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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77577	A brief discovery of the true causes, symptoms and effects, of that most reigning disease, the scurvy. Together with the causes, symptoms, and effects of several other dangerous diseases. : Whereunto is added, a short account of those incomparable and most highly approved pills, called pilulae in omnes morbos: or, pills against all diseases ... / Prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield, approved physician ...	Bromfield, M.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4884J; ESTC R175607	17,167	18

I dare permit my pen to do unless I should transgress in exceeding the bounds of a Letter but this I must assure you that the whole Number of my acquaintance looks upon my recovery with no small wonder and Sir for my own part I shall ever extoll the vertues of your excellent Pills above all Medicines for their quick easie and most affectual operation upon the peccant humours and this not only by my own experience but by observtion of their effects upon several of my friends and acquaintance of which if requisite I could give some instances but let this beg your candid acceptance and suffice to assure you that I own my life saved by your Pills and am Pembridge vi Junii 1673. Sir Your humble Servant William Higgins The manner of taking my PILLS is thus I. PErsons of a middle strength are to begin with taking two or three Pills at Bed-time three hours after a very light Supper but no Supper is better If two or three be not sufficient adde one every night until you take five six or seven at once or that you have the Dose that best agrees with your body take them two or three nights one after another or as strength will allow then forbear them a night or two nights if the Patient be not strong then take them as before c. II. Those whose Bodies are weak or that a little Physick will work with may begin with two Pills taken after their first sleep or very early in the morning fasting and lye in bed an hour or 2 or 3 hours after them if conveniently they can and if they sleep upon them it will be the better III. Note If the Pills work much in the night it will afterwards be best to take them very early in the morning and to lye in bed as before directed or two or three more or less may be taken at night and as many in the morning Women with-childe and those that give Suck should begin with taking but one or two Pills and afterwards may take more as they finde them convenient IV. To Children about three of four years old give half or three quarters of a Pill to Elder Children give a Pill two or three according to their age and strength V. If the patient by thirsty in time of the Pills operation or working he may drink a draught or two of such Liqour as he best likes except in Dropsies in which 't is much better to drink the liquor made as followeth if conveniently to be had Take of the tops of Green-Broom six handful of Fumitory as much Scurvy-grass Wormwood of each three handful all cut Bark of Elder ten ounces Juniper-Berries bruised twelve ounces Anniseeds bruised fix ounces Horse-Radish-Roots three ounces liquorish four ounces slice the Roots put all into a thin Linnen or Hair Bag and put them into five Gallons of strong Ale when it hath almost done Working within a day or two after the Patient should begin to drinke thereof three draughts in a day but if the drink no other Liquor it will be the better and let him sometimes eat a little Candid or GreenGinger and still remember besides the drink to take my Pills as before appointed These directions observed is an Infallible Remedy against any curable Dropsie as hath been very often proved And note this Drink with my Pills is of excellent use for such as finde themselves very far gone with the Scurvy VI. Such as care not to swallow Pills alone may take them in a little of the pap of an Apple Stew'd prunes 3 or 4 spoonfuls of Beer Ale or Wine or they may be bruised or cut small which indeed is the best way if they be very hard and taken with Honey Sugar the pap of an Apple Beer Ale or Wine c. VII Against the Pox Gonorrbaea or Running of the Reins let the Pills be taken in the largest dose so long as occasion shall require and if in the Pox there be many Warts breakings out Scabs or Ulcers that very much molest the patient let him have but a little patience and by the use of my pills they will all infallibly vanish but if the patient be in extraordinary haste to have such Scabs Crust or Ulcers disappear then let him continue my pills as above-directed and to his sores apply this medicine following Take Unguentum Basilicum half an ounce Red precipitate twenty granes Mercurius Dulcis in most fine Powder one dram mix all well together and apply some of it upon Lint every day fresh to your sores c. VIII Note My pills sometimes give an easie Vomit or two that is when the dose is large the stomach foul or nature much inclined that way which still proves very well for the patient for they always carry forth such Cholerick Flegmatick and other noxious Excrements as Nature could not evacuate any other way and by that means often compleat the Cure And if in their working the patient chance to be much Stomach-sick which seldom happens then let him drink a glass of Sack or burnt White-wine or if Wine be too costly a draught of strong Ale warmed either of which usually gives speedy ease IX I advise all in the time of taking my pills from old Cheese and meats very salt and windy X. Note That in any sudden sickness or infection against which they are excellently good with all speed that may be the patient should take a full dose of my pills viz. 4 5 or 6 according to Age and strength and the next day take the medicine following Take mithridate one dram and half or two drams Salt of Wormwood one scruple Diaphoretick Antimony sixteen grains Spirit of Sulphur fifteen drops Carduus-Water four ounces mix them An Apothecary can make up the medicine for you or it may be had faithfully made up at my own house Take it in bed in the morning fasting be covered warm and sweat as strength will allow This potion is for a person of middle strength When you come out of your Sweat be careful that you catch no Cold. A day or two after you may take another dose of my Pills but if the disease be no Infection and seem not to be extraordinary dangerous the Cordial Sweating medicine need not be taken for my Pills alone will compleat the Cure in which you may confide against most Diseases curable by Physick But here by the way you should consider that when Nature is so oppressed by an inverterate disease as that some of the internal principal parts are ulcerated and perished which often happens that then 't is impossible to make new ones instead of those consumed In all such cases we have just cause to judge the Patient immedicable or incurable Also we know it is appointed for man once to die Heb. 9.27 and when that time is come 't is not the best Physick in the world shall protract it one minute in such cases my Pills can do no good and therefore every