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A25754	Every man his own doctor in two parts, shewing I. how every one may know his own constitution by certain signs, also the nature and faculties of all food as well as meats as drinks ... : the second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox, running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions and obstructions, agues ... / written by John Archer.	Archer, John, fl. 1660-1684.	1671 (1671)	Wing A3608; ESTC R27652	39,777	161

Scurvy Companion but when some are at a loss in the understanding and full comprehending of the cause of Distempers in Patients it is common to fly to the sanctuary of the Scurvy like young Phylosophers that when they cannot find out the cause or reason of such an effect will fly to their ultimum refugium and say it doth it by an occult quality or some hidden property my thinks such might ingeniously say I do not understand it nor can yet find out the reason but most certain such a Disease there is which is peculiarly called the Scorbute or Scurvy which in brief not mentioning all the Catalogue of Distempers entailed to it it is a putrifaction of the blood by which sundry Diseases may be bred after which I think it ought to loose the name of the first cause as the names of small brooks are swallowed in the current of a great River Generally the symptomes are laziness or wearyness without cause especially in the Calves of the Leg and Thighs pain spots putrifaction of the Gums blackness and looseness of the Teeth for the Cure after purging with one dose of our Morbus Pill with 3 4 or 5 as the Patient is strong or weak let them drink Morning and Evening half a pint of our excellent dyet drink and stir much after it every morning and every night endeavour to sweat with some in bed after 2 days from taking your purging Morbus pills take every morning before your mornings draught of dyet drink one or two of our corroborating pills and so drink your dyet drink and walk or stir much after it presently helps And for the corruption of the Gums I have often experienced and I find very certain if you apply a Leech to suck them it will draw away the corrupt blood presently and the dyet drink and Physick takes away the inward cause so continuing the pills and dyet drink every day till cured CHAP. VII The Cure of the Gout THe Gout is a most grievous pain in the Joynts or est articulorum imbecillitas dolorque ex inter vallo invadens the cause is an acremonious humour proceeding from the Spermatick part of blood and congealing in the Joynts therefore very seldom Women or Eunurches or Children are ever troubled with it it takes its various names from its scituation or place residing if in the Hands or Fingers it is called Chiragra if in the knees it is called Genogra if in the Feet Podagra in the Hips Sciatica For the Cure it is best cured in Spring and Fall although all diseases are then best cured yet this is especially moved then in youth it may be perfectly Cured but in the Aged seldome so throughly but it will sometimes give a visit to his old Mr. especially if they eat plentifully or drink French Wine much or sharp things For the absolute Cure leave off all Wine Beer and Ale for a season and drink every night and morning for 14 days half a pint at a time of our Cordial drink and one Pill of our corroborating pill every morning after the Pill stirring about much take the dyet drink warm And at meals drink only Fair Water take this Water at meals constantly but after you have used about 30 of the corroborating pills you may leave them off at pleasure or use them as you find cause For pains in any part nothing is better then a poultess of Milk Bread and Marsh-mallows applyed with some Saffron and put a little Oyl of Camomile to it so put it to the pained place or you may use Oyl of Camomile Marshmallows and Oyl of Turpentine each alike quantity mixt with some Brandy-Wine so anointed by the fire keeping it warm avoiding salt meat sharp things Strong Beer and Wine this remember that one of our pills every morning and drinking nothing but dyet drink and spring water for a season will be the Cure If pain be extream use one of my cordial Pills that gives ease in an hours time you may find its use with directions at the latter end of the book CHAP. VIII Of different Dropsies For Diffinition Hydrops passio est quam aquosi humoris copia comitatur propter sanguificandi facultatem vitiatam A Dropsie is a gathering together of the serous and watry humors from the Veins and Arteries into several parts of the body through hurt or imbecillity of the sanguifying faculty and by want of excretion by Urine and Sweat and by weakness of the Liver from a cold cause there are three sorts of Dropsies to wit the Dropsie Ascites Timpaintes and Anasarca When the waterish humor is collected in the Abdomen it is called Ascites or the Water Dropsie Timpaintes is when much windyness is heaped up between the peritonaeum and the Bowels Anasarca is when the ill humors are dispersed throughout the whole body that all the flesh appeareth moist like a spunge all proceeding from a cold cause and want of Fermentation of the blood the want of which bringeth obstruction of the Ureters and in the pores by which means what ought to be emitted is retained How to cure the Dropsie One method may well work the Cure of all Dropsies that is let their dyet be easie of concoction and very d●ying abstaining as much from Drink as possible and keeping altogether to our cordial dyet drink and Sweating a little morning and evening with half a pint at a time of it warm in bed and it will dry up the humors powerfully and speedily even as Lime doth water and for 3 weeks or a month take every day if possible one or two of our corroborating pills which will cause Fermentation strengthning the Liver and Ureters free them from all weakness and Obstructions and by exercising after your dyet drink and pills it safely cures CHAP. IX Of an Ague or Feaver what it is A Feaver is so called from the Latine word Ferveo because it is a Fervor or heat affecting the body it is a preternatural heat kindled in the heart as in its proper subject primarily and per se hurting our actions which heat by the meditation of blood in the Veins and Spirits is diffused through the whole body The reason of circuits of intermitting Feavers is of no small moment amongst the Learned for what one allows another rejects and therefore as well from their difference in judgement as their frequent Failing in Cure the Ague may be truly called Approbrium Medicorum but Feavers are usually distinguished into putred and malignant and putred Feavers into continual and intermitting not to enlarge upon all Agues passing under the several denominations or names though proceeding from putred of Quotidian Tertian Quartan double Tertian c. But the difference of its fits shews the humour it came from How to cure the Ague First take 2 or 3 of our vomiting pills in the morning then at night take of our cordial dyet drink half a pint hot every night and morning sweating upon it every time and forbear

and generate Putrid humours and sometimes Worms in Putrid Feavers taken by surfeit and ever-much eating them yet the black are most wholesome and indeed Medicinal against Convulsions Plumbs and Prunes Plumbs in general are cold and moist but there are divers kind of Plumbs the sweet ones are not so cold as the sower in nature they are chiefly profitable to cholorick stomachs they are easily concocted and pass through the belly those that are fresh alter most powerfully they mollify the belly being taken before meat but very dangerous taken after by reason they scatter abroad many excrements and that crude they do not generate good juice those which abound most with a moistcrude juice are the worst also the white or yellowish are the worst but the best are of a black or blew colour like Damsons and Damask Prunes the dry are more fit for nourishment for those that are weak in stomach plumbs are not convenient because they loosen its strength by a cooling moisture Mulburies Mulburies do very powerfully quench thirst from their moisting and cooling quality they mitigate choller but nourish little they easily pass through the belly but if they are retained they are easily corrupted and become putred and acquire an ill Nature wherefore they are to be eaten when the stomach is empty only and not stuffed with peccant humours that they may quickly descend through the belly Figs. Figs are hot and moist by Nature and nourish very much above any other Fruits they easily descend and pass through the belly they have a penetrating and cleansing faculty yet too much use of them begets Wind dry Figs are hotter and dryer then green and are of a very opening and attenuating quality and do also loosen the belly and drive humours to the external parts therefore profitably taken by Women near their time of travel they generate blood also but none of the best Grapes Grapes that are sweet are hot and therefore cause thirst sharp sower austere are colder therefore allay drotwh or thirst the mean between sweat and sowre are best to make Wine of the fresh gathered ate flatulent windy afford little nourishment and if they are detained long in the Stomach are corrupted and dilate the belly and stir up Chollick Fits and cause the Spleen to swell and fill the Stomach and Liver with crude humours the fresh gathered serve rather for pleasure then health but the best are the sweet ones mixt with a little sharp tast those without stones loosen the belly more but with stones strengthen the Stomach Almonds and Nuts Sweet Almonds are the best of Nuts and of them the largest and sweetest are most to be desired they are temperately hot and moist and yeilds store of nourishment and of good juyce and moderate they attenuate and cleanse for which Reason they are the best Food for imatiated bodies and they replenish the intrails and the whole body with convenient nourishment and such as is not apt to corruption they purge the breast open Obstructions of the Urinary passage and cause sleep but are not so useful for a Chollerick Stomach nor good to be given in Feavers proceeding from Choller they are usually given to the Sick dissolved in broaths which are called emulsions Filberds and Hasle-Nuts The best of Hasle Nuts are Filberds and do come nearest to Almonds in vertue but they are hot and dry in quality hardly digested afford a thick juyce if old the young or newly gathered are the best Walnuts Walnuts if new gathered are hot and moist the old are hot and dry in faculty the new are safer eaten then the old for the old generates Choller offend the orifice of the Stomach and hurt the Gullet or Wind-pipe cause a Cough and causeth pain in the head the use of them is commended after eating of Fish because their heating and dryness prevent the corruption of Fish Chestnuts Gallen that learned Physitian believes that Chestnuts have no ill juyce as all other Fruits of Trees have they are hot and dry and if they are well concocted nourish very much and affords durable nourishment they bind the belly and if they are eaten in too great plenty generates Wind. Olives Oyle Olives are temperate and the Oyl drawn from them that are Ripe affords nourishment temperate and agreeable to our Nature and can correct the pravity of other Aliments amends the crudity of Herbs Resists poyson it mollifies and loosens the belly it takes away sharpness it helps Ruptutes and such as are bursten bellied and mittigates pain internally and externally Mushromes and Toad-stools Lastly since the wantonness of some will eat Mushromes yet they are not eaten without danger they are by nature cold they yeild a watry and thick nourishment but oftentimes they are poysonous therefore better let alone then eaten Now we have passed through all eatable things it is necessary we speak next of all sorts of Drink CHAP. XII Of Drink Its Use DRink is of so absolute necessity that without it the moist substance which is daily consumed cannot be restored nor the natural thirst allayed neither can the Fat and thick moisture be carried through the narrow passages and by drink the meat in the Stomach is mingled concocted and poured forth and an inflamation of that Fat which destinated by Nature to nourish our bodies is prohibited Kinds of Drink There are divers kinds of Drink as Water Wine Strong Beer Ale Syder Perry Drinks made of Honey Sugar c. and divers decoctions Waters how to know good There is great variety of Waters all which are cold and moist but the best is that which is pure and clear by the sight taste smell and offers the sale of nothing to the tast nor odour to the smell which upon the fire is soon made hot and taken from the Fire doth soon grow cold which is light and wherein Flesh and Fruit are soon boyled some is Fountain others is River water some Rain water others Lake or Pond water some marish others Snow waters Fountain Water Fountain water is the best which hath these marks of good water that spreads towards the East and Runs Eastward and Riseth through Sand and Gravel that carries no mud with it that is hotter in Winter and colder in Summer River Water River Water for the most part is Fountain water and ariseth from many Fountains flowing together and therefore is of a mixed nature and receives also a mixt Nature from the Earth it passeth through Waters are mixed And sometimes also they are mingled with Snow melted in the Mountains and great showres of water collected together yet its crudity is corrected by the beams of the Sun whilst it runs through divers parts of the Earth before the use of it it should stand and settle in Cisterns and Tubs that what impurities it brought with it may settle to the Bottom Rain Water Rain Waters which falls in the Summer time with Thunder is the thinnest and lightest but since many vapours are lift up by