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A25757	Secrets disclosed of consumptions shewing [h]ow to distinguish between scurvy and venereal disease : also, how to prevent and cure the fistula by chymical drops without cutting, also piles, hæmorrhoids, and other diseases / by John Archer.	Archer, John, fl. 1660-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3610; ESTC R27653	20,607	80

danger being pleasant to smell to and not liquid without danger of breaking Glasses as in other Cordials being dry it is a pleasant Companion which I shall scarce go without For Consumptions It is conveniently taken to the quantity of a scruple or more three times a day Mornings Afternoons and going to Bed in a little Wine or Ale or put into a draught of warm Milk from the Cow with some Sugar of Roses and you will rest the better with a pleasant breathing and your food will better concoct For the Ague or Feaver If you desire to sweat away an Ague or Feaver with it put half a Dram or a Dram to an Ounce of treacle-Treacle-Water and dispose your self to sweat For the small Pox Measles or Plague In these Distempers you cannot take a better Cordial to drive it out than half a Dram of this Powder in one Ounce or more of treacle-Treacle-Water or good Sack and every three hours about a scruple in a little Sack till safely come out and sometimes after to uphold the Spirits For Pains Gout Stone c. It is good to take half a Dram Night and Morning in a little Sack or Whitewine and sweat upon it It Cures the green Sickness and breeds a fresh Complexion in young and old it is very good for all weakness of the back in Men or Women and will remedy issuings or wastings but for gleetings or weakness of the Spermatick Vessels I have another excellent Cure that strengthens the Retentive Faculty in a little time which I have remedied divers by and shall give directions to any gratis in Venereal Distempers The use of this Cordial Stone or Powder taken in some Whitewine or Sack mightily resists the flatus Hypochondriacus and Melancholy it strengthens the Memory and by comforting the Brain revives the Senses it is a great helper to fruitfulness in Men and Women inclining all to a pleasant disposition If taken by those in health it prevents the Gout Dropsy Scurvy all infections causing strength and a good Complexion For Children it prevents and Cures Consumptions Rickets Liver grown Convulsions Worms and other infirmities and no ways dangerous any way taken or in quantity also it doth wonderfully help the easy cutting of Teeth in Children Now it is necessary after acquainting you with some vertues and uses of this great East-India Cordial that I also acquaint you with the prices there being now some in my hands sent very lately from India the smallest sort of Balls are at ten shillings price some at a Guinny the largest of the bigness of a Turky Egg five pound a piece they will keep many years without the least decay The Ague Pills causing Vomiting two being the usual Dose is one shilling The Anodine Pill which gives ease in less than an hour at one shilling each Pill to be taken in Bed and rest upon it CHAP. XIII Of occult Qualities of Antipathies that vulgar Magick is Witchcraft if maliciously used TO Answer expectation to these Heads distinctly is my design First For occult Qualities we say it is an usual Refuge for Ignorance to take Sanctuary in when a reason cannot be given as to shew why such a Cause produceth such an effect and the cause for the most part is by reason we do not labour nor search into the nature of things but for the most part sit down with a contented Ignorance if we cannot find our questions and doubts resolved in other mens Writings Works and Labours then we say by occult Quality it is done but truth and knowledge is dear in obtaining and what our Predecessors were short in we ought to discover to our Successors for we may better and easier do it than they from their Writings and our own reason with Experience For the general discovery of the nature of things the Doctrine of Sympathy and Antipathy Learnedly discoursed by Sir K. Digby and others doth in some things much facilitate the Work shewing how by Sympathy a Medicine may work at distance upon a person by the Effluviums of the Air which have been experimented by applying to a cruental Cloth or Weapon which made the Wound one while Anodine and Sanative Medicine at which time and during that application they found ease and amendment and the applying of Vinegar or other Corrosives to the Cloth or Weapon should presently cause pain and anguish though at many Miles distance it is related the Italians are so well acquainted with this Magick and Philosophy that they usually in revenge of him that hath been so unmannerly as to ease his Body at their Doors they presently heat a Spit or Iron-Fork red hot and many times thrust through the Excrements of the absent person knowing that the bruning Iron acting upon the spirits of the Body in the new made Excrements will corrode the Bowels and very often they find the sad effects of it we all forbid our Children to piss upon Fire because it breeds a present inflammation in the Neck of the Bladder c. on the contrary some have accidentally been cured of a Cold Flux of the Belly a Looseness when their Nurses have casually cast hot ashes upon their ordure to take it away It is not unworthy the relating an experiment of my own of this kind about the year 1660. I being upon practice in Dublin there came to my House there a rich Citizen in the behalf of his Wife who had lain sick about two Months and had made use of most of the Eminent Doctors in Town but having no remedy he desired my assistance and visit when I saw her in great agony by an inflammation and burning she complained of in her Belly and Womb which she and the Standers by said came to her in fits holding her about two hours at a time Mornings and Evenings I finding her condition very deplorable enquired of her Self Husband and Friends what might be the first cause which they all being ignorant of they told me she being thus left by her Doctors her Neighbours her Mother and all concluded she was bewitched for the violent Fits came so exactly in time Mornings and Evenings after I had considered the Distemper and violent Paroxysms of pain I sent for a Chirurgeon to breath a Vein and that no methodical means might be wanting I directed her Cordials to an Apothecary but all signified little she having used good means before about that time I read Sir K. Digby and some other Books of Sympathy and Antipathy which did the more fasten it in my mind that some strange trick or magick art had been used upon her Her Husband being a Soap-Boiler by Trade it came into my mind to ask the Maid Servant and made her shew me where she emptied her Mistresses Pots of Water so I went with her where was a great heap of Ashes made in Soap-Boiling this standing nearer to her by much than the necessary House she usually threw her Water upon the Ashes to save her labour of going further after I

most part Physicians are negligent to Cure although they are grievous and the most troublesome and I might add the most dangerous Maladies if neglected belonging to the Body of Men or Women especially if we include the Disease incident to the secret parts Reins and Bladder all which being so nigh to each other they do often communicate the evil effects to their Neighbour-parts if not prevented as a Fistula in Ano in time often by its malign Quality perforates and eats through the Fundament or Intestinum Rectum Bladder or Sphincter Muscle then it becomes most dangerous and chiefly by neglect not meeting your Malady in convenient time with good advice and powerful Medicine so many good people that might have lived many years are cut off by languishing Consumptions decays and Death Now I say as the Diseases of the Fundament are often sent to the Bladder Reins c. So likewise the Disease of the private parts are more often sent to the Reins Bladder Fundament yea to the Liver Heart and Brain all which in time might by safe Medicines easily have been Cured if the Patient had been so fortunate or wise as to lay open their cause of grief to an experienced and skilful honest Physician and in these Maladies I much insist upon Experience for dies diem docet and I cannot but acknowledge what some years past I could not effect I now can Deo juvante My Experience and Success in these private Diseases hath been eminently known Laus Deo for several Years it being about fourteen Years since I published the Book called Every man his own Doctor with an Herbal which was so acceptable that few Booksellers in England but sold it that treating chiefly of the French Disease but my Fistula and Pile Drops many Physicians and Chirurgions have desired to buy from me at a good price which I parted with but to very few except my own Patients Now considering the great benefit which many afflicted people may have by the use of them I have now first set down in this Treatise the several afflictions of the back parts whereby every one may judge of their danger and what their Disease is and then they may send or come to me for those Drops and Medicines which every day I use so successfully for as the Disease differs so do our Medicines for we have a Maxime Nullum Medicamentum est idem omnibus The Pile Drops are sold at five shillings a Vial Glass the Fistula Drops are at ten shillings a Vial that the World may not longer want them and as to the other Cure of the private parts by any distemper by Venery bad Cure old or new you may freely consult me the Author of this Treatise who will give you advice how you may be quickly well if not quite too late I shall now advise all persons afflicted with Fistula's Piles Haemorrhoids c. that they forbear things hurtful such are all salt Meats Spice Meats and sharp things as Vinegar Lemons French Wine Stale Beer crude Fruit c. be careful of taking Cold and sit not long upon the Close-stool by which only error many have had the Piles sooner got than cured The manner of using the Pile Drops is to warm about half a spoonful and dip a fine Rag or Lint apply it to the Piles and bind it to the part with a double Rag upon it for they do cure the Piles and prevent a Fistula by making sound the part applied to For the Fistula we ought to put the Drops into it with Lint or Syringe and bind it to with a Plate of thin Lead till well and if one Glass will not do it is an Argument you ought to use more and some inward means as a Fistula Drink and gentle purging which is prepared by the Author hereof who wisheth all health and hath procured it by means with Gods Blessing to many afflicted to God alone be praise CHAP. XII Of the great East-India Cordial Stone by some called Antonio THis Universal Cordial brought from the Indies being now in great use and esteem by all that have experimented it in health and sickness being a preserver of health and a remedy in Sickness and so generally approved that I wonder none hath writ of its worth and use giving some Directions for the most profitable and proper way to take it therefore I have designed in this small Treatise to Advertise the World of its most beneficial way of taking it being pitty so admirable a Cordial should be abused First for its Composition is mostly of Bezoar Ambergreece Pearl Unicorns-Horn Coral and such other of the greatest Cordial Preservatives Corroboraters and Renewers of strength and youth and of that lively efficacy to the Vitals that nature is soon sensible of its Friendliness so long as there is any sense or life to act upon for it preserves nature by procuring due fermentation and concoction expelling per poros in a moist breathing sweat the vitious humours and enemy of nature which hinder nature in her actings and turns to a Scorbute in the blood it hinders and helps those declinings of strength and feavourish heats in palms of the Hands or soals of the Feet which commonly lead people into Consumptions Hectick Feavers Hypochondriack Melancholy Rheumatisms and pains that many complain of and think or fear it may be a worse Distemper it is a most powerful Antidote against all infection of small Pox Plague and other Malignant Feavers and a very successful Cure in the New Feaver and Ague whether Tertian Quartan or Quotidian especially if the Stomach is a little cleansed before by a safe Vomiting Pill for that purpose which I have by me and with great success give it which doth most commonly Cure at first taking which saves the dangerous use of the Jesuits Powder but that I may profitably direct for the benefit of all the most general uses of this Stone I will mention some of those Diseases it is useful in and those ways it is best to take it this being but a brief direction many may know other uses and good Remedies not here named but to begin with some it is I say necessary always to carry about one being so great an Antidote against Diseases being made up in Balls from the magnitude of a large Nutmeg or Prune to the bigness of four or six Ounces weight they are most conveniently carried about one being always ready to refresh our senses and spirits by smelling to them and as oft as you please you may shave as much or as little as you will into a Glass of Wine Beer or Water which makes it most pleasant and cordial the Seamen that bring it from the East-Indies usually put as much Powder as will ly on a Groat into a Bowl of Punch which gives it an excellent scent and flavor it is of great use to Travellers because it performs all can be expected from a Cordial ready at hand to be taken at any time without