some observations made upon the root called serapias or salep, imported from turkey shewing its admirable virtues in preventing womens miscarriages / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to his friend in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56770 wing p938 estc r27607 09981275 ocm 09981275 44438 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56770) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44438) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:20) some observations made upon the root called serapias or salep, imported from turkey shewing its admirable virtues in preventing womens miscarriages / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to his friend in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 7 p. s.n.], [london : 1694. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng miscarriage -early works to 1800. therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-05 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2006-05 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the root called serapias , or salep , imported from turkey . shewing its admirable virtues in preventing womens miscarriages . written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to his friend in london . printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the root called serapias , or salep , imported from turkey . in a letter , &c. sir , i perceive by your letter , that your lady is subject to frequent miscarriages , and finds her health very much impaired thereby . i greatly compassionate your condition , because it occasions melancholly thoughts , to consider that you are not like to survive in your posterity , virtuous children being the best monuments to preserve our names to future ages . i 'll therefore give you the best advice i can : and i think i am obliged to communicate what i know , for the good of mankind : therefore , i pray take notice , that the root above named hath done great service in preventing womens miscarriages , whereof i could give many examples . i observe , that our yearly bills of mortality give an account of many hundreds of children that are lost in a year by abortion ; besides the great danger that many women are exposed unto upon that account . i know there are many causes of abortion , but let it proceed from wind , or weakness , or sharp humours , or any of those usual causes , which are well known to women , yet this root affords help in them all ; but it neither purges , vomits , nor sweats , but performs its operation only by corroborating nature , and mending the soyl , that it may be rendred fit to bear fruit , and to preserve it untill it 's ripe . there are very few gentlewomen who have had children , but to their sorrow understand , that one miscarriage doth impair nature , and injures their health , more than several natural compleat births . this root not only prevents the womans coming before her time , but also gives a safe , speedy and easie delivery when natures time is accomplisht . i have told this remedy unto divers midwives , and they familiarly recommend it to their women , and by this means we have very few miscarriages , or very rarely need the help of mans hands to bring the child into the world : our wives are like the hebrew women we read of , speedily delivered . i could tell you of a citizens wife , who had miscarried of five children , and almost brought to deaths door with every one . we gave her broaths and caudles made with this root beaten to powder , and she went out her time , and is now bravely brought to bed of a lusty lad , like to live to do his king and countrey good service . another gentlewoman , a justice of the peace his wife , who had miscarried eleven times , and spent many pounds upon advice in order to prevention , but all in vain , at length she was recommended to the drops drawn out of this root , which she drank three times a day in tent , or what liquor she pleased ; and although she had many frights , yet they made no impression upon her , she went out her time , and had a good delivery , and enjoys an heir to the family . an eminent midwife told me , she had recommended this root to a gentlewoman who had been married nine years , and had never been with child ; she made caudles with it , which she drank every morning one month , and proved with child , to the great joy of her hushand . some authors say , 't was the flowers that grew upon this root , were the mandrakes of leah we read of , because they had the resemblance of a man. finis . some observations made upon the barbado seeds shewing their admirable virtue in curing dropsies / written by a physitian in the countrey to sir george ent at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56757 wing p928 estc r27599 09981116 ocm 09981116 44430 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56757) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44430) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:12) some observations made upon the barbado seeds shewing their admirable virtue in curing dropsies / written by a physitian in the countrey to sir george ent at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. ent, george, sir, 1604-1689. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 7 p. [s.n.], london : 1694. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng edema -early works to 1800. therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-04 andrew kuster sampled and proofread 2006-04 andrew kuster text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the barbado seeds , shewing their admirable virtue in curing dropsies . written by a physitian in the countrey to sir george ent at london . london , printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the barbado seeds , shewing their admirable virtue in curing dropsies . in a letter , &c. sir , according to your desire , i have made many experiments with the barbado seeds you sent me , and i find them wonderful serviceable against dropsies ; they open the sluces of nature , and let the watery humours run away both by seige and urine , and that in a very plentiful manner , with very little disturbance to nature . if you have any more indian specificks , i pray send them into the countrey , and i will make observations upon them , and i hope with as good success ; for by this method the art of physick is likely to be much improved , and in time we may be able to answer the lord bacon's desire , viz. to write a history of the cures of diseases thought to be incurable . i was lately sent for six miles from my own house to a countrey farmer , who was miserably swelled by the dropsie , not only his belly , but his leggs and whole habit of body ; i had given him many medicines , but i found that his stubborn disease would not give way , and at length trying your specifick in several forms , i perceived a plentiful evacuation of water by seige and urine , he is become very lank , and his colour begins to return , and i hope by the use of good volatile salts and bitter medicines to restore the ferments to the several parts , and prevent the danger of a relapse . another person who was a servant , was so exceedingly swelled , that his friends had all concluded that he must be tapp'd , but having heard of the former cure , came ten miles to my house , being brought in his master's coach ; i used the same method , and in due time cured him . i must needs own , as mr. boyle saith , that the theories of divers diseases are so hotly disputed amongst many eminent physitians , that in many cases a man may discern more probability of the success of the remedy , than of the truth of the received notion of the disease . and as the controverted methods are not to this day agreed on , nor establisht in the schools themselves , so divers who are not acquainted with the schools , do by the help of experience and good specificks , and the method their mother wit and other emergency prompts them to take , do very great and extraordinary cures ; the causes of diseases are much less certain , and much more disputed than the uninquisitive imagine : nor are the methods of curing , which depends upon those causes , settled as they should be ; and therefore he fears that the generality of physitians have but an imperfect method in the cure of many diseases ; and therefore he observes that the communicating some good medicines in an unpolished manner , though they may disparage an author , yet they may save the life of a patient . these considerations have encouraged me to communicate my observations of this nature , which may a little gratifie the inquisitive part of mankind , until the learned dr. sloan , from whom we expect considerable informations , gives us a more compleat account of american rarities , and their medicinal opperations . this i must say , that after universal evacuations by purging , vomitting , sweating , which ought to be left to the prudence of able and experienced physitians : i have ever found specifick allerative remedies wonderful advantagious . many persons of different ages and sexes have been cured of dropsies by these seeds , taking only the spirit , the tincture , and the extract of the same , sometimes in broom-beer , and sometimes in rhenish-wine , only observing an agreeable dyet , and enduring thirst as much as may be . finis . some observations made upon the bengala bean imported from the indies shewing its admirable virtues in curing all sorts of hemorrages, and particularly spitting of blood / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to one of his patients in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56758 wing p929 estc r27600 09981141 ocm 09981141 44431 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56758) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44431) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:13) some observations made upon the bengala bean imported from the indies shewing its admirable virtues in curing all sorts of hemorrages, and particularly spitting of blood / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to one of his patients in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 7 p. s.n.], [london : 1694. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng hemorrhage -early works to 1800. therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-06 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2006-06 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the bengala bean , imported from the indies : shewing its admirable virtues in curing all sorts of hemorrages , and particularly spitting of blood. written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to one of his patients in london . printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the bengala bean , imported from the indies : in a letter , &c. sir , ieceived yours , wherein you give me an account of your dangerous disaster , which greatly threatens your life , viz. your frequent spitting of blood , proceeding from the acrimony of that vital liquor . long and frequent evacuations of that kind must of necessity spend the spirits , weaken nature , and shorten life : i therefore recommend to you a most excellent specifick in your distemper , viz. the bengala bean ; which is of a healing balsamick nature , moderately stiptick , of a very temperate quality , and affords an excellent soder to the veins and arteries , where any breach is made on them by the defluxions of a sharp corroding humour : it mitigates the acidity of all salt rhumes which invade the lungs , and threaten a consumption . it checks the violence of coughing , and easeth pains in the breast , it rarely thickens and incrassates the blood , and gives it a good consistence , whereby it prevents all sorts of hemorrages of blood. dr. smith , the author of the book called solomon's pourtraicture of old age , tells of a young virgin , a patient of his , who dyed in twenty four hours space , of a violent flux of blood , from all parts of her body ; as nose , ears , eyes , mouth , &c. had he been so happy as to have known this remedy , i don't know but he might have saved her , with god almighty's blessing . we cannot now apply our selves in our issues of blood , to so happy a remedy as the hem of our saviours garment , and therefore must make use of the best means we can , and be thankful if we find relief by any . i could tell you a strange story of a young gentleman who was troubled with a hemoptosie , or spitting of blood for many weeks , so that he despair'd of life . he had open'd a vein twice , had used all the common forms of medicines , as frictions , ligatures , fomentations , gentle purgatives , and what else could be thought on by the ablest physicians ; but nothing could cure the rupture of the vessels about the lungs , untill he applyed himself unto the drops drawn out of this balsamick bean , and drinking them sometimes in cows milk , and sometimes in asses and goats milk , was wonderderfully cured . i knew a learned divine , who straining his voice in preaching , had broke a vein in his lungs ; and after the use of many prescriptions , which proved insignificant , he at length used these vulnerary drops in wine and water , and he experienced a mighty advantage thereby , to the immortal praise of the great physician above . a labouring man about forty years of age , who fell from the top of a house , and bruised his breast , which occasioned spitting of blood : i gave him these drops in mead seven days , and all his pains abated , and he spit no more blood , nor felt any more pain . a child about twelve years of age , being troubled with a violent cough , which caused him to spit and vomit blood , a great quantity , after he had taken many fantastical medicines , as fryed mice , john and jones bread , sate with his naked buttocks upon a bears back , and been toss'd seven or nine times over a bramble-bush , &c. at last he took these drops in claret-wine and water , and was cured of his chin-cough , his whooping ceased , and his spitting went off . an elderly person , who was continually bleeding at the nose , and other parts , was wonderfully rescued from the jaws of death , by the use of these drops in milk and water . finis . some observations made upon the angola seed shewing its admirable virtue in curing all distempers of the eyes / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to dr. goddard, anno 1660. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1682 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56755 wing p926 estc r27597 09981057 ocm 09981057 44428 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56755) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44428) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:10) some observations made upon the angola seed shewing its admirable virtue in curing all distempers of the eyes / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to dr. goddard, anno 1660. peachi, john, fl. 1683. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 7 p. [s.n.], london : 1682. attributed (probably erroneously) by wing to john peachi, since he was not admitted an extra-licentiate of the college of physicians until 1683. also attributed to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ophthalmology -early works to 1800. therapeutics, opthalmological -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-04 andrew kuster sampled and proofread 2006-04 andrew kuster text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the angola seed : shewing its admirable virtue in curing all distempers of the eyes . written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to dr. goddard , one of the royal society at london , anno 1660. london printed , &c. 1682. some observations made upon the angola seed : shewing its admirable virtue in curing all distempers of the eyes . in a letter , &c. sir , i received your letter , wherein you give me an account of a strange sort of distemper in the eyes of the inhabitants about london : and i find you desire that i would communicate what usefull observations i have made in that distemper . i must tell you , that our countrey folk are infested with the same distemper , and i attribute it unto some unusual qualities in the air and winds at this time ; and i find that the use of an american specifick doth great service with us : i learned it of an indian doctor ; it is a sort of a scarlet seed with a small black speck in it : they are not easie to be met with , i once had some from a druggist in walbrook , but have forgot his name . they singularly dry up rhumes in the head , strengthen the optick nerves , cool inflamations in the eyes , and comfort the animal spirits ; they cleanse and heal : by their balsamick vertue disperse the cloudiness of the brain , and clear the sight . i am credibly informed that dr. stepkins that eminent oculist , performed many admirable cures with them , amongst men , women and children . one of your citizens of london , who hath consulted with dr. turbervil of salisbury , came into our countrey , having a grievous opthalmy , desired my assistance , finding no relief by his advice . i directed him to the use of these american seeds : i gave him the tincture , spirit and extract in waters , and also in milk , and in all the liquid aliments he took , and i caus'd him to wear a necklace of the same . it dryed up all his rhumes in forty days time . an old gentlewoman whose eyes were almost put out by the evil , and had not only an inflammation , but a cataract was much feared , because some of her relations had been blind by that distemper . i applyed the same remedies to her , and it succeeded to admiration . a young woman whose eyes were wonderfully inflamed after the small pox , and so weak she could not endure to look against the light , and in great pain ; she had been blooded , and purged , and bannio'd and blister'd , and cupt , had made two issues , and a seton in her neck ; and the lady ivy had applyed many eye-waters , and powders and oyntments for seven months ▪ and all to no purpose ; and at length the use of this specifick perfectly recover'd her eyes , to the great joy of her relations and her self . a child about four years old , whose eyes were extream bad , and lay under the hands of a woman who pretended great skill , she pickt five pounds out of the parents pocket , upon a promise of cure , but never perform'd it . but at length one who had received benefit by this specifick , recommended it , and received thanks for so doing from the childs friends , and it hath been well ever since . a minister whose eyes by reading and late studying had a violent defluxion of rhume upon them , that they always looked blood-shotten ; after the use of other methods for two months together , to no purpose ; and then hearing of this medicine , applyed himself to it , and only washt his eyes with pure spring-water , and this specifick perfectly recover'd him . a young child born blind , was helpt by the nurses taking these drops , the child only sucking her milk , but its distemper was an opthalmy , but not a true cataract . there was a whole family very much distemper'd with hot rhumes in their eyes ; three of the persons were in danger of cataracts growing in them : they had used all sorts of applications , and had suffer'd three pretending women to tamper with them several months , and at last hearing of these scarlet seeds , wore necklaces of them , and took the tincture made of them in all their drink , and in a months time were perfectly cured , only taking twenty drops at a time . finis . some observations made upon the mexico seeds imported from the indies shewing their wonderful virtue against worms in the bodies of men, women and children / written by a countrey physitian to dr. burwell, president of the colledge of physitians in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1695 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56766 wing p936 estc r35390 15272544 ocm 15272544 103341 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56766) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 103341) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1191:9) some observations made upon the mexico seeds imported from the indies shewing their wonderful virtue against worms in the bodies of men, women and children / written by a countrey physitian to dr. burwell, president of the colledge of physitians in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. burwell, thomas, 1626-1702. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 7 p. [s.n.], london printed : 1695. attributed to peachi by wing; also sometimes attributed to john pechey. cf. nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng therapeutics -early works to 1800. medicine -early works to 1800. helminths. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-05 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2006-05 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the mexico seeds , imported from the indies : shewing their wonderful virtue against worms in the bodies of men , women , and children . written by a countrey physitian to dr. burwell , president of the colledge of physitians in london . london , printed in the year 1695. some observations made upon the mexico seeds : shewing their wonderful virtue against worms in the bodies of men , women , and children . in a letter , &c. sir , i received your letter , with your desire to know what particular specifick i had ●bserved the indians make most use of against worms ; and i must freely tell you , that i have often seen them give the mexico seeds , which powerfully expels them in men , women , and children . the seeds look like an insect , o● sort of flat worm it self , and is spotted like a leopard ; it is a sort of a palma christi , it resists the putrefaction of humours , and purgeth the stomach and bowels , and drives ou● all sorts of verminous matter by siege , which cause gnawing pains in the body . the deaths of more people is owing to worms than is generally supposed , for they cause vomiting , loosness , feavors , and wha● not . i saw an indian doctor give a medicin● made with these seeds , which expell'd forty worms at one time . many famous physitians have of late year in their observations taken notice , that i● most distempers , especially putrid and malignant feavors , there hath very much 〈◊〉 worms been a cause , which hath made them prove more difficult to cure , and generall● more mortal ; and a curious physitian tells the world , that with the help of microscopes he had discerned in his patients blood , and sometimes in their urine , many animated vermicles , and until he hath applyed himself to the use of worm-matick medicines , could perform no cures ; but upon the use of medicines against worms , he quickly perceived an abatement of all feavourish symptons . i knew a young gentlewoman who had a great pain in her head , much sickness at her stomach , a very pale countenance , want of appetite , and a continual feavourish heat , and sometimes a chillness in her back , and a great faintness . many means i applyed to mend her blood , to cleanse her stomach and to alter the habit of her body , but al● in vain ; at length i gave her this medicine in a decoction of bitter herbs , about twenty drops at a time every new and ful● moon ; she sometimes took it in good mum and now and then in milk , with lavender cotton boiled in it , she voided many worms and wonderfully recover'd . a maid servant who had a gnawing pain in her stomach and bowels , especially being hungry , a dry cough , a loathing , and sometimes vomiting and loosness , a symptomatical feavor , and sleep often disturbed with horrible dreams , starting and gnashing of teeth : but notwithstanding all these formidable symptoms , i gave her the tincture of these seeds , and ordered her to take them in wormwood-wine , and she was restored to a perfect state of health . many young children have been destroyed by worms , because they would not take bitter unpleasant medicines ; but this being given only in drops , and insensibly conveyed into their ordinary drink , hath proved very successful towards the preservation of their lives , especially when clysters have been administer'd made with alloes and worm●eeds boiled in ale , and the belly anointed with oyl of worms . i knew a young gentlewoman , who complaining very much of a great pain in her stomach , especially when she had at any time fasted , she dying very suddenly , her brother ( who was a physitian ) caused her body to be opened , and to the great wonder of the spectators the worms crawled about in a strange manner , which gave abundant satisfaction as to the cause of her death . if this medicine had been known sooner , the lives of thousands might have been saved who made up the numbers in your yearly bills of mortality at london . finis . some observations made upon the serpent stones imported from india shewing their admirable virtues in curing malignant spotted feavers / written by a countrey physitian to dr. burwell, president of the colledge of physitians in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56773 wing p939 estc r27609 09981322 ocm 09981322 44440 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56773) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44440) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:22) some observations made upon the serpent stones imported from india shewing their admirable virtues in curing malignant spotted feavers / written by a countrey physitian to dr. burwell, president of the colledge of physitians in london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. burwell, thomas, 1626-1702. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 8 p. [s.n.], london : 1694. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-09 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2006-09 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the serpent stones , imported from the indies : shewing their admirable virtues in curing malignant spotted feavers . written by a countrey physitian to dr. burwell , president of the colledge of physitians in london . london , printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the serpent stones , shewing their admirable virtues in curing malignant spotted feavers . in a letter , &c. sir , i received your letter of thanks for the last specifick i communicated to you , and that hath proved so successful , that i find you very importunate with me to acquaint you with what i have found most effectual against malignant spotted feavors . i am sorry to hear that london physitians are so often disappointed in the use of vulgar medicines . the great dr. sidenham in his discourse of feavors , tells the world his art is defective in that distemper ; and that if any man can be found who can propose a better method , or communicate a good specifick , for the more effectual cure of that distemper which carryeth so many thousand to their graves , he will prove himself a good citizen . for my own part i declare , i knew no better remedy than the indian serpent stones , for it powerfully expels poysons of all sorts , both externally and internally applyed , it resists putrefaction , promotes insensible transpiration , raiseth the vital spirits , comforts the heart , and gives a new fermentation to the blood , and helps nature to cast off all malignity . i have found it more serviceable than any sort of alexipharmics . mr. boyl in his discourse of specifick remedies , gives very strange accounts of the extraordinary virtues of these stoney concretions , said to be found in the heads of indian serpents , and particularly of an experiment he made himself upon a cat bitten by an enraged viper , which caused its tongue and head to swell , and made the cat raving mad , yet upon giving it a little of the powder of this stone inwardly , it had recovered , had not the rude people killed it by violence . he confesseth that there are many of them counterfeits , and such were those that mounsieur redi made experiments upon . he also tells us , that an eminent physitian of the colledge performed a very great cure by the external application of one of the stones . i was sent for unto a young man who had a very dangerous feavor , and all the symptoms of malignity very well known to physitians ; i gave the usual remedies prescribed in that case ; his distemper threaten'd every day more and more , and all friends despaired of recovery ; at length i gave him a tincture drawn out of these stones , with the powder in substance , and it powerfully expels all the malignity by gentle breathing sweats , and the patient speedily recovered , and gained his strength beyond humane expectation . an ancient gentlewoman who had a high malignant feavor , being first surprized with a rigor , and shivering coldness in her back , and afterwards a hot burning fit , which lasted many hours without any intermission , a low weak pulse , cold , clammy , faint sweats , purple spots in the skin , little or no thirst , a pale thin urine , and very delirous , but no complaint of any pains in the head , or other parts ; a hitch-cough , frequent sighing and dozeing ; i finding all remedies fruitless , gave this specifick , and found a speedy recovery attend it . i could tell you of several familes in our countrey that have been seized with these malignant feavors , that have been secured from the dangers , by the use of this specifick remedy : but i find people generally displeased when physitians mention their names in print , if it be in english ; they are prone to suspect the world never thinks them sound afterwards , and therefore i omit names . i knew one man about fifty , who was seized as if he had been infected with the plague , had swellings under his arms , and all other pestilential symptoms upon him ; and only giving him a few drops of a mixture made with the powder of this stone , he was restoared to health in a miraculous manner . i could name one patient who was saved from death , when two in the same family dyed of the spotted feaver , after they had taken large quantities of bezoar and goa stones . i can truly say with dr. sidenham , in his discourse of pestilential feavors , that i have delivered faithfully all things relating to practice , and never proposed any thing but what i had often and sufficiently tryed ; and when i come to dye , i hope i shall have a chearful witness within my own breast i have done my duty . finis . some observations made upon the banellas imported from the indies shewing their wonderful virtues in curing melancholly and distraction / written by a physitian in the countrey to dr. allen, one of the royal society at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56756 wing p927 estc r27598 09981088 ocm 09981088 44429 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56756) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44429) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:11) some observations made upon the banellas imported from the indies shewing their wonderful virtues in curing melancholly and distraction / written by a physitian in the countrey to dr. allen, one of the royal society at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 8 p. [s.n.], london : 1694. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng depression, mental -early works to 1800. therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-04 andrew kuster sampled and proofread 2006-04 andrew kuster text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the banellas , imported from the indies : shewing their wonderful virtues in curing melancholly and distraction . written by a physitian in the countrey to dr. allen , one of the royal society at london . london , printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the banellas , shewing their wonderful virtues in curing melancholly and distraction . sir , i have a friend at london , whose son is under your care for the cure of his melancholly : i am glad he is under the management of so experienced a physitian . i hear you have blooded him several times , and shaved his head , and blistered him , and given him many purges , which i believe are very proper : i beg leave to recommend an admirable specifick in this distemper , and that is the banella's which come to us from the indies , a tincture , spirit and extract drawn out of them are of excellent use in this young man's case . they have been often tryed , and found serviceable , when other means and methods have failed : they wonderfully chear the heart , and relieve the animal spirits , when oppress'd with hypocondriacal fumes from the spleen . they refine the blood , and clear the brain , and disperse melancholly winds and black humours , which if let alone would end in distraction . a minister about fifty years of age , a grave , serious and devout man , who fell into profound melancholly , occasion'd by hard study and deep thoughts about the prophetical part of scripture , relating unto the future state of the church . he could remember whole nights wherein he had not slept , and whole weeks wherein he had not dined : he had been let blood several times in the jugular veins with a lancet , and in the hemorroide veins with leaches ; his head shaved , and anointed with cephalick oyls ; he had been vomitted and purged very often , and taken mineral waters , but all in vain ; at length i gave him the banella mixture in whey for one month , and he is perfectly recover'd , and preaches very judiciously and vigorously , to the great satisfaction of his auditory . a young gentlewoman who had a very great respect for a person whom her relations had no good opinion of , being unwilling to disoblige her friends , and yet desirous to comply with her own inclinations , she fell into great melancholly , and that sower'd her blood , and caused obstructions , and altered the whole habit of the body , and brought her into a consumptive languishing condition : much advice was taken for her , and many methods prescribed by learned physitians , at length she was told of this specifick mixture , and took it three months together in spaw-waters , and sometimes in purging waters , and she is now in a good state of health of body , and enjoys great tranquility of mind . a gentleman of a tender mind and religious disposition , upon the breach of a vow and scruples of conscience , was attended with great melancholly , which at length degenerated into a maniacal distemper of the brain , wherein the spiritous parts of the nervous juice being debased , and the saline parts exalted , and brought to a fluor , which which being mixed with sulpherous particles , derived from feculent blood , at length produced delirous phantasms and depraved imaginations , which perverted his understanding , and qualified him for bedlam every full moon ; and indeed which made him the more subject to relapses into his distemper , was its being somewhat hereditary on the mothers side ; yet notwithstanding this frequent returns , and great rage and disorder of the animal spirits , this person was cured by the use of the mixture , and now continues cloathed in his right mind , to the praise of the omnipotent physitian . an ancient gentlewoman , whose husband fell into a decay in his estate , was much disappointed thereby , and hereby her mind much disturbed , which totter'd her understanding , which at some certain times put her upon very unseemly extravagant actions and discourses , very disagreeable unto her former pious ane prudent behaviour , to the great grief of her children , and other relations . much advise was taken , and all to no purpose ; at length i resolved to give her the specifick mixture of the spirit , tincture and extract drawn out of the banellas bean ; for its shape it resembles a french bean , and contains a seed as that doth , and was much used in chocolate , but being dear , is frequently left out of late , as the makers of it tell us . i gave this gentlewoman morning , noon and night 30 drops of this mixture at a time , she took it in small beer six months , and thro' god's mercy it brought her to the free exercise of her reason . i could give many more examples if it were needfull . finis . some observations made upon the malabar nutt imported from the indies shewing its admirable virtues in curing the kings-evil beyond any thing yet found out / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to his friend in london troubled with that distemper. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56764 wing p934 estc r27603 09981199 ocm 09981199 44434 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56764) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44434) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:16) some observations made upon the malabar nutt imported from the indies shewing its admirable virtues in curing the kings-evil beyond any thing yet found out / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to his friend in london troubled with that distemper. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 7 p. [s.n.], london : 1694. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng scrofula. therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-04 andrew kuster sampled and proofread 2006-04 andrew kuster text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the malabar nutt , imported from the indies : shewing its admirable virtues in curing the kings-evil , beyond any thing yet found out . written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to his friend in london , troubled with that distemper . london , printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the malabar nutt , imported from the indies : in a letter , shewing its admirable vertues , in curing the kings evil , &c. sir , when i call to mind the saying of the excellent mr boyle , viz. that if we were masters of specifick remedies , we might render the ways of curing diseases less painfull , and thereby gratifie sick persons , and not affright them by the use of tormenting methods , by blisters , cupping glasses , purges , vomits , issues , and scarifications : i could not choose but set pen to paper , and communicate this wonderfull remedy , which i have had so much experience of . in the use of the above-named smarting remedies , many that recover endure much more for health , than many that are justly reckoned amongst martyrs , did for religion . upon which account ( saith mr. boyle ) i look upon the discovering of specifick remedies as the greatest acts of charity , and such as by which a man may really more oblige mankind , and relieve more distressed persons , than if he built an hospital . the strange and almost miraculous cures , that i have known wrought by the malabar nutt , in the kings-evil , would fill a man with wonder and amazement : and indeed , to see so many tumors under the throat , and in other parts , to fall and disappear ; to see running soars dry'd up , and weak limbs restored to their strength , upon the use of such a plain simple medicine , is exceeding remarkable , and the author of nature ought to be highly magnified , for giving such vertue unto plants and trees , for the good of his creatures . i am told by a good author , that a divine who was sent to preach the gospel to the indians , being a man skilfull in physick , wrought such wonderfull cures amongst them , by the use of their own remedies , that they thought he confirmed his doctrine by miracles . the nature of this admirable nut , is to rectifie the blood , alter the humours , mend the liver and spleen , restore the digestive ferments of the stomack and bowels , and changes the whole habit of the body , casting salt as it were into the springs of nature , whereby they become pure and wholsome , and thereby conveighs kindly nutriment to the parts . i knew a young lad in our town , who was grievously afflicted with scrophulous tumours under his throat , had been touched by the royal hand , and worn gold , and that a long time , yet the distemper returned spring and fall , untill he was directed unto the use of this soveraign nutt , and then his sores dryed up like a brook in summer . i could tell you of another young man , who had consulted with divers chyrurgeons , and had been stroaked by seven seventh sons , and all to no purpose , untill he applyed himself to the use of this remedy : and then he wonderfully recovered . a pretty young gentlewoman , who had her face extreamly disfigured by the evil , and her spirits broken with grief upon that account , was speedily restored to a great measure of her former beauty , by drops chymically drawn out of this nutt . a woman whose limbs were distorted , like the womans in the gospel , whom satan had bound eighteen years , and when she walked was an object of great pity , gained wonderfull strength in her limbs by the use of this remedy ; but she could not have a perfect cure without a miracle . many young children have received compleat cures by the use of this remedy , whose bodies were wonderfully annoyed with loathsome humours proceeding from this disease , therefore i think the world ought to take notice of it . finis . some observations made upon the calumba wood, otherwise called calumback: imported from the indies shewing its admirable virtues in curing the gout, and easing all sorts of rhumatical pains. written by a doctor of physick in the countrey, to the president of the colledge of physicians at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56761 wing p931b estc r204389 99825336 99825336 29716 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56761) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 29716) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1933:8) some observations made upon the calumba wood, otherwise called calumback: imported from the indies shewing its admirable virtues in curing the gout, and easing all sorts of rhumatical pains. written by a doctor of physick in the countrey, to the president of the colledge of physicians at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716, attributed name. 7, [1] p. [s.n], london : printed in the year 1694. a doctor of physick in the countrey = john peachi; also sometimes attributed to john pechey. copy filmed has ms. attribution "pechey" on title page. copy filmed trimmed at head, slightly affecting title. reproduction of the original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng gout -early works to 1800. therapeutics -early works to 1800. medicine -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-05 jonathan blaney sampled and proofread 2006-05 jonathan blaney text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the calumba wood , otherwise called calumback : imported from the indies : shewing its admirable virtues in curing the gout , and easing all sorts of rhumatical pains . written by a doctor of physick in the countrey , to the president of the colledge of physicians in london . london , printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the calumba wood , imported from the indies : in a letter , &c. sir , we are told by good historians , that before physick was reduced into art and method , the custom was to carry sick persons into streets and markets , and such places of publick concourse , that they might have opportunity to inform those that passed by what their complaints were : and also to hear what experienced remedies they could communicate to them . and this method with gods blessing hath proved advantagious to the relief of multitudes . i 'le now tell you an excellent specifick that i have found admirably useful against the gout , easing all sorts of pains both external and internal , it is that excellent drug called the calumback wood : it corrects those flatulent acrimonious humours which afflict not only the joynts , but also the periostia of the bones , the muscles of the body , and the membranes of the stomach and bowels , and by its alcalizate quality it destroys those acidities which put nature upon the rack ; and this it doth by cleansing and strengthening , without creating any disturbance to nature , but leaving the parts more firm and strong , and less subject to receive new defluxions , whereby the returns of the distemper are much prevented . sir william temple observes , that amongst all the diseases into which the intemperance of this age disposeth it , he had taken notice of none to increase so much within the compass of his memory and conversation , as the gout , nor of any of worse consequence to mankind , because it falls generally upon persons engag'd in publick affairs , upon whose thought and care the service of their countrey very much depends ; and therefore he tells the world , that whoever proposeth a way of curing and preventing it , would do great service to states and kingdoms , as well as to private persons . i knew a young merchant who had been at the bath for pains and weakness in his limbs , and found no relief , he took the tincture drawn out of this wood with spring-water , and in two months time was strangely recover'd , and can walk ten miles in a day . a young gentlewoman extreamly afflicted with rheumatick distempers , and by going often into hot-houses to sweat , had brought her self into hectick feavers , and yet could find no ease of her pains , until she used the spirits and extract drawn out of this arthritick wood. an old gouty gentleman , about seventy five years of age , who was confined to his bed many months , with great extremity of pains , yet found ease by the use of this medicine , which he took sometimes in milk , and sometimes in wine and water , but continued it a month. a gentlewoman about fifty , who was let blood seven times in a year for her acute and violent pains , her blood very foul , yet found no relief , but grew every day weaker and fainter . i also directed her a vitriolick balsam , which is a kind of potential cautery , for it causeth tingling , and a little pain in the part for the present , and draws out a moist humour , and sometimes fetches off the skin ; this gave her great ease , but did not totally help her , until she took the medicines drawn out of this specifick wood , which she did in water-gruel , and sometimes in tea and coffee , and now she hath had health and ease many months . a humorsome gentleman , much afflicted with the gout , unto whom i had recommended the use of this wood , objected against it that 't was an outlandish plant , and we had herbs enough in our own gardens to cure our distempers . i told him that plea would never become him nor my self , who took so much tobacco , and drank so much coffee : upon that he fell to the use of it , and finds much relief by it , more than by the two former drugs . a virtuoso of my acquaintance told me , he had read such an excellent account given of this wood in mr. ray and other authors , that he resolved to try it , and has found it answer his expectation , and give him help in such a disease which is worse than death , for that easeth us of all pain , and this keeps us in continual torment . finis . some observations made upon the blatta bizantina shewing its admirable virtues in curing astmahs [sic] and shortness of breath / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to dr. heverell at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1694 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56760 wing p931 estc r27601 09981159 ocm 09981159 44432 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56760) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44432) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:14) some observations made upon the blatta bizantina shewing its admirable virtues in curing astmahs [sic] and shortness of breath / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to dr. heverell at london. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 8 p. [s.n.], london : 1694. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng asthma -early works to 1800. therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-05 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2006-05 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the blatta bizantina , shewing its admirable virtues in curing astmahs , and shortness of breath . written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to dr. meverell at london . london , printed in the year 1694. some observations made upon the blatta bizantina ; shewing its admirable virtues in curing astmahs , and shortness of breath . in a letter , &c. sir , i recieved the letter you sent me concerning the case of your astmahtical patient , who tells you that he is troubled with a stoppage in his stomach , or the rising of the lights , as he calls it ; both you and i know very well what he means ; and the best advice i can give you in that case is to bleed him plentifully , and give him inwardly the blatta bizantina , which i know to be an incomparable specifick to give him breath , to remove the spasmodical affections of the lungs and stomach , to promote the circulation of the blood , and to prevent a pollipus from growing in the heart , which oftner causeth sudden death than the world imagins ; for when the whole mass of blood in a mans body , which should run through the heart and lungs ten or twelve time in an hour , is stopt in its circulation , and creeps through as it were by drops , and for want of motion stagnates and putrifies , it may well cause pains and stoppages in the breast , and shortness of breath . this shell-fish is the same which in exodus is called by moses onicha , one of the ingredients of the holy perfume prescribed by almighty god himself . i am sure it hath done great service , in relieving many who have had great stoppages in their stomachs , and difficult breathing , which hath made them very apprehensive of some sudden change. i confess i have known many dye of this distemper with short warning , and especially ministers , and some lawyers , after they have spent their spirits with much speaking ; and particularly i know a very grave and learned divine , who after his preaching used himself to drink two glasses of sack , which pernicious custom heated his lungs after they had been too much warmed before by earnest and loud speaking , this person had gotten an ill habit of body , and a violent astmah , but was very much relieved by drinking only warm ale , with a few drops drawn out of this medicine , with a little nutmeg and sugar , which he made his constant practice , and found much . advantage by it , less pain in his breast , a more free respiration , and a clear voice in preaching . i only once in a month advised him to take a little manna in water-gruel , to carry down the phlegm , and keep his body laxative . mr. grant in his observations upon the bills of mortality takes notice that this disease is much encreased of late years ; in 1629. there was but forty four , but in 1660. there was two hundred and forty nine . and he tells us , that the cause proceeds from the lungs , which are the bellows of the body , not blowing , that is , neither recieving in nor venting out breath . but a greater man than mr. grant saith , it proceeds from an abundance of morbifick matter in the blood , and nervous liquor , which causeth a convulsion in the lungs ; and sometimes it may proceed from a decay of the volatile salts of the blood , which makes it apt to fix and stagnate in the breast . but i shall not meddle with the speculative part of physick , but only the practical , which is grounded upon experience ; for as dr. castle well observes , that experienced medicines are like dials and almanacks , which agree as well with the hypothesis of copernicus as of ptolemy . the husbandman may till his land , and sow his seed , and yet not fully understand whether the earth or sun moves . hypocrates , the father of physitians , adviseth his sons not to be backward in making observations upon the cures wrought by farriers or ignorant women , though they were not able to give an account how or in what manner they cured . i lately had an astmahtical patient , whose breath seemed to be gone every moment , and all his blood would appear in his face , as if he were strangled , and yet upon taking this medicine he was wonderfully relieved , and walked abroad . i also advised him to bleed , and play at bowls often . a gentlewoman about fifty years of age complained to me of a great oppression and stoppage at her stomach , had taken many purges and vomits , but all in vain ; i gave her the tincture drawn out of these shells , mixed with the extract and spirit of the same ; she took it every morning in a glass of spring-water , mixed with virgins honey . i permitted her to eat no suppers but stewed prunes or roasted pippins , and she wonderfully recovered . a middle aged man of a sedentary life told me , he could not lye down in his bed for fear of being choaked , his stoppage and wheasing in his throat were so troublesome . i used only this remedy , it gave him help and ease . i could mention many others , but i 'le desist . finis . some observations made upon the root called nean or ninsing imported from the east-indies shewing its wonderful virtue in curing consumptions, ptissicks, shortness of breath, distillation of rhume, and restoring nature after it hath been impaired by languishing distempers and long fits of sickness / publisht by a doctor of physick in york-shire in a letter to mr. colwell, a member of the royal society, 1680. simpson, william, m.d. 1680 approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56769 wing p937a estc r27606 09981257 ocm 09981257 44437 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56769) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44437) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:19) some observations made upon the root called nean or ninsing imported from the east-indies shewing its wonderful virtue in curing consumptions, ptissicks, shortness of breath, distillation of rhume, and restoring nature after it hath been impaired by languishing distempers and long fits of sickness / publisht by a doctor of physick in york-shire in a letter to mr. colwell, a member of the royal society, 1680. simpson, william, m.d. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 7 p. printed for the author, london : [1680] wrongly attributed to john pechey by surgeon general's catalogue (ser. 1) and british museum catalogue, and to john peachi by wing. attributed to william simpson--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ginseng. therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-05 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2006-05 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the root called nean , or ninsing , imported from the east-indies . shewing its wonderful virtue , in curing consumptions , ptissicks , shortness of breath , distillation of rhume , and restoring nature after it hath been impaired by languishing distempers , and long fits of sickness . publisht by a doctor of physick in york-shire , in a letter to mr. colwell , a member of the royal society , 1680. london , printed for the author . some observations made upon the root called nean , or ninsing , &c. sir , i have read that some famous divines have not spared to report in print , that they believed cardan physician to king edward the sixth , was now in hell , because he refused to tell the world a secret with which he wrought great cures . and therefore for my part , i am resolved to prevent the occasion of any such censure , and freely communicate this noble and excellent medicine , that hath done such great cures in china , japan , and many other parts of the world , when abundance of compounded elaborate remedies have proved ineffectual . when i lived at hull in yorkshire , a parcel of it was given me for a present , which i used with wonderfull success : and particularly , to a relation of mr. andrew marvel's , who was much emaciated , and reduced unto a perfect skeleton , a meer bag of bones , by a long hectick feaver , joyned with an ulcer of the lungs ; being despaired of by all friends , i was resolved to try what the tincture of this root would doe , which i gave every morning in red cows milk , warm from her duggs , ( which my worthy friend and intimate acquaintance , dr. primrose , preferrs before asses milk , as you may see in his book called popular errors ) : and i found his flesh to come again like that of a child , and his lost appetite restored , and his natural ruddy complexion revived in his cheeks , to the amazement of his desponding relations , that he was called lazarus the second . i solemnly profess , that i hate all pretences to secrets , and i look upon the printed bills of quacks , who pretend to nostrums , and private medicines , to be meer cheats , and tricks to amuse the common people , and to pick their pockets : but if any man can communicate a good medicine , he shews himself a lover of his countrey more than of himself , and deserves thanks of mankind . and for my part , i verily believe , that next unto the virtue of scarborough spaw , ( which i suppose i have sufficiently recommended ) i think this is one of the best medicines in the world , and in many cases better against consumptions and distempers of the lungs than that . ogleby in his natural history of china , tells the world , that a pound of this root is sold in the countrey wherein it growes , for three times its weight in silver , it is looked upon as so great a cordial . and piso that learned physician esteems it a mighty restorer of nature , and as far as may be a renewer of youth . publick fame saith , that the popes of rome , who are chosen to that office when they are very old , doe make great use of this root , to preserve their radical moysture and natural heat , that so they may the longer enjoy their comfortable preferments . i once recommended this root to my good friend mr. steel the minister , with singular advantage to his health , as he told me ; but finding him under the care of an excellent physician , i advised him to lay aside all medecins but what he prescribed . when i read the bills of mortality , and find three or four thousand dye in a year of consumptions , notwithstanding all the rational methods of physicians , and the boasting pretences of quacks and mountebanks , i could no longer conceal this excellent specifick .. a very considerable person at hull , who was very much pined away , had a cough and shortness of breath , a quick pulse , and an intense heat , at some certain times , with wandering pains in several parts of his body , and restless nights , and no appetite to food ; my advice being desired , i wisht him to take the extract made with this root every night in almond-milk , and in a months time he gtew fat and plump , and all his ill symptoms left him , and he is yet alive , to the glory of god , and the comfort of his relations . one thing is very remarkable , that let the cause of the consumption be what it will , viz. an ulcer of the lungs , or a scorbutick sharp humour in the blood , or a hectick feaver , or the infection of the spermatick vessels , which in time and in various disguises spoyls the whole habit of the body , and by disabling the parts to digest their nourishment , bring leanness and consumption ; i say let any of these , or all of them , be causes , yet this root proves advantageous , as experience testifies . the case of the gentlewoman at leeds in yorkshire is very remarkable , who catching cold in her lying in , fell under great weakness , a dry cough , stitches in her brest and sides , heat in her palms and feet , pining away insensibly ; many physicians were consulted , but all in vain ; at last i advised her to take the spirit made of this root , about ten drops at a time , in a glass of old mallago after dinner . in a short time after she gathered her flesh , and had five children . at rippon there was a good friend of mine , of a considerable estate , whose only child falling into a deep consumption upon his breeding of teeth , the parents being almost distracted for want of an heir , nothing else being expected but death , and the child being tyred out with other medicines , i recommended the tincture , spirit and extract made of this root ; and in six weeks time the child mended and grew strong and lusty , and is like to be a man. these and many such examples might be given , which are great encouragement to make use of such a known , safe , and experienced remedy , and so very pleasant as this is , being taken only in drops , whereby it becomes extreamly agreeable unto children , who pine away upon breeding their teeth , as daily experience shews , to the great grief of many tender mothers . a friend of mine at york who buried six children , preserved the seventh ( under god ) with this root ; for it hath no manner of heat , but is exceeding temperate , and may be given in all their victuals and spoon-meat . mr. boyle once told me , he thought it was a medicine sent from heaven , to save the lives of thousands of men , women and children . finis . some observations made upon the root caled casmunar imported from the east-indies shewing its nature and vertues above any other as yet written of in curing apoplexies, convulsions, palsies, lethargies, tremblings, fitts of the mother, giddiness in the head, and all distempers of the brain and nerves / published by a doctor of physick in glocester-shire. peachi, john, fl. 1683. 1693 approx. 9 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56768 wing p937 estc r27605 09981232 ocm 09981232 44436 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56768) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 44436) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1337:18) some observations made upon the root caled casmunar imported from the east-indies shewing its nature and vertues above any other as yet written of in curing apoplexies, convulsions, palsies, lethargies, tremblings, fitts of the mother, giddiness in the head, and all distempers of the brain and nerves / published by a doctor of physick in glocester-shire. peachi, john, fl. 1683. pechey, john, 1655-1716. 8 p. [s.n.], lonlon [sic] : 1693. attributed also to john pechey--nuc pre-1956 imprints. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng therapeutics -early works to 1800. 2006-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-05 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2006-05 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some observations made upon the root called casmunar , imported from the east-indies : shewing its nature and vertues above any other as yet written of , in curing apoplexies , convulsions , palsies , lethargies , tremblings , fitts of the mother , giddiness in the head , and all distempers of the brain and nerves . published by a doctor of physick in glocester-shire . lonlon , re-printed in the year 1693. some observations made upon the root called casmunar , imported from the east-indies . this rare and excellent root being sent me by my brother , who is factor to the east india company , and it being so wonderfully commended , and approved of by the brachmanes , for its great cures , i could not choose but publish it to the world , for the advantage of mankind . the brachmanes are a sort of indian physicians , much celebrated not only by the natives , but by foreign merchants that reside there , the english preferring them before their own countrey doctors , when they labour under any distempers . they are of the sect of the pythagoreans , and as they eat no flesh , but are nourisht by the produce of the earth , so they rather choose to cure diseases by plants than minerals . they have great skill in herbs , and know their natures , as if they had been instructed by adam or solomon . this root is warm but not hot , of a very temperate quality ; it consists of very fine , subtil , spirituous parts , and hath a peculiar odour , distinct from any that i ever smelled to : it exceedingly recreates the vital and animal spirits , and by its taste and colour may easily be known to be aperative and cephalick , comforting the brain and nerves , and putting the animal spirits into order , when they have been in a tumult by any passion or convulsive motions . when persons are in convulsive fitts , nature seems to be as it were in an earthquake , and in its last agony ; and by the frequent returns of such fitts , those endowments which distinguish us from brute creatures , are in a great measure lost : our understanding , that great light , is darkned , and our memory that excellent repository is broken , and like a sive lets through whatever is put into it . a gentlewoman who had a concussion of her head , caused by a fall down stairs , with great debility of her spirits , was cured by this root , to her and my great admiration ; and although whilest her vapours were upon her , she would not be perswaded but that she was dying ; yet afterwards she would smile at those gentlewomen who talked so , and would name her self as an example of so great folly. perhaps it is the best medicine in the world for women in childbed , or any who have received prejudice by frights , they quickly restore them to the use of their senses , and make them lively and chearfull . a shop-keepers wife at glocester , who had dreadfull fits of the mother , with unusual symptoms , and great oppressions , almost strangled with suffocating vapours in her throat , was cured , that they have not returned , nor i see no suspicion of it . but i must say , that i have ever found the spirit , the tincture , and the extract drawn out of this root , far more effectual than any composition whatsoever . it 's very lamentable to observe , three thousand in a year tumbled into their graves by these distempers , as we find by the bills of mortality . when our compassionate saviour was upon earth , he demonstrared his divine power in the cure of these distempers more than in any other ; because labouring under these diseases , we are neither fit for the service of god or man , nor are capable of the exercise of reason or faith. i could tell you of a learned divine , whose disorder in his head was so great , caused by cephalick distempers and vertiginous fumes , that he could not preach , being attended with frequent convulsive motions in all his nerves , yet by the use of the drops drawn out of this root , was perfectly cured . many young children have been miraculously restored by it from convulsion fits , both in the brain and bowels : for as dr. willis well observes , the griping in the guts is but an affection of the nerves in those parts , and no remedies so efficacious in that disease , as those that strengthen the same . i cannot choose but recommend it to all nurses , to drop into their childrens victuals , it being so exceeding temperate and pleasant , that i have known them take it , when they have refused all other forms of medicines . by this wonderful root some children when they have been toothing , were cured only by rubbing their gumms with the electuary : others by the nurses taking the drops in all her drink , for which cause it 's called by some the childrens guardian . i know a young gentleman , who being subject to convulsions from his cradle , and could have no relief from the best remedies in vulgar use , but was to the grief of his relations cast sometimes into the fire , and sometimes into the water , by the force of this disease ; and at last by the using of these drops every new and full moon , was restored , and married a wife , and none of his children ever had fitts . a poor old woman also who was many years afflicted with fits of the mother , that the common people thought her possess'd , her symptoms of skreeching , and strange motions and distortions were so terrible ; yet by the use of this remedy found great advantage , and recommended it to all she knew . i am credibly inform'd by an eminent chyrurgion who came from the indies , that the inhabitants in those countreys anoynt their bodies with a mixture of the powder of this root , and only by that external application cure many distempers , and live to a great age. an able physician of my acquaintance boyls the sliced root in all his broath , as a great secret against gripings in his guts and bowels proceeding from the wind collick , and finds admirable advantage . i am well assured that there is an hospital in italy , for the cure of lunatical persons , where the doctors use this root with wonderful success , it mightily relieving all discomposures of the brain . to see persons foaming at mouth , tearing their hair , beating their breasts , weeping , and wailing , and gnashing their teeth , is a melancholy prospect , and may well move pity : and therefore none but the devil or his agents can envy mankind the knowledge of so useful a remedy . let none despise this root because it is a simple uncompounded thing , for i remember the great lord bacon reckons it amongst one of the deficients in physick , that we study art more than nature , and elaborate methods more than simple medicins . whereas nine parts in ten of the known world trust to the latter more than the former . a captain of a ship who is extreamly troubled with griping in his guts , and cramps in his bowels , constantly procures ease , only by chewing a bit of this root and swallowing his spittle . i know a modest discreet young gentleman , that on a sudden when he is writing , o● talking with a friend , or at meals , shall be surpriz'd with dreadful convulsive motions , as if he were blown up with a train of gun-powder ; and he finds that the very odour of this root carried about him , and often applyed to his nostrils , prevents many fits , better than spirit of sal armoniack , amber , or harts-horn , which are too strong for him . twenty drops of the tincture are to be taken every morning in tea , the same quantity of the spirits every afternoon in mum , and also twenty drops of the extract at night in chocolate , for men or women ; half the quantity for children . finis . approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick provided for the souldiers knap-sack and the country mans closet / written by richard elkes, gent. ... elkes, richard. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a39240 of text r20307 in the english short title catalog (wing e536). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 56 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 25 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a39240 wing e536 estc r20307 12354612 ocm 12354612 60098 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a39240) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 60098) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 142:13) approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick provided for the souldiers knap-sack and the country mans closet / written by richard elkes, gent. ... elkes, richard. [4], 44 p. printed for robert ibbitson, and are to be sold by tho. vere ..., london : 1651. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng medicine, popular -early works to 1800. self-care, health -early works to 1800. therapeutics. herbs -therapeutic use -early works to 1800. medicinal plants. a39240 r20307 (wing e536). civilwar no approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick. provided for the souldiers knap-sack, and the co elkes, richard 1651 10336 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 b the rate of 3 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-01 pip willcox sampled and proofread 2007-01 pip willcox text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion approved medicines of little cost , to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick . provided for the souldiers knap-sack , and the country mans closet . written by richard elkes gent. student in the art of physick , living at bagshot in the county of surry . medicos & chirurgos subinde mutare ; aegris taedium non levamen est . eccles. 38. 4. the lord hath created medicines out of the earth , and he that is wise will not abhorre them . london printed for robert ibbitson and are to be sold by tho : vere at the angel in the old-baily . 1651. to the high and honourable court of parliament , rich. elkes wisheth health , peace , and tranquility . right honourable , for as much as all men ought in their severall places and callings to endeavour to doe good in that common-wealth , wherein they live , your poor subject hath seen many men , both souldiers and others loose their lives , by a carelesse demeanour , sometimes ignorantly , some times wilfully , sometimes for want of a physitian , and chyrurgeon , sometimes neglecting the means when it may be had , for the prevention thereof , i do here make bold to present unto your view some defensives and remedies , for all that desire health . in the absence of a learned physitian and chyrurgion , these easie medicines may both cure and preserve health ; as the learned saith , the physitians duty consisteth , in two principall points , first , to preserve health . secondly , to cure the sick , which i have and will indeavour to doe , according to that tallent that almighty god hath bestowed upon me , and rest your obedient servant to command , in all submission and diligence . richard elkes . the directions of an old souldier in ireland about forty years since , which became a physitian there . as i travelled through the countie of clare , i heard of an excellent physitian which had accomplished manie rare cures , but especially the bloody flux . after some time spent i found the man , and conferred with him touching his art , which he seemed willing to impart , requesting the like of me , and said about fortie years before that time , he came out of england a souldier into that country , which was in queen elizabeths daies ; before a month was expired the bloodie flux seized upon him , and as he suppofed it came by eating of fresh meat , fresh fish , lying upon the ground being hot , and such like ; he remembred some directions that was given to him before he came out of england , that when you eate , give over with an appetite , drinke no more but to quench thirst , if you drink when you are hot , march after it , or stirre your body , when you rest at your fires sit not upon the cold ground , but upon wood , straw , or such like ; put off your wet cloathes , and especially your stockings and dry them , &c. and carrie in your knap-sacke a peece of steele to heat red hot , and quench it in your beer , water or milke , and as you travel gather the leaves and bark of the oake , and the leaves of the black-thorn , a bagge of salt and oatmeale , that if the flux should take you , you might helpe your selfe . so this old souldier remembred his directions , and observed it diligently , when he came to their fires , to dry his cloathes , and sit upon wood , or such like , and he cast his peece of steele into the fire to warme his drink , and when they had fish or flesh boiled , he would cast into the boiler , a handfull of oaken leaves , or bark of the oak , or a handful of leaves of black-thorn , salt and oatmeale ; and grated into his beer some of the oake bark ; this being observed , cured himselfe , and many of his fellow souldiers . the wars being ended , he became a physitian , and gained both monie and credit , by curing the flux , and some other infirmities . thus may any souldier observe and do for their healths in england , ireland , and scotland , if need require . also the souldiers may provide in their knap-sacks three sorts of earth , that is terra lemnia , it is called in the apothecaries shops , terra sigillata , bolarmonicke , and chalke ; this terra lemnia commeth out of the island of lemnos in the turkes dominion , the quantity of a bullet swallowed whole or beaten topowder , and taken in broth or other liquor fasting , it cureth the flux , and preserveth from the pestilence ; the best bolarmonick commeth out of spaine , and may be taken fasting in like quantity , or in some broth , the quantity of two bullets to cure a flux ; the common chalke which we have in england may be beaten to powder and boiled in milke or broth , and taken fasting it cureth a flux , if it be often taken the quantity of a spoonfull twice in the day . thus much of medicines with little cost . 2 to proceed to the cure of the flux , methodically according to art . you must consider what kinds of flux the parties are grieved with , and the complexion that doth predominate ; first , whether it be the flux diarrhea , lienteria , or dysenteria , if it be dysenteria which is most dangerous , i have read of foure kinds , but it requires a long discourse concerning al the sorts , but i omit that , because the cure differeth but little , only this , if you find the exhulceration to be in the upper & smal guts , you must minister medicines at the mouth , but if it be at the bigger or lower bowells , you must cast in glisters often , if the party be without a feavour , give him milke newly milked , wherein a gad of steele hath been quenched , you may make suppings or broth with quinces , knot-grasse , plantain-leaves , willow-leaves , cumfreyroots , and such like , you may make rice-milke , or boile white starch in milke , eate no flesh but partridges , culvers , or birds of the mountaine , goates and hares flesh may be permitted ; a good diet wel observed , the cure is halfe accomplished . if strength doe permit , you may purge down the vicious humors with two drams of rubarb , infused in halfe a pint of white wine , with currans and sweet fennell seeds , and drink it fasting to purge the vicious humors , after purging , take a dram of diascordium , thus may you purge every other day ; for in a week after this , make a drink with running water of two quarts , put seeds of sorrell , pumgranat rindes , knot-grasse , cumfery roots , bryer roots , plantain leaves , cinamon , bolarmonicke , dragons blood , and sugar ; drinke this as an ordinary drinke : likewise you may make a drink with red wine , cinamon , sugar , knotgrasse , and cumfery roots to drink three times a day four spoonfuls at a time . 2 to make a glister glutinous . rec : three pints of water , quench steel in it , untill one third part be wasted then boile in it cumfery roots , knotgrasse , bryer leaves , red rose leaves , and plantain leaves , of each a little handfull of acatia , hypocischidis , ana . ℈ij. bolarmonack ; sanguis dragonis : ana . ℈j. the juyce of quinces ʒj . goates tallow ℥j. if it may be had , and yolkes of three eggs , commixe this together and make a glister , administer this as often as you shall see cause . 3 for an implaister . rec. of the oyles of quinces , roses mastick ana . ℥ j. of the meale of fenny greeke and barley ʒj . sanguis dragonis balaustiaʒss . bolatmonicke ℥ j. acaliaʒij . as much wax and rosen as is sufficient , and make a plaister , spread it upon leather , and apply it to the navill over the neather ventrick where the party complaineth most . much more might be spoken but i leave it to the ingenious practitioner , and wish all men to be temperate , for intemperance is the cause of this and many other incurable diseases . 4 of the pestilence or plague . the pestilence is a fevor in the highest degree , which may bee taken severall waies , by living amongst sick people , by a corrupted aire , by rotten and corrupt dyet , which filleth the body with rotten and corrupt humors , but some bodies are stronger then others , some are more temperate in eating and drinking then others , in them rotten humours abound not , and , the infection fasteneth not so strongly upon them , but nature expelleth it , this is the reason that some people never catcheth the pestilence , though all be in a roome together , sometimes the infection happeneth , by living with the sick , and lodging in bed with them , drawing the breath that commeth from the sick party , if they approach near to them ; as the office of the lunges is to draw in fresh aire to comfort the heart , instead thereof it drawes in a venomous breath , which may be the destruction of the heart : the cause of a corrupted aire , is by standing ponds , or marshes in the heat of sumer , rotten coleworts , rotten roots , and fruits , & many people continuing in a close room , many dead bodies unburied : which may happen in the time of war , dead carrion and such like , immoderate heate of the aire , and moisture in summer time , thick mists , especially about autumn , that in a morning it may be smelt . the cause of corrupt humors in the body , is by eating corrupt meates and drinks , as flesh long unsalted , rotten fruits , cole-worts , and rotten cabbig , and roots : and corrupt water , or wine , or beer made with evill water , breeds rotten humors in the body , which i wish al men to have respect unto , and the best means to preserve their bodies from the pestilence that is , is not to continue in a pestilent aire , make fires often , burne rosemary , sage , juniper-wood and berryes , frankinsence , myrrh , pitch , and such like , what you eate let it be wholesome , gluttonizing doth corrupt the blood & produce dangerous diseases , as the measles , the pox which are the fore-runners of the plague , alwaies eate with your meate sharp things , as vineger , vargis , oringes , lemons ; let your pot-hearbs be sage , isope , balme , buglosse , and burrage , drinke no wine but alay it with good water , eate terra lemnia or fine bolarmonack as before is shewed , carry in your knap-sack a box of diascordium , and methridate , a handfull of rue the root of setwall , in shops zedoary , and elicampane roots , take either of these it may preserve from the infection , but above all , if you come into a house , or place that you doubt you have taken the infection , go presently and dig a hole in the fresh earth , put in your mouth and nose , and breath into it a quarter of an hour , then remove from that place and dig another hole and do likewise , this you may do three or four times , and by gods blessing the fresh earth will draw the venome from your heart , which i have proved also , if a man be in a sound , or choked in a roome , where a multitude of people are , it will as it were fetch life againe . further if you go into a roome which is infected , hold a turffe of fresh earth to your mouth and nostrills , it will preserve you from the contagion , as i have proved : you must avoid bathing , venus , and violent exercise , which openeth the pores , then the venomous aire will have no entrance into the body to destroy it : to be costive is hurtfull , for prevention thereof you may ●ive a soft glister or purge , with ●iludie rufi , also it is good for young people to be let blood , but remember to use a good dyed after it , and keep in untill the blood be settled again : and avoid all perturbations of the minde , as wrath , melancholly , and such like : many more remedies might be showed , which for brevity i omit ; only this antidote you may cause to be made at any apothecaries to carry in your knap-sack , and for the country man to keep in his house , to use if occasion be ; rec : of saffronʒss . of alloes epaticke of mirrhʒij . mastick ℈ i. bolearmonackeʒj . terra lemniaʒij . harts-horne burnt ʒj ss. the bone of the harts-heart , red corrall ana . ℈ j. walnuts in number 20. figs 13. bay saltʒj . of rue a little handfull , roots of scabius aristolochia rotundaʒij . tormentil and pimper-nell , ana . ʒv . bitanyʒj . zedoaryʒj seeds of sorrell , and seeds of purslain , ana . ʒss . and make all these into an electuary with clarified hony , or with syrrup of gillyflowers , and marygolds , take every morning upon the poynt of a knife , the quantity of a nut , it wil preserve from the infection , in like manner you may take it at any time when you come among infected persons : thus farre i have shewed you how the pestilence happeneth , and how to prevent it ; now i will shew you briefly the simptomes and signes of it , and proceed to the cure . when the wind is often in the south and west , the aire much altered , specially in autumn , many pimples rising : the measles and pox in divers places increasing , are the signes of the pestilence ensuing : the simptomes are , the extreame parts of the sick person wil be cold , and the inward parts very hot ; heavinesse , lazy and sleepy with a great pain in the head ; sometimes sadnesse , sometimes raving , vomiting , purging , losse of appetite , great thirst , the pulse frequent low and deep , the tongue red , at first growing black ; the urine thick and troubled , but sometimes like the urine of a healthy man , ( therefore i wish you to observe other signes ) most specially if there be any risings behind the eares , armepits , or groine , these are cheifly to be observed : and now i proceed to the cure . 5 the cure of the plague . if you come to the sicke party , the first or second day of falling sicke , the common use hath been to open a veine in that fide that the botch appeareth , or that side he complaineth of : for if you let blood in the contrary side , you draw venome over the heart , and destroy the body , also if the greife be above the shoulders , cut the cefallick veine , if below the shoulders , cut basilica , so if it be below the neather ventrick , cut the vein in the ham , or the anckle ; but the practice of some is not to bleed , you may apply cupping-glasses : if the pestilence should seize upon a man at dinner , or supper , give him a vomit : if it happen other times , you may give the party of the antedote before written , the quantity of a nut in some scabius water , and cover him very warm to sweat an hour , and cool him gentlely , it will both cure and defend him from it : or you may give this medicine following : rec : methridatum ℈ j. theriaca londinensis ℈ ij . bolearmonack prepared ℈ jss . waters of buglosse and scabius as much as is sufficient to make it into an electuary , give to the sick the quantity of a dram , and lay him in a warme bed , and cover him with clothes that he may sweat four hours , then let him be cooled gentlely by taking off the clothes one after another ; this being done , use the same the second day , and by gods blessing it may drive the venome from the heart , unto the extreame parts , which i wil direct for the cure thereof hereafter : you may also take electuarium de ovo the quantity of a dram or a scruple , according to the strength of the party , it is commended above all by some physitians ; but bolarmonick , or terra lemnia , i have proved them the quantity of a nut given in posset-drink or in surrup of gilloflowers , and 3 grains of saffron powder , this will drive out the venome into botches like carbunckles when other medicines be wanting , so the party hath recovered , it is also good to drive out the measels and the pox , remember in the time of sweating , you must not let the party sleep , nor in six houres after ; you may give him julips , made with waters of scabius , sorrel , endive and succory , surrup of gilloflowers , of wood sorrel , lemons , violets , and such like , for his meate , you may boile a chick , with sorrel , the juice of lemons , and burrage-flowers , or marigold-flowers are very good ; also you may dissolve a little saffron in his vineger to dip his meat in it , but let the saffron be very finely poudered , or tyed in a linnen cloth ( as saffron is a cordinal , so if much be taken it hurteth ) many other cordial things may be used , wood of aloes and n grated into his beere is commended . 6 the cure of the swelling or plague sore in the extream parts . if the swelling wil not break it selfe , you may apply that plaister called diachylon compositum , or galbanum spread upon leather , and applyed to the place : or an onyon cut off the top , and dig out the middle , and put in london treacle , and three or foure leaves of rue , put this to the fire and roste it , when it is wel rosted , lay it warm to the botch or swelling , if it break put in a tent , and let it run what it wil , when the corruption is out ; diachilon wil heale it up againe , also you may use this ; rec. great raisons halfe an ounce , bay saltʒj . figs 6 oyle of cammomell , and hony , as much as wil make this into a playster , mahearbs , ny other medicines might be set downe , but these wil easily be gotten ; if you desire further , repaire to your learned physitian . 7 of the calenture and spotted feavor . these feavors are very near unto the pestilence , which doth often happen unto mariners at sea , by feeding upon salt beefe , bacon , salt fish , and evil water , pulse and worm-eaten bread , which cannot be avoided at sea , this feavor is known , by feeling the outward mēbers cold , & those within , as the pestilence , sleepy , and heavie , the pulse very low : this feavor bringeth death in 24 hours many times if not speedily prevented : furthermore , you shal perceive the patient as it were distracted , ready to leap into the sea , sometimes vomit , the tongue white underneath , and black at the top , cold sweats , cramps , with many other accidents , like as in the pestilence : for the cure thereof , if the patient be able to endure flebothomy , open a vein in the arme , if he complain most in the head , cut the veine called cephalia , if at the chest , the basilicke vein , remove the sick into a fresh room , make a fire in it first , then put out the fire , and refresh the room with sweet waters , or what else may be had at the sea ; if at land cast rushes in the roome , and green boughs ; if the aire be hot , misty , and moist , shut the windowes , if clear and pure let in the fresh aire to comfort the heart : at the first you must not let the sick sleep overmuch , that will draw the venome to the heart , until it is defended by giving cordials , such as is prescribed before in the chapter of the pestilence , his dyet must be broth , made with cordial flowers , and a little saffron tyed in a cloth , after the third day you may give crums of bread in his broth ; for the cure , if time wil permit , give him a glister before letting blood , in this manner make your decoction with cordial flowers , after boyling dissolve into it diascordium , surrup of violets , roses and such like ; after phlebothomy give him a cordial , and lay the party to sweat , as is taught in the chapter of the plague : after sweating and phlebothomy , the sick may drinke barly-water , made with coole raisons of the sun stoned , and a scruple of saffron tyed in a cloath and boyled in the water , lemons boyld in milke both rinde and pulpe , untill it is turned to curds , and whay , drinke the whay continually as you thirst , i have proved it of good effect . and when he hath recovered a little strength , and the venome expelled from the heart , let him be purged with this potion ; rec. a quart of running water , or more , a handfull of cordiall flowers , a little cardus benedictus , a root of tormentil , a legg of a poultry , these being boyled , take a pint of that liquor or thereabout , dissolve in it of diaphenicon , ʒj . diacatholiconʒj ss. electuary of roses ʒij . give the sick this to purge the dregs of the feaver , as you shal see cause , adding some cordial surrups after purging , made with diascordium , amber beaser , surrup of violets , and surrup of lemmons , waters of buglosse , burrage and wood sorrell to drinke at night , so by the blessing of god the sick may recover health againe . 8. of the scurvie . there is the sea scurvie , and the land scurvie , both of these are a putrifaction of bloud which commeth by the neglect of exercising the body , and eating rotten meates , and corrupt drinke , or water , as is shewed in the former chapter ; the obstructions of the spleen doe increase this evill , and the morphew and blacke soult , the simptoms are these ; the gums swell , the teeth loose , the leggs wil swell , and have spots about the anckles , some will have many tawny spots about their breast , other some have complained with a great paine in the head , with a sorenesse all over the head ; i cured a tanner that laboured with this evill seven yeares , chiefly in the springe , and at the fall of the leafe ; by his owne relation in his youth he was laborious , but after he had gained a competent estate he took ease , and eate much , but of grosse meat ; his drinke was made of standing water , which as he supposed made the strongest drinke , his bread was made with barme , or yeast , but in his youth he eate leavened bread , so from this and such other of the same i have observed , that evill water , and unleavened bread doe breed this and many other dangerous diseases , for drink made of such water , the venome doth purge by the barme , and is in it , of which bread is made , and he that eateth such bread ( especially in cities and townes ) may have the scurvie , and feavers of all sorts , for if there be any venome in the drinke it will be in the barme ; therefore i wish all men to eate leavened bread if he can have it , and drinke made of cleare water ten dayes old at least . 9 for the cure of the scurvie . the first intention is to keep a good dyet , and exercise the body moderately , his meat must be meates of the best nourishment , as birds of the field , mutton , or veale , rabbets , and chickings , broath made with agremony , avins , scabius , or bitony , and such like ; all salt meats must be avoyded , the first three dayes let him take a draught of oximell in the morning fasting , and last at night , which is to be made in this manner ; rec. a quart of cleane water , a root or two of fennell , three or foure roots of parsley , a sprigge of rosemary , a little fumotery if it be to be had , fennell-seeds , and parsley-seeds of each a dram , three spoonfuls of the best honey , let this boyle gently , and scum it , and in the boyling put into it two spoonfuls of vinegar , after this hath been taken three dayes , take of rubarbe 3ij . of sena 3j . 40 raysons of the sun stoned , a race of ginger sliced , sweet fennel-seeds , annis-seeds of each 3j . let these be infused all night upon coales , the next morning take halfe a pint of this and dissolve in it a dram of diacatholicon , take this three mornings , after this let bloud if need require ; the body being thus prepared , make your scurvye-grasse drinke in this manner : take a peck of scurviegrasse , and a gallon of water-cresses , and a gallon of brook-limes , one handfull of egremony , one handfull of tamariske , or the buds or barke of the ashe , raysons of the sunne stoned a pound , of licorish halfe a pound , concused fennell roots peethed , and parsley roots , annis-seeds , and fennell seeds a quarter of a pound , put all these into a thin bagge , in five gallons of beere or ale , put the bagge into the barrell when the drinke is ready to be tunned , with a stone in the bottome of the bagge , let it hang within three or foure inches of the bottome of the barrell , let this drinke worke with these ingredients in it , then stop it close , and at eight or ten dayes drinke of it and none other ( except a little at meate ) untill the party be well ; most especially in the morning drinke a pint , and exercise untill the party is ready to sweat , and keep him warme after it ; the spoon-wort is good for the land scurvie , used as before is directed , and taken forty dayes together . 10 of the flux called , the plague in the guts . this flux in england which is called by many , the plague in the guts , is contagious as i conceive , a venomous matter cleaving to the neather or great guts for the most part , some seeme to have no feavor , other some have a feavour , and complaine most in the middle ventricle ; in briefe , i suppose the cure is accomplished by giving cordials , and sweating , and by glisters , if the flux appeare to be bloudy , or like scraping of guts ; without a feavour , you may proceed as i directed before in the chapter of the flux dysenteria ; at the first comming of this flux , take a quart of milke , boyle in it a handfull of marigold flowers , sage , and rosemary , bryer leaves , and knot grasse , this being boyled take one pint of this , put into it surrup of slowes , surrup of gilly-flowers , anna ℥j. the yolke of an egge , and a dram of diascordium , give this bloud warme , the next day if strength permit give the other pint of milke in a glister as before is directed , but after the first glister hath done working , give a cordiall thus prepared , take of the water fo burrage , scabius , and marygolds , ana . ℥j. diascordium ℥j. confectio alcermis ℈j. mithridates ℈ ss. surrup of violets , surrup of gillo-flowers , ana . ℥j. commix all this together and drinke it warme , presently after let the sick be covered warme , to sweat two houres if strength permit ; in sweating , drinke posset wherein saffron is boyled , this being used three times may cure it , for it hath recovered many of the above named flux , keeping a good dyet without flesh ; thus briefly of the pestilence , which destroyeth many , if meanes be not used to prevent it in time . 11. the cure of the itch , and lice . for cure thereof methodically , is first to observe a good dyet ( that is to say ) you must eate and drinke such things that breed good bloud , and to avoyd all things that breeds evill and rotten humours , as you may see in the chapters before going ; then purge the body with pilule de fumo terrae , or pilule inde haly , which you may have at any apothecaries , the second day let bloud in the basiliske veine , then make this water following ; rec. a gallon of running water , or the water that smiths use , and quench in it a gad of steele red hot untill halfe the water be wasted , then boyle in it a quarter of a pound of leafe tobacco , of dock roots , willow leaves , and leaves of the birch , of each a handfull , of brimstone tyed in a cloath 3 ij . wash the sore places twice in the day and you shall be cured ( except the itch be incorrigible , which with long continuance doth bring it to passe ; also if you make so much of this water as will wet your shirt twice in the weeke , the shirt being cleane washed and dryed , then dipped in this liquor , and dry it againe , it will both kill the itch , and destroy the lyce that are about you ) i have read a story of some souldiers that would boyle saffron , pepper , and graines in running water , and in that liquor dip their shirts twice in the weeke , it will make the shirt yellow , but it destroyed lice and itch ; others of the inferiour sort would boyle staveacre and tobacco in water and dip their shirts in it , and cure both itch and lice . many more medicines for the itch have been used , as brimstone pounded to powder with ginger , and tyed in a cloath , and infused in fallet oyle nine dayes in the sun , annoynt the sore places with this oyle and be whole ( but this will smell ) also mercury sublimate ℥ ss. beaten to powder , and put into a quart of running water three or four dayes , then with a little cloth wet the sore places , it may cure the itch , but it is dangerous , and must not be used unto raw places , for it may poyson the blood , therefore i wish that none would use it without the advice of his chyrurgion . so i come to speake of the incorrigible scab called by some the naopolitan disease , which happen , and hardly found out , the first cure ( as vigo saith ) of this foul disease is called morbus gallicus , i wil speak little of the cure in this place , because divers have written largely of it , and the maledy being chronicled it wil require a long time to perfect , i will onely give you some cautions to preserve from the infection ; if you be infected before it be confirmed , to expell it : the infection of this evill commeth cheifly 4 wayes , but seldome or never by eating and drinking , with the diseased as many think , the most dangerous way of catching this maledie is by a clean body carnally acting with an unclean body ; the next way of taking it is , man and man , or woman and woman lying in bed , the one cleane the other uncleane , the heate of their bodies do as it were participate of each others itch , scab , pox or pestilence ; the third way of taking this infection , is by approaching so near the diseased party , as to draw in its corrupt breath , as in the pestilence ; the fourth way is , infants sucking an unclean woman . signes how to know this disease , if it be newly taken not so easily discerned , if of long continuance , the face of some will be wan and pale , the eies hollow , and blew some scabs about the nose , sometime vlcers , sometimes no ulcers , a full paine in the head , great paines in the joynts , especially in the night , the shin bones continually pained , the vvula and neck swoln , the spade bone and sinewes in pain , lazy , and lumpish , gonorrhea swelling , in the arme-pits little knobs or ulcers , about the privy members , and fundament , sometimes scabs over all the body , with many more . 12 for cure hereof newly taken , and not confirmed . first of all you shal observe a good dyet , that is , eate veale , mutton , rosted birds of the mountaine , hens , chickings , partridges , or phesants , and such like : all salt meat is hurtful , al fish , but cra-fish ; garlicke onyons , salt , pepper , swines-flesh , and white-meates , and venus is forbidden ; sometimes the patient may use burrage , lettis , white beets in rice broth , when he is wearyed with meat dry rosted ; the second intention is to digest the corrupt matter with surrup of violets , surrup of fumotary , of each halfe an ounce , water of endiffe , and maiden haire , a spoonfull of vineger , let this be taken over night , the next morning give him this potion , take a handfull of burrage flowers , a handfull of mary-goldes : 40 raysons of the sun stoned , boile them in a quart of water , to a pinte , then take a dram of rubarh , and insuse in it all night , in that pinte of liquor , dissolve of diacatholicon and diaphenicon , of each half an ounce , in the same liquor , and take it fasting , and fast two houres , in the interim provide some thin broth to drinke as he purgeth , after purging give some cordial surrups with diascordium ; the second day purge againe , the fourth day sweat 4 hours , the sixth day sweat 4 houres , and the eight day sweat 4 houres ; in this interim provide this drink , take of lignum vite li. j. of the barke of the said wood li .. ss. raisons of the sun stoned , li. j. chinaroot ℥ij sassafras ℥vj salsaperilla ℥ix cardus benedictus , and maiden-haire mj. of liquorish , and annyseeds li . ss. of each , and 16 pintes of water , put all these in a pot very close stopped , and let it stand upon the coales 24 hours to infuse , then let it boyl 24 houres gently ; in the boiling , put in of white wine & quart , scum it , and save the scum , to apply to the scabby or soate places , strein this liquor and keep it in a vessel , close stopped , drink this drink and no other 40 dayes ( except at meate ) a little small drink may be permitted , thus havel cured many , at the first , before the evil be confirmed ; also this drink wil cure al diseases of the liver , as the dropsie , &c. if rightly used : further , if the party be scabby , or itchy , make this bath following , rec. of the roots and leaves of docks , chick-weed , fumoterry , of each a little bundle , lentils , and lupins , four handfuls bruised , elicampane roots , walwort , or the roots instead of walwort , elder , li . ij . black helibor ℥iiij. kneeholme li . ij . brimstone li . ij . boyle all these in so much water as will bath a man , when the third part is wasted , then let the diseased bath and sweat in it , two or three times in a week , after bathing , let the patient go to bed , and keepe warme , and drinke the aforesaid drinke , this hath cured many but if the scab be more inveterate , use this unction , rec. of quick-silver killed with fasting spittle , ℥j in a readinesse , then take the oyle of bayes , and masticke of each an ounce , and of the liquor of the bath aforenamed a pinte , of fresh butter , and swines grease , ℥iij. of each ; seeth all these until the liquor be wasted , then adde clear turpentine ℥j. of storax liquidam ℥ ss. white wax ℥iiij. iiij rock allum burnt ℥j. litarge of gold and silver ℥ij. ij . of each , of myrrh and frankensence , ana . ℥ij. juyce of lemons , ℥iij. commixe all these together with the quick-silver quenched , and annoynt the scabs , this will cure ; if you annoynt and sweat untill the flux be moved , but if this evill be confirmed and ulcerated it will require a longer discourse , which you may have hereafter if time permit ; thus briefly i thought good to direct the souldier , and others to prevent the danger thereof . i have read that charles the eighth , king of france , comming to rome , and naples with his souldiers , they brought this disease into france , the spaniard instead of silver and gold , brought it from the indies , but i hope better of our country-men , and rest , &c. 13. of the flux of bloud in wounds , and the remedies thereof . if the flux be little it is the easier restrained , but if it flow out abundantly , there must be speedy remedy , for bloud is the treasure of life , sometimes it chanceth in the inward parts , sometimes outwardly , inwardly by violent moving , and such like may breake a veine , outwardly by swords , guns , pikes , and other instruments ; also it doth happen by venomous medicines applyed to wounds , corrupting the veines , which cause a flux ; if the flux happen in the inward parts , as in the liver , lungs , reines , and bladder , it is of hard curation , yet it must not be neglected , for which purpose all stipticke and conglutinating things must be used , as cumfrey roots , knot-grasse roots , gum dragagante , terra lemnia , bolearmoniacke , rice , quinces , lentils , pomgranats , and such other cooling drinkes are best , and broths made with the above-named simples may help forward the cure , but this medicine following i have proved ; rec. pomgranat rindes ℥j. pulveris. bolearmonack ℥ ss. terra sigillata ℥ij. knot-grasse and cumphrey roots pounded , and the juyce pressed out , gum dragagante ℥ ss. intused in that juyce , make the said powders into pills , like little bullets with this infusion , and give the sick six of them in a day , three fasting in the morning , and three of them last at night , continuing this ten dayes , and it will make you whole . 14 : the flux in outward wounds are chiefly two , if it flow from the veines it is grosse and red , if it come from the arteries , it is of a purple colour , and commeth out by heaps , both these must be speedily cured , if the orifice be large ; to cure this , take of bolearmoniack , terra sigillata , ana . ℥j. dragons bloud , ℥ ss. alloes , and frankensence , ana . ℥ij hares haire cut in peeces , of spunge of the sea dryed and burnt , dragagant brayed , mingle all these together and binde it to the wound , and let it rest to the third day ; so mans bloud dryed into powder will stench the bloud , the wound being filled : also , if need require you may binde the extreame parts , or open a veine in the contrary part , as if the right arme be wounded , open a veine in the left ; you may cautorize the place , wet lint in vinegar , or a cloath wet in vinegar and put about the codds , hath been used with good effect ; besides all these , gerrard in his herball speakes of an herbe called clownes all-heale , that was found out by a mower which wounded himselfe with his sithe dangerously , he not having any chirurgion neare , by accident gathered an herbe which stenched the bloud , and after made a medicine of the same herbe and healed the wound ; this being knowne to gerrard he called it clownes all heale , this i have proved . also it hapned that i was comming from winchester , i met with a souldier comming from a fight neare ailsford , which was wounded largely in the neck , so that the flux of bloud could not be stopped , i remembered an herbe shewed me by an old midwife that groweth in shadowed places , i searched under an apple-tree and found the same herbe , and gathered a handfull , and rubbed it in my hands , and filled the wound there-with , it stenched immediat●y , after i made a salve of the same herbe , and cured the wound in 14. dayes , only i annoynted it with oyle of hipericon the second dressing , and gave directions to him to doe likewise ; the same souldier came to my dwelling in 14. dayes perfectly whole , and gave me thankes ; this i have often proved since that time , the name of the herbe is , archangel , or dead nettle , which carryeth a purple flower , this i made triall of when all other medicines could not be gotten ; i write this because any country people and souldiers may finde this herbe when chirurgions be not present , and other medicines farre distant , unlesse the souldier carry them in his knap-sack , and the country-man keepe them in his closet untill time of need . 15 of wounds . vvounds in generall are according to the severall members , as wounds in the head , face , neck , shoulders , and armes , &c. but wounds chiefly to be observed are two , that is , mortall , and curable ; also wounds curable may be made mortall by ignorant chirurgions , therefore i wish all men to hasten to an able chirurgion . as wounds that are mortall is in the braine , the heart , the stomack , the small guts and the bladder , neverthelesse i wish all chirurgions not to neglect the meanes , for i have seen gods mercy wonderfully shewn in giving strength to nature when the judgement of man faileth ; as touching wounds superficiall or deep after the flux of bloud is stopped as before directed , and that your chirurgion cannot be had ; first consider whether there be any dislocation of bones or fractures , or whether any veines , arteries , sinews , ligaments , tendons , or muscels be wounded , if you finde any of these you must proceed to the cure very carefully , or else you may make that wound gangred or rotten , which at the first might be cured ; this i have seen by ignorant people , applying hot medicines to hot and chollerick wounds , and cold medicines to the cold causes , as hemlock , henbane , and such others , which i omit , and come to show you whether there be any dislocation or fracture ; first , compare one member with the other , as if the shoulder be depressed it will be lower then the other , neither can the party lift it to his head ; if the elbow be out of joynt , the hand cannot be turned about , neither wil it be like the other , for the reducing of such a member , hasten to your bone-setter , but in his absence if such a thing happen in the fingers , toes , or the elbow , two men grasping the member very fast , a third man directing them to pull in the joynt , and the said third man with his right thumbe upon the place , the left hand turning the member into his right place , which the patient will soone finde ease , if rightly performed . further , if the shoulder be out , let that man put his arme over the round of a ladder , or over the head of another man that is higher then he that is dislocated , the chirurgion , or he that setteth the joynt put both his thumbs to the place , a second minister or two holding fast the lame arme over the ladder , or over the same mans head , so the sick may be above the ground , and the weight of his body with this help may reduce this joynt into his proper place ; many other wayes there are , but i omit , and come to fractures , which must be very diligently placed , if in the thigh , or above the elbow where is but one bone it may be broke short off , so the member wil be shorter then the other ; this must be drawn into his proper place as before is shewed , if riven or shaken into splinters , they must be all placed and bound up in some frame or spleets , past-board , or iron made according to the form of the member , if wounded through the flesh , there must be a place left for the dressing of the wound , and an implaister made with bolearmonick , terra sigilata , gum dragagante , dragons bloud , whites of eggs laid upon flax , and applyed round the member grieved , put into the wound oyle of elder , and oyle of hipericon , also make tents with lint rowled in the same oyle ( but be sure make them so , that you leave none of them behind when you take them out of the wound ; ) above all be sure that no dust nor haires fall in the wound , nor lint left behind that commeth off the tent ; also there must be care had of wounds of dry bodies , and of moyst bodies , as tender bodies are more moyst then those that labour and travell , if you finde them to be moyst bodies , you may use drying powders , as bolearmoniack , if proud flesh , or dead flesh , then use burnt allum , or precipitat , or you may make this powder : rec. sarcocolle , ℥ j. oliban . ℥ ij . aloes epatick ℥ iij . mastick ℥ j. frankinsence , ℥ ij . dragons bloud ℥ j ss. balaustia ℥j make this into fine powder and it will incarn wounds , if you finde the wound to be dry you may use the said oyle of hipericon , oyle of lillies ; if the sinews be wounded , oyle of elder is very good . to preserve a wound from imposthumation , rec : of mallowes , beets , violet leaves , and landebeef , of each a handful , boyle them until they be soft , then put in oyle of roses , and white lillies , make a cataplasme or poultis , with roses , rye meale or barley meale , adding some hoglard , apply this warme until the impostume be removed , for no wound can heale until the impostume be cured . likewise a member may cancern if not speedily removed , that member must be taken off ; to prevent this you must observe , whether the member about the wound , do alter in coulour , glissen and of a blew colour , the member doth not quite rot , but the spirits being hindred from comming to that place , it doth mortifie ; which commeth by applying venomous medicines , sometimes by overtying of a member when a bone is broken ; sometimes by applying things that are cold , stipticke , and sharpe , these and such others may cause cancerna , now to preserve the member wounded from cancerna ; rec. oyle of roses , umphacin , oyle of mirtive ana : ℥ iij . the juice of plantaine and nightshad , ana : ℥ ij . ss. let them seeth all together until the juice be wasted , then put to white wax ℥ j. ss. flower of beanes , lintiles , and barley ana : ℥ ij . ss. of all the n pulverised ana : ℥ j. ss. bolarmenacke ℥ j. graines and mirtiles a dram , make this into a plaister , with oyle of elder , labour it in a morter into a plaister , besides all these , there happneth feavors , cramps , convulsions , and many other by applying evil medicines to a wound which must be removed , before the cure wil be ended ; if there be a feavor , you must give cooling glisters and purge with potions following , make a decoction with cordiall flowers , in a ciate ful of that decoction , dissolve of diacatholicon of diaprunis , ana : ℥ ss. surrup of roses ℥ ss. take this fasting as a potion , if pained in the head , take pilule chochie or pilule aure , and such like ; if the crampe assaile the body , rub the member with warm clothes , or oyle of hedghog ; if a convulsion , rub the pole and the member with oyle of castoreum and sage . these impediments being removed , i proceed with the cure as followeth ; if the wound be large or dangerous , let his dyet be good broths , and meats of easie digestion , as birds of the hils , mutton , veale , chickins and rabbits ; he must avoid salt meates , beefe , poulse , cabbig , and windy meates , as fruits , nor drink no inflaming drink : the next intention is to keep the body soluble , with potions , pils , or glisters , then you must wash the wound with this lotion , take plantain water , buglosse , or burrage water , odoriserous wine , pomgranet flowers , plantain leaves , the flowers of st. johns wort , boyle this together and wash the wound , then make tents and roule them in oyle of hipericon , and fill the hollow places with them , then make plaisters to mundisie : rec. of clear turpentine ℥ ij . hony of roses ℥ j. smallege ℥ j. let them boyle together a little time , adde thereto the yolke of an egge , saffron , a little myrrh ℥ ij . of alloes ℥ j. make this into a stiffe plaister , with oyle of roses , and flower of barley , this wil mundifie and clear a wound in two daies , if not very foule ; after the wound is clear , you may proceed again with healing medicines ; if not mundified , you may use unguentum egiptiacum , or unguentum basilicum ; and for a healing-plaister , the wound being mundified take of clownes all-heale , falilly , archangell , ana : one handful , pound them , and boile it in hoglard , then straine it , let it stand to be cold , take the top of it , poure away the bottome , and boile it with wax and rosen , so much as is sufficient to make a plaister , this , or one of these hearbs made in a salve , will heale a green wound , or you may have this implaister made at any apothecaries , rec. salet oyle ℥ iiij . white wax ℥ j. turpentine ℥ ss. greek pitch , ℥ j. frankinsence , and mastick ana : ℥ j saffron ℈ j. mingle these and boile them upon a gentle fire , and make plaisters : so i end for old ulcers , you may mundifie the soare with white wine , and aquavitae , or with the mundificatives before written , as egiptiacum , or unguentum apostolorum , and finish the cure with the above named medicines . 16 to cure a gun-shot . the chyrurgeons first intention must be to stop the flux of blood , next to search diligently , whether the bullet do remain in the member wounded , or whether the bullet have carryed any thing before it into the wound , as paper , cloath or such like if so , the next intention is , with a terra-bellum or other instrument to take it out . make this digestive , rec : turpentine washed in aquaviter ℥ iv . vitelorum ovorum number ij . oyle of roses ℥ ss. precipitat twice calcined ʒj . saffron ℈ j. commix this and make a plaister , after this you may wash the wound with plantain water , red rose water , with oyle of roses and oyle of elder , after mundific the wound with this : rec : venice turpentine washed in aquaviter ℥ iij . oyle of egges ℥ j. or yolkes of egges number ij . hony of roses , and surrup of roses , ana : ℥ ij . the bran of fetches , frankinsence , mastick of each ℥ ss. cover your tents , and make plaisters , until the wound bee cleane , then you may proceed to end the cure with the forcnamed oyle of hipericon , and healing salves . 17 to cure burning with gun-powder , or burning with fire and scalding . if it happen that any part of the body be burned with gunpowder or fire ; take the juyce of onyons ℥ iv . and common salt ℥ ss. beat them well together , and if the burn blistered , anoint it three or four times in a day , for three dayes , then you shall proceed as followeth : but if the skin be burnt , and made raw , you must cover it all over with the finest lawn and , anoynt it with the juice of onyons , and salt , letting the lawn lye upon the wound , untill it is whole ; but if deeply burned , use this following , rec. the finest hoglard livre. iv . linseed oyle li . ij . oyle of roses li. ss. of mallow-leaves , violet leaves , the brood of bees ; plantain leaves , burnet , peny-wort , tulson , live-ever ana : mj. infuse these 6 dayes upon a gentle fire , adde thereto white wax li : ss , white niter ℥ vj . also you may put to shoomakers peece-greace , this being used will cure it , chipping off the lawne , as it health : if there be blisters you must not cut them , it wil be painefull : you may make part of this medicine if you need not the whole receipt ; also if the burn or scald be not much , you may pound onyons , and a little salt , or leeks with a little salt , so much as will cover the soare , and let it lye 24 houres , in the interim , take a handfull of house-leek , and the inner bark of the elder , bruise it and boyle it in a quart of creame into an oyle , scum off the cleare oyle as it ariseth , keep it and anoynt the soare place twice or thrice in the day , and it wil be whole , this i have often proved : you may beate into the cream the white of an egge , if your eyes or eye-lids should be burned . rec : rose water ℥ iij womans milke ℥ ij . the oyle of whites of two eggs , sugar candy halfe a quartern , mingle these and make an oyntment and annoynt about the eye-lids , and about the eyes : or you may make this , rec : oyle of roses ℥ vj . white lead washed in red rose water ℥ ij . white wax , oyle of the whites of four egges , the gum called campher , make this into an unguent , to take away the spots and scarres , take oyle of egges , and oyle of almonds , and wash the face it cleareth the skin . courteous reader , seeing many people , as wel souldiers as others , have neglected the means in time of danger to preserve their health , i thought good to show you briefly some easie medicines , which may be had most of them with little cost ( other medicines may be made for you at the apothecarys ) to keep in your closets , or knap-sacks untill time of need to make use of them in the absence of your physitian or chyrurgion , which i wish you to hasten unto for advice . finis . a table of the weights used by physitians , a scruple . ℈ a dram. ʒ an ounce . ℥ a pound . li . a quarter . q. a halfe : ss. a handfull . m. of every one . ana .