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A56758	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.	1694 (1694)	Wing P929; ESTC R27600	1,303	7

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-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