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.
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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?
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M DC LXXXIV. [1684]
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A
Physical
Treatise
,
Grounded
,
not
upon
Tradition
,
nor
Phancy
,
but
Experience
,
Consisting
of
Three
Parts
.
The
First
,
A
MANVDVCTION
,
discovering
the
true
Foundation
of
the
Art
of
MEDICINE
.
The
Second
,
An
EXPLANATION
of
the
general
Natures
of
DISEASES
.
The
Third
,
A
PROOF
of
the
former
POSITIONS
by
PRACTICE
.
By
WILLIAM
RUSSELL
,
Chymist
in
Ordinary
to
His
MAJESTY
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
John
Williams
at
the
Crown
in
St.
Paul's
Church-yard
,
MDCLXXXIV
.
THE
PREFACE
TO
THE
READER
.
MY
Blooming
years
,
happening
to
be
in
that
sullen
Time
,
wherein
nothing
here
but
Storms
and
Tempests
appeared
were
so
blasted
;
that
little
else
was
manifest
in
me
,
but
what
those
sad
Disturbances
had
impressed
;
so
that
,
at
the
One
and
twentieth
year
of
my
Age
,
I
found
Ambition
to
outweigh
my
Natural
Inclination
:
which
I
had
never
discerned
,
had
I
not
been
overwhelm'd
by
the
Providence
of
the
Almighty
,
and
by
his
great
Judgments
(
both
on
Mind
and
Body
)
brought
to
submit
to
his
Government
.
Whereupon
,
it
was
clear
to
me
,
that
the
Actions
of
Childhood
had
not
so
blemished
my
Understanding
,
as
youthful
Ambition
had
done
:
from
hence
,
a
Strife
arose
in
me
,
which
ended
not
,
until
(
through
Mercy
)
a
right
Apprehension
was
given
to
me
again
;
by
which
,
after
some
series
of
time
,
I
could
and
did
willingly
turn
out
this
Unnatural
and
Haughty
Guest
.
Hence
proceeded
my
Private
Life
,
which
hath
now
continued
for
about
Thirty
three
years
;
and
given
being
to
my
Principles
,
and
Practice
;
and
by
Consequence
birth
to
this
Treatise
,
which
is
a
brief
Account
of
my
frequent
Experience
,
That
being
an
unquestionable
Ground
;
and
every
Thing
,
that
hath
not
its
Original
from
some
such
undeniable
Principle
,
can
never
have
a
certain
Effect
.
To
fear
GOD
,
and
love
our
Neighbour
,
are
Precepts
,
so
universally
adhered
to
(
as
the
Summary
of
Divine
and
Moral
Acts
)
that
Jews
and
Christians
,
Turks
and
Pagans
,
have
ever
subscribed
to
them
;
notwithstanding
the
various
Forms
,
and
Figures
,
wherein
they
have
been
represented
.
Therefore
do
I
think
,
that
there
is
no
sensible
Man
,
but
must
say
,
that
Remedies
of
an
Universal
Tendency
,
in
which
all
Apprehensions
and
Inclinations
agree
,
are
more
efficacious
,
safe
,
certain
and
speedy
,
than
any
particular
Remedy
whatsoever
,
whereof
there
are
Doubts
and
different
Opinions
;
in
as
much
as
Nature
never
varyes
,
in
all
her
Endeavours
,
from
the
Capacity
,
Ordination
and
End
of
every
Individual
;
and
that
,
which
all
concur
in
,
must
needs
be
true
:
so
that
,
whatsoever
Seed
she
manageth
to
Generation
,
that
still
produceth
the
uniform
Figure
and
Virtue
,
according
to
its
Primitive
Appointment
;
unless
by
some
accidental
Cause
impeded
.
Nevertheless
,
altho
I
seem
in
this
whole
Treatise
,
to
mind
nothing
but
Universal
Dispositions
;
yet
I
have
bid
fair
for
Particulars
also
,
as
my
Seven
years
living
upon
Vegetables
hath
sufficiently
demonstrated
,
and
in
that
time
my
Examinations
of
their
particular
Virtues
;
not
by
Reading
what
others
have
Written
thereupon
;
but
by
experimenting
their
Operation
on
my
own
Body
,
and
on
others
also
.
But
,
since
I
do
not
find
them
useful
,
except
particularly
to
some
Persons
;
and
tho
specifical
to
Diseases
of
each
kind
,
yet
unable
to
supply
the
Defects
of
Nature
so
well
as
Things
of
an
Universal
Tendency
;
being
seldom
singularly
serviceable
,
till
after
other
Medicines
are
given
:
I
presume
no
ingenious
Man
will
think
I
wholly
decry
their
use
,
but
rather
exalt
them
in
their
proper
place
,
intending
(
in
my
Explanation
of
this
Treatise
)
to
write
more
fully
of
them
,
whereby
it
may
be
known
I
have
indeavour'd
to
understand
the
use
of
Particulars
,
as
well
as
of
Generals
.
But
,
let
not
any
one
think
,
the
Doctrine
here
asserted
to
be
Novel
;
for
't
is
as
ancient
as
Physic
,
or
Physicians
;
which
Hermes
Trismegistus
his
Smaragdine
Table
sufficiently
declares
,
where
he
saith
,
As
is
that
,
which
is
above
,
so
is
that
which
is
beneath
;
and
all
is
by
the
Mediation
of
One
Thing
.
Which
true
Position
of
his
hath
been
so
far
from
being
denyed
by
those
Men
,
who
have
observed
Nature
in
her
secret
Meanders
,
from
that
Time
,
unto
this
very
Day
,
that
None
of
common
Reason
will
or
dare
contradict
the
same
:
for
the
Egyptian
Learning
plainly
enough
demonstrates
Hermes
to
be
their
Prince
;
and
their
Hieroglyphicks
shew
,
that
not
Tradition
,
but
Natural
Sagacity
should
be
the
Guide
of
all
Inquisitive
Minds
,
whereby
to
understand
their
Powers
and
Actions
.
This
was
so
certainly
believed
in
that
Age
,
that
all
the
neighbouring
Nations
,
even
in
the
Times
of
the
Greeks
,
sought
knowledge
no
where
,
but
in
that
Place
;
and
from
thence
the
same
hath
been
derived
to
Us
,
as
appears
by
the
Romans
first
admitting
thereof
,
and
bequeathing
it
to
our
Climate
.
For
,
from
Esculapius
his
time
,
to
Hippocrates
(
the
14th
in
Descent
from
him
)
it
doth
appear
,
Nature
was
always
allowed
to
be
the
Physicianess
of
Diseases
;
and
from
that
time
,
unto
this
Day
,
none
have
denied
it
;
except
such
Men
,
as
sought
Innovation
,
and
thought
they
could
govern
Nature
better
,
than
she
could
govern
her self
.
But
since
that
Age
,
there
have
risen
a
sort
of
People
,
that
did
not
so
ingenuously
follow
Nature
and
Reason
,
in
the
Investigation
of
Truth
,
as
their
Predecessors
did
;
but
have
(
for
Interest
sake
,
or
else
out
of
Ignorance
espoused
,
and
imposed
upon
the
World
false
Doctrines
suitable
to
their
Ambitious
or
Covetous
Designs
;
whereby
they
have
clouded
the
Understandings
of
Men
,
and
introduced
erroneous
Positions
,
to
the
shame
of
Sciences
,
and
prejudice
of
Mankind
.
Aristotle
,
having
a
Monarch
to
defend
him
,
presumed
to
burn
the
Books
of
his
Ancestors
;
yet
could
not
fully
confute
,
nor
wholly
smother
the
Truth
therein
contained
.
By
these
,
and
other
like
Means
,
the
very
Tract
of
the
Ancients
is
almost
wholly
lost
;
and
now
Nothing
,
but
Nature
her self
,
can
restore
that
to
Man
of
which
there
are
no
plain
Presidents
,
or
evident
Footsteps
.
For
,
when
Christians
had
forsaken
that
Simplicity
,
which
was
the
Crown
of
Religion
,
and
became
Asserters
and
Ascribers
of
Infallibility
to
themselves
;
then
arose
the
Roman
Vicar
,
as
their
Dictator
,
the
Limiter
,
Bounder
,
and
Measurer
of
all
Divine
and
Natural
Things
which
they
themselves
(
being
seized
with
Egyptian
Darkness
)
could
not
distinguish
;
so
that
,
if
any
new
Matter
was
apprehended
and
declared
,
which
was
not
affirmed
by
this
Governor
,
death
ensued
;
as
appeared
by
that
German
Bishop
,
who
(
endeavouring
to
prove
the
Antipodes
)
was
condemned
to
dye
;
because
he
had
presumed
to
assert
That
,
which
was
not
approved
by
this
Head
of
the
Church
;
and
the
Learning
which
many
Academicks
(
at
this
Day
)
boast
of
,
is
not
so
much
the
Result
of
Natural
Sense
,
as
of
that
Politic
Government
.
Nevertheless
,
these
Men
own
and
acknowledg
Hippocrates
to
be
their
Patron
;
but
did
they
(
as
they
pretend
)
truly
consider
,
and
imitate
him
,
they
would
not
force
,
but
follow
Nature
.
For
,
it
appears
(
by
his
Rules
and
Sayings
)
that
Nature
was
his
Guide
;
because
he
taught
,
that
Matter
,
while
crude
,
was
not
to
be
expelled
out
of
the
Body
;
which
is
a
perfect
Indication
,
that
he
would
have
Us
to
expect
a
due
time
'till
Nature
shewed
what
she
would
have
performed
,
and
when
she
expected
such
assistance
;
and
not
to
precipitate
her
into
Actions
,
unto
which
she
had
no
tendency
;
and
by
taking
her
off
from
her
own
work
,
to
take
part
with
the
Disease
.
The
same
Hippocrates
long
since
declared
,
that
the
Man
,
who
in
all
his
Life
brought
forth
nothing
,
which
was
of
Service
or
Benefit
to
his
Neighbour
,
deserved
no
remembrance
among
Men.
Therefore
,
if
I
have
herein
aimed
(
according
to
my
narrow
Talent
)
to
be
serviceable
to
Mankind
,
I
am
thereby
but
a
Disciple
to
that
great
Master
:
yet
,
if
what
is
contained
in
this
Treatise
,
be
of
any
advantage
to
Others
,
the
thanks
thereof
is
not
so
much
due
to
me
,
as
to
my
Opposers
,
whose
Provocations
have
excited
me
to
this
Vindication
of
my
Proceedings
;
like
the
Philosopher's
contranatural
Fire
,
which
(
in
destroying
the
outward
Form
)
excites
the
inward
Spirits
to
unite
,
and
concenter
,
for
their
own
Preservation
;
to
the
begetting
or
bringing
forth
of
some
new
Substance
of
another
Species
.
Charge
not
on
me
the
Scribe's
,
or
Printer's
faults
,
Who
see
with
Others
Eyes
;
but
they
whose
Thoughts
Vulgar
Opinion
governs
,
are
worse
blind
:
In
me
the
Organ's
dark
,
in
them
the
Mind
.
The
First
Part.
A
Manuduction
,
DISCOVERING
The
True
Foundation
of
the
Art
of
Medicine
.
THE
Practice
of
Physick
being
various
,
(
and
in
the
Judgment
of
most
very
uncertain
)
because
the
Galenists
have
one
Theory
,
and
Chymists
another
;
I
cannot
perceive
any
thing
herein
more
serviceable
to
the
Publick
,
than
to
distinguish
their
Foundations
,
and
what
use
I
have
made
of
them
.
The
Galenists
have
4
Humors
,
4
Complexions
,
and
4
Qualities
,
to
raise
their
Structure
on
:
And
when
either
of
these
exceed
their
due
Temperament
,
they
judg
a
Disease
present
;
and
to
that
apply
their
Remedies
;
never
so
much
as
thinking
of
a
Mover
,
or
first
Cause
of
these
Disorders
.
The
Chymists
,
according
to
Paracelsus
and
Helmont
,
establish
their
Theory
on
the
first
disturbance
given
to
Nature
in
her
own
Inns
,
and
Acts
;
not
so
much
respecting
Effects
as
Causes
,
nor
the
Matter
disturbing
,
as
the
Spirit
disturbed
:
and
to
this
they
apply
their
Remedies
.
This
later
Foundation
,
with
me
(
under
great
trouble
of
Spirit
)
at
last
overcame
all
doubtings
,
and
I
readily
adhered
to
these
sublime
Conceptions
;
having
for
their
Basis
such
perspicuity
as
the
Light
of
Nature
did
really
demonstrate
,
and
Hippocrates
,
their
allowed
Patron
,
doth
attest
,
saying
;
Nature
is
the
Physician
and
Curer
of
Diseases
.
Yet
,
upon
Examination
of
their
Remedies
against
this
Spiritual
assault
,
or
first
being
of
Diseases
,
I
perceived
they
depended
not
upon
any
particular
known
Medicines
,
but
on
universal
Dispositions
,
drawn
from
Metals
,
Minerals
,
Salts
,
Animals
,
or
Vegetables
.
Hence
,
I
began
to
despair
of
arriving
at
any
certainty
to
attain
Remedies
so
gifted
,
as
to
be
capable
to
reduce
Nature
to
her
Primitive
Unity
with
and
in
the
Faculties
of
the
Body
.
For
,
I
well
knew
,
that
all
the
known
Remedies
of
these
Times
,
were
not
the
Medicines
of
our
Famous
Progenitors
,
nor
capable
to
answer
to
those
Ends
;
being
the
Products
and
Off-springs
either
of
unfound
Hearts
,
or
ignorant
Heads
,
too
much
devoted
to
Gain
and
Applause
;
who
,
having
forsook
the
Substance
,
embraced
the
Shadow
;
and
gave
Names
to
Remedies
,
as
Paracelsick
,
which
have
as
much
difference
from
his
in
Disposition
,
as
Light
has
from
Darkness
.
All
their
Medicines
were
either
endued
with
particular
Faculties
,
and
hostile
Dispositions
,
(
as
Purging
,
and
Vomiting
,
the
Sound
as
well
as
the
Sick
)
or
else
curtailed
by
Fire
,
and
fiery
Spirits
,
and
so
rendred
Diaphoretical
;
under
all
which
Considerations
,
they
became
wholly
unfit
to
answer
that
great
End
of
Nature
,
Curation
.
I
did
not
think
those
supream
and
general
gifts
were
wanting
in
Nature
;
but
(
because
I
knew
not
the
Artifice
,
by
which
they
might
be
attain'd
)
they
were
to
me
as
things
of
no
value
or
concern
:
having
therefore
suspended
my
thoughts
,
till
I
better
understood
them
,
I
greatly
bent
my
Mind
to
Animals
,
Salts
,
and
Vegetables
;
and
from
them
endeavoured
(
as
far
as
in
me
lay
)
to
separate
their
Terrestreity
,
and
by
Mistion
,
their
Specificality
;
and
having
spiritualized
them
,
I
found
they
were
not
unfit
to
be
administred
in
any
Case
,
so
far
,
as
communication
of
Strength
was
needful
:
And
so
great
a
Blessing
attended
for
some
space
of
time
,
that
they
seemed
to
answer
the
utmost
desires
of
Nature
.
Yet
,
my
Mind
being
not
idle
I
allways
feared
,
that
this
Success
might
arise
from
the
smallness
of
the
Malignity
,
or
the
happy
Genius
that
prompted
me
to
these
Endeavours
:
Nor
was
it
long
before
my
suspitions
proved
truths
.
For
,
when
I
found
some
Persons
not
cured
,
thô
the
Principal
Parts
were
not
perished
;
and
that
continual
strife
stirred
up
by
Nature
,
ended
in
her
own
Conquest
;
I
positively
concluded
,
that
those
Medicines
,
that
were
fit
to
stir
up
Action
(
if
not
also
endued
with
a
Vitality
,
to
keep
Nature
in
Union
with
and
in
her
own
Organs
,
to
act
unto
the
time
of
Death
without
loss
of
sensibility
)
were
far
short
of
what
a
true
Physician
should
endeavour
to
compass
.
Now
was
I
again
bewildred
,
my
Grief
renewed
,
my
Ignorance
seemed
greater
then
at
first
,
and
my
Labours
I
undervalued
as
things
of
no
Moment
,
Books
could
not
help
,
and
Counsel
(
at
that
time
)
among
Men
was
not
to
be
hoped
for
.
Therefore
I
accused
my self
as
rash
in
attempting
that
,
which
seemed
impossible
to
be
attained
;
and
even
despaired
thereof
.
But
,
considering
in
my self
,
that
these
my
endeavours
had
not
their
Original
in
me
by
Education
,
nor
by
any
Consideration
of
Profit
or
Honour
,
that
might
accrew
from
the
pursuit
of
the
same
;
but
from
a
natural
Propensity
,
strongly
overweighing
my
other
Inclinations
,
which
(
at
that
time
)
to
my
outward
Man
were
pleasing
enough
,
and
not
without
great
strife
fully
subdued
;
I
resigned
my self
to
the
good
Pleasure
of
the
Highest
,
and
endeavoured
Stilness
more
then
Understanding
.
Indeed
I
plainly
viewed
all
things
,
but
would
not
discuss
them
so
far
,
as
to
raise
any
Foundation
therefrom
,
or
to
bring
thoughtfulness
in
my Self
.
For
,
I
perceived
a
Disquisition
of
ought
,
that
stood
not
in
Unity
with
all
things
,
would
be
particular
,
uncertain
,
and
dangerous
;
yea
,
utterly
unfit
to
answer
the
ends
of
Nature
:
because
I
found
it
wanting
to
the
attainment
of
true
Healing
:
and
in
this
way
of
simplicity
I
was
found
of
What
I
knew
not
how
to
search
for
:
Nature
,
in
stilness
,
brought
forth
that
,
which
Reason
(
without
Light
)
could
never
have
acquired
,
even
under
its
most
acute
Scrutiny
;
For
,
it
not
being
sensible
,
there
was
no
ground
for
Reasoning
.
In
this
opening
,
I
saw
,
that
every
Universal
Remedy
had
its
Root
in
the
first
,
or
second
Life
of
Minerals
and
Metals
;
the
last
Life
of
them
being
either
over-compact
,
or
venomous
.
This
Aspect
was
grateful
to
me
,
and
gave
me
strong
hope
,
that
Time
and
Stilness
might
produce
more
Evidence
.
Nor
was
I
deceived
:
for
the
way
of
destroying
the
last
Life
of
some
Subjects
(
endued
with
an
Universal
Tendency
)
was
in
the
Properties
of
Nature
made
manifest
to
me
.
Then
did
I
see
,
as
in
a
Glass
,
the
wonderful
Gifts
implanted
in
Metals
,
Minerals
,
&c.
by
the
Pleasure
of
the
Most
High
,
as
a
Relief
to
Mortals
,
in
this
latter
Age
of
the
World
;
wherein
Diseases
are
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
to
compose
those
Confusions
,
that
cause
so
great
a
Complication
,
and
indetermination
,
may
indeed
by
its
particular
act
alter
the
Scene
,
but
not
the
Tragedy
;
and
change
the
Seat
of
a
Disease
from
one
Bowel
to
another
;
but
if
any
do
impartially
observe
the
Event
,
they
will
soon
perceive
;
that
the
change
of
Place
hath
rendred
the
Disease
(
before
easily
cured
)
not
curable
,
unless
with
great
difficulty
;
and
not
at
all
,
but
by
General
,
Remedies
.
Yet
,
let
no
Man
mistake
me
so
far
,
as
to
think
these
Medicines
(
I
mention
)
to
be
very
easily
obtained
:
No
,
the
Common
Preparations
have
no
such
Endowments
;
Nor
can
the
converting
of
a
Vomitive
and
Purging
Medicine
,
into
a
Diaphoretick
,
render
its
Gifts
more
splendid
:
nay
,
rather
,
what
before
in
it self
had
an
universal
Disposition
,
is
now
become
only
a
particular
Bemedy
,
being
no
otherwise
serviceable
,
than
where
Sweats
are
needful
.
And
it
is
clear
to
every
skilful
Labourer
in
the
way
of
natural
Medicines
,
that
every
universal
Being
,
tormented
by
Fire
or
fiery
Spirits
,
is
not
bettered
thô
changed
:
For
every
direct
Change
is
a
diminishing
of
the
Natural
Gift
;
And
whosoever
spends
his
time
this
way
to
alter
General
Medicines
,
will
injure
both
himself
and
his
Neighbour
,
and
shall
never
arrive
to
any
certainty
in
the
true
Matter
of
Medicine
.
The
outward
Life
of
Metals
or
Minerals
is
poyson
,
which
unless
overcome
,
with
Conservation
of
the
Species
of
them
,
they
cannot
exhibit
their
natural
Gifts
.
For
Mineral
Virtues
are
like
Lillies
among
Thorns
:
if
a
Man
remove
not
these
,
he
will
be
wounded
with
their
Prickles
,
before
he
can
attain
the
Sweetness
of
those
.
The
outward
life
of
Minerals
must
dye
and
be
annihilated
;
their
middle
Life
is
Medicine
,
Antidote
against
Poyson
,
an
Exhilirator
and
Server
of
Nature
,
without
any
determinate
Action
;
a
great
Light
,
impressed
with
a
Divine
Seal
,
capable
to
extirpate
the
Characters
of
diseasy
Images
,
or
at
least
to
subvert
their
Acts
;
having
a
natural
faculty
to
remove
every
occasional
Matter
,
by
Nature's
own
Power
;
not
compelling
but
exciting
Her
,
as
hath
been
sensibly
experimented
.
This
proved
to
me
the
Truth
of
Helmont's
Theory
,
which
thô
believed
,
yet
without
this
Testimonial
Act
,
I
might
(
with
the
generality
of
Searchers
)
have
ruined
my Self
,
by
adhering
to
what
was
visible
,
and
supposing
what
I
enjoyed
not
,
as
impossible
to
be
attained
.
For
every
true
Natural
Medicine
worketh
not
by
its
own
Power
(
which
is
ever
inimical
to
Nature
)
to
Vomit
,
Purge
,
Sweat
,
provoke
Urine
,
&c.
but
by
Nature's
dispose
;
being
such
as
never
operates
on
Bodies
well
and
in
health
,
althô
taken
in
a
six-fold
quantity
;
nor
on
the
diseased
and
sick
,
but
in
the
way
Nature
finds
most
conducent
to
health
.
Because
Nature
is
the
Physicianess
,
and
all
that
is
ministred
to
her
,
ought
to
be
at
her
Dispose
.
And
that
she
knoweth
how
to
use
Medicines
of
an
universal
Disposition
,
appeareth
,
in
that
she
doth
by
them
Purge
,
Vomit
or
Sweat
,
where
occasion
is
;
and
that
as
forcibly
and
sensibly
,
as
the
strongest
direct
Medicines
can
do
;
yet
with
so
different
Success
,
that
Sweats
,
thô
endured
for
many
daies
,
do
not
weaken
so
much
as
others
(
thô
only
for
some
hours
)
excited
by
a
forcible
Diaphoretick
;
Nay
,
the
Patients
▪
each
day
grow
stronger
and
stronger
,
than
the
first
Day
of
taking
them
.
So
likewise
,
in
Vomiting
and
Purging
,
there
is
no
debility
of
Nature
,
thô
they
work
many
Weeks
together
,
in
such
a
measure
,
that
the
gentlest
of
direct
Purgers
(
if
used
so
long
,
and
wrought
after
the
same
manner
)
would
bring
to
Death's
dore
,
if
not
totally
extinguish
Life
:
but
these
separate
the
occasional
Matter
only
,
and
weaken
not
.
Besides
these
Properties
mentioned
,
that
prove
their
Subserviency
,
(
which
is
but
the
dark
part
of
Vniversal
Remedies
)
there
are
other
more
vital
Separations
,
which
manifest
their
Endowments
;
insomuch
,
that
the
very
same
Medicines
that
did
provoke
,
do
also
stay
Vomiting
,
repress
unnatural
Sweats
,
stop
Fluxes
,
cure
the
Dysentery
and
Gripings
of
the
Guts
,
as
also
all
Fluxes
of
the
Womb
,
white
or
red
;
stay
the
Menses
if
inordinate
,
and
bring
them
down
when
stopped
;
hinder
Abortion
,
further
the
Birth
when
ripe
;
prevent
the
After-pains
,
yet
cleanse
more
securely
,
than
any
Specifick
whatsoever
;
dissolve
or
ripen
Imposthumes
,
transmit
seemingly
fixed
Tumors
from
one
part
to
another
,
so
as
sensible
Tumors
of
the
Womb
,
have
by
the
use
of
them
become
Imposthumes
of
the
Abdomen
:
an
Action
,
if
well
noted
,
of
no
small
Advantage
to
the
Sick
,
and
of
great
Comfort
to
an
honest
Ingenious
Physician
.
I
have
also
known
Urine
(
in
a
great
Obstruction
thereof
,
contrary
to
the
Common
course
of
Nature
,
yet
naturally
)
vented
through
the
fleshy
parts
about
the
Kidneys
;
and
that
in
such
a
Quantity
,
as
was
not
inconsiderable
,
had
it
been
voided
the
usual
way
:
thô
this
continued
no
longer
,
than
the
Obstruction
was
separating
;
for
then
Nature
assumed
her
usual
Passages
.
And
for
a
Crown
to
the
Reality
of
Vniversal
Medicines
,
I
shall
add
;
They
more
powerfully
excite
Nature
by
insensible
Transpiration
,
than
by
all
the
usual
Passages
;
which
Operation
(
If
Physicians
be
not
stark
blind
)
is
of
more
service
a
Thousand
fold
,
especially
in
our
days
,
than
Purging
,
Vomiting
,
Sweating
,
&c.
were
it
not
the
grand
unhappiness
of
Mankind
,
to
measure
the
offices
of
their
Living
Spirits
,
by
the
Effects
and
Consequences
of
their
intemperate
Lives
.
For
these
Remedies
of
an
universal
Tendency
,
exciting
Nature
to
Insensible
Transpiration
,
perform
that
part
of
Medicine
,
which
is
least
minded
,
thô
of
greatest
Concernment
;
and
althô
of
late
years
it
hath
been
conceded
to
,
as
true
,
because
sensibly
experimented
;
yet
the
Medium
,
by
which
it
is
performed
,
is
a
mystery
to
the
greater
part
of
Physicians
.
But
to
proceed
to
more
sensible
,
and
less
disputable
Actions
,
(
what
hath
been
already
specified
being
most
certain
,
because
so
often
known
by
my Self
)
Nothing
,
below
an
Universal
Tendency
,
is
capable
of
such
different
Operations
,
nor
can
it
be
so
disposed
,
as
Nature
may
be
capable
by
the
same
,
to
extravert
the
introversate
,
and
that
without
Damage
to
the
Parts
or
Organs
,
since
it
is
not
given
to
Nature
to
create
Gifts
,
but
to
use
them
.
For
every
particular
Remedy
,
thô
most
pure
,
cannot
be
extended
beyond
its
Gift
:
As
for
Instance
;
The
purest
Stomachical
,
that
hath
Gifts
to
fortifie
,
to
cleanse
and
separate
the
Impurities
of
that
Part
,
not
being
indowed
with
an
Universal
Disposition
to
strengthen
Nature
(
to
war
against
those
dark
Images
she
hath
conceived
,
and
by
that
means
impressed
on
another
Digestion
)
and
also
a
Capacity
of
removing
occasional
Causes
;
it
shall
indeed
corroborate
the
part
for
the
present
,
but
at
the
same
time
shall
separate
the
Impurity
thereof
to
other
Digestions
,
and
so
rather
render
the
Party
worse
:
because
,
the
Root
of
the
Disease
being
in
the
Archeus
,
and
that
Specifick
is
uncapable
of
communicating
ought
thereunto
(
except
what
concerned
that
particular
Bowel
)
the
Disease
it self
must
necessarily
be
increased
in
the
place
to
which
it
is
transferr'd
,
and
never
be
subdued
,
until
the
Darkness
,
overwhelming
the
Spirit
,
shall
be
driven
away
;
or
the
occasional
Matter
(
in
which
those
Idea's
are
impressed
)
nullify'd
.
Whence
it
is
clear
in
the
Light
of
Nature
,
That
Remedies
of
an
Universal
Disposition
are
essential
to
true
healing
.
Not
that
I
judge
Specificks
altogether
useless
;
because
I
certainly
know
,
that
the
great
Art
of
Physicians
consisteth
in
finding
out
and
fitly
applying
the
same
:
yet
with
this
Proviso
,
Viz.
That
thay
suit
to
Parts
and
the
Operations
thereof
,
and
be
universalized
as
to
Persons
,
so
,
that
the
sad
,
the
merry
,
the
cold
,
and
hot
Constitutions
may
thence
reap
a
like
Benefit
;
which
is
no
such
hard
matter
to
accomplish
:
For
,
if
a
Specifick
be
fermented
with
an
Vniversal
,
by
this
means
it
is
made
more
general
,
and
mindeth
not
Constitutions
,
but
the
offended
Part
,
in
the
Operations
thereof
.
Yet
these
Remedies
must
be
used
with
great
Judgment
;
because
all
Specificks
have
a
direct
Action
,
(
whether
they
be
Acidums
or
Alkalies
,
Aperitives
,
Diureticks
,
Diaphoreticks
,
Vomiting
,
Purging
,
Resolving
,
Separating
,
Contracting
or
Coagulating
Medicines
)
and
if
unduly
or
unseasonably
applyed
,
are
direct
Evils
.
For
,
whosoever
giveth
a
Diaphoretick
in
the
begining
of
a
Feaver
,
before
any
Digestion
happens
in
the
Febrile
Matter
,
doth
by
the
same
indeed
produce
Sweats
,
but
to
the
great
disadvantage
of
the
Sick
:
because
that
Action
of
the
Medicine
,
contrary
to
the
disposition
of
Nature
,
carrieth
the
more
subtile
parts
of
the
occasional
Cause
into
the
Blood.
And
besides
,
the
Sweating
Remedy
,
because
not
gifted
to
strengthen
Nature
,
and
incline
her
to
her
own
Acts
,
leaves
the
more
gross
and
oft-times
uncoctable
diseasy
Matter
in
the
Stomach
;
which
proves
fatal
to
the
Patient
;
or
at
least
renders
the
Disease
difficult
to
be
healed
.
Therefore
Specificks
,
thô
never
so
pure
or
certain
,
and
having
an
universal
Ferment
,
but
not
having
thereby
universal
Gifts
,
cannot
be
used
generally
without
apparent
danger
:
thô
,
in
defects
of
Parts
and
Faculties
,
where
Nature
indicates
her
own
Wants
,
they
act
more
swiftly
and
certainly
than
Remedies
more
general
.
Yet
it
hath
been
obvious
to
me
by
manifold
Observations
,
that
direct
working
Medicines
,
given
in
the
beginning
of
Diseases
,
have
generally
injured
the
Persons
afflicted
;
by
removing
the
offensive
Matter
to
places
,
where
Nature
(
without
that
force
)
would
never
have
done
.
Let
any
One
but
observe
the
Progress
of
Malignant
Feavers
,
Small
Pox
,
Plague
,
&c.
and
he
must
necessarily
discern
,
that
any
Purging
Remedy
,
thô
but
a
Clyster
,
(
because
Nature
endeavours
to
make
separation
another
way
by
the
Skin
)
doth
notably
hinder
the
then
needful
and
necessary
Expulsion
;
and
,
by
attracting
inward
,
brings
Death
,
or
a
very
great
danger
thereof
.
Now
,
althô
in
these
Acute
Diseases
,
by
reason
of
their
swift
Motion
and
sudden
determination
,
Errors
are
more
obvious
;
yet
are
they
as
certainly
committed
in
the
Chronical
and
more
slow
Distempers
,
and
attended
with
the
same
Consequences
,
thô
longer
before
they
be
manifested
.
For
,
whensoever
,
by
direct
Remedies
,
the
Diseasy-Matter
is
transmitted
from
one
Digestion
to
another
,
must
it
not
unavoidably
be
rendred
worse
?
and
what
was
Originally
an
Evil
in
the
Stomach
or
Spleen
,
if
carried
to
the
Gaul
or
Liver
,
(
and
there
hurting
the
Actions
and
Parts
of
the
same
)
shall
it
not
be
more
difficult
to
cure
,
seing
those
Bowels
are
remote
from
the
Stomach
,
and
have
a
different
Digestion
,
and
are
not
so
easily
reached
by
Physick
?
For
,
as
Mustiness
in
a
Barrel
affects
Wine
,
Beer
,
or
Vinegar
,
with
the
same
Odour
;
so
doth
it
in
like
manner
affect
any
urinous
Liquor
.
How
much
more
shall
diseasy
Ferments
,
if
by
separation
,
without
being
overcome
(
which
no
Purgative
Remedy
can
do
)
they
be
carried
to
the
Duodenum
,
necessarily
infect
the
adjacent
Parts
?
Also
,
if
I
understand
any
thing
in
Nature
,
the
original
of
all
Chronical
Diseases
,
that
are
not
seminal
,
proceeds
rather
from
the
Errors
of
Physicians
,
or
the
unruliness
of
Patients
,
than
from
the
Weakness
of
Nature
,
or
strength
of
increasing
Diseases
.
For
,
it
is
almost
daily
seen
,
that
one
Disease
is
changed
into
another
;
not
as
progressing
naturally
thereto
,
but
through
irregular
Practice
,
by
Purging
,
Bleeding
,
Sweating
,
and
other
direct
Actions
;
whereby
acute
Diseases
become
Chronical
,
and
Chronical
Acute
;
by
the
one
making
the
Life
miserable
,
and
by
the
other
inferring
sudden
Death
.
Which
may
easily
be
demonstrated
,
and
I
intend
something
thereof
,
when
I
shall
treat
of
the
Progress
of
Diseases
.
Moreover
,
it
is
very
manifest
,
that
particular
Medicines
(
how
prevalent
soever
to
any
particular
Part
,
and
the
Disease
thereof
)
where
a
Complication
of
Diseases
is
present
,
act
rather
against
than
with
Nature
;
because
they
cannot
be
imployed
by
Her
against
the
Complication
,
or
the
Original
of
the
defective
Part
,
for
such
Remedies
,
acting
particularly
,
and
not
generally
,
by
cleansing
the
Part
render
it
more
fit
for
Reception
of
the
Complicating
Evil.
So
that
,
by
such
irregular
Practices
,
Diseases
of
the
first
Digestion
consequently
become
Distempers
of
the
second
or
third
,
&c.
And
this
is
,
because
Diseases
of
the
first
Digestion
,
not
being
there
subdued
,
but
carried
thence
to
the
second
or
third
,
put
on
another
Nature
;
and
sometimes
become
complicated
,
thô
simple
before
,
through
a
natural
disposedness
to
receive
all
depending
Evils
of
the
Place
the
diseased
live
in
,
or
of
the
time
or
season
of
the
Year
,
or
of
the
Parts
they
possess
.
For
,
when
Diseases
once
degenerate
,
they
are
excited
(
Nature
growing
weaker
)
by
every
adjacent
Evil
:
whereas
in
their
first
assault
,
one
Digestion
alone
being
concerned
,
Nature
can
much
more
easily
overcome
them
.
If
I
thought
what
is
here
expressed
were
not
sufficient
to
prove
the
Truth
of
this
Matter
,
I
could
easily
demonstrate
the
same
,
by
the
Practice
,
either
of
Patients
not
timely
using
Remedies
,
or
of
Physicians
using
things
improper
.
For
,
I
do
not
find
Chronical
Diseases
(
in
their
beginnings
)
to
have
took
Root
in
Us
,
except
from
the
above
specified
Errors
.
And
althô
some
seminal
Dispositions
derived
from
Parents
(
labouring
under
the
same
Affects
)
may
beget
diseasy
Inclinations
;
yet
they
,
not
being
able
to
act
without
Matter
,
may
well
be
subdued
,
or
at
least
kept
from
further
Increase
,
if
General
Means
be
timely
used
;
unless
some
principal
Vessel
be
naturally
deficient
.
Every
seminal
Disposition
is
incorporeal
,
till
Matter
(
through
debility
of
Nature
)
be
conjoyned
with
it
;
for
then
it
becomes
active
and
a
Disease
:
but
if
the
Matter
,
which
is
the
occasional
Evil
,
be
removed
,
the
Action
ceaseth
.
Now
,
this
Matter
at
the
first
is
easily
expelled
in
a
short
time
;
because
,
every
such
occasional
Matter
is
first
manifested
in
the
Stomach
.
But
when
the
seminal
Disposition
and
that
Matter
have
moved
each
with
other
any
time
,
strange
F●rments
are
begotten
,
and
the
Actions
of
divers
Parts
injured
thereby
.
Then
indeed
Medicines
,
thô
never
so
speedy
in
the
beginning
,
cannot
do
much
,
but
require
length
of
time
,
by
reason
of
the
Complication
,
which
happens
through
the
many
Digestions
damnified
.
For
,
in
the
first
Motion
thereof
,
the
first
Digestion
is
but
begun
to
be
defiled
therewith
,
and
strives
against
it
:
then
Universal
Medicines
can
easily
contest
with
the
Matter
,
and
in
small
time
overcome
;
because
the
Disease
is
yet
undeterminate
and
floating
;
no
Disease
of
any
denomination
having
Existence
in
the
Body
(
except
where
some
Vessel
or
Part
is
hurt
)
till
the
first
Digestion
submitteth
to
it
,
as
an
admitted
Guest
,
and
ceasing
to
strive
against
it
,
sends
Superfluities
(
as
Nourishment
)
thereunto
.
This
is
apparent
in
every
true
Gout
;
Before
the
Paroxysm
begins
,
Loathing
at
the
Stomach
,
and
a
restless
Disposition
is
perceived
for
a
Day
or
two
,
and
the
Pain
never
approacheth
,
till
the
Burthen
be
thence
removed
;
thô
indeed
,
the
Torture
which
happens
afterward
,
doth
many
times
cause
,
as
it
were
,
a
Loathing
:
Yet
that
is
rather
the
Effect
of
Anguish
,
than
of
Matter
.
For
,
whereas
at
the
first
,
these
Universal
Remedies
work
upon
the
Matter
,
by
Vomits
,
Sweats
,
Stools
,
or
Urine
,
and
when
the
Pains
exist
in
the
Joynts
,
have
no
action
at
all
;
yet
when
the
Dolours
are
removed
,
then
they
operate
the
same
way
again
.
And
this
is
a
sufficient
proof
of
the
possibility
of
keeping
even
Hereditary
Diseases
,
from
growing
,
or
increasing
to
any
great
height
,
by
General
Medicines
,
if
seasonably
applyed
.
These
General
Dispositions
of
Medicines
here
treated
of
,
are
singularly
useful
,
to
keep
Physicians
from
Error
;
because
Medicines
of
an
Universal
Tendency
do
manifest
the
Distempers
of
particular
Parts
;
and
(
as
with
the
Finger
)
point
at
the
Seats
of
Diseases
,
beyond
the
Imagination
of
Any
,
that
have
not
proved
them
:
for
they
most
sensibly
act
on
the
diseased
Part.
And
,
where
such
Medicines
are
first
administred
,
there
particular
Remedies
,
that
are
specifick
to
Parts
,
have
afterwards
the
greater
efficacy
:
because
Nature
being
assisted
in
General
,
doth
readily
dispose
of
the
Particular
,
according
to
its
Gift
also
.
For
,
althô
they
cannot
cure
every
Disease
,
yet
their
clearing
the
first
Digestion
,
by
strengthening
and
removing
the
Evil
thereof
,
cause
the
particular
Medicine
to
act
,
without
any
stop
,
upon
the
affected
part
.
And
by
this
method
it
is
,
that
Distempers
accounted
uncurable
,
have
often
been
cured
.
But
the
great
Occasions
of
Errors
committed
in
the
Medicinal
Faculty
,
are
:
1.
Ignorance
of
Nature
,
what
she
is
able
to
do
.
2.
Want
of
Knowledg
of
the
possibility
of
Remedies
to
be
so
universal
in
their
nature
,
as
to
do
,
or
leave
undone
,
as
it
most
conduceth
to
Nature's
help
.
3.
The
grand
mistake
of
Practitioners
,
touching
the
Causes
of
Diseases
;
judging
all
Distempers
to
have
their
Original
from
Humorous
filths
,
and
in
the
mean
while
never
thinking
of
Venoms
arising
through
Ferments
▪
much
less
of
the
Spirit
that
makes
the
Assault
.
For
,
althô
they
hourly
see
the
Effects
of
Anger
,
Sorrow
,
Envy
,
Fear
,
&c.
yet
,
when
they
apply
Remedies
,
the
first
obvious
Cause
,
that
turns
the
whole
frame
of
Man
,
is
not
consider'd
by
them
;
and
only
what
they
produce
is
the
Subject
against
which
their
Medicines
are
directed
.
As
for
Example
:
When
Rage
kindleth
Choler
,
they
seek
to
allay
Choler
,
that
is
only
the
product
of
Rage
.
Choler
maketh
not
Men
angry
,
but
Anger
conceived
maketh
that
sensible
;
For
Nothing
liveth
,
but
hath
enough
of
that
Juice
(
so
called
)
to
be
in
Rage
sufficiently
,
yet
unless
the
Spirit
be
defiled
by
a
wrathful
Image
,
there
is
no
sense
of
it
apparent
.
So
also
,
when
our
thoughts
are
greatly
exercised
with
a
strong
desire
to
attain
what
is
unknown
,
the
Constringing
Fiat
presently
ferments
the
Chyle
with
so
great
a
sharpness
,
through
the
Contraction
of
the
Spirit
in
that
Exercise
,
that
it
is
manifest
in
the
Gust
,
or
sensible
Tast
,
and
is
in
Nature
the
Cause
of
what
is
called
Melancholy
;
but
,
if
persevered
in
so
long
till
Separation
happen
,
without
great
helps
,
a
certain
distraction
is
produced
,
or
some
violence
that
is
worse
.
Envy
and
Malice
have
not
much
different
Effects
,
for
the
former
cause
,
when
they
are
conjoyned
with
a
strong
desire
,
except
that
Madness
hence
does
more
rarely
happen
;
yet
in
that
Cold
dark
harsh
fire
they
impregnate
the
Chyle
,
and
induce
great
Leaness
on
the
Body
,
harshness
and
darkness
in
the
Skin
and
Hair
,
and
are
not
curable
any
more
than
the
other
,
by
any
Means
applied
to
the
Humour
:
For
,
althô
that
be
altered
by
the
force
of
Physick
to
day
,
and
wholly
separated
;
yet
if
the
Spirit
strenuously
persist
in
the
same
Design
,
the
Disease
(
in
the
twinkling
of
an
Eye
)
is
generated
again
:
because
,
what
is
once
done
,
may
be
done
a
second
time
,
and
needs
not
any
intervening
Agent
.
Althô
't
is
true
,
that
Matter
once
generated
,
augments
the
Evil
,
and
increaseth
the
Darkness
so
largely
,
that
the
Spirit
is
thereby
more
materiated
,
more
exasperated
,
and
in
greater
Anguish
.
Fear
stagnizes
the
Blood
,
brings
Coldness
,
Sighing
,
intermittent
Pulses
,
Convulsions
,
and
(
if
strongly
persisted
in
)
sudden
Death
,
or
great
Stupidity
.
Now
,
it
is
true
,
that
in
case
the
occasion
of
Fear
be
removed
,
it
is
no
hard
matter
to
conquer
the
Effects
;
And
so
,
it
is
consequently
true
in
other
Idea's
:
but
if
continued
in
,
thô
but
in
a
mere
dejection
,
or
sinking
of
the
Life
,
they
are
rendred
more
difficult
to
cure
,
than
the
more
evil
and
active
Passions
.
Sorrow
is
accompanied
with
debility
of
Faculties
,
a
pining
away
of
the
Body
,
and
a
wasting
of
the
Spirits
;
and
is
a
Causer
of
Pains
in
peculiar
Vessels
,
through
the
alteration
of
Chyle
,
(
the
Parent
of
manifold
Evils
)
yet
if
once
overcome
,
the
Effects
are
not
long
in
expelling
,
thô
they
have
altered
almost
all
the
Constitution
.
Now
,
in
as
much
as
't
is
evident
,
that
Disturbance
of
the
Spirit
is
the
Generator
of
defects
in
the
Body
;
can
it
be
thought
,
that
real
Venomes
(
whether
Epidemical
,
Endemical
,
or
Artificial
)
shall
less
distast
then
the
aforementioned
Conceptions
;
since
they
absolutely
assault
the
Spirit
,
and
endeavour
the
Extirpation
of
Vital
Light
?
the
former
arise
as
well
from
feigned
as
real
Objects
;
the
later
only
from
real
,
active
,
and
(
after
a
sort
)
living
Essences
:
therefore
in
reason
more
perceptible
,
and
causes
of
greater
Wrath
,
Fear
,
Stupor
,
Sorrow
,
or
irregular
Action
in
our
Nature
;
unless
we
think
every
thing
is
agitated
by
Necessity
,
as
Sparks
fly
upward
,
and
that
there
is
no
living
Understanding
and
Election
in
Us.
But
,
if
we
bring
these
things
to
a
sensible
Test
,
it
cannot
be
denyed
,
but
that
we
feel
the
force
of
Anger
,
Fear
,
&c.
in
our
Bodies
;
which
,
if
the
Spirit
in
Us
were
not
the
Ruler
,
could
never
be
so
.
Yet
,
to
come
nearer
to
our
Selves
:
Do
not
trivial
Errors
,
even
of
Meats
and
Drinks
,
Heats
and
Colds
,
primarily
affect
the
Spirit
?
Who
is
there
,
whom
fulness
of
Meats
and
Drinks
doth
not
affect
with
Dulness
and
Heaviness
?
Do
not
Heats
,
when
overmuch
,
cause
Faintings
and
Languishments
;
and
doth
not
the
Supplement
of
Cordials
(
actual
or
potential
)
supply
that
defect
?
Likewise
,
is
it
not
apparent
,
that
Cold
(
when
offensive
)
stagnizeth
the
Bloud
,
giveth
Cause
for
dolour
in
the
external
Parts
to
Imposthumous
Humors
;
or
stirs
up
Disorders
internally
,
through
the
let
of
vital
Separations
;
and
is
usually
the
Begetter
(
if
the
Spirit
be
not
helped
to
perform
its
natural
Separations
)
of
Vomitings
,
Fluxes
,
Feavers
,
Coughs
,
and
what
not
,
through
the
obstructing
of
the
vital
Spirit
?
Yet
however
,
this
can
be
no
more
than
the
Occasional
Cause
;
the
Efficient
must
be
the
Spirit
erring
in
its
own
Acts
,
that
must
constitute
this
formal
part
of
distemperature
,
and
bring
it
to
a
Disease
.
And
doth
any
thing
sooner
restore
Nature
to
her
wonted
Action
,
than
such
things
as
fortifie
her
,
and
help
forward
Transpiration
,
which
the
Cold
letted
?
Also
,
it
is
very
clear
,
that
if
any
one
,
upon
the
first
Sense
of
a
Distemper
,
doth
but
use
such
Universal
Means
,
as
can
keep
Nature
to
act
without
disturbance
;
he
will
certainly
find
,
that
all
these
Distempers
(
so
generally
afflicting
)
are
driven
away
almost
as
soon
as
they
came
.
For
,
by
the
first
Assault
,
the
Archeus
is
only
confused
,
and
hath
not
throughly
impressed
the
obstructed
Matter
with
a
diseasy
Character
.
And
this
my
Patients
do
generally
find
true
,
insomuch
that
for
many
years
,
few
of
them
know
ought
of
a
compleat
Disease
,
unless
they
neglect
their
Remedies
in
the
beginning
.
For
every
Medicine
of
an
Universal
Tendency
is
gifted
from
above
,
to
withstand
the
Formation
of
Diseases
(
if
the
Internal
Spirit
hath
not
given
to
them
a
Seminal
Being
)
inasmuch
as
it
addeth
Power
and
Activity
to
Nature
,
through
the
Light
and
Life
that
is
in
it
,
to
Act
regularly
.
Therefore
,
of
how
great
Concern
is
the
knowledg
of
Medicines
strengthening
,
exhilarating
,
and
pacifying
Nature
;
since
she
is
the
only
Actor
,
as
well
as
Curer
of
her self
?
How
chary
then
ought
a
Physician
to
be
of
what
he
gives
to
his
Patients
,
that
he
may
not
compel
Nature
by
the
Crudeness
,
Contrariety
,
or
Poysonous
Property
of
Medicines
(
which
qualities
all
direct
Purgers
and
Vomiters
have
)
to
exhaust
her
strength
,
by
opposing
one
Evil
with
another
?
If
Physicians
have
not
Remedies
more
general
,
pure
and
friendly
,
than
those
that
are
usually
given
(
I
mean
such
,
as
can
excite
Nature
to
Action
,
give
her
strength
,
be
imployed
by
her
to
this
or
that
Operation
,
without
leaving
Reliques
Offensive
,
nay
sometimes
more
troublesome
,
than
the
Disease
it self
)
the
want
of
such
can
be
no
excuse
to
them
:
For
GOD
hath
not
left
Mortals
deprived
of
Remedies
,
of
a
more
friendly
and
benign
Nature
and
Condition
,
did
not
Pride
,
Covetousness
and
an
overweaning
Conceit
,
accompanied
with
Negligence
,
attend
some
Book-Doctors
,
keeping
them
from
searching
into
the
Mystery
of
true
Practice
.
These
Men
conclude
,
if
they
administer
according
to
a
written
Rule
,
set
out
by
any
they
esteem
able
(
let
the
success
be
what
it
will
)
't
is
justifiable
,
because
answearable
to
what
was
directed
;
they
themselves
being
Judges
;
thô
it
be
contrary
to
Nature
in
all
Respects
.
But
,
were
Nature
more
minded
,
and
the
Receipts
of
Doctors
less
,
we
should
see
an
happier
effect
on
diseased
Persons
.
And
were
the
errors
they
commit
,
writ
on
their
Foreheads
;
or
the
means
,
by
which
they
have
attained
their
Grandeur
among
the
People
,
duly
examined
;
they
would
be
ashamed
of
the
one
,
and
abhor
the
other
.
Nature
is
that
we
ought
to
observe
,
to
strengthen
her
where
she
is
weak
,
to
enlighten
her
where
dark
,
to
pacify
her
when
inraged
;
that
Fear
may
vanish
,
Rage
may
cease
,
and
Amazement
be
expelled
.
Whosoever
can
accomplish
this
,
shall
find
the
most
stubborn
,
and
accounted
uncurable
Diseases
,
to
fly
before
him
.
But
,
Diligence
,
a
sound
and
unbyassed
Understanding
,
accompanied
with
Patience
,
Love
and
Zeal
,
are
Essential
to
open
these
Deeps
,
and
to
discover
such
Medicines
,
as
are
fit
to
extirpate
those
Exorbitances
.
Alas
!
those
that
have
trod
this
Path
,
have
been
very
few
(
or
they
have
concealed
themselves
)
and
what
they
have
written
rather
stirs
up
desire
,
than
satisfies
.
The
Famous
Medicines
of
Paracelsus
and
Helmont
,
notwithstanding
their
Voluminous
Writings
,
and
frequent
Citations
of
them
,
contribute
little
to
us
,
only
,
that
they
incite
us
to
follow
Nature
:
but
the
Remedies
themselves
,
either
dyed
with
them
,
or
are
very
secret
:
No
general
Rule
is
extant
,
whereby
such
Medicines
may
be
obtained
.
What
shall
we
do
?
Where
shall
we
seek
?
unless
we
can
find
the
Path
of
Nature
is
general
,
we
shall
not
be
able
by
Art
to
answer
her
deficiency
in
particular
.
The
Pious
and
Learned
Silurist
,
in
his
Silex
Scintillans
,
hath
something
fitted
to
this
purpose
,
where
he
saith
:
When
Nature
on
her
Bosome
saw
Her
Children
dye
,
And
all
her
Fruits
withred
to
Straw
,
Her
Breasts
grown
dry
;
She
made
the
Earth
(
her
Nurse
and
Tomb
)
Sigh
to
the
Sky
:
Till
to
those
sighs
,
fetcht
from
her
Womb
,
Rain
did
reply
.
So
,
in
the
midst
of
all
her
Fears
And
faint
Requests
,
Her
earnest
Sighs
procur'd
those
Tears
,
That
fill'd
her
Breasts
.
What
is
most
natural
is
most
fit
to
be
exemplary
,
and
will
seldom
fail
those
that
follow
it
.
But
,
to
rake
the
Volumes
of
the
Dead
(
when
their
Sense
is
buryed
with
them
)
to
find
Understanding
,
is
as
irrational
as
for
the
Blind
to
endeavour
to
discern
Colours
.
Besides
,
it
is
a
great
undervaluing
of
Mans
own
Capacity
,
Natures
Bounty
,
and
God's
Blessing
,
to
judg
what
hath
been
once
done
may
not
be
done
again
.
For
,
altho
their
Medicines
be
dead
with
them
,
or
obscured
;
yet
Nature
is
still
in
being
,
and
her
Lord
(
the
Dispenser
of
every
Virtue
)
lives
for
evermore
,
loves
his
Creatures
,
created
Medicines
for
them
,
and
never
faileth
to
impar●
Gifts
to
the
Sons
of
Men
,
according
as
they
stand
capacitated
to
receive
them
.
But
,
if
we
think
the
old
Metho●
of
the
Ancients
(
set
the
natural
Part
thereof
aside
,
which
is
the
least
Particle
thereof
)
which
is
already
known
,
and
found
to
be
uncertain
,
to
be
sufficient
for
Diseases
which
were
not
then
in
being
,
it
is
as
much
as
to
fit
one
Hat
to
every
Head
,
and
one
Shoo
to
every
Foot.
Let
it
be
inquired
how
Remedies
came
first
to
be
known
,
seing
we
know
Man
is
born
into
the
World
,
with
the
least
Capacity
to
help
himself
;
and
then
Knowledg
must
either
arise
by
instinct
,
or
by
being
acquired
by
Experience
;
or
be
attained
to
by
Education
,
or
by
Something
beyond
all
.
Assuredly
,
Education
cannot
rightfully
assume
to
it self
the
principal
Place
;
for
it
is
most
certain
,
that
that
Knowledg
which
is
real
,
must
either
be
taught
from
Natural
Instinct
,
or
be
acquired
from
Observation
.
And
if
from
either
of
these
,
whensoever
new
Diseases
happen
,
must
not
the
Cures
of
the
same
naturally
arise
from
one
of
them
two
?
because
there
is
no
Rule
,
nor
can
be
any
for
what
was
not
in
being
before
.
If
no
Rule
,
then
certainly
natural
Instinct
,
or
Experience
acquired
by
Observation
,
must
be
the
only
available
and
truly
prevalent
Medium
,
by
which
the
most
certain
and
proper
Remedies
of
such
new
Evils
can
be
known
.
Education
in
these
Cases
cannot
help
;
For
,
't
is
apparently
manifest
,
that
all
Education
ariseth
from
certain
received
Principles
,
of
supposed
Conveniency
or
Inconveniency
:
and
as
the
Principles
are
,
true
or
false
,
particular
or
general
,
so
do
they
enlarge
or
diminish
the
Understanding
.
What
takes
being
from
Experience
is
true
(
if
they
,
who
possess
the
same
,
have
a
true
sentiment
of
the
experiment
,
and
well
understood
the
Causes
)
being
sensible
;
yet
,
as
it
hath
being
from
Effects
,
it
is
not
always
presidential
for
the
future
:
But
,
what
ariseth
naturally
,
and
hath
the
inborn
Principles
in
Man
for
its
Guide
,
is
the
true
Patron
of
all
General
and
Particular
Knowledg
;
I
call
to
witness
the
Testimony
of
all
Ages
,
and
ask
:
Who
instructed
the
first
Authors
of
Physick
,
when
there
were
neither
Books
,
nor
Precedents
?
Who
taught
Hippocrates
so
many
Ages
since
,
to
distinguish
something
Divine
in
certain
Diseases
,
and
to
have
a
Cure
for
a
popular
Plague
,
never
known
or
heard
of
before
?
Whence
was
it
,
that
the
same
Man
(
in
that
Age
of
the
World
,
wherein
Diseases
and
their
Remedies
were
neither
known
nor
distinguished
in
any
measure
)
did
obtain
a
most
clear
Light
,
not
only
to
distinguish
,
but
also
to
cure
Diseases
with
proper
Medicines
?
How
was
Basilius
a
Monk
instructed
,
who
in
his
days
became
a
most
knowing
Physician
?
Did
not
Paracelsus
and
Helmont
,
neglecting
the
Traditions
of
their
Predecessors
,
obtain
Medicines
of
greater
Efficacy
,
than
all
that
went
before
them
?
Paracelsus
,
thô
bred
up
in
Schools
,
chosen
Professor
of
Physick
in
Basil
,
raised
not
his
Knowledg
from
what
he
had
read
,
but
from
the
Light
of
Nature
operating
in
him
;
as
sufficiently
appears
by
his
dissenting
from
every
known
Rule
;
and
by
his
effectual
Cures
;
as
also
,
by
his
own
declaration
,
That
he
had
not
read
any
Book
of
Philosophy
or
Physick
in
Ten
Years
time
together
.
And
Helmont
acknowledged
,
That
he
found
out
more
certainty
,
when
Discourse
and
Phansy
,
or
Imagination
was
subdued
,
than
by
all
his
Readings
or
Conceptions
:
To
the
Truth
of
which
,
some
now
in
being
can
bear
their
testimony
.
And
is
it
not
daily
manifest
,
that
the
Indians
,
which
have
no
Books
,
by
Natural
Instinct
only
find
out
the
Virtues
of
Plants
,
so
that
they
rarely
want
a
Medicine
for
their
Common
Distempers
?
Do
we
not
our selves
often
see
Sick
Persons
(
given
over
by
Physicians
)
to
be
cured
by
their
own
natural
Impulse
?
One
Person
is
cured
after
one
sort
,
Another
after
another
,
altogetehr
contrary
to
a
known
Method
;
which
we
ignorantly
call
Chance
,
but
it
is
so
only
to
Us
:
For
,
without
doubt
,
this
is
Nature
,
that
naturally
excites
Man
to
his
Cure
;
as
the
Dog
,
to
Quitchgrass
;
the
Cat
,
to
Nep
;
the
Swallow
,
to
Celandine
,
&c.
If
Nature
be
(
as
indeed
she
is
)
the
Exciter
of
these
Animals
,
to
their
proper
Remedies
,
without
any
Conception
,
Fore-thought
,
or
Reasoning
of
their
own
;
how
much
more
is
she
of
Man
,
in
whom
is
latent
a
Capacity
of
knowing
things
in
their
Roots
,
so
,
that
some
Men
,
void
of
much
discourse
or
Reasoning
,
when
the
internal
Man
in
them
is
touched
or
excited
,
utter
wonderful
things
;
yet
,
are
uncapable
of
Reasoning
how
,
or
why
they
utter
them
?
Even
so
,
Arts
appear
more
polite
,
where
Nature
bringeth
them
forth
in
Man
,
without
the
Consult
of
his
Reason
.
For
as
the
Strength
of
the
Lion
,
and
Fierceness
of
the
Tiger
,
the
Courage
of
an
Horse
in
time
of
Battel
,
and
the
Fearfulness
of
the
Hare
,
are
not
the
Consults
of
their
Strengths
or
Weaknesses
,
or
the
Effect
of
Education
,
but
ingenited
Properties
;
so
we
see
some
apted
to
Musick
,
to
Poetry
,
to
Limning
,
to
Arithmetick
,
the
Mathematick
Science
,
and
Mechanick
Arts
,
in
so
high
a
measure
,
that
they
evidently
outstrip
all
others
that
have
been
educated
therein
.
Who
did
ever
exceed
Appelles
?
When
did
ever
Art
make
a
Poet
come
near
Homer
,
for
exactness
of
Phansy
?
Nay
,
't
is
generally
taken
for
granted
,
that
Poets
are
born
,
not
made
.
Our
own
days
produced
a
Child
,
capable
of
solving
most
solvable
Questions
in
Arithmetick
,
without
a
Teacher
,
or
known
Rule
.
The
Merchants
,
that
Trade
to
the
Gold-Coasts
,
have
told
me
,
that
the
Negroes
,
upon
their
Fingers
,
sooner
account
the
value
of
Commodities
,
thô
in
broken
Numbers
,
than
our
acutest
Merchants
can
with
their
Pen.
How
many
have
we
seen
excellent
Artists
in
Mechanick
Works
,
that
never
learned
them
of
Masters
by
Education
skilled
therein
?
But
to
conclude
all
,
of
whom
did
Archimedes
learn
his
admirable
(
and
as
yet
unparallell'd
)
Inventions
of
Mechanick
Engins
,
by
which
he
so
long
withstood
the
Roman
Army
,
both
by
Sea
and
Land
;
using
his
single
Artifice
only
,
without
the
help
of
other
Weapons
?
insomuch
,
that
Marcellus
,
General
of
that
Army
,
speaking
in
Mockery
to
the
Engineers
of
his
own
Camp
(
as
Plutarch
writeth
)
said
:
What
?
shall
we
never
cease
to
make
War
with
this
Briarean
Engineer
,
and
Geometrician
here
?
who
,
sitting
still
at
his
Ease
,
in
sporting
manner
,
hath
with
shame
overthrown
our
Navy
,
and
exceeded
all
the
fabulous
hundred
Hands
of
the
Giants
,
discharging
at
one
instant
so
many
Shot
amongst
us
?
Whence
,
I
say
,
had
these
Men
their
Instruction
,
while
we
,
who
have
had
their
Books
and
Experiments
(
or
at
least
an
indubitate
Relation
of
them
)
yet
attain
not
to
their
Perfection
,
thô
so
many
hundred
Years
be
past
,
and
so
many
Hands
and
Heads
have
been
imployed
since
their
time
?
Surely
Nothing
hath
been
a
greater
Cause
of
this
deficiency
in
Us
,
than
our
supposing
Things
declared
to
be
a
better
Rule
to
be
gone
by
,
than
the
Principles
they
began
upon
,
who
declared
them
.
And
were
it
not
for
that
,
I
cannot
but
,
think
,
that
we
had
been
long
ago
so
enlarged
in
our
Understandings
,
as
these
Lines
need
not
have
been
written
at
this
time
.
But
then
,
I
would
also
be
understood
to
suppose
,
that
the
Foundation
,
in
and
by
which
these
famous
Men
attained
to
the
Perfection
of
their
Arts
,
be
not
neglected
by
Us
:
For
they
,
not
regarding
(
perhaps
not
having
,
or
not
using
)
the
frail
and
uncertain
help
of
Books
,
not
trusting
to
the
written
Experiments
of
others
,
suffered
themselves
in
great
Simplicity
(
as
the
Child
above
mentioned
)
to
be
taught
by
Nature
.
This
way
they
obtained
a
more
certain
knowledg
,
than
wa●
possible
to
be
attained
by
any
other
way
.
Wherefore
,
to
be
unlearned
in
the
Art
of
Physick
,
is
not
to
want
the
benefit
of
Languages
;
for
a
due
Observation
of
,
and
living
up
to
the
Rules
of
Nature
in
that
Case
provided
,
are
the
chief
Things
necessary
to
that
Science
,
which
is
more
easily
attain'd
by
a
sound
Judgment
,
than
by
reading
the
most
Book-Learned
Wits
.
For
,
since
Nature
is
the
Guide
of
the
Universe
,
and
of
each
thing
therein
,
it
is
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
that
as
she
brings
forth
Medicine
,
so
she
doth
the
Physician
also
to
administer
the
same
,
whether
it
be
considered
generally
or
particularly
,
as
to
those
Remedies
,
the
Gifts
of
which
(
in
all
Ages
,
Times
and
Seasons
,
to
all
Persons
and
all
Diseases
)
are
alwayes
the
same
:
or
to
such
Remedies
as
are
more
specifick
,
or
particular
,
which
are
produced
by
her
in
one
place
only
,
at
one
time
,
and
for
some
Persons
;
as
Medicines
fit
for
fome
certain
personal
,
or
local
Diseases
;
and
in
another
Place
and
Time
,
for
other
Persons
and
Diseases
.
And
it
is
clearly
manifest
,
that
the
knowledg
of
the
Virtues
of
Roots
,
Herbs
or
Plants
,
hath
been
nothing
advanced
since
the
Days
of
Theophra●tus
(
a
Man
naturally
experienced
●herein
,
and
the
Divulger
thereof
)
●xcept
what
hath
been
discovered
by
Observation
from
Beasts
,
Birds
,
Old
Women
,
Clowns
,
Indians
,
or
some
such
way
unexpectedly
.
Not
,
that
Nature
hath
been
all
this
time
ignorant
,
or
uncapable
of
succouring
her
own
Off-spring
,
especially
since
Diseases
have
multiplyed
;
but
those
that
pretend
themselves
Physicians
,
have
not
been
gifted
by
her
,
but
have
opposed
and
hindred
her
proper
Endeavours
;
they
,
being
bent
and
resolved
to
be
wiser
than
she
,
and
to
compel
her
by
Remedies
:
a
Practice
their
Fore-fathers
never
knew
:
thinking
that
Man
,
who
was
made
in
the
Image
of
GOD
,
hath
no
Light
or
Guide
in
himself
,
sufficient
to
direct
Him
to
his
own
help
,
or
the
help
of
his
Neighbour
.
O
great
Blindness
!
What
Man
?
the
Summary
of
all
created
things
,
that
hath
an
immortal
Soul
,
shall
not
that
in
him
,
which
descended
from
above
,
be
capable
to
distinguish
what
is
fit
for
his
help
?
Shall
Birds
and
Beasts
have
the
priviledge
to
know
the
fitness
of
Remedies
,
and
Man
be
judged
uncapable
thereof
?
Shall
barbarous
Indians
,
and
rude
Shepherds
Husbandmen
or
Old
Women
do
greater
Cures
,
than
the
Learned
Doctors
of
our
Age
?
O
Shame
!
For
,
to
be
ignorant
of
what
illiterate
Persons
know
,
is
a
great
reproach
to
the
Learned
;
if
they
,
pretending
great
knowledg
perform
little
,
(
even
in
the
Faculty
,
of
which
they
call
themselves
Masters
)
and
the
other
,
pretending
little
,
are
able
to
do
much
more
than
they
.
But
,
this
is
,
because
the
One
is
excited
by
natural
Instinct
,
and
the
Other
only
by
credulous
reading
.
Althô
,
at
present
,
these
things
may
sound
harsh
to
the
Ears
of
some
,
yet
being
true
,
and
having
Nature
for
their
Foundation
,
they
will
,
perhaps
,
out-live
the
Enemies
of
the
same
;
and
(
in
this
latter
Age
)
be
as
generally
received
as
heretofore
(
in
times
of
Apostacy
)
they
have
been
denyed
.
Our
Ancestors
in
Art
(
though
vulgarly
reverenc'd
under
the
notion
of
Antiquity
)
were
really
but
the
Infancy
of
the
World
;
't
is
our
Age
which
,
by
following
long
after
theirs
,
is
indeed
the
true
Antiquity
:
Why
then
should
we
dote
wholly
upon
their
Childhood-inventions
;
and
not
rather
,
having
the
advantage
of
Example
(
which
the
Beginners
must
needs
have
wanted
)
proceed
and
grow
old
in
Understanding
,
as
well
as
in
Time
?
a
Pigmey
set
upon
a
Giant
's
shoulders
,
may
be
able
to
see
farther
than
Him.
The
Second
Part.
OF
THE
General
Nature
of
Diseases
.
A
Person
is
then
properly
said
to
be
Sick
,
when
some
Part
,
at
least
,
cannot
perform
its
due
Action
;
and
whatever
produceth
that
Infirmity
,
is
styled
the
Cause
;
and
that
Disability
of
the
Part
to
do
its
proper
Office
or
Function
,
is
call'd
a
Disease
:
of
which
some
are
Simple
,
some
are
Complicated
.
Simple
Diseases
are
either
Natural
,
Preternatural
,
or
Contranatural
:
Pardon
the
Coinage
of
the
last
Word
,
because
it
seems
as
analogical
,
as
the
Terms
,
Supernatural
,
Vnnatural
,
Connatural
,
and
the
like
.
Of
the
first
Sort
are
all
Hereditary
Diseases
transferr'd
from
Parents
to
Children
,
and
may
be
considered
under
the
deficiency
of
Parts
,
transmitted
Idea's
,
or
corporeal
Venoms
;
sometimes
singly
,
as
when
any
weakness
of
Parts
in
Parents
(
not
labouring
under
any
other
Disease
)
is
conveyed
to
their
Off-spring
,
who
have
those
deficiencies
during
Life
,
in
one
measure
or
other
;
yet
are
not
at
all
thereby
the
more
lyable
to
greater
Diseases
,
but
to
the
trouble
of
Nature's
exercise
,
where
that
deficiency
is
;
except
,
Nature
failing
in
her
own
endeavour
,
admit
Retents
of
things
to
her
further
Disturbance
;
which
yet
may
easily
be
prevented
,
by
the
help
of
Remedies
specifick
to
the
Parts
.
But
,
if
to
the
weakness
of
a
Part
,
a
material
Evil
be
added
,
then
indeed
the
Persons
(
if
not
quickly
cleared
of
that
Disease
)
through
the
weakness
of
their
inward
Parts
,
do
either
soon
die
,
or
live
a
miserable
Life
.
Nevertheless
,
even
in
the
conveyance
of
such
Morbifick
Idea's
,
if
the
Parts
be
sound
,
and
no
accidental
thing
happen
to
give
vigour
thereunto
,
they
perceive
nothing
thereof
for
a
long
time
,
as
is
observable
in
the
Derivative
Gout
,
which
a
Child
(
thô
begotten
by
Parents
strongly
possessed
therewith
)
feeleth
many
times
nothing
▪
thereof
,
till
40
,
or
50
years
of
Age
:
For
,
it
is
absolutely
necessary
and
essential
to
every
Ideal
Disease
,
(
except
Mental
Evils
)
to
have
material
filths
for
the
Idea
to
work
upon
.
For
instance
I
have
observed
,
that
those
,
who
have
contracted
the
poyson
of
the
Lues
mummially
,
and
have
otherwise
been
of
sound
Parts
,
have
had
no
tokens
,
nor
appearance
thereof
in
several
Years
themselves
,
(
and
perhaps
never
may
)
yet
some
of
the
Children
proceeding
from
the
same
Bodies
,
have
been
naturally
infected
therewith
.
And
likewise
I
have
known
other
Parents
Ideally
defiled
,
to
have
had
Issues
that
appeared
sound
and
free
(
because
Seeds
admit
not
of
ought
but
Idea's
)
for
7
,
10
,
or
12
Years
;
and
afterwards
that
Ideal
Disease
,
by
occasional
Matter
,
hath
manifested
it self
apparently
as
an
hereditary
Communication
.
Besides
,
it
is
observed
generally
,
that
those
who
are
contaminated
with
that
Disease
,
by
a
seminal
Contact
,
have
never
any
Sense
thereof
for
several
Months
;
and
Others
,
on
whom
the
Disease
(
so
acquired
)
breaks
out
at
any
time
,
are
conscious
of
some
disorderly
Acts
,
that
have
introduced
Superfluities
,
for
captivating
the
Spirits
;
without
which
that
Malady
,
when
seminally
induced
,
is
not
made
manifest
.
But
,
if
the
Lues
be
materially
contracted
,
then
the
soundest
Body
,
and
the
clearest
Spirit
,
escape
not
free
from
the
sense
thereof
for
many
hours
,
or
at
the
most
not
for
above
3
days
:
because
it
materially
affects
the
Parts
,
discovers
its
proper
Signs
,
and
manifesteth
it self
to
be
material
;
and
the
Archeus
,
striving
against
it
,
produceth
Sores
and
Fluxes
in
the
Parts
infected
,
thereby
to
center
the
Evil
in
the
Part
,
to
prevent
its
further
progress
in
the
Body
:
by
which
means
,
Gororrhea's
newly
gotten
are
quickly
healed
,
all
the
internal
Parts
being
sound
;
nor
do
they
ever
arise
to
the
Lues
,
except
Means
be
wanting
to
keep
them
from
further
spreading
.
For
,
Material
Diseases
,
(
thô
very
venomous
,
by
reason
of
their
corporeity
)
are
easier
overcome
,
than
the
spiritual
or
Ideal
;
because
they
aseend
not
to
so
great
an
height
,
as
to
captivate
Nature
,
so
as
to
make
her
nourish
the
Evil
without
resistance
,
except
great
Errors
are
committed
:
whereas
the
Ideal
do
at
first
darken
the
Spirits
,
and
then
make
them
subservient
(
through
insensibleness
of
the
unmateriated
Venom
)
to
prepare
Matter
for
the
existence
and
nourishment
of
that
spiritual
Evil
,
and
then
is
the
Disease
formed
.
Now
,
for
corporeal
Evils
that
are
derived
from
Parents
,
having
their
original
from
maternal
Nourishments
,
they
manifest
their
cruelty
so
soon
as
the
Child
is
born
,
by
one
Sign
or
other
evident
to
the
Sense
,
as
by
Vomitings
,
Loosness
,
Restlessness
,
Thrush
,
or
Convulsions
;
sometimes
by
Acrimonies
external
or
otherwise
,
by
which
their
Lives
are
quickly
cut
off
,
if
they
be
not
helped
with
Remedies
that
can
fortify
the
natural
powers
to
resist
those
Evils
.
And
that
general
Opinion
(
grounded
upon
the
defectiveness
of
common
Remedies
)
that
Physick
is
not
fit
for
Children
,
hath
in
all
probability
cast
away
many
,
that
might
have
been
preserved
:
for
material
Evils
,
how
great
soever
they
seem
,
are
seldom
mortal
,
if
the
internal
Powers
are
strengthened
by
natural
Medicines
;
because
the
Spirit
in
them
is
not
so
vitiated
,
as
to
nourish
the
Evil
:
thô
indeed
a
diseasy
.
Idea
,
imprinted
upon
the
Archeus
of
a
Child
,
striveth
to
bring
the
Disease
into
act
,
upon
the
advantage
of
every
occasional
disorder
.
Preternatural
Diseases
(
so
called
,
because
they
have
no
Root
naturally
from
Parents
,
or
from
diseasy
Seeds
;
but
are
accidentally
begot
by
variety
of
Distempers
,
as
the
Spirit
or
Part
is
more
or
less
vitiated
)
are
such
as
arise
through
the
Errors
of
Digestion
;
by
Fulness
,
Emptiness
,
Colds
,
Heats
,
Sorrow
,
Anger
,
Fear
,
Hatred
,
&c.
things
transmuted
,
transmitted
or
retained
;
or
when
one
Disease
is
changed
into
another
through
misapplication
of
Physick
,
or
the
irregularity
of
the
Patient
.
Under
Fulness
,
is
comprehended
Gluttony
,
Drunkenness
,
or
any
Excess
beyond
the
ability
of
Nature
to
digest
:
for
the
disagreements
likewise
of
Foods
(
which
,
thô
taken
in
small
Quantities
,
may
notwithstanding
offend
)
are
to
be
numbred
among
Excesses
;
because
,
by
reason
of
their
Properties
disagreeing
with
Constitutions
,
through
want
of
use
;
their
difficulty
to
be
digested
in
their
being
over
solid
,
their
tendency
to
corruption
,
their
fermental
Dispositions
,
or
their
hostile
Venomes
to
particular
Natures
(
by
their
Antipathy
thereunto
)
may
prove
equally
burthensome
,
as
the
over-charging
of
the
Stomach
with
agreeable
Meats
and
Drinks
:
Either
of
these
are
the
Foundations
of
Surfets
,
which
beget
Languishings
in
the
Body
,
Vomitings
,
Headaches
,
and
Loosnesses
,
through
disability
of
the
Pylorus
;
and
if
not
conquer'd
or
healed
in
their
primitive
Root
and
Seat
,
then
the
Jaundies
(
black
or
yellow
)
Iliac
or
Cholic
Passion
,
Diarrhoea
;
Quotidian
and
Tertian
Feavers
,
Dysentery
,
Lientery
,
Imposthumes
,
and
Obstructions
in
the
Spleen
,
Mesentery
,
and
Reins
,
have
their
existences
:
whence
Dropsies
,
Consumptions
,
Hysterical
Passions
,
Cachexies
,
Falsies
,
Vertigoes
,
Apoplexies
,
and
Epilepsies
,
have
their
original
.
For
,
when
Evils
are
not
subdued
in
the
Stomach
,
but
vitiously
slide
into
other
Bowels
,
to
defile
and
beget
strange
Ferments
in
them
;
then
the
Spleen
and
Stomach
conspire
to
the
maintenance
thereof
;
their
own
Government
being
characterically
blemished
with
the
foregoing
disorders
.
Emptiness
,
if
too
much
,
makes
a
depression
of
the
Spirits
,
languishing
of
the
Vital
Powers
,
and
an
indisposition
of
the
Parts
of
assimilate
Nourishment
.
The
only
Remedies
of
this
,
are
Foods
of
a
nourishing
and
more
spiritual
Operation
.
Colds
and
Heats
,
in
too
great
a
Degree
,
congeal
or
resolve
the
natural
Spirits
to
an
extream
,
and
obstruct
,
or
expend
the
same
.
Contranatural
Diseases
are
all
Epidemics
,
Endemics
;
and
every
Poyson
,
yea
,
all
such
Maladies
as
derive
not
their
original
from
the
Parent
's
Seed
;
nor
take
beginning
from
preternatural
Excesses
in
Meats
and
Drinks
,
Errors
in
Digestion
,
or
the
like
;
but
immediately
from
without
assault
the
life
.
Of
this
kind
are
the
Pestilence
,
and
all
annual
(
commonly
Autumnal
)
Distempers
,
by
us
called
New
Diseases
,
which
arise
from
the
putridness
of
the
external
Air
,
by
which
our
internal
Air
or
Aether
,
being
primarily
defiled
,
suddenly
contaminates
the
Spirit
of
Life
,
so
as
to
beget
Diseases
correspondent
to
the
Calamity
the
Spirit
is
oppressed
with
,
under
the
predominating
Powers
of
Stupor
,
Rage
,
or
Fear
.
In
Stupor
,
the
Disease
having
enervated
the
Efficacy
of
the
Spirits
discrimination
,
finisheth
the
Tragedy
without
resistance
:
and
when
't
is
finished
,
Nature
her self
gives
testimony
of
her
own
Vanquishment
,
by
that
small
refuscitation
of
her
proper
Powers
,
which
plainly
shews
her
Incapacity
to
strive
against
the
prevailing
Evil
;
because
,
while
sensible
of
the
Assault
,
she
willingly
yields
to
Death
,
without
Strife
:
as
was
sufficiently
manifest
to
me
in
those
,
that
(
in
the
Year
1665
,
)
had
the
Plague
;
in
whom
,
Nature
,
so
soon
as
she
was
sensible
of
her
own
Inability
of
overcoming
,
voluntarily
submitted
to
the
prevailing
Evil.
And
,
thô
Sense
was
perfect
,
yet
,
when
the
Tokens
appeared
,
each
Person
so
concerned
,
thô
seemingly
well
(
Weakness
excepted
)
as
at
any
other
usual
time
,
seldom
fayled
of
dying
in
12
,
or
24
hours
▪
Under
this
manifestation
of
the
prevailing
Disease
,
the
Pulses
are
equal
▪
thô
slow
,
the
Vrine
thin
,
and
nothing
visibly
different
from
an
healthful
State
:
nevertheless
in
these
,
there
are
Twitchings
of
the
Nerves
,
Tendencies
to
Convulsions
,
which
(
except
Remedies
be
applyed
of
so
benigne
a
Nature
,
as
to
be
capable
and
able
to
enliven
the
Spirit
to
act
against
the
Disease
,
and
resist
its
Venome
)
always
end
in
Death
.
In
Rage
,
Nature
being
sensible
of
the
Evil
,
acts
violently
against
it
,
moves
in
and
by
the
Fire
of
Nature
,
stirs
up
Vomitings
,
Headaches
,
Phrensies
,
and
Vehement
Burnings
,
Blanes
,
Buboes
,
Carbuncles
,
Pustles
,
&c.
ferments
the
Bloud
sometimes
to
evacuation
by
the
Nostrils
,
Bowels
and
Vrine
.
But
,
if
Remedies
be
used
,
that
can
resist
the
Venome
and
appease
the
Rage
,
Sweats
following
,
all
those
inordinate
Acts
cease
;
Blanes
,
Carbuncles
,
and
Pustles
ripen
;
Buboes
dissolve
,
and
the
Disease
is
by
little
and
little
overcome
.
Fear
betrayes
the
Succours
of
Nature
,
and
renders
all
endeavours
useless
;
because
(
through
that
)
she
readily
receives
the
Venome
,
sinks
under
it
,
and
rather
endeavours
to
nourish
,
than
strives
against
the
Enemy
.
The
Signs
of
which
are
Faintings
,
Languishings
of
the
Spirits
,
Palpitations
of
the
Heart
,
Tremblings
of
the
Pulse
,
and
rarely
ever
any
other
Testimony
of
the
Disease
,
than
the
Tokens
:
and
if
such
Persons
have
(
as
sometimes
happens
)
Blanes
,
Pustles
,
Carbuncles
,
or
Buboes
,
they
neither
ripen
,
nor
dissolve
.
In
this
Case
(
thô
so
desperate
)
if
high
Cordials
be
at
first
administred
and
continued
,
with
those
Medicines
,
that
resist
malignity
,
then
sometimes
the
Sick
are
happily
cured
,
otherwise
they
certainly
perish
.
The
Distinctions
of
Diseases
,
Natural
,
Preternatural
,
and
Contranatural
,
being
premised
;
it
is
now
to
be
understood
,
That
the
Change
of
one
of
them
into
another
,
or
the
Mixtion
of
them
each
with
other
,
beget
a
Complication
;
as
the
two
General
Evils
,
the
Lues
and
Scurvy
(
in
their
progress
,
from
their
first
beginnings
in
Us
,
to
the
Exit
of
our
Lives
)
do
clearly
demonstrate
.
Touching
the
Lues
,
a
Distemper
too
well
known
,
I
forbear
to
speak
;
but
generally
in
the
Scurvy
,
a
Disease
by
me
long
observed
,
I
find
the
power
of
Contraction
(
or
Congelation
)
and
Resolution
.
For
Scurvys
present
themselves
to
our
consideration
,
as
arising
either
from
too
great
Constringency
,
whereby
the
Effervency
of
the
Bloud
is
stayed
;
or
from
an
over-great
Tartness
,
or
Resolution
of
the
Chyle
into
an
abounding
Fermentation
.
In
the
one
Case
,
the
Bodies
of
People
afflicted
are
always
(
or
for
the
most
part
)
chilly
,
sleepy
,
numned
,
stiff
,
and
indisposed
to
Motion
;
in
●he
other
,
they
labour
under
Faintings
,
●alpitations
of
the
Heart
,
involuntary
●weats
▪
and
Heats
,
and
as
soon
troubled
with
Cold
again
.
For
,
in
the
Assault
●●om
without
,
are
inferred
Numnesses
,
●ontractions
of
the
Nerves
,
extream
●oldnesses
and
Lamenesses
.
And
when
●ature
(
by
the
Assault
perverted
)
er●neously
strives
against
them
,
hor●ble
Pains
ensue
,
and
produce
Rheu●atisms
,
and
Scorbutick
Gouts
,
(
the
Effects
of
Tartness
)
known
by
Dolors
in
the
Nerves
,
as
well
as
in
the
Joynts
and
,
when
the
Assault
is
more
inward
,
then
arise
Palsies
,
Convulsions
,
Vertigoes
,
and
all
other
capital
Diseases
,
that
have
their
Original
from
Congelations
in
the
Nerves
.
On
the
other
hand
,
when
Resolution
is
present
(
for
Congelations
and
Resolution●
are
too
frequent
in
every
part
of
the
Body
;
and
,
as
Paracelsus
well
observed
,
are
the
Sources
or
Originals
o●
all
Diseases
)
there
sometimes
happen●
a
Resolution
of
the
Members
,
by
Fermentations
in
the
Bloud
,
Erysipela's
all
open
Sores
,
Cancers
,
and
the
like
also
inordinate
Bleedings
,
preternatural
Fluxes
of
Bloud
,
Bloudy
Vomitings
,
vehement
Burnings
,
Loosnesse
of
all
kinds
,
and
the
like
.
For
,
th●
Diarrhea
,
Lientery
,
Dysentery
,
Catarrhs
,
Hectick
Feavers
,
Solution
o●
the
Joynts
,
&c.
are
properly
calle●
Diseases
of
Resolution
.
I
should
now
subjoyn
a
discour●
touching
the
Forms
and
Operation
of
●●enomes
,
foremention'd
in
this
Theory
,
but
because
they
rarely
come
in
play
,
I
had
rather
supersede
that
Treatise
,
until
the
Doctors
vouchsafe
to
allow
them
an
Existence
;
Wherefore
I
shall
here
put
a
short
end
to
the
General
Nature
of
Diseases
,
whose
universal
Work
it
is
to
put
such
an
end
to
Ours
.
The
Third
Part.
A
Proof
of
the
former
Positions
by
Practice
.
NOw
,
I
proceed
to
a
direct
Explanation
of
my
Practice
in
Cure
of
Diseases
,
consonant
to
the
Theory
above
given
.
But
,
because
I
have
elsewhere
spoken
of
Cures
,
by
me
performed
in
the
same
Method
,
from
the
Year
,
1657
,
to
the
Year
1665
;
I
will
discourse
only
of
those
Distempers
,
that
since
that
Time
(
thô
of
the
Progress
and
Determination
of
the
Plague
alone
then
raging
,
I
could
write
a
large
Volume
)
have
fallen
under
my
Care
,
and
been
Cured
without
the
help
of
any
of
the
Compositions
of
the
Shops
,
or
commonly
known
Chymical
Remedies
;
both
which
kinds
of
Medicines
,
I
do
,
in
a
manner
,
tacitly
disclaim
,
as
unfit
to
serve
the
extream
Necessities
of
Nature
;
yet
,
have
I
so
far
allowed
of
them
,
as
they
may
in
some
sort
or
degree
be
of
use
in
Cases
less
difficult
:
well
knowing
,
that
't
is
only
the
Prudence
of
Physicians
,
in
a
due
application
of
Remedies
specifick
to
Parts
or
Juyces
,
which
renders
them
serviceable
to
the
End
,
for
which
they
were
made
.
Nevertheless
,
for
brevity
sake
,
and
because
in
my
Theory
to
this
present
Practice
of
Physick
,
I
have
at
large
discoursed
about
this
matter
,
I
shall
say
no
more
of
them
;
but
go
on
,
by
the
Practice
it self
,
to
prove
the
Use
of
General
Medicines
to
be
rational
,
and
true
,
certain
in
Nature
,
and
confirmed
by
Experience
.
In
order
to
which
,
I
begin
with
the
Plague
in
the
Year
1665
,
and
the
Diseases
of
the
following
Years
;
wherein
popular
Distempers
(
the
Relicts
of
the
preceding
Plague
)
did
sufficiently
manifest
themselves
in
their
Vigour
,
and
reigned
long
,
to
the
Astonishment
of
those
Doctors
,
who
(
the
Year
before
)
conscious
to
themselves
of
the
Deficiency
of
their
own
Medicines
,
fit
to
resist
that
Malignity
,
forsook
their
Patients
in
a
time
,
when
their
Skill
(
had
it
been
worth
Esteem
)
would
have
been
of
greatest
Service
.
Having
affirmed
,
Diseases
to
be
either
Simple
,
or
Complicated
,
Resolved
or
Congealed
,
as
I
must
(
with
Paracelsus
)
acknowledg
all
Diseases
are
,
it
is
now
time
to
speak
of
their
Cures
;
first
particularly
,
and
afterwards
,
generally
.
In
order
to
which
,
for
order
sake
,
I
intend
to
give
a
short
hint
of
Cures
,
both
particular
and
general
(
in
discoursing
of
which
,
I
shall
be
exceeding
brief
)
afterward
,
by
many
Examples
produced
from
my
own
Experience
,
of
more
than
Eighteen
Years
since
the
last
Plague
,
confirm
the
Truth
of
this
my
Theory
,
by
my
proper
Practice
in
a
larger
manner
.
Therefore
first
,
I
thus
say
:
In
Congealed
Distempers
,
Remedies
furthering
Transpiration
,
by
resolving
those
acrid
Powers
,
that
hinder
the
same
,
are
most
conducent
to
the
Cure
of
them
.
But
,
in
Resolution
of
the
Powers
,
where
Faintings
,
and
Palpitations
are
predominant
;
there
Constringents
are
most
serviceable
.
Yet
open
Tinctures
,
by
which
Nature
may
(
as
in
a
Glass
)
see
her
own
Deficiency
,
perform
both
the
one
and
the
other
,
more
strongly
or
more
remissly
,
according
to
the
Excellency
of
them
.
Of
the
Plague
.
IN
the
beginning
of
the
said
Plague
,
I
used
all
the
known
Anti-pestilential
Medicines
(
both
of
Ancient
and
Modern
Physicians
)
which
I
found
would
indeed
provoke
Sweats
;
yet
not
naturally
,
but
by
help
of
Cloaths
,
where
a
great
Burning
generally
was
,
before
the
Sweats
appeared
.
By
reason
whereof
,
Nature
,
(
being
wearied
)
through
such
a
forcible
way
of
acting
,
could
not
be
supported
sufficiently
to
the
extirpation
of
that
Venome
,
so
as
to
dissolve
Buboes
,
without
maturation
;
nor
ripen
Blanes
,
or
Carbuncles
,
but
by
a
long
Series
of
Time
,
and
great
Conflicts
of
the
Sick
,
which
too
frequently
ended
in
Death
;
thô
,
the
Plague
(
at
that
time
)
was
not
come
to
the
height
of
its
Malignity
.
Perceiving
this
,
I
had
recourse
to
my
own
Medicines
,
which
I
had
formerly
found
successful
in
most
Feavers
:
For
,
by
these
Remedies
,
such
as
came
to
me
upon
the
first
Assault
,
if
the
Chyle
was
infected
,
and
any
Fulness
remained
in
the
Stomach
,
they
usually
Vomited
at
first
,
and
presently
after
fell
into
Sweats
,
without
preceding
Burnings
,
or
the
help
of
Cloaths
.
And
the
Sweats
,
for
the
first
12
,
or
24
Hours
,
were
like
drops
of
Water
from
a
Bucket
,
for
largeness
;
yet
was
there
not
any
Depression
of
Spirit
,
but
more
ease
,
and
greater
vitality
or
liveliness
,
and
the
Continuation
of
the
same
Sweats
was
pleasant
and
refreshing
:
by
which
Means
,
Buboes
dissolved
,
and
in
the
third
Day
(
at
farthest
)
the
Malignity
was
separated
:
And
,
thô
the
same
Remedies
were
continued
,
yet
after
that
time
no
Sweats
appeared
,
otherwise
,
than
was
usual
in
an
healthful
Person
,
the
Time
and
Season
being
considered
.
But
where
Blanes
and
Carbuncles
appeared
,
there
Sweats
were
not
so
great
,
nor
so
continual
;
but
usually
on
the
third
Day
,
the
Blanes
and
Carbuncles
opened
,
and
their
Eschars
were
divided
from
the
Living
Flesh
,
and
digestion
so
followed
into
Matter
,
that
in
a
short
time
(
comparatively
to
that
,
where
other
Medicines
were
used
)
perfect
Health
followed
.
The
different
manner
of
Assaults
at
that
time
.
In
the
first
Assaults
of
that
Pestilence
,
some
were
taken
with
great
shivering
Pains
in
the
Back
and
Head
:
others
were
afflicted
with
Lightness
of
the
Head
,
without
pain
;
but
had
Tremblings
and
Palpitations
of
the
Heart
,
and
sometimes
Swoonings
.
Some
were
assayled
,
as
with
a
Stroak
,
Stab
,
or
Prick
;
Others
with
Blanes
,
Buboes
,
or
Carbuncles
,
without
any
manifest
Sickness
at
their
first
appearance
.
My
Method
of
Cure.
Under
all
these
various
manifestations
(
except
where
great
fear
was
)
I
always
used
one
and
the
same
Method
.
When
they
were
first
taken
ill
,
I
ordered
them
to
go
to
Bed
presently
,
and
lay
no
more
Cloaths
on
,
than
they
usually
did
in
time
of
health
;
then
I
gave
them
my
Pouder
,
in
a
spoonful
of
Wine
,
Ale
,
or
Beer
:
and
I
gave
my
Aqua
Pestilentialis
,
if
taken
with
shiverings
,
two
or
three
Spoonfuls
;
but
if
hot
,
then
but
one
Spoonful
,
or
one
Spoonful
and
half
,
perswading
them
to
lye
still
;
which
if
they
did
,
Sweats
presently
followed
,
and
for
their
supports
therein
,
they
were
allowed
Mace-Ale
,
Posset-Drink
,
Sack
or
White-Wine
;
thin
Caudle
with
a
little
Wine
in
it
,
and
either
of
these
somewhat
often
repeated
,
but
in
small
Quantities
.
My
Aqua
Pestilentialis
was
taken
as
often
,
as
need
required
;
sometimes
once
in
an
hour
,
sometimes
more
,
and
sometimes
less
,
as
Occasion
was
.
My
Pouder
was
repeated
once
in
two
,
four
,
or
six
hours
,
according
to
the
Capacity
of
Nature
:
where
Diminution
of
Sweats
and
of
Strength
hapned
,
it
was
often
taken
;
but
if
the
Patients
continued
sweating
,
and
strong
and
brisk
,
only
once
in
six
hours
.
But
,
if
there
seemed
a
Tendency
to
a
Loosness
,
which
(
in
that
Disease
)
was
usually
fatal
,
my
Coralline
Cordial
was
often
used
,
a
spoonful
at
a
time
every
half
hour
,
until
the
Signs
of
Laxity
disappeared
.
Where
great
Thirst
was
concomitant
with
the
Disease
,
I
used
my
Simplex
,
mixed
into
the
form
of
a
small
Cordial
Drink
,
ordering
one
spoonful
at
a
time
to
be
taken
into
the
Patient's
Mouth
,
and
swallowed
down
leisurely
,
as
it
were
by
Drops
.
And
if
great
Restlesness
hapned
,
through
want
of
Sleep
,
I
administred
ten
grains
of
Salt
of
Hartshorn
purified
,
and
dissolved
in
Cytron-Water
,
or
White-Wine
Posset-Drink
,
and
repeated
the
Dose
once
in
two
hours
,
not
neglecting
the
foresaid
Pouder
.
This
Remedy
thus
seasonably
given
,
seemed
to
me
far
more
successful
in
relieving
Nature
in
that
Exigency
,
than
any
common
Dormative
Medicine
,
of
what
kind
soever
.
But
,
if
presently
after
the
Assault
there
appeared
a
Stupor
,
Drowziness
,
and
a
slow
Pulse
;
then
did
I
make
a
strong
Cordial
of
the
Simplex
,
and
gave
of
it
a
Spoonful
at
a
time
,
once
in
an
hour
(
not
neglecting
either
the
said
Pouder
,
or
the
said
Aqua
Pestilentialis
)
till
the
Pulse
was
raised
,
and
the
Sweats
flowed
free
;
and
then
I
proceeded
in
all
things
,
as
before
specified
.
In
great
Fear
,
thô
I
gave
the
Pouder
at
first
,
yet
I
always
used
large
Quantities
of
the
Coralline
Cordial
,
to
refresh
the
declining
Spirits
,
and
to
procure
free
Sweats
;
which
if
attained
,
then
the
Method
before
spoken
of
was
continued
to
the
end
of
the
Cure.
In
the
Anguish
of
Carbuncles
and
Blanes
,
I
applyed
outwardly
(
besides
the
internal
Medicines
)
my
Resolving
Cerot
,
and
changed
the
same
once
in
6
,
or
12
hours
,
according
as
the
Dolours
were
more
intense
,
or
more
remiss
.
For
I
had
,
by
sad
Experience
,
seen
the
fruitlesness
of
all
Magnetical
Attractives
,
whether
Mineral
,
Vegetable
or
Animal
:
nay
,
the
prepared
Toads
,
so
famous
in
the
Year
,
1603
,
(
testifyed
of
by
Helmont
,
and
before
him
highly
extolled
by
Paracelsus
)
proved
here
of
no
use
,
either
to
extract
the
Venome
,
or
prevent
the
Malignity
of
that
Disease
.
I
here
write
nothing
of
Buboes
,
because
(
where
my
Medicines
were
used
)
they
never
ripened
,
but
dissolved
;
except
,
where
Patients
were
disobedient
,
and
unwilling
to
continue
in
their
Sweats
,
and
so
gave
Occasion
to
the
maturation
thereof
:
which
(
thô
but
seldom
)
hapning
,
I
then
applyed
only
my
Resolving
Cerot
,
as
before
;
and
found
the
same
,
as
well
in
ripening
as
in
resolving
,
to
exceed
all
Poultisses
and
Plaisters
,
I
ever
used
before
,
or
since
.
Remarks
upon
the
Carelesness
of
Patients
afflicted
with
the
Plague
,
or
their
Attendants
,
&c.
WHen
some
Persons
,
using
my
Medicines
,
had
layn
in
Sweats
,
for
24
hours
,
more
or
less
,
and
found
themselves
seemingly
well
,
and
free
from
all
Disturbances
,
or
Sense
of
the
Pestilential
Venome
,
they
(
notwithstanding
their
Sweats
continued
large
and
free
)
would
needs
rise
out
of
Bed
,
and
so
checked
those
Sweats
,
inferring
on
themselves
sudden
Death
.
For
,
I
always
observed
,
that
no
One
,
having
that
Disease
,
who
did
rise
out
of
Bed
before
the
third
Day
;
or
at
least
before
Sweats
(
excited
by
the
use
of
my
Medicines
)
had
wholly
ceased
,
did
ever
recover
;
except
by
that
long
and
tedious
way
of
Maturation
of
Buboes
,
which
then
admitted
not
of
Dissolution
;
because
after
that
time
,
Sweats
could
never
more
be
naturally
excited
.
Also
,
no
less
fatal
Errours
were
committed
by
Nurses
,
and
such
as
attended
the
Sick
,
in
laying
on
too
many
Clothes
,
during
the
time
of
their
Sweats
:
for
,
so
doing
,
Violence
was
offered
to
Nature
,
and
the
Spirits
,
oppressed
thereby
,
languished
under
their
own
Burthen
,
and
were
no
longer
capable
of
help
,
by
any
Means
whatsoever
.
Moreover
,
where
People
(
in
time
of
the
Pestilence
)
to
please
their
Appetites
,
eat
large
Meals
,
or
over-cooling
Foods
,
as
Fresh-Fish
,
all
sorts
of
Fruits
,
Melons
,
Cowcumbers
,
&c.
thô
in
a
remiss
degree
;
yet
,
if
the
same
Persons
were
taken
with
that
Disease
,
great
Vomitings
and
Loosnesses
followed
,
which
did
generally
end
in
Death
.
Because
such
Persons
could
not
(
by
any
Remedies
)
be
brought
to
Sweat
,
after
the
manner
of
those
,
that
lived
Temperately
,
and
avoided
like
Excesses
.
Also
,
these
Patients
were
wont
,
for
the
most
part
,
to
impute
their
extream
Loosnesses
and
Vomitings
,
rather
to
their
own
inordinate
Eating
,
than
to
the
Power
of
the
Plague
,
then
Raging
;
and
so
,
sought
not
Remedies
against
the
invading
Venome
,
but
used
particular
Medicines
,
according
as
the
present
and
(
by
them
thought
)
only
Occasion
required
.
Whereas
,
on
the
Contrary
,
Those
that
lived
Temperately
,
and
were
watchful
over
themselves
,
so
as
to
take
Remedies
presently
after
the
first
Sense
of
any
Assault
of
that
Venome
,
and
followed
the
Order
before
prescribed
,
very
rarely
miscarried
.
For
,
whole
Families
,
that
have
been
large
and
infected
,
have
all
escaped
,
through
their
proper
Care
,
and
Prudence
,
in
duly
observing
the
Directions
above
given
.
Yet
,
which
is
to
be
lamented
,
I
have
observed
,
that
when
Spots
appeared
,
of
what
kind
soever
they
were
,
the
Nurses
and
Tenders
of
the
Sick
,
seeing
them
,
were
seized
with
so
great
amazement
,
that
they
forsook
all
their
former
Care
,
insomuch
as
they
gave
up
their
Patients
for
dead
;
thô
those
Spots
were
not
the
direct
Signs
of
Mortality
.
For
all
I
have
seen
,
having
such
Spots
,
(
except
One
)
did
recover
.
But
that
Spot
,
which
whosoever
was
seiz'd
with
dyed
under
it
,
had
a
round
Circle
,
dark
blew
,
and
green
,
(
after
the
manner
of
Mixtions
of
Colours
in
the
Rain-bow
)
and
in
the
Center
thereof
a
Crimson
Spot
,
that
felt
hard
under
the
Finger
,
in
comparison
of
the
Softness
of
the
other
Flesh.
This
,
in
that
Plague
,
was
the
infallible
token
of
sudden
Death
:
Therefore
such
Spots
were
rightly
called
Tokens
.
Of
the
Griping
of
the
Guts
.
THis
Disease
,
for
some
Years
(
especially
the
first
)
after
the
Plague
,
did
sufficiently
manifest
it self
to
be
a
Relict
of
that
Popular
Distemper
:
For
this
Malady
Exceeded
all
other
acute
Distempers
;
the
Patients
,
afflicted
therewith
usually
dying
at
the
third
or
fifth
day
.
The
reason
of
this
,
was
because
the
Veins
opening
,
the
Bloud
flowed
out
,
like
a
Torrent
,
and
passing
through
the
Guts
,
no
laudable
Excrement
could
be
seen
in
the
Stools
,
but
Bloud
,
and
a
Gelly-like
Matter
,
that
smelt
like
boyled
Horns
.
The
Pains
were
excessive
,
Stools
almost
continual
,
thô
in
small
Quantities
;
and
until
such
time
as
by
the
power
of
Nature
alone
,
or
through
the
help
of
proper
Medicines
,
the
Bloud
was
restrained
,
the
Gelly-like-Matter
lessened
,
and
Excrements
laudable
(
both
in
Odour
and
Existence
)
began
to
appear
,
this
Disease
was
never
cured
.
My
Method
of
Cure.
Upon
the
first
Assault
,
or
great
Gripings
,
and
appearance
of
Bloud
,
or
Gelly-like-Matter
in
the
Excrements
,
I
gave
my
Pouder
(
above
specifyed
in
the
Plague
)
once
every
two
hours
,
my
Coralline
Cordial
once
every
hour
,
and
applyed
to
the
Belly
Tripe
parboyled
,
which
was
laid
on
warm
;
and
when
that
waxed
Cool
or
Smelt
,
other
warm
parboyled
Tripe
was
applyed
.
By
this
Method
,
the
first
Day
the
Bloud
was
restrained
,
and
the
Pain
somewhat
mitigated
:
The
second
Day
,
the
Gelly-like-Matter
lessened
,
and
some
appearance
of
Excrement
shewed
it self
:
And
on
the
third
Day
,
laudable
Excrements
were
seen
,
and
the
Gelly-like-Matter
disappeared
.
Then
,
by
continuing
the
same
Medicines
,
in
the
former
Method
,
large
Sweats
were
produced
,
which
(
being
continued
in
but
one
Day
or
two
)
perfect
Health
succeeded
.
Nor
did
I
ever
know
any
One
,
from
that
time
unto
this
very
Day
,
perish
by
ahe
Malignity
of
this
Disease
;
if
they
took
my
Medicines
(
and
begun
with
them
at
first
)
according
to
this
Order
.
The
Order
of
Diet
,
by
me
prescribed
in
this
Disease
.
I
ordered
Gelly
of
Hartshorn
to
be
given
to
the
Sick
,
and
thin
Broth
made
of
Tripe
or
Sheeps-feet
,
with
Bread
(
not
Oatmeal
)
boyled
in
it
:
Beer
and
Wine
I
forbid
,
till
the
Disease
slackned
.
I
permitted
Milk
and
Water
,
with
Mallowes
in
it
,
to
be
frequently
drunk
,
in
small
Quantities
at
a
time
.
But
,
where
great
Thirst
was
,
I
allowed
Posset-Drink
,
made
white
,
(
not
green
)
with
a
little
Canary
,
or
Malago
Wine
in
it
.
Remarks
upon
the
Errors
of
Physicians
at
that
time
,
in
administring
common
Binders
,
Opiates
,
or
other
Restringents
.
In
the
Cure
of
this
Disease
,
I
deservedly
rejected
all
Common
Binders
,
or
Restringents
,
too
much
at
that
time
used
by
other
Physicians
,
how
specifical
soever
they
were
,
or
might
be
supposed
to
be
;
because
I
discerned
,
that
Nature
,
being
enraged
by
the
presence
of
that
Corroding
Venome
,
wanted
only
suitable
helps
,
to
restrain
her
own
Exorbitances
.
I
likewise
rejected
Opiats
,
because
they
were
uncertain
;
and
thô
they
eased
Pains
,
they
cured
not
.
For
,
I
had
well
observed
,
in
this
Disease
,
That
whensoever
a
forcible
Stop
was
made
,
either
by
Opiats
or
Restringents
,
(
if
Nature
were
not
,
at
the
same
time
very
strong
)
then
Light-headedness
and
sudden
Death
followed
.
For
,
such
Remedies
,
having
no
Power
to
expel
the
present
Venome
,
did
only
Stop
the
Passages
,
by
which
Nature
her Self
intended
to
separate
that
Evil
;
so
that
,
instead
of
being
natural
Helps
,
they
proved
no
other
,
than
unnatural
Introducers
of
Death
.
Of
the
Scurvy
.
THis
being
the
general
Disease
of
our
Country
,
seemeth
both
Nurse
and
Tomb
to
all
other
Distempers
.
The
last
Plague
was
buried
in
it
.
For
,
when
that
Pestilence
waxed
more
mild
,
it
plainly
exhibited
Scorbutick
Symptomes
.
The
Lues
is
,
by
it
,
so
masked
,
that
its
Original
cannot
be
discerned
.
Autumnal
Distempers
are
hid
therein
;
and
every
preternatural
Disease
,
of
what
kind
soever
,
if
not
radically
expelled
by
suitable
Remedies
,
discovers
it self
under
a
Scorbutick
Form.
Yea
,
Paternal
Diseases
,
thô
very
various
,
do
never
appear
without
some
Signs
of
the
Scurvy
commixed
with
them
.
Hence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
when
Particular
Remedies
are
applyed
to
Particular
Parts
,
or
the
Vices
of
them
,
(
no
General
Medicine
being
in
the
mean
time
used
)
thô
they
may
cure
or
remove
the
particular
offences
of
these
or
those
Parts
,
yet
it
is
but
as
the
Cutting
off
the
Hydra's
Head
,
in
stead
of
which
many
more
appear
.
Now
,
as
it
is
apparent
,
that
all
these
Diseases
are
covered
by
the
Scurvy
;
so
it
is
no
less
manifest
,
that
the
same
Distemper
doth
both
nurse
and
nourish
them
.
For
the
Lues
becometh
more
mild
,
through
the
dark
cold
and
stupifying
Nature
thereof
;
so
that
it
doth
not
so
often
occasion
great
pains
in
the
Bones
between
the
Joynts
,
as
were
usual
(
when
the
Lues
was
simple
,
and
not
complicated
with
the
Scurvy
)
but
wandereth
in
the
Nerves
,
disaffecteth
the
Brain
,
produceth
Gouts
of
a
new
strain
,
Rheumatisms
,
Convulsions
,
Palsies
,
Vertigo's
,
Lethargies
,
Atrophea's
,
Lamenesses
,
&c.
In
every
of
these
Diseases
,
thô
particular
,
which
by
the
Ancients
(
according
to
what
we
read
of
former
Ages
)
were
well
known
,
and
often
cured
;
yet
,
at
this
time
,
if
they
be
remedied
,
it
is
rather
casual
,
than
real
:
because
the
greatest
part
of
those
Patients
,
that
in
our
time
have
been
thus
afflicted
,
were
never
cured
by
any
Medicines
of
the
Ancients
,
unless
in
a
long
Series
of
time
,
where
Nature
her Self
was
the
Sole
and
Principal
Actor
:
but
,
by
General
Remedies
,
they
usually
obtained
a
safe
and
speedy
Cure.
For
,
it
is
clear
,
that
when
the
Lues
is
new
shaped
,
by
the
modifying
power
of
the
Scurvy
,
that
the
Remedies
,
usually
successful
in
expelling
and
annihilating
the
Rage
of
that
Disease
,
proved
notoriously
inimical
to
Nature
;
by
reason
of
the
cruel
Qualities
of
Mercury
,
by
the
power
of
the
Venome
of
the
Lues
,
made
corporeal
.
Which
Corporeity
,
where
the
Lues
is
simple
,
is
found
to
be
of
great
Use
and
Service
in
abating
the
Rigour
of
that
Disease
;
but
when
Scorbutical
it
rather
increases
,
than
lessens
the
same
:
as
I
my Self
can
(
by
sad
Experience
)
testify
;
and
Hartmannus
did
many
Years
ago
,
in
his
own
Practica
Chymiatrica
,
and
in
his
Annotations
upon
Crollius
his
Basilica
Chymica
,
sufficiently
manifest
the
Inimiciousness
of
Mercury
to
Persons
in
any
measure
afflicted
with
the
Scurvy
;
yet
he
highly
praiseth
the
Virtue
of
Antimony
in
Scorbutick
Distempers
;
which
plainly
shews
he
had
a
true
Sense
of
the
different
Nature
of
such
Diseases
and
their
Remedies
.
The
Gouts
of
our
time
very
rarely
appear
Simple
.
For
in
all
my
Practice
,
for
30
Years
past
,
I
never
could
discern
above
three
Persons
,
afflicted
with
that
Disease
(
which
in
them
was
Hereditary
)
that
did
exactly
answer
to
the
Descriptions
of
the
Ancients
:
all
the
Other
have
appeared
rather
Scorbutical
,
than
otherwise
,
and
been
by
me
cured
after
the
same
General
Method
above
specifyed
.
But
in
every
true
Gout
,
simple
and
not
complicated
(
as
in
this
our
Day
all
such
Distempers
generally
are
)
the
tormenting
Pain
thereof
is
only
in
the
Joynt-Water
,
or
Synovy
between
the
Joynts
;
not
elsewhere
:
whereas
these
Complicated
or
Scorbutick
Gouts
are
attended
with
Pains
in
the
Muscles
,
Nerves
,
between
the
Joynts
,
and
in
the
Vertebra
of
the
Back
,
in
the
Os
Sacrum
,
and
Head
;
Places
never
mentioned
by
the
Ancients
(
in
all
their
Descriptions
of
that
Disease
)
as
lyable
to
Arthritick
Dolours
,
or
more
or
less
to
be
affected
therewith
.
Therefore
,
Having
thus
far
given
a
brief
,
but
true
,
Definition
of
the
Nature
of
the
Scurvy
,
shewing
how
it
intermixeth
it self
with
other
Distempers
,
disguising
,
changing
and
nourishing
them
;
I
now
proceed
to
Examples
of
Cures
of
the
same
Disease
,
as
it
hath
manifested
it self
to
Us
,
in
these
our
Days
,
under
several
Forms
.
Example
1.
A
Man
of
good
repute
,
having
for
some
Years
laboured
under
great
debility
of
Faculties
,
with
dejection
of
Spirit
,
and
Leanness
of
Body
,
insomuch
,
that
the
Physicians
he
then
used
,
concluded
an
Atrophea
or
Consumption
to
be
present
;
therefore
,
as
the
best
Remedy
for
One
in
his
Condition
,
they
ordered
him
to
suck
his
Wife's
Breasts
:
This
Means
he
used
,
and
other
Remedies
by
them
prescribed
,
notwithstanding
which
,
a
general
Lameness
followed
,
with
a
Palsey
,
and
great
Convulsions
,
which
wrought
so
great
Confusion
in
his
Physicians
,
that
(
not
knowing
what
to
do
further
)
they
gave
him
over
for
dead
or
uncurable
.
After
which
,
Application
being
made
to
Me
,
when
I
had
well
weighed
his
deplorable
State
,
heard
what
had
been
done
,
and
saw
the
lamentable
Effects
thereof
,
I
discerned
that
the
Source
of
all
was
the
Scurvy
,
and
that
nothing
could
alleviate
that
Evil
,
but
Medicines
of
another
Strain
.
Therefore
,
I
first
of
all
gave
him
my
Scorbutic
Cordial
(
the
Brain
being
deeply
affected
)
with
my
Pouder
,
repeating
that
once
in
six
hours
,
and
the
Cordial
as
oft
as
he
pleased
.
At
Night
going
to
Bed
,
I
gave
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
,
and
my
Scorbutic
Tincture
,
30
Drops
at
a
time
,
in
all
his
Drink
,
Day
or
Night
.
This
Method
being
continued
for
some
few
Dayes
,
his
Convulsions
ceased
,
the
Weakness
of
his
Limbs
began
to
abate
;
and
,
instead
of
great
Chilness
and
Coldness
,
that
formerly
attended
,
Warmth
and
Itchings
began
to
discover
themselves
,
and
(
at
last
)
gentle
breathing
Sweats
:
by
which
Means
,
his
Palsy
was
taken
off
,
his
lost
Speech
restored
,
by
little
and
little
he
recovered
the
Use
of
his
Limbs
,
and
was
at
length
wholly
freed
from
his
Disease
,
and
lived
(
thô
alwayes
a
weakly
Man
)
Thirteen
or
Fourteen
Years
after
.
Example
2.
An
Aged
Gentlewoman
,
afflicted
with
Rheumatism-like
Pains
,
(
after
an
Autumnal
Feaver
)
which
Physicians
labouring
to
remove
,
by
applying
cooling
and
altering
Things
,
did
indeed
take
off
the
external
Dolours
;
but
(
by
their
Remedies
)
retracted
the
Matter
causing
those
Pains
inwards
to
the
Bowels
and
Mouth
of
the
Stomach
;
which
great
Evil
deprived
her
totally
of
the
use
of
her
Limbs
.
Whilst
in
this
sad
and
deplorable
State
,
being
utterly
given
over
,
as
a
dying
Person
,
or
at
least
uncurable
,
by
her
Physicians
,
I
was
sent
unto
.
When
I
came
,
and
had
well
considered
her
Condition
,
and
found
her
Stomach
to
be
so
very
weak
,
as
not
able
to
retain
a
Glass
of
Sack
,
without
rejecting
the
same
suddenly
by
Vomit
;
I
did
not
in
this
Case
(
as
in
Others
)
give
her
my
Pouder
at
first
,
but
my
Scorbutic
Cordial
and
Scorbutic
Tincture
,
as
I
saw
Cause
,
and
the
Exigency
of
her
present
State
required
.
When
,
by
these
Means
,
I
discerned
her
Spirits
to
be
somewhat
enlivened
,
and
her
Stomach
fortified
in
some
competent
measure
,
I
then
gave
my
Pouder
once
a
Day
,
and
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
at
Night
.
Having
continued
this
Method
for
six
or
seven
Dayes
,
I
found
her
Water
began
to
Change
,
and
some
Signs
of
Separation
therein
,
whereby
I
judged
her
Digestion
to
be
in
some
measure
recovered
.
This
Course
I
continued
Day
by
Day
for
a
long
time
together
;
in
which
,
I
discerned
that
those
Pains
,
which
were
before
(
by
their
Medicines
)
brought
into
her
Belly
and
Mouth
of
her
Stomach
,
were
again
retired
outward
:
after
which
many
Pustles
came
forth
,
and
her
Limbs
by
little
and
little
gathered
Strength
;
and
,
about
three
quarters
of
a
Year
after
,
she
recovered
her
pristine
State
of
Health
,
and
is
now
alive
at
this
Day
,
thô
several
Years
since
.
Example
3.
Another
Woman
,
thô
Young
▪
yet
through
Convulsions
was
so
drawn
together
,
as
to
go
almost
double
;
and
when
no
Remedy
could
be
had
for
her
from
other
Physicians
,
she
came
to
me
.
After
I
understood
from
her
how
it
had
been
with
her
,
I
proceeded
to
the
Cure
as
follows
.
I
gave
her
my
Pouder
every
Morning
,
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
,
and
Arcanum
Veneris
at
Night
;
sometimes
one
,
sometimes
the
other
,
as
occasion
was
,
and
the
Exigency
of
the
Disease
required
;
not
omitting
to
give
my
Scorbutic
Tincture
to
be
taken
in
all
her
Drink
,
during
the
whole
time
of
the
Cure.
Continuing
this
Method
,
she
was
recovered
in
a
short
time
,
and
is
yet
living
,
thô
several
Years
since
.
Example
4.
A
Young
Gentlewoman
,
afflicted
with
a
great
Congelation
in
the
Sternon
,
always
inclining
her
Head
downwards
to
the
Stomach
,
as
if
it
had
been
contracted
and
forced
thitherwards
,
never
having
the
benefit
of
Sneezing
,
but
long
suffering
great
Palpitations
of
the
Heart
;
little
or
no
Sleep
,
and
such
as
was
,
much
confused
,
continually
under
Terrour
,
and
at
the
same
time
with
Child
;
sustaining
this
Misery
until
the
time
of
her
Delivery
,
and
after
that
finding
no
Abatement
of
the
Evil
,
notwithstanding
the
Advice
of
several
Physicians
,
and
the
frequent
Use
of
their
Remedies
,
did
at
last
send
to
me
.
I
,
finding
her
in
that
sad
Condition
,
and
understanding
all
the
Remedies
she
had
used
to
be
fruitless
and
unsuccessful
,
discerned
her
Disease
to
arise
from
Congelation
,
under
the
Scorbutic
Power
.
Therefore
,
the
Fourteenth
Day
after
her
Delivery
being
come
,
I
first
gave
her
my
Pouder
,
which
quickly
brought
her
to
more
sedateness
,
than
she
had
found
in
some
Months
before
,
and
the
small
Sleep
,
she
then
had
,
proved
more
refreshing
than
formerly
,
as
she
her self
acknowledged
.
This
Encouraged
me
to
proceed
,
and
She
(
according
to
the
Result
of
her
own
Reason
and
Judgment
)
rationally
submitted
to
the
following
Course
.
My
Pouder
was
given
once
in
4
,
or
6
hours
;
my
Scorbutic
Tincture
in
all
the
Drink
she
took
;
my
Arcanum
Veneris
,
and
Arcannm
Metallorum
every
Night
alternately
;
my
Hysteric
Cordial
,
and
Hysteric
Drops
,
upon
every
Occasion
,
or
Exigency
of
Nature
;
not
neglecting
other
Cordials
(
by
intervals
)
for
support
.
This
Method
,
being
dayly
continued
,
till
Strength
came
,
and
she
was
able
to
move
,
did
at
last
(
with
a
few
other
Auxiliaries
)
accomplish
the
Cure
so
apparently
,
that
the
external
Cutis
all
peeled
off
,
her
whole
Mass
of
Bloud
renewed
,
and
she
seemed
unto
All
(
that
knew
her
)
to
have
assumed
a
new
Complexion
,
and
Nature
.
Note
:
That
this
Woman
had
not
Sneezed
in
6
,
or
eight
Months
;
but
upon
the
first
Motion
thereunto
,
the
Congelation
seemed
to
be
much
more
easy
,
and
afterwards
she
sneezed
usually
twice
a
Day
,
and
by
that
Means
the
Contraction
daily
lessened
,
until
it
was
totally
dissolved
.
Also
,
among
the
various
Scenes
,
that
hapned
in
this
Disease
,
there
never
was
any
Purgation
by
Stools
and
Vomits
;
but
the
Distemper
gradually
vanished
,
by
Transpiration
,
small
Sweats
,
and
Vrine
,
without
any
other
sensible
Evacuation
thereof
.
And
now
she
hath
attained
her
full
Strength
,
and
perfect
use
of
her
Limbs
,
with
as
great
Activity
of
Spirit
,
as
did
ever
attend
her
before
,
and
hath
since
conceived
with
Child
.
It
cannot
rationally
be
expected
I
should
here
set
down
every
Accident
,
that
hapned
,
and
the
particular
Auxiliaries
I
used
,
in
this
and
the
other
Scorbutic
Diseases
before
spoken
of
:
because
,
so
doing
,
I
should
extend
this
Treatise
to
too
great
a
Bulk
,
and
render
it
less
serviceable
(
by
augmenting
the
Price
)
than
otherwise
,
as
by
me
intended
,
it
is
like
to
prove
.
I
could
also
here
subjoyn
many
more
Examples
of
Scorbutic
Distempers
by
me
Cured
,
after
the
former
Method
;
but
for
the
same
Reason
I
omit
them
,
and
proceed
to
Examples
of
Cures
performed
in
other
Diseases
no
less
deplorable
.
Of
Palseys
.
PAlsies
are
four-fold
,
and
therefore
have
rightly
obtain'd
four
distinct
Denominations
,
as
follows
:
Palseys
of
Contraction
,
Palsys
of
Resolution
,
Numn-Palsyes
,
and
Shaking
Palsyes
;
which
two
last
are
partly
resolved
,
and
partly
congealed
,
therefore
cannot
be
ranged
under
either
of
the
former
.
Of
the
Cure
of
these
,
by
four
Examples
only
,
I
intend
to
speak
,
with
as
much
brevity
,
as
the
Subject
Matter
it self
can
admit
.
Example
1.
Of
a
Contracted
Palsy
.
A
Mayden
Child
,
about
Ten
years
old
,
having
her
Arms
and
Legs
drawn
together
,
and
her
Neck
drawn
of
one
Side
,
(
this
being
certainly
known
to
every
Physician
,
to
be
a
Paralytic
Contraction
)
I
began
at
first
,
as
I
had
done
in
other
Cases
,
with
my
Pouder
,
giving
it
twice
the
first
Day
,
and
at
Night
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
.
This
Method
I
continued
Day
by
Day
,
using
frequently
my
Mixtura
Simplex
,
given
five
or
six
times
every
Day
.
Sometimes
I
gave
her
my
Volatile
Spirit
(
not
the
fetid
acid
Phlegm
)
of
Tartar
,
in
all
her
Drink
.
By
which
Method
,
in
three
Weeks
time
,
there
seemed
to
be
some
Amendment
,
the
Nerves
were
more
relaxed
,
the
Head
began
to
ake
backward
,
and
a
Warmth
more
than
usual
in
that
Part
;
and
this
descended
down
by
the
Back-bone
.
Soon
after
this
appeared
a
Drivling
in
the
Mouth
.
After
the
Pouder
had
been
taken
for
a
Month
,
it
began
to
work
every
Day
,
and
wrought
a
whole
Month
after
by
Vomit
and
Stool
alternately
:
yet
still
,
with
Increase
of
Strength
,
and
Restoration
of
Faculties
.
And
,
in
about
ten
or
twelve
Weeks
time
,
she
was
perfectly
restored
to
her
pristine
State
of
Health
,
and
is
since
married
,
hath
had
Children
,
and
is
alive
at
this
time
.
Note
.
In
this
whole
Cure
,
no
other
Medicines
(
than
what
are
above
specified
)
were
used
,
except
a
Resolving
Oyl
,
and
that
only
for
the
first
three
or
four
Weeks
,
untill
the
Powder
began
to
work
;
then
I
ceased
the
use
thereof
.
Example
2.
Of
a
Resolved
Palsy
.
IN
Resolution
of
the
Members
of
a
Male
Child
,
where
all
the
Nerves
were
relaxed
,
so
that
Arms
;
Legs
,
and
Neck
,
hung
like
Parts
,
that
never
had
Capacity
of
Motion
;
I
used
only
my
Powder
,
and
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
for
three
or
four
Weeks
together
,
and
the
Child
by
little
and
little
gathered
strength
,
and
was
at
length
perfectly
recovered
;
is
since
become
a
strong
man
,
and
alive
at
this
day
.
Example
3.
Of
a
Numn
Palsy
.
A
Man
of
Seventy
years
of
Age
,
was
numned
all
over
one
side
,
his
Speech
for
the
present
quite
taken
away
;
but
coming
to
me
,
and
taking
my
Medicines
presently
(
having
long
before
been
my
Patient
)
he
was
cured
in
three
Weeks
time
,
in
manner
thus
:
I
gave
him
my
Powder
twice
a
day
,
and
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
every
night
,
with
my
Scorbutick
Tincture
in
all
his
Drink
.
This
Method
being
followed
,
in
the
first
three
days
he
could
move
some
of
his
Fingers
;
and
so
,
Strength
and
Heat
coming
gradually
into
every
Part
,
about
the
tenth
day
he
began
to
drivel
,
and
the
Powder
to
operate
so
,
that
he
had
loose
Stools
every
Day
;
and
soon
after
recovered
his
Speech
,
and
the
perfect
Use
of
his
Limbs
,
and
is
yet
alive
,
though
about
Ten
years
since
.
Example
4.
Of
a
Shaking
Palsy
.
A
Lad
,
about
14
years
of
Age
,
labouring
under
an
Autumnal
Feaver
,
fell
into
a
Palsy
,
having
a
continual
Shaking
,
with
strong
Convulsions
also
attending
.
To
him
I
gave
(
as
to
Others
I
had
don
)
my
Powder
,
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
,
my
Mixtura
Simplex
,
and
the
Arcanum
of
Antimony
prescribed
by
Basilius
.
By
which
Medicines
,
used
after
my
former
Method
,
he
was
perfectly
restored
in
a
short
time
.
Of
Convulsions
.
COnvulsions
take
beginning
,
either
from
an
unnatural
Fermentation
of
the
Juyces
of
the
Body
,
whereby
every
Vessel
or
Organ
is
overmuch
disturbed
;
or
by
particular
Compunction
or
Compression
of
the
Nerves
contracted
;
or
else
from
Nature's
true
Sense
of
what
is
fit
to
be
separated
from
the
Parts
offended
,
and
her
Endeavour
to
separate
the
same
;
as
is
apparent
in
the
Beginnings
of
the
Small
Pox
,
where
the
nutritive
Juyces
are
condensed
,
by
reason
of
the
Morbific
Ferment
,
and
so
made
unfit
for
the
Nutrition
of
the
Spirits
,
and
the
necessary
Separation
appertaining
thereunto
;
being
wholly
uncapable
to
be
distributed
to
the
Parts
.
Here
Nature
,
regularly
acting
,
makes
Convulsions
,
which
open
the
Nerves
,
and
render
that
Diseasy
Ferment
fit
to
become
the
Matter
of
the
Small
Pox
,
or
Feavers
:
for
,
so
soon
as
the
Convulsions
cease
,
the
Small
Pox
appears
;
as
is
sufficiently
evident
by
the
Events
:
and
it
is
apparently
manifest
,
that
such
Convulsions
are
sooner
Perioded
,
than
the
Ideal
.
And
althô
the
Small
Pox
or
Feavers
be
very
Malignant
;
yet
it
is
rare
to
see
any
One
fail
under
those
Distempers
where
Convulsions
have
preceeded
:
thô
a
Convulsion
happening
after
those
Diseases
,
is
most
frequently
Mortal
.
For
,
the
first
is
the
result
of
Nature's
strife
against
the
Disease
;
but
the
other
(
the
Disease
being
annihilated
,
and
Nature
overcome
)
ariseth
from
the
Terror
of
Death
,
of
which
it
is
a
general
Prodrome
.
Also
,
the
Superfluities
,
that
Children
bring
with
them
into
the
World
,
are
the
occasional
Causes
of
those
many
Convulsions
,
that
attend
them
in
their
Infancy
.
For
,
they
being
Retents
of
the
Maternal
Nourishment
,
which
(
coming
then
first
under
the
Dominion
of
the
Stomach
of
the
Infant
)
cannot
not
be
received
as
a
Guest
,
but
are
rejected
,
and
opposed
as
an
Enemy
to
Nutrition
;
and
if
not
subdued
in
the
Act
of
the
first
Digestion
,
by
Vomiting
,
or
Stools
,
Red
or
White-Gum
,
&c.
they
become
the
Matter
of
long
continuing
Convulsions
.
Likewise
,
in
Breeding
Teeth
,
Convulsions
often
happen
;
For
,
by
the
Compression
or
Punction
of
the
Nervous
Fibres
in
the
Gums
,
made
by
the
ingrowing
Teeth
,
Nature
is
enforced
to
make
Convulsions
,
that
the
Teeth
may
break
through
those
Fibres
,
impeding
their
forth-coming
.
But
most
lamentable
are
the
Ideal
Convulsions
,
which
have
their
Original
from
Terror
,
Frights
,
or
Fears
:
For
the
Spirit
,
by
the
amazement
they
infer
,
produceth
a
dark
Image
,
or
Impression
,
by
which
it
is
overwhelmed
,
and
so
driven
to
irregular
Actions
,
which
occasion
uncertain
Events
;
because
being
surprized
with
Stupor
,
and
not
knowing
what
to
do
,
it
doth
nothing
to
right
purpose
,
by
reason
of
the
variety
of
Imaginations
which
(
in
these
Cases
)
are
as
various
as
the
Conceptions
of
the
mind
can
be
.
Of
the
Cure
of
Convulsions
,
that
happen
before
the
Small
Pox
,
&c.
In
the
Cure
of
these
Convulsions
,
I
generally
use
my
Pouder
once
in
six
hours
,
by
which
the
rigour
of
them
is
usually
abated
;
but
,
if
in
a
short
time
the
Convulsions
be
not
lessened
by
the
use
thereof
;
then
I
give
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
,
or
my
Arcanum
of
Camphire
(
administring
either
of
them
,
as
I
see
Cause
)
and
repeat
the
Dose
once
an
Hour
,
till
the
Convulsions
cease
.
Note
:
Here
it
is
to
be
observed
,
that
even
in
these
Convulsions
(
where
my
Medicines
are
used
)
the
Fits
are
more
frequent
,
but
shorter
,
until
wholly
annihilated
,
and
the
Small
Pox
appears
.
Of
the
Cure
of
Convulsions
from
Relicts
of
Maternal
Nourishment
.
These
Convulsions
rarely
happen
,
where
my
Pouder
is
given
to
Children
,
so
soon
as
they
are
born
,
and
often
repeated
;
and
if
they
do
afterwards
arise
,
such
Convulsions
are
soon
and
easily
taken
off
,
by
the
Use
of
other
Medicines
prenominated
.
But
,
where
Convulsions
happen
in
Children
,
that
have
not
had
the
Benefit
of
such
Remedies
;
there
I
must
confess
the
Work
to
be
long
,
and
irksome
,
requiring
Soundness
of
Judgment
in
the
Physician
,
because
of
the
great
Variation
,
that
happens
therein
;
but
more
especially
,
by
reason
of
the
Dissatisfaction
of
Parents
and
Nurses
,
seeing
the
Fits
more
frequent
,
thô
much
shorter
,
when
under
my
Cure
:
For
,
I
once
knew
a
Child
,
so
afflicted
that
had
an
hundred
Fits
in
one
Day
;
and
this
continued
ten
Days
together
,
the
number
not
lessening
;
yet
,
with
this
Advantage
,
(
notwithstanding
the
Fits
were
so
numerous
)
that
the
Child
became
daily
more
lively
,
and
each
Fit
shorter
and
shorter
.
After
the
Tenth
Day
,
this
Child
had
no
more
Fits
;
but
was
constantly
attended
with
Breathing
Sweats
unto
perfect
Recovery
.
Note
:
In
Cure
of
this
Child
,
I
used
the
same
Medicines
as
before
;
but
not
without
other
peculiar
Auxiliaries
,
too
long
to
be
here
recited
:
nevertheless
I
purpose
to
speak
of
them
,
when
I
write
(
as
I
intend
hereafter
)
of
Particular
Diseases
,
and
the
Remedies
I
used
in
Cure
of
the
same
.
Of
the
Cure
of
Convulsions
in
Breeding
Teeth
.
In
the
Cure
of
these
Convulsions
,
I
have
by
Experience
discerned
,
that
thô
the
former
Medicines
were
effectually
helpful
in
this
Case
;
yet
,
if
Incision
also
were
not
used
,
the
Cure
was
not
so
easily
compleated
.
Of
the
Cure
of
Ideal
Convulsions
.
In
Ideal
Convulsions
,
I
have
experimentally
found
my
Pouder
,
and
my
Arcanum
Veneris
,
to
be
of
general
Use
and
Service
;
but
could
not
(
so
speedily
as
I
desired
)
compleat
the
Cure
by
them
,
without
the
help
of
particular
Auxiliaries
.
For
,
in
these
Convulsions
,
the
Variety
of
Idea's
is
so
great
,
that
it
requires
a
Judicious
Application
of
various
Specificks
.
Of
Lethargies
,
Coma's
,
and
Apoplexies
.
These
Diseases
have
all
their
Original
from
one
dark
and
stupefactive
Source
,
where
the
Gates
of
Sleep
continually
stand
open
:
for
such
as
are
afflicted
with
them
,
are
either
troubled
with
over-much
Drowsiness
,
or
oppressed
with
Sleeps
too
profound
.
These
Distempers
differ
only
in
the
Degrees
of
their
Power
:
In
the
two
first
,
there
are
only
subtile
Vapours
,
(
by
the
Schools
called
smoaky
)
which
having
their
Assent
from
the
Diseasy
Power
of
Darkness
in
Us
,
do
after
an
obtuse
manner
stifle
the
Natural
Faculties
;
but
in
the
Latter
,
viz.
Apoplexies
,
they
more
intensly
act
,
and
materially
by
Bloud
,
or
otherwise
suppress
the
Faculties
of
Life
,
and
so
absolutely
overwhelm
all
the
Powers
of
Nature
,
that
the
Body
(
or
the
Spirit
thereof
)
becomes
wholly
Insensible
.
I
have
great
Reason
to
speak
of
these
Diseases
in
this
manner
,
having
been
much
exercised
therein
.
If
called
in
the
beginnings
of
them
,
I
have
found
them
to
be
sooner
removed
,
than
several
other
Distempers
of
less
danger
:
for
if
the
Spirit
can
be
timely
excited
,
to
strive
against
the
Evil
,
they
quickly
vanish
.
What
Medicines
are
helpful
to
One
,
are
really
helpful
to
All
,
the
Dose
only
considered
:
but
I
never
found
,
in
any
of
these
Cases
any
other
than
general
Remedies
to
be
profitable
,
or
available
in
exciting
Nature
to
free
her self
from
the
imimpending
Danger
;
therefore
Generally
,
In
Order
to
Curation
,
I
here
begin
with
my
Cephalic
Drops
,
which
I
give
once
,
and
a
little
while
after
they
have
been
taken
,
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
;
and
6
hours
after
that
my
Pouder
,
and
so
interchangeably
using
my
Pouder
and
Arcanum
,
except
that
sometimes
(
as
I
see
cause
)
instead
of
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
,
I
give
my
Arcanum
Veneris
.
I
proceed
always
giving
my
Cephalic
Drops
once
every
hour
,
during
the
whole
Cure
,
which
is
usually
compleated
in
three
Dayes
time
;
during
which
,
Sweats
rarely
happen
,
until
the
Drowsiness
be
wholly
over
;
but
now
and
then
loose
Stools
.
And
in
real
Apoplexies
,
Nature
stirs
up
Vomitings
,
Sneezings
,
Bleedings
at
Nose
,
or
else
expels
by
Urine
great
Quantities
of
insipid
Water
void
of
Odour
.
Note
:
Where
Vomitings
are
,
which
usually
precede
an
Apoplexy
,
if
any
Physician
endeavour
to
restrain
such
Vomitings
,
or
the
Patients
themselves
be
unwilling
to
bear
them
,
then
they
inevitably
fall
under
the
Burthen
of
that
Disease
.
A
particular
Example
of
the
Method
I
used
in
the
Cure
of
a
Lady
of
Sixty
nine
years
of
Age.
THis
Lady
alwayes
dreading
an
Apoplexy
,
by
reason
her
Relations
had
often
dyed
of
the
same
;
desired
I
would
give
Order
,
in
Case
of
a
sudden
Assault
,
what
should
be
used
Whereupon
I
left
with
her
Woman
some
of
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
,
giving
charge
,
That
if
the
Lady
were
suddenly
taken
with
Vomiting
,
o●
Lightheadedness
,
she
should
give
that
to
her
first
,
and
not
the
Pouder
,
thô
she
was
formerly
used
to
take
it
;
and
to
send
immediately
away
for
me
,
because
she
then
lived
four
Miles
ou●
of
London
.
This
Assault
happening
my
Arcanum
given
,
and
I
sent
for
,
●
hastning
thither
,
found
her
drowsie
,
thô
the
Cold
and
Stupidity
were
somewhat
less
,
than
before
the
taking
what
I
had
left
for
her
.
I
then
gave
her
the
Arcanum
Antimonii
Basilii
;
which
is
not
used
or
known
by
any
one
else
that
I
can
tell
:
After
the
taking
of
which
,
Warmth
increased
,
a
little
Sneezing
hapned
,
Vrine
came
away
abundantly
;
insomuch
,
that
in
six
hours
time
,
there
was
above
3
Pints
of
Water
received
,
void
of
all
Urinous
Odour
,
or
Saline
Tast.
The
Head
grew
hot
,
Bloud
issued
by
Drops
at
the
Nosethrils
;
these
Actions
happened
in
the
first
six
hours
after
the
Assault
.
After
this
,
the
Spirit
became
more
lively
,
and
the
Bloud
more
frequently
issued
out
at
Nose
and
Mouth
,
which
continued
more
or
less
for
three
daies
together
:
In
the
mean
time
her
Sleeps
were
short
,
but
refreshing
.
Then
my
Pouder
was
given
every
4
hours
,
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
once
in
12
hours
,
and
my
Cephalic
Cordial
once
an
hour
.
And
in
four
daies
time
,
all
Symptomes
of
the
Disease
vanished
,
Weakness
only
remained
.
Note
:
This
Cure
being
taken
in
hand
before
the
Brain
was
fully
stupified
,
the
Remedies
had
the
greater
Effect
;
for
I
have
(
to
my
Grief
)
too
often
seen
the
same
Medicines
prove
useless
,
thô
the
Dose
was
given
in
a
threefold
Quantity
;
and
where
they
were
serviceable
to
prevent
the
Evil
,
they
did
not
bring
away
so
much
Bloud
,
but
caused
Sneesings
,
and
Vrine
in
like
Quantity
,
and
Frequency
.
Also
I
have
observed
,
that
Direct
Vomitories
,
given
in
this
Disease
,
(
as
they
too
often
are
)
are
as
dangerous
,
as
things
repressing
Vomits
,
before
the
Patient
is
throughly
seized
with
the
Disease
;
but
after
the
Stupor
is
at
its
height
,
a
forcible
Vomit
,
if
it
operate
strongly
enough
,
may
do
good
,
otherwise
the
Patient
certainly
dies
.
The
same
may
be
said
of
Sacrification
,
Phlebetomy
,
(
thô
that
carry
a
seeming
Conveniency
in
Sanguineous
Apoplexies
)
Blistering
,
Clysters
,
and
other
forcible
things
,
which
cannot
separate
the
Sanguineous
Matter
,
except
accidentally
only
;
therefore
are
uncertain
helps
;
whereas
Medicines
of
an
Vniversal
Tendency
,
and
truly
gifted
,
act
just
as
Nature
requires
,
and
so
frequently
act
with
greater
force
and
certainty
,
than
any
of
a
Specific
operation
can
do
.
But
there
is
too
often
a
great
failing
in
Physicians
,
that
they
discern
not
Apoplexies
before
they
seize
,
and
so
cannot
contribute
help
for
preventing
them
;
which
is
much
to
be
bewailed
.
Of
Imposthumes
.
IMposthumes
are
as
various
as
the
Juyces
of
the
Body
,
yet
all
of
them
have
but
one
Original
,
which
is
the
Retents
of
Superfluities
,
not
capable
to
be
separated
without
Apertion
of
the
Skin
;
except
such
Remedies
be
used
that
can
further
the
Resolution
of
what
is
Congealed
or
Stagnized
;
which
Resolution
,
so
procured
,
yields
more
ease
to
Nature
,
and
is
performed
with
less
Anxiety
,
than
when
turned
into
Quitter
.
For
it
is
clear
,
if
Nature
can
separate
things
,
without
Corrupting
them
,
her
Government
is
not
then
much
blemished
;
in
the
performance
of
which
,
General
Medicines
are
only
capable
to
assist
her
.
Here
Books
must
be
laid
aside
,
all
Recipes
dis-esteemed
,
conclusive
Judgment
,
and
all
Indications
neglected
,
but
Nature
wholly
tended
,
and
referred
to
;
We
in
the
mean
while
(
by
a
due
application
of
suitable
Remedies
)
adding
Light
to
her
to
act
by
,
and
Power
to
overcome
the
present
Stagnization
.
For
in
so
doing
,
the
Scene
is
altered
,
and
Nature
rendred
capable
with
ease
to
remove
That
,
which
before
could
not
be
removed
,
without
too
great
Molestation
.
For
the
Wisest
of
Men
,
upon
the
first
Appearance
of
a
Tumor
,
cannot
by
any
known
Rule
judge
of
Nature's
Capacity
or
Propensity
to
determinate
the
Evil
;
or
whether
it
be
more
profitable
to
resolve
,
or
suppurate
the
same
.
As
is
apparent
in
some
Tumors
,
where
by
attempting
Resolution
,
the
subtillest
or
thinnest
Parts
being
separated
,
the
Remainder
is
so
indurated
,
as
not
to
be
resolved
or
suppurated
;
and
so
it
becomes
the
same
,
that
Chyrurgeons
call
a
Schirrus
.
But
,
in
suppurating
Tumors
,
great
Pains
,
Anguish
,
and
different
Symptomes
,
in
differing
forms
of
Heats
,
Colds
,
&c.
often
happen
;
through
the
Distress
Nature
falls
under
,
by
reason
of
the
Largeness
of
the
Tumor
,
and
the
difficulty
to
bring
such
Evils
to
perfect
Suppuration
:
and
at
last
,
unless
they
open
themselves
and
be
judiciously
handled
,
they
are
often
changed
from
one
thing
into
another
.
For
,
't
is
evident
,
that
the
Opening
of
some
Tumors
by
Incision
,
and
keeping
them
open
by
cramming
in
of
Tents
(
a
Practice
too
often
used
)
doth
either
change
the
nature
of
the
Tumor
,
or
at
least
prolong
the
Cure.
Whereas
,
in
either
Case
(
viz.
in
Resolution
,
or
Suppuration
)
if
Nature
be
well
minded
,
no
such
Symptomes
or
Accidents
happen
.
Now
,
if
such
Errors
be
committed
,
as
is
daily
obvious
they
are
,
in
External
Imposthumes
,
how
much
more
in
the
Internal
(
I
mean
not
those
,
that
are
internally
caused
by
Contusion
,
or
other
Acts
of
Violence
;
because
of
them
I
have
elsewhere
spoken
)
which
are
never
seen
,
or
known
,
but
by
their
Effects
?
thô
,
in
truth
,
every
Internal
Imposthumation
hath
the
same
occasional
Cause
,
as
the
External
have
:
For
they
,
being
also
caused
by
the
Relicts
of
Nourishment
not
separated
,
fall
under
the
Laws
of
a
disturbed
,
or
sensible
Spirit
;
which
makes
so
great
Variety
in
them
,
not
sensibly
to
be
discerned
by
the
Physician
,
that
he
must
of
necessity
,
either
refer
himself
to
the
help
of
such
virtual
Remedies
,
as
are
capable
to
take
off
the
Disturbance
,
and
fortifie
the
sensible
Power
of
right
Distinction
in
Nature
;
or
he
can
never
arrive
to
so
much
Satisfaction
in
himself
,
as
(
Scientifically
)
to
declare
how
,
or
which
way
,
the
Disease
is
,
or
may
be
cured
.
This
is
,
by
reason
of
the
great
Uncertainty
of
the
Inclination
of
Nature
in
these
Cases
:
for
sometimes
shee
seeks
to
resolve
,
or
maturate
the
Relict
,
in
the
Place
,
where
it
is
,
which
is
a
true
natural
Way
;
at
another
time
invirons
the
same
with
a
Cistis
,
in
order
to
Suppuration
;
and
at
another
Season
,
and
in
another
Place
,
sends
forth
Bloud
out
of
the
Veins
,
intending
thereby
to
separate
that
Retent
(
without
Digestion
)
by
the
common
Passages
;
which
,
if
stopped
or
letted
by
the
way
,
quickly
tends
to
Pus
:
and
then
(
if
in
that
form
it
be
separated
)
the
Irruption
is
so
violent
,
that
it
sometimes
proves
mortal
;
as
is
too
frequently
apparent
by
those
Cataracts
of
Bloud
and
Matter
,
that
(
in
such
Cases
)
issue
out
by
the
Nosethrils
,
by
the
Vreters
,
by
Vomiting
,
by
Stools
,
and
by
the
Womb.
Here
Nature
her self
erroneously
acts
,
like
those
Physicians
,
who
inconsiderately
attempt
to
purge
out
Retents
before
they
are
digested
,
contrary
to
the
Mind
of
Hippocrat●s
,
and
the
known
Rule
of
Paracelsus
,
who
saith
,
Every
Disease
(
to
which
I
add
,
every
Diseasy-Inclination
)
ought
to
be
cured
in
its
own
place
.
For
't
is
evident
,
that
some
Imposthumes
are
not
wholly
Sanguineous
;
and
the
Retents
,
being
rarely
such
,
(
because
the
Veins
as
they
have
their
own
Valves
,
so
they
have
their
peculiar
Passages
to
evacuate
Superfluities
by
)
the
Bloud
that
attends
them
,
is
rather
in
order
to
Resolution
,
than
Putrefaction
,
provided
Nature
be
in
her
own
Path
;
but
if
diverted
therefrom
,
either
through
the
want
of
Light
in
her self
to
act
by
,
or
the
Physician
's
Error
(
in
mis-application
of
Remedies
)
those
sad
Effects
,
above
spoken
of
,
do
inevitably
follow
.
For
every
Retent
,
which
Nature
can
neither
resolve
nor
digest
,
(
being
forsaken
)
naturally
corrupts
,
by
the
Heat
and
Moisture
of
the
Place
,
and
so
maketh
a
real
Imposthume
:
but
Experience
proves
,
that
those
Actions
of
Corrupting
,
may
be
prevented
by
a
timely
application
of
suitable
Remedies
;
as
is
apparent
by
the
following
Example
.
Where
Relicts
of
preceeding
Feavers
are
,
there
Nature
sends
Bloud
to
be
materiated
,
to
maturate
by
putrefaction
the
offending
Evil
,
in
order
to
its
Expulsion
;
but
if
prevented
by
due
Medicines
,
and
Transpiration
happens
,
then
no
Putrefaction
follows
.
For
where
proper
Means
are
used
,
Bloud
(
extra
Vasa
)
is
not
corrupted
,
but
kept
from
putrefying
,
or
otherwise
resolved
without
Pus
;
I
my self
having
often
seen
Bloud
after
long
extravasation
coughed
up
dry
and
hard
,
without
the
least
Sign
of
Putrefaction
.
Likewise
every
Vessel
(
of
what
kind
soever
)
being
over-filled
,
and
Nature
not
capable
to
separate
the
same
by
the
Common
Passages
;
that
Fullness
(
by
her
forsaken
)
becomes
the
Matter
of
Imposthumes
.
Or
if
any
Matter
be
stagnized
,
that
also
is
liable
to
the
same
Transchangement
,
and
produceth
Effects
as
bad
,
or
worse
than
the
former
;
as
is
sufficiently
witnessed
by
the
Dry
Belly-Ache
in
the
West-Indies
;
and
by
some
of
our
Country-Men
afflicted
with
the
Scurvey
,
in
whom
the
Knots
in
their
Nerves
give
a
palpable
Testimony
,
not
only
of
Siagnization
,
but
also
of
preternatural
Congelation
;
not
much
unlike
to
our
knotty
Gouis
,
or
Tophuses
in
the
Lues
,
which
happen
upon
the
Bones
;
where
,
for
want
of
Internal
Attraction
of
the
Parts
,
or
External
Separation
from
them
,
the
nutritive
Juice
of
the
Parts
is
indurated
,
and
thereby
becomes
the
Matter
it
afterwards
shews
it self
to
be
.
For
,
when
a
floating
Evil
,
or
Diseasy
Spirit
undetermin'd
,
assaults
the
Life
;
then
Nature
sends
forth
Bloud
out
of
the
Veins
,
to
encompass
that
Spiritual
Evil
,
to
materiate
the
same
,
and
so
makes
Fiery
Phlegmones
,
and
Diseases
of
like
kind
,
which
are
true
,
real
,
and
natural
Imposthumes
,
proper
Issues
of
her
own
Intentions
.
Of
Fiery
Phlegmones
in
general
,
and
their
Cure.
I
forbear
to
write
particular
Examples
of
these
Diseases
,
because
they
are
so
numerous
,
so
frequently
cured
by
my
Method
,
and
so
certainly
known
to
the
Patients
themselves
;
But
in
general
the
Tumors
are
large
,
the
Blood
(
at
first
appearance
)
uncorrupted
;
yet
it
is
not
long
before
great
Pains
,
the
Forerunners
of
Putrefaction
,
discover
themselves
.
And
thô
at
the
first
manifestation
of
these
Tumors
,
when
only
a
weight
and
burthen
upon
the
life
is
perceived
,
letting
Blood
doth
somewhat
diminish
the
Tumor
,
and
prevent
Pain
;
yet
,
if
it
have
a
diseasy
Character
,
that
doth
not
hinder
the
foregoing
determination
of
Nature
towards
separation
;
but
allaying
part
of
her
fury
,
doth
I
acknowledge
render
the
Suppurative
Power
less
burthensome
.
But
if
Quitter
be
begun
to
be
made
,
then
Nature
by
Phlebotomy
is
hindred
of
her
own
Determination
;
and
being
thereby
weakened
,
languisheth
,
and
labours
to
little
purpose
,
making
those
Distempers
tedious
in
suppurating
;
whereas
,
had
not
that
supposed
Expedient
been
used
,
Suppuration
would
much
more
speedily
have
followed
.
The
Cure.
In
the
beginning
of
these
Diseases
(
whether
inward
,
or
outward
)
if
there
be
a
tendancy
to
Pain
,
or
no
Pain
,
if
a
burthen
be
,
I
give
my
Powder
once
every
4
hours
;
if
Sweats
happen
after
taking
it
,
and
the
Pain
be
not
great
,
the
Tumor
is
soon
resolved
.
But
if
there
be
real
Matter
made
in
these
Tumors
,
then
thô
the
Tumor
seemingly
decrease
,
yet
the
Impostumation
cannot
be
hindred
;
but
doth
quickly
and
suddenly
come
to
maturity
;
and
being
throughly
ripened
,
is
as
suddenly
cured
,
yet
if
Pains
increase
after
taking
the
Pouder
,
I
give
my
Arcanum
Veneris
once
in
24
hours
,
and
my
Pouder
(
as
before
is
said
)
once
every
4
hours
;
continuing
this
Course
unto
the
end
of
the
Cure.
Note
also
,
in
External
Cases
,
I
apply
my
Resolving
Cerot
once
in
12
hours
.
Of
an
Imposthume
in
the
Liver
,
and
its
Cure.
Being
called
to
a
Child
7
years
of
Age
,
having
Hardness
,
Weight
and
Pain
in
his
right
Side
,
and
a
short
Cough
,
with
an
unsavoury
Odour
;
which
I
strictly
observed
,
and
thence
presently
distinguished
(
especially
after
I
had
compressed
the
Side
of
his
Belly
under
the
Ribs
)
what
the
Disease
was
,
and
that
the
Seat
of
it
was
in
the
Liver
;
yet
,
not
willing
to
be
happy
in
my
own
Distinction
,
I
desired
an
intimate
Friend
of
mine
(
One
of
the
honoured
Society
of
the
Colledge
of
Physicians
)
to
accompany
mee
,
to
see
the
progress
of
this
Distemper
;
which
he
observing
,
fully
concurr'd
with
me
as
to
the
Seat
of
the
Disease
.
The
Cure
hereof
was
thus
perform'd
;
The
first
day
I
gave
my
Pouder
once
in
4
hours
,
my
Arcanum
Veneris
at
Night
,
and
my
Aperitive
Spirit
in
Drink
,
as
often
as
the
Child
drank
;
and
outwardly
I
applied
my
Resolving
Oyl
.
After
the
first
or
second
Day
(
continuing
the
same
Method
)
I
found
the
Tumor
did
not
increase
in
Magnitude
,
but
the
Dolour
was
much
augmented
,
till
two
Nights
were
past
.
The
third
Night
,
the
Pain
lessened
,
and
within
a
Day
or
two
after
,
the
Child
being
taken
with
great
Sickness
,
and
Vomiting
,
a
large
quantity
of
suppurated
Matter
was
cast
forth
;
and
no
sooner
was
a
cessation
of
that
Vomiting
,
but
great
Coughing
happened
,
whereby
more
of
the
same
putrid
Matter
was
plentifully
spit
up
.
After
which
,
the
Child
falling
to
sleep
,
and
resting
,
no
more
Vomiting
followed
;
but
the
Coughing
and
Spitting
continued
(
by
Intervals
)
for
3
daies
together
.
This
time
expired
,
the
Coughing
began
to
abate
,
and
the
Urine
thenceforth
was
filled
with
purulent
Matter
,
which
continued
to
come
forth
in
great
quantity
(
with
the
Urine
)
for
7
daies
together
,
not
seeming
to
be
diminished
in
all
that
Time.
About
the
eighth
day
happened
a
loose
Stool
(
the
Child
having
been
costive
all
the
time
before
)
in
which
appeared
the
same
purulent
Matter
,
as
was
before
separated
by
Vomiting
,
Coughing
,
and
Urine
.
From
that
time
,
the
Urine
began
to
clear
,
and
so
continued
clearing
each
Day
unto
perfect
Recovery
.
In
this
Cure
no
other
Medicines
were
used
,
than
those
above
specified
.
Note
:
Notwithstanding
this
Child
had
Stools
each
day
after
his
first
loose
Stool
,
yet
(
except
that
once
)
no
Pus
appeared
in
the
Excrements
.
Also
,
it
is
worthy
of
Note
,
That
during
the
whole
Cure
,
no
Bloud
came
forth
with
the
purulent
Matter
;
a
sufficient
Testimony
of
the
perfect
Suppuration
thereof
.
Of
an
Imposthume
of
the
Stomach
,
and
its
Cure.
A
Young
Woman
coming
to
me
,
having
great
Dolour
in
her
Stomach
,
and
that
largely
extended
to
hardness
on
the
outside
,
yet
compressive
;
notwithstanding
the
many
Remedies
she
had
taken
(
according
to
the
Judgment
of
her
Physicians
)
pro
dolore
Ventriculi
,
the
Anguish
of
her
Stomach
increased
,
her
Spirits
languished
,
she
was
subject
to
great
Heats
and
Colds
,
Hysteric
Passions
,
Fumings
in
her
Head
,
uncertain
Sleeps
,
&c.
indubitate
Signs
of
an
Imposthume
present
.
In
this
Condition
I
took
her
into
my
Care
,
and
proceeded
in
her
Cure
,
as
followes
.
I
gave
her
my
Pouder
once
in
six
hours
for
the
first
day
,
and
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
at
Night
;
and
daily
continued
the
same
Method
,
with
my
Scorbutic
Tincture
in
all
her
Drink
.
In
7
or
8
daies
time
,
the
Imposthume
opening
,
she
voided
by
Vomit
a
large
quantity
of
Pus
;
and
for
4
or
5
daies
after
(
taking
the
Pouder
)
vomited
every
day
,
and
brought
up
part
of
the
Cistis
.
At
5
daies
end
the
Pouder
wrought
downwards
,
and
the
purulent
Matter
came
away
by
Stools
,
with
the
remaining
part
of
the
Cistis
.
Note
:
Here
was
no
Separation
by
Urine
,
for
that
was
clear
(
as
the
Urine
of
a
sound
Body
)
during
the
whole
time
of
the
Cure.
Of
an
Imposthume
separated
by
Vrine
.
A
Woman
complaining
of
great
Pains
in
the
Sides
of
her
Belly
and
Loyns
,
without
any
sign
of
Tumefaction
(
sensibly
perceived
by
her Self
)
thô
full
of
Pain
and
Torture
;
when
all
Means
failed
,
used
by
other
Physicians
,
(
they
judging
her
to
be
afflicted
with
Cholic-Passions
;
because
of
the
Heats
,
Colds
,
Tying
up
,
and
great
Anguish
she
endured
)
applyed
her self
to
me
.
This
deplorable
Case
of
hers
,
not
being
at
all
obvious
to
my
Distinction
,
and
finding
no
place
for
any
peculiar
Remedy
,
I
gave
my
Pouder
first
,
as
in
other
Cases
I
had
usually
done
;
and
(
because
the
Pain
was
in
the
descending
Parts
)
my
Aperitive
Drops
in
all
her
Drink
,
and
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
.
The
Pouder
I
gave
but
once
in
a
day
,
and
the
Arcanum
every
Night
.
This
Method
I
continued
for
10
daies
;
in
which
time
the
Pains
daily
lessened
,
and
all
bad
Symptomes
vanished
.
Yet
,
being
careful
,
that
no
Relict
might
be
left
,
I
appointed
the
same
Medicines
to
be
taken
,
in
the
same
Order
,
for
4
daies
longer
;
in
which
space
of
time
came
away
by
Urine
a
little
long
Bag
(
some
Drops
of
Bloud
preceeding
the
exit
thereof
)
in
which
was
contained
Matter
perfectly
suppurated
.
Notwithstanding
this
,
she
continued
the
Use
of
the
Pouder
,
for
some
Weeks
after
,
unto
perfect
Recovery
.
Note
:
Here
,
in
this
Cure
,
was
no
Separation
made
,
but
by
Urine
only
.
Of
an
Imposthume
in
the
Head
,
and
its
Cure.
A
Man
of
middle
Age
,
having
weight
,
puncturing
and
a
Swimming
in
his
Head
,
being
perswaded
to
take
my
Medicines
,
used
them
for
a
small
time
according
to
my
Order
;
but
,
finding
his
Pain
to
increase
,
refused
to
be
longer
governed
by
my
Directions
.
After
this
,
taking
Advice
of
Others
,
he
used
Sternutories
,
whereby
issued
by
the
Nostrils
a
very
small
quantity
of
Bloud
and
Matter
.
These
Remedies
not
producing
that
Ease
he
expected
,
his
Physicians
advised
him
to
Purge
;
in
the
doing
of
which
,
appeared
both
Matter
and
Bloud
in
his
Excrements
:
and
,
thô
the
Purge
was
very
gentle
,
yet
this
Loosness
continued
upon
him
for
several
daies
,
infering
so
great
Weakness
of
Body
,
that
he
was
not
able
to
walk
the
length
of
a
Room
.
Bloud
and
Matter
issued
at
every
Stool
,
and
the
Torment
then
was
greater
in
his
Belly
,
than
in
his
Head.
He
languishing
thus
,
and
himself
and
his
Friends
discerning
their
own
Inadvertency
,
to
follow
a
specious
(
but
groundless
)
Hope
of
the
Advantage
of
Separation
by
Stools
;
and
finding
his
Weakness
greater
than
before
,
referred
themselves
a
second
time
to
me
.
Then
I
gave
my
Pouder
every
2
hours
,
my
Coralline
Cordial
once
an
hour
;
which
Medicines
,
thô
they
did
somewhat
ease
the
Pain
in
the
Belly
,
and
lessen
the
Quitter
which
was
exonerated
with
the
Excrements
;
Yet
was
it
full
10
daies
time
,
before
a
stop
was
put
to
this
unnatural
way
of
Separation
.
Note
:
As
the
Dolour
of
the
Patient's
Belly
decreased
,
the
Pain
of
his
Head
increased
;
and
then
,
to
his
own
Sense
,
his
Head
was
seemingly
extended
.
Perceiving
this
,
I
every
Night
gave
my
Arcanum
Veneris
,
and
the
Pouder
every
4
hours
:
Then
in
4
,
or
5
Daies
the
Imposthume
in
the
Head
opened
afresh
,
yielding
through
the
Nostrils
and
Mouth
an
indifferently
large
quantity
of
Matter
,
but
imperfectly
concocted
;
together
with
small
pieces
of
Skin
,
and
at
last
so
much
skin
,
as
extended
upon
a
Trencher
,
was
as
large
in
length
,
as
the
Trencher
it self
.
Afterwards
more
small
pieces
of
skin
came
away
;
but
in
Conclusion
,
nothing
except
Bloud
and
Matter
was
vented
,
till
the
extirpation
thereof
.
Of
an
Opened
Imposthume
in
the
Head
,
and
its
Cure.
A
Woman
middle-aged
,
having
for
some
Months
laboured
under
the
great
trouble
of
an
Imposthume
opened
,
as
was
manifest
by
the
fetid
Matter
,
that
flowed
from
her
Nostrils
and
Mouth
,
having
so
great
a
Swimming
in
her
Head
,
that
she
could
not
go
half
a
Flight-shot
,
without
resting
;
and
so
great
a
Sense
of
Fulness
in
her
Head
,
that
(
putting
her
Finger
into
her
Ear
)
she
could
feel
the
floating
Matter
moveable
;
after
all
endeavors
had
been
used
,
by
Errins
,
Purgations
,
Drying-Drinks
,
and
whatsoever
other
Means
her
Physicians
thought
most
fit
to
be
practiz'd
;
the
Putrefaction
being
not
changed
,
nor
the
Fluctuation
stopped
,
she
applyed
her self
to
me
.
In
this
Case
,
I
used
nothing
but
my
Pouder
twice
a
day
,
for
several
daies
together
,
and
my
Aperitive
Drops
in
all
her
Drink
during
that
time
.
By
the
continued
Use
of
these
Means
,
her
Head
seemed
(
to
her
)
more
lightsome
;
that
ill
Savour
of
the
descending
Matter
was
almost
totally
extinct
.
Then
,
I
gave
my
Arcanum
Metallorum
,
after
which
a
Gleety-Water
flowed
a
great
while
,
but
void
of
savour
.
This
Method
I
continued
for
almost
9
Months
after
;
in
which
Time
all
that
Distemper
seemed
to
be
subdued
,
and
Nothing
remained
,
except
an
ill
Habit
,
under
a
Scorbutic
Form
;
against
which
I
administred
what
was
formerly
specify'd
to
be
proper
in
Scorbutic
Distempers
.
By
which
Remedies
,
her
Head
was
reduced
to
its
pristine
state
,
Weakness
only
continuing
in
that
Part.
This
Cure
was
performed
many
Years
since
.
Note
:
It
is
impossible
to
write
of
all
particular
Cases
of
Imposthumes
,
(
thô
very
briefly
,
they
being
so
numerous
,
and
daily
presented
)
without
enlarging
the
present
Work
to
too
great
a
Volume
;
therefore
I
refer
the
Reader
to
the
Reasons
urged
by
me
in
the
foregoing
Prologue
to
these
Examples
:
because
the
Medicines
(
by
me
used
)
are
one
and
the
same
in
every
kind
of
Imposthume
;
without
other
Variation
,
than
what
occasional
Accidents
may
cause
me
to
use
.
Of
Feavers
,
Putrid
,
Malignant
,
Epidemical
,
or
Accidental
.
All
these
Feavers
are
so
well
known
,
and
so
frequently
happen
,
that
they
need
no
Description
:
for
,
whether
the
Patients
be
taken
with
Chilness
,
Head-ach
,
Vomiting
,
Pain
in
the
Back
,
or
other
Symptomes
;
they
are
all
(
by
me
)
cured
after
one
and
the
same
Method
,
with
small
,
or
very
little
Variation
.
I
alwaies
give
my
Pouder
,
in
the
beginning
of
these
Distempers
,
and
order
the
same
to
be
repeated
every
four
hours
.
And
then
,
if
a
tendency
to
Putrefaction
be
in
the
Chyle
,
the
Pouder
either
makes
Vomits
,
or
stops
them
:
Yet
,
in
these
Cases
,
Sweats
do
not
suddenly
follow
the
taking
the
Pouder
,
till
all
the
putrefactive
Disposition
is
removed
;
however
,
on
the
fourth
day
a
laudable
Hypostasis
will
appear
in
the
Vrine
:
after
which
time
,
constant
Sweats
follow
unto
the
end
of
the
Cure
,
which
(
if
my
Simplex
be
daily
used
with
the
Pouder
)
is
usually
compleated
on
the
7th
Day
.
But
,
in
Epidemics
,
that
are
continual
,
if
the
Patients
take
the
Pouder
so
soon
as
they
are
seized
with
Shiverings
,
then
Sweats
quickly
follow
(
unless
the
Chyle
be
infected
)
without
Vomiting
,
or
Loosness
:
and
if
the
Pouder
be
repeated
once
in
four
hours
,
it
rarely
happens
,
that
the
Cure
is
not
finished
,
on
the
third
,
fourth
,
or
fifth
Day
at
farthest
,
if
the
Sweats
(
coming
forth
in
the
mean
time
)
have
not
been
check'd
.
Note
:
That
in
Cure
of
these
Feavers
(
viz.
Putrid
and
Epidemic
)
I
administer
all
things
,
as
in
the
former
Plague
;
except
my
Aqua-Pestilentialis
,
and
some
other
things
only
fitted
for
that
present
Necessity
.
Of
Feavers
continual
,
and
intermitting
,
complicated
,
and
of
Feavers
simply
Intermitting
.
In
these
Continual
Feavers
,
thô
stronger
Paroxysmes
daily
be
,
or
every
other
day
;
yet
,
in
the
Intermissions
the
Feaver
is
not
wholly
off
.
Nevertheless
,
in
these
Cases
,
I
follow
the
same
Method
,
as
in
the
other
Feavers
,
with
this
Variation
only
,
viz.
That
I
give
my
Simplex
(
or
Febrifugal
Drops
)
once
in
an
hour
or
two
;
both
in
the
Paroxysme
,
and
Intermission
.
This
Order
being
observed
,
these
Feavers
are
generally
terminated
,
at
the
third
or
fourth
Fit
:
at
which
time
usually
3
,
or
4
loose
Stools
happen
,
just
upon
the
Separation
of
the
Febrile
Power
.
In
Intermitting
Feavers
,
where
no
constant
Continuance
is
,
between
the
Paroxysmes
,
I
also
give
the
same
Medicines
,
thô
not
in
the
same
Quantity
,
and
have
alwaies
found
them
to
answer
the
Ends
of
Nature
;
unless
,
by
Irregularity
of
Patients
,
their
proper
Effects
have
been
impeded
.
Therefore
,
in
these
Cases
,
I
could
never
see
any
just
necessity
for
the
use
of
the
Peruvian
Bark
,
call'd
the
Jesuits
Pouder
:
for
what
Repute
soever
that
Bark
hath
got
in
the
World
,
the
Merit
thereof
is
as
yet
undiscerned
by
me
.
By
my
Medicines
,
both
Spirit
and
Matter
are
separated
,
and
not
lockt
up
together
,
as
by
the
Peruvian
Bark
they
alwayes
are
.
For
,
I
have
by
Experience
discerned
more
grievous
and
long
adhering
Calamities
to
follow
the
use
thereof
,
(
especially
in
Quartanes
,
or
Malignant
Feavers
)
than
those
Diseases
themselves
would
ever
have
left
.
Yet
,
I
deny
not
,
but
that
sound
People
(
of
haile
Constitutions
)
where
no
Malignity
is
,
having
Intermitting
Feavers
,
may
receive
benefit
,
by
the
taking
off
the
Fits
by
that
way
;
provided
Nature
her Self
be
strong
enough
to
subdue
the
Relicts
afterward
;
otherwise
not
.
Of
Quartanes
.
These
Feavers
,
according
to
my
Opinion
,
are
far
better
and
much
more
safely
Cured
without
;
than
with
the
Jesuits-Pouder
;
because
I
never
found
their
long
Continuance
prejudicial
to
Nature
;
except
where
Nature
her self
,
or
Physicians
,
have
inferred
Dammage
,
by
not
resolving
Matter
,
and
Spirit
,
at
the
same
time
;
therefore
,
I
here
speak
no
further
of
them
.
Likewise
of
Small
Pox
and
Meazles
,
Diseases
very
well
known
,
I
forbear
to
write
any
thing
;
except
this
observation
,
That
their
Malignity
is
somewhat
abated
,
their
Matter
diminished
,
and
the
Patients
continue
in
Sweats
most
of
the
time
,
by
the
use
of
my
Medicines
:
And
of
Convulsions
,
preceeding
the
said
Small
Pox
,
I
speak
not
here
,
because
they
are
sufficiently
treated
of
in
the
Chapter
of
Convulsions
.
Of
Diseases
of
the
Womb.
Having
hitherto
said
nothing
of
those
grievous
Infirmities
,
incident
to
Women
only
,
that
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
Arcanum
Veneris
.
During
this
Cure
the
Cleansings
were
not
Sanguineous
,
but
Aqueous
,
and
continued
for
Seventy
two
Days
.
In
all
which
time
no
Bloud
appeared
,
but
a
Cleansing
Water
,
sometimes
of
one
Colour
,
sometimes
of
another
,
as
is
Common
to
other
Women
After
this
,
she
each
Day
increased
in
Strength
,
and
at
length
became
perfectly
well
,
and
hath
since
had
several
Children
.
Now
,
forasmuch
,
as
I
have
(
in
all
the
Diseases
above-named
)
made
frequent
mention
of
my
Pouder
,
shewing
the
particular
use
thereof
in
those
Cases
;
but
have
never
yet
Published
the
General
use
of
the
same
,
though
it
seems
to
me
to
be
of
greater
concern
to
the
Publick
,
than
any
other
Medicine
before
specify'd
;
I
am
therefore
willing
here
to
subjoyn
a
succinct
and
plain
Description
of
the
General
use
of
this
Pouder
,
and
also
of
my
Scorbutic
Tincture
(
the
first
being
more
Material
,
the
latter
more
Spiritual
)
for
the
necessary
help
of
particular
Persons
or
Families
,
where
Physicians
are
not
easily
to
be
had
:
experimentally
knowing
the
Pouder
to
manifest
its
Operation
chiefly
in
the
first
Digestion
,
and
the
Effects
thereof
;
and
the
Tincture
to
be
singularly
useful
,
for
Purification
of
the
Bloud
,
opening
the
Obstruction
of
the
Nerves
,
Spleen
,
Liver
,
and
Gall
,
separating
the
superfluous
moisture
of
the
Glandules
,
and
acrimonious
Humors
in
the
Reins
.
Of
the
Vse
of
the
Pouder
.
In
the
beginning
of
every
Disease
,
known
or
unknown
,
where
the
Stomach
is
concerned
,
there
I
give
the
Pouder
first
;
which
,
thô
it
may
not
cure
(
as
in
Apoplexies
)
yet
it
is
more
safe
than
any
other
commonly
known
Remedy
,
either
of
the
Shops
,
or
of
any
Modern
Physicians
of
Publick
Note
at
this
Day
:
because
it
is
not
only
subservient
to
Nature
in
preventing
the
formation
of
Diseases
;
but
is
also
(
if
timely
taken
)
sufficient
to
enervate
,
or
nullifie
their
existence
when
formed
.
For
in
the
Primary
Assault
of
any
Disease
(
that
is
,
upon
the
first
perceivance
of
Illness
)
being
once
or
twice
taken
,
it
either
wholly
prevents
the
growth
and
increase
of
that
Disease
,
or
renders
it
fit
to
be
more
easily
cured
with
other
Medicines
.
In
Diseases
arriv'd
to
some
height
,
as
of
two
or
three
Dayes
,
or
longer
continuance
,
especially
if
undeterminate
,
this
Pouder
sometimes
solely
and
alone
works
(
being
taken
at
first
●wice
or
thrice
a
Day
,
and
afterwards
Morning
and
Evening
)
unto
perfect
Recovery
;
but
,
in
Intermitting
Fea●ers
I
alwayes
give
it
an
hour
before
●he
Fit.
In
every
Epidemic
,
Putrid
,
or
Acute
Feaver
,
it
answers
the
regular
Intention
of
Nature
;
because
it
sometimes
Vomiteth
,
Purgeth
,
and
provokes
Sweats
(
without
the
help
of
Cloathes
more
than
usual
)
and
otherwhile
stayeth
Vomiting
and
Loosness
arising
from
Nature's
Errour
,
or
debility
of
Parts
,
or
Organs
;
rectifying
her
Errour
,
and
strengthening
the
Parts
.
Also
it
stops
those
Morbific
Sweats
,
that
arise
from
Languishment
;
or
alters
such
Sweats
,
as
are
produced
by
forcible
Diaphoreticks
,
unseasonably
used
,
contrary
to
the
intent
of
Nature
.
In
Vertigoes
,
and
all
Dolours
of
the
Head
;
Stomach
,
Back
,
or
Sides
,
it
is
a
Medicine
of
general
Use
and
Service
.
In
the
Iliac
and
Cholic
Passions
,
in
Numnesses
,
and
all
Pains
in
the
Muscles
,
that
happen
from
the
Scurvey
;
or
in
any
other
Congealed
Distemper
,
or
what
may
be
comprehended
under
the
Name
of
Congelation
,
this
Pouder
proves
it self
a
powerful
Remedy
;
because
,
if
taken
in
hot
Posset-Drink
,
Sweats
usually
follow
the
taking
thereof
.
Also
,
in
every
Scorbutic
Distemper
it
is
very
available
,
and
acts
as
variously
as
the
Scorbutic
Forme
is
various
;
for
in
all
Fluctuations
,
or
Diseases
of
Resolution
,
it
is
no
less
serviceable
,
than
in
Congealed
Distempers
;
because
being
a
Medicine
truly
Natural
,
Nature
can
use
it
either
way
,
to
her
own
benefit
.
In
Pleurisies
,
Bruises
,
and
all
Imposthumes
inward
or
outward
,
it
will
compleatly
answer
the
Desire
of
a
good
Physician
:
for
it
powerfully
resists
Putrefaction
;
and
thô
it
cannot
always
prevent
Imposthumation
,
or
hinder
Putrefaction
when
begun
;
yet
it
ripens
the
Matter
begun
to
be
Putrified
,
and
afterwards
expels
it
when
perfectly
digested
.
In
the
Bloudy-Flux
it
is
a
certain
and
speedy
Cure
,
even
to
admiration
;
also
in
the
Griping
of
the
Guts
,
attended
with
vehement
Vomitings
,
and
a
continued
Loosness
,
it
effects
so
much
,
beyond
the
Power
of
other
Medicines
,
as
is
scarcely
credible
;
yet
the
same
Pouder
,
in
extream
Costiveness
,
accomplisheth
the
Work
,
by
loosening
the
Belly
.
In
the
Small-Pox
,
taken
in
the
beginning
of
the
Disease
,
it
causeth
Vomiting
,
Purging
,
or
Sweats
,
and
then
binds
the
Body
(
as
is
fit
)
and
brings
out
the
Small-Pox
;
fortifying
the
Life
as
far
as
it
is
gifted
for
that
work
.
In
the
Jaundies
,
no
Medicine
,
that
ever
I
used
,
exceeds
this
:
for
it
extirpates
that
Disease
,
Root
and
Branch
.
This
Pouder
,
frequently
taken
,
prevents
the
Formation
of
Worms
in
the
Body
;
where
Matter
of
Worms
is
made
,
it
expels
that
;
and
if
Worms
be
really
formed
,
enableth
Nature
to
cast
them
out
alive
or
dead
.
In
Surfeits
,
contracted
from
Excesses
of
Meats
,
Drinks
,
or
over-great
Labour
it
is
singularly
useful
;
because
it
either
causeth
Vomitings
,
or
Stools
,
or
provokes
Sweats
powerfully
,
thereby
to
clear
the
first
Digestion
,
or
resolve
the
Congelation
,
caused
by
those
Excesses
.
In
Convulsions
,
it
is
highly
serviceable
,
as
(
in
the
Chapter
of
Convulsions
I
have
largely
shewed
;
)
and
if
given
to
Children
newly
Born
,
and
for
some
time
used
,
it
prevents
such
Fits
,
by
carrying
off
those
Crudities
Children
bring
with
them
into
the
World.
In
all
highly
Malignant
,
and
Pestilential
Diseases
,
it
proves
it self
a
true
Succour
to
Nature
,
if
taken
every
four
hours
.
For
in
such
Cases
it
acts
vigorously
towards
expelling
all
Venomes
.
In
Feminine
Diseases
,
all
Intemperancies
,
Inordinancies
,
and
Distemperatures
of
the
Womb
,
't
is
a
certain
and
speedy
Remedy
.
If
Women
with
Child
take
the
Pouder
upon
any
Sense
of
Illness
,
or
where
a
Tendency
to
Abortion
is
;
it
prevents
the
Danger
thereof
by
strengthening
the
Womb.
In
the
Birth
it
brings
on
Pains
,
and
hastens
the
Labour
with
Safety
;
but
if
the
natural
time
of
Delivery
be
not
near
,
it
restreins
Pains
until
that
time
comes
.
It
stops
Floudings
,
facilitates
the
Birth
,
and
cleanseth
as
is
fit
,
curing
the
After-Pains
;
and
in
Women
Lying
in
,
answereth
the
Necessities
of
the
Patient
,
either
in
Cleansing
or
Strengthening
.
Likewise
,
the
Monthly
Flux
is
by
this
Remedy
brought
into
due
Order
;
if
inordinate
,
it
checks
that
inordinancy
;
if
too
little
or
not
at
all
,
it
brings
down
the
same
in
due
time
and
Order
;
being
taken
at
certain
times
of
the
Moon
,
with
respect
had
to
the
Age
of
Women
or
Young
Maids
.
Therefore
,
in
the
Latter
(
with
other
small
helps
)
it
sometimes
cures
the
Green-Sickness
,
altering
the
Inordinacy
of
the
Appetite
,
and
brings
them
to
a
due
State
of
Health
,
and
right
Colour
of
Complexion
.
In
the
Piles
and
Hemorrhoids
it
is
a
Medicine
of
singular
use
:
for
it
opens
the
Piles
,
or
dissolves
them
;
it
opens
also
the
Hemorrhoids
,
and
cures
them
when
open'd
,
preventing
Vlcers
in
the
Parts
.
Also
in
the
Sore
or
Ulcerated
Breasts
of
Women
,
this
Pouder
is
of
great
Service
.
It
strengthens
a
weak
Stomach
,
enabling
it
to
retain
the
Food
,
and
digest
it
;
especially
if
taken
so
soon
as
the
Parties
have
eaten
.
And
in
all
Weaknesses
of
old
Age
,
so
far
as
the
first
Digestion
is
concerned
,
it
is
of
use
.
The
Dose
to
a
Man
or
Woman
,
full
grown
,
is
ʒj
.
to
a
Child
newly-born
,
7
or
10
gr
.
and
so
proportionably
to
all
Ages
,
between
the
Birth
and
full
Growth
.
It
is
to
be
repeated
once
in
4
,
6
,
8
,
or
12
hours
,
according
to
the
manner
of
its
Operation
,
and
the
Necessity
of
the
Sick.
The
Vehicle
may
be
either
Breast
Milk
,
Beer
,
Ale
,
Wine
,
or
Mace-Ale
,
as
the
Patients
best
like
,
or
the
Necessity
of
the
Disease
shall
require
.
Note
:
In
the
Use
of
this
Pouder
,
let
the
following
General
Rule
be
alwayes
observed
.
Whether
it
worketh
by
Vomiting
,
Purging
,
Sweating
,
or
Vrine
,
so
long
as
any
such
Operation
lasteth
,
it
ought
to
be
continued
;
so
likewise
,
in
restreining
diseasy
Sweats
,
contra-natural
Vomiting
,
or
Purging
,
continue
the
use
of
the
same
,
until
it
be
clearly
seen
,
that
Nature
hath
no
further
need
thereof
in
that
Exigency
.
Of
the
Vse
and
Dose
of
the
Tincture
.
In
Apoplexies
,
Palsys
,
Vertigoes
,
and
Epilepsies
,
Rheumatisms
,
Gouts
,
Stone
,
Stranguries
(
too
frequent
Issues
of
the
Scurvey
)
and
other
Distempers
,
that
have
their
Propagation
from
things
congealing
,
or
too
much
acrimonious
,
inferring
Pains
or
Numnesses
,
&c.
I
have
by
Experience
found
this
Tincture
to
be
of
general
Vse
and
Service
,
if
taken
in
the
following
Order
.
Considering
most
of
the
Diseases
above-named
,
are
either
Hereditary
,
or
of
long
Continuance
,
or
Both
,
it
is
expedient
in
all
the
aforesaid
Cases
,
that
this
Tincture
be
taken
daily
four
times
a
Day
(
in
Beer
,
Ale
,
or
Wine
.
)
twenty
Drops
at
a
time
,
when
the
Stomach
is
most
empty
;
but
more
especially
;
let
it
be
taken
in
the
Morning
fasting
,
and
at
Night
going
into
Bed
,
without
mixing
the
same
with
any
Specific
,
or
direct-working
Medicine
:
though
(
it
must
be
understood
)
that
this
Tincture
must
never
be
taken
,
but
in
some
Liquor
,
or
other
.
In
Scorbutick
Affects
,
appearing
in
other
forms
than
above
described
,
use
the
Tincture
in
the
same
manner
,
until
the
Diseases
be
abated
,
never
using
any
other
Medicine
with
it
,
except
my
Pouder
,
or
other
Medicines
above
specified
in
the
Chapter
of
the
Scurvy
;
only
the
Dose
must
sometimes
be
increased
;
as
it
must
also
in
all
Tendencies
to
Stagnization
,
whereof
chilness
,
and
coldness
are
fore-runners
.
In
all
Impurities
of
the
Bloud
,
of
what
kind
soever
,
whether
Pox
,
Surfets
,
Scabs
,
Tetters
,
Scales
,
Ring-worms
,
Spots
,
Freckles
,
Morphews
,
Sores
in
the
Mouth
,
or
other
Parts
,
if
constantly
taken
(
in
manner
aforesaid
)
for
a
Month
together
,
viz.
Four
times
a
Day
,
or
as
often
as
the
afflicted
Party
drinks
,
and
the
external
Parts
washed
,
with
his
(
or
her
)
Vrine
every
Morning
and
Evening
,
it
will
prove
it self
a
very
effectual
Remedy
.
In
the
Green-Sickness
,
and
Feminine
Obstructions
,
this
Tincture
is
of
singular
use
,
if
taken
three
,
or
four
times
a
Day
in
Drink
:
For
,
it
restores
their
lost
Complexion
,
and
opens
all
Obstructions
of
Spleen
and
Liver
.
Also
it
cleanseth
the
Spleen
and
Reins
,
easeth
the
Dolours
of
the
same
;
and
is
of
admirable
Service
,
in
Hypochondriac
Melancholy
.
But
in
these
Distempers
it
must
be
taken
in
all
Drinks
,
or
Liquid
Meats
the
Patients
use
,
viz.
15
Drops
at
a
time
,
and
constantly
every
Day
,
until
their
Afflictions
are
altered
In
the
Distempers
of
Old
,
or
declining
Age
,
as
Asthma's
,
Coughs
,
&c.
that
arise
from
the
debility
of
the
Transpirative
Faculties
;
by
reason
of
which
,
they
labour
under
shortness
of
Breath
,
and
troublesom
Phlegm
,
it
is
beneficial
.
For
,
althô
this
Tincture
cannot
wholly
take
off
these
Distempers
from
aged
Persons
,
yet
it
doth
much
alleviate
them
;
provided
it
be
frequently
taken
,
and
that
in
a
large
Quantity
,
viz.
40
Drops
at
Night
going
into
Bed
,
and
also
every
Morning
fasting
.
In
Suppression
,
Difficulty
,
or
Sharpness
of
Vrine
,
it
is
an
Effectual
Remedy
,
if
20
Drops
be
taken
Morning
and
Evening
in
Mace-Ale
,
or
in
a
Decoction
of
Mallowes
if
they
design
Ease
;
or
Parsley-Roots
,
if
they
intend
Expulsion
.
In
Convulsions
,
Lethargies
,
great
Pains
,
Weights
,
or
Numnesses
of
the
Head
,
it
is
profitable
,
if
taken
4
times
a
Day
,
20
Drops
at
a
time
.
Against
Pains
in
the
Stomach
,
and
the
Weaknesses
thereof
,
it
is
very
efficacious
,
if
30
,
or
40
Drops
be
taken
at
a
time
,
twice
or
four
times
a
Day
in
Drink
when
the
Pains
begin
to
invade
,
and
the
use
thereof
continued
,
till
the
Dolour
ceases
.
Only
in
this
Case
,
let
the
Parties
grieved
be
sure
to
take
Care
,
never
to
eat
or
drink
,
until
they
are
assured
,
that
what
they
eat
and
drank
before
be
well
digested
.
In
Imbecillity
of
the
Generative
Faculty
,
or
in
Weakness
,
Coldness
,
and
Vnaptness
to
conceive
,
this
Tincture
is
very
profitable
,
if
twenty
Drops
at
a
time
be
taken
in
Sack
,
three
times
a
Day
,
viz.
In
the
Morning
Fasting
,
one
hour
before
Dinner
,
and
at
four
a
Clock
after
Noon
;
and
the
fourth
time
at
Night
going
into
Bed
,
in
Mace-Ale
,
especially
if
the
Pouder
be
us'd
with
it
.
This
Method
must
be
continued
for
a
Month
together
.
For
Recovery
of
Strength
in
Consumptions
,
where
the
Lungs
are
not
Ulcerated
,
this
Medicine
ought
to
be
given
,
by
10
Drops
at
a
time
,
as
often
as
the
languishing
Party
takes
any
thing
Liquid
(
whether
Broth
,
Milk
,
Iellies
,
or
Emulsions
of
any
kind
)
as
also
in
all
his
or
her
Drink
.
The
same
Tincture
is
no
less
effectual
in
the
Jaundies
,
if
30
,
or
40
Drops
be
taken
at
a
time
,
in
what
Drink
the
afflicted
Party
best
liketh
,
in
the
same
manner
as
before
;
and
the
Use
thereof
continued
,
till
the
Vrine
be
clear
,
as
it
was
before
the
Disease
invaded
.
Against
After-Pains
in
Childbed
,
and
to
open
Obstructions
,
this
Medicine
effectually
yields
Relief
;
if
10
Drops
be
given
to
Women
in
that
Condition
,
in
their
usual
Caudle
,
every
time
they
drink
it
.
A
Child
of
a
year
Old
may
take
2
Drops
,
in
two
Spoonfuls
of
Breast-Milk
,
and
so
proportionably
.
Note
:
In
taking
,
or
administring
this
Tincture
it
is
very
convenient
to
be
careful
,
not
to
suffer
your
Selves
,
Friends
,
or
Patients
,
to
be
over-perswaded
,
by
any
Arguments
whatsoever
,
to
take
Purging
or
Solutive
Medicines
,
althô
your
own
,
Friends
,
or
Patients
Bodies
seem
to
be
somewhat
Costive
:
for
so
doing
you
will
much
retard
the
benefit
,
which
would
naturally
accrew
from
this
Tincture
,
by
its
Transpirative
Vertue
.
And
let
this
also
be
a
Caution
to
All
,
in
every
kind
of
Distemper
,
where
this
Medicine
is
used
,
not
to
take
or
intermix
any
other
things
,
(
except
as
is
above
in
this
Treatise
described
)
with
the
same
.
Now
,
because
I
very
well
know
the
Generality
of
People
to
be
so
far
from
believing
these
contrary
Operations
,
that
they
will
exclaim
against
them
,
as
Impossibilities
in
Nature
,
I
thought
it
requisite
here
to
subjoyn
(
as
is
well
known
to
Practitioners
in
Chirurgy
)
that
the
Herb
St.
Johns-wort
,
doth
as
certainly
dissolve
congealed
Bloud
in
Bruises
,
as
by
Congelation
an
incised
Wound
,
Stab
,
or
Prick
:
which
being
Actions
so
different
,
may
somewhat
plead
for
the
Verity
of
what
I
have
written
.
But
,
if
this
single
Example
be
not
sufficient
,
let
any
One
make
Experiment
of
the
Power
of
the
Ash-Tree
,
cut
down
(
when
Sol
is
in
Gemini
,
with
the
Girdle
of
Orion
,
and
just
ascending
)
and
divided
into
small
flat
Sticks
;
for
any
one
of
them
applied
to
a
Cut
,
Stab
,
or
Prick
,
and
held
there
for
some
small
time
,
quickly
and
evidently
heal
the
Wound
without
Suppuration
.
Also
in
Bruises
,
thô
large
and
great
,
if
a
broad
piece
of
that
Wood
be
rubbed
gently
upon
them
,
he
shall
find
a
sudden
Resolution
,
in
the
space
of
a
Quarter
of
an
hour
(
if
this
be
done
at
first
)
and
no
Blackness
appearing
:
and
if
it
be
apply'd
speedily
,
In
Burns
,
and
Scalds
,
no
Blisters
will
arise
:
In
Stingings
of
Wasps
and
Bees
,
and
Pricks
of
Thorns
,
this
Wood
is
a
speedy
Remedy
,
if
presently
applied
:
In
Bleeding
at
the
Nostrils
,
thô
very
great
and
large
,
if
a
piece
of
the
Wood
be
held
to
the
Nostrils
,
and
rubbed
just
above
the
Gristle
of
the
Nose
;
you
shall
quickly
see
the
Blood
stopped
.
Likewise
,
in
Bitings
of
Dogs
,
thô
their
Teeth
have
entred
deep
,
if
suddenly
applied
,
all
the
Anguish
,
and
Danger
of
those
Bitings
are
as
suddenly
removed
.
If
a
single
Plant
can
perform
such
various
and
contrary
Actions
,
what
then
shall
Minerals
and
Metals
effect
,
wherein
all
the
Seven
great
Properties
of
Nature
are
concentred
.
I
could
enlarge
this
Section
with
many
other
signal
Examples
and
Proofs
,
but
I
shall
conclude
all
with
this
Corollary
:
that
,
since
Nature
is
the
true
Preserver
and
Curer
in
all
Distempers
;
and
is
more
active
and
subtile
for
her
own
Preservation
and
Recovery
,
than
any
adventitious
Agent
can
be
.
That
Preparation
must
needs
be
fitter
,
and
more
useful
(
in
those
her
Methods
)
which
attends
and
assisteth
her
Inclinations
and
Actions
;
than
That
,
which
disturbs
her
Intentions
,
and
imposeth
Operations
upon
her
,
contrary
to
her
own
Designs
:
to
which
Errors
and
Mistakes
all
particular
Medicines
,
and
the
Applyers
of
them
,
are
very
obnoxious
.
Wherefore
,
if
I
have
had
the
Blessing
to
find
out
Medicaments
(
universal
as
to
Parts
and
Persons
)
which
will
be
perfectly
complyant
,
and
subservient
to
Nature
●s
Tendencies
,
as
my
long
and
successful
Experience
of
them
perswades
me
I
have
done
;
and
whereof
Others
may
be
likewise
convinced
,
if
they
will
make
studious
Tryal
of
my
Receipts
;
I
would
not
have
any
prejudicate
Person
wonder
at
this
my
Assertion
,
that
one
and
the
same
individual
Medicine
can
congeal
and
resolve
,
open
and
shut
,
work
upwards
and
downwards
,
or
(
in
a
word
)
produce
quite
contrary
Effects
,
thô
Some
Doctors
have
averred
to
my
Face
,
this
thing
to
be
impossible
:
For
,
if
Nature
in
contrary
Exigencies
,
cannot
but
act
contrary
ways
to
her
own
Relief
;
then
consequently
the
Physic
that
doth
not
forcibly
drive
Nature
out
of
her
Course
,
but
officiously
follow
her
in
her
own
Motions
,
must
like
an
Handmaid
necessarily
trace
the
Footsteps
of
her
Mistress
.
And
what
Man
,
that
does
but
understand
,
or
possess
a
Nature
,
is
ignorant
,
that
the
Means
and
Passages
which
she
takes
in
Difficulties
for
her
Succour
and
Safety
,
are
strangely
different
,
contrary
and
mysterious
;
and
yet
most
ingenious
to
a
Miracle
?
Here
are
no
Angry
flames
,
only
some
bright
Beams
of
plain
Truth
flowing
from
Nature's
light
.
FINIS
▪
THE
TABLE
.
A.
ANcestors
in
Art
,
the
Infancy
of
the
World
,
53
Ancient
Artists
how
they
attained
the
Perfection
of
their
Arts
,
50
Apelles
and
Homer
commended
,
48
Archimedes
his
unparallel'd
Inventions
of
Mechanic
Works
,
Ibid.
Arts
appear
more
polite
,
where
Nature
brings
them
forth
,
47
Author
,
why
he
at
first
followed
Chymistry
,
2
His
good
Success
therein
,
4
How
non-plus'd
in
following
the
same
,
5
His
Satisfaction
afterwards
,
7
His
Patients
how
they
preserve
themselves
,
38
First
Authors
of
Physic
who
instructed
,
45
B.
BAsilius
a
Monk
,
a
most
knowing
Physician
,
45
Book-Doctors
reprehended
,
39
,
40
,
52
,
53
,
72
The
Reason
why
they
are
ignorant
,
53
Buboes
,
why
the
Author
writes
nothing
of
them
,
80
C.
CAuse
of
Deficiency
in
Us
,
49
Change
direct
a
diminishing
of
the
natural
Gift
,
16
A
Child
capable
of
solving
most
solvable
Questions
in
Arithmetic
,
48
Child-bearing
,
149
Choler
maketh
not
Men
angry
,
33
No
sense
of
it
unless
the
Spirit
be
defiled
with
a
wrathful
Image
,
ibid.
Cold
stagnizeth
the
Blood
,
37
The
Begetter
of
various
Diseases
,
ibid.
Convulsions
,
107
The
Cure
of
those
that
happen
before
the
Small
Pox
,
110
The
Cure
of
those
that
happen
from
Maternal
Nourishment
,
111
The
Cure
of
them
in
breeding
Teeth
,
112
The
Cure
of
Ideal
Convulsions
,
113
Compositions
of
the
Shops
,
and
commonly
known
Chymical
Remedies
,
rejected
by
the
Author
,
why
,
and
how
far
he
allows
them
,
71
Corporeal
Evils
,
hereditary
,
take
beginning
from
Maternal
Nourishment
,
59
Chymists
differ
from
Galenists
,
2
D.
DIsease
defined
,
55
Diseases
Simple
,
Natural
,
Preter-natural
,
and
Contra-natural
;
how
complicated
,
66
Hereditary
,
what
,
56
Ideal
,
must
have
material
filths
,
57
By
occasional
matter
manifest
themselves
,
58
Darken
the
Spirits
,
59
Preternatural
,
what
,
and
how
caused
,
60
Contranatural
,
and
Autumnal
how
caused
,
63
Diseases
of
the
Womb
,
145
Chronical
,
their
Original
,
26
How
they
take
Root
in
Us
,
and
are
changed
one
into
another
,
28
Of
the
first
Digestion
changed
into
Distempers
of
the
second
,
or
third
,
how
,
27
Degenerated
,
how
made
worse
,
28
Have
no
Existance
in
the
Body
,
till
the
Stomach
submitteth
to
them
,
30
Hereditary
,
kept
from
increasing
,
ibid.
Disposition
,
seminal
incorporeal
,
29
Distempers
,
accounted
uncurable
,
how
cured
,
31
,
40
Suddenly
cured
,
why
,
37
Disturbance
of
the
Spirit
the
Generator
of
Defects
in
the
Body
,
35
Dropsy
in
the
Womb.
55
Its
Cure
,
56
E.
EDucation
,
its
Insufficiency
,
43
,
44
Emptiness
,
its
Effects
,
and
the
Remedies
thereof
,
62
,
63
Envy
,
and
Malice
,
their
Effects
not
much
different
,
33
,
34
Experience
commended
,
what
takes
being
from
it
,
is
true
,
how
,
44
F.
FEar
,
Its
Effects
,
&c.
34.
65
,
66
Feavers
,
Putrid
,
Malignant
,
Epidemical
,
or
Accidental
,
140
Continual
,
Intermitting
,
and
simply
Intermitting
,
142
Ferments
,
diseasy
,
strange
,
how
begotten
,
26.
29
Floudings
in
General
,
151
Fullness
,
defined
,
61
G.
GAlen's
Method
,
why
neglected
by
the
Author
,
1
,
2
Gonorrhea's
,
hurt
not
in
the
Lues
,
except
Means
be
wanting
,
59
Gout
,
true
,
its
Symptomes
,
30
Derivative
,
may
lye
concealed
until
40
,
or
50
years
of
Age
,
57
Griping
in
the
Guts
,
how
cured
,
84
,
85
Order
of
Diet
in
that
Disease
,
87
Remarks
upon
the
Errours
of
Physicians
in
Cure
of
that
Disease
,
ib.
H.
HElmont
,
commended
by
the
Author
,
found
out
certainty
by
Stilness
,
45
,
46
His
Theory
how
proved
true
to
the
Author
,
17
I.
IMbecility
of
the
Womb
,
145
Imposthumes
,
120
In
the
Head
,
cured
,
135
In
the
Head
opened
,
cured
,
137
In
the
Liver
,
cured
,
129
In
the
Stomach
,
cured
,
132
In
the
Womb
,
cured
,
153
,
154
Indians
,
without
Books
,
by
Natural
Instinct
find
out
the
Vertues
of
Plants
,
46
Inquiry
,
how
Remedies
came
first
to
be
known
,
43
Instinct
,
natural
commended
,
44
K.
KNowledge
,
of
Medicines
,
of
how
great
concern
,
38
Real
,
taught
from
Natural
Instinct
,
or
acquired
by
Observation
,
43
General
,
and
Particular
,
its
true
Patron
,
44
Of
the
Virtues
of
Roots
,
Herbs
,
or
Plants
,
not
advanced
since
the
Dayes
of
Theophrastus
,
51
L.
LAnguages
,
not
absolutely
necessary
in
the
Art
of
Physic.
50
Lethargies
,
Coma's
,
and
Apoplexies
,
113
Their
Cure.
115
A
particular
Example
of
an
aged
Lady
cured
of
the
Apoplexy
.
116
Lues
,
and
Scurvey
,
the
two
general
Evils
,
66
Lues
,
materially
contracted
swiftly
infects
,
why
,
58
M.
MAgnetic
Attractives
fruitless
,
when
,
79
Medicines
,
Natural
,
work
not
by
their
own
Power
,
but
by
Nature's
dispose
.
17
The
Means
to
obtain
such
,
40
Particular
,
act
rather
against
,
than
with
Nature
in
complicated
Diseases
;
why
,
27
General
,
how
they
act
in
the
humane
Body
;
their
Safety
and
Properties
,
12
,
13
,
14.
18
,
19
Of
Paracelsus
,
and
Helmont
,
why
of
little
Service
to
Us
,
41
Marcellus
,
his
Speech
to
the
Engineers
of
his
Camp
,
49
Man
hath
capacity
of
knowing
Things
in
their
Roots
,
47
Men
,
void
of
much
Discourse
,
&c.
utter
wonderful
Things
,
ibid.
Method
of
the
Ancients
uncertain
,
43
Metals
and
Minerals
,
their
outward
Life
Poyson
,
11.
16
Their
Virtues
more
concentrate
,
than
those
of
Vegetables
,
9
Not
specificate
to
Person
or
Disease
,
ibid.
Their
Gifts
from
GOD
,
the
Light
or
Ray
of
them
true
Medicine
;
not
changed
in
the
Body
;
but
bring
less
Trouble
,
than
a
spoonful
of
Wine
;
their
Virtues
condemned
,
why
,
10
Their
Air
,
and
its
Properties
,
11
Their
Operation
against
acute
Diseases
,
12
,
13
Their
middle
Life
Medicine
,
Antidote
against
Poyson
,
&c.
16
,
17
Miscarriages
,
147
Mola
,
and
its
Cure
,
159
,
160
N.
NAture
,
Guide
of
the
Vniverse
,
51
Physicianess
,
and
Curer
of
Diseases
,
2.
18.
The
only
Actor
,
and
Curer
of
her
Self
,
38
To
be
observed
by
Physicians
,
40
Naturally
excites
Man
to
his
Cure
,
46
Brings
forth
both
Medicine
and
the
Physician
,
51
How
restored
to
her
wonted
Actions
,
37
Her
Incapacity
to
strive
,
when
,
64
Negroes
,
in
Accounting
excell
,
48
O.
OCcasions
of
Errors
committed
in
the
Medicinal
Faculty
.
32
Opinion
,
that
Physick
is
not
fit
for
Children
,
refuted
.
60
P.
PAlsies
,
fourfold
,
their
Cure
by
four
Examples
.
102
,
103
,
104
Patients
afflicted
with
the
Plague
,
and
Remarks
upon
their
Carelessness
,
81
In
whom
the
Tokens
appeared
,
their
State
described
,
64
Paracelsus
his
Endowments
,
45
,
46
Pestilence
,
how
caused
,
63
Plague
,
the
last
described
,
different
manner
of
Assaults
therein
,
and
the
Author's
Method
of
Cure
thereof
,
76
,
77
,
&c.
Antipestilentials
of
Ancient
,
and
Modern
Physicians
ineffectual
,
73
34
Persons
,
Sick
,
cured
by
their
own
natural
Impulse
,
46
Phlegmones
,
firey
,
in
general
,
and
their
Cure
,
127
,
128
Physicians
,
ought
to
be
chary
what
they
administer
,
38
Practice
of
Physic
various
,
1
,
2
Things
necessary
to
that
Science
,
50
Practicioners
,
their
grand
Mistake
,
proved
by
Example
,
32
,
33
Q.
QUartanes
,
144
Rage
,
its
Effects
,
65
Remedies
,
general
,
how
serviceable
.
Their
difficulty
to
be
obtained
,
14
,
15
Their
dark
part
,
what
;
their
Properties
,
Essential
to
true
Healing
,
18
,
19.
22
Their
general
Dispositions
keep
Physicians
from
Errour
,
31
Remedies
,
Particular
,
when
useful
,
21.
31
S.
SCurveys
,
whence
they
arise
,
and
their
Effects
,
67
Of
them
in
general
,
89
Their
Cure
by
Ensamples
,
93
Seeds
,
admit
not
of
ought
but
Ideas
,
57
Spirit
of
Life
,
or
Archeus
,
the
Ruler
,
why
36
How
primarily
affected
,
ibid.
Erring
,
becomes
the
Efficient
Cause
of
Diseases
,
37
Specificks
,
not
altogether
useless
,
22
How
made
more
general
,
23
Sorrow
,
its
Effects
,
35
Stupor
,
its
Effects
,
63
Surfeits
,
their
Foundation
and
Effects
,
61
,
62
T.
TInctures
,
open
,
their
singular
use
,
73
Transpiration
insensible
,
how
excited
,
and
the
benefit
thereof
,
20
The
Medium
thereof
unknown
,
21
V.
VEgetables
,
not
so
serviceable
,
as
Minerals
,
why
,
8
,
9
Venomes
,
68
Vertues
,
of
St.
John's-wort
,
and
the
Ash-Tree
,
176
Of
Natural
Subjects
,
not
conferred
,
but
only
discovered
by
Art
,
10
Ulcer
,
in
the
Womb
,
and
its
Cure
,
157
Urine
,
vented
through
the
Fleshy
Parts
about
the
Kidneys
,
20
Use
and
Dose
of
the
Author's
Pouder
,
162.
169
Use
and
Dose
of
the
Author's
Scorbutic-Tincture
,
170
W.
VVOmb
,
tumifyed
,
and
its
Cure
,
158
World
,
waxeth
old
,
8
FINIS
.