Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	add_v	ounce_n	rose_n	5,453	5	9.9686	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34728	Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...	Couch, Robert.; Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6510; ESTC R9840	74,356	218

soon suppurates which makes an Imposthume or Empyema and although an eruption by those means may be prevented yet there may be some of that aqueous matter transpired through the Pleura which may be tinctured with a sanguine complexion and cause that colour which is seen in expectoration so that I conceive the essence of this Malady is not blood with submission to sounder Judgments Now you may ask me which of those two ways I think the surest for Hippocrates saith a Plurisie not perfectly cured before the fourth day the party becometh consumptive Answ I judge the morbisick matter to be evacuated by transpiration through the Cutis or Skin to be the directest Course REASONS 1. For so there is nothing exhausted but the matter offending 2. Those that are cured by Phlebotomy or Blood-letting are more liable to that Distemper again 3. The Blood is not so depurated from this offensive matter as by a powerful Sweat 4. The party affected may be in that condition that letting Blood may prove prejudicial as women with child young women obstructed c. I am not averse to Blood-letting but I had rather make use of my Balsamical Pill which effects it singularly and not hurtful in any condition Now I am speaking of letting out blood I shall give my judgment in that great question which hath been and is to this day controverted amongst our great Doctors whether it be proper in Fevers Hollerius Forrestus Sennertus Galen Avicen with the rest of the Schoolmen press it of a necessity to be done in the beginning Paracelsus Helmont with the rest of the Quicksilver Wits condemn it as not convenient at any time Betwixt Scylla and Charybdis there is a safe Channel but he must be an experienced Mariner that can sail through As Practice is the best part of Physick so observation is the surest Errors being sometimes admitted do instruct judicious erring persons as good Remedies do confirm good Operators From my observation I shall speak something to those two extremes If I could think the School definition of a Fever true that it is heat besides nature being kindled in the heart first and throughout the whole Body I should think nothing could more clearly indicate Phlebotomy but I hold the contrary and no necessity for it in the beginning but rather prejudicial I have been an observer in this Intention about twenty two years and have had many hundreds under my consideration at once and almost some of all Diseases and those in Fevers some have been let Blood and others not and for the most part those that were not let blood were well before those that were In any contagious pestilential malignant Fever to let blood is very destructive Detracto sanguine licet impuro impurior multo succedit Fernel as experience well teacheth In a continual Fever as Synochus or burning c. it prolongs their sickness and commonly strikes them into an intermitting Ague or some other Disease In a Fever intermitting or determinated into Paroxysms or Fits it strongly confirms them In a word to let blood in any Fever in the beginning I have found to do much hurt several times good hardly at any time so that I am inforced to shew my dislike of letting blood in the beginning of this Disease Neither do I consent with great Helmont the Calciner of Physick and laudable Paracelsus that Blood-letting doth exhaust the spirit of life because the life is seated in the blood nor that it may be convenient at any time but I have reason to believe the contrary 'T is true Letting-blood doth never cure a Disease properly but it doth mightily refresh and cherish a weak nature that hath almost spent her self through freeing her from her mortal Enemy As we see often after a tedious sickness nature her self stirs it up as a Crisis Quo natura verget ad locum conferentem to ducere oportet and then to take a little blood from her doth much revive and strengthen her I have cured a man that had a Quartan Ague above a year and four months only by once letting blood who never had a Fit after The drawing blood was but the occasion nature was the efficient cause for she was much more elevated and strengthened by it whereby she expunged the morbifick Reliques with a greater facility I have cured a man that had laboured with an Atrophia or Consumption for a long time wholly become a meer Skelleton only by letting blood three times about six ounces at a time in the space of ten days without the use of any other means he became perfectly well to the admiration of all his Neighbours I have several times since experienced it in an Hectick Fever and although this nor any thing else that I know of will cure it yet they have been more refreshed by it than by all the things took and whosoever practiseth it will find it so I could instance in several more but let this suffice to evidence the truth though a Paradox that Phlebotomy is very disgustful to nature in the beginning of a Disease but very grateful in the latter end The Pleurisie is cured by Diaphoreticks and Diureticks being mixed with such things as have power to concentrate acidity as this following mixture â„ž of the Syrup of Marsh-mallows an ounce Syrup of Corn-Poppies an ounce and an half Crabs-eyes prepared and Mineral Bezoar of each a dram mix them and make a Linctus of which let the Patient lick very often till he come to sweat Or if he had rather have it in a liquid form add to this Mixture Triacle and carduus-Carduus-Water of each two ounces shake them well in a Glass and take it by spoonfuls till sweat proceed For an outward application this following is excellent â„ž of the compound ointment of Marsh-mallows an ounce oil of sweet Almonds and Roses of each a quarter of an ounce oil of white Lillies Poppies and Henbane strained each a dram and a half Chymical Oil of Cammomile Cummin-Seeds and Bricks of each a scruple Camphire half a dram mix them and make a Liniment With which anoint the pained side as hot as it may be suffered It would grieve any pitiful heart to see how many persons lives in this Disease as well as some others expire with their Blood some being blooded five or six times over and yet receiving no ease while they live as I have divers times known About three or four years since I was sent for to a Gentlewoman lying under this Disease she had been let blood three times but yet had no ease and was plyed with Lohochs and Linctus's and such like broken Reeds and while I was in her Chamber the Apothecary came in with a Commission to draw more blood if he found her not eased She was Patient to one of the oldest Doctors in London upon which and the consideration of her weakness I wholly declined to meddle with her not without much reluctancy and regret of mind since

presently abated and that night he rested pretty well for he had no sleep worth mention since he was ill the next morning I sent him four Grains more of the Powder which gave him three Vomits and two Stools about six in the Afternoon I went to visit him and found him about his Chamber saying he thought he was as well as ever his Stomach being returned and he very hungry Thus you see a Fever cured in eighteen hours or less which in all probability would have been at the least three or four weeks if recovered at all before nature by such enfeebled helpers or rather hinderers as are the common Medicines could have freed her self from the Disease I could instance many the like cases were it needful This Medicine hath besides its other gifts such a general tendency for the curing of all Fevers that upon the first knowledge of it in practice I called it my Species Febrifuga by which name I published it in my Catalogue of Medicines Printed in the year 1676 although I had then seen this little Book of the Authors I shall here subjoyn a short Discourse of intermitting Fevers or Agues in which Mr. Couch is silent except in the name yet I cannot doubt but he must be well acquainted with the power of this Medicine in curing them Of Agues GReat Diversity hath been and yet is among Authors concerning this Disease some holding one thing and some another concerning its Seat and Causes but I without reciting their differences or contending with any man's opinion either of which is no way profitable shall briefly endeavour to give you my own sentiment It needs no Definition being sufficiently known here neither Division seeing all the sorts thereof proceed from one cause and may be cured by the same Medicines Seat The Place or Seat of Agues is the Pancreas or Sweet-bread for all the parts of Man's Body being considered which only by intervals may transmit the cause of intermitting Fevers to the Heart none is found to which not only the Focus or source of those Fevers but also the causes of all their Symptoms may be ascribed besides the Pancreas or Sweet-bread Cause The Cause is an Obstruction of one or more of the Lateral Ducts or Branches of the Pancreas by reason of Phlegmatick Matter carried thither in too large a quantity and there detained the which being separated from the Blood together with the Pancreatick Juice by the Glandules of the Pancreas and sent to the main Duct or Pipe thereof causeth an Obstruction there and detaineth the juice of the Pancreas contrary to nature which ought continually to flow into the thin Gut called the Duodenum This Juice being thus stagnated quickly grows acrimonious or sharp and acquires a putrefactive Ferment whence at length it makes way through the obstructing Phlegm and is effused into the Duodenum where meeting with the Bile or Gall it stirs up a vicious and preternatural Ferment from whence comes the Ague Fit with all its Symptoms as in the beginning horrour chilness cold shaking c. then presently reachings yawnings and vomiting of bitter or four relish and afterwards burning heat the causes of Heat Cold Thirst c. you have in the foregoing Chapter of Fevers but if any desire further satisfaction concerning the reasons of the differences of Agues and the constant or various access of their Fits with the particular causes of Symptoms they may read it at large in Regnerus de Graaf in his Book intituled de succo Pancreatico published by me in the year 1676 to which I refer the Reader not having room here to be any larger Cure The Cure consists in opening the Obstructions changing the diseasie Ferment and expelling such matter as the Disease hath rendred incapable of being redintegrated and taken into the communion of life All which intentions are truly and radically performed by this Powder for an Ague being removed by the due use of this Medicine returns not again neither leaves any danger of its degeneration into another Disease both of which too frequently happen after the use of some Medicines which take off the Fit only by a kind of soporiferous quieting the present fury of the Archaeus If it be taken before the Ague hath exceeded three Fits one only Dose is usually sufficient to carry it away if fix or seven Fits two Doses or three at the most yea I have cured divers at twice or thrice giving it that have had it six or eight weeks but if it be a year old or more the continuance of its use but a reasonable time with the help of the Balsamick Pill will not fail to cure it I have also known it to cure Agues when it hath had no other sensible operation than Breaking of Wind. A person living in Greenwich who had a Tertian Ague and sometimes a Quotidian all the last Winter was cured this Spring by three Doses of the Powder which never had any sensible operation and two Doses of the Balsamick Pill so that in eight or ten days he was abroad about his Affairs and never had any Fit since although he was before so low brought that he could not sit up any longer than while his Bed was made notwithstanding the constant advice of an eminent Physician of that Town which he had used It is to be taken in a Spoonful of Drink or Posset drink about an hour before the Fit comes for two or three Fits together according as the Ague is in continuance If the Patient be weak or of a tender habit of Body let him take a Dose of the Balsamick Pill the same night after the Powder hath been given when he goes to Bed with a draught of warm Ale or a Glass of good generous Wine which Pill will mightily corroborate and refresh his Spirits and also tends much to the Cure if the Ague have been of a long continuance or be a Quartan or fourth Ague then after the Patient hath taken the Powder three times if the Fit still remain then let him take a full dose of the Balsamick Pill two or three hours before the coming of the next Fit and goe to Bed and dispose himself to sweat before the Fit comes the which if he do it s ten to one but the Fit comes no more but if there should be a failure of sweating timely enough then let him take the powder before one Fit and the Pill before the next till it be gone but not one Ague in twenty will need to be thus treated A general Direction in Fevers TO drink liberally of such Liquor as is most convenient is good I like not Beer of any Liquor in a Fever before the peccant matter wherein the Disease doth subsist be evacuated because it hath a nutriment from the Grain it is made withal which doth add unto the matter of the Disease whereby Thirst is exasperated as is commonly seen I rather advise to drink Wine and Water two parts Water and one Wine sharpened a