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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

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. ARCANVM VEGETABILIVM PILVLÆ VEGETANTES BALSAMVM VITÆ VNGVENTVM REFRIGERANS Whereunto is added A few of the many TESTIMONIES and CVRES performed by the same their Names Diseases and Places of Abode being sufficient to confirm the Truth Published for the good of all Who labour under PAIN and MISERY By RICH. FLETCHER Professors of Chymical Physick in LONDON By NATH MERRY Professors of Chymical Physick in LONDON LONDON Printed for the Authors 1674. GOOD TYDINGS TO THE Sick Lame COVRTEOVS READER ARCANVM VEGETABILIVM Is that Phylosophick Cordial Purging Vegetable Spirit which hath got so great Reputation in LONDON and many other parts of this Nation for the Curing and Rooting out of Diseases incident to the Bodies of Men Women and Children Expelling Noxious Humours Sweetning the Mass of Blood Opening Obstructions by which it hath cured Agues Feavers Dropsies Scurvies Worms Madness Phrensies Pains of the Head Common and Inveterate Dulness Sleepiness Loss of Sense and Motion Convulsions Falling Sickness Tremblings and Weakness of the Sinews Stoppage of the Stomack Imposthumations Ulcers Pains or Weakness of the Stomach Spitting of Blood or Matter Green Sickness Stoppage of Womens Terms Rickets Gouts Jaundice In short I have found it to answer the whole end of of Purging and Cordial Physick being gentle safe and pleasant yet powerful in operation for the Rooting out of Diseases and Assisting Nature to withstand the same by Adding Strength to Vital Animal and Natural Spirits Resisting Putrefaction Expelling Poyson by which it prevents Infectious Diseases as Measles Small Pox Pestilential Feavers Plagne c. 2 PILVLÆ VEGETANTES This Pill hath been largely experienced and highly commended by many that have taken it for the speedy Easing of Pains as the Collick Stone Gravel in the Reins or Bladder Gripings of the Guts Curing of Fluxes Easing of the Gout and other Pains of the Limbs Also for the speedy easing of Coughs Curing Consumptions Stoppages of the Stomach Shortness of Breath Staying and Preventing Distillations of Rheums falling from the Head into the Throat or Wind-pipe which causes a Tickling sometime a Wheesing or Hooping Cough commonly called a Distillation upon the Lungs It is effectual for allaying or appeasing Violent Fits whether Madness Frenzies Agues or Feavers and is a great Provoker of Sweat and Vrine 3 BALSAMVM VITÆ This Balsome cures Green Wounds Ulcers Fistula's Cankers Kings-Evil Gangrens to a wonder it dissolves Hard Tumors Excrescences Coagulated or Spongeous Flesh into Matter and cures the same It easeth old and cold Pains Bruises or Strains Also ●●seth and strengtheneth pained nummed lamed and weak Limbs and is rare in Cold Gouts 4 VNGVENTVM REFRIGERANS This Oyntment cures Burns Scalds Scabs Sores Tetters Itch Ring-worms Pimples Pushes and easeth External Pains and Asswageth Swellings Proceeding of Heat Cures Piles and Hemorrhoids This is a short and candid Relation of those four fore-going Medicines of which Twenty years experience in practice hath afforded me many large Tryals in this City and many other parts of the World for many have been and daily are Remarkable Cures performed by the same And to the end that all others who have the like occasion may receive the same benefit as to Ease and Cure Carefully heed these following Directions which is plain to every ordinary capacity teaching the true use of the same DIRECTIONS For the Uses of our Spirit Pills Balsome and Oyntment FOr Stoppage of the Stomach Difficulty of Breathing Inflammations and Ulcers in the Stomach Spitting of Blood or Matter Consumptions Coughs Distillations of Rheums Weakness of the Stomach or Want of Appetite Collick or Stone in the Reins or Bladder Stoppage of Urine or Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder Fluxes of the Belly or Griping of the Guts take these following Directions Let the Patient first purge with the Spirit the Dosse being two three or four large Spoonfuls according to the Age and Strength of the Patient that is for a Child or very Weak Body two Spoonfuls may be sufficient but if for a Stronger Body three or four Spoonfuls but for a very Strong Body five or six Spoonfuls for there is no danger in taking a large Dosse it being a Strengthener as well as a Cleanser nor in taking too little if it work not by Stool being Cordial as well as Purging Let the Dosse be taken in the Morning fasting Them that are able may walk abroad and eat their ordinary Diet as formerly its operation being safe and easie The same Night going to Bed take one two or three of our Pills according to the Age and Strength as before directed in the use of our Spirit Thus continue taking both Spirit and Pills every other day alwayes observing to take the Spirit in the Morning and the Pills the same Night and by this means you may expect to find speedy ease and the Cure to hasten to a wonder Probatum est by many Now those which are troubled with any of the fore-named Diseases violently such may take the Pills for three or four Nights one after another after their Bodies have been purged with the Spirit and then leave off taking the Pills for one Night the next Morning take a large Dosse of the Spirit and the same Night begin again to take the Pills as before so continue taking the Pills more or less Nights together as you see cause Alwayes observing That when you would take the Spirit the Night before leave off the Pills for in what Diseases soever the Pills are proper to they must be taken at Night alwayes observing to take the Spirit in the Morning and so after little acquaintance with their operation you will be able to direct your selves and others For Madness Inflammations of the Brain Swimmings in the Head Frensies and Pains in the Head Purge every other Morning with a large Dosse of our Spirit and the same Night take two or three of our Pills and every Night annoint the Temples and Fore-head with our Oyntment For Convulsions Falling-Sickness Tremblings Palsies and Weakness of the Sinews Let the Sick take a little Dosse of our Spirit every Morning fasting and every Night annoint the Nape of the Neck and Joynts with our Balsome warm For the Seurvy that Epidemical Disease In the Cure of this Disease our Spirit must be taken in a large Dosse for two or three dayes then leave off taking the Spirit for two dayes then take one Dosse of our Pills the Night following the last day of Purging endeavour to sweat upon them that Night and rise not too early the next Morning When these two intermitting dayes are past take the Spirit as before and the Pills the following Night

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

troubled with spetting of Blood and Matter with an Impostume in his Stomach cured in a few days with these Medicines Lidia Witcomb of Gloster cured of the Worms with two doses of the Spirit The Widdow Willians in new Kings-street Wapping cured of a violent head-ach of twelve years with less than two Boxes of Pills Henry Nock Sadler in Ashford in Kent cured of the Stone in a few days Anne Marsh the Wife of John Marsh of Hendun five Miles from London after she had spent many pounds and finding no ease began to dispair of help being troubled with violent Scorbutick Pains shortness of Breath want of Appetite was in a short time cured with my Spirit and Pills for less than twenty shillings charge Thomas Bromfield Shoo-maker near the Turn-stile Holbron violently afflicted with the Stone and stopage of Urine having not made any water but by drops for five weeks and that with great pain was perfectly cured in six hours with one dose of Spirit and Pills Marget Edmonds in Jerman-street near James Market cured of a violent Canker in her throat occasioned by the Scurvy Mary Dyet of Barnaby-street troubled with violent Fits of the Mother and pains of the Spleen cured for little charge A Child of Mat. Broads in Thomas Southwarke was cured of a bloudy Urine in two days time to the amazement of its Parents A Cornish Navigater given off as past cure not being able to move hand or foot was brought to London and in a few days was able to come to my Chamber He lodged in New-gravel-Lane Wapping near Henry Wyards who was an eye witness of him and many others that was wonderfully recover'd Dorathy the Wife of John Tupper Bricklayler in Eagle-street near Pickakilly cured of a violent stoppage in her Stomach and Head-ach Bernard Ienkes near the Pelican in East-Smithfield cured of a violent pain in his Side and Back shortness of Breath his Wife of a Cancerous humour in her Brest Sarah Barrow of Dirty walton near Tuexbury cured of a violent Cancerous Tumor which caused the loss of the use of one Arm. Adam Bennet of Hyneham twelve Miles from Gloster troubled with a tedious quartin Ague Consumption Cough shortness of Breath cured with a quarter glass of our Spirit and half a Box of Pills John Relph Ship-wright at the Fale on near the Banks-side Southwark cured of a violent Consumptive Cough after so weak that he could not sit up right in his Bed and given over as past help Also a Child of his cured of a violent stoppage in his Stomach and Hecktick Fever One Every-Tharpe Water-man on the Bank-side cured of a tedious quartin Ague when near dearhsdoor the same man some years after cured of a violent pain in his Side also others of his Family cured One Abbet Fisherman on the same Bank-side cured of a violent Fever stopage of the Stomack and pains in his Head and Limbs when past all proble hope of recovery with many others of the Neighbour-hood about Masson stares and other parts of the Bank-side cured to a wonder the names and Diseases of which are too tedious to relate Mary Carrol now the Widdow Bryon of Chateham in Kent cured of an old cancerated Brest so dangerous that it was feared it must have been cut off is now reduced to its perfect shape as formerly and hath remained well this six years Anne Cuny of Poyk cured of Madness after she had been many Months in Chains and remained well seven years A Servant of Thomas Harris at the two Tobacco Roles in East-smithfield cured of Madness in a short time Thomas Sadler a lodger at one Godwrads in Kings-street Giles in the Fields cured of Madness in a short time Another lodger of his cured of violent Gripings of the Guts and shortness of Breath For farther confirmation of this inquire of the said God-wards at the Bear Ordinary in Burchin-Lane A Sister of Sarah Knights in Cow-lane cured of a Phrenzie Captain Watkins of Mile-end cured of the Gout in his hands and feet The Lady Griffin near Leitchfield by taking of our Spirit and Pills voided Sand Gravel and small Stones without pain in a great quantity John Woolger of Bredhemstone in Sussex Fisherman was cured of a Woolf in his head by waring a Cap made of our Balsom mixt with Cotten Wool and quilted between to linning Cloaths and by taking inwardly our Spirits and Pills notwithstanding his head had been twice opened by advice of Eminent Physicians and Chyrurgions by reason of the length and tediousness of his pain being of some years continuance and past all probable hope of recovery yet well in a short time and hath remained well this twelve years The Wife of Richard Collings of Clare-street Newmarket cured of a violent Scorbutick Leprosie no part being free from pains and botches Willam Iordan at the Maremaid in Carter-lane cured of a violent Fever shortness of Breath and pains in his Limbs Two blind Children cured to admiration one at Farneham in Surry the other at Tamworth in Staffordshire Alexander Pope Water-man of Shad. Thames cured of a violent quartin Ague and Dropsie in a weaks time when he had try'd many Physicians of common note One Stringer Journey-man at the Blew-last in Russel-street cured of violent pains in his Loyns The Wife of John Collet of East-smithfield violently affected with the Sone cured John Brown Butcher in Ashsord in Kent who had a violent hard Tumor on his Arm-pit the pain of which caused the loss of the use of his Arm cured in thirty days Another of the like Disease cured near Dearham in Norfolk A Daughter of John Edmonds near Bramsgrove who was so violenly afflicted with Convultion Fits that sometimes she was drawn neck and heels together backward and at other times up on a heap side ways was cured in a short time Another of the like Disease cured in Ambersly in Worstershire Thomas Snell of Gloster cured of a hard swelling on his face with a quarter glass of Spirit and a pot of Oyntment Cures performed by John Fenny of Wimslow in Chestire with my Spirit and Pills one of a violent Canker in her Throat cured when left off as past cure Mary Baly of the same place cured of extreme Stitches and Vomitings Eliner Potter cured of pains in her head and spotted pimpled face Another of violent pains in her Jaws and Teeth Another of a Quinsie his tongue so swelled that his Mouth was not able to contain it and was speechless cured in 24 hours Another of the Jaundice and violent Head-ach A Child of his cured of the Chin Cough These Cures with many more he gave me an account of at large in his Letter A Maid near Coventry cured of a Gangerine on her face with my Balsom A Kinswoman of Robert Rotheram of Bestford near Notingham had above forty Stones brought away from her without pain in a little time Many more might be added enough to fill a large Volume for I could instance a cloud of witnesses more but let this suffice for brevities sake I assure thee my aim is the publick good and that the poor might have cure is my end If any do misconster me to their own hurt I cannot help that but for my part I can heartily and truly say in the presence of him that is the searcher of all hearts I durst not have published these things to the world had I not found that God the giver of every good and perfect Gift had blessed the means afforded thereby and am fully satisfied if thou canst but make use of it with a thankful heart you will find the truth of what I say for which glory to God only Arcanum vigetabilum that Cordial purging Spirit is 4 s. the Glass 2 s. the half Class Pilulae vegetantes is 4 s. the Box 2 s. the half Box. Balfauum Vitae is one 1 s. the Box. Vnguentum Refrigerans is 1 s. the Box. WHereas this Cordial purging Spirit Pills Balsom and Oyntment was formerly sold in some other places in and about London These are to give notice that the said Spirit Pills Balsom and Oyntment are not to be had or sold in any other place in London but at the house of William Rayman at the upper end of Bred-street near Cheapside between the Angel and Bell. FINIS