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blood_n	body_n	flesh_n	nature_n	7,259	5	5.9304	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50431	The catholic medicine, and soverain healer rectifying and assisting the depraved functions, of infirm and diseased bodies : for reducing and curing in all cases, enabling thereby to digest, expectorate, transpire, open, dissolve, discuss, evacuate, cleanse, purifie, allay, ease, heal, strengthen, and restore the decayed parts of unsound and distempered bodies : confirm'd by demonstrations of fact, in eminent cases performed : communicated to the world, as the most happy, comprehensive, expedient, preventive and curative, against the diseases of humane nature / by a strict examiner of medical art.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1684 (1684)	Wing M1490; ESTC R18244	18,376	19

THE Catholic Medicine AND Soverain Healer Rectifying and Assisting the Depraved Functions of Infirm and Diseased Bodies for Reducing and Curing in all Cases Enabling thereby to Digest Expectorate Transpire Open Dissolve Discuss Evacuate Cleanse Purifie Allay Ease Heal Strengthen and Restore the Decayed Parts of Unsound and Distempered Bodies Confirm'd by Demonstrations of Fact in Eminent Cures performed Communicated to the World as the most Happy Comprehensive Expedient Preventive and Curative against the Diseases of Humane Nature By a Strrict EXAMINER of MEDICAL ART Deus Omnipotens Creavit Dictavit Benedixit Medicus fecit idem ac suo Corpore aliisque perituris feliciter probavit Cujus effecta mirabilia notatu maxime digna in landem Creatoris nec non creaturae salutem è tenebris Mundo afful●…erunt LONDON Printed by J. Gain for R. Horn at the South Entrance of the Royal-Exchange T. Basset at the George in Fleet-street and C. Blount at Charing-Cross Booksellers 1684. THE CATHOLIC MEDICINE AND Soverain Healer c. 'T IS Proverbially said That a Fool 's Bolt is soon shot And it is as certain a Character of the Wise and Discreet to suspend their Judgment or Censure upon any thing until deliberate Examination and Inquiry into the Matter lest afterwards they should recant and correct their Mistake with a Non putâram There are Wonders in Nature and sometimes wonderful Things produced by Art or Accident that scarce any Age passeth without some insignal Discovery as the Records of History sufficiently testify Gunpowder that stupendious thundering Destroyer was the Wonder of that Age which produced it and few believed the Report but such as heard and saw and a Vniversal Preservative or Catholick Curing Medicine may happily be the Prodigy of our present Time and perhaps alike Incredible to the World except only to Such as have experimented or seen the various great Effects of its previaling Power against humane Infirmities and dangerous contumacious Diseases In the Writings of some Philosophers and Physitians Men esteemed and famed in their Times for Learning I find a Vniversal Medicine mentioned by them and strongly affirmed for a real Truth where also both the Matter and Process of Preparation are darkly hinted to put Learned Ingenuity upon the Search and diligent Tryals to purchase it If such a rare Medicine were attainable in those days there is a greater probability for the gaining of it now Knowledge generally since arriving to a higher pitch accumulating by dayly Experience and study for Improvements by Industrious Wits If such a Jewel was found and since lost again or concealed as not to appear in the World for publick Use I Judge it might be so in favour to the Medical Art and the Professors thereof least the stately Fabrick of this Learned Science be ruined thereby and the Professors become almost Useless or of little Worth for such a general Comprehensive Medicine applying fitly to the most if not all Cases is easily managed without the help of a Physitian If so it may be as not irrational to suppose and Interest governs the World we may the less wonder that a Catholick or Vniversal Medicine is now a Stranger in the World and the Wonder is not so great if such a thing do appear in the World again since it is the Purchase of Learned Labour or the Fortunate Free Gift of some Casual Experiment both which hath furnished Mankind with great Discoveries and wonderful Rarities that are now grown Common Touching the possibility and probability of a Catholick Medicine Nature is endowed or furnished with Catholick or Vniversal Food why not with Catholick Physick Water was the Vniversal Drink of the World so given and so used in the Primitive Age for all Constitutions Ages and both Sexes and Bread is Catholick Food agreeable to humane Nature and used by People of all sorts If Nature can convert one simple Meat to divers Uses in different parts of the Body why can she not be Helped and Cured in those various Parts by one single supream Medicine Can Nature frame such a curious Contrivance as Man's Body of Bread and Water and if we allow a piece of Flesh too cannot she as easily mend this Machine when out of Order with an exquisite single Medicine composed of a few choice Ingredients well Prepared congruously associated and fitted for her Use But Diseases you 'l say are various and sometimes contrary to each other Some Bodies require Binding others Loosning some Heating others Cooling c. And one Medicine cannot work contrary Effects I answer in short The same Hand and Hammer that can draw a Nail out can drive a Nail in and say no more If Nature be so curious an Architect or Worker as we said before far beyond all Artists who are but her Apes she can probably with one chosen Instrument or well contrived Medicine perform several Works therewith using it as she pleaseth to effect what she stands in need of Nature is a dextrous Agent and can do wonderfully for her Help with the Assistance of a Soverain Remedy Can Humane Nature of Bread and Water make Chyle Blood Nervous Juice Sperme and Milk various Liquors for diver Uses of the same Alimental Matter Can this Nature make Blood here Flesh there and Bones in an other place of the same Food Can she distribute this Nutrimental Matter into all parts of the Body and so transmute or alter as to be a fit and convenient Supply and Support of the several Members differing in Office Form and Temperature Brain Heart Lungs Liver Spleen Reins c. Working thus variously and wonderfully upon the same Substance or Matter and converting it how she pleaseth for her necessary Uses Then a majore if she can do the greater probably and more easily the lesser Can she not relieve her self Diseased impeded and disturbed in her proper usual Course by the help of a generous brave Medicine well designed and composed for her general Use Can she not convey this Medical Instrument into all Parts to set them right Probably as well by a single Medicine as by many and perhaps better If this Medicine be compleat and commodious for her Management such an one as is pliable and obedient to her Command yielding like Wax to any Impression and serving to any Purpose she shall imploy it If she can work so variously with a simple nourishing Juice as Chyle why not then as variously with a single Curing Medicine If Nature can maintain and feed all parts of the Body with one sort of Food then probably and very reasonably she may Mend or Cure all those Parts with one Medicine provided it be so formed and fitted of that Latitude as will answer all her Operations I perceive now that Wonders are wrought in Man's Body every day and being in Health but we cannot so easily believe Wonders to be wrought by a Medicine in Sickness If Nature can do Wonders with Aliment as likely it is she can do Wonders with

between the comprehensive Catholic Medicine and the narrow strait-lac'd Medicines ty'd up to some particular Operation and Punpose as also concerning the reasonableness and fair probability in Art to design and effect a Medicine of Catholic Latitude but I shall not spend more time now in Reasoning but come to the Practical part of our Business and prove by Fact what you are not convineed of by Reason If you cannot trace it in the Causes such sufficient it is if I shew it plain in the Effects Experiment is above all Argunments and Reason is silenced when Fact determines without it or against it I l know your chief Desire is to see what Extraordinary this Medicine hath and can do and I shall satisfie you therein for it were a Crime to conceal what this Medicine hath effected and what Help it affords to Nature distressed and languishing above the power of any orlier Medicine which I shall shew you as followeth The Author or Inventer of this Medicine was the Maker of it and also the first Patient that try'd it upon his own Body The occasion was rather urgent than of curiosity to be satisfy'd which in plain Dealing and as short as I can avoiding terms of Art as much as may be was thus Being uport a Journey the third days Riding caused a Bloody Vrine or rather perfoot Blood issuing that way about half a pint at once being newly alighted at my Inn. This much surprised me being about fifty miles from Home and such a distance from my own Medicines it troubled me for I was very unwilling to make use of Countrey Help knowing well enough how the Medicine-Trade is managed The first Expedient I pitch upon for Remedy was Rhenish-Wine and Spring-Water sweetned with a little Loaf-Sugar of which having drunk about a Pint I made pale Vrine and very clear no sign of Blood appearing at which I was well pleased and drank the same at Meals also This Haemorrhage thus ceasing and having a hundred Miles to ride further after a days rest I wont on the Journey but afterwards Riding brought it upon me again and I had recourse to the aforesaid Remedy which stopt it several times Coming to London I found my self much disabled by this Accident in the Journy and afflicted with Pain and Heaviness at the Region of the Back chiefly the Left Kidney and sometimes a Bloody Vrine But as many People use to do I prosecuted my other Occasions being then urgent upon my Return and neglected my Preservation until I was forced to betake my self to Medicines which I did at vacant days but not so strictly as I ought by Retirement from all Business so that the Desease abated little or nothing saving some Ease and Intermissions at times but upon much walking or shaking by Coach those Symtoms returned again and sometimes strains of Blood by Stools I then began to observe strickly the Vrine which was strong scented with a foul Sediment in the Vrinal after five or six hours standing This gave me Information of an Vlcer placed in the Kidney and I was then sufficiently alaram'd of the danger and drew off from all Business applying earnestly to means by Dyet-Drink Pills and other Medicines But the Disense having gained such advantage by former delay that what I had used did not check it but proceeded higher and more formidable The extravased Blood not sufficiently discharged by the Vrinary Ducture nor by Stool but being collected from the Left Kidney to the Left Hypogaster formed a Tumor there between the Flan● and Navel like a weighty Lump which was very troublesome lying on the Right Side but more easie on the Left to stretch caused pain there or to turn in Bed except very gently This Tumor pressing upon the Intestines or Guts stopped the passage that I had no Stool for three or four days together unless procured by Physick and that with difficulty also something else remarkable which I forbear to mention The Tumor thus continuing for a Fortnight or three Weeks and not discussing but lock't up inclin'd to Suppuration during which time for about a Weeks space a rushing noise like Wind and Waters much molested my Head and fearing the dangerous Consequents of the Apostemation that might destroy the Formation and Communication of Parts rendring them uncapable of their Office I seriously considered with my self what to do in this hazardous Juncture as finding the Method and Medicines I had taken to be ineffectual the Disease increasing more terrible and probably mortal unless some other Means were used Thus anxiously considering I bethought my self of a Medicine which long before I had begun to form the Designment and had noted it in my Papers intending at some leasure times to review and perfect the Designe thereof This Medicine continued in my thoughts a day and a night adding and altering in my mind variously as having but this Cast for my Life but coming to a result and determing at last both the Matter and Process I prepared for it and was earnest to finish that I might come to the tryal time was then precious and being much perswaded in my mind that this was as hopeful means as Art could procure and having some Preparations by me serving to this purpose I sooner finished the Work The Medicine being made next morning after early I took a Dose thereof a Dram in weight and perceived no manifest Operation until Afternoon then a gentle motion downwards and at night another I felt no disturbance by the Medicine all the day but Easie in Body This pleased me much that the Medicine was so agreeable and gentle and the Operation so pleasant in my weak and sore Condition I was incouraged to expect great and good EFFECTS from it The morning following I took another Dose which operated much like the first but sooner in the day I took the third day the fourth and the fifth in like manner during which time I was not at all sick at Stomack nor molested any way by the Medicin● but as if I had taken no Physick save only two or three Stools in the day and Vrine more freely and paler than before sent forth also with more strength Thus my hopes began to spring and I was wonderfully pleased with the Medicine for its Operation and the Effects and began to be Lighter in Body and turn with less pain in Bed Then I intermitted one day forbearing the Medicine but the day following I begun again and took four days more together observing dayly the Stools and Vrine in which was much purulent Matter coming both ways by Stools and Vrine Upon this the Tumor began to fall and lessen dayly the Apostemated Matter being thus constantly evacuated by the help of the Medicine which brought it away with so much case as if it had been but the healing of a Cut Finger it made me Eat Drink and Sleep well but observed convenient Dyet and was sensible of any Irregularity committed by some Indisposition afterwards for

the Phisitian sees it not and knows not what to aim at But here is an Engine to quench a Feaver surer and safer than with Buckets full of Juleps But will this Medicine remove Obstructions Then it will cure many a Disease yes if it were a heap of Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder it will carry it away and sweep the place I perceive now Dame Nature Medicatrix with the help of this Instrument will cure a multitude of Diseases if there were never a Doctor and Pothecary to be found This is a far better Medicine than any Paper Medicine the Recipes and Decipes the Pot-guns and Crackers that make a noise and do no execution yes sometimes they do mortal Execution For Pains of the Head or Limbs Stitches or Gripes in the Body Reumatism or Gout this Medicine is most proper means and very prevailing to free all parts of the Body from acrid sharp punging and corroding Humors the Causes of such restless painful assaults that molest you And for such as have the Gout or incline thereto this is both Preventive to keep off and a Curative Remedy in the Paroxism or Fit and is the safest allaying easing means in those extream tormenting Cases when Physitians dare not give a Medicine for fear of the danger and of making them worse but this comfort they will administer when the Fit is off they will then prescribe a Course of Physick Thank you for nothing truly Doctor if you cannot help me when I am tormented with pain you shall not meddle with me when I am at ease for you are not likely to do me any good To assist the Genital Function and remove the Impediments of those Organs belonging to that Faculty for the better and due Performance of their Offices this Medicine is singular good it enables feeble insufficient Persons by cleansing and giving strength to those Parts and is probable good means against Barrenness 'T is the best Remedy for weak Backs Loyns or Genitalls for Strains or Over Reaches for Spermatick Wasting and Seminal Issuing to stay the Whites safely by cleansing and purifying to digest a crude thin watery Seed and reduce it to better Consistence by cleansing the Spermatick Vessels and elaborating the Seed it knits and roborates the Spine and Genitals of both Sexes For Diseases appearing outward declaring an ill habit of Body and foulness of Blood as when Spots Pimples Itch Scabs Pustuls Swellings c. this Extract is very proper for a more free Perspiration and to send forth by the Pores for a purification of the Blood and nutricious Juices of the Body For the Venereal Lues or Pox and that long Train of Symptoms which attend and gradually follow this grand Disease as Gonorrhaeas sharp Vrine Buboes Pains Scabs Pustuls Vlcers c. This Catholic Medicine is incomparable for power and most convenient for Privacy being a Remedy so easily managed and giving the most Liberty that can be allowed if the Weather be not very bad to go abroad in for its Operations are so gentle and this to be taken at Nights that whil'st you sleep it is doing the Work that you desire to be effected and although other dogged ill contrived Medicines do make the Diseased look thin and suspiciously this enables them in body and also puts a good face upon it and you will not be worn down and enfeebled by this Medicine as commonly by the untoward methods now practised To promote and set forward all Chirurgical Cures that appear outward and may be managed by the hand this Medicine is most excellent and useful for Wounds Tumors Contusions Apostems Vlcers Cancers Fistula's and Gangreens if not too far gone to a Mortification nothing is more available and conducing towards a Cure and put it forward when you are at a stand by drawing off and evacuating all Humoral Feeding Causes which continues and keeps Sores from healing But for the like Cases internal this Medicine does all the Work and acts a dexterous Chirurgeons part in those places where neither his eye can discern nor his hand come to help you then this Medicine is more helpful and more to be depended on than all the Practisers in this Art this alone will do the Work if possible to be done This Medicine will help you to throw away your Crutches and for a decayed rotten CARCASE if possible to be restored this is the Remedy Chirurgery is a very fine Art but I do not like the Craft nor the Ignorance that some of those Professors are plentifully endowed with they can dress and plaister up the Patient but know little of the true Design and Mystery of Curing but he that is truly Knowing Skilful in Healing and Honest is a man much to be esteemed such are but few else what makes the Surgeon so long about Healing in Cases not so difficult Because he wants the right designment and good internal Medicine to promote the Work Healing ariseth primariò from Nature within not from Plaister and Vnguent without External Applications will not do without good Internal Medicine disposing and inabling Nature for Healing thereby to effect the Cure after six Months and twelve Months tormenting you shall have this comfortable News your Leg or your Arm must be chopt off if you will save your Life This is an After-Game to be played Natura Corroborata Is that the Quid agendum That 's easily said but quibue auxiliis What Medicines have you to do it with Additu difficilia they are not so soon found out for want of these the Gangrens and Mortifications too often put a period to the Surgeon's Labour and the Patient's Life I have seen the woful Experience of this and I have seen the joyful Experience of the other Ab infortunio fortunium This Vlcer and Apostem taught me to be a Surgeon and this two Months Cure inform'd me more than seven years Hospital Practice could teach me true I might learn there the Art of Dismembring how to cut off Arms and Legs cleverly but I learned a better Art than that namely how to save Arms and Legs and Bodies from mangling Amputation would not so frequently be the mode of Curing nor the extream Remedy of saving the Life if the true Art of 01 Healing was rightly known I might learn there to Cut Carbonado but here I learned the Art of sleeping in a whole Skin that 's better I saved both Belly and Back from ripping up with the help of this Medicine only and for these good Deeds I must never forget this good Medicine For inward Bruises to prevent or dissolve coagulate Blood to discuss and dissipate collected Humors resorting thither and fixing to defend and strengthen the grieved part nothing more availeable And as for Fractures and Disloctations which necessarily require a skilful Surgeon's hand outward Applications yet for inward Medicine to keep the Body in due temper and to promote such Cures this is most helpful and assisting to Nature for a safe and more