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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

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

in a thousand that you will use it twice without it be a deep thrust or shot in the Thigh where it may not reach the bottom but for any ordinary hurt though it be never so broad or torn it cures it at the first dressing and takes away all pain and swelling in half an hour and immediately stops the bleeding Remember the sooner you apply it the better But if you are at Sea where the white of an Egg is not to be had then take the powder and cast it upon the hurt or wound and take a fine linnen cloth or ragg dip it in salt water and then wring out the water well and lay the cloth several times double upon the place hurt and bind it on gently as before and it will prove as effectual as the other way If any shall desire it for an Ulcer I shall so make it that it shall cure any cureable Ulcer in a very short time This is to be kept in some dry place or carried about one for against moist and rainy weather it will be a little moist wherefore keep it near the fire and if it should be moist at any time dry it at the fire and it will be as good as at the first It will not decay you may keep all the Powder twenty years and be as good as at first The Stomachical Pills you may keep seven years I am fully perswaded and I have reason to think that there is not any Disease either in the West or East-Indies nor any where in the World but this Powder will take off I should not question to cure the Plague with my Arcanum Vniversale and my Aurum Vitae If any Practitioner shall desire any of those Arcanums I shall accommodate him with them upon reasonable terms I will engage that any Chyrurgion that hath once found the worth of them he would rather have one Dragme than a Chest of ten pounds worth of the laudablest Cathartical Medicines he can chuse My Pillula Balsamica or Balsamick Pill is to settle the Body and to restore it into a good temper for a House that hath been fired though the fire be out yet there may be a great heat and smoke which I give the next Night after my Powder If you take the Powder in the Morning take the Pill at Night if there be occasion that is if he find his Body much disordered or out of temper or feels any pain then it is good to take one of those Pills otherwise not If you please you may drink after it In the Summer give after it a Glass of White Wine Cider or Ale in the Winter a draught of warm Posset-Drink or warm Ale or a Glass of Sack My Aurum Vitae is when the Malignity of the Disease hath tainted the Spirits and that is known by this though the Cause be gone and the Effect removed yet the Party doth not become well but continues in a lingring condition then give him a Dose of this in the Morning in his Bed let him drink it in a glass of Sack or warm Posset-Drink and it will drive it out by sweating and let him continue sweating for three or four hours never fear it it will not weaken but make stronger My Pill Stomachica or Stomack Pill is to be taken at Night as any other Pill without taking any thing after it Thus I have directed you as plain as I could And a good success shall be ever prayed for unto that God that alone can give it by Thy Friend R. C. POSTSCRIPT THe Dose of the Balsamick Pill for one of full years is twelve fourteen or fifteen grains yea sometimes twenty in robust bodies and extream pains a Child new born may take a grain of it dissolved in breast milk or other A Child of my own being born with the gripes began to take it the next day it was likely to die all the Moneth and very weakly for the first quarter so that if the Pill were omitted but one Night it were even at deaths door so that the use thereof was continued with happy success till it was a year and a quarter old for the Teeth sake at which time it was weaned from the Breast and Pill both together without the least inconveniency or alteration when it left it and blessed be God of a poor weakly Child became lusty strong and forward as any Child of its Age whatsoever and so remains being now in its third year of Age. The Powder for Old Sores or Ulcers mentioned by Mr. Couch I also prepare and sell by the name of Species Phagadenica at the same price with that for wounds and blood-stopping and is to be used thus Take a full pint or better of fair water set it over the fire in an Earthen Pipkin till it be scalding hot then put in an ounce of this Powder by degrees stirring it with a wooden Spatula then cover the pipkin and let it stand half a quarter of an hour over the fire without boyling then take it off and let it stand till the water be clear the which keep in a Glass or Earthen bottle when you use it to any Old Ulcer or Fistula put a little into an Earthen Sawcer warm it as hot as it may be endured then wash the Sore by dipping a fine rag in it and at length double the rag three or four times and let it be well wet with the warm Liquor and apply it to the Sore if the Ulcer be hollow or fistulous so that you cannot come at it to wash it then inject the Liquor warm with a Syringe let it be dressed twice a day and I dare assure you that there is no curable Ulcer whatsoever that this will not cure if you desire to have the water yet stronger in stead of fair water infuse the Powder in Lime-water This water is not only a Cure for Old Sores but for Ring-worms Tetters Manginess Itch Scabs and such like Curaneous Distempers they being washed therewith and linnen clothes wet therein laid upon the place The way of using the Powder or Balsom for Wounds and Blood-stopping is sufficiently taught by Mr. Couch that I call by the name of Species Vidneraria The Dose of the Aurum Vitae for one of full years is ten or twelve grains and sometimes more it may be taken in a little Sack Ale or Posset drink or made into a Rolus with a little Conserve of Roses or any Cordial Syrup it may as well be taken at Night going to Bed as in the Morning provided the Patient hath eat but a light Supper and that two or three hours before This is a powerful Remedy in any Malignant Fever Small-Pox or Measels Surfeit Scurvy French-Pox c. It mightily purifies the Blood and refresheth the Spirits All those Medicines mentioned in this Book may be had at my House except the Water mentioned for Embrocation in the Gout which I know not at the same prices that Mr. Couch sold them but

and whosoever shall recover all this matter is to be brought out and whoever goes about to stop it in the beginning works against nature What a vain thing therefore is it to think to take away the Gripings before the matter be gone that causes it and to corroborate the stomach or to refresh its Spirits so long as the Enemy beareth sway To give the Child Mithridate or lay a plaister of it to the stomach which is worse becomes another Disease or any thing else that is nauseous whilst Nature the Disease are struggling and to give cooling things to correct the hear is to weaken nature and strengthen the Disease Obj. But you will tell me many have recovered by the use of those means Answ And many more had been had they never been used with submission to providence but quoad homines after the manner of men I admire that any should recover that ever was affected with this Disease for they are ever giving and all to hurt it seeing the best Friends become the worst Enemies which makes good that old Saying When God cuts off man's thread of life His dearest Friends do bring the knife But many things are wrought by accident as we have known many have been recovered from a Fever by drinking cold water Obj. From whence some have asserted that this Heat is of the Essence of the Disease Answ But this Cure is not wrought by the Water as it is cold and moist for Sack or strong Beer would have performed it and a great deal better but it is from the great quantity of it which doth so replete the stomach that some of the peccant matter which doth adhere unto the Fibres thereof the Water hath loosened and so it s brought away with it I suppose whosoever hath been cured by Water it hath been when the Disease hath been on him some considerable time and not in the beginning I have prescribed Water several times in the end of a Fever to this intent and I ever found it very successful but I suppose the parties that have taken it upon their own sensual inclination it was hap-hazard with them for to take Water in the beginning of a Fever either kills them or strikes them into an Ague or some other long Sickness To drink it in a contagious pestilential Fever or any Fever that tends much to putrefaction hastens death I do not speak this as not approving of the use of Water but I declare the contrary for I have found as strange events by drinking Water as ever I saw by any Physick I have known a man cured very soon of an Atrophia or Consumption only by the drinking of pure Rock Watar and in many other cases have I used it but great consideration is to be had in the giving of it But to return by applying a nauseous or foetid Medicine to the Stomach whilst the morbifick matter resides there nature thinking she is assaulted by another Distemper unites all her strength and force and desperately attempts both her Enemies with this resolution to extirpate them or sink her self whereby she may by exasperating of her new Enemy cast forth the old and then this amongst the ignorant is cryed up for a laudable Medicine when as such things are done by chance for where one hath recovered by this means twenty have died Thus you see what a blind course hath been taken for the curing this or any other Disease The meer pity that I bear to poor Infants hath extorted this from me to whom I have often been sent for to see them die when their spirits have been so far spent that I have not dared to give them any thing to take off the Disease to the great grief of my spirit for without the Disease be taken away to small purpose do we use Cordial Means to refresh their Spirits DIRECTIONS I shall now direct you to a better way viz. 1. When you are assured this Disease is on them which is known first by a scouring away of a slimy matter then a discolouring of the Excremenrs as yellow green c. and a griping in the Belly being very hot and cold by Intervals press not any manner of Meat upon them Impura corporae quo plus nutrieris eo majus laeseris as you tender their lives this very thing hath destroyed thousands For to give Meat whilst the Disease is on them when the stomach is not fit to receive it nor hath strength to digest it without it be speedily vomited up again it becomes a Recruit or supply to the Disease 2. Neither administer nor apply any thing external or internal that is any way nauseous or ungrateful to the stomach for nature hates and abhors such things for though it be laid upon the stomach yet the taste of it is in the stomach as though it were contained there especially in young and tender Skins for to have a thing that is nauseous to the stomach and ungrateful to the smell constantly to lie on would be troublesome to one that is in health much more to him that is sick Give not the Child any Milk and if it suck wean it for Milk is the first matter and foundation this Disease is raised on and it bears still an affinity with it and is presently converted into its poisonous nature and likewise let it forbear Water and Beer either cold or warm keep the sick party either Child or otherwise in a breathing sweat which is done by drinking warm Posset-drink the Milk being turn'd with White Wine or Sack or Beer sharpened with Vinegar let the party drink of it as warm as he can take it this is far better than any Cordial or Julip whatsoever in a putrid Disease between whiles the Child may drink a good draught of Sack raw and without Sugar is best and if it tends to coldness either in Face Nose Hands or Feet you may safely give it a liberal draught of Brandy with a little white Sugar though the Child be not two months old and likewise make a Toast of old stale Bread or a piece of Rose-Cake and soak it in warm Brandy wherein a little white Sugar hath been dissolved and put it to the Child's Stomach and let it lie on for twenty four hours and if the coldness is not removed you may reiterate it I have a specifick Water for that end which doth much revive and cherrish nature What though it exasperateth and maketh more hot That is well recompensed for it mightily strengthens and refresheth nature Observe that a hot and feverish temper is the most laudable and best temper the Child can be in whilst the Disease remains When the morbifick matter is gone you may give a little salt of Pearls Corral Amber or Wormwood which are very good in a Cordial Electuary to kill that putrefactive Ferment in the place where the Disease lay that may lie behind lurking which is the cause of most Relapses and long and tedious Sicknesses and

at the Abdomen And it hath lately appeared by dissection that those who have died of those Distempers the fault hath been through the Kidney which is most agreeable to reason And undoubtedly that operation in an Ascites in making a hole to let out the Water doth but only respect the effect not taken away and yet not inconsistent to that Maxim Take away the cause and the effect ceaseth which is to be understood of that which is to come and not of what is past as Helmont well observes and so that operation might happily perfect a Cure in taking the effect for the Cause I have cured a man of an Anasarca whose Thigh hath been near as big as his middle with one Dose of this Powder he was presently made perfectly well that in the operation of this Medicine his Legs Thighs fell and never swelled after you would have admired had you seen what abundance of Water came from him both by Urine and Vomiting and at night I gave him a Pill which I usually do after this Powder to refresh his Spirits and seetle his Body in a right temper This was all the Physick he took from me though he had spent many pounds before in fruitless endeavours And I know not any thing to the contrary but it may do as well in an Ascites or Timpanites if it hath not continued too long First it is necessary to begin the Cure with gentle purging for strong Purges especially in weak and tender Bodies do far more harm than good by resolving and expelling the Blood and good juices with the peccant matter thereby dejecting the strength and depauperating the vital spirit â„ž of the Roots of Orris an ounce and a half Parsley Roots half an ounce Leaves of Agrimony a handful clean Senna an ounce best Rhubarb half an ounce Agarick three drams Cinnamon two drams Cloves one dram cut the Roots with the Rhubarb and Agarick into thin slices bruise the Spices and put them all into a little Bag infuse them twenty four hours in two quarts of the best White or Rhenish Wine then let the Patient drink every morning five or six ounces or as much as will give four or five Stools It is pleasant to take but if you please you may also add Sugar to it For such as had rather take Pills those following are good â„ž Rosin of Scammony and Jallap of each half a dram Tartar Vitriolat Mercurius dulcis of each two scruples Oil of Juniper Berries twenty drops of the purest Venice Turpentine a sufficient quantity to make the powder into a Mass for Pills the which make into thirty small Pills and give three four or five of them according to the Patients Age and Strength every morning After purging The Salt of Broom or Amber of Bean-stalks or of Pidgeons dung are profitable either of them being taken twice a day in warm Broth or which is better the Spirit or Volatile Salt of humane Urine In a Tympany the dulcified Spirit of Nitre is excellent being taken in Broth or Sack three or four times a day from six to twelve drops at a time A Gentleman a Friend of mine living in Greenwich cured a man of the Dropsie with the Pill alone This man had an Ague first which either went off it self or were moved by some common Remedy about seven weeks after which he began to swell and also was sorely afflicted with Gripings and Flux for a great while which had brought him so low that he had not been out of his Bed for three weeks The first Dose of the Pill that was given him took away the Gripes and in a great measure stayed the Flux but then he swelled so much in his Breast that he could not lie down in his Bed but his Breath would be gone the second Dose freed him from that and made him able to rise and dress himself and by a short continuance of it was cured Epilepsie or Falling Sickness I Had a Maid since I came to this Town that was turned over from one to another no one cared to have her by reason she was violently troubled with the Falling Sickness at length I bought her to whom I gave only one dose of this Powder which freed her from her Fits though she had them before almost continually day and night that whosoever had her kept one to watch her for she would be ready to destroy her self I kept her about a quarter of a year and she never had a Fit that I know of I perswaded her to take another Dose two or three days after but she would not she told me she needed not for she was confident she was perfectly cured Since I hear she is married some where in the Country and whether she had them since I know not By the operation of this Medicine I judged by what came from her that the primary cause was not in the Brain but in the Stomach or some place near adjacent thereunto and that the Brain suffered only by consent Purging in this Disease when it is simple seldom or never doth any good as also Blood-letting but both are very injurious as many have found to their great prejudice But when it proceeds from the Stomach as may be known by the Patient perceiving in himself a pain soreness and distention about the mouth or pit of the Stomach and Heart-strings especially when they are fasting before the Fit they have a disposition to vomit with pain and palpitation of the Heart and the Fit ends with vomiting in such I say a Vomit may be available either with the infusion of Crocus Mettallorum or the Salt of Vitriol but they are warily to be administred and not without the direction of a Physician All sour and sharp things are hurtful in this Disease as Oranges Lemons Vinegar c. In the time of the Fit you may use the following Liniment to anoint and chafe the Temples Nostrils Wrists and Coronal Suture or Seam of the Skull upon the top of the Head â„ž Vnguentum Nervinum two ounces melt it gently in a Gally pot then put to it Oyl of Amber and Rosemary of each two drams Spirit of Sal Armoniack one dram stir them well together and use it warm Take of Oil of Tartar per deliquium an ounce Salt of Harts-horn and Amber each a scruple mix them and let the Patient take from ten to twenty drops in Broth or Black-cherry Wine four times a day The dung of a Peacock or Liver of a Raven being gently dried and powdered and given twice a day to two Scruples or a dram at a time are very good but it were better if their Volatile Salts were extracted But the Flowers of Sal Armoniack excel all the rest being given three times a day from ten to fifteen or sixteen grains at a time in Broth or Sherry Wine Tortura Ventris or a great Griping THere was a poor Fisherman that lay down by the New Meeting House in this Town that had undergone

he desires it Raisins of the Sun he may freely eat You must foment or bath the Region of his Bladder often with Decoctions of some comfortable herb boiled in Sack and some good Ointment to embrocate it afterward and so bound up warm After ten or twelve days that you have kept the Child in this order you may give him a Dose of my Powder which will bring forth the matter contained I shall direct any one further that shall desire it But above all things let him avoid all old womens Medicines to void or break the Stone for I verily believe that hath made many a Stone where there would be none for if the Bladder be any way defective whereby he doth not make water freely they conclude presently the Stone and then take such a thing says one and such a thing says another and so keep giving till it come to a Stone indeed for all those things they give to force the Stone away or break it are inimical to the Bladder and the more debilitates the Ferment which is the efficient cause in generating the Stone I dare affirm it possible to generate a Stone in any Body though never so free from it only by those things they commonly give to cure it I have been somewhat larger in this than I intended I shall only name two or three Diseases more and conclude for I intend it only for a small thing to carry in a man's hand for a Memorandum Enchyridion So potent an Enemy is this Disease of the Stone to mankind that it is very seldom vanquished or cured except sometimes by the affrightful way of cutting under which many also die and some others which recover lose the use and office of the Bladder for ever some there are again who generate the Stone afresh after cutting as Helmont notes a young man who was twice cut but the Stone growing again the third time he died under the Knife For indeed the cutting takes not away the power of making although it may free a man from the matter made Many Remedies have been invented to dissolve the Stone but experience hath found them but feeble helpers First those which have promised help by being injected into the Bladder by a Syringe as juice of Citrons Spirit of Salt and others because they have been observed to dissolve a Stone in a Glass taken from a humane Body but alas their promises are vain for a small quantity being cast into the Bladder immediately stirs up an intollerable Strangury as being wholly foreign to the ferment of the part Again the powers of all common Remedies taken at the mouth are altered transmuted and perish before they get to the Bladder for they must first pass three digestions so that little more than their excrements can arrive at the Bladder for acid or sharp things from whence so much hath been hoped as soon as they are past the Stomach lose their acidity and are converted into a saline nature whereby the sharpness is either wholly transmuted or at least so sealed up that it is devoid of an acid act before it gets to the Bladder 'T is true there are some things as Turpentine Asparagus Raddishes c. which have their odours so fast tied to the middle life of their Concretes that they are not wholly overcome by the Ferment of the Stomach but retain them even to the expelling of the Urine but those are too eeble resolvers and besides persevere not long in that estate but quickly submit to any dungy Ferment of putrefaction Therefore a true Resolver of the Stone ought to have the following powers and properties viz. 1. It must have a sufficient power to dissolve the Stone being put with it into a Glass in a heat not exceeding the heat of our Bodies and that not after the manner of Corrosives which make a forcible dissolution with an ebullition and noise but by the action are much weakened in their own force but a true solvent acteth without noise or ebullition dissolving the Stone insensibly as warm water dissolveth Ice neither is its own power infringed or depauperated by the action 2. The Solvent of the Stone ought to be so homogenious and singular that it submit not to any digestions or fermental powers through which it passeth in its way to the Bladder that coming thither in its own integrity and might it may work upon the Stone as oft as it passeth by it 3. It ought to be so amicable and agreeable to the Bladder that being cast into it with a Syringe it may not be painful thereto after the manner of sharp injections Such a Remedy I have a near prospect of but no more of that in this place but I have a Medicine that will give ease in the most racking pains of the Stone within the space of an hour Atrophia or Marasmuss or a Consumption without a Cough A Consumption without a Cough proceeds from the loss of the Ferment of some principal part whereby it decayeth and withereth and some other part doth too much abound and increase I shall speak a word of this in the Rickets of Children Febris Hectica or a Consumption with a Cough A Consumption with a Cough of ehe Lungs is from the decaying and putrefying of them either in part or in the whole nature sending a more than ordinary proportion of nourishment to that part which by that putrefactive Ferment is converted into Excrement and is expectorated or coughed up This Disease hath been seldom cured if it hath been long on the party whereby his Body is much emaciated and consumed Paracelsus had a Remedy for it but I think it was buried with him Riverius cent 4. of observ by the fumy Troch Auripigm others have cured it likewise after a great loss of their Substance Whilst it is in fieri or in the beginning I am very confident this Arcanum or Powder of mine will cure it This Disease is usually the consequent of a Surfeit or Fever or else it is Hereditary being transmitted by the Parents to their posterity which admits of no cure that I know of by Medicine the former may be cured if good Medicines be administred in time that is before the Stomach and Lungs be too much vitiated and the Lungs exulcerated But it is in vain attempted by the usual Methods of Sugared Milk nourishing Broths Jellies Lohochs Electuaries pectoral Syrups and Apozems c. for they all add to the heap of Excrements Milk and Broth of Flesh being subject to putrefie speedily by the very heat of the Stomach not meeting with the digestive Ferment thereof which is almost lost submit to a vitious Fermentation and so form a vile and degenerate Chyle which is in no wise fit for the nourishment of the Body whence all the parts languish and waste the which also enrageth the Archeus from whence that burning in all the solid parts proceeds the which is evidently proved by being increased always an hour or