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A67767	Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.	Yarwood, John, 17th cent.	1683 (1683)	Wing Y18; ESTC R25217	23,195	122

Trochisci Bechici All these medicines are good in the moist Asthma as also juice of Radish Roots with Tincture of Sugar The dry Asthma is cured with Epilepticals as Section the 12th Sect. 24. Inflammation of the Lungs and Vlcer of the Breast AN Inflammation of the Lungs is accompanied with a sharp Feaver caused by some preceding diseases for the most part known by great heat difficult breathing and stretching out of the breast with a redness there the breath is hot the eyes swell a dry Cough Appetite is lost the Tongue is dry the Patient is desirous of cold Air and cold water If this disease follow a Pleurisie 't is very dangerous An Ulcer of the breast is generally from an inflammation of the Lungs being suppurated and the Rupture of the Impostume whereby the matter falls into the cavity of the Breast while the suppuration is perfecting the Feaver increaseth but being broken the Patient spits Matter is faint with heaviness in the bottom of the Breast a Cough and great pain If the matter spit up be green livid froathy or brought up with difficulty and the belly loose 't is very dangerous If the matter be not spit up in a Moneths time it turns to a Consumption The Cure An Inflammation of the Lungs is cured wih the same Medicines mentioned for a Pleurisie at Section the 22th For an Vlcer in the breast Take 10 grains of Antimonium Diaphoreticum at once four times a day Anoint the stomach with Oyntment of Tobacco and then lay on a pultis of Figs and Raisons stoned mixt with oyl of Amber and Juniper berries sharpning the Patient drink with oyl of Sulphur or Vitriol Sect. 25. Consumption THis distemper is a wasting of the whole Body the Patient breathes difficultly the Eyes are hollow the Nostrils sharp is Thirsty and hath a Cough sometimes and the hair falls off spits either froath blood or matter from an Ulcer in the Lungs If the matter spit up stink If the body be very loose or an acute disease conjoyned 't is very dangerous But if the Ulcer be but new begun there is hope of Recovery The Cure Balsom of Sulphur is excellent take it 3 or 4 grains at a time Morning Noon and Night and let the Patients drink be sharpen'd with oyl or Sulphur 20 or 30 drops to a pint The oyles of Rosemary Cinamon and Carawayes help much taken ten drops at a time in brothe Lukewarm there is a Syrup made of Corals or Tincture of the same used with good success so is Syrup of Turneps and extract of Elecampane a spoonful at once in any convenient Vehicle Trochischi Bechisi taken 5 grains at once 3 times a day hath proved effectual so hath a Syrrup made of the juice of Cabbage 1 ounce a day Take Choyce Myrrh 4 ounces Saffron half an ounce Nutmegs two ounces Aromaticum Rosatum two ounces Olibanum one ounce Honey three pound make it into an Electuary and take as much as a Hazzle nut 3 times a day Sect. 26. Spitting of Blood IT may be caused by excessive crying leaping blows or falls or inwardly through Plenitude or sharpness of the Liquor Latex corroding the vessels 'T is commonly ill more especially when 't is from the Lungs and many times foretells a Consumption if it be not critical c. The Cure All those Medicines mentioned in the last Section for the cure of a Consumption are proper to be used here to which these following may be added If the disorder be caused through sharpness of the Latex Goates blood gently dry'd and pouderd and given a dram at a time is excellent Henbane-seed powdered and mixed with Electuarium ad Tabidos and given morning noon and night is commended The Electuary is thus prepared Take Nutmegs and Cinnamon of each 3 ounces Ginger three drams M●gistry of Pearl two ounces clarified Honey twelve ounces beat the species severally then mix them together with the Honey given half a dram at a time morning and evening Trochisci Beehici taken 5 or 6 grains at once is profitable 'T is thus made Take juice of Liquoris one pound white Sugar 2 pound Opium one ounce with the mucilage of Gum Tragocanth make it into Roles or Troches and dry them But above all is Roche Allome dissolve it in water and distill off the water to a dry bottom and give 20 drops at a time in any drink Sect. 27. Pain of the Stomach THere is sometimes accompanying this disease a pain in the Head which shews the distemper to arise from Wind and continuing unremoved a Timpany follows If there be a perpetual gnawing felt in the stomach then it is caused by Worms and so less dangerous if there be a looseness vomiting or the patient thereunto inclined it shews a sharpness in the stomach and if it be accompanied with a Feaver or the extream parts be cold 't is very dangerous The Cure If the distemper be occasioned by Wind things Carminative are most proper Take the distilled oyls of Cumming-seeds half an ounce of Fennel Annis and Caraway of each one dram of Dill and Camomil of each half a dram mix and take 3 or 4 grains in luke warm broth If worms cause the disorder take the cure from the 5 Section If it be caused by some preternatural sharpness in the stomach some anoint outwardly with the oyntment of Tobacco and use Laudanum 3 or 4 grains given at night in a pill but 8 or 9 drops of oyl of Cinamon in luke-warm broth is much safer spirit of Camomil in mint-Mint-water is famous in the case so is Essence of Elder Angelica and Rosemary Sect. 28. Swounding and Beating of the Heart SWounding in some is caused through extraordinary fear Immoderate grief c. and in this case 't is the least dangerous in others its without manifest cause and these commonly dye suddenly but in a Feaver 't is dangerous and pernitious Immoderate and unnatural beating and trembling of the heart may be known by feeling and is sometimes caused through shame joy fear or Anger In others 't is continual and in these cases the least to be feared But if it be caused from a Tumour in the Perecardium or Arteries of the Lungs as some Physitians say it may it is incurable and coming upon an acute disease very dangerous The Cure Of both these distempers are performed with Cordials mongst which Aurum Potabile and Species Alexipharmaca taken 5 or 6 grains at a time of either is excellent so is Elixir Proprietatis and Elixir Vitae 20 grains taken in Wine or Syrup of Clove-gilly slowers Oyl of Citrons and juice of Alkermes mixt with Spirit of Wine is highly commended so is the Essence or spirit of Bawnt Borage and Buglose Magistery of Pearls and Corals There are a sort of Flies which Children call Lady Cows with Golden colour'd wings being gently dryed and powdered are given inwardly with good success Sect. 29. Depraved and Lost Appetite A Depraved Appetite is that which fondly covets longs

for and desires to eat hurtful things not fit for food as Oatmeal unripe fruits Chalk Coals Ashes c. it commonly happens to Women with Child and Maids troubled with the Gren sickness this may be of long continuance but of it self in Maids it is not dangerous yet if it be not cured great obstructions Cachexia's Dropsies and pain of the stomach follows Want of Appetite is cause by obstruction of the mouthes of the Meseraicks or through too much fullness and over glutting of the stomach or else weakness want of natural heat c. and if it happen in the declination of a disease it signifies a relapse if it be caused through want of natural heat 't is most dangerous and worse to be liked in children than in men The Cure To women with child the blood of a Vine is commended Maids may remove the cause which is best performed by Elixir Proprietatis Essence of Garlick Savin or Penroyal Tincture or spirit of Tartar taken 4 or 5 times at Night going to bed 8 drops at once In a depraved appetite give 9 drops of oyl of Cloves or oyl of Cinamon in warmish broth sharpen the Patients drink with the oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur and in both cases strengthen the stomach as at Sect. 30. Sect. 30. Vomiting THis disorder is generally caused through weakness or foulness of the stomach weakness may arise from Antecedent causes as too much emptiness want of natural rest superlative Anger boundless Passion and the like If the matter vomited up be green black livid or stinking it is for the most part dangerous but being of none of these colours but coming after a Flux of the belly 't is good or on a Critical day 't is accounted by the Galenists a plausible sign of Recovery provided the matter vomited up be such as they call Flegm and Choler The Cure Most Physitians in this case when it is caused through the foulness of the stomach give a gentle vomit The stomach must be strengthened with Syrup of Corals and Pearls and Spirit of Mint take a spoonful at a time morning noon and night Crude juice of Quinces is wonderful powerful and Syrup of Vinegar is none of the worst Medicines Let all the Patients drink be sharpned wirh oyl of Sulphur give 15 Grains of Elixir Proprietatis in Sack at night going to bed or the like quantity of Elixir Vitae applying to the stomach a Cataplasm of Bread and Vinegar or a plaister of London Treacle There may be a Magestery made of Oyster-shells and given to the quantity of 20 grains at a time with good success Sect. 31. Iliac Passion THis is a distemper of the small Guts commonly occasione through obstruction of the Bowels with a coldness and putrifaction of food it is known by most vehement and horrible pain the stomach abounds with too much moisture there is a great rumbling in the Bowels Wind and belching without ease the dung is stopt and if the disease increase the Patient voyds all the excrements upward and then 't is mostly accounted deadly and being accompanied with the Stranguria 't is the worse The Cure 'T is performed by those Medicines prescribed for removing the Colick at the 32 Section a dram of Cream of Tartar dissolved in a mess of unsalted broth hath been found effectual so hath oyl of Almonds and Malmsey wine I use to sharpen the Patients drink with oyl of Vitriol to a pleasant acidity which hath proved effectuall when all hope from common means hath been past and clisters was vomited upward Sect. 32. Cholick T IS a pain in the Gut Colon sometimes caused by Wind and then there is a stretching forth and swelling of the belly if it be occasioned through Inflammation of the said Gut there is an inward burning hear stoppage of Urine the body is bound sometimes there is vomiting thirst and a Feaver If the distemper be behement the belly bound with watchings vomiting Hiccough coldness of the extream parts and cold sweats all these are desperat symptomes but if the disease be gentle and the body soluble there 's little danger The Cure Take Salt of Wormwood and drop on it spirit of Salt till it cease broyling dry it and give 8 or 9 grains at a time in broth Infuse Hawthorn flowers in Rhenish wine distill off the spirit and take a spoonful at once Take Lemmon Orange and Citron peels of each two ounces spirit of wine one pint infuse them together 20 dayes pour off the Tincture and give a spoonful at once in wine with a few drops of oyl of Cinamon Take spirit of Salt and spirit of wine of each a like quantity mix them in a Glass and administer 40 drops at once in a draught of wine or Ale Take 6 or 7 grains of salt of Lead in white wine or ten grains of Ens Veneris taken in broth at night going to bed and the like quantity at morning and noon two hours before and after meat hath been found very effectuall If the disease be caused by wind give Oyl of Anniseeds Fennel or Carawayes in warm broth proper spirit or distilled water Sect. 33. Flux of Blood and Matter A Bloody Flux is an Exulceration of the Bowels known by vehement pain and bloody Excrements when the disorder is in the Great Bowels the dung is as at other times comes forth with wind froathiness and Blood aloft but if the small Guts be exulcerated there is pain about the Navel the Excrements are of various colours if black and stinking the case is desperate commonly they are of a Lead colour and there is a gnawing felt If there be pain in the Liver and Midriff Vomiting and Hiccough Loathing of meat a Feaver thirst or pieces of flesh voided the ease is dangerous A Flux of Matter generally follows a Flux of blood the Patient continually goes to stool the Excrements are crude and pale and the taste is lost if the disease last long it may turn to a Dropsie when it follows other diseases 't is for the most part deadly There is also an ordinary flux of the belly which in a dropsie shews recovery but if it happen to a woman with child or the Excrements be Green Blew Black or Yellow 't is of evil signification The Cure Let the Patient drink Cows Milk plentifully Potable Gold and tincture of Corals are excellent so is the juice or pulp of Quinces or a dram of crude Allum dissolved in water and so drank but Roach Allum dissolved in water and it distilled off in Ashes is highly famous so are Bramble Berries gathered unripe dried and powdered and given in Red wine the juice of sloes or Poppy water Tincture of Emeralds is excellent 5 grains at a time See the following Sect. Sect. 34. Tenasmus THis distemper is a continual desire in the Patient to go to stooll without voiding any thing except bloody or filthy matter like snevil some say it is generally caused by cold or that it may

תריפה צריף׃ Physick Refin'd OR A LITTLE STREAM OF Medicinal Marrow Flowing from the BONES of NATURE WHEREIN Several Signs particular Rules and distinct Symptoms whereby the most ordinary Diseases may be distinctly known and truly judged are perspicuously Delineated AND The most proper Way safe Method and simpathetical Cure whereby Nature may be helped the Sick eased and Languishing Patients relieved without the Use of Poysonous Purging Potions and Venomous Medicaments is succinctly Demonstrated By John Yarwood Professor of Physick LONDON Printed for Tho. Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1683. TO Mrs. Mary Allsop DAUGHTER OF Anthony Allsop of Allsop-i th'-Dale Esq SInce that Antient House the Place of Your Nativity hath been a Magazine of Medicine out of which the Poor of Your Country have been Armed gratis against those Darts of Sickness which fight against Nature I have assumed the Boldness of this Dedication not doubting but a Person so rarely qualified as I know You to be will in real Generosity not only cast a Benevolent Aspect on these my Publick Endeavours but according to the wonted Goodness of Your Heroick Spirit candidly Accept and Countenance so small a Present as this little Tractate which I have boldly enough presumed to shadow under the Wing of Your Favour not as if I thought One so acquainted with Books would be advantaged by reading this Compendium for I have seen You peruse large Volums and known You deduce Judgment from the best Authors but that you may couragiously go on as You have begun and like your good Mother continue helping them that cannot help themselves And that all other Noble minded Ladies Gentlewomen may follow Your Example is the sincere Wish of Your Obliged Servant Iohn Yarwood From Shepshead in Leicestershire Octob. 9th 1682. PHYSICK REFIN'D c. SECT I. Scurvey THere are wandering Pains running up and down the Body Spots appear in the Fleshy Parts and if the Disease be confirmed the Gums are affected with Bleeding and Soreness This Disease of it self is more Troublesom than Dangerous but if it be not cured it many times brings Dropsies Consumptions and other Distempers arising from Obstructions of the Spleen and is oft the Usherer in of such Acute Diseases as terminate in the Grave The Cure The most Excellent Medicines in this case are Tincture of Tartar Tincture of Antimony and Tincture of Corals Twenty Drops at a time taken at Night going to Bed of any of them in Spirit of Scurvey-Grass or which is better Spirit of Tartar Use it forty Days together I have often cured it with Antimonium Diaphoriticum taken as the former in Beer or Broth twenty Grains at once every Night for forty Days together using in the mean time a Diet Drink made with Horse-Radish Celandine and Mustard-Seed Crocus Martis Apperitivis in this case is very proper but Oleum Martis is better and may be taken eight Grains at a time A Spirit distill'd from Antimony one part and Salt-Peetre three parts taken to the quantity of five Drops at a time is highly Famous in this Distemper SECT II. Dropsie THis Disease is a Watery Habit of the Body 'T is call'd by three Names according as it affects this that or the other Part. The First is called Ascitis that is When much Water is between the Peritoneum and the Bowels The Second is called Timpanites i. e. When 't is of a Windy Cause known by the Hardness of the Place where that of Water is more soft and all other Parts of the Body wax lean The Third is called Anasarca or Leucaphlegma that is When all the Flesh of the whole Body appeareth moist and swelled 'T is generally concluded to be a Defect of the Liver There is great Thirst shortness of Breath an ill Colour and great Heaviness If in the Beginning of the Disease there be a Flux of the Belly with Concoction or the Vrine Made be more than what is Drunk there is hope of Recovery The Cure Let all the Patient's Drink be sharpned with Spirit of Salt or Oyl of Sulphur They that fancy Purging Medicines use Syrrup of Buckthorn an Ounce at a time in the Morning But Syrrup of Pellitory of the Wall is better taken a Spoonful at once two or three times a day The Root of Hog-Fennel powder'd and taken a Dram at a time is excellent I use Ens Veneris twenty Grains at once every Night going to Bed SECT III. Small Pox. THere is first a Pain in the Head and Back the Body is feaverish hot and the Face is red and swell'd they are sleepy have Red Urine and Pricking all over the Body The Third or Fourth Day small Pustles arise and break out in the Skin If they soon come forth and Ripen easily appear white round and the Breathing free there is great Hopes of Recovery But Bleeding at Nose great Third difficulty of Breathing Loosness Bloody Flux black or livid Urine a great Feaver the Pustles appearing Green Black or Blueish or go in again or black or blue Spots appearing all these are dangerous signs The Cure First provoke Sweat with Bezoar Mineral six Grains for a Child and sixteen Grains for one of full Age. Take it at Night going to Bed Or Antimonium Diaphoriticum may be given after the same manner and the same Dose Take them in Sack Tincture of Saffron in this case is excellent taken a Spoonful or two at a time three or four times a day in good Wine Ten drops of Tincture of Corals or six Grains of Tincture of Tartar given at Night in Sack is very good Take a little Red Fennel and Saffron and boyl in Posset-drink and give the Patient to drink often before they come out I make up a Medicine thus Take Spirit of Wine or Aquae Mirabolis two Ounces Syrrup of Clove-Gilly-Flowers one Ounce Confectio Alkermes one Dram mix and give a Spoonful at a time four or five times a day SECT IV. Cachexia 'T Is caused through Obstructions and Hardness of the Liver and Spleen which brings the whole Body into an ill State and Disposition This Disease commonly follows some long Sickness as a Dysenteria and Lienteria The Flesh waxes loose and soft the Patient is weak hath bad Digestion loatheth Meat desires Drink The Body is whitish and he goeth weakly 'T is mostly incident to Old Men and Children If it continue long it brings the Patient into a Dropsie The Cure All Medicines that potently open Obstructions are proper in this Case Take Pulvis Cachecticus half a Dram at a time every Morning and stir after it taking every Night ten Grains of Sweating Antimony Pilulae Anodynae which is most commonly known by the name of Matthew's but more properly Starkey's Pill in this Case is excellent being taken to the quantity of twenty Grains at Night going Bed two or three Hours after a light Supper Crocus Martis Apperitivus in this Case is proper but Oleum Martis is better taken eight Grains at a time I distill

be by means of a Flux of Blood or matter if it continue long there is danger of an Vlcer and if it happen to a woman with child there is great danger of Abortion The Cure This distemper is helped with those Medicines mentioned in the foregoing Section of Fluxes to which these may be added being a like proper in all four cases Take new butter unsalted melt it in a Bason set in hot water pour off the clear from the feces and then boyl it for half an hour and therewith mix verjuice juice of sloes or Rose Vinegar and use the same as sauce to the Yolkes of Eggs boyled hard dry the blood of a Hare to powder and take it inwardly Take a large Apple fill up the middle part where the core lay with a piece of an Honey comb the Honey being squeezed out Roast it in embers and so eat it wax and all Take the outward bark of black thorn dry it and powder it and drink it in red wine Take white stones with red veins boyle them in new milk till half the milk is wasted and drink plentifully thereof or new milk wherein steel hath been often quenched works the same effect Take yellow wax and ducks grease make an oyntment for the fundament Sect. 35. Hemorroids THis Distemper is also called the Piles 't is the flowing of-blood to the Fundament by the veins which in some sent forth much in others they send out little or no blood and these latter have commonly vehement pain in going to stool And at other times also if the Flux of blood be very immoderate 't is dangerous and brings great weakness Dropsies and an ill state of body to the Patient but if the flux of blood be moderate Critical or otherwise for the benefit of nature 't is healthful The Cure If the Piles be swell'd or the pain vehement apply to the place Crocus Metallorum take inwardly the binding Crocus of the binding Crocus of Iron 30 grains at a time if the flux of blood be great There is an herb called Pile-wert being made into an oyntment hath been found succesful but if it be made up with the ashes of burnt cork and Capons grease 't is the better or mix salt of Lead with fresh butter and therewith ancint the place Take Conscrve of Roses and therewith mix a little fine Bole and take a knifpoint full at a time but above all is the fume of Frankinsence put it on some live coales in a deep pot and let the patient sit over it Sect. 36. Obstruction of the Liver IN this Distemper the Urine is watery thin and white the Excrements of the belly are moist and Chylous of the same Colour as the Urine is of the Patient is commonly lean of body yet very pursie and dull the face is pale and after eating there is a pressure in the right Hypocondria with ill digestion If it continue long it is not to be cured The Cure The best and most absolute Medicine in this case is the spirit or Tincture of Tartar taken to the quantity of 8 or 9 drops at a time in Wine or Ale Tincture of Corals may be taken as the former many in this case use the filings of Iron crude whereof they give twenty or thirty grains at a time thrice a day but the oyl of Iron is better it s thus prepared Take filings of steel dissolve them in spirit of salt put the dissolution into a Glass retort place it in a sand Furnance and distill off the spirit which come off sweet in taste whereof you may give 8 or 9 drops at a time the common way of curing this disorder is by giving every morning a dram and half of Pulvis Cachecticus and stiring well after it The Yellow Jaundice are cured by all these Medicines which are proper for the cure of the Green-sickness and therefore I shall say no more of that disease see Section the 37. Sect. 37. Yellow-Jaundice T IS known by yellowness of the skin most discoverable in the Cheeks and whites of the Eyes the tongue is bitter and some have a hiccough and vomiting the Urine is Reddish or Yellow in so much that it will dye a piece of Linnen Cloth of the same Colour If this disease come to the Patient in the beginning of a Feaver 't is dangerous if it comes upon an Inflammation of the Liver it foretells an Impostume if upon a Scirrhus it ends in a Dropsie The Cure All the medicines mentioned in the 36 Sect. for to open obstructions of the Liver are also proper for the cure of the Yellow Jaundice Drop oyl of Vitriol on Salt of Tartar till it cease making a noise then dry it and give twenty grains at a time in broth or any other convenient liquor Take the Gall of a Raven dry it to powder and drink thereof in Ale a week together Take a great Apple pick out the core fill it up with Butter Turmerick and Saffron Rost it and give it the Patient to Eat do so four or five mornings together Elixir Proprietatis is excellent half a spoonful at a time boyl in the Pat ents broth Ground Ivy and the Rootes wires and Leaves of Strawberries Sect. 38. Obstruction of the Spleen T IS known by heaviness pain beating swelling on the left side under the Ribs there is loathing of meat blackness of the Tongue Thirst a Feaver lying on the right side is very painful and on the left is not easie If it continue long it degenerates into the Scurvy and a Schirrus afflicts the Patient with Melancholy and pain in the side The Cure Give every morning a dram of Pulvis Cachecticus and ten drops of spirit of Harts Horn at night The Tincture of Tar-drawn with its own spirit or the spirit alone are famous in this case whereof 6 drops may be taken at a time in Sack Drop oyl of Vitriol on Salt of Tartar till it cease making a noise then dry it and give Twenty grains at a time in broth Tincture of Corals is much commended take 8 or 9 drops at a time in fragrant Wine Take the roots of Polipody stamp them to an Impalpable pap boyl them in common water six hours strain out the feces clarifie the decoction and make it into a Syrrup whereof take a spoonfull at a time two or three times a day Anoynt outwardly with the oyl of Rue and apply a Plaister made up with the juice of Hemlock Sect. 39. Stone in the Reins and Bladder 'T IS known by pains about the Loynes there is some times sand and redish gravel voyded in the Urine which is oft bloody thin and in small quantity the thigh on that side where the stone is most commonly is pained and as it were benummed Stone in the bladder is known by vehement pain there after making water and the bigger the stone is the greater is the pain the Urine sometimes stops suddenly the Patient Pisseth with most ease lying on the Back and there