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A88597	Clavis medicinæ: or, The practice of physick reformed wherein is described the nature and cause of most diseases and the select way of cure for the same. A method contrary to all authors in being. By Jeremiah Love, doctor of pysick [sic].	Love, Jeremiah.	1674 (1674)	Wing L3187A; ESTC R230714	23,779	80

suddenly leaveth some gross corruption behind which Nature there casteth out For the Cure of which take these Directions which never failed First for three or four days take five spoonfuls of this Apozem which will draw the course of humours from thy Face and then I prescribe thee an Oyntment which is admirable good for the same you shall have it made by Mr. Fisher aforesaid And pray use it after this manner Anoint your Face where the Pimples and corrupt Blood lodgeth every night gently with this Oyntment cold with your Finger the next morning moisten your Face with a little new Milk and wipe it gently use this way a fortnight and you shall find an alteration After the same manner you may cure the Morphew for it cleanseth and purifieth the Skin wonderfully CHAP. VI. For the Itch and Scabs Byles c. Leprosie Small Pox Measles SOme are troubled with this having it by Nature from their Parents some by long and bad Diet others by infection as by keeping company with those that have their Bodies inclined to Byles Scabs and Itches Now the way of curing by our Artists so called now a days is to purge first and then bleed and after to use some Mercurial Ointment and in many Bodies all this will not do if it doth the next Spring they are most commonly worser than they were before Now I will shew thee Art it self as it was at first instituted and thou shalt as easily cure this distemper by small means as when thou art a dry to drink a Cup of Beer to quench thy thirst First Take this Apozem about four spoonfuls every morning for three days and take something that is hot two hours after The fourth day take of white Briony-Root half an ounce a sprig or two of Mace boil this gently in a pint of Ale strain it out and sweeten it with Sugar drink a good draught of this well warmed in thy Bed and sweat three or four hours upon it and in thy sweat drink off the rest of the Pint hot if a Child less as age doth require Use this way three days together longer if the Disease have been of long continuance and let the Patient in sweating rub his Body with warm Cloths to take such corruption as cometh out by sweating after this manner the Scabs will fall off miraculously You may cure the Leprosie all scald Heads Scurffs and likewise prevent any one from having the Small Pox or Measles that they shall not have them at all I would have all men take notice that this way is the only Galenical way in practising the true Physick and not to fill their Bodies with Drugs or with Mercurial or Antimonial Preparations And you shall see in every Chapter a contrary method to all Authors extant CHAP. VII For a Cough or shortness of Breath For Surfeits by taking Heat and Cold. For People that are very flegmatick and stuffed up with Flegm and for those that are entring into a Consumption GAlen would have a cold distemper of the Instrument of Breathing to be the only cause of the Cough sometimes a Humor distilling from the Head to the Trachea Arteria and sharpness only of the Cuticle of Trachea Arteria going about within doth provoke the Cough sometimes it is caused through cold and flegm descending upon the Lungs sometimes it happens through heat dissolving the superfluous matter of the Brain and so through a Catarrhal Distillation the Cough is excited Now my Brethren we all know that Cold is most commonly the original of most Diseases for if the Body be full of gross corrupt Humours having taken a great cold presently there ariseth a putrid Feaver sometimes malignant and sometimes pestilential Now judge you if a Medicine will disburthen and carry out of the body this flegmatick corruption without weakning of Nature and in the highest Feavers I trust you will grant to me it is the onliest means to be used Then take two spoonfuls of this my Apozem every day in the morning or if occasion permit once in two days this will I will assure you unlade the body sweetly of this corruption And now will I give thee a Pectoral Drink which thou mayst drink as often as thou wilt which will quench thy thirst bring thy body to its natural heat and cure thee of thy cold Take of Coltsfoot an handful Hysop half an handful Angelica roots bruised a dram Liquorish scraped and bruised two ounces Anniseed half an ounce boil this in two quarts of spring-Spring-water gently half an hour strain it out and put two ounces of fine Sugar drink freely of it warm when occasion serves by taking this Pectoral Drink hot mornings and evenings the flegm will come up easily and is a wonderful Preserver for the Lungs keeping them from putrefaction Now good people there are many in this City of London that are troubled with the shortness of breath and have their Lungs very dry so that it is a continual pain and labour for them to breathe or as the saying is to fetch their wind First I advise them to take for three or four days three or four spoonfuls of this my Apozem which will cleanse the inward parts of most of the corruption then take this Pectoral Drink named before in this manner following Take a quarter of a pint of the Pectoral Drink and put therein the yolk of a new-laid Egg and drink it fasting and fast an hour after it if thou hast been troubled with this grief many years by using the Medicines so will open and moisten thy Lungs and help thee you cannot use it too long for it is both Meat and Medicine After the same manner are cured all those that are entring into a Consumption But with this Proviso they must abstain from all Spices Salt Meats and all Wines for they fret and inflame their Bodies and withal let them take care they over-heat not their Bodies with any violent exercise that they strain not their Lungs by violent Coughing wherefore avoid all Chesnuts and all raw fruits as inimical to them for this Disease is difficult and therefore great care is to be used in their Diet c. Now if any man by violent exercise heat his body excessively and when he is so hot suddenly cool himself by drinking by rest or any other ways so that this man falleth sick even unto death and it he escape he remaineth weak and sickly during his life Now my Friends Nature misliketh nothing more than a sudden change from one contrary to another to wit from heat to cold Wherefore I conclude by reason and experience that the best way to cure a man in this extremity is to bring his body orderly again to the same heat wherein it was when he took cold which thou shalt do after this manner Take half a Pint of the aforenamed Pectoral Drink and dissolve in it two drams of Venice-Treacle let the Patient drink half of it hot fasting and sweat four or

relapse CHAP. XXI The Hectick Feaver FOr the which I will prescribe a Diet by which many even at deaths door have been recovered which is this â„ž fol. Acetos Calendul an m. i. Semperviv â„¥ i. Lact. recent lb iii Pomatii lb ss f. decoct add Colat Sir Papav. Rub. â„¥ ii When the party is thirsty drink freely of this then make this broth Take a Capon and skin it and get out all his fat then bruise it in pieces and put it in a pitcher that holds a pottle of water and put in it four ounces of Raysons stoned eight Dates a Pugil of Borage and Rosemary-flowers and likewise put in a pint of good Claret and half a pint of Red Rose-water cover the pot close and paste it round then put this into a Kettle of water and so make the Kettle boil six hours and be careful in boiling no water comes upon the paste then take it out and strain it and drink four or five spoonfuls of this morning and evening Or use this Take a young Pig and scald it and cut it in four pieces and put six quarts of running water in a pipkin scum it clean and put a large handful of Sage in it and boil it gently till half be wasted strain it out and drink it morning and evening warm But if the party be not much wasted away let him take a spoonful of my Apozem now and then of a morning for it will cause him to have an appetite CHAP. XXII For the Plague and all Malignant Feavers THere be three special causes of this disease The first is the just judgment of God for the sins of the people In this case I hold our Divines that it cometh as it were by the Commandment of God and then vain is the help of man when the power of the Almighty worketh to destroy wherefore repentance and amendment of life is the salve for this sore Yet seeing we know not his determinate will and pleasure I wish no man to neglect such natural means as our Eternal Father hath provided for the preservation of our natural bodies lest by so doing we sin and tempt our Creator and the Preserver of all Mankind The second cause proceedeth of the corruption of the Air which is of two sorts either general or particular The Air is generally infected by the distemperature of the Heavens then the weather is long dark cloudy foggy stiffling very hot and moist and also our bodies faint we loath the breath we draw in and out then it is difficult to keep meat sweet and the Heavens do as it were refuse to draw the corruption from the earth but yield down again such as they had taken away before The Air is particularly infected by the smell of dead bodies especially in fights when those that are slain lies unburied which infecteth that particular place Also a putrid smell in your Fenny and Marish ground and especially the smell of such bodies as resort and lodge very close in one small Room as in this City of London and then people are sluttish and nasty which infects the vital spirits and breeds such corruption which at last burst out into the Plague The third cause proceedeth of corrupt humours in mans body ingendred by bad Diet and these two last comes by Gods permission as the first comes by his Commandment For preventing this heavy Visitation 1. Make fires in the streets to cleanse and purifie the Air. 2. Let people walk out into the fields to take the fresh Air and let their Houses be made clean and sweet by strowing sweet herbs and airing their beds and opening their windows to let the Air in 3. Let no House be over-pestered with too many Lodgers and let all vagabond and lazie unnecessary members be forced out for this will cleanse a City as a purge will a man that is full of corruption For cure take these Observations Take of endive-Endive-water two pound centary-Centary-water one pound Ivy-berries half an handful bruised boil these gently a quarter of an hour strain it out and dissolve in it of Mithridate or Venice-Treacle two drams Sugar an ounce and half Wine-Vinegar three spoonfuls Now as soon as ever the Patient doth complain and Nature as yet strong give him a quarter of a pint of this Drink fasting being warmed and let him sweat in his bed eight or ten hours if he can bear it and in his sweating drink hot posset-drink and in every draught two or three spoonfuls of this drink when he riseth get him some broth and be careful to keep him from the Air if he do not find ease in his sweating the next day do the like this way will cure him without having a sore or else it will help Nature so far that it will force out the sore speedily unto which use these Applications first embrocate the Tumour or Carbuncle with Oyl of Lilies being warmed then take two yolks of Eggs a dram of Saffron pulveriz'd Linseed Oyl and Oyl of Camom of each a dram spread it upon Cloth somewhat thick and apply it use this course for it will speedily break it then dress it according to Art After the same manner are cured all Malignant Feavers and Epidemical Diseases CHAP. XXIII MY Friends I have here given you a brief Method of curing many Diseases a way different from the general road of both the Galenists and Chymists if you would but fancy them they are matters of great moment they are not Coleworts boiled over and over a thousand times and crammed in even to nauseating but I tell you farther it is the only introduction and the right path if you have little more wit than is told you to cure all the Diseases of the Body both with speed and safety It is not a superficial Knowledg that will ever raise Love or Admiration We are all placed in Natures Garden why then are we idle but let us learn the Works of Nature and pry into her secrets that we may contemplate more things and with greater delight and profit than all our forefathers could ever tell us for we all know Nature is not barren to spend all upon our fathers and leave nothing for us their children if we want an Interpreter the Maker of Nature is the best himself is there no God in Israel that we should go to enquire of the Gods of Ekron must we rob the Indies for poysonous Drugs to cure us when we have balsamous Herbs enough in our own Gardens but far fetcht and dear bought always pleaseth Fools and Ladies I shall now give you some Specificks or Remedies appropriated for many Diseases which things used and cleansing thy Body with my Apozem thou shalt find them never to fail thee in thy expectation CHAP. XXIV For the Stone R. Virga Aur. pariet Saxifrag an m. i. S. Petros Lithosperm an â„¥ s Bac. Junip â„¥ i. Alkakeng Ê’ii Frax ClavisÊ’i LicorizaÊ’vi Vini albi lb iii f. decoct add Sir Dialth â„¥ ii Lapis Prunell