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A59264	A friend to the sick, or, The honest Englishman's preservation shewing the causes, symptoms, and cures of the most occult and dangerous diseases which affect the body of man : with a particular discourse of the dropsie, scurvy, and yellow jaundice, and the most absolute way of cure : whereunto is added a true relation of some of the most remarkable cures affected by the author's most famous cathartique and diueretique pills.	Sermon, William, 1629?-1679.	1673 (1673)	Wing S2627; ESTC R1171	103,319	301

the Chapter of Ulcers in the Reins are also very profitable in this Disease Or take Mastick Red Corral Dragons-Blood White Amber Camphir of each two drams Agnus Castus three drams two Nutmegs Cinamon one dram being made into fine Powder mix them together and make it up into Pills with one ounce of Cypress-Turpentine whereof let the Patient take five at a time first and last Or take Gum Guaicum and Turpentine washed in Plantane-water of each one ounce the Powder of Galls so much as is sufficient to make the rest up into Pills which you may take as afore directed But attempt none of these or such-like Medicines until such time the Body be very well purged lest the Remedy prove worse than the Disease And to avoid trouble purge with my Pills for they will effect your desire CHAP. XXXII Of the FRENCH POX THe POX is a Contagious or Infectious Disease and undoubtedly for the most part gotten by Carnal Copulation with corrupt and unclean VVomen and may well be called The very Plague of Venus Some years past there was but little knowledge of it among us but now it is become frequent and daily bringeth with it many horrid and detestable Evils and very sad and troublesome accidents which in the beginning is but small yet in process of time the Patient wanting an honest and able Physician groweth to such a height that it doth not only corrupt the Humours and Spirits but exceedingly offend the Nerves Membranes Tendons Flesh and Bones and at length destroys all other parts of the Body perverting the Temperature and whole substance thereof from whence proceedeth divers sorts of Excrements This most sinful and cursed Disease is very occult and doth lie hid in the Body many months before it is perfectly discovered And the principal Part affected is the Liver as may appear by the natural Actions for in the Stomach there is an evil Concoction from whence ariseth a vast alteration of Colour a great indisposition of Body the Appetite to the sports of Venus as it were altogether dejected or lost it hath relation to the whole substance of the Liver rather than to the Heart or Brain and it doth assault the natural spirits rather than the vital and animal which being corrupt must needs infect the Liver from whence followeth shedding of hair itching about the privy parts filthy stinking Ulcers and virulent Gonorrhea's c. The Cause of this most silthy Disease Is a sordid and malignant quality containing in it self a very profound Contagion communicated from one person infected to another by Carnal Copulation with foul Women as afore-mentioned and the parts serving for Generation are for the most part infected first by reason of their tender and pure substance and in the like manner this malignant quality is communicated to the Mouth and Throat and to the Skin and the more weak the natural Faculties and Virtues of the Liver are the sooner doth it infect from whence it often falls out that many using one filthy VVoman are as it were all infected but such men who have their natural Faculties vigorous or strong are not so soon infected The Signs of this most horrible Disease Are Buboes in the Groin Pustules and Ulcers in the Yard and Urinary Passages after which doth follow a light poysonous matter with a kind of Distillation and burning or scalding heat in the Urine sometimes accompanied with a Gonnorrhea the Patient most commonly is sorely tormented with violent pain in the Head Neck Shoulders Arms Back Knees Legs and Shin-Bones spots not onely in the Head and about the Temples but in several other parts of the Body do often arise which are sometimes red and sometimes yellow which will for a short time be gone and then return again and then become more virulent which doth at last corrode or eat the Skin from whence ariseth many other filthy Ulcers not only in the Throat but in the Mouth Tongue Jaws and Nostrils c. Commonly the Hair of the Head and Beard falls off and there doth frequently appear in the Forehead and other parts of the Head Joynts and upon the Shin-Bones Nodes Knots or hard Tumours not easily to be dissolved nor cured which doth in time corrupt the very Bones and Marrow contained therein the Patient takes little rest because the pains are more violent in the night than in the day These and such like are in brief the true Symptoms or Signs of the Pox which doth not appear in all alike but in some Constitutions after one manner and in others after another Which Disease if newly taken admits of an easie Cure In order to which observe the following method Take Cassia newly extracted Syrup of Roses solutive of each half an ounce the Electuary of the Juice of Roses two drams Mercurius Dulcis ten grains with a sufficient quantity of the Distilled Water of Fumatory make a Potion thereof which take in the morning fasting Or take Confectio Hamech six drams Venice-Turpentine well washed in Rose-Water two drams Mercurius Dulcis well prepared ten grains mix them and take it as afore-directed Or take the Lenitive Electuary and Benedicta Laxativa of each three drams Mercurius Dulcis ten grains Salt of Tartar five grains being mixed together take it as aforesaid repeating the same or either of the former two or three times After which open the Liver Vein in the Right Arm the Patient not having Buboes in the Groin if so Bleeding will do much harm in drawing back the Contagion to the Liver causing the Disease to be more dangerous and painful c. Whether Bleeding may be safely attempted or not the matter is not great However let the Patient be purged sufficiently with either of the fore-mentioned Electuaries ☞ Or with my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills which by large Experience are well known to be most powerful with the Use of my Arcanum Vitae to expel this contagious Disease not onely at the beginning thereof but in such that have been tainted therewith some years Many make use of the Pills made as followeth Take Pills of Exduobus and Extract of Rudii of each one dram Mercurius Dulcis two scruples with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Cloves make them up into twenty Pills whereof take two at night and three in the morning repeating the same as need require Or take the Powder of Colocinthis Jallap Diagredium and Crude Antimony of each half an ounce Crude Mercury run through Sheeps Leather six drams being mortified with a sufficient quantity of Venice-Turpentine by beating them in a Mortar for three or four hours with a small quantity of the Oyl of Cloves make thereof a mass for Pills Or take Crude Mercury run through Leather as afore-directed one ounce and a half the best Aloes Diagredium Colocinthis and Jallap of each half an ounce Saffron three drams the sweet Oyl of Lavender-Flowers one dram with a sufficient quantity of Venice-Turpentine washed in Rose-VVater make them up into a mass for

apply it to the Belly as afore-directed You may anoint the Belly often with the following Ointment Take the Flower of Linseed Fenugreek Beans and Barly of each two ounces the Ointment called Vnguentum Agrippae one ounce and a half the seeds of Negella Daucus and Marsh-Mallows of each one dram Euphorbium Roch-Allum Frankincense of each one dram and a half fine Bole and quick Brimstone of each two drams Orris Roots three drams Oil of Rue white Lillies Orris Elder and Camomile of each one ounce Oil of Turpentine ten drams with a sufficient quantity of Bees VVax make thereof an Ointment and anoint the Parts swelled therewith before a good Fire Or take the Ointment of Sowbread Marsh-Mallows the Ointment called Vnguentum Martiatum of each one ounce and a half Oyl of Roses Rue Sage Elder and White Lillies of each half an ounce Mix them together and anoint the Parts therewith as afore-directed For they are not onely beneficial in the Tympany being the worst of Dropsies but in Ascites And in that Dropsie called Anasarca c. But assure your selves where my Pills are made use of in time there will be little or no need of outward applications ☞ For they alone have in them a Specifique or Particular Vertue totally to root out the Dropsie of all kinds and to strengthen the Liver and the rest of the Principal Bowels through the Coldness and VVeakness of which most Dropsies proceed Yet notwithstanding instead of ordinary Drink make use of either of the Drinks made as followeth seeing that oftentimes they conduce much to the Cure Take the Bark of Elder Red Sage Ground Ivy or the Herb called Alchoof Smallage the Roots of Fennel Aron and Pollipody of the Oak Scurvygrass and Brook-lime of each half a pound the best Juniper-Berries one pound Ginger one ounce being cut and bruised tie them up into a thin Cloth and hang it in an Earthen Stein and pour thereto a sufficient quantity of New Ale or Beer such that are abse may add some Rhenish or VVhite-wine so let it work together when fit to drink make use thereof Or take Clivers and Elder-Bark of each three or four good handfuls Galsingal one ounce being cut and bruifed boil them in six Quarts of small Ale to the consumption of half then add thereto three Quarts of the best White-wine and let it just boil up the second time strain it and drink thereof when dry as of ordinary Drink Or take the Bark of the Roots of Elder two handfuls Sasaphrass Sarsaperilla of each two ounces Winter Cinamon and Winter Cherries of each one ounce and a half the Seeds of Alexander one ounce being cut and bruised very small boil them in six quarts of White-wine to the consumption of the third part strain it and sweeten it with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows and drink thereof a quarter of a pint hot first and last Or take White-Wine four quarts the best Nutmegs and Winter-Cherries of each twenty in number being cut and bruised boil them to the consumption of the fourth part then strain it and keep it for use of which Liquor let the Patient drink a small quantity at a time when he pleaseth for it will not only comfort the Spirits and strengthen the Liver but with My Pills cause much Urine Or take Diacurcuma Dialacca of each two drams Troches of Rhubarb one dram with a sufficient quantity of the Conserve and Syrup of Wormwood make them up into an Electury and let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg at pleasure for it strengthens the Liver to admiration To eat often of the Conserve of Sea-Wormwood is also very profitable Sweating is of wonderful profit in this Disease So if it cannot be gained through exercise as by walking in the Summer time in the Sun or in a warm room in the Winter-season make use once a week upon a day you take no Pills of the Medicine made as followeth Take Venice-Treacle one dram and a half Diaphoretique Antimony ten grains Salt of Wormwood and Salt of Tartar of each five grains being mixed together take it upon the point of a Knife or in a Glass of hot Sack and sweat as strength will permit Or take Carduus-Water three ounces the Spirit of Saffron and Treacle-Water of each one ounce Syrup of Balm and Clove-Gilliflowers of each six drams the Chimical Oyl of Sulphur ten drops mix them and make a Potion thereof which take in the morning and sweat as directed CHAP. XXV Of the SCURVY SCORBVTI as Authors say is a barbarous word and formerly unknown to most of the Ancient Physicians especially those of the Southern Parts and derived from the Danes Which Disease was supposed to be that which Pliny maketh mention of in his Natural History The Principal Causes of the Scurvy comes from a thick and saltish Constitution of the Air being corrupt as the Air near the Sea fenny foggy or moist places which infect by the unwholesome Vapours coming from the same Also the eating of salt Meat and Bread twice baked Fish over-much dried in the Smoak rusty Bacon and many other sorts of Diet which are of corrupt nourishment decayed Beer and stinking Water do cause this Disease Likewise it comes through the Obstruction of the Spleen the course of Melancholy being hindred and mixed with the rest of the Blood infecteth the whole Body with Corruption and violent wasting The grosser part falling down staineth the Legs with spots of divers colours the thinner part being carried up doth defile the Gums with sharp salt and fretting humours and filthy growing of flesh between the Teeth The Symptoms or Signs of the Scurvy are in chief as followeth A pricking and grievous pain in the Head a stinking Breath or evil savour of the Mouth Jaws and Teeth the Gums bleed and are often red and itch and soon corrupt the Teeth loose black and rotten Spots in the Face Body Thighs and Legs at first commonly Red but afterwards Blew Purple-colour or Black sometimes Yellow c. which proceeds from the serous corrupt and filthy part of the Blood which being unfit to nourish the Body is sent forth The Patient is often troubled with a suffocation and as it were choked up the Heart panteth the Stomach is puffed up the Left Side is commonly swelled there are perceived frequent Sighings Belchings Cramps and Windiness motions to Vomit sometimes the Patient is feverish at other times tremble and shiver with cold and upon a sudden hot again sometimes heavy dull and melancholy disability to walk upon a sudden their Breath fail and it is with very much difficulty if they use but the least motion when they offer to rise or sit but upright they are almost ready to die their Spirits so much fail them but when they lie down they seem to be much refreshed and breathe not with so much difficulty and for the most part their Appetites are sharp and greedy of Meat and desire to eat often the Stomach seldom failing but the

cut and bruise them very small and add thereto one pint of VVine and another of VVater and boil them to the consumption of the third part and wash the Sore therewith twice or thrice a day after which apply thereto Oaken Leaves every time fresh and if the Oaken Leaves chance to be dry make them moist in the aforesaid VVater Or boil the Inward Bark of Oak and Elm in water with a little Salt and wash your Sores therewith often for it doth not only dry but heal Or you may apply thereto the Plaister of Red or VVhite Lead fresh twice a day CHAP. XXXIV Of the GOUT THis Disease is frequently ingendred through perpetual Crudities and Drunkenness and through the immoderate use of Venery by vehement riding and walking and sometimes by standing long still also through obstruction or stopping of accustomed Purgations Fluxes c. and through intermitting of common Exercise Grief or Sorrow Care VVatchings or sitting up all night and several other Perturbations of the Mind doth not only breed this miserable Distemper but doth ingender other violent and corrupt Humours And many times the Cholick is turned into the Gout being not well cured But for the most part a disposition to this Distemper is hereditary or from the Parents to the Children and to their Posterity and in especial manner from such Parents that have been tainted with the Pox whose Children at least must be troubled with the Gout being in my opinion somewhat related thereunto The Signs of the Gout are many which here I must omit but only when it is near at hand the Patient hath a more than ordinary sense and quickness in his Joints in so much that the smallest matter will hurt him And at the very beginning of it there will be found in the Joints a sense as it were like to crawling Pismires with a kind of unusual heat c. This Disease is known to be present by a violent pain in the Joints which for the most part is attended with swelling and redness if not at first it appears presently after and the pain commonly seizes upon the great Toe upon the left Foot and often times it spreadeth it self to the other Joints The Gout that is Hereditary or very long contracted the Patient having hard and stony knots about the Joints and more than ordinary subject to be costive and bound is seldom or never perfectly cured But those that have the Gout and not over-much stricken in years and are inclinable to exercises and are without the forementioned stony knots may be cured ☞ In order to which Cure Let the Patient make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills and of the sweating Bolus made as followeth Take Venice-Treacle one dram the Powder of Virginia-Snakeweed Gascoign-Powder Diaphoretique Antimony of each ten grains Saffron Salt of Scurvygrass Wormwood and Salt of Ash of each five grains make them up into a Bolus with the Syrup of Groundpine which take every third or fourth day in Rosemary Posset or burnt Sack and sweat as strength will permit rubbing the Patient with clean hot Cloths Or take Venice-Treacle one dram and a half Diaphoretick Antimony ten grains Salt of Tartar seven grains mix them together and take it as afore-directed and sweat Or take the Roots of Asarum four ounces Carduus and Centaury of each two good handfuls the Roots of Groundpine two ounces boil these in six quarts of Running VVater to the consumtion of half strain it and let the Patient take half a pint at a time hot and sweat as above-directed for some days together ☞ But first let the Body be sufficiently purged with my Pills and once or twice a week upon a day that you sweat not purge therewith also for they will not only keep the Body soluble but expel all acrimonious sharp and fretting humours from the Joynts by which means with the use of the sweating Medicines the Gout I have often known cured And after you have purged and sweat so that you have found Ease or Cure thereby make use of the following Pills for they much strengthen the parts made weak and prevents the return of the same Take Venice-Turpentine made into Powder two ounces Turmarick and the Roots of Ground-pine of each one dram and a half the Powder of Ash-Keys one dram the Salt of Ash and Scurvy-grass of each twenty grains Salt and Spirit of Wormwood of each ten grains with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Groundpine make them up into Pills as big as VVhite Peas and take thereof five at a time every morning fasting There are several Remedies to ease the violent Pain of the Gout some of which are made as followeth Take a new white penny Loaf Powder of Saffron and Opium of each one dram make it moist with the Oyl of Scorpions and apply it to the part pained plaister-ways Or take the Leaves and Flowers of Marigolds being bruised apply them warm as afore-directed Or boil the Crums of white Bread in new Milk and add thereto some Yolks of new-laid Eggs and apply it to the part grieved Some bath the part with warm Goat or Cows Milk not without good success Or take Red Poppies and beat them small and mix therewith a little Vinegar and apply it to the part plaister-ways Or take VVheat-Bran what you please and Elder-Leaves two or three handfuls if you can get them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of a wholesome Childs Urine after which adde thereto the fat of a Loin of Mutton or some Hogs fat and apply it warm as afore-directed changing the same twice a day Or take the Distilled VVater of the Sperm of Frogs or the VVater of Earth-Worms or the Distilled VVater of Oxe Blood and bath the part pained therewith before the fire Or take dry Salt and powder the same very small to which add Sallet Oil with a small quantity of the Oil of Juniper-berries and anoint the part affected therewith Or take the Chymical Oil of Wax and Myrrh of each a like being mixed together and the parts anointed therewith have done wonders especially in the cold Pains of the Gout Or take the Oyl of Camomile St. Johns-wort and Turpentine of each one ounce the Ointment of Marsh-Mallows one ounce and a half mix them together and anoint therewith Or take the sine Powder of Bay-berries and Ginger Sallet Oyl and White-wine Vinegar of each half a pint boil them together to the consumption of the Vinegar after which add thereto a sufficient quantity of White Wax and Harts Fat and make thereof an Ointment which use as afore-directed for it easeth the pain in any part The following Plaister is also of wonderful use Take Diapalma Paracelsus Oxycrocium of each one ounce the best Opium six drams and make a Plaister thereof which apply to the part grieved Or take the Plaister of Paracelsus and Diapalma of each half an ounce Camphir two drams being mixed together apply it as afore-directed Or take Frankincense White Wax

Burgundy Pitch and Harts Fat of each one ounce melt them together adding thereto one spoonful of Linseed Oil after which strain it into a Bason of cold water and with your hands rubbed with Sallet Oil make it up into a Roll and keep it for use for it giveth ease in most pains of the Joints being applied thereto CHAP. XXXV Of the Sciatica or Hip-Gout THe Sciatica is a violent pain in the Huckle-Bone which is caused for the most part through a gross flegmatick humour and being congealed is retained in the foresaid Bone Sometimes violent Exercise the stoppage of the Hemorrhoids and other accustomed Evacuations as the Mensis c. may also be the Cause of this Disease As touching the Cure In the first place let the Patient forbear drinking Brandy and sophisticated Wines and the unmeasurable use of Venery ☞ And make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they with much ease purge all flegmatick humours from the Joints if not of long standing there congealed Or take Oxymel of Squills from half an ounce to six drams at night going to Bed The next morning take the following potion Take the Electuary called Caryocostinum half an ounce Troches Alhandal five grains mix them with two or three ounces of White-wine and drink it off fasting repeating it as need shall require Or take the Powder of a Mans Skull that was never buried Hermodactils Senna and Turbith of each two drams Scamony prepared with Sulphur one dram being made into very fine Powder give to the Patient one dram at a time in the Distilled VVater of Fumatory or in Broth or Posset-Drink Or take Scamony prepared with Sulphur two scruples Mercurius Dulcis one scruple mix them and make it up for three doses The stronger may take it at twice as afore-directed which will eradicate or root out the Humour causing this Distemper but nothing near so powerfully as my Pills However let the Patient use his own pleasure Outward Medicines of Excellent Vse in this Disease are made as followeth Take a Bull 's or an Oxe's Gall and clarifie the same after which add thereto the like quantity of Aqua Vitae and gently boil the same till it come to Ointment with which anoint the part pained well before the fire Or take the Chymical Oil of Wax one dram and a half Oil of Myrrh and the Chymical Oil of Salt of each half a dram Oyl of Scorpions two drams being mixed together anoint therewith for it is of wonderful efficacy and to my knowledge hath helped many Castle-Sope is also of Excellent Virtue if it be first dissolved in the true Spirit of Sack and the Hip anointed therewith well before the fire You may also take the Oil of Foxes half an ounce Oil of Tiles and Earth-worms of each one ounce Oil of Turpentine and Saint John's wort of each one ounce and a half with a sufficient quantity of Virgins VVax make an Ointment thereof and use it as afore-directed Or take the Oil called Petrolei Oil of Tiles Juice of Dane-wort Turpentine of each one ounce Oil of Earth-worms one ounce and a half Spirit of Sack half an ounce melt all these together and anoint the grieved part hot therewith Or apply to the part the Plaister made of Frankincense White Wax c. in the Chapter of the Gout page 229. Or take Rosin Burgundy Pitch the Plaister of Paracelsus and Bees Wax of each one ounce Verdigrease in fine Powder half an ounce being melted altogether spread it upon Sheeps Leather and apply it to the part Some apply with excellent success Blistering Plaisters to the Huckle-Bone which doth attract or draw forth the matter to admiration keeping it running two or three days by the applying thereto a little Butter and Wax melted together and spread upon a Linnen Cloth CHAP. XXXVI Of the Invention and most Remarkable Cures effected by those most Famous CATHARTIQUE and DIURETIQUE PILLS ABout March in the Year 1661. many Persons sorely tormented with the Dropsie c. coming to me for Advice and then being ignorant of any Medicine though I had made trial of many that would combat the same put me upon a severe Study and soon after by searching the Great Volume of Nature observing the Property and occult Quality of Metals Minerals and Vegetables I arrived to the Knowledge and true Preparation of this most Incomparable Medicine And the first Pill that ever I gave thereof was to a very worthy Person a Good Friend of mine at which instant of time I took another my self which wrought upon us both very strange effects expelling not onely viscous or tough flegmatick Humours that lay furring the Tunicles of the Stomach but all sharp salt and watry Humours that were found offending And I will assure thee Reader that this Gentleman and many others with my self ever since the year 1662. upon the least indisposition of Body have made use of those Pills and thereby preserved our Bodies in Pristine Health Which may be a sufficient Argument to convince the People that this is a very Safe Medicine leaving no evil Qualities behind it as some of the same Faculty falsely to defraud the Patient do report In the year 1663. I effected many strange Cures upon persons very dangerously afflicted with the Dropsie and Scurvy c. Amongst which Captain Matthew Hall now belonging to Her Majesties Life-Guard being much troubled with the Dropsie and Scurvy for which he drunk plentifully of Tunbridge-Waters being there to wait upon Her Majesty but finding it rather destructive than to do him the least good against the Dropsie he forthwith made use of my Pills by which he had present help and will upon request testifie the same About September the same year I was called to a Gentleman then living in Black Friars sorely tormented with the Dropsie and from some other cause had Buboes in his Groins which were newly broke putting him to very great misery which with the Dropsie were soon cured with my Pills Onely he kept the Sores clean with White-wine wherein was dissolved a small quantity of Egyptiacum and applied thereto the Plaister of white Lead One Mr. John Powel a Taylor living then near to the aforesaid place troubled with a Tertian Ague his Legs much swelled who had a great Pain in his Back was in a very short time cured with my Pills The following Winter I was called to a Gentlewoman then living in Newgate-Market who had been for some years troubled with a violent pain in her Stomach and had made trial of many Medicines for help but found none till she made use of my Pills and drinking with them the Decoction of Pellitory of Spain and Gallingal as you have directed pag. 127. was perfectly cured and in a short time conceived with Child though she had had none before though married seven years About August or September 1664. Mr. Quallet then living in Field-Lane near Holburn sorely afflicted with the Dropsie Scurvy and Gout was in three weeks