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A50385	Medicinal councels, or advices written originally in French by Dr. Theodor Turquet de Mayerne ... ; put out in Latine at Gevena by Theoph. Bonetus ; Englished by Tho. Sherley ...	Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.; Bonet, Théophile, 1620-1689.; Sherley, Thomas, 1638-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing M1428; ESTC R32060	54,950	161

the French King Written in French 13. Another Councel in the same Disease for the same Person Written in French by the renowned Dr. de Arduynes Physician of the Hospital of Charity at Paris called St. Iames Hospital 14. Another for the same Person Written in French 15. Advice against the Epilepsia or Falling-sickness For a Maid of Quality Written in French by a Physician whose name is not known The First COUNCEL In a Case of Consumption for a Noble Person Written in French My Lord I Give you thanks for your Charitable and Pious advice sent to me and taken out of the last Chapter of Ecclesiasticus It is very fit for me who am now growing into old Age the inconveniencies of which are already incumbent upon me The Inhabitants of this Kingdom being disturbed with Tumults and I at a distance from my Lordship of Aubonne In that place it would not have been difficult to have found a Sanctuary where I might have took a farewell of the World and there quietly have resign'd my Soul into the hands of my Saviour But perhaps it is otherways decreed by Gods over-ruling power to resist which were impious and wicked I know not if there yet remain such a happiness for me which the troublesomeness and incommodity of the journey proceeding from the distance of the place and length of the way forbids me to hope that I may yet enjoy your Company But if God do grant it it will be much to my satisfaction and content if otherways accept favourably of the friendly and kind propensity of my mind and my desires to be near and present with you I am ready by all sort of services to deserve your favour But being separated from you by a fatal necessity since I cannot assist you nearer hand for the honour you confer upon me in desiring my advice in the recovery of your health which I wish to God you may injoy better though this present intemperate Weather doth not savour it but rather puts a stop to the use and efficacy of Medicines yet for all that as improper as the Weather is accept of and follow the Councel I here send you the which I offer to you with an affectionate mind I do not doubt but that Mr. de Gras hath exactly and throughly examined your Constitution in general and the unequal distemperature of all your parts both Natural Vital and Animal and I do firmly allow of the conjectures constituted by so Learned a Man and one knowing in the Art but since I have been acquainted with you from your Cradle nay with your Ancestors before you the last fate of whom was throughly examin'd and look'd into by me I suppose this affair ought to be deeper inspected Your Illustrious Father of happy memory had the thread of his Life broken off before its due time by a continual Cough and an incessant defluction upon his Lungs But as to what concerns your self if I remember rightly you are like him in every thing both in your Mind and in your Body you had always weak Lungs you wax Lean of which I have been an eye witness and oftentimes also you did use to spit blood though in small quantities This I suppose That as those parts which are weak by Nature are subject to suffer by all sort of injuries so the Lungs are so above the rest both upon the account of their proper Texture which is rare and spangious as also by reason of their Scituation by which they easily receive the Morbiffick Causes as well from the superiour parts which lay over them as also those which to their great prejudice are transmitted to them from the inferiour parts I do not deny but that the Stomack performing of its Office ill the Mesentery filled with Obstructions and the Liver generating acrid and thin blood may from the depraved condition of the aliment they afford evilly affect the Brain and Lungs whose Excrements whether they are transmitted thither from other parts or Congested there are yet very Liquid as long as they remain in their state of Fluidity which is common for all dissolv'd Tartars but having gain'd a place and being lodged in the Pipes of the Lungs they Coagulate into a glutinous and mucilaginous substance producing that Asthmatick and P●…isical disposition or difficulty of Breathing with which you are molested For this mischief viz. the Leanness and Corruption of the whole Body is occasion'd and doth proceed from these Excrements although there be no present Aposthumation Vomica or Ulcer yet do these Excrements threaten the same effects and no less mischievous That you may receive relief there is a necessity by a good Diet to amend the Vices of the antecedent Causes in their Fountains or Spring-heads reducing by degrees to a better state the deprav'd Faculties of the parts in which the First and Second Concoctions are perform'd Secondly to hinder the Flood and defluction from the Brain and that by strengthening drying and diverting to other parts that humour which otherways perpendicularly flows from thence upon the Lungs Thirdly repairing their Balsom retrieving them from put refaction by the sorce of Medicines indow'd with a Balsamick power And if in the course of doing this in the mean time the Anacatharsis or upward Evacuation happen to be difficult or stopt care must also be taken of that And at last there must be Analeptick means made use of to refresh and restore the parts which are tending to a decay and Consumption 1. That you may attain this end follow exactly the advice given you by your Physitians concerning Diet which if I should particularly describe this Councell would swell into a Volume 2. Upon the account of the Brain prepare Emissary passages for it besides such as it hath naturally of its own I do not disapprove of Issues in the Arms but they are no way comparable to those which are made in the Shoulders upon the Region of the Omoplats or Shoulder Blades at an equal distance from the Spine or Back-bone perhaps you will object your Leanness to which I answer That I have not spar'd those which have been extenuated and I find them to be more efficacious then those made in the Neck betwixt the first and second V●…tebra's Wherefore omit not this remedy and in this case it is sufficient to put in and closely press down five or seven Pease applying a sticking Plaister upon them I approve of the Plaister pro suturis which is compos'd of moderately warming and gently adstringent things which doth powerfully strengthen and confirm the parts and helps to suspend the defluction The place of this may be supply'd by a Capp or Coife which I make of dryed Bettony Rosemary Red Roses and the Barkes of new Pistacho Nuts adding moreover yellow Amber and the Seeds of Roman Nigil with a few Cloves Keep your Head neither too hot nor too cold but nevertheless let it be so cover'd that the cold may not offend it I cannot forbear to press

Blood Stone and Manus Christi composed with Pearls and Corals If you are not inclin'd to sleep procure it by intervals with Art take care therefore to prepare either Diacodion Tabellatum or use Syrup of white Poppies dispensed as it ought to be using them at the hour of sleep and taking them in the Cream of Barley beginning with half an Ounce or three Drams and so proceeding by degrees to an Ounce at most if necessity require it but have a care you use them not if they may be spared As to General Remedies viz. Purgation and Blood-letting let the use of the first be seldom always avoiding strong Purges for it is enough to use Laxative Ptisans prepar'd with Senna Tamarynds Cassia and Syrup of Cichory with a fourfold proportion of Rhubarbe sometimes adding new granulated white Calabrian Manna all being well clarified Neither omit letting blood which let it be frequent rather then much according to indications moreover the revelling and derivative Medicines prescribed by your Physicians are to the purpose and therefore to be apply'd at convenient times according to advice As to the Issue which is in your Arm I do not dislike of it but according to my Judgement I had rather have one made by burning in the Neck betwixt the first and second Vertebra's or two Issues made upon the Shoulders betwixt the superiour Angles of the Omoplats and the Spine of the Back Besides these let Medicines be provided ready against the Paroxysme that is when the blood doth abound in this case I do no ●…ess approve of opening a Vein in the Foot than in the Arm or let a Cupping-glass be apply'd to the region of the Liver use Oxycrate made with Plantain water and Frog Spawn Let Trochises or little Balls be made with Gum Tragacanth dissolv'd in Plantain water and compacted with a Powder composed with half a part of Rock Alom reduced to a subtile Powder a fourth part of Harts-borne calcin'd with fire till it be white also a fourth part of prepar'd Blood stone and coro●…ted Manus Christi the weight of all of them Hold these Balls in your mouth and let them melt by degrees and so swallow them for they dissolve but slowly The effect of Alon●… 〈◊〉 this cafe is very great it may be given at ●…he hour of sleep to the quantity of a Dram 〈◊〉 Barley Broath several days successively it may also be dissolv'd in Milk that is turn'd ●…d become thin by Boiling in it Plantain Mullin Allheale Pimpernell Tormontill and Vinca per Vinca or Periwinckell clarifying this Milk by settling and adding Alom to it that so it may be given with Apozemes or Iuleps I cite here this Experiment taken out of our Authors because by the prescribing the use of it I have gain'd honour and credit especially in the ordering the use of it to a Noble Matron afflicted with a desperate Haemoptysis or spitting of Blood from the Lungs ejecting from thence divers pounds for several days together I ordered to bruise the tender Leaves of red stinging Nettles and to give five Ounces of the juice pressed out of them and clear'd by settling Twice in a day if there be added to this an Ounce of rightly prepar'd Syrup of Coral the Medicine will be more efficacious And although she was then Threescore Years Old weak and helpless yet she was restored to perfect help for five years You may put the Councel I have given you into use for now I have nothing more to say If God grant you Life it must be restor'd by proper Remedies I shall always be ready to serve you in the preservation of your Health as far as my Experience in the Practice of my Profession will enable me London February 20 1657. This Illustrious Nobleman is now living Anno 1674. He is more then Threescore Years Old a Batchelor hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Shoulder Blades which stand off like Wings shewing by his Habit of Body and all other signs his native propensity to a Consumption spitting Matter perpetually afflicted with a Cough only using drying Food as Salt-meat Herrings and smoaked Meats finding moist Food to be hurtful for him COUNCEL the Third In various Hypochondriacal Distempers For a certain Noble Councellor at Law Written in French WHen I carefully take under examination all those Symptoms with which you have been molested and tired out and having also an Eye to your Temperament I do constitute the root of a●… those Griefs with which you have been afflicted to be in a Melancholly humour not only ge●…erated in the Liver and evilly separated or expell'd worse wrought upon in the Spleen remaining to the hurt of the Stomack an●… those parts by which it ought naturally t●… be discharg'd but also mixed in the Veins with the rest of the Mass of Blood nay extended as far as the Brain which this offensiv●… Enemy of Nature doth assault as an Organical part upon whose temperament an alteration being made by it from hence the Principle Functions of the Soul do act erroniously at sometimes And from this humour and from nothing else is the Original of your fore-pass'd Melancholly afflictions returning upon you by fits the settling of humours in the parts near the Fundament the malignancy of which humours consists in a Septick and Corrosive Salt hath begotten that great Ulcer which is now turn'd to a Fistula That troublesome heat of the Palm of your left hand and the sole of your Foot doth plainly shew the power of the Spleen affecting the upper as well as the nether parts also the intense dryness of your Mouth all which are induced by Sulphurious Nitrous and Vitriolate exhalations sent up from the Bowels Moreover the Stupor and Numbness of your Arms Legs which affects you only by Periods and Fits not constantly to all which may be added the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stuttering of your Tongue returning by intervals from these without doubt I say is the Idea of your Melancholly afflictions all which may be constituted to proceed from the Reciprocal flowing of that juice from the Spleen to the Brain and contrary ways flowing back again which oftentimes introduceth grievous Symptoms as the Epilepsia and others insomuch that it is not absurd to make a presage from these signs of the near approach of a Palsie though I think the danger may be prevented if you be but strong enough let us omit the Cure of the Fistula since it is almost healed But lest we Triumph before the Victory be gain'd we must allow the space of five or six Months to expect whether perhaps any new budding of the Disease do not cause us quite to lay aside our conceived hopes of a perfect Cure for the Melancholly humour is not unlike the dispositions of the most sort of Poysons which by the force and efficacy of Antidotes are somewhat weakened and the Tempest which they brought with them allay'd and the introduced Symptoms ended so that Nature being restor'd to

her former state doth easily overcome what remains Let us direct our aim then at this point since in my judgement any other method of Cure though it may appear never so useful will prove ineffectual for the future I do not touch upon your Diet being certain that those to whose care you have committed your health will not pretermit any occasion of either doing what is fit or omitting what is inconvenient let us proceed to remedies of these I think it will be vain for the future to continue in the use of slight ones which are usually prescrib'd more for the comfort of the Physician then the Sick which are really adiaphora or indifferent they are innocent truly but by being so they afford no help This Evil is to be pluck'd up by the Roots otherwise it will be perpetually hatching and producing a new Brood Let Vomits lead on the first and main Battle as well for their efficacious removing the filth of the first regions of the body as also to remove by their specifick efficacy from which only the Triumph and Victory over Melancholly is to be expected future impediments Of these I know none more prevalent nor of less danger than the infusion of Crocus Metallorum made in Canary Wine allowing an Ounce of this to a Pint of the Wine of which if you are easie to Vomit you may take the first time one Ounce adding of simple Oxymel half an Ounce and one Ounce of Cardus Beneditus Water if you are hard to work upon then you may take from the quantity of ten Drams to an Ounce and half of it though I think it safest to begin with a small Dose except the vehemence of the Disease perswade otherwise Vomit three or four times nay more making use of no other Medicine between but if your endeavours to Vomit prove fruitless the Stomack may be easily moved to it by drinking of Barley Water or thin Chicking Breath nay only with warm Water procure this sort of Evacuation at least three times allowing the space of two or three days between after which apply your self to Purgation beginning with Elleborat and Hypochondriack Apozems If by rubbing and pressing hard with your hands the whole Abdomen and the Hypochondries there be found pertinacious obstructions there it will be necessary then to exhibit some preparing Medicine for 7 or 8 days together which being perform'd the Purgation of the humour is to be administer'd again If there be any occasion to open a Vein from which nevertheless I expect little benefit let the Physician that is present take care of that I note this one thing to you that I prefer the opening of an inferiour Vein in the Malleoli or Ancles rather then a superiour in the Arms unless there be somewhat else that hinders it The Body being thus conveniently Evacuated the whole business of the Cure is to be directed to the use of Steel in this Cure the chief Medicine There are three Weeks at least to be imploy'd about the foresaid general praescripts and in the mean time care must be had of that intense dryness of your Tongue which is so troublesome to you which I hope in a small time will be dissipated from which no great danger is threaten'd so that care be took that the Body be cleansed from those hot dry and vitriolick juices of the nature of Canker of Brass which doth enduce this intense and unsatisfy'd thirst in which case there is great relief found in the opening the Veins situate under the Tongue by which the heat of the Lungs and Heart is allay'd and the Brain effectually discharg'd if you find the Brain to be possess'd with this matter and if you find the continual Numbness of the Members to remain together with an imbecility to move apply a great visicatory to the Nuck of the Neck and make two Issues in the topes of the Shoulders The Head being shaved put upon it Fernelius his Cataplasme or some other Epispatick Anointing the whole Back-bone every day with Balsom of Earth-worms or Batts c. And when the Weather is convenient for it go to the Baths of Borbon or Aquense which are not far from your House and use to wash your Body with them and let the whole Spine of your Back be dropt upon by these Waters I do firmly believe your Panick fears will vanish if you devote your self to the use of Steel by the virtue of which I have seen many Melancholly persons deliver'd the weakness of whose Limbs did declare that they were already Paralitick And among these a certain Maid of Honour committed to my ●…re the last year by the Queen of Bohemia who by the force of this Melancholly juice had the motion of all her Limbs took from her whom by Gods assistance I restor'd to the Queen again Merry and enjoying a firm health to the admiration of all those which had her in Cure before me in whose judgement she was afflicted with a Palsie I proceeded altogether another contrary and yet common way by the help of which she attain'd her health For 't is only old Dogs that are the best Hunters But concerning your Fistula I think it is not far from being healed if your Chyrurgion may be credited who is a most expert man to whom which you before desired me to do since I have lately writ there is no need that I take up my pen again that he may be further satisfy'd of my kindness Outward Remedies are needless for the future but lest I should seem to be wanting in my Care and Friendship if there is any thing needful to dry and confirm the Cicatrice use the Balsom of Sulphur of which you have heard me spake often which will supply the place of all other Medicines which are fit for the part affected you may apply Emplastrum Diasulphuris to the part which since it needs some detersion and cleansing upon that account it is convenient to use the solution of Crollius his Lapis Mirabilis or another according to my judgement of equal efficacy consisting of pure Bole-Armenick White Vitriol and Camphor prepar'd according to Art or you may well use the Mercurial Water described by Hartman made of Mercury sublimate freed from its corrosive Spirits by Tynne according to Art When the fear of a Palsie shall be dissipated and the humour bred in the Hypochondries overcome and cut off also when it shall only remain to imploy our endeavours that the Cure of the Fistula be made firm and undoubted And that the birth of the same germinating kind of Ulcers in those lower parts subject to corruption may be prevented then the use of Mercurial Medicines taken inwardly will be seasonable which in convenient time and place shall be prescribed to you with necessary cautions as also certain other exsicating Medicines taken from the Classes of Minerals and these such as promote a Diaphoresin or transpiration at the pores whose power and faculty is to discuss malignant vapours and