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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03336	Good tydings to the sick and lame: or, The sick-man's library. Teaching both high and low, rich and poor, next under God, how to prescribe to, or procure ease for the pained, strength for the weak, health for the sick, and cure for sores. Being a true and candid relation of the vertue and uses of four excellent medicines, viz. Arcanum vegetabilium, Pilulæ vegetantes, Balsamum vitæ, Unguentum refrigerans, whereunto is added, a few of the many testimonies and cures performed by the same ... published for the good of all who labour under pain and misery. / By Rich. Fletcher Nath. Merry Professors of chymical pysick in London.	Fletcher, R. (Richard), fl. 1676-1677.; Merry, Nathaniel.	1674 (1674)	Wing F1358; ESTC R177136	7,737	18

as before Also this Method must be observed all along in the Cure and you may in a short time find the Subtile Enemy rooted out Now if there be any breakings out or pains in the Limbs in this Disease as often it happens annoint the parts grieved or pained with our Balsome warm every Night and Morning For the Gout Take a large Dosse of our Spirit every other Morning and the same Night take two or three of our Pills and every Night and Morning annoint the parts pained with our Balsome and Oyntment mixed together warmed For the Green Sickness Dropsies and Worms Take a small Dosse of our Spirit every Morning fasting For Agues Feavers Iaundice Black and Yellow every other Morning take a large Dosse of our Spirit the same Night take one or two of our Pills so continue as long as you see cause For the Rickets in Children give them every other Morning a large Spoonful of our Spirit and every Night annoint their Stomachs and Joynts with the Balsome warm For the French Disease Alamode take our Spirit every other day in a large Dosse and the same Night take a large Dose of our Pills two three or four and sweat upon them If there be any Swellings Scabs breakings out Vlcers or violent pains in the Limbs anoynt the parts with our Balsom every night For the Runing of the Reins take our Spirit and Pills as is besore directed in the French Pox. For the Curing of Sores as Cancers and Cankers Gangreens and Vlcers Fistula's Kings-evil or any other old Sores Dress them twice a day with our Balsom as you use to do other Wounds or Sores with other Oyntments If there be any deep Wounds as in Fistula's make Roles or Tents with Lint or Flax dip them in the Balsom melted and tent the Wound every Dressing and lay a Playster upon the Wound of the said Balsom Dress all such Sores twice a day 't will be convenient for such Patient to purge once in three days with a Dose of our Spirit and the same night to take a Dose of our Pills for they do wonderfully dispose Wounds to healing In the cure of other Sores as Wounds Stabs Bruses apply a Plaster of the same Balsom and dress them once a day In all old or cold Swellings Strains Numb Lame or Weak Limbs anoynt the apart affected night and morning with our Balsom warm and every third or fourth morning take a large Dose of our Spirit For Burns Scalds Scabs Itch Tetters Ring-worms Shingles Inflamations Hot-swellings Piles or Hemmorrhoid anoynt the parts affected every night and morning with our Oyntment take a Dose of our Spirit every second or third morning and at night take a dose of our Pills Lastly those that are troubled with any other Diseases than those aforementioned either Internal or Externial within the reach of Medicine of what nature or kind soever may safely make use of these our Medicines for they have been found so powerful safe and effectual in resisting Putrefaction easing Pains strengthening Nature that being timely taken many dangerons Diseases may in a short time be cured by using these Medicines as need shall require the foresaid Directions is sufficient to inform you And let me advise all who love their Healths to take a dose of our Spirti often to correct the evil effects the precedent unseasonable weather and unsound Dyet and 1 or 2 of our Pills the same night These Medicines being-friendly to Nature preventing Diseases rooting out the Scurvie which secretly lodges in the mass of Bloud in most seeming healthy Persons from which Root most other Diseases arise being but Branches of the same stired up by every little accident Hetrogenious to Nature This Medicine being rightly adapted for the destroying of Diseases in Semene by altering Ferments doth prevent the Plague Small Pox Mezles and many Diseases and is of that renovating property that it may well be called as indeed it is a rare preserver of health and vigor consequently prolonger of life also For the confirmation of which see the History of Life and Death by Francis Lord Bacon pag. 25. who complains of the want of such Medicines in the Vulgar Art of Physick in his time The Art of Physick saith he which we now have looks no farther commonly than the conservation of health and cure of Diseases As for those things which tend properly to long life there is but slight mention and by the way only notwithstanding we will propound those Medicines which are notable in this kind I mean those which are Cordials For it is consonant to Reason that those things which being taken in Cures do defend and fortifie the Heart or more truly the Spirit against Poysons and Diseases being tranferred with judgement and choice into Diet should have a good effect in sort towards the prolonging of life And pag. 51. We do considenly affirm neither let any man reckon us amongst those Hereticks which were called Cathari that often purges and made even Familier to the body are more a vailable to long life than Exercises and Sweats Thus far we have digress'd For Sea-men that go long voyages these Medicines are of great use and vertue and may be a means to save life when the Doctors Chest may fail for in Calenture Fevers and Fluxes many Seamen are lost for want of proper Medicines powerfully to withstand the same Now for the Cure of these Diseases let the Sick take a large dose of our Spirit and when the Spirit hath done working then take two or three of our Pills and sweat upon them and by this Experiment alone you will find that a Master of a Ship or any of his Company may by these four Medicines perform more noble Cures though ignorant in Physick and Chyrurgery than the knowing Artest with a Chest full of Gallenical Medicines And he or she that is furnished with these Medicines and useth them according to our directions aforesaid may cure themselves with great ease safety secresie and cheapness and that there is goodness and worth in those fore-named Medicines and that many have been cured by them who have been past all probable hope of recovery In confirmation of which take these few of many Testimonies the whole being too tedious to relate TESTIMONIES In the twelfth Month 1672 came to my House one M. Broomhale which a little before had some of my Spirit Pills and Balsom for the use of one Manwaring a woman of seventy years of Age and she had been lame many years her Legs ulcerated swelled and afflicted with general pains and shortness of Breath insomuch that recovery was not expected yet for the expence of twenty shillings was cured to the wonder of her acquaintance This is well known to the great ones of this Nation This is part of the Relation brought me by her Friend she lodged at the time of her curing at one M. Clarks Midwife in the old Ambury at Westminster Henry Churcher in Garden-alley in Bishopsgate-street