deplorable Cases above mentioned Example 1. Of an Imposthume in the Womb of a Woman with Child A Woman about seven Months gon with Child was afflicted with great Pain and Torture in her Womb which manifested the proper Signs of a contra-natural Cause existent by Issue of Bloud not Flouding-like but by Driblings at last of Quitter Upon these apparent Signs of a suppurated Imposthume I was sought for and hearing what had hap'ned could not but give Judgment of an Imposthume present Yet having read Hipocrates of whose Sincerity and deep Skill in curing Diseases of his time no Prudent Man unto this day doubts and finding him to proclaim Imposthumes and Vlcers of the Womb not curable in Women with Child I was very loath to be concern'd in this Case but Importunity and Necessity overweighing I adventur'd to apply my self to the Cure In order to which I first gave my Pouder once in 8 hours and my Arcanum Veneris at Night going into Bed This Method was continued every Day without other Medicines except some small Cordials for Support unto the time of her Delivery During which space of Time after the taking these Medicines Matter flowed each Day more than other for a great part of that time in which time her Pains nevertheless vanished and she grew more lively than before but when the time of her Delivery drew near the Matter that came forth was less and less each day After Delivery I viewing the Bag in which the Child had been contained did plainly discern the Compass of the Imposthume and some part of the Matter unresolved upon the Out-side of the Bag. But afterwards to this same Woman so well delivered of a Sound and well proportioned Child I gave my Medicines all the time of her lying in in the same Method as is above prescribed and she recovered Strength and after this had several other Children and is now alive tho this hap'ned fourteen years since Example 2. Of a Dropsy in the Womb of a Woman with Child A Woman with Child before quickning being swelled to outward appearance like one ready to be delivered sent for me I seeing the Woman and hearing how it was with her could not but be amazed and doubt of the reality of her Conception Nevertheless because I well knew the certainty and effecacious Power of my Medicines above specified in Cases no less deplorable I rejected all thoughts of particular Remedies and applyed my self to that general Method I had formerly used Accordingly I gave my Pouder Night and Morning for three days yet no separation hap'ned during that time but the Woman found her self somewhat more lively than before The fourth Day I gave my Arcanum Metallorum and the following Morning my Pouder That Day came forth a Dribbling of Water and the next Day more This Method I continued and in three Days time after more than too Gallons of Water was voided and the Dropsy separated Then I ordered the Pouder to be taken Night and Morning until Quickning and all the time after of her being with Child I prescribed to her the same Pouder to be taken a Day or two at a time whensoever any Appearance of a Return of the Dropsy was and by this means she went out her full time had a sound Child and several Children after and hath continued Well and in Health for about these seven Years since Example 3. Of an Vlcer in the Womb. In this sad Case the Neck of the Womb was tumified uneven hard in one place tender in another and raw in a third as was clearly testified by divers Midwifes then present The Sanies that flowed from thence was Red Yellow and greenish White In Cure of this Woman I gave my Pouder every Day once and at Night my Arcanum of Metals and perhaps the next Night my Arcanum Veneris changing them as I saw occasion but my Pouder I always gave once a Day During this Cure many Changes and Accidents hap'ned to which I applied particular Remedies too long to be here incerted After some Series of time all these Accidents vanished and the suppurated Matter by little and little abated and at length perfect Health followed This Woman after her Recovery Conceived and hath had several Children since and is alive at this day This Cure was performed about seven Years ago Example 4. Of a Tumified Womb. A young Woman labouring under a natural Deficiency propagated to her striving to extrude it self by Hemeroids and Piles being also at the same time afflicted with a Tumified Womb hard and sore so that she could not possibly bear the Congress of her Husband and having long sustained this Calamity and finding the Remedies of other Physicians useless applied her self to me I streight in order to her Cure gave her my Pouder every Morning and my Arcanum Veneris every Night appointing my Scerbutick Tincture to be taken in Drink by twenty Drops at a time as often as she drank And this Method was continued for full four Months after which time she quickly Conceived with Child and hath ever since remained well though she were cured of this Malady divers Years ago Example 5. Of a Mola Being called to a Woman labouring under great Floudings who conceited her self to be with Child when I had observed the great quantity of Bloud that came from her the Midwife then present gave me an account of the closure of the Womb and so an Impossibility of distinguishing the Concern I finding her Case such caused the Pouder to be given twice in one hour in which time the Flux of Bloud began to stop and the Womb to open a little yet no more than sufficed to admit the Midwifes finger to distinguish somewhat unusual Whereupon I desired her to give me some more plain Testimony of what she felt and by her words I judged it to be no Child And as I judged so it proved for when the Midwife could somewhat better reach what she had before touched she brought forth a Gleuy Matter white and clear I seeing this ordered her to bring it away as fast as she could but she having no more place open than for one Finger to enter brought it away by piece-meal I giving some Cordial for support to the afflicted Woman in the mean time This Matter I caused when as much was brought away as possibly could be by the Midwifes Finger to be put into a Bason of Water where it joyned all together and seemed in quantity to be no less than a Quart would contain Now because without force the Womb could be no further opened the Remainder was left to the power of Medicine Therefore I gave my Pouder every hour for twenty four hours at the end of which this sadly distressed Woman began to be pretty sedate and quiet and no Bloud appeared for I think she had before evacuated all or the greatest part of all she had Then I gave my Pouder twice or thrice a Day for several Dayes after and sometimes my
Drops at a time in all his Drink Day or Night This Method being continued for some few Dayes his Convulsions ceased the Weakness of his Limbs began to abate and instead of great Chilness and Coldness that formerly attended Warmth and Itchings began to discover themselves and at last gentle breathing Sweats by which Means his Palsy was taken off his lost Speech restored by little and little he recovered the Use of his Limbs and was at length wholly freed from his Disease and lived thô alwayes a weakly Man Thirteen or Fourteen Years after Example 2. An Aged Gentlewoman afflicted with Rheumatism-like Pains after an Autumnal Feaver which Physicians labouring to remove by applying cooling and altering Things did indeed take off the external Dolours but by their Remedies retracted the Matter causing those Pains inwards to the Bowels and Mouth of the Stomach which great Evil deprived her totally of the use of her Limbs Whilst in this sad and deplorable State being utterly given over as a dying Person or at least uncurable by her Physicians I was sent unto When I came and had well considered her Condition and found her Stomach to be so very weak as not able to retain a Glass of Sack without rejecting the same suddenly by Vomit I did not in this Case as in Others give her my Pouder at first but my Scorbutic Cordial and Scorbutic Tincture as I saw Cause and the Exigency of her present State required When by these Means I discerned her Spirits to be somewhat enlivened and her Stomach fortified in some competent measure I then gave my Pouder once a Day and my Arcanum Metallorum at Night Having continued this Method for six or seven Dayes I found her Water began to Change and some Signs of Separation therein whereby I judged her Digestion to be in some measure recovered This Course I continued Day by Day for a long time together in which I discerned that those Pains which were before by their Medicines brought into her Belly and Mouth of her Stomach were again retired outward after which many Pustles came forth and her Limbs by little and little gathered Strength and about three quarters of a Year after she recovered her pristine State of Health and is now alive at this Day thô several Years since Example 3. Another Woman thô Young yet through Convulsions was so drawn together as to go almost double and when no Remedy could be had for her from other Physicians she came to me After I understood from her how it had been with her I proceeded to the Cure as follows I gave her my Pouder every Morning my Arcanum Metallorum and Arcanum Veneris at Night sometimes one sometimes the other as occasion was and the Exigency of the Disease required not omitting to give my Scorbutic Tincture to be taken in all her Drink during the whole time of the Cure Continuing this Method she was recovered in a short time and is yet living thô several Years since Example 4. A Young Gentlewoman afflicted with a great Congelation in the Sternon always inclining her Head downwards to the Stomach as if it had been contracted and forced thitherwards never having the benefit of Sneezing but long suffering great Palpitations of the Heart little or no Sleep and such as was much confused continually under Terrour and at the same time with Child sustaining this Misery until the time of her Delivery and after that finding no Abatement of the Evil notwithstanding the Advice of several Physicians and the frequent Use of their Remedies did at last send to me I finding her in that sad Condition and understanding all the Remedies she had used to be fruitless and unsuccessful discerned her Disease to arise from Congelation under the Scorbutic Power Therefore the Fourteenth Day after her Delivery being come I first gave her my Pouder which quickly brought her to more sedateness than she had found in some Months before and the small Sleep she then had proved more refreshing than formerly as she her self acknowledged This Encouraged me to proceed and She according to the Result of her own Reason and Judgment rationally submitted to the following Course My Pouder was given once in 4 or 6 hours my Scorbutic Tincture in all the Drink she took my Arcanum Veneris and Arcannm Metallorum every Night alternately my Hysteric Cordial and Hysteric Drops upon every Occasion or Exigency of Nature not neglecting other Cordials by intervals for support This Method being dayly continued till Strength came and she was able to move did at last with a few other Auxiliaries accomplish the Cure so apparently that the external Cutis all peeled off her whole Mass of Bloud renewed and she seemed unto All that knew her to have assumed a new Complexion and Nature Note That this Woman had not Sneezed in 6 or eight Months but upon the first Motion thereunto the Congelation seemed to be much more easy and afterwards she sneezed usually twice a Day and by that Means the Contraction daily lessened until it was totally dissolved Also among the various Scenes that hapned in this Disease there never was any Purgation by Stools and Vomits but the Distemper gradually vanished by Transpiration small Sweats and Vrine without any other sensible Evacuation thereof And now she hath attained her full Strength and perfect use of her Limbs with as great Activity of Spirit as did ever attend her before and hath since conceived with Child It cannot rationally be expected I should here set down every Accident that hapned and the particular Auxiliaries I used in this and the other Scorbutic Diseases before spoken of because so doing I should extend this Treatise to too great a Bulk and render it less serviceable by augmenting the Price than otherwise as by me intended it is like to prove I could also here subjoyn many more Examples of Scorbutic Distempers by me Cured after the former Method but for the same Reason I omit them and proceed to Examples of Cures performed in other Diseases no less deplorable Of Palseys PAlsies are four-fold and therefore have rightly obtain'd four distinct Denominations as follows Palseys of Contraction Palsys of Resolution Numn-Palsyes and Shaking Palsyes which two last are partly resolved and partly congealed therefore cannot be ranged under either of the former Of the Cure of these by four Examples only I intend to speak with as much brevity as the Subject Matter it self can admit Example 1. Of a Contracted Palsy A Mayden Child about Ten years old having her Arms and Legs drawn together and her Neck drawn of one Side this being certainly known to every Physician to be a Paralytic Contraction I began at first as I had done in other Cases with my Pouder giving it twice the first Day and at Night my Arcanum Metallorum This Method I continued Day by Day using frequently my Mixtura Simplex given five or six times every Day Sometimes I gave her my Volatile Spirit not the fetid acid
Suppuration would much more speedily have followed The Cure In the beginning of these Diseases whether inward or outward if there be a tendancy to Pain or no Pain if a burthen be I give my Powder once every 4 hours if Sweats happen after taking it and the Pain be not great the Tumor is soon resolved But if there be real Matter made in these Tumors then thô the Tumor seemingly decrease yet the Impostumation cannot be hindred but doth quickly and suddenly come to maturity and being throughly ripened is as suddenly cured yet if Pains increase after taking the Pouder I give my Arcanum Veneris once in 24 hours and my Pouder as before is said once every 4 hours continuing this Course unto the end of the Cure Note also in External Cases I apply my Resolving Cerot once in 12 hours Of an Imposthume in the Liver and its Cure Being called to a Child 7 years of Age having Hardness Weight and Pain in his right Side and a short Cough with an unsavoury Odour which I strictly observed and thence presently distinguished especially after I had compressed the Side of his Belly under the Ribs what the Disease was and that the Seat of it was in the Liver yet not willing to be happy in my own Distinction I desired an intimate Friend of mine One of the honoured Society of the Colledge of Physicians to accompany mee to see the progress of this Distemper which he observing fully concurr'd with me as to the Seat of the Disease The Cure hereof was thus perform'd The first day I gave my Pouder once in 4 hours my Arcanum Veneris at Night and my Aperitive Spirit in Drink as often as the Child drank and outwardly I applied my Resolving Oyl After the first or second Day continuing the same Method I found the Tumor did not increase in Magnitude but the Dolour was much augmented till two Nights were past The third Night the Pain lessened and within a Day or two after the Child being taken with great Sickness and Vomiting a large quantity of suppurated Matter was cast forth and no sooner was a cessation of that Vomiting but great Coughing happened whereby more of the same putrid Matter was plentifully spit up After which the Child falling to sleep and resting no more Vomiting followed but the Coughing and Spitting continued by Intervals for 3 daies together This time expired the Coughing began to abate and the Urine thenceforth was filled with purulent Matter which continued to come forth in great quantity with the Urine for 7 daies together not seeming to be diminished in all that Time About the eighth day happened a loose Stool the Child having been costive all the time before in which appeared the same purulent Matter as was before separated by Vomiting Coughing and Urine From that time the Urine began to clear and so continued clearing each Day unto perfect Recovery In this Cure no other Medicines were used than those above specified Note Notwithstanding this Child had Stools each day after his first loose Stool yet except that once no Pus appeared in the Excrements Also it is worthy of Note That during the whole Cure no Bloud came forth with the purulent Matter a sufficient Testimony of the perfect Suppuration thereof Of an Imposthume of the Stomach and its Cure A Young Woman coming to me having great Dolour in her Stomach and that largely extended to hardness on the outside yet compressive notwithstanding the many Remedies she had taken according to the Judgment of her Physicians pro dolore Ventriculi the Anguish of her Stomach increased her Spirits languished she was subject to great Heats and Colds Hysteric Passions Fumings in her Head uncertain Sleeps c. indubitate Signs of an Imposthume present In this Condition I took her into my Care and proceeded in her Cure as followes I gave her my Pouder once in six hours for the first day and my Arcanum Metallorum at Night and daily continued the same Method with my Scorbutic Tincture in all her Drink In 7 or 8 daies time the Imposthume opening she voided by Vomit a large quantity of Pus and for 4 or 5 daies after taking the Pouder vomited every day and brought up part of the Cistis At 5 daies end the Pouder wrought downwards and the purulent Matter came away by Stools with the remaining part of the Cistis Note Here was no Separation by Urine for that was clear as the Urine of a sound Body during the whole time of the Cure Of an Imposthume separated by Vrine A Woman complaining of great Pains in the Sides of her Belly and Loyns without any sign of Tumefaction sensibly perceived by her Self thô full of Pain and Torture when all Means failed used by other Physicians they judging her to be afflicted with Cholic-Passions because of the Heats Colds Tying up and great Anguish she endured applyed her self to me This deplorable Case of hers not being at all obvious to my Distinction and finding no place for any peculiar Remedy I gave my Pouder first as in other Cases I had usually done and because the Pain was in the descending Parts my Aperitive Drops in all her Drink and my Arcanum Metallorum The Pouder I gave but once in a day and the Arcanum every Night This Method I continued for 10 daies in which time the Pains daily lessened and all bad Symptomes vanished Yet being careful that no Relict might be left I appointed the same Medicines to be taken in the same Order for 4 daies longer in which space of time came away by Urine a little long Bag some Drops of Bloud preceeding the exit thereof in which was contained Matter perfectly suppurated Notwithstanding this she continued the Use of the Pouder for some Weeks after unto perfect Recovery Note Here in this Cure was no Separation made but by Urine only Of an Imposthume in the Head and its Cure A Man of middle Age having weight puncturing and a Swimming in his Head being perswaded to take my Medicines used them for a small time according to my Order but finding his Pain to increase refused to be longer governed by my Directions After this taking Advice of Others he used Sternutories whereby issued by the Nostrils a very small quantity of Bloud and Matter These Remedies not producing that Ease he expected his Physicians advised him to Purge in the doing of which appeared both Matter and Bloud in his Excrements and thô the Purge was very gentle yet this Loosness continued upon him for several daies infering so great Weakness of Body that he was not able to walk the length of a Room Bloud and Matter issued at every Stool and the Torment then was greater in his Belly than in his Head He languishing thus and himself and his Friends discerning their own Inadvertency to follow a specious but groundless Hope of the Advantage of Separation by Stools and finding his Weakness greater than before referred themselves a second time to me Then
I gave my Pouder every 2 hours my Coralline Cordial once an hour which Medicines thô they did somewhat ease the Pain in the Belly and lessen the Quitter which was exonerated with the Excrements Yet was it full 10 daies time before a stop was put to this unnatural way of Separation Note As the Dolour of the Patient's Belly decreased the Pain of his Head increased and then to his own Sense his Head was seemingly extended Perceiving this I every Night gave my Arcanum Veneris and the Pouder every 4 hours Then in 4 or 5 Daies the Imposthume in the Head opened afresh yielding through the Nostrils and Mouth an indifferently large quantity of Matter but imperfectly concocted together with small pieces of Skin and at last so much skin as extended upon a Trencher was as large in length as the Trencher it self Afterwards more small pieces of skin came away but in Conclusion nothing except Bloud and Matter was vented till the extirpation thereof Of an Opened Imposthume in the Head and its Cure A Woman middle-aged having for some Months laboured under the great trouble of an Imposthume opened as was manifest by the fetid Matter that flowed from her Nostrils and Mouth having so great a Swimming in her Head that she could not go half a Flight-shot without resting and so great a Sense of Fulness in her Head that putting her Finger into her Ear she could feel the floating Matter moveable after all endeavors had been used by Errins Purgations Drying-Drinks and whatsoever other Means her Physicians thought most fit to be practiz'd the Putrefaction being not changed nor the Fluctuation stopped she applyed her self to me In this Case I used nothing but my Pouder twice a day for several daies together and my Aperitive Drops in all her Drink during that time By the continued Use of these Means her Head seemed to her more lightsome that ill Savour of the descending Matter was almost totally extinct Then I gave my Arcanum Metallorum after which a Gleety-Water flowed a great while but void of savour This Method I continued for almost 9 Months after in which Time all that Distemper seemed to be subdued and Nothing remained except an ill Habit under a Scorbutic Form against which I administred what was formerly specify'd to be proper in Scorbutic Distempers By which Remedies her Head was reduced to its pristine state Weakness only continuing in that Part. This Cure was performed many Years since Note It is impossible to write of all particular Cases of Imposthumes thô very briefly they being so numerous and daily presented without enlarging the present Work to too great a Volume therefore I refer the Reader to the Reasons urged by me in the foregoing Prologue to these Examples because the Medicines by me used are one and the same in every kind of Imposthume without other Variation than what occasional Accidents may cause me to use Of Feavers Putrid Malignant Epidemical or Accidental All these Feavers are so well known and so frequently happen that they need no Description for whether the Patients be taken with Chilness Head-ach Vomiting Pain in the Back or other Symptomes they are all by me cured after one and the same Method with small or very little Variation I alwaies give my Pouder in the beginning of these Distempers and order the same to be repeated every four hours And then if a tendency to Putrefaction be in the Chyle the Pouder either makes Vomits or stops them Yet in these Cases Sweats do not suddenly follow the taking the Pouder till all the putrefactive Disposition is removed however on the fourth day a laudable Hypostasis will appear in the Vrine after which time constant Sweats follow unto the end of the Cure which if my Simplex be daily used with the Pouder is usually compleated on the 7th Day But in Epidemics that are continual if the Patients take the Pouder so soon as they are seized with Shiverings then Sweats quickly follow unless the Chyle be infected without Vomiting or Loosness and if the Pouder be repeated once in four hours it rarely happens that the Cure is not finished on the third fourth or fifth Day at farthest if the Sweats coming forth in the mean time have not been check'd Note That in Cure of these Feavers viz. Putrid and Epidemic I administer all things as in the former Plague except my Aqua-Pestilentialis and some other things only fitted for that present Necessity Of Feavers continual and intermitting complicated and of Feavers simply Intermitting In these Continual Feavers thô stronger Paroxysmes daily be or every other day yet in the Intermissions the Feaver is not wholly off Nevertheless in these Cases I follow the same Method as in the other Feavers with this Variation only viz. That I give my Simplex or Febrifugal Drops once in an hour or two both in the Paroxysme and Intermission This Order being observed these Feavers are generally terminated at the third or fourth Fit at which time usually 3 or 4 loose Stools happen just upon the Separation of the Febrile Power In Intermitting Feavers where no constant Continuance is between the Paroxysmes I also give the same Medicines thô not in the same Quantity and have alwaies found them to answer the Ends of Nature unless by Irregularity of Patients their proper Effects have been impeded Therefore in these Cases I could never see any just necessity for the use of the Peruvian Bark call'd the Jesuits Pouder for what Repute soever that Bark hath got in the World the Merit thereof is as yet undiscerned by me By my Medicines both Spirit and Matter are separated and not lockt up together as by the Peruvian Bark they alwayes are For I have by Experience discerned more grievous and long adhering Calamities to follow the use thereof especially in Quartanes or Malignant Feavers than those Diseases themselves would ever have left Yet I deny not but that sound People of haile Constitutions where no Malignity is having Intermitting Feavers may receive benefit by the taking off the Fits by that way provided Nature her Self be strong enough to subdue the Relicts afterward otherwise not Of Quartanes These Feavers according to my Opinion are far better and much more safely Cured without than with the Jesuits-Pouder because I never found their long Continuance prejudicial to Nature except where Nature her self or Physicians have inferred Dammage by not resolving Matter and Spirit at the same time therefore I here speak no further of them Likewise of Small Pox and Meazles Diseases very well known I forbear to write any thing except this observation That their Malignity is somewhat abated their Matter diminished and the Patients continue in Sweats most of the time by the use of my Medicines And of Convulsions preceeding the said Small Pox I speak not here because they are sufficiently treated of in the Chapter of Convulsions Of Diseases of the Womb. Having hitherto said nothing of those grievous Infirmities incident to Women only that
arise from the Inordinacies Defects and Distemperatures of the Matrix which hath a peculiar Government in their Bodies and generally prove to be more frequent lamentable and dangerous than most or all of the other Diseases above treated of I thought it highly necessary here to subjoyn a peculiar plain and succinct Discourse of them shewing what Remedies I used and the Method I alwaies observed in Cure of the same Of Imbecillity of the Womb. I call that an Imbecillity when the Matrix is not capable of Conception or after Conception hath not strength sufficient to retain the Embryon Both these do naturally arise either from some superfluity adhering to the Part or through Indisposition of the Archeus thereof The One of these is Spiritual the Other Material The Spiritual is evident by the Proneness of the Archeus or Spirit of Life to form a too great Contraction or overmuch Laxation in the Part the Material is sensibly obvious by overmuch Moysture or extream Dryness That which is material consisting of those Excesses of Dryness and Moysture is remedied by my Pouder taken twice a day three Daies before the Monthly Flux and during that flowing and for three daies after This Method being observed for two or three Months those Weaknesses are for the most part removed and the Womb rendred apt to perform those natural Offices it could not do before But in Contractions and Laxations of the Womb most true Effects of the Errour of the Spirit or Archeus of the Part there is no Observation of time required only when such Patients come to me I order them to take my Pouder twice a Day for three Daies together all the said three daies and during the whole time of their Cure taking my Scorbutic Tincture 20 Drops at a time in all the Drink they drink and when the three first dayes are expired I give one Dose of my Arcanum Veneris every Night going into Bed and my Pouder every morning following always keeping this Method till the Evil be sensibly removed Other Accidents that may interâ—een during such Cures cannot well be described here but must be referred to the Judgment of Physicians to apply their helping-hand whensoever they do occur Of Miscarriages But because in the former Paragraph I but tacitely hinted at Abortion where I spake of the Imbecillity of the Womb to retain the Conceived Embryon I think it needful here to express my self further touching such like Accidents attending Women with Child of which some are false Conceptions with the true others only Tendency to Abortion without any false Conception in both which I intend to declare what hath been my Judgment and Practice candidly and freely and how I have cured or helped the same Where false Conceptions have been in Women with Child which were usually followed with great Floudings rendring the Parties doubtful whether they had conceived or not gave my Pouder often till the Flouâ—ding ceased Then if the Embryon waâ— not too much injured by that Flouding the false Conception was explled and the true preserved And because in this Case there is often great Faintings I ordered my Scorbuticâ— Tincture to be given 20 Drops at a time in Drink once in 2 or 3 hours where no false Conception was and yet a Tendency to Abortion perceivable by the falling of the Womb and Pains attending I gave my Pouder once in four hours And if iâ— twelve hours the Pains ceased thâ— continued use of my Pouder perfectly cured without other helps but if as sometimes hap'ned those Symptomes vanished not I gave one Dose of my Arcanum Veneris at night and six hours after my Pouder then I applyed my Histerick Plaster to the Navel and by these means compleated the Cure Yet where Abortion unavoidable hap'ned I by Experience found the continued observation of my Method above prescribed with the Addition of my Hysterical Spirit did certainly take off all Relicts of the said Abortions without prejudice to the Party Of Child-bearing If Child-bearing Women before the Birth have Floudings and no Pain and yet the Child be right the taking the Pouder stops Floudings brings on Pains if the time of the Birth be fully come and causeth an happy Delivery But if the Child be not right for which there is no help but the hand then if the due time of the Birth be not fully come the same Medicine stops Floudings and represseth Pains till the natural time of Delivery approacheth When that comes and the Child is Born I give the same Pouder according to the Child-bed Womans strength or the Exigency of Nature either every two four or six hours to overcome the After-pains which it certainly in a short time takes off Also if false Conceptions remained in the Womb after the Birth or through Ignorance or Carelesness of the Midwife any part of the After-burthen were left none of these did ever putrify but were naturally expelled where my Medicines were used For I certainly know that all such Relicts were safely expelled without putrefaction if my Pouder Hysterick Cordial and Hysterick Drops were taken according to my order Yea I have by long Experience known that where my Pouder was continually used twice a Day by Women lying in during the whole Month they always found greater strength and liveliness than could be discerned in others not taking the same Medicine thô the green Water continued longer in such than in those unto whom none of my Pouder had been given Therefore to prove the certainty of these Medicines I can most truly assert that never any Woman using them in the manner above prescribed died in Child-bed of the Diseases of Child-bearing from the beginning of my Practice unto this very Day under my Hands Of Floudings in General Floudings so well known and too often lamented are frequently stopped but never cured by Particular Remedies Therefore in such Cases I give my Pouder once in two or four hours and continue the use thereof in the same Method till the Floudings cease which usually is in a day or two after the first administration of the Medicine also all Acrimonies occasioned by those Floudings are taken off and the Cure happily effected by the use of that Remedy only which performs not this by a forcible stopping or binding as particular Medicines usually do but by inciting Nature to free her self from that Inordinancy which being done every natural Evil usually attending such Floudings is certainly removed For Nature assisted thereby permits not the Bloud to corrupt in the Womb through the Acrimony of which foul Vlcers are often formed nay sometimes Sphacela's are induced and other Evils to the ruin of the Patient But because what is hitherto written will unto most men seem only an Historical Relation of Womb-Diseases in general no particular Cure being hereunto annexed I therefore now descend to a more plain Demonstration particularly proving by several Examples the Power and extraordinary Service of my Remedies when used as is fit in those sad and
Arcanum Veneris During this Cure the Cleansings were not Sanguineous but Aqueous and continued for Seventy two Days In all which time no Bloud appeared but a Cleansing Water sometimes of one Colour sometimes of another as is Common to other Women After this she each Day increased in Strength and at length became perfectly well and hath since had several Children Now forasmuch as I have in all the Diseases above-named made frequent mention of my Pouder shewing the particular use thereof in those Cases but have never yet Published the General use of the same though it seems to me to be of greater concern to the Publick than any other Medicine before specify'd I am therefore willing here to subjoyn a succinct and plain Description of the General use of this Pouder and also of my Scorbutic Tincture the first being more Material the latter more Spiritual for the necessary help of particular Persons or Families where Physicians are not easily to be had experimentally knowing the Pouder to manifest its Operation chiefly in the first Digestion and the Effects thereof and the Tincture to be singularly useful for Purification of the Bloud opening the Obstruction of the Nerves Spleen Liver and Gall separating the superfluous moisture of the Glandules and acrimonious Humors in the Reins Of the Vse of the Pouder In the beginning of every Disease known or unknown where the Stomach is concerned there I give the Pouder first which thô it may not cure as in Apoplexies yet it is more safe than any other commonly known Remedy either of the Shops or of any Modern Physicians of Publick Note at this Day because it is not only subservient to Nature in preventing the formation of Diseases but is also if timely taken sufficient to enervate or nullifie their existence when formed For in the Primary Assault of any Disease that is upon the first perceivance of Illness being once or twice taken it either wholly prevents the growth and increase of that Disease or renders it fit to be more easily cured with other Medicines In Diseases arriv'd to some height as of two or three Dayes or longer continuance especially if undeterminate this Pouder sometimes solely and alone works being taken at first â—wice or thrice a Day and afterwards Morning and Evening unto perfect Recovery but in Intermitting Feaâ—ers I alwayes give it an hour before â—he Fit In every Epidemic Putrid or Acute Feaver it answers the regular Intention of Nature because it sometimes Vomiteth Purgeth and provokes Sweats without the help of Cloathes more than usual and otherwhile stayeth Vomiting and Loosness arising from Nature's Errour or debility of Parts or Organs rectifying her Errour and strengthening the Parts Also it stops those Morbific Sweats that arise from Languishment or alters such Sweats as are produced by forcible Diaphoreticks unseasonably used contrary to the intent of Nature In Vertigoes and all Dolours of the Head Stomach Back or Sides it is a Medicine of general Use and Service In the Iliac and Cholic Passions in Numnesses and all Pains in the Muscles that happen from the Scurvey or in any other Congealed Distemper or what may be comprehended under the Name of Congelation this Pouder proves it self a powerful Remedy because if taken in hot Posset-Drink Sweats usually follow the taking thereof Also in every Scorbutic Distemper it is very available and acts as variously as the Scorbutic Forme is various for in all Fluctuations or Diseases of Resolution it is no less serviceable than in Congealed Distempers because being a Medicine truly Natural Nature can use it either way to her own benefit In Pleurisies Bruises and all Imposthumes inward or outward it will compleatly answer the Desire of a good Physician for it powerfully resists Putrefaction and thô it cannot always prevent Imposthumation or hinder Putrefaction when begun yet it ripens the Matter begun to be Putrified and afterwards expels it when perfectly digested In the Bloudy-Flux it is a certain and speedy Cure even to admiration also in the Griping of the Guts attended with vehement Vomitings and a continued Loosness it effects so much beyond the Power of other Medicines as is scarcely credible yet the same Pouder in extream Costiveness accomplisheth the Work by loosening the Belly In the Small-Pox taken in the beginning of the Disease it causeth Vomiting Purging or Sweats and then binds the Body as is fit and brings out the Small-Pox fortifying the Life as far as it is gifted for that work In the Jaundies no Medicine that ever I used exceeds this for it extirpates that Disease Root and Branch This Pouder frequently taken prevents the Formation of Worms in the Body where Matter of Worms is made it expels that and if Worms be really formed enableth Nature to cast them out alive or dead In Surfeits contracted from Excesses of Meats Drinks or over-great Labour it is singularly useful because it either causeth Vomitings or Stools or provokes Sweats powerfully thereby to clear the first Digestion or resolve the Congelation caused by those Excesses In Convulsions it is highly serviceable as in the Chapter of Convulsions I have largely shewed and if given to Children newly Born and for some time used it prevents such Fits by carrying off those Crudities Children bring with them into the World In all highly Malignant and Pestilential Diseases it proves it self a true Succour to Nature if taken every four hours For in such Cases it acts vigorously towards expelling all Venomes In Feminine Diseases all Intemperancies Inordinancies and Distemperatures of the Womb 't is a certain and speedy Remedy If Women with Child take the Pouder upon any Sense of Illness or where a Tendency to Abortion is it prevents the Danger thereof by strengthening the Womb. In the Birth it brings on Pains and hastens the Labour with Safety but if the natural time of Delivery be not near it restreins Pains until that time comes It stops Floudings facilitates the Birth and cleanseth as is fit curing the After-Pains and in Women Lying in answereth the Necessities of the Patient either in Cleansing or Strengthening Likewise the Monthly Flux is by this Remedy brought into due Order if inordinate it checks that inordinancy if too little or not at all it brings down the same in due time and Order being taken at certain times of the Moon with respect had to the Age of Women or Young Maids Therefore in the Latter with other small helps it sometimes cures the Green-Sickness altering the Inordinacy of the Appetite and brings them to a due State of Health and right Colour of Complexion In the Piles and Hemorrhoids it is a Medicine of singular use for it opens the Piles or dissolves them it opens also the Hemorrhoids and cures them when open'd preventing Vlcers in the Parts Also in the Sore or Ulcerated Breasts of Women this Pouder is of great Service It strengthens a weak Stomach enabling it to retain the Food and digest it especially if taken so soon as