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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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