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A33709	A physico medical essay concerning alkaly and acid so far as they have relation to the cause or cure of distempers : wherein is endeavoured to be proved that acids are not (as is generally and erroneously supposed) the cause of all or most distempers, but that alkalies are : together with an account of some distempers and the medicines with their preparations proper to be used in the cure of them : as also a short digression concerning specifick remedies / by John Colbatch.	Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.	1696 (1696)	Wing C5003; ESTC R26032	33,359	174

said before Nature has provided to our hands Oranges Lemmons Cittrons Limes and a great many more not necessary here to mention which for the most part answer our Intentions so that they are skilfully given by an experienced hand And as I hope I have given sufficient reasons to disswade the use of Alkalies and Diaphoreticks from the many direful effects that daily attend their use so I hope to give as cogent ones to enforce the use of Acids from the laudable good effects I have seen from them for in five hundred at least Patients that I have had of all Qualities to do with in this Distemper in Worcester and London where I have been called in at the beginning of the Distemper I do not know that I have had one that has died or been disfigured nay some that have been brought into very ill circumstances by the precedent use of Testacious Alkalious Powders and Diaphoreticks I have retrieved from the jaws of impending death by the use of fit and proper Acids It may be wondred at by some that I make a difference between Testacious Powders and Diaphoreticks when the Testatious Powders especially the compound ones as Gascons Powder Countess of Kents Lapis de Goa c. are accounted Diaphoreticks and indeed are so But the reason why I do it is because for the most part besides the said Alkalious Powders other more forcible Diaphoreticks are also given I having in short given some hints concerning the cause of the Small-Pox I need not again repeat them so I shall immediately proceed to the method I take in the cure of it which being according to Natures dictates is short and easie For Nature in performing her Operations makes short and easie cuts it being in the cure of Diseases as in finding out and giving an account of the Phaenomena of Nature by Phylosophical Disquisitions they that go upon the fewest Principles generally discover most of her secrets and are capable of giving the best and most rational account of them Whereas they that are clogged with multiplicity of Principles and wandring in tedious long and uncouth Paths thinking thereby to get admission into Natures Cabinet after they have spent much time and taken a great deal of pains at last fit down as wise as when they began and not one jot the wiser First of all when I come to a Patient who has the Symptoms of the Small-Pox upon them which are so well known even to Nurses that I need not spend any time about them In the first place if there be any manifest signs of the Stomachs being oppressed and clogged with viscous Matter as generally it is I first of all give a gentle easie vomit suitable to the age and constitution of the Patients and after that hath done operating some Syrupus E Meconio or any other pro-Opiat in due proportion Afterwards to allay the hurry and disorder in the Blood occasioned by the intromission of Hetrogeneous Particles which Nature is endeavouring to throw out And to confirm the Texture of the Blood so as to enable it to rid it self of its enemy I give large quantities of any of the following Julips Take of fresh juice of civil Oranges six Ounces Barly Water one quart double refined Sugar as much as is sufficient to make it grateful or to those Palats or Stomachs which are very few to whom juice of Oranges is ungrateful Take of juice of Lemmons or Lime juice that is not musty four Ounces Barly Water one quart Cinnamon Water half an Ounce Syrup of Rasberries as much as is sufficient to make it grateful Or Take of Barly Cinnamon Water one quart juice of Lemmons four Ounces Syrup of Wood-Sorrel three Ounces mix and make a Julip O any of these Julips I give my Patients to drink as oft and as freely as they please Drinking likewise small Beer with juice of Oranges in it in as large quantities as they please But during the whole course of the Distemper all sorts of flesh ought to be avoided To poor people instead of the aforesaid Julips and to save charges I order them large quantities of small Beer acidulated with Oyl of Vitriol or instead of that Vinegar or Verjuice Posset drink to be drank frequently and in large quantities But if in the beginning or at any other time I find the Brain very much disturbed and the Patient delirious I for the most part find it absolutely necessary to let Blood and that in a good quantity and then to flye to the use of more powerful Acids giving the following Julips in large quantities which presently calms the violent Motion ●nd Agitation of the Blood ●nd Spirit and sets ●ll to rights in a small ●ime Take of Barly Cinamon-wa●●r one quart Syrup of Ras●●erries three Ounces Volatile Spirit of Vitriol one Dram and half or mix and make a Julip Take of Barly cinnamon-Cinnamon-water one quart Syrup of Rasberries three Ounces Gas Sulphuris as much as is sufficient to make it sharp Or Take of Barly Water one quart Epidemick Water two Ounces Syrup of Wood Sorrel three Ounces sweet Spirit of Niter or Vitriol two Scruples Or Take of red Rose Leaves six Drams put them into an earthen or glass Vessel pour upon them one quart of boyling Water let them stand covered for some time then pour on them two Scruples of Oyl of Vitriol or Oyl of Sulphur pe● Campanam when cold strain out and add as much double refined Sugar as is sufficient to make it grateful If at any time I find my Patients Spirits languid and low I then give three or four spoonfuls of the following Cordial at due intervals Take of Aqua Mirabilis Epidemick Water of each three Ounces Spirit of Citrons half an Ounce Balm Water eight Ounces Syrup of Gilliflowers one Ounce and half mix and make a Julip By this method I have brought my Patients through the Distemper without so much almost as the least uneasiness or even confining themselves to their Beds and without the least fear of a secondary Fever which is that which frequently proves of most fatal consequence After the Pustles are quite gone I then take care to purge them well for five or six times with gentle and easie Purges after each Purge giving an Hypnottick After that I have done Purging for some time I give corroborating strengthning Medicines to confirm the Texture of the blood and Juices and bring them to their natural State by which means I prevent ill accidents that sometimes succeed the Small-Pox I have not given a full History of this Distemper that being contrary to my design but endeavoured to deter people from the use of those Methods and Medicines that have proved fatal to so many and to advance a better and safer Method and Medicines in their room Yet I would not have people wholly to rely upon the Method I have here set down but always have a Physitian by to obviate any unusual Symptoms that may chance to appear contrary

clear Decoction will not Gure a Quotidian or Tertian Ague whereas the Cortex after it hath been well Boiled being reduced to Powder and given after the foresaid manner will cure a Quartan It would be a great Blessing to the Commonwealth of Physick if there were a faithful Record kept of all the Cures wrought by Simple Medicines by which means Physicians might arrive to a certainty of Curing more Distempers than that of Agues which thing I never expect to see so long as tedious nonsensical Compositions are depended on I don't remember that any of the Ancient or Modern Botannick Writers have mentioned the Leaves of Assarabacca to have any other quality besides that of a violent Purger by Vomit and Stool But Mr. Pitt a late Eminent and Learned Apothecary of Worcester my singular good Friend told me that he found it to be one of the most noble Purgers of the Head that he ever met with having a different Operation from any other Medicine that he ever met with that the Snuffing up of Three Four or Five Grains of the Powder of the dried Leaves at Night going to Bed would on the Morrow without diflurbing rest that Night but rather causing it occasion the discharge of a vast quantity of Serous Matter from the Glands of the Nose nay would sometimes last for Two or Three Days without being in the least a Sternutatory By the repeated use of this Powder alone I have known the most violent confirmed Head Aches imaginable taken off after they have eluded the efficacy of the most Noble Celebrated Cephalicks But this ought to be taken notice of That whoever takes this Medicine must confine themselves to their Houses and keep as warm as if they had taken the most violent Purge I have been told by a certain Gentleman who uses a great quantity of the Powder of this Herb amongst his poor Neighbours after the aforesaid manner that he was once induced to use it in a Deafness of long standing he gave the Patient Four or Five Grains to Snuff up into each Nostril every Fourth or Fifth Night and ordered that Three Grains should every Night with a Quill be blown into each Ear and in a Fortnight's time the Party recovered his Hearing as well as ever in his Life I could expatiate a great deal more concerning simple Specifick Remedies But what I have already said is enough to satisfie the World that I allow the Doctrine of Specificks nay I think it ought to be lamented that it is not more Cultivated I have been told by some Intelligent Persons who have much conversed with the Natives of West-India that the Doctrine of Specificks is mightily Cultivated by those Barbarous People by which means they have arrived to a certainty in Curing most Distempers and that to see People of One hundred and twenty and a Hundred and thirty Years of Age is as common a sight as in England to see People of Sixty Now what a shame is it for us who live in a Learned and Inquisitive Age to be outdone by those Barbarous and Illiterate People nay for ought I know the greatest part of our Skill we had from them or a People altogether as Ignorant The Physicians of Europe are not arrived to so great a certainty in any one thing as in the Cure of Agues And who may we thank for that but the Poor Indians who imparted to us the use of their famous Bark From whom had Hypocrates that Father of Physicians his Skill but by Collecting the common Observations the which only it was that made him so very famous throughout the World But the state of Nature being in a great measure altered in that long track of time since he lived and the difference of our Climate from that wherein he lived makes that his Observations don't altogether hold good with us So that if we will arrive to any certainty in our Art we must make nice Observations of our own Helmont in his Treatise of Fevers says Quis que Artificum facit quod promittit Statuarius nempe Statuam Calciarius Calcios indubiè parat solus autem Medicus nil audet ex arte spondere suâ quia Nititur Fundamentis incertis per accidens duntaxat subinde atque dolosè proficuus Which in English is That there is a certainty in all Professions but that of a Physician and it is altogether our own faults for want of due Observation that we act upon such uncertainties as we do But to return to the business of Acids What great benefit does Mankind in general receive from Mineral Spring-Waters All of which are allowed to be Acids and according to the difference of the Acid contained in them they have different Operations Some of them as Acton Epsome Dullidge Northall c. abounding with Aluminous as well as Vitriolick Particles work by Stool Others as Tunbridge Astrop Ilmington c. Abounding with Vitriolick Particles only are Alteratives and are generally carried off by Urine The Bath-Waters abounding with Nitro-Sulphureous Particles have a different Operation from any of the former but are generally carried off by Urine tho sometimes by sweat There is scarce a Person labouring under any Chronical Distemper or ill habit of body whose Fortune or Business will permit them but at the proper season are sent to one of the forementioned Places and I verily believe to our no great Credit that more People are freed from Chronical Distempers by the use of Mineral Waters than by all other Prescriptions Though I am very well satisfied that Mineral Waters not being properly taken do frequently a great deal of mischief Besides the service done to Mankind by drinking of Mineral Waters what advantage does accrue to many People labouring under some sort of Nervous Distempers c. by merely Bathing themselves in the Nitro-Sulphureous Hot Baths There is also a new way of Sweating by the means of the Volatile Acid Steams arising from the evaporating Brine in the making of Salt at our English Salt-pits lately invented by Mr. Henry Hodges of Droyt-Wych in Worcestershire by the means of which several very great things have been done even in cases where the Bath Common Hummums and Bagnio's have proved altogether ineffectual I am sorry that I am at a place where I cannot procure a number of Experiments to insert in this place which might be of service to Mankind But to supply the place of them I shall add something done in a little Bathing-House I erected of my own wherein I imitated if not out-did the way of Sweating at Droyt-Wych but my many Avocations hindred me from the prosecuting of it I procured a quantity of the Virgin Salt from the Salt-Rock in Cheshire and as I had occasion I dissolved a convenient quantity of it in Spring-Water making a Brine as strong as that obtainable from the Brine-Pits with this Brine I filled a large Iron Pot which had Pipes of Wood went from it to a little Room over head made convenient for