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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51992	Letters to a sick friend containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health. By J. M.	Marlow, John, 1648-1695.	1682 (1682)	Wing M691A; ESTC R217455	44,444	169

dye under their hands and yet we frequently find friendly Visitants crying up such when they might better spend their time in serious counsels and Christian advices to bear their visitations with patient submission to the Divine Will untill they find ease and relief from the hand of Heaven and also in timely intimations to set their Houses in order and prudently dispose of their temporal concerns by making their Wills In a sick Friends Chamber Friends have an Excellent opportunity both to do and to receive good by being put in mind of the Vanity of man in this mortal state causing them to be more industrious in the faithful improvement of their own health and in a Christian Preparation for Death Now Sir that you may be strengthen'd upon your bed of languishing and visited with the Divine saving health that so your most mortal sickness may not be unto death Eternal but for your Glory and passage into endless bliss shall be the Prayer of Your True Friend J. M. LETTER XX. SIR I Am sorry you meet with so many cross Winds in your Voyage to the Haven of health particularly that the carelesness of an Attendant I mean a Nurse should blow you back again into the wide Ocean and threaten a Shipwrack when you seemed to be gotten within Ken of harbour Great care ought to be used in choosing honest and careful Persons to attend sick Patients whose Office it is to administer Remedies prescribed by the Physitian and prepared by the Apothecary Every of these ought to know their peculiar province for the skilful Nurse as well as the ignorant Physitian makes a fat Church-yard and we find that in many Distempers careful attendance is half the cure But when the Ignorant Nurse shall usurp the Learned Physicians imployment and prescribe as well as administer it 's intollerable presumption care and watchfulness are their most commendable qualities but when they are Drowsic and careless it 's very prejudicial to the Patient when like the first woman they tempt to that dyet which is Destructive both to the Patients health and the Physicians credit Eating forbidden Fruit was at first our sin when it was contrary to a Divine command and it now causeth sickness when it 's contrary to the Physitians advice I have sometimes known a Nurse perswade the Patient to eat that which she her self loved when it was contrary to the patients Distemper and sometimes the Physitian must be forbid to prescribe Gascoin Powder because she hath known one to dye after it and sometimes the Physitians prescriptions must be all set behind the Window curtain because she doth not approve of them and in the mean time she gives her Diascaudle and what call 'um Water A Child once dying of the Small-Pox yet under the Care of an able Physitian the Nurse threw away all his Medicines privately and when it could not sleep sent to the Apothecary for Syrup of Lettuce and when it was costive for Syrup of Roses which was discovered a while after in the Apothecaries Bills who knew not what use it was put to untill she confest it to her Shame and Ruine Sir I hope you will survive this unhappy accident of your Nurse and live to see her repent The smell of a Violet I hope will be restorative and believe it you shall never want health if it be in my Power to contribute towards it who am Your Loving Friend J. M. LETTER XXI SIR I Understand by the Physician that your Distemper requires Bleeding and I also perceive you have a very great aversation to it Good Sir I beseech you why is it not better to part with your Blood than your Life but you say the Blood is the Life and I 'll say the Blood is the cause of Death also when there 's too much of it or when it 's naught as I am perswaded yours is because your learned Doctor judgeth so Are not all Creatures relieved with bleeding and is it not practised by all wise Nations The French and Spaniards use it two or three times in a day and our forefathers shed their Blood by pounds to save their Lives and shall not we do it by Ounces Indeed Sir you had better sleep with a healthful body than in a whole skin Some learned Jewish Doctors will tell you that Circumcision was a means of health as well as a Tipifick Institution But Sir if you do open a Vein make use of a skilful Chyrurgeon that may not make you lame to make you sound and open a Door with a Lance to let out your Soul with your Blood for some such there are in the World that want both skill and care and pour Gaul and Vinegar instead of Wine and Oyl into their Patients wounds Choose a man of honesty and reputed skill in his profession and one whose particular imployment it is venture not your Life in the hand of one whose covetousness prompts him to venture out of his own Calling neither he nor you can so rationally expect the Divine Blessing upon your bleeding which will promote the Circulation of the remaining mass of Blood whereby it will the better purifie it self and the Blood being clarified the Spirits will become more lively and vigorous to push off your Distemper which good news will as it were kindle Bonfires of Joy in the Breasts of all your cordial Friends In which catalogue you may safely number J. M. LETTER XXII SIR I Cannot but wonder that you should wonder at the unsuccesfulness of the last Prescriptions when I hear you perplex your Thoughts with melancholy Contemplations A man may muse himself into his Grave and think himself to Death To be careful for nothing but to please our Maker and to save our Souls will very much promote the Health of our Bodies The Effects of Love and Hope cherish the natural Heat and radical Moysture beget gentle and vigorous Spirits which makes the vital Powers more brisk and lively On the contrary tedious and perplext Studies restless Impatience fretful Murmurings and discontented Thoughts they stop the regular motion of the Blood damp the Spirits and hinder the faculties of the Mind When the Briskness of the vital Heat is suffocated and the Contraction of the Heart weakned and the Blood grown thick and cold in the extremities of the Vessels and is not able to thrust it self into the remoter branches of the Arteries and Fibres of the Veins but stagnates in the narrow passages of the Body and Brain from thence is laid a foundation for Pains Palsies and all Scorbutick Distempers and then we sigh and groan and live a dying Life or a living Death which is very burthensom to humane Nature Spiritual pleasure is an excellent Medicine against bodily pains and true Piety is the best Cure of Melancholly in the whole World When the Soul is filled with light and vigor it infuseth a strange kind of Alacrity into the Humors by a physical Efficiency Internal Joy grounded upon the

Reflections of a good Conscience hath a mighty power both to correct and exalt a mans natural temper Those Ardent Breathings wherewith the pious Soul is continually carryed out towards God and Goodness are to the Body like so much fresh Air and wholsom Exercise they fan the Blood and clarifie the Spirits and purge them from their feculency which would otherwise cloud the Understanding and make us dull and listless Therefore Sir I beg of you as you tender your Health pare away all your superfluous thoughts and let a lumpish Spirit be a Stranger to your Habitation because it is a Scandal to Christianity Who hath more cause to rejoyce than they that have the Smiles of Heaven and the foretastes of endless pleasure Therefore suffer your Harp to hang no longer upon the Willows but contemplate the Song of Moses and of the Lamb which will elevate all the powers of Nature When men give way to violent and unreasonable passions and lay out more in expectation than the fruition will make amends for they purchase Diseases at a dear rate The passions of the Mind influence the Humours of the Body Anxious Solicitudes about Events and Murmuring at the Allotments of Providence suspend the Influence of divine Blessing and withdraw that holy protection who hath promised to care for us if we cast all our care on him Hope deferred will make the heart sick Eager desires after terrene Enjoyments as they drownd mens Souls in perdition so they pierce mens Bodies with many sorrows When swarms of perplexing Cares hive in mens Heads they yield more Sting than Honey There are many in the World who stab themselves with pining grief and poyson themselves with pensive Melancholly Wrath kills the foolish man and Envy slayes the silly one Nehemiah's grief changed his countenance and we know that Fear hath torment When the Mind is kept in an equal calm serene temper the Body is sensible of the Conveniency A chearfull spirit doth good like a Medicine but on the contrary a sorrowful spirit dryes the Bones The way to pull out the thorn in the Flesh is to heal the wound in the Spirit If men did sigh for nothing but Sin and set their affections on him who best deserves their Love and make use of the Remedy provided for all the evils of the World viz. a Contented Mind their healths would be better secured but when any created good lyes too near the Heart or the Clouds of Melancholly eclipse the upper Region of the Mind they hinder the vigorous Reflections of the vital Spirits and render Medicines ineffectual By melancholly sad and gloomy thoughts we expose our selves to the power of the Prince of Darkness who loves to inhabit sad Souls who love Sunless dayes Spend not your Life like a man possest amongst Groves and Tombs by profound Sorrow and Melancholly we give place to the Devil That made St. Paul compassionate the excommunicate Corinthian lest being too much cast down Satan should get advantage of him Too much sadness like the Earth lying under water makes it unfruitful Therefore Sir let me beg of you to hoise the sails of your Soul and to bid adieu to needless Thoughts Forgive the haste that made these Blots and believe that I am without spot of complement Your unreserved Friend J. M. LETTER XXIII SIR I Am glad to hear you find your distemper abate upon the use of the last Remedies but let me tell you I attribute very much of their success unto the temperate exact and regular Dyet I find you observe and you will experiment that it will very much facilitate the Cure for in some distempers a very slender Dyet and taking in little Drink doth withdraw much of the fewel that increaseth the Disease It ill becomes a sick man to dig his Grave with his teeth make his Table a snare and Dedicate meat and drink Offerings unto the god of his Belly when mens hearts are overcharged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness it not onely causeth Diseases but hinders their Cure some patients lye continually like John Babtist's head in a Charger and so oppress Nature with a greater load when they should be making the Vessel lighter more being killed by Meats then by Musquets But though you do well to be very exact in observing a Physical Dyet yet so much ought to be taken as may support Nature and make it's burthen tolerable Sir I must bid you good Night and only take leave to tell you that my best Endeavours are at your service and remain Your Humble Servant J. M. LETTER XXIV SIR I Received yours Dated the 10th instant wherein you seem very inquisitive to know what may further contribute towards the Perfecting your Health and render the means yet more effectual Unto which I must answer If you would exercise your Body by Walking Riding Bowling Pumping or Shooting in the Long-Bow or the like for by Labour and Exercise we get both our bread and our health and Adams curse becomes a blessing unto a Christian That in the sweat of his brows he should eat his bread Idleness one of Sodom sins becomes a great punishment The running Stream is pure and clean when standing water gathers mud But on the contrary you ought to be Cautious of violent motions lest thereby you extinguish the flame of Natures Candle by walking too fast you may make more hast than good speed and leave your health behind you Many people like the two Disciples running not out of love as they did but out of rashness into a Sepulchre But yet moderate Exercise is of great advantage to warm the Blood and open Obstructions and excite the operation of Medicines and render them much more effectual In a Physical sence bodily Exercise profiteth more than a little Sir so often as your Pen gives me a tast of your Ease and recovery I relish much happiness who am Your Sympathizing Friend J. M. LETTER XXV SIR ONce more give me leave as a Friend to tell you that I am confident the Air taken in a morning this pleasant month of May wherein nature provides something to entertain all your Senses would prove exceeding advantageous and make your Dyet-drink more prevalent for there is a Nitre in the Air that contributes nourishment to all beings especially to follow a Plow and suck in the cherishing steams from the breasts of your Mother the Earth and if you can your native Soyl where you drew in your first breath But on the other hand have a care of that which we Vulgarly call taking Cold for Death sometimes creeps into the body through the pores of the Skin so that if at any time the alterations of the Air put a stop to the genuine operation of Medicines do not unjustly blame the Physician or the Remedies have a care of taking cold in your feet lest you go wet-shod to your Grave or of leaving off a Garment lest you put on a Winding-sheet The humors in mens bodies are tost in the Air like