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.
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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
.