Some observations made upon the herb cassiny imported from Carolina shewing its admirable virtues in curing the small pox / written by a physitian in the countrey to Esq. Boyle at London. Peachi, John, fl. 1683. 1695 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A56763 Wing P933 ESTC R27602 09981186 ocm 09981186 44433 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Ilex vomitoria. Botany, Medical -- North Carolina. 2006-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-09 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2006-09 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the HERB Cassiny ; Imported from CAROLINA : SHEWING Its Admirable VIRTUES in Curing the SMALL POX . Written by a Physitian in the Countrey to Esq Boyle at London . LONDON , Printed in the Year 1695. SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the HERB Cassiny : SHEWING Its Admirable Virtues in Curing the SMALL POX . In a LETTER , &c. SIR , I Am sorry to hear that the Small Pox is so rise at London , it 's the less Wonder to find you so Inquisitive after a good Specifick Remedy in that Distemper : I must tell you , I know no better Medicine in that Case than the Famous Carolina Herb called Cassiny . There are abundance of Persons now Dye of the Small Pox in our Town and Countrey , but I attribute it very much to ill Management of Nurses and Ignorant People , who give many hot Medicines , under the pretence of driving out , as Sack , and Saffron , and Mithridate , and Venice Treacle ; by this means they fire the Blood into a Feavor , and that kills them . I only give a few Drops of the Tincture of this temperate Herb in Water-gruel , or in Panado , or Posset-drink , and do nothing else all the while , but leave it to Nature , and I find better Success . I have had many in one Family down at one time of this loathsome Distemper , and all recover'd with this Method ; but if any desire to dye with more pompous Prescriptions , much good may it do them . The Medicines made of this Herb do not in the least heat the Blood , but rather moderate and gently allay the violent Fermentation of it , if it be too high , and yet safely help the Expulsive Faculty if it be too weak . This Specifick keeps them out of the Head and Throat , and secures the Lungs , by helping Expectoration . I have often observed , that the slower they are in coming forth , the more dangerous ; and if the Salivation or Spitting ceaseth before the eleventh Day , especially in a Flux Pox , there is then much more reason to fear the Patients being poysoned by the return of the purulent Matter inwards : And yet in this extream hazard the Tincture of this Herb in Small Beer , and some times in Tare Broath , hath saved the Lives of many . I being once sent for to a Boarding-School , where several young Gentlewomen , who highly valued their Beauty , were surprized with the Small Pox , I only gave them the Drops drawn out of this Herb in all their liquid Aliment , as Water-gruel , and Posset-drink , and Small Beer , and caused them to keep their Faces cover'd with their Masks all the time , and they recover'd , and preserv'd their Complections . I remember that an Eminent Physitian of London told me an extraordinary Case of a Court Lady of great Beauty , a Patient of his , who was much afflicted at the Death of many who dyed of the Small Pox , and he was resolved to try a contrary Method to what had been taken with those , he kept her moderately warm cover'd with Scarlet Blankets , omitted Bleeding , and caused her to take no more Nourishment than would keep her from starving ; her Drink was Posset-drink , with Figgs in it ; her Food only Bread and Water boyl'd together , with seven Drops of this Specifick which came out of Carlina ; he caused a live Sheep to be kept in the Chamber all the time of her Illness , to draw away the malignity ; the Sheep dyed , but the Lady recover'd , although it was a very unkindly sort , which much threaten'd her Life ; the Dr. told me he durst never give her any Opiate Medicine , lest it should stop her Spitting , which is the most proper way of Evacuation in all sorts of Poxes , both great and small . The Virtues of this excellent Plant are at large mentioned in an Account of Carolina , and also in the History of the West Indies , a Latine Book written by John Delait of Antwerp , many Years since , who tells us that it 's an Admirable Dioretick , it also greatly corroborates Nature , and helps her to cast off whatever is offensive to the Animal and Vital Spirits , and also it promotes genuine easie Sweats , and mild friendly transpirations , preserving the Mind serene , and the Body active and lively a long while after , without any other Nourishment , and none but Persons of great Quality are permitted to use this Noble Beverage , which they drink as we do Tea and Coffee . Purchas in his Pilgrimage tells us , that at Florida , now called Carolina , they live to a very great Age , and speaks of one of their Kings who was three Hundred years old ; and whenever the Inhabitants of that Countrey meet with Mournful Accidents , or Subjects of Lamentation , they drink Cassiny to chear their Hearts . A famous Sea-Chyrurgeon who came from those Parts , had most of his Ships Passengers taken sick of the Small Pox , and recover'd them with Medicines made with this Herb. I have so great an Opinion of this Plant , that if I had an Only Child who had the Small Pox , I would give him the Tincture of it in all his Drink , and depend upon it under God , as much as I would upon the Peruvian Bark in a Quartan Ague . FINIS .