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A45664	An exact enquiry into, and cure of the acute diseases of infants by Walter Harris ; Englished by W.C. M.S., with a preface in vindication of the work.; De morbis acutis infantum. English	Harris, Walter, 1647-1732.; Cockburn, W. (William), 1669-1739.	1693 (1693)	Wing H883; ESTC R21209	53,865	168

the other parts of the Body are irritated and set on irregular motions I think it most necessary that the cure be performed with these Remedies which absorbe the Acrimony that offends the Nerves and truly allay the tumult of the Spirits and induce sleep without stupefaction and not with such as make greater Confusion and encrease that Heat which so much aboundeth Very many things esteem'd Specificks for Convulsions whose Names I conceal being they are most common in the mouths of all have been commended as well by the greatest Authors as the most famous Practitioners Yet their Vertues for as much as I could observe did never answer my expectation In the Convulsive Paroxysms of Infants seeing they do constantly arise from the sharp Matter of the preceding Gripes that doth vellicate the Nerves those things which obtund allay or blunt the Acid without any new heat or warm'th of Body one those which carry off the Acidity thus Defeated and despoiled of all its Angles shall at length after all other things tried in vain be found only of sufficient force for vanquishing this formidable Symptom I had a great confirmation of this assertion in the Daughter of James Lowry a Girl scarce a year old who was seized with the greatest the most violent and most frequent Convulsions that ever I did see which had disquieted her Lips Eyes Joints yea and all her Body with very small intermission for many days before I visited her She was very pale and of a most formidable aspect her Belly was constipate and the little that was cast out was very green She howled with a high voice for as much as her strength seem'd to be cast down so that she raised the compassion of the Neighbourhood During all these Convulsions and Colick-pains she scarce consumed a spoonful of Food but was sustained by some sort of Cordial I assisted and happily cured this miserable Infant with no other Medicaments but some Ounces of Crabs-eyes mixed with Crystal of Tartar She was constrained to swallow down a scruple or more of this most simple powder every hour in Pennyroyal Water or the like after the frequent giving of them she fell upon sleep and had these Convulsions much lessened I ordered a Clyster of sugared and salted Milk to be frequently injected until at length the Crystal of Tartar which doth not only purge very gently but is also very aperient if it be taken in sufficient quantity had made way for it self down ward By these few and no greater Train of Medicines was this Infant seemings devoted to Death unexpectedly indeed recovered to perfect Health But I do not understand that I may quietly say so why we should further torment these tender Ones vexed with Convulsions and destroyed with Watching and Disquiet with Vesicatories applied to their Neck or other Parts being that kind of remedy seemeth more proper and designed to rouze from stupefaction those that are affected with a Coma. Why may not I add that since I first used this commended method for the curing of Infants at my first entry I have seen many seized with Convulsions and some so weakn'd with them that they had no strength to swallow down any kind of Medicament but that I do not remember of any of these tender ones that being perfectly cured by the use of these Powders ever suffered a Relapse The Small Pox and Maesles of Infants being very often a gentle and calm effervescency of the Blood they are not so sick when neither the assistance of Physitians is desired nor the great Skill of the Nurses who think so well of themselves is craved But when the unruly force of the Blood doth justly require the help of the Physitian the Testaceous Medicaments so frequently spoken of have the same effects with Children that Narcoticks have with People of full Age. But these Volatile Spirits which are so much used the Cordial Waters Mithridate the Treacle of Andromachus and the rest of these hot Preserving and Diaphoretick Remedies are chiefly to be eschewed which are designed to thrust out with more haste than good speed these Pushes but which instead of being Cordial and Expulsory as is pretended do very often change the naturally gentle Small Pox into such as are more dangerous and do move disturb and turn inward the Measles otherwise easily disappearing from upon the Superfice of the Skin introducing deadly Difficulties of breathing and thoaking Catarrhs and lastly they seem most designed to inflame the Blood which is yet but moderately and slightly warmed Reflecting upon the nature of the Small Pox I have frequently admired how this hot kind of guiding hath so much prevailed not only among the foolish Nurses but Physitians otherways very learned being this Disease is so very hot and being all Suppurating Medicines properly so called which are ordinarily applied to any one or more swelled parts of the Body that tend to Suppuration should be by the general consent of all Physitians and Chyrurgeons very temperate as are the Roots of Marsh-mallows and Lillies the Leaves of Mallows Althaea Bear-foot the Meals of Lin-seed Foenugreek-seed Wheat Butter Fat Oyl the Yolk of an Egg Mucilages Marrow and the like which are not hot For hot Remedies either taken inwardly or outwardly applied are truly discussing and ratifying and of a quite contrary nature to the former Moreover these do really disturb Nature in her work of Suppuration and necessarily drive all into a strange confusion Wherefore Testaceous Medicaments whose strength and vertue is most temperate which in their benign and gentle Nature are next to those that suppurate which exceedingly resist the Universal Corruption of the Body and lastly which neither interrupt the Animal or Natural Functions or render them irregular are of all the most eligible for the cure of the Small Pox. I could maintain at more length this Cause and so extend the limits of this Work beyond measure But I will not longer detain the Reader with Scholastick Impertinencies which are altogether useless in Practice I will not not hunt after an Umbrage and Shadow of more than ordinary Learning by the specious Citations of Authors cavilling among themselves and lastly I will not subtilly undermine the Opinions of other men that I may triumph over their Ignorance and that upon any account I may establish my own For I know very well how hard a task it is to enquire narrowly into the verity and truth of things I know that he hath come nighest to the Truth of any thing who shall be found to have erred least however men do upon any trifling occasion let up their Crests and assume a degree of perfect Knowledge in this or another Science when Men can make no progress beyond the natural Limits of their Weakness and Frailty And truly the more knowing any Man is than another the more humbly and submissively doth he demean himself But there seemeth to me to be a certain moderate comprehension of things and bounded with the same

equal to his Master and also a Nurse or at least the babling and Cup. Gossip Women being enriched with Books of Receipts preserved from Generations shall carry the Prize and Glory from the most Learned Physitian and the Apothecary howsoever conversant in the Prescriptions of Physitians But that we may to our purpose I use to help an Infant of a Year old that is feaverish or tormented with Gripes as it is for the most part with these sorts of Medicaments ℞ of the compound Powder of Crabs-Claws of Pearls prepared of each ʒi mix all and make a Powder to be divided into six equal parts Or ℞ of the Oriental Bezoard of Pearls prepar'd of Crabs-Eyes prepar'd an ʒss of the Species for the Confection of Hyacinth ℈ i. make a Powder to be divided after the fame manner Or ℞ of the simple Powder of Crabs-Claws ʒi of Crabs Eyes prepared ℈ ij of Cocheneal viij gr mix all and make a fine Powder to be divided into six Doses Let him take one instantly let it be reiterated if necessity doth require it two hours after and henceforth every 4th hour for the first two days unless that Sleep intervene Let the Powders be given in a spoonful of the following Julep drinking another After all ℞ of the Alexiterious Milk water ℥ iv of Black Cherry Water ℥ ii of the Compound Paeony-Water of Plague-Water ana ʒii of Pearled Sugar ℥ ss mix all and make a Julep Or ℞ of Penny Royal Water of the alexiterious Milk-water ana ℥ iij. of the Syrup of Clove Gilly flowers ʒvi M. Of ℞ of Sweet Almods freed from their Husks in number X. Contuse them in a Marble Mortar pouring upon them by degrees of Barley water of the Alexiterious milk water ana lib. ss strain it and to the colature add of weak Cinnamon-water ʒvi of white Sugar ℥ ss M and make an emulsion Sometimes I use Juleps full of Pearls omitting every thing else ordering the Glass to be well shaken before they are poured out ℞ of black Cherry Water ℥ iv of the whole Citron ℥ ij Mirabills of Pearls prepar'd ana ʒii of white Sugar ℥ ss M. and make a Julep of which let him have three spoonfuls as before But if the Infant be troubled with a Cough the mentioned Powders are to be taken more sparingly in lieu of which he may take half a spoonful of a thin Lohoch or Electuary ℞ of Corallin pulveris'd of the simple Powder of Crabs Claws ana ʒiss of the Syrup of Maiden-hair of the Syrup of Althaea ana ℥ i. of the Syrup of the Balsam of Tolu ℥ ss of the water of wild Poppy Flowers ℥ ss for diluting all M. Bole Armenick is most appositely mix'd amongst these because it doth most powerfully stop the Defluctions that fall down upon the Lungs The Juice of Penny-royal in which when warmed there is Sugar-candy dissolved is amongst the best of Remedies The Oyl of sweet Almonds is also very proper if it doth agree with the taste of the Infant Likewise vive Sulphur or the Flowers of Brimstone having a wonderful virtue in drying penetrating and discussing Humours stuff'd up in any part of the Body mixed with such things as absorbe Acidity are very useful for gross and phlegmatick Constitutions Neither hath Sulphur any hurtful or deleterious Faculty as Crato and some other Learned Men did unjustly suspect but is of a most preservative and expulsory Virtue which is most opposite to Corruption of Humours The frequency of the Administration of these Powders cannot be determin'd but are to be reiterated accordingly as the Symptoms are more gentle or violent This only I shall resume that all the Pains Disquiet and Watchings of Infants are as certainly assuaged with testaceous Medicaments as the Pains and Watchings of older people are eased and allayed by Narcoticks But here any who hath but the least smack of Physick may object that the giving of these Powders is no new thing To whom I only do reply that indeed the foolish spare and niggardly use of these Medicaments hath been known too long and to too too many but that never any did inculcate either so reiterated or so great Doses of them nor yet the ensuing necessity of purging There 's a known Story and any man may draw the parallel with ours of a certain merry Man who when he had boastingly defyed the By-standers to fix an Egg upon either of its ends neither any of them after a great deal of Trial could see through or unriddle the Mystery he himself breaking a little both ends of the Egg in a trice removed all their Astonishment and at the same time made them break forth into laughter For when it was known it did become most easy to the whole Company I order them to be purged upon the third day after I am called unless the Small-Pox Measles or Scarlet Feaver do appear and Infants of one Year after this manner ℞ of the Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb ʒii of the best Rhubarb in Powder gr xv or ℈ i. of the Alexiterious Milk-water ʒi or of small Cinnamon Water gut xxx to dilute all M. Or ℞ of the Syrup of Purging Thorn ʒiss or ʒii of the Powder Diasenna gr viii M. ℞ of the Countess of Warwicks Powder as it 's describ'd in the last Edition of the London Dispensatory in the rest under the name of the Cornachine Powder gr vi Let him have it in a spoonful of black Cherry Water sweetned with a litlet Sugar ℞ of sweet Almonds No. iij. Contuse them in a Marble Mortar pouring upon them by degrees ℥ i. of Barley or of any other simple Water Dissolve in the Colature ʒiii or ℥ ss of the best Manna M. and make a purging Emulsion ℞ of len●tive Electuary ʒii or iij. dissolve it in ℥ i. of the alexitetions Milk Water For irregular Symptoms arising from a great corruption of Humours I do very much use gr vi of the black Mineral afterward described or gr iv of sweetned ☿ with as much of the Flowers of Brimstone mixed together in a Glass Mortar and given at Night in some pleasant Syrup purging the next day If the sick Infant be three or four years old or hath passed the hazard of breeding Teeth and especially if there be any considerable suspicion of Worms or Putrefaction of Humours for some time contracted there is nothing better than a Bole of that Powder last mentioned and it may be made with Marmalade of Quinces or confected Orange Peel pulpod through a Hair-Scarce These kind of Boles do very much avail for those who are ordinarily constipate in their Belly and are not easily purged in as much as they do prepare so that the Purgative which is ordered the next day hath a better and easier Operation I do sometimes also order the following Plaister or the like to be applyed upon the Navel ℞ of the best Aloes from Socotr●ʒi of the leaves of Savine of the tops of the lesser