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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 in like manner advise us when to drink and that for the most part either in health or sickness is the best Rule so that where a person is apt to be thirsty he may drink more to supply the want of moisture and may serve to the wetting or moistening of the Stomach Of Sleep SLeep ought to be pleasant and in the mean between deep and wakefulness for as that sleep is not best which is troubled so neither is that which is too light and from which a person is very quickly awakened but the immoderate deep sleep is worst Persons are not to sleep till the perfect concoction of the Aliment is over which is about two or three hours afte● the Food received profitable sleep is answerable to the constitution of the body For longer sleep is more fit and needfull How long Sleep for Cholerick Bodies and Melancholick than for Sanguine and Phlegmatick When you lie down in you● Bed first lie upon your right side tha● the meat taken last may descend to th● bottom of the Stomach and after tha● upon the left that the concoction ma● be helped by the Liver lying upon th● Stomach which being perfected li● again to the Right side that the Chyl● may be more easily distributed to th● Liver but lying upon the face is judged by all to be the cause of mos● grievous diseases The most convenient time for Slee● The Time of sleep is the Night two or three hours afte● Supper because of its peaceable quie● and humidity Of Exercise EXercise ought to be moderate neither too gentle nor too vehement neither too quick nor too slow Lawfull Exercise is untill the body wax warm and appear somewhat more full and there arise the florid or rosie colour of the face and sweat and hot vapours are perceived to break forth and the respiration is great and easie and as long as the Exercise is continued it be quick and equal And the Body beginning to grow weary longer Exercise will cause stifness and weariness to assail the Body and the Body flowing with sweat will suffer loss of the Spirits and humid substance Exercises are to be according to the habit and Constitution of the Body those bodies that are full and gross and Bodies repleated with humours must use such Exercise as may correct the distemper of the body which may be more vehement and laborious yet so that they be not begun till the first and second concoction be over which may be known by the yellowness of their Urine and alwayes this is to be observed the Exercise is to be suitable to the Food received so that if the Feeding be larger the Exercise is to be the more if the Food be more sparing the Exercise is to be the less The Exercise is to be first gentle then more vehement and afterward more gentle again There is another sort of Exercise which is performed by Friction and is usefull for those who by reason of Infirmities are not able to take the benefit of Motion and is to be performed according to Reason so that the Sweat breaks forth the filth of the Body and such Excrements as lie under the skin may be allured and drawn out But as there are many and great advantages accrue to the Bodies of men by well managed Exercise so great harm proceeds to the Body from idleness and sloch for gross vicious humours heaped up in the body are the Authors of Crudities and Obstructions Gouts Apoplexies and a multitude of other diseases Of Passions of the Mind PAssions of the Mind have a great Influence upon the health of our bodies so that as our Passions are so very much are the state of our bodies altered Because by these the expulsion of the native heat with the Blood and Spirits are carried inward or outward and these Passions are in Number Four Joy Anger Sorrow and Fear Joy proceeds from the Heart for the thing causing Joy or Fear being conceived the Faculties move the heart which shaken and moved by the Faculty which hath dominion over it is dilated and opened as ready to embrace the exhilerating Object but in the mean time by the force of that dilatation it sends forth much heat and Spirits together with the Blood into all the Body a great part of which coming to the Face dilates it the Forehead is smooth and plain the Eyes look bright the Cheeks become red as died with Vermilion the Lips and Mouth are drawn together and made plain and smooth Some have their Cheekdented with two little pits which fro● the effects are call'd laughing Cheek● because of the contraction or curbin● which the Muscles suffer by reason ● their fulness of Blood and Spirits a● which is nothing but to laugh Jo● recreates and quickens all the Facu●ties stirres up the Spirits helps co●coction makes the Body to be bett● in liking and fattens it the heat blo● and Spirits flowing thither and t● nourishing dew or moisture water i● and refreshing all the Members fro● whence it is that of all the passions ● the Mind this onely is profitable ● that it exceeds not measure for i● moderate and unaccustomed Joy caries so violently the Blood and Spir● from the Heart into the habit of th● Body that sudden and unlooked f● death ensues by a speedy decay ● strength and the lasting Fountain ● the Vital Humour being exhausted which thing happens to them whic● are less hearty as Women and ol● men Anger causeth the same effusion o● heat in us but far speedier than Joy therefore the Spirits and Humours are so inflamed by it that it often causes putrid Fevers especially if the body abound with any ill humour Sorrow and Grief dryes the Body in a way contrary to that of Anger because by this the heart is so straitened the heat being almost extinct that the accustomed Generation of Spirits cannot be performed and if any be generated they cannot freely pass into the members with the Blood wherefore the Vital Faculty is weakened the lively colour of the face withers and decayes and the Body wastes a-away with a lingering Consumption Fear in the same manner drawes in the Spirits and calls them back not by little and little as in sorrow but suddenly and violently hereupon the Face growes suddenly pale the extream parts cold all the Body trembles or shakes the Belly in some is loosed the Voice as it were stayes in the Jawes the Heart beats as it were with a violent pulsation because it is almost opprest with the heat strangled by the plenty of Blood and Spirits abundantly rushing thither the hair also stands upright because the heat and blood are retired to the inner parts and the outmost parts are more col● and dry than stones by reason where of the outmost skin and pores in which the roots of the hair are fastened ar● drawn together Shame is a certain affection as it wer● mixed of Anger and Fear therefor● in that Conflict of as it were

Spirit in a large quantity and the Oyl is endowed with more and greater Virtues than I believe most Imagine yet the soot of these do greatly differ We may therefore observe that the fire impresses a greater heat upon Tobacco than did appear to be in it before wherefore this may be better for hydropical persons and phlegmatick Constitutions than for others and they whose Livers are not over-heated and that which is chewed is better for others of a hotter temperament But we preferre chewing of Tobacco before that taken in a Pipe being not so hot and having the same Physical Virtues in all respects Taking it by Snuffing is good for those whose Brains are annoyed with Rheumatismes and are dull and heavy to help the Brain to expell superfluous moysture and to draw it to the Nostrils which is the best way to evacuate the Brain But let such who have pains in their head be carefull of Snuffe lest by it they are made blind by forcing the morbifick matter to the Optick Nerves and by that means obstruct the passage of the Visive Spirits to the Eye and still remembring that which way soever it be taken Moderation must still be observed Of the Nature Vsefulness and Profit of WINE THat most excellent Liquor which we call Wine it is the Juice of the Vine exalted by Fermentation which ferment it hath in it self It hath received many and various Names according to the singular and excellent Vertues it puts forth in the Bodyes of men it is call'd by Paracelsus Sanguis Terrae the Blood of the Earth in resemblance to the Composition of a Humane Body for as that part of a humane Body which we call Blood does far excell the rest so this excellent Nectar the Juice of the Vine does far excell all other Vegetable Juices Quercetanus calls it Omnium Vegetabilium Princeps The Prince of all the Vegetables In holy Writ it hath received the highest Epithets of all inanimate created things It is called the Wine which chears the heart of God and Man and Solomon counsels To give Wine to him that is of a heavy heart that he drink and remember his misery no more In summe it is the most excellent Liquor of all other created and appointed for the exhilarating and reviving the heart of man it cheers the heart enlivens and quickens the vital Spirits it helps Concoction Distribution and Nutrition it wonderfully resists Melancholly and sadness i● quickens all the Vital and Animal Functions i● stirres up and restores in a wonderfull manne● all the Actions of the Body it strengthens the natural heat and opens Obstructions it quickens the Circulation of the Blood dissolvet● Coagulations refresheth and warms all the part● of the Body it quickens the Wit and procuret● a bold and pleasant behaviour it greatly increaseth the Vital spirit and because it is of thin an● sprightly parts it is of all other the soones● snatched into Union with our spirit and of thi● is made the best and noblest Menstruums usefull in Chymical Preparations though there may be some more powerfull they not being so fit to be received and entertained into our first Shop viz. our Stomacks as this and also it is not so easie to attain them as these And more over it is not easie to believe how powerful Menstruums may be prepared out of this E●cellent Subject both from it self alone and b● other adjuncts friendly and homogeneous to ou● Nature But to speak of it as it is of commo● Use it wonderfully amendeth the coldness o● Old Age it maketh a man Courageous in Bod● and Mind These are the excellent Commodities of Wine but these are to be understood with respect to the due and lawfull use of them not in Drunkenness and Intemperance for being so used or rather abused nothing can be more hurtful● to Body or Mind for it destroyeth the Life it weakneth the Body dulleth the Understanding it consoundeth the Memory enfeebleth and destroyeth the Reason in summe it overturneth all the Facultyes of Body and Mind of a wise Man it makes a Fool the sharp and pregnant dull and sottish it turns a good Nature into a churlish and brutish good Education into froth and flash an honest and naturally vertuous Mind into a careless loose and Extravagant taking neither care for himself nor others it hastens old Age over-dryes and consumes the Radical Moysture it maketh a Civil Man a Bedlam knowing no difference between himself and others it weakens the Sinews induceth the Lethargy Palsie Trembling of the Hands And therefore Wine though a Liquor neerest of kin to our Natures if spirituous and good yet the Excess is to be avoyded as hurtfull to all the Functions of Body and Mind and that it be moderately used that distillations exsiccations drunkenness or Inflammations do not follow For being taken out of due measure in stead of a help it will prove a ruine and in stead of a remedy an overthrow But there being divers sorts of Wine and these sorts varying much and some being more suitable to one constitution than another and some to one Age than another it is very requisite that every man understand the differences of them and their several qualities and chiefly of such Wines as are most common with us And as to the Temperatures of Wine it is generally agreed to that all Wines are of a hot temperature but though they agree about the first qualities yet they agree not about the second for some will have them of a hot and dry but others of a hot and moyst but it is not to be questioned but these Wines differ among themselves according to the Nature of the Grape and also according to the Nature of the Soil and Climate where they grow White and Rhenish Wine is most neer eac● other in nature and property they are of thi● and penetrating substance they heat and nourish the body less than other Wines they are quickly concocted and speedily distributed t● all the parts they therefore do not annoy the head so much as other Wines they attenuat● and cut gross thick and clammy humours provoke Urine and cleanse the Ureters of Slyme Gravel and Sand they cleanse the Blood and carry off tartarous Filths open Obstructions of the Spleen Mesentery and Mesaraicks they mitigate pains of the head proceeding from hea● of the Stomach they procure sleep comfort the Stomach help concoction and moisten the Body but this is much to be understood with respect to the Constitution Age Sex and State o● Body and Measure of using for these Wines are most accommodated for young hot Constitutions and corpulent Bodies hot Seasons of the Year and such as affect to be Lean and slender and therefore it may conduce much to ho● and corpulent Bodyes to drink White and especially Rhenish Wine in the Morning fasting and for cooling and pleasantness to add a little sliced Limon and to mitigate the acidity with a little fine Sugar and this may be repeated with

assaulted with a manifest Phlegmon this is cruel equal and above the Symptoms but yet there there is less danger in that which shews it self in a manifest Tumor The third doth occupy the interiour Jaws together with the Neck in which the Tumor is without and the redness conspicuous with the heat and pain the Symptoms which are in the former is nothing to this and yet here is better hope of health the Inflamation getting outward it may be digested The Fourth is the lightest of all and is judged the safest which doth not take the interiour Jaws only but also the Pole and the Muscles and yet by a Tumor of these the interiour Muscles of the Laring is prest together and all the entrance is stopped The Causes of all is Chollerick or Sanguine defluction which flows down into these seats and bringeth either an Erysipelus or a Phlegmon Or Angina is wont otherwise to be divided when the internal Muscles of the Throat are inflamed with a great straitness of Respiration but also when the external are inflamed Again when the internal Muscles of the Face are taken with a Phlegmon and doth very much hinder the swallowing and at length the external parts of the Jaws and Chin are besieged with an Inflamation Nota The Bastard is without a Fever this is produced when there is a petuitous distillation falling into the Jaws and Muscles of the Neck and then perchance there is a Tumor but without redness heat or a Fever Hitherto belongs that Species of an Angina which is produced by no proper Affect but when the Vertebraes of the Neck loosened within the Jaws and entrance of the swallow or Throat do swel and is made more strait it is known by this that the Neck is hollowed within the Sick grievously afflicted with Pain also a fall or a stroke went before or the Humour hath loosened the bands of the Vertibraes CHAP. XXXVII The Description of a Phrensie APhrensie is a perpetual or continual Delirium taking its original from an Inflamation of the Membranes of the Brain The Causes of a Phrensie is Chollerick Blood fallen out of the Vessels transpiration being intercepted it putrifies in the Membranes of the Brain external Causes increasing the Distempers are hot Air the rise of the Sun Strong Drinks over heating and inflaming the Brain Anger a Contusion or a Wound The Signs of a Phrensie are a perpetual Delirium or pratling and talking Idle Watchings a continual Fever the Respiration is low and frequent if it comes from an Inflamation of the transverse partition of the Brain but great and rare in a true Phrensie some are true which we have here described others are Bastard Phrensies which are called Paraphrenities and that is when hot Intemtemperatures are communicated to the Brains either from the whole Body or in burning Fevers or from an Inflamation from some one part viz. of the Stomack Liver Lungs and very often from the Diaphragma or Mid●iff from the Inflamation of which there is usually stirred up a Phrensie resembling a true Phrenitis A Phrensie is a most accute Affect which oftentimes kills in seven days CHAP. XXXVIII Of Melancholly Madness THe Melancholly is a Delirium joyned with fear sadness or sorrow without a manifest Cause and without a Fever and it is either a deprivation of the Imagination and Ratiocination arising from from a Melanchollick Phantasm by which he is detained in his thought by one Cogitation without a furious anger and a Fever with sadness and fear the original of this Disease dependeth upon a certain disposition of the Animal Spirits produced from the mixtion of a Melancholly Humour to which there follows the sad dark Phantasms which afterwards rouling the Objects to the Intellect do stir up this doting and anguish of Mind They who have this evil Disease are sad and solitary very fearful and stubborn which from certain Phantasms to themselves which neither are nor can be they imagine many false things they fear things not be feared they sudden and disquiet the Mind without a cause they are silent Morose and suspicious they have hunger above what is usual they sigh often the Respiration is slow and seldom and so is also the Pulse they speak absurdly Some are primarily affected from the Brain Some by consent of the whole Body Others again are called Hypocondriack and do return by Circuits or Intervals And lastly others are thus by a Symhathy of the Womb. CHAP. XXXIX The Mania A Mania ab insaniendo by the Latines furor or insania it is a Delirium without intermission and without a Fever but joyned with a certain fearce rage it ariseth from a hot and fiery disposition of the Spirit and perchance accompanyed with a venomous and malignant quality Authors will have this Disposition arise from Atra-bilis They which labour under this Disease are searce and unruly unless they be stopt with Chains they tear their Cloaths and like unto great and fearce Beasts they do violence with Teeth Nails and Fists neither do they spare themselves moreover they sleep very little they have a stupendious strength of Body a noise or sounding in the Ears dullness of the head a shining splendor in the Eyes sadness and long cares having preceded anger upon a light occasion the Eyes set and flxed upon the Objects they behold much inclining to filthy and foolish laughter a suppression of the Months and Hemorhods These do shew the approach of this Disease Sometimes a Mania is produced from External Causes such as these Witchcrafts Nightshade the bite of Mad-digs or Wolves and sometimes it comes by consent of the Womb and then it is called furor uterinus CHAP. XL. The Palpitation of the Heart PAlpitatio Cordis it is an immoderate and violent Concussion of the Heart which being troublesome to it it endeavours to shake off facultas motrix doth occasion this some troublesome matter stirring of it up which do stir or vex the Heart such as vapours and flatuousness in malignant Fevers suppressio mensium Hypochondriack Melancholly approaching the Heart also putrid and sharp Humours and too copious and so Gravel and Worms for such as these be many times generated in the Heart and then it doth necessarily induce a Palpitation of the Heart and also Tumors arising in the Praecordium Blood effused from Wounds to the Heart and also a nefect of vital Spirits and preternatural heat in the Heart as they stir up by a more vehement motion so also a Palpitat●on which is a depraved motion ensues The External Causes are a vehement Motion and Exercises of Body too much heat and anger over much craming Poisons being taken too hot Bathings and Passions of the Mind do oftentimes precipitate the Sick by swounding to death viz. the Motion of the heart being interrupted CHAP. XLI Worms LVmbrici or Worms are wont to be in all the parts of the Body but chiefly in the Intestines from a gross and clammy Flegm which is corrupted and seated in ●he common

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

it renders the Cure difficult This Disease is known to be very afflicting the Symptoms very dismal and sad to the persons afflicted with it the Cure difficult having been attempted by many learned Physitians in vain nay often and for the most part these persons seem to be worse while they are under the means of Cure than they were before by reason of the stirring of the Humour that the Patients themselves dispair of Cure which it is easie for them to do because they are always of a doubting fearing and dispairing disposition mistrusting and suspecting the worst of all things For this cause it is called Flagellum Medicorum the scourge of Physitians because of their great endeavours and parts laid out in this Disease and many times a fruitless Issue we have seen many persons in this afflicting and dismal distemper attended with variety of Symptoms some have not all the Symptoms God forbid they should some have not the same but this besure that all feels the influence upon their Minds making them pensive aggravating all outward Affliction when this Disease arises to the highest pitch their mind● are always rouling and tumbling sometimes to this thing sometimes to that sometimes to this place sometimes to that restless in every place and Condition and for the most part their Minds troubled and rowling about matters of Religion though to little purpose being never satisfyed in their Scruples but renewing to themselves new occasions of Trouble and many times they ascend to that degree that being drove to despair they attempt their own ruine and sometimes this ends in their own destruction We have our selves been very conversant with this Disease having had many Patients under our Cure and have seen and heard what we here speak of and through the Blessing of God can give a very good Account of our selves in this Cure having Cured many even persons that have been under the Skilful and able Men and that for a long course in Physick I say we have recovered them that have been as desperate as any many pregnant Instances we can give of persons in this City who do acknowledge themselves obliged to us and will own it and this done upon persons afflicted with the highest Symptoms of this Affect and this we have done Cito tuto jucunde considering 〈◊〉 the stcbborn Nature of this Disease by chance or good fortune but ut Ars docet and therefore by the Blessing of Him who is the Fountain of Blessing and without whom nothing is Blest and whom we do Implore for every good and every perfect Gift comes down from the Father of Light Neither do we speak these vaunting or boastingly or with Reflections upon any others that 's not our manner being not after the Pattern of our great Master and who himself said No Man lighteth a Candle and putteth it under a Bushel but on a Candlestick that it may give light to all that are in the House but for the publick good not doubting but others that have need may receive the same And this is to be noted That to our Knowledge we have met with none for many years in our hands but what have received good CHAP. XXI Of the Histerick Passion A Disease which is familiar to and very much afflicting Women it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suffocatio uterina or in the English the Suffocation or Strangling of the Womb because Women in this Disease seem to be strangled or choaked the Symptoms are so many that it cannot be defined by one thing only for now there is a difficulty of Breathing anon a Swounding by and by the Animal and other Actions are hurt with a refrigeration of the whole Body having its Rise from a Malignant Vapour elevated from the Womb to the superiour parts the Blood and Seed does not only afford the original to this Vapour but other viscious and corrupt Humours in the Womb whilst they put on a malignant and venomous Nature this evil doth invade by Fits which do now return more ftequently and anon more seldom They indure sometimes a longer sometimes a shorter time according to the quantity of the matter which is either more slowly or more quickly Collected so it is sooner or later discursed it is familiar to Virgins to Widows Women in Child-bed Those things which shew the approach of this Affect is Nausiousness Yaunings Stretching of the Body Rumblings of the Belly with Belching Weariness a sad Countenance Paleness of the Face with the increasing Affect it begins to urge a sense of strangling the Respiration is intercepted and the Suffocation and at length all the Vital and Animal Actions are depraved lessoned or abolished Hence there is perceived Deliriums Convulsions in the Face and Ligaments and also in the whole Body a Vertigo an inversion or rouling of the Eyes Speechless an obscure or no Pulse and other grievous Symptoms in which the Womb is sensibly stirred and as it were rowl'd together but the Affect or Histerick Fit declining the Intestines roareth the Eyes are lifted up the Cheeks are over-spread with a Redness the Animal Actions are restorred the Body waxeth Warm deep Breathings are sent forth and so the Sick by little and little is restored This is distinguished from a Syncope that here is often perceived some Pulse there is no breaking forth of a Cold Sweat there is no Paleness but rather a tumidness or swelling and sometimes a Redness and it is stirred up by Sweet smelling things and they difference it from an Apoplexy in that if these be pricked there is no Snorting and after the Fit they remember all that was said or done And lastly it is distinguished from the Epilepsie or Falling-sickness in this the Convulsive Motions are not perpetually joyned in the first time of the Invasion here is no Spittle found about the Mouth and many of the Actions are remembred after the Fit Some will not grant that the part primarily Affected is the Womb but the Hypochondres and they state the nearest Cause to be a Flatus an Air and Vapours hurting chiefly by their Acidity and Austerity by reason of the visciousness and the more Acid pancreatical Juice waxing hot the sharper Choller and more viscious Snivil in the Bowels others again do attribute it to the serous Filths born towards the original of the Nerves whence the animal Spirit affected with the Bloot is stirred up at length unto an Explosion and they think this Effect chiefly and primarily to be Convulsive and to depend very much from the Brain and Nervous kind being affected But lastly others do ascribe the Rise of the Histerical Passion to the Flatulent and thinner Blood with a certain increasing Heat impetuously rushing into the Vessels of the Lungs and Heart and thence doth produce all the fore-recited Symptoms CHAP. XXII The Jaundise THe Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so called a Viverra a Ferret because his Eyes are tincted with a Yellow Colour vel ab Ictero ave God