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A57952	A physical treatise grounded, not upon tradition, nor phancy, but experience, consisting of three parts. The first, a manuduction, discovering the true foundation of the art of medicine. Second, an explanation of the general natures of diseases. Third, a proof of the former positions by practice. By William Russell, chymist in ordinary to His Majesty.	Russell, William, 1634-1696?	1684 (1684)	Wing R2357; ESTC R218554	58,632	208

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 inter●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 Flou●ding ceased Then if the Embryon wa● 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 Scorbutic● 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 i● twelve hours the Pains ceased th● 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

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

increased and heightned by various Venoms the Relicts of popular Distempers and complicated through the Vices of Life and want of an unspotted vitality in our original constitution Besides it appears that the World it self waxeth old the Powers thereof are much altered all the external Virtues of its Superficies are declined but Metals and Minerals that have not known the force of the external Air the great Propagator of Life and Corruption are less Partakers of the Universal Debility than those Things which exist chiefly by that Air. Not that they have not their Air also but it is otherwise qualified rather to forward their Compaction and concentrate their Virtues than to corrupt them By which means they seem to be appointed since as to our Air they share an unspotted unchangeable Life as true Succours to withstand the Impressions of our external Air and the many Changes and Complications of Diseases that reign amongst us But Vegetables by reason of a seeming decay of Vigour in the Elements or the declining State of the External Virtues of the Worlds Superficies thô they have many Excellent and Peculiar Endowments which wisely used may be sometimes serviceable in the Cure of the Sick when freed from their Terrestreity and Grossness that in their Reception they put not Nature to too much trouble of Digestion yet if they be not so universalized by Vnition that they no longer serve under their particular Gifts they indeed cannot contribute any thing to Nature in her most deplorable Cases Whereas Mineral and Metalick Virtues being more concentrate have more universal Dispositions and so are more fit to serve Nature to all intents than the other For Minerals and Metals are not specificated to this or that Person or to this or that Disease but to the Properties of Nature in her first Operation in Bodies by which indeed as to the noble parts of principal Members one Mineral or Metal may be more suitable than another but as to Diseases and Persons there they solely act according to Nature's deficiency and so become true Succours because when they are prepared as requisite they are not transchanged in the Body the Light and Vigour or Ray of them being the Medicine So that the Substance of them passeth away unalter'd as to weight and therefore not being touched by our Ferments bringeth less trouble to Nature than one spoonful of Wine would do And this is because there is no reaction of Nature upon them as in other Medicines but if they be administred in so weak a state as before separation of the form they are cast out by the Draught then they are altogether useless Minerals and Metals have their Gifts from GOD not from Man's Art For Art doth not confer Virtue but by separating the Shell discovers the Kernel And their implanted Virtues are for our benefit posited there and not to be concealed neglected or slighted as things not to be used because Envy and Ignorance have condemned them for by that means the End of their Creation would be frustrated which will seem to the Rational an evil conceit Shall Wheat be contemned as unfit for nourishment because it hath husks or Almonds for their hard Shells I write not of the external Properties of Minerals and Metals but of their inward Parts in which is concentred a more vital Air than in other things by which they famously manifest their Universal Disposition Air we see above all things visible refresheth Man Now the Air inclosed in them is of an unsearchable power purity and penetration beyond what is in any single Concrete more friendly than ours wherein we breath for though it be lyable to it's Laws for transchangement yet its Virtues in order to Sanity are thereby not diminished But the external Parts of Minerals and Metals are indeed venomous and may justly be censured as altogether unfit to be relyed on for Succour in Diseases because they compel Nature to Expulsion and are not subservient to her in exciting natural Vigour except against their own poysonous hostility Therefore what hath been or shall be writ concerning this must not be understood of the Exterior Parts of Metals or Minerals or of the Medicines made thereof which are commonly known but of such Medicines as truly perform what I have specified by assisting Nature and are so vastly different from those of Common Use that their subsequent Operation can never be declared before they are taken to day they have one Action to morrow another and the third Day another as the Diseases happen to be changed by their Virtues As for Instance In all Acute Diseases if much material Vomits Stools or Vrine are largely provoked and then afterwards Sweats but after the Feavers are extinguished then Stools again till the Relicts are removed But in acute Diseases where there is more depression of Spirit and less Matter there Sweats arise at first and continue dayly till the Evil be overcome and then Stools for a Day or two according to the Relict and so they cease acting And all this is effected by the same Medicines which if continued from the Beginning to the End of Distempers will clearly manifest these Properties Now can any One imagin that this variety of Actions in one and the same Medicine in the same Body and in the same Disease is any thing else than the Action of Nature seeing it is evident that Vomiting and Purging Medicines never become Sweaters or Binders except Nature through Incapacity of expelling them falling under the Burthen of their Venome sends forth Sweats as Signs of an evil Guest Whatsoever therefore doth so directly fortify Nature as to make her act every way suitable to her own Necessities cannot be any other than Virtue and seeing it hath pleased GOD to implant such Virtues and Powers in Minerals and Metals no unbyass'd person will say 't is unfit they should be inquir'd into Medicines thus endowed are more safe than others as never performing ought that can be injurious seeing Nature only manageth them and they Purge not when they should provoke Sweat nor do they Vomit when purging by Vrine or Perspiration is required they leave no Relicts in the Body for they are clean having all unnatural Impurities removed The Child new born the Woman new layd the most aged and most weak safely take them without any the least dammage ensuing therefrom I write not this conjecturally but from the Experience of more than Twenty Years For these Remedies having an universal Tendency not working by Vomit Stool or Sweat upon the sound do only in the Sick Operate as Nature findeth most convenient and so are only her Servants but other Medicines that have not so universal a Disposition thô in former Ages when Diseases were more simple and had rarely any thing extraordinary in them they might be very profitable yet now they cannot be used without Danger For where Nature her self is undetermined a Remedy that hath not a Gift to reach the Life and strengthen her