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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30809	A short discourse on the rise, nature, and management of the small-pox, and all putrid fevers occasioned by the death of our late incomparable queen : together with a philosophical account of an excellent remedy for these and many other diseases / by T. Byfield ...	Byfield, T. (Timothy)	1695 (1695)	Wing B6400; ESTC R16240	10,499	30

cause every part to rejoyce with 'em for their Nourishment depends so much on a wholesome Fountain that Health or Diseases are communicated to 'em according to the decay or strength Purity or Impurity of it And what a Catalogue of Distempers is assign'd to the sundry Organs of the Body and Elaborate Methods and Medicines for their Cure When as a well inform'd Principle of Life benignly darts at once kind Rays throughout the whole assisting with proper Vigour the Faculties duely to separate what ought to be discharg'd through the cleansing Ducts and refine and purifie what should be retain'd What need then is there to run out the Ordure by Violent Purgatives and the wholesome Juices too sharpened and envenom'd first by Physick even to the Excoriation of Bowels and damage of the adjacent parts Many are mistaken in this Point and many take the Advantage of it The blood is not at all purified thereby nor sweetened but often exasperated and fretted by such Contraries Besides the bowels well fill'd keep out Wind Cholicks Gripes Twistings and many more Disorders And what Hurt in the Congestion of wholesome Food It seems to be the design of Nature by the Length Windings and Position of the Guts in such order that there should be due Retentions Digestion in Dung we that experiment by Heats know to be the Truest and most Natural The Scituation then of the Great Gut call'd Colon the last but one and the Amassment of the Feces in it lying under the Great Organs of Digestion and Separation shew that Nature had a design from that warm bed to comfort and assist the Neighbouring Viscera For such as are always flurting and jerking their bowels with purging Physick less than one yard of a strait Gut from the Pylorus to the Anus had been better for them Nevertheless I don't say but discreet Evacuations at some times are truely Necessary for some and the Drinking of Cleansing Waters in their Seasons as Epsom North-hall c. The Danger of Vomits Diaphoreticks Blisters Salivations improper Bleedings Opiates internal Stiptick Medicines c. ought to be discover'd but I 'le pass 'em by at present for the very thoughts of 'em Jar my Nerves Since I can with this Remedy keep the stomach and bowels clean from Choler Flegm and Wind and make a quick and clean Digestion what needs Vomiting and Purging 'T will cause a Generous Transpiration No occasion then to melt and waste the Nourishing Iuices with Provokers of Sweats sometimes to a Colliquation Faintness and Death 'T will cleanse and strengthen the Glands first separate flowing and unclean Serosities then keep 'em Tite from an Overflowing forbear to swell inflame and corrupt 'em by Salivation with Mercury or to distort Nature by forcing a little water through the Skin with Blisters And if this proves an Antiferment 't will often save the Hazard of Bleeding in many Diseases It helps to sound and undisturbed sleep No Use then of Opium It reconciles great disorders and always is on Nature's side No need then of Iron Chains to bind an Enemy in your breast While some lay on with Vomit Purge Blister Clyster Helter Skelter blowing up pulling down like the Insurancers from Fire I can deal with Life so subtily as to touch her to the quick yet so kindly that instead of crying Oh! I sweetly feed her Vital Flame and give fresh Vigour to her Languishing or Fretted Spirits And from a Rich Store-House derive 'em strong and mellow to all the withering and enfeebled branches Reconciling Feuds and Quarrels by giving satisfaction to every disturb'd Member of the Body All the Juices thus enrich'd are Supple Generous and Quick All the parts supply'd with both are Agil Plump and Strong I have been more than Twenty Years a Great Seeker of Medicines and have been at Great Expence every way about 'em and have at any Rate possess'd my self of the Reputed Best And I sincerely profess I slight 'em all for this knowing it to be a Truth in Nature and Art and as great a Truth in Practice The Height of common Chymistry is to mount a Volatile Salt that is quick pungent and fugitive This Medicine is no such thing But being greatly enricht with spiritual Sulphurs and retain'd by its own Magnet is permanent and fusible yet innocent and efficacious But that the design'd Benefit of this Discourse may not be lost I must for the sake of some persons descend to particulars To Declining Age when the Fire abates and Moisture Clouds and Cold Diseases prevail with the Decay of Organs by the Impoverishment of Spirits through their often Eclips'd and declining Sun Nothing more aptly repairs the Central Fire and Radical Moisture whereby not only Diseases are dispers'd but the whole body is replenish'd with proper Nourishing Juices So as to recover in some measure Quickness and Strength of Parts at least to furnish 'em with Good Appetite strong Digestion liberal Expulsion of Wind Large and Clean Breathings free from Clammy Tough Humours Clarity of Brain and Senses and an entire dissipation of the Winter Diseases So that Prolongation of Life and pleasant Enjoyment of it need not to be doubted since God gives means thereto Therefore to be perswaded at Seventy to sit quietly down with the Common Wear and Tare of Nature is more than needs For such hail Principles as could reach thither may with timely good Repair pass on I know not whither To such as are coming into the World as well as those that are going out and bring with them hereditary Diseases or an unthriving Nature 't is of singular Advantage For next to the benefit of being deriv'd from Parents of a sound and strong Constitution there is nothing more beneficial than to convey by their first Food Fundamental Principles of Health which may prove as lasting as their Lives To be drank by the Nurses while the Children suck 'T is a Compleat Medicine to such as have a general disorder or decay of body and spirits and know not where to lay the blame For Consumptive Persons and those endangered by it aptly suits all their Complaints and needs no Second provided there be a proper Regimen and careful avoiding of injurious things For in a Hectick the blood having suffered a great dissolution and separation the Spirits of it are turned into a kind of Wildfire which flies about and wanting allay burns and consumes a person almost to Nothing Now this excellent Medicine here becomes a Peace-maker sweetly attracting back again by Vertue of its Magnetick Quality the dispersed Spirits and by reason of its likeness to the most constituent parts of the blood joyns it again and determines its Action within its own proper Sphere And then all things go well and Symptoms disappear Thus this Distemper commonly accounted incurable is forc'd to yeild the Victory to this salutiferous Remedy In every Scorbutick Distemper 't is very available and acts as variously as the Scorbutick Form is various for being a Medicine truly Natural Nature can use it any way to her own benefit And it is so Fortunate that it cannot be taken to amend the blood but 't will into the bargain communicate Health and Vigour to all the parts of the body For Fevers of all sorts especially malignant 't is incomparable Whereas in the use of other Medicines these Distempers hold a considerable time with imminent danger and often end in Death I have many a time with great pleasure beheld this Noble Medicine surprising us with its admirable Effects taking off common Fevers in a few Days sometimes in 24 Hours totally And as for malignant Fevers it secures the Vitals from being overcome by their Venom and keeps 'em up through the whole Course of their sickness from running very low Here I omit to account for the Small-Pox because of the Preceeding Discourse Yet I may say thus much That I have had five Patients at one time sick of the Small-Pox and through the blessing of God on this Medicine not one miscarried altho I did not visit after they were out having never had 'em my self but only gave directions to those who attended ' em I might mention the several Concerns of Women and Virgins to whom I abundantly dispense it But here I 'le only particularize that restless and uneasie distemper of Vapours for which 't is valuable by removing the Cause in reducing the parts distended and expelling those Fumes that fly upwards I might add how it obliges Women in Labour and Lying-in assisting in all their Circumstances and is the most Natural Cordial The bare Experience of ir for Cholicks Cholical Dispositions and tender Bowels how it recovers the strength of Fibers gives a Liberal Expulsion of Wind and makes the Belly always easie were a sufficient Character For melancholy people such as are Dropsical short-breath'd Asthmatical Paralytick Lethargical Apoplectick and many others as tho I had nam'd them all 't is abundantly qualify'd But I chuse rather to nullisie than enumerate Diseases 'T is as easie and pleasant to take as Canary and may be us'd as Entertainment all the while receiving health and pleasure No one can injure himself with it And 't is so loose and free from Physical Rules and Hours that it ought not to be rank't with the unpleasant Crew of Medicines But reposited with the most Delicious Wines From my House in Great Carter-Lane

the Vitals of which an undeniable Proof is the depression of the Spirits and sick Qualms of dangerous consequence if immediate relief be not given Nor is this all for the Blood as I said before being the very Mansion of the Spirit of Life as the Scripture it self bears Witness you part with your dearest Friend under pretence of expelling an Enemy which yet you can never do this way tho' you should draw it half out no more than you can fine thick muddy Liquors by such unlikely Experiments For what 's left is as bad still But we daily see when by a lively Principle within they have work't out and thrown off all that is of a contrary Nature they fine and grow clear without any more adoe and then are at rest as all Agents are when they have attained their end Another common Practice is Blistering and Sweating which tho' not quite so bad are yet without use but not without danger For as it is impossible to draw out inward fiery Venoms unless they were beforehand mounted near the Skin by an outward Application which only attracts Watry Substances So considering this Distemper as such a fiery Venom 't is hereby depriv'd of the Moisture necessary for its Latitude and Allay in both which respects 'tis of vast concern to keep it within that joining with the heat or unnatural fire they may between them from an Air and so rise with ease and safety to the Patient And being thus temper'd and allay'd they are generally of a large sort that don't leave deep Marks Whereas were the the Moisture drawn off as the Heat wou'd grow violently intense so neither would it without great force breath out But circulate and prey on all it finds within to the utter extinction of the Lamp of Life I know the general Incentive both to Blood-letting and Blistering is that the Fever is high and they fear it may get into the Head and these are of great use to prevent it as also to hinder such a number of Small-Pox from coming out I grant indeed there is a likelyhood of these Sulphureous Fumes in their rising to get into the Head nay of making the Patient talk Idly too for they are of an intoxicating Nature but of no more Danger than the Fumes of Wine provided no Errour be committed to make them strike back For when they come to the Superfices of the Skin the Watry and more Aerial Part which as a Vehicle helpt it thither easily passing through the Pores Wings away and the other being Sulphureous and gross receiving a check from the Air settles there in its own Fiery from and then the Head is clear and settled the Spirits brisk and lively the Appetite pretty good and the Fever abated As for the other Advantage pretended of preserving a good Face I have more than once observ'd this That when Physitians by Drawing-Blood or giving cooling things c. have sunk the Spirits and hinder'd the kindly coming out which is never so well as at Natures first attempt the Patient on the return of the Venom growing Heart-sick and opprest almost to Death to gain the Point they have lost they have been forc't to double their Files and heap Cordial upon Cordial which being Common Preparations and so not divested of their own unnatural heat as they ought to be have increased the Fever and drove out more than can well be maintained And these Pit most are a very smal sort and of great virulency and danger Because Nature now having done her utmost if she be baffled once more a thousand to one resigns But that I may comprize all in few words whatever rebates drives back stupifies dejects overcools makes great discharges of any kind or on the other hand whatever over-heats drives out too forcibly and fires the Spirits is directly contrary to these Distempers which ought so to be manag'd that the Natural not Unnatural Heat be assisted the former being the very Agent that must do the Work which if allow'd A Medicine rightly qualifi'd ought to have these properties That it be stript of all false fire which would assist and heighten the Distemper That instead thereof it be plentifully furnisht with the Salubrious Principles of Life and Sanity readily joyning in this extremity with that Vital Spark within us That it be of Ability to clear the first passages insensibly in the Operation yet most sensibly in the Effect For this is no time for Violent Means That it likewise be endow'd with a Power to compose and quiet the Spirits by bringing to equality and unity the Principles which are at Variance And not as Opiats which stupifying the Senses for a while detain and tye down not only the Spirits but the Distemper hindring its going off in its proper season and Nature from assisting so that when its Somniferous Virtue is spent you find you have lost time the Patient only growing sensibly weaker but the Distemper remaining in its full Vigor and more Fatal And that in a word by its innate Virtue with God's blessing it can bring you safe thro' this dangerous Disease to your desir'd Health and a more than ordinary Strength and such a Medicine is the Panacea of which the following Discourse Treats Some Account of a Universal Remedy THE Contemplation of Man's Body tho' Dead in its wonderful Structure by Anatomical Display is a curious View But the consideration of him alive in his vital Form and Spring of Action enlivening the whole is a more Elegant Review 'T is to my purpose at present to behold him inform'd with the principle of Coelestial Fire enkindling vital Airs and stretching 'em thro' the whole Circumference promoting thereby an animal Nourishing Heat to every Organ of the Body and by a Magnetick Love panting after the Universal Breath of the World and sucking thro' the Medium of the Air a continued Reparation of Enlivening Beams to his Central Spirit from the Fountain of Life and Form the Sun Having thus United the Lesser to the greater World by joyning breath to breath my design is to shew how this inbred Fire is maintain'd may be enlarg'd and when perverted and wrought into a destructive Heat and Fire against Nature by Art may be reclaim'd to an Oleose Soft Nourishing Heat from its harsh inrag'd consuming Fire But before I proceed I must take care to keep under the warm influences of the Sun and regard him as the common Parent of us all and the Soul of the World a Globe of Central Sulphur Gloriously Illuminating dark and shady Bodies I had almost aid Understandings too whose Masculine Principle endow'd with an hidden Fecundity bestows quickening Virtues on all the scatter'd Natures of the Earth whereby numberless Efficacies and vital Breathings are convey'd thro' Spiritual Channels for the avoiding Corruption and replenishing them with Light Adequate to that Tincture of Light which powerfully informs mixt Bodies So that He may truly be call'd the Heart of the Universe deriving Life to