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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34728	Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...	Couch, Robert.; Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6510; ESTC R9840	74,356	218

experientia difficilis c. though the Age of a man is too short to obtain it It is much against my temper to conceal any thing from any Ingenious and honest Artist but I have been much mistaken and I am sorry to speak it that if I had told less it would have been more for my credit and profit I can say with the Poet Ovid Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honores Nevertheless the unworthiness of some shall not detract from the worth of any Civil and Ingenious Brother I shall always be civil to all but especially to those that I find are so Ars praeclarissima Artifex sordissimus I am sorry to see so many shabby and course spirited Fellows that practise in so high and honourable a Calling There is such a vast disproportion between the Art and the Artist that well may the Art be ashamed to own them There are not only ignorant Jack-daws that are intruders upon this worthy Art which square out all things by their crooked and indirect Rules but likewise there are Pompeys and Caesars too who scorn to admit of Equals and be Caesars or no bodies c. who think it much below their Greatness to advise with any If they are at any time petitioned unto it they grant it with this reservation to themselves to deny every thing others say though it be never so undeniable and clear a truth they would rather twenty should die under their hands than part with one to be cured by another that 's a great affront to their Ambition whereunto they sacrifice many a mans life and dissemble their Pride under the cloak of Humility and so blind the poor Country-man that they think such a one to be Aesculapius himself and that his Medicines were extracted from the balm of Gilead when he may be but some Imposter and his Medicines it may be no better than a little Cow-dung or some thing worse and as the Papists are kept in blindness by praying in a Language they understand not to the hazard of their souls so are many amongst us led away by such deceivers in harkning unto the false Doctrine of the Heathens to the hazard of our bodies for they thunder out Art in Quarto and Conscience in Folio and shower down such Heavenly Apologies for their deceit and ignorance with such clashes of Lightning that frights the simple into such a belief as to mistrust were a crime unpardonable whereby they are canoniz'd on Earth and written in the Rubrick in the Calendar of the World I believe there have been many such Saints on Earth that never found any room in Heaven Brethren have a care none of you be ever found akin to any such Homicide though you may with such juggles and indirect means deceive the people you cannot deceive the all-seeing God he will make you smart for it in the end when the popular applause of the World shall but torment you the more The life of man is more worth than all the Creation And as it is pretious to the Creature so it is to the Creator and he will not suffer it to be trampled upon by the pride of any without revenge and yet those sad fellows may be much cried up and in great esteem amongst the vulgar when a far more knowing and worthy Practitioner may not be regarded Let not this be any discouragement to any young Practitioner for if there be anything of worth in him and he acts like an Artist let him expect to be undervalued by the ignorant and let him not admire why it is so for we find that it hath been the unhappiness of all Ages that Falshood hath been preferred before Truth and persons of no worth or value have had the precedency of persons of true worth and esteem Scientia non habet inimicum praeter ignorantem as for the vulgar whom Nature huddl'd up in hast that Act meerly by the prerogative of depraved Nature speak against every thing but what is naught whatsoever is of Worth and Art be sure they will dislike and exclaim against all Persons but such as comply with their ignorance whose Malice and Fury is like the Waves of the Sea driven by the fury of enraged Boreas I have read of Cato that he was forty four times brought by the vulgar sort of people to the Judgment-Seat and every time came off acquitted what a great happiness it is when a man hath many malicious Enemies to find impartial and upright Judges Every Country hath its Diana as well as Ephesus And he that will not sacrifice with the people shall be crucified by them but he that doth keep a pure and undefiled Conscience towards God and acts like an honest and ingenious Artist towards his Neighbour may extract a Cordial from the World's poyson and live above the reach of Envy The most splendent Creature is sometime clouded and the most vertuous Lady suffers an Eclipse in her innocency by some malevolent Neighbour when a Strumpet goes unsuspected It is not every Artist's fortune to arrive at Corinth but I could wish every ingenious Artist could practice what he knows and that he knew more to practise better so I desire to be understood when I say that Practise is the best part of Physick that there must be first a knowledge of the Disease and likewise of the Remedy and so to proportion the Remedy to the Disease and not to try practices on mens bodies * Care at successibus opto Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putat that the Poet cursed but first you must know before you practise and so your practice will confirm your knowledge So I conclude with this advice first let God go before you to counsel and direct you unto the direct means let him go with you to crown it with a good Success and let him follow you to take all the glory unto whom all glory is due Caepta faveat Deus ac vota nostra secundet So wisheth Robert Couch TO MY Candid and Cordial COUNTRYMEN Friends and Countreymen SInce Death and Diseases which are Diametrically opposite unto life are entailed unto us through the Transgression of our first Parents the Creator and sole Authour of life foreseeing the weakness of our Natures to withstand the strength of such mortal Enemies created Medicine from the beginning out of the Earth to correct the fury and tyranny of Diseases whereof Death is the Daughter whereby each should be at his good pleasure and so governs it at his will that he permits and suffers this man to die and that to be sick by secondary Causes which happen as well directly as irregularly And whereas the Nature of Diseases are various so he hath endued the Earth with various and sundry Medicinal Vertues and he hath likewise called and ordained some to administer and apply such suitable and fit means as the nature of Diseases do require But the great difficulties by reason of the invisibility

of the Disease and the great obscurity in the knowledge of Medicine have frustrated many in their expectation All Arts and Sciences except Physick have grown to some pitch but that hath rather gone backward till within some late years famous Helmont to whom the Art it self stands much obliged and some Renowned Physicians of our Native Countrey have begun to cast off that black vail of deceit with which it was cloathed by the Theorems of the Heathens Indeed the gate of healing hath remained shut from the Cradle of the World and the Schooles of the Greeks instead of opening it shut it closer and made it more mysterious than ever was intended by the first Creator The natures causes and places of Diseases were not rightly understood by them whereby they failed in their Remedies they had so much regard unto the effects that they neglected the causes which pernicious and destructive course is practised still by such who are wholly led by their Rules Wherefore the whole intent of this small Tract is to undeceive you that you be not deceived of your lives by such erroneous preservers and that you give not your money for what 's not bread nor buy a Snake instead of an Eele I know it is not Artist-like to build so great a Porch to so small a Fabrick but if it tend to the Owners more conveniency it is to be dispensed withall Indulge me therefore Reader to give thee some cautions it may be for thy Good First touching the Disease Secondly touching the Physician Inasmuch as we were poysoned from the Tree of Knowledge so no other Tree could we fetch an Antidote from but the Tree of Life which was for healing of the Nations So Diseases are only cured by fit and suitable means for thou mayst be kill'd by a bad means as well as restored by a good Wherefore be an earnest Suiter to Heaven that thou mayst have the right means from Earth and a benediction with it which will make it operate the better And as it must be a true and proper means that must cure thy Disease so have a special care the Remedy come not too late How many have been robbed of their lives upon that score Opportunity is the soul and perfection of Physick you may lose that opportunity to day Post est occasio calva that the price of the World cannot procure thee to morrow take time by the fore top lest it be bald behind There are two great Obstacles which commonly make many disadvantages the first is from the perswasion of Friends the second from the flattery of Diseases First when any one is taken sick one Friend adviseth him to such a thing another perswades another and a third another telling him if it does him no good it will do him no hurt But there is no such Medium will stand for if it do not exasperate the Disease yet it doth retard the Cure and so by trying uncertain means you loose the advantage of a sure Remedy Secondly The Deceit and Flattery of the Disease when Diseases assault you very strongly in the * Quanmvis non nunquam morbi in eorum principiis absque periculo tibi videntur vires in mores tamen sensim dejicientur corrampentur ut postea nulla salutis spes super fit at morbus qui primo curabiis fuerat malignitam neglecta incurabili● 〈◊〉 beginning they may have such Intervals and Respites that you apprehend your selves better to day than you was yesterday and that while the Disease doth insensibly undermine your lives and then assaults with greater fury than he did at first Others are very mild and gentle in the beginning yet they may be very malign parvae febres quando qui valde malignae whereby you do not so much mistrust them much less understand their danger And sometimes those that labour under sharp Diseases the Symptoms have been so remiss and dark that it hath been a very difficult thing for an able Physician to presage either life or death and when he hath passed his Judgment within few hours there hath been such a change that he hath been fool'd in his Prognostick In others again Diseases have layen so hid and obscure that they have died before they were perceived to be sick of which we have had many sad Examples of some that have died suddenly who have carried those Diseases undiscovered about them that wanted nothing but the word immediately to run them to the heart Now I have shewed you the Deceit and Flattery of Diseases which have couzened thousands of their lives of whom you will do well to learn to beware and act prudently to prevent by mistrust what you would not have come suddenly and unexpected And as I have told you the deceit of Diseases so I shall tell you the deceit of Physicians I mean such who have built more upon the sandy Foundation of the * As if it were for their sake God created Medicine and Christians should be beholden to them for it Pagans and Heathens then upon a sure and rocky Foundation who have studie● more to get money than to cure their Diseases It hath pitied me many a time 〈◊〉 see that Old Saying too often verified viz. Saepe plus mali à Medico quam à Morbo That many times there is more danger from the Physician than from the Disease such a Physician as practiseth by Old Authors And that yo● may the better know them and understand some of their juggles I shal● recite some of their Practises First when such a Deceiver is called unto a Patient if his Diseas● should be grown to a great height which hath made him dangerously ●ill which was the end God ordained Physick and Physicians for to relieve such distressed Natures he stands at a distance fearing to come near like a low spirited fellow lest he receive such a kick from the Disease in his rotten reputation as he may not easily recover but he resolves rather to hazard the loss of a poor Patient then venture the loss of his small credit wherefore he is resolved to look on and see which will get the Victory in the mean while he excuses his juggle telling the Disease is not yet come to an height and by such a time he hopes to find a Crisis and then he may safely take something in the interim adviseth an Ale-brew or Herb-Candle many more such juggles they have to send people to their Graves Just as if your house were on fire And one comes and counsels you to let it alone till it burn to the top of the House and then is the surest quenching it you take his counsel Now 't is possible that the Heavens may pour down such a shower of rain as may extinguish it but whether they do or not doth not this man well advise you think you or as if an Enemy hath entered a Garrison it is not safe to resist him till he come to the heart