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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

one may judge it to be an Arcanum Catholicum or an universal Remedy which I know this Powder I tell you of hath perfectly effected as I have well experienced And in this last I commonly give my Balsamical Pills the next night to consolidate the Excoriations which the morbifick matter hath caused In all Fluxes of the Belly whether bloody or not you may do as followeth First give half a dram or two scruples or a dram of the Powder of Toasted Rhubarb mixed with a little Conserve of Red Roses and made into a Bolus Then â„ž of the Conserve of Red Roses Mint of each an ounce Orange Pill candied six drams Red Coral in fine Powder a dram Diascordium two drams Syrup of Myrtles sufficient to make a soft Electuary let the Patient take it often about a dram at once Or this â„ž of Mint Water and Cinnamon Water each an Ounce Plantane Water two ounces Syrup of Comfrey an ounce and an half Laudanum two grains mix them and let the sick take it by a spoonful every half hour In the Flux with the Griping of Guts as also in others this following is very good â„ž of the best Cinnamon Water three ounce of Diascordium three drams let them be well mixed and give it by two spoonfuls at a time pretty often Either this or the former will both stay the Vomiting and bridle the Flux The following Clyster is also good to alleviate the sharpness of the matter and ease the excoriated Guts â„ž of new Milk half a pint or better in which quench a piece of red hot steel once or twice to which add half an ounce of Venice Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg Honey of Roses an ounce common Balsam of Sulphur ten or twelve drops mix and make a Clyster The Pill alone will cure any Flux or Loosness whatsoever presently yea the Bloody Flux in two three or four days according to its magnitude but in that case it is good to continue the use of it a day or two after the Flux is stayed lest the Acrimonious Ferment not being quite destroyed should reassume its force and cause the Disease to return Therefore in such Countries where this Malady is in a manner Epidemical as Ireland and perhaps some other places did they but know the worth of this Pill they would undoubtedly prize it at a high rate and rescue many a miserable person from the devouring jaws of death Calculus Renum or Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Kidneys THe Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Kidneys as it is the sharpest of Diseases so it hath been the longest in curing though the present Fit or Pain is soon remedied I never knew any Man or Woman that was past forty five or forty six years of age that was ever perfectly cured but once or twice a year after they have been troubled with it more or less though I knew a Gentlewoman that was free from any Fit nigh two years and then assaulted her again as violently as at first Cause Those Paroxysms or Fits that come by Intervals which are so dolorous do not proceed from the Gravel or Stone generated but from the Kidney generating which may be affected either primarily from a debility or vitiousness of its own Ferment or casually from an excess in quantity or being too sharp or salt in quality and in regard it is so sensible a part must needs stir up an inflammation which maketh those cruel Tortures And should all the Gravel and Stone come away the pain would not be the less until the Kidney it self be reduced to its right temper For we see how vain and useless all those things have proved that have been given to absterge and force away the Gravel and Stone nay they have much more exasperated the pain and made it more And besides that the Gravel and Stone are not the cause of those Tortures I find by this Powder which hath perfectly freed them from all their pain in two or three hours and no Gravel or Stone hath come from them neither that day nor the next Again how many have I seen in perfect health that have voided a great quantity of Gravel at a time without the least pain it would be in one as well as in another By any Weakness Consumption Inflammation or any Distemper of the Kidney Gravel may be caused so that Gravel is the product not the producer or primitive cause of this pain In this Disease the Belly is to be kept loose which may be well performed by this following â„ž of the Pulp of Cassia newly drawn four ounces Tartar Vitriolated two drams powder it and mix to the mixture add ten or twelve drops of oil of Juniper Take of it once in three or four days at night going to Bed at each time six drams or an ounce which will give two or three Stools the next day Then give the following Powder Take of Tartar Vitriolated a dram and a half Crabs-eyes Salt of Bean-stalks of Broom of Restharra and Pidgeons dung each two scruples mix and make a Powder The Dose is a scruple or more twice a day in Parsley or Saxifrage Water When the pain is very great and the Urine stopped the following potion may be given to the comfort of the sick Take of fine Venice Turpentine washed a scruple dissolve it in the yolk of a new laid Egg by beating them well together then put them to a quarter of a pint or half a pint of new Milk and let the patient drink it off at once Wild Carrot Seed being boiled in Ale and the Ale drank two or three times a day is good both to hinder the increase of the Stone by resisting the putrefactive stonyfying odour or Ferment and also to diminish it being grown but its use must be continued a Month together at the least The German Academ Curios in their first Volumn published in the Year 1670 observat 107. highly commend the Decoction of Paul's Bettony for expelling the Stone being drank in a large quantity and continued for some time an example of which is there set down at large of a certain Woman who was freed from a Stone in the left Kidney by the use of the said Decoction after it had been her miserable Companion for sixteen years The Pill being taken in a full Dose and dissolved in a Glass of well warmed White or Rhenish Wine or where that cannot be had Ale and so drank gives present ease in the most grievous pains occasioned by Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys when all other Remedies fail and I remember once a Gentlewoman that I gave it to either at the first or second Dose voided three Stones of an untoward Figure with much pain and remained free from that tormenting dolor with which she was wont to be often exercised for the space of three years But for the Stone in the Bladder I do not know that either the Powder or Pill will do any thing as to

hardly find any cure The Palsie is an accident or product or the effect and this may remain though the cause be removed it is rather Intemperies than Morbus an affrighted Distemper in the Spirits than a Disease and the Cure may be performed by my Balsamical Pills which do refocillate comfort and cherish the spirit as also by Salt of Pearls or Corral or my Aurum vitae either of them taken alone with a little sharp Wine drank after doth excellently From a weakness and decaying of the spirits this may be occasioned My spirit shall be diminished and my days shall be shortened as well as by terrour in them therefore this is one of the Diseases of old age And to go about to cure it in old persons if it hath continued any time is to swim against the stream and write in the Sand. In the Apoplexy the Ointment for the Head and Neck described in the Cure of the Falling Sickness is good as also the following mixture the mouth being first opened by art â„ž Aqua Langii Water of Sage and Lavender of each an ounce Tincture of Castor half a dram Spirit of Sal Armoniack a scruple Oil of Amber nine or ten drops Syrup of Staechas an ounce mix them and give a spoonful very often The Palsie Vertigo Catalepsie c. are all of the essence of an Apoplexy and differ only in degree therefore they are to be cured with the like Medicines In the Palsie Lethargy and Swimming or Giddiness of the Head those following Pills are effectual â„ž of Pill Aloephangina a scruple Rosin of Jallap six grains Salt of Amber as much Oil of Marjoram two drops mix them and make four Pills to be taken in the morning early and repeated once in three or four duys In the Palsie sweat betwixt purgings with spirit of Sal Armoniack given in Sack You may also use the Ointment above mentioned to the Back-bone and paralytical parts In October 1667 a certain Man-servant to one of the Arts-Masters of Bridewel London was suddenly stricken with a Disease in the Evening as he was at Supper he fell from his seat sensless and speechless his eyes were staring open as in a Catalepsie or Congelation but totally deprived both of sence and motion as in an Apoplexy When I first saw him he had remained in this condition about a week during which time means had been used to help him but proved altogether ineffectual so that he was given over for dead Notwithstanding which I observed that he yet retained a good degree of heat as also an indifferent Pulse the which with some other considerations made me to believe he might still recover the which I told his Master and Mistress when they demanded what I thought of his condition who then desired I would take him into my care which I did The first thing I gave him was a Dose of the Powder which wrought very well upwards and downwards towards the end of which he began to speak some odd words and came to be somewhat sensible the next day I repeated the Powder which wrought again as before upon which he came to perfect sensation and also to increase in speech and one side returned again to the exercise of all Functions but the other remained paralytical and insensible from Head to Foot not being able so much as to stir one Finger on that hand but by the use of the Balsamick Pill and repeating the Powder once or twice more by the blessing of the Almighty I restored him and in a months time was again at work using those useless Fingers without which he could have done nothing being a Glover by Trade In the time that I had this person in cure the Wife of another of the Arts-masters in Bridewel having lain in Child-bed about a Fortnight was also one Evening suddenly deprived of her speech and taken somewhat Paralytical on one side she sent to me about eleven or twelve of the clock that night as soon as I came I gave her four grains of the Powder which wrought both upward and downwards but most upward the which being once or twice repeated and the Balsamick Pill for some time taken at nights she was also happily recovered I could give divers other notable instances of Cures of this nature performed by these Medicines having had many fallen under my care but these I think may suffice However I will in this place add another strange Cure which comes fresh in my mind done with the Pill alone by a Physician who buys Medicines of me and lives near Highworth in Wiltshire At a certain time he being abroad about six miles from his dwelling was much solicited by a Friend to go a little out of the way to look upon a poor man that had lain bedrid for three months being grievously pained all over his Body and not able to turn himself but as he was helped he had used Purgations Phlebotomy Fomentations Unctions c. but all to no purpose The Physician having some of the Balsamick Pill about him dissolved a full Dose in a Glass of Ale and gave him and so left him within two or three days the poor man came that six miles on foot to give him thanks and told him that within two hours after he had taken the Pill he was perfectly free from pain and so remained with the due use of all the parts only weak the Physician gave him another Dose home with him which he took and became very well and had been so many months when the Physician told me of it Spasmus or Convulsion A Convulsion is caused by some malignant matter contained in the Guts as is oftentimes seen after the taking of some Hellebore or Stibium or any Medicine that hath a poysonous quality The Sting or biting of any venomous or poisonous creature produceth Convulsion CAVSE That vital Blas or Spirit in the Muscle being assaulted by some poysonous quality contracteth it the better to defend it from that poyson SPASMVS The Cramp is from a sharp aiery Blas that doth meet with a Nerve or Sinew The Worms in Children bringeth Convulsions in them many times That it is caused through fulness or emptiness and the primary place affected to be the Brain I do not consent unto though it hath been received for a truth CVRE If it be caused by some poysonous matter that hath been received or through the biting or stinging of some Snake c. my Aurum vitae is admirable but if it cometh by excrementitious matter contained in the Body as the matter of Worms c. the Arcanum or Powder eradicates it or takes it away by the root They are generated from corrupted Chyle and they differ according to the place where they are made If in the Stomach little small Worms In the Ilion long and slender like earth-worms In the Colon little short thick worms much like the Bots in Horses This Powder doth not only take away Diseases when they are on but

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