







 
   
     
       
         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
           .
        
      
    
     
  

