afflict Mankind being generally the most uncomfortable lasting and dangerous It truly and most stupendously repairs weak Memories bad Eye-sight and Hearing being inwardly taken and outwardly made use of and strengthens and preserves the same removing dulness drowsiness and heaviness from the Spirits and Senses rendring the Intellectuals lively quick and apprehensive c. being peculiarly adapted to remove all Head-diseases even to help such that are craz'd whose Senses are almost gone occasioned from over-whelming Perplexities for which and all Discontents vain Fears foolish Fantasâ—es and Imaginations which discompose and enslave the Mind hurry and disorder the Spirits thereby hurting the Brain impairing the Memory Sight Hearing c. it has been experienc'd to do more than many other Medicines of greater repute It comforts and strengthens the Brain and Nerves powerfully refreshes the Sensitive Faculties relieves the Animal Spirits being excellent also in several other Diseases of the Head whether recent or inveterate as Stuffings of the Head Colds Catarrhs or defluxions of Rheum whether upon the Eyes Nose Teeth Palate c. cures the Palsie of the Tongue running Sores or Imposthumes in the Ears being admirable against Deafness or thickness of Hearing noise and pains in the Ears c. swellings of the Throat Jaws and the like from a defluxion of Humours It is a certain Remedy in the Apoplexy both for Prevention and Cure that Distemper of late being very frequent and fatal and will do more in that case than any Person is aware if it be inwardly taken and outwardly us'd in the beginning of the Disease and reiterated in the Intervals of time as necessity requires it discussing Flatulencies absorbing the Acid Humour which are many times the original Causes of the Disease attracting or drawing away the Morbifick Matter from the Parts affected destroying and carrying it off the right way that the the like can scarcely be done by any other Medicines In the Megrim Vertigo Giddiness or Swimming in the Head and in the most cruel vehement and inveterate Head-achs they do wonders taking away the Pain in many Persons in 3 or 4 minutes time and that with the use of it inwardly taken and a little snuft up the Nostrils and the Head Temples Forehead and behind the Ears being bathed therewith and that so perfectly as never to return more from that present Cause This I can assure you upon my own Experience for they radically cure after all other things have been found ineffectual and when the hope of Cure has been past by removing the cause or occasion thereof without doubt in the cases of an old and vehement Head-ach Giddiness Swimming c. whether continual or coming by Fits it has no equal in the whole World This Tincture and the English Pills before mentioned cured a Woman that had the Head-ach from her Minority so violently sometimes that it was thought she would be distracted and at all times so extream as to make Life very uncomfortable and unfit for the doing of any Business and this was done with only two Boxes of Pills and two Bottles of the Tincture tho' she had gone through Courses of Physick with Blistering Cupping Shaving c. for near 20 Years together to little or no purpose In the Palsie and Dead-Palsie as some call it it is the greatest and noblest Medicament known for being taken inwardly and also used outwardly it takes away the benumedness of the Parts and restores its Sense and feeling curing the shaking or trembling of the Head and Members arising from weakness and relaxation of the Nerves caused either by old Age or a coldness of Humours and so strengthens those Parts affected that they seem to put new life into them again Nor do know or believe there can be any equal to it for the Cure of the Epilepsie or Falling Sickness and that not only in Children proceeding from Faults of the Stomach Wind corrupted Food Worms c. but also in elder Persons it having cured in both Sexes of 20 30 and 40 Years of Age having done so great Cures of that kind which should they be related they would not easily be believed except by those who were Eye-witnesses of the same and likewise it cures Convulsion Fits almost to a Miracle for it digests that pituitous Humour which so much abounds in such Persons by exciting their inward heat and strengthening the Brain which is in many Persons the cause of this Disease it separating and consuming in the Stomach and Bowels those Acrid and Malign Vapours which ascend to the Brain and which by pricking with their sharp Points the Membranes and Nervous Filaments excite and induce this terrible Disease This Medicine by its subtle and penetrative Particles enter into the very substance of the Nerves opens their Pores removes their Obstructions refreshes and causes a free course and circulation of the Animal Spirits it acuates or sharpens all the Senses both internal and external facilitates and expedites the motions of the Members thro' the whole Body And by taking this Tincture inwardly and using it at the same time outwardly warms comforts and strengthens the Brain and Nerves after a very wonderful manner thereby helping the weakness of the Sight strengthning the Eyes fortifying the visive Faculties and Nerves and multiplies and clears the Animal and Visive Spirits taking away Darkness Clouds Vapours c. which obfuscates the Sight or obstructs the Optick Nerves But during taking the Tincture in all the several cases before spoken of it is necessary now and then to purge gently with the English Pills aforemention'd which together with the Tincture performs after a wonderful manner and proves thereby the most absolute and exquisite Method that the World can afford Directions TAKE of the Tincture 60 80 or 100 Drops more or less as your Distemper requires and that in extremities twice thrice or four times a Day well mix'd in a Glass of Sack or other Wine taking it the first thing in the Morning and the last thing at Night and once or twice in the Day time at convenient distances but if the case be not extream,6o or 80 Drops Night and Morning will be sufficient and this do daily as well those days you take the Pills as not without any observation as to Diet or Confinement it being not Purging but cures by a Specifick Property and such as care not to take it in Wine may take it in Ale or Beer or in Sage or Rosemary Tea but then they must drink it off immediately well stirring it Also in Pains of the Head Megrim Apoplexies Palsies and all other the Distempers of the Brain and Nerves for outward use pour a little of it into the Palm of your Hand and snuff it up your Nostrils doing so twice or thrice in a day and in extremities oftner bathing also some of it in with your Hand all over the Head Neck Forehead Temples upon the Eye-brows behind the Ears rubbing it in without the use of any Fire it will sink
make Incisien in all promiscuously has been the ruine of many and the one cutting which the Patient was told would be sufficient for Cure has occasioned more Sinus's by the Inflamation and Pain and the fâ—uxion of Humours thereby upon those depending Parts so that cutting again and again has been done to the utter spoiling of the Patient causing the Fistula to be inveterate to run much to the extenuating the Body decaying the Strength whence loss or debilitation of Stomach ensues and at length Faintness cold Sweats c. which brings the Fistula and whole Body into such a State as that all hopes of Cure are past especially if the Fistula was deep or penetrated beyond the Musculi Ani for by cutting such if they are cur'd the Patients will scarcely ever retain their Excrements but with great difficulty if no worse accidents happen and if they reach beyond the Sphincter the retention of the excrements will be impossible so that great care ought to be taken and a Skilful Surgeon advis'd with before the Patient submits to be cut at all It is allow'd by all that Fistula's that are very Sinous and have been of long standing are dangerous and of difficult Cure especially if they discharge a large quantity of Pus and lie so far distant as that there is no coming at the bottom but the nearer they are to the Anus the more easie they are of Cure The Anus or Fundament is more subject to Fistula's than any other part in the whole Body because the great quantity of Fat with which the Intestinum Rectum is loaded and the Evacuation of the Excrements this being the common Sink where all the filth of the Body is brought down to be carried off from its continual Humidity and numerous Vessels as Branches of the Hypogastrick Arteries and Veins a Branch of the Aorta another of the Inferior or Mesenterick Artery the Hemoirrhoidal Veins the vast number of Lymphaticks the Glands also seperating a white Glairy Viscous Liquor I say those meeting there and Humours from internal Causes whether Obstructions Inflammations Ascesses Ulcers Piles or external as Blows Contusions impure Embraces Falls Leeches ill applied c. which happening more or less to meet there as being a Part more dispos'd it is no wonder to find Fistula's so soon form'd and so frequent as we observe them to be There are some Fistula's that are not noisome nor very troublesome or painful and that sometimes are open and run at other times close and the Patient is dry and thus they do for many Years without any great inconveniency and is what is found expedient for the Health of the Patient for thereby the Body is discharg'd of superfluous Humours which otherwise might breed great disorders and endanger the Patient's Life I have known many People have such Fistula's which have contributed greatly to their Health and continued on them to the end of their Lives But enough has been said as to the Nature Cause and Consequence of this troublesome and oftentimes dangerous Indisposition I shall now come to speakof its Cure which is what was chiefly at first aim'd at and what I presume is by the Patient expected I have said already that cutting is not necessary in all and shew'd wherein it is and is not for the Patients safety and where it is not I shall recommend a Method which if follow'd according to directions will be found more beneficial than many Physicians and Surgeons will be ready or willing to believe In the first place the Patient is gently to purge with the English Pills herein recommended and to repeat them oncein a Week oftner or seldomer as the Body is gross or Humours abound but not to take too large a Dose for gentle Purging is best and he is also at the same time to make the following Dyet-drink which he is constantly to drink of till he is perfectly well and is this Take Burdock Roots 8 Ounces Elecampane Roots 3 Ounces Tormentil and Bistort Roots of each an Ounce Sanicle 2 handfuls Germander Ground-Ivy and Agrimony of each 2 handfuls Sarsaparilla 6 Ounces China Roots 3 Ounces Sassaphras 3 Ounces Guaiacum 4 Ounces Raisons of the Sun and Figs of each 4 Ounces Liquorish 3 Ounces boil all in 12 Pints of Lime Water till 2 Pints are boil'd away then strain it and drink half a Pint every Morning and 4 or 5 in the Evening and at Night going to Bed a little warm'd Upon the use of this Dyet-drink and now and then but not too often purging with the aforesaid Pills and using at the same time the Injection into the Fistula the Patient will find the Cure will come on for the Purging gently carries off the Humonrs the Dyet-drink dries up the superfluous Moisture and nourishes and strengthens the Body and the Injection which I am now going to mention will cleanse and cicatrize the Fistula that the Patient if he continues the Course long enough which he must be sure to do if he expects to be well for those things will take up time in some more in some less according as is the Indisposition will find it to answer his expectation without the pain and danger of cutting which has ruin'd many The Injection for this purpose is neither corrosive or will cause pain it is to be injected into the Fistula every Night and Morning warm with a Syringe two Syringes full each time which upon casting in he will find if the Fistula goes into the Fundament to come some of it out at the Fundament but he is not to put the point of the Syringe into the Fistula too far but just so much in as that the Liquor will be forc'd into the Orifice By this means I have cur'd several and most if not all that use the method will have the same success for the Injection takes away all Callosity and yet I say without pain cleanses astringes dries up and cicatrizes the Part that by degrees the Fistula will close and heal up from end to end to the great pleasure and satisfaction of the before terrify'd Patient who cou'd hear nothing from his Surgeon but Cutting Cutting which News is receiv'd by some as unwelcome as an Old-Baily Sentence to a Criminal The Price of the Injection is 5s the Bottle To be had only at the Place before-mentioned Tinctura Cephalica OR HEAD-TINCTURE THE most incomparable and appropriated Medicine that can possibly be made use of for preventing and curing all Distempers of the Head and Brain as Head-achs Megrim Vertigo Epilepsies Palsies Apoplexies Lethargies Convulsions Phrensies Carus Coma trembling of the Nerves Numbness loss of Memory dulness and heaviness of the Senses Drowsiness tasting and smelling hurt weakness glimmering or dulness of the Sight thickness of Hearing noises in the Head beating or shooting Pains c. which numbers of Persons are sorely afflicted with and which very often seizes such as are over thoughtful and studious c. those Diseases amongst the numbers that
the frightful and as it were dying Disease the Vapours of all sorts Fits of the Mother Cloggings Stuffings Gnawings or Illness at Stomach whether from Wind Humours or the like also for such as grow too fat sweat much and have nauseous spittings in the Morning Bleeding at Nose Cachexies have costive or hot Bodies and for all as have lost their Complexions by the Green-sickness Jaundice or otherwise and such as are overtaken with lingring Diseases growing worse and worse every Year than other not knowing well what they ail having ill Digestions Stoppages in the Head and Breast shortness of Breath c. till such time as they fall into Dropsies Hectick Fevers or deep Consumptions pining and wasting away with dry Coughs Wheesings faint Sweats in the Day or Night Weakness fainting Fits and the like These admirably Pills carry off all those Diseases the right way by taking them twice or thrice in a Month or oftner if you find occasion They are the best Physick in Nature for to take Spring and Fall as a Preventative Remedy and to preserve Health as most People that have any regard to the welfare and security thereof are mindful to take and likewise from any Disorder or Indisposition whether from Heats or Colds Surfeits by eating or drinking or the like If taken as soon as your perceive your self ill they most assuredly prevent any Fever or other Disease from invading you and there is as much prudence in taking Physick Spring and Fall twice or three times in each Season to discharge the peccant Humours which are heap'd up in the Stomach and lodge there tho' at the same time you seem to be very well in Health thereby to preserve from and prevent Diseases which all Persons are liable to every Moment as there is to take Physick for curing those Diseases when they have seized you and no Person that desires a happy and healthy State of Body will be so imprudent to neglect that which is so absolutely and undeniably necessary for for the preservation thereof and I can assure them from a very large Experience that no Physick under the Sun will answer such a purpose beyond these famous English Pills These Pills purge by Stool Phlegm Choller and Melancholy disposing all old Ulcers Fistula's running Sores Sore Breasts Sore Eyes Scald Head King 's evil Swellings or Sores Wounds Gangreens Cankers Cancers Tettars Ring-worms Scabs Salt Humours or any other Breakin gs out as Pushes Boils Wheals c. to a speedy healing by purging away the evil Humours which feed them and perfectly removes the cause of the Elephantiasis or Leprosy These Pills are of wonderful use for all Travellers Seamen and such like Persons who live on bad Dyet in ill Airs and moist Places and near the Sea Coast and for all such as have spoiled their Bodies and surfeited their Heats and Colds hard and excessive Drinking in their young Days and for such as cannot attend upon a Cure but are forced to go about their Business They may take them to Sea with them because they keep their Vertues many Years nor do Sea Voyages spoil them They will will be found to stand them in great stead in all Sea-sicknesses sickly Climates or Seasons Calentures Fevers Fluxes Poysons Agues Surfeits and the like Scorbutick Diseases which so commonly afflict such as go to Sea as that scarcely any but are afflicted in one or more of these Diseases so excellent are these Pills that more cannot possibly be done by a purging Medicine These Pills are incomparable against all manner of Coughs Colds Rheums or Distillations difficulty of Breathing Vomiting weakness of the Stomach want of Appetite Pleurisies Pains of the side spitting of Blood c. performing every thing of this kind to admiration suddenly and strangely easing of Pains proceeding from Wind Humours Colds Surfeits or any other Cause whatsoever They cure Fevers and Agues of all sorts sometimes in three Weeks sometimes in fourteen Days and sometimes in less time altho' of 2 or 3 Years standing and given over by all Physicians and when almost every one thought the hopes of Recovery had been past These Pills kill all sorts of Worms in Old or Young altho' the Patient has been almost destroyed with them they bringing away not only the Worms dead or alive but also Slime Filthiness or wormy Matter both from the Stomach and Bowels which generates and breeds them bring down the great Bellies of Children and others which Worms occasions causing a strong Digestion and a sanative Constitution and I cannot forbear repeating them to be as they are indeed and which every one that make tryal will find the very best Remedy in the World against the Dropsy and the Gout taking away all Swellings from the Belly Thighs and Legs and all manner of Pains tho' fixed in the very Bones and that in Rheumatisms when the Pains have been so cruel and intollerable as not to be born without violent Roarings and Cryings out they have done wonders and that when no other means whatsoever would any thing avail They also dissolve the Stone as much as any Medicine in the Universe is able to do bringing away Slime Sand and Gravel from the Reins and Bladder taking away Stoppage of Urine and causing those to make Water plentifully and easily who could not do it in some Days before this they have done in numbers of People to admiration These Pills are a certain Cure for the Falling-sickness Convulsions that deplorable and fatal Disease to Infants whereby several Thousands and that from a Scorbutick Cause are carried off in a Year Apoplexies Palsies Cramps Lamenesses weakness of Limbs loss of Memory Sciatica's and all manner of fixed or running Pains whatsoever in any part of the Body all which does most certainly proceed from the Scurvy that Bane and distroyer of Health and Life insomuch that many Bed-rid Persons given over in ail appearance as incurable have under God unexpectedly met with a Cure almost to a Miracle so that many learned Physicians could not but admire at their wonderful Vertues These samous English Pills Cure Barrenness effectually whether the fault be in the Man or Woman they exalting the Generative Faculty cleansing and strengthning the Spermatick Vessels resisting all Foulness and Infection in the Act of Generation bring down the Terms in Women and Maids strengthen a weak Back cure Ulcers and Stoppages in the Womb and are wonderful in all other Diseases belonging to the Female Sex they expel Wind carry off the Wind Cholick to admiration and so speedily Cure the Griping of the Guts that many who seemingly were at the point of Death have found them a present Remedy when all other means have failed They are the most powerful Pills in Nature against the Rickets in Children the pale and wan Countenance whether from the Green-sickness or otherwise in Virgins all manner of Stoppages and Pains in the Stomach Head and Brain Liver Spleen Reins Womb and Bowels they purify cleanse and
sweeten the whole Mass of Blood rectify all the Distempers of the Head quicken the Senses add a good Colour to the Face strengthen the Sight and so wonderfully recreate the Natural Vital and Animal Spirits as that the Body thereby is made perfectly able to withstand and resist all its Diseases They cleanse the Body of Wind Water and ill Humours without the least Griping or making Sick unless as was said before the Stomach be very foul or any way weakning the Body which done they cease working for they will work no longer than there is Diseasy Matter to work upon but contrarywise will help all inward wastings or decays of Nature caused through Pains Wrenches Bruises or over-strainings they stopping all Weepings Moistures Whites Fluxes c. by carrying off the Humours another way thereby strengthning the Vessels fortifying Nature and restoring the decay'd Parts even to a wonder In fine these Pills are the chief and real Medicine now used for the Scurvy and the aforesaid Diseases which are produc'd there-from and found to be such from long Experience not only here in England but in many Foreign Countries and Kingdoms they being cryed up and prized above all Remedies whatsoever insomuch that in some Thousands of Families on most occasions they are their only Physick and indeed no Person living from the highest to the lowest can have a better Purging Medicine in the World let the Patients condition be from what cause or occasion soever they being known to be safe in Operation and certain in the end proposed for no Person curable troubled with the aforesaid Diseases ever failed of a Cure especially if they continued them without delay of time or taking of other Physick according to the Directions and all Persons that have been known to take these Pills have found good at the first taking and several Hundreds yea Thousands of People who have taken them have given them as great Commendations as it was ever possible any Medicine could deserve Their safety and the success that has followed upon the use of them has brought them into the great estimation they have have acquired in many parts of the World for as much as they that take these Pills need not go under long dangerous and chargeable Courses of Physick nor suffer by bad Medicines or be driven time after time from one Physician to another as many hundreds daily are not knowing where to apply themselves safe when only a Box or two of these Pills will do more notable Cures than twenty times that Money expended upon Doctors These Pills are the only Antidote in Nature against all infectious Diseases contagious Airs and preserves from the mischief of Fogs and unwholesome and suffocated Vapours in Marshy or Fenny Countries which arise from the Earth or Water they making old Age comely and the Countenance of all that take them to be chearful and Sanguine they mundify and cleanse the Skin of all its Impurities restores and increase Beauty and abound with more Vertues than any one Medicine besides for altho' many Diseases have been mentioned the labour might have been saved for as they are Pills of an universal Tendency and I verily believe the only Purging Medicine in the World it might only have been said they are good for every Disease and not only for the Distempers herein inserted but also for many others known or unknown without name or number even when they are so unaccountably afflicted as not knowing what they ail These Pills being endowed with such excellent Properties and are so full and effectual a healer that they deservedly merit the Title of the only universal Pills in the World And although they are of such admirable Vertues yet I must inform you that when the Disease is of long continuance and stubborn a perfect Cure cannot be expected in a few times taking them in those Cases you may take them in the largest Dose and that at least for ten or fifteen times or more as need requires omitting them a day or two as you shall see cause but if any shall presume upon the commendation of these Pills that any Disease in whatsoever condition the Patient is in must be infallibly cured he is mistaken for I speak here only of such Diseases as by God's Blessing and the very best of Means as these Pills undoubtedly are they may receive cure for for in some Cases no Medicine in the World can prevail for sometimes the Lungs themselves or the Liver or the Reins are ulcerated and putrefy'd and sometimes other internal Parts are consumed and what Medicine in Nature can repair such Ruins or make new Viscera when the old are perished These Pills operate extreamly pleasant safe and gentle and is Physick fit to be taken by Persons of the greatest Rank and Dignity and that by all Ages and Sexes from Two Years old to Fourscore and upwards at any Season of the Year and it is observable that these Pills after four or five times taking keep the Bowels open for a Month together and leave not the Body costive and bound as is the Property of all other Physick by which good Property Diseases seem to melt away insensible These Pills are of an admirable and friendly quality performing all its Operations as-Nature-her self requires and is disposed to the Action tho' chiefly by Stool and Urine so that they are bound to that way of Operation as best serves Nature's end in restoring Health Hence it is that they cure Diseases with so great safety speed and ease and that without almost any other Medicine they being as was said before fitted for all Ages Sexes and Constitutions whatsoever and that if there but little Corruption in the Body they bring forth but little if much they bring forth much and in Persons perfectly well they will scarcely work at all because in such they have no Enemy to meet or contend withal These Pills are not only the surest and most certain Medicine as well as cheapest for the Scurvy and all the asoresaid Diseases which are the consequents or productions thereof of any ever yet published or administred but doth a thousand times more excel the best prepared and most celebrated sorts of Spirit of Scurvy-grass so highly applauded for the Scurvy they affecting what is herein proposed so stupendiously and beyond the power of any other Remedy whether ordinary or extraordinary as that they never can be vallued or esteemed enough for what Reachings Strainings Vomitings Gripings illness at the Stomach sickness at Heart Faintings and other very unpleasing Effects many Medicines occasion which are here avoided this single Medicine gently cleansing the Stomach and Bowels of their drossy mucilaginous Dregs saluting the Vital Powers like an Angel of Peace and piercing the whole Body like Lightning doth as it were by its Character and benign Beams subdue the Malignant Powers of Diseases and throughly overcome the morbisick Matter thereof and that without the least perturbution of Humours alteration of Body change