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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	animal_n	motion_n	nerve_n	1,659	5	10.9186	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88710	Delaun reviv'd, vix. A plain and short discourse of that famous doctor's pills, their use and virtues VVith choice receipts for the cure of the scurvy, dropsy, jaundies, venereal and other diseases. Before I speak to this famous medicine, I will declare who Delaun was; then, the price of his pill and how to take it, and of its several virtues in order, in such plain words, as to the weakest capacity may understand: and I intreat those who hope for help hereby, would throughly read this short book, and observe my directions for their own good and the authors's credit.	Lomax, Nathaniel.	1680 (1680)	Wing L45B; ESTC R232148	9,647	14

persons take them going to Bed with great Ease and Conveniency especially such as go late to Bed and have business next day VIRTUES of this PILL This Pill is chiefly appropriated to the Stomach Stomach and with such Effects that though other Medicines may sometimes succeed yet no other is Aequivalent in healing cleansing comforting and setling this bowel and at the same time reaching the very Head This Physick The head 's excellency and this only hath prerogative to examine that Noble part that seat of Reason wherein are lodged the internal senses the will memory imagination understanding c. and all the external senses also depend on this Tower of Pallas the Head The Brain is the off-spring of all the Nerves and Fibers which distribute themselves and convey the Animal spirits to all the distant parts of man The very Heart it self owes its affections and motion I do not mean the pulsific motion to the annimal spirits The Head Head is the All of man in a word is the All of man and this Prince of Pills being sole Ruler there who shall doubt it's power in managing the meaner parts of that microcosm HEADACH 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or pains or Aches in the whole Head pains or any part of the Head are removed with six or eight Pills taken in twice so many dayes according to the first Directions But if the Disease hath been habitual and inveterate the sick person ought to try this method again and again after a week or ten dayes discontinuance according to strength c. In the same manner are cur'd these following Diseases of the Head Eyes Ears Teeth Taste Smell Viz. Apoplexy Epilepsy Dropsy of the Brain Madness Frenzy Ideotisme swimming or noise in the head weak memory Giddiness stupidity weak or sore Eyes Deafness or Drumming noise in the Ears or Head want of smell or Taste Tooth-ach Kings Evil swelling about the Neck Throat Jawes or Gumms Lethargy which vi vocis denotes a sluggish forgetfulness and is an excess of sleep and eclipse of Memory with a Fever as the famous Willis describes it if I mistake not his Sense Vertigo which is a confusion of the Animal spirits when the sight is perswaded that all its objects turn round Palsie which is a Laxation of the Nerves from their true bent and tensity whereby Motion or Sense or both in the whole or any part of the body cannot as usually be exercised And besides these Diseases of the Head there are other which are rather ill habits viz. A Coma or continual sleeping Pervigilium or a restless watching an Incubus or Night-mare Hard Drinking which is a disease of the Brest and brain Melancholy a Disease of the Heart and Head And be assured Good Fellows that nothing in Nature can carry off Sottish dulness after hard drinking like this Pill which settles both brain and stomach Sweetens the Drink-Tainted Breath and Creates an Appetite to Admiration GOUT Which though it seize parts far remote from the Head viz. the hands or feet c. Willis de Morb. Capit. and then the joynts only inter internodia Ossium is a Disease of the Head and Nerves which arise thence and consequently I hope none dare dispute this Pills Prerogative and approved Effects in this Distemper CHOLICK Which does not only afflict the Colon or great Gut Cholick a Disease of the HEAD as some think but also the whole Region of the belly and chiefly the Mesentery where there are many great Nerves is also a Disease of the Head and cured with these Pills taken in Clysters in the fit as well as afterwards Viz. thus Take of Camomise flowers Certain ●ase or cure for Collick Wind Gripes Iunsper herries bruised of each half an an Dunce Firr tops Mallows of each half an handful Anuis and Feuelséeds of each owd drachms boyl them in two ouarts of Posset ale take three quarters of a Pint of this liquor and half an Ounce of Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an egg six of Delauns Pills one Dunce of Clyster Sugar administer it and again and again if need require drink the rest of the liquor sweetned with Sugar three or four Dunces at a time and when the pains cease purge frequently with this Pill which will root out the very seeds of this miserable distemper This method also Cures Gripes Wind Stone Collick Vlcers in the Kidnies c. Deo soli gloria SCURVY 'T is not possible to describe it in its several Shapes Description of the scurvy being a Distemper that insinuates creeps into and mixeth it self with all other diseases some Authors assigne forty some fifty others seventy symptomes thereof which I have not here room enough to recount but since 't is certainly caused through the fault of the stomach and Pancreas and the blood 's being degenerated from its spirituous balsamic condition into a sharp salt liquor and complicating it self with all the aforementioned diseases of the Head 't is too true too apparent to be a disease thereof For when the teeth grow loose hollow black rotten the gums foul Seurvy differs little from the French Evil. stinking the mouth and lips black dry ulcerated the tongue raw swollen discoloured what else is the canse but the sharp Recrements of the Nerves that come from the brain black blew reddish less and bigger spots scurffs pimpled face armes or brest tetters pains in the limbs shortness of breath pursiness pricking shooting itching shifting pains in the arms shoulders legs knees anckles restless fearful dreams sour belching reaching and vomiting in the morning weak stomach nautious appetite and many other signs there be of this mischievous malady which appearing so often like the POX and often as dangerous the scorbutic husband or wife are apt to suspect themselves infected by their Chast bedfellowes and one friend to accuse another of unchast embraces cause the effects of the Scurvy differ so little from those of unclean Venery And inasmuch as no Pill or other Physick on earth hath succeeded like this no Pill but this only The Colledges Allowance is approved of by the most Learned Colledge in the World and in such request in Court and City sure the hitherto deluded Country will now see it's errour and embrace this safe and certain Physick which so firmly Conquers this Rebellious Pest and with a friendly close with Nature thrusts forth the Excrements with ease and safety ☞ seperating the diseasy matter from the mass of blood rendring the heavy body brisk active and lively giving a vital oyl to the Lamp of the heart in order to health being the sublime bliss on this side Heaven But this Taint admits of a more speedy Conquest if the Patient use brisk Exercise and every Morning and Afternoon drink the Juice of Scurvy-Grass Watercresses Brooklimes with Oranges or this Receipt for the Scurvy Take of Scurvy grass six handfuls Watereresses Brooklimes Receipt for the Scurvy