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         Peachi, John, fl. 1683.
      
       
         
           1693
        
      
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             Some observations made upon the root caled casmunar imported from the East-Indies shewing its nature and vertues above any other as yet written of in curing apoplexies, convulsions, palsies, lethargies, tremblings, fitts of the mother, giddiness in the head, and all distempers of the brain and nerves / published by a doctor of physick in Glocester-shire.
             Peachi, John, fl. 1683.
             Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
          
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           SOME
           OBSERVATIONS
           Made
           upon
           the
           ROOT
           CALLED
           Casmunar
           ,
           IMPORTED
           FROM
           The
           EAST-INDIES
           :
           SHEWING
           Its
           Nature
           and
           Vertues
           above
           any
           other
           as
           yet
           written
           of
           ,
           in
           Curing
           
             Apoplexies
             ,
             Convulsions
             ,
             Palsies
             ,
             Lethargies
             ,
             Tremblings
             ,
             Fitts
             of
             the
             Mother
             ,
             Giddiness
             in
             the
             Head
             ,
          
           and
           all
           Distempers
           of
           the
           Brain
           and
           Nerves
           .
        
         
           Published
           by
           a
           Doctor
           of
           Physick
           in
           Glocester-shire
           .
        
         
           LONLON
           ,
           Re-printed
           in
           the
           Year
           1693.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           SOME
           OBSERVATIONS
           Made
           upon
           the
           ROOT
           called
           Casmunar
           ,
           Imported
           from
           the
           East-Indies
           .
        
         
           THis
           rare
           and
           excellent
           Root
           being
           sent
           me
           by
           my
           Brother
           ,
           who
           is
           Factor
           to
           the
           
             East
             India
          
           Company
           ,
           and
           it
           being
           so
           wonderfully
           commended
           ,
           and
           approved
           of
           by
           the
           Brachmanes
           ,
           for
           its
           great
           Cures
           ,
           I
           could
           not
           choose
           but
           publish
           it
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           for
           the
           Advantage
           of
           Mankind
           .
        
         
           The
           Brachmanes
           are
           a
           sort
           of
           Indian
           Physicians
           ,
           much
           celebrated
           not
           only
           by
           the
           Natives
           ,
           but
           by
           Foreign
           Merchants
           that
           reside
           there
           ,
           the
           English
           preferring
           them
           before
           their
           own
           Countrey
           Doctors
           ,
           when
           they
           labour
           under
           any
           Distempers
           .
           They
           are
           of
           the
           Sect
           of
           the
           Pythagoreans
           ,
           and
           as
           they
           eat
           no
           Flesh
           ,
           but
           are
           nourisht
           by
           the
           Produce
           of
           the
           Earth
           ,
           so
           they
           rather
           choose
           to
           cure
           Diseases
           by
           Plants
           
           than
           Minerals
           .
           They
           have
           Great
           skill
           in
           Herbs
           ,
           and
           know
           their
           Natures
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           been
           instructed
           by
           Adam
           or
           Solomon
           .
        
         
           This
           Root
           is
           warm
           but
           not
           hot
           ,
           of
           a
           very
           temperate
           Quality
           ;
           it
           consists
           of
           very
           fine
           ,
           subtil
           ,
           spirituous
           parts
           ,
           and
           hath
           a
           peculiar
           Odour
           ,
           distinct
           from
           any
           that
           I
           ever
           smelled
           to
           :
           It
           exceedingly
           recreates
           the
           Vital
           and
           Animal
           Spirits
           ,
           and
           by
           its
           Taste
           and
           Colour
           may
           easily
           be
           known
           to
           be
           Aperative
           and
           Cephalick
           ,
           comforting
           the
           Brain
           and
           Nerves
           ,
           and
           putting
           the
           Animal
           Spirits
           into
           Order
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           been
           in
           a
           Tumult
           by
           any
           Passion
           or
           Convulsive
           motions
           .
        
         
           When
           persons
           are
           in
           Convulsive
           Fitts
           ,
           Nature
           seems
           to
           be
           as
           it
           were
           in
           an
           Earthquake
           ,
           and
           in
           its
           last
           Agony
           ;
           and
           by
           the
           frequent
           Returns
           of
           such
           Fitts
           ,
           those
           Endowments
           which
           distinguish
           us
           from
           Brute
           Creatures
           ,
           are
           in
           a
           great
           measure
           lost
           :
           our
           Understanding
           ,
           that
           great
           Light
           ,
           is
           darkned
           ,
           and
           our
           Memory
           that
           excellent
           Repository
           is
           broken
           ,
           and
           like
           a
           Sive
           lets
           through
           whatever
           is
           put
           into
           it
           .
        
         
           A
           Gentlewoman
           who
           had
           a
           Concussion
           of
           her
           Head
           ,
           caused
           by
           a
           Fall
           down
           Stairs
           ,
           with
           great
           Debility
           of
           her
           Spirits
           ,
           was
           Cured
           by
           this
           Root
           ,
           to
           her
           and
           my
           great
           admiration
           ;
           and
           although
           whilest
           her
           Vapours
           were
           upon
           her
           ,
           she
           would
           not
           be
           perswaded
           but
           that
           she
           was
           dying
           ;
           yet
           afterwards
           she
           would
           smile
           at
           those
           Gentlewomen
           who
           talked
           so
           ,
           and
           would
           name
           her self
           as
           an
           Example
           of
           so
           great
           Folly.
           
        
         
         
           Perhaps
           it
           is
           the
           best
           Medicine
           in
           the
           World
           for
           Women
           in
           Childbed
           ,
           or
           any
           who
           have
           received
           prejudice
           by
           Frights
           ,
           they
           quickly
           restore
           them
           to
           the
           use
           of
           their
           Senses
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           lively
           and
           chearfull
           .
        
         
           A
           Shop-keepers
           Wife
           at
           Glocester
           ,
           who
           had
           dreadfull
           Fits
           of
           the
           Mother
           ,
           with
           unusual
           Symptoms
           ,
           and
           great
           Oppressions
           ,
           almost
           strangled
           with
           suffocating
           Vapours
           in
           her
           Throat
           ,
           was
           cured
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           not
           returned
           ,
           nor
           I
           see
           no
           suspicion
           of
           it
           .
           But
           I
           must
           say
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           ever
           found
           the
           Spirit
           ,
           the
           Tincture
           ,
           and
           the
           Extract
           drawn
           out
           of
           this
           Root
           ,
           far
           more
           effectual
           than
           any
           Composition
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
           It
           's
           very
           lamentable
           to
           observe
           ,
           three
           thousand
           in
           a
           Year
           tumbled
           into
           their
           Graves
           by
           these
           Distempers
           ,
           as
           we
           find
           by
           the
           Bills
           of
           Mortality
           .
        
         
           When
           our
           Compassionate
           Saviour
           was
           upon
           Earth
           ,
           he
           demonstrared
           his
           Divine
           Power
           in
           the
           Cure
           of
           these
           Distempers
           more
           than
           in
           any
           other
           ;
           because
           labouring
           under
           these
           Diseases
           ,
           we
           are
           neither
           fit
           for
           the
           service
           of
           God
           or
           Man
           ,
           nor
           are
           capable
           of
           the
           Exercise
           of
           Reason
           or
           Faith.
           
        
         
           I
           could
           tell
           you
           of
           a
           Learned
           Divine
           ,
           whose
           Disorder
           in
           his
           Head
           was
           so
           great
           ,
           caused
           by
           Cephalick
           Distempers
           and
           Vertiginous
           Fumes
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           not
           preach
           ,
           being
           attended
           with
           frequent
           Convulsive
           Motions
           in
           all
           his
           Nerves
           ,
           yet
           by
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Drops
           drawn
           out
           of
           this
           Root
           ,
           was
           perfectly
           cured
           .
        
         
         
           Many
           young
           Children
           have
           been
           miraculously
           restored
           by
           it
           from
           Convulsion
           Fits
           ,
           both
           in
           the
           Brain
           and
           Bowels
           :
           For
           as
           Dr.
           Willis
           well
           observes
           ,
           The
           Griping
           in
           the
           Guts
           is
           but
           an
           affection
           of
           the
           Nerves
           in
           those
           parts
           ,
           and
           no
           Remedies
           so
           efficacious
           in
           that
           Disease
           ,
           as
           those
           that
           strengthen
           the
           same
           .
        
         
           I
           cannot
           choose
           but
           recommend
           it
           to
           all
           Nurses
           ,
           to
           drop
           into
           their
           Childrens
           Victuals
           ,
           it
           being
           so
           exceeding
           temperate
           and
           pleasant
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           known
           them
           take
           it
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           refused
           all
           other
           Forms
           of
           Medicines
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           wonderful
           Root
           some
           Children
           when
           they
           have
           been
           Toothing
           ,
           were
           cured
           only
           by
           Rubbing
           their
           Gumms
           with
           the
           Electuary
           :
           Others
           by
           the
           Nurses
           taking
           the
           Drops
           in
           all
           her
           Drink
           ,
           for
           which
           Cause
           it
           's
           called
           by
           some
           the
           
             Childrens
             Guardian
          
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           a
           young
           Gentleman
           ,
           who
           being
           subject
           to
           Convulsions
           from
           his
           Cradle
           ,
           and
           could
           have
           no
           relief
           from
           the
           best
           Remedies
           in
           vulgar
           use
           ,
           but
           was
           to
           the
           grief
           of
           his
           Relations
           cast
           sometimes
           into
           the
           Fire
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           into
           the
           Water
           ,
           by
           the
           Force
           of
           this
           Disease
           ;
           and
           at
           last
           by
           the
           using
           of
           these
           Drops
           every
           New
           and
           Full
           Moon
           ,
           was
           restored
           ,
           and
           Married
           a
           Wife
           ,
           and
           none
           of
           his
           Children
           ever
           had
           Fitts
           .
        
         
           A
           poor
           Old
           Woman
           also
           who
           was
           many
           years
           afflicted
           with
           Fits
           of
           the
           Mother
           ,
           that
           the
           Common
           
           People
           thought
           her
           Possess'd
           ,
           her
           Symptoms
           of
           Skreeching
           ,
           and
           strange
           Motions
           and
           Distortions
           were
           so
           terrible
           ;
           yet
           by
           the
           Use
           of
           this
           Remedy
           found
           great
           Advantage
           ,
           and
           recommended
           it
           to
           all
           she
           knew
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           credibly
           inform'd
           by
           an
           Eminent
           Chyrurgion
           who
           came
           from
           the
           Indies
           ,
           that
           the
           Inhabitants
           in
           those
           Countreys
           Anoynt
           their
           bodies
           with
           a
           mixture
           of
           the
           Powder
           of
           this
           Root
           ,
           and
           only
           by
           that
           External
           Application
           cure
           many
           Distempers
           ,
           and
           live
           to
           a
           great
           Age.
           
        
         
           An
           able
           Physician
           of
           my
           Acquaintance
           boyls
           the
           sliced
           Root
           in
           all
           his
           Broath
           ,
           as
           a
           great
           Secret
           against
           Gripings
           in
           his
           Guts
           and
           Bowels
           proceeding
           from
           the
           Wind
           Collick
           ,
           and
           finds
           Admirable
           Advantage
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           well
           assured
           that
           there
           is
           an
           Hospital
           in
           Italy
           ,
           for
           the
           Cure
           of
           Lunatical
           persons
           ,
           where
           the
           Doctors
           use
           this
           Root
           with
           wonderful
           success
           ,
           it
           mightily
           Relieving
           all
           Discomposures
           of
           the
           Brain
           .
        
         
           To
           see
           Persons
           foaming
           at
           mouth
           ,
           Tearing
           their
           Hair
           ,
           beating
           their
           Breasts
           ,
           Weeping
           ,
           and
           Wailing
           ,
           and
           Gnashing
           their
           teeth
           ,
           is
           a
           Melancholy
           Prospect
           ,
           and
           may
           well
           move
           pity
           :
           And
           therefore
           none
           but
           the
           Devil
           or
           his
           Agents
           can
           Envy
           mankind
           the
           Knowledge
           of
           so
           useful
           a
           Remedy
           .
        
         
           Let
           none
           despise
           this
           Root
           because
           it
           is
           a
           simple
           uncompounded
           thing
           ,
           for
           I
           remember
           the
           Great
           Lord
           Bacon
           reckons
           it
           amongst
           one
           of
           the
           Deficients
           in
           
           Physick
           ,
           that
           we
           study
           Art
           more
           than
           Nature
           ,
           and
           Elaborate
           Methods
           more
           than
           simple
           Medicins
           .
           Whereas
           nine
           parts
           in
           ten
           of
           the
           known
           World
           trust
           to
           the
           latter
           more
           than
           the
           former
           .
        
         
           A
           Captain
           of
           a
           Ship
           who
           is
           Extreamly
           troubled
           with
           Griping
           in
           his
           Guts
           ,
           and
           Cramps
           in
           his
           Bowels
           ,
           constantly
           procures
           Ease
           ,
           only
           by
           Chewing
           a
           bit
           of
           this
           Root
           and
           Swallowing
           his
           Spittle
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           a
           modest
           discreet
           young
           Gentleman
           ,
           that
           on
           a
           sudden
           when
           he
           is
           Writing
           ,
           o●
           Talking
           with
           a
           Friend
           ,
           or
           at
           Meals
           ,
           shall
           be
           surpriz'd
           with
           Dreadful
           Convulsive
           Motions
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           were
           blown
           up
           with
           a
           train
           of
           Gun-Powder
           ;
           and
           he
           finds
           that
           the
           very
           Odour
           of
           this
           Root
           carried
           about
           him
           ,
           and
           often
           applyed
           to
           his
           Nostrils
           ,
           prevents
           many
           fits
           ,
           better
           than
           Spirit
           of
           
             Sal
             Armoniack
          
           ,
           Amber
           ,
           or
           Harts-horn
           ,
           which
           are
           too
           strong
           for
           him
           .
        
         
           Twenty
           Drops
           of
           the
           Tincture
           are
           to
           be
           taken
           every
           Morning
           in
           Tea
           ,
           the
           same
           Quantity
           of
           the
           Spirits
           every
           Afternoon
           in
           Mum
           ,
           and
           also
           twenty
           Drops
           of
           the
           Extract
           at
           Night
           in
           Chocolate
           ,
           for
           Men
           or
           Women
           ;
           half
           the
           Quantity
           for
           Children
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
  

