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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33709	A physico medical essay concerning alkaly and acid so far as they have relation to the cause or cure of distempers : wherein is endeavoured to be proved that acids are not (as is generally and erroneously supposed) the cause of all or most distempers, but that alkalies are : together with an account of some distempers and the medicines with their preparations proper to be used in the cure of them : as also a short digression concerning specifick remedies / by John Colbatch.	Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.	1696 (1696)	Wing C5003; ESTC R26032	33,359	174

said before Nature has provided to our hands Oranges Lemmons Cittrons Limes and a great many more not necessary here to mention which for the most part answer our Intentions so that they are skilfully given by an experienced hand And as I hope I have given sufficient reasons to disswade the use of Alkalies and Diaphoreticks from the many direful effects that daily attend their use so I hope to give as cogent ones to enforce the use of Acids from the laudable good effects I have seen from them for in five hundred at least Patients that I have had of all Qualities to do with in this Distemper in Worcester and London where I have been called in at the beginning of the Distemper I do not know that I have had one that has died or been disfigured nay some that have been brought into very ill circumstances by the precedent use of Testacious Alkalious Powders and Diaphoreticks I have retrieved from the jaws of impending death by the use of fit and proper Acids It may be wondred at by some that I make a difference between Testacious Powders and Diaphoreticks when the Testatious Powders especially the compound ones as Gascons Powder Countess of Kents Lapis de Goa c. are accounted Diaphoreticks and indeed are so But the reason why I do it is because for the most part besides the said Alkalious Powders other more forcible Diaphoreticks are also given I having in short given some hints concerning the cause of the Small-Pox I need not again repeat them so I shall immediately proceed to the method I take in the cure of it which being according to Natures dictates is short and easie For Nature in performing her Operations makes short and easie cuts it being in the cure of Diseases as in finding out and giving an account of the Phaenomena of Nature by Phylosophical Disquisitions they that go upon the fewest Principles generally discover most of her secrets and are capable of giving the best and most rational account of them Whereas they that are clogged with multiplicity of Principles and wandring in tedious long and uncouth Paths thinking thereby to get admission into Natures Cabinet after they have spent much time and taken a great deal of pains at last fit down as wise as when they began and not one jot the wiser First of all when I come to a Patient who has the Symptoms of the Small-Pox upon them which are so well known even to Nurses that I need not spend any time about them In the first place if there be any manifest signs of the Stomachs being oppressed and clogged with viscous Matter as generally it is I first of all give a gentle easie vomit suitable to the age and constitution of the Patients and after that hath done operating some Syrupus E Meconio or any other pro-Opiat in due proportion Afterwards to allay the hurry and disorder in the Blood occasioned by the intromission of Hetrogeneous Particles which Nature is endeavouring to throw out And to confirm the Texture of the Blood so as to enable it to rid it self of its enemy I give large quantities of any of the following Julips Take of fresh juice of civil Oranges six Ounces Barly Water one quart double refined Sugar as much as is sufficient to make it grateful or to those Palats or Stomachs which are very few to whom juice of Oranges is ungrateful Take of juice of Lemmons or Lime juice that is not musty four Ounces Barly Water one quart Cinnamon Water half an Ounce Syrup of Rasberries as much as is sufficient to make it grateful Or Take of Barly Cinnamon Water one quart juice of Lemmons four Ounces Syrup of Wood-Sorrel three Ounces mix and make a Julip O any of these Julips I give my Patients to drink as oft and as freely as they please Drinking likewise small Beer with juice of Oranges in it in as large quantities as they please But during the whole course of the Distemper all sorts of flesh ought to be avoided To poor people instead of the aforesaid Julips and to save charges I order them large quantities of small Beer acidulated with Oyl of Vitriol or instead of that Vinegar or Verjuice Posset drink to be drank frequently and in large quantities But if in the beginning or at any other time I find the Brain very much disturbed and the Patient delirious I for the most part find it absolutely necessary to let Blood and that in a good quantity and then to flye to the use of more powerful Acids giving the following Julips in large quantities which presently calms the violent Motion ●nd Agitation of the Blood ●nd Spirit and sets ●ll to rights in a small ●ime Take of Barly Cinamon-wa●●r one quart Syrup of Ras●●erries three Ounces Volatile Spirit of Vitriol one Dram and half or mix and make a Julip Take of Barly Cinnamon-water one quart Syrup of Rasberries three Ounces Gas Sulphuris as much as is sufficient to make it sharp Or Take of Barly Water one quart Epidemick Water two Ounces Syrup of Wood Sorrel three Ounces sweet Spirit of Niter or Vitriol two Scruples Or Take of red Rose Leaves six Drams put them into an earthen or glass Vessel pour upon them one quart of boyling Water let them stand covered for some time then pour on them two Scruples of Oyl of Vitriol or Oyl of Sulphur pe● Campanam when cold strain out and add as much double refined Sugar as is sufficient to make it grateful If at any time I find my Patients Spirits languid and low I then give three or four spoonfuls of the following Cordial at due intervals Take of Aqua Mirabilis Epidemick Water of each three Ounces Spirit of Citrons half an Ounce Balm Water eight Ounces Syrup of Gilliflowers one Ounce and half mix and make a Julip By this method I have brought my Patients through the Distemper without so much almost as the least uneasiness or even confining themselves to their Beds and without the least fear of a secondary Fever which is that which frequently proves of most fatal consequence After the Pustles are quite gone I then take care to purge them well for five or six times with gentle and easie Purges after each Purge giving an Hypnottick After that I have done Purging for some time I give corroborating strengthning Medicines to confirm the Texture of the blood and Juices and bring them to their natural State by which means I prevent ill accidents that sometimes succeed the Small-Pox I have not given a full History of this Distemper that being contrary to my design but endeavoured to deter people from the use of those Methods and Medicines that have proved fatal to so many and to advance a better and safer Method and Medicines in their room Yet I would not have people wholly to rely upon the Method I have here set down but always have a Physitian by to obviate any unusual Symptoms that may chance to appear contrary