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A25757	Secrets disclosed of consumptions shewing [h]ow to distinguish between scurvy and venereal disease : also, how to prevent and cure the fistula by chymical drops without cutting, also piles, hæmorrhoids, and other diseases / by John Archer.	Archer, John, fl. 1660-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3610; ESTC R27653	20,607	80

danger being pleasant to smell to and not liquid without danger of breaking Glasses as in other Cordials being dry it is a pleasant Companion which I shall scarce go without For Consumptions It is conveniently taken to the quantity of a scruple or more three times a day Mornings Afternoons and going to Bed in a little Wine or Ale or put into a draught of warm Milk from the Cow with some Sugar of Roses and you will rest the better with a pleasant breathing and your food will better concoct For the Ague or Feaver If you desire to sweat away an Ague or Feaver with it put half a Dram or a Dram to an Ounce of Treacle-Water and dispose your self to sweat For the small Pox Measles or Plague In these Distempers you cannot take a better Cordial to drive it out than half a Dram of this Powder in one Ounce or more of Treacle-Water or good Sack and every three hours about a scruple in a little Sack till safely come out and sometimes after to uphold the Spirits For Pains Gout Stone c. It is good to take half a Dram Night and Morning in a little Sack or Whitewine and sweat upon it It Cures the green Sickness and breeds a fresh Complexion in young and old it is very good for all weakness of the back in Men or Women and will remedy issuings or wastings but for gleetings or weakness of the Spermatick Vessels I have another excellent Cure that strengthens the Retentive Faculty in a little time which I have remedied divers by and shall give directions to any gratis in Venereal Distempers The use of this Cordial Stone or Powder taken in some Whitewine or Sack mightily resists the flatus Hypochondriacus and Melancholy it strengthens the Memory and by comforting the Brain revives the Senses it is a great helper to fruitfulness in Men and Women inclining all to a pleasant disposition If taken by those in health it prevents the Gout Dropsy Scurvy all infections causing strength and a good Complexion For Children it prevents and Cures Consumptions Rickets Liver grown Convulsions Worms and other infirmities and no ways dangerous any way taken or in quantity also it doth wonderfully help the easy cutting of Teeth in Children Now it is necessary after acquainting you with some vertues and uses of this great East-India Cordial that I also acquaint you with the prices there being now some in my hands sent very lately from India the smallest sort of Balls are at ten shillings price some at a Guinny the largest of the bigness of a Turky Egg five pound a piece they will keep many years without the least decay The Ague Pills causing Vomiting two being the usual Dose is one shilling The Anodine Pill which gives ease in less than an hour at one shilling each Pill to be taken in Bed and rest upon it CHAP. XIII Of occult Qualities of Antipathies that vulgar Magick is Witchcraft if maliciously used TO Answer expectation to these Heads distinctly is my design First For occult Qualities we say it is an usual Refuge for Ignorance to take Sanctuary in when a reason cannot be given as to shew why such a Cause produceth such an effect and the cause for the most part is by reason we do not labour nor search into the nature of things but for the most part sit down with a contented Ignorance if we cannot find our questions and doubts resolved in other mens Writings Works and Labours then we say by occult Quality it is done but truth and knowledge is dear in obtaining and what our Predecessors were short in we ought to discover to our Successors for we may better and easier do it than they from their Writings and our own reason with Experience For the general discovery of the nature of things the Doctrine of Sympathy and Antipathy Learnedly discoursed by Sir K. Digby and others doth in some things much facilitate the Work shewing how by Sympathy a Medicine may work at distance upon a person by the Effluviums of the Air which have been experimented by applying to a cruental Cloth or Weapon which made the Wound one while Anodine and Sanative Medicine at which time and during that application they found ease and amendment and the applying of Vinegar or other Corrosives to the Cloth or Weapon should presently cause pain and anguish though at many Miles distance it is related the Italians are so well acquainted with this Magick and Philosophy that they usually in revenge of him that hath been so unmannerly as to ease his Body at their Doors they presently heat a Spit or Iron-Fork red hot and many times thrust through the Excrements of the absent person knowing that the bruning Iron acting upon the spirits of the Body in the new made Excrements will corrode the Bowels and very often they find the sad effects of it we all forbid our Children to piss upon Fire because it breeds a present inflammation in the Neck of the Bladder c. on the contrary some have accidentally been cured of a Cold Flux of the Belly a Looseness when their Nurses have casually cast hot ashes upon their ordure to take it away It is not unworthy the relating an experiment of my own of this kind about the year 1660. I being upon practice in Dublin there came to my House there a rich Citizen in the behalf of his Wife who had lain sick about two Months and had made use of most of the Eminent Doctors in Town but having no remedy he desired my assistance and visit when I saw her in great agony by an inflammation and burning she complained of in her Belly and Womb which she and the Standers by said came to her in fits holding her about two hours at a time Mornings and Evenings I finding her condition very deplorable enquired of her Self Husband and Friends what might be the first cause which they all being ignorant of they told me she being thus left by her Doctors her Neighbours her Mother and all concluded she was bewitched for the violent Fits came so exactly in time Mornings and Evenings after I had considered the Distemper and violent Paroxysms of pain I sent for a Chirurgeon to breath a Vein and that no methodical means might be wanting I directed her Cordials to an Apothecary but all signified little she having used good means before about that time I read Sir K. Digby and some other Books of Sympathy and Antipathy which did the more fasten it in my mind that some strange trick or magick art had been used upon her Her Husband being a Soap-Boiler by Trade it came into my mind to ask the Maid Servant and made her shew me where she emptied her Mistresses Pots of Water so I went with her where was a great heap of Ashes made in Soap-Boiling this standing nearer to her by much than the necessary House she usually threw her Water upon the Ashes to save her labour of going further after I