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A25287	The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.	A. B.	1674 (1674)	Wing A2B; ESTC R222542	90,076	270

with such Weapons as shall encounter the strongest Adversaries of this kind and that these things reported commended be no Hyperboles It will appear because these things are grounded upon Reason Experience the two greatest Foundations of Indication in the whole Art of Physick And then as to distracted people you may see and Examine the Cures we have done for which purpose we have a very good Conveniency in good Air with Garden-room and good attendance and all other convenient accommod●tion for Persons of any Quality and at reasonable Rates and over whom we our selves have a watchful and careful Inspection and discharge the Cure with Conscience and satisfactory Diligence And for such of any Diseases mentioned for the greater satisfaction and certainty of Cure who are willing to have our own oversight and personal Care for such we have convoniency of room and other necessaries You have also our Scorbutick Drops famous for the Scurvy and all Fevers wonderful useful for all Seamen and Persons at Sea or Land being the best Antiscorbutick opening Obstructions of the Viscera strengthens the Parts kills Worms takes away the cause of Fevers quickens the Appetite and does as much as any one Medicine can do unalterable in any Climate small Dose without observing any difficult Diet and Convenient and profitable for any Age or Sex hurtful in no Diseases being friendly to Nature and next of Kin to our Vital and Animal Spirit All this is propounded for the pu●lick good and that it may so prove read it over observingly consider diligently censure not till you do better and however accept it as a fruit of his affection who means well THE INDEX Chap. 1. MEdicine defined Pag. 1. Chap. 2. Temprraments 4. Chap. 3. Of Parts 7. Chap. 4. Of Humours 9. Signs of a Sanguine Person 12. Signs of ● Cholleric● Person 13. Signs of a Flegmatick Person 14. Signs of a Melancholly Person 15. Of Spirits 19. Of the Faculties 21. Of Actions 22. Chap. 5. Of tbings Natural 22. Of Meats 23. Of Sleep 25. Exercise how to be performed 27. Passion of the Mind 29. Chap. 6. A Tract concerning the Scurvy 33. Chap. 7. The manner of its Generation 38 Chap. 8. A continuation of the Scurvy 46. Chap. 9. The Cause in the Blood 51. Chap. 10. The Extrinsick Cause 55 Chap. 11. The Signs abbreviated 58. Chap. 12. Tbe Symptoms by which Persons may discern that they have the Scurvy 59. Chap. 10. The Cure of the Scurvy 68. Vegitables appropriate to the Scurvy 71. Rules to be observed in Bread and Beer for Scorbuticks and all others 72. Properties of the best Beer Ale 81 The Nature usefulness and profit of Wine 97. Of the Stone in the Bladder and Reins 104. The Diseases of the Spleen 108. The Tenesmus 110. Of the Dysury 110. Of the Strangury 112. Chap. 13. The Leues Venerea 97. Chap. 15. the Diagnostick Signs 103. Chap. 16. Signs of the increasing Pox. 106. Chap. 17. Signs of an Inveterate Leues Venerea 110. Chap. 18 Of a Gonorrhea 116. Chap. 19. Description of the Dropsie 119. Chap. 20. The Hypochondriack Melancholly 124. Chap. 21. The Histerick Passion 129. Chap. 22. The Jaundise 113. Chap. 23. The Chollick 135. Chap. 24. Diseases of the Liver 138. Chap. 25. Cachexia 142. Chap. 26. Inflamation of the Lungs 144. Chap. 27. A Pleurisie 145. Chap. 28. An Impyemate 147. Chap. 29. De Phthisis 148. Chap. 30. A Catarrh 150. Chap. 31. A Dysentery 153. Chap. 32. A Diarrhea 156. Chap. 33. Caeliack and Lienterial Passion 117. Chap. 34. The Asthma 159. Chap. 35. Of the Gout 161. Chap. 36. Of the Angina or the Quinsie 162. Chap. 37. Descriptioni of a Phrensie 165. Chap. 38. Melancholly Madness 167. Chap. 39. Of a Mania 168. Chap. 40. The Palpitation of the Heart 170. Chap. 41. Of Worms 171. Chap. 42. A continual Fever 173. Chap. 43. An Intermitting Fever 181. Chap. 44. A Hectick Fever 186. Chap. 45. The Ricket 189. Chap. 46. A Convulsion 191. Chap. 47. Of a Rheumatism 193. Medicines for every Disease 194. The great Arcana's 209. Instances of great Cures 219. CHAP. I. Medicine Defined MEdicine is defined with respect A Galen de constitutione artis to its End in this manner It is an Art which teaches the preservation of present health and the restoring of that which is lost or a Science by which we protect the present health and expell Diseases In Physick be these five parts First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Physiology Secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Pathology Thirdly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Semeiotical part Fourthly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Dietetical part Fifthly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Therapeutical part The first of these treats of those things which are call'd Natural as Elements Temperaments Humours Parts Faculties Actions and Spirits An Element is defined to be the least or most simple part of the thing which it composeth Or thus the four first or simple Bodies are called Elements Fire Air Water and Earth or an Element is that most simple part which cannot be divided into any species diverse from it self and that which is not perceptible to our Eye but is imbarqued in the shell or clothed upon with those more 〈◊〉 Bodies ●hich we call Elements And therefore those pure virgin or unmixed Elements are rather to be conceived in our Minds than otherwise to be apprehended because they present not themselves to any mortal view And they are called Elements because they are those first Principles that enter into the composition of all Natural and created Beings and by reason o● their Effects they are described or express'd by Hypocrates by the names of Qualities as Hot Moist Cold and Dry. Of these Elements there are in number Four Fire Air Water and Earth and every one of these have a doubl● Quality The Fire is hot and dry th● Air is hot and moist the Water is col● and moist and the Earth is cold an● dry These Elements you see have eac● of them two Qualities viz. The Fire is hot and dry the Air is hot and moist c. that so their first Qualities might be tempered by other qualities viz. the Moistness of the Air might temper the Heat of the Fire And these Elements are by Philosophers divided again into Male and Female the Male are the Fire and Aire and the Female are the Water and the Earth the first of these forms and concocts the seed and by the Aire as it were the sheath o●●●e conceived seed sends i● i●●o the Water and Earth there as in its proper Matrix to be formed according as the Archeus or Spiritus Mundi shall dispose and the Nature of the place or Womb shall be adapt for those seeds in order to the production of such and such an Off-spring These Four Elements in the composition of mixed Bodies retain the qualities and are so mixed on with the other that no simple part may be found Of these Elements two

lyeth heavyer for that certainly a heap as it were weightily pressing into the Stomach and Praecordia The Inflamation of the Liver which the Greks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a hot Tumor of the Liver with a continual Fever stirred up from an impetuous affluxion of Matter accompanied with a sad Pain afflicting with the sense of weight the Signs of this grief is a weight in the right side of the Praecordiums stretched out from the Jugulum to the Bastard Ribs a small Cough and that dry difficulty of Breathing an accute Fever a Queasiness of Stomach a great thirst the Colour of the whole Body inclining to a Yellow this Tumor easily passeth into an Abscesses which if that happens it pronounces certain death and when it becomes an Imposthume Pain Fever and other Symptoms wax strong the Fits invade many times without order which being over an Exacerbation of heat follows the Puss being made all these things are remitted but the strength remaining is much weaker the Pulse frequent small and languid a frequent fainting of the Spirit the Abscessus being broke there breaks forth much filth from the Puss the Sick is detained with sometimes a hot sometimes a cold Intemperature there is a great loathing of Flesh nevertheless hunger does much hurt the thirst is vehiment the whole Body and specially the Palms of the Hands and the Souls of the Feet are hot the Face white soft habit of Body and raw and crude dejections CHAP. XXV A Cachexia A Cachexia is an evil habit of Body and as it were a Dropsie it is a more soft and loose Constitution of the fleshy and skinny parts of the whole Body and as it were a puffing up with an ill favour'd Colour of the whole Skin either Pale Livid or Leadish this evil is wont to come from impure naughty and corrupt Aliments but if these be not the cause it is charged upon the Imbecility or Impurity of the Stomach and Viscera for Imbecility produces a weak and crude Concoction for the parts of the more pure Aliments being carryed into the habit of the Body notwithstanding it is sent to and as it were agglutinated to the parts yet it is not perfectly assimilated and from hence is made not true and legitimate nutrition but a viscious and unprofitable the Impurity of the Viscera maketh an evil and corrupt Blood which at length is brought into all the parts and being unuseful to be dissipated into the Substance of the Body thence follow an unmeet nourishment the external Causes are Meats of evil Juice frequent gorging of the Belly studying too late at night over much watching suppressae evacuationes mensium suppression of the Hemorrhoides frequent bleeding at the Nose or stopping of other Matter which were wont to flow as a Diarraea and Dysenteria longa Long being in Prison and Subterranian places Venom being drunk or the Bite of venomous Beasts that also which makes much to this Disease is continual Fevers stubborn obstructions of the Liver or Spleen hard and Scirrhous Tumors old people are also corrupted with this Disease by reason of the Imbecility of the Native Heat and Women ob retensionem mensium and Children by Gluttany or excessive eating And also a Cachexia sometimes hath its original from an Ulcer of the Reins where there is Gravel when the perulent Matter by reason of the Obstruction of the Ureters flows back into the Reins and so infecting the Blood the whole habit is defiled CHAP. XXVII Of an Inflamation of the Lungs PEribneumonia is an Inflamation of the of the Lungs with an accute Fever difficulty of Breathing and a Cough the part affected is the Lungs either the whole Lungs or part either the right or the left side the Cause is Blood breaking copioufly into the Lungs and kindling an Inflamation the External Causes are vehiment Exercises especially after long quiet and repletion of the Body overcrying and Extention of the Voice anger the Cold Northern Air especially following the Southern the use of Stagnent Waters as Lakes c. Venomous Diets and sometimes mrlignant Humours as when the Peribneumonia or Inflamation of the Lungs are Epidemical The Signs are straightness of the Breast with a heavy and grievous pain reaching to the Spine of the Back difficulty of Breathing and truly a greater than in the Pleurifie an accute Fever troublesome Cough a Redness of the Cheeks in the beginning no Spittle but in process of time there follow Crude Chollerick or Frothy Spittle The Cure is to be begun with opening a Vein a Glyster if need be being first administred CHAP. XXVII The Pleurisie A Pleurisie is a Disease of the Thorax or Breast the most molesting and accutest of all and there is none that assaulteth the life of a Man more it is an Inflamation which extendeth it self under the Ribs and the Membranes thereto adjoyning and taking its Rise from a thin Chollerick Blood with a continual Fever and pricking pain of the side vehiment Cough difficulty of Breathing it is caused either from pure Blood or hot and Chollerick Humours being mixed flowing into the Membranes the remote Causes are Cacohimia Plethora wonted Evacuations of Blood being supprest Flux of the Belly unseasonably stirred a Contusion of of the Breast from a fall or a violent stroke vehiment Exercise and after that Exercise a large draught of cold Water or the like a large drinking of more pure Wine too much hot or over much cold The Pathognomical Signs of a Pluresie are accute pains of the side difficulty of Respiration as also frequent and little a continual Fever and often observing the Fit of a Tertian in the beginning a dry Cough afterward moist with foul and colour'd Spittle there is an Inflamation of the Intercostal External Muscles this arises sometimes from Blood poured out into those External Muscles and sometimes from Winds and sometimes from a Distillation the true Pluresie is known from a Bastard that the sick cannot lie on that part opposite to the pained side because of the Membrane pained by the newly conceived weight But in the Bastard Plurisie it is difficult to lie down upon the side affected CHAP. XXVIII De Impyemate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Puss and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Putrefaction Suppuration it is a Collection of Puss in the Capacity of the Thorax or Breast coming from the foulness and filth of the whole Lungs but it floweth thither either from an Angina or Peribnenmonia or it happeneth more frequently from a Pleurisie for these Coughs not being well cleansed there happeneth an Abscessus from which at length being broke there floweth a Puss into the whole Capacity of the Breast CAAP. XXIX De Pthisis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tabes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Corrumpo in Latin Tales and in general it is taken for the Extenuation of the whole Body and it is accepted for any thing that flows from the same Cause and in that sense it is taken among Physitians and so it is

a spontaneous Lassitude a straitness ● the breast and often times they are o●noxious to Fainting of the spirits Vertig● and Convulsions but in these scorb●tick Dispositions they are wont to u● Remedies more hot and those endow● with a volatile Salt and also Chalybia● which doth thin and stir the blood A● truely in the same manner do they hand Ropy Wines viz. They ought to ● much shaken and stirred Thus far concerning the Radicate Principles of the Scurvy in the Blood Mass and here it is to be explained from what Causes the Blood the Parent of the Scurvy degenerating from its proper goodness doth take that diseasie disposition Notwithstanding it ought first to be shewn in what manner the seeds of this Disease with the other Humour in general is cast into the nervous Juice From the Blood driven forth the Borders of the Brain doth still forth a most subtil matter as for Animal spirits so for a Vehicle and doth scatter them there continually by the whole nervous kind that Latex as long as the Spirit and Salt is well combinated or volatilised with it remains very powerfull there is also a little water with which these are diluted there seems little need of Sulphur and Earth and yet that Concretion of the Spirit and volatile Salt which can pass through all things doth penetrate actuate and irradiate that most excellent humour Concerning the beginnings of the Scurvy untill the Blood being thick and Tone of the Brain are vitiated that Dewy Liquor of the Brain and Nerves as yet spirituous and sweet abides not very unfit to every Office to which it i● appointed but afterward being impoverished by the bloody Mass and muc● enfeebled it is dropped out inclinin● towards a soureness Moreover from the faeculent and as it were the rancidous or muddy blood heterogeneo● particle are administred much infeste● with an Animal Regimen And the Brain being made more wea● within are admitted without repuls● and thence is powered out into the ma●rowy Appendix as also the nervou● with the moistning Juice hence no● there follows the failings and the Eclipses of the scattering Animal Spirit in● every Region distractions and doloro● complaints and Cramps wherefore Pa●sies Convulsions Vertigoes Pains Tre●bling and other preternatural Afflict●ons of the Brain and Nervous kind an● the more forceable Roots producing th● Scurvy are wont to follow And hence it is to be noted in genera● that in these three doth consist the sco●butick spot affixed to the nervous Juice viz. That the dewy Liquor of the Brai● and Nerves is become much more thi● or impoverished which doth degenerat● à Crasi Spirituo-salina toward a soureness which is replenished by the heterogeneous and morbifick particles Hitherto we have shewn how the first seeds of the Scorbutick Affection are sown in the Blood and therein to the Nervous Juice CHAP. X. THe more remote and Extrinsick Cause comes from the six things non Naturales First Aire that is corrupt naughty moist thick putrid and cold cloudy sultery and marine the unpleasant and cloudy season of the Year moist places near the Sea-coasts Laky wet dwelling and Habitations under ground obnoxious to unclean and filthy Exhalations arising from foul Inundations of the Sea and Rivers from whence Hepatick and Splenatick Afflictions are stirred up Secondly Foods not onely in Quality but in Quantity and in Variety hurt much Multa fercula multos morbos ferunt In Qualiity if they be of an evil Juice corrupt too hot too much burnt these easily admitting of putridity and are contrary to the nature of the Bowels which First are the Flesh of Bulls Rams Sows Goats Deer Water-fowls Musty dyet or too Old things salted dryed in the Aire dryed with smoak or kept too long with Salt Red Herring Pickled Herring Bisket Pease Beans Old Cheese Cabbage Chesnuts Among Drinks those are forbidden tha● are made of a foul and stinking Water drinks made of Wheat thick and faeculent Wines black slimy impure thick not only taken to satiation but also taken against thirst and Drinks too copiously taken into the stomach hurt the Mesaraick Veins and Liver so that they cannot perform their other Offices There are other Causes of this Disease in some it may draw its rise fro● an hereditary Cause when the Parent● have been much infected with the Invasions of the Scurvy as when the Paren● Father or Mother are scorbutick and so it becomes Hereditary also by sucking the Milk of a Scorbutick Nurse and some think it may be taken by Contact and intimate Conversation as drinking in the same Cup by Kissing and by the drawing in of the Breath of those infected And this by some is thought the Cause why in the Lower Saxony the Scurvy is so frequent they suppose that by drinking in the same Cups that scorbutick that having their Gums lax and inflamed with crude Blood their mouth stinking give or communicate the same to others and so also their Companions Si scilicet vir cum faemina scorbutica fluxu albo laborante concumbat may take it want of motion an idle sedentary Life does contribute much to this disease Fastings over much immoderate watchings great and unseasonable Labour and Exercises of Body suppressions of yearly Evacuations immoderate Sleep frequent perturbations of Mind anxious Cares and Solicitudes and things of that kind which doth lessen the Native heat and increase Crudities CHAP. XI Signs shewing the Scurvy hath already i●v●ded the Body FI●st A Heaviness of the whole Body Secondly A spontaneous weariness which notwithstanding Bodies that a●● more gross and big may not so soon pe●ceive without a contin●●l Exercise Thirdly A certain straitness of the Praecordi●m ●ourthly A debility of the Legg● Fifthly An i●ching redness and pai● of the 〈◊〉 Sixthly The colour of the Face incl●●ing from a paleness to a dusky Where-ever these are found joyntly you may with certainty pronounce they 〈◊〉 the Scurvy Not that these be al●●he Signs of this disease but that this ●●uculent disease may be the more unmasked and every ordinary Capacity may understand whether he or she have the Scurvy you shall here have a more particular List of well-nigh all the symptomes of this Disease CHAP. XII THe Scurvy first invading there is presently a sense of heaviness and weariness without a manifest Cause over the whole Body mostly about the Vessel dedicated to Concoction and that from Cacochymia press'd out of all the Veins by the whole frame for by the heap of humours in this Evil there is need that the powers be stirred up 2ly They are troubled with a difficult and slow breathing especially between Labour when the sick is moved or stirred by Reason of a flatulent humour lying under and distending the Hypocondries together with the neighbouring parts the Diaphragma and Organs of Respiration 3. Often-times they are driven over the whole Body but chiefly through the external parts as the Arms Belly sides Hips between the Entrance of the back having a notable passage by the