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         Peachi, John, fl. 1683.
      
       
         
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             Some observations made upon the banellas imported from the Indies shewing their wonderful virtues in curing melancholly and distraction / written by a physitian in the countrey to Dr. Allen, one of the Royal Society at London.
             Peachi, John, fl. 1683.
             Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
          
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             [s.n.],
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             1694.
          
           
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           SOME
           OBSERVATIONS
           Made
           upon
           the
           Banellas
           ,
           Imported
           from
           the
           
             INDIES
             :
          
           SHEWING
           Their
           Wonderful
           Virtues
           in
           Curing
           Melancholly
           and
           Distraction
           .
        
         
           Written
           by
           a
           Physitian
           in
           the
           Countrey
           to
           Dr.
           
             Allen
             ,
          
           one
           of
           the
           
             Royal
             Society
          
           at
           
             London
             .
          
        
         
           
             LONDON
             ,
          
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           1694.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           SOME
           OBSERVATIONS
           Made
           upon
           the
           Banellas
           ,
           SHEWING
           Their
           Wonderful
           Virtues
           in
           Curing
           Melancholly
           and
           Distraction
           .
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Have
           a
           Friend
           at
           
             London
             ,
          
           whose
           Son
           is
           under
           your
           Care
           for
           the
           Cure
           of
           his
           Melancholly
           :
           I
           am
           glad
           he
           is
           under
           the
           Management
           of
           so
           Experienced
           a
           Physitian
           .
           I
           hear
           you
           have
           Blooded
           him
           several
           times
           ,
           and
           shaved
           his
           Head
           ,
           and
           Blistered
           
           him
           ,
           and
           given
           him
           many
           Purges
           ,
           which
           I
           believe
           are
           very
           proper
           :
           I
           beg
           leave
           to
           recommend
           an
           Admirable
           Specifick
           in
           this
           Distemper
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           the
           
             Banella's
          
           which
           come
           to
           us
           from
           the
           
             Indies
             ,
          
           a
           Tincture
           ,
           Spirit
           and
           Extract
           drawn
           out
           of
           them
           are
           of
           excellent
           Use
           in
           this
           young
           Man's
           Case
           .
        
         
           They
           have
           been
           often
           tryed
           ,
           and
           found
           serviceable
           ,
           when
           other
           Means
           and
           Methods
           have
           failed
           :
           They
           wonderfully
           chear
           the
           Heart
           ,
           and
           relieve
           the
           Animal
           Spirits
           ,
           when
           oppress'd
           with
           Hypocondriacal
           Fumes
           from
           the
           Spleen
           .
           They
           refine
           the
           Blood
           ,
           and
           clear
           the
           Brain
           ,
           and
           disperse
           Melancholly
           Winds
           and
           black
           Humours
           ,
           which
           if
           let
           alone
           would
           end
           in
           distraction
           .
        
         
           A
           Minister
           about
           Fifty
           Years
           of
           Age
           ,
           a
           Grave
           ,
           Serious
           and
           Devout
           Man
           ,
           who
           fell
           into
           profound
           Melancholly
           ,
           occasion'd
           by
           hard
           Study
           and
           deep
           thoughts
           about
           the
           Prophetical
           part
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           relating
           unto
           the
           future
           State
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           He
           could
           remember
           whole
           Nights
           wherein
           he
           had
           not
           
           slept
           ,
           and
           whole
           Weeks
           wherein
           he
           had
           not
           Dined
           :
           He
           had
           been
           let
           Blood
           several
           times
           in
           the
           Jugular
           Veins
           with
           a
           Lancet
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Hemorroide
           Veins
           with
           Leaches
           ;
           his
           Head
           shaved
           ,
           and
           Anointed
           with
           Cephalick
           Oyls
           ;
           he
           had
           been
           Vomitted
           and
           Purged
           very
           often
           ,
           and
           taken
           Mineral
           Waters
           ,
           but
           all
           in
           vain
           ;
           at
           length
           I
           gave
           him
           the
           
             Banella
          
           Mixture
           in
           Whey
           for
           one
           Month
           ,
           and
           he
           is
           perfectly
           Recover'd
           ,
           and
           Preaches
           very
           judiciously
           and
           vigorously
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           Satisfaction
           of
           his
           Auditory
           .
        
         
           A
           young
           Gentlewoman
           who
           had
           a
           very
           great
           Respect
           for
           a
           Person
           whom
           her
           Relations
           had
           no
           good
           Opinion
           of
           ,
           being
           unwilling
           to
           Disoblige
           her
           Friends
           ,
           and
           yet
           desirous
           to
           comply
           with
           her
           own
           Inclinations
           ,
           she
           fell
           into
           great
           Melancholly
           ,
           and
           that
           sower'd
           her
           Blood
           ,
           and
           caused
           Obstructions
           ,
           and
           altered
           the
           whole
           Habit
           of
           the
           Body
           ,
           and
           brought
           her
           into
           a
           Consumptive
           languishing
           Condition
           :
           Much
           Advice
           was
           taken
           for
           her
           ,
           and
           many
           Methods
           prescribed
           by
           Learned
           Physitians
           ,
           at
           length
           she
           was
           told
           
           of
           this
           Specifick
           Mixture
           ,
           and
           took
           it
           three
           Months
           together
           in
           Spaw-Waters
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           in
           Purging
           Waters
           ,
           and
           she
           is
           now
           in
           a
           good
           State
           of
           Health
           of
           Body
           ,
           and
           enjoys
           great
           Tranquility
           of
           Mind
           .
        
         
           A
           Gentleman
           of
           a
           tender
           Mind
           and
           Religious
           Disposition
           ,
           upon
           the
           Breach
           of
           a
           Vow
           and
           Scruples
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           was
           attended
           with
           great
           Melancholly
           ,
           which
           at
           length
           degenerated
           into
           a
           Maniacal
           Distemper
           of
           the
           Brain
           ,
           wherein
           the
           Spiritous
           Parts
           of
           the
           Nervous
           Juice
           being
           debased
           ,
           and
           the
           Saline
           parts
           exalted
           ,
           and
           brought
           to
           a
           Fluor
           ,
           which
           which
           being
           mixed
           with
           Sulpherous
           Particles
           ,
           derived
           from
           feculent
           Blood
           ,
           at
           length
           produced
           delirous
           Phantasms
           and
           depraved
           Imaginations
           ,
           which
           perverted
           his
           Understanding
           ,
           and
           qualified
           him
           for
           
             Bedlam
          
           every
           Full
           Moon
           ;
           and
           indeed
           which
           made
           him
           the
           more
           subject
           to
           Relapses
           into
           his
           Distemper
           ,
           was
           its
           being
           somewhat
           Hereditary
           on
           the
           Mothers
           side
           ;
           yet
           notwithstanding
           this
           frequent
           returns
           ,
           and
           great
           Rage
           and
           Disorder
           of
           the
           Animal
           Spirits
           ,
           this
           Person
           was
           Cured
           
           by
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Mixture
           ,
           and
           now
           continues
           cloathed
           in
           his
           right
           Mind
           ,
           to
           the
           Praise
           of
           the
           Omnipotent
           Physitian
           .
        
         
           An
           Ancient
           Gentlewoman
           ,
           whose
           Husband
           fell
           into
           a
           Decay
           in
           his
           Estate
           ,
           was
           much
           disappointed
           thereby
           ,
           and
           hereby
           her
           Mind
           much
           disturbed
           ,
           which
           totter'd
           her
           Understanding
           ,
           which
           at
           some
           certain
           times
           put
           her
           upon
           very
           unseemly
           extravagant
           Actions
           and
           Discourses
           ,
           very
           disagreeable
           unto
           her
           former
           Pious
           ane
           Prudent
           Behaviour
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           Grief
           of
           her
           Children
           ,
           and
           other
           Relations
           .
           Much
           Advise
           was
           taken
           ,
           and
           all
           to
           no
           purpose
           ;
           at
           length
           I
           resolved
           to
           give
           her
           the
           Specifick
           Mixture
           of
           the
           Spirit
           ,
           Tincture
           and
           Extract
           drawn
           out
           of
           the
           
             Banellas
          
           Bean
           ;
           for
           its
           shape
           it
           resembles
           a
           
             French
          
           Bean
           ,
           and
           contains
           a
           Seed
           as
           that
           doth
           ,
           and
           was
           much
           used
           in
           Chocolate
           ,
           but
           being
           dear
           ,
           is
           frequently
           left
           out
           of
           late
           ,
           as
           the
           Makers
           of
           it
           tell
           us
           .
           I
           gave
           this
           Gentlewoman
           Morning
           ,
           Noon
           and
           Night
           30
           Drops
           of
           this
           Mixture
           at
           a
           time
           ,
           she
           took
           it
           in
           small
           Beer
           six
           Months
           ,
           and
           thro'
           God's
           Mercy
           it
           brought
           
           her
           to
           the
           free
           Exercise
           of
           her
           Reason
           .
           I
           could
           give
           many
           more
           Examples
           if
           it
           were
           needfull
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
  

