Convulsion is an Irritation of the Nervous Parts from any thing molesting and troubling the Muscle the Animal Faculty performing the Motion being drawn into consent The Material Causes are any Humours Flegm only excepted so that they have acquired also a certain occult enemical disposition in the Nerve as also the Vapours and Humours in the N●rves and Chollerick Disease which can pull the Nervous Parts and become a true cause of Convulsion A Convulsion is either of the whole Body or it is of more or fewer parts that which is of the whole Body doth constitute Three Species or Sorts the first is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the Head Neck and upper parts of the Back is pulled together The second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when those parts or the lower parts of the Spine are vexed The third is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wherein the Neck and whole Body appears stiff and bowed into neither part but these last Species of the Cramp are very rare Moreover there are other Species of the Convulsion which are wont to be called Flatulent which by the Italians is called Crampa and vulgarly with us Cramp this happeneth oftentimes to the Muscles of the Shoulders Shins Fingers Hands and Feet and this done with great Pain that which is stirred up from Flatulentsy is not so dangerous for that is easily taken away by frixion only CHAP.

shortness of Bre●th and Consumption where this doth not good none will which we have Experienced for many Years as a sure Remedy easie to take for all Ages or Sexes a Balsom which we believe will never corrupt or decay The Sixth is our Vegetable Cordial Tincture whose Vertue will commend it self be-being a high Cordial and of Volatile parts friendly to our Microcosm next of Kin to our Animal and Vital Spirits and therefore quickly and easily assimilated and drawn into Vnity with us and Corroborates the Heart revives the Spirit opens the Pores and all Obstructions is singular against Lipothymia and Syncope all Swounding and Faintings whatsoever flowing from a debility of the Spirits or Obstruction of the Nobler parts or defis●entsie of supply to the Lamp of Life good in all Fevers whether malignant or pestilent of what sort soever The Seventh is our Cordial or Cachexical Pill so called because it is our infallible Remedy against all Female Obstructions Green-sickness Feebleness shortness of Breath pain in tha Head sides proved so by many infallible Experiments and is highly Cordial and without any manifest Operation it wonderfully strengthens the Heart revives the Spirits corroborates and strengthens the Heart by bringing in fresh supplies of Fuel to the Vital Fire it takes away the pain of the Head after a wonderful manner In sum its Dose is whatsoever any Physitian can in that Cose desire The Eighth is our Remedy against Consumption and all Distempers of the Lungs which is a precious Balsom next of Kin to our Humidum Radicale it comforts all the Natural powers of the whole Body it purifies the Blood from all Impurities from whence various and cruel Diseases are wont to arise it preserves from the Apoplexie Convulsion of the Nerves Leprosie Leues Venerea it is the only Specificum of the Lungs It preserves from and Cures the Asthma it takes away both old and new Coughs it consumeth and drys up defluction flowing from the Head it comforts the Brain it hinders the ventasitie of the Stomack and Chollick it is an admirable remedy for the Hectick comforting and strengthning of Nature it is a secret help for Consumptions increasing the radical moisture it wonderfully conduceth in the Gout whether in the Joynts or Feet as also in the Sciatica Like an occult Fire it consumeth Diseases as Fire consumeth Wood. The next is our Pill Hydragogum which opens Obstructions of the Viscera Liver Missentery Spleen and all other parts cleansing the Stomack of all Clammy and Flegmatick Matter sticking to the Tunicle thereof Curing the Dropsie and all waterish Distempers cleansing and strengthning the Liver and the Tone of all the parts destinated to Concoction washing and shaving off all slimy Matter adhering to the Viscera the refuse of imperfect Concoction The Tenth is our Remedium Melangogum which we have Experienced in all Melancholly Affects and in which we have failed none and that these may appear to be more than words we will give you Instances of Persons by Name and Place of abode that we have Cured and such as have been despicably afflicted with this Black and sad Disease even to despair of Cure and dispair in Mind and some that have come to a Mania the highest Degree of Madness And this Remedy does by a very gentle opening of Obstructions by inciding cutting and dissolving of the Tarterous Clammy Filths that obstruct the Viscera Missentery Liver Spleen and Stomack wonderfully altering the temper of the Humours and Parts and by consequence takes away all Instamation and Dyscrasia Sanguinis in the Parts where these Filths are used to stick so that the Tarterous Clammy Matters are washed away the Stomack gently cleansed the Flatus Hypochoudraicus repeled and strangely allayed the Hypochondriack pains vanish and the Mind quieted and Health restored the Mind and so the Body Capacitated to put forth all its wonted Offices for the wellfare of its own Being The Eleventh is our Febrisiga which Cures Fevers and all Quartan Agues by a gentle Operation in opening Obstructions of the Spleen and all the harberers of Melancholly Filths taking away the ferment of Fevers and Agues and that in a short time Our Specisicum for the Rickets which Cures in a short time by opening Obstructions of the Vessels destinated to Concoction and takes away the occasion of that sad Symptom the Atrophia the wasting and consuming of one Part by an Erronious distribution of the Aliment which ought to be sent to it and assimilated by it and the monstrous growth of some one Part by altering the Aliment due unto it These and all other grievous Symptoms attending this Disease are taken away in a wonderful manner in a short time And there is yet another viz. our Remedy most peculiar to all Women against all Vapours whether Histerick viz. from the Womb or from the Hypochondriack which marvellously suppresses all Melancholly Fumes from the Womb Spleen Stomack or any other parts by which means it Cures Fits of the Mother Palpitation of the Heart Pains in the Stomack with those Pains that so much afflict Women at the upper part of the Oesophagus or in the Throat which makes them fear they shall be suddainly Choaked Fits Heart-qualmnes all manner of Effects rising from Fumes below the Head Pains of the Head Swoundings Faintings rising from any cause of which we have had many Hundred Experiments And lastly our Remedium Faetisicum which is a singular Medicine against barrenness it cleanses the Womb from all things that hinder Conception it worms strengthens and disposes it to bear Fruit it takes away the Impediments proceeding from what Cause soever it is easie to take being very pleasant and without any manifest Operation and that of which we have had Experience FINIS ERRATA PAg 35 Line 13 for gingi pepicnm r gingipedium p 40 l 16 dele in p 51 l 14 r Exanthemata p. 61 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 59 l 15 r Hypochondries p. 61 l 3 r Hypochodrais p 105 l 4 r verulentsy p 113 l 15 for thousand r hundreds p 120 l 9 dele second is p 121 l 3 r thin l 5 r being l. 17 r Siccus p 128 l 18 dele not p 140 l 10 r perceptable p 148 l 1 for tales r tabes p 154 l 2 r called p 160 l 8 r very p 162 l 11 for by r without p 18 l 1 r sadden p 177 l 1 r peppered l 7 r foregoing 178 l 24 r Oleaginous ● ●70 r indeed if