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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24961	An Account of the causes of some particular rebellious distempers viz. the scurvey, cancers in women's breasts, &c. vapours, and melancholy, &c. weaknesses in women, &c. gout, fistula in ano, dropsy, agues, &c. : together with the vertues and uses of a select number of chymical medicines studiously prepar'd for their cure and adapted to the constitutions and temperaments of all ages and both sexes / by an eminent practitioner in physick, surgery and chymistry ...		1670 (1670)	Wing A259; ESTC R7121	53,236	92

Paroxisms the manner of taking which Pills with observations to be heeded as to Diet c. is at large before set forth with which and this Suffumigation they observing Rules as to Diet c. numbers of Hysterick Persons have been cured when they have lain some Months in violent Ravings and other Symptoms almost suppos'd irretrievable Secondly of Hypochondriack Melancholly or Flatus in Men which is a sort of Cachexie that frequently reigns in our Northern Climates whose Symptoms appearing mostly in the Hypochondria is term'd the Hypochondriack Disease and when its Symptoms are very fierce and exalted 't is entitule the Scurvy a Name given it by the Saxons in Nor●● Germany who are most liable to it the better part of Authors upon this Subject being amus'd with its Symptoms and Effects have vainly fancy'd to establish its Original Seat in several Bowels that are only accidentally concern'd but if they trac'd it to its state of Infancy and first beginning they must have pitch'd upon the Stomach for the Place of its Nativity and upon the Acid viscous Cruditie that a faulty digestion occasion for its Causes For our further satisfaction in this matter we shall briefly run over its Symptoms and if we find that they owe their Being to an Acid Crudity in the Stomach shall reckon that we have made our point good In the first place then the Appetite is over-keen in Hypochondriack Persons their Digestion being weak and follow'd by Convulsive or weighty Pains in the Stomach belching Wind and Noise especially in the left side of the Belly where the Gut-Colon is straitned they are always Costive and Laxatives operate better in them than Purgatives if an Artificial or Natural Vomiting happen they throw up Acid Matter which stupfiies or sets the Teeth on edge and which will corrode a Copper Vessel so as to render it rusty After Eating they are oft-times seiz'd with a gnawing Pain in the Stomach reaching along the Back from the lower part to the Neck of the Gullet which some miscal Nephritick Pains as also with sudden flushings in the Face wringing Pains in the Guts palpitation of the Heart perturbation of Mind and a difficulty of breathing occasion'd either by viscous Crudities distending the Stomach or Convulsions of the Midriff and Muscles of the Breast or Wind in the Abdomen hindring the descent of the Midriff while their Stomach is empty they are apt to be giddy and dull they are liable to periodical Exasperations frequently they are sensible as it were of Fumes rising up from the Belly and the Paroxism resembles an Hysterical Fit in the Paroxism the colour and consistence of their Urine is inconstant but when 't is over returns to a Natural order These are the Symptoms of Hypochondriack Person but all of them are rarely to be seen in one Person the most certain Symptoms that always attend are Gripings and Wind in the Guts a weak Stomach Costiveness and Perturbation of the Head The Symptoms being thus premis'd we come now to enquire after the Cause of this Disease the first and original of which is a vicious Acid in the Stomach enlarging the Appetite but unfit for Digestion hence ensues an Acid Crudity in the first Passages which depraves the crasis of the Blood prevents the due separation of volatil Spirits upon which the Lymph becomes Acid and the Bile inactive These are the Sources of all the preceding Symptoms since Wind Noise Griping of the Guts and Costiveness are the natural result of a vicious Acid in the first Passages as flushings in the Face arise from its effervescence with the Bile the Convulsions of the nervous Membranes in several Parts of the Body are the effect of its Iritation its Crudity impairs the due Fermentation of the Blood and causes a palpitation of the Heart and difficulty of Breathing it depraves the Nutritious Juice of the Bowels which settles into hard Swellings and occasions a degeneracy and austerity in the Spirits hence Fear Melancholly irregular Thoughts and uncouth emotions ensue The remote Causes that promote Crudities are Acid Liquors or Salt Victuals or such as are dried in the Smoak since both partake of the Acid Spirit of Salt or Soot also want of motion to promote digestion and the speedy assimilation of the Chyle likewise Nocturnal Study and over thoughtfulness and care exhaust the Spirits impoverish the Blood and render the Lymph acid Thus much for the Symptoms and Cause of this Disease Now as to the Cure its consists in correcting and evacuating the Crudities of the first Passages fortifying the Stomach retrieving the due crasis of the Blood and restoring all wonted Evacuations to their former course in order to compass which ends let the following Rules be heedfully minded 1st That a Dose of the English Pills aforementioned be taken so often as you find occasion with a careful regular Diet and using a moderate quantity of true natural red Wine mix'd with Water instead of Malt-drinks which with the use of the Suffumigating Powder I shall by and by give directions about never fails setting them to rights as numbers in very deplorable conditions have happily experienced 2dly Their way of living both in the Vapours and Hypochondriack Melancholly as to Dyet ought to consist chiefly of cooling refreshing Nourishments Food of good Juyce eating Water-gruel Barley and Rice-Broths Rice-milk boil'd and roast Veal and Mutton Veal or Chicken-Broths not made so strong as usually eating no Salt or spiced Meats 3dly They must sleep not too much neither indulge Melancholly or thoughtfulness but be cheerful and use diversions keeping in company that is mirthful and talkative ride and take the fresh Air which with the variety of different Company and Objects which they see concur to pleasure the Mind and remove all anxious Thoughts and thereby contribute much towards the Cure And for all Diseases of the Nerves Fits of all sorts whether Convulsions Falling Sickness Apoplexies Lethargies Palsies or other Disorders of the Animal Spirits and Brain Spasms Tremblings Contractions Relaxations of the Limbs Numbness Coldness or the like a Dose now and then of the aforesaid English Pills and using the Suffumigating Powder as I shall presently direct nothing will be found more efficacious especially if the contracted or relaxed Limbs be anointed every Night with Oil of Amber and the following Diet-drink be made and drank constantly of which is also excellent in Vapours and Melancholly Take Mustard Seeds 4 Ounces buised Horse-radish Roots two Ounces Scurvy-grass two Handfuls Aaron Roots half an Ounce Bryony Roots two Ounces boil all in a Gallon of Spring Water till a Quart be boil'd away then strain it and drink half a Pint three times a day Use the Suffumigating Powder thus put a Paper of it upon some live Coals in a Chasing-dish or some such a thing and put in under a Chair with a Hole in it clapping a Funnel upon the Coals so that the Smoak will go through the Funnel and the Patient sitting upon

of in time before Nature is too much depress'd by the severity of the Disease and yet even in People that were Young and not Old they have effected the Cure which before had baffled Jesuits Powder the Bitters Alteratives c. And in those Agues of late standing the Vegetable alone has cured without the Plaister and in some the Plaister without the Vegetable but where the Case is severe to expedite the Cure I generally use both but some especially Children cannot be gotten to take any inward Medicine at all and there the applying the Plaisters most commonly does only must be renewed more times than there would be occasion if the Vegetable was taken also at the same time Directions for taking the Vegetable Powder and applying the Plaisters A Man or Woman may take a whole Paper at a time which must always be taken in a Glass of hot Wine an Hour or two before the Fit and be cover'd up warm whereupon it will cause in some gentle Vomiting and Sweat in others only Sweat in others will only work by Urine but which way soever it operates it never falls short of expectation curing almost all Agues without using any thing else but where the Case is inveterate and has been of long standing we are forc'd to apply the Plaisters also which I shall by and by give Directions about One of 12 or 15 Years of Age may take two thirds of a Paper those of younger Years in proportion always giving it in Wine as before directed and is to be repeated to every one for 5 or 6 times more or less as the Ague is severe or has been of longer or shorter continuance tho' not one Ague in twenty requires its being taken above three times Note There is no occasion to drink any thing with it more than the few Spoonfuls of Wine just to mix it and make it drinkable which may be White Wine or any other Wine proportioning the quantity as the Patient is either a grown Person or Child A grown Person taking it in 6 or 8 Spoonfuls and always as hot as it can be well drank The Plaisters to the Wrists must be prepared and applyed thus To all the Powder in the Box and the whole Yolk of a new laid Egg which mix and beat up well together in a Mortar or Porringer ●●●●●● rating them well together adding so much 〈…〉 and strongest Vineger as will be sufficient to make it into such a consistency as Venice Treacle is then spread it pretty thick upon a Linnen Cloth of 2 or 3 Inches broad for a grown Person but narrower for Children which apply upon the Pulses of both Wrists tying them on so as not to come off where they must remain without changing them for nine Days because this Remedy exerts its vertues but by degrees And it ought to be applyed an Hour or half an Hour before the Fit comes and if the Ague be not cur'd in nine Days to be laid on afresh The Price of the Vegetable Powder is 2s 6d a Paper and the Box of Powder for Plaisters is 3 s. 6d both to be had at the Place afore-mentioned Note These Plaisters to the Wrists frequently I may say generally Cure all forts of Agues unless they be of very long standing indeed and attended with other Indispositions without any inward Medicine at all but where there is a complication of Infirmities besides the Ague that the Stomach is foul and Blood injur'd there is a necessity for an inward Medicine than which nothing can exceed the Vegetable Powder before-mentioned and will do a hundred times more Service and is a thousand times more safer than Jesuits Bark or any other Medicine whatsoever Hydragogue Tincture OR DROPS Purging away Water thereby curing Dropsies of all sorts BEFORE I speak of the excellent Vertues of these Drops I shall say something of the several species of Dropsies which as they affect diversly so go under divers appellations as the Ascites Tympanites and Anasarca The Ascites or Hydrops Abdominis is in English the Watery Dropsy in the Belly and is always attended with a stretching of the Belly by reason of the superabounding of ferous watery and salt Humours cast forth into the capacity of the Abdomen through fault of the Liver Spleen and Reins causing also the Feet Thigh● and in Men sometimes the Cods to swell and is known by the swelling of the Belly a difficulty of Breathing and the hoarse sound of the Belly if struck like as if a Bladder half full was struck upon also upon compressing the Belly with the Fingers it pits and leaves the print of them thereon and if the Patient turns from side to side a Noise like the murmuring or waving of Water is heard and the Water by continuance there will in time putrify and corrupt the Bowele cause a Fever and Thirst and waste the Patients Strength and Spirits Therefore all imaginable care ought to be taken to evacuate the Water in time both by Stool and Urine or else the Patient will dye and if let alone so long as that the Patient's Strength be spent not being able to bear Purging Medicines then Tapping must be used as the only present way to secure the Patient if that Method will do it The Tympanites or Windy Dropsy shews it self also by a distention or stretching of the Belly but as the other contains Water within the capacity of the Abdomen this contains only Wind which so distends the Belly that it being struck upon with the Hand sounds like a Drum and is rather more swell'd than the watery Dropsies and the Navel hangs out but will not leave any impression upon pressing it with the Fingers the Patient is most afflicted with Pain about the Navel and Loins in Windy Dropsies like a Cholick when there is no such Pain in a watery one and is easier to be cured and of less danger The Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia is a Dropsy of the whole Habit of the Body the Water being dispersed so that all the Flesh appears moist swoln and wet wherein not only the Hands Arms Breast Face Thighs Legs and Feet swell but the whole Body also whereby if you make a pressure with your Finger into the Flesh in any part it will pit and leave an impression The cause of this Disease is chiefly Cold or by very plentifully drinking cold Water or Small Beer or else proceeds from a defect of the Liver or defect of Natural Heat Obstructions and imbicility of the Stomach from whence a collection of pituitous and watery Humours is produced and universal Cachexy If this Disease be recent and in a young Person it is not difficult to cure In Persons aged it is very doubtful if not desperate and indeed such as are much in Years seldom find a Cure for it But yet the Vertues of the Hydragogue Tincture are such as that it has cured several Elderly People by being follow'd for some continuance which they must tho' it is

what some will not be prevail'd upon to do being soon weary of the best of Medicines if ●●ey find not immediate Relief when the continuance of the Medicine would to all appearance have cured them Therefore it is advised that all People that have the Dropsy or are Dropsically inclin'd take the Drops constantly as directed and then a Cure may be expected Directions for the taking of the Hydragogue Tincture THE Patient is to take from 15 to 20 30 40 50 or 60 Drops more or less as they operate by Urine or Stool taking them always in White Wine wherein Mustard Seed or Horse-radish Roots have been steeped but if they purge much a less Dose must be taken if they do not purge at all a greater Dose and will also work by Urine plentifully tho' at the first taking them they may seem to give frequent occasions to Urine and but little come but after a little waiting the Urine will come plentifully and the Patient be reliev'd They are to be taken every Night and Morning and also in the middle of the Day if there be occasion The Price is 3 s. 6 d. the Bottle To be had only at the Place before mentioned The most Famous Eye-Powder Water IN THE WORLD THE Eye is a tender part and is soon injur'd by extraneous Bodies as also by Humours flowing upon them from within the Body and as those injure them one way so oftentimes does wrong Medicines the other nay make the Case more desperate so that the Remedy proves worse than the Disease whence comes Cataracts and Blindness for many People grow dim-sighted and dark by Humours upon the Eyes which at length breed Spots Films Skins Clouds Webs and the like which grow over the Sight the fore-runners of which are Atoms Flys Gnats H●irs Threads c. flying or swimming before them and which if not remedied in time increase to Cataracts the couching of which sometimes cures but oftner ●ot nay frequently ruins the Sight for ever as many can too truly Witness now these Spots Films Skins etc. tho' said by Oculists to be incurable but by Couching they telling their Patients they must wait till they come to ripe Cataracts to be couch'd are to be cur'd without even tho' grown to ripe Cataracts and that by blowing a little of a safe Powder and using a Water into the Eyes the continual using of which will soften and wear a way gradually that Skinny or filmy Substance which is a Humour congeal'd and dissolves and abforbs the gross viscid Humours that supplies and gives rise to those Films c. to the perfect restoration of the Sight whereby not one in a hundred that uses it would ever stand in need of being couch'd or would ever have their Sight impair'd or injur'd by Humours Spots Skins Films or the like but to the contrary keep off Humours clears and strengthens the Sight that all that once use them will recommend to all they know for they are such innocent Medicines as that they may be taken inwardly and have done such notable Cures as are to be wonder'd at even in all sorts of Indispositions of the Eyes whether they before running hot or inflam'd and that when Purgings Bleedings Blisterings Cuppings Issues and Seatons have been us'd to no purpose Directions for using the Eye Powder and Water IF the Eyes be very sore tender swell'd hot or inflam'd the Water alone will be sufficient without the Powder washing with it 2 3 or 4 times a Day or oftener as there may be occasion but if there be no Humour but Spots Films Skins or the like there the Powder must be used also a little of it being to be blown into the Eyes 3 or 4 times a Day daily till well and the Eyes to be wash'd an Hour after it with the Water but if the Powder or Water should occasion any smart as in weak tender Eyes they may tho' without the least injury then it is to be used seldomer and then they will be bearable It is admirable to find how they comfort clear and strengthen the Sight and remove all Humours Spots Films c. that darken or obfuscate the Sight and if People that have weak tender Eyes and are fearful of Cataracts or Blindness the use of it in time will prevent any such bad Indisposition or dimness or weakness of Sight The Price of the Powder is 2s 6d the Paper the Water 3s 6d both to be had at the Place before mentioned and no where else THE CARMINATIVE OR Wind Expelling LOZENGES THE most famous Medicine for the expelling of Wind ever known they keep the Wind out of the Stomach if one of them be held in the Mouth in a Morning or any other time in the Day and are more ready and much more wholesome as well as beneficial than Cordial Drams for these break away the Wind pent up in the Stomach and Bowels and strengthen them creating an Appetite and not destroying it as Drams do besides they keep the Body so solutive as those that take them will never be costive but always open In the Cholick Gripes Stitches in the Sides Windy Vapours that oppress the Head sowr Belchings Hiccups c. they are admirable if taken after Eating they cause good Digestion and rectify all Indigestions and Disorders of the Stomach purifying the Blood curing Heart-burn making the Breath sweet and do render the whole Body and Mind chearful lightsome and easy being really a pretty necessary Companion in case of ill Scents bad Air c. and so delightful and pleasant to the Taste as well well as helpful to the health that none that once try them will ever be without them It is only putting one of them into the Mouth at a time and swallowing it as it dissolves and so do as often in a Day as you please The Price is Two Shillings and Six Pence a Box which will last a long time and are only to be had at the Place aforementioned A BALSAM To Make ISSUES Run Which is also good to cleanse old Sores Ulcers Wounds c. THIS Medicine is fit and necessary for all Families on the acccout of Hurts Sores Wounds Ulcers c. as for the making Issues run for if a little of it be spread upon Linit or Tow and applied to the Sore Place it wonderfully cleanses it that a little Diachylon Plaister afterwards will be sufficient to heal it But for to make Issues run it is not to be parallell'd removing all Inflamations about them taking away proud Flesh and causing the Pea to keep in and this only by smearing some of it all round the Orifice and moistning the Pea with it putting it in and doing it so every time the Issue is drest which is once a Day that being sufficient and applying over it Oil Cloth or Plaister as usual But if there be much proud Flesh you may anoint that with it twice a Day but if not much once a Day will be sufficient It is indeed an excellent thing to keep Issues easy sweet